Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Released 10 July 2007 BUY STREAM

“Don’t Make Me a Target” 3:55LYRICS
Here come a man from the star
We don’t know why he goes so far
And keep on marching along
Beating his drum

Clubs and sticks and bats and balls
For nuclear dicks with their dialect drawls
That come from a parking lot town
Where nothing lives in the sun

Don’t make me a target

When he reach back in his mind
Feels like he’s breaking the law
There’s something back there he got
That nobody knows

He never claimed to say what he says
He smells like the inside of closets upstairs
The kind where nobody goes
“The Ghost of You Lingers” 3:34LYRICS
If you were here would you calm me down or settle the score
The feelings I fight burn so bright
I’m a stranger in town
But if you were here would you ease my mind
The sleep fled from my eyes
And I know that I need some
Oh would you calm me down
When the breath gets shallow and fast
We put on a clinic
If you were here would you calm me down or settle the score
It felt good to me
Can’t you see I’m losing it
Must I set up the scene
Put on a clinic but now I need you right
Would you ease my mind
The ghost of you lingers
It lingers
Put on a clinic til we hit the wall
Just like a sailor with his wounds being salted
I had a nightmare nothing could be put back together
Would you settle the score
Or would you calm me down
If you were here would you calm me down
The ghost of you lingers
It lingers and I sleep a bit
“You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb” 3:08LYRICS
Life can be so fair, let it go on and on
I got loose for good and you got that cherry bomb
Blow out that cherry bomb for me
We lost it long ago, you and me

Now you know your way back from the spirit farm
Brush your teeth for bed, blow out that cherry bomb
Blow out that cherry bomb for me
You’ve got to know it’s on your sleeve

It was the longest day that I’ve ever known
I watched you start that drive alone
Blow out that cherry bomb for me
It’s gonna burn right up your sleeve

Oh so there you go again out in your dressing gown
Get yourself to bed, blow out that cherry bomb
Life can be so fair, let it go on and on
I got paid and my hand on your cherry bomb
“Don’t You Evah” 3:36LYRICS
Bet you got it all planned right
Bet you never worry never even feel a fright
Bet you got it all planned right
Never think to worry never even feel a fright
Single sleeps alone and I know you don’t really mind
Five years by your side so I know you really don’t mind

But don’t you ever be down
I said don’t ever
Because it’s gonna keep em hangin around
Never be down
I said don’t ever
Because it’s gonna keep em hangin around

Bet you never think it’s right
Bet you think you have to but it doesn’t feel right
Bet you never think it feels right
Famous sounding words make your head feel light

Petals getting picked with the love-yous and the love-you-nots
Five years going by everyone is staying on their side

But don’t you never be down
I said don’t ever
Because it gonna keep em hangin around
Never be down
I said don’t ever
Because it’s gonna keep em hangin around
“Rhthm & Soul” 3:30LYRICS
Come loosen up
So hung up
Come count them ways to forever
Remember the winter gets cold in ways you always forget

Ah you know
Mm-a RHYTHM AND SOUL
Gets your hands out your back pockets
Boy let it go
Here comes the man you saw in Kazan
He just fixing his coat
Rhythm and soul

Dollars and cents ain’t no accident
Not in the name of democracy
Come get there
Come be there
Come let your socks fall down to your shoes

And you know rhythm and soul
Gets your ankles moving their sockets
There you go
Here comes the man
He followed you from Kazan
He can’t leave it alone
Ah no, rhythm and soul

When you take a picture and it falls in your lap
Take another picture and you’re springing the trap
You’ve been sold

You can’t bat this with your eye
Change your tie and get wise
Rhythm and

Tract houses
Square couches
Short legs and square shoulders
Pot holders
Egg and soldiers
Y’ tank rollers
You all know this

