1. |
Lashed But Not Leashed
03:06
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Mighty people of the universe
Don’t buy that line that’s so well-rehearsed
Since the day you were born you’ve had your chapters laid out
You’ve been walking in footsteps
But now it’s time to break out
When you asked your mother what you’d grow up to be
She painted a picture as wide as the sea
But you fucked it all up, you painted yourself in
Sometimes you gotta get dirty If you wanna get out again
Lashed but not leashed
Nothing’s gonna hold me down
OOOooo
Lashed but not leashed
OOOOO
I’m not a dog, you’re not going to drag me around
I make you laugh when I take the stage
I shake my shit but we’re living in an age
When the hypocrites rule, they say the sky is the ground
So tell me which way is up? When the world is going dooooown?
Lashed but not leashed
Nothing’s gonna hold me down
OOOooo
Lashed but not leashed
OOOOO
I’m not a dog, you’re not going to drag me around
Lashed but not leashed
Nothing’s gonna hold me down
OOOooo
Lashed but not leashed
OOOOO
I’m tired of running, now I’m running this town
It’s your choice if you choose it
They can tell you it’s wrong
You got to use it or lose it before your mama gets gone
It’s your choice if you choose it
They can tell you it’s wrong
You got to use it or lose it before your mama gets gone
It’s your choice if you choose it
They can tell you it’s wrong
You got to use it or lose it before your mama gets gone
It’s your choice if you choose it
You can sing your own song
You got to use it or lose it before your mama gets gone
Lashed but not leashed
Nothing’s gonna hold me down
OOOooo
Lashed but not leashed
OOOOO
I’m not a dog, you’re not going to drag me around
Lashed but not leashed
Nothing’s gonna hold me down
OOOooo
Lashed but not leashed
OOOOO
Don’t shackle my dreams, cause I am a queen,
so hand me the crown!
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2. |
Comfort of a Book
04:06
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Ahhhh!
Ahh!
I’ll build a cocoon
Out of wood pulp and vodka
Just me and Franz Kafka
Safe inside my favorite easy chair
In the comfort of a book
I’ve made myself a little nook
You can try to take a look
But you can’t see me
With a book
A book never talks back
Put on a little Bacharach (Shalala)
I’ll never fall in love again
In love again
Don’t you worry bout me
Cause I’ll be fine fine fine fine
You can leave me alone
I’ll be fine fine fine
I feel myself getting better
With every scarlet letter
I just need a cozy sweater
And a pile of books
With a due date (Shalala)
You always get it back (Shalala)
File it neatly in the stack (Shalala)
With the
Proper distance
Proper distance
Don’t you worry bout me
I’ll be fine fine fine fine
You can leave me alone
I’ll be fine fine fine
Fine fine fine fine
Ohh La La La ohh
Ohh La La La ohh
I’ll build me a house
Out of wood pulp and Malbec
Just me and John Steinbeck
I’ll never taste your sour grapes,
your sour grapes,
your sour grapes of wrath
With a book
A book doesn’t talk smack
Doesn’t tell me what I lack
And I can find what I’m looking for
A book won’t
It won’t misunderstand
I can hold it in my hands but at the
Proper distance Proper distance
Don’t you worry bout me
I’ll be fine fine fine fine
You can leave me alone
And I’ll be fine fine fine fine
Don’t you worry bout me
Cause I’ll be fine fine fine fine
You can leave me alone
I’ll be fine fine fine fine fine fine fine
Don’t you worry bout me
I’ll be fine fine fine fine
You can leave me alone
I’ll be fine fine fine
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3. |
Danger
04:39
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Danger! Danger! Danger!
I met you on a street one day
I was a shipwreck lost at sea
You told me to take my time
I never knew that you’d haunt me
Touch my hand
Say the words
In my ear
Ring my bones like a bell
Touch my hand
Say the words
In my ear
Ring my bones like a bell in the night…
Danger! Danger!
