Le Tigre

Play it so safe to stay on top. Shake it, imitate it, but it still sounds old.
We just can't understand why the man calls it lo-fi.
So get your bags packed now and I'll meet you on the outside.
"X"-out all self-supervision...get your keys out, now start the ignition.
We're on the verge of...All right!
When you're shipwrecked on your mattress I'll come in and show you how to hijack the past and
wind up in the right now.
Grag some clothes, three chords and a video camera.
Maybe a mic, some handwipes, a typewriter, and a hammer.
Why don't you come over now?
I'll buzz you up.
'Cause you know when you're around I can't get enough.
I'm gonna follow you, wait, straight into the late night.
'Cause you're so on fire and you already know.
A-O-A-O do it so right
A-O-A-O do it tonight

I like going to the dyke march because I like to be surrounded with women
Marching naked ladies
We recruit, We recruit. . . . .

There's noone telling us where to stand or where to be
There's noone telling us where to stand or where to be
There's noone telling us where to stand or where to be

Resist. Shout it out. Resist, Resist, Shout it out....

There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be
There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be
There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be
There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be

We're just this huge strong mass of feminist fury.
Resist, Resist. . . . . Feminist fury. Feminist fury.

Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke
Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke
Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke
Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke

Resist, Resist, Resist, Resist..... Feminist fury...
It was a lifelong dream I had as a child
And it's actually come to pass in my adult life.

I've got - the new sincerity
I've got - a secret vocabulary
I've got - MIDI in, out, thru
I've got - dialectical specstimme
I've got - herm choreography
I've got - a conceptual stunt double
I've got - a deviant scene, I mean
I've got - multiple alliances

I've got to move
whoa
(repeat x3)

I've got - The Gift of Fear
I've got - The Courage to Heal
I've got - site specificity
I've got - plan "B" ability

I've got to move
whoa
(repeat x3)
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh got to move

I've got - extensive bibliographies
I've got - flow disruption
I've got - widlife metaphors
I've got - post-binary gender chores

My Fake French is hot
You can't make me stop
Got nowhere to run to baby
Come on turn it up
(repeat)

Ten short years of progressive change, fifty fucking years of calling us names. Can we trade title nine for an end to hate crime? RU-486 if we suck your fucking dick? One step forward, five steps back. One cool record in the year of rock-rap. Yeah we got all the power getting stabbed in the shower and we got equal rights on ladies night. Feminists we're calling you. Please report to the front desk. Let's name this phenomenon. It's too dumb to bring us down. F.Y.R. Fifty years of ridicule. F.Y.R. take another picture. . . . . Mrs. Doubtfire on mother's day. On-the-job stalker for equal pay. Toss us a few new AIDS drugs as national healthcare bites the dust. While you were on vacation black people didn't get reparations. You know these days no one's exploited. Sorry dude can't hear ya with my head in the toilet. Feminists we're calling you. Please report to the front desk. Let's name this phenomenon. It's too dumb to bring us down. F.Y.R. Fifty years of ridicule. F.Y.R. take another picture. . . . . . You've really come a long way baby. It's you, not the world, that's totally crazy. Cuz we really rocked the fuckin vote with election fraud in poor zip codes. Celebrate gay marriage in Vermont by enforcing those old sodomy laws. One step foreward five steps back. We tell the truth they turn up the laugh track. Feminists we're calling you. Please report to the front desk. Let's name this phenomenon. It's too dumb to bring us down.

You hide inside, so not okay(keep on, keep on livin')
What if you remember more today?(keep on, keep on livin')
The phone rings but there's too much to say(keep on, keep on livin')
You tell them to go when you wish they would stay (keep on, keep on livin')

You gotta keep on (keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on (keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on (keep on livin!) You gotta keep on (keep on livin!)

Disporportionate reactions just won't fade(keep on, keep on livin')
Every dude you see puts you in a rage(keep on, keep on livin')
Or stupid shit just makes you cry(keep on, keep on livin')
Your friends are worried you won't tell them why(keep on, keep on livin')

You gotta keep on (keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on (keep on livin)
You gotta keep on (keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on (keep on livin!)

