regeneration

I re-published this today because apparently nobody has these lyrics. Enjoy.

One of my friends couldn’t find the lyrics to this album anywhere, so I agreed to type them up from the liner notes for him. This is one of my favorite albums. I typed everything up exactly the way it’s printed up in the liner notes, so any items in ALL CAPS or with weird punctuation or spacing are that way in the liner notes.

Turn Me Around

Mood perpetuates mood
Tune perpetuates tune
One line touches the other fine

Fear perpetuates fear
Tears perpetuate tears
One lie touches the other fine

THE GROUND IS GROWN
AND BLUE STARS ARE BLOOMING
THE SEEDS ARE FALLING OUT
THE PROBLEM IS, THE GROUND IS ON THE SIDE
AND THE SKY IS ON THE DOWN
TURN ME AROUND

Calm perpetuates calm
Songs perpetuate songs
One hand quietly touches mine

BLUE STARS ARE BLOOMING
THE SEEDS ARE BEING THROWN
THE PROBLEM IS, THE GROUND IS ON THE SIDE
AND THE SKY IS ON THE DOWN
TURN ME AROUND

THE GROUND IS GROWN
AND BLUE STARS ARE BLOOMING
THE SEEDS ARE BLOWING BY
THE PROBLEM IS, THE GROUND IS ON THE SIDE
AND THE SKY IS ON THE DOWN
TURN ME AROUND

Yes and No

Something has to come out
Is it words
Is it notes
Must it come from my mouth?

Is it pen
Is it blood
Is it ink
Must it be what I think?

It’s my guts
It’s my all that I am
I can’t tell one more story
4 Score and then…
and then….

“Once upon an old time”
and then do it again
and then do it again

LET YOUR NO BE NO
LET YOUR YES BE YES
MY NO MEANS NO
AND MY YES MEANS YES

YES YES YES

Something has to come out
Is it words
Is it notes
Must it come from my mouth?

I must speak
I must move
I must sing
It’s a compulsive thing

Is it fear
Is it deep down belief?
I have something to say
Some trash amongst the golden things

Here’s a diamond for you
An aluminum ring
Aluminum Darling

LET YOUR NO BE NO
AND YOUR YES BE YES
MY NO MEANS NO
MY YES MEANS YES

And so the story goes, but down until it hurts
In a jaw lock fashion diamonds out of dirt
And so the story goes, the truth will be told
There is a coal in my mouth
I cannot be the only one, no no no no no

LET YOUR NO BE NO
YOUR YES BE YES
MY NO MEANS NO
MY YES MEANS YES

YES! YES! YES!

And so the story goes, bite down until it hurts
And in a jaw lock fashion diamonds out of dirt
And so the story goes, the truth will be told
There is a coal in my mouth
This volcano is going to blow – I can’t handle the pressure
Darling, I can’t handle the pressure
Darling, I can’t handle the pressure…yes

Birds and Fishes

I saw the one go out the window
I saw the one go up the dam
and come back down
and come back down again

What is this?
It not to know and be known -
to share your plate, this seemingly impossible obstacle
Oh it’s been a dark time

I remember it well
It is in me still
I have seen that I can die I’m reminded and I
WAVE MY OWN FLAG

I saw the one go out the window
I saw the one go up the dam
and come back down
and come back down again

School of fish – one’s lending me hope
Who share their plates
Fighting for Truth, Joy, Justice, or Just Try Again
or Lend a Kind Eye
I could just give up, maybe sleep all day, turn the TV on, or WAVE MY OWN FLAG

I saw the one go out the window, I saw the one go up the dam
and come back down
and come back down… again
again, again
I’ll try again

Do You Want To Fight Me?

Do you want to fight me?
With your one good leg
Do you think you can beat me?
Why don’t you wait until you get out of bed

Well you’re throwing frantic punches at the rate of snow
If you’d break in half, then you could let it go
You’re 80 pounds of wreckage in a Mason jar
You’re a bit combustible, Don’t break

So you want to fight me?
With your one good eye
And do you think you can beat me?
Hm, well come on, come on

Well you’re holding back the candy like a one year old
If you’d break in half then you could let it go
You’re 80 pounds of wreckage in a Mason jar
You’re a bit combustible, don’t break

Something wicked this way comes…
Is it God’s or is it yours?
It’s a bit uncomfortable
Oh don’t kill the messenger

Well you’re throwing frantic punches at the rate of snow
If you’d break in half then you could let it go
You’re a bit combustible
don’t break my heart

Do you want to fight me?
Well, come on

Genevieve’s Wheel

Genevieve and I used to talk about it
Genevieve and I used to talk about it some
Genevieve and I used to talk about it
Genevieve and I used to talk about it
All the colors in the wheel
the wheel
All the colors in the wheel
the wheel, the wheel
All the colors in the wheel
Karen Ailine and I used to talk about it
Karen Ailine and I used to talk about it some
Karen Ailine and I used to talk about it
Karen Ailine and I used to talk about it some
All the colors in the wheel
the wheel
All the colors in the wheel
the wheel, the wheel
All the colors in the wheel

Karen, April, Nikki, Kari, Sydney, Lyle,
Trevan, Skylar, Collette, Taylor, Elias,
Elleanor, Sharon, Connie, Michele,
Judy, Mark, Danny, Merry, Sarah,
Jake, Jennifer, Natalie, Colleen, Carol,
Autumn, Andrew, Johnny, Bub, Doug,
Angie, Buzz, Glen, Wayne, Tracy,
Leslie, Gary, Johnny, Dana, tommy,
Bryce, David, Allie, Mandy, Tim,
Kenny, Elizabeth, Genevieve

