Track Listing

1. 1. New Year's Day Listen

   Never should have listened to that friend of mine
   He said the work was here and the girls were fine
   But all I do is wait in line to be told that I’m not right
   
   Never should have climbed the Rockies in my lousy car
   Three thousand miles to chase this star
   I got to save my money and tend this bar
   To get that eastbound flight
   
   Don’t want to waste another day in LA in the land of the endless summer
   Sometimes it seems these California dreams are just one long bummer
   And I was born the son of a mummer
   I’m gonna keep on keep on waiting on new years day
   
   I’ll be up all night making body heat
   Bring my golden slippers down to 2 street
   And don’t that glockenspiel sound sweet in the January air
   
   I’m gonna raise my glass to the first sunrise
   Dance and strut with all my guys
   I gotta kiss the girl with the ice blue eyes confetti in her hair, gotta be there
   
   Chorus
   
   Bridge
   
   Here we stand at your door
   Like we did the year before
   Give us whiskey give us gin
   Open up and let us in
   
    

2. 2. Go My Way (The iPod Song) Listen

   Still in bed but it’s time to go
   You bump your head, you stub your toe and the landlord says the rent’s 2 weeks behind.
   You catch the train but the train breaks down, it starts to rain, you walk downtown to the only lousy job that you could find.
   Your boss says, “You’re not working here no more”
   But here she comes like a vision sliding through the door, you say
   
   Oh my god, oh my god
   Where did she get that body?
   What’s she got on the iPod that gives her hips that sway?
   She knows she’s an 11 but if I was 007 I would take that girl to heaven each and every day
   But things just don’t seem to go my way
   
   It’s Thursday night no time to pout
   Cause you got no job might as well go out and head down to the playground of the stars
   So you brush your teeth and you smoke some dope, but there’s Mr.T, the velvet rope and all the pretty people getting out of long black cars
   T says “You’re not getting in here tonight”
   Here she comes again stepping to the front of the line, you say
   
   Oh my god, oh my god
   Where did she get that body?
   What’s she got on the iPod that gives her hips that sway?
   She knows she’s an 11 but if I was 007 I would take that girl to heaven each and every day
   But things just don’t seem to go my way
   
   You’re back at home and you’re back in bed
   You’re all alone with an aching head, you close your eyes as the sun comes streaming in
   It could be better but it could be worse and it’s not like it’s some evil curse ,you drift off to the place where dreams begin
   There she is just talking to some guys
   But you walk right up, you look that girl straight in the eyes, and you say
   
   Oh my god, oh my god Baby!
   Where did you get that body?
   Baby what you got on the iPod that gives you hips that sway
   You know you’re an 11 but I feel like 007 girl I wanna take you straight to heaven each and every day
   Tonight things just might be going my way
   Tell me baby, are you gonna go my way
   You know things just don’t seem to go my way
   
    

3. 3. Almost Got Rich Listen

   I ALMOST GOT RICH AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS
   I ALMOST HAD MONEY COMING OUT OF MY EARS
   RUN OFF THE ROAD AND BACK IN THE DITCH
   CAUSE I ALMOST GOT
   NEVER GOT
   COULDN’T GET RICH
   
   BOULDER COLORADAO 1965
   IN A 4 PIECE COVER BAND CALLED PETER AND THE WOLVES
   WHAT WE LACKED IN MUSICAL SKILL
   WE MADE UP RAISING HELL
   BUT PETER’S GRANDMOTHER’S UNCLE’S FRIEND
   KNEW NEIL SEDAKA’S MANAGER WHO SAID HE WOULD SEND
   MY FUNKY LITTLE BAND ON A NATIONAL TOUR
   SO WE WAITED BY THE PHONE
   AND WE WAITED AND WE WAITED SOME MORE
   
   4 YEARS LATER PHILADELPHIA
   WITH MY OLD FRIEND LARRY IN THE GROUP GOOD NEWS
   MR. DAVIS WANTED TO KNOW
   IF THE JESUS THING WOULD GO
   BUT A GAY PRIEST RABBI WAITED IN THE WINGS
   WRITING ALL THE WORDS TO THE SONGS I HAD TO SING
   IT WAS MUHAMMED AND BUDDAH AND JUST PLAIN WEIRD
   BUT I CLOSED MY EYES AND SANG AND THE PEOPLE CHEERED
   
