2.1542 : 7/23/09 : Haven’t a Clue (The Golden Age 87/100)

I haven’t a clue

where truth or meaning comes from

if there’s any such thing

you could say I’m quite dumb

I haven’t a clue

and I’m making it up

as I’m going along

And I’m no young pup

Stick one more in the vault

it’ll be rare some day

for my kid to redeem

I hope one ace left to play

I haven’t a clue

and I’m making it up

as I’m going along

And I’m no young pup

I haven’t a clue

and I’m making it up

as I’m going along

And I’m no young pup

I haven’t a clue

and I’m making it up

as I’m going along

And I’m no young pup

what

2.1541 : 7/22/09 : King of Pop (The Golden Age 86/100)

I am the once and future king of pop

when you see my big new thing your jaw will drop

Cause America has only had itself two kings

You just have me left poor earthlings

Oh let the glorious day

Shine down upon me

I think I feel it now at last

my moment of clarity

now they’re seeing and believing

It’s true I’m really back earthling

and I’m going to show you all I’m one of you

I have returned to you, now you know you wanted me too

Oh let the glorious day

Shine down upon me

I think I feel it now at last

my moment of clarity

Oh let the glorious day

Shine down upon me

I think I feel it now at last

my moment of clarity

Oh my glorious day

I think it’s shining down on me

this is it no, this is it

the moment of clarity

what

2.2.1540 : 7/21/09 : Bad News (The Golden Age 85/100)

Easy to ignore

keep your eyes on the floor

It’ll come no matter what

So keep that door shut

When you get the bad news

You’re going to walk in my shoes

you’re going to walk in my shoes

and here I am dealing

every minute I’m stealing

from my childhood dreams

if there’s a day that redeems

When you get the bad news

You’re going to walk in my shoes

you’re going to walk in my shoes

When you get the bad news

You’re going to walk in my shoes

you’re going to walk in my shoes

When you get the bad news

You’re going to walk in my shoes

you’re going to walk in my shoes

what

2.1539 : 7/20/09 : Something Right (The Golden Age 84/100)

fading light to total darkness

another night predictable oh this noise

just want to get out quick, settle it

no possibility but there it is boys

Maybe I’ll get something right yet

in one last flickering push

As days and years go by

trying to hold on but it all goes whoosh

Been unhappy been so anxious

Please God take the angry away

I want to do so much more get so much better

If I can just hold onto it is always today

Maybe I’ll get something right yet

in one last flickering push

As days and years go by

trying to hold on but it all goes whoosh

Maybe I’ll get something right yet

in one last flickering push

As days and years go by

trying to hold on but it all goes whoosh

Maybe I’ll get something right yet

in one last flickering push

As days and years go flying by

wave goodbye to another one, whoosh

what

2.1538 : 7/19/09 : Childhood Dreams (The Golden Age 83/100)

Get things done just to stop feeling guilty

Got no idea what I’d do with real freedom

There is a theory in there, and a grim one

A decade and a half and just what I flee’d from

Don’t have a clue what my childhood dreams were

Seems like I always had other things on my mind

So if you see anyone who was there

tell them to send a message if they’d be so kind

I’m sure as hell though that it wasn’t this lot

got realistic young but more optimistic than that

I haven’t been beside home plate in years

I haven’t got high hopes for this at bat

Don’t have a clue what my childhood dreams were

Seems like I always had other things on my mind

So if you see anyone who was actually there

tell them to send me a message if they’d be so kind

Don’t have a clue what my childhood dreams were

Seems like I always had other things on my mind

So if you see anyone who was actually there

tell them to send a me message if they’d be so kind

Don’t have a clue what my childhood dreams were

Seems like I always had other things on my mind

So if you see anyone who was there

tell them to send a message if they’d be so kind

what

2.1537 : 7/18/09 : Inspiration (The Golden Age 82/100)