Look up to the sky sky sky
Take back your own tonight
You'll find more than you see It's time now now get ready
So you can taste that sweet sweet cake and
Feel the warm water in a lake (y'know)
What about that nice cool breeze and
Hear the buzzing of the bumble bees just
Live beyond those neighborhood lives and
Go past that yard outside and
Push thru their greatest fears and
live past your memories tears cuz
You don't need to scratch inside no just please
Hold onto your pride and
So don't let them bring you down and
Don't let them fuck you around cuz
Those are your arms that is your heart and
No no they can't tear you apart
They can't take it away now
This is your time this is your life and
This is your time this is your life and
This is your time this is your life and
This is your time this is your life and....

You gotta keep on(keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on(keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on(keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on(keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on(keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on(keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on(keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on(keep on livin!)

Yeah, its wierd when the club is really crowded
And there's no way that we can do every song thats shouted
But we'll still try to push you towards abandon
Yeah, every night is something we can't plan on

(oh)
For the ladies (wont you dance some more), and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams
(wont you, wont you dance some more)
For the ladies, and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams.

Yeah you know the guys with the digi cameras,
Push to the front and then they just stand there?
But then we see the girls walking towards the dance floor
And we remember why we go on tour.

For the ladies (wont you dance some more), and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams
(c'mon, wont you, wont you, wont you dance some more?)
For the ladies, and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams

My mind's on rewind
and quicksand (what?)
I was up all night
doing nothing (last night? again)

(chorus)
Do you wanna stay in bed all day? (yeah!)
Do you remember feeling any other way? (no!)
Do you wanna stay in bed all day? (yeah!)
Do you remember feeling any other way? (no!)

I must've been sleeping when you called
I'm not feeling well at all (cough, cough)
I got this thing that's been going around called
please pretend that I'm out of town okay?

*chorus*

I'll make some coffee
Put on some eyeliner
I think I'll find that
Things are fine and they're gonna get much finer!

*chorus*

Hey look I'm really sorry
I couldn't make it to your party
I know it looks like I'm gonna cry
Got a to-do list behind my eyes so
Go tell your friends I'm still a feminist
But I won't be coming to your benefit
I give up (I give up)
I give up (I give up)
I give up (I give up)
I'll be at home today

I don't care
You sing such a winner's song
No, I won't respond
My silence screams, "ha ha"
And if you call us wrong, either way
It "just so happens" to us every day
Oh, I, I wont come undone

And if you
Ever
Wanna
Adventure
If you ever want a fashion show
I'll walk on your block

'Cause my art is better than your art
And you will be better off, when I'm gone
When I'm gone

And if you ever wanna try
Your hand at forcing my suicide
C'mon fucker!
Reach out for the sun!

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
You've got the lens
You wants to see through me
You've got the rebel style
It don't fool me
You're a post modern parasite

And if you ever wanna try
Your hand at forcing my suicide
Just know I've only begun

And if you ever wanna try
Your hand at forcing my suicide
Come on and try to kill me off

all fall down
all fall down
all fall down
you keep coming all day til dawn
you can call me any name you want
you can look me up and down
i wont stop! no i wont fall apart!
you can put me down!
you can make me mad!
you can call me mean but i think it's really sad that
some days i just want to stay inside
you must love it that i live my life
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
stop! theif! you can't steal the way
i fuckin' felt when i got up today!
well i guess you're the judge.
i guess you're the king
of the forever beauty pagent I'm always in
My heart beats blue, beats red, beats mad
Is this the only power that you really wanna have?
Count from one to nine, how high do I rate?
I guess feeling good was my first mistake
EN GUARDE
EN GUARDE
EN GUARDE
EN GUARDE
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
Are you a girl or boy? Are you a boy or girl?
Are you a girl or boy? Are you a boy or girl?
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!

You, by my side get no reply
To clarify you
You just know, you're wasting my time
You're wasting my time
There goes a good gone bye,
Right on time

I'm ready
Come and try
And clip this fire, now
Baby I won't show you nothing
Dont want to
I just know that you are a waste of my time
A waste of my time, a waste of my time
You wastin' my time

It's all so precious and you throw it away
It's all so precious and you throw it all away
throw it away

You're not good enough for me
To even despise
You wasted my
You wasted my
You wasted my time

Said behead
Said say correct
Shred project
Say "A" confine

Lay on pain
I laid on your pain
Lay on pain
Got a good thing for wastin' my time
Wastin' my time
Wastin my
Wastin my
Wastin my time

Its all so precious and you throw it away
Its all so precious and you throw it all away
away away away