   IF LIVING A LIFE IN MUSIC GIRL IS IT’S OWN REWARD
   WRAP YOUR LITTLE HAND AROUND THAT GOLDEN CREDIT CARD
   KNOWING YOU BELIEVE IN ME IS ALL THAT GETS ME THROUGH
   BUT WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU BABE I HAVE N’T GOT A CLUE
   
   40 YEARS LATER NOTHING MUCH HAS CHANGED
   HERE WE ARE STILL BANGING AWAY
   TO THE SOUND OF GRINDING GEARS
   ANOTHER SONG APPEARS
   AND A STATION IN NEW JERSEY IS PLAYING OUR CD
   BUT MY BROTHERS IN LA AND THEN HE’S GOT A MOVIE
   THE BAND’S OFF TOURING THEN IT’S FERGIE AND THE PEAS
   DON’T LOOK NOW BOY CAUSE YOUR DREAMS ARE DOWN AROUND YOUR KNEES
   
    

4. 4. Bunch Of Words Listen

   When I was a child I heard them coming from my Sisters room and they spoke of peace and love and war and hate and hope and doom.
   And I knew they would change the world and mend this broken nation. Now they feel like memories coming from the oldies station.
   Just a bunch of words in a simple chain. On a hotel napkin with a red wine stain.
   Just a bunch of words and some simple chords that will soon be gone.
   Just a song.
   The monkey took my friend and beat him right into the ground. So I was there the day they spread his ashes all around.
   I sang one I wrote for him, but felt just like a hack because I knew my pretty little ditty wasn’t ever gonna bring him back
   Chorus
   One to move us, one to sooth us, one to educate. Major happy, minor sad, sometimes modulate.
   I know a pirate in the Caribbean who’s broken all the rules. Now he stands and sings for drunken kids from NY private schools.
   I ask him how he keeps it up and his eyes begin to glisten. He says, “It’s who I am, it’s what I do on the off chance they might listen”
   To a bunch of words in a simple chain. On a hotel napkin with a red wine stain.
   Just a bunch of words and some simple chords that will soon be gone.
   Just a song. Just a bunch of words in a simple chain and a happy tune and a sad refrain.
   Just a bunch of word and some simple chords that will soon be gone.
   Just a song
   But right or wrong, it’s just a song.
   We gotta soldier on , it’s just a song…
   
    

5. 5. Bitter Man Listen

   There’s a smile on the subway as the punk gives up his seat
   The piano tuner stops her work to play something sad and sweet
   And a bag of rice falls from the sky so today the child will eat
   The fighter pushes off the matt and struggles to his feet
   But will I become a bitterman, a bitterman with bitter ways
   Or will your love make me a better man, shine a brighter light on these gray days
   A boy is bathed in shrapnel in the forgotten western wing
   But somewhere behind his blackened eyes he can hear his Mama sing
   Yo quiero mi pequeno, how I love my little one
   And he dreams he walks in country on the surface of the sun
   So will I become a bitterman, a bitterman with bitter ways
   Or will your love make me a better man
   Shine a brighter light on these gray days
   I am a gray bird on the wing
   I drink from hopes eternal spring
   Brighter days of thee I sing, of thee I sing
   
    

6. 6. Tell Me What I Have To Do Listen

   Can’t walk on water, I barely swim at all
   But give me a sign and I’ll climb in a barrel and go over Niagara Falls
   Never learned to fly like an angel, that’s one skill I lack
   But if you want me to I’ll jump of the Empire State Building with a parachute on my back
   
   Tell me what I have to do, what do I have to do, what do I have to do
   to make you love me
   How long must I burn with nothing in return?
   Tell me what I have to baby just to make you mine
   
   Can’t hold my breath for over nine minutes in a big fish bowl
   ‘Cause I’d turn blue, but there’s nothing new, girl; I’ve been blue before
   See, I’ve been blue
   Too tired to train with Jack LaLaine or be a Chip ‘n Dale dancer
   But I can roll my abs and shake my booty if I thought I’d get a positive answer
   
