LIVE AT BORDELLO FEB. 28, 2008
(You Don't Think That's) Funny MP3
FROM "ELEVEN SONGS"Loma Prieta, dark hill / shook up the San Andreas to the heart of a little girl / I was the epicenter / there in the door, holding onto my mother / "No, it's not! No, it's not okay!" I told her / We saw a movie that day / on a field trip to the mint that survived the quake / in 1906, when the city burned black / Those images came rushing, like the fires, they came rushing back / It was hot / It was hot / Too hot for October / We lit up the kitchen with candles / My brother and I knew that school would be cancelled / We slept on my parents' room floor / We knew about aftershocks / We braced for more / We felt a lot, we felt a lot older / Loma Prieta, dark hill / please stay dark, I prayed / Please stay still / I was the epicenter / I was the epicenter / I'm not the epicenter.
I'm not an army wife / I'm not a soldier's girl / But you and I've been apart so much lately / I'm beginning to glimpse that world/ And I feel for all the families / Their faces on the news / with life-size cardboard cut-outs of Daddy / I turned it off but thought about making one of you / But I'm not an army wife / I'm not a soldier's girl / But you and I've been apart so much lately / I'm beginning to glimpse that world / You go to war in your way / And in mine I stay home with the kids / You call me every night / Long distance / How strong they must have to be / with their boys so far away / At least you and I can visit sometimes / But it's still not okay / 'Cause I'm not an army wife / I'm not a soldier's girl / When's this war gonna end, baby? / I want some peace in our little world / And how about peace for those real soldier's girls? / 'Cause it hurts no matter how far away, you are too far away / for us soldier's girls / For us soldier's girls / soldier's girls.
We filmed in color / Oh, what a painter I got to be! / At the last minute / they said it was too violent / To keep the rating we'd have to / desaturate it / desaturate it / But blood is red / Cops are blue / The Pimp's dead down on the rainbow door beads / and Bobby's looking right at you / Guns are black / That jacket was green / Little Jodie's kneeling on the floor / crying / And I was gonna be Rauchenberg / I was gonna be Pollack / But the MPAA had to save the eyes of the public / Now the original / is lost in the shelves of Hollywood somewhere / I tried to save it / maybe for the laser disc / but it was too late / It was desaturated / Desaturated.
FROM 2005's "HURTS TO PURR"
I didn't mean it / I didn't mean what I said / Now I'm lying here / with the leaves in our bed / Make the sheets all rough / I am much too tough / on you / I didn't mean it / I didn't mean what I said / Now I can't eat / my food turns to gravel / to sediment / I miss your mouth / what I'd give to taste that now / I didn't mean it / I didn't mean what I said / Should've just held my tongue / nodded / But my hands were full / and my chain link words came out shaking so hard / they rattled.