THE SCOUNDREL’S WALTZ | LYRICS

LOVE GENERATOR

A million hearts are pumping
A million souls are jumping
Is your piston pumping for the Love Generator

If there’s any reason for this human season
We can do just one thing
That amounts to something
We can love each other
We can hold another
We can make a mother of a Love Generator

Love Generator, that’s what this world is
Love Generator, that’s what this world is

A million hearts are pumping
A million souls are jumping
Once you plug into it 
Tour power surges through it 
Turn up your amplifier
Go reach for something higher
A little ground that’s dryer
For your Love Generator

Love Generator, that’s what this world is
Love Generator, that’s what this world is

Turn yourself inside out
Shake yer demons out
Stand outside yourself
So you can see your wealth
The universe is calling
And starving stars are crawling
They really need you darling need your little generator


JET JUNCTION

You know you really dance so good
You dance like everybody should
And you know that if you could
You know that I would dance like you
And yea you’re really looking fine
And I’m glad that you’re not mine
I want to drink you up like wine
You’re twisting my mind looking good like you do 

So come with me
You really look so good dancing out of key
I want us to fly like misguided missiles Into the heart of Jet Junction 

Grandpa is swinging like a sail
I think you know we gotta bail
Ripping rockets on a rail
Like two twisted nails to Jet Junction
The sun came out again today
The same old shit as yesterday
You know my mind begins to stray
Gonna run away to Jet Junction
So come with me 

You really look so pretty dancing out of key I want us to fly like misguided missiles Into the brains of Jet Junction
I wanna fly to Jet Junction
If it’s all right
I wanna fly like a misguided missile
Into the heart of Jet Junction
All right, ok..


DANGER LOVE

The twisted path that I have been walking
Has left me standing at your door
You think that your headed for the beaches babe
But it’s the rocks that your headed for

You can run you can hide
But you just can’t deny this Danger Love

And I run through your tunnels in the nighttime baby
A speeding train without any course
But these cars how they carry only poison for you
And I’m derailed by your charms

You can dance upon my web
Lose your life as you turn my head in this Danger Love
I’m the bad guy
I am the villain here
I’m the wolf at your back door
You’ll storm my castle with your torches
To burn down what you came looking for

You can run you can hide
But you just can’t say goodbye to this Danger Love Danger Love


EVERY ANGEL

I just want to know what Every Angel knows Gives them strength to fly
Through wounded skies
The clouds in my heart cry

I just want to hear what Every Angel hears Nearly every night
Children’s prayers like birds
Instead of angry words

I use to be a little child
I had a dream I had a smile
I peddle my red bicycle soul
As fast as it can go
But still don’t know what Every Angel knows

I just want to fly like Every Angel flies Above this savage garden
Into the arms of the sun
Above what I’ve become

I just want to fear what Every Angel fears The failing wings of hope
Dizzy depths below
So tired and so far to go

I use to be a little boy
I walked the earth like it was my toy I peddle my red bicycle soul
As fast as it can go
And wheels turn so slow
And still I don’t know what Every Angel knows What Every Angel knows


DOMINIQUE

Dominique mon frere, mon frere
What course we chose to bring us here Our life has been a song
That few have cared to dance
The ocean was our mistress
The danger our romance
Days are dim
Talk is cheap

My Dominique

Dominique mon frere, mon frere
We are so far from Barataria
The cannons lay to rust
There’s no government to trust
The ships all burnt and sank my friend But the dream was never crushed

We can win
We can start again
My Dominique

Dominique mon frere, mon frere
Can you hear through this thick delta air This wound has drained my blood
My heart no longer beats just thuds And Claiborne can never catch me now
Cause the battle washes mud
Hero’s well

They can go to hell
My Dominique


HOPELESS THE CLOWN

Stomp the streets my boots make no sound
It’s hard to stand, no solid ground
Walls…pretty paper walls
I’ve been leaning on
I stagger to the alley to find myself an answer
Or just a question a desperate disaster it seems
To wake from dreams to find your house on fire

And the dog he chased his tail
Laughs at me says you belong in jail
Oh yeah, another night on the town
For Hopeless the Clown

Lillie’s in the garden snakes in the palace
All the pigs drinking from the chalice
Wine…it’s numbing time
Around the clock these days
Satellites spinning in the distance
Cramming me with useless transmissions
Words…empty words can’t feed this starving child

