HOUSTON  (originally by Dean Martin)

It’s lonesome in this old town

Everybody puts me down

I’m a face without a name

Just walking in the rain

Going back to Houston, Houston, Houston

I got holes in both of my shoes

I’m a walking case of the blues

Saw a dollar yesterday

But the wind blew it away

Going back to Houston, Houston, Houston

I haven’t eaten in about a week

I’m so hungry, when I walk I squeak

Nobody calls me friend

It’s sad the shape I’m in

Going back to Houston, Houston, Houston

I got a girl waiting there for me

Well, at least she said she’d be

I got a home and a big, warm bed

And a feather pillow for my head

Going back to Houston, Houston, Houston

NUCLEAR  AGE

Woke up very early to watch a special sight

Atomic mushroom rising over a Nevada sky

Geiger counter clicking

Told there wasn’t danger

The cloud was in the air

I felt it in my hair

I’ll never be the same

Welcome to the nuclear age

Soldiers, get your head down

There’s gonna be a blast

Get up and march into ground zero

Now you’ve made your mark, human Guinea pigs

Bomber pilot mission flying overhead

Just for observation, many years later

Cancer of the face, a hole in its place

SCIENCE'S FICTION

Dream to be modern, human toil replaced

Technology build a panacea, “Acquire leisure labour-free”

But a mechanical appetite, “Machine has its maintenance”

When I hear that mellifluous voice

I know it’s ‘Science’s fiction’

When I hear that mellifluous voice

I know it’s ‘Science’s fiction’

Dream to be modern, human toil replaced

Technology build a panacea, “Acquire leisure labour-free”

But a mechanical appetite, “Machine has its maintenance”

When I hear that mellifluous voice

I know it’s ‘Science’s fiction’

When I hear that mellifluous voice

I know it’s ‘Science’s fiction’

ALSO WATCHED

A change in sun a different heat that sought control of the earth

Task that couldn’t serve this light of any useful purpose

A curse from far and long toyed mortals trapped on a planet

Also watched by night

Also watched by night

Also watched by night

Also watched by night

Setting away, at least for the day;

Struggling escapes, outside in the darkness

Others make no attempt, for tired from the blaze

A new enemy found; spy of the sun, a second eye, its satellite

Also watched by night

Also watched by night

Also watched by night

Also watched by night

PUNK 1301

Sagebrush city rumble in an imitation

Single-star state shining over its capitol scheme

The Britons are too far away to penalize your crime

But I’ll be in your tower, bullet every clown

The fools who attend Punk 1301

THIS YEAR’S MODEL

The masses, the went for it

They jumped on a wave

Grab your coat and tie

Become his slave

Ideals splattered all in a song

Fame and gloss, it’s waiting on you

This year’s model

Is this year’s asshole

WHAT AM I LIVING FOR?

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more!

Ten years from now, things will be the same

Even when I’m lying in my grave

What the hell am I going to do?

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more

What am I living for?

What am I living for?

Can’t take it no more!

                                                       RECORDED 15 JANUARY 1982