Sea-Dragon

I've been waiting all these nineteen years for you,
for a love I wouldn't let myself believe in,
for a love who's everything and more, like you,
and I can't believe that I am leavin'.

Course, I'm coming back to you when Autumn's gone,
I'll be comin' back if you'll be waitin',
But I'm trav'ling far and wide, and the wait is long,
there's not much worse than the pain of separation.

I read my coffee dregs tonight, my dear:
in the bottom of my cup was a sea-dragon.
Sea-dragons are rare and they love true, I hear,
but the path of one's life it keeps zig-zaggin'.

So forgive me if I appear to stray awhile,
I'll come back at the end of each adventure
and I'll fall into your arms if I can stay awhile--
did you get all the loving that I sent you?

We'll Get Along

I took the cigarette from out your lips,
     and gave you our first kiss;
you kissed me back, and then pushed me away
     with this to say:

you wanted me, but we were in the wrong.
I wanted you, so wrote this fucking song;
then you were fucking me, and it was over--
I knew you were a fucker, not a lover.

We'll get along just fine,
we'll get along just fine,
we'll win the world and paint the town,
while other worlds are breaking down,
we'll get along just fine.

You and I were friends, and only just,
     but when has that stopped us?
We two do play the game without a plan,
     because we can.

And even when the clock was striking twelve,
we were both so caught up in ourselves.
Name a reason why I'd take it slow;
this isn't love, it's just a fashion show.

We'll get along just fine,
we'll get along just fine,
we'll win the world and paint the town,
while London Bridge is falling down,
we'll get along just fine.

We'll get along just fine,
we'll get along just fine,
we'll win the world and paint the town,
while other worlds are breaking down,
we'll get along just fine.

We'll get along just fine.

If I

what would you say, if I,
just to see what you'd say, I
told you that when I,
when I look in your eyes, I
I see the sky, sky,
and the world is mine, mine
and the world is mine?

what would you say, if I,
just to see what you'd say, I
told you that when I,
when I am with you, I
I feel so alive, live,
As if I could fly, fly,
As if I could fly?

what would you say, if I,
just to see what you'd say, I
told you that when I,
When I kiss you for fun, my
my lips never lie, lie,
my lips never lie, lie,
my lips never lie?

what would you say, if I,
just to see what you'd say, I
told you that when I,
when I watch you go, I
I look at the sky, sky,
so that I don't cry, cry,
so that I don't cry?

what would you say, if I,
just to see what you'd say, I
told you that I, I
that I love you?
If I told you that I love you?

Toxicological

Love is not logical
The universe, it cuts no breaks
Toxicological
your love is poison in my brain

and I and I
and I and I

I can't forget you
and I can't let you
forget me

It's neurological
I'll tell myself that's what true love is
a bunch of chemicals
Nothing to do with wonderfulness

and I and I
and I and I

keep crying to myself
and lying to myself
saying I don't need help

when you, when you left me
I got the chemicals out of my bloodstream
but you're still in every single one of my dreams
and I wake up, and I'm screaming your name

your name, 'cause it gets me
your name, your name, your name, 'cause it lets me
pretend you're mine and that you won't forget me
even though you regret everything

It's kind of comical
only because I'm cynical
that you're still magical
to me, though all the chemicals

are gone and I
and I and I

and I still love you
I'll always love you
there's nothing to be done

It's diabolical
How you will always be part of me
Anatomical
I don't believe that you don't love me

though I though I
though I though I

I do believe you'll try
just like I tried and tried
I gave up, crying

I need a hospital
our life is flashing by my eyes
all chronological
a love I love and can't despise

and I and I
and I and I

remember everything
remember fucking everything
and it all is true

Love is not logical
The universe, it cuts no breaks
Toxicological
your love is poison in my brain

The Fall

So there's this thing, this thing I do
that I'm not really allowed to do,
and it's called falling in love,
falling in love with you

and i can't,
i can't fall in love,
i can't fall in love with you,
because i am
already in love
with the man i'm promised to

but when i talk,
when i talk to you,
see the things you do
it is then,
that i fall in love,
that i fall in love with you

i'm haunted by these dreams of you,
i watch the way you walk when you leave the room
i think i'm falling in love
falling in love with you

you ask me what i think you should do with your hair
you never knew i knew that you were even there
but i admired you from the start,
and now i let you into my heart.

but i can't,
i can't fall in love,
i can't fall in love with you,
because i am
already in love
with the man i'm promised to

but when I talk,
when I talk to you,
I see the things you do
it is then,
that I fall in love,
that I fall in love with you ^^(up to bridge)

[BRIDGE yet to be written]

do you know how many times i've almost let it slip?
almost let the words slither off of my lips?
I [space] L O V E [space]
falling in love with you

the problem is i've got a guy on the other line
we're gonna be in love until the end of time
and i know that it's my duty to choose
not to fall in love with you

What I Tell You

Don't tell Everybody what
I tell You
Don't go Talkin' about
All the things the two of us do


Don't tell all your friends
What I tell You
I won't go tellin' all my girls,
so you'd better zip it, too!


