Almost Chocolate
(1998)
1 - Two Eggs Over Easy
Here is my story once upon a time
I was a runner for the railroad
I didn't have a dime
I was living in a penthouse
full of Roach Powder
it was owned by a Vietnam Vet who had a lot of
pictures of himself and his buddies from the war
decorating every single wall and floor
in between the wallpaper that was curling down and turning brown
I tried to stay and make it but I had to leave New York town
I was hungry for oatmeal
and some car
fast and breezy
and someone who might make m
two eggs over easy
So I go to California
got a brother living there for 69 dollars go Greyhound anywhere
glad I brought my camera it was all I could carry disguised as a guitar
I kept looking at they kept looking back
4 blond headed children ages 4 to 10
her ex-husband would come and she'd get pregnant again
every year for 4 years in between the cold beers
she didn't know she had a choice
she didn't know another alphabet
Still she was hungry for oatmeal
and some car
fast and breezy
and someone who might make her
two eggs over easy
Now I'm down in Baltimore
I'm trying to make my rent
I back up without looking put a big fat dent
I was driving my mother's car
not looking going backwards like my life
funny thing about insurance
if you use it you lose it
So I sit down by an Oak Tree
to read a book of love
it was written by 2 doctors who were guilty of
divorce two times each
who makes who the expert qualified to teach
I kept looking at they kept looking back...
Still I'm hungry for oatmeal
and some car
fast and breezy
and someone who might make me
two eggs over easy
No alarm clock warning just get up in the morning and run
and run away with you and run and run is all I want to do
I wish I had a dollar for every time we'd holler oo oo oo...
2 - November or Nothing
Baby, I'm not a superstar
I'm just a troubadour
and yes you can meet me in LA
but what would that change
that which rules us now
might be prearranged
we tried, nobody lied
Lately, you fire questions at me
if the moon was my basketball
I'd shoot it through the Milky Way
like Michael, three points in five words
“You live so far away”
da da da da da da da da...
Blood Bones and Baltimore
Silver Dollars on the floor
November or Nothing
Everyday a thousand waves will crash the shore
changing everything and nothing more
If you don't know me now
the truth behind the score
then yes I'm walking out
(ouch ouch)
da da da da da da da da...
Cold Plastic Colder Cash
Nashville Don't Run Out Of Gas
November or Nothing
3 - Fallin'
I don't know if I'm drunk
I don't know if it's last night's buzz
But I feel like I'm fallin' in love
Every little thing that she does
Every little glance that I see
I can't stop the feeling that's growin'
inside of me
Every little beat of my heart
feel like a boom boom boom
I could be fallin'
flyin', fallin', flyin', fallin',
cryin', crawlin', flyin',
fallin' in love
You could tell me it's day
but I don't want the night to end
Watch the sun come up
on our guilty smelling skin
Amor es un fuego
Por una vez lo segire
deja me ir ir ir ir
I don't know if I'm drunk
I don't know if it's last night's buzz
But I feel like I'm fallin' in love
For love is a fire
for once I can
follow it higher
let myself go go go go go
4 - Is This Evolution
30 cars piled at a large intersection
two men go at it on the hood of a Ford and beating each other
like dinosaurs under the same sun
Is This Evolution
I'm 13 years old and I'm out on my first date
I'm sitting with him in the back of a Ford
He forces my head between his legs cause he thinks it's fun
and I'm choking and sweating and wishing that I could
just run
Is This Evolution
What's Your Solution
So drink up the hour
You're thirsty for power
The blues we live under stand for the Background of Stars
I only am what I am because You think you are
Every Little American Slave...
