Rattle The Bone

VERSE ONE
Slip around in your skin
Take a look at within
Kiss the sky, kiss the sky
Chase that high again

Slip slide in my sheets
God help me please
Come a little closer
Let me see what I need and...

CHORUS
Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh
Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh
Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh
Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh

VERSE TWO
My mind is like a brick
My mind is like a claw
My mind is so frozen, so heavy, so thick
My mind needs to thaw
My mind is so slick
It slip away from
My mind is like a loop, like a loop, like a loop
Take it away from me

CHORUS
I'd like it if you'd dye
Dye your hair all white
I don't know why
I like it when you keep me up at night
I like it when you roll
Roll away like a ghost
I like it when you
Come up to my lips for a tasty toast

But stay away from me
God help me please
Come a little closer
Let me see what I need and...
[repeat 3 Xs]

Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh
Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh
Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh
Rattle the bone - oh, oh, oh

OH, OH, OH,
OH, OH, OH
OH, OH, OH STOP AHHHH!

Touchdown

VERSE ONE
I will run
I will dash to see
When the rain falls down
It splashes me

And ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Come
I'll call you
I want to
ooh ooh ooh ooh Come
I'll call you
I want to

CHORUS
Let me breath, Let me Smile
Let me see, Let me Hold you
I hope to I hope soon
Let me breath, Let me Smile
Let me see, let me take you
Let me make you understand me

VERSE TWO
Roll back, ease up and let loose
Don't hold back
Let your mind find a way
Roll back, ease up and let loose
Feel the jot feel the juice from your hair to your shoes

And ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Come
I'll call you
I want to
ooh ooh ooh ooh Come
I'll call you
I want to

CHORUS
BRIDGE

Child
Like an itty bitty little bitty Child
Like maybe like baby like Child
Drip dry in the shower like a child
Breath up in you hair like a child
I wanna take you there like a child
I trip upstairs like a child

ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh

CHORUS [BIGGER]

Look Up See

VERSE ONE
Take a trip to the levee in baton rouge
The evening wind comes in with the moon
Bring a lover it all gets funky
Bring your own thoughts you're alone with the blues

Crack open a bottle of cheap merlot
If you got a lover she will tell you so
If you've got your own thoughts things will get funky
Those bluesy thoughts they twist so slow

CHORUS
Look up - see just what you want to see
Just what you think you need is all in your head
Look up see, what do you want from me
Baby you're drunk, bass me that red

VERSE TWO
Wild-driving through getting to NAWLINS
Wild bustin' blues band jazz band make a scene
Wild-vagabonds run wild
Like whim from the world, like awe from a child
Wild-robot man turning slow
You'd have thought was machine if you really didn't know
Never the same some people boo hoo my hopes
Never the same the city feels like a ghost
Never the same and your making me nervous
Never the same NOLA doesn't deserve this
What is the purpose I scream through the town
Something rather brilliant making some sound
A proud soul way above par
He rocks hard on his one string guitar
Gotta be tricky when you ain't got much cause
The blues jam hard when you're flat outta luck
You know he's spent a time on the levee
Cause he bends that string and things get funky

VERSE THREE
Take a trip to the levee in new Orleans
See how a city comes apart at the seams
Bring a guitar it all gets funky
Play the blues as it washes away

CHORUS

JAM

CHORUS

Friend

VERSE ONE A
I speak like you're my friend
You look like my friend
I don't know your name
But that's just who I am

VERSE TWO A
So let me hear your voice
Do not be ashamed
I know it's your choice
But first tell me your name

CHORUS A
Cause I want to know
Ah Ah Ah Ah
I want to know
Ah Ah Ah Ah

VERSE THREE A
So let me hear you speak
I am here to hear
I know you're not weak
There's nothing left to fear

VERSE FOUR A
So be my friend
Be what you can claim
Be right now and then
But first tell me your name

CHORUS A [repeat]

[beat box] I don't know [repeat 4]

VERSE ONE B
I recall the sudden fall when faith done took a snooze
Not time exact just thinking that there's many times you loose
And confidence stakes it's stance like a toy top turning
It stands up right but graze it light
It topples as it's learning

CHORUS B
I don't know (I don't believe me)
I really don't know [repeat X 2]

VERSE TWO B
And I don't really I don't even I don't really know
Time again I'm caught within the flim of a flow
But that don't mean now it seems I'm the little show
See I don't think I really think I really think that I don't even...

