Just like bums, we used to stay in the slums of LA by the way
Gang-bangers killin’ each other for rep, sellin’ rock cocaine on my doorstep
Had a ball to bounce plus a bike to ride, but my mamma never would let me play outside.
But when I got enrolled in elementary school, started bangin’ like a fuckin’ fool.
So cool, throwin’ up gang signs to the gangster (?), shot an enemy from across the street
Mamma came home, said she got a good job. Daddy did too. Now they don’t squab.
Financially, we improvin’. 2 months later, son, we movin’.
No more duckin’ from shotgun shells. Bought a two-story house in East Palmdale.
(give it to me now.)

Palmdale, come back to me.
I need you and I love you, baby.
Palmdale, come back to me.
(Check it out, check it out, check it out.)

No more rats and no more roaches, livin’ next door ito football coaches.
Now I got a new place to sell me crack. Now I got little white kids to jack.
I stopped wearin’ blue, wasn’t trippin’ on red. Too busy squabbin’ with the skinheads.
Stupid questions, distract the class. Rubbin’ little white girls on the ass.
I didn’t really care if I passed or failed, I knew I was headed for the NFL,
Until the playoff game, shoulder got hurt. I thought about my future, layin’ in the dirt.
I can’t jump, I can’t flinch. Superstar player, ridin’ the bench.
Graduate from school? Don’t make me laugh. I got an F+ in basic math.
(give it to me now.)

Palmdale, (Hell, yeah.) come back to me.
I gotta do one song for my neighborhood. Bucccoooc!
Palmdale, come back to me.
(check it out.)

I knew I couldn’t make it in the white man’s world, so I bought me some khakis and a Geri curl.
I knew I couldn’t make it to the NFL, so I went to East Palmdale and started slingin’ yell.
Fo’ sho’! I was makin’ crazy dough. Shoulda dropped outta school a long time ago.
Bought a cell phone, like a nut. Now I deliver like Pizza Hut.
I drunk whisky and Bacardi. I sold dope to anybody.
Me and my homies sold dubs and dimes, took turns bustin’ rhymes just to pass the time.
A white man drove up to my spot. He said, ??Hey, homeboy, what you got???
I put a fat rock inside his hand. About 25 sheriffs jumped out the van.
(??Get down, punk.??)

Palmdale, (Hell, yeah) come back to me.
I need you and I love you, baby.
Palmdale, come back to me.
(check it out, check it out, check it out.)

Can’t get drunk. Can’t get blunted. LA County, 95 hundred.
Crips wanna take my All-stars. Bloods wanna eat my Snicker bars.
Them peckerwoods don’t want none, but the Mexican’s straight own one.
Them Essays, (???) that Essays always try to test me,
So I jumped off the bed, cause I ain’t no punk. Jammed his head up against the bunk.
Socked that Cholo in his chin. Black mutha-fuckas scared to jump in.
Sheriff broke it up when we hit the floor. I kept talkin’ shit cause I want some more.
Back in town, we get along with the brown. Now I’m in jail, they tryin’ to beat me down.
Jail is hell, but I’ll adapt. Won’t hesitate to get in a scrap.
‘Cause I’m down for mine, and that’s for certain, sittin’ in the hole with my knuckles hurtin’.
(Palmdale)

Palmdale, (Hell, yeah.) come back to me.
I need you and I love you, baby.
Palmdale, come back to me.
(check it out, homeboy.)

Now I got a fucked up life. Two bad kids and a naggin’ wife.
Dead end job at the airport. Check too short to pay the house note.
Turn on the TV, then I see different homeboys that went to school with me
Playin’ in the NFL. We used to kick back in East Palmdale.
Rodney Williams. Lorenz Tate. Zeno plays for Colorado State.
I wish my homeboys much success, but at the same time, I still get depressed.
Walkin’ through the wind with a cup full of gin thinkin’ ’bout things that coulda, woulda, shoulda been.
I wipe my t

Stick palm trees on the moon
Eradicate the gloom
The place needs clearing up and dusting down

We’ll sunbathe through the day
And sip on chardonnay
Until the earth comes up
Then we’ll bed down

I was first one in the line
The waiting taking time
I counted two suns up
And one moon down

Ticket number one
Ticket number two

(I’m a loony passenger with you)

Ticket number one
Ticket number two

Gonna stick those plastic green fantastic
Palm trees on the moon

Devoid of coconut
I’ll shout across to you
“What weather here!”

i’ll want to tell my friends
when the holidaying ends
that they should book up early
for next year

Postcard send it fast class!

