"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine
Uh-huh, I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed
I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream
Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, tv, movies,magazines
Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
Butterfly decal, rearview mirror, dogging the scene
You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You said that irony was the shackles of youth, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
I never understood, don't fuck with me, uh-huh
I know you
I know you've seen her
She's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
Walking down the street
Will I never meet her?
She's a real woman-child
Oh my kiss breath turpentine
I am smitten
I'm the real thing I'm the real thing
Have you seen her come around?
My crush with eyeliner
I'm in like
I'm infatuated
It's all too much, the pressure
She's all that I can take
What position should I wear?
Cop an attitude, you faker
How can I convince her, faker
That I'm invented too, yeah
I am smitten
I'm the real thing I'm the real thing
We all invent ourselves and, uh, you know me
Yeah, she's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
She's her own invention she's her own invention
That gets me in the throat
What can I make myself be?
Life is strange, yeah Life is strange
What can I make myself be, fake her
To make her mine?
I am smitten
I'll do anything I'll do anything
A kiss breath turpentine
My crush with eyeliner
I am smitten
You know me yeah, you know me
I could be your Frankenstein
My crush with eyeliner
I am smitten
I'm the real thing I'm the real thing
Won't you be my valentine?
My crush with eyeliner
Make your money with a suit and tie
Make your money with truth denial
Make your money expert advice
If you can wing it
Make your money with a power ply
Make your money with a buyout bribe
Make it lie as long as you mean it
I'm not king of comedy
Grease the pig, give a squeeze, squeeze me)
Make your money with exploitation
Make it holy illumination
Say a prayer at every station
Don't forget to ask for mercy
Make your money with a pretty face
Make it easy with product placement
Make it charged with controversy
I'm straight, I'm queer, I'm bi
I'm not king of comedy
I'm not your magazine
I'm not your television
Make your money, make it rich
Make it young and make it quick
Make your money on the jukebox, baby
It's pick up sticks
Make your enemies make your moves
Make your critics humble through
Make it smart and make it smooth
Make it look easy
I'm not king of comedy
I'm not your magazine
I'm not your television
I'm not your movie screen
I'm not commodity, all together now
I'm not commodity, I'm not commodity
I'm not commodity, I'm not commodity
I'm not commodity, I'm not commodity
I'm looking for an interruption
Do you believe?
You looking to dig my dreams
Be prepared for anything
You come in my little scene
Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
There's one thing I can guarantee:
You won't have to dig, dig too deep
Said leave me to lay, but touch me deep
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee
but you know what I really need
Are you looking to drive my dreams?
You here to run my screens?
You come, deliver my demons
Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
Are you coming to ease my headache?
Do you give good head?
Am I good in bed?
I don't know, I guess so
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee
But you know what I really need
I'm looking for an interruption
Can you believe?
Some medicine for my headache
Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
I'm pitching for a new direction
Pinch me when I wake
Don't tell me my dreams are fake
You leave me to lay, you touch me deep
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee
But you know what I really need
Leave me to lay, but touch me deep
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee
But you know what I really need
You don't have to take the bar exam to see
What you've done is ignoramus 103
What I've got to hang my hat on
You don't have a pot to pee in
All this just to be your friend
I was there until the end
Extortion and arson, petty larceny
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I know you hung up my line star 69
I know all about the warehouse fire
I know squirrelys didn't chew the wires
3 people have my number the other 2 were with me
I don't like to tell-tell but I'm not your patsy
This time you have gone too far with me
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I know you hung up my line star 69
Why'd you put your quarter down on me?
This reads like some dork inside edition hard copy
I can't be your character witness
I can't be your alibi
Doorbell rings it's the FBI
We learned spy vs spy
You my friend, are guilty as can be, be
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I know you hung up my line
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I know you called
I know you called, I can't be your alibi star 69
I don't know why you're mean to me when I call on the telephone
And I don't know what you mean to me
But I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out, I want to take you on
These words, "You will be mine"
These words, "You will be mine" all the time
The fool might be my middle name
But I'd be foolish not to say
I'm going to make whatever it takes
Ring you up, call you down, sign your name, secret love
Make it rhyme, take you in, and make you mine
These words, "You will be mine"
These words, "You will be mine" all the time, oh
I tripped and fell, did I fall
What I want to feel, I want to feel it now
You know with love come strange currencies
And here is my appeal:
I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance,
A fourth chance, a word, a signal, a nod, a little breath
Just to fool myself, to catch myself, to make it real, real
These words, "You will be mine"
These words, "You will be mine" all the time, oh
These words, "You will be mine"
These words, they haunt me, hunt me down, catch in my throat
Make me pray, say, love's confined, oh
Call my name, here I come
90 to nothing, watch me run
You call
I am ashamed to say
Ugly girls know their fate
Anybody can get laid
You want a room with a fire escape
I want to tell you how much I hate this
Don't leave that stuff all over me
It pains me, please just leave it
I should toss that vanity license plate
Toss that make-up painted face
Box those poems, chocolate cake
Scratch that name on the record player
Please just leave me be
Don't lay that stuff all over me
It crawls all over
All over me
Call my name, here I come
Your last ditch lay, will I never learn?
