Code Orange

For amber waves of radio
An orange tinted tv glows
Its orange like an oil field fire
Leaving clouds of black ribbons
The warm jets fly
Orange like the flashing lights
Orange when you close your eyes
And face the sun
Orange like the blush of shame
For things they'll do in our name
And I'm afraid of the price we'll pay
Orange like that bloody day
And orange like the flashing lights
Orange when you close your eyes
And face the sun
For amber waves of radio (and all that's fit, and all that's fit)
An orange tinted tv glows (and all that's fit, and all that's fit)
Orange like an oil field fire (and all that's fit, that's fit to print)
Orange when you close your eyes
Face the sun
Face the sun
Face the sun
Face the sun

TV Commercials

TV commercials make me wanna cry like a baby longing for something long gone
Cause I can't go back to embryonic catatonia, I'll have to settle for my easy chair
Life's ambition, purpose and passion. It handles like a dream with power steering
TV commercials, you know they changed my life
and I'll feel better just to know that such happiness exists
Cause I wanna be so completely new, like a baby
and the blank screens stare back at me
A wife and family, gorgeous memories. And all you ever needed was a camera. (uh-huh)

Machines That Dream

The hum of sleep.
Machines that dream
Of remedies. Of remedies
They'll work in whispers
They're crossing wires
And they're moving numbers
They're gonna make it better
Versions of me
In units of story
Are streaming through the database
They'll work in whispers
They're crossing wires
And they're moving numbers
They're gonna make it better

Smoking the Filter

Am I still your favorite?
Has your affinity up and quit?
I'm down to the filter and I'm sick of it
Now tell me: who's your favorite?
If I could roll this whole affair
into one small bone-like cigarette
I'd say we've burned down the best of it
And I'm just smoking the filter
Outside of some smoke-free bar
We can talk and talk about it
How those dirty ghosts have broken in,
And how our house is haunted
Now I may have tried to protect myself
From the sparkling tar and black chemicals
But when you get down and you burn down to it
Its still pretty ugly
Shouldn't have lied to you
I shouldn't have filtered everything through
Shouldn't have lied
And I'll smoke a pack a day
Then I'll change my brand
Most of my life I've changed my name.
And I do it for you (that's right)
Outside is our place to talk
But we're just staring down at the side-walk
And I've run out of ways to win
So I'm smoking the filter
Last call could last forever
There's no way that this is it
But last call seems like now or never
Baby, who's your favorite?

Gloria

Pack my bags and hit the road (gloria)
When I've found my peace of mind
I will know where I'm going
And where to go
There's some things I gotta know (gloria)
Some small mystery
When its dark outside
There's a light in your eyes
Where'd it come from?
Where's it go?
You've got a funny way of talking (gloria)
And I like the way you talk
Whats gotten into you?
Whats this stuff that sparkles through like birds?
Now there's some things I'll never know (gloria)
And I like it that way
When I have given up
figuring out a sunny day
Pack my bags and hit the road (gloria)
When I've found my peace of mind
I will know where I'm going
And where to go.

Toothache

When I get a toothache
Its like a slow alarm clock
Stretched out on a string of nerves
And I have to pull it out.
My smile is like a ghost town
And I'm a weary sailor
So sleep-deprived from out at sea
But I'm never going home
So everybody that I ever met
I better forget about
Everybody that I ever met
I better forget about you.
No novacaine can fill a hole
Just makes numb again old doubts
When a wolf is caught in a snapped trap
There's only one way out
And for every stuck piece of me
Another surgery
The ghost leg of an amputee is howling
And I better forget about you
If the occasional shark attack
Or raging scurvy
Should make you worry baby,
Don't look back
Teeth and limbs are just collateral
For open seas
And its the sailors life for me

The Goodbye Lullaby

It feels good out on a limb
Even if the bow may break
You'll get good at falling in and out of bed
Like falling in and out of love
And you can try to remember old friends
But they'll pass right through your hands
Like they pass through the halls of your life
And fade like ghosts, like photographs
You were once my good boy. You were once my good boy
You were once my good boy. You were once my good boy

Runaway Family

I've got a wife and kid
I watch over them
We drive from town to town
Leave in the dead of night.
(sleep, sleep, sleep, darling.)
And I'm like a shephard now, I watch over them
We drive from town to town, leave in the dead of night
Together on the run, cause I'm like a shephard now
Leave in the dead of night, drive through the dead of night
(sleep, sleep, sleep, darling.)
We are just a runaway family. We are just a runaway family
When I was just a man, I'd ride the train to work
I'd catch her looking, everyday I fall in love
I wanna tell her so, I just want her to know
And then I'll say goodbye, leave in the dead of night
We are just a runaway family. We are just a runaway family.
We are just a runaway family. Now, we are just a runaway family.
La La la-La La

Albuquerque (Neil Young)

Well they say that Sant Fe is less than 90 miles away
And I've got time to roll a number and rent a car
Oh… Albuquerque
And been flying down the road. And I've been starving to be alone
Independent from the scene that I've known
Oh… Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Vietnam Movies

When we go to the rainy day matinee. (ahh…)
They will show old vietnam movies. (ahh…)
And when the water falls through holes in the ceiling. (ahh…)
We will all get soaked to the bone. (ahh…)

Fire Escapism

Don't you get lonely America?
Don't you get tired and blue?
Let me satisfy you
Dim down all the lights in the movie house
Come now, come away.
We'll make things right
Cause when we were younger,
I kidnapped you
I was a kid then too.
And I kidnapped you
I was in my pajamas on the fire escape
Black rings around my eyes
I heard you singing
"The road I'm on has got the slightest bend
And I've been travelling so long. Since I don't know when."
Don't you get lonely America?
A circle is strong and true
And its pulling you
Come in from the rain, dim down the lights
Highways will be untangled some other night
Then in the sixties and seventies
Even the tv news could hypnotize you
Thats just nature versus nature
Come and go
Black rings around my eyes
I heard you singing.

Summersalts

Winter salts are not at all like summer salts
Scattered out on icy roads to aid the thaw
They can spin you out so slow, you'll feel like you're standing still
When the other side comes around, you'll wonder where its been
But with the turning tide
Comes the summer time
You get the spins
Summer salts are jostly and shake with joy and fear
Summer salts can hustle you and fill you up with beer
And that must be why
In the summer time
You get the spins.
Afternoons and lazy dogs
We'll sleep on baking roads
The heat rolls off and the trucks go by (count 'em: 1-2-3-4)
In the summer time
In the summer time
You get the spins
(In an accident on a summer highway, our car just skids and rolls
And it seemed like we were standing still, just spinning out so slow
Then the other side comes around and shows you how it feels
There are seasons inside seasons and we are full of wheels.)