| 1. My Favorite - Cult Hero, Come Home |
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The girl in the picture, won second prize for something she did when she was in school. Now she wants me to drive her home, Now she wants me to play...
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| 2. My Favorite - My Life With The Living Dead |
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I took a job at the factory, (when I realised) that you were not coming back to me. I put your letters in the kitchen drawer. I should not read them...
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| 3. My Favorite - Burning Hearts |
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We met first in cafes, and later in ruins. My best friend and I are saying goodbye to Hiroshima. We walked down the tarmac, again grey on grey. My...
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| 4. My Favorite - You Belong With Us |
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Silicon chips make choices with stolen voices, but you have only stolen your party dress. And us our synthesizers. In these towns that despise us,...
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| 5. My Favorite - A Cathedral At Night |
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This is the last song I will write for you. The inter-titles in our silent picture show. I spent my whole life singing to you, but you never seemed...
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| 6. My Favorite - 17 Berlin |
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There are grey skies in our blue eyes, but this is not a protest song. This is just static on the hotel intercom, softer than dust and louder than...
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| 7. My Favorite - Badge |
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And no angels visit me in my room. There's a blue light above me in my room. And I lie motionlessly with my plastic rosary. And no angels visit me in...
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| 8. My Favorite - Between Cafes |
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Lost satellites, lost in satellite towns. But the things she tears up are the things that I write down. Walking these streets like two filmless...
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| 9. My Favorite - Le Monster |
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He looks like rain. He is not mine. I am indoors. I think he crashed the car. I flew through the glass. I guess when it rains it pours. The streets...
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| 10. My Favorite - Absolute Beginners Again |
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Fashions and fundamental things, I'm wide awake when the telephone rings. You could call it a panic, but this is my pain and you can't have it. I...
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| 11. My Favorite - Detectives Of Suburbia |
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(Detectives! Detectives!) Only ghosts and detectives remain, in this town named after the sound of rain. I'm here, I'm making a stand against...
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| 12. My Favorite - Absolute Zero |
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He said, "I want to go back." I asked him where. He said, "I don't know. Just back." And two frozen atoms stir. We have a fear of the future. We're...
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| 13. My Favorite - The Truth About Lake Ronkonkoma |
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Take our photograph. We're all pop stars underneath our raincoats. Dancing in this house, our pockets full of suicide notes. And I can hear a...
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| 14. My Favorite - Go Kid Go |
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Hey kid, time is on your side. Hey kid, you can start an engine. You can throw a switch and I know you need things, and I know you need. But it's...
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| 15. My Favorite - Let's Stay Alive |
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A song for the young believers, who woke up and found themselves neither. A song for the Young Detectives, tell me what did you find... In Impossible...
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| 16. My Favorite - Modulate |
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This is the new sound, this is the new sound. In moonlit transit, the moonlight transmits, the golden years displaced. Nothing rises so we're content...
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| 17. My Favorite - John Dark (a Simulation) |
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The songs are wrong but the kids have come and the band is waiting. So give me the ghost. Give me the crumbs. And something to help me sleep at...
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| 18. My Favorite - The Happiest Days Of My Life |
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I ran from the haunted mansion. Left behind my inventions. A talent for my own destruction is all I've ever owned. And in the dark a fog descends,...
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| 19. My Favorite - The Informers |
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He arrived today, my dangerous friend. And because we're still alive, we get into his car and we just drive. You could say we're a team. You could...
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| 20. My Favorite - The Suburbs Are Killing Us |
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You did what you did, in defense of the diary. You did what you did because a pathetic mythology is better than no mythology at all. Back to the old...
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