1 The End of the
Ugliness
(Beergoggles)
Grandmother would
be moritfied
everybody's drunk
put on your
beergoggles baby
now everyone's a
hunk
it's like a magic
spell
it'll turn a frog
into a prince
and make a boring
person witty
sweeter than the
forbidden fruit
clap your hands
and stomp your boots
get into your
birthday suit
no one here will
give a hoot
this is the end of
the ugliness (4x)
My beergoggles are
on too tight
Would you like to
spend the night?
when you think
you're really beautiful
it's like a dream
come true
but it feels even
better
when you think
everybody else is tooo
so put on your
beergoggles
paradise is a
state of mind
when you lose your
inhibition
You never know
what you will find
(chorus)
You are beautiful
I feel beautiful
too.
2 Raise Hell, Raise Babies
(Life is short
Raise hell
Raise babies)
Raise objections
raise your glass
touch my heart
and grab my......
you aren't going
to fail
You aren't going
to pass
No one here is
testing
raise your eyebrows
raise the stakes
make decisions
make mistakes
take off your
clothes
jump in the lake
no one here is
watching
raise the ante
poke some fun
raise yur defenses
raise your gun
raise the moon and
raise the sun
raise your
heartbeat now your living
You've only got
one life to live
You've only got
one gift to give
give it again now
give it again
it's the gift that
keeps on giving
(Where's the party
with the funky funky people?)
raise your voice
break the ice
make an offer and
name your price
make your point
and be concise
you've got one shot
make it precise
raise the volume
raise the dead
raise your arms
and raise your head
disregard
everything I have said
and make your own
way
funny little people
look like monkeys
touch your toes
and do the funky
Close your eyes
and open wide
i'll slip your
surprise on the inside
life can be serious
or seriosly fun
it's time to
finish
what you've begun
now cook your
hotdogs
and toast your buns
toast em the way
you like em
lots of little
people
stuck in boxes
like a
bunch-a-chickens
waiting for the
foxes
get out get out
and move your
coccyx
before the foxes
eat you
throw out your
trash
raise you
expectations
wash your hands
make reservations
go out to dinner
than take a
vacation
there's a big old
world to see
boredom is
a disease of the
mind
stay away from
the boring kind
and without a
doubt you wil lfind
the happy funky
people
3 Part of Me
every year i weep
a tear
when I turn my
head to look behind
at all the things
i left back there
like refuse on the
road of time
all the madness
all the pain
the things I lost
the things i gained
all the struggle
all the strain
that led to joy
and clarity
Oh, you're a part
of me
Oh you're a part
of me
Oh, you're a part
of me
I think of you as
I turn to see
all the things
that wait for me.
sometimes when you
get somewhere
you don't need the
things that got you there
all the anger, all
the fear
you leave them in
a bygone year
you learn to live
without those things
and life seems to
happen differently
you can see the
things you couldn't see
and become the
person you couldn't be.
(chorus)
every year I touch
my scars
while looking up
at the stars
the distance
between then and now seems far
but still I weep a
tear
4 Wisdom
pretty sirens sing
your song
but tie my body to
the mast
And plug the ears
of all my friends
until the
temptation has passed
so easy to be
distracted
on the quest for
truth
I set out for
California
I ended up in
delusion
I travelled the
world and I came back
like Odysseus
coming back from Troy
And just like him
I was delayed
Cause I was being
a naughty boy
Shacking up with
goddesses
Incurring the
wrath of the gods
I looked for seven
wonders
I found just
one...not good odds
what would
Ozymandious say?
look on my works
ye mighty and despair
The world is
ephemeral
like receding gums
and receding hair
if I found the
truth what would I do?
every discovery
leads somewhere new
from Mecca to
Jerusalem
from the Vatican
to Machu Picho
(Chorus)
Wisdom wisdom
where are you to be found?
