Are there other places?
Places you can go?
Undiscovered countries?
Places you can go?
Far beyond these shores
Far above these skies
Open your eyes

I was up there...
But something happened
I was up there
Up there looking down but something happened
If you could only see
See how hard I've tried maybe you'd get it
This cruel and stupid place that wants to wipe you off its face
So why not let it?

Sixteen stories high
Looking at the city underneath me
I climbed across the rail
To say goodbye and let this world release me
Then I heard a voice
Then I heard a voice on high...

This is so not cool
Just tell me what I've done
Tell me what I’m doin’ here
And what the hell’s “stage one”?
Holy mother of Jesus, look at me now
Last thing I remember
I’d just gotten take-out
From Lee Fook Chow

Last thing I remember
I was standing on the corner
Of Lafayette and Grand
I was thinkin’ ‘bout my guy
How he gave me his heart
And he gave me his hand
But life’s so strange
How quick things change
I forgot my loser’s luck
Now what can I do?
Everything’s new
Everything’s blue!
What the fuck?

It’s the start of something new
So put away that face
No one left it up to you
There was nothing you could do
A child was born to take your place

The world you left was a B-grade joke
Cheap and poorly made
When god was just a wannabe
The laughingstock of eternity
Be glad you got away...

To Blue, Blue Heaven (blue, blue, blue)
So lovely you’re here (here, here, here)
Everything’s grand (everything's perfectly grand)
Everything’s clear (clear, clear, clear)
And we know it’s true (so true)
You’ll love what we do
In Blue, Blue Heaven

It’s so sorry and confused
That place you used to live
You can’t throw in all those shades
All those colors in one place
'Til something's gotta give
God has lost all interest there
Anyone can tell
A bold experiment I guess
But what a monumental mess
Welcome out of hell

To Blue, Blue Heaven (blue, blue, blue)
You fortunate soul (fortunate soul)
Everything’s pure here (everything's perfectly grand)
Everything’s whole (whole, whole, whole)
And you'll love the view (so true)
You’ll love what we do (do)
In Blue, Blue Heaven..
Heaven
Heaven

Calling from the balcony above
He said, “Everything is really made of love
We can't see it
But I think I'm gettin' close”

“Everything you taste and touch and feel
It's just the smallest part of all that's real
We can't see it
It's like looking through a ghost
It all just shines from the Universal Mind
Seven more dimensions not to even mention time
Energy is nothing more than spirit”

Then he said some other stuff that wasn't so coherent

I took the stairs down
He was waiting for me
I tried to thank him and offered him some money
He just shook his head and backed away
He said, "Meet me tomorrow at the Avenue Cafe"
"Meet me tomorrow at the Avenue Cafe"
I’ve got this thing
I’ve got this thing
I’ve got this thing...

He never said what time
He wasn't there
Not the next day or the next
I asked around by now I was totally obsessed
To have some guy fall from the sky
Save my life and disappear

Then I talked to a cop...
And the cop said he was here

Listen how you talk!
This door! That door!
There are things behind them you had better be a match for
There are rooms and rooms and rooms
And stairways that wind
What will you find
In the mansions of the mind?

Get ready
Get ready
For the unseen world!
Some say there’s a reason
We’re locked on this side
Ancient rules of order not to be defied
But some will hear a voice
That calls them on a wild ride

Listen how you talk!
Scratching with words!
But truth cannot be found in all your adjectives and verbs
Truth is like a chasm where you fall
and fall
and fall
and fall... ‘til you’re high above it all!

Get ready
Get ready
For the unseen world!
Set out on a sea
Of particles and waves
Echoed in the voices
Mirrored in the maze
You become the instrument
As it plays the unseen world

Don't call me a shaman
Don't call me a guru
Don't call me a saint
I don't know what I am
So how 'bout a few more things I ain't?
I ain't drivin' no more busses
I ain't punchin' no more clocks
I ain't havin' no more bosses talk like dogs and smell like gym socks

Life is calling now with something more in mind
Draw yourself inside
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
Imagine you are floating
On a river of light
Floating
Floating
Everything is slow now
Floating
Floating
Everything is soft now

Softer, slower, darker, darker, darker... darker.

