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12 Women

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1.35mm 2.Watching the World Burn 3.Substance Abuse
4.Pretty Girl On Roller Skates 5.Mall of America
6.A Million Dollars In Her Eyes 7.Extraordinary Handcuffs
8.The Money 9.A New Summer 10.Lady Liberty
11.Clubmare 12.I'll Find You There

35mm
© 2009
She says she wants to be an actress
As she gets up off of the mattress
And puts on her wedding ring and black dress
I don't want to escape her/

35mm
Analogue world
35mm, 35mm/

She says someday she will be famous
Until then, might as well be aimless
Topless where all the free cocaine is,
Dollar bills, pills and rolling papers/

35mm
Analogue world
35mm, 35mm/

Sometimes I feel like we're going round and round
Sometimes I feel like we're going round and round
Sometimes I feel like we're going round and round
35mm/

She says the world is getting colder
You got to look over your shoulder
And I feel just like her perfect soldier
When she calls me up to tape her/

35mm
Analogue world
35mm, 35mm/
35mm
Analogue world
35mm, 35mm/

Sometimes I feel like we're going round and round
Sometimes I feel like we're going round and round
Sometimes I feel like we're going round and round
35mm

Watching the World Burn
© 2009
I saw her standing there
With all her stolen dreams
I stole a glance or two
At an ass in stolen jeans/
Down on the avenue
Tough lips and fragile eyes
I saw her watching me
Adjusting my disguise/

Let's get a jug of box car wine
And go waste this effortless time
We'll sit on the rooftop and watch the world burn
We'll sit on the roof and watch the world burn/

I saw her standing there
Pissed off in the checkout line
With magic in her hair
And madness in her mind/
Defiance in her voice
When she could not pay
She ripped some cigarettes,
My little runaway/

All alone in the parking lot
Hiding her worry 'bout getting caught
We'll sit on the rooftop and watch the world burn
We'll sit on the roof and watch the world burn/

I saw her standing there
With her adopted stray
Doberman sleeping there
Sometime round Y2K/
Her hands were bound and tied
And so she could not pray
My brain was ground and fried
And so I could not stay/

But tonight I'll hold you close
Like a silent overdose/
We'll sit on the rooftop and watch the world burn
We'll sit on the roof and watch the world burn/
We'll sit on the rooftop and watch the world burn
We'll sit on the roof and watch the world burn

Substance Abuse
© 2009
I met this girl named Substance
The daughter of a deacon
We kissed before we said one word
On the Greyhound bus last weekend/
I met this girl named Substance
And she asked me to abuse her
At first I was reluctant
But now I just say fuck it/

She said
“When men hit me it feels like a kiss”
I said
“There's something quite wrong with you, miss”
She said
“Take your hand and make it into a fist
And swing the motherfucker or you're off of my list”/

Back, forth, side to side
Back, back, forth, forth, side to side,
Back, forth, side to side/

I met this girl named Substance
She uncrossed her legs and told me
That if I tied her wrists real tight
She'd be my one and only/
I met this girl named Substance
And she asked me to abuse her
At first I was reluctant
But now I just say fuck it/

She said
“When men hit me it feels like I'm free”
I said
“Alright, but why's it gotta be me?”
She said
“I've been bad, bend me over your knee
And do as you will 'till a quarter pass three”/

Back, forth, side to side
Back, back, forth, forth, side to side,
Back, forth, side to side/

I met this girl named Substance
And the bitch was mighty crazy
She laughed until I gagged her mouth
With a scarf of silken paisley/
I met this girl named Substance
And she asked me to abuse her
At first I was reluctant
But now I just say fuck it/

Back, forth, side to side
Back, back, forth, forth, side to side,
Back, forth, side to side

Interlude:

Hey baby
The one who brushed up on my sleeve
Hey baby
Let's conversate before you leave/
Hey baby
I'd like to ask you out on a date
Hey baby
You should bring your roller skates

Pretty Girl On Roller Skates
© 2009
Squinting here through this dirty window
Feeling like I was born after my time
All I do is stare into golden hair and a smile that's so sublime
Like the wind through chimes/

Pretty girl on roller skates in the 1970's
I'm from the future, won't you skate up to me please/