It’s not so strange you know to feel like this
I thought of you I knew that you’d understand
I think it’s time you know we did more than kiss
Ever fallen in love with the palm of your hand
I’ve made up my mind as a bull sees red
To get my tail wagged must I sit up and beg

And if you want to brush up on technique
You can read all about it in the book that I found
When the spirit is willing the flesh won’t be weak
There’s little more to it than just jerking around
I’m hungry for the most perfect of needs
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand

My temperature shoots up to one hundred degrees
It’s manual automatic makes me weak at the knees
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand
Executive attention yes the kind that relieves
You’ve got the instruments of pleasure at the end of your sleeves
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand
Palm of your hand
The palm of your hand
At the palm of your hand

[SOLO]

My temperature shoots up to one hundred degrees
It’s manual automatic makes me weak at the knees
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand
Executive attention yes the kind that relieves
You’ve got the instruments of pleasure at the end of your sleeves
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand
Palm of your hand
The palm of your hand
At the palm of your hand

It’s not so strange you know to feel like this
I thought of you I knew that you’d understand
I think it’s time you know we did more than kiss
Ever fallen in love with the palm of your hand
It’s practicaly safe not much risk of disease
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand

My temperature shoots up to one hundred degrees
It’s manual automatic makes me weak at the knees
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand
Executive attention yes the kind that relieves
You’ve got the instruments of pleasure at the end of your sleeves
My craving feeds at the palm of your hand
Palm of your hand
The palm of your hand
At the palm of your hand

Last night I took a walk in the dark To a place called Palisades Park
To have some fun, to see what I could see That’s where the girls are

I took a ride on the shoopty shoop The girl I sat with almost, almost puked
And when it stopped, she was holding hands with me

My arms were flying up, like a rocket ship Down, like a roller coaster
Fast, like a loopty loop Then around, like a merry-go-round

We even at a hot dog stand Slam danced to a rockin’ band
And when she winked, I gave that girl a hug In the tunnel of love

You’ll never know how good it just can feel ‘Til it stops at the top of the ferris wheel
I fell in love, down at Palisades Park

Last night I took a walk in the dark To a place called Palisades Park
To have some fun, to see what I could see That’s where the girls are

I took a ride on the shoopty shoop The girl I sat with almost, almost puked
And when it stopped, she was holding hands with me

My arms were flying up, like a rocket ship Down, like a roller coaster
Fast, like a loopty loop Then around, like a merry-go-round

We even at a hot dog stand We danced around to a rockin’ band
And when she winked, I gave that girl a hug In the tunnel of love

You’ll never know how good it just can feel ‘Til it stops at the top of the ferris wheel
I fell in love, down at Palisades Park

Run run runnin’ all the rides are runnin’
Run run runnin’ all the rides are runnin’

Last night I took a walk in the dark
A steamin’ place called Palisades Park
Turned around to see what I could see
That’s where the girls are

I took a ride on a shoopby shoo
The girl I sat beside was awful cool
And when we start I gave that girl a hug
My heart was flyin’
Up like a rocket ship
Down like a roller coaster
Left like a loopdy loop
And around like a merry go round

We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin’ band
And we we quit I gave that girl a hug
In the tunnel of love

You never know how great a kiss can be
Until you stop at the bottom of a ferris wheel
In the tunnel of love down at Palisades Park

Run run runnin’ all the rides are runnin’

Yeah
Oh my God
Those coconuts are bad in the ass damn (???)

