I’ve got a knack for fucking everything up
My temper flies and I get myself all wound up
My fuse is short and my blood pressure is high
I lose control and I get myself all wound up
Tension mounts and I fly off the wall
I self destruct and I get myself all wound up
Petulance and irritation sets in
I throw a tantrum and I get myself all wound up
Chip on my shoulder and a leech on my back
Stuck in a rut and I get myself all wound up
Killed my composure and it will never come back
Loss of control and I get myelf all wound up
Blown out of proportion again
My temper snaps and I get myself all wound up
Spontaneous combustion
Panic attack
I slipped a gear and I get myself all wound up

I’ve seen them kneel
with baited breath for the ritual
I’ve watched this experience raise
them to pseudo higher levels
I’ve watched them leave their families
in pursuit of your nirvana
I’ve seen them coming to line up from switzerland and america
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How long will this take baba
How long have we been sleeping
Do you see me hanging on to every word you say
How soon will I be holy
How much will this cost guru
How much longer ’til you completely absolve me
I’ve seen them give their drugs up
in place of makeshift altars
I’ve heard them chanting
kali kali frantically
I’ve heard them rotely repeatly your
teaching with elitism
I’ve seen them boasting robes and
foreign sandalwood beads
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I’ve seen them overlooking god in
their own essence
I’ve seen their upward glances
in hopes of instant salvation
i’ve seen their righteousness
mixed without loving compassion
i’ve watched you smile as
the student bow to kiss your feet
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Give me strength all knowing one
how long ’till enlightenment
how much longer ’til you
completely absolve me

Oh Baba, some day I’ll write you a love song,
but now I’ll just sing the blues.
Some day I’ll write you a love song,
but now though, I’ll just sing the blues.
I suffer in the day, and the night time runs,
and to suffer is what I chose.

You lived and you died just for me, Love.
Yesterday they brought me the news.
You lived and you died just for me, Love.
Yesterday they brought me the news.
Still I waste my time holding first to what’s mine;
it’s no wonder that I just sing the blues.

I’ve got no time for the spirit’s yearning,
no time for those higher things,
no time for the spirit’s yearning,
got no time for those higher things.
I’ve got earthily wants, burning churning inside,
and the blues is what that brings.

Beloved, I do want to love you,
don’t know why I always refuse.
Beloved, I want to love you;
I don’t know why I always refuse.
Still I’ll wait till I’m willing and worthy to serve you;
till then I’ll just sing the blues.

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don’t need to fight
To prove I’m right
I don’t need to be forgiven

Don’t cry
Don’t raise your eye
It’s only teenage wasteland

Sally ,take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
Don’t look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let’s get together
Before we get much older

Teenage wasteland
It’s only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh, oh
Teenage wasteland
They’re all wasted!

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don’t need to fight
To prove I’m right
I don’t need to be forgiven

Don’t cry
Don’t raise your eye
It’s only teenage wasteland

Sally ,take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
Don’t look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let’s get together
Before we get much older

Teenage wasteland
It’s only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh, oh
Teenage wasteland
They’re all wasted!

All of my life I felt that you were listening
Watching for ways to help me stay in tune
Lord of my dreams, although confusion
Keeps trying to decieve
What is it that makes me believe in you?

Babaji, oh won’t you come to me
Won’t you help me face the music
Bring it out so we can sing it out
Help me to find it before we lose it
At night when the stars are near
And there’s no one to keep you from coming here
And there’s no one to shield me before your eyes
Is it mine, is it mine, is it mine to know?

I can see it’s not too good to me
To be afloat in the sea of glory
Babaji, oh how you comfort me
By showing me it’s a different story
Your light in the dark is real
And I know that you know it is how I feel
When I see the reflections that’s in your eyes
Is it mine, is it mine, is it mine to know?

Babaji, have you a song for me
To tell the world of its guardian angel
Bring it out so we can sing it out
Oh must you always remain a stranger?
At night when the stars are near
And I long for delusion to disappear
The I see the reflection that’s in your eyes
Is it time, is it time, is it time to know?

I’m out in the country for a walk one day
I get the urge and I’ve got to go
I look around, make sure no one’s around
I pull down my pants and I face the ground
I think, well, we all go to the toilet
Just like we’ve got to eat
We don’t eat–it’s called starvation
We don’t babber–constipation

Babe I’m leavin’
I must be on my way
The time is drawing near
My train is going
I see it in your eyes
The love, the need, your tears
But I’ll be lonely without you
And I’ll need your love to see me through
So please believe me
My heart is in your hands
And I’ll be missing you

‘Cause you know it’s you babe
Whenever I get weary
And I’ve had enough
Feel like giving up
You know it’s you babe
Givin’ me the courage
And the strength I need
Please believe that it’s true
Babe, I love you

You know it’s you babe
Whenever I get weary
And I’ve had enough
Feel like giving up
You know it’s you babe
Givin’ me the courage
And the strength I need
Please believe that it’s true
Babe, I love you

Babe, I’m leavin’
I’ll say it once again
And somehow try to smile
I know the feeling we’re tryin’ to forget
If only for a while
‘Cause I’ll be lonely without you
And I’ll need your love to see me through
Please believe me
My heart is in your hands
‘Cause I’ll be missing you
Babe, I love you
Babe, I love you
Ooo-oo-oo-oo, babe

I exclude light and wash my hands of you.

By larger being devoured,

leaving only me to improve.

Weep.

Don’t fucking weep.

Your weak eyes cry tears of the week.

Weep.

Catch up with the sheep.

It’s a sacrilegious ceremony.

New flavor of the week.

Nothing’s sacred in the faces of the soulless

(that you’re made into).

You’re raptured by a guilty stifle down.

“…And what I’ll do

is mess you up and lie to you.”

Look at you

You know it’s true.

It’s a field trip to Hollywood Babylon.

But I’m not coming.

No.

Oh babe, I’ve got you bad,
Dreaming blood-wet dreams
Only mad men have;
Baby, I got you bad,
I wish to God I never had
And it a’makes me feels so sad,
Oh, baby I got you bad,
Yeah babe, I got you bad.

I long for your kiss,
The turn of your mouth
Your body is a long thing heading South
And I don’t know what I’m talking about,
All my words don’t matter
Oh baby, I got you bad.

The seasons have gone wrong,
And I lay me down in a bed of snow
Darling, since you’ve been gone,
Well, my hands they don’t know where to go
And all my teeth are bared,
I got you so much I’m scared,
Oh baby, I got you bad.

With a sweep of my hand,
I undid all the plans
That exploded the moment I kissed you
On your small hot mouth
And your caramel limbs
Which are hymns to the glory that is you;
Look at me darling, it’s sad sad sad
Oh look at me darling, it’s sad sad sad,
But baby I got you bad.

Smoke bellowing from the bridges
And the rivers we swam in are boilin’
And my hands are reaching for you everywhere,
But you’re not there, or you’re recoiling
And a weary moon dangles from a cloud,
Oh darling I know it’s not allowed
To say I’ve got you bad.
I got you bad…