CHORUS B

VERSE THREE
Yeah... I blended -ed - ed it
I spend - ed - ed - ed it
I walked on, done stepped back, done sewed this, done reaped that
I send - ed - ed - ed it
I spend - ed - ed - ed it
I mapped it out down rapped it out with a bass beat I don crapped it out

And I don't even I don't really I don't even know
Your lies rise deceit in a beat with its dough
But that don't mean now it seems you the little smo
See I don't think I really think I really think that I don't even

CHORUS B

VERSE FOUR B-BIGGER
And then it comes the void withal
It pleads with you to bounce the ball
It smears the world across your eyes
With nothing there that's its demise
You sit so strong so sit you stay
You sit so strong so sit you stay
The tide rolls in another day
Your beam of light won't light a ray
When you see the world stamped black and white
And the image keeps you up at night
You shy back quick and loose your bust
Your riding wheels are riding rust
So rouse up those thoughts again
With a home cooked meal of enthusiasm
Just rouse it up dip douse it up just rouse it up dip douse it up
"It was the best thing I ever saw!"
"She was the nicest thing my way!"
"He was the least likely to give!"
"It was the quickest thing to say!"
So look at this, I sport a miss
Thinking I'm ahead
I siphon the sea of hyperbole and everything feels dead

BIGGER
So no I won't blind eye decide
To mend ideas into my bride
I shutter back my call again
I stop up all my will to win
I bath up in my soup of sin
I lean on back I blend on in

CHORUS B
I don't know (I blend - ed - ed - ed it)
I don't know( I send - ed - ed - ed it)
I don't know (I spend - ed - ed - ed it)
I don't know (beat box sounds X4)

--SOFTER--
CHORUS A
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah STOP
Ah ah ah ah

Media Machine

[breaking news in Walter Cronkite voice]...
In recent news, Chappo United a.k.a. C .U. has just bought every broadcasting company in the Universe,
CNN=Chappo's national network
ABC=America Broadcasting Chappo
NBC=Nationally Broadcasting Chappo
CBS= Chappo's Broadcasting Station

VERSE ONE
We are the media machine, Chappo United
We bought all the press I hope you're excited
The Freedom of Press means a lot to me's
Cause I'm the CEO and I can say what I please
And those of you who don't own press are sheep
Don't worry my brotha, I won't loose sleep
These things won't change cause the game is so tame
Put same blood stain in a different cut frame
You hyperbolize what you verbalize, if you word it right you get a paper prize
And all of the profits go straight to our pockets cause we're Chappo United ain't nobody can stop us

CHORUS
It's all mathematics
It's all clever tactics
Sleight of hand magic and nothin' but hat tricks
Pass the money to the one who makes a shilling(million?) spillin' the glamour of a killing
And we'll all go to heaven in a little row boat

VERSE TWO
We are Media Machine, we're just what you'd think,
etc...all the way through this verse
with the pulse of America glued to the screen
We get the gory story out Now no delaying
the violence will rise, but so will the ratings
We Glorify what we horrify, and if we whore it right, we'll score tonight
Is there more to life than civil war and hype?
Not if we sort of try
to get the story right...

CHORUS

VERSE THREE
We are the media machine
Do you want a sound bite?
We'll give you the profile of whom you should fear tonight
It's a minority, I can tell you that
It makes more sense, I can sell you that
You just keep listening to us, you're just the public
You can think all you want that you live in a republic
The media machine
And we're run by a few
If you're rich as hell, you probably already knew this
Probably already went threw this
But let's do this..again...Okay? Okay.

