Dishwasher and the Washing Machine

by Douglas Chay

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1.	I Dread Everything 03:21	lyrics	buy track
I dread living in this world, oh yeah Cause people killing every day I dread living in this body, oh yeah Because its needs won't go away I don't want to wash the dishes piled up in the sink I feel like I can't go to work, I haven't slept a wink Cause I dread everything Next week I have to interview for a job But I'm so worried they won't want me for their bank to rob I got a pain in my stomach, I got an ache in my neck And all I know is I don't know what's coming next I don't want to think about the things I got to do I just can't face up to all the food I got to chew Because I dread everything I dread living in this house, oh yeah Because the noise keeps me awake I dread living in this family, oh yeah Cause no one gives back what they take I don't feel like vacuuming the dirt upon the floor Everything I ever do feels to me like a chore Cause I dread everything © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
2.	All From My Bed 02:11	lyrics	buy track
I look out my window and I see all the people go Faster and faster like they're pulling a fire hose Everyone's talking on a lower-rate telephone About all the things that they can't say inside their homes Under a street light I can see a little girl Who is scoring some methadone into her little world She can sell she can smoke she can drink all day And her momma never know cause her momma went away Her brother is hiding scared inside a baking kiln Following directions from a governmental film While he had enough money to begin another life He could never afford to support his kid and wife So he cooked them all for dinner and he fed them to the cops Who had come to investigate The growing of the crops When they asked for his recipe He gave an index card With a listing of refugees Who all were working hard Let me know when to let go the things that spin inside my head Why should I go out When I can see it all from my bed? I look out my window and I see only glass That shatters to pieces with a pantomime crash I hear the wet echo of a blade on cement In the center of my living room I'm setting up a tent And I call it a Shelter For the Homeless and the Stray But they never can stay long Cause I make them go away They go down to the basement Where they wash out all their clothes And they stare at the ceiling fan to see which way it goes See the big building that belches out the smoke Inside of the window hangs a purple black cloak That covers a secret that you never should tell I'd tell you what it say but it's a word I can't spell But I know what it felt like And it felt like pretty weird In the corner of my eye there formed a big pathetic tear And when it fell to the floor, you know I felt like I would drown In the deepening sorrow Of the water in the ground Let me know when I can grow the yeast I bake inside my bread Why should I go out When I can see it all from my bed? © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
3.	Color TV 03:12	lyrics	buy track
When Dish washed dishes in a restaurant She scraped the black burn off of the plates And every time she pushed her card in the clock She'd peer outside as she's gripping her hands to the grate But one day she will leave it, she's gonna pursue her dream Saving up all her money to buy a washing machine Oh, your washing machine, makes your dirty clothes clean I want to stuff my laundry in your washing machine Oh, your microwave, just think of all the time it saves I want to plan a dinner for the two of us And cook it in your microwave When Dish got home she pulled the shades And crawled into bed inside of the clothes that she'd sewn And then she'd open up the Sears catalog And pretend they were pictures of all of the things that she owned But one day she will ditch her apron in the sea When she has plenty of money to buy a color TV Oh, your color TV, let me come and see I want to sit on your couch in front your color TV Oh, your VCR, in a brand new car I want to rent King Lawrence of Arabia and watch it on your VCR (repeat chorus) I want to plan a dinner for the two of us And cook it in your color TV Your color TV Your color TV Your color TV © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
4.	Kissoff 02:45	lyrics	buy track
You got a friend your friend likes you You go out on a Sunday night You're eating kale, you're eating pie You're eating all of the things that you like And then you go walking in a special place That only the two of you know And you're hoping hard that some way somehow The love that you feel will show The moon is shining, the stars are bright And everything seems so perfect fine Then she asks to turn out the light And you interpret it as a sign And as you're reaching for the switch You could swear you hear a sound Emanating from her lips that falls right to the ground You've been given the kissoff When you ring she say she not home Don't you know that you've just been given the kissoff You scan up and down the classifieds hoping for to find a job Receptionists, rent collection Is this the reason you suppress a sob? And then you spy a short-order fry that you are capable of So you get on the train and go downtown Like a message to you sent from above In the waiting room for your interview The hand on your palm starts to sweat When they call your name you know it sounds just the same As the word that you want to forget So you take a seat and start pulling your meat In an effort not to concentrate But when she sees you, you must have displeased her Cause she tells you then to crawl away You've been given the kissoff When you speak the box it go beep Don't you know that you've just been given the kissoff Your love has blown © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
