Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part I) – lyrics

Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part I)
Chris Merritt
lyrics
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Sequel

Teach them figures and tuck them in tight
You’re going O my golly O my golly
Making sure nobody gets in a fight
You’re going O my golly O my golly
Working all day and sleeping all night
You’re saying O my golly O my golly
Beat them and hang them and burn them
Singing O my golly O my golly O my golly
Over my dead body, my dead body, my dead body

For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
This has all played out in another film but this time you’ve got ten times the budget
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people

Give them all lots of shots and pills
You’re singing O my golly O my golly
Stuff them all full with coke and krill
You’re saying O my golly O my golly
Make sure everyone gets their fill
You’re saying O my golly O my golly
Rape them and rob them and kill them

Singing O my golly O my golly O my golly
Over my dead body, my dead body, my dead body

For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
This has all played out in another film but this time you’ve got ten times the budget
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people

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I Don’t See You Here

Honestly I don’t mean to
No no, honestly I don’t mean to
But I get so burned
But I get so burned

Honestly I don’t mean to
No no no, honestly I don’t mean to
But I get so cold
But I get so cold

Hell, I know, I’m the worst kind
I’ve been lonely since October
Hell, I know, I’m the worst kind
I get nervous when I’m sober
So throw back the red wine
So throw back the red wine

Harmony, I don’t need you
Harmony, I don’t see you
I loved you so much
And I loved you so much

Hell, I know, I’m the worst kind
Shaking booty since October
Hell, I know, I’m the worst kind
I get lonely when I’m sober
So throw back the red wine

Yeah, well, hell, I know, I’m the worst kind
I get nervous when you call me out
Hell I know, I’m the worst kind
I get nervous when I’m sober
So throw back the red wine
So throw back the red wine

All my days and years and I don’t see you here
I don’t see you here
Empty, ancient thrones
Monsters now just buried bones
I’ve looked far and near
And I don’t see you here
I don’t see you here
But I don’t see you here
I don’t see you here
Well I don’t see you here
I don’t see you here

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Tarmac

This is no fun
This is music from a shallow man
These are movies from a shiny can
And why are my friends sitting over on the other side?
Sitting over on the other side
I could barely make it through alive
But the cannery workers are players and millionaires

Buddy, you still set on taking off?
Yes, as a matter of fact.
Come on and give me a chance, can I get my wings out on the tarmac?

Industry gone
Information is becoming free
No more radio or MTV singing
Why are my friends sitting over with computer king?
Shake your booty, we got everything
Entertainment, air-conditioning
But the blood on the carpet
Is making me manic

Buddy, you still set on taking off?
Yes, as a matter of fact.
Come on and give me a chance
Can I get my wings out on the tarmac?
(Father, have I been a fool to go home?)
Well buddy, what if the world is mostly full of brown-eyes?

Everyone gets a chance in cybermocracy
Maybe I’d like that more if people didn’t suck
And turn up the music
Yeah

Buddy, you still set on taking off?
Yes, as a matter of fact.
Come on and give me a chance
Can I get my wings out on the tarmac?
(Father, have I been a fool to go home?)
Well buddy, what if the world is mostly full of brown-eyes?
Come on and give me a chance
Can I get my wings out on the tarmac?

And I sing, and I want something to break, but all the pipelines are broken
And I’m fine, and I am fed and I’m well, but I am still feeling broken

I’m singing give me a chance, can I get my wings out on the tarmac?

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Rain King
And now the places that I’ve been are only places that I’ve been again

I thought love would have a Disney plan
And my baby girl would want no other man
But one week after I had Ariel’s hand
She was on a carpet with Aladdin

Singing O Hallelujah Rain King
Singing O Hallelujah Rain King
And I can’t hold it against you ’cause I do the same thing
Singing O Hallelujah Rain King

Sugar, but I got another question

And now the people that I’ve seen are only pixels on a little screen
And now the people I’ve been in are only people I’ve been in again

Every time I thought my love was true
I was option three or option number two
And every girl I thought was pure and sweet
Was only acting cute to try and fuck me

Singing O Hallelujah Rain King
Singing O Hallelujah Rain King
And I can’t hold it against you ’cause I’ve done the same thing
Singing O Hallelujah Rain King
Singing O Hallelujah Rain
Rain King

I want a love that’s not even a question
I want a love that’s not even a question

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Feminine Mind

Oh she’ll polish your throne but she’s breaking your crown in another moment
In another moment
Oh, she’s making your home
But she’s kicking you out in another moment
In another moment

She’s a killer but she’s always on time
She’s brutal but she’s never unkind
Oh, confessions of a feminine mind

Oh she hides it away
You don’t know what it is, but you want to see it
But you want to see it

She’s selfless when it looks good, so she always looks good
Want to know the secret?
I want to know the secret

She’s a killer but she’s always on time
She’s brutal but she’s never unkind
Oh, confessions of a feminine mind

“Stop your stupid talk!” is what I want to tell you
I want to tell you, “Stop your ticking clock!”