(Intro skit) Don't fuck with me I'm the fuckin manager!
And don't forget your fuckin daily planners.
You better write down everything you accomplish.
And lemme see your fuckin smiles around the office.
You "grrrls" look tired were you out late last night?
I heard you were some kind of underground electro feminist performance artists.
Is that right?
Right. . . . .
In five years you won't remember getting fired
or whatever and
until then and forever I'm proud to be associated with you.
I know 40 hours a week would suit you fine
but your application's been denied, suprise!
This is how it feels to be free.
Turn around, turn around,
turn around and take a look at the crowd and say:
It's okay to hate your job after all it's fucking wrong.
Turn around, turn around
turn around and take a look at the crowd.
You know
All my friends are fucking bitchs
best known for burning bridges
do you need a character witness
I say
I'm proud to be associated with you.
When I look around, I see your face in the crowd,
I see the girls are out, a lot of freaks in the house.
Le Tigre family and friends,
I hope this feeling never ends
cuz you're beautiful.
And your boss is an asshole
and I don't give a shit what the dick thinks.
We will survive as thieves we will survive as freaks.
Turn around, turn around turn around and take a look at the crowd. . . . .
I think it looks all right
we got friends in sight yeah tomorrow
we fight so let's have fun tonight. . . . . .
Turn around, turn around. . . . .

When you're walking down the street
No one sees a V.I.P.
I.E. - genious artist of our time
well, I'll be the first on line to say
"I get it, I get it, I get it"
"I get it, I get it, I get it"
"I get it, I get it, I get it"

I've been waiting for so long to see your face
I tried this one time
and there was a huge line
And now we're standing in a very small space
No need to worry about getting rain on your brain
Getting fun on your sun
Getting sleet on your feet
'Cause todays the day

"I get it, I get it, I get it"
"I get it, I get it, I get it"
Tres bien, tres bien, tres bien, tres bien

All the critics tend to blast you
Dumb ideas will outlast you
Moneys gone
Youve got no grants
I'll push your work with my bare hands

(Because they will try to convince us that we have arrived,
that we are allready there,
that IT has happened. Because we need to live in a place
where we are truely alive, present, safe, and accounted for.
Because we refuse to allow our writing, songs, art, activism, and political histories to be supressed,
Because we refuse to be embarassed about the mistakes and faults
and choose to move forward
with a political agenda
bent, on the freedom, for all.)

Uh huh. Got to, wanna, got to. wanna,
Raise your hand.
Raise your voice.
Raise your head.
Up off the desk.
Look who's here.
Well well well.
Guess it's time for show-and-tell.
Well what do you like
and what do you need?
How should I act
and who should I be?
Cuz I got.
I'm gonna give it to you.
And you know it.
What where when how when who?
im gonna give u the answer tonite
im gonna to give u the answer anytime
thats right
well i dont wanna take it slow
so tell me now
i gotta go
cuz i got it
im gonna give it too you
and you know it
What where when how when who?

Or should I supersize it
supervise it
supersize it
oh yeah.
Or should I supersize it
supervise it
supersize it
oh yeah.
I'm gonna give you the answer tonight.
Gonna give you the answer anytime.
That's right.
Well I don't wanna take it slow.
So tell me not I got to go cuz I got it.
I'm gonna give it to you.
And you know it.
What where when how when who?
Raise your hand.
Raise your voice.
Raise your head.
Up off the desk.
Look who's here.
Well well well.
Guess it's time for show-and-tell.
Got to, wanna. Got to, wanna.
Oh what should I do
and where should I go?
What should I bring?
I think you know that I've got it.
I'm gonna give it to you.
And you know it.
What where when how when who?

I got your name and number, you seem kinda surprised.
Maybe it's 'cause I can be, you know, like cold as ice.
In crowded situations I always want to go.
And if I see you leaving, I beat you to the door.
I'm gonna tell you something, you're better than fake-wild.
I see the future.
In it, they try to kill your style, your manner, and your motives.
I've seen the way it goes.
So memorize my number, that's why I got a phone.
Call me after dark.


I can make the sun rise daily right up from your landscape painting.
I will be in the front row later when your brush becomes a mic.
Maybe we could change this game forever.
Shapes our breath makes in cold weather.
They might say we're both crazy...I'm just glad I found you, baby.
I don't want someone telling me no-oh-oh, "you're out of time"
I don't mind being debated as long as you're with me tonight.
I'm not gonna give up easy, we were made to cross the line.
I don't want the things that we do...I don't want to let them die.