   [Chorus]
   
   I want to be part of your design
   What I’d give for just a little sign
   
    

7. 7. Architeuthis Listen

   I have been down here for so many years, far from your poison wind, gadgets and gears.
   And the blood in my veins flows just like ice.
   That’s the way that I like it, I think it feels nice.
   Won’t you let me go down
   Float away from the light
   Won’t you let me go down
   It’s a beautiful night
   Gliding away in my inky black sea
   Let me go down, let me be.
   So you took my right arm and my dignity
   Go ahead take what you want but let me go free
   You’re not going to help things by lying to me
   Because my days are numbered, on that we agree
   Chorus
   I can remember a time when I was unknown
   I was graceful and silent , alive and alone
   So here you come with your cameras and pencils and books, and all your preconceived notions like grappling hooks
   You say you’ve come to meet the “real me”
   Well here is some insight I’ll give you for free
   Chorus
   
    

8. 8. Children Listen

   Jesus walked on water, he turned water into wine
   If you believe this to be true that’s just fine, just fine with me
   Moses walked the chosen people straight through the Red Sea
   If you think you are chosen Brother that’s alright with me
   Are there 72 virgins waiting for you when you’re gone?
   Are you rocking to Nirvana? Rock on, rock on
   
   But Please don’t hurt the children, please lay down the rod
   Please don’t send your bombs in and say you’re doing the work of God
   Faith is not a weapon. Hate won’t set us free
   You believe what you believe and that’s OK with me
   
   Those aliens inside your head have filled your heart with fear
   So hook yourself to my machine and you’ll get clear, get clear
   You can quake and shake your horse and buggy, wear that little hat.
   Or get yourself 100 wives, I’m OK with that
   Broken mirrors, tarot cards, black cats, and ESP
   You believe what you believe and that’s OK with me
   
   But please don’t hurt the children, please lay down the rod.
   Please don’t send your guns in and say you’re doing the work of god.
   Faith is not a weapon. Hate won’t set us free
   You believe what you believe and that’s OK with me
   
   She kissed me in the summer storm, the rain fell from above
   So I believe in nature . I believe in love
   And I believe that nine months later I held him on my knee.
   You call that a miracle? Who am I to disagree?
   
   But Please don’t hurt the children, please lay down the rod
   Please don’t send our Sons and Daughters in and say you’re doing the work of God
   Faith is not a weapon. Hate won’t set us free
   You believe what you believe and that’s OK with me
   
    

9. 9. Eye Of The Storm Listen

   As this world spins out of control, you and I know it’s taking its toll
   There’s a black cloud rising to turn day to night
   Look in my eyes, take my hand, hold on tight
   And we will run into the eye of the storm.
   We will run into that place where our love was born.
   Through the wind, through the rain, through the sorrow, through the pain, heart to heart, skin on skin, sweet and warm in the eye of the storm.
   Can’t you see the danger we’re in?
   Hide your face turn you back against the wind.
   It lifts us up so high where will we land?
   Take my body, take my soul, baby take my hand
   Chorus
   And if we ride this out someday we’ll see the sun, but to the darkest part of night we will run…
   
    

10. 10. Wild Life Listen

    Her Daddy bent the silver spoon
    He was selling things he didn’t own
    He was flying for TWA
    I was in a ten room shack
    Wanting nothing more than to black
    Singing I just want to celebrate
    She was spinning “Eat a Peach”
    Avoiding weekends at the beach
    Hanging on the boys with windowpane
    I was working at the tasty freeze
    Just trying on my new disease
    I was all messed up in the New York rain
    
    We were living on Wildlife
    There’s some long wild nights
    But you know the strong will survive
    To keep love alive when you’re living on Wildlife
    
    She was staying east of vine
    Pretending everything was fine
    Long before we all drank bottled water
    I had myself a big black car,
    a big black dog and an angry scar
    She was everything the doctor ordered
    
    Now she’s making half a buck
    There are bodies in LA aqueduct
    No more cigarettes but she’s still smoking
    I’ve become the oceans slave
    Waiting for that perfect wave
    And to this day her heart remains unbroken
    Still…
    
     

11. 11. Kikko's Song Listen