@ALBUM: POSSUM DIXON BY POSSUM DIXON Possum Dixon is: Robert Zabrecky - Singer, Bass Robert O'Sullivan - Guitar, Piano, Back-up Vocals, Harmonica Celso Chavez - Guitar Richard Treuel - Drums All songs written by Robert Zabrecky Produced by Earle Mankey and Possum Dixon. Associate Producer: Chuck Reed. Engineered by: Phil Kaffel. Mixed by: Phil Kaffel with Earle Mankey and Chuck Reed. Assistant Engineers: Jeff Sheehan and Liz Sroka. Recorded at: 23 North, Mankey Business. Mastered by: Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering Lyrics figured out by Kory Lasker (lask0008@gold.tc.umn.edu). Any comments or corrections should be mailed to the address above. Version 1.00 @SONG: Nerves Landlord...Church Car Crash...Work My head aches. And silver lake. You nerve me. Well I hate work. I'm a mailroom clerk. I ... stop me from making mistakes. But you nerve me. The girls on glue. When the rent check's due. If suicide stop me from calling late. But you burned me. And I think it's gonna be a long walk home. And it's gonna be a long walk to the car. @SONG: In Buildings She looks like an actress who's late for an audition. Is she catholic or jewish or the devil. Half-catholic, half-jewish or the devil. And I'd like to see her wrapped around me. Like a day in October wrapped around me. In buildings she makes me shake now. Fifteen minutes on the couch with you. What a good idea. If I had fifteen minutes on a couch with you. The things that you're wearing won't stop me now. Hey, what a good idea. And if she's the devil give her a wedding dress. In buildings she makes me shake now. @SONG: Watch the Girl Destroy Me Hey God, are you up there? I know it's been awhile but I've...I've been away. I'm in trouble I'll take a number if I've gotta wait. But there's a girl in this world that and she's killing me. I hurt so bad. I watch that girl destroy me. I watch that girl destroy me. She blows the now, it's you. I watch that girl destroy me. I watch that girl destroy me. She blows the now, it's you. Well let me tell you now, I like the movies and she likes the movies. We like the movies together. But when the lights go up and the curtains go down we deal. And we deal, and we deal again. And we deal...I know it's wrong. [Chorus] Hey God, have you noticed that it's not just me who needs your sympathy? Think of my life and the things that I get for lovin'. I lose myself. But I deal, I deal with, and I deal with I know it's wrong. [Chorus] @SONG: She Drives The secretary says to boss: "Hello today". Well she's impartial to the news and she's just that way. You look like a picture from a magazine. And you look like a picture from a magazine. Now she's driving in my head. The secretary says to me at lunch today "Well at 12:15 we'll leave and we'll drive away". [Chorus] Now she drives. (8x) @SONG: We're All Happy On my road the second floor of the house is shaking. On boxes and your kitchen sink is filled with dishes. Upstairs the window leads to another building. Good morning I gotta go and I can't be late. She cries and the smoke is burning into my eyes. He didn't mean it. (4x) We're all happy. (8x) Well be quiet. 'Cause the songs from the bedroom are heard in the bathroom. And we read balloons on Halloween. And we wander. (6x) You're bringin' me down. (5x) @SONG: Invisible Airports lines...I wish it was summertime. But it's Sunday night. And flight five-five-seven's arrived. She tells me she's filled buildings with history on 22nd Street...she's not invisible. My head aches. Echo park turns to silver lake. Where Millie's diner is closed today. I like the taste of chocolate cake. I close my eyes and I masterbate. I close the door because I'm afraid he'll see me. I'm bored. She thinks of big blue whales while she's biting her fingernails. She writes plays I read paperbacks. They've just begun 3D picnics, electric sun. I don't care where you're coming from. He's up there on the 8th floor and he's falling from the speakers and his head has smashed to the ground. And everytime you leave me call to love you I gotta go just watch me drown. And to somedays dry. We're going to Ransburg. It's hotter than hell there. We're invisible, and we're bullet-proof. We're invisible, and we're bullet-proof. @SONG: Pharmaceutical Itch Understanding nothing can be so comforting. But understanding you is like biology. You lay there on the bathroom floor hold you in my hand and don't be shy. When you pick it up and stab it I start to bleed. You know what to do. Well I feel like a scientist until I'm out of breath we'll I'm good with part and get away. It's what I need. When you got everything you've got nothing. And when you got nothing you've got it all. And marry me baby, and sleep with me baby, we'll sleep with the lights on, and we'll sleep with our clothes on. (2x) @SONG: Executive Slacks I'm not trapped in your... (3x) Executive slacks. I can't be your... I can't work as... I can't be your... Executive slave. And what can you say about it? I was straight anyway. You're so wonderful. You're so pretty. Well getting drunk at the Bamboo Terrace with the Tiki Tea room is where I'm at. And if my conscience wants to catch up with me. They'll send an army out to lynch, lynch me. I'm not trapped in. (4x) Executive slacks. Hey, what can you say about it? Are you straight anyway? And you'll be back on the trials. And I'll be back in a little while. And it goes like that. @SONG: Regina Well, Regina's the girl, and the student, the actress. She was fallin' in love with a man on TV. She needed a break from the day in the life. She was high on speed; she got high on speed She lays on the bed with the phone on in her ear. And her soft-sell records gonna play all day. She's the girl, she's the student, the actress. She's the one, she's the girl, but she's not for me. (Here we go now) Ohh...Regina. And we smile while we stare. She needed a break from the day in the life. With her fake ID one-nine-six-one. She's the girl, she's the student, the actress. She's the one, she's the girl, but she's not for me. (Here we go now) [Chorus] And we stop when we are there. (Gonna say it again.) Ohh...I need ya. And we smile... Oh Regina, it's the things that you do. I'll give my world to be with you. Dear. @SONG: John Struck Lucy (This is a very important announcement.) Lucy is being photographed by John on the bathroom floor. John is taking pictures of Lucy. The wall is dripping from the sink. And John struck Lucy. John, the boss, the lover, the giant and a lot of things. He hit her with a stick. (Price check on four) And John struck Lucy. (Yeah, number four) Go away. Then John struck Lucy. (2x) @SONG: Elevators I'm not a type and you know I really want you. I'm waiting for the doors to close so I can really show you. You're interior is playing with my insides. And everytime I close the door you watch a suicide. Oh me and elevators we're going to the go-go. Me and elevators we're going to the picture show. Don't you know I can't love you like a girl. You all set me up and bring me down. One of these days you're gonna find out, when the door's closed. I'm wasted in the elevator. Don't you know I'm wasted in the elevator? [Chorus]