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Sugar Pills for Hypochondriacs

by Gardening Angel

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1.
#32 01:53
I'm always asking for something to be happy with nothing it's all in your I's so open your Mine and god said, "Pay the toll or you can't go" you can't ride the bus and you can't come with us you'll have to stay here
2.
Bodies 03:01
Emotionally, I'm about 12 years old I'm too old for this shit not maturity-wise, just as far as my general health goes love you so hard but I'm too soft to let you know I've got a lucky pussy-foot next to my bottle of pills and oh, baby, you know that the cure might be what's making me ill either it's the little green men or else my schizophrenia is just acting up again It's not a seizure, it's my new dance move and these aren't the DTs, I've just got the blues Oh, I don't need a doctor, I need a shaman but there aren't any left because if there were I would be one Oh and bodies are just clothing for your soul You know your body's just the clothing for your soul
3.
Used Bones 03:48
...and she went about her business, sorting the debris of cotton memories and polyester disappointments... It's not like you can take it when you go and packing it around sure takes a toll back and forth through the thrift store discount, used bones ...and she brought home all kinds of crap like broken lamps and depression glass and she knew all the Latin names of the stars and plants... And she bartered away her soul, it was too small traded for a chance to have a chance and the hope there might be hope ...discount, used bones ...and what did she say to me? The spider's just as scared as you spider's just as scared as you are I dreamed that you dreamed that I had a dream about you
4.
Thrill 02:51
Well, the butterfly flew away and I ain't had a bite all day as I'm just fishing for some company would you leave me out of the war 'cause I don't want to fight anymore it keeps the piece from coming into view seems like someone's always in control telling you where to do and what to go and it keeps the questions piling up on you but do you see the rain?bow down and pray Lord, it's hard, so hard lyin' around the house all day oh no look what you've done I'm afraid I'm having fun though I no, you're not the one I'm singin' two did you ever feel so bad the whole world driving you mad the ones you love you want to kill I guess we'll pour some wine and we'll have a really good time you know it's still a Thrill
5.
Skin 01:47
So, come, hide in your skin is too tight and it won't let you in to your safe in the cavities grow as the ivories eaten away as you play everyday everyday in the lights going out will you shout will you shout ? while you run from the guns still you know you should be on the other side but you hide in your skin is too tight
6.
I still love you even though you're not here maybe more than when you were I don't need you but I'd like to have you near so you could tell me why you had to go you never told me why you had to go It's not like in the movies, not like in the songs you can smell and you can taste it and there's no way to hit Pause the tape is always rolling, maybe when we get to heaven we'll spend all eternity editing this down we've got all eternity to cut this out Lives are made of stories and we're writing one another I'll be your daughter if you will be my mother teach me how to play the thing and then give me the blues kick me out the house, but you paid for all my shoes tell me to get lost, but let me find my shoes It's not like in the magazines, not like in this song the bruises aren't Maybelline, the blood is not ketchup when you get hurt it hurts and when you die you die and jokes are deadly serious, they're keeping me alive these jokes are deadly serious, they're keeping me alive
7.
Rx 03:19
Went to the doctor to ask what was wrong there was nothing that I didn't already know he said "your heart's broken and you should quite smoking" and then took my money and blood I love you in the morning, you in the evening I love you when the sun goes down over there I love you when I'm happy when I'm feeling crappy I love you but I don't care I started writing my name on this city so everywhere you go you'd know I was there I'm meeting new people, they all seem to know you and I can't take me anywhere ...I love you when I'm laughing and when I'm cat napping I love you but I don't care Why's there a hole if there's nothing to fill it? Before we existed then who drank the beer? Why do you keep asking me all these questions? 'Cause, honey, you're not even here ...I love you when I'm happy, when I'm feeling sappy I love you but I don't care I love you in the morning, you in the evening I love you when the sun goes down over there I love you when I'm crying... but I'm lying... I love you but you don't care
8.
Marijuana and a glass of red wine can keep your soul from moving time after time after time... & you try for the lost souls, but try saving your own as I sit in the window and watch it all crumble headlights go by in the fog say you can't go home again but nobody said you'd grow up & maybe you're cold chill laughs through your bones maybe someday this whole world of sinners will come crashing down and send us all home & I ate up my hunger, I swallowed a big thirst it may be conceited or maybe you wash in it's rain and that's how you know that you can't go home again but nobody said you'd grow up & marijuana, a bottle of beer can't keep your soul from moving year after year after year
9.
'Yote Song 05:19
I'm out of cigarettes, the coffee's almost gone there's nothing left to keep me here, I must be moving on spend my inheritance on instrumental things my friends all laughed when I put on the wings I'm not sure why it matters but I wanted you to know that I called it I see you have been witching well, when you're through I'll be looking up for satellites and laughing at the moon In the belly of the bridge, written on the cars picture of a sign says Don't Turn Around I'll find you in the analog, bits and pieces left a long long time ago I can't seem to forget over all this music I can hear the sound of the wind in the pines and you breaking down 'Yotes yippin', barking at the moon or there goes another cat fur in the dirt bones in the scat
10.
Those People 03:29
