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Buffalo Tom
Sleepy Eyed
1995
1: Tangerine
Breakfast from the coffee I drop my newspaper down
Rub my eyeballs and read about some other town
A blueberry flu and message that breakfast was nice
When you shoot your mouth off it's better to pay the price
She's a tangerine
Made in California
She's a sober lay
Just a little haiku
To say how much I like you
Such a sexy way
Torn paper skin and invisible bleeding heart
Your words on the paper sure gave me a start
Your huckleberry flu and one plus one is two
So if I can't be me, well I might as well be with you
She's a tangerine
Made in California
She's a sober lay
She could claw your eyes out
Baby dry your eyes out
Burn your life away
Addicted to the music, bound to start crack again
Watch an evening news show, L.A. blues again
Your California sunshine sure gives me a sweat
And your tangerine nectar's a taste I won't forget
She's a tangerine
Made in California
She's a sober lay
She could claw your eyes out
Sister dry your eyes out
Burn your life away
Just a little haiku
To say how much I like you
Just a little haiku
To say how much I like you
Just a little haiku
2: Summer
Sight unseen, sad seas
Summer song sung all alone
Dragged across the seven seas
To the beach come follow me
Summer's gone, a summer song
You've wasted every day, every day
Cellophane, grandma's town
Summers letters on the ground
Seven pins the fall begins
When the leaves burn summer ends
Summer's gone, a summer song
You've wasted every day, every day
Summers gone can't wipe it off my hands
Write it in the sand, in the sand
Where've my heroes gone today
Mick and Keith and Willie Mays
Broken windows, trails outside
I can take you for a ride
Summer's gone, a summer song
You've wasted every day, every day
Summers gone can't wipe it off my hands
Write it in the sand, in the sand
In the sand
Summer's gone, a summer song
You wasted every day, every day
Summers gone can't wipe it off my hands
Write it in the sand, in the sand
In the sand
In the sand
In the sand
3: Kitchen Door
I scratched my finger
On the door in front of you
You scratched your finger
At the door, girl outside
That's a bigger
Responsibility
When All My Children
Is an endless bore
I'm the number on your kitchen door
I'm the gifted son you can not scorn
I'm the number on your kitchen door
Please remember just to keep the score
I scratched my finger
On the door in front of you
Please remember
That I'll always care
That's a harbor
That you can sail to
When all your ocean
Is a mindless chore
I'm the number on your kitchen door
I'm the gifted son you can not scorn
I'm the number on your kitchen door
Please remember just to keep the score
Well that's our number on our kitchen door
But it's more than numbers that I adore
I adore
I'm the number on your kitchen door
I'm the baseball team from Baltimore
I'm the number on your kitchen door
Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor
Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor
Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor
4: When You Discover
Come back when you are done
Looking down on everyone
Ain't it hard when you discover that you're dumb
Open up your sleepy eyes
Cut off all your family ties
Ain't it hard when you realize you're young
All these noises in your head
Last time I saw you
You were dead
Roll your eyes back in your head
Mark the words that I have said
Come back when you realize you're dead
All these noises in your head
Last time I saw you
You were dead
Roll your eyes back in your head
Mark the words that I have said
Come back when you realize you're dead
Ain't it hard when you discover that you're dead
5: Sunday Night
Sunday night, now I know
How the night can pass slow
All kinds of ugly outside that's right
And I'm all alone tonight
Distant highway din
Leaky roof my doubt drips in
As the street lights up my prospects dim
She turns in bed and dreams of him
Where's the solace you can find
At the bottom of your mind
My friends pushed me from behind
Now it feels so empty I could die
Ladder to the edge
Hangover throbs inside my head
And all the stupid things I've ever said
Now make me wish that I was dead
It's night time
Greenwich Mean time
A man puts up a detour sign
And the waterfalls of regret
Unleash in a torrent of cold sweat
Where's the solace you can find
At the bottom of your mind
My friends pushed me from behind
Now it feels so empty I could die
Sunday night, tonight
Where's the solace you can find
At the bottom of your mind
My friends pushed me from behind
Now it feels so empty I could die
Die
Die
Sunday
Sunday night
6: Clobbered
Well, I clobbered you with hands so indescrete
March around like a soldier in defeat
I clobber mountains with my finger tips
While you're alone on top of kissing hip
Well I clobber you
And I clobber me
When I ought to meet
My heart would skip a beat
Skip a beat, skip a beat