Hey girl look where you landed
One more wrong turn, you never learn
Don't it burn and now you're stranded
In the Green, girl

All your fakin’, frontin’, bluffin'
Everything you touch just crumbles into nothin'
Nothin's ever gonna change
To be loved
Wouldn't that be strange?

Shoulda known that very first day
Bloody baby, cryin' in the alleyway
Momma takes one look and starts to pray
Hits on the pipe and walks away

Ooh we do, we do, we do
Who you think made it all come true?
First light you ever seen
In the Green, girl!

You know the rest, what happened next
Passed around like a bad check
All those families, all those towns
Handed off in your hand-me-downs
Who you gonna trust when every step-mom puts you on the bus she threw you under?

To be loved...

Mother
I would hear your voice at night
Saying you were coming
And it would be alright

Mother
I'd pretend that you were there
I'd jump in your lap
You'd sing me songs
And plait my hair

Everything before would be forgotten
From now on I had you and you had me
Then the door would open
And they'd ask who I was talking to
No one
It was always true

Pearl:
There are cracks in this world
And they say that’s how the light gets in
But the cracks have grown wider
While the light grows dim

Bryce:
Everybody’s on edge these days
Everybody can feel it
But look at her there
Slumped in a chair
This is the mighty girl you say can heal it
Look what you did to a lost little kid
Are you only a dangerous fraud
Do the stars reveal it?

Pearl:
You can talk
From your mouth
While your spirit is crying
I can hear it in your voice
There’s a secret you’re hiding

Bryce:
Here’s what I’m hiding
The number i’m dialing
Just three digits and they’re so beguiling
This time there’ll be no fine
You’ll just be doing time
When they see how you get your kicks

Pearl:
Did you beg
At my door
Did you plead for my service
Did I even validate your card
I did not!
And now you gonna call the cops

Bryce:
I am under terrible stress
I’m dealing with pressure
I’m dealing with death
And something else no mortal man should have to bear
I’ve got a plane to catch and then a lover to inter
So say some magic words
And make things like they were!

Pearl:
We are swimming in the deep end of the pool
So it would help if you could please sit down
and stop flailin’ around like a goddamn fool
Did you somehow miss the memo?
FInd a way to misconstrue it?
This is tricky!
This is risky!
This is--

So you think you're punk, punk?
Or a tough guy?
We're authorized to treat you nice and rough guy
You got some guff, guy? (Didn’t think so)
You seem a bit perplexed
So here’s what happens next

We'll do some odd things
Some oh-my-god things
While throwing in a few Marquis de Sade things
Do you like to feel the tickle of a mace on your face
Or removal of some organs only grudgingly replaced
We're here to show you how it's gonna be
What to expect when we come to collect

We're the worst of the worst
And we're cursed
To stay and pay our debt
Til we get
To go back to the spectrum
The universe's rectum
An over-active orifice of more of that and more of this
The shithole you come from

What's the worst thing you've ever done?

Were you a dog kicker?
A doorknob licker?
A fratboy bugger?
Or a common mugger (with a Louisville slugger) ?
Ever beat up winos?
Or tease albinos?
Maybe knock up nuns?

What's the worst thing you've ever done?

Let’s do some Lee stuff
And then some me stuff
And maybe then a little Jeffrey D stuff
It’s all what you get
When you kick ze buck-et
You’ll be begging and pleading
And screaming and crying
And dreaming of the miracle of dying

We're the worst of the worst
And we're cursed
To stay and work as cops
Til it stops
And we get to be re-born again
And make sadistic porn again
While ligaments are torn again
And victims’ families mourn again
But for the moment this will have to do

We get to torture you

You had just one job!
Find that lady Pearl and get it back
You had just one job!
How can anybody be so slack?
You don’t know how bummed I am
How bummed I am right now
I keep slippin’ around, slippin’ around, slippin’ around

