Got Balls?--The Basement Album
lyrics

OM Ya'll

Yo Jehovah, take the devil outta me
Jesus was my homeboy
Down by the Sea of Galilea
Buddha bayby sittin unaneath the Bodhi Tree
I'm a Hare Krishna Cowboy
OM Ya'll
ii
I'm so with it
A frequent flyer on the Astral Plane
In my last life
I was a sailor for the fleet of Spain
You better believe it
All my sandwiches are on whole wheat grain
I'm a Hare Krishna Cowboy
OM Ya'll
iii
Got herbs and feathers
I got crystals justa drippin offa me
You ladies never met a man
With more sensitivity
Every morning I get up and take a bath
In camomile tea
I'm a Hare Krishna Cowboy
OM Ya'll

Saturday Night

I'm puttin on my new shoes
I'm puttin on my tails
Pullin up my anchor, baby
And lettin out my sails
Life is a strawberry; life is a plum
I'm gonna take me a bite; I'm gettin me some
It's Saturday night; and I'm goin down town.
ii.
I walk past the movie shows
I walk past the bars
The people in their fancy clothes
And their shiney new cars
Life is a tangerine; life is a grape
I want my fifteen minutes; I want it on tape
It's Saturday night; and I'm goin down town
iii.
I walk past the tattoo parlors
I walk past the shops
I walk past the beeper boys
I walk past the cops
I smell the popcorn; I smell the beer
I see the nellie-boys looking so queer
It's Satureday night; and I'm goin down town
iv.
Look at the brittney-girls
Their bellies all bare
They yak on their telephones
They play with their hair
Life is a watermelon; life is a peach
I'm gonna go for it; I'm makin a reach
It's Saturday night; and I'm goin down town
v.
To hell with the traffic lights
To hell with the laws
They ain't got nothin on me
No probable cause
I'm gonna be smokin; I just might drink
I'm gon be takin it up to the brink
It's Saturday night; and I'm goin down town

Sue Me

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
I love you just the way you are
are we really happy with this lonely game we play
I will lay me down
you can drive my car

And there's not one thing you can say or do
Gonna make it otherwise
Get down, baby, don't play that game
Baby, don't tell no lies

Right or wrong, gonna steal your song
so sooooooooooo me
yeah or nay, the Judge will say:
"Get out your copyright, we're havin' fun tonight
Who wrote Scrambled Eggs?"

Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise
I often walk on the street where you live
Don't change one hair, on my funny valentine
You ain't got nothin' to lose you got nothin' to give

And there's not one thing you can say or do
Gonna make it otherwise
Get down, baby, don't play that game
Baby, don't tell no lies

Right or wrong, gonna steal your song
so sooooooooooo me
yeah or nay, the Judge will say:
"Get out your copyright, we're havin' fun tonight
Who wrote Scrambled Eggs?"

Three Grams for the Piper

Three grams for the piper
Three grams and he'll play it all night
One gram, two grams, three grams down
For the piper.

One gram for the table
One gram for the spoon
One gram for the needle
Three grams down for the piper

Went to the party
The piper was there
Had his alligator shoes on
And his processed hair

Back in the back room
I saw Fanny Mae
The piper was on her
Having his way

No rest for the wicked
No turn is left unstoned
One gram, two grams, three grams down
For the piper.

My Lips

Warm is the summer wind
Red is the tamarind
Swinging hammocks
And pomagranites
That break on my lips
They break on my lips

Soft is the whiporwill
Fresh is the daffodil
What good are promises
When the promises
Break on my lips?
They break on my lips.

Love is the end of rhyme
Love is the pantomime
Brave Narcissus
And silver kisses
That break on my lips
They break on my lips

Too Far

Sometimes the truth is full of lies
Thorny as a rose
Look at me; look into my eyes
Life goes the way it goes

Chorus:
That's the way things got to be
Cuz that's the way things are
Sometimes things just
Go too far.

ii.
Come on baby talk to me
Tell me how you feel
It's all about what should and what oughta be
What could've been is a mighty slim meal
(Chorus)

iii.
Ya don't know what you got till you give it or lose it
Ya don't know what you got till it's gone
This is the life that you get when you choose it
That's why I'm singing this song
(Chorus)

WACO

Whacko Waco
We ain't comin' out
Not until we hear
The angels shout
The Book of Revelation
Will tell what it's all about
The end is near and
We in here and
We Ain't Comin Out

ii
I got seven seals
I got seven guns
I got seven wives
And they've got seven sons
I'm an angel with an Uzi
Savior of the World
Gonna sit in my jacuzzi
Mess around with little girls

iii
Little girl
now don't you be afraid
Gonna show you
How a martyr's made
Got an Abrams on my doorstep
But you know that ain't no clout
Gonna sit right here on my god rocket
We Ain't Comin Out

iv
A voice from heaven
Via microwave
TV cameras
And a soul to save
Ya gotta hand full of gimmie
And a mouth full of much oblige
If you're not gettin any
Are you tellin' lies?

v
All is Pride
All is Vanity
Sweet thirteen
You're gonna marry me
And the ATF and the FBI
Don't know what it's all about
Your sweet lips
And the Apocalypse
We Ain't Comin' Out

House on the Hill

We can all live in the House on the Hill
come as you are
come if you will
We can all live in the House on the Hill

Be Be, Be a participant
don't sit
sit on the sidelines
Be Be, Be a participant
don't sit
sit on the sidelines
and if you never
make it to the sky
don't let it be
'cuz you didn't try

We can all live in the House on the Hill
come as you are
come if you will
We can all live in the House on the Hill

Basic Physics

Aum Allah, Eh Yea Aum Allah
Eh Yea Aum Allah eh yea yea yea

Study love in my physics class
you can copy me
I hope we never pass

Aum Allah, Eh Yea Aum Allah
Eh Yea Aum Allah eh yea yea yea

Moral is what you feel good after
Moral is what you feel good after hey ayea
Karma is, after all, simple basic physics
And physics is nothing more
than elementary magic
wait and see

If you drop Einstein and Isaac Newton
from a leaning monument
Both would land, we theorize
in scientific unison
because the velocity of falling bodies
is 16ft./sec squared
but all logic is suspended
when bodies are falling in love

Aum Allah, Eh Yea Aum Allah
Eh Yea Aum Allah eh yea yea yea

Yin and Yang
Play a game of chase
Viper swallows viper
at the interface
Our sun and stars
and the Human Race
are kindergarten angel's
exercise in grace
And History will make a funny face
To see us vanishing without a single trace

Aum Allah, Eh Yea Aum Allah
Eh Yea Aum Allah eh yea yea yea

My Chapeau

My Chapeau, My Chapeau
I don't go nowhere
without my chapeau

I'm a topoholic, I'm a capophile
slicke habedashery
a man of style, and
I don't go nowhere without my chapeau
I don't go nowhere without my chapeau

Doin' Life
Day for Day
It's play for pay
or it's
pay for play
and
I don't go nowhere
without my chapeau
I said
I don't go nowhere
without my chapeau

I got a brim-down Cavanaugh
that your can't ignore
and a great big Fedora
that I just adore
my shoes are shined and my pants are pressed
but without my hat, I just feel undressed
my chapeau