Letter From London

Lyrics: K. Mueller-Heaslip
Music: B. Mueller-Heaslip

across the street a man used to live
dug in like a mole in his underground lair
his house is empty now, it's shuttered and closed
I look through the rain-soaked window and then

and then I think of you
not the sad shops of Ball's Pond Road
I see your face through a constant mist
not these British people and their British clothes

what is this city and where was it born?
what hand made it under what sad sun?
what force made these people into these forms?
why did it take me and why did I come?

and then I think of you
not the sad shops of Ball's Pond Road
I see your face through a constant mist
not these British people and their British clothes

no word from the mole man
no answers from him

over his house is a watery moon
I've been here too long to remember you


Elevator

Lyrics: K. Mohr
Music: Mueller-Heaslip/Mohr

approaching the entrance
moving through the door
on an elevator
elevator levitate

the red-light increments
the rising metal box
mouth watering moonstone humming
resistance is down
reel the fish in

but I will be strong
and I will stay home
and I will make love
to no one at all
and I will decline your twisted kiss
but I can only resist for so long

a sinking feeling
consensual captivation
a brisk walk in known direction
sweet sexual manipulation

and as the heart is fleeting
and as the head is pounding
every thought is silent
and every cell a furnace

but I will be strong
and I will stay home
and I will make love
to no one at all
and I will decline your twisted kiss
but I can only resist for so long

breathing
closer
watching clothing fall to the floor
naked
naked

I understand your motives
I try to run from your bed
but I am in the hot seat
and you have closed my eyelids

I understand your motives
I try to run from your bed
but I am in the hot seat
and you have closed my eyelids

but I will be strong
and I will stay home
and I will make love
to no one at all
and I will decline your twisted kiss

I will be strong
I will stay home

I'll Try

Lyrics: G. Marshall
Music: B. Mueller-Heaslip

I can't possibly seem to make it today
and I can't possibly ever make it today
time seems to have slipped past me and away
and I cannot possibly make it today

and I simply cannot possibly make it today
everything I wanted to do will have to wait
there just doesn't seem to be time enough to do anything
and I simply can't get around to it today

But I'll Try!

no I simply cannot possibly think about making it today
there's not enough time to even get up and get at it
nothing fits in the way we planned it today
and there's absolutely no time to think about
thinking about it today

But I'll Try!
I'll Try!
I'll Try!
I'll Try.

Truth in the Dark

Lyrics: K. Mueller-Heaslip
Music: B. Mueller-Heaslip

outside my window is the dark
and inside of me it's dark as well

outside the window is the dark
my thoughts my heart my muscles dark

and sometimes a light shines
and we imagine we can see

but the truth is in the dark
it likes it there

Impostor:

Lyrics: Karl Mohr
Music: Mueller-Heaslip/Mohr

Comet

Lyrics: Wire
Music: B. Mueller-Heaslip

It's coming fast, it's a comet
coming this way with your name on it

It's a heaven-sent extinction event
and the chorus goes
and the chorus goes
and the chorus goes

bang
bang
bang bang bangbangbang
bang

then a whimper

The Death of Arafat

Lyrics: K. Mueller-Heaslip
Music: B. Mueller-Heaslip

It's six a.m. in Jerusalem

It will go on without them
without these eyes and faces
without these lips and voices
without these songs, if ever they were songs

It's six a.m.

I am not a blade of grass
I am not replaceable
I will not be replaced
I'll carve myself into the world

It's six a.m. in Jarusalem

The old man's dead
he died in bed
the old man's dead
he died in bed

I Didn't Sleep

Lyrics: K. Mueller-Heaslip
Music: B. Mueller-Heaslip

I didn't sleep
not at all
not at all

I lay still
unnerved by the sound of your breathing

I didn't sleep
I listened to you sleeping

now that your love
your love was mine

here I am -
I listened to you sleeping
and quietly started to cry

you are more dear to me
than the stars in the sky

Let's Fall in Love

Lyrics: M. Kaler
Music: Muller-Heaslip/Kaler

don't the moon look pretty
did you know that it's a ship
it's going to take us way up to the sun

we we're all bored spirits
waiting round to take that trip
but while we're here on earth
let's have some fun

don't that moon look lovely
did you know that it's a rock
no reason no purpose no beauty there at all

and me I'm just a monkey
that somehow learned to talk
to walk on two legs
maybe even fall

let's fall in love
let's fall in love
(lalalalalalala la)
even monkeys and bored spirits fall in love

don't the moon look lovely
did you know that it's a face
it's looking down on everything we do

you could put your hand in mine
and that ain't no disgrace
it don't matter if he sees that too

let's fall in love
let's fall in love
he would do it if he could
he'd fall in love

let's fall in love
'cause it's feeling like we should
let's fall in love

don't the moon look lovely
now that's all that I can say
I hope I've said enough and not too much

'cuz the moon is just the nighttime
and darling you're a summer's day
and the moon you know is far too far to touch

let's fall in love
let's fall in love
let's fall in love
let's fall in love

Blue Bolero

Lyrics/Music: B. Mueller-Heaslip

a-a-ah a-a-ah a-a-ah-a-a-a
ah-a-ah-a

oh

ah ah ah a-a-aw

ah-a aw-ah-a-aw

ah-ah-aw

Lost in the Stars

Lyrics: Anderson
Music: Mueller-Heaslip/ Kurt Weill

before lord god made the sea and the land
he held all the stars in the palm of his hand
and they ran through his fingers
like grains of sand
and one little star fell alone

then the lord god hunted throught the wide night air
for that little dark star on the wind down there
and he stated and promised he'd take special care
so it wouldn't get lost again

now a man don't mind if the stars grow dim
and the clouds come over and cover him
so long as the lord god's watching over him
keeping track how it all goes on

but i've been walking through the night and the day
'till my legs get weary and my hair turns grey
and sometimes it seems maybe god's gone away
forgetting the promise that we heard him say

and we're lost out here in the stars
little stars, big stars, blowing through the night
and we're lost out here in the stars
little stars, big stars, blowing through the night
and we're lost out here in the stars

 Vanilla Perfume:

Lyrics: K. Mueller-Heaslip
Music: B. Mueller-Heaslipeller-Heaslip

dear
reasonably
beautiful
stranger:

please forgive me
I never meant to bite your wrist
but it was so close to my lips
and we were pressed so close together
and I was overwhelmed
by the smell of your vanilla perfume