Album: Hotel Lobby at The Pearly Gates

Track Listing

1. Hotel Lobby at The Pearly Gates/Book of Job
2. Seven Minutes in Heaven (Defend Your Life)
3. Holding Cell (Video Game Ward)
4. Honeymoon Suite (Groovin' For The Last Time)
5. Life Support (Hospital Ward)
6. Death Row
7. You Get Soul When You Die (A Rat's Nest)
8. Near-Death Experience
9. Dig Your Own Grave (Your Last Breath of Fresh Air)
10. Hellbound Shaft (A.K.A Off to Hell)
11. Act of God
12. Now You're Really Singing The Blues (Last Call at The Pearly Gates Bar & Restaurant)
13. Prologue's Funeral March/Book of Job
14. Potter's Field Forever

Hotel Lobby at The Pearly Gates/Book of Job

Keeping with the book of Job
I've survived every brick that was thrown
On this road which seemed so long
I have found my way home

Seven Minutes in Heaven (Defend Your Life)

Of all the things that you have given
I still believe in you
I still believe in you
You take my breath away when you smile
Seven minutes in heaven
Defend your life
I still believe in you
I still believe in you

Hellbound Shaft (A.K.A. Off to Hell)

And all you want is some peace of mind
so you can begin to unwindin time
wait right here by the pearly gates


Now You're Really Singing The Blues (Last Call)

Before you enter now
I want you to pull your number and stand in line
No, don't follow Adam
Calling number 624
Number 42
Please go to Room 101
Calling number 872, please
Take it away, Johnny
Hey Neil
Calling number 874216, room 101, please
Room 101, yes
Ok everyone, this is your last call
I hope you enjoyed your stay

Prologue's Funeral March (Half-Life)

Keeping with the book of Job
I've survived every brick that was thrown
On this road which seemed so long
I have found my way home

Potter's Field Forever

Don't let the bed bugs bite
because when you wake up you'll be somewhere else
I want to be free. I want my soul
Don't take away my plentiful
You want to be with me. You want to get me drunk
Get me high, but you just don't have a soul
I do mind it. You just can't see
Take away your enemies
Taking control of me

It's sad, but when you wake up you'll be in your soul of emptiness
You take me down, but you just don't understand
You hold the key to your own dreams
Don't be in such a rush to win the game
You got your finger on the trigger
Don't do it. Just do it.
Your fate is in your hands

EP: Milk & Cookies: A Christmas EP
Milk & Cookies

1. Blue Christmas
2. Oh Christmas Tree Don't Disappoint Me
3. Unadorned
4. 921-3506

Blue Christmas (Hayes, B, Johnson JW)

I'll have a blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't mean a thing dear, if you're not here with me
I'll have a blue Christmas, that's certain
When all those blue memories start hurting
You'll be doin' all right, with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas

Yeah, you'll be doin' all right, with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas
But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas

Oh Cristmas Tree Don't Disappoint Me

Every time you pour me a drink I begin to think,
you’re just trying to get me drunk so I’ll hit on you,
every time I look at you I go oooh, oooh, oooh,
oh baby you set off all of my alarms,

I want a whiskey sour, no make that two,
I order more so I can watch you walk around the bar,
I love the way your high heels make you seem so tall,
even though you’re not tall at all.

Lay down for me,
beneath the Christmas tree,
lay down for me,
It’s Christmas time. We can be happy.

I want every part of you, not just the lower half
I’m not the type who likes to stare
it’s Christmas time and yes you’re on my list
I won’t let another holiday pass without opening you up.

Lay down for me,
beneath the Christmas tree,
lay down for me,
it’s Christmas time. We can be happy.


Unadorned

It's time to light a candle and wander in my thoughts,
the middle of December and it's not warm here anymore,
it's time to recite the lines that I've written in my mind,
of all the words that I've said one thousand times before.

It can make the coward brave, the silent eloquent,
and render the sufferer insensitive to pain,
can we make love to the sky above,
can we speak in beats we've never spoken of?

