Soul Asylum

[fox69]

"Masquerade"

"Masquerade"


[Screaming gibberish]

I'm so glad we could get together
I thank you for supplying the fun
Well, we took this time out to enjoy ourselves
Now let's just fucking get it done

Well, we're talk-talk-talking and talk-talk-talk-talking
And maybe we'll have a little fight
Hush, hush, hush, hush, hush, hush, hush, now don't you admit that the reason you are here
Is just to get fucked tonight?

Come on

This masquerade is over

(Personal invitations only)

I.. I.. I got my makeup on
I got my hair all done
I bet you can't even guess who I am

Well, I? I thought you were my friend
But then the troubles began
And that old identity set in

I see no end to this bullshit so let's talk politics
Where it's parties, parties, parties all the time
We got big long cars, we got movie stars
We got the three B's, and don't you forgetting, the bigots, the bombs, and barriers

This masquerade is over

(Hey, hey)

I didn't invite no black, white-hippie, hardcore, the rich, Hasidic Jews, reds, white-bastard mothers, ya know, ya know
You're think you're something special, you know, I certainly didn't invite you
You know these costume parties they're such a good time
But ya, know I think I'm gonna have to be headin' home, ha, ha
Ha, you know it's funny how these social events, they just make me want to be alone

This masquerade is over
This masquerade is over
This masquerade is over

It's all over
It's all over
It's all over

It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over
It's over

It's all over
It's all over
It's all over
It's all over

Ha, ha, ha

 

[fox69]

"Misery"

"Misery"


They say misery loves company
We could start a company and make misery
Frustrated Incorporated

Well I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to see

Put me out of my misery
I'd do it for you, would you do it for me
We will always be busy making misery

We could build a factory and make misery
We'll create the cure; we made the disease
Frustrated Incorporated
Frustrated Incorporated

Well I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to feel

Put me out of my misery
All you suicide kings and you drama queens
Forever after happily, making misery

Did you satisfy your greed, get what you need
Was it only envy, so empty
Frustrated Incorporated
Frustrated Incorporated
(Put me out of my misery)
Frustrated Incorporated
(I'd do it for you, would you do it for me)
Frustrated Incorporated
(Forever after happily)
(I know just what you need)
Frustrated Incorporated

 

[fox69]

"Money Talks"

"Money Talks"


Money talks these days and everybody listens
We're whipping out our wallets trying to but what we're missing

Money screams out "I need a slave"
I'm just trying to find some worker to dig my grave

Everybody's listening, everybody's listening, all those eyes are glistening
I need more, a little more, in a little while

I say those???
Machines?

I'm just trying to find somebody to pay my bail
Money screams is says "My soul's for sale"

Everybody's listening, everybody's listening, all those eyes are glistening

I need a maid to pick up my mess, help me in the morning, help me get dressed
I'll pay you when I get paid, I'll pay you when I get paid

Money talks these days, money talks these days
What you gonna do when the criminal says "Your money or your life"?
(Not used?)
I need more, I'm bored, shine my shoes, wax my floor

Mew father of our powerful land of the free
I ain't doing nothing, I'll just jire someone to do it for me

No matter how small George gets he'll still talk louder than you
Dollars shrieking "Ha, ha, ha jokes's on you"

End everybody's listening, all those eyes are glistening

Rich bored, blind, and lone, better buy me a wife
I'm saving up everything to buy me a knife

 

[fox69]

"Moonshine"

"Moonshine"


When it's all said and done, the real work has just begun
And suddenly no one's around
At the end of the rainbow there's a hole in the endless road
And the damage is always under control

Take the day away from all those obtuse obligations
You can't take a vacation when there's nowhere left to go
Sink or swim the sharks below a starfish constellation
You can't afford the ticket and you've got no reservation
Please, have some faith
Lord, save this godforsaken paradise

And you've got your reasons and I've got mine
Are we having a good time
Or is it just the moonshine?

Now, if I make it to heaven and we all get to live together forever
Promise you'll be there
The apocalypse missed us one more time, mother nature kissed us goodbye
But somehow you're still there

One more crystal castle shattered at its core foundation
They use abbreviation when they've got somewhere to go
Though you know it's artificial, still it's an emotion
And now that it's official you've got feelings
So please, have some faith
Lord save this godforsaken paradise

You've got your problems and I've got mine
Are you having a good time
Or is it just the moonshine?