We learned this lesson five times fine: fake left, go right, back-stabs read minds!
Taillights shine beautiful, they make halos on the road.
Don't give our keys to the city to shark-suits, b-sides, free-things-please!
I left the code at the coat-check pointed to the word on my neck.
That's me, all night on stand-by.
Three words, three things...oh please please!
Don't, don't drink poison!
Wolf Girl, poolside, I'm in the lobby.
Gay concierge-spy high fives me.
It's all cool enemy style, smile at the tv while you download her file.
Watch for the quick slip, money shot, vid clip.
Walk past slowly, pass me the nurse kit.
Don't be fooled by the sister vocab...keep it light, put it on her tab.
Heads up for this tonight...it's some you'll recognize.
Looks like lips and feels like teeth, always waving to the people from the magazine.
There's one thing they love to see...it's tear jearks for charity and blank smirks all the way
to the airport.
There's one drink, on ice, oh I think it's ...
They say trouble comes in threes, I say Chicken Ceasar grows on trees.
It could be lucky to be out of luck.
I mean, better than to take the test where amnesiacs must write on napkins.
Prepare for what might happen.
In a trance from polished talk we think...coat throat, lemon lime, hot choc, oh! ...
Fem Exec is right behind me.
Almost there, through the glass doors, against the wall, on the third floor.
We found a robot hand hidden in a potted plant.
And we're not too nice to notice when white wine stinks and we're misquoted.

Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night we're gonna make it happen
(Tonight we're gonna.)
Tonight we'll put all other things aside
(Tonight we're gonna gonna gonna.)
Give in this time and show me some affection
(Give in and show us some.)
We're going for those pleasures in the night
(Tonight, tonight.)
I want to love you, feel you,
Wrap myself around you.
I want to squeeze you, please you,
I just can't get enough.
And if you move real slow, I'll let it go
I'm so excited, I just can't hide it,
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.
I'm so excited, I just can't hide it,
I know, I know, I know, I want to.
(I know, I know, I know, I want to.
I know, I know, I know, I want to.
I know, I know, I know, I want to.)

We shouldn't even think about tomorrow
(I know, I know, I know.)
Sweet memories will last a long long time
(I know, I know, I know.)
We'll have a good time baby don't you worry
(I know, I know.)
And if we're still hangin' around well that's just fine.
Let's get excited,
(Look what you do to me,)
That we just can't hide it.
(You've got me burnin' up.)
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.
I'm so excited,
(How did you get to me?)
I just can't hide it
(How bout you give it up?)
I know, I know, I know, I want you, I want you.
I want to love you, feel you,
Wrap myself around you.
I want to squeeze you, please you,
I just can't get enough.
And if you move real slow, I'll let it go

I'm so excited
(Look what you do to me)
I just can't hide it,
(You've got me burning up)
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it,
I'm so excited,
(Look what you do to me)
I just can't hide it
(Why wont you give it up?)
And I know, I know, I know, I want you, I want you.
Look what you do to me,
Look what you do to me,
Look what you do to me,
Look what you do to me,

I'm so excited
(Look what you do to me)
I just can't hide it,
(You've got me burning up)
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it,
I'm so excited,
(How did you get to me?)
I just can't hide it
(How bout you give it up?)
And I know, I know, I know, I want you, I want you.

nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo
nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo
nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo
nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo
if you ask us how we want it we'll say man to man
when you go to kiss our cheeks we're gonna put out our hands because
all night we've been talking to liars
and it's all right, just not in the style of tigers
and if you ask us what we're doin we'll
"it doesn't matter to you"
all you need to know is we love to see the crowd move
so turn it up
it really isn't loud enough
when we say when we know you think it's too much
so what?
nanny nany, nanny nanny boo boo
so what?
it's just a joke man, just an interview
so what?
nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo
so what?
you'll never get it, i guess this shit is too new
now lets synchronize our movements till they're super sick
we got high hats and loud claps in every mix
we're like boys, just ask her, dicks done by C.P. Caster
hey look out you're still in slip mode!
thanks but now i'm in batch capture
and if you ask us why we're laughing we'll say
"it doesn't matter to you"
all you need to know is we love to see the crowd move
so turn it up
it really sn't loud enough
when we say when we know you think it's too much
so what?
nanny nanny..
heaphones and velcro and pictures of mars
new mics and dirt bikes and candy bars
bowties and snkeaers while making beats
hard drives and handbooks and hotel sheets
so what?
it doesn't matter to you...
nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo
so what?
I do it every night
she does it in her man suit
so what?
nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo
so what?
we never said it but you know we alwaus wanted to
so what?