You might think well I’ll never do that again
I made the bed in which you lied
I thought that you would catch me catch me catch me
First came the fall then my pride
Touch my hand
Say the words
In my ear
Ring my bones like a bell
Touch my hand
Say the words
In my ear
Ring my bones like a bell in the night…
I’m not that little girl anymore
I’m not that little girl anymore
I’m not that little girl anymore
I’m not that little girl anymore (with final swoop)
Touch my hand
Say the words
In my ear
Ring my bones like a bell
Touch my hand
Say the words
In my ear
Ring my bones like a bell in the night…
Danger! Danger! Danger!
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4. |
Bury Your Heart in a Box
04:26
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When you’re lonely
You’ve got nothing
But your beating heart
Useless thumping
In your chest
You’re stranded from the start
You want someone
They don’t want you
You wish you could die
You could just stand there
Helpless Trapped
And watch your own
And watch your own
And watch your own
Demise
But since you asked
for my advice
You could…
Bury your heart in a box
And in time it will rot
You don’t need that thing anyway
Bury your heart underground
Where it’s lost and it’s never found
Pick up your shovel
and move along
When you’re lonely
Time moves slowly
Stretched out like a tree
It keeps going
You look backward
Till you cannot see
And everybody’s
Moving forward
And they leave you stuck
Sinking with your strangled roots
Deeper in the muck
When you’re lonely
You’ve got nothing
But your own regret
Then the dream
of what you wanted
Perches on your chest
Strike a match
And watch it burn
Down to your fingertips
The fire won’t catch
So take that finger
put it to your lips
Sh…..
That’s a librarian joke.
Bury your heart in a box
And in time it will rot
You don’t need that thing anyway
Bury your heart underground
Where it’s lost and it’s never found
Look me in my eyes when I talking to you
Bury your heart in a box
And it locks and locks
You don’t need that thing anyway
Bury your heart underground
Where it’s lost and it’s never found
Take your appendix back hair and man-nipples your wisdom teeth foreskin the popping of pimples
your shit long division, your Shakespeare from college, the names of the presidents, stupid jazz knowledge!
The elements listed on the Periodic table, this wart right here, Most channels on cable
And why did you love me and leave me you loser you left your cum stains on my mom’s PT cruiser
Mama can you hear me? I had to tell her it was glue from a science fair project!
Bury everything,
everything,
everything,
everything,
everything,
everything
with your heart!
Pick up your shovel
and move along!
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5. |
Let Me Sit On It
04:04
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You get so nervous
When I walk, walk on by
I’ll do your service
I feed you sweet mashed potato pie
You got that
Knee shake
Little earthquakes in your thigh
I got that EZ bake, preheated at 475
I don’t wanna weigh you down
But if your knees are knocking I’m around
So let me sit on it
let me sit on it
You must be wondering
What I’d look like as your bride
Let’s start to tumbling
How much for a moustache ride
I get so tired
I need a friendly place to pop a squat
So let’s retire
And you can show me what you got
I don’t wanna weigh you down
But if your heavy head should need a crown
let me sit on it
let me sit on it
let me sit on it
let me sit on it
Why do you avoid me?
Is it to destroy me?