We ate and ??? at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin’ band
And we we quit I gave that girl a hug
In the tunnel of love

You never know how great a kiss can be
Until you stop at the bottom of a ferris wheel
In the tunnel of love down at Palisades Park

Run run runnin’ all the rides are runnin’
Down at Palisades Park
Run run runnin’ all the rides are runnin’
Down at Palisades Park
Run run runnin’ all the rides are runnin’
Down at Palisades Park

Pale September, I wore the time like a dress that year
The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin
But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared
My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within
But then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full
And sank in the burrows of my keep

And all my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
And my winter giving way to warm, as I’m singing him to sleep

He goes along just as a water lily
Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
Unweighted down by passion or intensity
Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
And he finds a home in me
For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

And all my armour failing down, in a pile at my feet
And my winter giving way to warm, as I’m singing him to sleep
All my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
And my winter giving way to warm, as I’m singing him to sleep

pale purple nipples
goose pimpled
she shivers shifts from a walk to a trot
alone in the city
infested with faces
immune to new friendships
interested in places she’s never seen
she says everything is grey here
and nothing is green
the girls from down the street
sixteen, seventeen years old
you can smell them getting pregnant
you can hear their rock and roll
that’s america
you have to be tough
like a glad trash bag
the government’s an old nag
with a good pedigree
but pedigree’s don’t help you and me
I see the precedent is grey here
and nothing is green
unless something unforseen happens
I’m surrounded by the haves
they say I can have some too
just because of what I do
do they think a lot
about those who have not
or does it just distract them
from what they do
most of us have grey
except for those who can pay
for green
I’m torn
I’m torn
rejecting outfits offered me
regretting things I’ve worn
when I was still playing roles
to fill holes
in my conception of who I am
you know, now I understand
it’s not important to be defined
it’s only important to use your time well
well time is something nobody can buy
and nobody can sell you
so don’t let anybody tell you
they have the advantage
because all the grey people can say every day
doesn’t mean anything
if your mind is green
pale purple nipples
goose pimpled
she shivers shifts from a walk to a trot
alone in the city
infested with faces
immune to new friendships
interested in places she’s never seen
she says everything is grey here
otherwise I’d stay here
but I’m looking for green
just like every human being

There is a dream I used to have
My dream swallowed me whole
There is a bridge where I hate to go
That is where I first saw her
High on the bridge
I seen her red hair shining
There is a girl I never knew
She was my Aunt Virginia
They said that she
She just disappeared
They said I look just like her
High on the bridge I seen her
Dancing waving to me there
She smiled and raised her head
Then she took to the Air
There is a dream I can’t escape
My memories come back to me
There is a hell I can’t escape
My memories come back to me
I heard the truth about it
Pictures and headlines hidden away
I heard the truth about my real mom
Jumping from the bridge that day
Now I know why ever since
I was 3 years old
Been having the same nightmare
Now I know the truth about Virginia
Why she took to the Air

Dark thou embrace my bleeding heart
my dreams uniting our tearful eyes enchanting
At night I kiss the serpent in thy tears
For years thy sorrow I’ve mourned

Harken my moonchilds cry
Yearning for another night
Mourning my once beloved
Mezmerized and ravendark

My pale enchantress of the night
At last my candle’s burning down
The wintermoon is shining bleak
for thee my enchantress

Enchanting all my dreams
a beauty and her flood of tears
Nightfall embrace my heart

Mesmerized and ravendark

My pale enchantress of the night
I desire thee

Tearful I walk with thee through dusk
through winds of loss.
Her beauty and her flood
embrace my bleeding heart
Tearful I fall with thee, at last
lead me there to where thy shadows cast
They dance in velvet darkness lost

Rise bleak winterfullmoon
Rise

In life I kissed the serpent in thy tears
For years thy sorrow I mourned

Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But mostly you just make me mad
Baby, you just make me mad

Linger on, your pale blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes

Thought of you as my mountain top
Thought of you as my peak
Thought of you as everything
I’ve had but couldn’t keep
I’ve had but couldn’t keep

Linger on, your pale blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes

If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see
I’d put you in the mirror
I put in front of me
I put in front of me Linger on, your pale blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes

Skip a life completely
Stuff it in a cup
She said, “Money is like us in time
It lies, but can’t stand up
Down for you is up”

Linger on, your pale blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes

It was good what we did yesterday
And I’d do it once again
The fact that you are married
Only proves, you’re my best friend
But it’s truly, truly a sin

Linger on, your pale blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes