Ludo Album

Love me cancerously, like a salt-sore soaked in the sea
"High maintenance" means you're a gluttonous queen
Narcissistic and mean
Kill me romantically, fill my soul with vomit
Then ask me for a piece of gum
Bitter and dumb, you're my sugar plum
You're awful, I love you...

She moves through moonbeams slowly
She knows just how to hold me
And when her edges soften, her body is my coffin
I know she drains me slowly
She wears me down to bones in bed
Must be the sign on my head, it says
"Oh, love me dead" Love me dead!

You're a faith healer on T.V.
You're an office park without any trees
Corporate and cold, gushing for gold - leave me alone
You suck so passionately
You're a parasitic, psycho, filthy creature
Finger-bangin' my heart
You call me up drunk, does the fun ever start?
You're hideous... and sexy!

She moves through moonbeams slowly
She knows just how to hold me
And when her edges soften, her body is my coffin
I know she drains me slowly
She wears me down to bones in bed
Must be the sign on my head, it says
"Oh, love me dead" Love me dead! Wow! Uh!

Love me cancerously
Brrrot-dot-da-d-da-da! Brrrot-dot-da-d-da-da!
How's your new boy? Does he know about me?
You've got the mark of the beast
You're born of a jackal! You're beautiful!

She moves through moonbeams slowly
She knows just how to hold me
And when her edges soften, her body is my coffin
I know she drains me slowly
She wears me down to bones in bed
Wha' 'bout this sign on my head
It says, "Oh, love me dead" Love me dead!
Love me dead! Love me dead!
Oh... love me dead!

"Self-loathing is quaint," you told me, showing restraint
Now you're gone and I'm lost, in the swells I am tossed
Bobbing and choking and losing the fight in the fog
You said, "Forever..." Tell me, why can't you stay?

I'd ride in your pocket all day, but I just don't fit
Say the word and I'll change, I'm throwin' a party tonight
I drink more than a sailor on shore
Pour the rum in my eyes, tell me lies

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh-oh-oh
Drunk since Saturday, without you, without restraint
It sill stings where you stung, water swings in my lungs
I'm starving for words that would ration my sadness away
Tell me, "Forever..." Tell me you'll come back to stay

I'd ride in your pocket all day, but I just don't fit
Say the word and I'll change, I'm throwin' a party tonight
I drink more than a sailor on shore
Pour the rum in my eyes, tell me lies

You were the mermaid for me
Till one day you found your feet
Leaving me in this god-awful bottle
A model of heartache and grief

I'd ride in your pocket all day, but I just don't fit
Say the word and I'll change, I'm throwin' a party tonight
I drink more than a sailor on shore
Pour the rum in my eyes, tell me lies

Sun falls slowly on our lonely
Goodbye-bedroom, you're my only
My last night home is first-night nervous
Take me over, remember all this 'til then...

Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
My love will burn and my heart will stay
My heart will stay

It's gone cold now, we'll sleep somehow
I'll be gone by first light, last chance, hold tight until then...

Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
My love will burn and my heart will stay
My heart will stay

I lie awake and memorize your face
As you sleep next to me
The falling moon is calling me as I leave
Sunrise slowly, the road looms lonely
But I will not fail...

Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
My love will burn and my heart will stay
My heart will stay

Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
My love will burn and my heart will stay
My heart will stay

My heart will stay

I found God in a catalytic converter
In Topeka on a Monday night

I taste blood every time I think of summer
If that's true, I'm in for quite a treat
'Cause I'm beggin' for the sun in a mid-Missouri winter
Waitin' desperately to get outta town
No, you can't keep a good man down

You've been known to obsess over the future
Do you think you'll get away from the past?
As you stone yourself just to make it through 'til midnight
Consider what you might have found
You think you've got a good thing now

I found God in a catalytic converter
In Topeka on a Monday night
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future
So you know what keeps me hangin' around
No, you can't keep a good man down

From here on, you can count on all things going
The way they must've from the start
(All you feel, all you feel...)
All you feel is the current flowing through you
And seizing your infected heart

I found God in a catalytic converter
In Topeka on a Monday night
I found God in a catalytic converter
In Topeka on a Monday night
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future
Saint has a past, every sinner has a future
Saint has a past, every sinner has a future
Saint has a past, every sinner has a future
Sinner has a future

