I come very briefly to this place. I watch it move. I watch it shake. kumowaku yamano. watashino sakebi. watashino koewo. ushano kokoku. watashiwa sokoni
Now in this book there are a lot of stories about talking animals: talking snakes, and birds, and fish; and about people who try to communicate with them
Let's see, uh, it was on an island And there was this snake And the snake had legs And he could walk all around the island Yes, that's true, a snake
L-L-L L-L-Listen Listen T- L-L Listen to my heartbeat
I met this guy - and he looked like might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink. which, in fact, he turned out to be. and I said: oh boy. right again
Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better. I saw this guy on the train And he seemed to have gotten stuck In one of those
A dark angel parachutes down into an abandoned town He says: Oh, I've been looking for a certain white clown Doesn't look like you're it But you're the
There is a hot wind blowing it moves across teh oceand and into every port. a plague. a black plague. there's danger everywhere and you've been sailing
A summer night the hot the heat Sit at my desk fluorescent light Drawing a picture of a perfect moment I saw it once on a grand avenue That stretched
Rain keeps pouring down houses are cracking. people drown. cars are rusting here. a church floats by washed in the blood of the lamb. and all the superhighways
Last spring, I spent a week in a convent in the Midwest. I'd been invited there to do a series of seminars on language. They'd gotten my name from a list
Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten that tattoo sometimes I wish I'd married you one hundred fires one hundred days sometimes I feel like a stranger sometimes
Coolsville coolsville coolsville coolsville so perfect so nice hey little darlin, I'm comin your way little darlin and I'll be there just as soon as I
In our sleep as we speak listen to the drums beat as we speak in our sleep as we speak listen to the drums beat in our sleep in our sleep as we speak
Instrumental
O superman. o judge. o mom and dad. mom and dad. o superman. o judge. o mom and dad. mom and dad. hi. I'm not home right now. but if you want to leave
One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden A snake came walking in the twilight He was leaning on his ivory cane And he said, let me tell you a little
How to find you, maybe by your singing A weird trail of notes in the water One white whale in all these oceans One white whale Slipping through the nets