The Geraldine Fibbers
" Lost Somewhere Between The Earth & My Home"
>>>LILYBELLE
In the dark she is rocking,
not to records but to voices in her head.
Lilybelle Lilybelle Lilybelle hot as hell.
3am and it feels just like high noon in her head, come to bed,
when the air cools down I'm gonna skate away.
I'm gonna fly so far I'm gonna kiss that star.
(Get off of that trip) Don't touch it baby.
(Get off of that trip) You'll burn your pretty fingers,
(Get off of that trip) You'll soil your cherry hands.
(Get off of that trip) Seven thousand holes to blow through.
Scissors and paper and other sharp things
you can chew on that for a while--you're a trained dog girl
you got house and a heart of gold won't you try to forget
won't you let me won't you let me
go to sleep close your eyes pull the plug shut it down
kill the lights shut it up shut it up let your head go under
let your head go under
let your head go to nothing nothing nothing nothing girl.
(Get off of that trip) Don't touch it baby.
(Get off of that trip) You'll burn your pretty fingers,
(Get off of that trip) You'll soil your cherry hands.
(Get off of that trip) Seven thousand holes to blow through.
There are songbirds and sweet things where angels bare wings
and bask in the afterglow of good deeds done by tender souls,
but I in my wretched state, fat from years of sucking hate,
can never scrape the dirt off, can never shake the other side.
It hides in holes behind my eyes.
>>>THE SMALL SONG
I'm lost somewhere between the earth and my home
The answer hangs up the question phone
I see the gliders smiling as they pass me by
In the mapless sky.
Things were getting stupid in my little cage
Me and fellow man weren't written on the same page
And the last time I checked this old boat was getting hot...
But my boyfriend was not.
I'm lost somewhere between the earth and my home...
I got an angry eye on your white throat
I wonder why you're in my boat.
I gave you milk I gave you bread
Now please get out of my flying head.
I tried to talk to you...
I tried to talk to you...
I tried to talk to you...
But now it's too late, too late, too late, too late.
You thought you saw me in a dream
Inside a junkyard contraption with rocket parts
I was zooming away at an alarming rate
In a bunch and nuts and bolts that looked like a toaster
You called out to me but I couldn't hear you
I covered my eyes from the blinding light
As I disappeared behind the clouds
You thought you saw my head explode...
You're not dreaming.
You're not dreaming.
I'm lost somewhere between the earth and my home...
>>>MARMALADE
Marmalade, sunny days, drugs make me wanna sit next to you.
Doctors floating to and fro... silverfish is on the go.
I'm in rapture, I'm in deep. All I want to do is sleep.
The sky enclose me, I'm going down.
Marmalade marmalade, don't try to find me, don't try to pull me out my
marmalade
Marmalade marmalade, make me so happy, make me forget my name
my marmalade
Duck pond memories pass me by, paddle boats and cherry pie
Wet eyelashes look inside... droplets gather in your eye.
Day and hours melt away, Dolly says I'm here to stay
It's hard to care, the mist comes down
Marmalade marmalade, tell me a story, help me forget I'm gone
my marmalade
Marmalade marmalade, hide me somewhere, carry me outta here
my marmalade
Marmalade marmalade, you're the devil, you're half empty now
my marmalade my marmalade
>>>DRAGON LADY
I got some satisfaction from lifting up your dress
A slap in the face is worth a hundred words
When I open my eyes again I expect that you'll be gone
But you always do what I expect
I'm stopping everything, making fun of myself
Drinking lipstick, tipping bookshelves
Ripping up words that I thought were important
- maybe that'll blow the window open
Everything I say is a stupid lie.
I won't tell the truth even when I die.
I'll pick myself to pieces 'til the end of time,
then I'll glue'em back together in a stupid rhyme, yeah yeah.
There's a story of a girl so sleepy, she could not be roused
She was kissed by pigs and doctors all over the land
The birds in the trees came down and landed in her hair
They built a nest and the little birdies hatched it there
Teach me something, rip out my hair
Send me flying through the air
Do something why don't you, fuck it, do something
I'm so bored I sleep...
