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HUSKER DU / ZEN ARCADE (1984)
1.Something I Learned Today
2.Broken Home, Broken Heart
3.Never Talking To You Again
4.Chartered Trips
5.Indecision Time
6.Hare Krisna
7.Beyond The Threshold
8.Pride
9.I'll Never Forget You
10.The Biggest Lie
11.What's Going On (Inside My Head)
12.Masochism World
13.Standing By The Sea
14.Somewhere
15.Pinks Turns To Blue
16.Newest Industry
17.Whatever
18.Don't give up,
19.Turn On The News
SOMETHING I LEARNED TODAY
something i learned today, black & white is always grey, looking thru
the window pane, i'm not inside your brain. something i learned today,
yield to the right-of-way, stopping at the 4 way sign, someone else's
rules not mine. something i learned today, never look straight in the
sun's rays, letting all the sunshine in, can't remember where i've been.
BROKEN HOME, BROKEN HEART
i look at your house, i wonder what goes on inside, when you have to cry
yourself to sleep at night. your parents fight, you don't know who's
wrong or right, have to cry yourself to sleep at night. a broken home a
broken heart, when the two of them will have to part. broken home,
broken heart-now you know just how it feels to have to cry yourself to
sleep at night.
NEVER TALKING TO YOU AGAIN
there are things that i'd like to say, but i'm never talking to you
again. there's things i'd like to phrase someway, but i'm never talking
to you again. but i'm never talking to you again, but i'm never talking
to you. i'm tired of wasting all my time, trying to talk to you. i'd put
you down where you belong, but i'm never talking to you again i'd show
everywhere you're wrong, but i'm never talking to you again
CHARTERED TRIPS
i picked up my belongings in a nylon carry-all, i hear the porter call.
said" the sky's the limit on this chartered trip away", guess i'd better
stay. out there on the desert, i see trees on every wall, nothing's ever
solved. said" the sky's the limit on this chartered trip away guess i'd
better stay away. i thought i owed myself a trip away, i wanted to go to
places i have never been away.i looked at the pictures, imagine where
the lay away, on a beach, by the sand, where their clothes all lay away.
-horizon is oblivious , chartered trip away. -said" there's no returning
from this chartered trip away
INDECISION TIME
questions like a candle that's burning at both ends. never find an
answer that fits in your plans. back and forth, between the good and the
bad, it's indecision time. you're so natural, you're so free. so don't
decide what's best for me, nothing in your life is ever going on course,
you wonder if living could be much worse. go to the left, go to the
right, your mind is going to keep you up all night, you twist in your
sleep, grabbing the sheets, sweating to death. sucking on pollution like
a rattle in your mouth.you're a big fucker kid, you don't know what you're
about.tell me about your fellow man.you wipe their shit all over you
hands.
HARE KRISNA
krisna walking down the street, touching me with lotus feet, going to
talk to radharani, going to ask her for her $ hare krisna
BEYOND THE THRESHOLD
it's a one-horse town one big desert asphalt desert asphalt jungle
change for the worse change nonetheless hey hey hey got no place to stay
i hear machines theu burst at the ____ but tar & feather all stick
together greetings from home i wish you were here hear what i say but
you can't hear me at all.
PRIDE
why did you back me into a corner? i didn't meant it, it was just an act.
my friends outside, can't he come in? and everybody else. stupid pride,
selfish people, stupid pride. why does everybode have to be like that?
"out" just an act.his parents love him but, they send him money but he
won't come back. no reaction no response. forget him, just forget him.
I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU
told you everything i knew about me, didn't listen to a word i say.
spill my guts, you just threw them away never cared about me, only
wanted to be your friend, now i know that it's gonna end. never cared a
thing about me, and now i will- i will never forget you. i wil never
forgive you.
THE BIGGEST LIE
you think you've made it to the top because people know your name, it's
still the same. your daydreams aren't forever, better get your shit
together for a new game. back to your day job, back to your girlfriend,
back to your hometown, the biggest lie. passing harsher judgement, but
you brought it on yourself by being you. your respect for ne sucess, you
tried to be a hero, but you end up nothing.
WHAT'S GOING ON (INSIDE MY HEAD)
i was talking when i should have been listening i didn't hear a word
that anyone said it must not have been so very important cuz' i was
concerned about instead (with) what's going on what's going on inside my
head.
MASOCHISM WORLD
can you feel it feel it feel it in your soul. can you tell me tell me if
it's hot or cold. can you tell me what it is, does it hurt you when i do
this stop it stop it stop it, you're pshing too hard stop it you're
going too far i love it i hate it i love it i hate it too i love it so
how about you? can youtell me cause i know why don't you tell me, why it
is so confusing ?