5.	Surgery 03:53	lyrics	buy track
Ten thousand hours I've spent wishing Ten thousand years I've been asleep The x-ray shows some kind of growth inside me Could it be the side on which I sleep? Will you be with me in my surgery? Will you hold me when I bleed? When they cut the skin, will you be within? Help me to get rid of my disease Inside my dreams I've imagined A healing light would penetrate But every morning I awaken To a new sensation of pain Surgery, will you watch them insert the key? Surgery, won't you mutter a prayer for me? Soon I'll slip into unconsciousness Arms and fingers motionless Where were you when I got started? Where will you be when I get done? I'll think of you inside my coffin Tattoo your name upon my arm Surgery, that's one place I don't want to be Surgery, take my hand cause I don't want to bleed © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
6.	All Words Are Lies 03:19	lyrics	buy track
You press your pencil to the paper And promise everything under the skies But all words are lies Crack--you put a crack in my throat But still--I go on reading your note Riding in the elevator up to the twelfth floor What happened to the next one? You pledge to me your love forever But there's one thing you don't realize That all words are lies I know you don't mean to be dishonest with our love But even if you were I'd still be wearing rubber gloves I don't need no pin or pill to shake me up inside All I need is you to weave your long, lonely lies Black--is the ache in my soul Cold--is the food in my bowl Traveling to sight-see the six wonders of the world But isn't there a seventh? There's one question you can't answer Whatever, who, when, where, how, or why Cause all words are lies © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
7.	Back to You 03:07	lyrics	buy track
I'm taking a plane, I'm going away To the city cause I've been here too long I'm zipping my pants, I'm taking a chance on you I'm riding a train fast like a hurricane Want to see you in the moonlight naked I don't know just how, but I'm gonna come back to you I'm stealing a car from a guy in a bar And I'm speeding with the police chasing I blow out a tire and I crash in a fire, boom So I hop on a bus with a curse and a cuss But they stop me cause I've got no token Someway somehow I'm gonna come back to you I'm coming back to you cause we're attached with glue A pair of Siamese twins, dipolar molecule And when I'm in your arms, you will slap my face And you'll withhold your tan, but I don't give a damn I'm coming back to you I'm here on a boat but it won't stay afloat Cause it's leaking and we're faster sinking So I swim to the shore, I don't care anymore how I get there Yes, I'm hurting my feet cause I'm walking the street In your direction and I hope you'll be there I don't know just how, but I'm gonna come back to you To come on back to you what do I have to do? Should I walk through a wall? Submit to ridicule? How do I even know that you'll be there for me? But I don't give a damn even if it's a sham I'm coming back to you No, I don't think I care as long as you are there If you won't have me back, I wouldn't stop my track If only for a day, I couldn't stay away From coming back to you © 1990 Douglas Chay
8.	Let it Fly 03:29	lyrics	buy track
When you feel scared about the stories that you hear All you got to do, my dear, is fly When you're all alone, the phone don't ring and no one home Open up your eyes, my love, and fly Fly away from your tears, fly till gravity disappears Strip your skin and let the sun in your heart Fly till you feel no more pain When you've got nothing to lose or gain Fly till you tear your black inside apart When you want to die, things don't work even when you try Spread upon your wings and let it fly When your throat is small, you're sitting talking to the wall Open up your legs and let it fly Fly away from your fear Fly till you reach the top of this sphere Crash your car on the boulevard and fly Melt right through your chair When you've got no way to go anywhere Ascending together, you and I When you feel numb, like Novocain makes your gums become Give up on the ground, my friend, and fly When your eye is wet cause of something you can't forget All you got to do is let it fly © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
9.	I'm a Shoe 02:37	lyrics	buy track
Bop shoo wop mm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop rrm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop mm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo v1op mm bop I am a shoe, you are a foot, you put your foot in me And at the end of the day I go back in my shoe box I am a spoon, you are a hand, you stir your tea with me And put me in the dishwasher to clean If I am me then you are you And if you can be a tree then I'm a shoe I am a bulb, you are a lamp, you screw me into you And when my light burns out, you replace me with another I am a pool, you are a pipe, you drain me in a pond And when I'm dry you cover me with plastic If you are me then I am you And if you can be a tree then I'm a shoe Bop shoo wop rnm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop rnm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop rnm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop rnm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop mm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop mm bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop rmn bop bop shoo wop Bop shoo wop mm bop © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