There's a whip and a red cape and a bull
And a plane full of snakes and the damage
I'm looking, looking, looking, looking, looking

Now you got your story and I've got mine
Are we having a good time?
I've got nothing but time

 

[fox69]

"Morgan's Dog"

"Morgan's Dog"


It was an icy Christmas morning
When a boy named Morgan shot his dog that day
And he loved that dog, and boy he loved that gun
When he found it underneath the tree that day

Raised his gun for the first time
Took careful aim at the bullseye

But shot his dog instead
Now Morgan's dog is dead
And a .22's his new best friend
Now that Morgan's dog is dead

Now that new .22 is always close at hand
Now he's hunting for a new best friend
He can't get it out, out of his head
He said, "I will never miss that shot again"

Laid one hand on the Bible
The other on survival

But Morgan's dog is dead
Ah, he shot his own dog dead
And a .22's his new best friend
Now that Morgan's dog is dead

You got to get a gun
Just in case you're attacked
Sure hope you don't have an accident
You'd shoot someone that you probably shouldn't have
Oh no, you should never ever get a gun

Ah, you'd probably shoot your own damn dog
And your dog would be dead
Can't get it through your head...
...Home and head to bed

Morgan's dog is dead
Yes, Morgan's dog is dead
After all is done and said
Morgan's dog still dead

 

[fox69]

"Never Really Been"

"Never Really Been"


Sirens are a-screaming, shots ring out at night
Movie cameras rolling in
And there goes my hero with his head between his legs
And all this time I believed in him

Now, what is the sound of snow falling down
On the tombstone in the dead of the night?
And who is the hound at the downtown dog pound
Who speaks English when the watchman's not in sight?

And where will you be in 1993?
Still sitting in the same chair
Sinning is for sinners and I'm just a beginner
But I've never really been touched there

Hey ain't it strange how some things never change
Ain't it strange how nothing stays the same?
You were thinkin' I was distressed about some universe oppressed
But I was just depressed about my last pinball game

I've learned to accept and not to expect
The respect and neglect that I get
I've tried not to forget about what hasn't happened yet
And on this I place my last bet

Hey did you give what you get
Did you get what you give?
of your fashion wear and tear
Winning is for winners
And I know spring follows winter
But I've never really been touched there

You know it's hard to be nice when hate becomes your vice
And you can't find peace anywhere
Love's just not for lovers
Get off your high horse brother
Drop your fist and get out of here

 

[fox69]

"Never Too Soon"

"Never Too Soon"


Now you're mad and leaving home
'Cause you say there's no one there for you to talk to
Isn't it nice to go outside
When you know there is no place you have to walk to
You can live alone inside a crowded room
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
Put on your frown to go downtown
You have come a long long way
Even though you have no idea where you're going
You ain't done a goddamn thing all afternoon
Your confidence is sinking like a lead balloon
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
I can't come down I can't come down
I can't come down I can't come down
I can't go on I can't go on
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky
All the things you held so high
Are you surprised to find that now they add to nothing
Now you're growing old and bored
Do you think that maybe you could teach me something
There is nothing that you really can assume
And it's never, never too late, never too soon
Now you're mad I know you're mad
Now you're mad I know you're mad
Why don't you just tell someone
It's not like you're the only one
It's not like I'm asking you to hold up the sky
I can teach you how to drive
You can teach me how to lie
Hush my darling don't you cry
This could be your lullaby

 

[fox69]

"New Feelings"

"New Feelings"


Sroll away the chains that wrap around me
Wipe the spider webs from my eyes
Tumble down the tall walls that surround me
I won't need no lies no alibis
My new feeling
New feeling [x5]
Daydreams screams
They just don't seem so far away
No I'm not possessed by my possessions
Lift my head to clear my right to die
You're in love with your evangelist investment
I don't need an alibi
My new feeling
New feeling [x5]
Daydreams screams
They just don't seem so far away
My head's like a wrecking ball and you look like a wall
Mopping up the tears that fill your eyes
This is my life, my right and that's not all
I just laughed my head off and cried
My new feeling ...

 

[fox69]

"New World"

"New World"


Lives in a little lonely town
No one's around except for the drinking
Nobody even gets around
But those who leave the township sinking
May you rot in heaven
Gotta be home by seven

And the fields burns away
The sky breathes it in
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin

I'm comin' out across your border
With new orders for you to take
I'd really like to take out your daughter
Down by the water down by the lake
When cold water's on her skin
I can feel how long it's been

And the neighbours will all be there
And no one will know what to wear
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin

I got a lot I gotta do
Just to get through the end of the day
It hardly ever happens
But I go to sleep the same anyway

And you can't believe in yourself
You can't believe in anyone else
So why sit and wait
For the new world to begin

 

[fox69]

"New York Blackout"

"New York Blackout"


When you chew my ear off, try and let me know
You will never get another piece of me
Cause in a New York blackout, things go kinda slow
And you miss the things you never thought you'd see
There's still so many things I want to be
Sometimes I just don't even want to sleep
In a New York blackout, it's so hard to see
All the angels that are looking after me
The lies bounce off the water in your eyes
And the dead lift their heads and come alive
And I may never escape this darkened city
But still I'm trying to find you in this blackout
Where it's warm inside and always open late
And the doors to hell look just like heaven's gate
And you never know what's going on inside
'Til you step out in the cold and seal your fate
And you might just stop in and say hello
But you've got much more important places to go
Make sure you let everybody know
That I may never enlight this darkened city
Still I'm trying to find you in this blackout
In a New York blackout, you might think I'm gone
But I'll wake up on the front steps of your door