the perfect parner (in crime) - MP3

here's the song i was talking about having remastered today, in the last post.

download link to mp3 here

and lyrics follow:

dig this. shut up.
relax. take off your pants.
keeping watch on the hightower
and crashing out above the theater
on the roof you get an overview
and dreamt of sleeping underneath the stars.
whatever you do just make sure you don't burn down anyone's house
and if you're gonna black out
make sure it's around people who love you
otherwise subconscious aggression could get you stuck
progressive loops in time
perhaps life became too easy to understand
point A
a straight line to point B
exhibit evidence exhibitionism
at the point you finally thought you had it all worked out
will you demonstrate a willingness to destroy everything you know and start over?
stay tuned.
i guess we'll all find out when the time comes...

if jesus showed up in the van and said
"okay now's your chance to run!"
would you be ready or would you go back inside to grab your shoes -
nobody said this was going to be comfortable.
when everything falls apart i'll say see you later -
maybe some day on top of eiffel tower -
you never know how small life will get
or what will be coming down the road
so pack your bags and unload the excess packaging -
i'll take a bus all week if i have to
just scraping by.
there is no rule book for what i'm doing and very little advice -
making it up as you go along is more exciting than sticking to the plan
plans are for fools!
no point in panicking when the picnic is rained out
just go forth boldly.

brazen barren landscapes approach the vanishing advantages
but when the sun rose
and when it does shine
i feel like saying hi to every stranger walking by
wondering how you could ignore the humanity of a hardluck bum on the street
it's important.
we should be feeding each other grapes -
i want to be loved at all times and have real conversations
and wash your feet in sea salts and host my own late night show...
but i'm still looking for the perfect partner in crime
who would sleep with the judge to get me out of jail if necessary
'cause like a roman army regiment
if you're on my back you've got my back and there's no time to waste.
so much to do and get excited because the old manifesto still applies -
it's not that difficult

you need to be inspired by your surroundings
and wrap it all up into a story you can travel with
to keep your interest level high and tell the people -
hopefully that will provoke a reaction worthy of another trip to make the memory
and you can creatively cycle back in to yourself
in a positive feed back loop that becomes self generating -
once you've got that covered the only thing left to do is prostitute charm
and cherish insanity in so far as i've been careful what i fish for
it's catchy cumbersome components get discarded
by a feasible avoidance of work
to carry out the good word
where we reappropriate scripture and bind the hands and feet
of our favorite effigy
in pyrotechnic cord changes

i broke my staff and cut my hair
and rejected my own power long enough
so now the only question is knowing what's worth dreaming for -
good thing i relinquished control early on -
now Don't Get In The Way is the only consolation -
everyday nothing is the same -
isn't that encouraging?
turning the corner came in to full view -
back in that mode -
after the whole thing collapsed we could laugh about it all
40 years down the line in our strange artful secret cabal -
a conspiratorial group of plotters and intriguers -
and i'm not trying to make things worse
by being cliché and defying convention
and absolutely leading in to pure corruption
it's just that going mad seemed like more fun
so now i'm taking it one day at a time
and you play witness

born into the world
when it was the most exciting time to be alive -
at any given -
everything granted grateful -
gorgeous enormous admiration
adorable adhesive love and tiny music
piloting the temple weaponry toward reiteration
need to clear a couple pages out of your head
before you get to the proper synthesis
and step back into automatic action
not to be interrupted by some hightower preaching
lust con bandit visitor screaming:
DIG THIS!
SHUT UP!
RELAX!
TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS!
i'm not making this up
i'm making reference to something that only a few would understand
and presenting it in a context of no context
like the rest of the whole damn world.