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When the accidental man buys a dozen roses for his wife

He takes them home and puts each one in the 12 best vases of crystalline

But accidentally each vase falls down crashing to the floor

And by some strange coincidence just then his wife walks in the door

She flies into a rage proceeding to claw him with her nails

In a kind of self defense he shields his face with a garbage pail

She accidentally slips and cracks her skull upon the shield

Which lands him in for life without a bond and no appeal

And when he tries to fit it into a bigger kind of sham

It makes no kind of sense to the accidental man

Why the things he does don't ever work out as he planned

Cause he's an accidental man, does the best he can

And he still can't use his hand, broke it in the fan

Will he ever understand the sea controls the sand

That he's an accidental man but his intentions are so grand

When the accidental woman wants to reconcile with her man

She searches and finally finds him melting down his wedding band

So he chases after her in an effort to explain

That he was only melting butter but now she's lost out in the rain

She thinks that someone sees her so she hides out in the shed

Where she meets her aging mother who she'd always thought was dead

And her body goes transparent as she dances round a chair

Chanting incantations while she cuts and dries her hair

And when she tries to make it all so normal and so bland

It makes no kind of sense to the accidental man

Why the things she does don't ever work out as she planned

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© 1987 Douglas Chay

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I knew a girl blue velvet cats surround her as she talks at the sky

She holds your love so delicately, just a glass obelisk

There within her eyes

She will whisper in your ear

The kind of thing that you'd like to hear

But she says the same things to herself

Cause she's a girl with no eyes, she's a girl with no mind

She's got nothing to say, with her you're wasting your time

She will rip off her wig, and she'll stand in the door

But this girl with no heart doesn't love anymore

I knew a girl who watched the white stars and wrote them all down in her file

She sealed up tight her windows but left her door ajar for the rest of the night

She will tug you on the sleeve

A party that she wants to leave

But you know she'll go home by herself

Cause she's a girl with no eyes, she's a girl with no brain

If you let down your guard she will drive you insane

Watch her take out her teeth while she's pacing the floor

But this girl with no heart doesn't love anyone anymore

She's a girl with no mouth, she's a girl with no soul

Like she'd been shot with a gun that left a deep gaping hole

She will take off her face and she'll hurt you for fun

Cause this girl with no heart doesn't love anyone

© 1987 Douglas Chay

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Underneath a melting sky the girls take off their clothes

The thinkers pause to wonder why I pause to blow my nose

I don't ever get done the things I got to do

I can't seem to care about what I've got to get through

Waiting for a message here from you

But nothing ever seems to get on through

I think and finally I decide I wouldn't want to know

You may be tired, well so am I, of eating uncooked dough

I don't ever wonder about things in my head

They don't ever bother me so I leave them alone

If that's okay with you then it's okay with me

I'm waiting here for you you're waiting there for me

And once we're in the queue we're gonna have to see

What we've been waiting for all the forgotten lore

When they open up the door

Oh, that's what we're waiting for

When you need it to be cool you'll find it's always hot

But maybe in my lethargy my love will form a clot

I don't ever let go of things that bother me

I can't seem to make things the way they're supposed to be

If ever when you're down your feet won't touch the ground

I might be there for you if you'll be here for me

And pretty soon we'll flee from the endless debris

The best that we can do is there within our reach

If we'd only pull it through

Oh, there'd be so much that we could do

© 1986 Douglas Chay

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I want to feel you with me right now and all over time

I want to feel you in me right now with my mind

Oh yeah, we can be who we are

Oh yeah, just like a pretty star

In the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun

Behind the sky, beneath the dome

Beyond the words and on the curve

Below the blue and under you

And everywhere you'd think to stare

And no one looks cause they're everywhere

And everyone knows but no one says a word

I want you

Want to be with you so I can live

© 1987 Douglas Chay

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She called me one day and said that she was my friend