The universe is systems, man
All these freaky systems intermingled
But lately at these random times
My throat gets tight – my armpits start to tingle
Everything gets shaky
There’s no left or right or up or down
I start slippin’ around, slippin’ around, slippin around

See our brains are like radios, don’t you get it?
We pick up signals from the cosmic mind
Most folks are tuned to just one boring station all the time

But you and me are different, man
We’re the ones who walk out on the ledge
Then we fire a great big doobie
And snort some poppers laced with Lemon Pledge

It’s how you see new colors
Glowing in the black light
But when you blow your mind
It doesn’t always go back right
I keep slippin’ around, slippin’ around, slippin’ around,
slippin’ around

This is so not cool
They're bustin' my balls
This is so not like the stuff
They taught me at St. Paul's
Sweet Mother Mary, if this is heaven, you must be here!
Last thing I remember
I was crossing the street--

Miri:
When I was on that balcony
Remember what you said to me
You said, “Everything's really made of love”
And suddenly that little girl
With the monster underneath her world
Could turn on a light
Turn and fight

Halo:
Sorry you think I was yankin' your crank
You might take a second to thank me
I was sharing a vision
A kind of equation
To measure it all, I call it
My Theory of Everything

And I know it sounds kinda over-the-top...
(I really wish you would stop)
Just hear the first part
(I don't have the heart)
You don't understand!
Here's how it starts:

My Theory of Everything points to the fact
That there really should only be nothing
No cars or trees or day or night
No time or space, for sure no light
And I can't explain why it is that it is
But from a subjective perspective it is
A certain persistence of measure existence
Arrayed in particular patterns of---

Ralph was very sweet and frankly very hot
But he was not my equal
(I know it sounds awful)
But I was trained at Julliard and Oberlin
And Ralph was rather dim
But an ass like the ass on him should not be lawful

Still passion only goes so far and I began to drift away
Into the arms of Drake Muldoon
Erudite first chair bassoon
Each time he quoted Proust I'd swoon
I shared his taste in wine and love of lit!

(So you cheated)

I feel like shit...

For Ralph had something like no other lover
A gift mere education cannot bring
A quality of which the angels sing…

Goodness
Just goodness
A golden ray of spirit
A heart that’s warm and kind
There is music in the spheres if you can hear it
And there is love...if you can feel it when it shines

Goodness
It isn’t that I strayed
(I mean, who doesn’t stray?)
Goodness
But now I’ve done such harm
That innocence, that punky charm…

Are there seven heavens?
Will we ever see?
Seven different colors?
Could it really be?
There behind the veil
Where the secret lies
Open your eyes…

To orchestrate a perfect world
Takes acumen
And expertise
And demographic research

To build a true utopian realm
Takes vision and mission statements
And such a gifted leader at the helm

God lives in the blue
The holiest of places
And we all see God
On a fairly regular basis
God can see us too
See right through a soul worth saving
God knows what we're craving…

This is a crisis
(Christ, it’s a crisis!)
An existential threat to all we know
We have had peace here
For millennia at least here
By moving all our trouble down below
Now they're sneaking in
Somehow leaking in
You heard what they said
They’re not even dead!

There’s a right way and a wrong way to come here
There are laws that govern this land
It is clearly written
The big one must be bitten
A pale horse must be ridden
You can’t try the farm before you buy the farm
It’s forbidden!

There’s a right way and a wrong way to do this
There are rules only fools disregard
And there’s nothing more repulsive than a pulse
More disgusting than a gust of air from a mouth right there
If you can fog a mirror
You cannot come here mon frere!

They clearly get the pump!
They clearly get the pump!
Pump out every thought!
Pump out every word!
Anything and everything they did or said or heard
Forever laid to waste
Eternally erased!

There’s a right way and a wrong way to come here!

