"Lights Are Changing" (by The Bevis Frond)

disappearing out of sight
along the open road
into interstate horizons
I had no time to reload (be loved)

like a silver bullet from a gun
an arrow from a bow
like an equistar you hear about me 
everywhere you go

other nebula I was racing in my mind
I tripped up the light fantastic and
I never looked behind

you slow down you slow down when lights are changing
you slow down you slow down when lights are changing

you fly so high, yeah 
and you move so fast
you're running blindly from the past
slow down you slow down when lights are changing

oh changing all the time
oh changing all the time

looking through those hollow eyes
across the great unknown
growing greater every second
growing _______ with each ________ (??)
yeah and you judge your freedom by the quantity you stole (scored?)
will it make you any freer if you took a little more?

all that summertime I revolved around your eye
in accelerated spirals in an asymmetric sky

you slow down you slow down when lights are changing
you slow down you slow down when lights are changing
you slow down you slow down when lights are changing
you slow down you slow down when lights are changing


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"Helsinki"

there are in things in life I know
there are things in life I won't show you
but all this time apart
gets the better of my heart and my head

I'm sitting in the bar
wondering where you are
maybe you're in Spain
maybe you're in Maine
on a plane

Helsinki's around your corner
and I'm just goin' through hell
Milan is just another border
there's too many planes to catch and too much time to kill

there are things in life I want
and there are things in life that still haunt me
but the memory of your face
_________ (??) time just can erase from my head

and no matter what I do
I can't stop thinking of you
and it's hard for me to say goodbye yesterday
and hello hello hello to tomorrow

Helsinki's around your corner
but I'm just goin' through hell
the fax machine here is out of order
there's too many planes to catch and too much time to kill
I've got time, time to kill, time to kill



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"The Bridge"

come and see me
I won't tell a soul
cause people like to talk round here
I miss you so much
I've been so down and out
and I know how she'd feel
if she ever found out
I'll take the chance
I'm not after romance
or your fortune and fame
or part of your name
(you) put the friendship on hold
and hung up the phone
but she holds the cards
and she runs the show
and that's the way
it has to be
and I lost a friend
you have a heart
you take a risk
throw away the god that you've got strapped to your wrist
block up your ears if she starts to bitch
whatever you do, babe, don't burn down the bridge
well, i've seen love come
i've seen love go
i've seen friends disappear
sometimes there's no goodbye
and no reply
and there's just no point in questioning why
the changes life brings are like the songs that we sing
freedom may ring through the notes and the strings
i have no regrets
never forget, the words that were spoken the night we met

and whatever happens to dreams? when they become reality...
did you lose your direction
lose your perception of the man that you wanted to be
did she pass the torch of loneliness
that burns up your desire
and how many friends will you lose in the end
now that the bridge has caught on fire, fire....
so, will you have a heart
you take a risk
throw away the god that you've got strapped to your wrist
block up your ears if she starts to bitch
whatever you do, babe, don't burn down the bridge
burn down the bridge
don't burn it down


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"His Indie World"

I don't think I fit into his indie world
Guided By Voices and Velocity 
Girl
Eric's Trip
and Rocketship
Rancid and
Rocket From The Crypt
Bikini
Kill and Built to Spill
It's plain to see that I don't fit

He says my songs are too dark and gloomy
he wishes that I could be more like Jenny
Toomey 
Just give me my Joni,
my Nick, Neil and Bob
You can keep your Tsunami,
your Slant 6
and Smog

What's the story? he said, Butterglory
What's the news? He said the Silver Jews
His Heavenly hangup is getting me down
and it's making me wonder why he's hanging around

cause I don't fit into this indie scene
Huggy Bear and Helium and Half Japanese
Sebadoh and Sentridoh
and Superchunk
and I don't know
Doug and Lou and Calvin too
and Kim and Kim and Kim and Kim

Well he's stuck in the past
and I'm stuck on his four track
but I can't get through to his one-track mind
I push play and record and a major chord
maybe I will win his heart this time, yeah
maybe I'll win his heart this time


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"That Kind of Girl" (written by Matt Keating,
altered to
3rd person by Mary Lou)
[I'm not too sure of these so if you have suggestions/ideas, please let me
know]

He met her blowin smoke rings
under a no smoking sign
she cut right there in front of him
and said suckers wait in line

Drowned out by her walkman
he tried to say hello
and now that I come to think of it
he never could say no

careful, don't give her an inch
she'll take half your world
Why does he love that kind of girl?

And all of her exes
they could form a band
to play the kind of music
that she could never stand

country's just for bumpkins
that's what she always said
but she likes smashing pumpkins
she'll smash one on your head

careful, don't give her an inch
she'll take half your world
Why does he love that kind of girl?

My photogenic memory
ran out of film today
I never knew what not to do
just knew what not to say

and she can play the victim
and she can victimize
she'll play you off your brother
right there in front of your eyes

careful, don't give her an inch
she'll take half your world
Why does he love that kind of girl?

she gave him rocks in for his head (???)
and promised him a pearl
Why does he love that kind of girl?
Why does he love that kind of girl?