Track Listing

1. 1. I Speak Your Language

   I speak your language
   You speak my language, too
   I may not understand a single word you say
   But I understand you
   When you smile
   All the darkness disappears
   When you smile
   It’s all I need to hear
   
   I speak your language
   You speak my language, too
   
   Echo?
   Echo!
   
   You’re my native tongue
   You’re my daily bread
   You’re every word I’ve spoken, every book I’ve read
   Now call my name, call my name
   
   When you smile all the darkness disappears
   

2. 2. State of the Art

   Had I not known the darkness
   I could not love the light
   Were it not for gravity there would be no flight
   Had I not lost the path, I’d have never found my way
   Equal parts my heart I gave to bloom and to decay
   
   With a rattle and a grind I find that I’m back at my favorite part
   I may not be your kind if your kind is faint or heart
   When the World is sick and tired and it’s begging you to fall apart
   You may be hanging by a thread but now you’re state of the art
   
   I call upon my demons as I call upon my saints
   I lend an equal ear to each and I suffer no complaints
   When the furies be your ushers and the shadows be your guide
   The best way out of hell is through the other side
   
   With a rumble and a grind…
   

3. 3. I Know You Know

   When you say I love you
   You know it’d better be true
   You walk away too slow
   I want to run after you
   
   I know you know
   I know you better
   You better know
   I know you know
   
   Wrote you a poem,
   “A little haiku
   I want you under my skin
   My new tattoo, yeah!”
   
   I know you know
   I know you better
   You better know
   I know you know
   
   You gotta move
   You gotta go or stay
   You better burn, you better yearn, you better churn, you better learn
   Or you’re gonna see your colors start fadin’ away
   
   I like your medicine
   I like your birds and your bees
   Now don’t you start thinking you’ve gotta buy the cure from them, sugar
   I know you know they’re only gonna sell you the disease
   
   I know you know
   

4. 4. Summer Number 39

5. 5. Mercy

   Don’t pick up the phone
   Don’t look me in the eye
   Don’t you do anything
   ‘Til you break down and cry
   
   Leave your gates unguarded
   Let your sentries sleep
   You don’t have to give away any secrets
   No, those you should keep
   
   Mercy
   May I be your
   Mercy
   
   Don’t look for the reason
   Don’t ask why
   I know the season is crawin’ now
   Pretty soon it’ll fly
   
   Mercy
   
   Your are surrounded
   Already aglow
   You already shine
   
   Mercy
   

6. 6. I Can Drink The Water

   Cómo se dice?
   Hasta pronto estamos criando margaritas
   I can drink the water
   You can drink the water, too
   
   Cómo se dice?
   Mijo, mija..
   Preguntame
   Cascabel Lúcia
   
   I can drink the water
   You can drink the water, too
   
   Cómo se dice?
   Tenemos confianza
   Por favor, escuchame
   Juntos estámos haciendo un Mundo Unido
   
   I can drink the water
   You can drink the water, too
   

7. 7. I Do

   I do Love
   
   Build high your wall, now do your best
   Gimme another unbreakable thing to test
   We’ll leave ‘em sifting through the ashes for a glow
   Baby, I do love Rock and Roll
   
   Yeah, sugar, don’t it get you high?
   Let the rain fall down let your rivers overflow
   Jump right in now, the water’s fine
   And it ain’t too deep, you know
   
   I do love Rock and Roll
   
   Was that another decade come and gone?!
   Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!!
   Yeah, the youth these days is out of control
   But, baby I do love Rock and Roll
   
   I do
   Yes, I do
   I do Love

8. 8. Persephone

   Persephone
   I will keep this brooding brief
   For it is Fate and not just my belief
   That keeps you coming back to me
   
   Persephone
   I will smolder in this grief
   For Time is very fine a thief
   But he cannot steal from Destiny
   
   I will stand and I will fight with all my might here on the line between the darkness and the light until, at last, I have thee in my custody
   Persephone
   
   Persephone
   Return the symphony to this drone
   The rainbow to the monochrome
   And Love to the damned
   What we might be to what I am
   
   Persephone
   
   I will stand and I will fight…
   
   And should the mortals dare design
   To keep you ever theirs and never mine
   Should they, in the name of Liberty, enslave you to their needs
   Your ransom has been paid with seven pomegranate seeds
   
   Persephone
   

9. 9. Mañana

   We're pirates, banditos and beach bums
   Cervezas, tequilas, and sweet rums
   Raise the colors, damn the doldrums!
   Anchors away!
   (to..)
   