STANDING BY THE SEA
there was no one all around there was no one ther but me i was staring
out a window i was standing by the sea the waves kept on repeating each
one crashing to the shore and my footprints nowhere leading as they
disappeared once more your senses are bombarded by the roaring that you
hear in a shell, you can hear the ocean when you put it up to your hear
SOMEWHERE
searching for the truth but all i ever find is lies trying to find
identity but i just find a disguise looking at the nightmare when i try
to see the dream finding a reality as perfect as it seems somewhere the
dirt is washed down with rain somewhere theres happiness instead of pain
somewhere satisfaction has no name somewhere i can be the same looking
down on everything it seems a total bore missing all the people that i've
never met before trying to find an unknow something i consider best i
don't know i'll find it, but untill then i'll be depressed
PINKS TURNS TO BLUE
going out each day to score she was no whore but for me celebrating
every day the way she thought it shoud be and i don't know what to do
now that pink has turned to blue she was always by my side and never
tried to leave standing up for me and lime a tree for what she believed
NEWEST INDUSTRY
been through mass destruction once, but once was not enough. said we
want a second chance, and all they say is tough. a world where science
went too far, there's no way to survive. why can't we get this thing
straightened out, i want to stay alive. they burned and bombed the east,
and north, and there's no place left to go. the sun belt overcrowded, so
let's annex mexico. the pesos only worth a ____, but they got the land.
no need for a civil war, we know they'll understand, right? -is that how
you like it? factories left unattended, crumbling to the ground. we
tried to keep them running out but there's no more oil around. we used
it to fight a war that neither side could win. vietnam was little league
compared to where we've been. now we lives in caves and huts, and we
don't have pay tv, and everyone is signing up for the newest industry.
standard oil goes solar power, all try to make a buck. so i'll sit
around and smoke cigarettes, and i'll babble " what the fuck?"
WHATEVER
he lives in his imagination, with those friend of his very own. he
doesn't get along with the outside world, he'd rather be alone.
sometimes, when it's late at night, he starts to wonder why (the plans
he made can never happen, so all he does is crying.) his parents they
can't understand why their son, he turned out wrong. he runns away from
all the pain and forget them when he's gone. he'd rather be all by
himself because his plans, they seems the best. he finally gets the
nerve one day and now life becomes a test. -mom & dad, i'm sorry -mom &
dad , don't worry. i'm not the son you wanted, but what could you expect.
i've made my life of happiness to combat your neglect.
DON'T GIVE UP,
don't let go, don't give in, don't let on. in your bed, late at night,
red hot red, don't get up.
TURN ON THE NEWS
if there's one thing that i can't explain is why the world has to have
so much pain with all the ways of communicating we can't get in touch
with who we're hating so turn on turn on turn on the news i hear it
every day on the radio somebody shoots a guy he don't even know
airplanes falling out of the sky a baby is born and another one dies
highways fill with reugees doctors finding out about disease with all
this uptight pushing & shoving that keeps us away from who we're loving
HUSKER DU / NEW DAY RISING
1.New
Day Rising
2.Girl
Who Lives on Heaven Hill
3.I
Apologize
4.Folk
Lore
5.If
I Told You
6.Celebrated
Summer
7.Perfect
Example
8.Terms
Of Psychic Warfare
9.59
Times The Pain
10.Powerline
11.Books
About UFOs
12.I
Don't Know What You're Talking About
13.How
To Skin A Cat
14.Whatcha
Drinkin'?
15.Plans
I Make
NEW DAY
RISING
new day rising...
THE GIRL
WHO LIVES ON HEAVEN HILL
there's a girl who lives on heaven hill i go up to her cabin
still she keeps a lantern lit for me and a bottle up on her mantelpiece
she's the girl who lives on heaven hill she's got a big room and it's
always a mess worn out shoes and a worn out dress a worn out smile that
she'll wear some more and a worn out welcome mat by her door i'd trade
big mountains and rooms full of gold for just one look at the beauty of
this woman's soul up on heaven hill is where i wanna be that girl that
bottle that mattress and me
I
APOLOGIZE
all these crazy mixed up lies floating all around making
these assumptions brings me down and you get tight-lipped, how do i know
what you think? is it something i said when i lost my mind? temper too
quick, makes me blind i apologize... said i'm sorry, now it's your turn,
can you look me in the eyes and apologize? so now sit around staring at
the walls we don't do anything at all take out the garbage, maybe, but
the dishes don't get done
FOLK
LORE
women sewed the stars and stripes and the men, they fought
the wars the children learned arithmetic and everyone was poor young man
was the hero of the day long long hours, short short pay lesson i
learned in history book, now it's not what they told me folk lore, folk
lore, folk lore your momma never told you now the women scream for equal
rights their man wants to have an affair children learn to hate the
world and no one seems to care now the kids play vids instead their
heroes are living on wonder bread lesson i learned in history book, now
it's not what they told me folk lore, folk lore, folk lore your momma
never told you that some things never change some things stay the same
some things rearranged one thing i know for sure, your heroes always die
IF I
TOLD YOU
if i told you it wasn't easy if i told you now would you
believe me i couldn't convince you if i tried you weren't around the
times that i cried and i was crying
CELEBRATED SUMMER
love and hate was in the air, like pollen from a flower
somewhere in april time, they add another hour i guess i'd better think
up a way to spend my time just when i'm ready to sit inside, it's summer
time should i go fishing or get a friend to hang around it's back to
summer, back to basics, hang around getting drunk out on the beach, or
playing in a band and getting out of school meant getting out of hand
was this your celebrated summer? was that your celebrated summer? then
the sun disintegrates between a wall of clouds i summer where i winter
at, and no one is allowed there do you remember when the first snowfall
fell when summer barely had a snowball's chance in hell?