921-3056

I dial 921-3506, but there’s nothing about you that I would fix
And I drink & I drink & I drink & I drink
& I drink

I want to be faithful because I can’t betray
I can’t betray what I say
It’s something about this fucking mess which makes me so content

Come on don’t leave me here
The red lights, the Christmas tree
Something about them makes me want to believe

Let’s make some egg nog and sit by the fire
and go to church and hope we are healed
That’s there some type of god who feels the way we feel tonight

I know there is, you say there ain’t,
I have to believe there’s something beyond this great escape
After all you did hang that wreath

Come on don’t leave me here
The red lights, the Christmas tree
Something about them makes me want to believe

Come on don’t leave me here
Smell the holly And the Christmas tree
Something about them has to make you wanna believe

I dial 921-3506, but there’s nothing about you that I would fix
And I drink & I drink & I drink & I drink
& I drink

I want to be faithful because I can’t betray
I can’t betray what I say
It’s something about this fucking mess which makes me so content

Album: Exotic Quixotic: An Electronic Album
Exotic Quixotic Presents:

1. Orchestral Paella
2. Untitled # 3
3. This Much We Know...
4. Exotic Quixotic
5. Juepa Je!
6. The Showdown
7. The Showdown Part II
8. Dueling Fiddles (It's a Draw)
9. Untitled # 2
10. Nordic
11. When Thursday Becomes Monday
12. 3-2-1

This Much We Know

Time comes and goes,
this much we know,
don't take my hand,
your biggest fan,
this much we know we want to go,
this much we know we want to go,
this much we know we want to go,
away...away...away....

When Thursday Becomes Monday

Cross over tonight,
peace, love, it's alright.
cross over tonight,
peace, love, it's alright,
it's alright, it's alright, it's alright

Album: The Sunset Corridor
"The Sunset Corridor"

Side A: Cabin Fever
1. Absolutes (no more)
2. Cadaverous Response
3. Good Advice
4. The Passerby
5. My Eyes are Lazy
6. Afterthought
7. Easy Does It

Side B: Exit at your own Risk
8. I Confess
9. Painting Pictures
10. Brown Eyes
11. Trusted Love
12. The Realness of it All
13. Hope You Understand
14. Tree Branches for Veins


Absolutes (no more)

A winter’s work of art is where this’ll start
For once again, I’m traveling
I’m just calling to say that today is in the way
But it doesn’t mean I love you any less

I’m like a politician now spouting sweet nothings
I don’t dinner. I do drinks
What you want I can’t give
So sit down and have a few drinks

A quarter to four, you’re not here anymore
I wish I could turn the clock off and wind it up again
There aren’t any absolutes
It’s not sad just the truth

I can’t believe we met last winter & how all spring we stayed together, but most things grow tired & old
Appreciate my honesty and leave with pleasantry
Don’t come back in, where it’s cold, dark and dim
Cause I’ll just have to ask you to leave again

A quarter to four, you’re not here anymore
I wish I could turn the clock off and wind it up again
There aren’t any absolutes
It’s not sad just the truth

You keep talking, I’ll keep writing
Now eat some crow and cleanse your soul
Officer, Officer use some discretion, I am in complete control
I didn’t know being civilized was such a crime
But I guess that’s how it goes

Cadaverous Response

It’s that cadaverous response that will keep you in the dark
And when you don’t understand you will let me be a man
We don’t have to run our private mouths
We don’t have to loosen underground
We can be anything, but here, in this town

It’s that feeling that you get, you don’t know anything but here
We can go walking through the dark in this town

We will lock the doors from the inside
We will lock the doors from the inside

I put the blame on you and bought things I couldn’t use
New Year’s Eve on my fire escape
What a great way to escape
And you’re walking through the dark in this town

We will lock the doors from the inside
We will lock the doors from the inside


Good Advice

I could be someone
Out in the open fields
You will let me know for sure
You could be somewhere in between
I don’t want you feeling alone
Oh no

It’s that good advice that gets me so untied
But you gotta let me know, let me know for sure
You could be standing now
But I’ll let you go right down
But you gotta let me know, let me know sure

You settle down, you get up
You walk around, But oh no

She’ll look after you
She’ll see you through
And make a drink for two
It’ll keep her warm
All winter long
She will let me know for sure

I’m here now, you got lay it down somehow

The Passerby

Your eyes say that you’ve been up all night
In the distance I hear a passerby
Come on girl, learn to sing
In the aisle where we lay
Come on girl, learn to sing
In the aisle where we lay

Don’t pass me by, tonight
Don’t pass me by, tonight

You say something holds you down
You feel like feeling for now
You say that you are afraid of everything that can be

