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Zoology Lyrics


Brother

I know it – I know it’s too late for me
And I know it – I know it won’t break for me

And signs that point to signs are all I see
Lining streets surrounding me all ways, always

Anyway that I can help you, you know I’d try
‘Cause I will die with you
Brother our whole lives you had your bearings
And I had mine

And lines that follow lines are all I see
Crossing points surrounding me all ways, always

Take me with you


All We Are

Different faces, different styles - so far away
Like a child, wander child

Will I ever find my way?

Getting off but going nowhere I haven’t seemed to find the line
I’m missing and I can’t tell how or why

Painful laughter, cynical smile - with no translation
No reply, the city sighs

Will I ever find my way?

Getting off but going nowhere I haven’t seemed to find the line
I’m missing and I can’t tell how or why
Every handshake makes me wonder what part I play in the design
Ten million faces I have recognized, I recognized

One climb – endless ways
One life – endless change

All we are we are in kind
All we are we are in life
All we are we are in stride
All we are we are in love


Numbers of Me

I want to see past curtains I didn’t choose
The game show blues is sticking to me
Trapped in light speed I separate a million ways
They all become one big escape for me

But I have it all - I am it all

Crazy dreams all in the way, deconstructing hope and fate
'Cause I can see numbers of me that ain’t so very hard to take
Parts of a whole I'll never be, they’re black and white portraits that bleed
I just watch them fade to grey, angles that never bend or fray

We fall we bleed, we’re scared to make the same mistakes
We all live out the same clichés, don’t we?
I should be free but I never seem to carry through
It never seems to carry through for me


Overgrown

Do you know what you do to me? What you couldn’t see? You can not fall
Do you know what you do to me? You can not call on me when I am gone

Do you know what I’ll do when I am all overgrown?
It was all that I wanted, to be alone - I won’t
Do you know what I’ll do when I am all on my own
I’ll be with you

Do you know what you do to me? What you couldn’t see? You can not call
Do you know what you do to me? You can not call on me when I am gone

Why can’t I be strong? Where did I go wrong?
How’d it take so long? Where am I right now?
Why can’t I be strong? Where did I go wrong?
How’d it take so long? Where am I right now?
Right where I belong


Sad and Still

Love, where do I go, what do I do
Where do I go without you? Without you?

“Life I wanted to see - I wanted to stay
Didn’t want to fade away
But I know that you’ll heal, and I know that your time
Is sad and still…”

“Why, why can't I see? Why can't I stay?
Didn’t want to slip away
What did I feel? When is my time?
It's sad and still – still”

So, you said that we will not be everything we want to be
But one cliché at a time
Oh I, I know it will hurt us too, that everything we said we’d do
Is going to make us liars


Caroline

Tortured TV personality
Lonely playboy, choked-up mom of three
Hopeless tycoon, washed up prodigy
Helplessness and serial monogamy

All we need all we need
All we need is heart
Now we’re broke all on our own
Caroline I’m sorry

Worn down local celebrity
Damaged schoolgirl, sex scenes on TV
Desperate lover, shattered friends-to-be
Joylessness and empty apologies

Competing loyalties aside
You’re my friend and you’re my kind
The great escape’s not behind
You’re my friend and you’re my pride


I Am the Sea

You’ll do what you have to do
We’ll break when we need to break

And it won’t be long ‘til we can breathe – relief
If you’re anything you are the sea

You change like the days change
You wait, don’t know why you wait – disobey

And it won’t be long ‘til we release – we’ll bleed
If we’re anywhere we’re in the deep

Standing in your place there’s a chill, but I’m not afraid
We’ve seen them before, sea change wars, they’re all the same

This can’t this can’t be
This won’t this won’t be
Let us just let us be
Let us just let us be


You Love a Spaceman

Baby brought a spaceman home from school, he had a silver helmet she thought was cool
Baby thinks her lovers are so out-dated, our Baby just has something she’s got to prove

So – she’s not weightless on her own

Baby brought a spaceman home from school with teenie-tiny moon boots she thought were new
Baby’s action figures are so outrageous, don’t bother Baby won’t be impressed with you

Never me, never you - we come from opposite rings of Saturn
From the man in the moon to the toys that you will break up and shatter

Baby brought a spaceman home from school, she has some simple tests she wants to do
Baby knows the spaceman is getting nervous, Baby told him “Nothing’s expected of you”

After I’m gone…


AC/DC Idol

Brittle candy hands make a fist and everybody laughs
Wholesome rebel, new wave boys want to be Duran Duran Duran

Sporty new ‘dos like a hairdresser’s super-group
Beloved, acclaimed, the future needs it's joke all the same

Neon Fender looks like a gift from a Culture Club fan
But still you make good copy too, hip weekly says you’re their new favorite band

Wake up its make-up, needed you for oh so long
Hold on to clip on to Chia-soul

You’ll see me as a fashion scam, so
We’ll each be half a gingerbread man
AC – you see the kids will laugh at me
DC – still seems like the perfect plan

Respectful, successful, your white belt shines like ten-thousand mighty suns
Rag dolls with radio power, computers reach out for love and we pay by the hour

You’ll get older, you’ll get weak
You’ll be the pride and joy of reality TV
I know you had a damn good ride and if you’d had a longer time
I know you had those kiddies fooled, I know you think they need you

AC – help me and hold my hand, so
DC – I can at least try to stand
AC – two feet right in front of me
DC – Chuckies and my checkered Vans


Zoology

Dismiss me by your own volition
I have had enough of dealing with the likes of you
'Cause I could eat your soul with a spoon

I have answered all of your questions
I have talked a minute or two
And you, oh you – 54, 5, 6 and more

If I had the chance I’d,
If I had the chance I’d roll
Your greedy sack right out the door, right out the door

Discussing my imagination
With a failing actor-musician – where’s your zoo?
I think you’re trying to rent me a room

You’ve taken all you can from me?
Have you burned out all the lights?
To dimiss me

Zoology - your mind
Soaring ahead, vulture of mine
You need to taste our muse
Haven’t you? True blue

You oughta see the line
To crawl into bed, loveable swine
You talk about your pop stars
Real art’s so divine


Inside Out

Help me from myself
Help me from the inside out

If you gotta game to show me, then you’ve got a game to show me
Help me with everything that’s stomping up on my brain

Save me from the shelf
Save me please right now from drying out

Stomping on my brain and getting in the way
Bending from the strain, I wanna show you
Carrying a weight, nothing good to say
Driving you away, but I wanna show you

Changing your name, planning your escape
Just melt away and lose it when you’d hoped to…
Love one day, empty picture frames
Hopeless tirade and a long-limbed ghost who
Sold you out for fame and pricy champagne
With winking old-maids and all they’d plan to…
Cleaning the slate, winning the day
Death’s been staged, just take what they give you


Fortuna

Outside of all control
Tragedy meets casual

Lay down, stay down

You break my heart with hope
You burn my only home

Luck is all I ever need
My luck is all I ever need

We will always be untouched




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