These are mostly only “demo” quality at best, even after digital remastering, but there are some good moments. “Amoeba Song” of course became one of my standards (later versions include an outro with additional vocals), as was “Sound Judgment.”
lyrics:
day year life alone. burned my finger in the candle flame. I’m raving. where’s my faith? if I put you out of my mind I can put you out of my mind, but my heart has hope when it beats. coldness coming through and then snow and then the rest and then dry, dry pavement. the sun is hot but not warm. this is my day my year my life alone. buried my face in my hands so I could feel the scars. buried your letters in the ground. burned my finger in the candle flame. I threw everything away. I threw it all all away. this is my day my year my life alone. coldness coming through and then snow and then the rest and then dry, dry pavement. the sun is hot but not warm.
pose. let me pose a question for you to pose an answer regarding our relations regarding our relationship or lack thereof. I say I just want to hold I say I just want to love. To feel you near I would walk the path of broken glass from fire to fire on high wire to feel you near I would take the chain from around my neck and rip it off and wrap it off and wrap it around Medusa’s head. I say I just to love I just want to hold I just want to feel you near. let me pose a question for you to pose an answer regarding our relations regarding our relationship.
ambitious girl. so you think your bullshit’s better than mine, has a somewhat better consistency. well, I’ll let you have your triumph oh I still have my pride. so you think you got your mission, know where you’re going and how to get there, accounted for all the bumps in the road, but did you leave time for this sunset? so you think your heart’s purer than mine, held it up for inspection, ran sweet water right through. baby, you still got your problems, but all in all you’re pretty ok. take a look over here and tell me what you see. look beyond what other people told you was there. in your eyes there’s a sunset and a reflection of the clouds and all you could have ever want to have, ambitious girl. you can take your ambitious and stop up your pipes you can take your ambition it doesn’t give you a life. so you think your bullshit’s better than mine, has a somewhat better consistency. well, I’ll let you have your triumph oh I still have my pride.
down. you know you got me where you want me you know you got me down and when you want me when you need me you know you got me down down I’m up and I’m down and I’m down and out down for that count for you check out the scenery can’t you see me just take a look down I’m on my bended knee it’s no mystery just what you mean to me you know you got me down I’m up and I’m down and I’m down and out down for that count for you.
sound judgment. what’s your name? tell me because I think I’ve seen you here before just hanging around these red and green lights. tell me are your bell bottoms blocking your vision clouding your sunlight? you know I heard that fortune helps those who have sound judgment what’s your sign should I stop or go? maybe we should just clip off these clip on ties and do away with this small talk and move on to the place where we wake up in each other’s arms I’m sitting outside and I’m steaming I wonder what you’re thinking right now tell me where do your thoughts go to some faraway place where I never had a chance? you know I heard that fortune helps those who have sound judgment.
amoeba song. the chameleon on toast please and I’ll have an amoeba to go and a shaper-shifter shake. please smell my exhaust tomorrow please smell my sponge. but when I think I belong with you that’s when I’ll leave here. when I think that I’m anywhere that’s when I’ll leave here. it’s not that you drove me away, although there are tire treads on my back. it’s not that I have some higher calling; the phone isn’t ringing. but when I think I belong with you that’s when I’ll leave here. when I think that I’m anywhere that’s when I’ll leave here. hold that amoeba. I said hold that now.
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