LYRICS

The Expat

1
Revelation On the Radio
Dramatic Girls Forever!
Via Satellite
5
My Brother, The Devil
Godwin Park
So Pretty
9
New York City
Staromestska
Star City

 

Revelation on the Radio

racing late at night
via satellite
turn up your radio

programmed DJs cry
look up in the sky
it's a shockwave of devastation

I am the one,
who takes over your world.
I tune out the PC and the LCD.
Is this human evolution or the new status quo?
It's a Revelation on the Radio.

one by one
we gather two
listen, broadcast on your radio.
"I sing the body electric...I say now we are the soul"

I am the one,
who takes over your world.
I tune out the PC and the LCD.
This human evolution and the new status quo,
It's a Revelation on the Radio.

ahhhh...

I am the one,
who takes over your world.
I tune out the PC and the LCD.
But this human evolution and this new status quo,
It's a Revelation, a Revelation, a Revelation on the Radio.

 

Dramatic Girls Forever!

She's crazy,
and I, bright eyed, loyal, and lazy.
She's not yet 33, yeah, cause that would be the "Jesus age".
What's it today baby? A ruse or a rage?
Squander my life till I'm a middle aged man,
Emasculation is part of the plan.
Oh...outrageous!
Loose lips sink ships, and I posthaste,
Blew my one and only chance and gave it all away.

Dramatic Girls Forever!
A never ending era.
Intoxication soothes the muse of a pathological liar,
When I say that I'm in love it means that I'm on fire!
Dramatic Girls, you take me higher and higher!

She talks in tongues,
And for a girl that young, that's amazing.
Volunteer for vigilante manslaughter?
Uh that's good! So good! Ah, a debutant daughter.
She caries two phones to a public place, one set to redial and one to vibrate.
Oh...outrageous!
Girls break wine glasses to spite their design.
The worst withdrawals, go by, slowly...

Dramatic Girls Forever!
Never ending terror.
Intoxication soothes the muse of a pathological liar,
When I say that I'm in love, it means that I'm on fire!
Dramatic Girls, you take me higher and higher!
Dramatic Girls Forever!
A never ending era.
Intoxication soothes the muse of a pathological liar,
When I say that I'm in love, it means that I'm on fire!

Oh, these mistakes of my own making,
Now I lay here in my bed shaking.
The last few days of a brave little solider,
Who's nowhere to fight in this new world order.

Dramatic Girls Forever!
An end of an era.
Intoxication soothes the muse of a pathological liar,
When I say that I'm in love, it means that I'm on fire!
Dramatic Girls, you take me higher and higher!
Dramatic Girls, you take me higher and higher!

 

Via Satellite -

So long, the lost generation.
"Thank you, but goodnight, we loathe you all!"
I think by July 4th I'll play God,
I'll pass the buck back in a snowballing fraud.
As the ticker times down repeat after me,
"I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of reality."

This is live, Via Satellite,
Revolution on this Friday night.
How many times can I count the ways that I have left this town?
Light this cigarette and pass it around,
Show our fathers they have let us down.
Dance the fire dance, the whites of your eyes,
Light the fuse and say your goodbyes.

Stale leftovers from the romantic age.
Alpha males of the world.
We take desperate steps to call girl friday,
She's a shaker like her daddy was a dandy.
Oh Mary Mary quite contrary,
We'll miss the hand jive and the bouffant hairspray.

This is live, Via Satellite,
Revolution on this Friday night.
How many times can I count the ways that I have left this town?
Light this cigarette and pass it around,
Show our fathers they have let us down.
Dance the fire dance, the whites of your eyes
Throw a kiss and say your goodbyes.

Allons-y!

Oh...! Ah...!

Childhood flases before my eyes.
what sights and incredible sounds
expressionless frowns
and consequences
Oh... I

This is live, Via Satellite,
Revolution on this Friday night.
How many times can I count the ways that I have left this town?
Light this cigarette and pass it around,
Show our fathers they have let us down.
They've bored me to death and they've bored you to death,
So let's bury them alive!
Alright!

 

My Brother, The Devil -

Here is a television, the star of many dreams,
With a fire that burns inside, a happy family steams.
There waits a telephone, silent except when it rings,
I may call you sometime, let it ring, let it ring.

I've been told all my life that I'm one of a kind,
Now I'm running from the city that I'm leaving behind.
Whoa no man,
Forgotten, Forlorn, and Furious!

We are a deuce, a pair of binary kings,
My dear brother, fashionably obscene.
Yeah, here I am, silent except when I ring,
Red is my color, and I sing and I sing!

I've been told all my life that I'm one of a kind,
Now I'm running from the city that I'm leaving behind.
Whoa no brother,
Forgotten, Forlorn, and Furious!

I roll a magic number that is 6 and 9,
I'm running from the city that I'm leaving behind.
Oh no man,
Forgotten, Forlorn, and Furious!

as I look through the pane
of these smeared windows stained
whispering prayers to falling rain
I miss my mothers arms
and blue skies
I'm the anti anti-quiescence
Inexpensive mannequins these harlequins
as I, reach for the alarm
and my disguise
oh
life
is
for
the
none
and
nothing

I've been told all my life that I'm one of a kind,
Now I'm running from the city that I'm leaving behind.
Whoa no brother,
Forgotten, Forlorn, and Furious!