I'll tell it like it happened, it was Darius and Noland and me
Just a few po' boys trying to get up outta Missouri
Took 55 to Louisiana, stopped by the highway to eat
They both had crawfish, strictly chicken for me
Back out under thunderheads, the radio was Southern soul
They interrupted Clarence Carter with a strange-ass local show
They were sayin':

"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
That's where you will get to see everything the water can be"

The rain was comin' down, the wind was howlin' outside of Slidell
It was the kinda night that makes you think the whole world's goin' to hell
We got off on an exit 'cause we couldn't read the map so great
Near the Choctaw Motel, we parked to deliberate
When out of the bayou came a man like the lake had a tongue
He was right up on the glass, all yellow-eyed, black teeth, bangin' on the windshield
Screamin' like a demon at the top of his lungs:

"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
Free for you and all your friends, crawfish 'til the bitter end
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Wade to where the shallows break
That's where you will get to see everything the water can be"

I was driving out of there as fast as a Camry could
But the interstate was flooded and I had to take the road through the woods
Bad move in retrospect, the road disappeared in the rain
And I stood on the brakes when I saw the sign: "Lake Pontchartrain..."
Darius was yelling that he saw somebody out in the swells
He jumped out runnin' and Noland was goin' as well
"Come back!" Why the hell would they leave the car?
And that's when I heard it, make no mistake -
The voices were calling them from under the lake:

"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain...
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain...
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain...
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain..."

The crawfish were screaming, the waves danced in time
My friends went in deeper, the water, it climbed
I watched in terror, the lake opened wide
And horribly roaring, it pulled them inside
That's how it happened, why would I lie?
There were no bodies, I've got none to hide
I'm just a boy, lost his friends in the rain
Any more questions, just go and ask Lake Pontchartrain

I've been losing sleep for days
You've been searching through the deserts and the caves
Your postcards hit me in waves
Sadly stinging me with songs from yesterday

Love, such as it ends
Breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend
Closes the doors you used to listen through
(But it goes on...) Love, such as it ends
Into the flames we'll start again
And in the end I'll be with you

You've been burning up for days
Trying to gather all the figures in the clay
You know they can't all be saved
Leave the weak ones, find a modicum of shade

Love, such as it ends
Breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend
Closes the doors you used to listen through
(But it goes on...) Love, such as it ends
Into the flames we'll start again
And in the end I'll be with you

I've been vacant for so long, but you were there
You look so tired, now just please
Love let me take it on my shoulders
And we might make it home
Love such as it ends
Breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend

Love such as it ends
Breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend
Closes the doors you used to listen through
(But it goes on...) Love such as it ends
Into the flames we'll start again
And in the end I'll be with you

Love, such as it ends... Love, such as it ends...
And in the end, I'll be with you

Here I am, at home again, this rainy avenue
Put me in my proper place, I'm not the one for you
But you're here now, can you come in?
It's freezing...
I'd found a way to blur your face and smear the words you said
You made me feel alive again, I wish we'd never met
But you're here now, can you come in?
I'm freezing...

I finally let go and learned to live without you
After all those weeks alone, but now you're back for more
I'm trying to fight it off but there's a mutiny below

There were nights when I was sure your love was all I had (so bad)
Pining at the door you left through, God it hurt so bad
But you're here now, you're making eyes
I'm breaking...

I finally let go and learned to live without you
After all those weeks alone, but now you're back for more
I'm trying to fight it off but there's a mutiny below
I finally let go
But there's a mutiny below

"Just one more night..." you ask so tenderly - a softer side
I'd longed so long to see
(So long)

You slip inside, we'll work it out
Tomorrow...

I finally let go and learned to live without you
After all those weeks alone, but now you're back for more
I'm trying to fight it off but there's a mutiny below

I finally let go (I can't live without you)
I'm tryin' to fight it off but there's a mutiny
From everything left but my soul
I can't hang on - let me go

When the streetlights come on
The pooling night is leveed aside
And pressed in twilight 'gainst our two rooms
I'll see you tonight
The pavement is aching, cicadas are crying
The wine-colored air breathing thoughts through your hair
Breezing to me, leading me there...

I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood comes in floods and in waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid of what you'll say

And I find you, twilit beyond all the cars
In driveways they sleep but streetlights will keep watch over me
They flicker like stars
And now the secrets carefully kept inside, run the streets red
Our chemicals spread, washing us through, making you mine...

