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var handshakeLyrics = "<center><h2><u>handshake</u></h2>\
\
A deep snow was on the ground in Future Forever Uncertain.<br />\
Peace was thereby doomed..<br />\
Unanswered questions<br />\
in the atmosphere of safe mediocrity,<br />\
whatever colorblind reality..<br />\
the slow Undoing..<br />\
the slow Unknown...<br />\
<br />\
We're alone.<br />\
Do you sleep well?<br />\
Our house is in an awful state.<br />\
Here's the prescription.<br />\
Do you smoke?<br />\
Ned, I'm out of cigars!<br />\
I'm coming down now.<br />\
Well what about this?<br />\
I made a lot of messages<br />\
We have to think of some plan<br />\
to escape from this ship!<br />\
hmm. hmm.<br />\
No doctor can help you.<br />\
We have to think bright and beautiful.<br />\
We only teach the art of killing, and that's all.<br />\
So help me God.<br />\
So help you God.<br />\
So help me God.<br />\
<br />\
They are dusting his books.<br />\
Shafts of sunlight from above <br />\
brought a strange sort of light.<br />\
There are some broken pencils in your drawer.<br />\
I need a hammer.<br />\
Well, perhaps they're in your pocket.<br />\
There's a hammer on my desk.<br />\
On your desk?<br />\
No, John, there's a knife on your desk.<br />\
</center>";

var cedarWaxwingLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_cedar.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" /></center>"; /*<center><h2><u>cedar waxwing</u></h2>\
\
what have we become? I wonder <br />\
if the clouds look down with lightning<br />\
eyes of anger slowly whisper <br />\
all the answers we will never hear<br />\
here lies no one's architectural map <br />\
of sightless mindless birth machine <br />\
she needs all the help in this world <br />\
turns its back on solar energy<br />\
geometric wars behind our back <br />\
to where we left off leaving<br />\
<br />\
broken record news flash<br />\
this just in<br />\
the strike is about to begin.<br />\
why have we gone blind<br />\
is artificial light to bright for these distracted<br />\
eyes to recognize?<br />\
<br />\
where did we go wrong? the forest thinks in color<br />\
asking why the rain forgets to wash red footprints<br />\
left by the ghost of a mad computer.<br />\
</center>";*/

var lightningStrikesLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_lightning.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" /></center>"; /*<center><h2><u>lightning strikes a raindrop</u></h2>\
\
I walked to Alaska for breakfast <br />\
this morning was salmon and smoke. <br />\
A ten mile run between rivers <br />\
where gold is black as my liver. <br />\
 <br />\
Pearly whites with coffee stains <br />\
in a caffeine cubicle <br />\
Happy mice with tiny brains <br />\
check their pocket-watches. <br />\
 <br />\
I drove to North Carolina. <br />\
The mountains were covered in blue. <br />\
Ten nights of smoke, stout, and moonshine <br />\
we drank from a jar on our birthdays. <br />\
 <br />\
Pearly whites with red wine stains <br />\
in a Rubik's cubicle. <br />\
Giant men with tiny names <br />\
check their pocket-watches. <br />\
 <br />\
When the coast is clear <br />\
I'm gone for a while <br />\
behind these blinds are nightcaps. <br />\
I've got a bottle of brakedust, <br />\
I will pop the cork <br />\
and put out your rapid eye. <br />\
 <br />\
I swam in Lake Carasaljo <br />\
to see if the stories were true. <br />\
Three little skeleton sisters <br />\
all nervously laughing and whispering, <br />\
\"wake up, man.\" <br />\
 <br />\
Pearly whites with coffee stains <br />\
in a caffeine cubicle. <br />\
Happy mice with tiny brains <br />\
check their pocket-watches. <br />\
</center>";*/

var newAnimalsLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_animals.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"926\" /></center>"/*<center><h2><u>the appearance of new animals</u></h2>\
\
Freeze dried lies and stainless view  <br />\
file blunt the fangs of a mad murderous mute. <br />\
 <br />\
It came up out of nowhere  <br />\
and it saved and it sang and it signed  <br />\
no name and left no number. <br />\
 <br />\
      A hundred different maps  <br />\
      A thousand different keys  <br />\
      A legend in control of these  <br />\
 <br />\
I've learned to read the compass  <br />\
but I'VE SPUN OUT IN THE SNOW. <br />\
 <br />\
There's nothing like a car crash. <br />\
 <br />\
 <br />\
 <br />\
      Dissolve in the Mystery, <br />\
      back to the light that we once were  <br />\
      before we went plastic,  <br />\
     masking the Faceless Nameless. <br />\
 <br />\
It came up out of Nowhere  <br />\
and it saved  <br />\
   and it sang <br />\
      and it signed <br />\
 <br />\
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A CAR CRASH. <br />\
 <br />\
The friction burn,  <br />\
      the whiplash, <br />\
            and the shakes. <br />\
</center>";*/


var automaticDrawingLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_automaticdrawing.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"779\" /></center>"; /*alt=\"<center><h2><u>automatic drawing</u></h2>\
\
Rain falls  cold and oily <br />\
thin words dissolve <br />\
to chase the tasteless <br />\
birds back into trees<br />\
<br />\
Sun sinks slowly setting <br />\
stonework madly ablaze <br />\
the day soon dies <br />\
on fire on his worn out knees <br />\
<br />\
Night comes swiftly <br />\
to reveal her <br />\
electric lights burn yellow <br />\
the microwave goes beep <br />\
<br />\
Drink spills   glass refills itself <br />\
oh, menacing medicine puts me to bed again <br />\
almost warm and wondering <br />\
<br />\
Scripts consumed, we follow dotted lines.<br />\
Mind your manners, cameras on the window showtime.<br />\
Post no bills and piss nowhere but home.<br />\
Control control.<br />\
<br />\
Wake from broken sleep vermillion <br />\
a million buzzing radio alarm clocks <br />\
static sandblast last dreams <br />\
<br />\
Shave, shit, shower <br />\
then an hour on the train <br />\
no seat, no heat, no headphones <br />\
at least we brought a book to read <br />\
<br />\
Work!  Work!  Work! <br />\
now barks the bossman <br />\
does a dance for the corporate dollar <br />\
he says, \"holler if you need me\" <br />\
<br />\
Reach home, smoke and sip a cheap one <br />\
O Holy Remote Controller of America <br />\
tell me/us when to breathe <br />\
</center>\">";*/

var sassafrasLyrics = "<center><h2><u>sassafras root bark</h2></u>\
\
Rub your eyes, double check for marks on your neck.  <br />\
Disappear as you rise from a fog of soft lies.  <br />\
Drink, drain, wash, and cover the tub with a film of what's to come... <br />\
Rainstorm over the field where we've sown our destiny.  <br />\
 <br />\
Travel while you can, or at least pretend <br />\
there is more to this than a movie and a dream.  <br />\
 <br />\
I am not the taste of water, maybe I'm a sand mirage.  <br />\
A change in the weather, a falling feather seen by one who stalks only to learn. <br />\
 <br />\
I'm your dying breath. <br />\
The last beat of your heart when no more time is left.  <br />\
I'm a sleeping tree. <br />\
The frost of winter's blanket loves to cover me.  <br />\
 <br />\
Look back at your tracks  <br />\
on a trail you made.  <br />\
A rainy day parade  <br />\
plays a song to say, \"So long.\"  <br />\
 <br />\
Crawl back into the dirt  <br />\
from which you were born. <br />\
</center>";

var rwhLyrics = "<center><h2><u>RWH</h2></u>\
\
All of this is part of a dream<br />\
the trains we've missed<br />\
the walls we've seen and <br />\
sprayed our names with or without frames<br />\
your paint, my blood sometimes the same <br />\
emergency exits, flashing lights <br />\
buckskin tents, mosquito bites <br />\
the nails that scrape the hairless ape <br />\
all microphones and microwaves <br />\
<br />\
Cast out now <br />\
your nets to catch the clouds or <br />\
leave them how you found them. <br />\
<br />\
Scratch and sniff or slot machine<br />\
a contest in a magazine <br />\
Know someone who knows someone <br />\
a contract that will never come <br />\
Don't sit, don't wait <br />\
Don't use the lame excuse of fate<br />\
Go strong, go find <br />\
whatever moves your mind to <br />\
<br />\
Cast out now <br />\
Your hooks to catch the clouds or <br />\
Leave them how you found them <br />\
<br />\
Waves cross paths, collide and dance <br />\
or crash and disappear <br />\
Some may pass like dreams unnoticed <br />\
as if they were never there<br />\
</center>";

