@ALBUM: eye If you have corrections to these lyrics, please mail them to me at: meep@wpi.wpi.edu --Doug @SONG: CYNTHIA MASK napoleon wore a black hat ate lots of chicken and conquered half europe napoleon was caught by the british imprisoned on elba he died on the phone chamberlain came crawling from munich with one piece of paper he waved at the camera peace in our time oh thank you herr hitler tell that to the polish tell that to the jews you take your babes up to the bathroom and then you lead them into the bedroom gnarly babes for pleasure and profit correctly applied could bring good results cynthia mask you're wearing a cynthia mask cynthia mask you're wearing a cynthia mask you're dressed as yourself you walk down the pavement you smile like a bowl you grin like a melon the people that pass they think that they know you they're too busy thinking to see who you are i'll reach your lungs like smoke in the orchard scattered in bushes the firemen laughing i'll rap your hands with personal signals don't come to me later come to me now cynthia mask you're wearing a cynthia mask cynthia mask cynthia mask i know how she feels but can't say a word because nothing is real in here not even her disguise yourself as you or another a brick or a spider in hunger and silence the yawning cross the hill full of pebbles inside you forever inside you is all cynthia mask @SONG: CERTAINLY CLICKOT (she's certainly clickot) (she's certainly cruel) she was tapering to a point in a corona of foam i had one chance to stop her eggs pronounced 'eggs' or 'brad' but although inches from her column i started falling out dover, get undressed, this car is parked with a sponge a mine is a persuasive place especially when it's dark she uncorked herself teeth spilling from her nostrils her handle inflated to fill my hand just so and in her breast pocket she wore a fish named angelo of which i have the duplicate eric @SONG: QUEEN ELVIS people get what they deserve time is round and space is curved honey, have you got the nerve to be queen elvis? see that man who mows his lawn he'll hang in drag before the dawn some are made and some are born to be queen elvis it could break your mother's heart it could break your sister's heart coming out's the hardest part when you're queen elvis justify your special ways justify your special ways getting blow-jobs from the press oh, i'm jealous can't you guess? i could never fit your dress queen elvis oh and i'll sculpt you so very hard oh and i'll sculpt you 'til you bleed everybody must get stoned all together all alone babbling beside the throne of queen elvis justify your special ways justify your special ways two mirrors make infinity in the mirror you and me find out just what love could be queen elvis oh and i'll sculpt you so very hard oh and i'll sculpt you 'til you breathe people get what they deserve time is round and space is curved honey, have you got the nerve to be queen elvis? @SONG: FLESH CARTOONS linda ryan in the sky i've seen her laughing but i've never seen her cry she took a fireman it was a half empty flight he brought his hose and everything just turned out right i'm just watching german leather a german tongue lapping pleasure when he's rubbery and young he played the oboe i thought he would he does it better than a guitarist like me could i'm just watching don't mind me i'm just watching on my own flesh cartoons flesh cartoons life is easy life goes by linda ryan she's still up there in the sky thank you linda she doesn't age despite the weather she looks the same on every page i'm just watching don't mind me i'm just watching on my own i've got no feelings i've got no friends i've got insurance and i despise those who pretend life's a movie life's a dream i love you baby things are always what they seem i'm just watching don't mind me i'm just watching on my own flesh cartoons flesh cartoons @SONG: 'CHINESE WATER PYTHON' [instrumental] @SONG: EXECUTIONER don't wait up any longer i'm not coming home you know you're always stronger when you're on you're own you said the sweetest things that's what you said here's a relationship with a gun to its head i'm the executioner of love our love has been found guilty our love is turning bad before i pass the sentence have you anything to add? it wasn't easy but it wasn't fun but when you start these things see what you've done you're the executioner of love you're the executioner your childhood is over there's nowhere you can hide there's nowhere you can hide there's nowhere you can hide it crawls towards you bleeding begging for a kiss even if you don't mean it it's only just a kiss i know how judas felt but he got paid i'm doing this for free just like live aid i'm the executioner of love i'm the executioner of love i'm the executioner of love @SONG: LINCTUS HOUSE you know i used to call my baby up and we'd get real close just like the telephone was a sofa and our thoughts would mingle and we'd leave our minds wide open like a big window in the evening air and we'd say, 'hey baby, come on in and help yourself to my soul' 'hey baby, come on in and help yourself to my soul' but these days, even saying, 'hello? how are you?' 