She said that everything's changed and things are not what they've been

She proceeded to break out in convulsive tears

She said the pain that she caused me would be gone with the years

And then she told me she's re-evaluating her relationships

Now that she's had the time to stay away so she could grow

She sent a letter saying she'd really like to see me

And wouldn't that be fun to do the things we used to do

One day after work when it was dark in the sky

She came into my apartment and she mumbled "oh hi"

I asked how did she get in, she said the maid helped her out

I said "I don't have a maid," "well I broke a window out"

She said she'd found a job she saw in the local paper

It didn't pay too well, but isn't that the way it goes

She moved her things in, dragged my furniture onto the patio

She hoped I didn't mind but my belongings took up too much space

I hear her say my name

Can't lose her I can't gain

From her purse she did take

Cans of scent and sprayed my room

Usurped my brain

Stuck me in her glove

We got into the car and drove till we used up the gas

She put my collar on and dug her claws into my back

She said with her cruel smile "life can sometimes be unkind"

"Now that I've found you whole, I'll do my best to crack your mind"

After a while when things had seemed to cool down

To my abode was returning when I heard a strange sound

The sound of something exploding, saw a blaze in the sky

What it was I didn't wonder though I didn't know why

And I wish she'd have never come back

And I don't care to see her again

© 1987 Douglas Chay

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Let the singer sing his song and the piper play along

While the dancer leaps and twirls the pretty girls around

For my love is far from me even though right here she be

For my true lovers sake stay awake tonight

Orayereyorreyorayeorayereyorreyoraye

Let the jester tell his jokes the musician pluck his notes

Let the storyteller note of this gray morn

Come all each and everyone see what love has now become

Gather round the box and drink to a resting mind

Orayereyorreyorayeorayereyorreyoraye

And as the wine doth pass your lips remember why you*re drinking it

Let your merriment abound tonight if you're to serve me right

So let the singer sing his song and the piper play along

While the dancer leaps and twirls the pretty girls around

For my love is far from me even though right here she be

For my true love's sake I'll stay awake tonight

And as the wick sinks slowly down just smile and have another round Let your merriment abound tonight if you're to serve me right

Orayereyorreyorayeorayereyorreyoraye

© 1986 Douglas Chay

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Once upon a time you well I knew

We both were young and I was too

You wore a hat upon your head

I wore mine on a spider's thread

And now you're gone

When I had a monkey pull my hair

You were the one who put it there

So you could pull it out again

You were a friendly kind of friend

And now you're gone

No one ever made me feel the way I never felt

Everybody says "OK" to anything

Someone somewhere has a paper where it's written down

You were, well maybe that's someone else

Once I think you saw me changing hue I didn't know just to do

It always rains upon the hill

I like the rain and like it still

You were the one who's one with me

I couldn't tell you cause of me

And all the love I couldn't show

When it's too late I'll let you know

And now you're gene

Once upon a time you well I knew

And now you're gone

© 1986 Douglas Chay

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Kelly was a girl I met

When she was working at a Chinese restaurant

Her friends all though she was so nice

But that's not what she wanted

So she built up all her hair

And shake it like she just don't care

But someone with a comb put it on her head

And he messed up all of her hair

He messed it up in the front

He messed it up in the back

Real bad side to side

Oh, it looked so slack

And if Kelly were here today

She'd say, how can you send me to my grave

With that hair

Billy was a guy I guess I knew

From a class I took in school

Everyone made fun of him

When they decided he wasn't cool

So he grew out all his hair

And sprayed it like he just don't care

But someone with a brush

Parted on the side

And she messed up all of his hair

She messed it up in the back

She messed it up on the side

Couldn't hide it with a hat

Couldn't find no place to hide

And if Billy were here today

He'd say, how could you leave me that way

With my hair

© 1987 Douglas Chay

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The pink pollen is falling from the trees

And floating up my nose it makes me sneeze

The wall clock is chiming out "hello"

