This is the happy house
We're happy here
In the happy house
Oh it's such fun
We've come to play
In the happy house
And waste a day
In the happy house
It never rains
We've come to scream
In the happy house
We're in a dream in the happy house
We're all quite sane
This is the happy house
We're happy here
There's room for you if you say "I do"
But don't say no or you'll have to go
We've done no wrong with our blinkers on
It's safe and calm if you sing along
This is the happy house
We're happy here
In the happy house
To forget ourselves
And pretend all's well
There is no hell
Tenant
Squatting on doorsteps
Following footsteps
Nocturnal habits are surveyed with interest
So we crawl into corners
Ignore any callers
And imagine our radiators clang for our neighbors
When we crawl on all fours
Upon the cushioned floor
Still they cling to the wall
And knock on our doors
And the tendency for tenants is tenacity
The paint is cracked
And the paper peels the plaster falls
And the body reels...softly
Forty watt bulb swing from a light cloud
On lawnmower groan, the carpet has grown
But they have eyes at the keyholes
And ears at the walls
And the tendency for tenants is secrecy...
Sssssssh
Trophy
Headhunters, headshrinkers
And long distance runners
Dust gathers on momentoes
Dust gathers on proud moments
Young voices grow thick and old
The cheers are distant wearing thin
Chorus:
Take it to the wall
To be hung on the wall
To be viewed by all
A tribute in the grand hall
Yes they're locked away
Or polished every day for the maintenence man
In the back of a van
Oh young voices grow thick and old
The cheers are distant wearing thin
(Chorus
Bring yourselves out from your showcase parties
But you've been shut away too long
You've been shut away too long
Frightened faces in the rain
Misplaced features run down the drain
Oh wash away and start again
(Chorus)
Hybrid
It's a hybrid of me-I'm a hybrid of he
You're a misfit of me-I'm a misfit of you ...in limbo
Carbon copies run blue-a reminder for you
But they're only skin deep
Crumpled shells in a heap marked cheap
Surrogate heads of a no-no domain
Shoulders form rows to make waves again
Catch the next train
When you walked through that door
Marked "enter if you dare"
Reasoned with a friend marked "do not bend"
Bit on that finger marked "handle with care"
A tear soiled your cheek-a broken finger on the floor
A mess in sawdust-a shop window burst..no repairs
it's a hybrid of me-I'm a hybrid of he
You're a misfit for me-I'm a misfit for you in limbo
Do you speak the lingo?
Lunar Camel
Chasing a monsoon over the dune
Oh fly me to the moon
Get me there soon
I don't have to prove I'll last longer than you
One hump or two any handicap will do against you
I'll be there soon-over the moon
I'll be there soon-over the moon
Chasing a monsoon over the dune
Oh fly me to the moon
Get me there soon
Christine
She tries not to shatter
Kaleidoscope style
Personality changes behind her red smile
Every new problem brings a stranger inside
Helplessly forcing one more new disguise
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Singing sweet savages lost in our world
This big-eyed girl sees her faces unfurl
Now she's in purple
Now she's the turtle
Disintegrating
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
22 faces...disintegrating
Desert Kisses
Desert kisses in the sand
engulfing joints, engulfing land
Tidal fingers cling to rocks
a deadly grip, a deadly lock
cursed and pissed into the ocean
wilfully caused a great commotion
but only for a stifled moment
then it was back to still life motion
A sideways crawl, a sideways scrawl
the cancer crab is on us all
I kissed your face, I kissed the sand
I heard you sigh
there was no sound
thrashed and spat back at the ocean
but there was nothing, no commotion
just my lonely stupid notions
trapped again in still life motion
Sinking down-with just my sound
Sinking down-running on the moving ground
Sinking down
Sinking down-without a sound
Sinking down-sleeping on the moving ground
Sinking down
Desert kisses in the sand
engulfing joints, engulfing land
Tidal fingers cling to rocks
a deadly grip, a deadly lock
Sinking down-the world is round
Sinking down-there's no-one around
Standing on the moving ground
Sinking down-the world is flat
there's no-one here to question that
Sinking down-without a sound
Sinking down
Sinking down-the world was round
Sinking down-there was no-one around
Sinking down
Red Light
She falls into frame with a professional pout
But the polaroids ignite on seeing their subject
And the aperture shuts-too much exposure
Voyeur sucks into focus-floodlit
The glossy kiss-pit but as emulsion drips down...down
The aperture shuts-too much exposure
Come into this room-Come into this gloom
See the Red light rinsing another shutterslut
Wincing the sagging half-wit sister
Pretty, pretty picture
Of an ancient nipple shrinking
That Kodakwhore winking 'til the aperture shuts
Too much exposure
Paradise Place
Look to the hills-now look at my face
Do you notice my eyes?
Are they in the right place?
There's a Mantovani backdrop
To pucker-up a tummy tuck
A voice soft as lint-mashed up with shades of pink
You can hide your genetics under drastic cosmetics
But this chameleon magic is renowned to be tragic
Look to the hills-now look at my face
Do you notice my eyes?
Are they in the right place?
Skin
Mink, seal and ermine smother fat women
I have a noble cause for skin
there's just too many of them
The only necessary cull
Curse the brain inside it's skull
Just a bitch in the manger
To the balances of nature
Chorus:
Cover me with skin
And accuse me of sin
But you know what I mean
There's just too many of them
Give me your skin for dancing in
Hairless and streamline
Fits like my own skin tatooed and sun-dyed
It's warm and it's human
There was too many of them
The animals like them shame about the smell
But they're fine steeped in perfume
Happy House
Tenant
Trophy
Hybrid
Lunar Camel
Christine
Desert Kisses
Red Light