10.	20 Pieces 02:55	lyrics	buy track
Sitting in the garden, thinking of the time When I was yours and you were mine Plotting out our pictures, swallowing your hair We would do the things we wouldn't dare But here I am in a foreign land buried in the sand Can't you call a number, won't you write a page 'Cause I need to hear from you today Stuff it in a bottle, drop it on the tide I'll find it washed up on the other side But point is moot 'cause I'm in my suit indefinitely At first it's one piece --"I love you" And then it's two piece --you love me, too And then it's three piece --a commitment And then it's four piece --that's when you're gone Four broken pieces of me left in you Sitting on a park bench, throwing crumbs to birds We could communicate without words You would call me Allen, I would call you Jane Even though we knew those weren't our names But now it's gone in time that rolls on obliviously That's when it's five piece --of blackened bread And then it's six piece --of pain in the head And then it's seven piece of four a.m. And then it's eight piece of "do it again" Eight broken pieces of me left in you Still I don't know any place left to go where I can still see That's when it's nine piece --you live alone And then it's ten piece --don't answer the phone And it's eleven piece --I'm watching the sky And then it's twelve piece --with tears in my eyes Twelve broken pieces of me left in you That's when it's thirteen piece --of hospitalize And then it's fourteen piece --of going to die And then it's fifteen piece --of wanting you back And then it's sixteen piece --of fall through the crack Sixteen broken pieces of me left in you That's when it's seventeen piece --of "see someone else" And then it's eighteen piece --of broken sea shell And then it's nineteen piece --of buried back yard And then it's twenty piece --of pickling jar Twenty broken pieces of me left in you © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
11.	Tallulah Bankhead Blues 03:02	lyrics	buy track
I've got your picture on my wall, Ms. Bankhead But you don't know me at all I watch your movies when I don't have things to do I do declare, I think that I'm in love with you Do you love me too?, Tallulah Bankhead, I love you Can I cook for you, Tallulah Bankhead, I love you I went to Hollywood and I drove right by your house I wanted them to stop the bus, but they wouldn't let me out So I wrote you a letter saying how I feel inside But you never answered, could it be you got another guy Do you love me too, Tallulah Bankhead, I love you Will your love be true, Tallulah Bankhead, I love you If you felt for me the same things that I feel for you The world'd be half as grim and I'd be half as blue Why don't you call me on the phone? I bought an answering machine in case I'm not home I wrote a poem about you and me, Ms. Bankhead About how happy we could be You'd go to your movie premiere hanging on my arm And in the winter we could live out on the farm © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
12.	Lemon Spain 02:45	lyrics	buy track
You walked out of a Greek mythological sequence Hand-in-hand with a lizard who was squawking Like a tightrope card-carrying bard in Barcelona, Spain The place where it mainly rains on the plain You were stretching out your elastic in the backyard With a clothespin that was dancing in the sunlight As it self-immolated in a tiny burning flame A candle does the same in Lemon Spain You were in the Red Cross saving other peoples' lives And every time you saw their blood you broke out into hives Your uniform was frayed and torn, your face was full of lines So I went to the drugstore where the people were so kind And there I bought you all the things that you never really Wanted, rubber helicopter dipped in chocolate Floating out in two parallel lines to Gibraltar near Spain The place with the very very very big rock You were living out in the outback of Australia With your post card and your locomotive sailor Consuming halibut from a metal bowl That dripped a stain in the very same shape as Lemon Spain © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
13.	Love Almanac 05:02	lyrics	buy track
I live up on the seventh floor You work down on the street I press my face to the window And see all the people that you meet I love you and you know it's a fact Cause you're scheduled here in my love almanac You stand so self-confident I need a woman like you I pretend that you're in my living room And I set out a homemade dinner for two I love you and the hat on your head Can you picture both of us happily wed If I could have your love, I'd gladly rip off my arm For just a little kiss, I'd give anything You don't need to worry If you give it I will take your pain And glory in the thought that you don't hold me in disdain I look at the stars in the sky And I wonder if you're looking too I pick the one that I like the best And imagine I'm giving it to you I love you and you know it's a fact According to the notes in my love almanac You don't need to worry Cause this book predicts my word is true And that I'll show what pervades and connects me into you You don't owe me your rugs and jewelry You can keep all your drugs and candy All I ask of you is your understanding You don't owe me an explanation Don't pledge me your love forever All I want from you is this time together © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
