These lyrics are taken from the liner notes, typos and all.
Abundance
(instrumental)
Cowboys from Hollywood
Aren't y'all cowboys from Hollywood?
dedi. to R.W.R
Sad Lover's Waltz
One step for boys, one step for girls, step away
One step for anger, one step for pain, step away
One step for boys, one step for girls, step away
Turtlehead
(instrumental)
I Love Her All the Time
She comes into my mind
No Flies On Us
(instrumental)
Down and Out
Gonna move to the city (down & out)
No Kurgerrands for David
(instrumental)
(don't ya go to) Goleta
Baby, don't ya go, don't ya go to Goleta
I've been there and I've seen their attitude
Babe, why don't ya go, why don't ya go somewhere (else)?
Four Year Plan
(instrumental)
(We're a) Bad Trip
you know, you really shouldn't take yourself so seriously
Circles
Elise Ana Chaionga, Lisa de Romati-Yov
Dustpan
(instrumental)
Sometimes
Sometimes it seems to me that you don't say what you mean
So I thought that you knew the question you were asking me to answer
Your mouth made sounds and words, your lips formed them well
(instrumental)
Cattle (Reversed)
(instrumental)
Form Another Stone
...tied to the wind, she tries to whisper damage to my sense, but I
resist
No More Bullshit
No more bullshit, no more MTV, no more rock starts, no more
bullshit
One step for you, one step for me, step away
Don't take the third step, 'cuz that's just the sad lovers' waltz
Don't take the third step, 'cuz that's just the sad lovers' waltz
One step for right, one step for wrong, step away
Don't take the third step, 'cuz that's just a sad lover's waltz
Don't take the third step, 'cuz that's just a sad lover's waltz
One step for you, one step for me, step away
One more step makes three, and three steps a waltz
Don't take the third step, cuz that's just a sad lover's waltz
Twisting through my nerve
I don't understand
A word she says
She's on my side
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
Gonna read alot of William Burroughs (down & out)
Gonna practice being depressed
And I think I'll go to film school (down & out)
Live in a scummy part of town (down & out)
All my friends will think that they're junkies
And I don't know what it is I want, but I can get it
from my old man
Gonna move to the city (down & out)
And I don't know what it is I need, but I can get it
I'll join a rock and roll band (down & out)
Gonna dress and act like Lou Reed
And I think I'll go to film school (down & out)
Live in a scummy part of town (down & out)
Read alot of William Burroughs and be depressed
And I don't know what it is I want, but I can get it from my old man
I'm acting (down & out)
And I don't know what it is I need, but I can get it
I've been there and I've seen them drinkin' now
Baby don't ya go, don't ya go into Westwood
Thinkin' all the time that they're going to school
Well, maybe some day they might learn something
But being fascist rich kids just ain't cool
I've been there and I've seen the styles they wear
Baby don't ya go, don't ya go to La Jolla
Their haircuts down to their clean white shoes
Don't you know baby, that it's all a facade,ya know
Intelligence is not something you should avoid
They don't like folks who are not like them
Maybe someday they'll take a vacation, like some flight over to Europe
to take a nice cruise in the Mediterranean, but it's very likely that
on the way over they'd be hijacked by some terrorist group seeking
media
approval, they'd be in a really bad situation, in danger of their
lives,
but they'd be thinking
"They can't do this to me, I'm an American Citizen"
if you want to know why, it's cuz no one else does
somewhere along the line someone told you you were deep and sensitive
but youre not
Came to the party, drank all the beer, cuz we're a bad trip
well I can't tell you how glad I am that you live such bright and flashing lives
it's the perfect thing to keep you distracted
but if it went away, I guess you'd have to see yourself
hope you wouldn't regret all the time you'd wasted
Came to your party, ate all the d'heuvres, cuz we're a bad trip
we dented your parked car when we drove up onto the lawn
smoked your last cigarette and spilled the beer on the carpet
answered the phone and said you didn't live here anymore
and it was your mom
Came to your party, drank all the beer, cuz we're a bad trip
yeah, we're a bad trip
(gnileef ynnuf taht, niaga semoc ti ereh, on ho)
You leave me guessing and tying to figure it out
Cuz one and one is two, and two and two is four
But you always leave me asking if there is more
Sometimes you get it all switched round in your head, roundin your
head
What does it mean to say you're in love, does it mean that I'm the
only one you love,
Then the words I say come out wrong,but they're not my words, that I
have said
(what does it mean to say you're in love?)
or does it just mean something that I don't understand ?
'Cuz one and one is two and two and two is four
And you always leave me asking if there's more
Chorus
Sometimes it seems to me that you don't say what you mean
You leave me guessing and trying to figure it out
What does it mean to say you're in love, does it mean the moon and the
stars above?
You don't need a lover you need an interpreter
Chorus
Chain of Circumstance
Now I find in your indifference you never bothered with what the words
meant
You're pulling, you're headless of the slack that forms behind you
You're forging, you make another link in the chain of circumstance
But to discern the content was hard for me to tell
And falling, you fail sometimes to convince me of sincerity
And with that pulling in me I build another link for you to add
Oh my friend, you know I love you, but you make me crazy
Now only time together pushes toward my place to answer
Oh my friend, you know I hate it, but you know it can't stay
Oh my friend, you know I love you, but you make me crazy
This music's purgatory awaits its end, time's special dancer
You're doing just as well as a jewel in the mud
You'll do just a well when your surviving dust ascends into heaven
Chorus
ZZ Top Goes to Egypt
I am lashed to the Earth, I hear the sounds of her footsteps going
around,
She swells and recedes
Grasping the summer soon she thinks she's holding on when she's not
Hear the sounds of the sun's set going down, it dies with a whisper
And I cry into the sea but the echoes of my tears follow me, fall down
in to winter
I look for my strength on the inside, I know it's there, but to find
it
Takes it out, it knocks me down, I cry for a whisper
I am tied to sun burns my back and the heat seeps my bones, I cry to
harden
From another stone to melt away, this one might take years (but that's
alright)
Until I turn around to hear the sound of the horses' thundering around
in my head
I'm wondering aloud...
Think another thought while the wheels turn around over me rubbing me
into the
background...
Elvis Presley died and no-one knows why
et cetera
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