Why don't you go out and talk some shit
Stand up kick 'em all in the family jewels
We'll watch them as their guts unfold
Then we'll rob a 7-11 and hit the road
I can be quiet or I can be loud
Anything to make my daddy proud
We'll take hostages make demands
Set fire to all our best laid plans
We'll assemble volatile explosive devices
Sell them for exorbitant prices
Purchase an aircraft learn to fly
Run outta gas while we're in the sky
Automatic pilot and x-ray spex
We were kissing in the cockpit when the airplane wrecked
Everything I say is a stupid lie.
I won't tell the truth even when I die.
I'll pick myself to pieces 'til the end of time,
then I'll glue'em back together in a stupid rhyme, yeah yeah.
>>>SONG ABOUT WALLS
Once there was a girlie she was kinda surly stuck a needle in her eye.
A hundred deaths on her beige breasts and poor baby can't cry.
She loved her junky boyfriend, tried to help his heart mend,
asshole with an appetite.
Living under an elevator shaft can be cold at night.
Whenever they were hungry she would get the money,
girlie couldn't take a stand, 'till she said, "I let you believe you could
rule over me so you'd feel like big strong man."
Touched by any feeler any stinking dealer she knew that she would surely die,
so she said, "If I'm gonna die with a needle in my eye,
I'm gonna do it by my own hand." And he heard it through the walls
he heard it through the walls he heard it through the walls...
She worked like a doctor, very determined, not afraid of getting pricked by
some lame spike, never wondering why.
Well she left him in the dust and got even more fucked up
and she did it all by herself. But even when she got her ass
off of the streets he would visit her in her dreams.
The last time she saw her darlin' was at the funeral parlour,
he was fresh off of the prison shelf. Yeah he died with a needle in his eye,
but she was clean clean clean.
>>>HOUSE IS FALLING
There's a place I go when I'm feeling fine
And the hours pass with no track of time
I'm in your arms, the sun lights your thighs
In the distance a doggy cries, my love
We lay around in a smokey haze
Drinking mint juleps and honey glaze
You comb my hair into a french chignon
Cigarettes overflowing in the ashtray, my love
The biggest liar in town blows a kiss into the mirror
And the biggest liar in town, blows a kiss...
My baby blows a kiss
I trust you sugar you're in my blood
Box and blanket and broken rose bud
I burn until the light goes out in your eye
The butter moon kisses the earthless sky, my love
The bed is soft and the food is so rich
We fall asleep sewing dreams, stitch by stitch
The house is old and it's falling down
But it's falling slow so we're safe and sound, my love
The biggest liar in town blows a kiss into the mirror
And the biggest liar in town, blows a kiss...
My baby blows a kiss.
Blows a kiss...
My baby blows a kiss.
>>>OUTSIDE OF TOWN
I'm drownded in sorrow, I'm drownded in scorn
I knew I'd end this way since the day I was born
I never knew nothin 'cept hunger and fear
And the love that you gave me was lies to keep me near
In a field of new grass you first lay me down
I met you there daily just outside of town
A fool I have lived and a fool I will die
But you'll go to the devil for making me cry
"You smile so sweetly," my momma would say
"But you're wicked my little girl.
When death comes to heaven you never will go.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then."
Your hands they offend me, they pull me apart
Your eyes they can burn a hole right through my heart
I'm ruined for love and I'm ruined for life
I'll never be nothing, I'm ready to go
I'm damned for sure, and I know that I'm lost
But I'll take my revenge whatever the cost
Please tell the angels to turn their sweet heads
I can't bare them to see me when I kill you dead
"You smile so sweetly," my mama would say,
"But you're wicked my little girl.
When death comes to heaven you never will go.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then."
Please tell my mama, my heart it was broke
At a very young age--of this we never spoke
Tell her the man she loves is going cold in the ground
And her only baby is hangin' outside of town
"You smile so sweetly," my mama would say,
"But you're wicked my little girl.
When death comes to heaven you never will go.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then."
>>>THE FRENCH SONG
Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the lord my soul to keep.
Keep me through this starry night, 'til I wake with morning light.
My soul to keep... my soul to keep
Locked up tight while lovers leap
In the end I'll jump off too
I'm already down with you
And now I lay me to my bed, silence roaring through my head
Babes aren't safe in restless sleep--gone in one terrific leap
And you're so pretty... You're such a pretty pretty thing
Those pretty lips make my heart race
I get dizzy when I see your face, I get stupid when I see your face
Down with you, I'm down with you.
I'm stuck like mud, I'm stuck like glue.
