-itis...it IS...isn't it? '97
-itis...it IS...isn't it? '97
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1. ALWAYS WASTED (words: Craig & Mark / music: Craig)
She never knows what she's thinking,
She's always stoned and she's drinking
Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow
Would you make up your mind, I can't seem to follow you
I don't understand, you say that you need me
But the knife in your hand is really misleading me
Cuz she's always wasted
She never knows what she's saying
First she gets mad, then she's playing
Should I stay or go, I live in a mystery
And I never know if you're happy or pissed at me
You say "how kind", but then say "don't irritate me"
Would you make up your mind, do you love me or hate me
Night after night, it's starting to haunt me
I wish you would die, now why don't you want me
A kiss and a punch, I'm climbing the ceiling
"I love you so much," and now "you're hurting my feelings"
Day in, day out, laugh, cry, scream & shout
"Give me some attention, now leave me alone"
"Yes/no yes/no, I don't really think so"
"Maybe kinda sorta maybe I don't know"
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2. YOU (words & melody: Mark / music: Craig)
Hi, yeah me, not much, okay
Nothing new, just called to say
Something I meant...it's not important
No, all's well, it's no big deal
Just well, but, um, how I feel
Or something like that...and how's the weather
You know that it's true, but still I've got to say
Today was fine, yeah, how 'bout yours
Yeah, well, no, but there's this story
That I heard...I forgot every word
No, nothing, what's up with you
Nervous me? No, I've been too
Tired to think straight...but it just couldn't wait
You know that it's true, but still I've got to say
Tonight was, um, yeah, it was fun
Yeah, well, no, but, I'm not done
There's more to say...forget it, okay
But before we say goodbye
Let me give it one more try
If it's not too late...I hope it's worth the wait
You know that it's true, I think of
You know that it's true, but still I've got to say too
I don't mind if we just waste time and the sun don't shine
I just wanna be with you
I don't care if we go nowhere and the world ain't fair
I just wanna be with you
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3. FREEDOM (words & melody: Mark / music: Craig, Mike)
I don't wanna take you home
but I don't wanna be alone
I don't wanna lose my mind
But I got nothin' left to find
I'm all outta feelin'
I don't wanna be a slave
But I don't have a soul to save
I don't wanna make you cry
But I don't wanna live or die
I'm all outta feelin'
I don't wanna be your hope
I wanna be your freedom
I don't want the life I lead
But I don't have a knife to bleed
I don't wanna know myself
So maybe just tonight you'll make me someone else
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4. OUTTA MY HEAD (words & melody: Mark / music: Craig)
The lights are coming on I'm fading fast
The night before is just a moment past
I tried so hard to make the moment last
But the spin is starting and I think I'm gonna crash
Feel the pain coming 'round, no relief to be found
See the walls crashing down
Gotta hold 'em up till I can change my luck
And I'm feeling like my soul's just been hit by a truck
I think I'm gonna need a little remedy
I'm begging down on my hands and knees
Please take me outta my head
Today's much darker than the day before
And I find that time makes my mind sore
So I think I'm gonna need just a little more
To take me outta my head
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide my need
Nobody here to hear nobody plead
No way to stop, no way to make me see
And there's no time to crave, no time to stave the bleed
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5. YOU BLEW IT ALL (lyrics: Mark, Craig, Mike / melody: Craig, Mark / music: Craig)
Did you think I'd think of that?
Did you know I knew the fact?
Did you figure out for sure?
Did you count up every score?
My heart was on my sleeve --You knew it all the way
I just can't believe --You threw it all away
You never thought I'd leave --You blew it all
Did you want me wanting more?
Did you care I cared before?
Did you help me help myself?
Did you feel the way I felt?
You got freedom, I got pain
You're so happy I'm insane
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Take me through another fall
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6. ONE OF THESE DAYS (words & melody: Mark / music: Craig)
Caught by myself, put a lifetime on a shelf
Giving up just 'cause another gave up long ago
and shut herself inside a paper tomb
Where she wrote of pending doom
Penning lies that did deface, but then always she'd erase
Taking another's fall, saving another's wall
Gotta beat this thing that's got me, but I know I'm gonna stop me
One of these days I'll find a way, find a way to make it through
One of these times I'll realize, realize what must be true
One of these nights it'll be alright
Drip down the drain, drinking up another's pain
Slip into the fate I see, welcome all I hate
and become nothing
turn upon myself as she locks away my shelf
Feeding on a deadly potion, for my misguided devotion
You won't climb up, so I'll just slide down
You'll call it love when you see me on the ground
I'll fix it all though, you wait and see
I'll put an end to the things I do to me
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7. BREAK IT ALL (words & melody: Mark / music: Craig, Mike)
You talk aloud like there's no one around
and all the words come out without a sound
Now there is no wrong and I know of no right
But if you close your eyes you might see the light
So push & shove and go nowhere but back
and then you tighten the ropes so I get some slack
Well talk to me and I'll talk to you and
When we finally get started, I know we'll be thru
Realize now, you're gonna break it all
I need a little so give me it all
and if you take a stand I'm sure you will fall
But things could be different if they were the same
and when I'm so full of pleasure I feel only pain
Well it feels so good to know I'm so bad
and life makes me so happy that I'm always sad
So, go away but come back again and
When we finally get started, I know it will end
Tell me a joke 'cause I need to cry
Tell me the truth "cause I need a lie
Tell me yes & I'll tell you no
When you tell me to stay, well I'm sure to go
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8. RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME (words & melody: Mark /music: Craig)
I got a real big credit limit but I ain't got a dime
I got a big Swiss watch with diamonds but I ain't got the time
I got a wall of dusty books but I ain't got no read
I got a plan to make the big time but I never succeed
I'm in the right place at the wrong time
I know just what to seek but I still never find
I got the wrong face, but the right mind