14.	Parable Polite 01:47	lyrics	buy track
Once there was a little girl who played with her dolly all day Her momma called to come inside but she continued to play Then that night she fell into a deep dark secret well And when she hit, she found herself in the midst of a fiery hell All because she disobeyed, we can see what she got When you don't mind your parents, kids, you will suffer a lot Once there was a little boy who liked to scarf down sweets His momma said, "That's for dessert!" but he continued to eat That very night the heavens sent a raging thunderstorm His pretty face was split in half and grotesquely deformed His stubbornness, it was the cause He lost all that he had gained When you don't do what others want you to, you will die in pain Manners, you and I both need them, it isn't hard to be polite But if you choose to follow evil, you will surely fry © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
15.	Dirty Monday 04:33	lyrics	buy track
Friday night you ring my bell and stay with me But you live so far away your mouth I need And I dread each passing hour cause I don't want to see Dirty Monday sky gray no ray Monday's just a day away When I'm here all alone I think of you I won't talk to anyone feel so blue And I want to stop the second hand Cause I don't want to see Dirty Monday delay go way Monday's just a day away And every hour the lines grow deeper on my face The calendar is full of X that won't erase And every time you know I'll let me down Still the image always blurs to white My eyes don't want me to see I call my mama and she say "Don't worry, son The one you know, the seam you sew won't come undone If you can be like you you'll be like everyone" Every time we get to know you say it's time to go © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
16.	Under the Tissue Tree 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Sister Dough read me a story under the tissue tree It was hard to pay attention so I pretended to be asleep Deep in the weeds the sky opened wide And just like an eye it began to cry Under the tissue tree I blew my nose for free Under the tissue tree Sister Dough and me In the middle of a big field we found the setting sun And when we caught it in our butterfly net It shot away like a gun deep in the stream The rocks broke into minerals that nourish me and you Under the tissue tree I like you, you like me Under the tissue tree, no place I'd rather be © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
17.	Marble Jar 01:03	lyrics	buy track
Seeing you alone, waiting for a call Pretty soon you'll find yourself invisible Underneath your tongue, breeding things to say Words can reproduce just like bacteria Maybe when you're old, you can have the things you've always wanted But now as it is, do you think you know What you're gonna do or where you're going to? If you do, take me with you © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
18.	Ecstatic 03:27	lyrics	buy track
Every word from your lips falls just like a ruby All I want is to be underneath your hurricane Every dollar bill you kiss, before you spend it somewhere In hopes that maybe someone deposits it in their bank When I fall asleep at day I dream that you are bent Like a kitchen utensil or garden implement You make me ecstatic, the feeling's automatic Don't want it when your depression is turning to a manic Distracted, when you snap my prophylactic Light-headed, vertiginous, like a kleptomaniac-ted Every thought in your head, like a blooming flower Planted in your garden till the bomb inside explode Every day in your room, you're hugging tight your pillow Just like a weeping willow, you don't know which way to grow When I wake up in the evening, I can hear the sound Of your adjectives burying themselves in the ground You make me psychotic, your face is so neurotic Demented, insensitive as an anti-melancholic Enraptured, the love that you have captured Is melting like an animal potato in a masher If you want to drown your fever down inside my car I will keep the secret locked up tight inside my jar Every day I wait for you to send me out a letter I would feel much better if you called me on the phone And when you do, I'll say to you that I can't wait much longer My clock is frozen on the second hand as is the phone When I hear your voice sliding like silk inside my spine I wonder where you bought your box, if you'd commit the crime You make me ecstatic, the feeling's automatic You watch it like a television interfered with static Distracted, when I see it's not enacted Shaking like the pockets of a kleptomaniac-ted © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
19.	The Obvious Planet 02:45	lyrics	buy track
