let's go to the movies

let's go to the movies
show me something I've never seen
tiny feelings on a giant screen
something that aches
with regret and mistakes
do you know what I mean?

let's go to the movies
I'm sick and tired of this lousy joint
show me something that has a point
of view I can understand
with a big gulp of root beer
buttered popcorn in my hand

I don't want too think about 
the world anymore
I just want it to be
like it was before
I'm afraid to step outside my door
these days
I don't know what I'm gonna see
I don't like the hatred and bigotry
and this anger rising up inside of me
I don't like what's going on with me
these days

lets go to the movies
a comedy, for damn sure
maybe with that Adam Sandler
he always makes me laugh
and laughter's what I need right now
I feel storm clouds brewing
let me ask you
what are we doing
let me ask you
what we have done

cruisin' to the multiplex
city lights out on the horizon
radio plays that old creedence song'
"I see a bad moon a-rising"*

*last line by John Fogerty, of course.

prodigal son

I don't believe in Satan
but please don't tell my mom
'cause it's the only ammunition
for this war that's raging on
she looks at me with fear
like I've just fired an atom bomb
from here to kingdom come
I am not the prodigal son
no sir
I am not the prodigal son


she don't like the clothes I wear
but she don't say anything to me
she just stays behind the bedroom door
and turns up the TV
on her to-do list of tragedy
I'm her top ten number one
and I've only just begun
I am not the prodigal son
no way
I am not the prodigal son


          I will get even
          if it's the last thing I do
          it's true


tonight I'll dye my hair again
black as the dark night of my soul
sit upon my skateboard
find a way to finally lose control
come home drunk as shit
so she can see what I've become
look what I done
I am not the prodigal son
fuck no
I am not the prodigal son


it ain't me
it ain't me
I ain't no prodigal son, no...


(with apologies to John Fogerty)