Ecstasy

Mad, you just make me mad
I hate your silent breathing in the night
Sad, you make me sad
When i juxtapose your features i get sad

I know i shouldn't had someone else in our bed
But i was so tired, i was so tired
Who would think you'd find a bobby pin
It just makes me mad, makes me mad
It just makes me, makes me -

- mad

Glad, when i'm gone you're glad
That overwhelming tension dissipates
Oh, tad, you think i'm a baby
Nobody likes to here, why don't you grow up at dawn

I know i shouldn't had someone else in our bed
But i was so tired, so tired
Who would think you'd find a bobby pin
It makes me mad, makes me mad
Don't you know it just makes me -

- mad
It just makes me mad

Dumb, you're dumb as my thumb
In the wistful morning you throw a coffee cup at my head
Scum, you said i'm scum
What a very lovely and feminine thing to do

Bark, why don't you just bark
Sit, come, stay are the perfect words meant for you
Ah, ass, you says i'm an ass
You better call 911 just i'm gonna hold you tight

I know i shouldn't had someone else in our bed
But i was so tired, so tired
You said you're out of town for the night
And i believed in you, i believed you
And i was so tired, it makes me so mad
It makes me so -

- mad
It makes me so mad
It just makes me mad
It makes me mad
It makes me mad
It makes me mad
It makes me mad
It makes me mad, ah
Dumb

They call you ecstasy
Nothing ever sticks to you
Not velcro, not scotch tape
Not my arms dipped in glue

Not if i wrap myself in nylon
A piece of duct tape down my back
Love pierced the arrow with the twelve
And i can't get you back

Ah, ecstasy
Ecstasy
Ah, ecstasy

Across the streets an old ford, they took off its wheels
The engine is gone
In its seat sits a box
With a note that says, goodbye charlie, thanks a lot

I see a child through a window with a bib
And i think of us and what we almost did
The hudson rocketing with light
The ships pass the statue of liberty at night

They call it ecstasy, ah
Ecstasy
Ecstasy, ah
Ecstasy

Some men call me st. ivory
Some call me st. maurice
I'm smooth as alabaster
With white veins runnin' through my cheeks

A big stud through my eyebrow
A scar on my arm that says, domain
I put it over the tattoo
That contained your name

They called you ecstasy, ecstasy
Ecstasy
They call you ecstasy, ecstasy
Ecstasy

The moon passing through a cloud
A body facing up is floating towards a crowd
And i think of a time and what i couldn't do
I couldn't hold you close, i couldn't, i couldn't become you

They call you ecstasy, i can't hold you down
I can't hold you up
I feel like that car that i saw today, no radio
No engine, no hood

I'm going to the cafe, i hope they've got music
And i hope that they can play
But if we have to part
I'll have a new scar right over my heart
I'll call it ecstasy

Oh, ecstasy, ecstasy
Ecstasy
Ecstasy, ecstasy
Ecstasy

Some couples live in harmony
Some do not
Some couples yell and scream
Some do not

But what you said was something
That i can't forget
It echoes in my head
Like a bullet made of lead

Some people yell and scream
And some do not
Some people sacrifice their lives
And some do not

Some people wait for sleep
To take them away
While others read books endlessly
Hoping problems will go away

I know you're hoping everything
Works out
Neither one of us is
The type who shouts

You sleep in the bedroom
While i pace up and down the hall
Our baby stares at both of us
Wondering which one of us to call

I guess it's true that not
Every match burns bright
I guess it's true
Not all that i say is right

But what you said still bounces
Around in my head
Who thought this could happen to us
When we first went to bed

I'm told in the end
That none of this matters
All couples have troubles
And none of this matters

But what you said
Still echoes in my head
And i'm still in the hallway
Downstairs sleeping alone instead

I know you don't care
But here's my last thought
Not that it matters
But here's the last thing i thought

Our little thing is lying
Here in tatters
And you my dear
Don't have any manners

Sad to leave this way
To leave it all in tatters
Saddening to leave this way
To leave it all in tatters
I suppose that we all could say
That nothing of it matters
Still it's sad
To see everything in tatters

Big sky, big sky holding up the sun
Big sky, big sky holding up the moon
Big sky holding down the sea
But it can't hold us down anymore

Big sky holding up the stars
Big sky holding venus and mars
Big sky catch you in a jar
But it can't hold us down anymore

Big sky, big enormous place
Big wind blow all over the place
Big storm wrecking havoc and waste
But it can't hold us down anymore

Ooohhh, big goals, big ambitious goals
Big talk, talking till i fold
Big wind talking through torrential love
But it can't hold us down anymore

Big sin, big sin, big original sin
Paradise where i've never been
Big snake break the skin
But you can't hold us down anymore

A big house holds a family
A big room it holds you and me
It's a big mess and baby makes three
And you can't hold us down anymore

Big news, they're out of their heads
Big-big-big news, let's fuck them instead
There's a big joke did they think we were monks
But they can't hold us down anymore

A big doll, big enormous eyes
Big love holds you in a vise
A big man who cut them down to size
They can't hold us down anymore

Big sky, big sky holding up the sun
Big sky holding, holding up the moon
Big sky holding down the sea
But it can't hold us down anymore

Oh, big doll, big enormous eyes
Big love holds you in a vise
A big man who cut them down to size, ah
They can't hold us down anymore

