LYRICS: Elizabeth Hoover’s Dead

LYRICS: Elizabeth Hoover’s Dead

May 04

Elizabeth Hoover’s Dead 5/17/2010

she worked in Upland, sold superheroes
darkly black nails and a face like Versailles
she held my hand but the hearts of ten others
like kissing chicks but she loved wearing guys

born on a friday 13 October
watched reanimator and dropped LSD
ran through a red light, died in a car crash
and that was the night she stopped cheating on me

she jumped the Bones
she jumped the Frankielegs
she jumped the Robert James
sick in the head
she jumped the gun
she jumped the red light
now Elizabeth Hoover’s dead

she had a sister locked up with madmen
kept a pet rat and wrote bad poetry
took me to parties, we rode the teacups
i was a sucker but I couldn’t see

she jumped the Bones
she jumped the Frankielegs
she jumped the Robert James
sick in the head
she jumped the gun
she jumped the red light
now Elizabeth Hoover’s dead

life is short and life’s unkind
sometimes so dark you cannot see
you my darling died not in vain
you’re my memento mori
remember me

LYRICS: Hope Chest

LYRICS: Hope Chest

Oct 04

Where this unnamed bride was wed she
felt her hands collapse around her cadence
where she once slept she crept in quiet clothes

to her hope chest, open it became further away

shut again

LYRICS: Blood Whore

LYRICS: Blood Whore

Oct 04

Blood Whore
lyrics and music by R. James

gotta new way to make it
I’m a blood whore
go there they take it
I’m a blood whore
don’t have to fake it
I’m a blood whore

Blood Whore

get me some money gonna take the bus downtown
everybody’s gotta pay their rent somehow

never bring me down ’cause
I’m a blood whore
lying on the ground because
I’m a blood whore
gotta buy some Royal Crown ’cause
I’m a blood whore

Blood Whore

LYRICS: Tramps in Stereo

LYRICS: Tramps in Stereo

Jan 18

she got that ear to the ground visionary style locomotive rock star pain
she got a lovely left brain
you can see it when a girl like that steps in the room
she got a pearl shine slipper on her right foot kickin like a teardrop singin in the four star rain
nobody feels that flame except the tips of her fingernails dipped in snow see ya soon

stereovamp, such a tramp gonna make your stand on the runway
with the jet trails in your hair
two double suitcase clenchin in your white hands powdered with the last night’s love affair

two colombian gents stepped up over the fence had a chitchat with the checkout girl
she’s stealing cash from the counter slips it down her leather panties for the man with his lips upcurled
she made a call to the woman on the runaway with her furcoat flappin up and pacing back and forth
she never saw the limo comin put some glitter up her nose pointed south and caught a greyhound north

nothing in the rules that say you did it all wrong
they’re still screaming and shouting and you’re still singing along
the flickering pictures on the television write you a song
and how does it go, it goes
tramps in stereo

music and lyrics by Braxus Bane
©2003

LYRICS: Parish Lights

LYRICS: Parish Lights

Dec 08

The hills echo the sound
Of static on the radio
The parish lights are drown
Under crashing waves of rock n’ roll
She goes down on the car
The engine heats up her back
Opens up for a new scar and says
When I leave here I’m never looking back

I’m gonna be a star
Just for right now something’s out of tune
I’m gonna be a star
Until then this is something to do
Ya best not finish boy before i am through

She runs in the house to find her savior
He’s see-thru and whiskey flavored
He’s in the backroom where Jennifer found herself
She poured it into a mural and put it on the shelf

Well c’mon, c’mon
(c’mon and c’mon)
You go so much to do
Go on, go on
(get goin’ go on)
Beat your brain till you see black and blue
Strap on your guitar
You’re gonna be a star
There’s one thing you should know
The brightest star shines all alone

How much do you really need?

You squander yourself in turns
Night after night
Betting on a dream to make
Everything alright

You forgot who you are
Believed all the dirty lies they sold to you
You might not be a star
But you’re more than just something to do
Better than just something to do

Wake up sweet child from your dreamin’
Breath and wipe the stardust from your eyes
Don’t need a part or a song
You were alright all along
So take my hand, don’t let go
We gotta hold on to eachother
We can shine, we’ll shine together
And you know we’ll never
Be alone

lyrics by R. James / music by B. Bane
©2002

LYRICS: Beautiful Dead Little Girl

LYRICS: Beautiful Dead Little Girl

Dec 08

she cries whenever light gets in her eyes
she laughs whenever anybody dies
she dances with bliss through the dark club metro mist
she moves in close and seals my doom with a kiss

and she is my, too death to die
beautiful dead little girl
beautiful dead little girl
beautiful dead little girl

watch out she’s out for blood tonight
she’ll bite your neck and fill your filthy heart with fright
she’s a death machine and she will poison you like lead
and if you make it past her fishnet stockings
my friend you’re as good as dead

and she is my, too death to die
beautiful dead little girl
beautiful dead little girl
beautiful dead little girl

she’s sad because she killed her mom and dad
she’s happy when her heart gets broke she’s glad
she’s a sharp stilletto blade and into blackest night she’ll fade
whenever lightning crashes she’ll be there
within the tomb where she gets laid

music and lyrics by Braxus Bane
©2000