Cancion de Primavera

El amor es algo extraño
Algo intimo, algo pesado
Que pensaran cuando salgas
Que dirá tu madre, la Señora Vargas
Niña de casa noble no sale
Se le enseña la matemática y lo que vale
Pero la tentación es fuerte y nos agarra
Nos quita la lógica y nos desamarra
Tú! la mujer mas bella, pero la muda
Parada allí con cara calma y desnuda
Dios, que emoción tengo adentro
Esta niña es mi vida, mi mar, mi centro
Este par de amantes, apassionados y hermosos
Sentados en la cama, abrazados y dichosos
Y contra los prejuicios los amantes son exentos
Invincibles de todos los malos intentos
Pero al fin del viaje somos tu y yo
Mas eternos que la primavera, agarrados por la mano

Que nublina tan fuerte, que pésimo día
Nadie me encuentra chistoso aunque me ría
Que se sienten los niños, los que dicen aquí
Y me rio en las caras de los intelectuales que dicen que si!
Las caras de santos y los muros centeniales
Se van amarrando en asuntos indecentes en los arrabales
Que es el amor solo dolor y pasión
Que es mi amor salvo una solemna canción
Esa dos balas son mi alma taciturna
Caminando el campo como una ave nocturna
Que dirán mis amigos, los viejos del llano
Que diría Dios cundo vea el dolor de tu mano
Enciende el carro, deprisa, allí viene tu madre
Y a su lado con una cara de perro viene tu padre
Los viejos no entienden la virtud de la estética
Ni pueden entender la lógica de lo erótico
Unos pasos salen de la oscuridad

For Robert, With Love

When your family has you locked away
And your friends have you ready made
And you protest, but they do not say
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?

When your young age holds you back
And you feel like you're about to fade
And you're ready to arm yourself and attack
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?

When you're craving some banana pancakes
And are looking for some comfort and shade
And you just want to snuggle and lay awake
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?

And when you grow bored of the same routine
And you want to run away but are too afraid
And when they've left you at the scene
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?

If you want little Spanish and television
And someone to sing you a serenade
And someone to love you with precision
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?
Won't you come away with me, Queen Jade?

Nymph

I was walking down the street
When I saw this pretty little thing
She gave me a look like I couldn't refuse
"Hey, man, it looks like you got some blues
Why don't you come and have a little fling?"
I smiled at her and hopped right to my feet

I followed her down to her little flat
It was a quaint little space with style
She said in a little voice "Have something to drink!"
And before I could grab it or even before I could think
This little cat jumped on me and kissed me for a while
I swear I ain't never had a girl like that

I went ahead and undressed myself and her
She had tiny little body but she was still a goddess
We hopped into her bed and had a little fun
We had nothing but each other untill we saw the sun
She asked me how it was and I said "mightve been the best"
She got out of bed brushed her teeth and put up her hair

This pretty girl made a cup of Joe and then kicked me out
I swear she was a little nymph, the best I've had
And it was quite a funny thing, cos I never saw her again
She had dissappeared like water right down the drain
She was stuck in my mind, this little girl drove me mad
Oh, that night was the wildest I had, without a doubt

Hide

Dress up in tight little spandex
Cake your face away with make up
Shaped up into a nervous mess
You get excited when the boys they shake up

Empty minds have only one place in life
You say you wanna make a difference
But I bet you'll make the perfect trophy wife
How can you change us with no common sense?

Insecurities and dosilities
Hide away from your peers
Defects hurt sensibilities
Insults are too much for your ears

Plastic faces are scared by their reflections
And the men can buy fake erections
Your bank statement reflects your happiness
Your life is filled by melodramatic sappiness

You can't take a single seriously
It's just too much for your brain to take
And you argue quote spuriously
But all the people know you're fake

Insecurities and dosilities
Hide away from your peers
Defects hurt sensibilities
Insults are too much for your ears

Insecurities and dosilities
Hide away from your peers
Defects hurt sensibilities
Insults are too much for your ears

Insecurities and dosilities
Hide away from your peers
Defects hurt sensibilities
Insults are too much for your ears

Na na na na na na na

Come

He was the essence of depravity
With an attitude like "Why care?"
She was the flagship of purity
But she asked "Who's that boy there?"

