The Overlords - Stan Ridgway

Well I been breakin’rocks up on coolie #3

I know it’s been forever, thought you’d never hear frome

The weather up here is rotten, rainin’granite all the time

And both moons are glowin’purple and there is no sun to shine

I been diggin’deep down in a tunnel that goes twenty miles down

And I know my life is cheap when I hear that rumbln’sound

Oh the overlords

Got me workin’overtime

Oh the overlords

They never make it rhyme

And there is something in the air that is burnin’in my throat

A big black cloud is passin’droppin’acid on my coat

The overlords got me workin’overtime

It’s been ten years and a day after world war nine

They pushed us to make meaning and from their meaning was our crime

Last night I had a dream where the guards all fell asleep

I jumped the fence outside this pen and then I hotwired up The warden’s Jeep

And I took a walk

I still rmember all those nights we had together up on Mars

We both stood in line t get some new tattoos

While the kids got cut some scars

And when they check the beds tonight,

They’ll find a note scratched in the pine

You now can seek me underground where’I7ll be monkey-wrenchin'all the

time

>From a planet out in space

A signal you could trace

Controllin’what you feel but you never see their face

Oh the overlords, got me workin’overtime

Lost Weekend

(Wall of Voodoo)

Performed by Wall of Voodoo

Driving out of Vegas in their automobile

She was in the backseat while he was at the wheel

With the windows wide open

All the money frome store they’d gambled away

He said, the best laid plans often go astray.

She took the page fromher book and turned it down

She lit a cigarette

She didn’t make a sound

And I know if we’d had just one more chance, he said,

I know-we'd finally hit the big one at last, she said

Instead of another lost weekend

Lost weekend

Another lost weekend

Lost weekend

Pull over soon, she said, it’s no big deal, you can take any exit that

you happen to f feel is the right one.

The right one.

Aas she slowly blew her somke out the rear wind vent

She thought back on all the letters she’d sent

For a contest to be on a quiz game show

Maybe I shoulda stayed in school, he said.

Yeah, I know-start your own business cleaning swimming pools, she said

She leaned forward over the front seat

And twiddled with the radio dial

She looked out the window

Sw a sign and both of them began to smile

There’s a place we could stay at… it's up another mile.