Cracker

[fox69]

"Sick Of Goodbyes"

"Sick Of Goodbyes"


If I could just keep
My stupid mind together
Then my thoughts across
The land for you to see
The sun drags locomotives
To the ocean
No one knows this like I do
Seconds clicking which I'm
Change to dust
Whithered roots of hair
And nights of rust
I'm waiting in the currents
Of the ocean
I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes

I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so tired of goodbyes, goodbyes
Goodbyes, goodbyes
Goodbyes

When night comes crawling in
On a horse
Soaking up my dreams
Through the pores
I'm so sick
I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
Goodbyes
Goodbyes

I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so tired of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so sick, so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so, I'm so
Goodbyes
Goodbyes
Goodbyes

 

[fox69]

"Sidi Ifni"

"Sidi Ifni"


We walked down
a long promenade
Down a winding stair,
wide as boulevards
Vines and shrubs
grew between the steps
From the Spanish town
to the African sea

We drank wine
and toasted to the day
When she was the queen,
before the long decay
We drank wine,
slept off hangovers
Lethargy, decay
and forgotten loves

We’d awake
to the BBC
An old English queen
on the balcony
Wander ’round
abandoned consulates
An old broken chair
on the marble stair
And from the roof,
see Canary seas
The discarded runway
of Sidi Ifni

We drank wine
lying on our backs
On the warm tarmac,
in a bowl of stars

Well, I went down,
mostly on my own
Till I was alone
in that shipwrecked house
Through the porthole sea
an epiphany
I would never leave this place alive
I drink gin
with the old ex-pats
We are broken things,
from a broken past
And it comes near;
but just out of grasp
The alchemist words
that would bring her back

 

[fox69]

"Sinaloa Cowboys"

"Sinaloa Cowboys"


Miguel came from a small town in northern Mexico
He came north with his brother Louis to California three years ago
They crossed at the river levee when Louis was just sixteen
And found work together in the fields of the San Joaquin
They left their homes and family Their father said "My sons, one thing you will learn:
For everything the north-a gives, it exacts a price in return."
They worked side by side in the orchards from morning till the day was through
Doing the work the hueros wouldn't do.

Word was out some men in from Sinaloa were looking for some hands
Well deep in Fresno county there was a deserted chicken ranch.
There in a small tin shack on the edge, on the edge of a ravine,
Miguel and Louis stood cooking methamphetamine.

You could spend a year in the orchards, or make half as much in one shift
Working for the men from Sinaloa. Ah, but if you slipped.
The hydriodic acid could burn right through your skin
They'd leave you spittin' up blood in the desert if you breathed those fumes in.

It was early one winter evening as Miguel stood watch outside
When the shack exploded, lighting up the valley night.
Miguel carried Louis' body over his shoulder down a swale to the creekside
And there in the tall grass Louis Rosales died.

Miguel lifted Louis' body into the truck and then he drove
To where the morning sunlight fell on a eucalyptus grove.
There in the dirt he dug up ten thousand dollars, all that they'd saved,
Kissed his brother's lips and placed him in his grave

 

[fox69]

"Someday"

"Someday"


Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right

And I had a dream last night
That I was feeling barely human
So save me a place in your parking lot
And save me a place beside you
When you lie down to sleep at night
Someday I'll get it right

Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right

And if you see the dark clouds
Gathering out on the horizon
Don't be alarmed
They're just there for me
Just save me a place beside you
When you lie down to sleep at night
Someday I'll get it right

Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right

 

[fox69]

"Something You Ain't Got"

"Something You Ain't Got"


Well the first dance cost me a quarter,
and the second dance cost me my heart
Now I'm here on this barstool,
like a circle it ends where it starts
And it goes something like this
Always a swing and a miss

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

Well I woke up hung over in the squalor
where I make my home
Ate my heart out for breakfast,
then I met the day stoned
And it goes something like this
Always a swing and a miss

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

'cause it's alright, yeah it's alright

 

[fox69]

