The Real Ramona (1991)

counting backwards

Counting backwards I count you in
I don't remember him
I don't remember

In time I rope you in again
I try and turn you back through him
I built a tower in my bones
I spill the mortar through my home

Counting backwards I count you in
I don't remember him
I don't remember him
I don't remember

Don't let your heartbeat keep you safe
No telling what keeps me awake
One hundred fingerprints I hear
A hundred linger in my ear

Counting backwards I count you in
I don't remember him
I don't remember

Measure fortune killing time

him dancing

You be the cooker
I can't see no difference in me
You be the driver
I can't see no difference in me
I'll be the runner
You can love me anyway

red shoes

Eyes closed
You close them in the dark

What do you think you can't see?
What do you think you can't see?
What do you think you can't see?
You want red
So I got red shoes
'Cause red becomes you
This red becomes you

This dance
This war criminal is
This dance is brutal, uh
It wants red
So I got red shoes
'Cause red becomes you
I become you

graffiti

I tried to walk on this wall
It fell right under my feet
Now I only lean
Only lean on the wall

I throw an egg at this wall
I watch it break and slide
See my name
See my name on the wall
See my name on the wall
See my name on the wall

golden thing

Garbage piled up to the ceiling
Ashtrays shaped like asses
All this money and a golden thing
You golden thing
Hell, I got

Horseheads that I dance around in
Coked up anorexics
Got a tree and this golden thing
You golden thing
Hell, I got

Well you gotta see this
Golden thing
You golden thing
And when you get there better kiss me

ellen west

I keep looking in the mirror
Afraid that I won't be there

Courting Ellen West
Dancing on her grave
Saving Ellen West

My house is full of demons
I swear to God
I need to go to bed
I need to go to sleep
I'm awake with a vengeance

Courting Ellen West
Dancing on her grave
Saving Ellen West
'Cause she wanted it
This way

My mouth is full of demons
I swear to God
I need to go to bed
I need to go to sleep
I need that hope chest
I need to breathe
I need you here
I need to disappear

dylan

hook in her head

This woman literally
Felt she had a hook in her head

Rip it up
Live it down
Make it big
Keep it clean
Shake it off

Rip it up
Live it down
Make it big
Keep it clean
Shake it off

Take him home
Take it off
Do him good
Keep it up
Shake it off

He's a fucking drag
But if you don't then you watch him go
If you can you see it home
You be strong
And when you die it's a shame
But your old life stays the same

She has a hook in her head
She has a hook in her head

I saw this lady close her eyes
The bottle slipped between her fingers
And slid along the aisle

If I were a man I'd have a gun
But I'm so bone tired
I'm so bone tired
I'm old

I watch the snow make slow time
I watch the snow make slow time
I watch the snow

I'm so bone tired
I'm so bone tired
I'm old

I watch the snow make slow time
I watch the snow make slow time
I watch the snow

Cover up the bottle
So I can slip between
I will read the label from underneath

I wear the circle in my sleep

not too soon

"It's not too soon" he said
"It's not too soon at all"
"You might as well be dead" he said
"If you're afraid to fall"
I said "I know her"

She said
"Why, why do you stare so hard
Wrapped up like a doll in bad dreams and broken arms?"
Make these old bones shiver

"It's not too soon" he said
"It's not too soon at all"
"You might as well be dead" he said
"If you're afraid to fall"
I said "I know her"

The last time I saw you
You were standing in the dark
And with a freezing face
I watched you fall apart

It's not too soon, you see
It's not too soon at all
You might as well be dead, he said
If you're afraid to fall.
I said
"Done your time, been in your place
I couldn't look you in the face
and tell you that it turned me on
it makes my stomach turn.
I know, I know her"

honeychain

Shouldn't stare that way so long, baby...
Stare holes into the walls."

My dress hangs here for you to wear out
I walked in beauty too, till I met you
Here hangs this chain
This thing this old girl keeps
We got it easy
So why do you stare that way so long
Stare holes into the walls

We're all honey
Dripping through the honey chain
And lay our lives down
Down and pretty
In the honey chain

We're all honey
Dripping through the honey chain
And lay our lives down
Down and pretty
In the honey chain

Please don't stare that way so hard, baby
Stare holes

say goodbye

I brought this bottle here for you
Can't you drink it?
Can't you drink it?

I brought this body here for you
Don't you want it?

I brought this body here for you
Don't you want it?
Don't you want it?

Say goodbye
Kick her legs
Kick her down

Say goodbye
Kick her legs
Kick her down

I bought this pocketknife for you
Don't you use it?

I bought this ball and chain for you
Don't you wear it?

Say goodbye
Kick her legs
Kick her down

Say goodbye
Kick her legs
Kick her down

two step

a hole

a hole in the box they carry
pours sugar in the road

a hole

pour dimes in diamond jim
two months to fill him in

two step behind the rest
one fingertip too long

a hole

a hole in the box they carry
spills sugar in the road

a hole... a hole... a hole... a hole

a hole... a hole... a hole... a hole