Peace Now, Peace Now, Peace Now, Peace Now!

We are gathered here, we come from so many different places.
From different identities, different cultures.
Different backgrounds different religions.
And yet we can gather, under the guides of peace....now...
Peace now!

"We say no to war!"
Peace up, war down!
"We say no to war!"
Peace up, war down!
"We say no to war!"
Peace up, war down!

"We made it. We're here. We're here right now and we're not leaving."

Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you....

"Now, we have reports that more and more people are just taking on ramps onto the bridge and are just taking it over.. it's just...just..."

"I mean, i'm just like..ahh!"

This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!
This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!

"Reports from protests from among Georgia... Amsterdam... and Bay Ruth Lebanon... East Seymour... Florence, Italy...London...Milano, Italy...Paris, France...
Dozens of cities in Spain... Reports in Athens, Georgia... Austin, Texas... Westford, Virginia... Charleston, South Carolina... Colorado Springs... and
Defiance, Ohio... Denver, Colorado as well as Durango... Geneva, New York and Houston, Texas... Cianis, Massachussetts...In Hawaii as well...
Lawrence, Kansas... Los Angeles, California... AND I AM ONLY NAMING A FEW!"

Peace...now! Peace...now!

And as Eleanor Roosevelt said...
"It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe in it. It isn't enough to believe in it, one must work at it"
And we here today... are working at it!

"Peace is possible, and even necessary. So drop the sword, pick up the hammer and the saw. And start building a better world!"

No blood for oil!
We will not be violent!
No blood for oil!
We will not be violent!
No blood for oil!

"We will not go to war, for a selected president, who wasn't even elected!"

We must stand unbroken, unbound and unashamed
We need healthcare!
We need education!
We need freedom in this nation!
Freedom in this nation!
Freedom in this nation!
Freedom in this nation!

"Thousands of people have taken over 3rd Avenue and are marching North. The crowd stretches at least 15 blocks from 44th street to 59th Street.
The police have just simply... given up."

This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!
This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!


peace now
peace now
(repeated behind next lines)
"We will not sell out!
We will not back down!
We will not compromise!
We will go forward,
Until peace is on the world's agenda!"

I started a theory that there were no more heroes in the World.
But Today, I see all the World's heroes standing before me.

"We say no to war!"
No war!
"We say no to war!"
No war!
"We say no to war!"
No war!

Play it so safe to stay on top. Shake it, imitate it, but it still sounds old.
We just can't understand why the man calls it lo-fi.
So get your bags packed now and I'll meet you on the outside.
"X"-out all self-supervision...get your keys out, now start the ignition.
We're on the verge of...All right!
When you're shipwrecked on your mattress I'll come in and show you how to hijack the past and
wind up in the right now.
Grag some clothes, three chords and a video camera.
Maybe a mic, some handwipes, a typewriter, and a hammer.
Why don't you come over now?
I'll buzz you up.
'Cause you know when you're around I can't get enough.
I'm gonna follow you, wait, straight into the late night.
'Cause you're so on fire and you already know.
A-O-A-O do it so right
A-O-A-O do it tonight

Backstage, everybody wants a piece of JD
Kathleen's on the phone and i got to go get paid
See, promoter's making small talk,
He says we knocked his socks off
Cinna-mint, Internet, Cinnamon and Butter-buns!
Who's got the keys?
Oh! Look, man, we just gotta get some sleep!
But he said "Do you guys need a place to stay?"
No, oh no. No thanks, just point us to the highway.
She said, she likes it better when were angry,
"Sing that song again that makes me think youre gonna spank me!"
Head on my jacket like a pillow in the van,
When i close my eyes im in a cross-town cab.