Oh-oh, big sky
Big sky
Big sky
Ah, they can't hold us down anymore

How come you say you will and then you won't
You change your mind and then you say you don't
The mystery is why i play the goat
The mystery you call love

Sometimes you're like an eagle strong like a rock
Other times it seems you get unlocked
And all your worst fears come tumbling out
Into the street, into the snow

I remember when you had a dream
Everything was what it seemed to be
But now nightmares replace everything
And everything you see is wrong

You said we'd meet but you're two hours late
You said you thought someone had picked your gate
So you hid and were afraid to wait
Seeing shadows in the snow
Seeing shadows in the snow

Now your friend godfrey is a perfect choice
One minute down next time rejoice, he seems -
- to have found the perfect voice
Paranoia key of e

Let's say everything he says is true
You love me but i cheat on you
And in my bedroom is a female zoo
Worse then clinton in prime time

I swear to you i'm not with jill or joyce
Or cyd or sherry or darlene or worse
I'm not kissing you while inside i curse
Paranoia key of e

Let's play a game the next time we meet, ah
I'll be the hands and you be the feet
And together we will keep the beat
To paranoia key of e

Now, you know mania's in the key of b
Psychosis in the key of c
Let's hope that we're not meant to be
In paranoia key of e

Anorexia is in g flat
And f is anything i've left out
Dyslexia, kleptomania and vertigo
Patricide a, matricide d the same schizos

Paranoia key of e

Let's have a coda in the key of k
Something that only we can play
Maybe we'll light up like a hundred k
Paranoia out of key

Paranoia key of e
Paranoia key of e

Anorexia, dyslexia
Kleptomania, patricide a, matricide d, vertigo, schizos

Paranoia key of e, paranoia
Paranoia, paranoia, paranoia key of e
Paranoia, paranoia, paranoia key of e

Paralyzed by hatred and a piss ugly soul
If he murdered his father, he thought he'd become whole
While listening at night to an old radio
Where they danced to the rock minuet

In the gay bars in the back of the bar
He consummated hatred on a cold sawdust floor
While the jukebox played backbeats, he sniffed coke off a jar
While they danced to a rock minuet

School was a waste, he was meant for the street
But school was the only way, the army could be beat
The two whores sucked his nipples 'til he came on their feet
As they danced to the rock minuet

He dreamt that his father was sunk to his knees
His leather belt tied so tight that it was hard to breathe
And the studs from his jacket were as cold as a breeze
As he danced to a rock minuet

He pictured the bedroom where he heard the first cry
His mother on all fours, ah, with his father behind
And her yell hurt so much, he had wished he'd gone blind
And rocked to a rock minuet

In the back of the warehouse were a couple of guys
They had tied someone up and sewn up their eyes
And he got so excited he came on his thighs
When they danced to the rock minuet

On avenue b, someone cruised him one night
He took him in an alley and then pulled a knife
And thought of his father, as he cut his windpipe
And finally danced to the rock minuet

In the curse of the alley, the thrill of the street
On the bitter cold docks where the outlaws all meet
In euphoria drug in euphoria heat
You could dance to the rock minuet

In the thrill of the needle and anonymous sex
You could dance to the rock minuet

So when you dance hard, slow dancing
When you dance hard, slow dancing
When you dance hard, slow dancing
When you dance to the rock minuet

Maybe i should go and live in amsterdam
In a side street near a big canal
Spend my evenings in the van gogh museum
What a dream, van gogh museum

Maybe its time to see tangiers
A different life-style, some different fears
And maybe i should be in edinburgh
In a kilt in edinburgh

Doin' a modern dance
Doin' a modern dance

Or maybe i should get a farm in southern france
Where the winds are wispy and the villagers dance
And you and i we'd sleep beneath a moon
Moon in june and sleep till noon

And maybe you and i could fall in love
Regain the spirit that we once had
You'd let me hold you and touch the night
That shines so bright, so bright with fright

Doin' a modern dance
Doin' a modern dance

Shit, maybe i could go to yucatan
Where women are women, a man's a man
Ah, no one confused, ever loses place
With their place in the human race

Maybe i'm not cut out for city life
The smell of exhaust, the smell of strife
And maybe you don't wanna be a wife
It's not a life being a wife

Doin' a modern dance
Doin' a modern dance

So maybe i should go to tanganyika
Where the rivers run, down mountains tall and steep
Or go to india to study chants
And lose romance to a mantra's dance

I need a guru, i need some law
Explain to me the things we saw
Why it always comes to this
It's all downhill after the first kiss

Maybe i should move to rotterdam
Maybe move to amsterdam
I should move to ireland, italy, spain
Afghanistan where there is no rain

Or maybe i should just learn a modern dance
Where roles are shifting the modern dance
You never touch you don't know who you're with
This week, this month, this time of year
This week, this month, this time of year

Doin' a modern dance
You don't know who you're with modern dance
I should move to pakistan, go to afghanistan
Dance, you don't know who you're with
Dance, you don't know who you're with
Modern dance
And maybe you don't wanna be a wife
It's not life being a wife
Doin' a modern dance
You never touch you don't know who you're with
Dance, modern dance
The roles are shifting dance
You never touch you don't know who you're with
Dance, modern dance
Maybe you don't wanna be a wife
It's not a life being a wife