Needs to Run

She’s a dangerous situation
This brokenhearted girl
Since no one ever did her any good
It’s her against the world

With one eye open even when she’s asleep she’s got
One hand on a gun
And one foot out the door
In case she needs to run

Cigarette butts and nicotine patches
A can of gasoline and a couple of matches
A fake I.D. and a bottle of hair dye
A life built on lies

With one eye open even when she’s asleep she’s got
One hand on a gun
And one foot out the door
In case she needs to run

They say she’s in the Caribbean somewhere
With some boys making her martinis
On an island you can’t run too far
But she’s still got

With one eye open even when she’s asleep she’s got
One hand on a gun
And one foot out the door
In case she needs to run

Somewhere in this City

Somewhere in this city
You’re walking with my feet in your shoes
Somewhere in this city
You’re talking with my voice, you’re wearing my face
You’re wearing my face

You built a wall around your heart
And you grew thorns around your mind
Won’t admit you were wrong
So you’ll never be right

Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere
You’re gonna die alone
in your cozy bed of lies

Somewhere in this City
I’m talking with your voice, I’m wearing your face
I’m thinking your thoughts
Remembering your dreams
Repeating your words
Drowning in your feelings

I built a wall around my heart
Cut by the thorns around your mind
And you’ll always be wrong
But this’ll never feel right

Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere
You’re gonna die alone
in your cozy bed of lies

Somewhere in this city
We’re driving by the same signs
And one day I’ll run into you waiting in line
And suddenly I’ll see my face
And suddenly we’ll collide
Match and tinder only one will come out alive

Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere
I’m wearing your face
But I’m nothing like you
Nothing like you

Alone With All of You

I’m living life from the outside in
A costume version of me
I’ve worn it so long it’s glued to my skin
I’m not sure who else I could be
I could laugh and be witty and flirt with you
I could play the Madonna or whore
I’m an excellent guest at a masquerade
But I can’t keep this up anymore

You can’t see the glass wall around me
I keep it very clean
I want to reach out and touch you
But there’s something in between
I’m always

Alone with all of you

I feel like everyone’s got it together but me
I’m on fire but there is no smoke
I waited so long for someone to rescue me
All that was good burned up long ago
I left my body back in 1982
I pulled the old switcheroo
This costume version stood in for me
And nobody ever knew

I need you to look at me
Just to feel like I exist
I want to be something more to you
But I don’t know what more there is
And still I’m

Alone with all of you

I must be getting better
Though sometimes it doesn’t feel that way
I wander through a maze of smiles clutching all I’m afraid to say
I want you to unmask me, unmake me, raise me from the dead
But I don’t really trust you
so I’ll stay safe in my own head

Alone with all of you

Put up a Wall

Brick by brick
It’s been growing year by year
Built to block out surprises, love, and fear
But he says, he says
“Why won’t you let me through?”
But it’s safe and quiet where
I put up a wall

Blood mixed with cement
And stone with bone
Built of bits of glass and string
All these broken things
He says, he says
“I’ll find a way to tunnel through to you”
but I know each time a hole appears
I’ll patch it up anew
The more you try the more I
I put up a wall

My garden behind the wall
There’s nowhere I can fall
No god to punish me
So I swallowed the key
No one will discover me
And deep inside a well I’ll hide myself
I’ll hide

I put up a wall

My Own Frankenstein

Crawling back
Backwards from my own grave
I see you’re surprised to find me
Alive and awake
My life has ended, but I can take it back
I’ll take a piece from you, I’ll take a piece of you
I’ll find a piece in you, I’ll find pieces

I’m stitching up the seams
Til I pass for human again
I’m stitching up the seams til I, til I
I’m my own
Frankenstein

You can’t make me in your image
I won’t fit in your Hell
And from my barren womb
I gave birth to myself
Muscles, bone and skin are not so hard to bake
And I destroy what I create,
Destroy to create

I’m stitching up the seams
Til I pass for human again
I’m stitching up the seams til I, til I
I’m my own
Frankenstein

Pieces of you, pieces of me
Tied together with strings
Pieces from here, pieces from there
Glue and staples and things
And every part of me, every part of me:
Teeth, toes, bones and breasts
And every part of me
Is alive
With the memory of death

I’m stitching up the seams
Til I pass for human again
I’m stitching up the seams til I, til I
I’m my own
Frankenstein

Canaries

Vonnegut said:
All art exists to be some kind of alarm
And artists are the canaries
Who keep coal miners from harm

Sing on, sing on, little one
Sing until you die
When she goes down in that dark place
You better hope she comes out alive

If she’d been born a parakeet
She’d decorate palm trees in the sun
But it is what it is
In that sooty darkness
The cage is open, but she won’t run

Sing on, sing on, little one
Sing until you die
When she goes down in that dark place
You better hope she comes out alive

It must be paranoia, they say
Until her words prove true
By then it’s too late for anyone to escape
Now who will you listen to?

