Who Do You Want Now To Love You should you trade your mansion for his shotgun shack? Who Do you want now to love you how crazy can you get and still come back? who do you Love now to Want you when defense plants crumble back into seeds? Who Do you love now to want you is what you’re best at ever what she needs? went to the doctor who proNOUNced mama dead he did some tests and then he said he said the reason it feels worse this time you did too much or not enough... (in bed?) Who Do You Want Now To Feel U can u love me tender when u think u love me rough? & who do you want now to conceal you, when you call my name just like it was my bluff I’m walking down the street, right past the bakery, she’s even closer in her car uh Who do you want now to love you Is she wild enough to maybe shelter you? Who do you want now to love you? We might even get to start before we’re through...

VIDA GUERRA absolute despair can make u think u care, you crawl out of your hole to say I’m sane & the moth sneaks back into the womb of her cocoon & a caterpillar turns into a flame Hey! Vida Guerra some guys r lovin you coz they think you’re too thin & other guys love you coz they think that you’re too fat I don’t care bout that, My love is more abstract-- baby yeah I love you for your name Hey! Vida Guerra it’s my party & i’m gonna cry before I start to moan hurl classist epithets so I don’t feel so alone talk on the computer, play music on the phone tried to block you out but you hit too close to home the giants beat the reds I finally asked her bout her breasts i mean i did some sit ups on the hill (yes facing west) her boyfriend is a painter i said cool gave her my card might be cool to hang out with him too and when we’re all in tight pants we feel more alive more sexy shiny new breed mod like 1965 and if you can’t clean it without it getting wet are you a parody of what you you can’t prevent? so o ba bama what you g-g-gonna do when your kid starts walkin around like he’s number 32 & I’d rather be the wall than the hammer or the nail why not pretend success if the banks pretend they fail trial and error, I love you and her, the difference between ESTAR & SER so jump the broom, but be home soon, get on top till you know when to stop love don’t go with marriage like a horse without a carriage it’s free until it’s in the factory, & now it is the glue that staples me to you & i can’t resist your power when i do... Hey, VIDA GUERRRRRA

21st Century Fox Some say love’s a zero in the tennis game of life Some say love’s a sofa you can lie with on your wife Some say love’s a drugstore, a condensed reality a chocolate bar, a speeding car where downtown used to be too true to be good, or to good to be true-- (i’m ready for me if you’re ready for you) Some say love is skinny others say that it’s just young others say if you’re so rich, why then ain’t you dumb well, I ain’t too stable or drab like your man, but I can do more with a little than he ever could or can you got the infotainment nightmare, and a dervish who don’t whirl oh I need a boombox woman, I don’t need an ipod girl Ah, some say love ain’t poor if it lives beyond its means it can put put round the block if we dream of the grand-prix If America’s a bicyclist, it’s like a car just broke its leg so we got a lot in common, ‘cept I ain’t too proud to beg damn I never should’ve eaten that greasy food But if I can learn the hard way, america can too....uh huh well, she’s got Sarah Palin eyes, and Rupert Murdoch rocks She got Sarah Huckabee lies, she’s a 21st century fox she’s guarding the henhouse, it’ a natural fact, and I don’t think Gordan Gano done it like that...

"this lady’s Love assault is rude, he gets thoughtful, sad, subdued now he puts himself on trial, and offers no defense or denial that night he gets no sleep in bed, but blames and scolds himself instead I saw this lady; now a dart of agony has struck my heart if she feels what i feel, my sorrow will begin to heal I haven’t even tried to discover, if she’ll take me for my lover..." you STORM into workplace say I’m FLIRTin with the boss now you SULK or whine when i tell you bout aNOTHer job i lost you can kick the money changers from the church but not the sin & if you want my lovin, let the riot girls back in I can’t stand it anymore you changed since your grandma died when they sold her bass for the doctor bill, you didn’t even cry "FIckle lovers, who think they’re slick, always ready to play some trick deceive themselves &---they lose face. I’ve seen this in more than one case. if you did what you want with me, I am sure as sure can be (Pretty soon you’d leave me there, & I would be the worse for wear And if it happens that I love you, & what you ask for I give you Still, it’s not an equal share, as lovers, we’re an uneven pair." (EQUITAN) no body had to hide her love coz she wanted to survive no body ain’t too beautiful, till she lets you see her cry nobody’s still a few story-floors above nobody acts like football is the opposite of love (bearskin rung) nobody knows if boys and girls are equal outside the law.. (beyond) nobody loves you till you fall...