Thank you for the inspiration

hope I take it somewhere good

been a long time saying I should

hoping just to do what I would

Inspiration

Such a situation

get along, go along

hey, today, another song

Moments do not make the nut

it’s a long haul I’m hauling

and the overhead is appalling

get it done, no more stalling

Inspiration

Such a situation

get along, go along

hey, today, another song

Inspiration

Such a situation

get along, go along

hey, today, another song

Inspiration

Such a situation

get along, go along

hey, today, another song

what

2.1536 : 7/17/09 : Night of the Fight (The Golden Age 81/100)

I wasn’t there, I heard the story

it was a bummer I felt sorry

It was another screwed up night

making a stink, hearing about the fight

the night of the fight

oh baby might does not make right

learn from someone out of sight

farewell dear traveler on your endless night

Maybe tomorrow such a sad tale

maybe there’s glory beyond the vale

I’ll write it all up when the time is right

this is your gift the gift of flight

the night of the fight

oh baby might does not make right

learn from someone out of sight

farewell dear traveler on your endless night

the night of the fight

oh baby might does not make right

learn from someone out of sight

farewell dear traveler on your endless night

the night of the fight

oh baby might does not make right

learn from someone out of sight

farewell dear traveler

I like to dream I might meet you

some trackless night

what

2.1535 : 7/16/09 : The Hour that Stretches (The Golden Age 80/100)

I remember everything a little bit too well

and why not this is war and war is hell

but if I took a thousand pages I could not tell

the half of it, weak sauce on the half shell

and still searching for

the hour that stretches

the bitter cup

and he drinks until he retches

but maybe one moment maybe tell half

or go until I reach another paragraph

and the notes climb up and down the staff

and if you knew the whole secret you sure would laugh

and still searching for

the hour that stretches

the bitter cup

and he drinks until he retches

and still searching for

the hour that stretches

the bitter cup

and he drinks until he retches

and me still I’m searching

and the hour does stretch

give me the bitter cup

Let me drink until I retch

what

2.1534 : 7/15/09 : Alive With Pain (The Golden Age 79/100)

You could say pain’s a blessing as proof of life

If you value life above all things

But then what could you value if you weren’t alive

Hallelujah for the headache such questioning brings

As forgotten nerves

come alive with pain

already lost track of the last time

I said so, you again

If you justify suffering on behalf of the almighty

just how do you keep compassion on the plate

if you could write a report up deliver it by angels

so I can understand that would be just great

As forgotten nerves

come alive with pain

already lost track of the last time

I said so, you again As forgotten nerves

come alive with pain

already lost track of the last time

I said so, you again

As forgotten nerves

come alive with pain

already lost track of the last time

I said so, you again

what

2.1533 : 7/14/09 : Technically (The Golden Age 78/100)

Technically today

though there’s many a slip

I can just hear the gory tubes that drip

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

Look away a moment

and one day the truth is gone, gone

and yet have to go on

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

Fangs and membranes

beasts with teeth

all the horrors that

push up from underneath

what

2.1532 : 7/13/09 : Stupid As It Gets (The Golden Age 77/100)

What in the world what in the world

my leisure running in the background

my future become past and half started

listening to someone else’s song

What if this is as stupid as it gets?

that would be a relief

time is the greatest thief

I could go for a drink

Some kind of cheap thrill

So many important jobs

And I’m pushing my luck still

What if this is as stupid as it gets?

that would be a relief

time is the greatest thief

What if this is as stupid as it gets?

that would be a relief

time is the greatest thief

What if this is as stupid as it gets?

that would be a relief

time is the greatest thief

what

2.1531 : 7/12/09 : Scratch (The Golden Age 76/100)

