Meat Puppets Album

You got wings on your fingers
In the middle of a battle
Is a little of the way you talk
And you shine
You got cobwebs on your halo
In the closet there are skeletons
Lined up ready to talk
And they shine
Fade into what
Made into hours
And pulled into lines
You got a ring around your finger
And a heart in the bottle
That never really learned to talk
And they shine
You got brickbats on your beltway
In the middle is a puzzle
With the pieces that have turned to slop
And they shine

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Lost on the freeway again
Looking for means to an end
Nobody knows which way it's gonna bend
Lost on the freeway again

Walking the freeze ways again
Thinking of something my friend
I get tired of living Nixon's mess
Walking the freeze ways again

I know there'll come a day
When you'll say that you don't know me
And I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

Locked in the attic again
Out of the shallow and into deep end
I've got a rule, I know will never end
Locked in the attic again

I know there'll come a day
When you'll say that you know me
I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

Lost on the freeway again
Looking for means to an end
Nobody knows which way it's gonna bend
Lost on the freeway again

Well, I know there'll come a day
When you'll say that you don't know me
And I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau
Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand
To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands

There's nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
Who needs action when you got words

When you're finished with the mop then you can stop
And look at what you've done
The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen
And the work it took was fun

Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau
Some said it was Greenland and some say Mexico
Others decided in was nowhere except for where they stood
But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could

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Mother master, some things must be
Plastic master, this is for free
You give off a dark
Seems larger than life
Violet eyes
Plastic master, smoke drifts from a rose
Timber empire, able to explode
Cut open the box
Out rushes the night
Violet eyes
Plastic baby,
Rope drifts through open holes
Robot Kingdom, fables will explode
Cut open the box
Out rushes the night
Violet eyes

Got no head
It's a bucket with teeth
It likes to dream
It likes to sleep
It knows hot
It knows cool
It know what's what
It's no fool
Fill up the bucket with
Whatever you got
Make sure it's something
That the bucket likes a lot
Fly on a window
Looking through
Its tiny bucket
Knows just what to do
It goes over here
It goes over there
It takes its tiny bucket
Almost everywhere
I'm a buckethead
That's the truth
What I do
Sure shines through
And what goes in
Gets mixed around
And overflows
And makes this sound
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We got road, we got time, so we're out of here
We got rows, we got rows as far as we can see
In the dust we can see your catastrophe
Shining dimly like a mudslick in the sun
Sparks fly from their eyes
Birds fly from their mouths
Echoing off this procession is a sound
Never to be found
With a tip of the hat we would exit here
Off you go with a pie on your face
Down the road we can see the electric chair
Who'll be the first? I don't know, it's a race.
With a drop of the fly we should exit here
Off you go with the crumbs on your face
One-eyed clown in the road with electric hair
At his best he's a total disgrace

If I had to lose a mile
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do

I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news

Would you like to hear my voice
Sweetened with emotion
Invented at your birth?

I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse, I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Store it deep inside of me

I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse, I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Store it deep inside of me

Sand man walks the islands
Over corals bay
Wishes balanced captive
Pushing time away
In love...
Disappearing pictures
Falling from the sky
Sandman in the shallows asking
How'd I ever get so much
In love...
In love...
Sometimes always captures
Always slips around
Love is linen shrouded
And floats like lion down
In love...
THE VOID
TOUCHDOWN KING
He's got a kind of stupefying attitude
You almost see those little wing shoes
Like a light, almost shining through the air
He's a touchdown king
The air is energy whenever he's around
With bolts of lightning from the ground
Like the wind, almost flying through the air
He's a touchdown king
He's had some hard breaks on the wrong side of the line
Time and time again he's out of time
Like the wind, almost flying through the air
He's a touchdown king
The air is energy whenever he's around
With bolts of lightning from the ground
Like a light almost shining through the air
He's a touchdown king

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Four sides of curves
You call it round
It's saying nothing
Doesn't make a sound
Doesn't lift a finger
But it's working all the time
Got to know it well
Cause it's always on my mind
Always on my mind
Hidden between the lines
The unsung hero
Taking the time to find
The mighty zero
It's just a number
You can count it on your hand
But I still don't seem to get it
There's nothing to understand
To understand
Woke up this morning
Pulled on my shoes
Nothin's goin' on
But I got no time to lose
Can't seem to see it
Don't seem to care
How you supposed to taste it
There's nothing there
There's nothing there
Nothing there at all
The invisible hero
But you can write it on the wall
The mighty zero
It's just a number
You can count it on your hand
I still don't seem to get it
There's nothing to understand
To understand
Nothing there to show
No big deal no
How would you like to know
The mighty zero

We will compare
We will be king
Gonna be all tongues
We with our us
You with your tongues
Gonna make it to the time
On is us
Is very us
Don't down with my number; take it
Don't you wash with my down
The top is very us

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We got road, we got time, so we're out of here
We got rows, we got rows as far as we can see
In the dust we can see your catastrophe
Shining dimly like a mudslick in the sun
Sparks fly from their eyes
Birds fly from their mouths
Echoing off this procession is a sound
Never to be found
With a tip of the hat we would exit here
Off you go with a pie on your face
Down the road we can see the electric chair
Who'll be the first? I don't know, it's a race.
With a drop of the fly we should exit here
Off you go with the crumbs on your face
One-eyed clown in the road with electric hair
At his best he's a total disgrace

Lost on the freeway again
Looking for means to an end
Nobody knows which way it's gonna bend
Lost on the freeway again

Walking the freeze ways again
Thinking of something my friend
I get tired of living Nixon's mess
Walking the freeze ways again

I know there'll come a day
When you'll say that you don't know me
And I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

Locked in the attic again
Out of the shallow and into deep end
I've got a rule, I know will never end
Locked in the attic again

I know there'll come a day
When you'll say that you know me
I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

Lost on the freeway again
Looking for means to an end
Nobody knows which way it's gonna bend
Lost on the freeway again

Well, I know there'll come a day
When you'll say that you don't know me
And I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

What to do, yeah, I really don't know
I really don't know what to do
What to do, yeah, I really don't know
I really don't know

Later on when the TV's on
Later on in the empty lot
Watch the scene just fade away
And you really don't know, you really don't know

What to do, yeah, no, you really don't know
You really don't know what to do
What to do, yeah, you really don't know
You really don't know

There's a place where you can go
That's what you stick your money for
You drink down till you fall apart
And you really don't know, you really don't know

What to do, yeah, you know what to do, you know were to go
You're talkin', to people that you don't know
There's na na, nothin' that you don't know
There's na na, nothin', oh no, you really don't know

What to do, yeah, and you really don't know
You really don't know what to do
What to do, yeah, you really don't know
You really don't know

Hurry people get on your train
Don't be waitin' for the working day
It takes time to unfold your fate
And you really don't know, you really don't know

What to do, yeah, no I really don't know
I really don't know what to do
What to do, yeah, I really don't know
I really don't know what to do

What to do, yeah, I really don't know
I really don't know what to do
What to do, yeah, I really don't know
I really don't know what to do

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