   Mañana
   You may find us croonin'
   Mañana
   Maybe we'll be swoonin'
   Mañana
   Gazing at the moon in the sky above the sea
   
   Tthere's no urgency
   Certainly no emergency
   Looks like we're fresh out of anxiety
   Throw your worries away
   (No troubles today)
   
   Mañana
   You may find us boozin'
   Mañana
   Or out at sea a-cruisin'
   Mañana
   Come as you are but leave your shoes inside your car
   
   Any hurries, we can delay
   Any worries, we can belay
   Any burden, we can give away to
   (Hip, hip, hooray to...)
   
   Mañana
   Come and join our croonin'
   Mañana
   Hopefully we're swoonin'
   Mañana
   (Everybody) gazing at the moon in the sky above the sea
   Mañana
   The bills we have to pay we'll pay
   Mañana
   There's things to put away
   Mañana
   Everything will have its day
   The day that never cometh...
   

10. 10. Captain Suburbia

    Come a birth, come a funeral, come a wedding bell
    I can walk a straight line in a dizzy spell
    I’m screening my calls,
    I’m whitening my teeth
    Now I got a smile for every stranger I meet
    And I can leap the tallest mortgage in a single bound
    
    Hey Now…
    
    Look at me…
    I’m Captain Suburbia
    I’m lightin’ all the birthday candles in Utopia
    It’s a bird, It’s a plane, it’s Captain Suburbia
    The weeds will grow, the grey will show, and my garage will overflow now
    Lucky me!
    I’m Captain Suburbia!
    
    I’m not too young for anything, anymore
    I see all my friends and neighbors at the liquor store
    I’m mechanically inclined,
    I’m blissfully insane
    I’m rescuing the sacred from the jaws of the mundane
    I’m livin’ the dream now…
    I can sleep through anything
    
    Hey now…
    Hey now…
    Look at me…
    I’m Captain Suburbia
    I’m lightin’ all the birthday candles in Utopia
    It’s a bird, It’s a plane, it’s Captain Suburbia
    The weeds will grow, the grey will show, and my garage will overflow now
    Lucky me!
    I’m Captain Suburbia!
    
    I’m tucking in the kids
    We’re running out of beer
    And, “Honey, we need to talk…”
    are the only words I fear…
    
    Hey now…
    Hey now…
    Hey now…
    
    Look at me…
    I’m Captain Suburbia
    I’m lightin’ all the birthday candles in Utopia
    It’s a bird, It’s a plane, it’s Captain Suburbia
    The weeds will grow, the grey will show, and my garage will overflow now
    Lucky me!
    I’m Captain Suburbia!
    

11. 11. Mexicosis

    Should I be more industrious, civilized, illustrious?
    Should I not have freed our old and tired horse from the cart?
    And is it gonna be a problem honey,
    If I don’t believe that time is money
    And I’ve got procrastination down to a fine, fine art?
    
    Well, the preacher, the teacher the doctor…they don’t know
    The police man, boss man, they all lost, man…they don’t know
    
    Hear your heart say so
    You got to go and lay low
    Walk, fly drive or stowaway
    Just go, go go…
    Ain’t no way to disobey so
    Go overpay in pesos
    Steal one too many besos, baby
    Go, go, go!
    Lucky diagnosis
    You’ve got to stop and smell the roses
    Honey, you got you a chronic case of Méxicosis
    
    I mean no disrespect and I don’t mean to lead the rabble on
    When I’m laughing out loud as I listen to Babylon babble on…
    My prognosis is my attitude shows symptoms that may include
    Acute levity,
    Frequent drowsiness,
    And a chronic cheery mood
    
    Well, the preacher, the teacher the doctor…they don’t know
    The police man, boss man, they all lost, man…they don’t know
    
    Hear your heart say so
    You got to go and lay low
    Walk, fly drive or stowaway
    Just go, go go…
    Ain’t no way to disobey so
    Go overpay in pesos
    Steal one too many besos, baby
    Go, go, go!
    Lucky diagnosis
    You’ve got to stop and smell the roses
    Honey, you got you a chronic case of Méxicosis
    
    Well I don’t hurry, I don’t worry, while the modern world’s all a flurry
    I’m slowin’down
    It’s un-insurable, incurable, but delightfully endurable
    I’ve found
    The only remedy
    Is to be
    Perpetually
    Southbound!
    
    Well, the preacher, the teacher the doctor…they don’t know
    The police man, boss man, they all lost, man…they don’t know
    
    Hear your heart say so
    You got to go and lay low
    Walk, fly drive or stowaway
    Just go, go go…
    Ain’t no way to disobey so
    Go overpay in pesos
    Steal one too many besos, baby
    Go, go, go!
    Lucky diagnosis
    You’ve got to stop and smell the roses
    Honey, you got you a chronic case of Méxicosis