I don’t want no other other guy
Just gimme two legs and a thigh
And baby if you make me cry
I’ll smack you smack you smack you
Til I sit on it
Let me sit on it
I’m asking you politely, Can I sit on it
May I sit on it
The kinds of chairs I can think of:
There’s a glider, a slider, a rocker, and a swivel, and a silver, and a swing, and a recliner
But I don’t want no lazy boy
I don’t want no lazy boy
I don’t want no lazy boy
I don’t want no lazy boy
(start acapella here)
I don’t want no lazy boy
I don’t want no lazy boy
I don’t want no lazy boy
I don’t wanna weigh you down
But if your knees are knocking I’m around
But if your heavy head should need a crown
I can take you baby pound for pound oh baby
So let me sit on it
let me sit on it
let me sit-on-it
let me sit on it
sit on it
sit on it
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6. |
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The diving bell and the butterfly
200,000 blinks of one eye
I’ll write you a book
And you’ll take one look
And put it back onto the shelf
I stopped when I saw you that morning
A whole world was held in your eyes
It poured back and forth
Once or twice
The gravity of your light
It’s not true what they told you
Love won’t make you kind
There it was just a moment
(There it was just a moment)
The opposite of blind
Blind
Blind
The diving bell and the butterfly (glock comes in)
Your green eyes were sending out light
I wait for your glance
And wait for the chance
To decipher the code of the night
It’s not true what they told you
(It’s not true what they told you)
Your heart can’t change your mind
Honesty can’t unfold you
(Honesty it can close you)
It holds you back and --
You with your head to the sky
You with your unblinking eyes
You watch me fall but don’t reach for my hand
A symphony crash and a castle of sand
You watch me fall but don’t reach for my hand
A symphony crash and a castle of sand
You watch me fall but don’t reach for my hand
A symphony crash and a castle of sand
The diving bell and the butterfly
200,000 blinks of one eye
I wrote you a book
And you took one look
And put it back onto the shelf
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7. |
The Movie Song
03:59
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Papa always told me
To finish what you’ve begun
There’s no prize for a race you never run
And although I think he’s wrong
I wrote this little song
To keep me company until it’s done
Sometimes you gotta watch the movie you paid for
Even though a little voice says get up and go
There’s a ticket in your pocket
Brings you to a numbered row
But you’re sure you’re in the right seat at the wrong show
There’s a man to your right, who took you out tonight
He’s got bad breath but probably good intentions
So you try to ignore to that lingering odor
That’s blowing out your olfactory senses
Sometimes you gotta watch the movie you paid for
Even though a little voice says get up and go
(get up and go)
There’s a ticket in your pocket
Brings you to a numbered row
But you’re sure you’re in the right seat at the wrong show
Well catharsis is alright, said Aristotle
You can’t just keep your feelings in a bottle
Well that matinee show
That he starred in long ago
Won’t change the fact that now he’s just a fossil
Sometimes you gotta watch the movie you paid for
Sometimes you gotta cry into your corn
But it’s much too late to edit
When they’re rolling on the credits
Of what started on the day you were born.
Sometimes you gotta watch the movie you paid for
Even though a little voice says get up and go
(get up and go)
There’s a ticket in your pocket
Brings you to a numbered row
But you’re sure you’re in the right seat
at the wrong show.
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8. |
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Who will rise and walk with me?
An unfamiliar place I see.
Who will share this path I’m on?
And will you speak before I’m gone?
Your voice recorded isn’t you
The timbre folds, becomes confused
This empty imitation’s wrong
And will you speak before I’m gone?
Reach for the handle of the door
Will you stay, do you want more?
You’ll never know the road you’re on
And will you speak before I’m gone?
And in that garden’s forking paths
I couldn’t choose, and time did pass,
I stood stock still for far too long
And will I speak before I’m gone?
My feet grew into solid ground
And so my bones like roots grow down,
I’m now a tree with branches long
But will I speak before I’m gone?
