WACOWORLD Waco Brothers PIGSVILLE have you ever been to pigsville, honey? listened to cold water in the mountains of steel shavings did you get drunk at the wheelhouse, honey? stealing fifths of whiskey when you thought noone was listening nothing you've done to feel ashamed of have you ever been to pigsville, honey? like you did someething evil but the memory is fuzzy did you wake up on the carpet, honey? next to that chalk outline, next to impossible no, there's nothing you've done to feel ashamed of HELLO TO EVERYBODY say hello to everybody won't you say hello for me you see I can't go back and forth no more at least physically standing on the hill in tess' corners waiting for the aliens to take me to a warmer planet where there is no consequence sometimes you treat your friendships like some kind of pyramid scheme do you get some kind of bonus for everyone you reel in? say hello to everybody won't you say hello for me from now on i'll just imagine i'm in the perfect company it was coming down in buckets so i duck into the dew drop inn i always keep one eye on the door you never know, you could spot a friend when they fit me for my casket what will they say about me? "he met a lot of beautiful places and he loved a lot of interesting things" say hello to everybody won't you say hello for me say hello FIRE DOWN BELOW In the texas whirlwind with the robber's tag we did the grapevine twist and the one night stand square pegs in a round world when it all comes down nowhere else to go fire down below she had graveyard eyes and bedroom tears twisted sheets and irrational fears she had a bleeding heart and soft money to blow nowhere else to go fire down below fire down below poor poor barbarians all busting chains sweating bullets back in the saddle again we swallow the hook and we lit the flames nowhere else to go fire down below RED BRICK WALL i'm standing in the alley with my hands on a red brick wall seems the more i claim i'm innocent the guiltier i become since you left me baby, i'm never where i belong seems no matter how i try i just can't stay out of wrong got my hands behind my back cuffs on my wrist forget what i said earlier, baby i'm not into this standing in the alley with my hands on a red brick wall seems the more i claim i'm innocent the guiltier i become on the day of his death i built jfk a shrine i know just how he felt i get murdered in texas everytime THE HAND THAT THROWS THE BOTTLE DOWN i had long suspected that we'd better be prepared to give up on the notion that someone really cared 'cos we're walking in the daylight with the odds all stacking up the hand that throws the bottle down won't pick it back again there goes the winner but the race was rigged feel like a loser? well the fright was fixed i don't believe in fairplay and i don't believe in luck the hand that throws the bottle down won't pick it back again if i was born into the fast lane i'd go rollin on through and you know i'm never ever going to slow down for you i'll be looking at a house that costs a million bucks with a secret little doorway and a ladder i'd pull up to protect their money men built banks to protect the money they bought guns and tanks the barrels are smoking and the chambers are hot they're no better than us they just got the better shot with one arm tied behind the target on your back you were born to take the fall you were bred to hit the mat don't expect a helping hand from someone up above the hand that throws the bottle down won't pick it back again REGRETS this world could never find me a place i can't make it long without being a disgrace i've poured the whole bottle down my neck and fallen on my face this world could never find me a place i'm gonna go out now and make some more regrets i'm gonna take out anybody's face that fits i'll drink that whole bottle of whiskey down then smash it all to bits i'm gonna go out now and make some more regrets can't say i never liked to lose a fight but you crippled me with what you said last night i'll get that cheating friend of mine and then i'll set you right can't say i ever liked to lose a fight TRAIN BACK IN TIME please don't cry little girl this train goes back in time returning to the station returning there tonight "go away from me, mister save your cheer for someone else tomorrow's gone forever like some long forgotten wealth" although it's hard to believe you've been showing all the signs returning to the station this train goes back in time DAY OF THE DEAD the day of the dead is 24 hours long the day of the dead is over for me so sugar sweet, covered with flowers and little white shells washed up by the sea yes it's all over, so make a decision give up the ghosts now, the ashes and clay come on over make a decision pas like a shadow from night into day gently gently, you're moving over out of the new world back into the last all precious treasures we stood to inherit are frozen in bank vaults somewehere in the past when the dark of night fed you, when the sky clouded over I could see your glass tremble, the limitless waste so turn your back on tomorrow and that long black train rolling pass like a shadow from night into day BROKEN DOWN ROW take your hand off the deadbolt don't leave wipe the tears from your eyes cos i am not your enemy can't you see through my disguise this cocaine's got me ugly again i know i was walking down the middle of the street down a broken down row saw an old friend i knew long ago who had taken his sad life said he couldn't see an end to the pain the struggling and strife tripped on a curb turned round where did he go? i was just coughing and spitting alone on broken down row these streets will be the death of me if the bars don't get me first and i won't get no better, oh no before i get much worse but now i know i love you, yes i know please help me change my life i can't move down a broken down row GOOD FOR ME i know what's good for me i know what's good but sometimes it's good to do all the other things i know the preacher's name i know his name but nobody's saying don't believe in what you see i stole your heart and i'm not giving it back put it away in a shiny brass box i stole your heart cantina diablo the walls are bright red, someone said i can always find you there devil be good to me i know what's good but sometimes it's good to do all the other things CORRUPTED i am so corrupted i'm in partnership with all the guilty treasures that will sink this rusty ship all the sinful cargo that has dared to call my name before it sends me back down into the earth from which i came red is the colour of the city i call home it's the colour of the sky above the streets where i roam where now is the hour and the hour is always late the future's a distraction the past is a big mistake he'll take the hindmost that devil in me he'll be the death of my responsibilities a leap in the dark something over the hill the devil may care but i don't think i will raise your glass. raise your voice and raise the dead life's run by too fast too paint it anything but red for a life of sin for a life of sin for a life of sin there's no calm before the storm that's rollin in in the crack of dawn in the dead of night in the crack of doom there'll be peace in the valley on the dark side of the moon on the day that i was born no one gave me a map but life can be a maze yeah and life can be a trap i'm a red rag to all the bull i'm soaked in blood and wine but i'll paint myself back out of this corner everytime NORTHWOODS old growth gives way to fertile valleys are you lonely in the house you built the city - it reeks of history it's so dramatic - insignificant i was born foot in my mouth i was born a little too far south maybe we could stray off course for good in the northwoods tall trees, tall buildings and little taverns are you lonely in the house you built? they say the great ones all have premonitions and i believe what i see at night old growth gives way to fertile valleys are you lonely in the house you built and now they're boarding up the project could you be content? is it finally enough? FAMOUS LAST WORDS out like a light in the dark of day a phrase you repeated and then tossed away feel the movement over water, the blade through the swell a taxi driving slowly, backwards into hell a grey light is flashing through the lashes to my brain like bars on the window of the room where i lay from the snap button shirt a pearly eye winks red round the edges rolling backwards as we sink the whiskey won't drink me the song will not sing the bed will ot sleep and we don't feel a thing can i tell you my friend, can i call you again famous last words this is the end drown in my beer, soak me in wine that's why they called bars,'cos they keep me inside