Here am I, high up in the sky, suspended By a thread of dental floss, hanging from a planet tossed and bended Sitting on my front porch here between Saturn and Mars Spitting down into the space between the stars I'm trying hard to understand it What are doing here on this obvious planet? Our situation seems to demand it That you and I stay here together on this obvious planet Too dark to see, no electricity in this room But we don't need no light 'cause we can touch without our sight like baboons And when we sign the letter that we'd send back down to Earth We'd address it to our own houses for what they're worth It's too difficult to understand it Why we choose to live here on this obvious planet Every single word is already carved in granite But still I want to be with you on this obvious planet The good things you have, you take for granted Which is why you sit alone on your obvious planet © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
20.	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 02:41	lyrics	buy track
I wash my hands a hundred times To get rid of the dirt and grime But even when I know they're clean I go back and I do it again Cause I can't get the thought out of my head That the germs that I touch are gonna strike me down dead Cause I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder It makes my life a living hell Yes I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder Can't drink my water from a wishing well Whenever I go out of my house I lock my door so the in won't go out I can't be sure if I done it so I go back and I check it some mo' Cause I can't get the thought out of my head That I left the door unlocked and someone's stealing my bread Cause I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder I'm never relaxed cause I'm worried all day That I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder Nothing I do makes it go away Pray please pray, pray for me Cause I'm afraid to use a public toilet seat Call the doctor, call your best friend Cause I can see my beginning is reaching the end I drive my car down the street I don't allow myself to use my feet I press the accelerator with my hand And why I do it people don't understand Cause I can't get the thought out of my mind That if I use my feet I'll surely go blind Cause I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder It runs my life and it makes me feel blue Yes I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder To get rid of it I don't know what to do Manumadubiobowshake © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
21.	Flatly On The Mat 01:03		buy track
22.	Dishwasher and the Washing Machine 02:31	lyrics	buy track
I got the word inside my head It won't come out, I don't know why I want you oh so much, sweet thing You know it make me cry But when I try to think of what I should say All the words seem to slip away I can't tell you, I can't say what I mean, so I say "The dishwasher and the washing machine" They say communication in relations Is the only foundation on which to build But everyone will tell you all the things they want to sell you In the end they're only wanting you to swallow their pill (and you'll choke on it) But in the night when I fight to try to make out alright The things to say, I find it doesn't matter Cause it's all a mindless chattering anyway I can't tell cause I don't know what I mean, so I say "The dishwasher and the washing machine" I see the sentence in the rain But what the meaning is, I just can't explain I got a picture in my head But when I try to photograph it, it disappear Just like a dream you can't pronounce Foreign word you can't hear But when the bell rings and I answer the phone I always pretend that I'm not at home I can't tell you I can't say what I mean, so I say "The dishwasher and the washing machine" © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
23.	Hide the Bag 02:39	lyrics	buy track
When you've got something bad Put it in a suitcase and hide the bag Hide it where you won't find it Hide it in a place that you don't know Where no one ever goes Once I had a secret wrapped tight in a rag I didn't want to show it, so I hid it in a bag I dropped it off a mountain And it fell into the sea where a dolphin said to me, "What kind of salad do you need?" If your wish is to be Rid of your pain, the bag will set you free All my life I've been the son of a husband and wife If you want to be my friend We'll hide our bags together buried in the sand © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
24.	I Want to Vacuum 04:11	lyrics	buy track
I like to walk outside on the sidewalk And when it's raining I take my big umbrella I like to go down to the newsstand And buy a newspaper I want to vacuum, I can make rug patterns with the wheels Uh huh huh, I want to vacuum Cause I like the way the humming sound makes me feel And it makes me feel like I'm a living, real thing I like to drink Kool-Aid from a paper cup Just like I did when I was five years old I like to watch black-and-white movies That were made before I was even born I want to vacuum to make things look nice for my guest Uh huh huh, I want to vacuum And when that's done, Mom'll do the rest Cause it makes me feel like I'm a living, real thing Hear that vroom, that's the tune That comes out from my vacuum And it says "my oh me, what could that be Vibrating deeply under my vacuum" I like to sleep late in the morning And read a book I like all day I like to go down to the newsstand And buy a newspaper I want to vacuum, I can make rug patterns with the wheels Uh huh huh, I want to vacuum Cause I like the way the humming sound makes me feel And it makes me feel like I'm a living, real Genuine, alkaline, everything is yours and mine thing So I say can you see if that is me vibrating deeply Under your vacuum © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
