I’ve literally put on this album in the presence of others more than once only to quickly turn it off hoping nobody noticed that it was expressing my innermost private thoughts so exactly. I lifted the following lyrics (written by Greg Dulli) verbatim from the liner notes. On the album, several lines are repeated. Thank you, John Paul, for introducing me to this band so many years ago. I don’t forget shit like that. I don’t forget who my friends are even when I’m being an asshole to them. I don’t try to be an asshole; I really don’t. I just am. I know it's hard to believe how naively inconsiderate I can be. Today I jokingly told someone I think it’s important to force people to try to remember why they like me. Lord knows if and why anybody does.
The thing about never following anybody else’s assumptions is that then you’re forced to blindly improvise life as you go, and when you fuck it up you have nobody but yourself to blame, and there is no absolution. Sorry for my fuck-ups. Oh, and fuck you for blaming me for the shit that wasn’t my fault.
Crime Scene Part One
Tonight, tonight I say goodbye
To everyone who loves me
Stick it to my enemies, tonight
Then I disappear
Bathe my path in shining light
Set the dials to thrill me
Every secret has its price
This one’s set to kill
Too loose, too tight, too dark, too bright
A lie, the truth, which one should I use?
If the lie succeeds
Then you’ll know I was mean
When I tell you I have secrets
To attend
Do you think I’m beautiful?
Or do you think I’m evil?
Will you take me for a ride?
The one that never ends
Too loose, too tight, too dark, too bright
A lie, the truth, which one shall I use?
If the lie succeeds
Then you’ll know I was mean
When I tell you I have secrets
To attend
Tonight, tonight I say goodbye
To everything that thrills me
As I throw the chains
I forged in life
To shatter on the floor
As I dream all the evidence
Is piling against me
As I breathe the essence rare
Is falling off the vine
And if you knew, just how smooth
I could stop it on a dime
You could meet me at the scene of the crime
My Enemy
I hear the whispers, baby
If what they say is true
They say I killed the brother
To fall in love with u
These words I heard them once before
A conversation I believe
How does a man begin 2 fall
When he does practice 2 deceive?
There was a voice behind my back
His face I could not see it clear
The voice was so familiar, though
I knew my enemy was near
The sun iz gone
And the sky iz black
So get your ass out from
Behind my back
I told u once
And I told u all
And I told it like it was (sic)
U can’t
Have me
If u can’t
Catch me
Out of your mind bent on revenge
To think I once called u my friend
U want the dog? I’ll let him out
Come and get some baby
Double Day
It was a Saturday
I came home early drunk with love
And other things
I must confess I love it all
Pretend that I can hardly wait
To wipe the smile off your face
It’s only when
On that you can depend
Later that afternoon
My paranoia got the best of me
I knew it would, it always do
I made the call
Pretend that I can hardly wait
To put that smile back on my face
It’s coming soon
I’m going to the moon
If you pretend, then I imitate
My friend, come crucify my heart
I wanna get it on
I wanna get it on
And in the evening when I sleep
My situation changes nightly
Sometimes it comes, sometimes it goes
Sometimes I feel I’ll never know
Tonight’s the night I take it home
White knuckle happy and alone
With no one in the room but me
I see I finally see
Blame, Etc.
My lust it ties me up
In chains
My skin catches fire at the
Mention of your name
No matter what I tried 2 do
I could not lose it
Now I know my heart
Is being used
But what I’m not allowed to have
I never could refuse
No matter what I tried 2 do
I stood accused
I reply, that I don’t believe
I’m never gonna die, I don’t
Do u?
Blame, deny, betray, divide
A lie, the truth
Which one shall I use?
Whatcha gonna do?
I know
Whatcha gonna do?
I know, I know, I know
Your sanctimony
Is showing my dear
The acrimony
Hangs in the air
Beware of who u trust
In this world
Beware the lies about
2 unfurl
I reply, that I don’t believe
I’m never gonna die, I don’t
Do u?
U were blind
But u are not alone in this
As I, once was
Like u
Blame, etc.
Step Into The Light
Whenever the light shines
And the stillness is shaken
And the drug of your smile has gone
And left me alone
I need it bad, I need it now
Won’t you come and give me some?
I need it sweet, baby please
Won’t you answer the phone?
Step into the light, baby
Just give me the word
And I will begin
Step into the light, baby
And see the trouble I’m in
The light has gone
My love has gone
The good times have gone
Away
I have to ask, I need to know
Was it ever love?