Yeah you know
Oooh the rhythm and soul
Get your fingers moving their sockets, tune in Tokyo
You’re just the man
The one I saw in Kazan
One of us went for the throat
RHYTHM AND
“Eddie’s Ragga” 3:39LYRICS
EDDIE’S RAGGA
Someone that I met but I hardly knew
He said that everyone loves a defective heart
He’d parted ways with diction, this was late last night
He see me getting your affection and it proved he was right
The way I stared off thinking that all was sound
Anyone I knew they woulda called me found
You can break my legs, you can kick me downstairs
But there ain’t no getting over Joanie Hale-Maier
Just let me walk away
Ah let me walk away
And then the place ignite
It’s in my face and I’m
Behind the bassline

Someone that I knew but I hardly met
Told me, It’s hopeless I’m a slut for the New York Times
She made my heart soft, wore an aiguillette on her arm
She never been to Texas, never heard of King Kong
And it’d been so long since I’d been suitably high
So we did an Airborne, settled in for the night
Tell me sweetness don’t somehow reach your heart
Until you fall flat down and you can’t wait to start
This is the one cold truth we’ve all of us known
As I think to myself this could be easy or I could face it alone
And then the place ignite
All out of grace and I’m
Behind the base line
“The Underdog” 3:42LYRICS
Picture yourself in a living room
Your pipe and slippers set out for you
I know you think that it ain’t too far
But I hear a call of a lifetime ring
Felt the need to get up for it
And cut out the middle man
Get free from the middle man

You got no time for the messenger
Got no regard for the thing that you don’t understand
You got no fear of the underdog
That’s why you will not survive

I wanna forget how convention fits
But can I get out from under it
Can I cut it out of me
It can’t all be wedding cake
It can’t all be boiled away
I try but I can’t let go of it
Can’t let go of it, nuh uh

Cause you don’t talk to the waterboy
And there’s so much you could learn but you don’t want to know
You will not back up an inch ever
That’s why you will not survive

The thing that I tell you now
It may not go over well
It may not be photo op
The way that I spell it out

But you won’t hear from the messenger
Don’t wanna know ‘bout some thing that you don’t understand
You got no fear of the underdog
That’s why you will not survive
“My Little Japanese Cigarette Case” 3:03LYRICS
It’s just my Japanese cigarette case
Bring a mirror to my face
Let all my memories be gone
“Finer Feelings” 4:54LYRICS
Memphis comes creeping down my back
Somehow this place taste just like an attack
A hundred-yard-stare of a kiss
Lord, I know I’ll never miss it
They told me stop scouting the field
They told me have a look in Commercial Appeal
And start getting that hair cut sharp

Sometimes I think that I’ll find a love
One that’s gonna change my heart
I’ll find it in Commercial Appeal
And then this heartache’ll get chased away

I was part-time at the Tasty Prawn
That and moving furniture and cutting lawns
Covered in newsprint, staying up real late
Just holding out for some fate

I was dreaming in the driver’s seat
When the right words just came to me
And all my finer feelings came up
Always out on some witch’s hunt
For the one who never lets me want
Before you know it it’s all fuss
“Black Like Me”LYRICS
I’m in need of someone to take care of me tonight
As I walk into Dorian’s can you see it in my eyes
My boots are on the mend and they ain’t walking home
Street tar and summer do a job on your sole
Street tar and summer do a job on your sole

Jenny’s watching Cover Shot
My head’s feeling light
I’m in need of someone take care of me tonight
Anyhow, anyway, so I split
Like just getting out of there is gonna get me out of this
I spent the night in the map room
I humanized the vacuum

I’m in need of someone to take care of me tonight
And as I’m looking out at you can you see that in my eyes
On the mend, now they could lead me home
Street tar and summer, they play a trick on your soul

Oh Jenny’s gone day and night
Ah it makes me feel so light
Just somebody to care tonight
Jenny’s watchin day and night
Ah my head’s still feelin light
Someone to take care tonight
All the weird kids up front
Tell me what you know you want
Someone to take care tonight