Caramel turn on a dusty apology
It crawls all over me
You turn all over
It pains me
Please just leave it
If you could see yourself now, baby
It's not my fault, you used to be so in control
You're going to roll right over this one
Just roll me over, let me go
You're laying blame
Take this as no, no, no
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang
Blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang
It's not my thing so let it go
If you could see yourself now baby
The tables have turned, the whole world hinges on your swings
Your secret life of indiscreet discretions
I'd turn the screw and leave the screen
Don't point your finger
You know that's not my thing
You came to bang, bang, bang, bang and bang
Blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang
It's not my thing so let it go now
You've got a little worry
I know it all too well
I've got your number
But so does every kiss-and-tell
Who dares to cross your threshold
Or happens on your way
Stop laying blame
You know that's not my thing
You know that's not my thing
You came to bang, bang, bang, bang and bang
Blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
It's not my thing so let it go
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang
Blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang
It's not my thing so let it go
You kiss on me, tug on me, rub on me, jump on me
You bang on me, beat on me, hit on me, let go on me
You let go on me
I wore the clothes you wanted
I took your name
If there is some confusion, who's to blame?
I signed your living will
I smiled your face
I'm ready to close the book on NASA in outer space
If there is some confusion
Who's to blame?
Who's to blame?
I sequenced your arrival
I sealed your fate
I pushed the button and erased your master tape
I wrote the sales pitch
I threw the brake switch
I dragged your big ass daddy roth car out of that ditch
If there is some confusion
Who's to blame?
Who's to blame?
I crossed your great divide
I stirred your ocean's tide
I called your bluff until I blew your circuits wide
I'll be your albatross, devil, dog, Jesus, God
I don't wanna be Iggy Pop but if that's what it takes, hey
If there is some confusion
If there is some confusion
If there is some confusion
Who's to blame?
Who's to blame?
If there is some confusion
Yeah, all those stars drip down like butter
Promises are sweet
We hold out our pans, lift our hands to catch them
We eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up
Hey, let me in
Hey, let me in
I only wish that I could hear you whisper down
Mister fisherman, to a less peculiar ground
He gathered up his loved ones and he brought
Them all around to say goodbye, nice try
Hey, let me in, yeah yeah yeah
Hey, let me in. let me in
I had a mind to try to stop you, let me in, let me in
I've got tar on my feet and I can't see
All the birds look down and laugh at me
Clumsy, crawling out of my skin
Hey, let me in, yeah yeah yeah
Hey, let me in
Hey, let me in, yeah yeah yeah
Hey, let me in
Here comes that awful feeling again
Welcome the ugly animal
I hold my breath to what you sing
My pyro acrobat ball and chain
I'm not afraid, I messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up
I've got my telescope head in the haystack
I'm getting tired of your dodgeball circus act
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command
Here comes that awful feeling again
Make way for monster jealousy
The strong man kicked sand into my breakfast cereal bowl
I'd spelled your name with Oatios
he messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up
I've got my telescope head in the haystack
I am tired of your dodgeball circus act
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command
You're mean, mean, mean
You tease, tease, tease me
If I were you I'd really run from me
I'd really really wish that I were you
When I get loose I'll climb a tree and drop a load on your head
This monster in me makes me retch, you messed it, messed it up
I've got my telescope head in the haystack
I am jealous of your dodgeball circus act
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command
You're mean, mean, mean
You tease, tease, tease me
Do you smell jealousy?
Do you smell jealousy, jealousy, jealousy?
Let the sun beat through the clouds
Let me kiss you on the mouth
All my childhood toys with chew marks in your smile
Let me hold your syrup close to mine
Let me watch you, Hollywood and Vine
And I want you like the movies, touch me now
I love you crazy, just keep on
I love you madly, just keep watch
You wipe my lips, you turn me on
My attentions are turned to you
Did I dream you were a tourist in the Arizona sun?
I can see you there with luna moths and watermelon gum
I woke up in the sleeping bag, with nowhere else to run
You're standing in the bathroom telling me it's all in fun
I love you crazy, just keep on
I love you madly, just keep watch
You wipe my lips, you turn me on
My attentions are turned to you
I can whisper in your ear
I can write a calendar year
I can wing around your Saturn smile, shut out the moon
I walked the tension wire line
And I learned to disrespect the signs
And I want you like a Pisces rising, even though
I love you crazy, just kep on
I love you madly, just keep watch
You wipe my lips, you turn me on
My attentions are turned to you, you, you