"St. Cajetan"

"St. Cajetan"


You know I don't feel well
I got a thirst in my mouth
And all I want is a cool drink of water
You know I don't feel well
I got salt in my wounds
And all I want is a cool drink of water

Can you hear me, St. Cajetan
I once knew a well so sweet
I put my lips, my lips to the pail to drink
But I'd give it all up for some water

You know I don't feel well
Got the salty taste of my tears
And all I want is some relief from this

You know I don't feel well
Been tossed and turned on this ocean
And all I want is this one wish

Can you hear me, St. Cajetan
All I want is a cool drink of water
Can you hear me, St. Cajetan
All I want is a cool drink of water
Can you hear me, St. Cajetan
All I want is a cool drink of water

Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Can you hear me, St. Cajetan
Can you hear me, St. Cajetan
All I want is a cool drink of water
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
All I want is a cool drink of water
Can you hear me, St. Cajetan
All I want is a cool drink of water
[fade out]

 

[fox69]

"Star"

"Star"


Gonna make you a star
And show the world your green, green eyes
See your smiling face
Everywhere, everyplace
We could turn it upside down
We could turn it inside out
We'll give you everything
Things that you'd never need,
Things that you'd never dream
Things like eternity
Gonna make you a star
Make you a star
Make you a star
Gonna make you a star
You stare down at the emptiness
You shake us from our poisonous
Slumbering and stuttering
So start and stop the fall
Coarse masses down the hall
Blow you through the door
Into a million bits
We'll reassemble it
That's how we'll make a hit
Gonna make you a star
Make you a star
Make you a star
Make you a star
Make you a star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star

 

[fox69]

"Sunday Train"

"Sunday Train"


You can place your faith
in God my friend,
but no one knows his plan.
You can place your faith
in your brother,
but he may fail you.
So I am waiting for
that Sunday Train.
Place my faith in
southern line.
She may not be on time
but she will come.
She once was a proud one.
Stretched from sea
to shinning sea.
She may not take you everywhere
you want to go. But where you
need to be she'll agree.
So rest you'll weary legs,
they carried you all this way.
And climb aboard that Sunday train
when she comes.
When god banished Lilith
from the garden,
he gave us Eve
he gave us steam.
So trains climb
up every mountain
but never have they
or set me free.
So if your heart is weary
and soul is like mine.
Climb aboard that Sunday train
when she comes.

 

[fox69]

"Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey"

"Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey"


Well sunrise in the land of the pharaohs
I see my broken arrows
Scattered 'cross the plain.
Well sunrise on the river in the city
I'm feeling pretty shitty
In the wreckage of my life.
So if you want to live;
Let's live together
In bows and feathers.
And find my decadence
And if you want to dare
Well we can take that long road
Cause dying is easy,
It's living that's hard.
Well sunrise in the land of milk and honey
She says "My little bunny
Is this all that there is?"
Well sunrise in the land of southern idols
Lines and hotel bibles
And fallen debutantes
So if you want to see what's in the shadows:
The burning meadows
Of our apocalypse
I dream of fallow fields
I dream of winter
Cause dying is easy,
It's living that's hard.

 

[fox69]

"Superfan"

"Superfan"


[SECTION 1:]
I heard the words, now here I am
You were talking to me, I'm your super fan
I loved you then, I love you still
But if I can't have you, no-one will

Woah!

[REPEAT SECTION 1]

[SECTION 2:]
I will make you understand
I'm your super fan

[SECTION 3:]
I know you like it
I was watching from outside my love
I saw her leaving
She's not right for you my life, my love
I know what hurts you
Sing it to me again my life, my love
I know what hurts you
...I could hurt you

I'll track you down, I'll steal your mail
A lock of hair, some fingernails
A piece of you upon my shrine
Now you're with me all the time

[REPEAT SECTION 2]

[REPEAT SECTION 3]

If I can't have you, no-one will
If I can't have you, no-one will
If I can't have you, no-one will
If I can't have you, no-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will