"Cliché"
Unresolved infatuation, you've made your selection: Space needle and
geodesant dome. Rotting from inside, immaculate infection, the constant
ticking like a metronome. Now the sun don't shine but there's no time for
dreaming. You buried your doubt, shut your mind and just smiled. You never
stopped to wonder why you're yelling and screaming. You've got to prove
that you're no longer a child. I never thought I'd be this way but now
I find I'm just a Cliché. Marching down the street like you own
the place and then it's back to the drink because your love is gone. A
tear wells on her sullen face but you can't cry because he's only a pawn.
I tried to answer but I was drawing a blank. Now you're green with envy,
now you're out in the stratosphere. Knocked to the floor and stripped of
your rank because the chickens aint the only ones here. I always thought
that I'd have something to say but now it seems I'm just a Cliché.
Since the tables have turned it seems you've fallen from grace. I try to
tell myself that I will always stand but I'm searching for that thing I
just can't replace and now I'm full of hate and anger for my fellow man.
I don't know how things got this way but I know I'm just a Cliché.
"I Wannaí Be A Bellhop"
I
wannaí be a bellhop and live the life of luxury. Ill come running when
the front desk calls. That's the life for me. I wannaí carry your bags
up stairs with a little round hat on my head. I wannaí show you where the
light switch is and Ill always dress in red. I wannaí be a bellhop and
be a hero among men. I wannaí put on blackface, I wannaí kiss Sherilyn
Fenn. I wannaí be an American. I wannaí gripe about the man. I wannaí get
a million dollars and enjoy it while I can.
"I Like Girls"
I'm in love with the Russian exchange student. I'm in love with those
three Korean girls. They have some trouble with our language so I staple
pretty words on to their brains. Ill shower you with gold and silver. Ill
call you late at night when I'm drunk. Ill play you all two-hundred of
my Beatles albums cuz my Nintendo don't work no more.
"Happy Hour"
Lest something comes up, we'll all be fine. Remember charity brings
peace of mind. Well you could be my coward and I would be your thief. What
is it you'd like today my dear? A pretty little pony, a lasso round the
moon, a bucket full of fools gold plated tears. And everybody's happy now
that it's happy hour since no one here could offer you their shame.
Well the world was just a cherry, drown in your whiskey sour but nothing
lasts forever except the feeling that nothing will ever change. Now you
can be my monkey and I will be your saint. Oh the joyous miracles well
see. I know pride may be
inherent but that won't be a problem. No, that won't be a problem for you
and me. And everybody's happy now that it's happy hour. We'll just sit
and sweat these toxins out our pores and from the canals of industry to
the bays of commerce, we know that we love it where we are now, wishing
that we were anywhere else but here. I'm sure we could leave ourselves
behind, but what would be left? An image of our happiness or prayers of
our own death. Everybody's happy now that it's happy hour since nobody
here can offer you their shame and the world was just the cherry inside
your whiskey sour but nothing lasts forever, except the feeling that nothing
will ever change. No nothing lasts forever except the feeling that nothing
will ever change.
"Anti-Climax"
I... I wonder why they try to cure the symptoms while ignoring the
disease. I need 23 cans of Pepsi, naked starlets and jeans from the Gap.
Everyone's rebelling against authority. Everybody's making bad puns. You're
tickled pink about insanity and that cross you bear for everyone. Can you
pick me up? I feel dizzy. What's your blood type? I'm A. Gee, that's too
bad. That's too bad. I've gained weight. I want to change my hair. Everyone's
rebelling against authority. Everybody's making bad puns. You're tickled
pink about insanity and that cross you bear for everyone.I kissed her again
cuz I'd ran out of anything else to say but I'll go along for lack of anything
better to do. Everyone's rebelling against authority. Everybody's making
bad puns. You're tickled pink about insanity and that cross you bear for
everyone.
all songs written by adam and/or ryan beebe. © mishap
productions.
ryan photo by mike garlington.adam photo by janelle cobb.
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