Ba-pa da da da-ta-da da-da da...


Don't share all my secrets that
I share with you
I swear to keep your secrets, so
you'd best be keepin' mine, too


You've sworn me to secrecy, and
I've sworn you in, too
So, don't go tellin' all the friends you have what
I tell you.
No, don't go tellin' all the friends you have what
I tell you.


Don't talk to your guys about
my talk with you
why talk when your talkin'
could have me walkin' out on you.


Don't tell anybody
what I tell you
When you get flirty and the talk gets dirty
'cause that's just between us two


Ba-pa da da da-ta-da da-da da...


Don't tell anybody
What I tell you
When there's no more sun and the day is done
and I am one with you


You've sworn me to secrecy, and
I've sworn you in, too
So, don't go tellin' all the friends you have
I tell you.


Ba-pa da da da-ta-da da-da da...

Playtime

i'd be an infamous outlaw
in the wild, wild west
i'd put on my hat and chaps each morn'
pull on my cowhide vest
i would swagger through the swinging doors
of the saloon in tombstone town
and i'd save the indian chieftain
and i'd shoot the barman down
and the sherrif would chase after me
but i was never caught
and when the day was done i had won
every fight i'd fought
and each night when i was tired
i'd ride toward the setting sun
and i'd curl up by my campfire
bein' a cowgirl's pretty fun

some days i'd be a fearsome pirate
and i'd sail the seven seas
and i'd be the most courageous
and my crew would worship me
and i would be the finest captain
who had ever owned a boat
and i'd sail and sail in circles
all around my castle's moat
and then i'd sail to neverland
and fight with captain hook
and i'd win from him the gold and coins
that he'd already took
and i'd wear a great big pirate hat
encrusted with rare jewels
and i'd bury all my treasure,
bein' a pirate's pretty cool

i'd be a queen of diamonds
like in a deck of cards
and I would lounge around in furs and silks,
at tea with the queen of hearts
i would spend three hours bathing
in a tub of wine and roses
and then i would jump on my grand bed
and never stub my toeses
and i'd have the finest gowns
of any queen there ever was
and i would wear a great big silver crown
just because, because.
and i'd take off my crown
and go have lunch when i was done
so i would not get jelly on my gown
queendom's pretty fun

Ice Cream Man

Oh! Here comes the Ice Cream Man
(if you haven't heard the story it's real grand),
so sit you down and maybe hold someone's hand,
because you're gonna hear the story of the Ice Cream Man.


"Jing jingaling ling jing jing ling"
that's the sound that precedes all the ice cream he brings;
"jing jingaling," all the children sing
when they hear that ice cream.


Now they say it happened maybe twenty years ago,
when the ice cream van drove door to door,
and the ice cream sold to every house in the land,
well, he was one happy ice cream man.


jing jingaling ling jing jing ling,
selling out of ice cream


then one fine day as school let out
he spied a gaggle of giggling girly girl scouts
selling thin mints, samoas, and all-abouts,
and that afternoon the drumsticks didn't sell out.


jing jingaling ling jing jing ling
he didn't sell out of ice cream


next day plastered all over the town
posters of four girls who couldn't be found,
then around the corner came that jangling sound:
"jing jingaling" in the heart of town.


"jing jingaling ling jing jing ling"
goes the ice cream van with the ice cream.


so he pulls up next to the newspaper stand
soon every mother with a paper had a cone in her hand,
sales were booming even higher than he had planned
and that made him one happy ice cream man.


"jing jingaling ling jing jing ling"
loud and clear that man did sing.


several years went by without a trace of Roxanne,
and no one ever found Daisy, Maisy, or Diane,
but if you listen to the whispers passed from sir to ma'am,
you'll hear, "we think there's more than ice cream in that ice cream van!"


jing jingaling ling jing jing ling,
four daughters' bodies frozen like ice cream.


yes, the rumor spread as only rumors can,
they said this man was even worse than the ku klux klan,
"it takes an evil man to make an evil plan!"
and that's what they said about the ice cream man!


jing jingaling ling jing jing ling
goes the ice cream van with the ice cream.


now, you don't have to take my word,
after all it's just a small-town rumor i heard,
but when you hear the jingaling of the ice cream van,
remember the story of the ice cream man!


