Little Earthquakes
Crucify
Girl
Silent All These Years
Precious Things
Winter
Happy Phantom
China
Leather
Mother
Tear In Your Hand
Me And A Gun
Little Earthquakes
Crucify
Every finger in the room is pointing at me.
I wanna spit in their faces, then I get afraid of what that could bring.
I got a bowling ball in my stomach, I got a desert in my mouth.
Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now.
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets.
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in.
Just what God needs- one more victim.
Why do we crucify ourselves? Everyday, I crucify myself.
Nothing I do is good enough for you. Crucify myself, everyday.
I crucify myself. My heart is sick of bein'- I said my heart is sick of bein' in,
Chains... oh-oh. Chains... oh-oh.
Got a kick for a dog, who’s beggin' for love.
I got a have my suffering so that I can have my cross.
I know a cat named Easter, he says, will you ever learn.
You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets.
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in.
Got enough gilt to start my own religion.
Why do we crucify ourselves? Everyday, I crucify myself.
Nothing I do is good enough for you. Crucify myself, everyday.
I crucify myself. My heart is sick of bein'- I said my heart is sick of bein' in,
Chains... oh-oh. Chains... oh-oh.
Please... be... save... me... I... cry... uh huh, uh huh.
Looking for a savior in these dirty streets.
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
I've been raising up my hands, drive another nail in.
Where are those angels when you need them?
Why do we crucify ourselves? Everyday, I crucify myself.
Nothing I do is good enough for you. Crucify myself, everyday.
I crucify myself. My heart is sick of bein'- I said my heart is sick of bein' in,
Chains... oh-oh. Chains...
BACKGROUND (Why do we... crucify ourselves)
Why do we... yea, chains. Crucify ourselves everyday. Oh oh oh oh oh.
No, chains, oh, yea, yea, chains, oh oh oh oh oh oh.
Never going back again, oh, crucify myself again.
You know, never going back again to crucify myself, everyday...
Girl
From in the shadow she calls, and in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way.
And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph,
My image under her thumb,
Yes, with a message from my heart, yes, with a message from my heart.
She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
Everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
Hey... And in the doorway they stay, and laugh as violins fill with water.
Screams from the bluebells- can't make them go away.
Well I'm not seventeen, but I've cuts on my knees.
Falling down as the winter takes one more cherry tree.
She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
Everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
Everyone (everyone else's girl) else's girl, maybe one day (oh one day),
She'll be her own (oh, she'll be her own).
(BACKGROUND TORI: Everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.)
Rushin' rivers, thread so thin, limitations, oh dreams with the flying pigs.
Turbid blue and the drug stores too, safe in their coats and-a in their doo's.
Yeah, smother in our hearts, a pillow to my dots. Maybe there’s a way out.
(Maybe one day, maybe one day) one day she'll be her own.
And in the mist there she rides, and castles are burning in my heart.
And as I twist I hold tight, and I ride to work every morning wondering why.
"Sit in the chair and be good now," oh and become all that they told you.
The white coats enter her room, and I'm callin' my baby,
Callin' my baby, callin' my baby, callin'...
Everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
Everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
Everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
Silent All These Years
Excuse me, but can I be you for a while?
My dog won't bite if you sit real still.
I got the Anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin' at me again.
Yeah, I can hear that.
Been saved again by the garbage truck.
I got something to say, you know, but nothing comes.
Yes, I know what you think of me, you never shut up.
Yeah I can hear that.
But what if I'm a mermaid, in these jeans of his with her name still on it?
Hey but I don't care 'cause sometimes, I said sometimes I hear my voice.
And it's been here... Silent all these years.
So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts.
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
Boy, you best pray that I bleed real soon.
How's that thought for you?
My scream got lost in a paper cup.
You think there's a heaven where some screams have gone.
I got twenty-five bucks an' a cracker;
Do you think it's enough to get us there?
'Cause what if I'm a mermaid, in these jeans of his with her name still on it?
Hey, but I don't care 'cause sometimes, I said sometimes I hear my voice.
And it's been here... Silent all these-
Years go by, will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand?
Years go by, if I'm stripped of my beauty and the orange clouds raining in my head.
Years go by, will I choke on my tears 'til, finally there is nothing left?