25.	The Shipman Was A Fake 04:16	lyrics	buy track
This afternoon in the harbor, I saw a ship with a pirate flag A maggot-filled skull-and-crossbones, and a galley wench with a paper bag But when they unloaded the treasure they had robbed The pirate who spoke to me had a job The shipman was a fake a plastic parrot and an ink tattoo He made love to the second mate and sailed away into the ocean blue A holiday's big vacation, flying deep inside a jet They light the sign, say "no smoking", so you put out your cigarette Then the plane starts to rumble, they say that everything is fine Still we crash into a mountain and break like bottles of wine And in the wreckage I find the man who held the steering wheel With directions inside the shoe of his heel The pilot was a fake --a bought diploma and a surgical glove He made all of his passengers wait, while in the cockpit he was making love © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
26.	Questionnaire 01:47	lyrics	buy track
© 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
27.	The Round Sea 07:13	lyrics	buy track
Back down inside then you gave all your marbles to me Afloat together in the middle of the round sea We live in a dream, sewed between the seams Behind the paper coating on a jar Sometimes at dinner you'd slip in my drink your magic potion And we'd ride together inside of this spherical ocean What will I do when she's gone, she's gonna leave before long I'll always find someone of that kind But give me one more chance to speak my mind She used to tell me that I was only Waiting to see what would happen after All had been finished and done She said I'd feel the same about anyone "Do that, don't," we said to our hypothetical daughter Holding our oxygen under the circular water What do you think would happen If I could show you, if I could tell you my mind Cover my eyes when I go blind And give to me your love so cruel and so unkind Make me understand the person that I find And hold me in your arms when I'm inside my mind There is a picture to see It's so important to me If we could transform, you ask me what I'd like to be But all I want to do is stay with you on the round sea The round sea © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
28.	Let it Fly (Version 2) 03:06	lyrics	buy track
When you feel scared about the stories that you hear All you got to do, my dear, is fly When you're all alone, the phone don't ring and no one home Open up your eyes, my love, and fly Fly away from your tears, fly till gravity disappears Strip your skin and let the sun in your heart Fly till you feel no more pain When you've got nothing to lose or gain Fly till you tear your black inside apart When you want to die, things don't work even when you try Spread upon your wings and let it fly When your throat is small, you're sitting talking to the wall Open up your legs and let it fly Fly away from your fear Fly till you reach the top of this sphere Crash your car on the boulevard and fly Melt right through your chair When you've got no way to go anywhere Ascending together, you and I When you feel numb, like Novocain makes your gums become Give up on the ground, my friend, and fly When your eye is wet cause of something you can't forget All you got to do is let it fly © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
29.	Crying In The Car 03:55	lyrics	buy track
You sit down tanning in your own rays Your frying skin will turn back in with every feel you fake You're like a spider inside insane Tangling in your sticky web that wraps me like a chain No use pretending I don't mind I see no reason to waste my time Crying in the car, spitting out my love onto the dashboard As it drips to the floor while I'm locking my door I'll be pushing down hard just a-crying in the car What a scum you are, you hurt me bad You are a rodent, and you don't care if I'm sad I'll bet you like the smell of your own skin I reach my hand into your tank and come back up a pin Alone and shaking in my chair My hands are cold and so is my hair Crying in the car, running over squirrels that get in my way And each one that I hit, I pretend deserved it Cause they were lined up for a ride inside your car Gonna leave here for a change Running out inside the rain You can look in any window and see the same All the people sit and stare Tangled in each others' hair Streaking down their cheeks with the cologne they pick today Hacking up your lies just like a cat [cough] ! [cough] ! How many ways am I capable of saying that? You're the mosquito of my despair You push me high and pull me dry and take off in the air A clear case of an Axis II My diagnosis just for you Is crying in the car, stepping on the accelerator And I'm speeding away from the things that you say You'll be breathing my dust while I'm hoping you must be Crying to yourself, breaking all the dishes left on the shelf And I'll find myself still crying in the car
30.	Tied In A Knot 02:38	lyrics	buy track