'i'm fine, how are you?' takes a lot of sweat ain't that a shame ain't that a shame but in linctus house in my flesh hotel i don't care anymore you know my baby and me as kimberley would say we'd curl up like two dogs in front of a fire and our eyes would reflect each other in the warm long heat of love yeah, the warm long heat of love and i would hear the rain falling on the leaves outside i could'nt stand to close the window 'cos i'd shiver if i left her side but now i'd shake if we should meet and i spend most of my time in the bushes ain't that a shame know what you're doing ain't that a shame know what you've done but in linctus house in my flesh hotel i don't care anymore 'i understand how everything sometimes turns out to be nothing,' you say but i wonder if you do and if we understood each other there'd be no need to talk but even that, even talking is out of reach should i say it with flowers or should i say it with nails? i'm not the kind to push you around but i don't want to make myself vulnerable and if i was on my knees you'd have a pretty good view of my skull and i happen to know you're carrying a chisel but in linctus hotel in my flesh hotel i don't care anymore no in linctus house in my flesh hotel i don't care ain't that a shame know what you're doing ain't that a shame know what you've done @SONG: SWEET GHOST OF LIGHT sweet ghost of light, when you appear you fall around me, everywhere i see your face as you pass by as fragile as a dragonfly you jab me in the kidneys like a compass or an iron spike but i can't help believing you because i love the things you do sweet ghost of light, i've lived too long i'd die for you inside this song the sweetest death that i can dream like petals flowing down a stream that turn to blood, as they dissolve it's all around you i revolve sweet ghost of light, you'll never fade by nothing else are you betrayed you fill me 'til i'm empty and you empty me like grains of sand i love you more than anyone beneath the moon, beneath the sun @SONG: COLLEGE OF ICE [instrumental] @SONG: TRANSPARENT LOVERS on the horizon of the gulls and plovers she saw the outline of transparent lovers in a hotel room underneath the covers who should i see but the transparent lovers why is she built that way i soon discovered try to embrace her your transparent lover try to belong to her you won't recover see your reflected in your transparent lover gone lord, gone, gone fade boy, fade gone lord, gone, gone faintly above the cliffs they held each other one is the angel, one's the transparent lovers your going to lose her like you lost your mother but you'll remember your transparent lover all men are killers or they're killers brothers i'm going to die for my transparent lover my transparent lover gone lord, gone, gone fade boy, fade gone lord, gone, gone summery phantom as she fade she hovers i'm going to find her my transparent lover my transparent lover @SONG: BEAUTIFUL GIRL i'm in love with a beautiful girl yes i'm in love with a beautiful girl well i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl and she's staring through a crack in the sky yes she's staring through a crack in the sky well i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl well i thought i knew all about everything but i was wrong well i thought i knew all about everything i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl oh, i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl she's in love with a wonderful guy yes, she's in love with a wonderful guy well i hope she's in love with whom i think she's in love i'm in love with a beautiful girl i'm a charming and dangerous guy yes, i'm a charming and dangerous guy if you don't expect too much it's alright i'm in love with a beautiful girl yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl well i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl and we're going through a hole in the sky yeah, we're going through a hole in the sky we'll be up there for the longest while 'cos i'm in love with a beautiful girl yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl well i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl yes, i'm in love with a beautiful girl well i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl @SONG: RAINING TWILIGHT COAST i'm on a raining twilight coast sending out postcards to the one i love and the rain falls, up from the ground no one sees it, 'cos there's no one around just one thing baby, you forgot my heart just one thing baby, you forgot my heart and i remember when i was young, they said, "work hard," and i said "certainly, 'cos it's fun" and so i tried it, i did what i could made no difference, it never did any good just one thing baby, you forgot my heart just one thing baby, you forgot my heart 'cos i'm a fish baby, with a shimmering skin and i find an opening, and slide right in the sea is my mother, pea green and wild there's so many ways, you can screw up a child just one thing baby, you forgot my heart just one thing baby, you forgot my heart @SONG: CLEAN STEVE man next door came round one night to ask me for a drink i said i didn't anymore he said, 'that's what you think' a tendril curled around his leg as he got up to leave he said, 'a friend of yours was here but we all call him steve' clean steve clean steve they don't come any dirtier than