Cracker

[fox69]

"El Cerrito"

"El Cerrito"


Walking down the street in San Francisco just the other day
Wondering what has happened to the freaks and hippies and the punks
Everybody's squeaky clean, they look and dress and act the same
I don't give a shit about your IPO I live in El Cerrito
Mama took the Alameda Transit bus to work each day
All the way down San Pablo, thirty years a Naval base
Never heard her once complain about taking public transportation
You should ride the city bus just like the rest of us in El Cerrito
[CHORUS:]
Do do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do do
El Cerrito
Pink moustached taxi cabs, don't you know that they're just scabs
Union busting, techie uber alles, I said it
Bullshit claims to change the world, making Wall Street bankers even richer (richer, richer, richer)
El Cerrito's got its problems but we don't pick pockets of the working man
Papa was an engineer, worked at Hewlett Packard
Dumbarton Bridge two times a day then lost his job and pension
We would go and visit him in bars in Jack London Square
I don't give a shit about your IPO I come from El Cerrito
[REPEAT CHORUS x2]
If there is a lesson from this story to be learned
It's not exactly what you think, you shouldn't be concerned
It's not that we don't like the rich, it's simply that we think this kind is boring
Everybody thinks and acts the same that's why I live in El Cerrito
[REPEAT CHORUS x2]
Ooooh

 

[fox69]

"El Comandante"

"El Comandante"


El Comanante,
Your daughter she's so fine
El Comanante,
It's just a bag of weed

[CHORUS:]
Now you and I don't see eye to eye
But we really should put this behind us
No you don't want to make your daughter cry
El Comandante,

We were down in Piedmont Park
El Comandante,
Told us it was herbal tea

[REPEAT CHORUS]

You were young once
And you were foolish
How am I so different
Now I don't look it but
I'm a stand up guy

El Comandante,
El Comandante,
It's just a bag of weed

 

[fox69]

"Euro-Trash Girl"

"Euro-Trash Girl"


Well I've been up to Paris
And I've slept in a park
Went down to Barcelona
Someone broke in my car
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Took the train down to Athens
And I slept in a fountain
Some Swiss junkie in Turin
Ripped me off for my cash
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
The CRS on the metro
Shook me down for a bribe
On my knees for the sergeant
When my passport arrived
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Called my mom from a payphone
I said "I'm down to my last."
She said "I sent you to college
Now go call your dad."
And the waitress that he married
Well she hung up the phone
You know she never did like me
But I can stand on my own
Sold my plasma in Amsterdam
Spent it all in a night
Buying drinks at the Melk Weg
For a soldier in drag
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Euro-trash Girl, I'm a Euro-trash girl
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Got a tattoo in Berlin
And a case of the crabs
A rose and a dagger
On the palm of my hand
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

 

[fox69]

"Everybody Gets One For Free"

"Everybody Gets One For Free"


I talk to the waitress
Yeah she was pretty hot
She gave me her number
But that's all I got
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
Started a conversation
About the United Nations
Had to use imagination
She was talking about reincarnation
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
Stayed up all night drinking
When I should've been home
Had a vision of the blessed virgin
Butt now I'm not sure at all
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
Miguel Urbiztondo
Backstage New Year's Eve
When the policeman came to look for him
He said "What the fuck do you know?"
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
She from the Inland Empire
Her dad was an umpire
Her mama was a go-go dancer
Everybody got in for free
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
I know that our last record
Didn't do very well
But now we're back on the block
With our freedom rock?
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
The Montreal policeman
Wouldn't get off his ass
So all your shit was stolen
What's the matter with that?
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
I got a yellow carnation
I got some Kevlar pants
I got a new American Century
Do the freedom-hater's dance
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
I was driving in my car
It was filled up with yams
For no obvious reason
That's just who I am
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
Everybody gets one, everybody gets one for free
Everybody gets one, everybody 'cept for me
Last call
Find the one
Everybody gets one
Everybody gets one 'cept for me
Everybody gets one 'cept for me
'cept for me

 

[fox69]

"Family Tradition"

"Family Tradition"


Alternative Country singers have always been a real close family
But lately some of my kinfolks have disowned a few others and me
I guess it's because I kind of changed my direction
Lord, I guess I went and broke their family tradition

Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
Stop and think it over, try to put yourself in this position
When I get stoned I'm just carryin' on an old family tradition

Now I am very proud of my daddy's name
Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the same
Stop and think it over, try to put yourself in my position
When I get stoned and sing all night long it's just a family tradition

Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out them songs that you wrote?
If I'm down in a honky tonk, and some old slick's tryin' to gimme some friction
I say "Leave me alone, I'm stayin' all night long with these wing-ed lizards"

Let's go Johnny, wing-ed lizards, I see them...
A-ha!

Lordy, I have loved some ladies, and I have loved Jim Beam
But them and a wing-ed lizard tried to kill me in '73
When that doctor asks me "Son, how'd ya get in this condition?"
I says "Hey Sawbones, I'm just a-carryin' on the old family tradition."

Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out them songs that you wrote?
Stop and think it over try to put yourself in my unique position
When I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a family tradition

Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out them songs that you wrote?
Stop and think it over try to put yourself in my unique position
When I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a family tradition

 

[fox69]

"Fiddle"

"Fiddle"


When I was a boy there were fifteen a-people in the world
Fifteen a-bound for heaven, and fifteen a-bound for hell
And the devil come 'round, yeah he jump on my bed
Say you got to leave me alone you got to give me some rest
But I gather my lead, and I gather my spool
And I burn it all with sulphur 'til the devil did what we feared
And we fly through the night, under the mercury moon
So I could watch you sleep and dream a-in your room
When I was a boy, a-there were fifteen people in the world
I had a bowl for my sweetheart, and a fiddle to raise the devil from hell
I could play a sweet tune, or make my sweetheart laugh
I could shake a blackbird from the highest tree branch
I was half a boy, I was half a jack
Jimmy? donner? was full of man, most of which is bad
You know he shot a man that had my father's face
And he geld a woman down who had my sister's name
When I was a boy, a-there were fifteen people in the world
And the lovers would lie in the long tall grass by the railroad track
And the angels come down, they make the rails to sing
I put my ears to the tracks, and they tell me things
That a train would come with a fiery roar
Reeks in heaven into hell into a long black trail of smoke
And the earth would shake with the escaping steam
And the train would make a thunder to drown out any scream
Hmmm, hmmm
Hmmm, hmmm
Hmmm, hmmm
Hmmm, hmmm
When I was a boy, a-there were a-fifteen people in the world
A-fifteen bound for heaven, and fifteen bound for hell
And the lovers would lie in a box o' pine
And the doctor come 'round, to flick coins on their eyes
I'm a preacher man now, I've got my place on earth
'cause I have heard the voices from beyond this world
I'm a preacher man now, I've got my place in hell
'cause I have heard the voices no man should live to tell
'cause I have heard the voices no man should live to tell
Huh-huh, huh-huh
Huh-huh, huh-huh
Huh-huh, huh-huh
Huh-huh, huh-huh
Huh-huh, huh-huh
Huh-huh, huh-huh
Huh-huh, huh-huh
Huh-huh, huh-huh

 

[fox69]

"Fluffy Lucy"

"Fluffy Lucy"


Fluffy Lucy she's not fluffy
Everybody says, she's got it easy
But she's dark, straight to her soul
She's got the kind of trouble
That it's hard to tell another
Because they think that you're jaded, or you're spoiled
Well dirty Daisy she's not crazy
Everybody called her a loon
But she's just another sweet dark fruit
She's got the kind of trouble
That it's hard to tell another
Cause they think that you're jaded or you're spoiled
So lay down your head
Lay down your heart
Come lay down, in my bed
And I won't tell a soul
So wake in the morning
You kick me in the ass
You say you're glad to see me
But this time I don't need it, I'm right on the mark
Yeah I declared my prerogative
To alternate between what is heavy and what is light
Now feel the weight, the weight of the world
So gonna lay down my head
Lay down my heart
I wanna lay down in your bed
And I won't tell a soul
And I won't tell a soul
I won't tell a soul

 

[fox69]

"Forever"

"Forever"


Movie stars
And magazines
Life is good
Grass is green
Come ride with me
Down 62
'Cause all I want
Is to be with you
Past rusted out
Faded towns
Little places
Broken down
Life is good
When I'm with you
I don't need
Anything.
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
Now and forever, forever
Crystalline
Those perfect dreams
Its all wide open
At seventeen
Start again
Me and you
A simple life
On Route 62
Rusted out
Broken down
Little places
Falling down
Life is good
Or so it seems
I don't need
Anything.
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
Now and forever, forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
Now and forever, forever

 

[fox69]

"Friends"
(feat. Patterson Hood)

"Friends"
(feat. Patterson Hood)



[David Lowery:]
Well I'd never sleep with your ex-girlfriend
Even if she starts to flirt with me again.
Allow me apologize for my slightly wicked thoughts;
'Cause that's the kind of friend that you've got.
[Patterson Hood:]
If a fight breaks out and you're the cause of it
In some redneck bar where you've been talking shit.
I would not forsake you later in that parking lot
'cause that's the kind of friend that you've got.
[Lowery and Hood:]
Well through the laughter and the tears,
We go stumbling through the years.
[Lowery:]
A bit dysfunctional well folks might say
[Hood:]
Well I've got the dirt on you.
[Lowery:]
Hey, I've got plenty on you too.
[Lowery and Hood:]
So I pray we stay together all our days.

[Lowery:]
So when you're on a date
And you finally bring that girl home.
You put a little Captain Beefheart on the stereo
And you disconnect the phone.

[Hood:]
Then I show up drunk and raving,
And then I pass out on the spot.
'Cause that's the kind of friend
That you've got.
[Lowery:]
Well through the laughter and the tears,
[Lowery and Hood:]
We go stumbling through the years.
[Lowery:]
A bit dysfunctional well folks might say
[Hood:]
You can say that again.
[Lowery and Hood:]
Well I've got the dirt on you.
[Lowery:]
Hey, I've got plenty on you too;
[Lowery and Hood:]
So I pray we stay together all our days.
[Lowery:]
Oh dear lord
[Lowery and Hood:]
Yeah I pray we stay together all our days.

 

[fox69]

"Gentleman's Blues"

"Gentleman's Blues"


Where are my God's green grasses?
Yellow blue fishes of the sea
Where are you, my sweet darling?
My sweet darling, I'll drown in misery

And on the golden days of summer
Robbed from Pharoah's ancient tombs
And the silver hours, they are mashed and sour
My sweet darling, where have you gone?

Past the dead and awkward factory
Anthracite grey on cobblestone
And the sooted flowers, on gentleman's towers
My sweet darling, where have you gone?