| 1. The Paper Chase - The Most Important Part Of Your Body |
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Groping, gangly, unweave at your sleeve, fit your pasty face And keep banging that fork on that plate, keep spitting down my spiral staircase Your...
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| 2. The Paper Chase - One Day He Went Out For Milk And Never Came Home |
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I laid my black heart on the table It may just make itself at home Cut short your cord length on the phone Your smoke alarms and barred windows Can't...
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| 3. The Paper Chase - Drive Carefully, Dear |
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So, what do you think it means to me? the dirty hands have bound you; the dirty hearts of scoundrels. i'll have to write this down, because i'm...
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| 4. The Paper Chase - Apple Pies And Alibis |
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I wish to use my body as a torch I wish to use my body as a guide To stream across your transatlantic sky On a firecracker Fourth of July I’m...
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| 5. The Paper Chase - Go Fishing |
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We set out in the spring With a trunk full of books about everything About solar devices And how nice natural childbirth is We cut down some trees...
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| 6. The Paper Chase - A Face That Could Launch A Thousand Ships |
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Which way? Which way? You strike a face Like atom bombs, if you will Now did I mention or did I Your nucleus nuclei-eye I got you right where I want...
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| 7. The Paper Chase - The Song Will Eat Itself |
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You don’t want your stitches sewn ‘Cause then you’ll have the big unknown You don’t want the cancer healed You have no answer to “how do...
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| 8. The Paper Chase - The House Is Alive And The House Is Hungry |
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House comes alive, creeks and greets me The house comes alive and it’s hungry The greedy gills will primp just like some whore At the bris, at the...
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| 9. The Paper Chase - What I'd Be Without Me |
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Dear diary, as you can see the pen's drinking And it's an ornery little thing And it's dreadful, dreadful, dreadful Dear diary, my sweet body will...
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| 10. The Paper Chase - A Liver A Lung A Kidney A Thumb |
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How could you, let it in your house? Let in your bed? To the wall inlay, another shiv instead. So how did it taste, when you kiss it on the face? To...
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| 11. The Paper Chase - Neat; Manageable: Piles |
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Slip soft that serpintine And live life off of our knees Saw tooths and hate Can edge away ape-man dignity She said... "You better leave with what...
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| 12. The Paper Chase - And All The Candy You Can Eat |
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I’m running out of rhymes I’m running out of art I’m running out of songs to sing About this wicked world breaking my heart I caught the smell...
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| 13. The Paper Chase - Can I Pour You Another Drink, Lover? |
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This is it, huh? Today’s the day I got something built up in you When I search the skies, it’s the same thing All over again, not again When I...
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| 14. The Paper Chase - Ever Since The Turn |
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You smell like last night’s debate But in a pig like appearance faint I wrapped the body as it rots in cellophane Like adult degrees a dirty thing ...
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| 15. The Paper Chase - I'm Gonna Spend The Rest Of My Life Lying |
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I didn't bother coming on back home. I didn't bother calling you on the phone, 'cause there are the little punches, they won't hurt anymore. You're...
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| 16. The Paper Chase - I Tried So Hard To Be Good |
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I tried so hard to be good. I really did; to keep my comments inaudible, to smooth the curl of distain from my lips and nostrils. I can't really help...
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| 17. The Paper Chase - Now You're Gonna Get It |
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Are you planning your escape? Are you crumbling for the evening When I'm asleep and you're awake? I swear to god I'd take it to the grave But are you...
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| 18. The Paper Chase - I Did A Terrible Thing |
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I did a terrible thing when I monkey-wrenched your circuitry. And when they finally got to me, I had built a monster worse than me, and far worse...
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| 19. The Paper Chase - All Manner Of Pox And Canker |
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The ghosts will toast champagne And organize like veins Conspire and then commiserate And then it’s into the oven, into the oven The baby hair you...
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| 20. The Paper Chase - You're One Of Them, Aren't You? |
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Go ahead, good friend, scream all you want to your legless & limping & lost & it's just like they like you & i can feel your tender bodies coming...
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