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Dogcatcher

Going to the drugstore busted broke
Feeling my nerves my shirt was soaked
On a freeway north in the April mud
Maybe there's too much lead in my blood

Took my baby to the rock roll show
Knew this was it so I went real slow
On a freeway north looking outside
Keeping this whole thing locked up tight

Did the dogcatcher come and make you smile
Did he just rub his belly and stay fo' 'while
Driving himself in something new did the dogcatcher arf arf

My baby jumped up grabbed my throat
Jumped so fast she ripped her coat
Said to me put that stuff down
I said darling what's wrong

Cause I am a hungry man
But I ain't Porky Pig again
I'm not no rube just off the farm
There's no Liquid Jesus in my arm

I saw the bass player from Scruffy the Cat
Shilling records on Mass Ave
I said you guys were the best he said thanks a lot
In the end it's just a six foot drop

I lived on Child Street
She knew my darling
We lived together
She had me for child

Bonehead

I got a helicopter in my pocket circling around for your chopper
If the sandscreen doesn't fail we'll rescue ourselves a son or a
daughter
When my helicopter flies too high I catch it on the run
Should have seen me yesterday running around having fun

O, O, must have been a bonehead
O, O, must have been a bonehead
Musta been a dopehead stoned on my moped
Oh Jack, must have been a bonehead

I got a German U-Boat in my apartment
I keep my kitchen filled with water
She saw some action in Iwo Jima, she smiled at me the day I bought her
Who is this the man of steel his cape is torn to shreds
He tried to fly can you guess why gravity took its toll instead

And who is this...

I got a helicopter in my pocket circling around for your chopper
If the sandscreen doesn't fail we'll rescue ourselves a son or a
daughter
Who is this the girl of steel your life is torn to shreds
You used to laugh outside my window, gravity took its toll instead

Rye Beach Roustabouts

It's cold outside he found a place to hide in the corner where the sun never shines
He looks around puts one ear to the ground someone lifts him up and says
who are those guys

Who are those guys
We are the Rye Beach Roustabouts

Sleep on sister walked around in a fog and I missed her
Now no doctor's smart enough to shape me up
Disconnect my phone tell the carnival crowd to go it alone
I forgot to duck, I won't forget your eyes

Who are those guys
We are the Rye Beach Roustabouts

When it all comes down it's the death of your class clown
Have some fries and hear my stupid elegy
No muss no fuss you sleep in the road you might get hit by a bus
The charade is up and you're hung out to dry

Who are those guys
We are the Rye Beach Roustabouts

Our Town

Thornton Wilder never wrote about our town
It’s wild so you might want to turn around
Death metal plays by the water; it’s a cold day here without you
Got your scholars got your vandals
Teachers still get stoned and wear sandals

I’m a standup guy in a sitting duck town
Feeling like a fly on an Afghan hound
Weather’s getting hotter, thought I felt a swatter
What’s the litmus test today, don’t need any Berlitz tapes to say

Farewell my astonishing beauty, so long, so long, so long

I’ve looked under every stone
Still can’t tell just where the ants are going
And you my love don’t look like that
In your Jackie-O gloves and your pillbox hat
I’ll stay on the straight and narrow
I will ape Clarence Darrow

But if you ever find a reason
To fold in the last weeks of the season
Sing with us, ye cherubim
Sing with us Gene Sarazin
All the angels seize the day
All my troubles gone away

Ginger Snaps

Ginger wore a halo in the passion plays last year
Then her head grew larger and it cut into her ear
Ginger never kisses me, we just get drunk all the time
She talks about her paintings and how all the world’s sublime
But I see through the colors in her eyes
When Ginger Snaps

Ginger was an athlete like Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd
Then she got asthma, now it’s sports she must avoid
Ginger says I’m beautiful we get drunk all the time
She talks about her paintings and how poetry should rhyme
But I see through the colors in her eyes
When Ginger Snaps

Ginger wants to be an actress but the halos cut her head
She wants to be an athlete but she barely moves instead
One day I will kiss here in the mist down by the pier
And then we’ll move through the shadows like two legs on Fred Astaire

Dolphin Boy

Swim through the waves like Dolphin Boy, like Dolphin Boy
Move through the reeds like Snake Boy, like Snake Boy
Swim through the waves like Dolphin Boy, like Dolphin Boy
Move through the reeds like Snake Boy, like Snake Boy

Coulda been so beautiful in the ocean blue
Crawling through the kelp to the light and truth
Everything is green, everything is gone
I am your porpoise amphibian

Coulda been so beautiful in the ocean blue
Crawling through a field to the light and truth
All of this I’ve seen, all of this I’ve done
I am your porpoise amphibian

Over My Head

Shorty's Last Stand

Two Days of Rain

Uncensored

Center Won't Hold

Bobby Brown

Tex (Brought the Knives)

Chuck Norris Tears

Bondage Girl

Common Man