Hey, who wants to party?
Those girls outside just asked me
Check out's late and they seem cool,
so
OoooOOooohhhh....okay...okay,okay

Hey, we want a Universal healthcare deal
and we want Kissinger on trial for real.
We got a right wing king making third world war
Assholes, oil-guys!
How many shows till were back in New York?
Killer's got us packed up, coffee in a travel mug
Thinks she got the mix all right, says she wants to drive tonight.
The power amp, we call the "pamp"
The S-2000, we call it the "samp"
The MPC's do not come on tour,
They used to, though, back when we were hardcore.
Hey these girls say that this town sucks! ooooohooohhh...
They just wanna know if they can come with us

Hey, who wants to party?
Those girls outside just asked me
Check out's late and they seem cool,
So
OoooOOooohhhh....okay..okay,okay

Pipe down baby, why so fake loud?
You've lied now ten thousand times...it's show business anyhow.
You make me sick, sick, sick, sick.
Where'd you get all the attention?
Your dad's money too base to mention?
His coattails are looking word. You've had a nice ride, that's for sure.
Better thank your brain-dead clientele for all the money that you'll spend in hell.
Wanma percent of every nation, your'e the type to rise to that occasion.
Stole the race, no surprise there. The elevator always beats the stairs.
On a golf cart...wearing some uniform...bombing in the night-time...lying on tv...you make me
sick

so they say i was sometimes cruel
i dont know if i would say that too
oh i, i dont know about that
everyday the sky reminds me still
youre not here and it always will
oh i, i dont know about that
you...
i try my best to play along
like nothings over and no ones gone
but i, i dont know about that
i dont know about that...
if i tried harder youd, still be here
is it true?
oh i, i dont know about that...

I'll just tell you now
Cuz I don't think you know
The things you tried to kill
I found a way to grow

I'll just tell you now
You may have made your mark
But I'm still here today
Knowing who you are

I'll just tell you now
I'll just tell you now
(Don't want to disappoint you)
You're not the City of God
(Or be one to annoy)
You can't strike me down
(But it won't go away now)
From your mountain top
(And here's the reasons why)
I'll just tell you now
(You took my intuition)
You're not the City of God
(My knowledge of the truth)
You can't shoot me down
(The love I had in this world)
From your mountain top
(I gave it all to you)
I'll just tell you now
I wanna tell you now...

I'll just tell you now
Cuz I don't think you know
The things you tried to kill
I found a way to grow

I'll just tell you now
(You took my intuition)
You're not the City of God
(My knowledge of the truth)
You can't shoot me down
(The love I had in this world)
From your mountain top
(I gave it all to you)

I wanna tell you now...

Say this one packs a fight
Just crazy, out of my mind
Say sorry, yeah it's all right
Just give me back what you took that night
I wanna tell you now
I say it full out
I wanna get up in your face
And tear your thoughts right out
I wanna tell you, tell you now
I'm gunna tell you, tell you how
You didn't change my mind
You didn't do a thing
'Cept made me hate myself
And made me fear everything
You thought I'd run and hide
And keep it all inside
How can you see me
And think it's all right?

I wanna tell you now...

you must not love to hate
you must not take the bait
and learn to hit delete
you'd say the same thing to me
rent's high
and the war's on
and it's last call
even your friends lok worried
my friends think you're smart
we think you're super-fine

but it's high time
i mean it's high tide
aka a fine line, inside

stop smoking those cigarettes, baby
next time it's your turn to save me
splash some water on your little face cos
you're a mess, you're a mess, you're a mess!

you must not roll your eyes
you should not often lie
how could you ever say
that your friends won't be there
it's a long walk on a cold night
when you wanna fight
over some day-old drama
you used to make us laugh
we want the old you back

cos it's high time
i mean it's high tide
aka a fine line, inside

stop smoking those cigarettes, baby
next time it's your turn to save me
splash some water on your little face cos
you're a mess, you're a mess, you're a mess!

this island where we live without a/c
is the city where we learn about painting
it was the title of the mix-tape you gave me
not where we're from but the topic of daydreams
let's take a tour of the bathrooms you cried in
for break-ups, bad lucks, shock of the lost twins

the horizon's like a ship in flames tonight
you say you just don't know
if you can take this city
cos the rent's high
and the war's on
and it's last call
even your friends look worried
my friends all think you're smart
we think you're super-fine

but it's high time
i mean it's high tide
aka a fine line, inside

stop smoking those cigarettes, baby
next time it's your turn to save me
splash some water on your little face cos
you're a mess, you're a mess, you're a mess!