Masters the Car
And we are the witnesses taking the punches
we drive away angry and beaten and done
no wonder we eat so much caffeine and Motrin and alcohol
and sticky buns
Is This Evolution
What's Your Solution
So Hungry and Homeless I lie before you
Your choices are infinite Your deeps are what measures you
The Landscape of Justice infecting the needy that falland under the hammer I wave a deaf banner
and brick by brick I break the law
yeah kiss by kiss you echo my call
This is Evolution
We are the Solution
Be in Revolution
We are Evolution
5 - 13 (I don't care about the money)
13, gonna be a Bat-Mitzvah Movie Queen
14, English class he winked at me I ran so fast
I didn't care about the money
Daddy had a great big supply
at least that's what Momma told me
She didn't have a reason to lie
18, gotta go to college to learn to ro(w)
it was B.U. I didn't know who I was
19, gotta get out of there go find myself anywhere
is the answer in your hairdo
I didn't care about the money
I thought I could get along
I had found the sweetest honey
is in the way I make a song
22, when I met Sue
I said I want to be inside of you
But her parents were scared of me
Scary sexuality
We didn't care about the money
we thought we could get along
we had found the sweetest honey
is in the way we live the song
28, celebrate, Cindy's come to see along
make a record buy a van with bass and drummer
ain't America grand when Heaven is Betsy
We didn't care about the money
Polly wants a big piece of pie
Something's wrong with thick lip service
Barefoot babies don't wonder why
they're just glad to be by your side
Yeah, I don't care about the money
What goes up might come down
I have found the sweetest honey
is in the way you make the sound
when nobody is around
6 - Play the Fool
OK I'll play the fool
just a little bit longer
but there will come a day
when I will be stronger
then I'll walk away
without a word to say
and I won't be looking back
I won't be looking back
There are two longest minutes in this world
The first was the 60 seconds before you kissed me
The second longest minute in this world
was the time you said “good-bye”
that minute just won't die
Now I'm trying to get through to you
the telephone is messed up too
how am I supposed to find you
If you build a house with a 2nd story
and that house was a lie
When you walk up the stairs there'd be
no one there to hold you
when you said “good-bye”
Now I'm trying to get through to you
the telephone is messed up too
how am I supposed to find you
I need your body lying next to mine
breathing hard and feeling fine
cause I can't believe the love we made was a lie
7 - You
got my Bailey's
got my guitar
what I don't have is you
you you you...
Loved today
but I hated tonight
there ain't no way of making a
wrong a right
what I just don't have is you
you you you...
wish I was made of
iron or steel
but my heart won't listen
when my head says
what to feel
so I'm trying to forget you
you you you
8 - Tattoo Song
I am the color of your pen when the ink comes rushing in
and I have an endless supply
of word I will give you them at dawn
we could meet out on the lawn
no bodies of other songs
first I wear my tattoos on the inside
then in the golden breath of day
from your mouth I hear you say, “what way is your way?”
then with the sky cupped 'round the sun
holding us and spilling tongues
your hands conduct my wonder
first I wear my tattoos on the inside
I see ice cream melting down your chin
living in heartbeats
so hard I am crashing into the fact
of never having spoken
night falls between a chapel of a million scars
we had to pee outside because the bars were all closed
and we ran green
free to the greenest ocean tide
like the bed beneath the bride
foam white against your side
9 - On Your Side
(in honor of Leo Bretholtz and Sarah Rutstein)
I sing this song with the vision that the Palestinians could sing this song to the Israelis and the Israelis could echo back to the Palestinians...
da da da da...
I am on your side
da da da da da...
I am on your side
10 - Clothesline
the clothes on the clothesline are blowing in the wind
they're taking the cows to slaughter as if living was their sin
and me I cut myself on the softest skin
you say you want to shake my hand but you're still holding a gun
the general of your army silenced my only son
and love's so cheap to you, you think suicide is fun
and the sickest part is you don't want forgiveness
you wear my bloodstains like a banner and you're proud
ticktock Woodstock mother mother let me grow up proud
I used to look up to you waving from your ivory tower
dropping coins from the balcony like a mini money shower
dashing for the dollars amid the media squalor
like grabby gulls at the ocean
poised for your fake devotion
you set me up for the firing squad then gave the final order
you undersold my beaten soul down by the Mexican border
and life's so cheap to you
you think blood won't change the color of the water
well I have tasted it