I'll buy you a drink
We'll go for a ride
I'll swallow my pride/

Some are fearless when they're falling
Others duck and dodge the rubble of real life
I'm just trying to kiss her eternal bliss, it's a double sided knife
Like someone else's wife/

Pretty girl on roller skates in the 1970's
I'm from the future, won't you skate up to me please/

I'll buy you a drink
We'll go for a ride
You'll let me inside/

You're so pretty in the moonlight
And you're so dirty that you make my mind feel clean
Put a dollar in the jukebox then we'll move the whole night through
Just me and you/

Pretty girl on roller skates in the 1970's
I'm from the future, won't you skate up to me please/
Pretty girl on roller skates in the 1970's
I'm from the future, won't you skate up to me please/

I'll buy you a drink
We'll go for a ride
I'll swallow my pride

Mall of America
© 2009
2 AM, nowhere to go but home
So home she goes and fills a Minnesota Vikings glass
With gin and tonic, warm because no one made ice
But still it's nice watching infomercials pass/
When morning comes to be prescriptions block the tears
And she's too numb to see her courage or her fears
She'll hear her husband call out “Are you ready, dear
To crawl into your shopping mall?”/

We all live in the mall of America
We all live in the mall of America/

2 PM, nowhere to be but work
So work she does with a patriotic grin
But in her dreams she seeks solace from her life
And it's so nice to neither lose nor win/
When evening comes to pass and she picks up the kids
From ballet and karate class, keeping her temper hid
Under a Prozac calm spreading out upon
Her scull, into the shopping mall/

We all live in the mall of America
We all live in the mall of America/

We all live in the mall of America
And we are fast asleep
We all live in the mall of America
And we are fast asleep/

We all live in the mall of America
We all live in the mall of America
We all live in the mall of America
We all live in the mall of America

A Million Dollars In Her Eyes
© 2009
She was working on the corner
With the boys in blue up on her
She had a million dollars in her eyes/
In the office, on the ladder
Climbing like gravity don't matter
She had a million dollars in her eyes/

Planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
For you
Planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
For you/

She was buying, she was selling
Down the Wall Street walls rappelling
She had a million dollars in her eyes/
By the green screen she was shaking
Lip syncing her song half naked
She had a million dollars in her eyes/

Planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
For you
Planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
For you/

She had a million dollars in her eyes, in her eyes
She had a million dollars in her eyes, in her eyes, her eyes/

She had a million dollars in her eyes
She had a million dollars in her eyes

Extraordinary Handcuffs
© 2009
Her coat is gray and black chinchilla
Her breath is rocket fuel
A broken heel and runny makeup
On the roof of her private school/

Extraordinary handcuffs, I can't break them
Maybe it's because I don't want to
All your haunted dreams, I just can't wake them
There's something that no one can fix in you/

I'm drowning here in your tears of joy
I'm drowning here in your tears of joy
I'm drowning here in your tears of joy
I'm drowning here in your tears of joy/

Her face is never naked
She's the queen of every prom
Her landscape seems so vacant
Like a solitary suicide bomb/

Extraordinary handcuffs in your bedroom
Square shot glasses and a box of toys
I step outside for a little head room
Before I drown in your tears of joy/

I'm drowning here in your tears of joy
I'm drowning here in your tears of joy
I'm drowning here in your tears of joy
I'm drowning here in your tears of joy/

I'm drowning here in these tears of joy
I'm drowning here in these tears of joy
I'm drowning here in these tears of joy
I'm drowning here in these tears of joy/

Extraordinary handcuffs, I can't break them
Maybe it's because I don't want to
All your haunted dreams, I just can't wake them
There's something that no one can fix in you

The Money
© 2009
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money goes out/

When Nadine came home last night
Bout 4 in the morning and she
Tripped barefoot over the bedroom light
An almost woke up the baby/
She dropped the bankroll down on the floor
And whispered that she stopped at the liquor store
She laid there nervously eying the door
And held the pistol closely/

Give me all the fucking money
That's what she said, said,
Give me all the fucking money
Or you'll be dead, dead
Give me all the fucking money
2 to your head, head
Give me all the fucking money
All the money, money/

The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money goes out/

The men they sweat and gawk and drink
And stick bills in her g string
She grinds the pole and smiles and winks
With little thought or feeling/
It wasn't hard to turn her first trick
But it got old so soon, so quick,
Until her little son got sick
And then it was instinct mostly/