It doesn’t matter how long or how deep

you’ve got to scratch your way up and out just the same

the rules are the rules, it ends how it ends

whether or not you treat it like a game

You better start scratching now

because it’s a long way up and out

Don’t worry about me in my own hole

you’ll know I’m free when you hear me shout

Before I start again may I just

daydream some moments about lifting my face

to the sun out of that hole I surely dug

Under the shining empty canopy of space

You better start scratching now

because it’s a long way up and out

Don’t worry about me in my own hole

you’ll know I’m free when you hear me shout

You better start scratching now

because it’s a long way up and out

Don’t worry about me in my own hole

you’ll know I’m free when you hear me shout

You better start scratching now

because it’s a long way up and out

Don’t worry about me in my own hole

you’ll know I’m free

You’ll hear my shout

what

2.1530 : 7/11/09 : Failure With Progress (The Golden Age 75/100)

Did what I said I would not

made progress yet tonight it’s all I got

Failure with progress

Does that add up to zero?

Does it make me the fool I feel

or some kind of cut rate hero

Some last ritual what does it mean

Whatever I make it if I finally come clean

Failure with progress

Does that add up to zero?

Does it make me the fool I feel

or some kind of cut rate hero

Failure with progress

Does that add up to zero?

Does it make me the fool I feel

or some kind of cut rate hero

Failure but with progress

is it anything but zero

Do I even want to be

that kind of hero?

what

2.1529 : 7/10/09 : Tangling Ghost (The Golden Age 74/100)

Willfully I’m tangling

with a tangling ghost

quick race to the bottom

Who will think the most?

Tangling ghost can’t escape the trap

Waiting and waiting for something to snap

I could make a list

twice as tall as me

Why I have to wait till later

why I can’t be free

Tangling ghost can’t escape the trap

Waiting and waiting for something to snap

Tangling ghost can’t escape the trap

Waiting and waiting for something to snap

Tangling ghost can’t escape the trap

Waiting and waiting

but the catch won’t snap

what

2.1528 : 7/9/09 : Better or Worse Than Expected (The Golden Age 73/100)

How will it turn out

the question is outrageous

who knows what any moment brings

just that I turn the pages

Better or worse than expected

A broken clock that’s never right

there must be some kind of equation

to explain this parasite

So much is just as I anticipate

you get used to not being surprised

and what throws you is usually worse than expected

When the troubles come jumbo sized

Better or worse than expected

A broken clock that’s never right

there must be some kind of equation

to explain this parasite

Better or worse than expected

A broken clock that’s never right

there must be some kind of equation

to explain this parasite

Better or worse than expected

A broken clock that’s never right

there must be some kind of equation

to explain this parasite

what

2.1527 : 7/8/09 : Silver Lining (The Golden Age 72/100)

There is no intervention

Divine or otherwise

It’s clearly how it’s set up

We’re on our own below the skies

You are my silver lining

You are my shining star

You are my luck my intervention

no matter when or how far

There’s not a gap or blank space

no stone is left unturned

what is is what is no matter

What it is you think you’ve spurned

You are my silver lining

You are my shining star

You are my luck my intervention

no matter when or how far

You are my silver lining

You are my shining star

You are my luck my intervention

no matter when or how far

You are my silver lining

You are my shining star

You are my luck my intervention

no matter when or how far

what

2.1526 : 7/7/09 : Wheel (The Golden Age 71/100)

If everything goes in cycles

progress retreat left to right

the wheel though is it rolling somewhere

If not I’d like to jump off if I might

A wheel’s no good unless it’s rolling somewhere

please tell me wheresoever you’ll wait for me there

Equilibrium looks better as an equation

in here it feels like stagnation, death

As soon as it stands still I feel like pushing

I’ll push and push right up to my last breath

A wheel’s no good unless it’s rolling somewhere

please tell me wheresoever you’ll wait for me there

A wheel’s no good unless it’s rolling somewhere

please tell me wheresoever you’ll wait for me there

A wheel’s no good unless it’s rolling somewhere

please tell me wheresoever you’ll wait for me there

what

2.1525 : 7/6/09 : First and Last Principles (The Golden Age 70/100)