I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood comes in floods and in waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid of what you'll say

Now there are no words, only the glow in our wires
And so we will be, you turn slow to me
Our lips set the sun (I'll never leave you...)
The hills are on fire... oh...

I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood comes in floods and in waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid of what you'll say

Hi
You must be new, I guess at least you're new to me
Saw you unpacking your car so I said to myself
"Maybe I should help her out," since we're neighbors now
And all the other people here are elderly and probably
A little stand-offish and I've got nothing to do (and whatnot)
By the way, I live in 207, my name is Greg
Wherever are my manners?!
Let me get that heavy box!

I'm a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I'm just searching for that someone to be firing it
I've narrowed down the field and I'm takin' a glance
And I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...
To be my girlfriend

What's up?
Didn't mean to sneak up on you there
I looked downstairs and saw you leaving, so wha's up?
I haven't seen you at the pool since the barbecue not that I've been checking
Here's the deal: I've got this thing for work this weekend and I was wondering
If you don't have anything going on that maybe
Okay, hey that's cool, you're busy
But we should hit up Jose O'Flanagan's for Jell-o-Shot
"You-call-it's" okay, not this week, but Monday...
You could come over tonight, I'll be watching cop dramas
Smokin' fatty-fatties

I'm a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I'm just searching for that someone to be firing it
I've narrowed down the field and I'm takin' a glance
And I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...
To be my girlfriend

I've given it some thought...
And I really think that you could use a guy like me in your life
Looking after you, a man to take you home, a hand for you to hold...
And I'd never leave you alone

I'm a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I'm just searching for that someone to be firing it
I've narrowed down the field and I'm takin' a glance
And I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...

I'm a go-getter guy, I'm a go-getter guy
I've narrowed down the field and I'm takin' a glance
And I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...
(And I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...) chance...
Chance...
To be my girlfriend

I'm a killer, cold and wrathful
Silent sleeper, I've been inside your bedroom
I've murdered half the town
Left you love-notes on their headstones
I'll fill the graveyards until I have you
Moonlight walking, I smell your softness
Carnivorous and lusting to track you down among the pines
I want you stuffed into my mouth
Hold you down and tear you open, live inside you, love
I'd never hurt you
But I'll grind against your bones until our marrows mix
I will eat you slowly...

Oh, the horror of our love
Never so much blood pulled through my veins
Oh, the horror of our love... never so much blood

I wake in terror, blackbirds screaming
Dark cathedrals spilling midnight on their altars
I'm your servant, my immortal
Pale and perfect, such unholy heaving
The statues close their eyes, the room is changing
Break my skin and drain me
Ancient language, speak through fingers
The awful edges where you end and I begin
Inside your mouth I cannot see
There's catastrophe in everything I'm touching
As I sweat and crush you
And I hold your beating chambers until they beat no more
You die like angels sing...

Oh, the horror of our love
Never so much blood pulled through my veins
Oh, the horror of our love... never so much blood

You're a ghost love, nightgown flowing
Your body blue and walking along the continental shelf
You are a dream among the sharks
Beautiful and terrifying, lit and restless
We dance in dark suspension
And you bury me in the ocean floor beneath you
Where they'll never hear us scream...

Oh, the horror of our love
Never so much blood pulled through my veins
Oh, the horror of our love... never so much blood

A man is many things, let's count them all tonight
You're letting go of strings, replacing them with light
But they want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy 'bout the life of a saint
But I've got this song in my head
'Cause it's breaking me down to tears...

If I scream, scream, scream
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen?
Would you open up your eyes?
Would you scream with me?
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see

Photos keep you close with increments of light
The quiet wooden posts, the county's cold tonight
But they want the hit aobut the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy 'bout the life of a saint
But I've got this song in my head
'Cause it's breaking me down to tears...

If I scream, scream, scream
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen?
Would you open up your eyes?
Would you scream with me?
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see

I'd rip my eyes out for you
You're screaming at the cold
I pull you close - you're asking why
It's so dark tonight, I don't know why...

