Grant Lee
Buffalo
B-Sides
Bring me home to
this house of many days
Just lay me on the floor hard and cool as slate
You know I love it more and more than before I ran away
It triggers off so many hurts hurtful words and broken plates
I lied to
Now I'm fuzzy
I've been lied to
All and all the
world is small enough for both of us
To meet upon the interstate waiting on a train
And just when those big arms lift up fall in love with no time to say it
I lied to
Now I'm fuzzy
I lied to
Now I'm fuzzy
Fuzzy now
Here we are in
our car driving down the street
We're looking for a place to stop have a bite to eat
We hunger for a bit of faith to replace the fear
We water like a dead bouquet does no good does it dear
I lied to
Now I'm fuzzy
We've been lied to
Now I'm fuzzy
Fuzzy now
Lied to
DIXIE DRUG STORE (JUJU MIX) - 1993
Ooh jambalaya
It was muggy July
around supper time
When I pulled into New Orleans
I got dropped off at South Rampart
Street
I was hungry for a plate of greens
I made my way down
the banquette
Where I could see an open door
And overhead a sign made of painted pine read
The Dixie Drug Store
Peppers and roots
were hanging
From the rafters above
There were oils and sprays all on display
For money luck and for love
I reached down
to pick one up
When a dark hand grabbed my arm
And before I could see just who it was
She said you don't want that charm
Ooh jambalaya
The last man to
walk that thing out of here
Just up and disappeared
Found his wallet and his wingtip shoes
Near a tombstone down in Algiers
What you need my
travelling friend
Is a place to wash your jeans
And I wouldn't be the least surprised
If you were hungry for a plate of greens
She beckoned me
on up the stairs
For she'd done made up her mind
Said take off your hat and kick off your boots
And leave your pride behind
Ooh jambalaya
She was turnin'
tricks and nothing clicked
And the room was black as pitch
She had me backed up against the wall
I was fumbling for the switch
I could hear her
crack the shutters
As I felt a little draft
When she gave me a shove into the tub
And said it's time to take your bath
I lay there in
my stockinged feet
I was soaked from head to toe
At the same time down on Rampart Street
I heard the trumpet blow
Sparks started
poppin' from an old tin cup
A sitting on the window sill
The whole place smelled like matches
And onions on the grill
I was catchin'
cold and I told her so
As I let out a little cough
She told me since my pants were clean
Why don't I just dry off
I found myself
a little tea-towel
Wrapped it around my waist
I was standin' there half-naked
When I noticed we were face to face
Ooh jambalaya
And now it seemed
the picture's
Gettin' pretty strange
Stripped bare in her chamber
And I hadn't even asked her name
I started to inquire
She knocked me upside the head
My noggin felt on fire
As she pulled me into bed
You needn't ask
no questions
Of the things that don't concern you
If you aren't afraid of the fire son
Fire it won't burn you
Ooh jambalaya
She took me down
to a secret place
In the bayou of her blankets
She offered to share her bourbon
I thanked her then I drank it
Thru a small crack
in the ceiling
Burst the Louisiana moon
It shone down on our bodies
And we began to croon
Like a couple of
coyotes
We were howling thru the night
And I swear they were a beatin' those
Congo drums outside
Ooh Jambalaya
I told her she
was crazy
And she replied it's true
And she finally introduced herself
As the famous Marie Laveau
I said now come
on darlin'
She died a century ago
Don't believe the paper she said
It simply isn't so
I shot back that's
impossible
There ain't a ghost of a chance
But I wouldn't turn a pretty ghost down
If she asked me up to dance
We laughed until
the mornin'
By then my pants had dried
I picked up my hat and pulled on my boots
And I gathered up my pride
Ooh jambalaya
I figured she had
done stepped out
I didn't see her anywhere
And I set out to find her
I headed on downstairs
Got down to the
bottom
I couldn't believe my eyes
Gone were all the bottles
And the remedy supplies
I shouted out for
Marie
I darted out the door
An old man on the wooden porch said
What you in there for
Son you got no
business
The hoodoo store's been closed
Long as I remember
A century I suppose
But Mister I just
spent the night
With a young gal named Laveau
He said the Widow Paris
Done had a little laugh on you
I said you mean
to tell me
That was the voodooin'
He nodded yes none other
The Queen of New Orleans
Ooh jambalaya
Lord Almighty I
feel my temperature rising
Higher and higher must be a hundred and nine
It's hard to breath and my chest is a heaving
But I feel good now but I feel fine yeah
Your kisses lift
me higher
Like the sweet sweet song of choir
You light my morning sky
Burning love
Ooh ooh I feel
my temperature rising
Girl girl girl girl girl it's a hundred and nine
It's hard to breath and my chest is a heaving
I feel good now I feel fine yeah
Your kisses lift
me higher
Like the sweet sweet song of choir
You light my morning sky
Burning love
I got a hunk a hunk of burning love
FOR THE TURNSTILES (LIVE) - 1993
All the sailors
with their seasick mamas
Hear the sirens on the shore
Singin' songs for pimps with tailors
Who charge ten dollars at the door
You can really
learn a lot that way
It will change you in the middle of the day
Though your confidence may be shattered
Doesn't matter
All the great explorers
Are now in Granite Lake
Under white sheets for the great unveiling
At the big parade
You can really
learn a lot that way
It will change you in the middle of the day
Though your confidence may be shattered
Doesn't matter
All the bush-league
batters
Left to die on the diamond
In the stands the home crowd scatters
For the turnstiles
JUPITER AND TEARDROP (SINLGE MIX) - 1993
Just a girl who
can't say no
And her sweetheart on parole
Parents named her Jupiter
To bless her with a lucky soul
He's a boy who never cried
When they locked him up inside
And she nicknamed him her teardrop
For the tattoo by his eye
Now she's sleeping
in her bed
And he's sleeping in her bed
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
And they want to
have a child
Walk together down the aisle
But the world we live in is mean
And it's built on sheer denial
The phone rings it's for her
Got to see ya Jupiter
I'm in trouble with the law
Bring my thirty-eight
caliber
Now she's sleeping
in her bed
As she pulls the phone plug dead