We don't like to talk about those people on the hill down in the valley where they never pay their bills there's bottles on the branches and they never cut the grass the other day one of them waved what could he mean by that? I'm not one to pry but I'll tell you what I heard the neighbor said, the other day the baby flipped her the bird none of those kids go to school but two have been in jail mom carries a shotgun when she goes out to get the mail We don't like to talk about those people on the hill some say they practice witchcraft, some say they're popping pills they're hardly ever wearing shoes and the women don't wear underwear that one looks like she's never seen a comb and none of them cut their hair But we try not to mind those people on the hill some say they worship Satan, they sure give me the chills they used to be so nice, they used to go to Sunday school now their lights are on all night and you won't see 'em before noon There's tie-dye on the clothesline, poppies in the flower beds at night we hear them raising hell, it's like to wake the dead they've got traffic coming going there at all hours, day and night I wonder just what's going on in that house with no porch light But we don't mind we don't mind
11.
Dust 04:51
Hiding in my room, playing with myself I get so dusty sitting on the shelf Lonesome in this world, but people they don't help Most time seems better just spent by myself I looked for love that had some staying power Tried out a few that couldn't stand the fire Would you run with me? Do you think you could keep up? If I fall behind will you leave me in the dust? Out in the night they're putting on a show I'm home watching TV, safe and warm and bored
12.
InFlewEnza 04:30
I opened the window and in flew Enza... Last night I slept down by the river and out on the gravel bar I saw a bird silhouetted in the twilight and I wondered where you were But the trains don't make me think of you anymore I hear them everywhere I go in this town 's too big when you're not here but when you are it's much too small No, you don't need me to fill the holes in your arms the tighter I squeeze the less you hold on but I'm stuck in your web and hooked on a line oh, I just get more tangled up the harder I fight So, if you're wondering or thinking of me well, I'm still here trying to outrun my feet it's been a long night but now's a new day so why am I still here? 'Cause that bird flew away You kind of look like someone that I used to love 'cause he reminded me of someone that I hadn't met you're always over the other shoulder and, honey, it's a pain in the neck So the trains don't make me think of you anymore they're going by too fast and every tie in the rail line one time was the last
13.
So Cold 03:11
I missed you when you were not around it seemed like when you were up, I was always down so I'd run up the stairs and try to catch you but you were already gone on the elevator I might as well just have stood my ground 'cause it's all in your eyes and it's all the time that it's so cold that it's so cold inside Today I saw you again, you've still got nothing to say and you know I won't give in No, I won't go down that way They buried your boat under a tree now your soul's in the leaves 'til they cut you down and chop you up and haul you off in a pick-up truck... you'll be fire soon and you'll heat up the room yeah, we'll play some cards, drink some beer y'know who that I wish was here? At least we're nice and warm
14.
The Weather 04:01
Through the sunshine and the snow with me everywhere I go the other end of my one-sided conversation I don't care if it hails or thunders can't break the spell you've got me under looks like I'm talking to myself I'm not sure what I'd do if I fell in love with you again if you answered me out loud... I saw you way down in the well will you come and visit me in hell? I don't need to tell you how to get there because it's always too hot or too cold it's too much or it's not enough it's too fast or too damn slow I'm not sure what I'd do if I fell in love with you again don't think I'd stand the fall... Because I'm still mending myself back together and writing songs about the weather and I'm not sure just what I'm decked out for but take my picture 'cause I'm pretty a few more years and I might look shitty so take my picture 'cause I'm pretty now nothing good can last forever so you'd better go and get her easy as she comes, well, easy goes... away I've learned that hard loving leads to hard living and nothing's free that you've been given it takes up lots of space inside your soul I don't care if it hurricanes leaves me standing in the rain it's just the price you pay to see the show I'm not sure what I'd do I'd probably write a song or two but it feels like I'm talking to myself
15.
Witnesses 04:11
So, here we are again living in the County of Sin where we all pretend that we're not a joke we're comedians Witnesses, witness this She's a drama queen says her life has made her mean going to kill herself just to raise some hell When you fall down to the ground will you call? Will you still make a sound? Witnesses, witness this There is no God only these nail scarred walls and the harshest place you've been is the hardest to forget when you're alone Witnesses, witness this The harshest place you've been is the hardest to forget when you're alone
16.
The Freaks 03:14
Well, we hope you like the show 'cause it's not refundable we can't give you back your time if you don't have a good time if our poems don't rhyme See the clown who is depressed we've got drunken acrobats our fortune teller's got a headache our tight-rope walker's got a peg-leg the magician lost his keys our musicians never could find the key... the featured act is acting up, again the sword-swallower has laryngitis chainsaw juggler still has seven butterfingers but we can't agree on just who's the ringleader Well, we hope you liked the show and we hate to see you go 'cause we love to watch the freaks as you watch us from your seats!
17.
Spackle 02:14

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The 1st album of all original songs, recorded all by my lonesome on 4-track cassette machine: Acoustic & electric guitar (before the faulty coil-splitter was bypassed), Crapio keyboard, broken snare, pots & pans, kalimba, ocarina, lap slide, kazoo, P-bass, junk chimes, train.

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released May 15, 2011

Thank-you Jesse Lamon for help in mastering the original tapes to digital format.

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