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Corner
03:14
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Sittin’ at ,my desk I was drinkin Tussionex Listenin’ to T-Rex on my little Panasonic
I can’t complain, I’m feelin’ no pain and I don’t see the need for additional histrionics
I’m gonna go down to the Corner and do just what I wanna
Go down to the Corner and do just what I wanna
Pillsbury dough boys dance in my head
Some days I wish that I could just stay in bed
Sittin’ at ,my desk I was drinkin’ Tussionex I was listenin’ to T-Rex on my itty-bitty Panasonic
I can’t complain, I’m feelin’ no pain and I don’t see the need for additional histrionics
I’m gonna go down to the Corner and do just what I wanna
Go down to the Corner and do just what I wanna
SOLO
Some times it’s difficult to et what I need So please don’t be difficult I’m down on my knees ‘n I need to get what I need [repeat x3]
And I need to go down to the Corner and do just what I wanna
Go down to the Corner and do just what I wanna
Put a little heart into it, from home
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2. |
Hate to Wake Up
03:43
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[recorded]:
I wake up, I just can’t shake the sleep out of my head, I hate to get out of bed
It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.
Wake up Eve, it’s eight o’clock too late to bereave
the passing of our sleep
Me and you, we sleep as one until the morning sun
Cuts us in two
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[as played live]
I wake up, I just can’t shake the sleep out of my head,
I hate to get out of bed
Me and you, we sleep as one until the morning sun
Cuts us in two
It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.
Wake up Eve, it’s eight o’clock too late to bereave
the passing of our sleep
Me and you, we sleep as one until the morning sun
Cuts us in two
It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.
SOLO
It’s a rat race that I can’t face today.
I hate to wake up [repeat]
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3. |
Drugs Make Me Smile
02:43
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Whiskey makes me dizzy but I drink. Good things come in yellow, white and pink
Can’t stand up but now I can’t see you. Passed out on the floor – so what’s new?
Satisfaction guaranteed, well that’s a phrase for everybody but me
Rather read – about Marilyn, or Che – stay in bed and snort cocaine all day
Local anesthetics make me gay! Smoke some reefer, stay in bed and play.
[You don’t want to do what I want you to do.
You don’t want to do what I say I want you to do]
Satisfaction guaranteed, well that’s a phrase for everybody but me
Drugs make me smile. Drugs make me smile.
Solo
Satisfaction guaranteed, well that’s a phrase for everybody but me
Drugs make me smile. Drugs make me smile.
Drugs make me smile. Drugs make me smile.
There are every kind of drug in the world that I just love to take.
I like amphetamines! I like barbituates!
I like anything that ends in ‘A - L’ or ‘I – N – E’! I want to eat ‘em all!
I have the solution to the world’s drug problem: I will selflessly eat all drugs
‘Cuz drugs make me smile
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4. |
Fire, Fire
05:09
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Well if I had a … well if, if I had … if I had a … if I had a … if I had a face.
if I had a face, if I had a … if I had a face like yours
If I had a face like yours I don’t know what I’d do
I don’t know what I’d do
Fire, fire is my friend, my one and only
One on whom I can depend when I get lonely
Light it up then pretend that I’m at home again
Fire, Fire
Well if I had a real dad. If I had a real dad.
If I didn’t have to call my mother by her first name.
“Judy” what are you’re doing to me?
Fire, fire is my friend, my one and only
One on whom I can depend when I get lonely
Light it up then pretend that I’m at home again
Fire, Fire
Well I’m confused again. I blew a fuse again. Well what do they expect?
Well what do they expect from me?
If I had a face like yours I don’t know what the fuck I would do
I’d ask ‘em to put me in a freak show I’d ask ‘em to stick me in the zoo!
Then I could be with people who looked like me, or at least some kinda thing that looked like me, some kinda organism thing.
I don’t want you to be my father, I don’t want you to be fucking anything to me.
Fire, fire is my friend, my one and only
One on whom I can depend when I get lonely
Light it up then pretend that I’m at home again
Fire, Fire [repeat]
There’s a fire in the house mom, better come home right now
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5. |
Red Skies
04:00
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Say goodbye to Baudelaire. Say avoir to savoir faire.
I’ll say ‘goodnight’ to you my dear, here I go.
Land of the Rising Sun. Upsetting when the day is done.
We don’t know what we’ve begun, where we’ll go: back or forward?
Two souls are one. Red skies over Tokyo. Red skies.
We have lived by sun and steel. Sitting over our final meal, tranquility is all I feel today.
Please do give my mother love. Passing over up above she will feel that I am near, and she’ll know – yes, she’ll know
Gazing down in the snow at the Golden Temple it’s lying below
Red skies over Tokyo. Red skies.
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6. |
Can't Spell Romance
02:18
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7. |
Lonely
02:14
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*as with all Joe Harvard covers, certain lyrical changes have been made, intentionally or otherwise. The best source for the true lyrics are always the originals
Sittin there in your chair.
Position here, never there.
Pull on your cigarette in the dark
So lonely. [I’m] So lonely. [You’re] So lonely. I’m so lonely
I’m sick of this and I'm sick of that.
You say ‘his’ I say ‘hers’
Light another in the dark but whoa whoa baby no place to park
So lonely. [I’m] So lonely. [You’re] So lonely. I’m so lonely
I like the pain, I must be insane. Maybe baby, you’re to blame
I’m doin’ this and I’m thinkin’ that
The problem is that I’m getting’ too fat and I’m …
Lonely. [I’m] So lonely. [You’re] So lonely. So lonely
Lonely lonely, you’re sittin’ in that chair
Lonely, lonely baby think I need some air
Lonely lonely, well you don’t really care
Lonely lonely, baby think I need some air!
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8. |
Wonchew 4 Myself
02:55
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I don’t want to name names I don’t play games I don’t want you holdin’ hands with any more of my friends. I just want you for myself
If you were in Moscow I’d get to you somehow
Out in Arizona maybe we could have a pow-wow
All alone all by ourselves
There’s no question of it, there ain’t a doubt within my mind
There’s no need to argue, I’ll be yours just you be mine all mine
And let me love you for myself
If you lived in an igloo I don't think we'd need heat
We’d stay pretty warm just me and you, too
All alone all by ourselves
If you were in Moscow I’d get to you somehow
Out in Arizona maybe we could have a pow-wow
All alone all by ourselves
There’s no question of it, there ain’t a doubt within my mind
There’s no need to argue, I’ll be yours just you be mine all mine
And let me love you for myself
I don’t want to name names I don’t want to play games I don’t want [to see] you holdin’ hands with any [more] of my friends [repeat]
I just want you for myself
If you were in Moscow I’d get to you somehow
Out in Arizona maybe we could have a pow-wow
All alone all by ourselves
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Joe Harvard Asbury Park, New Jersey
"VU & Nico" author, producer-artist-musician
LP creds: Dinosaur, Jr, Pernice Brothers, Throwing Muses
etc; spiritual midwife to tons more as co-founder/owner of Fort Apache '85-'93.
An East Bostonian based [One Banned Man, Dub Proof, Doctor Danger, Cockwalkers] in NJ & MOTH NYC Storyslam Champ '01; loves cats. Asbury Music Awards: Top Americana '09/Top Multi-Instrumentalist & Top Avant-Garde '10.
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