var tooMuchSleepLyrics = "<center><h2><u>too much sleep can fuck you up</h2></u>\
\
Morning tiles chill the flesh of my soles, exposed<br />\
near the glass door in back.  Shields the wind and snow.<br />\
Paper news cast abroad, Fear and bombs explode.<br />\
Coffee black, your dry skin is cracked and <br />\
the war has reached our home.<br />\
the War has reached our home.<br />\
THE WAR HAS REACHED OUR HOME!<br />\
<br />\
Go back to sleep, the fire is in a place under control.<br />\
Go back to sleep and try to find a dream to call your own.<br />\
<br />\
Rain or shine, no straight lines, car, truck, bus or train.<br />\
Work or school every day, one link on the chain. <br />\
Children sing knowing not who plants the sugar cane.<br />\
Your father has read of those who have bled when <br />\
profits were to gain.  They've covered up their name. <br />\
The tiger ate the crane.<br />\
</center>";

var untitledLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_untitled.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"779\" /></center>";/*"<center><h2><u>untitled</h2></u>\
\
Now that you're awake<br />\
again the bed will shake<br />\
and dust will fall from mirrors<br />\
as our bones return to clay<br />\
We're no longer afraid<br />\
of dogs of death of demons<br />\
and bad goodbyes<br />\
<br />\
Now that we're alone<br />\
I'll read aloud this poem<br />\
and tell you it's about a dream<br />\
I had you in the night<br />\
but something wasn't right<br />\
You're face fell off <br />\
and the sun bloomed in its place<br />\
<br />\
Raise your arm and say you're alright<br />\
Kill the light, don't kill a good night<br />\
How do you feel? and how do you heal so quickly?<br />\
When the rain gets in our eyes<br />\
I'm blind but somehow you're fine<br />\
<br />\
Now that you're asleep<br />\
I'm slaughtering the sheep<br />\
who dragged you down through darkness<br />\
to an unfamiliar place that leaves a sour taste<br />\
in every mouth by morning<br />\
<br />\
Raise your arm and say you're alright<br />\
Kill the just don't say good night<br />\
How do you feel? and how do you heal so quickly?<br />\
When the rain gets in our eyes<br />\
I'm blind but somehow you're fine<br />\
</center>";*/

var tenMinuteLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_tenminutetoothbrush.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"990\" /></center>"; /*"<center><h2><u>ten minute toothbrush</h2></u>\
\
Break a branch for your cover.<br />\
Paint the leaves black and red.<br />\
Take the lenses from your glasses<br />\
and hide them under the bed<br />\
or leave them to a trusted friend<br />\
you hope to never see again.<br />\
<br />\
Fingerprints reddish brown on the pages<br />\
of a book in a motel drawer.<br />\
Some words are crossed out, some are circled in black pen. <br />\
Back then what wasn't written was wrong.<br />\
And now all the prophets are gone<br />\
and we're dying to hear it all. <br />\
<br />\
Sleep well  so you can tell me <br />\
all the colors of the leaves in your dreams.<br />\
<br />\
Neutralize the mouth singing shrapnel for justice.<br />\
Augustus, who's flag do you fly and why? <br />\
The numb take sides when the scroll on the bottom has got them. <br />\
A corporate cane to walk the blind. <br />\
They gave power to the one with the bigger sign. <br />\
My cast ballot was a waste. <br />\
<br />\
Hey man, are you a cop? <br />\
Where is your badge and your club and your glock? <br />\
<br />\
Nails rain down now it's time to stay inside for our safety <br />\
or maybe we'll wake up and see the sky <br />\
open up bright and wide.  Who's to say this is living? <br />\
We are giving up a perfect noise to fool the spy. <br />\
A bridge and a bomb collide <br />\
to force a mumbling mind to surrender. <br />\
<br />\
Sleep well so you can tell <br />\
all the colors of the leaves in your dreams.<br />\
</center>";*/

var chesapeakeLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_chesapeake.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"910\" /></center>";

