BRAND NEW ABYSS

 

PEACEFUL EASY FEELING (by The Eagles)

I like the sparkle of your earring
against the brown of your skin
I want to be with you in the desert tonight
with a hundred million stars overhead
I’ve got a peaceful easy feeling
and I know you won’t let me down
Because I’m already standing, I’m already standing, I’m already standing
on the ground

I found out a long time ago
what a woman can do to your soul
But oh, she can’t take you anywhere
that you don’t already know how to go
I’ve got a peaceful easy feeling
and I know you won’t let me down
Because I’m already standing, I’m already standing, I’m already standing
on the ground

I get this feeling I may know you
as a lover and a friend
But then this voice that whispers in my other ear
“I may never see you again”
I’ve got a peaceful easy feeling
and I know you won’t let me down
Because I’m already standing, I’m already standing, I’m already standing
on the ground

DARK COLD MAGIC

Let’s be real- every broken-hearted song
I ever wrote was about you
I’ve got it figured out: you can’t feel
no surprise feelings bore you,
You wouldn’t need them, I do your feeling for you.
And I guess it’s how you planned it to be:
I’m on call for your emotional protection
and you can only love what you see
I guess I fall with all that slips from your detection

But what happened to the love that I aimed your direction?
Does it hang around your head like a cloud?
Did it dissipate with the hot winds that blow out of your mouth?
It’s not that I would argue that you’re a bad person
It seems your heart’s too big for your chest
So you trim off all the edges and attempt to love with whatever’s left.

It’s a dark cold magic that could make you love me,
I don’t wanna be the me I know you would want.
It’s a dark cold magic that could make you want me,
I don’t wanna be the me I know you would love.

Let’s be real- I have always been your girl
it’s just the way that you drew me
You said you could undo me
These are the terms of my existence
it’s this or nothing, how could I resist it?
And I think it’s how you planned it to be
I hang around and I’m down for whatever you’re into
And the things that you said still rattle inside me
like a broken off piece
I don’t think you meant to break me

But what happens to the love that you take from me?
Does it hang around your head like a cloud?
Did it dissipate with the hot winds that blow out of your mouth?
It’s not that I would argue that you’re a bad person
It seems your heart’s too big for your chest
So you trim off all the edges and attempt to love with whatever’s left.

It’s a dark cold magic that could make you love me
I don’t wanna be the me I know you would want.
It’s a dark cold magic that could make you want me
I don’t wanna be the me I know you would love.

Let’s be real- I have never seen you cry
I think your eyes wouldn’t let you
Their job is to forget how you feel
pretend your heart’s not broken
When feelings find you
they grab their necks and choke them
And I think it’s how you planned it to be
I do all of your emotional deflection.
And you can only love what you see
Your feelings only grow
more cruel when you reject them

But what happened to the love that I aimed your direction?
Does it hang around your head like a cloud?
Did it dissipate with the hot winds that blow out of your mouth?
It’s not that I would argue that you’re a bad person
It seems your heart’s too big for your chest
So you trim off all the edges and attempt to love with whatever’s left.

It’s a dark cold magic that could make you love me
I don’t wanna be the me I know you would want.
It’s a dark cold magic that could make you want me
I don’t wanna be the me I know you would love.

SO THERE

You and I yeah we rarely agree
but we both love drugs
remember when your drug was me?
You’d drive me around
while I’d inhale your eyes.
I picked up your shoe, you told me
“now when I look at my shoe
it is your fingers that I’m gonna see.”
And has it worn off, or just been replaced?
Now you breathe a new face.

Now here, years away from it all
when you look back
I wonder which parts you recall
how in the end I couldn’t go there
or the moments I was so there?

You and I we were driving around
I was someone else’s girl
but we refused to let it get us down.
Knowing you and I
acting low just stoked the high.
We passed a motel
the sign read “FIREPLACES”
and it glowed like a gate to hell.
Did we go in and sin,
or did we drive on by?

Now here, years away from it all
when you look back
I wonder which parts you recall,
how in the end I couldn’t go there,
or the moments I was so there?