One more casualty, you know we're too easy, easy, easy.
Well, I love the way we communicate.
Your eyes focus on my funny lip shape.
Let's hear what you think of me now,
But, baby, don't look up- the sky is falling.
Your mother shows up in a nasty dress.
Hmm, it's your turn now to stand where I stand.
Everybody lookin' at you, here take'n hold of my hand.
Yeah, I can hear them.
But what if I'm a mermaid in these jeans of yours with her name still on it?
Hey, but I don't care 'cause sometimes, I said sometimes I hear my voice.
I hear my voice, I hear my voice, and it's been here...
Silent all these years. I've been here.... silent all these years.
Silent all these, silent all these years.
Precious Things
So I ran faster but it caught me here.
Yes my loyalties turned like my ankle in the seventh grade,
Running after Billy running after the rain.
There precious things, let them bleed, let them wash away.
These precious things, let them break their hold on me. Ayah...
He said you're really an ugly girl, but I like the way you play.
And I died. But I thanked him. Can you believe that sick, sick,
Holding onto his picture dressing up every day?
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
So you can make me cum, that doesn't make you Jesus.
These precious things, let them bleed, let them wash away.
These precious things, let them break their hold on me. Ay...
I remember, yes, in my peach party dress.
No one dared no one cared to tell me,
Where the pretty girls are, those demigods,
With their nine-inch nails, and little fascist panties,
Tucked inside the heart of every nice girl.
These precious things, let them bleed, let them wash away.
These precious things, let them break, let them wash away.
These, these precious things, let them bleed now, let them wash away.
These, these precious things, let them break their hold on me.
Ayauh... precious... precious...
Winter
Snow can wait I forgot my mittens.
Wipe my nose, get my new boots on.
I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter.
I put my hand in my father's glove.
I run off where the drifts get deeper.
Sleeping Beauty trips me with a frown. I hear a voice,
"You must learn to stand up for yourself 'cause I can't always be around."
He says, when you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
When you gonna make up your mind?
'Cause things are gonna change so fast.
All the white horses are still in bed.
I tell you that I'll always want you near.
You say that things change… my dear.
Boys get discovered as winter melts.
Flowers competing for the sun.
Years go by and I'm here still waiting,
Withering where some snowman was.
Mirror, mirror where's the crystal palace?
But I only can see myself.
Skating around the truth who I am,
But I know, dad, the ice is getting thin.
When you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
When you gonna make up your mind?
'Cause things are gonna change so fast.
All the white horses are still in bed.
I tell you that I'll always want you near.
You say that things change… my dear.
Hair is gray and the fires are burning.
So many dreams on the shelf.
You say, I wanted you to be proud of me.
I always wanted that myself.
When you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
When you gonna make up your mind?
'Cause things are gonna change so fast.
All the white horses have gone ahead.
I tell you that I'll always want you near.
You say that things change… my dear.
Never change, all the white horses aha, mmm...
Happy Phantom
And if I die today, I'll be the Happy Phantom.
And I'll go chasin' the nuns out in the yard.
And I'll run naked through the street without my mask on.
And I will never need umbrellas in the rain.
I'll wake up in strawberry fields every day.
And the atrocities of school I can forgive.
The happy phantom has no right to bitch well,
Oo who... the time is getting closer.
Oo who... time to be a ghost.
Oo who... every day we're getting closer.
The sun is getting dim, will we pay for who we been? Yeah...
So if I die today, I'll be the Happy Phantom.
And I'll go wearing my naughties like a jewel.
They'll be my ticket to the universal opera.
There's Judy Garland taking Buddha by the hand.
And then these seven little men got up to dance.
They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
I'm still the angel to a girl who hates to sin.
Woo who... the time is getting closer.
Oo who... time to be a ghost.
Oo who... every day, we're getting closer.
The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I been? Yeah...
Or will I see you, dear, and wish I could come back?
You found a girl that you could truly love again.
Will you still call for me when she falls asleep,
Or do we soon forget the things we cannot see?
Woo who... the time is getting closer.
Oo who... time to be a ghost.
Oo who... every day, we're getting closer.
The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I been? Yeah...
And if I die today... and if I die today... and if I die today...
Ah ah, chasin' nuns out in the yard...