Get in and get out fast

Shovel the present into the past

first and last principles

Only now is invincible

Nothing to show and no one to see

nobody nobody

here but me

first and last principles

Only now is invincible

first and last principles

Only now is invincible

first and last principles

Only now is invincible

what

2.1524 : 7/5/09 : Freedom is Overrated (The Golden Age 69/100)

Maybe we got no will

nor freedom at all

Maybe it’s just anxiety

waiting for biology to call

Freedom is overrated

I’d rather be happy any day

What do I want choices for

I just want an easy day

Rocks fall when you drop ‘em

they got no choice to rise up

Do I move with real volition

What makes me raise my eyes up

Freedom is overrated

I’d rather be happy any day

What do I want choices for

I just want an easy day

Freedom is overrated

I’d rather be happy any day

What do I want choices for

I just want an easy day

Freedom is overrated

I’d rather be happy any day

What do I want choices for

I just want an easy day

what

2.1523 : 7/4/09 : Independence Day (The Golden Age 68/100)

That’s hilarious aliens versus telegraph

When I tell you about independence day I really have to laugh

Will Smith flies a spaceship easy for a scientologist

Fly and hack their mainframe hey to them we’re just terrorists

It might have got me a wry chuckle

Five years ago maybe

Independence day, less relevant every day

ten years they’ll be scratchin’ their head’s baby

Here’s your punchline, I promise you won’t laugh at all

every time the primitive clashes with technology, the primitive

will fall

And every movie that says differently is a big old lie

Anyway we’re pretty busy screwing our selves up

no need for the aliens to drop by

Independence day, less relevant every day

ten years they’ll be shakin’ their head’s baby

Independence day, less relevant every day

ten years they’ll be shakin’ their head’s baby

Independence day, less relevant every day

ten years they’ll be scratchin’ their head’s baby

what

2.1522 : 7/3/09 : Victory Lap (The Golden Age 67/100)

What the hell I’m great I’m amazing

it’s a totally unique trail I’m blazing

watch me take a victory lap

Maybe later watch me take a nap

I’m so on fire they should call me Dresden

Oops too soon? Well you know how things happen

watch me take a victory lap

Maybe later watch me take a nap

watch me take a victory lap

Maybe later watch me take a nap

watch me take a victory lap

watch me watch me watch me nap

what

2.1521 : 7/2/09 : Finish Line (The Golden Age 66/100)

Maybe it’s enough, to call it a tale

The tides and time eventually prevail

Maybe it’s enough there’s a finish line

Maybe all will be and all will be

and all will be fine

If not well we’ll have to drum up

Our own show

Strike camp and send a message

and away we’ll go

Maybe it’s enough there’s a finish line

Maybe all will be and all will be

and all will be fine

Maybe it’s enough there’s a finish line

Maybe all will be and all will be

and all will be fine

Maybe it’s enough there’s a finish line

Maybe all will be and all will be

and all will be fine

what

2.1520 : 7/1/09 : Spacing Out (The Golden Age 65/100)

What the hell was I just thinking

Irish lotto the stars

for real I was drifting

not in Tokyo cars

Spacing out is a real danger

Don’t laugh soon you’ll hear stranger

A symbol of work

and me just standing by

like an elevator jerk

Spacing out is a real danger

Don’t laugh soon you’ll hear stranger

Spacing out is a real danger

Don’t laugh you’ll hear stranger

Spacing out is a real danger

Don’t you laugh, you’ll hear stranger

what

2.1519 : 6/30/09 : Determination (The Golden Age 64/100)

I haven’t yet gotten into determination

Maybe because for a while mine took a vacation

But I’m determined now

to tear down one more sacred cow

There’s always noises and bumps in the night

And day after day it still comes out all right

But I’m determined now

to tear down one more sacred cow

But I’m determined now

to tear down one more sacred cow

But I’m determined now

to tear down one more sacred cow

what

2.1518 : 6/29/09 : Hell Week (The Golden Age 63/100)

I’m way too old to rush so what’s this

smack about?

