Wake to a callIm leaving earlyNo more feelings left to sayEmptiness remainsAnd I goI go in painYou cant pretend it doesnt matterI see it in your faceWhen you look awayRide this train Im heading homeBack to Ol OhioYou cant deny me thisDid you really want to kissCaptured smiles in photographDo I really need to askWhat youre thinkingWhat youre feelingWhat you really want to say is thatI love youPlease stayRide this train back homeBack to Ol OhioYou cant deny me thisDid you really want to kissSo wont you grant me this tonightWell take a walkAnd bathe in the Moons LightAnd Ill finally realizeHow goddamn bright your eyes areIn the starlight

Eleanor Young Eleanor child. Standing on a lonely hilltop in the Appalachian wild. Eleanor sing Eleanor scream. Shout loud for your own green world doors dont open for the country girl. Oh they lied to you. They sung to you songs you werent meant to hear. They showed you life your eyes were never meant to see. Yeah you should have seen right through but you believed. Eleanor grow Eleanor cold. Midnight in a dim-lit diner in the driving Detroit snow. Eleanor yearn Eleanor yearn. One child with no last name. Your boyfriend runs who do you blame? Oh he lied to you. He did to you things they taught you were sin. He took from you the best that was within you. He showed to you things your eyes should never have seen. And the saddest thing of all baby you believed. Yeah yeah the saddest thing of all you believed. Yeah Mama you believed. Eleanor age Eleanor cage. See California on New Years day. The sun shines warm on the Rose Parade. Eleanor ache Eleanor break. Come out west with your last born child. I grew up scared weird and wild. Oh you lied to me you hid from me knowledge I should have known. You kept from me the life that was my own. You shielded me from things I should have seen. For a very short while Mama I believed. Yes I believed.

Drift across the floorDancing on airTo her beautyNothing comparesIntimate emotionsOften times sharedIn warm stomach butterfliesAnd innocent fearsDont you worry girlHis eyes are in a stareVexed to be sincereShe fixes her lip lineIgnorance repairedIn the broken glassShe weeps her tearsEmptiness confinedDoes he even careOpen up his heart to hearMonologue impairedDont you worry girlHis eyes are in vexed a stareVow to be sincereHis eyes are vexed to be sincere

Bleeding these words I whisper sweetlyYoure beautiful dear to meJust what they should wantIdealyJust wordsBroken heartsMoreso scarredBut what can you do?Ill tell youKeep pushing onYoull find that loveThat one and onlyTo holdTo embraceBut know thisIf they all failIll be there in placeKeep these words nearAs to never let them dieIll always be thereIll always care

She came to the coast from the Show Me state with herdaddys blue eyes and her mamas blind hate. Guess she didnt know much but she knew the rules. What she needed to learn she would find in LA not back in that school. Didnt want to read about it guess she wanted to see. Carolea shes Carolea. Yeah yeah never quite sure what she wanted to be. Just a little girl alone in a big bad place with a devious mind and a beautiful face. Ever since she was a baby she learned how to play. Wanted money in her hands from the easiest way. All her friends said Stop girl you cant pay the price. But the hard way out dont appeal to the beast inside. She dont want to hear about the better life. Guess shes ready to be. Hey Carolea. She never tells the truth to the folks back East the truth about the drugs and the men she gets paid to please. Well they dont know. Yeah they dont see. Yeah that finally now after all these years shes let the beast inside roam free. Carolea.

Woke up sweating in the sun sprawled across my bigbrothers grave shaking and drunk with sleep. I crawled to my feet and walked up into the shade of a young elm tree that must have been planted since the last we came. Vicki my mom and me cleaned the dirt from the plaque that says his name. Walking to my girlfriends car it came back down on me. Yeah I guess I fell to my knees to keep from falling face-first into the dream. The vision that had had me twisting out under the afternoon sky. I didnt know it then but it was 13 years to the day he died. He held his hand in me like brothers we walked through the colorless world of an alcohol dream. I talked for hours trying to break through the silence that he held over me. Then he started away turned his head. Keep it up so you can die like me. Ever since my brother ODd I have drifted all over from town to town to town. Every place I go its always the same. I keep doing junk I keep going down. My mama got religion and my sisters gave up. Man I just gave up too. I just died inside. I dont wanna die like George. Everybody says theres things to see everybodys pointing their fingers at me. I woke up driving after another blackout from another bad drug. I just cant shake this hell that I made for myself for every other life I touch. I see my sisters son walk the line I walked hes only sixteen. If he dont learn from my mistakes hes gonna waste away hes gonna die like me.