And showing me how long I have to go

Then I turn to see the moon in the sky

And I wonder how another day got by

I wanted to do so much and now I only want to cry

But then I realize it's just a film on the inside of my eyes

(surprise)

The dogs copulating on my lawn

So I just wait until I think they're gone

The black birds are circling

and they're screaming at the top of their lungs

I look around to see what could upset them

Then I turn to see my shadow stretch

And all my work still sitting unfinished

I wanted to be so good and now I only want to die

But then I realize it's only a film on the inside of my eyes

Then I wake to find myself the same

And looking out my window nothing's changed

I wanted me so much but now I won't bother to try

Because I realize it's only a film on the inside of my eyes

That's when I realize they're all just films on the inside of my eyes

© 1987 Douglas Chay

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Today I watched the TV but it don't interest me

To hear about dcleaning dirty soap scum

Turned on the radio well what do you know

Four out of five recommend sugarless gum

(For their patients who chew gum)

You can't win, where've you been

They're gonna have to notify your next of kin

Don't wonder why there'll be a tear in your eye

They're charging fifty dollars for a glimpse of the sky

I went out there to get some fresh air

But all I got was monoxide

To judge a book by its cover, change it to a different color

All it takes is a little hydrogen peroxide

My doorbell rang, three women sang

And two men robbed my home of everything inside

When I was young, I trusted everyone

Until I found the things they taught me were all lies

What can you do, you're feeling blue

But you can wash it out with this brand new shampoo

My oh my, how time does fly

From a parking ticket to a homicide

So long, says the pipeman in his brown cedar suit

For his store was burned down by the mafia

And his lover took too many sleeping pills

And his kids joind the Church and came out

Brainwashed

I took a ride in my car, but I didn't get too far

Cause the streets were straddled endlessly with road blocks

I looked up at the sky, and then I cried "Oh, my!"

A banner on a plane read "Better bait at Hock's"

I don't know who to blame, does it matter is it all the same

Could it be that it was all my doing

And if we ever talk it out, I think we're gonna have to shout

To make ourselves heard above the roar and ruin

Yesiree, see what it's done for me

Before and after pictures show you everything

I do declare, what's that I see out there

Another metal sound vibrating in the air

© 1987 Douglas Chay

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Fucked up, pushed down

Don't you make a sound

Recoiled, or bashed in

There is no way for you to move again

Straight jacket, streamlined, do you remember what's mine

I'm disappearing every time I poke the pain in my mind

And when I try to recover, try to come back home

All I find's another picture there of me all alone

I want you here but still I push you away, is that OK?

I try to find the words but I can't say

Put a pen in my hand so I can try to write it down

But you can't read my writing

Don't you ditch me just because I'm

Fucked up, I'm blown away

For pushing it I'm gonna pay

Bent down, and screwed up

Pouring myself into my own cup

Banging my head till I see spots of red

Though I want you to stop me you're asleep in your bed

And so I cut up my eyes cause I don't realize

That what I'm doing is permanent when the razor collides

I need your help I can't do this myself, can you tell?

I'm letting go of all the things I held

Put a pill in my mouth so I can try to calm down

But I can't stop from shaking and my forehead is sweating

Cause I don't keep forgetting all the times I got burned

But I need someone with me

Don't you drop me just because I'm

Fucked up, I'm shut down

In every direction spread around

Messed up and pinned in

Hovering inches above my skin

Stuffing my face but this food won't replace

All the love that I needed, food won't fill that up

And so I shove up my nose a thousand dollars in snow

And when I miss all my money, wonder where it goes

I want you here but still I push you away, is that OK?

I try to find the words but I can't say

So I type it on the screen that flickers in front of me

And I phone it to your home and leave it on your machine

But I can't stop from thinking that you're already gone

And I know I'm imposing, don't you leave me just because I'm

Fucked up, I'm belt-whipped

I'm giving myself like a gift

Left alone, and glass cracked

I'm talking about me behind my back

© 1989 Douglas Chay