If I scream, scream, scream
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen?
Would you open up your eyes?
Would you scream with me?
Sing it sad and sweet

Would it make you cry?
Would you finally see that
All your lives are moments?
All your words and closeness
Keep you here and human
Whispering tonight...
And so we scream (all your lives are moments)
The sadness sweetly for him (all your words and closeness)
While they stand and stare (keep you here and human)
Do you think they'll ever care?
I don't care, I don't care

The moon is old, all dusty craters
Fear and panic orbit Mars
Saturn's dark-side rings are just plain beautiful
Back on Earth, you're waking up soon
Stretching in the morning light
No celestial body could compare to you
And even though I'd always dreamed of going to the stars...

In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere
This place is terrible and endless
Counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can't wait for gravity to bring you close to me

All I got's this little window
Never lets me see too much
I bet the leaves are changing there again
From solar winds to zero-Kelvin
I'm hurtling and pressurized
If only I could get a breath of you
And even though I'd always dreamed of going to the stars...

In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere
This place is terrible and endless
Counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can't wait for gravity to bring you close to me

I hope this message finds you and you won't feel so alone
Even if I never make it home...

In space (the tiles are burning, all the time we had)
All I think about is you and me (goes rushing past my window view)
And atmosphere
In space (through the flames, I keep a steady hand)
You're picture's all I look at, my place (my eyes are clear, my aim is true)
Is with you below, watching leaves change in the yard
Dreaming of the stars
I can't wait for gravity to bring me home

To the left of me's the sketch you drew
And to the right I see that book I lent you
To help you through the night

The black of charcol on my thumbs
But with any luck you'll see the light that comes
From open eyes

It's All Hallow's Eve
Hold my hand
Ahead there's land
We'll row the boat
And leave it on the other shore

Through the wreckage of my college years
I made sure to hold close both my hate and fear
Of letting go

Told you Sunday just how long it's been
You confessed to me fears you'd been holding in
Now we both know

It's all fine with me
Hold my hand
Ahead there's land
We'll row the boat
And leave it on the other shore
Hold my hand
Ahead there's land
We'll row the boat
And leave it on the other shore
Through the fall
Come hell and all
We'll row the boat
And leave it on the other shore

Have you been up late nights?
(It's okay, it's just been hard to sleep)
It seems so in your eyes
(It's just that work has been gettin' to me)
I heard about your beau
(He's not feeling well, but he's alright)
There's something I can do
(Thanks for offering, but I'll be fine)

Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark

Have you been up late nights?
(Couldn't swallow, couldn't get to sleep)
I see it in your eyes
(It's just that sickness has been gettin' to me)
Well, what about your belle?
(Can you help her? Can you make the time?)
I'll do all I can do
(Just don't worry 'bout me, I'll be fine)

Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Forces unseen pulling strings in your heart
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark

Ah...........
Oh...........
Ah...........
Oh...........
Ah...........
Oh...........

Well, where are you guys, then?
(We're up north, just tryin' to beat the heat)
When are you coming home?
(Not sure I can make it back for weeks)
So how are all your shows?
(Kelly called and said you're not alright)
You take care of him
(There's something bigger going on this time)

Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Forces unseen pulling strings in your heart
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark

Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Forces unseen pulling strings in your heart
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark

Everyone wants
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark
Everyone wants
Everyone wants to feel safe in the dark

(People speaking Japanese)
(Hello)
(Goodbye)
(I have no peace of mind)

I'm sick of the hum-drumming white breaded meat
It grill-marks my brain with its hamburger beat
Give me Mt. Fuji and papier-mвchй
Just an ocean away

Let's go to Japan
I'm not joking this time
So go get your bags packed
We'll be just fine
We'll both wear kimonos
No shoes on our feet
Just take my hand
Japan it with me

It's an archipelago, exotic and pure
Of ancient enchantments, so says the brochure
I need a place where there's no room to grow
Watch out Tokyo, I'm comin'

Let's go to Japan
I'm not joking this time
So go get your bags packed
We'll be just fine
We'll both wear kimonos
No shoes on our feet
Just take my hand
Japan it with me

Don't mis-quote me
I'm not disowning my country
We'll come back one day (U! S! A!)

But with those Geisha teasing
That emperor could keep me all sake-bombed
With you singing karaoke, IN OSAKA!
ROCK!

Let's go to Japan
I'm not joking this time
So go get your bags packed
We'll be just fine
We'll both wear kimonos
No shoes on our feet
Just take my hand
Japan it with me

Oh oh oh oh oh
Japan it with me

Oh oh oh oh oh
Japan it with
me