 /*"<center><h2><u>Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Bridge Tunnel Bridge</h2></u>\
\
In the purple mouth of twilight<br />\
an exchange has been made.<br />\
Now the people on the farm write <br />\
to the grange and they wave<br />\
to the mayor in his new car<br />\
with his wife in the back <br />\
as the dog barks from the front seat<br />\
spilling all of the facts.<br />\
<br />\
Word on the street, if a fact, is a find.<br />\
Is an undercooked meat <br />\
home to worms for the mind?<br />\
<br />\
With the golden rank of puppet <br />\
comes a grip and a gun <br />\
for the granite guards of prophets <br />\
made a slip of the tongue<br />\
when an empty box was taken<br />\
for a ride o  the sea<br />\
all the chapel pews were vacant<br />\
not a soul to be freed.<br />\
<br />\
The lake is a blinding reflection of life.<br />\
where a child is a dead man who runs with a knife.<br />\
</center>";*/

var iThoughtLyrics = "<center><h2><u>i thought you were me</h2></u>\
\
\"You look weird without a beard,\" <br />\
she said with every-colored eyes <br />\
while swatting at the flies coming through my teeth. <br />\
<br />\
Now she's drying off her skin<br />\
so she can climb into my bed<br />\
and climb into my head when we're both asleep.<br />\
<br />\
All the lights are out and I can't feel your hands. <br />\
What're you up to?  What have you found? <br />\
<br />\
We've seen miles of the wild <br />\
between our cities and our streams.<br />\
On second thought it seems <br />\
as if I've moved too far away<br />\
<br />\
from the people I have known. <br />\
Together we have grown apart <br />\
and flown across the globe to where <br />\
we'll never meet again unless <br />\
<br />\
All the lights are out and I can see your face. <br />\
The taste of broken promises, a wishbone...<br />\
<br />\
When we're both done with subways and long days <br />\
we'll make a move to the mountains <br />\
but until then it is a pen to a page <br />\
I will send you from this cage. <br />\
</center>";

var dinersLyrics = "<center><h2><u>diners at sunrise</h2></u>\
\
Time to bail or patch the hole in this paper ship<br />\
with pine sap and/or spider silk.<br />\
If it doesn't work out <br />\
there are a dozen other lined loose leaves in this book.<br />\
<br />\
We can scribble on the placemat.<br />\
You can mingle while I just sit back<br />\
in the bottle almost empty<br />\
a wrinkled note reads HELP ME<br />\
<br />\
Back to Manor Drive<br />\
before the birds were gone<br />\
with the Pitch pine and Chestnut oak.<br />\
When the sun was half down <br />\
we smelled a sassafras funeral and followed on foot. <br />\
<br />\
We can scribble on the placemat. <br />\
You can mingle while I sit back <br />\
in the corner of a blank page<br />\
with a cross-eyed stare through space. <br />\
<br />\
Well, I couldn't read the address.<br />\
Maybe that is why I'm late.<br />\
Or I could just say that we were stuck in traffic<br />\
caused by the snow that never came.<br />\
</center>";

