Michael Hall and the Woodpeckers "Dead by Dinner" Randy Franklin: lead guitar, vocals Michael Hall: vocals, guitar Steve McCarthy: drums, percussions, vocals John Ratcliff: piano, organ Brian Zoric: bass John Hagen: cello Cahmp Hood: fiddle, vocals Julie Lowery: vocals Jud Newcomb: acoustic guitar, lap steel, slide guitar, percussion Toni Price: vocals All songs by Michael Hall Copyright 1999 Aznur Music, BMI In the Crypt with Eleanora (4:30) Car's on fire in the middle of the road I can't believe you touched him Mother's screaming out of control Shooter's lying in a pool of blood I wish my last words would sound that good He talks too much, he calls me Dude I can't believe you touched him He sings along with "Hey Jude" He's got big plans, and he's wild about 'em I got big plans, no need to shout about 'em Little words are falling from your pretty mouth just like these broken stones I had a dream, and we were naked Out on a boat or dmvn on the lake Who slapped John? Who rode the pony? Who put the fish on the macaroni? I can't believe you fucked him I Can't Believe You Touched Him (2:55) Halfway between faith and knowing The earth is cracked and it's still growing Breathing air of English tourists Dying in the great black forest. On the streets of cold Chicago Locked in step forever slow On the pavement, just like dreamers In our places like believers. If you walk in certain circles You will find a steady comfort Anything is possible But nothing's goons happen. Pulling thoughts and spending places While we just get weaker Do you love me, no don't tell me Let me guess, let me wonder In the crypt with Eleanora, All the dead and living brothers Like a good and sleeping country, With the past surely coming In the crypt with Eleanora Goethe and Schiller are buried together In the lava, just like lovers In their places like believers. Halfivay between nil and never Do you love me, let me wonder. If You Were Gonna Find Her, You Would've Found Her By Now (3:10) She's wearing his shirt, wearing his hat Hr thinks she's a flirt but she's not that bad She's making a list, her writing's a blur You're not real, you never were If you were gonna find her If you were gonna find her If you were gonna find her You would've found her by now She goes to Von's, it's the first of the week She's a vegetarian but he'll eat meat She stops and stares at the mirror on the ceiling It was the same spot where you had that funny feeling If you were gonna find her If you were gonna find her, you would've have found her by now Telling her stories while she's wiping your brow Now you're in your car and the radio is playing The song's got you thinking that could be her waiting It's late in the evening, but it could be morning You haven't heard the song since you moved to California She gives you look, your poetry and tassels She's had a long day and you're just another lonely asshole If you were goons find her Worthless (5:02) Everybody loves the little bitty baby A beautiful voice, story that's true The sun shines down on the pregnant Muslim lady And the scabby old Christian too Sometimes I'm amazed at the certainty The people I love hate themselves Sometimes I'm amazed at the loyalty Of the beating of my heart, well Worthless If I had tears to throw around The rattle of love, breakin' beauty I'd save a few for the human duty Uke a fat kid yelling from a diving board You got a brain, you're goons use it Face up on a field, or down on the floor You got muscle, you're goons bruise Worthless Angel (5:17) Howdy stranger. You got a name? Most folks do. We ain't shy arouod here, at least not around friendly folks. Don't worry ahout your car. My daddy'll see Co it first thing in the morning. He's the hest there is around these parts. It gets dark early here. And cold, even in summer. Somethiog shout the tall trees sod the cool shade down hehind the hills. The clay. Sometimes when it gets like this we like to have a party. We like to dance, you know, have some fun. We like to drink this stuff my hrother makes. It takes a little getting used to, hut then it goes down easy. You like to dance? Maybe you'll meet my sister. She loves to dance with fellas like you. Angel--Shake it for my sister The dead and the living Are shaking shaking shaking I've never driven a Japanese truck before. Decent mileage. Nice payload, I hear. My Daddy says I have to get rid of it, but I don't know. I might go see if she wants to go for a ride. Angel Truly (2:53) I've always had a secret, usually had fun I've had my moments, hut so has everyone I'm torn from tearing and drunk