"jing jingaling ling jing jing ling"
that's the sound that precedes all the ice cream he brings;
"jing jingaling" all the children sing
when they hear that ice cream.

Goes So Slow

Gm D Gm Cm D

Gm F Gm F Gm Cm D Gm
Ah...

Gm     D
There she is, knitting, and she's sitting in her porch swing chair
Gm     Cm     D
The stitches go so slow, its the twenty-seventh sweater for her great-neice, Claire
Gm     D
But the sweater doesn't matter to Claire, she's getting high again
Gm    Cm      D
Still, she's knitting and she's waiting, just keeps waiting for her life to end

Gm    Dm
I can't wait for the day to come
Gm   Dm
Goes so slow, will we ever be done?
Gm       Cm  Bbmaj Adim        Gm
Stand the pain, Soon the rain will Wash away the Endless days Again

Gm F Gm F Gm Cm D Gm
Ah...

Gm         Dmaj
Eliza's checking on her myspace, waiting for her life to start
Gm      Cm   D
She's got a gig at a club, but she wants to be a real star
Gm                     D
She takes another smoke, and she's broke, but she knows it will be fine by July
Gm                Cm  D
So she's sitting with her eyes closed, watching all the cars go by

Gm    Dm
I can't wait for my life to kick in
Gm   Dm
Goes so slow, will we ever begin?
Gm       Cm  Bbmaj Adim        Gm
Stand the pain, Soon the rain will Wash away the Endless days Again

Gm    Dm
I can't wait for [the day to come]
Gm   Dm
Goes so slow, will we ever [be done]?
Gm       Cm  Bbmaj Adim        Gm
Stand the pain, Soon the rain will Wash away the Endless days Again


Gm F Gm F Gm Cm D Gm
Ah...
 Gm F Gm F Gm Cm D Gm
Ah...

A Modest Proposal

Captain Hook,
will you marry me?
All it took was a look
to make my knees go weak;
I read of you in this book,
"Paul," or "Peter," or "Pete:"
you're just the crookedest crook,
liar felon and cheat,
so won't you please marry me?


You work the brocade
like you're Louis XIV,
I wonder what you paid
for your seven gold teeth?
I'd price my maidenhead
at your love for a week
so if you're lookin' for a maid
look no further, my liege,
just marry me!


When it comes to the harpsichord
you've got mad skillz;
you make piracy look
like the way to pay bills;
so if you'll let me come on
and be your Red-Handed Jill,
I'll swab the decks, hoist the mizz'n,
and tell stories until
you'll marry me.


I wanna know what you can do
with your one good hand;
but I don't want you
for just a one-night stand
let me sail the big blue
far away from the sand
I bet somewhere in your loot,
you've got two wedding bands,
so marry me!


I'll have my mail addressed
to your beautiful ship;
i'll get your red coat pressed,
and we can skinny-dip
you can watch me get dressed
and we'll be joined at the hip;
and we'll share how i am blessed,
and how you're well-equipped. ;)
don't you wanna marry me?
don't you wanna marry me?
won't you please--jimmy hook--marry me?

Crocheted Cabaret

sue me, sue me, what can you do me?
amigurumi see straight through me
i've got no friends only people who pay
laissez, laissez les bonnes temps roullez
in this crocheted cabaret
in this crocheted cabaret

the men that drink the cabernet
they want to take me all the way
they think they want to feel my pain
but then they leave me with the cheap champagne
in this crocheted cabaret
in this crocheted cabaret

they pay, they drink, they listen, they leave
forever i'll grieve with my heart on my sleeve
i'm only a soldier who makes her own cage,
the war that i wage is the life on the stage
of this crocheted cabaret
of this crocheted cabaret

knit me knit me try to get me
but don't even think about tryin' to forget me
don't try to think about anyone else
i'll see you in hell, oh well, I wish you well

on your wild and winding way
to the crocheted cabaret
oh, this crocheted cabaret
oh, this crocheted cabaret


nobody's watching, nobody sees
only the dolls hear my soprano pleas
stitching my name, weaving my mark
spinning a yarn long lost to the dark

day and night, night and day
you know i've long since lost my way
that's how i found this cabaret
that's how i found this cabaret
oh, this crocheted cabaret