1 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Info: live
Length: 1:08
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They wouldn't let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games Then one foggy Christmas 'Eve Santa came to say "Rudolph, with your nose so bright, Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" Then all the others loved him And they shouted out with glee, "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, You'll go down in history! You'll go down
in history!"
2 I Am One II
Info: studio version
Length: 6:01
Like the sun, yeah, I am one Raising forth when I'm done So high in the sky And we'd say what we'd say And we'd do as we please And we'd break every rule On our knees Like the sun, yeah, I am one Raising forth when I'm done What you wait for in the sky, high, up high And we'd break every rule And we'd do as we please And we'd drink what we want On our knees
3 Jesus Loves His Babies
Info: live at Chicago concert at Reckless Records, 6/22/91
Length: 2:29
(This is, uh, called 'Jesus Loves his Babies')
Jesus loves his babies I'm not in the sunshine I don't mind, no I don't mind Jesus loves his babies Even when they're out of line I don't mind, no I don't mind Jesus loves his babies He even loves them when they cry I don't mind, no I don't mind 'Cause Jesus loves his babies Outside of my Outside of my heart Sunshine I'm not here I don't mind I hear And I I don't mind
4 Rocket (alternate)
Info: old version
Length: 4:52
Bleed in your own light Dream of your own life I hear you I hear you return, come back again Come on, come on And when your days return You'll find yourself alone With your hands above your heart And we'll rise We'll rise again I won't pretend, yeah yeah We'll rise again I won't pretend, yeah yeah, with you 'Cause when you find yourself alone With your hands above your heart 'Cause when you find yourself alone With your hands above your heart You'll find yourself alone To relax and fade away You'll find yourself alone To relax and fade away I shall be free I shall be free I shall be free, of me Come on, come on Come on, come on Come on, come on I shall be free Let go that rocket inside of me
(thank you, friends)
5 Kooks
Info: full David Bowie cover, live 6/29/93
Length: 2:49
(So, uh, we'd like to do a, um a Mr. David Bowie song, featuring lead vocals by Mr. James Iha He's related to David Bowie.)
(My hair is, at least)
Will you stay in our Lovers' Story If you stay, you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks Hung up on romancing Will you stay in our Lovers' Story If you stay, you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks
Hung up on romancing We bought a lot of things to keep you warm and dry And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry I bought you a pair of shoes A trumpet you can blow And a book of rules On what to say to people when they pick on you 'Cause if you stay with us you're gonna be pretty Kookie, too Will you stay in our Lovers' Story If you stay, you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks Hung up on romancing And if you
ever have to go to school Remember how they messed up this old fool Don't pick fights with the bullies or the cads 'Cause I'm not much cop at punching Other people's Dads And if the homework brings you down Then we'll throw it on the fire And take the car downtown Will you stay in our Lovers' Story If you stay, you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of Kooks Hung up on romancing
(haha, Mr. Bowie... Merci. Beaucoup.)
6 Sad Peter Pan
Info: full Vic Chestnutt cover, performed with Red Red Meat
Length: 5:06
It's the plan of most To discover that magnificent ghost When did I get perverted And my innocent eyes diverted from the view so grand Imbued with distractions Sad Peter Pan And you're lying, sad Peter Pan And you're lying I'm greedy like Senior Babbitt I'm just chasing that electric rabbit I'm a reluctant rebel I just want to be Aaron Neville With a crown on my head And my denim shirt all dark with sweat And you're lying, sad Peter Pan And you're lying, sad Peter Pan And you're lying,
sad Peter Pan I'm just pushing the paint around On advice from your lying mouth You touched me, then ran And left a sad Peter Pan All alone and awkward But a transformation, it will occur And you're lying, sad Peter Pan
7 Drown
Length: 8:18
No matter where you are I can still hear you when you drown You've traveled very far Just to see if I'll come around When I'm down All of those yesterdays Coming down No matter where you are I can still hear you when you dreamYou traveled very far You traveled far, like a star And you are All of those yesterdays Coming around Is it something someone said? Was it something someone said? Yesterday the sky was you And I still feel the same Nothing left for me to do AndI still feel
the same I wish, I wish I could fly I wish, I wish I could lie I will, I will try I will, I will Goodbye
8 The Joker
Info: full Steve Miller Band cover, live
Length: 3:23
