MUSIC
The Songs
All lyrics by Stephanie St. John except where indicated. Reprinted by permission (ASCAP).
Tupperware Sky
If I lost you I wouldn't know where to look
You got that fortress of sleepy eye, lock and book
I'll be your lady, kind and so dignified
The price of happy has kept me limp and bereft
What's left of beauty I can only object
You got that mirror I want to climb all inside
I want you so much it's all I can ever find
I've been out walking the rock scissors of your mind
Then there's the body, the soul river tight we bind
That for which we will not be blind
We will run away
Far away
Oh, the glory and the comforts of home
Arms open story, with each hurdle we perform
Two chained-up flying, convergence is never kind
The wax, it drips, it reminds us of a smaller sky
The chicken shit and the product of a melted lie
Let's admit there's a space between our eyes
That for which we would not be blind
We will run away
Far away
And poke a hole into the tupperwhere sky
And poke a hole into the tupperwhere sky
Chariot
I say the road isn't too long
To find out, find out where you belong.
And it's sad and scary when you cannot speak
And you are worn down
Like a shell on a broken beach
But, I forged through the forest
And saw the world crashing all around.
It was you who blazed like a CHARIOT
With nowhere nowhere nowhere to burn.
But you take my hand, that's what hand are for.
You see the new plan, so that you can soar.
You take a look around, do not analyze,
See the new town and the someone who can see you eyes.
So real, so real, so real, something so real so real.
I release you to be who you are,
Like the tiny patterns weaving through the stars.
You're weaving through weaving though the stars.
Cuz I forged through the forest
And saw the world crashing all around.
It was you who blazed like a CHARIOT!!!!
Rocket Song
I'm non-recyclable, I'm a razor.
Just a disposable razor.
You cannot do too much to a razor
What can you ever do to a razor.
It's a Sunday night, it's a toenail moon.
It's a trip to the graveyard when I think of you.
You must look away, when I think of you.
Who am I talking to....
Oh it was you who I wanted to run through the wheat with.
Oh, it was you who, I wanted yes, mostly everything.
Insides all goo, yeah, I wanted to write your name
On the steam of the window
Of, yes, the car that we drove
After we exhausted all we could do.
Psychosis is tugging at my sleeve.
Neurosisizing til I'm drop dead done.
Dark tunnels keep pulling me back.
Back back back back.
Sister Barbara
You were a lover once, you were a daughter twice
You took your own advice, so that you'd look very nice
I was your daughter once, I was your mother twice
I took your own advice, so that you'd look very nice.
Oh sister Barbara, was that a very good day, for sister Barbara?
I have two cats of my own, I've had them for some odd years.
I feed them healthy health food, better food than you would do.
It's not a knock, I'm just saying, there'a lot you don't know.
There's even more I don't show and I could never say no…
To sister Barbara, was that a very good day, our sister Barbara?
And did you know I like to smoke when I drink, yes, in bars,
Just like you used to do when dad would go off to work,
There' s not a lot you don't know, there's even more I don't show
And I could never say no.
To sister Barbara, was that a very good day, oh sister Barbara.
The morphine made you brand new, it was our favorite you.
I like to sit and watch you, though your closed eyes were not blue.
You are a mystery still, thank you for being so vain for not just laden with pain
are all these pictures of you.
Cab Driver
You don't have to like my friends, I don't have to meet your parents
We both know where forever ends, certainly not in marriage
Time moves so fast when you sleep with your cab driver
Everytime we meet, it's just like being brand new
He's young and he's partly Greek, but know what I'll never do
And I won't let him down and neither does he
The we drive all over town and the fare is free
He thinks I should eat read meat, because it's got calories
I try to explain what they do to those calves in their pens
He don't like to see two guys kissing, he thinks I'm a Bohemian
He feels sorry for me because I'm a woman who's free
He feels sorry for me cuz I'm a woman who's free
He'll marry Albanian and I may not ever at all
I was his first American, he wasn't my first brick wall
Now time moves so slow, now I'm paying for meters
Favorite Destiny
I could have been a car and it would have been easier to run on gas.
