ALBUM: MURMUR
							last revised 7/24/93 
SONG: RADIO FREE EUROPE
 
Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay.
Reason: it could polish up the grey.
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't country at all

Radio station, decide yourself
 
Keep me out of country in the word
Deal of fortunes leading us absurd.
Push that, push that, push that to the floor
That this isn't nothing at all.

Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling out in transit, calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
 
Decide defying media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't fortunate at all
 
Radio station, decide yourself
Calling out in transit, calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe, radio.

Decide yourself, calling all of the medias too fast
 
Keep me out of country in the word
Disappoint us and to us absurd

Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling out in transit, calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
 
 
SONG: PILGRIMAGE
 
Take a turn, take a turn
Take our fortune, take our fortune
 
They called the clip a two-headed cow
Your hate clipped and distant, your luck, pilgrimage
Rest assured this will not last, take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant, your luck a two-headed cow
The pilgrimage has gained momentum
Take a turn, take a turn
Take our fortune, take our fortune
 
Speakin' in tongues, it's worth a broken lip
Your hate clipped and distant, your luck, pilgrimage
Rest assured this will not last, take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant, your luck a two-headed cow
The pilgrimage has gained momentum
Take a turn, take a turn
Take our fortune, take our fortune

Pilgrimage.  Pilgrimage.

Speakin' in tongues, it's worth a broken lip
Your hate clipped and distant, your luck
Rest assured this will not last, take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant, your luck two-headed
The pilgrimage has gained momentum
Take a turn, take a turn
Take our fortune, take our fortune

Pilgrimage.  Pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage has gained momentum
Take a turn, take a turn
Take our fortune, take our fortune
Take a turn, take a turn
Take our fortune, take our fortune

 
SONG: LAUGHING
 
Laocoon and her two sons
Pressured storm, tried to move
No other more, emotion bound
Martyred, misconstrued
 
Lighted in a room, lanky room
Lighted, lighted, laughing in tune
Lighted, lighted, laughing
 
Laocoon and her two sons
Run the gamut, sated view
Know them more, emotion bound
Martyred, misconstrued
 
Lighted in a room, lanky room
Lighted, lighted, laughing in tune
Lighted, lighted, laughing

In a room, lock the door, latch the room
Lighted, lighted, laughing
 
Laocoon and her two sons
Ran the gamut, settled new,
Find a place fit to laugh,
Lock the doors, latch the room
Lighted in a room, lanky room
Lighted, lighted, laughing in tune
Lighted, lighted, laughing in tune
Lighted, lighted, laughing in tunes
Lighted, lighted, laughing in tunes
 
 
SONG: TALK ABOUT THE PASSION
 
Empty prayer, empty mouths, combien reaction
Empty prayer, empty mouths, talk about the passion
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
 
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
 
Empty prayer, empty mouths, combien reaction
Empty prayer, empty mouths, talk about the passion
Combien, combien, combien de temps?
 
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Combien, combien, combien de temps?

Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
(repeat)
 

SONG: MORAL KIOSK
 
Scratch for scandals in the twilight
Trying to shock but instead
Idle hands all orient to her
Pass a magic pillow under head
It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk
Inside, oh God, fire, twilight
Inside, oh God, fire, twilight
 
They scratch for scandals in the twilight
She was laughing like a Horae
Put that knee in dour landslide
Take this step to dash a roving heart
It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk
Inside, oh God, fire, twilight
Inside, oh God, fire, twilight

(repeat first verse)
 

SONG: PERFECT CIRCLE
 
Put your hair back, you get to leave
Eleven gallows on your sleeve
Shallow figure, winner's pain
Eleven shadows way out of place
Standing too soon, shoulders higher in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders higher in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders higher in the room
 
Pull your dress on and stay real close
Who might leave you where I left off?
A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends
Drink another, coin a phrase
Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room
Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room
Heaven assumed, shoulders high in the room
 
Try to win and suit your needs
Speak out sometimes and try to win
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room
 
 
SONG: CATAPULT
 
Ooh, we were little boys
Ooh, we were little girls
It's nine o'clock, don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole, ugly mouth.  Question:
Did we miss anything?  Did we miss anything?
Did we miss anything?  Did we miss anything?
Catapult. Catapult. Catapult. Catapult.
 