var withAStraightFaceLyrics = "<center><h2><u>with a straight face</h2></u>\
\
She checked out at noon.<br />\
Took a cab downtown.<br />\
Thoughts in her head<br />\
were somebody else's. <br />\
<br />\
Sits for lunch alone,<br />\
not ready to head home.<br />\
Rents a room up high.<br />\
Big bed for a friend tonight. <br />\
<br />\
No one will ever know.<br />\
Her makeup doesn't run. <br />\
There's no room for green to grow.<br />\
Her glasses are thick <br />\
and her lips tight. <br />\
<br />\
Window painted shut.<br />\
Luna moths in her gut.<br />\
Shakes with no control. <br />\
No eggs in the toilet bowl. <br />\
<br />\
Anxious ultrasound. <br />\
Still can't spit the creature out. <br />\
The child may have blue skin.<br />\
Not sure who the father is. <br />\
                       drum roll, drumroll<br />\
<br />\
Soon everyone may know<br />\
her make-up was a mask.<br />\
There's no room for green to grow.<br />\
Her glasses are thick<br />\
and her lips tight.<br />\
<br />\
Baby looks just like mom.<br />\
She'll get away with it.<br />\
Children and husband blind.<br />\
Different family's blood's inside. <br />\
<br />\
The strange affair won't be breathed again. <br />\
The secret's safe when she forgets it all. <br />\
</center>";

var hindsightLyrics = "<center><img src=\"graphics/lyrics_hindsight.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"588\" /></center>";
/*"<center><h2><u>hindsight is 20/40</h2></u>\
\
Don't come to me with an arrow in your back<br />\
and expect me to pull it out no questions asked.<br />\
This place can change from battlefield to bed,<br />\
compare the weight of what was thought to what was said.<br />\
<br />\
I can smell it on your breath  (red as reason)<br />\
like the tumor in your chest .<br />\
`Tis the season  to be ankle-deep in blood<br />\
for friendship or for love.<br />\
<br />\
Don't come to me with a blister on your mind.<br />\
I will not dress your wound until you undress mine.<br />\
This place can be a book read in reverse;<br />\
not so dramatic with the tragic ending first.<br />\
<br />\
I can smell it o your breath  (red as reason)<br />\
like the tumor in your breast.<br />\
`Tis the season to be ankle-deep in blood<br />\
for friendship and for love.<br />\
<br />\
Is it worth it?<br />\
<br />\
Overexposure brings no closure.<br />\
End transmission.   Let her miss you.<br />\
</center>";*/

var historyLyrics = "<center><h2><u>a history of repeated injuries</h2></u>\
\
Last time I saw you<br />\
no one said a word.<br />\
All stiff with a noose for a necktie, <br />\
it hurt like hell's supposed to.<br />\
<br />\
From here it's not just up or down extremes.<br />\
There's everything in between <br />\
your nightmares and your dreams. <br />\
Out there it's not just left or right or wrong.<br />\
This river we walk along will soon be gone for good.<br />\
<br />\
Is that old piano still in tune?<br />\
Do your knuckles bleed on the broken keys?<br />\
Do you sneeze from the dust?<br />\
Busted needle, desperate measure<br />\
revolutions per minute, eleven times three,<br />\
a drop in the sea, twelve notes, two hands, <br />\
one mind for one man.<br />\
<br />\
From here it's not just up or down extremes.<br />\
There's everything between your whispers and your screams.<br />\
Out there it's not just left or right or wrong.<br />\
This river we float upon will soon be gone for good<br />\
and there is nothing we can say to bring back yesterday. <br />\
<br />\
From here it's not just up or down extremes. <br />\
There's everything between your nightmares and your dreams.<br />\
Out there it's not just left or right or wrong. <br />\
This river we walk along will soon be gone for good <br />\
and there is nothing we can do to bring it back for you.<br />\
</center>";

var deathIsNeverUnemployedLyrics = "<center><h2><u>death is never unemployed</h2></u>\
\
Breathe deep.  Don't speak.  I know where your legs are.<br />\
There's a room in our uncles house <br />\
where the kids play games. <br />\
Telephone, far from home.  A man reads the paper <br />\
if he wants to keep up with the times <br />\
of who against who. <br />\
<br />\
Lights will change and so will the names<br />\
of people in movies, but who gives a fuck? <br />\
For now you're happy and I'm almost dead. <br />\
<br />\
Will you bury the body <br />\
or send it out to sea? <br />\
Don't let it burn <br />\
I want to feed <br />\
<br />\
the infinite mouth<br />\
when I'm broken down<br />\
by the things you can't see.<br />\
The one thing I learned from Death<br />\
is no secret.  I can't keep it <br />\
from you.<br />\
</center>";