Mother
I Would hear your voice at night
Saying you were coming and it would be alright
Mother
Did you know how i hated you?
For letting me go
Never wanting to know
Where I went
Or who I was
How I grew
What I loved

They used to tell me God was like a parent
The one I always prayed I’d find
To catch me when I stumble
Hold me while I crumble
Throw me a line
Stand tall above me
Love me
Love me

But this is all we get
This is all there is
This mindless, endless space
Where we’re supposed to live
Molecules that go about their business
An accident
We chanced to witness

Mother
I can see you even now
I imagine your face
Your sad, sweet eyes
Your gentle mouth
Mother
I can see you shaking your head
There was never anything like love
Just a pretty lie we all made up

And this is all there is
This is all we get
All we get are stories
To let ourselves forget
And mother, I know why
You didn't want to know me
You did it out of kindness
You were only trying to show me
Not to want
Too much
Not to reach
For your touch

This is all we get
This is all we get

That was there but now you’re here where things are so much better
You’ll put on a party dress and did you guess?
Your very own sleeveless sweater
The green is mean and I’m sorry to hear
You were under the curse of that
But the perfectly positive purple is quite the reverse of that

It's gonna be fine
It's gonna be fine

This is where the positive energy goes
As it flows, it’s concentrated
Pleasure beyond any measure and anyone knows
Those in the purple concur
That they never were
So elated

It's gonna be fine
It's gonna be fine

Highballs!
From an infinite open bar
All the best and some you’ve never heard of
Trouble and pain
Whatever they are...
Are never
Ever
Spoken a single word of

It’s gonna be fine
It’s gonna be fine

Here... every distance is near
Every burden is light
Every answer is right

Every day and every night, a mighty celebration
You’ll flip your wig at a shindig
The talk of all creation
A chance to dance
in the lavender light
It’s the tip-top sock hop
Rock around the clock-hop
And never a never a never a never a never a never a chaperone in sight

In your life
Did you ever see
A miracle
Impossible
‘Cept it’s true
Cuz it happened to you
And it changed you
And it saved you

In your life
Were you just walkin’ around
Lookin’ down
Nothin’ to be found
And then one day
In some strange way
It happens
Cuz it happens

And I never thought I’d see
Somebody like that
Look at someone like me
And say “Hey, you’re not a freak
You’re not some sorry little queer
No, what we have here”
He said “What we have here –
Is a miracle
A miracle
A miracle”

In my life
This church I used to go
It said “God is Love”
It was written in stone
And I know that love ended badly
But when I see my lord
I will walk in proudly

I will fall on my knees
And I’ll say “Please, please, please...“
May I thank you?
May I thank you?
For a miracle
For a miracle

Shirley and Rod
Meet Miri and Day-glo
Oh my god, my name's Rod
You're a sight we rarely ever see
Such vitality!
O my heart be still!
(We should get started on the process now)
Lancelot, we will, we will
Or course we will, don't be a pill

(I was told there'd be a party)
And party we shall, my lovely gal
Are they green or blue?
(My eyes? They're brown.)
He's horsing around as we often do
Everything's purple through and through

Don't you love
What she's done with her nose?
It's fine I suppose
Let's get her a drink and some flattering clothes
So first I propose
HIGHBALLS!
HIGHBALLS!
HIGHBALLS!

Shirley, would you be a doll and see to that?
Soon we'll all be rocking to the beat of that
Rock 'n' roll!…

I got a key for your locket
You got a well for my pen
I got a ball for your socket
You got a Barbie, I got a Ken
I got a train and you got a track
And once you go purple you never go back
(Once you go purple you never go back)

I got a helluva hunger
You got a hunger too
You're gonna feel the thunder
Rumbling where you’re tender and new
Get yourself ready for a love attack
Once you go purple you never go back

I got a love like a monster
He knows what he’s got to do
No escapin’ facts
The cyclops in my slacks
Has got his eye on you!

(“Lance said he'd be here! Ralph Aballini!”)
Look what Shirley's got for you a dirty wet martini!
(“Wow, these drinks are strong, man!”)
We really put the bottle back in the genie!

If that's not you your taste, dear
it won't go to waste dear
Tell Shirley what you want, we've got it all
Pick your poison
Then we turn up the noise and let's ball!!!

