KILL THE GREAT RAVEN 

Kill the great raven (repeated)
His tiny eyes, they search the skies
He looks so alone, so he must die
"Oh, does he really have to die?"
"Oh yes, he really has to suffer"
Kill the great raven (repeated)
And when he dies, to his surprise
The sun will set and he will rise
"Where will he go?"
"He'll become the sun of course.
We must have one you know"
Kill the great raven (repeated)

KRAFTY CHEESE 

You care for plants and we care for you;
You care for plants and we care for you.

Upward to the sun we grow,
Careful plants, be
Careful plants.

LAUGHING SONG 

An oily ole egg with a red peg leg
Thought a porquepine was his daughter
But he soon found out
That she had the gout
And often would wink underwater
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HO HO HO HO HO HO HO
HE HE HE HE HE HE HE
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
A red red rose saw a big pig pose
On the edge of a silver dollar
The end of his tail
Was a long-necked nail
And in place of his face was a scholar

LESS NOT MORE

The railings of the bridge
Were moving by the glass
The opportunity to leave
Was coming up fast

The situation passed across my
Mind once more,
And I decided that I needed
Less not more
Less not more
Less not more

LIFE 

Everything is hungry
Everything wants more
Everything will bleed you
Then beg for an encore

Everything is hungry
Everything wants more
Everything will beat you
And forget why you are sore

Everything is hungry
Everything wants more
Everything will eat you
If you don't eat it, of course

Everything repeats itself
Everything's been done
Life is just a struggle
Between nothing and no one

LIVING IN VAIN 

I'm living in vain
I'm just watching the rain
I wanna get out
But I just don't know how
I used to have a girlfriend
Who gave me a valentine
At first it made me nervous
But then I think it made me fine
Because I'm living in vain
I'm just watching the rain
I wanna get out
But I just don't know how
I used to have a grandma
She always called me "dear"
I never knew her purpose
I only knew her atmosphere
Because I'm living in vain
I'm just watchin the rain
I wanna get out
But I just don't know how

LIZARD LADY 

What's a woman going to do but throw away her bread
Her feet are feeling funny as she lies beneath the bed
She reminisces of the pungent Adriatic Sea
And then she crawls and counts her cans and twitches like a flea

What she really likes to do is sit upon a pew
And make believe that time has stopped and motionless is new
Planes are stranded in the sky and drains are stopping, too
She alone is laughing under eyelids full of flu

She scurries hurries worries that the wicked will receive
Their candy from a handsome man and coffee from a thief
She gazes at a hourglass and asks it if it cares
And then she wonders if the lizard likes his lettuce rare

"Lizard, yes a lizard, little lizard of the sea
Conspicuously alcoholic, flicks his tongue at me
Release me, release me lizard, blizzard of the bee
Mushed inside a sock you still dare me to die
Dare me to die at home"

"Coating all my lungs with honey, sticky coating running runny
Feet of lizard fly and stop and fly and stop and fly
And flicker tongue is licking out to find me, feel me, hide!
Hide from the tongue"

"The tongue is coming! Cruising! Oozing!
Over land and under ashes, in the sunlight, see it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye, but don't believe in me.
Don't believe in me, don't believe in me
Don't believe in me, don't believe in me
Don't believe in me"

LONELINESS 

I came upon it in the night
And left it in the rain
And from that moment to today
I've never been the same

I knew not what the weather meant
When he said goodbye
I only know this loneliness
Will never make me cry

Make me cry

LOSS OF A LOVED ONE 

I told them how my wife had fallen into sickness and to calling out her
name with questions on her tongue. We had always been so happy that at
first I wasn't sad because I thought my love could keep her strong. But I
never thought so wrongly for the fever fought too strongly and it seemed
she never fought at all. Soon she died, and I despaired upon the love seat
we had shared so many times on pleasant afternoons. I tried and tried to
understand why love itself could not command my true love fromhe comas of
her mind. Now, empty, open and foreboding, stretching out like darkened
clothing somehow stained with silence and with fear. Death had brought its
separation, giving me an education of a dull and slowly drifting day. I
filled my emptiness with sorrow, taking what I could not borrow fromhe
friends I finally drove away. "Yes, my life was nearly ruined, till I saw
what you were doing. Now I strive to keep on serving you. Life is good but
I am better, for I feel at last I let her go because I finally found the
truth. Sadly now, I see the answer. All her life she was a dancer, but no
one ever played the song she knew."

LOSS OF INNOCENCE 

Amusement parks are caked with sounds
A solid hunk of meat
A barker's sweat flings from his tongue
His tattoo shines with heat

A wary stranger stands and sways
Enraptured by his stance
Two-headed goats come stumbling by
And give a troubled glance

The barker looks into the eyes
The stranger tries to bend
The barker swears to more delights
For all who seek within

The stranger enters canvas doors
And smells the fresh cut hay
The barker points to Siamese twins
The stranger looks away

The eyes of horse faced women
Watch the few who wander through
They sense the tension in the air
And smell the sweet taboo

A heart beats fast against a chest
The stranger leaves the tent
The waves of people drown the sounds
Of loss of innocence