The truth be told, I guess I always knew
That in the end I'd jump off too.
I can not fly...
And my eyes are open wide
I'm going down, yeah one more time
Over the edge with a stupid grin
She never knew what hit her.
>>>DUSTED
I still miss the smell of a dead skunk on the Pasedena freeway
wind rippin' though my veins little shiny aeroplanes
blowin' up my skirt nothin' ever hurt
never gonna die and the look in your eye like fireworks
got one hand on the wheel the other getting fresh with the corduroy
covering my angel boy
but I'm gone gone gone
I'm dusted
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone--I'm dusted
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone--I'm dusted
I'm gone gone gone
I'm dust.
A pretty boy's a bad boy
and a pretty girl's like a dirty pearl
the boys I know suck 'til they blow
the girlies still are good to go
the girl downstairs with her crem-delish
and the one on the couch eating Bananafish
I'd like to curl you up with a better book
but there's no finer fish to hook
and I'm gone gone gone--I'm dusted
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone--I'm dusted
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone
If I only had a brain If I only had a brain
If I only had a brain it would give me something more to deliver
>>>RICHARD
The devil smiled and put on her party dress
out on the curb her curls were a mess.
Chaos went tumblin' through her nimble hands
never skipped a beat as she netted another man.
In forty-five minutes his head was on a plate
served as the main course at a banquet for the state.
Should've stayed home. Should've worked late.
Should've sent those letters in the dusty milk crate
but it's too late ha ha...
It doesn't matter anyway, cuz when the lights go out
heads are gonna roll.
In an hour and a half the devil was down by the sea
working strange mischief on her bride to be.
Seems the pretty girl was laughing as her world was filled with doubt,
she laughed as her own head was chopped off
and the fish came spilling out.
Watching the fish swim into the sea through a river of red, she said,
"I've been wondering what's been troubling my head.
And I thank you for expelling those irritating pests,
now if you'd slap me back together I'll be at my very best,
and we can go you devil, we can go."
Should've set the clocks back. Should've taken her time.
Should've set her hair on fire with vodka and lime,
but it's too late ha ha...
It doesn't matter anyway, cuz when the light goes out
heads are gonna roll.
Now the story takes a happier turn
cuz the devil loved the girl and the feeling was returned.
They cut through the trees knocking the tops off as they flew
to a pretty place for kissing, a place with a view.
They watched a man lay down his hand in a game of chance
the lust for luck and security is a hopeless romance.
The devil grinned and whispered, comfort is a myth...
the clock is ticking ticking, goin' tick tick tick tick.
Should've took the train.
Should've wore black.
Should've rode his high horse over a red apple jack,
but it's too late ha ha...
It doesn't matter anyway, cuz when the light goes out
heads are gonna roll.
>>>BLAST OFF BABY
Look out sugar, look out love
the sky is falling from the heavens above.
Your socks are swinging from the clothesline
got no time for that now
and your eyes so big and black...
That's a little lamb, that's a big black bug
got your 50 cent fortune tucked under your rug
You got your zoot suit body bag ready to blast off
I'm in a milk crate by your bed
with my head untucked to see your pretty feets
Blast off baby. Baby blast off.
Come on honey, come on doll,
I wanna see you on fire, come on and fly fire-ball
What you're leaving behind,
well it ain't nothin at all.
That's a little lamb, that's a big black bug
got your 50 cent fortune tucked under your rug
You got your zoot suit body bag ready to blast off
I'm in a milk crate by your bed
with my head untucked to see your pretty feets
Blast off baby. Baby blast off.
Blast off baby. Baby blast off.
>>>GET THEE GONE
My sadness does escape me now, I care not where I go.
The black old moon takes off my clothes, and throws me in the snow.
I gave you all I had to tell and you gave me your will.
Well that's enough to wind a clock, but not enough to kill.
Go away my precious doll, get thee gone from here.
When I close my eyes to sleep, please do not appear.
I emptied out your bag of toys, and let them spin their web,
but oddly as I watched them turn, my love begins to ebb.
I run like blood through open doors, I go where hope bends me.
You're in my guts but evermore our hearts will not agree.
Go away my precious doll, get thee gone from here.
When I close my eyes to sleep, please do not appear.
Go away my precious doll, get thee gone from here.
When I close my eyes to sleep, please do not appear.
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