I called for a truce I received a rout

Hell week unexpected and

barely begun but hey

next week could be the one

What’s in my hair just what did

I drink?

Whatever just as long as I don’t have to think

Hell week unexpected and

barely begun but hey

next week could be the one

Hell week unexpected and

barely begun but hey

next week could be the one

Hell week none expected

and yeah, not yet done

and wow next week could

be the one

what

2.1517 : 6/28/09 : Numbskull (The Golden Age 62/100)

It’ll be a cold day in hell, with a snowball parade

it feels like before you’ll come to my aid

Is it because I am a numbskull

I can’t push anymore please just pull

I’m so far from wrapping up any mess

walk me through customs and say God Bless

Is it because I am a numbskull

I can’t push anymore please just pull

Is it because I am a numbskull

I can’t push anymore please just pull

It must be because I am a numbskull

But I can’t push anymore

so please just pull

what

2.1516 : 6/27/09 : Impossible (The Golden Age 61/100)

I can imagine in no matter how hard I slack

Can I keep reeling this weird fish back

Is it impossible: who am I fooling, look at me drooling

I’ll hang my head in shame when the moment comes

but today right now just beat whatever drums

Is it impossible: who am I fooling, look at me drooling

Is it impossible: who am I fooling, look at me drooling

Is it impossible: who am I fooling, look at me drooling

what

2.1515 : 6/26/09 : Insomnia (The Golden Age 60/100)

Insomnia and is there

anything better but to

catch up to the cut

I could think of a

thousand things but

here’s what

I got, insomnia still and becalmed uh huh

how expectations fill slots

ignore patterns, free empty thoughts

I got insomnia still and becalmed uh huh

I got insomnia still and becalmed uh huh

I got insomnia still and becalmed uh huh

what

2.1514 : 6/25/09 : Mirror (The Golden Age 59/100)

What’s changed anyway

Count five thousand days

nothing much makes more sense

the membrane’s just as dense

What good was five years’ talking for

the door’s in the ceiling the mirror’s on the floor

Nothing ever began nothing’s ever ending

Can I get a rain check on those ears you won’t be lending

I can skip the message on the fates of kings

I won’t be needing to know such things

What good was five years’ talking for

the door’s in the ceiling the mirror’s on the floor

What good was five years’ talking for

the door’s in the ceiling the mirror’s on the floor

What good was five years’ talking for

the door’s in the ceiling the mirror’s on the floor

what

2.1513 : 6/24/09 : Numismatist (The Golden Age 58/100)

I use such pretty words but all I want is coin

come along for the ride it’s a petty price to join

You say I couldn’t possibly but I persist

hold out my hand I’m the numismatist

Gold and copper, silver nickel steel

If you can think it one day it will be real

You say I couldn’t possibly but I persist

hold out my hand I’m the numismatist

You say I couldn’t possibly but I persist

hold out my hand I’m the numismatist

oh you say I couldn’t possibly but I persist

as I hold out my hand, I the numismatist

what

2.1512 : 6/23/09 : Four Poisons (The Golden Age 57/100)

Four poisons better be enough

nightshade, foxglove, devil weed, amanita it goes down rough

one for liberty two for mercy three for escape four

guess I can’t remember what that one was for

It’s an allegory please don’t take it to heart

If you’re thinking about poison stop don’t start

one for liberty two for mercy three for escape four

guess I can’t remember what that one was for

one for liberty two for mercy three for escape four

guess I can’t remember what that one was for

one for liberty two for mercy three for escape four

guess I can’t remember what that one was for

what

2.1511 : 6/22/09 : Increment (The Golden Age 56/100)

So far behind so far bent

trying to surmise the interval the increment

go where you go try to figure where I’m sent

I’m on the path headed for the increment

start small start where you are

one step another might go very far

go where you go try to figure where I’m sent

I’m on the path headed for the increment

go where you go try to figure where I’m sent

I’m on the path headed for the increment

go where you go try to figure where I’m sent

I’m on the path headed for the increment

what