Sing on, sing on, little one
Sing until you die
When she goes down in that dark place
You better hope she comes out alive

Chameleon

I can be whatever you want me to be
I can change into your fantasy
I can change, I can change, I can change
Watch me change

I’ll dye my hair the color of your eyes
Try me on, I’ll be the perfect size
I can change, I can change, I can change
Watch me change

Whatever you like, I like it too
I was invisible until I found you

Come now and color me
I’ll be your chameleon
I’m just a blank page, now fill me
I’ll be your chameleon

I can be blond, brunette, red or black
Laugh at your jokes, turn around, laugh behind your back
I can change, I can change, I can change
Watch me change

I smile even when I’m frowning inside
Blend with whoever I’m with
That’s how I hide

Come now and color me
I’ll be your chameleon
I’m just a blank page, now fill me
I’ll be your chameleon

I can change, I can change, I can change
Watch me change

Come now and color me
I’ll be your chameleon
I’m just a blank page, I’m just a blank page
I’m just a blank page

Come now and color me
I’ll be your chameleon
I’m just a blank page, now fill me
I’ll be your chameleon

Medusa

She walks in the room
The rats run away
Turn a boy to stone
With the look on her face
Hey

She’s the mystery every man seeks
But beware, boys
She’s got teeth in strange places

And you want to look, and you want to see
Want to know what she knows
And you want her

Left alone inside a cave
With only the snakes and her rage
Will you dare stare her in the face
Or run in fear of a woman’s gaze

And you want to look, and you want to see
Want to know what she knows
And you want her

No one cared about her tears
Now she’ll feast on all your fears
Will you dare stare her in the face
Or run in fear of a woman’s gaze

Seducer, devourer of men
The dark feminine, mystery of the night
I am all that has been, all that will be
No mortal will lift the veil that covers me

If she can’t have love she’ll have revenge
You’ll never wash her blood from your hands
You tore her body from her head
And every woman feels her dread
Left alone inside a cave
With only the snakes and her rage
Will you dare stare her in the face
Or run in fear of a woman’s gaze

Never Had a Home

Sleeping in my sometimes bed
I never quite belonged
Strange sheets, strange closet
Suitcase on the floor
Can’t lay my head on any pillow too long

So don’t ask me to settle down
If I stay in one place, I’ll turn to stone
You know I’ve lived in lots of places,
But I’ve never had a home
Never had a home

I always have a few boxes to unpack
I stalk the halls just like a ghost
I won’t hang your picture up on the wall
As soon as I get settled
I’ll be packing up to go

So don’t ask me to settle down
If I stay in one place, I’ll turn to stone
You know I’ve lived in lots of places,
But I’ve never had a home
Never had a home

Drunken Monkey

I gotta get gas, drive fast, mow the grass, leg wax
Call you back later, I’m having a heart attack
Get to work, go to church, be first,
Sales clerk don’t be a jerk
I’m having a really bad day
Hey, so leave me alone and get outta my way
Hey, I got things to do

The mind is a drunken monkey
The mind is a drunken monkey, drunken monkey
The mind is a drunken monkey
Drunken monkey mind

Born from mist, I dance in the rain
I watch each drop fall and give it a name

Oh, serenity
I just can’t find you yet

I gotta find a man, suntan, spic and span, understand
I got a plan, everything’s under control
Cause I waste time, lose time, make time
But I’m out of my mind
I’m having a really bad day
Hey, so leave me alone and get outta my way
Hey, I got things to do

The mind is a drunken monkey
The mind is a drunken monkey, drunken monkey
The mind is a drunken monkey
Drunken monkey mind

Born from mist, I dance in the rain
I watch each drop fall and give it a name
And inside me burns a flame, burns a flame

Oh, serenity
I just can’t find you yet
And it’s so small I can barely see but somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere inside me
Burns a flame, burns a flame

Oh, serenity
I just can’t find you yet

Zombie Girl

He touches her arm,
she stares at the wall
I love you he says,
but she laughs, she doesn’t care at all
When he takes her out,
she just flirts with other guys
She only wants them to want her
so she can feel alive

She’s a zombie girl
A zombie girl, zombie girl
You better run, boy
Oo ee…

She wanders the streets,
laughing and talking like her heart still beats,
but she knows know
A heart’s just another thing that bleeds
And she’ll tear you up just to see what’s inside
Then she’ll take your life, boy
to forget the way she died

All she feels is that hunger
that’s never satisfied
And no matter how big you think you are, boy
You can’t fill that hole inside her

She’s a zombie girl
Zombie girl, zombie girl
You think you can save her
You think you can save her
You think you can save her
But she’s dead inside and she’ll eat you alive
Zombie girl
You better run, boy
Oo ee…

