A Camp Album

Brighten the corners and clear out the room
Colour the flowers in rose and maroon
Light up the fires and season the swine
We're gonna party like it's 1699
Slaughter the rabbits, the doves and the boars
And lay all the tables and open the doors
The crème-de-la-crème will be waiting on one guest of honour

Oh, up go the curtains
And down go the virgins
Oh, no, mothers are crying
Ladies of virtue will stand to accuse you of heartbreak and theft

Bells are gonna ring
Birds are gonna sing
Let the people begin
The crowning of your big head

Young drunken girls in a hideous dance
Sing a heartfelt lament of the death of romance
Beautiful boys turn and offer their cheeks
Preening and prancing, the outcome looks bleak
Good times are rolling but outside these walls
Our houses will crumble, the city will fall
But a few broken pawns don't mean nothing to our guest of honour

So let's raise our glasses to murderous asses like you
May you sleep soundly
Once we have laughter, you got what you're after
Oh, you wear it well

Bells are gonna ring
Birds are gonna sing
Let the people begin
Hear how their hearts are pounding
We're all witnessing the crowning
Of your big bleeding head

Bells are gonna ring
Birds are gonna sing
Let the people begin
Hear how their hearts are pounding
Your rise - nothing but astounding
We're all witnessing the crowning
Of your useless, ruthless head

Who told you love is the Alfa and Omega?
And that your heart will lead you to the only one?
It’s a curse, it’s the hammer that will break you,
It’s a poison hidden in a bon bon

Don’t you know love is stronger than Jesus?
Don’t you know love can kill anyone?
Bring it on; wars and diseases
You know that love can do you like a shotgun

Can’t resist them, the sailors and the soldiers
Taking aim, a rabbit on a rifle range
Pay no mind to what your mama told you
You’re the fool who’s chasing down the candy cane

it’s a riddle how lovers can stay alive
but we bloom and breathe in all decline

Don’t you know love is stronger than Jesus?
Don’t you know love can kill anyone?
So bring it on; wars and diseases
You know that love can do you like a shotgun

o, oh no
o, oh no

See the people heading for disaster
standing in line just looking for a little fun
love is a fire, a hot hot blaster
with a vengeance burning in the Kongo sun

We’ll believe there’s trust in strangers
any monkey looking like a saviour
It’s a riddle how
we’re still living now
Oh, how little we know, oh

Don’t you know love is stronger than Jesus?
Don’t you know love can kill anyone?
so bring it on; wars and diseases
You know that love can do you like a shotgun
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Iris in the morning rain, sitting in a sea
It's hard to tell the blues apart,
she's salty just like me
She thinks we're on an island
or she wishes that she were
She thinks she hears the sirens
but I think it's okay
Iris in the morning rain sitting in a sea

She didn't wanna see
the fruit was out of reach
She's caught between the ocean
and the bear upon the beach
Imaginary waves could never drown you
And I didn't want to tell her
I didn't want to tell her

Iris on a ladder, climbing closer to the sky
Rising from the grind,
she is a quitter just like I
Sitting on a rooftop,
watching molecules collide
Safe above it all,
she's drinking mercury on ice
Iris on a ladder climbing closer to the sky

She didn't wanna see
the stars were out of reach
She's caught between the ocean
and the bear upon the beach
Imaginary gods could never save you
And I didn't want to tell her
Didn't want to tell her

She didn't wanna see
the stars were out of reach
She's caught between the ocean
and the bear upon the beach
Imaginary gods could never save you
But I didn't want to tell her
I didn't want to tell her

Love has left the room
The party is over
But I can't get sober
Obsession is towing me
Deep down down

Love has left the room
It fled out the back door
When all I asked for
Was forever more
Or a real bye bye
It didn't say bye bye

And I'll let go if you just tell me
Give back the pieces of dreams
that you sell me
they trick my mind

I'll let go if you just tell me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind

Tie me to the mast
Cast me in irons
I hear the sirens
They sing of desire
The fatal kind

This love is my last
My final possession
Most violent caress
It's a beautiful mess
And it's deep down down
It's really deep down down

And I'll let go if you just tell me
give back the pieces of dreams
that you sell me
they trick my mind

I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind

Once it settles down
and the fire has burned out
What d'you think you'll find
poking through the embers
Memories that sting
Little splinters of your doubt
Things that you can live without

So why die?
Give back the pieces of dreams
that you sell me
and trick my mind

I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind

Anybody tell you
That there is no resale value
When your romance goes to hell you
Better say farewell to what
you thought was wealth

Ever get the feeling
That the paint has started peeling
Are you staring at the
ceiling of your castle
Dreaming that you're
someone else

Would you like to meet me in this song?
(I've been hoping to)
Would you like to come
and prove me wrong?
(No, I'll agree with you)

Golden teeth and silver medals
Beauty marks and scars
That is what we got

Raindrops in a reservoir
And minutes in a jar
That is what we got

Maybe if I had another drink
I'd see the pattern in the blinking
Of the traffic lights
Do you think you're happy, Nicolai?