Hey girl, look where you landed
One more wrong turn, you never learn
Now you're stranded

Hey girl, we been watchin'
Locked in one more box, they caught ya
Nothin's ever gonna change

To be loved...
Wouldn't that be strange?

These skinny worlds that suck out every shade of light but one
So perfect of a girl like you -- too scared to fight, too tired to run
It's gonna be your coup de grace, your last hurrah, this pleasure spa
Will show you who you are...

Voices of the past
I've listened for the last time
I been stuck in rewind
(You're stuck and you will stay there!)
For too long
Now you're gone
(She wants out? She don't know the way there!)

Voices of the past
Same old story, same old sorry cast
(We're your friends, we're familiar! )
You're only pain and shame and fear
(It'll make ya stronger)
I'm done with you, I'm outta here
(If it doesn't kill ya)

Voices in my heart
Somehow we got so far apart
That superpower
I had from the start
I hear you now
I hear you now

Voices in my soul
I've got you with me
Even way down in this hole
It's time to take control, take control
I'm ready now
I'm ready now
I'm ready now

Godard and Mr. Lee:
Listen up, listen up
Maybe do a little kissin’ up
Sorry dear, there’s no one here to help you
Listen up, your goose is cooked
Your ticket to nowhere’s already booked
So let’s take this on a trip like the one you just took!

Show us how to use the box, Tuti-fruiti
Fly boy!
You’ve caught us in a bargaining mood
Are you purely girly-girly?
Or more of a bi-boy?
Forgive my friend, but yes he intends to be rude

See we’re looking for a change of scene
We chafe beneath restrictions
We’d like to leave, using your machine
And indulge our predilections

So listen up, listen up
Baby there’s no prison up here
Just a nice device
That hums 'til your spirit runs clear

Living, fleshy pulp is not allowed in the blue
But look at you two
Look at you two
Ooh, the things I’d love to do
My friend Mr. Lee is a sadist
I’m just a merciless guy
Which of you two is afraidest?
Who wants to give us a try?

So listen up, listen up
Let’s start this mission up
Get this gadget in the air
And we won’t touch a hair

Pearl:
Please forgive me
My heart is full of fright
I am simple gypsy woman
I cannot read or, how you say
(Write)
We were try to go to red
But crash into blue
Cannot go back
Without rest of crew

Bryce:
We were looking for
Some people who we love

Pearl:
Please forgive me
I am not so good with word
Machine has certain “gizmo”
Only work when wheel is stirred
Only work with fingerprint
From all three in team
(It’s a biometric interface)
Is what I mean!

Bryce and Pearl:
Because we want to leave here
And you leave too
You provide safe transit
Machine know what to do
We’ll be on our way once we grab the other two

Action!
Traction!
Titillation! Trauma!
You got no conflict, you got no drama
You got no drama, you got no viewers
We know who to send to the sewers:
The worst of you
The most accursed of you
Go back to the multi-colored hell below
What a thrill to see their villainy
They sure put on a show!
They sure put on a show!

I guess I did okay... my life in rock and roll
They say you gotta pay your dues
They say you gotta sell your soul
But never sold out
I stuck to my guns
I never got a record deal
But they usually suck, anyway...

Yeah, we got a band together
And we learned a few licks
And soon we had our image down
And we played a few gigs
And if nobody came
Well they just didn’t get it
I was in it for the long haul
The others went to college...

But the things that I learned
I wouldn’t trade for nothin’
Yeah, the stripes that I earned
Got me that gig at Guitar Center
And if I died young
I’m still a survivor
Cut down in my prime
By a spaced-out Uber driver

But rock 'n' roll is hear to stay
And if you want my final words I’ll say
I'll say CHUGGA CHUGGA HEY!
CHUGGA CHUGGA HEY!
CHUGGA CHUGGA HEY!
CHUGGA CHUGGA HEY!
CHUGGA CHUGGA HEY!
CHUGGA CHUGGA HEY!
CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA

She clearly gets the pump!
She clearly gets the pump!
Pump out all the prana!
Pump out all the chi!
Every bit of life-force and vital energy!

