Chris W. - 20 Winner!
Nick S. - 16.5
Dan K. - 9
Kissel - 8
Joe M. - 7.5
Pete B. - 5
Benge - 4
Elizabeth B. - 4
Deion - 2.5
Mark S. - 2.5
Patti B. - 2
Hugh H. - 1


 

I got a dalmation
 and I can still  get high
I can play the guitar
like a motherfucking riot
 

And this is no case of lust you see
It's not a matter of you versus me
It's fine the way you want to be on your own
But in the end it's always me alone
 

 always expecting the worst
my mouth cracked open spit out a curse
well timed and well rehearsed
and that's no surprise
 

 A pile of records spread out
The covers still look good
Picture here a Peter Tosh's
Startin' down and a smokin' wood
 

San Francisco Bay, past pier thirty nine
Early p.m., can't remember what time
Got the waiting cab, stopped at the red light
Address, unsure of, but it turned out just right
 

Parody of yourself in color, giving it to everybody but your mother
You've got much to think about
Soaring higher with every treason. Never justify, never reason
You've got much to think about
 

my mind was thugged, all laced and bugged, all twisted round and beat
uncomfortable three feet deep
now the fuzzy stare from not being there on a confusing morning week
impaired my tribal lunar-speak
 

If the Mississippi should wash me away
Down to New Orleans
Maybe someday in my dreams
I'd wake feeling the sweat
From the gulf in my mouth
 

I stayed in too long
But she was the perfect fit
And we dragged it out so long this time
Started to make each other sick
 

In Chinatown/ hungover
You showed me/just what I could do
Talking about/time travel
And the meaning/and just what it was worth
 

And you can just make believe
When it comes down to makin love
I'll satisfy your every need
And every fantasy you think up
 

Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock n Roll band
Who'll throw it all away
 

I'm sorry that I doubted you
I was so unfair
You were in a car crash
And you lost your hair
 

I get a constant busy signal
When I call you on the phone
I get a strong uneasy feeling
You're not sitting there alone
 

Freddy's got spots from ripping off the stars from his face
Funky little boat race
Television man is crazy saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks
Oh man I need TV when I got T Rex
 

I’ve been drivin’ all night, my hand’s wet on the wheel
There’s a voice in my head that drives my heel
It’s my baby callin’, says: I need you here
And it’s a half past four and I’m shifting gear
 

And for one desperate moment
There he crept back in her memory
God it's so painful when something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach
 

Some people like to go out dancing
Other people they got to work
And there's always some evil mothers
I tell you life is just full of dirt

I let the melody shine,
 let it cleanse my mind , I feel free now.
But the airwaves are clean
 and there's nobody singing to me now.

There's a fog upon L.A.
And my friends have lost their way
We'll be over soon they said
Now they've lost themselves instead

Disarm the settlers
The new drunk drivers
Have hoisted the flag
We are with you in your anger

Flashing their badges just like the law of averages
No one likes 'em where they're from
And every star that hides on the back of the bus is just waiting
For his cover to be blown

I think I know
Some things we never outgrow
You think it's wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don't want me to?

oh the devil in me said go down to the shed
I know where I belong
but the only thing I ever really wanted to say
was wrong, was wrong, was wrong

You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea

One laugh in the middle of a struggle,
A diamond at the bottom of a puddle.
Did you ever stare at the moon, 'till you saw double,
I hear you walk away from trouble

So I hooks a left on the 21 to Lewis
some brothas shootin dice so I said "let's do this"
I jumped out the ride, and said "what's up?"
some brothas pulled some gats so I said "i'm stuck"

Now with their hands held high,
they reached out for the open skies
And in one last breath
 they built the roads they'd ride to their death

And if I seem to be confused,
I didn't mean to be with you
And when you said I scared you, well,
I guess you scared me too

I'm in the mood,
the rhythm is right,
Move to the music,
we can roll all night

there's emptiness behind their eyes
there's dust in all their hearts
they just want to steal us all
and take us all apart

If the good times get you through
I know the dogs won't bother you
We'll be gone in moonshine time
I've got a place they'll never find

and we tried so hard
and we looked so good
and we lived our lives in black
but something about you felt like pain

Love is all around you
Love is knocking outside the door
Waitin' for you Is this love made just for two
Keep an open heart and you'll find love again

I suppose I'm just too late
Form a line here
Think I'll die here
These people nauseate me

Time and again I tell myself
I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again

My cat is purring
And scratches my skin
So what is wrong
With another sin

I'll tell you what I saw him
He was sittin' behind us down at the Pantages
And whatever it is that he's got up his sleeve
I hope it isn't contagious