me better watch out all you space cats clean steve is a mineral man my cousin bruce came round to stay the father of my son he tore apart a stethoscope and pointed at the sun 'there's tentacles between our worlds,' he said, 'so i believe' i said, 'the man next door's best friend was making videos with clean steve' you could have knocked him down with a feather clean steve lent me a pound in nineteen seventy-four that was a lot of money then i was extremely poor we had a party three years later clean steve wore a robe he brought a new nick lowe cassette and played it in the road clean steve clean steve they don't come any dirtier than me better watch out all you space cats clean steve is a mineral man i called up mark ellen but he wasn't really in instead i talked to his wife claire about some gigs she'd seen clean steve was outside the house watching both his feet we all had dinner with him once he gave us lots to eat there's some real people in the world and some who are pretend clean steve is making videos with the man next door's best friend he's good at playing frisbee and his teeth are shining bright i think he comes from liverhead if all my facts are right clean steve clean steve they don't come any dirtier than me better watch out all you space cats clean steve is a mineral man @SONG: AGONY OF PLEASURE in agony of pleasure i crumble to my knees i lick your frozen treasure you cup my furry bees but one bee bubbles over your fleshy brimming cup it falls into the clover and lands all downside up it crawls across your stomach not far above the food that you are still digesting inside your large intestine and into your hydrangea it draws its furry legs you're crouching like a stranger that aches to lay her eggs in ecstacy of pressure you quiver in the jam while naked angels measure a piece of rotting ham in symphonies of jelly you play with my disease while back across your belly there crawl dusty bees @SONG: GLASS HOTEL seems like you were in a glass hotel seems like, seems like seems like there was someone else as well seems like, it seems seems like you were in your glass hotel seems like, seems like it seems like everything was going well it seems like a dream well the radio was playing in the darkness of the hall there was someone standing with you who just wasn't there at all and you were laughing well the telephone was ringing in a corridor of blue a geranium came out of it reminded me of you and i was crying seems like you were in a glass hotel seems like, it seems like seems like there was someone else as well it seems like, it seems well there's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past there is only this one moment and you've got to make it last and you were laughing in a glass hotel @SONG: SATELLITE every day the satellite seems to be the door of someone's reach every day the satellite seems a little further on the beach satellites and stags i'm growing betsy in a bag and she don't mind as long as things are round every day the satellite jerky little canister of gold who's to be the satellite with inches of whole betsy growing cold i'm into you so far i'm out the other side and orbiting is just a waste of time next time i get into you i swear to god i won't come out again swear to god i won't come out again satellites and stags i'm growing betsy in a bag and she don't mind as long as things are round every day the satellite seems a little further out of reach @SONG: AQUARIUM in the aquarium you stroked a greasy ray just at the end of day way down in monterey in the aquarium the fish went through the trees the planes went through the seas and you were still with me everything revolves around the sun you know i'm gonna miss you when i'm gone everything revolves i never knew a thing about you i never knew a thing about you i headed in a dream towards you i wonder if i ever saw you but i never knew a thing about you she says she's gonna saw her head off she only does it for attention like other people i could mention she wasn't feeling good to start with you're not someone i want to part with all you need is love but all you get is afraid everything revolves around the sun you know i'm gonna miss you when i'm gone everything revolves @SONG: QUEEN ELVIS II people get what they deserve time is round and space is curved honey, have you got the nerve to be queen elvis? see that man that mows his lawn he'll hang in drag before the dawn some are made and some are born to be queen elvis it could break your mother's heart it could break your sister's heart coming out's the hardest part when you're queen elvis justify your special ways justify your special ways getting blow-jobs from the press oh, i'm jealous can't you guess? i'd never fit inside your dress queen elvis oh and i'll sculpt you so very hard oh and i'll sculpt you 'til you bleed everybody must get stoned all together all alone babbling beside the throne of queen elvis justify your special ways justify your special ways two mirrors make infinity in the mirror you and me find out just what love could be queen elvis oh and i'll sculpt you so very hard oh and i'll sculpt you 'til you breathe people get what they deserve time is round and space is curved honey, have you got the nerve to be queen elvis?