Don’t pass me by, tonight
Don’t pass me by, tonight

Don’t lose yourself, It’s easy to do
And here we are, now

My Eyes Are Lazy

My Eyes are lazy baby
I thought you should know
My eyes are lazy baby
But I can see you now

I feel so insecure, I do
I’m not sure if I’m become soft

I’m putting all of my faith in you
I’m putting all of my faith in us now

I said, ‘My eyes are lazy,” baby
And I know just how I feel
My eyes are so damn lazy
I’ve been sleeping every day & I don’t know why

I’m putting it all on you

Oh yeah, my eyes are lazy baby
And I don’t know why
My eyes are lazy baby
And I just can’t seem to figure out why
I said, I said and I’ll say it again
That I’m putting it all on you, I’m putting it all on you

Afterthought

The shades are drawn, Now you’re warm
I think it’s all an afterthought
Snow on top of the foothills and
A stone’s throw away from the river

Turn around please (Listen to me)
Turn around please (Listen to me)

A buck short, a day late
In a simple cadence when nobody’s home
Just like strangers, We feel the danger
A terraced dynamic, a bad habit

You better slow it down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is Short
The music won’t last

You better slow it down (If you want to last)
You better take the time (You better look around)
You better slow it down (If you want to last)

Easy Does It

He will be destined to let it all hang out
He can get anything, he doesn’t want to know about
I will sit down and watch you from afar
You’re just a little bit off the ground

Easy does it…Easy does it

You can get anything you want
From this place that you never thought would evolve
You can get anything, you can be anyone’s heart
You don’t have to lay it all down tonight

Easy does it…Easy does it

You’re taking control of your life
You’re taking control of your life
He who pretends that he doesn’t need anybody else
He who pretends he doesn’t need anybody else
Is he who we will always call the fool
Is he who we will always call the fool

Easy does it…Easy Does it…

I Confess

Tell me all your secrets now
You don't have to let them out
You look so good in your sundress, you do

It's late you tell me, "I should go to bed."
I ask you to stay, but you don't want to at all, at all

I feel like you wanna say
Oh baby, you don't have to take me this way
It's nothing that I can't handle

Oh, I confess
Oh, I confess

You tell me, you feel like a mess
I know that I've obsessed way too much

And I've been eating the same thing for days
I know it hurts, but I like it this way I do, I do

You gotta take me this way whether I tumble or I fall

You know the other girl, she didn't mean a thing
I felt a lone and just needed something
You know the other girl didn't mean a thing
I felt alone and just needed something

Painting Pictures

I’m painting pictures for myself
I’m painting for myself and noone else
You’ve been running for too long
You’re walking through your feelings now

And no, you don’t have to run away
And no, you don’t have to run away

You’re far away from everyone
You’re sitting down, but you should go
I will fall away from anyone I can betray, oh no

And no, you don’t have to run away
And no, you don’t have to run away

And there you go, again
There you go, again

Brown Eyes

I want you to know

I will look at you tonight
And I’ll look at your deep, brown eyes
They make me feel so good
They make me feel so good

I won’t let you out of my arms
Because something tells me it won’t be right
To let you go, let you go

Because I’m looking at you
It doesn’t mean that I don’t understand
That you need
And I will…I won’t be shy
And I won’t let it go
Because I know..I know

You don’t look at me the same
But I don’t care

It don’t make a difference at all
At all
Because I want you tonight
I want you to lay in my bed
I want you tonight
I’ll be allright
Oh I’ll be fine

Trusted Love

Taken down by my trusted love
Taken by the heart of touch
I will feel myself tonight
I can get my love to lie

Feeling good don’t make me well
Feeling good don’t make me well
I can feel myself tonight
That’s a good thing I haven’t tried

I want my love
Trusted love
I want my love
I want my
Trusted Love

Tell me one more time it’s good
I will be there for the truth
I can let it all go now
That’s not where my heart is now

I want my love
I want my love
I want my love
I want my love


The Realness of it all (Oh FUCK, what did we do?)

I will take my drink, I will take my smoke, & I will take my pills, and make it one big joke, and settle down to the realness of it all. You could take your freedom, you can take it good, Ah, you’ll take me down with your big, brown eyes, but there’s nothing that you can’t deny/hide.

Oh look at me, I look at you. We’ll know what we want when it is true. But, I want you so right now. And I'll take your clothes off and you'll take mine off too. We'll take them them off and we'll both get off. Did I tell you, I know that it's true?

