Motherland. ( 2001).

This house is on fire.

Live performance from Rock IM Ring, Nurburgring, Germany 05/18/02

This House is on fire!

Kick off your boots, come and sit a spell

Listen to me worry, come and listen well

All you better best come and lean in boys

Cause I don't dare to raise my voice

I've been sitting here for the longest time

Reading all the warning and the danger signs

I don't have the gift of the prophecy

Telling everybody how it's gonna be

Soon come, soon come the day this tinderbox

Is gonna blow in your face

I don't have the gift of the prophecy

Telling everybody how it's gonna be

You go passing wrong for right and right for wrong

People only stand for that for just so long

It's all gonna catch like a house on fire

Spark an evil blaze and burn higher

Well, I don't have the gift of the prophecy

Telling everybody how it's gonna be

You go passing wrong for right and right for wrong

People only stand for that for just so long

I don't have the gift of the prophecy

Telling everybody how it's gonna be

There's a wild fire catching in the whip of the wind

That could start a conflagration

Like there has never been.

This house is on fire!

Motherland.

Where in hell can you go

Far from the things that you know

Far from the sprawl of concrete

That keeps crawling its way

About 1,000 miles a day?

Take one last look behind

Commit this to memory and mind

Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place

When you leave

Keep your heart off your sleeve

Motherland cradle me

Close my eyes

Lullaby me to sleep

Keep me safe

Lie with me

Stay beside me

Don't go, don't you go

O, my five & dime queen

Tell me what have you seen?

The lust and the avarice

The bottomless, the cavernous greed

Is that what you see?

Motherland cradle me

Close my eyes

Lullaby me to sleep

Keep me safe

Lie with me

Stay beside me

Don't go

It's your happiness I want most of all

And for that I'd do anything at all, o mercy me!

If you want the best of it or the most of all

If there's anything I can do at all

Now come on shot gun bride

What makes me envy your life?

Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free,

What's that like to be?

Motherland cradle me

Close my eyes

Lullaby me to sleep

Keep me safe

Lie with me

Stay beside me

Don't go, don't you go

Saint Judas.

Saddle up the horses and wear your Sunday best

Sing your Sacred Harp, you be holier than the rest

Fill up the room with a grand and a thunderous song

Let it rattle out the windows, let it spill out on the lawn

Shout, shout your praises to the man who kissed the Lord

To the back stabbing brother that betrayed all of this world

Your Judas!

Yea, though you may walk in the valley in the dark

There's no greater evil than the darkness in your heart

Your stun guns, bloodhounds, needle and your razor wire

Your nylon shackle whipping post and your high tech burning tire

Your Judas!

Whiplash crack across the back, across the arms

Although you bound his feet, he running fast he running hard

Through them crickets in the corn and them horses in the field

Hear the "caw, caw" of the crows

See the devil at the wheel y'all, Judas!

Go on down to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,

Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee,

Georgia, Carolina, Carolina.

Put the law on you.

Do I have to put the law on you baby
For all the wicked things you do?
Am I gonna have to put the law on you baby?
That was not what I wanted to do

Do I have to put the law on you baby
To try and make you come out clean for every evil deed?
You're just about the lowest and the dirtiest thing
I've ever seen

Did you really think you could pull it off
The perfect crime, crime of the heart?
Do you really think that you'll get away
Do the crime and never ever pay?

Do I have to put the law out on you baby
Lock you up and throw away the key
For the countless counts of low down double-cross you've been about
Have you no decency?

Did you really think that you could pull it off
The perfect crime, crime of the heart?
Did you really think that you'll get away
Escape my justice until you're dying day?

Though you made it clear from the very start
There was no trusting you with my foolish heart
Though you maybe made it clear that didn't make it right

Do you really think you'll get away?
You can't escape my justice 'til my dying day

Build a Levee.

When I was just a little girl my mamma said to me,

"beware of the devil my child

In the dark rocky places he'll keep

Beware of the devil my child

Beware of his charming ways

You'll fall under an evil spell

Just looking at his beautiful face

You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside"

"don't go walking by the riverside

Alone in the pale moonlight

He'll come up upon you girl

With no earthy body in sight

Come up upon you girl

And he'll whisper something sweet

Then take you where the waters rise

So high and run so deep."

"you gotta build yourself a levee deep inside

Gotta build yourself a levee deep inside

Build yourself a levee girl when the waters run high"

Now when I was just a little girl my mamma said to me,

"beware of the devil my child

But if by chance you should meet

Beware of his cold dark eyes full of bold and unholy deceit

He'll tempt you with a whirling pool of lies and promises

He'll deny or that he will never keep"

"you gotta build yourself a levee deep inside

Gotta build yourself a levee deep inside

Build yourself a levee girl when the waters run high"

Golden Boy.

Top of the fold
Toast of the town
Everyone stops when you come around
They hold their breath for you

Heroes are born
Idols are made
We're all fools for this factory fame
And you've got the brand new face

You've got the brand new face
Golden boy

Beauty untamed
Stupid and wild
Poster boy, you're society's child
Cut your teeth
Cut your mouth
Cut it out

Meteor rise from obscurity
All it took was a killing spree
And the whole world was lying at your feet
Golden boy

I know my place
Stick to my lines
Stay in your shadow
Don't block your light

So you can shine divine
Golden boy

Henry Darger

Who'll save the poor little girl?