Skip a beat, skip a beat
Well, I kill my times with films of blood and scorn
And little girls that grow up to be more
I clobber mountains with my finger tips
While you're alone on top of kissing hip
Well I clobber you
And I clobber me
When I ought to meet
My heart would skip a beat
Well, I clobber you
And I clobber me
I clobber you
And I clobber me
You clobber me, you clobber me
You clobber me, you clobber me
7: Twenty-Points
I thought of you, did you think of me
I guess we'll wind up running down your street
Twenty points for me
I see that bandage lying under your sheets
I see that blood, it's running down your cheek
Twenty points for me
Twenty points on top of me
Take your points away from me
Take your points away from me
Take your points away from me
Take your points away from me
Well I hurt you, so you hurt me
I count them up, all you were plain to see
It's twenty more for me
I take from you, you take from me
You plant that garden and you toss that seed
It's twenty points for me
Twenty points on top of me
Twenty points, why can't you see
If you can't take them honestly
Then take your points away from me
Take your points away from me
Take your points away from me
Take your points away from me
Take your points away from me
8: Crueler
It's so mean
It's crueler than your dreams
And it's worse than it seems
Add it up
Stick it in your cup
You're sure to get enough
It runneth over now
You can't complain no more
The boards are crackin' now
You better not go down
Life's so cheap
It's cheaper than it looks
You can learn that from books
Stay in the house
So clear of what you fear
And you're old beyond your years
It runneth over now
You can't complain no more
The boards are crackin' now
You better not go down
Leaving your long shadows
Leaning into space
And your heart scrambled
Life is written all over your face
Counterfeit
The bankroll that was his
Fist of change that was yours
A life's so cheap
It was cheaper than it looked
You can learn that from books
It runneth over now
You can't complain no more
The boards are crackin' now
You better not go down
Leave you with a prayer book
And a pocket full of grace
And your heart scrambled
Life is written all over your face
Life's so cheap
Life's so cheap
It's so mean
It's crueler than your dreams
And it's worse than it seems
Life's so cheap
It's so mean
Life's so cheap
It's so mean
Life's so cheap
Whisper in my ear
Whisper in my ear
Whisper in the night
Whisper all the time
9: Rules
Everyone has their own Nemesis
Like a fathers troubles
Its a mothers kiss
But me, it wouldn't save my life
Take it away from me
Stab it with a knife
Hey, you would find it in yourself, I know
To fly across the cobalt sky
And leave me down below, I know
To bend my hand and wave goodbye
You pictured black and white
Clouds stay till night
Don't make the day look bright
You in a pink and black beret
Out on a sunny day
Make the crows fly away
Hey, you would find it in yourself, I know
To fly across the cobalt sky
And leave me down below, I know
To bend my hand and wave goodbye
Hey, you could find it in yourself, I know
To fly across the cobalt sky
And leave me down below, I never know
To bend my hand and wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
10: Sundress
I wanna hear your sad, sad voice come to me loud and clear
I wanna hear your lips and tongue pour the words no ear should hear
Wanna watch you while your face reddens with fear
Watch your eyes get all clouded up with tears
This thing is such a stupid mess
So much you never would have guessed
Better watch yourself, watch your step
Watching your sundress just blowing in the breeze
This time of year I want to breathe, but I just sneeze
And the sunshine is just killing me by degrees
I go to smell the rose just to get stung by the bees
Your words are breeding day by day
You better watch the things you say
What's on your lip, your tongue just slipped
I don't need to read about myself in other towns
Don't want to hear all you have seen, and what you've found
And when you turn for the second go-around
Just keep your mouth shut and ear down to the ground
Your words are breeding day by day
You better watch the things you say
What's on your lip, your tongue just slipped
11: Souvenir
Your blue ribbon as a branch
A hot mold plastic dinosaur
You'll stop it from fogging it up
Give the machine another quarter
Watch you and me
Get a souvenir
Take yourself a handful of sand
Put it in you eye
his rubber band
You could be my good luck charm
When you and me
Souvenir
Souvenir
I waited for you all year
Souvenir
I waited for you all year
I am so evil in the morning
Now that we have come this far
Don't say I gave you no warning
Don't make me stop this car
When you and me
Souvenir
Souvenir
I waited for you all year
Souvenir
I waited for you all year
Souvenir
Souvenir
Souvenir
I waited for you all year
Thanks to: Niels Christian S. Nielsen