The Lemonheads

[fox69]

"Let's Just Laugh"

"Let's Just Laugh"


I say out with it, you're not drinking
I say out with it, you're not drinking
It's not for me to know what you're thinking
'bout people staying home locking windows
Outside the basement
A texan stranger
With a rope and a straight razor
Is getting impatient for something major
It's in his nature

Two more years to go
Then you're supposed to know
How to get back home
Someplace near Waco

Let's just laugh
We can never do anything about anything, anyway
Whatever will be, I guess we'll see
So let's just laugh

War is sacred as rape and hatred
And we're just aphids in hell's half acre
In the dark and on TV fires
Just a country on rims for tyres
Excuses tired

Someone fetch the piano wire
I hope you're tried and fried before you're finally fired

Two more years to kill
If you want I will

Let's just laugh
We can never do anything about anything, anyway
Whatever will be, I guess we'll see
Let's just laugh
Let's just laugh
We can never do anything about anything, anyway

 

[fox69]

"Li'l Seed"

"Li'l Seed"


Society tells me who I can be
Tells me who I can know
Tells me what I can grow

Some office slob tells me when I can talk
Tells me when I can choke
Tells me what I can smoke

Well the critics criticising, analysing
Tell me what do they know?
People pushing, people showing
Too much hate and not enough loving
Guess that’s the way it goes
Now the cops are on my land
Took my garden in the sand
I’m feeling kinda low

All for a l’il weed
All for a l’il seed

What comes out of the dirt
Tell me how it can hurt
Tell me who it can harm

It works on a man
I coaxed her out of the ground, baby

From just a l’il seed
Comes some mighty fine weed

Yeah, the critics criticising, theorising
Tell me what do they know?
People pushing, people showing
Too much hate and not enough loving
Guess that’s the way it goes
Now the cops are on my land
Now they’ve broken up my band
I’m feeling kinda low

All for a l’il weed
All for a l’il seed

 

[fox69]

"Live Without"

"Live Without"


Kill the longing,
Though I know I'm lying to myself
It's an eccentric gift
Gathering dust on the shelf
Still feverish;
Say dies - one wish
New stars, old sky:
Lies satisfy
How can you live without losing anything?
What do you give the girl who has everything?
While the months go by
And I can almost touch you
I pull back from your hand
Because I want too much to
Hat full of rain
Clean & profane
Though impolite
Can this be right?
I can't - can't stop you
Do what you want to
What's left - left over?
Some song you wrote her...

 

[fox69]

"Losing Your Mind"

"Losing Your Mind"


What a comfort to find out you’re losing your mind
And you re-realise that it’s not the first time
You burnt the beyond when you learned how to fly
Just to find later on that there isn’t a sky
There aren’t any clouds, and there aren’t any trees
There aren’t any birds, ‘cause there’s no cinder caught in my eye

‘til I’ve tied a tired knot and learned to untie it
Just can’t decide if I should lie or tell the truth and try to hide it
‘til I’ve tied a tired knot and learned to untie it
Just can’t decide if I should lie or tell the truth and try to hide it

 

[fox69]

"Luka"
(originally by Suzanne Vega)

"Luka"
(originally by Suzanne Vega)



My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before
If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

I think it's 'cause I'm clumsy
I try not to talk too loud
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
I try not to act too proud
They only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore

Yes, I think I'm okay
I walked into the door again
Well, if you ask that's what I'll say
It's not your business anyway
I guess I'd like to be alone
With nothing broken, nothing thrown
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am

My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before
If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

And they only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore

 

[fox69]

"Mad"

"Mad"


I don't know what to say to you
I wish you had something to add
I feel that we could sit and talk
but we don't and it makes me mad
You go on, just get out of here
I think I'd feel a whole lot better
If you'd let me be
I'll stay here thinking of your plans
I hate the way you make me love jealousy

 

[fox69]

"Mallo Cup"

"Mallo Cup"


Here I am outside your house at 3 A.M.
Try'n to think you out of bed.
I whistle at your sill,
it echoes 'cross the street instead.

I never will forget.
I ain't remembered yet.
Like mackeral in a net,
I forget to forget.

And you saw nothing in my eyes but yourself.
Nothing in my eyes.
I can't seem to find the same in no one else,
I guess it's no surprise.

I never can forget.
I ain't remembered yet.
Like mackeral in a net,
I forget to forget.

I forget to forget.
I forget to forget.
I ain't remembered yet.

 

[fox69]

"Mrs. Robinson"
(originally by Simon & Garfunkel)

"Mrs. Robinson"
(originally by Simon & Garfunkel)



And here's to you
Mrs. Robinson,
Jesus loves you more than you will know,
Woah woah woah,
God bless you please
Mrs. Robinson,
Heaven holds a place for those who pray,
Hey hey hey

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files,
We'd like to help you to learn to help yourself,
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home,

And here's to you
Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Woah woah woah,
God bless you please
Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey hey hey

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes,
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes,
It's a little secret just the Robinsons' affair,
Most of all you got to hide it from the kids and coo coo cachoo

Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Woah woah woah
God bless you please
Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey hey hey

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates debate
Laugh about it shout about when you got to choose
Every way you look at it you lose
Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio
our nation turns its lonely eyes to you?
Woo woo woo,
What's that you say Mrs. Robinson?
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away
Hey hey hey.

 

[fox69]

"My Drug Buddy"

"My Drug Buddy"


She's coming over,
We'll go out walking,
Make a call on the way.

She's in the phone booth now,
I'm looking in.
There comes a smile on her face.

There's still some of the same stuff we got yesterday.
There's still some of the same stuff we got yesterday,
Yeah.

I'm too much with myself,
I wanna be someone else.
I'm too much with myself,
I wanna be someone else.
I'm too much with myself,
I wanna be someone else.

So we take off out Fiona's door,
Walk until it's light outside,
Like before when we were on the phone.

We have to laugh to look at each other.
We have to laugh 'cause we're not alone.

As the cars fly up King St.
It's enough to startle us,
It's enough to startle us

I love my drug buddy.
My drug, my drug buddy.
I love my drug buddy.
My drug, my drug buddy.

 

[fox69]

"New Mexico"

"New Mexico"


Oh how the wind it blows
Across the dusty plain
All those who came before
Were sworn now to remain

She said she loved me
I didn't even know her name
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
They left the bones in Mexico
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
Their voices warned me not to go
To Mexico

I heard the mission bells
Exposed life betrayed
The sin you need to hide
Is in the shadows of the grave

I feel the devil here
But its too late to run away
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Take me home sweet Mexico
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Their voices warned me not to go

I walked the winding trail
That led me to the grave
Their voices called to me and said
Gringo go away

Go over and bury your cries
As the sacrifice is made
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
I left my bones in Mexico
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Their voices haunt me
They warned me not to go