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Little Yellow Town|Close
Low tide tonight, low tide little yellow town
Green life teems up from the underground
Glows in the dark, sifts the sands of garbage
Reach hard in for the ragged star fish
And only her lipstick bleeds,
And the color seeds into all your paint by number schemes
What was yellow, what was white, what was day, what was night?
And now in soft detective voices the past rises And follows you in shapes
of rain and dew
And you walk through the Fun House,
those sonic faces hit you like a bus
till you're knocked down by
Doppler waves of trust
And over here I scare myself
And over here I scare myself
day after day, cube after cube,
dot after dot
laying down on the kitchen floor,
tapped into the secret code
she's a down girl,
the acid's eating out her mind...
Ahhh,
the altered universe,
step right up
Door swings both ways, ha ha
and now as tattooed children,
(two-legged potions)
follow us
while lightening bugs circle overhead,
while lightening bugs circle overhead...
We tear their wings off
and memorize what they said
It's down rain, down time,
she's a real down girl,
the acid's eating out her mind...
Till all is new and all is changed,
the altered world
Spells out your name,
Road Kill|Close
What's the matter with it? Why's it look that way?
What's the matter with it? What's it trying to say?
What's that on its back? Where's it trying to go?
A mystical vision got dressed up one night
Locked the door, walked through
the misty porch light
Was headed over to somebody's house
For an occasion long awaited
And as it crossed the road, Vista del Mar,
A big red car, big black tires, nice Corvette,
And the future has not arrived yet!
Moonlight on the hill, lights up the Road Kill
Moonlight on the hill, and the future is a Road Kill.
What's the matter with it? What's it trying to say?
What's the matter with it? I just saw it yesterday...
The police came, the neighbors too,
They tried to pick it up - what else can you do?
Meanwhile, somebody's waiting back at the house
For the future to dawn bright across the sky
Moonlight on the hill, lights up the Road Kill
Moonlight on the hill, lights up the future
What's the matter with it? What's it trying to say?
What's the matter with it? Why won't it go away?
What's the matter with it? Why won't it
close its eyes?
What's the matter with it? And who are
those guys?
Matter|Close
What you wish for, what you think
The photographs you carry around
What whispers to yourself
When you're finally gone,
What you take when you go
Adds up to the Big Number
What you leave with who you know
Makes the Big Picture matter
It matters
It doesn't matter if you're fat
Wear a helmet or wear a hat
If you're sorry or if you're sure
Who you are is who you were,
and who you were matters
It matters
You're so deep inside yourself
Looking out at everyone else
You think a thing
And in a while you meet it on the street
Because it matters...
It matters
(A house across the sand) Matters
Firewalker|Close
Julie got some ecstasy, she laid down on the steering wheel
Love comes to the first thing love sees
Love comes to the first thing
that makes it real
Everybody's been hit,
E verybody's been hurt
Everybody's been kicked,
Everybody's been dirt
Everybody had to drive all night
To reach L.A. in the morning light
I try to lighten up, I always bear down
I want to back you up
But you just back down
Julie got some Brown girlfriend,
Got it for a coin
Her landlord threw her clothes out on the Street in the Tenderloin
Everybody's been a dog
Everybody's had to beg
Everybody's been a moth, been a moth,
When she woke up on her knees,
Everybody made her say please.
I was in a wild place where I go,
I couldn't hear you
Julie found God in a bus station
And she liked it a lot
You put your money in the basket that comes,
You remember the first God you bought
Everybody starts out innocent,
Starts out ridiculous,
Starts out beautiful
But nobody wants to be alone
Out here I'm all on my own
I try to lighten up, I always bear down,
I want to back you up, but...
Julie found a sailor boy,
Sailed off to the deep blue sea
So Firewalker
You can walk on me
Howard|Close
The spirits of her abortions...
The spirits of all her abortions
Manifested themselves into the furniture in the room
There would be a chair waiting, smiling,
the pictures on the wall watched her in disbelief.
She'd go carry the garbage out
to the sidewalk and come back in and
sit with all her children
inanimate, petrified forever.
A little boy named Howard,
everybody knows one of those guys in school
who kills everything he finds,
every little cat, every mouse,
every dog,
likes to burn his sister with cigarettes.