And it's Jupiter and Teardrop
Devastation at
last finally we meet
After all of these years out here on the street
I had a feeling you would make yourself known
You came along just to claim your place on the throne
And I have been overthrown
Overthrown
And I thought if
I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds
won't let me shine
Devastation my
door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself that I nearly forgot
Now I am overwrought
I'm overwrought
And I thought if
I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
One day this ground
will break
And open up for me I hope it will
I hope it will
Salutations at
last down on my knees
I heard the bugle this morn blast reveille
Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm
All my sails were ablaze I was chained to the helm
And now I am overwhelmed
I'm overwhelmed
And I thought if
I towed the right lines (devastation at last)
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
There's a bullet
in the heart tonight
In the heart of Texas
Shout it to the Dallasites
We are rolling home
They shot an angel in mid-flight
And now she won't protect us
Shout it to the bedlamites
We are westward ho
Pray the holy war
is ending
Like in the films of Hollywood
And the angels are descending
Like Koresh
had said
They would before too long
Sing a Lone Star Song
They had him nailed
up to a T
With a T for Texas
His disciples with artillery
They held the
fort inside
And by the time the story broke
Down at Dealey
Plaza
We already caught all the smoke
Read the TV guide
Pray the holy war
is ending
Like in the films of Hollywood
And the choppers are descending
Like Ma Reno
said
They would before too long
Sing a Lone Star Song
Lone Star Song
of the south
Words that can't help but escape my mouth (easy words)
When they bring down the house (easy words)
Day upon day
Pray the holy war
is ending
Like in the films of the Hollywood
And the trumpet's blast is blending
With the crack of burning wood
Before too long
Sing a Lone Star Song
Lone Star Song
Faithless
on the skids hung out to dry oh seen better days
With the sunlight fading like a tabloid and I I have found
All those double-barreled freedom fighters are in for themselves
And a call to arms has never been about anything else
Fire
one more round
But hate is not a lone assailant
Hear the drummers pound
Listen to the homespun violent sound
Hatred
on the prowl underneath an oh new guise garb and gown
And he's so persuasive when you look in his eyes all dumbfound
And the double-talkin' politicians expose their intimate lives
While the sheep are lowing for the shepherd to show he never arrives
Fire
one more round
But hate is not a lone assailant
Hear the drummers pound
Listen to the homespun violent sound
Sound
Ooh
I'll tell you how it
Pains to say this
Ugliness is ours
'Cause I would better lay in bed and
Maybe even sleep all day
Maybe sleep some more
Some more
Yeah
the homespun sound
I hear the sound
Yeah the homespun sound
BETHLEHEM STEEL (REMIX) - 1996
There
was a light blue as a welder's torch
It used to shine over the fields
And all the wise men strong men were drawn for miles
Followed a star to Bethlehem
Steel
But
the steeples on the hills they point
To a better life beyond this one
And that promise penetrates the clouds
And mighty walls of brick red cinnamon
Take
a walk past Lazarus Moving n' Storage
Behind the Goodman's
Furniture Store
See the smoke stacks rise on up to heaven's step
While on earth we're burnin' this miracle iron ore
But
the steeples on the hills they point
To a better life beyond this one
And that promise penetrates the clouds
Even when they block the fiery sun
There
was a light blue as a welder's torch
It used to shine over the fields
And all the wise men strong men were drawn for miles
Followed a star to Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem Steel
I was hanging with
some friends
In the parking lot one night near the summer's end
I leaned back against the glass
Of a car to watch all those speeding comets crash
It made me think about us
Truly truly truly
I want you
Truly truly truly I do
Truly truly truly I want you
You were lying
by the pool
And the surface of the water was a lapis jewel
I dove in to make a splash
Woke ya from your dream nodding off out on the grass
It made me think about us
Truly truly truly
I want you
Truly truly truly I do
Truly truly truly I want you
Truly truly truly
I want you
Truly truly truly I do
Truly truly truly I want you
It's just been
too long that
We set aside some time alone
I sure could see your point of view
And it's been awhile
Since we dropped our guard and cracked a smile
Don't you think it's overdue
Well how about you
Truly truly truly
I want you
Truly truly truly I do
Truly truly truly I want you
Truly truly truly
I want you
Truly truly truly I do (oh yes it's truly)
Truly truly truly I want you
MOCKINGBIRDS (ORIGINAL 4-TRACK DEMO) - 1998
Devastation at
last finally we meet
After all of these years out here on the street
I had a feeling you would make yourself known
You came along just to claim your place on the throne
And I have been overthrown
Overthrown
And I thought if
I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds
won't let me shine
Devastation my
door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself that I nearly forgot
Now I am overwrought
I'm overwrought
And I thought if
I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
One day this ground
will break
And open up for me I hope it will
I hope it will
Salutations at
last down on my knees
I heard the bugle this morn blast reveille
Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm
All my sails were ablaze I was chained to the helm
And now I am overwhelmed
I'm overwhelmed
And I thought if
I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
CANDY SAYS (LIVE BOARD TAPE) - 1998
Candy says I come
to hate my body
And all that it requires in this world
Candy says I want to know completely
What others so discretely talk about
I'm gonna watch
the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by and maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me
Candy says I hate
quiet places
That cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
That causes endless revisions in my mind
I'm gonna watch
the [mumbling] over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by and maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me