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Alligator (searles) little Billy, wide-eyed, pet shop dream Mommy has the money to buy anything he sees canine, feline, of no interest to him he eyes the alligators with a devilish grin ring the sale pack it up, now he's good to go peeking at his new friend, can't wait to get him home burst right through the front door with not even a thanks run into the bedroom and drop him in the tank oh, alligator… used to be the lizard king… alligator alligator… now you're just a child's plaything… alligator many moons have passed by, Summer's turned to Fall Billy's back in school, and he's hardly home at all his responsibilities are never on his mind Mommy feeds his alligator, getting bigger all the time until he gets too big, and it's time for him to go Mommy says “goodbye” as she drops him in the bowl and when little Billy gets home, she knows just what to say “I'm sorry, but it seems your little friend has run away” oh, alligator… used to be the lizard king… alligator alligator… flushed into the septic seas… alligator the next time you're in bed, just lying in the dark and you hear a sound that sends shivers through your heart open up the door and take a walk across the street over to the storm drain where the cold mist licks your feet your pulse, it pounds, your body sweats, your skin begins to crawl your body stands there frozen with the terror of it all and if you have the nerve to take a look below you may spy the glowing eyes of a friend from long ago oh, alligator… used to be the lizard king… alligator alligator… cooling in the septic breeze Catatonic (searles) you say you haven't seen me in, oh, so long then you ask me how I've been getting along a lot of people telling me I'm not looking good but after all this time, did you think I would? I'm too tired to be sleeping I'm to wired to be awake how the Hell did I get in this catatonic state there may come a time when your world turns upside-down you think you may be king yet you wear the jester's crown I made a left at sanity and a right up Psycho Drive passed straight through reality, barely made it back alive I'm too tired to be sleeping I'm to wired to be awake how the Hell do I escape this catatonic state I'm too tired to be sleeping I'm to wired to be awake how the Hell do I escape this catatonic state Crimes Against Sobriety (laite, searles) punished by anxiety trying to slow my brain long ago I learned a trick I’ve never been the same take the pain you suffer through turn it inside out there is nothing you can do you can't fight a stout join with me and tap a keg of something cold from Winnipeg down a pint, down a quart do it now 'cause life is short A A sponsor hounding me telling me that I should be part of straight society crimes against sobriety everybody looks the same when I’m drunk I can pretend I can't hope to learn your name buy a round I’ll be your friend decency is drowned in bars I don't give a crap drunken drivers wielding cars add new exits to the map I know drinking isn't free bar tab to infinity speeding me to poverty crimes against sobriety morning's not preventable drag my carcass out of bed try to look presentable repercussions in my head every day it hurts to move when I go to find a job I can't ever seem to prove I am not a drunken slob the man that I would like to be is working in the brewery fire him and hire me crimes against sobriety Drunken Schemer (laite) drunken schemer, (six pack...knife in back) former dreamer, (off track...never back) fallen comrade, (passion play...look away) feeling so bad, (gets his way...never pays) I never thought he was an evil man, or a crook or saw him as a choir boy, by the book but I could see his lack of honor with his peers as he insulted the host and left with several beers you know him from the sloppy pat on the shoulder... drunken schemer, former dreamer you see his twisted inner child getting older... fallen comrade, feeling so bad his tragic story sounds like such a difficult endeavor his good times seem to happen only seldom or never once you get to know his underhanded deception you find that he's manipulated your perception he needs the alcohol to keep it powered... drunken schemer, former dreamer he could have been a hero, but now he's a coward... former comrade...making you mad the only reason that you never want to fight him is that he would convince his fools you choose to spite him you're better when you turn your back and walk away the drunken schemer in the end will finally pay you know him from the sloppy pat on the shoulder... drunken schemer, former dreamer you see his twisted inner child getting older... fallen comrade, feeling so bad drunken schemer...(six pack, knife in back) former dreamer...(off track, never back) fallen comrade...(passion play, look away) being so bad... Huge In Japan (searles) what the fuck was that? sounds like someone backing over a cat this new age music to me is a sonic disaster screw those limp-dicks, chainsaw the bastards heroes of a foreign land you're just another jukebox band and I don't give a damn if you are huge in Japan you've been traveling the whole world 'round doing nothing but whoring someone else's sound the Japanese are calling you the latest craze seems to me, they're still in an atom bomb daze heroes of a foreign land popularity I can't understand but I don't give a damn if you are huge in Japan you love seeing your picture in the magazines `cause they never show what happens behind the scenes like a good little boy, you take it on the chin six weeks later they'll find you in the bargain bin heroes of a foreign land shoot you down right where you stand `cause I don't give a damn if you are huge in Japan Ponderous (seguso) I have learned a few things one of these is no one thinks no one tries, no one cares, empty heads with vacant stares I tell you once, you fail me twice gonna put this world on ice Ponderous nothing works, it all just sucks surrounded by these numbing nuts why do I sail this ship of fools the joke is played, it's oh so cruel when you pull this crap again it goes to show you have no brains Ponderous I'm gonna blow, blow my top hit you hard and watch you drop until you learn to use your head you fuck me once, you'll wind up dead A simple job that takes all day becomes my daily hell to pay you lend a hand but are no help I'll do much better by myself I'm gonna throw you all away ponderous... get yours today ponderous! you're all ponderous this song is ponderous ponder this She Didn't Like Me Then (searles) saw her today at the dollar store a sideways glance and nothing more she didn't bother to pretend that she didn't know me got me to thinking about the past high school days, cutting class if she had the time of day she wouldn't have told me could she think I'm worse than I was or just the same ol' clown she didn't like me then I'm sure she'd hate me now should I bother to speak at all will she talk, or make me crawl should I just turn away with an ounce of dignity got her attention, I waved "hi" just a look of disgust in her eyes if her thoughts were knives they'd be plunging into me would it be so wrong of me to ask her to go down she didn't like me then I'm sure she'd hate me now can't she see what's become of me I'm the number one zero in town she didn't like me then I'm sure she hates me now Sleeping Up w/ the Jones' (searles) Janie Jones is my window treat late tonight she'll dance for me knows just what I like to see when I'm watching her from across the street and when she sees my telescope she writes me a lipstick note it says “come on over, baby, here's your chance. let's do the mattress dance" `cos I'm sleeping up (sleeping) sleeping up (sleeping) sleeping up (sleeping) with the Jones' by the next morning's light there's another Jones in my sight it's Mommy, and she loves to tease so easy for her to make it hard for me the next chapter in our affair she leads me up the stairs into the bedroom, we're all alone I'm hoping Daddy Jones don't come home and find me sleeping up (sleeping) sleeping up (sleeping) sleeping up (sleeping) with the Jones' I don't know what I would say if they decided to move away I hope they don't, I guess they may you can bet your ass until that day I'll be sleeping up (sleeping) sleeping up (sleeping) sleeping up (sleeping) with the Jones' Still I Sit (seguso) I stopped, I stopped everything I stopped I saw no point in going on despite the possibilities it was then I sat, I will not move I plan to stay here for a while until I see a different light to lead me to a better space but until that day, I sit... you'd think by now this chair would break from all the weight that I displace it's the weight of the world and then some pushing down yet harder still I still have hope that it might lift but that would be a shock a man can wait a long, long time for the world to take it's bow the actor leaves the stage now but until that day, I sit...