Zombie girl
You better run, boy

What’s a Woman

Mama always told her to be nice
Just shut your mouth now and be polite
So she locked up her thoughts inside her head
Till they built up, burst out,till one day she said
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t tell me how to live

In every fairy tale she’s ever read
She only wanted to be the prince
How everyone laughed when they heard her say
She would ride off in armor to save the day she said
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t tell me how to, how to live

What’s a woman anyway
She could scream and cry and apologize till there’s
Nothing left to say
So I’m down on my knees but I’m not down here to pray, tell me
What’s a woman anyway

Now if the one who leads wears the pants
Then who’s the one to wear the dress?
Do you have to be masculine to win,
Have to give up all that’s feminine?
I said don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t tell me that you’re liberated

What’s a woman anyway
She could scream and cry and apologize till there’s
Nothing left to say
So I’m down on my knees but I’m not down here to pray, tell me
What good is that woman anyway

There’s a woman who’s barely dressed
She’s gonna dance for money to bring home her bread
There’s a beauty in an army vest
She’s got hair everywhere but on her head
There’s a mother she’s raising the future
There’s a farmer she’s planting seeds

But all I know, all I know is
Some of us are fighting just to live

What’s a woman anyway
We tried and tried and we sacrificed
Now there’s nothing left to say
So I’m down on my knees but I’m not down here to pray
So tell me what’s a woman anyway
We could fight to save each others’ lives
With what we do and say
So I’m down on my knees and I’m begging you to ask yourself today
What’s a woman
What good is that woman
What the hell is that
Loud-mouthed, trouble-making, crazy old woman good for
Anyway

When You Go Away

If I were a clock I wouldn’t tick
If I were a bridge I’d fall in the crick
And If I were a hydrogen blimp
Just one little spark would make me go boom, boom, boom

If I were a fridge I wouldn’t hum
If I were a washer my colors would run
If I were a robot I’d malfunction
You’d get no beep-be-beep-be-dee-beep out of me

When you go away
Every little part of me breaks
So please don’t go away
Don’t go away

If I were an engine I wouldn’t turn over
If I were a computer I’d freeze
If I were the earth, I’d cease to spin
All the people and things would fly into space

When you go away
Every little part of me breaks
When you go away
I need a mechanic to set me straight

When you go away
Every little part of me just breaks
So please don’t go away
Don’t go away today

Scars I Own

Sometimes I wake up
For just one second, just enough
Time for me to realize how asleep
I am

But I can’t face the pain
For just one second,
I remember everything
Get me a drink; I’ll go back to sleep

Could I be something more?
Could I be something more?
Could I be something more
Than you thought that I could be

My forearm it shows
I’m stronger than you know
And if I have survived this long
I can get along, get along
My forearm it shows I’m stronger than you know
And I’m not afraid to show
These scars that I own

But I’m not going back
To where I used to sit alone
And make myself, make myself
Bleed your blood for things I haven’t done

I could be something more
I could be something more
I could be something more
Than you thought that I could be

I will show you mine
If you show me yours
The scars on your heart
Or on your arm
I’m not going back
But I won’t run away
I’ll face my pain
And I’ll wear it proudly

And I’ll be something more
I’m becoming something more
Now I am something more
Than I ever thought that
I could be

My forearm it shows
I’m stronger than you know
And if I have survived this long
I can get along, get along
My forearm it shows I’m stronger than you know
And I’m not afraid to show
These scars that I own

More, More, More

It’s about time you were going under
I need some new property
The middle class is a pain in the ass I need a
Shoe shine Won’t you help me
Some louse come and took your house well
Don’t you go around blaming me
I need a new yacht and someone to scrub my pots and don’t you see

I got mine but now I want yours
I don’t know why the more I get I want more, more, more
Your life means nothing to me
So give it, give it up
You’re gonna give it up to me

Who says you need protection
I need someone to serve me
I need a cop with a dirty mop
Cause I won’t do time (bought the deputy)
Don’t look I cooked the books and
I don’t want anyone to see
Just watch my puppet show, realer than reality

It’s about time you were going under
It’s about time you were going under

It’s about time you give it up to me

Goddam Faery Heart

Well on Monday I knew that I loved you only
But on Tuesday I woke up and I was feeling lonely and
Then on Wednesday I just forgot that I ever even loved you
On Thursday I had found someone new even though I didn’t want to

So what am I gonna do with this goddam faery heart
It’s wild and so much stronger than me and now it’s tearing me apart

And I’m spinnin round, fallin down
I’m drunk on love and sweet destruction
Just watch me now, I don’t care how
This faery heart is gonna tear it all down

On Friday I found someone I could just sit with and not be
Afraid of Saturday, because I knew that he would always be there
To care for me; he was gentle and kind and so good – maybe too good
Cause on Sunday, I just got bored and then I walked away

So what am I gonna do with this goddam faery heart
It’s wild and so much stronger than me and now it’s tearing me apart