Ya la la la la... ya la la, la la la la la la...
China
China all the way to New York.
I can feel the distance getting close.
You're right next to me, but I need an airplane.
I can feel the distance as you breathe.
Sometimes I think you want me to touch you.
Well how can I, when you build the Great Wall around you?
In your eyes I saw a future together.
Oh... you just look away in the distance.
China decorates our table. Funny, how the cracks don't seem to show.
Pour the wine, dear. You say we'll take a holiday.
But we never can agree on where to go.
An sometimes I think you want me to touch you.
Well how can I, when you build the Great Wall around you?
In your eyes I saw a future together.
Oh... you just look away in the distance.
Hi die die hi die die die die...
Ah ah ah ah ha ha...
Hi die die die die die die die...
(Ha ah ha ah ha, ha ah,)
Hi-die die die die die die die...
(Ah ah ha... ha ah...)
China all the way to New York, maybe you got lost in Mexico.
You're right next to me. I think that you can hear me.
Funny, how the distance learns to grow.
An sometimes I think you want me to touch you.
How can I, when you build the Great Wall around you?
Hi die, ya da da da die die.
I can feel the distance, I can feel the distance,
I can feel the distance getting... close...
Leather
Look I'm standing naked before you; don't you want more than my sex?
I can scream as loud as your last one, but I can't claim innocence.
Oh God, could it be the weather? Oh God, why am I here?
If love isn't forever and it's not the weather, hand me my leather.
I could just pretend that you love me, the night would lose all sense of fear.
But why do I need you to love me, when you can't hold what I hold dear?
Oh God, could it be the weather? Oh God, why am I here?
If love isn't forever and it's not the weather, hand me my leather.
I almost ran over an angel, he had a nishe big fat shigar.
"In a sense," he said, "You're alone here, so if you jump, you best jump far."
Oh God, could it be the weather? Oh God, why am I here?
If love isn't forever and it's not the weather, aha...
Oh God, could it be the weather? Oh God, it's so very clear.
If love isn't forever and it's not the weather, hand me my leather.
Ya die die da die die, ya die da da da die, ya die...
Mother
Go, go, go, go now, out of the nest it's time.
Go, go, go now, circus girl without a safety net.
Here, here now, don't cry. You raised your hand for the assignment.
Tuck those ribbons under your helmet. Be a good soldier.
First my left foot, then my right behind the other.
Pantyhose running in the cold.
Mother the car is here. Somebody, leave the light on.
Green limousine for the redhead, dancing, dancing girl.
And when I dance for him, somebody leave the light on.
Just in, just in case I like the dancing,
I can remember where I come from.
I walked into your dream, and now I've forgotten how to dream my own dream.
You are the clever one, aren't you?
Brides in veils for you. We told you all of our secrets,
All but one, and don't you even try- the phone has been disconnected.
Dripping with blood and with time,
And with your advice poison me against the moon.
Mother the car is here. Somebody leave the light on.
Black chariot for the redhead, dancing, dancin' girl.
He's gonna change my name. Maybe you'll leave the light on.
Just in, just in case I like the dancing,
I can remember where I come from.
I escape into, your escape into, our very favorite fearscape.
It's across the sky and across my heart, and I cross my legs, oh my God.
First my left foot, then my right behind the other.
Breadcrumbs lost under the snow.
Ooh who... mother... ooh... mother the car is here, here...
Maybe, maybe you'll leave the light on. Ooh...
Father, father, father, dancin' girl.
He's gonna change my name. Maybe you'll leave the light-
Just in case I like the dancing.
I can remember where I come, come from.
Mother... mother... mother...
Tear In Your Hand
Yay la la lay lay lay lay, yay la la la lay...
All the world just stopped now.
So you say you don't wanna stay together anymore.
Let me take a deep breath, babe.
Mmm... if you need me, me and Neil'll be,
Hangin' out with the Dream King.
Neil said 'hi' by the way. I don't believe you're leavin',
'Cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice-cream.
I think it's that girl.
And I think there're pieces of me you've never seen.
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen well.
All the world is all I am,
(Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh.)
The mmm... black of the blackest ocean,
(Oh oh, oh oh.) And that tear in your hand.
All the world is mmm... danglin', danglin', danglin' for me darlin'.
(Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh.)