What can I do I've never wanted to get through to anyone like you now Through to you All that I say I'm hoping will come out OK because I'm apprehensive Don't want to intrude What can I do Can't do a lot when I'm tied in a knot Who can I blame For making me feel this way, I'll put the blame on you now Don't know what else to do All that I know I'm thinking of letting it go cause it makes no more sense now Not in front of you How am I to Turn my icicle hot when I'm tied in a knot What can I do To find out if I want to with you, you make me so unsure now So confused I never thought That I could ever be re-taught in everything I know now Just by letting it go What can I do I feel like setting rot when I'm tied in a knot What can I do Who have I got when I'm tied in a knot
31.	I Dread Everything (Studio Version) 03:11	lyrics	buy track
I dread living in this world, oh yeah Cause people killing every day I dread living in this body, oh yeah Because its needs won't go away I don't want to wash the dishes piled up in the sink I feel like I can't go to work, I haven't slept a wink Cause I dread everything Next week I have to interview for a job But I'm so worried they won't want me for their bank to rob I got a pain in my stomach, I got an ache in my neck And all I know is I don't know what's coming next I don't want to think about the things I got to do I just can't face up to all the food I got to chew Because I dread everything I dread living in this house, oh yeah Because the noise keeps me awake I dread living in this family, oh yeah Cause no one gives back what they take I don't feel like vacuuming the dirt upon the floor Everything I ever do feels to me like a chore Cause I dread everything © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
32.	Lemon Spain (Studio Version) 03:02	lyrics	buy track
You walked out of a Greek mythological sequence Hand-in-hand with a lizard who was squawking Like a tightrope card-carrying bard in Barcelona, Spain The place where it mainly rains on the plain You were stretching out your elastic in the backyard With a clothespin that was dancing in the sunlight As it self-immolated in a tiny burning flame A candle does the same in Lemon Spain You were in the Red Cross saving other peoples' lives And every time you saw their blood you broke out into hives Your uniform was frayed and torn, your face was full of lines So I went to the drugstore where the people were so kind And there I bought you all the things that you never really Wanted, rubber helicopter dipped in chocolate Floating out in two parallel lines to Gibraltar near Spain The place with the very very very big rock You were living out in the outback of Australia With your post card and your locomotive sailor Consuming halibut from a metal bowl That dripped a stain in the very same shape as Lemon Spain © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
33.	Surgery (Studio Version) 03:38	lyrics	buy track
Ten thousand hours I've spent wishing Ten thousand years I've been asleep The x-ray shows some kind of growth inside me Could it be the side on which I sleep? Will you be with me in my surgery? Will you hold me when I bleed? When they cut the skin, will you be within? Help me to get rid of my disease Inside my dreams I've imagined A healing light would penetrate But every morning I awaken To a new sensation of pain Surgery, will you watch them insert the key? Surgery, won't you mutter a prayer for me? Soon I'll slip into unconsciousness Arms and fingers motionless Where were you when I got started? Where will you be when I get done? I'll think of you inside my coffin Tattoo your name upon my arm Surgery, that's one place I don't want to be Surgery, take my hand cause I don't want to bleed © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP
34.	Love Almanac (Studio Version) 04:56	lyrics	buy track
I live up on the seventh floor You work down on the street I press my face to the window And see all the people that you meet I love you and you know it's a fact Cause you're scheduled here in my love almanac You stand so self-confident I need a woman like you I pretend that you're in my living room And I set out a homemade dinner for two I love you and the hat on your head Can you picture both of us happily wed If I could have your love, I'd gladly rip off my arm For just a little kiss, I'd give anything You don't need to worry If you give it I will take your pain And glory in the thought that you don't hold me in disdain I look at the stars in the sky And I wonder if you're looking too I pick the one that I like the best And imagine I'm giving it to you I love you and you know it's a fact According to the notes in my love almanac You don't need to worry Cause this book predicts my word is true And that I'll show what pervades and connects me into you You don't owe me your rugs and jewelry You can keep all your drugs and candy All I ask of you is your understanding You don't owe me an explanation Don't pledge me your love forever All I want from you is this time together © 1990 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP

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released January 1, 1990

Composed, performed and produced by Douglas Chay: vocals, guitars, bass, percussion, piano, organ, flute, gayugum

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Douglas Chay Baltimore, Maryland

Melodic, fuzz drenched songs celebrating household objects and abject alienation. Chay was part of the Columbia, SC music scene in the late '80s/early '90s and fronted the band Deal Box.

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