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1. “Dallas” (I passed out on the 14th floor / The CPR was so erotic)
2. “How To Rent A Room” (No I don’t really want to die / I only want to die in your eyes)
3. “Random Rules” (In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.)
4. “Tennessee” (Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster / Her sister never left and look what it cost her)
5. “Punks In The Beerlight” (Where’s the paper bag that holds the liquor / Just in case I feel the need to puke)
6. “Advice To The Graduate” (Sleep on your back, and ash in your shoes / And always use the old sense of the word)
7. “Blue Arrangements” (I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women / In the Greenwood South Side Society Pool / I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs / You’re a shimmering socialite jewel)
8. “Suffering Jukebox” (You got Tennessee tendencies and chemical dependancies / You make the same old jokes and malaprops on cue)
9. “People” (People ask people to watch their scotch / People send people up to the moon / When they return, well there isn’t much / People be careful not to crest too soon)
10. “Inside the Golden Days Of Missing You” (What if life is just some hard equation / On a chalkboard in a science class for ghosts)
11. “Sometimes A Pony Gets Depressed” (Happiness won’t leave me alone / Says a bird in his nest / Get a load of this fuckinh view / It’s the best in the west)
12. “Black And Brown Blues” (It’s raining triple sec in Tchula / And the radio plays “Crazy Train” / There’s a quadroon ball in the beehive / Hanging out in the rain)
13. “Send In The Clouds” (I am the trick my mother played on the world / Seventeen doctors couldn’t decide / Whether I should be allowed in the game)
14. “I Remember Me” (He almost walked into a wall / Oh, man, she was a sight to see / And at the party down the hall / He said, “You are the highest apple in the tree”)
15. “Strange Victory, Strange Defeat” (Squirrels imported from Connecticut / Just in time for fall / How much fun is a lot more fun? / Not much fun at all)
16. “Trains Across The Sea” (In 27 years, I’ve drunk fifty thousand beers / And they just wash against me like the sea into a pier)
17. “K-Hole” (Andre was a young black Santa Claus / He didn’t want to be like his daddy was)
18. “Old New York” (Theater in the round, hey! / Stop by Howard Johnsons / Martinis on the house / You might even meet Mick Ronson)
19. “Room Games And Diamond Rain” (You keep finding and reminding me / That you only can be kind to me / When you got with me and started dreaming my dreams)
20. “Smith And Jones Forever” (The alleys are the footnotes of the avenues)
21. “Pet Politics” (Still wearing last night’s mascara / Now that her pet was gone for sure / She was shivering so hard / It looked like there were two of her)
22. “I’m Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You” (I’ve been working at the airport bar / It’s like Christmas in a submarine)
23. “Federal Dust” (They don’t match and they don’t hatch in South Dakota / Here comes the coda)
24. “Death Of An Heir Of Sorrows” (I wish I had a thousand bucks / I wish I was the Royal Trux / But mostly I wish / I wish I was with you)
25. “Candy Jail” (Pain works on a sliding scale / So does pleasure in a candy jail)
26. “We Are Real” (Repair is the dream of the broken thing / Like a message broadcast on an overpass / All my favorite singers couldn’t sing)
27. “Canada” (Really it’s the drumming and enthusiasm I love about this song.)
28. “Albermarle Station” (There must be a Spanish word for this feeling / The rush I get when I am stealing / From the Dust Congress, whose dollars and dimes say, “In Dust We Trust”)
29. “The Frontier Index” (Robot walks into a bar / Orders a drink, lays down a bill / Bartender says, “Hey we don’t serve robots” / And the robot says, “Oh, but someday you will”)
30. “Like Like The The The Death” (Do you believe in MGM endings? / Everybody’s coming back to Christmas for Texas / Folks who’ve watched their mother kill an animal know / That their home is surrounded by places to go)
31. “Horseleg Swastikas” (And every single thought is like a punch in the face / I’m like a rabbit freezing on a star)
32. “Buckingham Rabbit” (And so the rent became whiskey, / and then my life became risky.)