if the virgen of
guadalupe appeared
and asked me to
devote my life to god
I'd ask her what
she thought of Nietsche
then dial 1-800
fraud
I'm not saying god
is dead
it's just that
some things cannot be known
maybe the god she
wants me to serve
is nothing more
than a genetic clone
everything is
relative
matter is just
empty space
there might be a
universe
in one of the
pimples on my face
with a tiny god
inside
who has his own
rules to abide
it's too
complicated to take sides
besides I think my
brain is fried
I think i's time
for all the ladies
to take a trip
down into Hades
the bible the
torah the great koran
i sing i ching
therefore i am
the sacred temples
of tibet
the pages of the
internet
Buddha Alla
Confucious Marx
I'm standing alone
here in the dark
the holy grail is
a disposable cup
Shall I go on or
is it time to give up?
Shall I go on?
5 Tiki
Tiki Tembo
My lover has a name
it's really hard
to say
and if you try to
say it
it might take you
all day
but you know what
they say
about a guy with a
really long name
and after you've
had one of those
you'll never be
the same
Tiki tiki tembo no
sa rembo cheri berry ruchi pip berry pembo
my lover is a
foreigner
so he tried to get
a green card
but they told him
it would take twenty years
cause his name is
just too hard
and he's got this
little brother
and his brother's
name is Joe
and Joe got a
green card in just a week
after he married
some little hoe
(chorus)
so my lover is
illegal
I think that's
kind of hot
it makes it more
exciting
whenever we get
caught
and when they try
to deport him
his case always
gets dismissed
because it takes
so long to say his name
the judge he just
gets pissed
(chorus)
I tried to marry
my lover
and get him his
green card
but some stupid
politician
said our marriage
would be barred
so we are moving
to canada
where they don't
care about your name
and no matter who
you love
they treat you
just the same
(chorus)
6 Naughty
Boy
it feels so good
to be so bad....
I'm a naughty
naughty naughty boy
but it's hard not
to love me
I'm a naughty
naughty naughty boy
but I bet you're
thinking of me
I'm a naughty
naughty boy
but you have fun
when you're with me
cause there's
nothing more fun than a naughty boy
naughty naughty
naughty naughty naughty
naughty is as
naughty does
naughty will be as
naughty was
let's get naughty
nice won't but
naughty will
it's time to take
your naughty pill
let's get naughty
bad feels really
good
it feels the way I
think it should
let's get naughty
one is fun but two
is better
I think it's time
to unbutton your sweater
let's get naughty
(chorus)
I'm naughty to the
very bone
I'm naughty on the
telephone
let's get naughty
naughty on earth
and outerspace
I'm even naughtier
at your place
let's get naughty
naughty is a magic
charm
I'd like to be
naughy on your arm
let's get naughty
naughty here and
naughty now
come on over and
I'll show you how
let's get naughty
(chorus)
7 Life's
Design
Did you really
think that you could get away
on the open road
free as a bird
with it inside you?
or were you hiding
for all those years
inside yourself
trapped by the
chains
of your denial?
the years passed
by and it was borrowed time
stolen time
in the end
it would take you
away
On that day you
wouldn't be so strong
on your knees
in desperate agony
you would pray
forgive me lord
for I have sinned
forgive me lord
for I have sinned
The sky is still
blue
the sun still
shines
birds still fly
children still play
my arm still aches
for your embrace
a tear splashes
gently on my shoe
there is no fault
There is no blame
just a beginning
and an end
i pause the swirl
of life's design
to remember you my
friend
(repeat)
8 The
Way I Like to Live
A gypsy with a
surfboard
My hair all done
in braids
I like to dance in
my underpants
to a palm tree
serenade
I play hookie for
a living
My office is the
beach
My supervisor is a
seagull
and I have
strawberry and peach margaritas on my lunch break every day
that's just the
way i like to live
that's just the
way i like to live
the best thing I
learned in school was recess
and now the whole
wide world is my address
don't have bills
or mortgages or dividends to invest
but I've got lots
of time to caress the one I love
The only thing
better than being a gypsy
Is being a gypsy
with you
so i'll plan a
caravan
across the desert
for only two
Like salsa picante
you light my mind
on fire
and you fill my my
ears with melody
like the
tabernacle choir
and you set my
heart in motion
like the waves of
the ocean
and you cause such
commotion
but you have my
complete devotion
surfboard gypsy
(chorus)
blue orange and
warm pastels
the sun is singing
like a tamborine
and the sky sails
in like a pirate ship
and steals me away
bandanas and
suntan lotion
mardi gras and
magic potions
a full tank of of
gas and the sudden notion
that everything is
right
(chorus)
9 Rosy Roses
Rosy roses
Sound bytes and
poses
well it's alll so
sickening
Plastic people
behind masks of
makeup
with their ties
and immovable hair
feeding egos and
insaciable greed
they play off your
fears
and create useless
needs
to distract you
and deceive you
and justify their
evil deeds
They came and they
conquered without a fight
while we were
brainwashed by the boob tube in the middle of the night
we gave them our
allegiance and we gave them control
at least that's
what it says in the polls
well who am I to
question the way things are?
