Rusty
Bible Silver Corner
Shiner
The Everyday World of Bodies
Jungle Jim
Gauge
Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto
 

Click to see the hand-written lyrics scanned from the liner notes

 
Peel Session
Sangre
Big Things, Little Things
Before the Train
 
How the Winter Was Passed
Milk and Melancholy
Exoskeleton
 
Aviary
Jungle Jim
Gauge
The Everyday World of Bodies
Exoskeleton
Bible Silver Corner
Tron
Darjeeling
Milk and Melancholy
Shiner
Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto
 
Unreleased
Martin
Rungs
Bible Silver Corner
(Rusty, Aviary)
("Maybe if there were words they'd be: ... I don't know")
 
There are no words.

Shiner
(Rusty, Aviary, Compulsiv for Two)
"The short song? Concerns itself with wanting to destroy the sun - the proverbial enemy"
 
After last night it's hard to shine
After last night I'm surprised the day even came
But it came
A train of obscene images
Moving through the black hedge
Aching and thick with rust
All showing as soon as the sun comes up
It takes light to the paper
It burns its head and throat
Spreading a rash of arsenic, magnolias and crushed coal
A fire in its heart
Will not let it die
It roars and fumes and cries all day
Shoot me out the sky
Pop pop! Down goes the enemy
The shade came under the roses finally
Us on our backs in the back yard
Under the trees
Attempting to breathe
Attempting to see
Attempting to feel anything
The rain that claimed the sky as it shined
Pulled the shutters down on light
We sigh and sit and worship it as it ends.

The Everyday World of Bodies
(Rusty, Aviary)
"The real long song"
 
The rain had a sound
It's blinded everything
Coming down, coming down
The rain had a sound
It flattened its face on the window pane
And I thought we were safe, so safe
My soul sank down
Down in the bed
Your hair spread out on the pillow
In the black fan
I buried my face
I (something) you
Let's be quiet a while
Pull down the shades
Take off your jeans
Lay on the bed
Please, it's easy, it's easy
You don't have to do anything
I'll get a towel
Close your eyes
This is my sound
This is your sound
Open your mouth
Please
Cover your eyes
Cover your body
You can trust it, you can trust it
Put away your money under your shirt
You can trust it
Jesus
You don't have to do anything
You can trust it
This is your sound
The train had a sound
On the edge of town
Moving around
It never rusts
It never sleeps
It's rusted, rusted
It's rusted, coming
Incoming, incoming
Everything changes
Everything changes
Outside it's loud
It rattles the windows
Bus shakes the bed
The clock's unwound
Stripped, stripped down
Darker in here, darker
Cover your ears
I give you my hands
Cover my body
You don't have to say anything
You don't have to make this anything
I'm nothing
I'm poison
Everything changes
I'm nothing
Just make the sound
Beg for something better
Everything changes
Pray for something better
Everything changes
I'll give you my hands
I'll cover my body
I'll give you my poison
I'll open my body for you to
Come on come on come
Come on come on come
Come on come on
When you fly you'll fall into me
Fall into me, fall
Open, uncovered
Too drowned to speak
Too brilliant to see
Do you see it
Do you hear it
It's lifeless
This is your sound
This is my shame
On our knees
You were lying, lying
We were laying against the door
Under the lights, the lights
You were lying on the bathroom floor
You were sick, so sick
Sick, so sick, so sick, so sick
The bodies
Sleeping somewhere
Mouths upturned into the air
Turning over another page each night
We wait, wait for something better
Wait for something better
Wait for something better to come
Come on come on come
Come on come on come
Come on come on
When you fly you'll fall into me
Fall into me, fall into me, fall into me, fall
Everything, everything
You're on everything
(something)
The window is open
The bed is empty
The drawer is half open
The clock's unwound
We make the sound
We make the sound of air escaping
Escaping something, everything
Everything's undone
Your shirt
My body is undone
Everything changes
Bus shakes the bed
The shakes make the sound
Through the crack in the door
Through the holes in the floor
Shakes make the sound
Bus shakes the bed
Through the hole in the floor
Through the crack in the door
The shutters are down
The light is a threat
With every breath you take
We're safe and I'm undone
And I'm undone
Closer
I will be there, I will be there
I swear
I will be there
Swear
(something) more of what's been taken for you
Swear.