Give me all the fucking money
That's what she said, said,
Give me all the fucking money
Or you'll be dead, dead
Give me all the fucking money
2 to your head, head
Give me all the fucking money
All the money, money/

The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money goes out/

When Nadine robbed the liquor store
Bout 3 in the morning and she
Cursed Vegas and screamed “Open the register drawer”
Thinking about her baby/
Looked after by a man in the hotel room
A man she could hopefully drop real soon
And head out to Hollywood by June
To be somebody/

Give me all the fucking money
That's what she said, said,
Give me all the fucking money
Or you'll be dead, dead
Give me all the fucking money
2 to your head, head
Give me all the fucking money
All the money, money/

The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money comes in, the money goes out
The money goes out

A New Summer
© 2009
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
For the world/

She wakes up early and paints a picture
Coyotes howl outside her door
She kneels down softly and recites a scripture
Scratched by ghosts on her kitchen floor/
She puts her blood into the ground
She puts her blood into the ground
She puts her blood into the ground
So things may grow/

It's a new summer
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
For the world/
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
For the world/

She wakes up early and weeps so gently
But I'm too lost to catch her tears
She rises up and then speaks so simply
Beyond my face, my thoughts or fear/
She puts her blood into the ground
She puts her blood into the ground
She puts her blood into the ground
So things may grow/

It's a new summer
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
For the world/
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
It's a new summer
For the world

Lady Liberty
© 2009
She's leaving New York City
Without even a nod or a smile
Some people, they formed a committee
A few of them threw up bile/
The D Train feels so empty
Especially when it's packed
Full of people praying for safety
Through headphones, ringtones and crack/

This is a ghost town
The empire's shrinking
She is a ghost now
The island is sinking/

Too much, too many people, too much
Too much, too many people, too much/

She's leaving New York City,
It's streets paved on Indian bones
Shes going somewhere quiet and pretty
Somewhere that we'll leave her alone/
With no cops around to harass her
No politicians reaching up her dress
No lawyers to rape and then mask her
And no need for a bullet proof vest/

This is a ghost town
Of shimmering idols
She is a ghost now
And this is survival/

Too much, too many people, too much
Too much, too many people, too much/

New York, New York, big city of dreams
New York, New York, big city of dreams
New York, New York, big city of dreams
New York, New York, big city of dreams/

She's leaving New York City
Without even a smirk or a tear
The people, they formed a committee
And shouted 'till no one could here/
Times Square, it feels so empty
Especially when it's packed
Full of people free to be hungry
Full of billboards pushing us back/

This is a ghost town
The empire's shrinking
She is a ghost now
The island is sinking/
This is a ghost town
Of shimmering idols
She is a ghost now
And this is survival/

Too much, too many people, too much
Too much, too many people, too much/
Too much, too many people, too much
Too much, too many people, too much/

New York, New York, big city of dreams
New York, New York, big city of dreams
New York, New York, big city of dreams
New York, New York, big city of dreams

Club mare
© 2009
Round noon or so when she woke up
She was feeling most uncertain
Went to her P.O. and pissed in a cup
With someone else's urine/

There is a nightclub in your bed
There is a nightclub in your bed
There is a nightmare in your head
There is a nightclub in your/

She grabs the mirror and cuts up the speed
Me, I'm smoking in the corner
Nothing is clearer, not hope and not greed
But I'm not the one to warn her/

There is a nightclub in your bed
There is a nightclub in your bed
There is a nightmare in your head
There is a nightclub in your/

Flashing lights and sweat on the floor
The DJ spins her single
Stashing nights of regret in a drawer
Her thighs begin to tingle/

There is a nightclub in your bed
There is a nightclub in your bed
There is a nightmare in your head
There is a nightclub in your

'll Find You There
© 2009
I'd give you the ocean
I'd give you the sky if I could
I'd push it all back between the sidewalk cracks
Of your neighborhood/

You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there
You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there/

Soldiers of misfortune
Fight for something they can't see
But never knew the war you fought upon their shore
Of misery/

You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there
You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there/

Walk on by, sail away
Another bird will live to fly another day
When kindness unbetrayed lifts another alleyway
From where we stay/

You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there
You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there/
You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there
You'll go somewhere
I'll find you there
 
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