I don't know the answer Nina
Life is like a melody
A pendulum that swings
Between the major and the minor
It's a lullaby

I'm so glad I met you in this song
(It's just a breath I'll throw)
I'm so glad you're here to sing along
(My voice into the flow)

Golden teeth and silver medals
Beauty marks and scars
That is what we got

Raindrops in a reservoir
And minutes in a jar
That is what we got

I'm a little worried that the worst is yet to come
I'm afraid they'll leave us out here
Melting in the sun
We'll be second best until
we know we have won

But until we do we'll sing this song
(Till we know we've won)
We'll sing until our need for it is gone
(We'll be singing this song)

Golden teeth and silver medals
Beauty marks and scars
That is what we got

Raindrops in a reservoir
And minutes in a jar
That is what we got

The route of our journey is traced out in pink
A map of the continents waiting to sink

We're an army in training, me and my band
Making camp in the evenings, grazing the land

We're never alone here
There is lots of unknown here in the brush
Here are many wild animals

Shipped off to a city, stripped of our tongues
Now we live in a playground, eating our young

We're never alone here, no
There's lots of unknown here in the crowd
Here are many wild animals

Ooo - they're dropping the bomb

Like in the beginning, the number is three
It's a small party of roaches, scorpions and me - oh

Forever alone here
There's lots of unknown here in the glow
Here are many wild animals

Come little kitty, come little elephant
Come come hither, be with your mama

Come little bastard, come little millionaire
Come, come faster, this is America

Come little rodent, come little carnivore
Eat your dinner

Every town has a secret heart that beats
And every citizen an underground
I set my clock to a bootleg meter and
broken hands spinning round and round

I'm on my way just like every day
to get milk and kerosene
But my reflection in the butcher's window
isn't me
I freeze

This is Chinatown
A state of mind
This is Chinatown
It's just a state of mind

The sky was blue but I wouldn't know
I was counting cracks in the concrete
I'd memorized them from A to B
A choreography, a part of me

It's not the future, it's not the past
It's not now
The price will double if you try to look
them in the eye
Don't ask why
'cause this is Chinatown
a state of mind
This is Chinatown
a state of mind

In Chinatown...

Read my fortune in my MetroCard
You'll see nothing if you search too hard
Read my fortune in my MetroCard
You'll see nothing if you search too hard

Darling, darling
The moon went out tonight
And I'm caught like a doe in your headlights
Oh yeah, alright
I'm yours to knock around
I'm a little too starstruck to wanna fight

Oo-e-oo-ee, it's a cold-hearted world
Oo-e-oo-ee-oo, I'm gonna be your girl
It's a little too late to cry
You're my America

Not quite snow white
It came down all night
And put a filter of ash on the sunrise
Oh yeah, alright
Move a little bit closer
Lay your big dirty hands on my innocence

Oo-e-oo-ee, it's a cold-hearted world
Oo-e-oo-ee-oo, I'm gonna be your girl
It's just a little too late to cry
You're my America

Ooh, heaven laughs at us now, baby
But we'll be shooting it down, honey
It's a little too late to hope and pray for a miracle
You're my America

Hey Rock star!
You're my America

[No lyrics]

Don't send me letters in bottles anymore
And don't come a-knocking or darken my door
We've got a contract, devotion evermore
We're legally bonded in richness and in poor

I signed the line that was dotted
I like to end what I started
I signed the line
And I realise a lot of lies
Were written in letter and bottles they tend to run aground

Don't give me platinum to weigh down my wrist
I've got injunctions, so cease and desist
I've got a bottle, a ball and a chain
But you have the one thing of value that remains
I signed the line that was dotted
I like to end what I started
There's too much I need, I gotta plead insanity
So don't give me platinum, it just weighs me down

I signed the line
I realise a lot of lies
Were written in letters
And bottles they tend to run aground

It's not easy
To be human anymore
What used to please me
Just don't please me anymore

Animals kill in the jungle
People would like to
But it's not that easy
To be human anymore

For reasons that I don't understand
I was out with a shovel in my hand
If someone's seen me, let me know
I must've been looking for sand or snow

I had a garden on my mind
Ivy was growing around my spine
I lost a needle in the hay
I'm hoping I'll never need it anyway

I wanted to plant a little seed
To fertilize the dirt
I didn't see the sleeping weed
The weed had got there first