You don't know the power that you have with that,
(Oh oh, oh.) Tear in your hand. Tear in your hand...
An maybe, I ain't used to, (I ain't…)
Maybes, smashin' in a cold room. (Used to coming…)
I'm cuttin' my hands up, (You still…)
Every time I touch you. Maybe...
(Sometimes move me.)
Maybe it's time to wave goodbye now. Time to wave goodbye now.
Caught a ride with the moon. I know I know you well,
Well, better that I used to. Haze all clouded at my mind,
In the daze of the "Why it coulda never been,"
So you say an' I say, "You know you're fulla wish,"
An' your 'Baby baby baby baby's',
I tell you, there're pieces of me you've never seen.
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen well.
All the world is mmm... all I am,
(Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh.)
The mmm... black of the blackest ocean,
(Oh oh, oh oh.)
And that tear in your hand.
All the world is mmm... danglin', danglin', danlin' for me darlin'.
(Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh.)
You don't know the power that you have with that, (Oh oh.)
Tear in your hand, tear in your hand, with that tear in your...
Ho uh, ho uh, tear, hand, ho uh.
(Nay nay nay-nay nay nay nay.)
(Nay nay nay nay nay nay nay.)
Ho uh, ho uh, ho uh.
Me And A Gun
5 a.m., Friday morning, Thursday night far from sleep.
I'm still up an drivin' can't go home obviously.
So I'll just change direction 'cause they'll soon know where I live.
And I wanna live, got a full tank and some chips.
Was me and a gun, an a man on my back.
And I sang 'Holy Holy' as he buttoned down his pants.
You can laugh, it's kind of funny the things you think in times like these,
Like I haven't seen Barbados so I must get outta this.
Yes, I wore a slinky red thing, does that mean I should spread,
For you, your friends, your father, Mister Ed?
Was me an a gun an a man on my back.
But I haven't seen Barbados, so I must get outta this.
An I know what this means, me and Jesus, a few years back,
Used to hang an he said, "It's your choice, babe just remember,
I don't think you'll be back in three days' time so you choose well."
Tell me what's right, is it my right to be on my stomach of Fred's Seville?
Was me an a gun an a man on my back.
But I haven't seen Barbados, so I must get outta this.
And do you know Carolina where the biscuits are soft and sweet?
These things go through your head when there's a man on your back.
You're pushed flat on your stomach; it's not a classic Cadillac.
Me an a gun an a man on my back.
But I haven't seen Barbados, so I must get outta this.
I haven't seen Barbados, so I must get outta this.
Little Earthquakes
(Hum... hum... hum...)
Yellow bird flying, (hum...) get shot in the wing.
(Hum...) Good year for hunters, (Hum...) and Christmas parties.
And I hate, and I hate, and I hate,
And I hate el-e-va-tor mus-ic, the way we fight, the way I'm left here silent...
Ooh... these little earthquakes, here... we go again.
Ooh... who... these little earthquakes,
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces.
(Hum... hum....) Yeahya.
We danced in graveyards, with vampires 'til dawn.
We laughed in the faces of kings, never afraid to burn.
And I hate, and I hate, and I hate,
And I hate disintegration watching us wither.
Black winged roses that safely change their color.
Who... who... these little earthquakes, here... we go again.
Ooh... these little earthquakes, doesn't take much to rip us into pieces.
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces.
I... can't reach you. I... can't reach you.
I... (I,I) can't reach you (yeah, yeah).
I... can't reach you. Can't reach you.
Give me life. Give me pain. Give me myself again.
Give me life. Give me pain. Give me myself again.
Give me life. Give me pain. Give me myself again.
Give me life. Give me pain. Give me myself again.
Give me life. Give me pain. Give me my... (self again) give me myself, oh no...
Give me life. Give me pain p...p...pain. Give me my... (self again) give me myself.
Give me life (life). Give me pain. Give me my (give me my self) self again.
Give me life. Give'a me'a pain. Give me my (self again) give me my self again,
A, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, a.
Hee... yeah. Hee... yeah. Hee... yeah. Hee... ya.
Oh... these little earthquakes, here... we go again.
Who... these little earthquakes.
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces.
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces.
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces...
(Hum... hum...) He… hea, he-he-hea. (Hum... hum...)
