They saw you today as you were leaving
And they run to hunt you down
Dogs lead the chase as you are bleeding
They run to hunt you down

Your narrow escape
Has wiped the smile right from your face
Those stardogs howling
Run to hunt you down

You smile as you look in the mirror
Tears have left your eyes
Your face has a different experience
Formal and disguised

Your narrow escape
Has wiped the smile right from your face
Those stardogs howling
Run to hunt you down

I said run just to hunt you down
Right now, right now, right now, right now 
				

Hands all over the Eastern border
You know what? I think we're falling
From composure
Hands all over Western culture
Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures

Got my arms around baby brother
Put your hands away
You're gonna kill your mother, kill your mother
And I love her

Hands all over the coastal waters
The crew men thank her
Then lay down their oily blanket
Hands all over the inland forest
In a striking motion trees fall down
Like dying soldiers

Hands all over the peasant's daughter
She's our bride
She'll never make it out alive
Hands all over the words I utter
Change them into what you want to
Like balls of clay
Put your hands away
You're gonna kill your mother
And I love her 
				

I got up feeling so down
I got off being sold out
I''ve kept the movie rolling
But the story''s getting old now
I just looked in the mirror
Things aren''t looking so good
I''m looking California
And feeling Minnesota

So now you know, who gets mystified
Show me the power child, I''d like to say
That I''m down on my knees today
It gives me the butterflies, gives me away
Till I''m up on my feet again
I''m feeling outshined

Someone let the dogs out
They''ll show you where the truth is
The grass is always greener
Where the dogs are shedding
I''m feeling that I''m sober
Even though I''m drinking
I can''t get any lower
Still I feel I''m sinking

So now you know, who gets mystified
Show me the power child, I''d like to say
That I''m down on my knees today
It gives me the butterflies, gives me away
Till I''m up on my feet again
I''m feeling outshined
				

You wired me awake
And hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain
To watch my blood begin to boil

But I''m gonna break
I''m gonna break my
I''m gonna break my rusty cage and run

Too cold to start a fire
I''m burning diesel burning dinosaur bones
I''ll take the river down to still water
And ride a pack of dogs

I''m gonna break
I''m gonna break my
I''m gonna break my rusty cage and run

Hits like a Phillips head into my brain
It''s gonna be too dark to sleep again
Cutting my teeth on bars and rusty chains
I''m gonna break my rusty cage and run

When the forest burns along the road
Like God''s eyes in my headlights
When the dogs are looking for their bones
And it''s raining icepicks on your steel shore

I''m gonna break
I''m gonna break my
I''m gonna break my rusty cage and run 
				

Lying like needles
On forest earth
Euphoric rush
Trees bend to pray for us
I'm sputtering
Like cold machines
Late for the birth ritual, ritual, ritual, ritual

You can drive my tail
To watch the circus
A (birth?) ritual
A birth of idiots
Now I woke up blessed
And good strives for heart ache
Marked for the death ritual, ritual, ritual

(Chorus)
As you start the song
And face this garden
I light a cigarette before the execution
Now you see your crime
For every miracle
Add another drug at every birth ritual

I took the drug
To make me stay
And now everything
Dies in shyness
The snake retreats
Admits defeat
And waits for the birth ritual, ritual, ritual

(Chorus)

Shining light
Child's highs
Mark his sides
Bright until the newness wears off

(Chorus)
				

Take, if you want a slice /
If you want a piece /
If it feels alright /
Break, if you like the sound /
If it gets you up /
If it brings you down /
Share, if it makes you sleep /
If it sets you free /
If it helps you breathe /
Don't come over here /
And piss on my gate /
Save it just keep it /
Off my wave /
Cry, if you want to cry /
If it helps you see /
If it clears your eyes /
Hate, if you want to hate /
If it keeps you safe /
If it makes you brave /
Pray, if you want to pray /
If you like to kneel /
If you like to lay /
Don't come over here /
And piss on my gate /
Save it just keep it /
Off my wave /
Keep it off my wave /
Keep it off my wave /
Keep it off my wave /
My wave /
Cry, if you want to cry /
If it helps you see /
If it clears your eyes /
Hate, if you want to hate /
If it keeps you safe /
If it makes you brave /
Take, if you want a slice /
If you want a piece /
If it feels alright /
Don't come over here /
And piss on my gate /
Save it just keep it /
Off my wave /
Keep it off my wave /
Keep it off my wave /
My wave /
				

Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman
Speak the rhythm on your own
Speak the rhythm all alone, Spoonman

Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me

All my friends are Indians
All my friends are brown and red, Spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones,
Spoonman

Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman
				

In my eyes, indisposed
In disguise as no one knows
Hides the face, lies the snake
The sun in my disgrace
Boiling heat, summer stench
'Neath the black the sky looks dead
Call my name through the cream
And I'll hear you scream again

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Stuttering, cold and damp
Steal the warm wind tired friend
Times are gone for honest men
And sometimes far too long for snakes
In my shoes, a walking sleep
And my youth I pray to keep
Heaven send Hell away
No one sings like you anymore

Hang my head, drown my fear
Till you all just disappear
				

Whatsoever I've feared has come to life
And whatsoever I've fought off became my life
Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile
Sunspots have faded, now I'm doing time
Now I'm doing time
'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days
Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now
And whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down
I'm a search light soul they say
But I can't see it in the night
I'm only faking when I get it right
When I get it right
'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days
How would I know
That this could be my fate?
How would I know
That this could be my fate? Yeah
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
So what you wanted to see good
Has made you blind
And what you wanted to be yours
Has made it mine
So don't you lock up something
That you wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking
No, not tying, no, not tying
I sure don't mind a change
I sure don't mind a change
Yeah, I sure don't mind, sure don't mind a change
I sure don't mind a change
'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days
How would I know
That this could be my fate?
How would I know
That this could be my fate?
How would I know
That this could be my fate?
How would I know
That this could be my fate?
I sure don't mind a change
				

Follow me into the desert
As thirsty as you are
Crack a smile and cut your mouth
And drown in alcohol
Cause down below the truth is lying
Beneath the riverbed
So quench yourself and drink the water
That flows below her head

Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine the sun is mine

[Chorus]
I shot my love today would you cry for me
I lost my head again would you lie for me
I left her in the sand just a burden in my hand
I lost my head again would you cry for me

Close your eyes and bow your head
I need a little sympathy
Cause fear is strong and love's for everyone
Who isn't me
So kill your health and kill yourself
And kill everything you love
And if you live you can fall to pieces
And suffer with my ghost

(Chorus)

Just a burden in my hand
Just another anchor on my heart
Just a tumor in my head
And I'm in the dark

So follow me into the desert
As desperate as you are
The moon is glued to a picture of heaven
And all the little pigs have gone

Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine the sun is mine
Sun is mine

(Chorus)

Would you cry for me
				

Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try
Nothing is closing my eyes
Nothing can beat me down for your pain or delight
And nothing seems to break me
No matter how hard I fall nothing can break me at all
Not one for giving up though not invincible I know

I've givin' everything I need
I'd give you everything I own
I'd give in if it could at least be ours alone
I've given everything I could
To blow it to hell and gone
Burrow down in and
Blow up the outside world

Someone tried to tell me something
Don't let the world bring you down
Nothing will do me in before I do myself
So save it for your own and the ones you can help

Want to make it understood
Wanting though I never would
Trying though I know it's wrong
Blowing it to hell and gone
Wishing though I never could
Blow up the outside world
				

If I could hug my love, could I try
For your wings to cover me and let them fold
Half alive I hurt the most brilliant lie
Sleepless eyes, close the light
And rest your mind while you burn

Can’t stutter when you’re talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood lets running from a big day

Cry on black rain, cry on black rain
Cry on black rain

If I could hug my love could I try
For your wings to cover me unless I fall
Sleepless eyes, close the light
And rest your mind while you burn

You can’t stutter when you’re talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood lets running from a big day

Cry on black rain, Cry on black rain
Cry on black rain

You can’t stutter when you’re talking with your eyes
By cutting out your tongue you save face
Feeding on the blood lets running from a big day