She asked around to see who he was
"That motherfuckers going to hell,
All he care for is drugs and ass"
But he was something different, she could tell

She approached him looking like a goddess
Brown locks of hair flowing 'round her face
"I never seen a girl who act so modest
When she's the prettiest girl in this place!"

She smiled a little at his sweet words
And then she introduced herself politely
He said "I'm the devil, king of lords
And my trade shouldn't be taken lightly"

Fear in her eyes, she couldn't help but shiver a bit
At the cleverness of the boy's reponse
She said "It seems, my friend, you have quick wit
Want some company? You're a man of Renaissance"

"How could I say no to a girl like you?
Of course you can come with me
But I warn you, that the things I do
May not be in agreement with thee."

So she went into his arms and they fell in love
A marvelous affair that burned like the sun
She was free to come and go like the dove
He was still a hedonist, she learned to have fun

She married the boy but he didn't stay long
He said he'd return some fateful day in May
He looket at her, said I love you and went along
Through the wild country he made his way

The devil himself was caught in purgatory
Through the darkest cities he walked
He steered himself away from authority
Only with the immoral folk he talked

He found her in the same creek
She was there naked sitting like Aphrodite
Her eyes flashed and he heard her speak
"Could it be that my love has returned to me?"

Five years had passed when he returned to her
She said "You look different and strange!
Did you find what you sought there?"
He said "No, I only found change."

She said "Are you here to stay, are you here for good?"
He said "Well, of course, from what's understood"
So the two mystical beings they lived with eachother
The boy destined to love his muse forever

For David, With Love

Fashion glamour in spacious ways
Caviar, vodka, sex, girls, disdain
Paris, France and Europe strays
He's back! It's Aladdin Sane!

Money money and guitars
Tiny things just so vain
Picked up in strangers cars
He's back! It's Aladdin Sane!

Furious passionate little things
Hooked up hooked down booked on cocaine
Taken with all the fun it brings
He's back! It's Aladdin Sane!

All dreams come to us alone
Fresh with the morning rain
Our lives will never be done
He's back! It's Aladdin Sane!

Gambling and saké in Monaco
Bright lights flood the window pane
Forget all that you know!
He's back! It's Aladdin Sane!

VIII

The wings of the sparrow beat upon the wind and the rustling of the leaves invades my mind. Kaleidoscope skies pierce the atmosphere and the sweet moon shines her face upon the black trees of the desolate scape. The house stands bravely upon the silent blue hill and its inhabitants go about their mundane insane plain routines. Send our regards to our queen for she has committed the most hideous obtuse diverse inverse perverse fantastic of crimes: she has shattered that organ most holy of holy, the organ of life which flows through my soul, the beating eating fleeting feeling heart which filled me with love with lust; this despair fills me stills me kills me.

Repress the urge to have her, desire controls me, overpowers me enrages me; I feel obessive aggressive impressive possesive, compulsive, like Master Paul on his rocking horse. I will have you will bury you, you will be mine. I will burn the house down and rise with the wisps of the burning blaze; rise and rise above and beyond to the realm of gods, sweet and unfliching, morose and sardonic. Halloween, Hallows eve, are you happy? Are you content? Sadness madness deranges my mind, scrambles my thought; why don't you love me? Contempt contempt contempt for this anger, for this sanctimonious feeling of nostalgia, the impetuous derisive feeling that I contain within me. I will go nowhere and somewhere, everyplace and no place, among the gaseous giants that fill those unwavering eyes and the swirling twirling curling clouds of dust and elements that saturate your incessanly dark, vacous pupils. I will find you; sick upon the rug, surrounded by fantastic lights, multicolored lights, bright as the night, piercing my eyes, covering the heavens, all through the sky. Minerva Minerva, talk to your son, help him through the ordeal and make him a deal, a deal to be played, a mind to be slayed: kiss the moonlight, smooth and clear as the day. Come to me come to me come to me, I will have you, I must have you. I'm in the edge of the despair, the threshold of dimensions; universes compressed into neurons, connections among stars, wormholes through the grey matter of my endless world, mine alone, not be shared, broken, misspoken or appraised. Books and books flying in my mind, useless information, weak foundations, misinterpretations; Honey honey, can you hear me, fear me, spear me, love me, hate me, see me now? Float adrift in this sea of time, clocks ticking, flicking, licking my life away; burn the clock tower, hang the pendulum, let gravity take over, let it waste you away into blackness, darkness eternal and surreal, never to be understood or comprehended, excsessive in all dimensions.