Henry Darger

Henry Darger

Who'll save the poor little girl?

O, Henry...

Who'll tell the story of her?

Henry Darger

Henry Darger

Who'll tell it all to the world?

O, Henry...

Who'll buy the carbon paper now?

Henry Darger

Henry Darger

Who'll trace the lines of her mouth?

O, Henry...

Who will conquer foreign worlds

Searching for the stolen girls?

Princesses you'll never fear

The patron saint of girls is here!

Who will draw the calvary in

Risk his very own precious skin

To make our Angelinia a free and peaceful land again?

Henry

Who'll love a poor orphan child?

Henry Darger

Henry Darger

Lost, growing savage and wild?

O, Henry

O, Henry

O, Henry

The worst Thing.

So you're in love, that's so good for you

Live it up girl 'cause it never lasts too long

It's heaven for now, but not for long

It's gonna hurt you

It's gonna make you feel so bad 

Once I could love, I could trust, I could not doubt

But that was just about the worst thing that I could do

It was just about the worst thing that I could do 

Maybe not now, but it won't take long

Before it's gonna hurt you

And truly do you some harm 

Once I was open, could hope, I had no doubt

But that was the worst thing that I could do

It was just about the worst thing that I could do 

Once I came close to that most elusive fire

Burning with hopeless love and desire

But it was just about the worst thing that I could do

It was just about the worst thing I could do 

En el pasado que estuve ciega como tu

Atrapada y perdida, como tu

Embelesada y suspendida en mi jaula de plata

Esos recuerdos me accompanaran toda la vida 

(in the past I was blind as you,

Trapped and lost like you with no escape

Suspended in my silver cage

These memories will remain with you forever.)

Tell yourself.

I know what you tell yourself, you tell yourself.

Look in the mirror, look in the mirror what does it show?

I hear you counting

I know you're adding. adding up the score.

I know, oh yes I know what you tell yourself,

Tell yourself.

Ever since Eden we're built for pleasing everyone knows

And ever since Adam cracked his ribs and let us go

I know, oh yes I know what you tell yourself

Tell yourself

Who taught you how to lie so well

And to believe in each and every word you say?

Who told you that nothing about you is alright

It's just no use, it's just no good you'll never be O.K.?

Well I know, I know that wrong's been done to you

"It's such a tough world," that's what you say

Well I know, I know it's easier said than done

But that's enough girl, give it away,

Give it, give it all away

Tell yourself that you're not pretty

Look at you, you're beautiful.

Tell yourself that no one sees

Plain Jane invisible me, just tell yourself

Tell yourself you'll never be

Like the anorexic beauties in the magazines

Just a bargain basement Barbie Doll

No belle du jour, no femme fatale

Just tell yourself

Tell yourself there's nothing worse

Than the pain inside and the way it hurts

But tell yourself it's nothing new

Cause everybody feels it too

They feel it too

And there's just no getting 'round

The fact that you're thirteen right now

Just can last.

I swear I know your face,

I wish I knew your name

I wish I could take you by the hand

If I could name it

If I could just explain it

If I could only help you,

Help you understand

I can see that you're hurting

Weighed down like a beast of burden

About to break your back.

God only knows that you're human

So what are they trying to do then

Believe me, they don't understand

That you have the wieght of the world today

It's on your back

A heavy load like that is gonna hold you back

It's gonna drag you down

You know it just can't last, just can't

You know it just can't last

They thought they could use you

Push you down and abuse you

And what's so sad is you've decided to hide

All your feelings

Got more pain than you can deal with

But ask yourself how can this last

I know you have the weight of the world today

It's on your back

A heavy load like that is gonna hold you back

It's gonna drag you down

You know it just can't last, just can't

You know it just can't last

Not in this Life.

Lately I've been walking all alone
Through the wind and through the rain
Been walking through the streets
Finding sweet relief in knowing that it won't be long

Lately it's occurred to me
That I've had enough of that
And lately I've been satisfied by simple things
Like breathing in and breathing out

Never again, not in this life
Will I be taken twice
Never again, not on your life
Will I make that same mistake
I can't make it twice

Lately it's occurred to me
Exactly what went wrong
I realized I compromised, I sacrificed
Far too much for far too long

Never again, not in this life
Will I be taken twice
Never again, not on your life
Will I make that same mistake
I can't make it twice

Starting out from here today
Swear I'm gonna change my ways
Once mistaken in this life
But never twice

Never again, not in this life
Will I be taken twice
Never again, not on your life
Will I make that same mistake
Never again, not on your life
Will I make that same mistake
Can't make it twice

Starting out from here today...

I´m not gonna beg.

I'm not gonna beg you for nothing

I'm not gonna beg you for your love

Straight talk, give me the straight talk

Tell me what's on your mind if it ain't love

I'm not gonna beg you for nothing

I'm not gonna beg you for your love

Scared now, what are you scared of?

Afraid I might fall on my knees and break down?

I'm not gonna beg you for nothing

I'm not gonna beg you for your love

Don't you think you can take me for a pretty little ride

I know "once upon a time" and "ever after" is a lie

I'm not gonna beg

I'm not gonna beg

I'm not gonna beg you for nothing at all

There's nothing I want from you

Nothing you can say or do

There is nothing I want for you say anyway

I'm not gonna beg you for nothing

I'm not gonna beg you for your love