PERFECT
EXAMPLE
i never look back at it, but it's always in front of me it's
always worth the hurt, but i know it's hurting me i'll never let go of
it because it's all that's going for me i'll put it in the past when the
past is history a perfect example is all the things it's done to me i
think i might lose my mind, but not my memory a perfect example is what
we all wish we could be i think i might lose my mind i think i might
lose my mind you think you might lose your mind but not the memory,
means a lot to me
TERMS OF
PSYCHIC WARFARE
i see you walking down the road and the thoughts within my
mind explode but having to hold back taught me a lot about control and
letting it all loose at once when it was time to let you know you
occupied my space and you occupied your mind by jumping off the roof to
the first conclusion you can find now all the silver you can steal can't
buy a piece of what i feel it's sad but the means they just don't
justify the ends to be forever haunted by the ghosts of all your friends
painful, yeah that's the way you've chosen it to be c'mon can't you
think of anyone besides me? now don't think you're the only one who
harbours a self hate i'm just as guilty of selling what my sweet soul
creates and don't feel bad the next time my memory comes creepin' you've
got your own bed now, i suggest that's the one you sleep in
59 TIMES
THE PAIN
the most intense of burning hells blasting expectations into
smithereens never feeling normal, can't accept the truth resign myself
to hating it, i hate it all can't say that i don't like it because the
words won't come out right all i feel is bitter, and it won't make it
better 59 times the pain, i could never be like you 59 times the pain, i
could never be like you 59 times the pain never figured out eating 3
meals a day when the people sit in their broken-down homes look at the
photos from different eras gone by shows the changes, and i hate them
all don't want to live with myself can't live with what goes on all i
see is the humiliation i wish it was gone
POWERLINE
what's this humming in my head was it something that someone
said it's connecting us with them electric wires turned on again it
aggravates, and it pacifies hear the power in the lines strung high on
every pole how can this power be bought and sold? trying to harness
solar rays making minutes seem like days it captivates, and it
hypnotizes hear the power in the lines powerline
BOOKS
ABOUT UFOS
walking down a sunny street to the library checking out the
latest books on outer space going to the fruit stand to buy a dozen
oranges then she and the books and the oranges go back to her place she
tells the same old story to everyone that she knows she's just sitting
in her room reading books about ufos sometimes i see her sitting on the
rooftop perched in a lawnchair and staring into the sky i know that
somewhere in some faraway galaxy that some gray men with telescopes are
gazing right into her eyes her live revolves around all of the planets
and she is constantly aware of all the changes that occur i'm going to
turn into a lens and focus all my attention on finding a new planet and
naming it right after her
I DON'T
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
you're a student of the world, learning every day surrounded
by these walls tell me, "man, i've been around the block" but you haven't
seen it all i don't know, i don't know i don't know what you're talking
about confrontations every day argue, then we go our separate ways
always over as soon as it begins know that you're losing when you can't
give in i don't know, i don't know i don't know what you're talking
about now you live alone and it's always the same talking to yourself
when you say that i'm to blame there's more to life than being right and
wrong there's something in between called getting along i don't know, i
don't know i don't know what you're talking about
HOW TO
SKIN A CAT
we are starting a cat ranch and taking one hundred thousand
cats each cat will have twelve kittens a year the catskins will sell for
thirty cents each one hundred men could skin five thousand cats a day we
could be dealing a profit of over ten thousand dollars but what should
we feed the cats? we will start a rat ranch next door with a million
rats the rats will be twelve times faster than the cats so we can have
more rats to feed each day for each cat but what should we feed the rats?
we will feed the rats the carcases of the cats after they have been
skinned now get this! we feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the
rats and get the catskins for nothing we feed the rats to the cats and
the cats to the rats and get the catskins for nothing we feed the rats
to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the catskins for nothing we
feed the rats the carcases of the cats after they have been skinned we
feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the catskins
for nothing rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the
catskins for nothing
WHATCHA
DRINKIN'?
i don't care what you say, i don't care what you're drinking
today i don't care what they say, i'll be drinking today i try not to
drink anymore i try not to drink anymore, and try not to think anymore
PLANS I
MAKE
i gotta make plans for the plans i make gotta have friends
for the friends i make i gotta make plans for the friends i make gotta
have friends for the plans i make go make plans
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