I could have been a boy without hesitation in my moult skinless.
Oh to run, oh to hide, BOOM there goes my favorite destiny.
But, you're way up hugh and you touch the sky
Cuz you got the very best of me.
When I was alone, I'd cry, but I'd write "the song that makes the whole world sing"
And you haven't even peaked, not yet, but "behind every great man, well, you'll see…"
Oh to run, oh to hide, BOOM there goes my favorite destiny.
But, you're way up hugh and you touch the sky
Cuz you got the very best of me
You're a sleeper car and you're draggin me under, you're dragging me around.
Each little star, an Italian slumber, each little town…
But, I could have been a car and it would have been easier to run on gas.
Instead I'm stuck like rain, on tongues and you can't tell the difference once you get me down.
Oh to run, oh to hide, BOOM there goes my favorite destiny.
But, you're way up hugh and you touch the sky
Cuz you got the very best of me.
The Best Ones
I don't ask for much
Just you everyday in my clutch
I can't go on
I love your temples of gray
You're so tall in a Jiminy Cricket kind of way
Your eyes want to reach out and grab me don't they.
But you shut me up and I can't move my mouth.
You're raw, you're corrupt, barely allowed
Alive this place that I want to live
Hungry for all you don't give
Why are the best ones the ones you cannot keep
Just tonight, you walked into this bar.
With your owl shades and your trusty guitar.
I even love it when you look bad.
Cuz you shut me up and I can't move my mouth.
You're raw, you're corrupt, barely allowed
Alive this place that I want to live
Hungry for all you don't give
Best Ones, why are the best ones, best ones,
Best ones, why are the best ones, the ones you never keep.
Jonathan
You write your books, and I read them
You fight your looks and I need to see them.
When I lived near you, 324 9th Street
In a lonely deserted poor writer's room.
my clothing, my corners all stuffed with your writing.
It wasn't because it was free that I loved you.
It was more than i thought it would be.
MORE
I'll try, I'll try to tell you, I'll..but your heartbreak scrim see
Why eyes, why your eyes when I tell you, why your eyes in their heatrbreak scrim see.
I read you then I go out hoping to run into you.
Buying shoes or a cheap haircut, on your way to P.S. 122.
I'd sit you down and tell you everything is gonna be alright.
The I'd pet your red hair,
(what's left!)
I'll try, I'll try to tell you, I'll..but your heartbreak scrim see
Why eyes, why your eyes when I tell you, why your eyes in their heartbreak scrim see.
And you are writing for nobody but me.
And I will reach you, when I read you....
I'll try, I'll try to tell you, I'll..but your heartbreak scrim see
Why eyes, why your eyes when I tell you, why your eyes in their heatrbreak scrim see.
Jonathan
You were with me all the time
On the N
You make me cry with all of my mind
You write your books and I read them.
I Feel Love
By Summer/Moroder/Bellotte.
We're All Gonna Die (A Love Song)
It's all been said before, but I don't wanna live without you.
It's all been done before, but I don't wanna let you go.
Would you walk away, when I'm not pefect.
I think that's what you want.
Words I tend to speak, are not the words inside of my head.
They hand aorund like extras waiting to be called to the set.
Cuz, what I want to say, I can't describe in words.
You're the ease in my stomach.
You're the trees in the summer.
You're the taste of the chocolate.
The comfort of thunder.
You're the one who will make me wish
We will go on forever.
Fascinated friends ask me, how can you live with forever.
Well, forever's noto long enough and besides one day WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
So, I don't walk away and I'm not perfect.
You're the ease in my stomach.
You're the trees in the summer.
You're the taste of the chocolate.
The comfort of thunder.
You're the one who will make me wish
We will go on forever.