The amazing ostrich transit system


Serious lack of goo

(instrumental)



Chip shrinking

I want to
Take chip bags
And put them in the oven
And watch them shrink
Just like the good old days
I want to go to the forest and gnaw down a tree
And I’ll make a house for you and me
I take a small ham
From a box made of ice
I will make it for your thanksgiving feast
You bitch
Come on watch it shrink
I want to
Take a chip bag
And put it in my oven
And make it shrink down
And use it as a key chain
I could use it as an accessory
For one of my barbies
And watch it shrink




Favourite place

Got a box full of Christmas things
Gonna be my favourite thing
Gonna take them to the swings
Gonna be my favourite place
Gotta box full of Christmas things
Gonna be my favourite thing
Gonna take them to the swing
Gonna be my favourite place
Turn on my TV with you
Sitting right next to my trousers
Gonna flick it on the channel
And we'll stand there for hours
Watching everyone have showers
There is nothing with out all of this
Come home with me
Gotta box full of Christmas things
Gonna be my favourite thing
Gonna take it to the swing
Gonna be my favourite place
Decorate with me i ask you
Decorate with me tonight
Gonna put on the TV
Gonna sit right next to me
Gonna watch the screen for hours
Gonna watch them all have showers
Gonna be my favourite place
Boxing match
Watching dogs dance
Gonna watch you inside this box
Boxing match maybe dogs will dance
Gonna watch you for hours
Gonna watch me take these showers
Gonna watch you in my favourite place


Box of candy

There a box of candies in the bottom of the cupboard that no one should be touching
I’ll stop you if you try to go there
I’ll stop you any way i can
There a box of candies in the bottom of the cupboard that no one should be touching
I’m gonna stop you in your tracks gonna rope you up and make you wait
Not that i don't want you to eat the candy
I’m just suspect of all this time
It's been sitting there in the cupboard and i don't want you to wreck your mind
There a box of candies in the bottom of the cupboard that no one should be touching
I love you and there ain't no way
That I’m gonna let you get your way
There a box of candies in the bottom of the cupboard that no one should be touching
I saw you late last night.. no touching.


Milk shakes

Who was the boy who killed the toys
Picking up the broken parts
Filling system in my head
Free my hands to hold your face
Make new clothes for us to wear
Stitch them up and put them on
Iron transfer logo on the front
It only feel just somewhat wrong
Step on streets inside your head
Hold the parts that aren't there
Lost inside an old man's watch
Comb out spiders from your hair
And oh my god i love
Oh my god i love milk shakes
The toys will be okay she said
Found again inside this house
Cleaned up by someone's hands
And touched again like they are loved
And oh my god i love
Oh my god i love milk shakes


Special pinecone

Sitting on the steps downtown outside the mall
Looking at the window above my head
There's something in there moving
These lights say there is
Shapes and cobwebs on the street
Watching the people meet
Don't have nothing else to do
So I’ll just sit here wait for you
Underground these streets are so vibrant coloured
And full of peanut butter
And full of someone's mother
I don't think it will end
Not unless i think you
Are gonna come to this shop
Sit down at the table
You know that I’m able
To stop anything that you want me to
I gave you a small electronic box
With a button on each side
One says go and one says no
You know which way to go
Follow me down here downtown
I’ve got a street that will make you frown
But that okay cuz it's only one day
And everything is everything anyway
Special pinecone
It a special pinecone
Fallen to the ground from a tree outside town
I don't know how many days I’ve got left with this story
Fallen to the ground from a tree outside town
Wandering around under the ground
Looking for the book that you might have dropped
With the writing that you lost
Special pinecone
A gift for you
From someone short, but okay
She will do what she needs to do






Paint the lamp post

Picking up the children's trumpets laying in the street
Fallen from the festival i never wanted to see
Pile up thrift store clothes in the community fire
Stop by the butcher's house to help him sort out laundry
Sorting out laundry
He said to me that you can leave and move away from this town
Walk away from all these trees and set up on the moon'
He said to me that i can leave and make myself a brand new face
But i won't go and i can't leave
I’ll stay and decorate these cakes
The cakes i speak of live inside
The belly of the woman’s house
Where all the women come to eat
And speak out about this town
They sit and talk
And talk and eat
And wear their hat's beside their head
And write down notes so they remember
All the things that were said
A coat of paint and brand new eyes
Were fitted in the doctor's head
He thanked the barber
Shook his hand
And went back to the river bed
Just a minute the dog man said
He jumped down from the truck top
There's something here
Underground
That demands a second look
All the people on the street
Bent down towards the ground
Pushed in finger nail tips
And dug until the sun went down




House

Little speck is on the bed
Little speck is on the floor
Little speck is blending in
No where that i have been

I am a mother fucking house
Not a metaphor for a fucking house
I am a mother fucking house
People sleep in me
People sleep in me

Little speck is on her back
Counting stars and doing maths
Cleaning house and painting stairs
Flowing in and out of there

I am a mother fucking house
Not a metaphor for a fucking house
I am a mother fucking house
People sleep in me
People sleep in me

Little speck getting loved
Clean my arms in the tub
Making up the stories there
Drawing diagrams to understand

Little speck is sewing clothes
For all the people far too small
Set them up at the tables
Baking cake in the morning

I am a mother fucking house
Not a metaphor for a fucking house
I am a mother fucking house
People sleep in me
People sleep in me