Look at the faces on the wall, screaming down the hall, spurrious furious, dubious pronouns, unfinished verbs, words, morphemes, phonemes loud and unsure; hypothetical prepositions, inquisitions, superstitions, combinations. Have the weekend, take the paycheck, spend it, rend it, mend it, observe them, the blank people, shuffling about, bustling about, marching like ants. Isn't it nice to be alive? Isn't is nice to thrive, survive, surmise, to be creative, to be alone, to be strong, to be weak, to be a freak, to be a nerd to be a jock to be a geek to be a whore? To live to love to lie to die in this floating chunk of rock, flying, hurtling, bustling, away through space in this mad race that rages on each day around the sun?

VII

Something will explode
There's a girl who doesn't know I live
Someones life will corrode
There's a girl who I won't forgive

I have cut myself off
I have nothing else to say
This smokes given my a cough
Remember remember the way

The times have gone
Yet we all remain the same
We've faded to none
But this is all a game

It's another day that burns
All these memories slowly die
All these ashes slowly return
All my friends have said good bye

Here comes another boring story
It's raining all over the street
The nights and dark and gory
I got no one to meet

I'm a victim of these words
Foolish things that flow from me
And fly away like free birds
Past the horizon, where I can't see

I tried to love her back!
But she grew up in her own way
Wanted boys who had what I lack
She won't understand what I convey!

These feelings have me buried alive
I want the girl I could never get
I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't drive
My feelings will never abet!

VI

I see you outside my window
You crouch by the inkwell
The pen speaks more than I know
The piece of paper does not tell

Gravity has lost me!
I am not who I wanna be
I can't see you anymore
Ghosts knocking at my door

I am gone gone gone
Jumped into a new skin
Disobediance was never a sin
Nothing is ever done

Lights flicker in this town
Filth flows down the street
Dark faces all shuffle round
David at my feet

I've made all of my demands
Innocence on my hands
There's a drizzle falling
I hear the wolves calling

I am gone gone gone
Jumped into a new skin
Suicide was never a sin
Nothing is ever done

We leave here at dawn
Seek audience with our king

V

Uncle Sam, for what he did he tries to make up
All the common people, wide eyed, they wake up
Whatever cash they can get they rake up
The father walks to wife who he shakes up
"We gotta work harder, before it's too late"

The troops they sit in the heat and get fat
"Man, this fuckin desert ain't where it's at"
The King of Palestine, he prepares for combat
As the world leaders sit down just to chat
"We gotta take it all, leave none on the plate"

The paper man, he sees the ghost of a child
Who screams at her mother when she acts wild
But the mother says nothing cos she's beguiled
At all the cost that the child has compiled
"You know you can't keep doing that for long!"

The slaves, they wake up in the morn to work
They shuffle past a store and see a helpess clerk
Who listens to the customers who go berserk
But all he did was keep on a stupid smirk
He says "While being a dick you can't go wrong"

The commander-in-chief tries with his might
But we all can tell that he's not doing right
With a mighty sweep of hand he tries to ignite
What was once the majesctic liberty light
"Why can't we all just be the same?!"

The Central Bank hasn't gone out of business just yet
The road maps for your soul come with a cigarette
All the stock brokers soothe you and tell you not fret
But it's a little hard to keep the cool when you're in debt
"Man, we really need somebody else to blame!"

IV

Can you feel sun on your skin?
Can you feel summer raaaaaain
Can you feel the water rushing in?
It feels like I've gone insane

But this is life! I'm only alive!
And all the pieces have fit
My destiny's set and it's arrived
Can all this be really it!?

There's emptiness in vanity
But there's beauty in youth
There's boringness in sanity
And insanity is quite uncouth

The rain clouds have come around
Singing songs of how good it all is
Raindrops falling to the ground
Whispering to me of the god says

Insignifcant like grass blowing in the wind
The waters has come up to my knees
My brain has expanded, I'm out of my mind
And there isn't anything that my brain sees

I'm gonna shine on!

III

You walk in the room so politely
Taking this situation too lightly
Your husband has left you
And you still have nothing to do
A 2 year old son in the world
And living with your parents, 34 years old
Is this what you wanted from your life?
Nothing but mediocrity and strife?
I really didn't think so, Mrs. Jones.