I wish I had the strength inside to make you go away. I wish I was immune but ever since I met you drinking at the circle bar I go where you will to keep from being ripped in two. I still smile when I think of 1986. You and me in that little room drunk on sex. And wed fall asleep at every band wed go to see. Easier to pass out than to deal with you and me alone. Sitting in the dark drunk hearing John Doe sing about poor little girls and silver wings. Yeah baby somethings got to give. I wish I knew why youre so intent on breaking me. You act like a bitch possessed yeah a bitch possessed. Ive had it up to here with your crazy ever-changing moods. I just take your worst while you just take my best. Ive had enough Ive had enough. Yeah I need a break. Youre always out screwing around while Im hammering on the neighbors door hoping theyll turn the Led Zepplin down. Somethings got to give something somewheres got to give. Yeah baby somethings got to give. Yeah I think I need a break. Want to break you from the inside out. That smug complacent smile is reason enough. I want to cut the ties that bind my life I want to break you in your prime. I wish I had in me the power to make you disappear. I wish I had control. I just want to walk away and never have to see or hear about you all the things you say that I dont really want to know. Yeah what you say what you do where you go. Everything I loved about you was just for show. Oh baby somethings gotta give something somewheres gotta give. Yeah baby somethings gotta give. Yes I think we need a break. I need to separate I need to separate from you.

Yeah here you come again. I should have known youdbe around. It makes no sense to me why were still alive. Youve got weeks to live and I am on a spiral dive. When you finally die I wont let you need me there. I know damn well youre not alone. Surrounded laughing by the death head grins of all my friends whove overdosed overdosed and died. (And you know thats the way wed go.) Back in your color room the shadows fall and break. We would waste away burning out shooting up. Im not gonna fall with you this time I might not get up. Im not strong enough. You know. Cant you see its killing me? Im not gonna walk back into the pit for you. Yeah not for you or anyone. I dont want the speed I dont want the heroin. Im not gonna break Im not gonna play your game. When you die alone in that pit of hell dont perpetuate the myth dont romanticize. Im not gonna watch you die again. I dont want to see. You know. You dont want to talk about it but you know. You sit and laugh at me youll die laughing. Yeah youre all fucked up cant you see its killing me? Im not gonna walk back into the pit. Im not gonna walk back into the pit for you.

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Q: Culver Palms (Or Why I Dont Believe In God)

I heard the truth about you and it doesnt really read at all like the whipping stick you raised me with. A scared woman in a private hell. Hushed voice like electric bell. Strange talk about Edgar Cayce and the long lame walk of the dark 70s. I heard the truth about you. Yeah you. Mama they woke me up. I was deep in an idiot sleep. I was just 8 years old I heard big words with a horrible sound. Mama they called my school to tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown. I wish I believed like you do. Yeah you. In the myth of a merciful God in the myth of a heaven or hell. I hear the voices you hear sometimes. Sometimes it gets so much I feel like letting go. Sometimes it gets so hard I feel like letting it go. Sometimes it gets so Goddamn hard I feel like letting it all go. I ran away went looking for you back to Culver City and the old neighborhood. Need to know if you were really gone need to know if you were gone for good. I ran through the projects at night hide in the dark from my friends in the light. Hide from my brother-in-law hide from the things hed say. He said you werent losing your mind he said you just needed a rest. He said youd be coming home soon he said the doctors there would know whats best. He said that maybe I could go live with them for a while . . . I heard the truth about you. I heard the truth about you. I know the truth about you. I know the truth I know the truth I know the truth about you. Yeah they woke me up. I was just 8 years old. Sometimes it gets so hard I feel like letting it go. Sometimes it gets so hard I feel like letting it all go.

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