I know what to believe but they treat me unkind
I got a closet you can walk in but I ain't got no clothes
I got a new car for each day but I got nowhere to go
I got a lot of folks to walk on but I ain't got no shoes
I got everything to be happy but I still got the blues
I'm in the right place at the wrong time
I know just what to seek but I still never find
I got the wrong pace, with the right climb
I try so hard to lead, but I'm always behind
I always give but I never receive
I always get there when it's time to leave
I'm at the right place at the wrong time
I know just what to seek but I still never find
I got the wrong phrase, but the right rhyme
I know just what to speak, but I'm never in time
I always give but I never receive
I always get there when it's time to leave
"He's always gone when you knock on his door"
I'm always not what you've been looking for
I'm in the right place at the wrong time
I know just what to seek but I still never find
I got the wrong face, but the right mind
I never will achieve, so I'll sit here, & just bitch & whine
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9. THAT "THING" (words & music: Craig)
You said let you know when you're doing that "thing"
Well, look at you right now & you'll see that "thing" is happening
You're doing that thing you do to me
You're doing that thing you do to me
Slowly change your personality
Now you're becoming someone you always said you'd never be
So close we always used to be
But that "thing" you do is cutting deeper into me
Things don't usually bother me this way
But that "thing" hurts so bad, I wish that "thing" would just go away
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10. A Day In The Life
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11. The Tarentella
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12. LOSER (words, music & lead vocals: Craig)
I keep waiting & waiting
But nothing ever seems to go my way
Everything I do seems to blow up in my face
But momma says "things'll get better"
But momma's always good for saying things like that
She still thinks I'm gonna be an overnight success
I know it's kinda silly but I really really really wanna be a loser
Losers don't do nothing all day
I know it's kinda silly but I really really really wanna be a loser
I think I'll be happier this way
Everybody's expectations
Always make me feel like I'm going nowhere
But there's no place I'd rather be than sitting in my room
And momma says "things'll get better"
But momma's always saying stupid things like that
I can't see how anything could be better than this
Years go by like hours, yet an hour still feels like eternity
and here I am...still a nobody (but I'm happy)
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13. SMOOTHIE: A True Story (words: Mike, Mark / music: Craig)
Late one night a call of fright
Rang from the South of Chicago
A man was beat, the cuts were deep
It could not wait 'til tomorrow
When we arrived the captain sighed
"Well fellows, it looks like he took some lead"
His face was smashed, a great big gash
Half way across his head
He said to a brother as I looked him over
"Damn, she hit me once mo'!"
"With what ?" I asked with a curious gasp
The phone, the chair, the do'? No...
Smoothie - Smoothie, she hit me with the smoothie
She hit me with the smoothie again
Smoothie - Smoothie, she hit me with the smoothie
The bitch done hit me with the smoothie again
It made no sense, but in my defense
I'm not up on all that slang
So I went to the truck, but I had no luck
With the word so absurd as it rang
The crews face showed that they didn't know
What the hell he was saying
I started to laugh, but I had to go back
To where that guy was laying
As I stopped the flood of brain and blood
Flowing from out of his head
I asked him again, as I swallowed my grin
And this is what he said...
Excuse me, um, sir, I guess I'm no whiz
But I just don't know what a smoothie is
He didn't even wince as he swigged his fifth
"You know, the thing you smooth the clothes out with!"
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14. Reminiscin'
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15. WHY? (words & melody: Mark / music: Craig)
It's the day so short that time just slips away
It's the pain before that frequents my dismay
Why, oh why am I said I, am I the eye of all that's why
It's the journey long that kept me from my post
It's the constant wrong that holds me back the most
Why, oh why am I said I, am I the eye of all that's why
All I can do is wonder
Must this be me, must this be I
Must this impede oh why, why why?
It's the misbelief inflicted by the rues
It's the done which keeps me doing the dues I do
It's the fearing that I fear and that I use
It's the reason that I reason that it's true
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16. DEEP END (words & melody: Mark & Craig / music: Craig)
Losing's an addiction, use once or twice & you'll be hooked for life
Losing my conviction, it happened overnight & it's still outta sight
Help me now, I fear somehow I'm
Going off the deep end
I know it's way too high, but I still gotta dive
Going off the deep end
I think I'm going crazy
I once saw a direction, but it became a laughing, flying elephant
Purple in complexion, I try to ride it each & every night but can't
Help me now, I fear somehow I'm
Going off the deep end
I know it's way too high, but I still gotta dive
Going off the deep end
I fear that I'm just lazy, going crazy
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17. MORNING (words & melody: Mark, Craig/music: Craig, Mike)
Hello, let's go, tonight, it's right
But come tomorrow I'll be gone
Ain't no way to keep me long because...
I don't want no wife
I don't want no life with you
I can't love you in the morning
C'mon, it's on, you're mine, it's time
But come tomorrow I'll be gone
Ain't no way to keep me long because...
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18. "I ROCK" ...a phone call (words: Mark & a guy named Mark)
This is a phone call that you have to hear to believe! It is recorded in its entirety directly from the phone line by an answering machine. Mark, posing as a singer looking for a band, calls a guy in Los Angeles who is looking for a singer and gets an earful. This guy is incredibly descriptive of the band that he wants to form, and Mark just sits on the other end listening and occasionally saying "I ROCK." Not knowing what to say, the guy continues on & on & on... Mark, not being able to take any more of this, tells the guy that he's not interested and hangs up on him. Although Mark has already hung up, the answering machine continues to record the open line. At this point, what happens next is rather amusing...you gotta hear it. Anybody who has ever tried to form a band can totally relate to this conversation.