I need it sweet, baby please
Come and give me some
Going To Town
Lover mine
Get your coat and come outside
I wanna take you for a ride
On into town
Lover fair
We’ll be looking sharp, I swear
I want them all to stop and stare
When we take ‘em down
Go to town, burn it down, turn around and get your stroll on, baby
I’ll get the car
You get the match
And gasoline
And as we ride
Away into the countryside
I feel as though I must confide
There is a cost
When you say
Now we got Hell to pay
Don’t worry, baby, that’s okay
I know the boss
Honky’s Ladder
Got u where I want u
Motherfucker
I got 5ive up on your dime
And if u wanna peep on something
Peep what I got stuck between
Your eyes
And since I don’t believe
A word u say
Save it for another, baby brother
Swallow time 2 pay
Up on the ladder they sing
How high?
Does a brother have 2 climb
2 touch the light
But wait ‘til I get done
With u
If u tell me
“Don’t get mixed up with the Devil”
That’s exactly
What I’m gonna do
Caught u while u waited
For your boy 2 come
And fix u up again
Come a little closer, baby
I only wanna try 2
Be your friend
Since I ain’t got nothing
Left 2 lose
Got u where I want u
Motherfucker
Don’t u try 2 move
Up on the ladder they sing
How high?
Does a brother have 2 climb
2 touch the light
Won’t u take me up there
With you? U said u would
No one ever could shake
That ladder like I could
So I wait…
Night by Candlelight
Repeat these words
After me
In all honesty
Repeat these words
After me
If you dare to believe this
Yourself
Am I vain? Have I shame?
Are my thoughts of a man
Who can call himself sane?
Do I blame, all my pain
On the wickedness
I have arranged?
If I do, bring it down
Repeat these words
After me
In all honesty
Repeat these words
After me
If you dare to believe this
Yourself
Am I vain? Have I shame?
Are my thoughts of a man
Who can call himself sane?
Is my fate, all the same
As the man who has
Walked the line straight?
If it is, bring it down
And I, I must rely, my dear
And I, cannot deny, my dear
There will be a reckoning
Which was, is
And is to come
Repeat these words
After me
In all honesty
Repeat these words
After me
If you dare
To believe
Bulletproof
Love
I can’t hide
But it’s been easier
Since I said it now
Love
It don’t end
And I can’t buy
A friend
I waited long
The waiting’s over
So get on down
This time we go a little lower
The sun has broke
I stretch it out
And throw some gas into the fire
To tell the truth
To tell it well
It all depends upon the liar
And if I scream, overboard
I’m in this over my head
Or whisper sweet
Baby please, baby please
Am I ded?
Every time I dream about you, baby
With your hands all over me
I never forget anything
Don’t forget that I’m asleep
Go to sleep
It’s over now
A final prayer for my friend
You tell that fool, to make it good
You have to start at the end
And if I scream, overkill
I’m in this over my head
Or whisper sweet, baby please
I must have meant what I said
Summer’s Kiss
Did you feel the breeze
My love
Summer’s kiss is over, baby
Over
Do you know the words?
Sing along with me
And put on your rose fur coat, baby
It’s 1973
My love, this dream I have each night
I stare into a blinding light
Alone, I stare
Demons, be gone
Away from me
And come on down to the corner
I got something I want you to see
The burning sun
Too hot for shade
Come lay down in the cool grass
With me, baby let’s watch that
Summer’s fade
My love, this dream I have each night
I stare into a blinding light
Alone, I stare
So sweet
This dream is not a dream
A wake with it
Inside of me
Alone, I swear
Faded
you can believe in me, baby
Can I believe in you?
What you don’t know
Can hurt you, child
All the things a mind can
Do to you
If I go bad
From time to time
Love to love but love is not
My only crime
Bathe the path, shine the light
Better get your ass up on
The mountain, baby
I’ll take you up tonight
Faded
This I feel
Behind the blue clouds
I remain concealed
Lord, lift me out of the night
Come on, look down
And see the mess I’m in tonight
You can believe in me, baby
Can I believe in you?
I wish I could remember what
You said, when I said
Enough
You said
Good boy… bad boy… killjoy
Get your ass over here, boy
And since I know
Myself so well
Don’t breathe a word
Don’t you ever tell
You can believe in me, baby
Can I believe in you?
That secret’s gonna kill you
In the end
It’s gonna kill
You
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