ADD GUITAR

Hey! Rubert Murdock, You're so political
Mr. CNN, son, you're so political
Chappo United you're so political
With those cyclical lyrics bro -- you're so political [repeat]

NO CHORUS...straight to next verse
The Media Machine, critics can move it
The sun don't exist, I got a scientist to prove it
It's easy for us to make you belief
You're eager for someone; there's something you need
Blue, yellow, purple, green alarms
Now jump up and scream and wave yer arms
Deregulation it's great for business
Now we own everything and everyone is listening
And although we don't always know the answer
Don't touch that remote it's been known to give Cancer

CHORUS
The Media Machine Chappo united
Remember the name circle or highlight it
The media machine
Killing democracy
I think it's cute, some think its hypocrisy
The Media Machine
We give both sides
Even when both sides are big ass lies
The media machine
35 died while eating steak
We'll give you their names right after the break

Mandy

GUITAR INTRO/HARP

VERSE ONE
Mandy walked in the river in the rain
like a model on the move she was going insane
With friends that she knew she only felt pain
Instances dripped on her shoulders and hair
The current would rip, but she never felt there

PRE-CHORUS
The problem she joked, is what sentience spoke
Dishing out destinies with a switch of a smoke
The problem she knew was that subtle schmooze
Tied up and twisted in the subterfuge

CHORUS
You knew Mandy
[3 x's]
..the subterfuge

RE-INTRO

VERSE TWO
Already submerged, she's ready to get in
Now she's running, she must go, she really can't swim
Shaking the shackles of someone else's skin
The language she knew, she too often remembered
Like the shadow of a whisper on a window in December

PRE-CHORUS
The problem she cooked up had caked in her ears
Vibrating its sound, orchestrating her fears
The problem she knew was that numbing bruise
Tied up and twisted in the subterfuge

DOUBLE CHORUS
You knew Mandy....the subterfuge

Nunchucks

INTRO-NO BAND

So I took you there
So I got that
So I knew you'd care
So I rocked that
Then I couldn't stay
Then I told ya'
Shit and now you may
Crackle face down and crumbled
Twisted and turned and tumbled
I oughta think I oughta be humbled
Or crackle face down and crumbled

VERSE 1

And true to date, my faulty state, one mistake I flaunted
But that wasn't necessarily what I had wanted
I'd like to be nicer or pleasant like flowers in may
But some motherfuckers don't walk that way
My courage string swings down tattered and frayed
But some motherfuckers straight stay that way

CHORUS 1

And now I heard you say
"Now I need that
Now it's raw when fed
Now I see that"
Now you missed the boat
Now you caught that?
But you fought that
With nun chucks, a machete, and a tall hat
Nun chucks, a machete, and a tall hat
Karate spin with a grin and you all that
Nun chucks, a machete, and a tall hat

Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!

VERSE 2
How am I gonna, how am I gonna, break times and tides
How am I gonna pay for all my subway rides
How am I gonna turn switch a boot to the bump
How am I gonna make a thought move your rump?
How am I gonna turn you into a chance and
Add a little sour shock taste of romance
How am I gonna love you with a sure sweet
"hey, baby, haaaaaaah" ?
"haaay" "haaaaaay"
Some mother fuckers don't talk that way

CHORUS 2
And "Naw" I heard you say
"Naw" that ain't me
"Naw" a birdy said
"Naw, that ain't she"
So you wanna get, no?, like kinky?
I wanna get freaky...
With hand cuffs a banana and a slinky
Hand cuffs a banana and a slinky
I'm a tip toe down your bikini
With hand cuffs a banana and a slinky

Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!

Well when we're moving, and we're grooving and we keep on doing
And when we're chilling and relaxing and there's nothing that's tasking
You get a little bored so you muster a punch
And cut down a mother brother for the stench of the fun
It rocks my world how good it bloody feels
To pidgeon hole a mother brother down on his heels
And batter bash his ego with a flutter of the tongue
When it turns into reality it's lost it's fun
But some mother fuckers can't walk and chew gum

"No" I heard you say
"No, I know that"
"No, it's all in play
So I know that"
So that doesn't change
Yo, just what I think
"Well, what you thinking?"
About sex, Ferrlingetti, and if I'm stinking

Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up!
Shut up and get down now -- shut up, shut up shut up!