Let the horses beat themselves
No sticks no stones left inside myself
Oh yeah. They’d rather look at the ground
Than Hopeless the Clown

I do believe revolution needs blood to feed
Evolution’s what we need
Join the ranks of the mutually baffled
No safety nets as we climb up the scaffold to find
Just how blind we are in this wicked world

Hopeless the Clown, Hopeless the Clown,
Hopeless the Clown Hopeless the Clown

SUNSHINE DANCE

Darkest nights nothing in sight to guide my way
I’ll float through the sky fly by your window any way
You got a smile that could light up a thousand moonless nights
Wake up my darling time to turn on your lights

Cause ink has spilled across the sky
I’ve lost myself and I don’t know why
So baby take my hand and do the Sunshine Dance

I’m in the moonbeams shining through your white cotton gown I’m in your heart strings playing the song to spin you round A chorus of hope the only thing to save this soul of mine

Rhythm of redemption warms the heart so let it shine

Cause ink has spilled across the sky
I’ve lost myself and I don’t know why
So baby take my hand and do the Sunshine Dance

Will you waltz with me in the moonlight will you fly with me through the trees Lay you down in fields of roses and we’ll be two leaves in the breeze It’s getting late no time to wait, the end is near
I hear you call my back’s to the wall dance for me dear
Cause a chorus of hope the only thing to save this soul of mine Rhythm of redemption warms the heart so let it shine

Cause ink has spilled across the sky
I’ve lost myself and I don’t know why
So baby take my hand and do the Sunshine Dance
Cause time is running out on me
The skies so black I just can’t see
So baby take my hand and do the Sunshine Dance


GRAVITY STREET

Dogs are eating dogs tonight
What amazing appetites
Marble walls on every cage
Can’t buy them bars on minimum wage

So come on down
Crawl on the ground
You can sell your ass
down on Gravity Street
There’s always room for more
You’ll make a beautiful whore
Does this paint a really pretty picture for you

Got your pack and strap it on
Bouillon back in Babylon
Heavy handed steps you’ll take
Cause after all you’re what you make

So come on down
Crawl on the ground
You can kick some ass
down on Gravity Street
There’s always room for more
You’ll make a beautiful whore
Does this paint a really pretty picture for you

So come on down
Crawl on the ground
Make another pass
down on Gravity Street
There’s always room for more
You’ll make a beautiful whore
Does this paint a really pretty picture for you


HEY LORRAINE

Hey Lorraine, your eyes are stained glass windows in your small cathedral Hey Lorraine, I want to chase the bats around your darkest steeple Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine
Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine don’t wanna drag you down I’m telling you again Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine

Hey Lorraine, your laughter sets the leaves on the trees to fire Hey Lorraine, I’ll chase you through the fields of passion and desire Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine
Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine don’t wanna drag you down I’m telling you again Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine

Hey Lorraine, I’m breaking all the chains that bind you
Hey Lorraine, I’ll gather up the wind to make you fly

Hey Lorraine, come lay your skinny white body on my bed tonight girl Hey Lorraine, we’ll make some sense of this before morning light girl Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine
Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine don’t wanna drag you down I’m telling you again Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine

Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine
Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine
Hey Lorraine, Hey Lorraine


ROSE PETALS

She walks the streets like they were meadows She’s a diamond in the sand
She holds my hand just like Rose Petals
Doesn’t know that I’m her man

She comes to me like a wounded child I want to patch her up
Make her good for another mile
She’s my baby, she might be maybe
She’s my baby, the only one my baby digs is me

A million words I want to tell her
A million cowards hold my tongue
Broken arms reach out to touch her
The fleeing bird flies toward the sun

She comes to me from across the room Just spilling smiles on the bride and
groom  She’s my baby, she might be maybe

She’s my baby, the only one my baby cuts is me

Hours on my back, wondering if the ceiling Or my head has the wickedest crack And all my daydreams turn to green Wonder if I ever was surely yea I never was Ever was a part of her scene
She’s my baby, she might be maybe
She’s my baby, the only one my baby kills is me All right, all right, it’s all right…


EARTHENCHAINS

Earthen chains around my heart
They dig deep into my soul
I do think it’s time for me to go
I have seen the rising sun
And I’ve learned my lessons well
These earthen chains
Are gonna drag my soul to hell
Earthen chains

I have seen the rising sun
And I’ve learned my lessons well
These earthen chains
Are gonna drag my soul to hell