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9. |
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I’m not trying to stop the rain babe
I’m just trying to dance when it hits the ground
I’m not trying to stop the rain babe
I just trying to sing when I hear the sound
Long time ago I fell in love with you
And I chased that love as fast as I could
Though it left me kicked and bleeding on the ground
Still my heart knows what it found
Bridges burned and lessons learned
I know that I learned mine
But oh I know I’d do it all over again
Shed the skin of time
Leave it all behind
I’m not trying to stop the rain babe
I’m just trying to dance when it hits the ground
I’m not trying to stop the rain babe
I’m just trying to sing when I hear the sound
I’m not trying to live without you
I’m not trying to decide
All I want is some tomorrow
With you by my side
Let the rain fall down
Let it soak my skin
I don’t care at all
I’m not trying to stop the rain babe
I’m just trying to dance when it hits the ground
I’m not trying to stop the rain babe
I’m just trying to sing when I hear the sound
Let the rain fall down…
Let the rain fall down…
Let the rain fall down…
Let the rain fall down…
Rain fall rain fall, rain fall down
Rain fall rain fall, rain fall down
Rain fall rain fall, rain fall down
Rain fall rain fall, rain fall down
Rain fall rain fall, rain fall down
Rain fall rain fall, rain fall down
Rain fall rain fall, rain fall down
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10. |
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I’m a drag queen with a very large…vocabulary
I’m a drag queen with a very large…vocabulary
I’m a drag queen with a very large…vocabulary
I’m a drag queen with a very large…
vocabulary
You can use
context clues
to find out
about that which I’m talking
Don’t hesitate to ambulate,
You get me? Let’s start walking
I need a man who when he can
Will worship a grammarian
check me out with no due-date
I’m a sexy librarian
I’m a drag queen with a very large vocabulary
Space
Super bad queen with a very large vocabulary
I’m a drag queen with a very large vocabulary
Super bad queen with a very large vocabulary
I don’t wanna judge but I won’t budge
I won’t end with prepositions
As you’ve seen I am a queen
who needs oral precision
Use your mouth to go down south
No need for bloviations
Bring your tongue It’s brought not brung
Let’s bridge this situation
HYPERBOLIC POLYRHYTHMIC SUPER ALLA DING DONG
HYPERBOLIC POLYRHYTHMIC SUPER ALLA DING DONG
HYPERBOLIC POLYRHYTHMIC SUPER ALLA DING DONG
HYPERBOLIC POLYRHYTHMIC SUPER ALLA DING DONG
DING DONG?
WHO’S THERE?
IT’S JUST ME MARTHA
Woowoo
Woowoo
Woowoo
Woowoo
Your
It’s a personal possessive
You’re
Like it’s something you are
Yore
I’m scared of all the dragons
Your
I wanna get into my car
and go
There
It’s a place I wanna go to
Their
It belongs to her and that guy
They’re
It’s a simple contraction
There there
Like oh baby don’t cry
Bear
It’s a fuzzy little creature
Bare
Like when you show me your junk
Bear
Cause it’s more than I can handle
Beer
Cause I guess I’m really drunk
For
When you’re stating your intentions
Fore
Gonna get a hole in one
Fore
Like the skin I don’t remember
Four
Bring it back to the one
1 2 3 4
BRIDGE:
Don’t dangle your participle in my face
Don’t dangle your participle in my face
Don’t dangle your participle in my face
Don’t dangle your participle in my face
If you’d like to copulate
You best use erudition
Don’t let me hear you masticate
I can’t swallow that condition
BRING IT UP A NOTCH with YOUR BRAIN And Your CROTCH
Bring em both TO MY PARTaY
Don’t fight with this hermaphrodite
I gotta bigger dictionaray
Chorus:
I’m a drag queen with a very large vocabulary
Super bad queen with a very large vocabulary
I’m a drag queen with a very large vocabulary
Super bad queen with a very large--
Yo
My smartphone is dumb as shit
--Vocabulary
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11. |
Farewell
05:40
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When the last note is sung
The last ring is rung
The last wig is wung
The last heel is flung
Then I will be a
Librarian
I’ve been up here in front of you
For so long
So long
I’m hungry for other pieces of the pie
The stage is where a star goes to die
So my friends
Goodbye
When my last note leaves my lips
And it joins the others in the sky
It’ll swirl among the stratosphere
Where all the last notes collide
Searching for another blue light
When all the music begins to spin out there
And a supernova starts to form (ah…)
It’ll fall straight through the atmosphere
With a song to blow your mind
And that’s how a new star is born
I’ve been up here in front of you for so long
I’m so exhausted I could cry,
The stage is where a star goes to die
So my friends, my friends, Goodbye
I’ve been up here in front of you for so long
Too close to the sun, that’s no place to fly
The stage is where a star goes to die
So my friends, my friends, Goodbye
So my friends, my friends, Goodbye
So my friends, my friends,
Goodbye…
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