But now you're all alone, without any bones
And you gotta make a living for yourself
But you know you're just another book on the shelf
You went to school and graduated top of the class
So I ask you: what the fuck are you doing on your ass!?
Youre a lawyer, by god, not a fucking house maid!
Does it hurt yet? Anything that I've said?
Because I've just gotten started, Mrs. Jones.

If you don't like the truth, then just go home.
You stole the son of a good man, honey,
And you complain he doesn't send you money!
You blame him for your helpless situation
That he used your resources and cracked your foundation
But what does that say about you?
To ruin a marriage it usually takes two
Your parents have had it, and you just realized
That you're not the perfect girl you were in their eyes
They don't care for you now that you've grown
And that scares you, doesn't it, Mrs. Jones?

Oh you used to laugh and joke about
Anybody that had no home or was down and out
But it doesn't seem so funny now, does it?
To have to look for your own home down in the street?
To have to pay for your own meals
And it hits you in the face: how it's all too real
Youre an open book, Mrs. Jones, I can tell you're afraid
I don't mean to rain down on your parade
But you have no support! Youre out in the unknown!
How does it feel? How the fuck does it feel, Mrs. Jones?

And after this time you finally realized where it's at
You realized that hedonism and laziness aren't all that
So you try to redeem yourself by helping us at work
But you don't give it your all, no, it seems a little short
And you got a new man and you use his home
And you move all your furniture your skeletons your tomes
And you do what he says and you cook his food
But it's clear to see and it's easily understood
That you're still unhappy and you still feel alone
Ain't that the truth, Mrs. Jones?

Where ever it is that you set your boots
Unhappinnes seems to follow suit
Really now, get the hell away from me
I've given you a thousand chances for you to see
But it only seems to me that you're blind
Can you hear it? It's blowing now, the idiot wind.
Go back to your home on 4th street!
It's too late for you to say anything sweet
Give it up, woman, the game is done.
You've lost it all, Mrs. Jones.

"Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is"
Do you, Mrs. Jones?
No, of course you don't,
And you probably never will
So let's forget about it; go ahead, get your fill
Of what your newest man owns
Because youre shameless, Mrs. Jones.

II

Whatever you've loved is now gone
And the men you've killed all lie prone
Are you happy with what you have done?
Will you be able to control what you've begun?
You've lost all sway over your pawns
And they all turned on the hand that fed

The people now hold your life at hand
And you still fail to understand
That you're not one that can command
And now you must meet what they demand
So forsake whatever your have planned
All the wisemen forsee your doom ahead

But you break yourself away and find war
And the death and destruction and horror
Of what you instigated through the door
And you're numb now, you cant feel anymore
All you hear is the deafening roar
Of the dead men that haunt your head

Old women stare at you through thin veneer
And with the distant winds you hear
That the world has turned on you unclear
And although all you feel is utter fear
There's nothing in this world so severe
That is worth giving up your bread for

And soon, it seems, comes your downfall
Soon they will put you down, make you crawl
And as loudly as you scream or squall
No one will hear your pleas at all
How does it feel to be so small?
How does it feel to see what you have led?

And know that you face your demise
Your heart races as you see death's guise
The sun goes dark within your skies
And your ragged body falls for all eyes
But no one sees and there are no goodbyes
And as it seems, there's no rest for the wicked

I

You and I are more beautiful than a sunset
You and I, deep in love with the mystery of us
A love stronger than any man I've ever met
I have found unity in all of this mess

You and I can overcome the darkest of nights
Together through the hardest of days
You and I, flying above the earth at such heights
I have found love in so many different ways

Baby, with you there's nothing I can't face
There's not a thing that can bring me down
I wanna be with you till the end of this place
I have found happiness all around

Oh, you are the moon in my night sky
The only thing holding me from coming apart
Baby, you are the apple of my eye
I have found sunshine in the dark

I have seen many things, but in the end
You're the most beautiful thing I have seen
Nothing compares to you, my friend
I have found all the little things in between

If my skies are still clear and blue
And the colors of my life still radiant
Then, babe, it's all because of you
I have found perfection where its scant

She's my girl, a girl from a dream
Living and loving in this plastic paradise
She gives me lovin like cherries and cream