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The Old Man Doesn't Like It
1998 Spare Me Records
Credits
All by Paul except
Kathleen - Drums on Kung Fu, Son of the Sun, and Have You Got a Rock Sir?
Ian Anderson - Lead Guitar and 2nd Voice on Cauliflower Love
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Lyrics
Repetition Spit
I always talk about the same thing all the time.
I always sing about the same thing all the time.
I always waste my time, the same time all the time.
I always talk about the same thing all the time.
Celebrating Superman
I've been waiting here for hours
for your super, super powers
but they never seem to manifest,
though you claim you're still the best.
I would like to see it,
I would like some proof.
What have you done for us?
How did you earn our trust?
I don't have an X-Ray eye,
but I know you are a lie.
I knew all of your friends.
They came to a terrible end.
You said you tried to save them,
but I didn't see determination on your face.
And when the dam was breaking,
I saw you out celebrating.
Kung Fu Fighter Caught in the Act
Looking in the mirror with a drop kick.
May you come in, well I suppose.
Practicing my moves like a Kung Fu fighter,
with you in the room I feel a whole lot tighter.
No one's really supposed to see me like this,
so it stands to reason, I'm a little pissed
What in the Hell?
What is the problem here?
What's going on?
What in the hell did I do wrong?
What in the hell is wrong with me?
What in the hell is wrong with you?
Untied
My heads untied, just like my shoes
and now I know I have nothing to lose,
spinning around, headed down,
soon I will be at the ground.
Flat on my face,
down through space,
spinning round,
hit the ground.
My head's on tight, just like my shoes
now I know I have nothing to lose
Headed down, down through space.
Smash the ground and smash my face.
The Old Man Doesn't Like It
Six men sat on their boxes
onboard and followed the tug with their eyes
for as long as they could see her
until the black column of smoke had dissolved
and vanished over the horizon
did we shake our heads and look at one another
Goodbye! Goodbye! now we'll have to start the engine
And we laughed and felt the wind
We hoisted the bamboo yard.
The big square sail, it hung down slack.
It gave us a wrinkled discontented appearance.
And the old man doesn't like it.
There were fresher breezes when he was young.
And it looks as if we're losing ground.
One, Two, Three, Thirty-Nine, Forty, Forty-One.....
And the old man doesn't like it,
the old man doesn't like it.
There were fresher breezes when he was young.
Return to Squalor
Alien:
I have not seen you for a thousand years
and I return to find you astray
"What have you done?"
"How did you get so far out of your mind,
your very tiny mind?"
Human:
I've been waiting for you to call,
but you never called at all.
At the Gas Station
Is that gasoline?
No, I'm not fishing.
Losing track of time
while I was standing here wishing
that I was far away
instead of standing here and bailing this well
I'm just hanging at this gas station
$1.05 for your machine at this gas station
I just love the people I meet at the gas station
Will you move your car, so I can get under it
and I can open this vault and figure out what's wrong in there
Oh great, the pump's not running
Who unplugged the logic line?!
I'm just hanging at this gas station
$1.05 for your machine at this gas station
I just love the people I meet at the gas station
Half-Life
I want to live the half life of Uranium,
I want to be alive when the next eon comes.
When I'm gone and dead, I hope you freeze my head.
I want to be alive forever.
When I'm gone and dead, I hope they freeze my head.
I want to be alive forever.
Cauliflower Love
Cauliflower Love
Cauliflower Love
How would you like to learn to swim?
Cauliflower Love
Puffing out the skin of her limbs.
Cauliflower Love
When you swing too hard, you'll kill the ball.
What kind of service are you providing.
Mr. Beaumont had rubber legs.
Cauliflower Love
Brenda's explosive power in the wheelchair.
Cauliflower Love
When you swing too hard, you'll kill the ball.
What kind of service are you providing.
I was taken to the home of a Dutch policeman
Cauliflower Love
I was so startled, I wet my pants.
Cauliflower Love
Cauliflower Love
Man is like an auto-teller.
Fred Rogers is my best friend.
Michael Chilikis is not.
I think Crystal Bernard is another person altogether.
Cauliflower Love
Grab Your Shovel
Are you tired of wading through this endless trench,
hoping that something will come to you,
when it's all through.
Are you sick of waiting for something to come along,
to save you from the hole that you dug so deep.
Better grab your shovel buddy, and dig even deeper,
'cause the only way you're getting out is to punch through the other side of the earth.
Where Did all the People Go?
Where Did all the People Go?
Where have they all gone?
Where Did all the People Go?
I thought they were here, but they're gone.
I waited and waited here
for them to come back,
but I think they were taken away
in a spaceship attack.