I roll a magic number that is 6 and 9,
Now I'm running from the city that I'm leaving behind.
Oh no man,
Forgotten, Forlorn, and Furious!

Oh..!

 

Godwin Park -

Late nights in the city, Pang Street pity, I stay locked in my car.
Searching for signals, waiting eternal, speak of bazaar.
These two kids walk up, and two more pull up, and they look down on their luck,
and if they only knew, they'd get the hell out of here!

Hey witness! All alone, in your thoughts, and in your homes,
Up in your minds and down in your souls... Where are you?
It echos when she cries, her lost lullabies, her mother's ire,
None for you, and none for your sons, just me and the kids in the park with their radios on.

Godwin Park, after dark, we'll be waiting.
Vigilant, steely eyes open, anticipating.
The Summer Kings,
and the numbers they bring,
like the songs I sing,
won't mean anything...

 

So Pretty -

A photo flashes in my head tonight.
Taken from a camera that I use to freeze time.
In it you never age, and I want that, cause I grow colder every day,
I'm going down, down, down, down honey for your pretty face.

You're so pretty, you're so pretty, and you're so pretty,
and I don't know what to do.
You're so pretty, you're so pretty, and you're so pretty,
and I don't know what to do.

Hey you, I once knew myself and this girl who looked just like you.
Times have changed, and I'm being chased, as I try to run away.
Now I'm taking many bullets to the heart at a very rapid pace,
I'm going down, down, down, down honey for your pretty face.

You're so pretty, you're so pretty, you're so pretty,
and I don't know what to do.
You're so pretty, you're so pretty, and you're so pretty,
and I don't know what to do.
Oh no no no oh...

My lovely thing,
I'm a thinking man, and I have plans for control,
studying fascist images of television feeds safe behind locked doors.
red hot dreams, pastoral symphonies, lullabies from my trapped soul,
Oh no no no oh...

You're so pretty, you're so pretty.

You're so pretty, you're so pretty.

You're so pretty, you're so pretty, you're so pretty,
and I don't know what to do.
You're so pretty, you're so pretty, you're so pretty,
and I don't know what to do.

 

New York City -

She needs time,
By her clock it's getting late.
It's cold outside,
The sidewalks are frozen, the sky is grey.
He's holding out, yes..
He needs a girl that is half his age.
Yet they come together, collide by fate,
When the damage is done, and it's been great.

He moves through the city.
he says, show me the avenues.

New York City, thank you,
But I don't love you like I used to.
I wanted you back, all of you,
Now you bring me down.
New York City, thank you,
Let me love you like I used to.
I could never go back in time.

She's made plans,
To run away, the 5:48.
The darkness of the tunnel conceals the heartbreak,
Emerging into her city and its bleak landscape.

He adores the city.
Filmed in black and white, he says,

New York City, thank you,
But I don't love you like I used to.
I wanted you back, all of you,
Now you bring me down.
New York City, thank you,
But I don't love you like I used to.
I will never go back in time, to begin again.

I've watched her move like summertime, butterflies and angels,
and I have seen her break like sheets of glass.

He watches the city.
Oh yeah, bring on the skyline, he says,

New York City, thank you,
But I don't love you like I used to.
I wanted you back, all of you,
Now you bring me down.
New York City, thank you,
But I don't love you like I used to.
I would never go back in time, to begin again.

 

Staromestska -

pt1 -

come lay on your back
transformation near the tracks
and watch the stars shine

with me...

as they get bright they
gain weight and fall from dark space
and become snowflakes

and melody...

Adriatic Sea
European-American
The love of my life?

pt2 -

Through the long nights and the sailing ships,
The salty waves pounding my heart and making me sick,
I ride out to distant shores.
Into the lowest depths of life, I'll be your light,
Cutting the darkness with the sharpest knife,
A brave new world, or a least a fool's metaphor.

oh... ah...

 

Star City -

The end is near and I feel your heart beating,
Your path is now clear, refrain sans repeating.
Our bodies are warm, we hope to die, we vibrate together, and we amplify.
Baby lay still, and please don't try, I'm turning up the signal so please standby.

We come to Star City cause it's shines so bright,
We drive downtown to spend the night,
Speeding through the streets and the blurry headlights,
in Star City

Hey driver, just drive and we have no idea where,
We don't really know what you're talking about, and we don't care.
Count my fingers, I don't know the time, I'm losing the connection, and I don't know why.
Baby lay still, and please don't cry, I'm turning up the signal so please standby.

We come to Star City cause it's shines so bright,
We drive downtown to spend the night,
Speeding through the streets and the blurry headlights.
in Star City

We come to Star City cause it's shines so bright,
We drive downtown to spend the night,
Speeding through the streets and the blurry headlights,
in Star City

Living in the moment forms an echo.
Deja vu forms an echo.
Speaking off the record, I don't really know.
Speaking of time, I must now go

to

Star City
Star City
Star City
Star City