The frame becomes a window cuts deep, almost as deep as the decorative every desperate feeling an allusion & everything you say, everything you say is in quotes... Like so many of his generation, raised under abstraction in the name of liberation you can bring back the figure in pop art reduction and the collective as a bay aryan gang can’t take your day job with you, rebellion regresses into riot.... if they take it away in the meantime must have been your fault, for not being scared enough--ouch and it’s all art where the rich can see their reflection or at least hide their heart----from your rejection... Avatar, Avatar, Aviator Avatar, Avatar, Aviator Avatar, Avatar Aviator Predator Drone, Predator Drone! Predator Predator and the poets study the reified f-f-rag--ment and the black guys dressed as white chicks go roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll their eyes...their eyes....your eyes... eyes Predator Drone! Predator Drone! Holly would be so bright and innocent at 15 when she says her baby’s not gonna cry and the whole thing cracks you up in more ways than one in more ways than one------the crack generation...the crack i’m not gonna crack, I’m not gonna crack beat crack beat crack beat cop shoot cop and it’s exactly how they want it and when she buys you a shot of hubris, who needs cred and it’s exactly how you think she needs it--yeah everything you say, everything you say---in Quotes.... he said he stood on the middle of Martin Luther King between chicken’s church & the crackhouse practicing Ball of Confusion on his trumpet but knowing him I don’t believe THAT uh/... Here’s a window just a frame: daddy-longlegs in your bed...give a shopping cart worker a strawberry Big balled Bently, in the silent form of floor town smiled & said “I don’t belong here but you’re still on my turf!” and you open the frame but it’s not letting the air in and you open the frame but it’s not letting the air in did it ever occur to you-- that they’re just tryin to be friendly did it ever occur to you-- that they’re just tryin to be friendly so i turned myself sexless coz that’s what they pay shrinks for to pin the tail on the bohemian grove of the soul and she’ll never say god takes her for granted coz god never gets in the way unless you ask (in Dylan voice) Water takes the shape of what gets in the way!--Good god! Tiny muffin, J.T. LeRoy Steroid blues, & someday soon gonna make more room to croon like a cameo of a groom in the hubris gun Tom Waits cartoon, and prole art threat is just a heart to wear like a beat on a sleeve in an Jacket made for Edward Omniscient hubris narrator drunk, squishy, squishy, ashtray head naive smartass purist oh my, andy take a little snooze no you ain’t no Susan boyle, you ain’t no susan boyle but at least I’m not gush gush gush gush gushing oil and it’s exactly how they want it (woman is the cracker of the world) and it’s exactly how they think they need it, (flower gets to hold the seed) and it’s exactly how they want it Predator Drone, Predator Predator.... and it’s exactly how they think they need it aviator, avatar aviator..

i want to spend my life with you, say it 20, 000 times i want to spend my life with you you you you you on the blackboard school’s a crime & i won’t let them take my mind, unless it helps me find your heart you fell in love with r&b, he had to call it poetree so you’re gonna be a bridge weed bridge weed bridge and you’re falling through the cracks yeah i’m falling through your cracks & I’m gonna be a bridge well, I love you more than words can say oh baby tell me what’s your favorite cliche the world’s a stage, no one acts their age unless the soul’s a number at the bottom of the page i got a girl, she’s got a gun, she says don’t point that thing at me she don’t mind mind if I’m get jealous, she don’t care if I get free I got a girl she’s got a bullet, and I guess that bullet’s me

i’ve heard all the rumours & I hope they’re true you the kind of trouble I could get into! like you need a love like jack and meg like you wanna leave it undefined and vague(PAUSE) Not too married and not too picky So I misinterpret like the bird you flip me When people say sorry they mean funk off don’t you really love Berkeley with its no fun laws? (burning cross...) ah la di da la de de, something’s really got a hold on me & it blocks my view and it might be you & feminism didn’t kill the blues what you’ve done for me’s a mystery i can’t feel if I see or steal coz it’s free you rip your heart out before you touch your tits and go down on me before you let me kiss Oh, la di da, la de doo, would you let your mother date you know who? your step-dad’s alimony can trickle down to you if I love her in the day and spend my night with you.. You can be a bird and not wanna fly you can be a flirt and I’ll still be your guy when you cut off his balls, he tries to do with claws what the cooler cats get to do with balls Oh la di da, la de doo, I heard all the rumours & I hope they’re true Sadness can help you get off junk food if you’re stuck in oakland w/ the piedmont blues... u can heckle and jeckle but you cannot hide u don’t have to marry me to be my bride in oakland it’s weed but in New York it’s booze & feminism couldn’t really kill the blues oh la, ah hah, la la, la da...

i never want to hurt you, but when you told me to desert you well i knew right then i couldn't quench your thirst for food or clothes that you call love or that lethal stuff that you say's above & it ain't cheatin if you broke up with me first you feel so sad, say you've been had, & girls are good & boys are bad but what you're doing now just make things worse so if you gotta go with him, I'll work out on this jungle gym & it ain't cheatin if you broke up with me first it ain't it aint it aint cheatin, it aint it aint it aint cheatin it aint cheatin if you broke up with me first i could cry & curse my luck that you let some other fellas suck but it ain't cheatin if you broke up with me first well you asked me if i slept around, & i told you true I didn't then you found out bout that girl I met in your hearsey ou say now I broke your trust, and I threw you 'neath the bus but it ain't cheatin if you broke up with me first it ain't it aint it aint cheatin, it aint it aint it aint cheatin,i t aint cheatin if you broke up with me first i tried to live inside the law, get it on with a barbie doll but it ain't cheatin if you broke up with me first By now you oughta know, that I would sing more sad and slow if I really wanted you heart to break and burs tbut i must be pretty zealous, if I wanna make you jealous & it ain't cheatin if you broke up with me first