I've been squeezing two years into every single day; I just roll that way when that way calls; I've been squeezing two years into every single day just to contemplate the realness of it all.


I Hope You Understand

Suddenly I feel, I’m hard to figure out right now
I’m really scared, too scared to be scared together

I hope you understand…I hope you understand

Driving down the coast, there’s nothing that I can’t have
Just give me what I want, don’t tell me that it’s wrong

I hope you understand…I hope you understand
I hope you understand...I hope you understand…

Suddenly I feel something has changed
Just give me what I want
don't tell me that it's wrong

I hope you understand
I hope you understand...

Tree Branches For Veins

Last night you called me with some distraction
You told me, "Honey, I feel like making love."
There's light outside the window
cuz' the night it's already gone

You can beat your drum if you like
Cuz' Veronica likes to stay up late
You got tree branches for veins
And the mirror is in the wrong place

Always exit from the curbside
If you lived here you'd be home by now

I hope this is where it ends
If so, enjoy it while you can
Employees, they must wash hands
And Big Brother is in demand

Always exit from the curbside
If you lived here you'd be home by now...

Make it good, so good
You show em' Veronica
Let's go watch the sunset
You and I...

Album: In Medias Res
Side A: STAGES
1. Maybe it's I'm in Love with You
2. Not at My Best (But I'll Give it My Best)
3. On My Own
4. A Blog it Beat Me (OK BLOG)
5. Can't Prove
6. Farewell Valentine
7. Offered It Up
8. Reprise

9. Intermission: Turn the record over, please. Thank you.

Side B: SPRING CLEANING
10. MeaningLESS Sex
11. Spring Cleaning
12. My Door's Open
13. There's a Light


Side A: STAGES

Maybe it's I'm in Love with You

I can't go on feeling like this
I can't sit still with anyone else
You can grow your hair as long as you want
cause I'm not going home to live on my own

Maybe it's I'm in love with you
Maybe it's I'm in love with you

Oh you can't wait to watch me crawl
But no that's not what I'm gonna do now
and lord I have changed in so many ways
you won't even know it's I'm that you raised

Maybe it's I'm love with you
We can grow apart, but we can't grow together
Maybe it's I'm in love with you...


Not at My Best (But I'll Give it My Best)

I’m not at my best, but I'll give it my best
I feel this pain every day
It's in my blood, it's in my soul
I just can't figure out, how to let it go
I feel so insecure without you
something's holding me back from holding you
I just can't figure it out,
the reasons are all thrown to the wind
the wind's indecision is giving me a fit

I will remember you,
will you remember me?

I'm reading 'Notes From Underground'
it doesn't lend my eyes at ease
I buy the coffee and the paper
oh do I have my reservations
riding in the passenger seat
I can't see what you want from me
I tempt my soul and I tip my cap
to the one I'll never have

On My Own

You made up your mind and
didn't tell me what was on your mind
a kick to my soul
it's ok
that I'll get under control
you didn't know how you could get on
I'm glad you found yourself at my expense

I’m on my own
It's fine girl, you had it all

Now you're more like a basketball
guys pass you around and they dribble you HARD
I hope you get
everything you wanna posess
and unbelievable sex
with all those guys and all their friends
and I'll give high fives
I lost my apetite, but just for tonight
It's ok
I didn't have it half of my life

I’m on my own,
It's fine girl, you had it all

A Blog it Beat Me (OK BLOG)

There's a pain in my eyes
I can't disguise
you may have found someone else
I didn't think I'd need anyone else
I know where you kept your secrets
because you kept them from me
you'd seen my dark side
tonight

A blog it beat me
straight to my lonely eyes
I never took you for granted
and then I get home

There's a pain in my eyes
I can't disguise
you may have found someone else
I didn't think I'd....(need anyone else)
I know where you can get happy
I know where I can get free
but

A blog beat me
a blog it beat me
and now I'm free

Can't Prove

I wanna do
what is right for you
let’s not fight anymore, I want you
I’m telling everybody that I love you
I’m telling everyone that it's real
and you know what to think
and I don’t know what to say
this is something that I can’t prove
It’s you
I want you…Right now