Ooh, we were little boys
Ooh, we were little girls
It's nine o'clock, don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole, ugly mouth.
We in step, in hand, your mother remembers this.
Hear the howl of the rote.  Question:
Did we miss anything?  Did we miss anything?
Did we miss anything?  Did we miss anything?
Catapult. Catapult. Catapult. Catapult.

Much could be darker. Much could be darker.
Catapult. Catapult. Catapult. Catapult.
 
(Repeat 2nd verse)

 
SONG: SITTING STILL
 
's name o' God we all agree
Secret stop stop it well-read
We could bind it in the cist
We could gather, throw a fit
 
Up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not Mae Ann
See them tromp up the big hill, wasting time sitting still
 
I'm the sign and you can read.
I'm the sign and you're not deaf.
We could bind it in the cist.
We could gather, throw a fit.
 
Up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not Mae Ann
See them tromp up the big hill, wasting time sitting still
I can hear you.  I can hear you.  I can hear you.

's name o' God we all agree
Secret stop stop it well-read
We could bind it in the cist
We could gather, throw a fit.

Up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not Mae Ann
See them tromp up the big hill, wasting time sitting still
I can hear you.  I can hear you.  I can hear you.
 
You can gather when I talk, talk until you're blue
You could get away from me.  Get away from me.

Up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not me
See them tromp up the big hill, wasting time sitting still
I can hear you.  I can hear you.  I can hear you.
I can hear you.  I can hear you.  I can hear you.
Can you hear me?
 
 
SONG: 9-9
 
Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually reenforced.
Now what does that mean?
Is there a just contradiction?
Nothing much.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, don't hesitate.

Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back

Give me a compunction,
Give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear
 
Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back

Give me a compunction,
Give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear

Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually reenforced.
Now what does that mean?
Is there a just contradiction?
Nothing much.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, oh come on, hesitate, hesitate.

Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back

Give me a compunction,
Give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear

Conversation fear. Conversation fear. Conversation fear.


SONG: SHAKING THROUGH
 
Could it be that one small voice doesn't count in the world?
Yellow like a geisha gown, denial all the way
Could this by three be turned?  Honor marches on.
Yellow like a geisha gown, denial all the way

Shaking through, opportune. Shaking through, opportune.
 
Ah, have we gone way too far?
Taking after rain
Yellow like a geisha gown, denial all the way
Shaking through, opportune.  Shaking through, opportune.

In my life.
 
Is that a steal?
Children of today on parade,
Yellow like a geisha gown, denial all the way
Shaking through, opportune. Shaking through, opportune.
Shaking through, opportune. Shaking through, opportune.
 
 
SONG: WE WALK
 
Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis, Marat's bathing
We walk through the wood we walk
Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis, Marat's bathing
We walk through the woods we walk
Take oasis take oasis take oasis take oasis
Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis, Marat's bathing
We walk through the world we walk
Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis, Marat's bathing
Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis, Marat's bathing
Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall
Into the hall
 
 
SONG: WEST OF THE FIELDS
 
Long gone, intuition to assume are gone when we try.
Dream of a living jungle in my way back home when we die.
 
West of the fields. West of the fields. West of the fields. West of the fields.
Long gone. Long gone. Long gone. Long gone. West of the fields.
 
Dreams of Elysian, to assume are gone when we try
Tell now what is dreaming
When we try to listen with your eyes oversimplify
 
The animals, how strange.  Try, try to stick it in.
The animals, how strange.  Try, try to stick it in.
 
Dreams of Elysian, to assume are gone when we try
Tell now what is dreaming when we try.
Listen through your eyes when we drive.

West of the fields. West of the fields. West of the fields. West of the fields.
Long gone. Long gone. Long gone. Long gone. West of the fields.