You and I does not exist anymore
you’re a picture in my head
you’re in the sea I’m watching from the shore.
Can’t decide to stay out or get in
be what I’ve been, or strip down and swim.
In the end I am a creature of land,
my species couldn’t survive
there in the back of your van,
rolling around hunting down the good times,
run over a friend, leave ‘em behind
and drive on.

GREATEST LOVE OF ALL (after Whitney Houston, written by Masser & Creed)

I believe the children are our are future
teach them well and let them lead the way
show them all the beauty they possess inside
give them a sense of pride to make it easier
let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
everybody searching for a hero
people need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
a lonely place to be
so I learned to depend on me

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
if I fail, if I succeed
at least I’ll live as I believe
no matter what they take from me
they can’t take away my dignity

Because the greatest love of all
is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
inside of me

I believe the children are our future
teach them well and let them lead the way
show them all the beauty they possess inside
give them a sense of pride to make it easier
let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
everybody searching for a hero
people need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
a lonely place to be
so I learned to depend on me

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
if I fail, if I succeed
at least I’ll live as I believe
no matter what they take from me
they can’t take away my dignity

Because the greatest love of all
is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
inside of me

And if by chance, that special place
that you’ve been dreaming of
leads you to a lonely place
find your strength in love

THE WOMAN YOU WANT HER TO BE

She will be
the woman you want her to be
woo woo woooowooooo
the woman you want her to be
the woman you want her to be

She’ll be smart enough to know
if you want her to not be smart
or just not to show it
her face is a surface
it seems like there’s something below it

And she’ll be the woman you want her to be
woo woo woooowooooo
the woman you want her to be
the woman you want her to be

She’ll be your privatest property
yours to posses
to dress up and undress
she’s an infinite yes yes yes yes
there will always be more of her
unless of course you’d prefer less
she can do that too, just let her know what you want her to fix
she can take care of it

And she knows what you want
she knows what you want
she knows what you want
she knows what you want
(it’s like she can just feel you)

Think of her as a mass
not one ass
but a mass of asses
plastic, magic, passive, perfectible
limitless: a living receptacle

And the bigger the better
the tighter the sweater
the bigger the better
the tighter the sweater
Or wait- is it not big is better?
we need to compress her
shrink up her sweater
and make her be lesser
When you fire in your cannonballs
you want them to really hit something
not just go floating off
into endless mysterious space

She is accessible
you can walk right inside
through the welcoming holes
in her mouth and her eyes
“Hi!” There’s a comfortable area there
you can chill in.
Around back is the VIP entrance
it’s invite only and many resent this
they swear
their name must be on the list
They wanna get in get in get in get in…

Ask yourself what you need her for
never mind, tell yourself that she needs you more.

If she is a game and you’re wanting to win her
maybe make a club and just don’t let her enter
keep her on the side of wherever’s the center
like you’re in a sunny locale
with a beer and a smile
and havana cigars
and the subs pumped up
and your cells all charged
and everything’s yes
there’s a gleam on your car
and she’s off in some permanent winter.
Then after ten thousand years
of getting your coffee
freezing conditions
killing her softly
her hula girl uniform rigid and icicle frosty,
yeah she might kinda wanna
get in get in get in get in
get in get in get in get in
get in get in get in get in
get in get in get in get in (etc)
What wouldn’t she do to get in?

She’d be the woman you want her to be.
woo woo woooowooooo
the woman you want her to be
the woman you want her to be

You want to conquer the unknown:
she can hold your hand while you do it
and if you can’t find the unknown
she can be your unknown
she’ll lay down and let you voyage through it.

She just seems so haveable,
at the very least halve-able.
Split up the middle and grab what is palpable,
an unlimited free material,
give-able, take-able, breakable,
think what all you could make with this resource
a pile of woman
a landmass of layered up woman
a suburban mega mall of woman
a stairway to heaven of woman

And she’ll be the woman you want her to be
woo woo woooowooooo
the woman you want her to be
the woman you want her to be

GET UP

Ok what’s your location: I’m right here
habitating in a human form
on planet earth where I was born and
I like it here I do, though
some people tell me that this place is through
but ‘F’ that man I just got here
and no one exists who’s not here
this is the only place anyone is

And I will admit,
maybe I’m only here a bit
some parts of me don’t fit here
they go bulging out into the ether
it’s like the front of my face
is all that really gets to be here but
I wanna come through, persist
I’m gonna form all my cells into the shape of a fist
I’ll be going at the air until there’s room to exist
I’m gonna GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP

Reeeal physical space has gotten so expensive
can’t buy so I just rents it
you should have been here
in whatever better cheaper era, but
I guess I just showed up too late
to get the 3D real estate
it’s like I came a little late to the orgy
all the piles have been formed, there are no openings for me
but it’s cool kiddos:
we all get to live inside the internet ghetto
and it’s great I mean there’s so much space
you can do what you like
it’s just all made of light
but alright
I can work with the light
I can build a little world in my mind
and someday I’m a make it to the in-the-real-life
I’m gonna GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP
(if I’m gonna be trapped in bit-tor
I’m gonna get what I always wished for
I’m gonna build a hot tub on the rooftop of my brain, unh)

Sometimes I go out of body
no one can stop me, like
I’m inside your head right now and
good luck getting me out
I’m a take whatever space I can find
I’ll make it nice so you won’t mind
cuz your brain is a place I can live if you care
hide in your likes and ignore what’s up out there
where literally everything’s been all bought up by a handful of desperate hoarders
they’re like more more more
until the whole world looks like Mordar
sheesh guys why? I guess they’re sad inside
they gotta build little ego bridges up to the sky
and they want more but what’s left, the air?
the hoarders wanna hoard the atmosphere
yeah, they pay the air
to be their thug
he slips in my head and treats me rough
the call starts coming from inside of the house
it says “give up give up give up give up give up”
and I get it: they’re tryna scare me out of my skin
control my body like a fear-fed zombie but I jump back in
and push those F-ers out of my mind
cuz they can own the whole world, O.K. fine
but this is 57 kilograms of mine all mine
I’m gonna GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP

(all you have is your perspective
air can be quite receptive
I said “get out,” he respected it.)

Someday we’ll all be dust
and the award for gives no fucks goes to us
this is one way of looking at it
we’re all standing on a planet spinning around a ball of fire
inside the planet there is also fire
and nobody can own it cuz it’s way too hot
we’re gonna GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP
I think about the fire a lot
I’m gonna GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP
the heat comes up through my feet
we’re gonna GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UP

THINK ABOUT ME

Aren’t I one you could have written something on
if you were one to write a song
another format would have done
Do you think about me?

Inside your life, there in that place you make your wife
I know I don’t belong
but does some piece of me arrive
Do you think about me?

I’m aware you probably won’t give me a role
when you cast all the starring players in the story about yourself.
I don’t care, I’m gonna walk onto your stage and I’ll be
as out of place as a second sun burning in your sky
and I will hang there and everyone will ask you who I am.

I used to walk up to the door way of your eyes
and go inside like it was nothing, make myself at home in your affections
Now picture me with all the ghosts of your ex-lovers,
we’re standing on the corner sharing notes on your performance, and
I just wanna see a little something there for me inside your eyes
but they’re all lit up by this bigger light on your horizon,
And when I try to come between you and the light
I watch it cast my puny shadow as I exit right across your landscape

(synth solo)

We used to play
you’d be night, I’d be day
I’d threaten to leave
and you’d beg me to stay
I only came back to see
if it could somehow still be
all about me

SUMMER

Summer was the name of your lover
she told you it was good but you knew it was over
you need a little time take a year and recover
you want some on the side call me up I’ll be over

Summer was the name of your lover
she said that it was you but you knew there was others
she left you in the wind everybody take cover
she’s coming back again but you know that it’s over

I keep calling up your number
but there’s nobody there
you’re like a pinball wizard
with the wave in your hair
You keep acting like’s nothing
but I know that you care
I saw your heart crack open
and it spilled in the air

And when the heat starts creeping
and you’re hiding inside
I’ll be a cool cave
maybe you could live in my eyes
I don’t need to be the only
I could be your sometimes
just leave a small space for me
in the back of your mind

I know I’m not the one
But I could be 2 or 3 just fine
I’d never give you up
I’d never say goodbye

I know I’m not the sun
But I could be something in your sky
I’d never burn you up
I’ll never make you cry