Sal and Betty

VERSE ONE
Sal and Betty rode their cycles straight into the center
Of the moon out west one night on a craaaazy adventure
The air was red, the night was light, warm and full of space
The trees, the road, the birds and cars were all in their right place
Sal and Betty rode their cycles side by side for kicks
And raced each other on their adventure for giggles and for shits
Sal was such a jokster and Betty could laugh a lot
When the two of them got together, they never stopped
Betty had a way with words, she loved to make a riddle
Sal tried climbing all the trees, even if he was too little
A sweet old man at the gas station asked them "Where ya'll going?"
"It isn't tricky", Betty answered quickly, "Wherever life is showing'"

CHORUS
Let's Roll, Ride the night
Ride out for real
Let's wrestle, Put up a fight
I'm ready to make a deal
Let's Breath, exhale to the sun,
Breath past the Milky Way
Let's Race ( gamble, dance, kiss) Till the night is done
And we'll do it again the next day

VERSE TWO [softer]
Vegas was a detour on their crazy little trip
They stopped in for a gamble, to see what they could hit
They flipped some aces, spun the wheel and found a little luck
Took some risks and lost some shit and didn't give a fuck

Betty had a way with dice and Sal could count a deck
When the two got together it made people sick
Betty kept rolling sevens as the crowd kept rolling eyes
Sal just grinned and winced again and gave it one more try
When the jig was up, the two walked out, like kings with bags of doe
But Sal knew a place for Betty that he wanted to show

CHORUS

VERSE THREE
Sal took Betty on his cycle to show her a sight
Watching day splash into night
same
He brought a bottle of wine and paper cups to cheer
The sun went down and they both did disappear.

Some say they kissed that night, the universe in alignment
Some say they missed each other and keep on retrying it
But I have hope for the best on this rocky ride
A roller coaster in the dark a never-ending sigh

CHORUS

HARP

Don't Wait

BRIDGE
Don't Wait
Don't Wait to break my mind
Right now
Some how
I'd like to be one of a kind
(With no mind)

VERSE ONE
I had hid my mind somewhere, far away from home
I darted out to find it, searching on my own
Deep within the ocean, sand up to my nose
I searched the ocean floor, from coast to coast to coast

And I was underwater, the silence so loud
I was underwater, there were voices from the ground
I was underwater, the silence so loud
Someone screamed this ain't a dream
And vanished in the ground

CHORUS
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
La La Break my mind

VERSE TWO
The day I stashed my mind away, there was hefty cause
I was caught in double thought, in the wrinkle of a pause
I busted blue, like we all do, stuck up in my own cell
Belted to the heavens above, the life you gave was hell

Take my mind, take it now, take all my reason
Stash it in a cell somewhere, keep it till next season
I don't want my Frontal Lobes, put ‘em in a blender
Seal the envelope with spit, return to sender

CHORUS TWO
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
La la
La, la, Break my mind

VERSE THREE [SOFTER]
All the clever cops thought I was a freak
They tried to arrest me, but I could hardly speak
I said officer, please, I'd like to speak in rhymes
So they pulled out their rifles and shot me 50 times

Most of them had missed, a few had hit my head
When the smoke had cleared, they all feared, I was the walking dead
Most of them were scared, I reckon they didn't know
So I had to interrupt and say: "Well, I hid my mind like a second ago, so"

BRIDGE

JAM BREAK

VERSE FOUR -- driving harder
I set out for some guidance, on where I should look
But with no mind I found it hard to hardly read a book
So I flipped on the telly, saw my mighty friend
The president, with all his wit, and that wry little grin
Maybe I should be, the next troop in Iraq
We went there on a lie, let's bring the truth right back
I might get distracted, thinking of all the oil
The greed in me could seed you see and eat away my soul
With all the money spent; the bones and the green
I'd buy back my mind and I'd burst onto the scene, like

Laaaaaa...la la
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
La la
La la
Break my mind

VERSE FIVE- TOMS
I lost all my do's and found all my cant's
I bellied over on my fella's shoulder in a Balinese trance dance
Like Taka to ya Taka to ya taka to ya
ZO tika ta ZO tika ta ZO tika ta YA YA
Zeye tike ta Zeye tike ta YA YA YAH!!!