The Elephant King: Lyrics


Under a Blanket

Under a blanket of skin
That I’m all wrapped up in
Inside lies a bottle of truth
That I’ll never open for you cause
I’m so tired of lying

So I’m gonna keep the bottle closed again
I’m never gonna let it ever open
I’m gonna keep the bottle closed again tonight

Under a blanket of stars
I’ll see where you are tonight
Come home baby, with me tonight
Et vous ressentirez tout
Cause I’m so tired of lying to myself

Deep down in the bottle of my soul
I feel I’m about to lose control
It’s like bones about to break
My muscles contract and shake
Reach out, take your hands
Reveal this mask and show the man
That’s been hiding inside

Tell me what you see reflecting
In my eyes
Could it be you


Heavy Blues

Dick cop broke my lock
Tryin’ to stop a tire fire
He claims it was all procedure

I’m drivin’ with a broke lock
Tryin’ not to get robbed
Like it matters, but I’m paranoid

So I take my car in
Hope to get it fixed up
I can’t hear Warren, his teeth are made of lugnuts

Sittin’ in the waiting room
Thumbin’ through a Mad Lib
I shout out to Warren, “hey give me a verb”

He says,
“Laugh, play, kick, jump
Shoot, pass, play, come
Smoke, toke, joke, vote
Educate, lie

Burn, steal, hit, rob
Skip, hop, start, stop
Dick cop got your lock”

My legs are strong
I’ve been walking all night long
I see so many people
So many, so many

Pullin’ down on the sleeves of society
I can’t believe it’s got to be a dream
Look at the dregs, I’m beggin’ for change
Just like a broke down change machine

Brake, break break down to---
Night-----run, run, run
Farther, farther
If get it right
My people, my people might

Wait I’m fallin’
The key I call, my car will start, now a
Dick cop got ’ta lock
Breathe its not the end of the world
Let yourself go


Kansas City

A Kansas City sun warrants for love
But it’s good enough of a reason
As any time that I’ve wanted to say
“You’re mine”

It’s never too late to turn around
And bury your pride in her breast
You’re never too old to figure out
That you’ve been all wrong

But I’m sure I’ll forget somehow

A Kansas City sun off in the distance
Rolls her eyes at me as I scream
“I love you”
And time goes by so slow
When you are gone

It’s never too late to turn around
And bury your pride in her breast
You’re never too old to figure out
That you’ve been all wrong

But I know that I will forget
No I’m sure that I will forget somehow

It’s never too late to turn around
And bury your pride in her breast
You’re never too old to figure out
That you’ve been all wrong

It’s never too late to find another


Jessica

I want you
I’m in love with you

Tell me your name
Kiss me when I call it
What’s your name
Don’t make me kiss myself alone

Jessica
Do you want a lover

I’ve been burned
Too much for love to be learned
But you can teach me, teach me, teach me, teach me your way

Jessica
Do you want a lover
Jessica
Do you want a lover

So sensual the sight
Of your red rose bloomin’
I could hear your pretty voice
Hummin’ this tune and a singin’

“Du dudu dudu du du”


Sunday Girls

I was lookin’ at my feet when she came up to me
A Bible in her hands
Now I don’t believe in God but she made me think
That we are all gonna die my

Sunday girls are always callin’ me
Wondering what it’s like
Any other day of the week other than Sunday

Sigmund, believe, life, death
Even his deathbed
It seems hard follow
But I, but I, but I, but I, but I, but I, but

Sigmund Freud did not believe in life after death
Even on his deathbed he would not confide
It seems hard for me to follow in his steps
But I’ve got to give it a try my

Sunday girls are always callin’ me
Wondering what it’s like crazy as it seems
I want a girl that is out of control

Every night I feel that every day is wrong
Every night I’m fucked up while she’s
Asleep in His arms my Sunday girl

Crazy Sunday girls
My head is spinning round, damn that girl is out of control


World Color

Jimmy never stops working in the factory
Pushing and pulling and printing the ink
It smells of burning inside the machine
When you’re printing and printing the magazine

Time passes, but Jimmy can’t sleep
He’s dreams he’s still working to the never-ending beat
The night shift begins, the women are scarred
They blow a mean breath of unpleasant charm

Jimmy takes a lunch in the break room below
Where the fluorescent lights flicker to show that his
Skin has grown pale and he hasn’t seen the sun in ten
Days of breathing in the fumes of the engines he

Swallows down

“For the last time!” he says, “I’m quitting my job
so I can see the sun” but the sun has been covered by the bits of
Magazine in the air, and the world is colored black
And all that ink, so the people can read,

We print the story of humanity


Tiger Eyes

Waitin’, waitin’ for you
I’ll be waitin’ for the rest of my life
I’m crazy, crazy about you
Crazy for feelin’ alright

Can I get a little fun
Before I’m dead and gone
‘Cause to feel you is what I long
I’ve got to replace this wilting rose from the vase that you
Left in the wake

Wake of a suicide
Crazy but still alive
All of my friends they walk alone
Feeding themselves the inevitable
Truth that we’re really all alone
Waitin’ for time immemorial

Crazy
‘Cause I’m waitin’ for your ghost
Not to hide in my mind
To forget you cared
Behind long brown hair
Lie the tiger eyes
That are holding me
Holding me back

In the future I believe
In a world of incredible speed
Where our minds do all the talking now
Converting thought to truth somehow
Waitin’ for nothing to
Stop the move
From ignorance to solitude


The Beach Song

I had a dream about the beach last night
I was swimmin’ on the oceans of your eyes
I couldn’t see anything past the sea
Couldn’t buy anything that wasn’t already
Free for the takin’

Everybody needs time together
Once in awhile whenever
We are feelin’
Blue

And if there’s a monkey on your back
Tell him to cut you a little slack
‘Cause it’s time to get
High

You’re such a cat yeah
Something tells me that
You feel alone, let your secret show
Open to the bay

Everybody’s got a secret place
They find just to get away
Somewhere they can
Hide

Walkin’ in the sand, I follow
The delicate curves of your shadow
That every man seems to
Find ‘cause you’re so

Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful, walkin’ your walk down to the sea

I wrote this beach song for you
I’ll play it all night long for you
I wrote this beach song for you
Take it and dance the ocean blue


When We’re Young

Can’t you see that her eyes
Are lookin’ at you
Just like a baby’s life
Holding your finger

But you let go

And who was it that said, “Life goes on”
Well, well, I see it in the same light

They let go
Wondering the unknown

We all let go of life as we know
And we’re only as real as we think and show, so
Smile and swallow
We make it if we only say
Forget tomorrow
‘Cause it’s nothing you can change
Smile and swallow

We can make it when we’re young
We can make it when we’re young
Even with a daughter or a son


O’ to be Alive

Always I tell
If a girl likes your smell
Then she love you

And then of my smell
If I love her I’ll tell her to flee with me
To the banana trees
And oceans of leisurely laughing

O’ then tell the poor soul that the glass is half full
And the barkeep is getting another
For the men who have had
Could not write a lyric so sad
Nor could roam around freely and bask in the evening with
Any old care in the world

O’ to be alive

And when the sun comes around
In light you’ve not found the perfect man
All I am, all I am is trying to do things right

Somebody free this summer light
Somebody cut the rope that I’ve tied
Lift the anchor cast away
We can lay like lovers lay
There’s so much to do, so much to see
That with or without you I must leave

O’ to be alive

O’ to be alive, to be free, to belong to the sea
With the waves eternally crashing
To be alive to be free, I belong to the sea
And I’m feelin’ alright these days

O’ to be alive