Want more real attention.
At my expense guess you forgot to mention.
You talk good,
I'll eat glass.
I heard you read my mind behind my back.
Outside, I'm waitin'
by the car when you're hesitatin'.
Take a good look.
Take a photo.
Write about it in your tiny notebook.

Don't you know? You're out cold.
Don't you know? It's our dance-floor!
T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on the stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O
Oh, oh..
Oh, oh..

Got your money safe.
Wanna be "In".
Everyday it just gets closer to you.
I say my piece,
And when it's over, you'll be on your knees, I..
got this soul thing on the go -ho.
Read about it at your Barnes & Noble.

Don't you know? It's our dance-floor!
T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on the stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O
Oh, oh.
Oh, oh.

Night is young
And we all know what's up
Beyond the setting sun
The ocean calls us
away from...
(sample overlay)...


Don't you know? It's our dance-floor
Oh-oh
Oh-oh

T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on your stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O
T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on your stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O

walk in
give him my name
looks up and down
takes a good look at my pecs
puts down the clipboard
opens the rope for my 'stache
walk in with my duffle hanging
hat is tilted, im inside
my eyes dream of bedroom suprise
they call it climbing, and i call it visibility
they call it coolness, and i call it visibility
they call it way too rowdy, and i call it finally free
theres a girl
her lips that have never seen
she comes up
dances on me
i look in her eyes
i say "hey, youre not a dyke..."
she says "i call it climbing, and you call it visibility
i call it coolness, and you call it visibility
i call it way too rowdy, and you call it finally free"
theres a slap on my back
i find another butch, hat cocked, and we
we put our hands in the crowd
and over and over
we jump up and down
they call it climbing, and we call it visibility
they call it coolness, and we call it visibility
they call it way too rowdy, and we call it finally free.

Who took the bomp?

Every day and night
Every day and night
I can see your disco disco dick is sucking my heart out of my mind
I'm outta time
I'm outta fucking time
I'm a gasoline gut with a vasoline mind
but
Wanna disco?
Wanna see me disco?
Let me hear you depoliticize my rhyme
One
Two
Three
Four
You got what you been asking for
You're so policy free
and fantasy wheels
and everything you think
and everything you feel is
Alright,
alright
alright
alright
alright

I take you home now watch me get you hot.
You're just a parrot
when you're screaming and you're shouting
"More crackers please! More crackers please!"
You want what you wan,
but you don't wanna be on your knees
Who does your, who does your hair?

Who took the Bomp from the Bompalompalomp?
Who took the Ram from the Ramalamading dong?
Who took the Bomp from the Bompalompalomp?
Who took the Ram from the Ramalamading dong?

How are you?
Fine, Thank you
How are you?
Fine, Thank you.
You bought a new van
the first year of your band
You're cool and
I hardly wanna say
"not" because I'm so bored
that'd I'd be entertained even by a
stupid fucking linoleum floor
linoleum floor
Your lyrics are dumb like a
linoleum floor
I'll walk on it
I'll walk all over you
Walk on it, walk on it
walking one
two
Who?
Who?
Who?
Who took the Bomp from the Bompalompalomp?
Who took the Ram from the Ramalamading dong?
Who took the Bomp from the Bompalompalomp?
Who took the Ram from the Ramalamading dong?

See you later.
See you later.
See you later.
See you later.

I'm in the sky when I'm on the floor
The world's a mess and yr my only cure
There's no time for me to act mature
The only words I know are "more, more" and "more"

No one to criticize me then
No one to criticize
No one to criticize me then
No one to criticize

There's no fear when I'm in my room
It's so clear and I know just what I want to do
All day bedroom dancing
To you I wanna say
Yr my thing.

The phone keeps ringing and it just won't stop
There's a paper napkin in my coffeepot
People freaking out on me left and right
My head feels heavy but my feet feel light

The clock keeps ticking inside my head
Bad news is all I ever get
The check I've been waiting for is not on time
Everyone around me wants to start another fight

I'm gonna let it be alright
(I wanna be there!)
(I wanna take you there!)
(I wanna be there!)
(I wanna take you there!)

hot topic is the way that we rhyme
hot topic is the way that we rhyme
one step behind the drum style
one step behind the drum style
Carol Rama and Elanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman
You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but
Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway
Stop, don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Don't you stop
Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto
Leslie Feinburg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man
Don't stop
Don't you stop
We won't stop
Don't you stop
So many roads and so much opinion
So much shit to give in, give in to
So many rules and so much opinion
So much bullshit but we won't give in
Stop, we won't stop
Don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison
Stop, don't you stop
Please don't stop
We won't stop
Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy, David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart, The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney, Urvashi vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin, Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem, Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking, Cecelia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis, Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles
Oh no no no don't stop stop............