33. “Honk If You’re Lonely” (We’ll laugh and we’ll flirt and we’ll dance every dance / and before the night’s over we’ll take a chance)
34. “Animal Shapes” (From a corner window, I watch the falling snowflakes. / God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes.)
35. “Wild Kindness” (I’m gonna shine out in the wild silence / And spurn the sin of giving in)
36. “How Can I Love You (If You Won’t Lie Down)” (Time is a game / Only children play well / How can I love you / If you won’t lie down?)
37. “Let’s Not And Say We Did” (These giant evergreens / Are promise ravines)
38. “Rebel Jew” (Sometimes I dream of Texas / Yeah, it’s the biggest part of me / And the planes look like the sea at night / Oh, she wants to be so free)
39. “Self-Ignition” (If dreams are your body telling you it’s confused / Then I’ve got a dream I think you could use)
40. “Slow Education” (Everybody going down on themselves / No “pardon me”’s or “fair thee well”’s in the end / And you got that one idea again / The one about dying)
41. “Open Field” (Sort of a chill, breezy, nice instrumental.)
42. “Ballad Of Reverend War Character” (Guinevere orders one more beer in the smokey pick-up bar / A burnt out tramp by the exit ramp waits for one more car)
43. “Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer” (She was a hardcore gobbler and longtime guzzler of hydrogenated crap)
44. “I’m Gonna Love The Hell Out Of You” (I learned double entry bookkeeping when I was 12 years old / I learned there’s no imagination in the blues / They registered my name with the Catholic hall of fame / And she said, I’m gonna love the hell out of you)
45. “Pretty Eyes” (Everybody wants perspective from a hill / But everybody’s wants can’t make it past the window sill)
46. “Long Long Gone” (And everybody knows, that I know what’s going on / And if cars could run on teardrops, I’d be long, long gone)
47. “New Orleans” (There is a house in New Orleans / Not the one you heard about / I’m talking about another house)
48. “What Is Not But Could Be If” (One has lived life carelessly / If he or she has failed to see / That the truth is not alive or dead / The truth is struggling to be said)
49. “The Right To Remain Silent” (Instrumental before “Dallas”.)
50. “Sleeping Is Only Love” (I had this friend his name was Marc with a “c” / His sister was like the heat coming off the back of an old TV)
51. “Living Waters” (You’re at home / You’re all alone / And nobody’s calling on the telephone)
52. “Pan-American Blues” (A wood-paneled room, my cigarette fumes waltz and dissolve just for you.)
53. “Jackson Nightz” (Indiscernible lyrics; funny tape edit.)
54. “Time Will Break The World” (Tanning beds explode with rich women inside)
55. “My Pillow Is The Threshold” (I take decaf coffee / Two sugars and one cream / I don’t see the use in staying up / Just to watch TV)
56. “Night Society” (Rocking instrumental.)
57. “San Francisco B.C.” (We had sarcastic hair, we used lewd pseudonyms / We got a lot of stares on the street back then)
58. “The War In Apartment 1812” (Indiscernible lyrics for the most part; funny title.)
59. “The Country Diary Of A Subway Conductor” (‘He can afford anything’ I said / ‘he’s got dogs that blow on trumpets.’)
60. “The Walnut Falcon” (Time is the lonely thing. I can dream about, but makes me go away. Dream about the swarm.)
61. “We Could Be Looking For The Same Thing” (Way way out past where the sidewalks disappear / And up through bright blue blocks of sky / Where the days turn to weeks in the months the year / And we’re together, you and I)
62. “Friday Night Fever” (George Strait cover.)
63. “The Farmer’s Hotel” (This old yankee warlock / Brushed back a gray forelock)
64. “Bar Scene From Star Wars” (Instrumental with a funny title.)
65. “Cocksucker Blues” (Rolling Stones cover.)
66. “There Is A Place” (I could not love the world entire / There grew a desert in my mind / I took a hammer to it all / Like an insane medieval king)
67. “The Moon Is the Number 18” (Creepy instrumental.)
68. “Introduction II” (My friends, don’t you know that I never want this minute to end / And then it ends)
69. “Tide To The Oceans” (A million chuckers never felt wrong)

From my Silver Jews Week at One Week One Band.