Genevieve

You Break Me Down

Wait as all the signs swirl acount
I’ve been in the bed four months not
Falling out of the sky
I can look at myself from the ground
Well, hello

Is this how it is?
You separate the coarse from the loud
You break me down
You wear me out
Asleep with all the lights on
You’re seeing me doubt
Oh what once was a lion is just a bird to me now
Oh help

Is this how it is?
You separate the red from the brown
You forget what it is you were going to say
It doesn’t mean much now
It doesn’t mean much now
You break me down

Wishing all the bricks untied themselves
Rode in on the broken back of my health
oh

Is this how it is?
You separate the quiet and the proud
I think I’ll stay in, but it’s so nice outside
There’s a war I’m losing
Of pins to lightning strikes
I’m found out
You wear me out
Asleep with all the lights on

You’re seeing me doubt
What was once a lion is just a bird to me now
I need you now

Surgery In The Sky

Wake up it’s all about
Giving in to something you haven’t figured out
Weighed it on the scale
Bonafide soul

You lift your arm try to catch a star
It fell down your sleeve and cut your heart
You believe it’ll leave a lovely scar
This surgery in the sky

Oh you can’t hide what you hold
Look it in the middle
OW! Get it out!
Bonafide splinter
Bonafide seeker

You lift your arm try to catch a star
It fell down your sleeve and cut your heart
You believe it’ll leave a lovely scar
This surgery in the sky
And you lift your arm try to catch a star
It fell down your sleeve and cut your heart
And you bleed at night on your countertops
From this surgery in the sky

You lift your arm try to catch a star
It fell down your sleeve and cut your heart
You believe it’ll leave a lovely scar
This surgery in the sky

Pink Champagne

Feeling really so social, I’ll ride the bar car for a while
The Chat Man is conversational, but soon we’ll both be so tired
The Character catches my “I say”
He’s a long song on a summer night
He shoots me down with his green gaze
I’m in love with his lullaby
I SEE ALL THE GIRLS WALTZ BY
THAT WISH THAT THEY WERE WITH YOU
I MUST SAY WE’RE ALL QUITE SURPRISED THAT YOU’RE SO GOOD AND SO COOL
I SEE YOU LOOKING AT ME
OH HOW I HATE TO ADMIT THAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING AT YOU
COME ON AND GIVE ME A KISS
COME ON
I’m Sipping Straight and you’re Pink Champagne
You’re the man in white in a big glass house
I like a mess in 1962
and I just like you around
I SEE ALL THE GIRLS WALTZ BY
THAT WISH THAT THEY WERE WITH YOU
I MUST SAY WE’RE ALL QUITE SURPRISED THAT YOU’RE SO GOOD AND SO COOL
I SEE YOU LOOKING AT ME
OH HOW I HATE TO ADMIT THAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING AT YOU
COME ON AND GIVE ME A KISS
COME ON
I’m Sipping Straight and you’re Pink Champagne
I SEE ALL THE GIRLS WALTZ BY
THAT WISH THAT THEY WERE WITH YOU
I MUST SAY WE’RE ALL QUITE SURPRISED THAT YOU’RE SO GOOD AND SO COOL
I SEE YOU LOOKING AT ME
OH HOW I HATE TO ADMIT THAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING AT YOU
COME ON AND GIVE ME A KISS
COME ON AND GIVE ME A KISS
COME ON AND GIVE ME A KISS
COME ON!

72 Degrees

it’s always the same
don’t you wish that something would change?

it’s always the same
don’t you itch for something to change?

have hot chocolate in June
put something wild in your tea
for it’s a crisis I agree
it’s constantly 72 degrees

it’s always the same
don’t you wish that something would change?

It’s always the same
don’t you itch for something to change?

have a bath in your swimsuit
open your hand you’ll get something for free
for it’s a crisis I agree
it’s constantly 72 degrees

aahhhhhhh

it’s always the same
don’t you itch for something to change

it’s always the same don’t you wish
don’t you wish that something would change

it’s always the same
don’t you itch for something to change

it’s always the same
don’t you with that something would change?

aahhhhhhhh

Go To Sleep

Try to go to sleep
Try, try baby
Try to go to sleep
Try, try baby

Try to go to sleep
Try to slow your breathing
Try to go to sleep
Try to slow your breathing

This burden that has followed you
has fallen now into the sea
Just lay your head upon my chest
and listen to my heartbeat

Try to go to sleep
Try to slow your breathing
I’ll rock you on my knee
Sing you through the morning

This burden that has followed you
has fallen now into the sea
Just lay your head upon my chest
and listen……
Listen to my heartbeat

Try to go to sleep,
Try, try baby
Try to go to sleep
Try, try baby
Rock you on my knee
Sing you through the morning

Credits:

Written + Produced by Venus Hum
All songs ©2006 Mono-Fi Music/ASCAP

Venus Hum is Annette Strean, Kip Kubin, and Tony Miracle
BGV on 08: Kirk Cornelius
Design and album art: Mark Sloniker

Managment: [sic]
Christopher Moon for Nettwerk Management
Jason Wilkins for Full Service Management
Booking Agents:
Steve Ferguson at Little Big Man Booking (North America)
David Levy and Phyllis Belezos at ITB (europe)
www.venushum.com www.nettwerk.com
Contact: mgmt@venushum.com

Venus Hum would like to thank our loving and gracious families without whom we would not be able to give you this record. We would like to thank our friends, management, community, and those in the music business and otherwise that have supported us for so long. We thank you all very much.