1. constellations

twinkle, twinkle little star, how i wonder what you are
there’s a million little lights when the sky turns black tonight
are there patterns in our skies, are patterns only in our eyes?

or is a constellation just a constellation?
is a constellation just a consolation?

wrinkle, wrinkle little scar, count the freckles on my arm
if freckles don’t mean anything, does anything mean anything?

or is a constellation just a constellation?
is a constellation just a consolation?

we are twinkling stars resurrected
just like twinkling stars we seem connected but i know that

a constellation is just a constellation
constellation is just a consolation

2. deep sea divers

you and i are deep sea divers on a task
little bubbles rising from your scuba mask
i can see your empty eyes are not alive, but shouldn’t they be?

you and i are sitting on the ocean floor
you were tired of swimming and you’re so bored
little yellow fish go past your sullen face, but shouldn’t you smile once in a while?

you’re bringin me down
you’re bringin me down now i’m blue now i’m in deeper too

little yellow fish are happy it’s not so tough
would everything you wish you had be good enough?
we’re divers, that’s why we’re in our suits
they’ll fire me and you, they’ll hire someone new, besides

you’re bringin me down now i’m blue now i’m unhappy too

of all the pretty girls, i had to choose
of all the pretty ones, i wanted you, but now

you’re bringin me down now i’m blue now i’m unhappy too

3. the city

this town is made of aluminum
this town is made of glass

why can’t you see that?
why can’t you understand and come to the city?

press one with my thumb for my messages
but you only leave me rocks

why can you call back?  i tried you twenty times i’m sick of the city

everything’s harder here
everyone’s so cold
the city is not so inviting when you have no one to hold
there’s no one to hold

the city is a stop sign

4. dna

my dna is running out i am not the guy who makes you smile now

and when we talk it’s not the same but i already lost the gene for feeling pain



so i won’t cry i will just pretend i’m still the one
and that we are in love again



but when i call you are never home and i am down to six or seven chromosomes

but you don’t care or understand how it feels to be a single double strand



(chorus)



all these molecules don’t make me who i am, you did



i’m still the one



(chorus)

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5. the suicide song

from the window ledge i fall, watch my necktie whip back in the wind.
from the top of an office building, i can’ t even see why i should live.

‘don’t give up,’ they all say. but i’m not giving up anything anyway.

on the way down, i see your face laughing at one of my idiot boy mistakes.

well you can laugh now, ’cause it’s over.  have one last laugh watching me go to waste.

’cause i don’t need a reason why, does anyone?

6. up in the clouds

we used to walk up in the sky, up where the air is rarified
went hand in hand from cloud to cloud, but when i slipped up we fell out

and i’m sorry i let you down
down to the ground
but who cares now?

we could be up in the clouds

dizzy from lack of oxygen or from the mood you put me in…?
up in the cloudy stratosphere, gravity’s weaker when you’re near

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7. bed space


i’m in outer space on my side of the bed

on a floating mattress my eyes stare ahead

you don’t sleep here anymore


hovering alarm clock is my satellite

under little specks of starlight, on a flight

you don’t sleep here anymore



(chorus):


i don’t know where i am

i am so lost

i’m just drifting around

since you’ve been gone

i’m just wasting time away

i’m just wasting time in space



see a little asteroid pass by underneath

there’s an empty space on your side and i can’t sleep



(chorus)



i pull my covers over my head

hope you know i wish i were dead

i can’t seem to get out of bed

going nowhere; everything is wrong



(chorus)

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8. the bomb song

the sky’s green
it’s been that way since they dropped the bomb
the clouds are brown
the city’s a ghost town
the city is dead
the river’s a bed now
the hair on my head came out, it fell on the ground
none of the sunlight is safe
litter is blowing all around the sidewalk

say you love me now
maybe you will say you love me now
say you love me please say it now that

the sky’s green
it’s been that way since we lost the war
we looted the store we had to eat something
people are sick
the water is strychnine
i heard about sixty nine hundred people have died
the shelter is hell, it smells like shit
nobody knows how long we’re supposed to stay in it

(chorus)

the sky’s green

(chorus)

9. radar detector

you and i buy star maps and drive my car around los angeles
you and i buy star maps and ding dong ditch a televangelist

it’s only been a week
but i know that you are mine to keep

you are a radar detector
i drive 1,000 miles an hour
i won’t go on and on
but you are always looking out for me

you and i go shopping and find exactly what we’re looking for
you and i go shopping and fall asleep inside the mattress store.

we cruise the neighborhood
but it’s not supposed to feel this good

(chorus)

you are a radar detector

(chorus)

when i’m driving around, you are a radar detector

10. bad day

i hope that the last the page of your 800 page novel is missing

and i hope that it rains if you leave the window down on your red mustang



’cause everyday ought to be a bad day for you



and if you drop your keys i hope there’s a sewer somewhere very nearby

i hope that your team lost; i hope your new girl takes off with a new guy.



’cause everyday ought to be a bad day for you



and i would like to be your girlfriend so i could dump you

and i would like to be your garbage man so i would never have to pick up your trash again



maybe you should wonder why your apartment is always so empty

well i hope you get locked out of that apartment and have to call jenny



’cause everyday ought to be a bad day for you



but i’m sorry if it ever is