Never more to be.

I do not run
A nanny state, love
And that is how
I show my great love
You alone
Control your fate, love
If i may articulate, love
I don’t care

What made you think
I’d be so namby-pamby?
Godzilla doesn’t give a damn for Bambi
A little rough?
Well, I suppose it can be
I don't care

Did you picture a sweet seminarian?
A vegetarian?
Kiddo, I’m no liberal
I’m a Libertarian!

You're free!
To do exactly as you like
You're free!
To strike whatever pose you strike
Angelic
(Demonic)
Beatific
(Bubonic)
More brilliant
(Moronic)
I don’t care!

You can swim with the whales in the Salton Sea
Shoot up China White down on Avenue D
Dance to the Flight of the Valkyries
Or fly right off a balcony

(This can't be possible)
All things are possible!
(Then why not something kind?)
Your ignorance is laughable!
(Then what about Jesus? The Sermon on the Mount?)
There are more silly myths than you can possibly count!
(Buddha's not a myth! He taught a path to inner peace!)
Ah, the wondrous wisdom of the morbidly obese!
(Then what about Gandhi? Or Martin Luther King?)
They were just down there doing their thing!

You’re free!
To do whatever you would do
You’re free!
Nobody's stopping you but you
We're at liberty to be so free, so free, so free!

And there’s nothing like the power of power
Pouring oil from the top of the tower
I can take it all in as the cyclones spin
And the waters rise and the crops grow thin
You lovely specks of dust can lust and
Rise and fall and boom and bust
Destroy and debauch, it’s hardly new
See I like to watch!
And you do, too

Horrific is terrific and it's purely scientific
If it's icky then it's sticky something you discover quickly
There’s a kitty in the window so adorable and soft
But the kitty in the box is the one that gets us off

So we elevate the scum
And promote the evildoers
My only obligation’s to my viewers

See, I just got back from the greatest trip
Oh, just pipe down you big-haired bitch!
I was tippin’, i was slippin’, I was losin’ my grip
Then I went to the yellow and everything flipped
Now I’m done
I’m done!

See, I went to the yellow and who did I see?
Just the greatest genius in genius history
Now I got the power
I got the key
And just wait’ll you see what he gave me
I'm done
I’m so done!

Gettin’ dicked around, laughed at and left out
Last in line when the good shit gets passed out
This universe is like a really bad batch
But now we get to start from scratch!

It’s been a long, strange bumpy ride
But now i got the user guide
I don’t need this, or you, or any of them
You know what they say, RTFM!

It’s been a brutal bake
More than I can take
So I’m giving this Magic 8 Ball a shake
A whole new dose, it’s gonna be great
Brother, I can't wait!

(A new big bang? Is that what you’re saying?)
Correctamundo, and I know how
Hold your ears, cuz it’s gonna be loud
When I say I’m done, I mean square one
We’re startin’ all over
It’s gonna be fun!

(Just what have you got against the universe?)
It can lick my left bun!

Yes, I guess
I believe
There's something going on
Is that really so paranoid?

And yes, I confess
I have my suspicions
It’s all going wrong
Is that really so paranoid?

We’re here
On a trip
On a ship
On an uncharted sea

Looking up to the stars
To try to steer
While we’re tossed around here
So lost and so free…

So what is it gonna be
(What is it gonna be?)
Do we let it all drown
(And trash each other on the way down?)
Is there something we can find
Some greater mind
To turn this around?

Is it really a miracle
This rainbow of light
These colors we’re given
This land of the living
This lost paradise

Is it really so crazy
To somehow believe
It could all be so different
(These colors we’re given)
And we’re crazy not to see?

The Unseen World
(And there’s plenty here to go around)
The Unseen World
(We can still turn this ship around)
The Unseen World
(Open your eyes and look inside)

Open your eyes
Can you see it? Can you see it?
Open your eyes
Can you see it? Can you see it?
Open your eyes
Can you see it? Can you see it
Can you see??