Jungle Jim
(Rusty, Aviary)
 
(help.)

Gauge
(alternately performed as Angel in the Centerfold)
(Rusty, Aviary)
"An anthem designed to take care of you."
 
Set me down to sleep
My body follows without a peep
Eyes grow heavy, closed and numb
Pushing away the dreams come
Of kangaroos (something?) jump so high
(something)
Over seas of waves the sound of thunder
Release the whale that pulled me under
But with the whale did come the shark
Which pulls me deeper into the dark
Tossing and turning I start to scream
Mama comes in, says it's just a dream
(something) night and day
(something) things they play
She feeds me the stories that set me to sleep
Sedatives, sedatives
When you come home
Will you remember
Everyone, everyone
Who stations your (something)
(something) you in
Drugs are gone for a new chemical
Words become fake vehicles
Gone away, gone away
I thought it would never end
Everyone has gone away
Gone away
You're thinking your ace always falls
In the right holes
Never again to be buried behind
In a box of bad dreams
You've got what you wanted and now that you've got it
You, you think that your hands can't be broken
Cast made of silver, silver
Sedatives, sedatives, sedatives, sedatives, sedatives, sedatives
Building in basements
Evidence of invisible things
That make me feel a little better
Hiding in a safe little room
Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong
Nothing is wrong
Gauge
Pull the shutters closed
Doors locked
(something)
I thought it would never end.

Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto
(Rusty, Aviary, Slamdek Christmas is for Rockers, Monsters of Rock Tour)
 
You don't move
You get pushed
It's really too much to fear
Wide eyes blind
Sometimes it's not so easy to sleep
When you hear moving around
The color of blood
Flows up from the playground
Justice and a fist
And you pay for sugary things like smiles
With a handful of teeth
Ripped apart and loose
When you grow you'll know
It's always terrified of pearls
(something) pillow
Villain on the lam
It comes and you can't really see
Come down upon you
When it's light it's the shadows
It's the screaming against your window
Fear, pecking, gnawing around you
Always feel the bloody ring
The broken flesh
The (words?) of the heart
Because your body's like a bird
It breaks
And then it comes, huge
A dragon's (strength?)
A dirty excuse for an angel
(something) your hair
Straw and black feathers
Clacking across the floor
My chains cracked from the guts
(something)
(something)
His finger branches slide under the pillow
The lift of your head as it extracts the gift
The pocketed piece of the skull
He checks to see if the chest moves
If I could knock out all the teeth
Of everyone that tried to break my bird bones
Left them every night for the monsters to take
They'd be gone and I'd get rich on the pennies
And blood left behind.

Milk and Melancholy
(How the Winter Was Passed, Aviary)
 
(help.)

Exoskeleton
(How the Winter Was Passed, Aviary)
 
There are no words.

Tron
(Aviary, Half-Cocked soundtrack)
 
The nights I slept
Over at your house
You'd do anything for me
You watch over me
You protect me
You watch me sleep
We'd sit in bed and read and read
And read and spill tea on your sheets
Sometimes we would run all night
When I was five, and you were alive
Around the house
The smoking (something) behind
I dream I'm walking to where you lay
Your hair gone gray
Silver
In a (something) off your (something)
The shades remain unchanged
I scurry into the room
And (something) to check your pulse
When you were still alive
And I'd spend the night
I knew you'd never leave me
Never leave you behind
The smoke and the static and the light
That came through the shades was the same
The shadow and the light and the static
That came through the shades was the same
The smoke and the static
And the lights and the shadows
That came through the shades
Was the same as your skin
Your mouth was open wide
But there was nothing left inside
The TV static (groaned?)
Gray, gone cold and alone.

Darjeeling
(Aviary, Inclined Plane)
 
There are no words.

Sangre
(Peel Session)
 

Big Things, Little Things
(Peel Session, Working Holidays)
 

Before the Train
(alternately performed as A Picture of a Girl)
(Peel Session)
 
There are no words.

Martin
(unreleased)
 

Rungs
(unreleased)
 
There are no words.

Maybe I'm wrong. These are all approximated. Correct me here and thanks.