Some people call me the space cowboy Some call me the gangster of love Some people call me Maurice Cause I speak of the pompotous of love You're the cutest thing I think I ever would see Really love your peaches, want to shake your tree Lovey-dovey lovey-dovey lovey-dovey all the time Ooh, baby, I'll show you a good time Cause I'm picker, I'm a winner I'm a lover, And I'm a sinner Play my music in the sun I'm a smoker, I'm a joker I'm a midnight toker Sure don't want to hurt no-
one James Iha! You're the cutest thing I think I ever would see Really love your peaches want to shake your tree Lovey-dovey lovey-dovey lovey-dovey all the time Ooh, baby, I'll fuck you a good time Cause I'm picker, I'm a winner I'm a lover, And I'm a sinner Play my music in the sun I'm a smoker, I'm a joker I'm a midnight
toker Sure don't want to hurt no-one
9 Wishing You Were
Info: solo acoustic demo
Length: 2:57
Wishing you were real So I could wish you mine Wishing you were real A thing that already is divine A woman lies with the dewdrops Her courage with the stars Wishing you were real So I could spy you from afar An ... of horseflies And spider eyes Spun through her gilded webs of hope And mercy crimes Wishing you were real So I could wish you mine Wishing you were real A thing that already is divine Wishing you were real Wishing you were real Take our secrets to the grave Safely held beneath the thoughts The secrets will be lost While I'm forever ... I'm wishing you were real My face is blistered true Wishing you were real So that I could always wish for you Wishing you were real
10 Boys Don't Cry
Info: partial The Cure cover, live, with A Night Like This
Length: 1:40
(You could probably sing A Night Like This over this. A Night Like This? A Night Like This)
I'm coming to find you if it takes...
(What song? That Cure song you did, remember? Oh, yeah, I can't remember that one now. I do know Boys Don't Cry, though)
I wish I can say I'm sorry If I thought that it would change your mind But I know that it's too late And you've already Left behind Misjudged your limits Cover it all up with lies I try and laugh about it Hiding the tears in my eyes 'cause boys don't cry Boys don't cry
11 Star-Spangled Banner
Info: karaoke version
Length: 1:50
Oh say can you see By the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail By the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous night O'er the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming And the rocket's red glare The bombs Bombs, boom! In air Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave From the land of the free And the home of the brave
12 Delusions Of Candor (Flight Of The Eagle)
Info: by the Starchildren
Length: 4:58
You've got a lot to learn I got a lot to learn I got a lot to do But would you want me to And I'll say it again I'll say it again I'll say it again I'll say it again I've nothing more to say I've nothing more to say So say it again So say it again So say it again So say it again Say Say Say it again I'll say it again I'll say it I'll say it I'll say it I'll say Say what you want Say what you want Say what you want Say what you want Say what you mean Say where you've been
13 Lily (My One And Only)
Info: UK version, solo acoustic demo
Length: 3:19
Lily, my one and only I can hardly wait till i see her Silly, i know i'm silly Cause i'm hanging in this tree In the hopes that she will catch a glimpse of me And thru her window shade I watch her shadow move I wonder if sheLily, my one and only Love is in my heart and in your eyes Will she or won't she want him No one knows for sure But a constable is knocking at my door And thru her window shade I watch her shadow move I wonder if she could only see me? And when i'm with her i feel fine If i could kiss her i wouldn't mind the time it took to find My lily, my one and only I can hardly wait till i see her Oh lily, i know you love me Cause as they're
draggin' me away I swear i saw her raise her hand and wave goodbye
14 There It Goes
Info: live 4/10/88 Metro show
Length: 5:08
There it goes Playing with my heart again I don't know where Undercover For years For you now For you now For you now And the way you look at me Makes me happy inside Knowing all the while I can't hide Let it go Wasting my years I was born to fear That was something In the air For you now For you now For you now And the way you look at me Makes me happy inside Knowing all the while I can't hide When you've got to come back When you take me home When you've got come back Alone Alone There it goes Playing with my heart again I don't know where Undercover For years For you now For you now For you now And the way look at me Makes me happy inside Knowing all the while I can't hide When you've got to come back When you take me home When you've got to come back All alone Alone
15 Towers Of Rabble
Info: live
Length: 2:51
(This is a song I wrote a couple weeks ago, and I thought I'd play it just to see how it goes. So if it's, oh, it's called 'Towers of Rabble', and if it sucks, let me know...)