Now I know I will never
see them all again.
So I hope they take me away,
so I can be with my friends.
Highway 98
On the job and running late,
out on Highway 98.
The rain was hard and coming down.
It was tough to see, but he went down.
Down in the woods, he fell asleep at the wheel.
Down in the woods. Now he's pinned to the steering wheel.
Kept on driving to the next place,
dialed 911, hoped it wasn't too late.
I should've drove back to help out the man,
but I was afraid of the blood and the gore
that lay in the woods in the big blue Oldsmobile.
Down in the woods, he fell asleep at the wheel.
Down in the woods. Now he's pinned to the steering wheel.
Son of the Sun
Walking around, bare feet down.
Silent footsteps, look around.
Peaceful time, here at last.
Pain and terror now have passed.
Son of the sun
Walking around with his head untied.
Son of the sun
Looking for something he can't see.
Then his eyes turn towards the sky.
Something moving catch his eye.
Speck of burn flies alight
smiling madly, it can't be.
The dance begins, the people curse
Tempers flare and make it worse.
His face turns red, his eyes ablaze.
Now we see it's deadly face.
Son of the sun
Walking around with his head untied.
Son of the sun
Looking for something he can't see.
Son of the sun
Why did it have to be me?
Son of the sun
It's time to go.
It's time to die.
It's time to die.
Crash and burn, crash and burn.
We never learned.
Hey you, it's time to die.
Bird Reading a Newspaper
Sitting in the Room
with a paper in my hand
I read it twice
read it twice
There's nothing I understand.
nothing I understand.
Sit here with this paper
Sit here stare at it all day through.
There's nothing for me
It's only for you.
Where did you get your crazy ideas?
Keep me locked up in a cage.
Wisdom Tooth
Swear it doesn't matter,
if that means anything to you.
Spiral down, keep on burning,
burning in my wisdom tooth.
Fish in my mouth.
Hook still in the situation of the (no win).
Pull too hard.
Sore from the tug on my tender gums.
Should be doing something that doesn't waste my time this way.
But it keeps on burning, burning.
I can't do anything today.
Fish in my mouth.
Hook still in the situation of the (no win).
Pull too hard.
Sore from the tug on my tender gums.
I could pound my head against the pavement.
I could pound my skull against the ground.
But I'll just lie here, just lie here
and let my throbbing sockets pull me down.
Fish in my mouth.
Hook still in the situation of the (no win).
Pull too hard.
Sore from the tug on my tender gums.
Decisions
Decided to be a star today,
but that's not the way it's gonna be.
It has to be some other way.
I can't help you with your life.
You've got to make it through the strife.
Make your own decisions.
Make your own decisions.
Make the wrong decisions.
Just make some damn decisions.
About Yesterday
Talk to me about yesterday
and maybe, I'll forget today.
When you were here
everything was fine (in my mind)
Now that you are gone
I've started to lose my mind.
How did you leave me then?
and when will you come again?
Have You Got A Rock Sir?
Have you got a rock sir?
Have you got a rock sir?
Please don't throw it at me.
I've got a rock too.
I'll throw it back, right at you.
I can throw a rock back at you.
Have you got a rock sir?
Have you got a rock sir?
Please don't throw it at me.
I've got a rock too.
You've got a rock.
We've all got a rock.
If we start throwing rocks then where would we be?
I'd throw it back at you.
Have you lost your mind sir?
Have you lost your mind?
Or am I losing mine?
I don't know. You should tell me soon.
Hands All Tied
Part of the time I'd like to be the hero.
Most of the time, I'm falling down.
Then I try to stand up.
Oh, I'll try to stand up.
Fall back to the ground again.
Passing time, with my hands all tied.
Faceless, pointless, full of gall.
Went too fast, guess I got excited.
Running hard into a wall.
Should have been fun,
could have tried.
Then I went and ruined it all.
Passing time, with my hands all tied.
Faceless, pointless, full of gall.
Did you forget I am blind,
I cannot see at all.
March of the Dust Mites
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Empty Space
Will you get away from me?
Will you stay away?
Stop staring at me.
I've got better places to be.
I've got better things to do than sit here and talk to you.
When I look into your eyes, all I see is empty space.
When I look into your eyes, all I see is empty space.
When I look into your eyes, all I see is empty space.
When I look into your eyes, all I see is empty space.
Out of Place
Frozen in time,
I'm a man without a spine
and you can't do nothing for me.
Stuck here in space,
I'm a man without a place
You can't do nothing for me.
I tried to make you see.
How did I get to be this all alone?
Lying in regret, don't have a home.
You can't help me.
How did you know that I was all alone?
You could not see every part of me.
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