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Burn Down the Beach House

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From "Soft Taco"

Let's burn down the beach house

We'll make the giants bow

We'll go door-to-door to each house

We'll change the world somehow.

We'll leave the writers

We'll leave the writers spellbound

Let's chase the water striders

Let's burn the beach house down.

Oh, this is not your father's revolution

Oh, this is not a drill

Oh, 'cause if we don't take this battlefield tomorrow

We never will

I'll build a diner then you

Post ads around the block

We'll write the breakfast menu

Up on the wall in chalk.

We'll waste the hours

Watching the riots downtown

Let's scale the water towers

Let's burn the beach house down.

Oh, this is not your father's revolution

Oh, this is not a drill

Oh, 'cause if we don't take this battlefield tomorrow

We never will

Let's scale the water towers

Let's burn the beach house down.

Oh, this is not your father's revolution

Oh, this is not a drill

Oh, 'cause if we don't take this battlefield tomorrow

We never will

Let's burn the beach house down

Let's burn the beach house down.

(Jon Greenlee - drums, bass, guitar solo)

Bubu

My wife ran off with some darn gentile

And left me with our baby, Harn, our unborn child.

I was my own baby sitter and my own midwife

In this bottomless pit of pre-Exodus life for a while.

My name's Tartar, or Bubu to some

I don't eat any lard or know what has become of my past.

In my arms, I'm holding my baby Harn,

He's just seven days old and it may be his last.

See the babies thrashing,

See the Nile flow

Hear the mothers screaming as the babies go below.

If they take our children now will we be next to go

In the blink of an eye, another baby goes down

Wa, wa, baby.

If he doesn't come up one less diaper will brown,

Wa, wa, doody.

Why should I subject my son

To liquid death in searing sun

Why should I give up my kin

Since when is being born a sin

See the babies thrashing,

See the Nile flow

Hear the mothers screaming as the babies go below.

If they take our children now will we be next to go

I've got to try to save my son

Because his life has just begun.

I'll put him in the river Nile

And maybe he will float a while longer.

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Brush Fire

Are you watching TV

Are you studying that book

I'll just sit here, I won't intrude.

How's the guitar playing

How's that test your roommate took

And have you gone to lunch

Or can I tag along and touch your food

You hear a knock, you cross your fingers and you pray,

But the fire will not go away.

Go away, Brush Fire go away,

I can't leave my room

Because I know that you'll just stay

It would make your day

If we cared what you say

But we'll watch you dance and let you sing,

And smile and act like everything's okay.

Would you like to see me naked

Like to watch me chew

My homework's tough but no one cares.

Here's my butt and there's your bed

Hey, don't mind if I do

Hey why're you always running in the boys room

And up and down those stairs

God saw me cheating once and now I have to pay,

'Cause Brush Fire will not go away.

Go away, Brush Fire go away,

I just want to tell you off

And guess how much you weigh

It would make your day

If we cared what you say

But you're so gross and you're so fat,

You've got no friends, who's fault is that

I'll scream in 60 seconds flat,

If you come in here "just to chat" today

So just shut up and get the hell away.

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Two households
One town divided and forlorn
Great wars from peaceful minds are born

Ten winters past
Land squabbles, property lines
Cruel words to warning shots behind
From this hatred I was bred
When I came of age
My father said to
Father said to me

Bring me the head of Antonio
His wicked dynasty must end
Bring me the head Antonio
Sebastian yet will be avenged
Well, I've got you now
But I can't shake the feeling
That there might be a lesson somewhere here
Is this violence violence a shrine unto itself?

Celia I loved
Playmates as children we were
But my brother set his dogs on her
On his hatred he had fed
When we found him dead
My father said to
Father said to me

Bring me the head of Antonio
His wicked dynasty must end
Bring me the head Antonio
Sebastian yet will be avenged
I could end it now
But I still can't shake the feeling
That there might be a lesson somewhere here
Cause this violence this violence is tearing us apart

Bring me the head
Bring me the head of Antonio
His wicked dynasty must end
Bring me the head Antonio
Bring the head
Bring the head
Let us be avenged
Bring me the head of Antonio
Bring me the head of Antonio
Bring me the head of Antonio
Bring me the head of Antonio

Copyright 2002 Zach London

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Burn Down the Beach House

Bubu

Brush Fire

Bring Me The Head of Antonio

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