Green tail

Cardboard falling
Parachute boxes boxes
Fingers in between these
Lizard with a horse head
Coming to the surface
Head out of water
Looking at the passengers
Looking for my daughter
Got a green tail
Green tail

50 feet long swinging in the starlight
Whacking out the water songs
Fold me in an envelope and fill it full of fingernails
Walking sticks and bright red juice
Write me out a list of songs
Wrap me up in paper boats

Green tail




Badges

I love you
Carving out a home
Inside a wax cube
Feeling like a bird and feeding like a tube
I folded papers to make a wish
And i gave it to my daughters
They took the time and deliberated
They talked it over with the mothers
And she read books
Hold on it's alright
It's gonna happen one day
Hold on to my lips
I know they're not moving much
Just hold on to my lips
You know it's alright
I waited inside
The tent i made with blankets
He found out about the people
Living in the buckets
And i stitched together
A memorial quilt
With pictures of these events
And then they came home again
With badges
And some napkins
Hold on it's alright
It's gonna happen one day
Hold on it's alright
Your ideas are worth my time
Hold on it's alright it's gonna happen for you
Take your brain and pick it inside
Take your hairs and pick them apart
Take your head and make it safe from the rain
Take your hairs and pick it inside
Take your brain and pick them apart
Take your hairs and make it safe from the rain
I see you climbing around in my tree upstairs
Taking your cello tape to the branches
Fixing them up and winding it round
Making everybody see this town
Hold on it's alright
It's gonna happen one day
And you deserve a badge for this
And you deserve a badge for persistence
And you deserve a badge for me
And you deserve a badge for the sea
And you deserve a badge for you
For you.




Ground squirrel hang out

Got a belly full of old cars
Driving to the old stars
Fill me full of old words
Eating all the old bird
Unlock small box outside this door
Unlock another box inside the box drawer
Unlock the small fox who operates the bus door
Turn on the radiator inside the chimney store
Find the key underneath the mat
Wait until the earth is flat
Stir the bowl of pudding mix
Borrow tools to fix the sticks
Vaulted ceiling underground
Painted like a rodeo clown
Trapeze wires hanging down for you to climb when you're in town
Stumble over someone sleeping
In the dark there's someone crying
Find the light switch
But it's broken
Light a match in the basement wind
Find a blanket to warm the books up
Hold your arms inside the barrel
And touch the front parts to something in the dark
Fall down into you again




Space man

1 2 3 like boxes full of dragons
Piled up in my shoes
Looking out the window thinking about shutting it
There's nothing else to do
And i am waiting for the sign
That will tell me everything is falling from the sky
And i am sitting by the bus stop thinking about time
Falling through the fields full of rabid horseflies
Who never had to die

1 2 3 like boxes full of people
Waiting in a line
Something to feed them
Something made of peanut butter
And i am waiting for the sign
That will tell me everything is falling from the sky
And i am sitting by the bus stop thinking about time
Falling through the fields full of rabid horseflies
Who never had to die
And say it's alright
1 2 3 like boxes full of dragons
Piled up in my shoes
Looking out the window thinking about shutting it
There's nothing else to do


The ostrich chronicles

The sky is up there in the sky
And i am walking to get some drinks for you
Build a train set inside your head
And keep you occupied and keep your hands busy with me
And watch her wash her eyes out
And hold your face slow and still
And sit in your mouth
And kiss your lips
Write all this and set up dolls to act this out
And mend the broken door upstairs
With toothpaste and with nails
The clock on me is colourful
And incites conversations
I’ll build this for you
And place you into it
And watch you run around
I didn't mean it
And there's and ostrich to take us out of town
To take us out of town




No bus fare

Systematic pumping of the milk that won't stop coming
Falling in the buckets
Full of people waiting forever
Swimming to the sides
And holding on to ankles
And smelling all the people sinking in this heaven
Systematic pumping
Inside the bottom layer
Of carts that run on walking
Waiting to fly this bear
Peeling peaches on the sidewalk
Waiting at the bus stop
Sticky fingers on my neck
We don't have no bus fare




Sifting flavour

Downtown rats in a rat free zone
Don't let the children eat the candy
From the kitchen floor
Tie up ribbons on my wrist
And pull me in to you
Save the people over here
Until the people save you
I’m sick of living underground
And locked out of my house
I hold you tight around your waist
And walk past the controller mouse
I sift favour in to cups
And fill them up with circus tears
And hope you know all the stories
And forget all these basement fears




Sold out of eggs

I’ve sold out of all my eggs today
I walked home in the rain
I tied up both my boots in knots
And bought a ticket for the train
I took off boots and sold them to
The man across the way
He gave me a sandwich
And made me go away
]they're not yours i said to him
He agreed with me before i did
They don't even fit but that’s alright
He soaked his feet in bathtubs
He built a rocket made of pies
And icecream and lip stick
I climbed inside and chewed on ice
And fell in to your mouth
I’ve sold out of all my eggs today


Hello mademoiselle lizard

Like a silky smooth reptile
She glides across this room
She might be an ugly woman
But she might be as beautiful as the moon

Hello mademoiselle lizard
You are looking very nice
I see you've come to warm my bones
And put my mind at ease
It's all very kind I’m sure
Though you must know outside there is a world

Well she mixes her spit with the captain's gin
Mixes her looks with the sun
She's as fast as 200 elephants out there on the run

And I said:
Hello mademoiselle lizard
You are looking very nice
I see you've come to warm my bones
And put my mind at ease
It's all very kind I’m sure
Though you must know outside there is a world
And it needs you, but thank you for stopping by