Fed the starving and housed the poor
Showed the vatican what gold's for
But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees

 I got my cat moves
That so upset them
Zippers and buttons
Fun to frustrate them

 Why can’t she see
she’s lovely to me
but I like to stay in and watch TV
on my own every now and then

  Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

 There's too many people you used to know
They see you coming, they see you go
They know your secrets and you know theirs
This town is crazy, nobody cares

And if you turn back just to fuck me up
I'll cut you loose and watch you fall
It feels good just to bitch about it
Scratch that itch until it bleeds

Drink down a lot of Basil Hayden
Get kicked out when I can't see straight
And what an island to be on
Under the neon

I was down on a frown
when the messenger
brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise
of a fan
who said I upset her


 

As soon as I get my head around you
I come around catching sparks off you
I get an electric shock from you
This secondhand living just won't do


 

Met myself a comin' county welfare line
I was feelin' strung out, Hung out on the line
Saw myself a goin', down to war in June
All I want, All I want is to write myself a tune

 

There’s no need for argument
There’s no argument at all
And if you never hear from him
That just means he didn’t call

 

It's like that, I'm like Nat
Leave me the hell alone
If you don't think I'm a brother
Then check the chromosomes

 

Hey, check it all out
Baby I know what it’s all about
Before the night is through
You will see my point of view

 

And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, I'd 'a jumped from my trees
And I'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.

 

You’re trying to make your mark in society
You're using all the tricks that you used on me.
You’re reading all them high fashion magazines
The clothes you’re wearin’ girl are causing public scenes

 

Harmful elements in the air
symbols clashing everywhere
Reaps the fields of rice and reeds
while the population feeds

 

Lived by an old woman,
She'd never sell me a lie
It's hard to sing with someone
Who won't sing with you
Give all of my mercy
Give all of my heart
Never thought that I'd miss you
That I'd miss you so much 
 

We got gas and went on to get grub
It was a nice little pub in the middle of nowhere
Anywhere would have been better
I ordered enchiladas and I ate 'em

And me I just got tired of hangin' in them dusty arcades
 bangin' them pleasure machines
Chasin' the factory girls underneath the boardwalk
 where they promise to unsnap their jeans

I am not Jesus
Though I have the same initials
I am the man
Who stays at home and does the dishes

Tightened our belts
Abuse ourselves
Get in our way
 We'll put you on your shelf

Your mama's yappin' in the back seat
Tell her to push over and move them big feet
Every Monday morning I gotta drive
Her down to the unemployment agency

Hangin' Out Second Avenue
Eatin Chicken Vindaloo
I just want to be with you...

Think I'll spend eternity in the city
let the carbon and monoxide choke my thoughts away
and pretty bodies help dissolve the memories
but they can never be what she was to me

We can never ever go too far
The pain we can't escape at least will wait
So let's go quickly, no we go slow
Let's go chasing dragons through the snow

You said you slapped Roddy Piper
and didn't get a hassle
Promised your girl filet mignon
Took her to White Castle

We drove 800 miles
 without seeing a cop
We got rock n' roll music
blastin' off the T-top

I'm not in love with television
I'm not in love with the radio
I'm not in love with the Kings Road
Because I'm in love with Cathy McGowan

People tell me it's a sin
To know and feel too much within.
I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring.
She was born in spring, but I was born too late

Well I think I see another side
Maybe just another light that shines
And I look over now through the door
And I still belong to no one else

I like the enchiladas
And the teriyaki too
I even like the chicken
 if the sauce is not too blue

I know where beauty lives
I've seen it once, I know the warm she gives
The light that you could never see
It shines inside, you can't take that from me

I just want to see you at night
Don't come 'round my house in the day
I love it when we start up a fight
And I love it when the fight ends your way

Can't believe I used to be Mr Steve Austin on the mic
Six million ways I used to run it
I guess Oscar Goldman got mad
'Cause I got loose circuits (so loose, sigga-sigga so loose...)

All my daydreams are disasters
She's the one I think I love
Rivers burn and then run backwards
For her, that's enough

Someday when we're dreaming,
Deep in love, not a lot to say.
Then we will remember
The things we said today

1/17/04
 

Brag about things you don't understand
A girl and a woman, a boy and a man
Everything is sexually vague
Now you're wondering to yourself
If you might be gay
 

2/23/04
 

Windows
 Close just like my eyelids
 As I'm sleeping
Lift the blinds up slowly
 Let the night in
 

2/23/04
 

Sneak through the night upon your toes,
To look in your eye, it never shows.
Your name up on the post office wall,
Put you on edge 'cause they wrote it too small