I'm So Happy - i'm so happy been thinking on what my preacher said / the rich work harder you know that's how they got where they did / me i'm working harder you just cannot work harder than this / and someday you will see me in my car you'll say 'he worked hard he did' / i don't feel secure in my home but i do feel blessed / for all them good men and them women out there cleaning up the mess / and when i hear them kicking down your door i snuggle deeper in bed / cuz i am just so happy there's another bad man going to jail / lalalalala don't think about it / i'm so happy you just cannot get happier than this / to be living in the living end our history is finished / cuz we have got our shit together and i don't want to hear no different

The Bug - president locked the oval office for fear of catching the bug / and persons who are much better than you are locked up there with him safe from the bug / doctors dress in bird masks and pointed hats drenched in vinegar / and down in the ghetto bodies are burning deeper holes are dug / oh children what you get for shitting in the river are dirty hands ring o ring roses and pockets filled with flowers / fire came an unexpected cleansing that took our homes and the bug / i was thinking ‘worse has come and gone’ as our leaders spoke bravely on the tv for us

A Crooked Line - it's easier but little learned / on the paths of fewer turns / and we should quit our jobs that make us bored / and we should quit our jobs that make us poor / i'm going where they don't deny / the honor of a crooked line / and i will write a song that you can hum / if you decide to come along / won'tcha come out darling into the sun and leave your troubled mind your troubled heart and come along

Power Lines - i woke up with the powerlines all tangled in my hair / i had tripped over the hancock again and i just passed out right there / my friends are pissed their phones don't work / i'd knocked a satellite from the air / i just get so claustrophobic sometimes with them buzzing round my head / so i call my friend the president / i just pick up the phone / and i say my complaints i speak my piece into the dial tone / i woke up with the sunlight beaming into my freezing bed / i get dressed on the kitchen stove while the ceiling fan beats on my head / i don't want to be alone a lone machine / and i call that thief the bureau chief i just pick up the phone / and i demand reasons i demand respect from the dial tone / and i don't want to be alone a lone machine / so i call my mother i call my brother and i call up all my friends / i say 'hey there lovers hey there brothers how the hell have you been?'

You Should Have Known - the sun was shining as you dug / the sweat that rolled down over your neck and into your clothes it felt so good / and you were singing / you could not help but sing as you toiled / the trees were waving down in the breeze / and you were certain you were right where you should be / the sun was shining as you dug your hole and you were singing / never thinking ‘what’s it for’ / you were only thinking ‘the pay is so good’ / and you’d said just that morning ‘the pay is good’ / work is good for the soul / you’ve always championed the virtues of digging holes / we’ll help you down the ground is too soft for climbing / and we understand your arms are tired / just stop mumbling about where you meant to go / it does not matter to us or the hole / you should have known / the sun was shining / as i laid my shovel down / on the turned earth / and i thought to myself that in a corner / i must always look for the open door / the trees were waving down in the breeze / and i was certain you were right where you should be

Wingman - everywhere i go i go with a corpse / hanging from my arms like some rank escort / seats at the movies / good seats on the bus / they can’t move too quickly for me and the corpse / i look so pretty with the body next to me / you could do much worse couldn’t you baby? / worse than me / there are worse than me / i send in my wingman to fill pretty heads / with thoughts of their deaths, then i make my entrance / fear and sympathy greet me with open doors / ‘so sorry for your loss we’re so sorry’ / i bow my head saying ‘thank you so’ / but it’s not my brother it’s not my mom / it’s no one i loved just some corpse that i dug up

Ghosts - although he never hit me i hit him in the face / because he stank and he stank up the whole place / and sure i felt bad but i just don’t take no shit / not from a dead man who just don’t know when to quit / woohoo! / and people get so upset they get all up in a fit / because i spit on his grave every chance that i get / but i hope when i’m just a name and a date / that they’ll treat me just the same / woohoo!

Crashing Through - i should not have closed my eyes but i was so tired / i could not see the warning signs / but what can they tell us babe that we don’t know anyway? / crashing through / oh my lover help me to tend my wounds / the walls are so much thicker than they were in my youth / my knees and chin are littered with bruises and cuts / crashing through

Shooting Off - i filled up my pockets with all these little coins for the common commerce of words / but when i tried to exchange them with a man he said / ‘i do not know what you’re saying with all your small change and your verbs / and who do you think you are sir anyhow / to just go shooting off at the mouth?’ / and there was a man with a dollar inflated like a blow up doll’s flacid expression / but they all applauded and i said ‘what you understand him?’ / they said ‘oh yes and what an offense to the congregation!’ but all i saw was emptiness /‘who do you think you are sir anyhow to just go shooting off at the mouth? you just can’t take the rules and throw them out and just start making your own nouns!’

Questions - crazy world feeling unsure where you’re going / a clear mind is so hard to find in the noise of it / you tell yourself ‘one foot in front the other’ / but now you’re miles and miles and miles away from where you thought you’d be at / all the sirens sing along with me as the people pour into the streets / with their questions / so my time is gone but the questions are not

All The Cities - you hung your shame ornament-like from the mirror / well that’s a funny way to decorate / and i laughed as i heard you say it / i heard you explain / you make the best of whatever comes your way / and i laughed as i heard you say it / i didn’t know what to say when you said / that all the cities and all the towns and all that’s man made if you laugh it’ll crumble right down / that all the cities and all the towns and all that’s man made if you sigh it’ll all fall right down / ‘but don’t let it keep you awake 'cos i know you’re going to be okay’ / anna-marie / tell me where you’re heading / i’ll be right there when i lose those eyes in the trees / i’ll cut a right / leap over the turnpike / 80 miles south i keep the river on my right / cuz it’s been too long since i’ve seen your body so that i can’t recall what it even looks like / it was such a long time ago