Nine years old,
and climbing out the house
through a song
played on piano
by my neighbors Les and Ray.
I put my head
up against the wall
to be closer
to the music that they played.
You were my oxygen,
the thing that made me think
I could escape.
This is a thank you song
for Les and Ray.
You were my batteries,
the thing that made me think
I could escape.
Here's a song
for Les and
Here's a song
for Les and Ray.

Oh we could rock
Or we could bomb
Or we could try
Like super hard
Or we could come
Or we could lose
Or we could totally
totally, totally freak you
I wanna spread my dementia
I wanna knock it off the line
Give me attention
Every day and every night
We could suck
"They might improve"
We get out grades from
Professor You
Or we could fly
Demystified
Or we could please you
all night
I wanna spread my dementia
I wanna knock it off the line
Give me attention
Every day and every night
Don't want no crusty bullshit
No crap or attitude
Just wanna get electric tonight
you know with you you you
Or we could, or we could
Or we could, or we could
Fail, fail. Fail. So!?

Off the pillow and into the air
I'm ready cause it's my day
Situation: it's all possible
Everything is going my way

My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard
Think I'll go a little but then I go far

Oh fuck
Giuliani
He's such
A fucking jerk
Shut down
All the stripbars
Workfare
Does not work

My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard
My My Metrocard

Think I'll go a little but then I go far

Next stop
Atlantic Avenue
Next stop
Christopher Street
Next stop
Transfer to the
Next stop
A,C, or E

(One the morning of June 14, 1968
A group of hippies fled into the mountains of Colorado to wait for doomsday)

4 months + 8 days
Been waiting here
Transporter broken
Horizon's clear

(DAY ONE)
No vegetation
Blips on my screen
Whatever was here
Has been disappeared

Now here's alright (x2)
Alright

(DAY TWO)
Wait tower
Radar's going off
I see a small creature
Who can barely walk

My data says "large"
But what I see is small
Text reads "Big Danger"
This just looks tired

Now here's alright (x2)
Alright, alright

(DAY THREE)
Come in tower
All our data's wrong
Research inconsistent
We misread it all

There was no monster
And what's left is near dead
Control killed a phantom
From inside their heads

(Come in, come in
You've lost my screen
Do you respond?
Variable text field is frozen
Look at your monitors
Dont take your eyes off the monitor
We're losing you
Subterra outpost, stay calm
We're losing you
You're going-)

Now here's alright
Nowhere's alright
Alright, alright, alright,al-

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought.
We are for the large shape, because it has the impact of the unequivocal.

We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

The artist was attempting to make art more than something to just look at,
they wanted it something to be involved in, something too big to ignore.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator to see the world our way, not his way.

The stars are getting in and out of automobiles
And we keep wondering when we're gonna feel something real
Keep waiting for a Santa that will never come
A real party not just people who're faking fun
But everything gets erased before it's even said
And all that glitters isn't gold when inside it's dead
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
I went to your concert and I didn't feel anything
I went to your concert and I didn't hear anything
I went to your concert and I didn't feel anything
I went to your concert and I didn't see anything
(Oh Baby) Why won't you talk to me?
(Oh Baby) You just want me empty!
(Oh Baby) You don't say anything!
(Oh Baby) Why won't you answer me?
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
All that glitter is not gold
I sat through your movie but I didn't see anything.
I went to your comedy club and didn't laugh at all.
I went to your movie and I didn't hear anything.
I went to your concert and there was nothing going on.
You don't say
You don't say
You don't say anything.......

We've talked about it in letters.
And we've talked about it on the phone.
But how you really feel about it.
I don't really know.
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
Misogynist? Genius? Misogynist? Genius?
Misogynist? Genius? Misogynist? Genius?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
Alcoholic? Messiah? Alcoholic? Messiah?
Alcoholic? Messiah? Alcoholic? Messiah?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
What's your take on Cassavettes?
Genius? Misogynist? Alcoholic?
Hey where'd Gena?
Genius? Misogynist? Messiah? Alcoholic?
What's your take on
What's your take on
What's your take on
What's your take on Cassavettes?