Be yourself, don't be yourself Speak your mind, don't speak your mind Stand alone, don't stand alone Be on your own, be all alone And as the bells ring the graces Of a newborn day The voices sing the praises Of your promised youth, a promised whenever And no one can see you So do what you want to You're invisible next to
forever Be yourself, don't be yourself Speak your mind, don't speak your mind Stand alone, don't stand alone Be on your own, be all alone Take some time to thank the souls For all their emptiness Come to feed the dreams of songs And all is drifts for ransoms, whatever And nobody knows you Even if they pretend to They all
sure that they're all so clever Truth is rare, this I believe The truth is in their pure deceit Blessed in your naivete Ooh, I thank you all Ooh, I thank you all Ooh, I thank you all, I do Ooh, I thank you all
16 Godzilla
Info: full cover of Rare Oyster Cult
Length: 4:27
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound He pulls the splitting high tension wires down He picks up a bus and he throws it back down As he wades through the people in the center of town Helpless people on a subway train Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them Oh no, they say he's got to go, go go Godzilla Oh no, they say he's got to go, go go Godzilla Oh no, they say he's got to go, go go Godzilla Oh no, there goes Tokyo go go Godzilla History shows again and again How
nature points up the folly of men Godzilla! History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of men Godzilla History shows again and again Godzilla History shows again and again Godzilla I love you, Godzirra!
(Thanks a lot, goodnight)
17 Isolation
Info: by the Starchildren, full Joy Division cover
Length: 3:48
Be clear every day, every evening It calls here aloud from above Carefully watched for a reason Mistaking devotion and love Surrendered to self-preservation From others who care for themselves But life as it touched with perfection A person's like anything else Isolation Mother, I tried, please believe me I'm doing the best that I can I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through I'm ashamed of the person I am Isolation But if you could just see the beauty These things I could never describe Pleasures and waiting distractions This is my one little prize? Isolation
18 Paranoid
Info: partial Black Sabbath cover, live on 1/28/92 in Germany
Length: 0:57
19 I Feel You
Info: partial Depeche Mode cover, live in Atlanta, GA, 3/15/93
Length: 1:14
I feel you I feel you, each breath ...
(The one James Iha. He taught that guy from Depeche Mode that dance and he's kind of upset)
(I'm obsessed with David Gahan)
(Of course, he taught him the dance while they were having an affair in Alsace Loraine)
(Let's not talk about that alright? There's certain things you don't bring up on stage)
20 Stonehenge
Info: partial Spinal Tap cover, live in Berlin at The Loft, 9/2/92
Length: 1:13
Many years ago There were druids & magicians And they cast a spell on the land Stonehenge
21 Touch Me
Info: partial Doors cover, during I Am One, live in George, Washington, 8/31/93
Length: 0:39
Touch me, baby And you'll see that I am not afraid What was that promise that you made? Why won't you tell me what she said? What was that promise that you made? Now, I'm gonna love you Till the heavens start the rain I'm gonna love you Till the stars fall from the sky For nothing
22 Alive
Info: partial Pearl Jam cover, live on 2/2/96 at the Moore Theatre, Seattle, Washington
Length: 0:35
I, oh, I'm still alive I, oh, I'm still alive I, oh, I'm still alive Oh...
23 Creep
Info: partial Stone Temple Pilots cover, live in Toronto, January 2 1996
Length: 0:29
Half the band we used to be Half the band we used to be
24 Infinite Sadness
Length: 3:21
(instrumental)
25 Germans In Leather Pants a.k.a. Shame On You
Info: live
Length: 1:12
(I'd like to introduce a song, the next song, it's about, uh, a nice day, day in the life of a young man wearing leather trousers, this man had a crazy day and met a
wizard)
You know that I don't love you ... Shame on, shame on you
(I'd also like to take this moment to apoligize to Woody the striker for my comments on, uh, German tv show, I apoligize to Woody and his family, this song is for Woody)
26 Stay With Me
Info: live
Length: 1:00
Stay with me, stay with me Cause tonight you're gonna stay with me Stay with me, stay with me Cause tonight you're gonna stay with me
(James screams the rest)
Stay with me, stay with me Cause tonight you're gonna be with me Stay with me, stay with me...
27 The End
Info: partial Doors cover, live
Length: 0:38
This is the end... And he walked on down that hall And he walked into the gallery of rogues, and he said, "Mother, I've got a few spatulas." And then he walked down the hall, and he said, "Father, have you got a dime to spare?"
28 Eye
Length: 4:51
I lie I wait I stop I hesitate I am I breathe I meant I think of me Is it any wonder I can't sleep All I have is all you gave to me Is it any wonder I've found peace Through you Turn to the gates of heaven To myself be damned Turn away from life It's not enough Just a touch It's not enough I taste I love I come I bleed enough I hate I'm not I was I want too much Is it any wonder I can't sleep All I have is all you gave to me Is it any wonder I've found peace Through you Turn to the gates of heaven To myself be damned Turn away from life It's not enough Just a touch
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