Diabolical schemes,
everything has been conspired,
the door's wired
That's because those South Americans tied him up
in a chair,
He was doing that dope deal,
he never got over that.
You're just made of words,
you're just made of sounds.
Ghostyhead|Close
Ghostyhead, Ghostyhead,
Standing in the door,
You think if you don't answer
I can't hear you anymore
Chains you hung from ear to ear
Finally drug your head,
But I can see through anything
I know what you bled
Ghostyhead, Ghostyhead,
You think that I can't see
The shadow of another girl
Each time you look at me,
People came from far away
to watch us drop you in,
But ghostyhead the crowd is gone
- - Come back up again
ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh
Ghostyhead, Ghostyhead
Come sit down on the porch,
There's a serpent caught in a fisher's net
And virgins light the torch,
But who this night would not stay warm
By any light they could?
You just eat your bread and cake
And tell them it was good
Sunny Afternoon|Close
Walking down my street
Here's the room where I live
Here's the neighbor children,
sometimes they bother me
Here's the window where you left
How can I forget to look,
Oh,
How can I forget?
A sunny afternoon
A plane goes by
Walking with my cat around
It's a sunny afternoon
Here's the window where you left
How can I forget to look?
Oh,
How can I forget?
Scary Chinese Movie|Close
And my hands are flickering
and the water turns to tracing paper
and I watch you dry.
I'm an army of stills
that you flick between your fingers
You will always make me be faster than I am
There's a banner rising
I know 'sorry' when I see its bones
We will always end up
washed up on the shore
And my hands are flickering,
Someone's reading the book over us,
White letters across your trousers,
we were always being dubbed.
Cloud Of Unknowing|Close
So he dropped the web of the spider of heaven down through the clouds,
All the way into the pool of blood at the bottom of hell
Far above in heaven a bird flies through the terrible cloud of unknowing
Trust can make a man into a wood, trust can make a man green
An Everything that longs to be,
Broken and small enough to see.
To be held in his hands,
To be a part and yet alone.
Here he is, reaching for the speed of light.
Here he is, reaching for the sound of forgiveness.
Now wounding 'round the waterfront
She listens for a voice
A sign of Mother God, a sign of God the Lad.
I long to enter you
W ith gentleness and compassion
But sorrow
Is always the open door.
I know many days go by and I forget to look up at the stars
I forget there are stars, I forget there is the rest
Thin threads of light follow you around
Through the pale blue, down your skin
Down your skin
Vessel Of Light|Close
A distant light
finds me
when I'm with you
A distant light
knows me
when I'm through
Once I mistook you
For somebody else
Mistook you for somewhere,
mistook you
For...
A distant light
that binds me
A distant sound
that finds me
When I'm through
when i'm through
when i'm through
True Vessel of Light
Discography|Close
Ghostyhead (1997, REPRISE)
▒ Track
1. Little Yellow Town (6:54)
2. Road Kill (4:41)
3. Matters (6:04)
4. Firewalker (3:56)
5. Howard (4:45)
6. Ghostyhead (5:36)
7. Sunny Afternoon (3:54)
8. Scary Chinese Movie (6:19)
9. Cloud Of Unknowing (7:03)
10. Vessel Of Light (6:30)
▒ Information
released: 1997
producer: Rickie Lee Jones and Rick Boston
Rickie Lee Jones performed vocals and played Taylor, Gibson L4, Gibson Mutt, Baby Bruno, Kay, Solid and hollow body Epiphone guitars, Kay bass, sleigh bells, drums, bowed dulcimer, 20kalimba, wurlitzer, rhodes, mpc-60, juno106, jx-8p, dx1000, wire recorder, and piano.
Rick Boston - same instruments as those played by Rickie Lee Jones/loops and programming
Boss Doctor - Additional programming
Lee Cantelon - Backwards Guitar
Robert Devery - Rhythm/Korg Trinity
Carol Es - Live Drums
Josh Friese - Live Drums
Janeen Rae Heller - Saw
Jay Lane - Foot Trunk/Cymbals
John Leftwich - Upright Bass
Ronnie Siago - Live Drums
Gerry Sutyak - Cello
David Zeller - Sheet Metal
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