Flagpole Sitta

[Guy Fawkes]

By Harvey Danger



I had visions, I was in them,
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
The rottenness and evil in me

Fingertips have memories,
Mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty
I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
(But no one ever does)

I'm not sick, but I'm not well
and I'm so hot 'cause I'm in hell

Been around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding
The cretins cloning and feeding
And I don't even own a TV

Put me in the hospital for nerves
And then they had to commit me
You told them all I was crazy
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, Goddamn you

I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And I'm so hot cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live so well

I wanna publish 'zines
And rage against machines
I wanna pierce my tongue
It doesn't hurt, it feels fine
The trivial sublime
I'd like to turn off time
And kill my mind
You kill my mind
Mind...

Paranoia, paranoia
Everybody's comin' to get me
Just say you never met me
I'm runnin' underground with the moles
Diggin' in holes
Hear the voices in my head
I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring
But if you're bored then you're boring
The agony and the irony, they're killing me, whoa!

I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And I'm so hot cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live this well

(One, two, three, four!)

[MazeRat7]

1. Thanks... I was just trying to decide what to listen to..... *grin (n/t)

[sendero]

2. Being an old fart...

... it's pretty rare that a pop lyric interest me any more, I've been there etc...

But I just love this song :)

[cedahlia]

3. good song

:thumbsup:

What happened to those guys anyway...are they still making music or are they destined for one-hit-wonderdom?

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

4. Sad Sweet Heart of the Rodeo....thats my fave H D song.

Good lyrics, but a great tune and delivery too. This song must be great to see live.

not another existential cowboy,
and no more california champagne,
not another saddle tramp, sick, sore, lonely and out of place ,
crying in his coffee ice cream, c'mon,
edith cannot fix another engine,
nor paint another face on a rubber can clown,
she takes another temp job,
but in her secret heart she rides,

[flamingyouth]

5. Their guitarist Jeff Lin worked at the Daily at the UW with me

My brush with greatness.

[miss_kitty]

6. that sean guy used to 'work' for my friend at the metro n/t

[flamingyouth]

7. "Work" - ha ha

I should have put that in quotes in my post too. ;)

[miss_kitty]

8. yeah i think she used one of my lines on him

she came out and he was sitting on the counter, with his feet on the counter across from him-i think she mentioned that since they pretended to pay him, he could pretend to work....i could be wrong, it was something funny like that...