Farewell Valentine

There's no sense in running away
cause when you come back nothing will have changed
cead mile failte (Keed Mee-luh Fowl-cha)
I will be the same
you, you have changed
Like a nagging cough, like a nagging cough
that you just can't get rid of

I undressed you there
then pushed back your hair
you told me you were a fool
but I couldn't see through
through you

7.7 percent of my life
I wish you just said "I DON'T"
woulda shoulda coulda ain't that right
sometimes it's hard to answer to yourself
and I've hit a wall
nobody died, but I hate them all
did you forget to remember at all?
I wanna break these 4 walls
I want to break them down
I'd do anything to forget everything
Nothing will stay the same
It's impossible
I've hardened
I've changed
I will never be the same

I undressed you there
then pushed back your hair
you told me you were a fool
but I couldn't see
I couldn't see through you

Offered it Up

I’m not at my best, but I'll give it my best
I met someone new, she's nothing like you
Isn't that great?
I’m not feeling fine
nothing was on my mind
I can't take my pride
but I can take it to you
I offered it up…..I offered it up…
to you....to you...to you...to you...


Reprise...You're dead to Me

You're dead to me....You're dead to me...
I'm taking control of my life now
I'm letting it all hang out
I'm over you
I'm over you
I'm taking all my time
I'm looking in the guide
Every time I walk
I tell you why
You're dead to me...You're dead to me...
I'm over you
I let my love...GO

Intermission: Turn the record over, please. Thank You.

Side B: Spring Cleaning
MeaningLESS Sex

I find myself obsessed
with meaningless sex
and girls I just met
because I can’t get hurt
but they don’t kiss my neck
like you did that time on the park bench
it’s easier to pretend than to get hurt
I won’t be shy girl even though we just met
can you help me forget the past, present and the future?
we know this won’t last forever
good things never do like they used to
I don’t want to hear about till death do us part
Will you be my June Carter?

Spring Cleaning

The Calendar reads March,
but I’m stuck in November
don’t sell your unborn,
I can’t start living like I did before
and I don’t owe you anything
it’s amazing how things they change
there is an end at the end of it all,
and a secret behind every shadow

you tell me you’re gonna leave,
and I’ll tell you to leave
your heart doesn’t beat the same,
as mine,
and that’s fine

It’s better to light a candle,
than to turn to darkness,
Love is just an excuse,
to get hurt and to hurt,
I’m doing some spring cleaning,
to get rid of everything that is you
I let your dirt build up,
this cigarette’s not long enough
like clockwork you call me every nine days
you say you’re taking it hard now
well good because you deserve it now
what happened to,
yeah distance is sounding really good right now
and that’s a risk you’re willing to take
who needs a fiancé when you have basketball anyway?

And I'm doing some spring cleaning, to get rid of everything that is you. I let your dirt build up. This cigarette's not long enough. I don't owe you anything. It's amazing how things they change. There's an end at the end of it all and a secret behind every shadow. It's better to light a candle than to turn to darkness. Love's just an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. The calendar reads March, but i'm stuck in November. Don't sell your unborn. I can't start living like I did before. You tell me you're going to leave and I tell you to leave. Your heart doesn't beat the same as mine and that's fine.


My Door's Open

I’m calm now
I'm free
my door's open,
my door's open,
my door's open
for you
I settle in the sun,
I let it all out
then I take a big, deep breath,
and the sun shines on me
my door's open,
my door's open,
my door's open,
for you
and then
me
I shed it all tonight,
I walk on by,
something tells me this ain't right,
but,
I don't care,
I don't care,
I don't care
there isn't anything I can't hide
there isn't anything I can't deny,
there isn't anything I won't try
my door's open,
my door's open,
my door's open

There's a Light

I’m about to get,
behind the wheel once again
I'm so brave,
I think it's time I behave,
feeling strong in the palm of a winter's storm
girl stops to look,
she has got the look,
James Dean, you know what I mean
cut me down, lead me up, let's fool around
Oh how I long to be found
all I know is
I feel better when I sing
I have tons of energy
just no life
you take my breath away,
but you’re not my type
there aren't any answers to what we call life,
I’m on a roll,
but feeling so low
maybe someday I’ll get to where I’m going
if I don’t know you now
I guess I didn’t know you then
I’m not crying over you,
I’m crying for me
I don’t ever want to be the motherfucker on the bus
that nobody wants to sit next to

yeah..there's a light
there's a light
at least I'm still alive