from drinking And you want to know what a guy like me is thinking Come sit by my side and bring me more of that gin Truly and bravely sin Against this perfect world that God put you in Break a lot of hearts and drink a lot of gin And don't he afraid to he a human heing Truly and bravely sin You may find purpose and you may find heaven The true love of the forgiven The inevitable face in a paradise of ruin When they're going out, come back in Darlin' If You Knew How Much I Wanted You (4:07) If you knew how much I wanted you You would stand in your kitchen, listen to some music Wonder how the singer knows If you knew how much I wanted you You would go to work, but you wouldn't frel like working Wonder what you're going through Your mind would blow where you don't want to go And you'd forget your reason, you'd lose your season. And when you split in two like amoeba do One would wake and the other would dream Straight into my backyard With a rusty crowbar Slip into my window Climb into my bed and Wake me without warning Look into my eyes and See just what I was up to Oh, if you only knew Well you would stand in your kitchen, make yourself a sandwich Listen to the radio How to Be Strong (2:39) Whip this out, man--wear it on your cost Keep your lips from moving, and stay sway from mirrors Hold it in your hand, squeeze it like a stone Harder and harder, straight into your bones How to be strong Get in your car, drive all night Straight into the morning Memorize the morning Your hair in the morning Your blood in the morning Your eyes in the morning You'll be dead by dinner. How to be strong No One Can Tell You When It's Time to Leave (5:05) All the pretty girls are drinking shots in the kitchen They left their coats on someone's hed in the hackroom No one can tell you when it's time to leave No one can tell you when it's time You're all dressed up and aching to helieve Three drinks down and not of your mind The music's (nod, not too (nod And James is dancing, he's trying to shake some girl who'd rather talk to me No one can tell you when it's time to leave Wish I could take these stars and show them something new Like how the swingset's cold and the streetlight shone on you No one can tell you when it's time to leave Heaven, Too Far Away (3:48) Our star is dying, like a housefly Twinkling hrighter in somehody's eye It doesn't take rocket science to feel your hesinstem dying The same delirium Heaven, too far away All the shadows dancing are the dead on the walls Trying to get your attention, as if that would do any good Are you real? Are you mine? Like a dream? Like a dime? The same delirium Heaven, too far away Waking in a dream waking, like a new man waking And you've devoured 10,000 years Going to the shopping mall, it's not so had after all Hello little dreamer, wipe away all of your tears Heaven, too far away The Train Will Surely Come (2:54) The hirds are watching quietly, the pastures mild and green The wind is hlowing gently on a very pleasant scene But any minute now, the earth will shake and growl If I wait long enough, If I wait long enough The train will surely come A man could die of hunger with the time that train is taking And every one of heaven's own is surely now awaking There's trouhle in this time, but everything is fine If I wait long enough River Road (5:06) That's our river now looks the same somehow Swollen with decay, memory and clay River Road The lonely and the lame are playing river games Upside down and falling, from the water calling River Road Rolling down my skin Like it was a dream The stones will guide the hiond past where our fathers stood Lost, forever still, like a solvent will River Road I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground (10:18) I wish I was a mole in the ground I wish I was a mole in the ground Like a mole in the ground I'd root that mountain down I wish I was a mole in the ground. Kimpy wants a $9 shawl Kimpy wants a $9 shawl When I come over the hill with a $40 hill Bahy where you heen so long? I heen in the hend so long I heen in the hend so long Been in the hend with the rough and rowdy men Bahy, where you heen so long? I don't like the railroad man I don't like the railroad man Railroad man will kill you when he can Drink up your hinod like wine I wish I was a lizard in the spring I wish I was a lizard in the spring Like a lizard in the spring I'd hear my darlin' sing I wish I was a lizard in the spring Kimpy, let your hair roll down Kimpy, let your hair roll down Let your hair roll down and your hangs curl around Kimpy, let your hair roll down