I'm too busy
chasing my carrot and making the payment on my car
besides it's
easier to learn to love the hand that whips me
than to stand up
and disagree
Insidious signs
the stars are
misaligned
something is awry
a turn for the
worse
body bags and a
hearse
silence and a
sudden chill
they impose their
will
with no thought of
yours
they slip a pill
into your drink
and you hit the
floor
you feel good
just they way they
think you should
(chorus)
you try to convert
me
I won't be
converted
You try to pervert
me
I won't be
perverted
You try to divert
me
I won't be diverted
I will subvert you
Your will will not
be asserted
They came and they
conquered without a fight
While we were
brainwashed by the boob tube in the middle of the night
We gave them our
allegiance and we gave them control
Or at least that's
what it says in the polls
well maybe it's
time to question the way things are
And get rid of
this carrot and this blood sucking car
And tell the hand
the holds the evil whip that whips me
that I just don't
agree
10 Real Love
Spiders are
crawling through my mind
weaving patterns
in the empty holes
left by scars
unhealed
more intimate than
a bead of sweat
I suck on love
like a cigarette
and try to get as
high as i can feel
is this a dream
Or is this real?
Is this love
Is this the way it
should feel?
sometimes i have a
beautiful dream
Love flies around
me like a cloud of butterflies
painting every
inch of the sky
in my dream love
satisfies
no one hurts and
no one cries
in my dream love
never dies
this is the real
world
is there room for
my dream?
in the real world
dreams come
unstitched at the seam
this is real love
this is real pain
these are real
tears
this is real rain
this takes real
work
it takes real time
I'm really yours
you're really mine
it's not as easy
as the fantasy
I'll stick it
through with you
if you'll stick it
through with me
this is real
love......
Like empty tanks
and burned out bulbs
Loves go wrong
every day
people come
together than go away
But what if love
is like the sun
slowly setting in
the night
But rising again
in the day
something keeps me
holding
on to the dream
holding on
to something that
is more than it seems
(chorus)
11 Narcissus
once upon a time
there was a pretty
boy
who used to go to
the lake
and sit for hours
on the shore
enamored by his
own reflection
lost deep in
introspection
he grew thinner
with each day
until he
completely withered away
o narcissus come
and play
why stare at the
lake all day?
tell me boy what
do you see
oh narcissus
what need do you
satisfy
satisfy until you
die
while the rest of
us wonder why?
oh narcissus
the tree said to
the lake
Do you miss the
pretty face
The pretty face of
the pretty boy
oh narcissus
The lake said to
the tree
i miss what I used
to see
When I stared in
his big blue eyes
oh narcissus
oh lake what did
you see
pleaded the wispy
tree
When you looked in
his big blue eyes
oh narcissus
The lake whispered
in his ear
His eyes were a
perfect mirror
and I could see my
own reflexion
(repeat)
Mirror mirror on
the wall
who's the fairest
one of all?
i like to look at
myself
(repeat)
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