Find me another one

Oh she makes you work hard like a struggling actor for a little action
Just for a little action
Why won’t one of you cave?
I hope you’re obsolete in another moment
In another moment

You can understand the physics of time
But she’ll only leave you wondering why
Oh, confessions of a feminine mind
She’s a killer but she’s always on time
She’s brutal but she’s never unkind
Oh, confessions of a feminine mind

One down, find me another one
Stop

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Magical Stones

I live somewhere in the future
The current is cold and overwhelming
But you and yours live in a safe and warm bubble world

I was a fool not to leave town
I was a fool not to stay out of it
I was a fool not to leave town
I was a fool not to stay out of it
But I don’t know how it’s me who’s the foolish one when you believe in magical stones

You’re praying on fools and praying for death to come
I’ll be here, living my life under one sun
Hydrogen mostly with some helium

I was a fool not to leave town
I was a fool not to stay out of it
I was a fool not to leave town
I was a fool not to stay out of it
But I don’t know how it’s me who’s the foolish one when you believe in magical stones
You believe in magical stones
You believe in magical stones
You believe in magical stones


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Baby’s Gone

Tell me I’m the only one would you tell me I’m the only one
Tell me I’m the only one sugar tell me I’m the only one
I don’t want to know the pretty boys you’d rather love
At one time or another you find out you were wrong
You grow quiet when your baby’s gone
You grow quiet when your baby’s gone

Tell me I’m the only one would you tell me I’m the only one
Tell me I’m the only one sugar tell me I’m the only one
I don’t want to know the pretty boys you’d rather love
At one time or another we found out we were wrong (all the time)
We grow quiet when our baby’s gone
At one time or another we find out we were wrong
You grow quiet when your baby’s gone
You grow quiet when your baby’s gone
You grow quiet when your baby’s gone

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

I don’t want to know the pretty boys you’d rather love

What, do you think I’m dead?

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She-Wolf

(The voice of King Edward II Of England)

Since I was fresh on my throne, for you I did hunger
Isabel, Isabel, Isabel
Oh, and now that you’ve left me alone, it’s you that I want
Isabel, Isabel, Isabel
Our union was written in stone when you were much younger
Isabel, Isabel, Isabel
But now that you lay with another it’s me that you hunt
Isabel, Isabel, Isabel

She was an Earl and a brother to me
She was alone and she needed love

I would give anything just to see you
I would give anything just to find you
I would give all that I had
If I need to
I would give anything just to slay you

(The voice of Isabella)

Powerful blood in my veins
But will I have your head?
I can try, I can try, I can try
Oh, it melts like a horse at my reins, I execute plans
Caernarfon! Caernarfon! Caernarfon!
Now that love and my heart are a blur, my royalty unwed
I would die I would die
I would die for your head on a stick and your lover’s red blood on my hands
Isabel, Isabel, Isabel

He was a beast
He had stolen your heart
I was alone and I needed love

I would give anything just to see you
I would give anything just to find you
I would give all that I have if I need to
I would give anything just to slay you
Doo doo doo doo doo

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Princess

Everybody loves a fake
They paint you into a saint but I know that you ain’t
I know all the pills you take
And if I ever told your mama well I think she would faint

You’re sleeping all around the town and it tickles me pink
Baby, I remember your lines and I know that you’ll think
They’ll want you when you tell them you’re a lesbian

Oh, aren’t you the princess?  Pleasing the boss
But out on the freeway, you’re flicking him off
You’re meeting his girlfriend you stifle a cough
But under the table you’re reaching over getting him off

Everyone loves your face
And everyone loves your ways, I think you’re just a  waste
Dirty bird in your cage
You’re like a mouse and maze

All of my friends are into you, they think you’re bad
Extinguishing fire properly in the ash
Well I would rather kiss the half-a-cigarette

Oh, aren’t you the princess?  Pleasing the boss
But out on the freeway, you’re flicking him off
You’re meeting his girlfriend you stifle a cough
But under the table you’re reaching over getting him off

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Another World

Where do you go to seek it?
When all fools chase gold and claim the secret
All I do is regret when I sell my soul to try and reap it

All my life I’ve been sculpting these crystal palaces in the snow
But it gets cold

What do you think it’s worth?
When do you get your home?
When do the people sing the songs you wrote?
I see it in all my dreams
I hear it in all my work
I want to be new before I get too old
I know it might sound shallow, but can you turn your true love to gold?

I dropped it in my cereal
There’s Cocoa Pebbles in my cellphone
I tossed it in the ocean
This cold, cold burn and I get so lone

What do you think it’s worth?
When do you get your home?
When do the people sing the songs you wrote?
I see it in all my dreams
I hear it in all my work
I want to be new before I get too old
I know it might sound shallow, but can you turn your true love to gold?

I’ve been in another world for a long time
I’ve been in another world for a long time

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The Turing Machine

Spending his vacation at a drinking station
Performing calculations to the adoration of a beautiful face that would later be kissed red
Far away from where you can’t sleep in your own bed

From my brain comes a new brain

Solving any system it was simple with him
But try putting algorithms to Alan’s rhythms
The universe it comes all the way ’round
It’s irrational, but if it’s not than you find out

From my brain comes a new brain
From my brain is a new brain
Any brain can calculate any brain’s calculations
Any brain calculates other brains’ calculations

Humans are a tragic and beautiful mess
Sometimes the rest hurt the best

If it should pass the test, when asked of its father’s death,
With denial and distress suppressed heartbreak suggests
It would simulate the smell of whiskey on its breathe and say
“I didn’t even notice he was gone!”
No I didn’t even notice you were gone
No I didn’t even notice you were gone

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