A-Sides & B-Movies: Lyrics

Complete lyrics to Pop Songs & Kyries:

1) Improvisational Song
Improvisational Song,
Hoping it's not too long
Hoping the words aren't wrong
Improvisational Song.
Improvisational Words
Hoping they don't seem blurred
Something best left unheard
Improvisational Words.
Improvisational Day
Let's get carried away
What will the neighbors say?
Improvisational Day.

2) Clever Things
I wonder if any of my friends
are at the late night music store
While I thumb through these record racks
they must be doing so much more
With all the beautiful girls
and all the clever boys
doing such clever things
Trying to follow the alphabet
that's twisting down the isles
Someone puts on a favorite tune
I hesitate then smile
With all the beautiful songs
written by clever artists
living such clever lives
We should be out there dancing
Let's go out and sing
We should go out tonight, let's go out tonight
and do clever things
We all pile through the merchandise
believing something must be there
Find some disk that will flip the switch
and fill this empty air
With all the beautiful songs
written by clever artists
living such clever lives
We should be out there dancing
Let's go out and sing
We should go out tonight, let's go out tonight
and do clever things
I guess I'll never impress you
I guess I'll never undress you
I guess I'll never impress you unless you confess
that you guess you could like someone kinda like me
If I had the confidence to call you up tonight
I'd hope to hear your smiling voice
and you'd say, ‘yeah, alright'.
You'd be my beautiful girl
I'd be your clever boy
and we'd do clever things.

3)Snapshots
See the train steal screeching
Late afternoon in the rusty sunlight
Took you in my arms
Wondered if our trip would take us far.
Streets of stone like mazes
That fountain's older than the oldest camera
Little children play, it's just another regular Wednesday.
See the flash as we pass, yesterday in the past
as we scratch a little path on the map that moves so quickly
If the time's what we miss, what we give is a kiss
Take a picture like this, cuz the time it moves so quickly.
See the train still speeding
I lean to you in the honey sunlight
Fall into my kiss, they say that everyday can't be like this.
Try to grab a second,
Count the clicks as tracks pass beneath our feet.
Try to breathe a moment,
Catch a breath before this day's got away.
See the smiles and waving
Let's find my keys and we'll try and get the
pictures to the store,
just before the drug stores locks their door.

4) Beauty Loses a Round
Beauty's not winnin' around here anymore
Beauty's not winnin' this round
I've been waitin' seems like years or maybe more
Beauty's not winnin' this round
na na na na na na na
Sometimes dreams seems so reasonable
Reason seems so seasonal around here
Beauty's not winnin' around here anymore
Beauty's not winnin' this round
Kyrie Eleison
Some dreams seem so explainable
Then they seem unattainable around here.
Beauty's not winnin' around here anymore
Beauty's not winnin' this round.

5) Once
Eyes wide open in the middle of the night
Thinkin' ‘bout this afternoon
How everything went right
For once it did.
Feeling kind of sleepy in the middle of the day
Not worried for one minute what anyone would say
Yeah, once it was
Lying on our backs thinking how lucky we are
Feeling like we're part of the moon and the stars
Drinking up the night as if we had room for it all
Eyes start laughing at this crazy world we're in
Not taking enough time wondering how on earth we spin.
Yeah once we did.
Lying on our backs thinking how lucky we are
Feeling like we're part of the moon and the stars
Taking in the night as if we had room for it all
Eyes wide open in the middle of the night
Thinkin' ‘bout this afternoon how everything went right
Smilin' like I'm watching pictures of it on the wall.
Eyes start laughing at this crazy world we're in
Not taking enough time wondering how on Earth we spin.
Yeah once we did. Yeah once it was.

6) One Telling Kiss
One telling kiss
One bid to keep the secret hid
totally missed
Stripped to the heart on my sleeve
No more pretense
All singing out without a song
Left in the rain
Left with that question on your lips
What is it like
When you have pulled the safety nets
Both hands turned loose
Nobody said the truth was free.
out in the clear
what does that mean to me
all spilling out without words
splendidly
One telling kiss
All of the words they're whisked away
Blown out like this
One smoking wick fades away
Leaving us there
Touched by the truth from your lips
out in the clear
out in the water we'll see
what do I know of the clear
deep blues sea
One telling kiss
One bid to keep the secret hid
From me.

7)Kyrie #2
Kyrie Eleison
Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison

8) Virginia Woolf
Virginia Virginia
Was London just too loud with the sound of bombs
Knockin' at your door?
With the sound of bombs drowning out your books
Calling out the name of the voices that would steal your dreams
Kyrie Eleison
Virginia Virginia
How did you work so hard?
Did you hear the clock? tick tock
Did you feel the clock marking out each and every rock for your pocket?
Kyrie Eleison
Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison
Virginia Virginia
Are your shoulders all that strong
to take the world?
It'll bring you down
Virginia Virginia the sad mad virgin queen
She paid for every vision, every moment that she'd seen....
Virginia Virginia
Can you carry the whole world
in your coat?
I'm afraid you'll drown...I'm afaid you'll drown...I'm afraid you'll drown.
Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison.

9) Summer's Just Half the Dream
Wave after wave
New waves come sliding under
Others are done
It's cut from a magazine ad/ Why do I choose to be sad?
Summer's just half the dream.
Some tune is gone
Sand without sea
Me missing you, oh
Would you miss me?
Thousands of cliche' pop songs/Something there pulls me so strong
Summer's just half the dream.
Waves whisper in my ears: what are you looking for here?
Summer's just half the dream
Wind through the waves
Wind through my hair
Nothing but wind to hold me
When you're not there
Waves whisper in my ears: what are you looking for here?
Summer's just half the dream. Summer's just half the dream.

10) RedWhite&BlueSoBlue
You take my flag and equate it with you
You take my people and tear them in two
You set your guards on the rift that you made
If you're so right, why are you so afraid?
So blue....red, white and blue...so blue.
I was taught that our country was a beckoning light
And we'd show that goodness and freedom made might
That privilege was irrelevant and principals king
We gave birth to the blues and we shot Dr. King...so blue...
In the First Days the Patriots discussed and they fought
And patriots prayed and patriots thought
But now it's all scripted with sound bites not facts
And all we have left is a patriot act...so blue.....
And now we're the biggest, are we still the best?
Is the dream just for us? Do we care for the rest?
Was the Stature of Liberty a vast cruel mistake?
Does the inscription now read: ‘Let them eat cake'? ...so blue...
Money and kingdoms will all fade at last
And ‘the last will be first and the first will be last'
Do you think that some virtue belongs just to you
‘Cuz your ball cap is printed in red white and blue....so blue...
so blue....so blue....redwhiteandblue.

11) Kyrie #3 (loud)
Kyrie Eleison
Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison

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