Wednesday, July 22, 2015

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

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


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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

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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

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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

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

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

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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?

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Friday, July 10, 2015

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

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Thursday, July 09, 2015

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

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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

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

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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

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Monday, July 06, 2015

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

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Sunday, July 05, 2015

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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