Staring Contest by Thingy

DISCO BLUES

She hides her blues behind disco,
Like I wouldn't know.

Maybe it's the last time.

I don't wanna, I don't hear it.
Green clovers, orange stars.
Purple horseshoes.

You bastard.

That funky beat gets me down.

And hopes the glue doesn't set.

THREAD AND KARO

Dark as anything I could swallow.
Won't know anything til tomorrow.
Melancholia.
Dive in bottle.
Had a vision of thread and karo.

I know they know that I know that they know.

I keep my head way down.

PONY

You are a nice man.
Coo's like a baby, the fluffy bunny.

I'm gonna build a deathship made for two
And have them paint it watercolor blue
Crash it into the San Diego Zoo
And then the animals would be armed, too.

Look at the monkey!
Bear is so hairy, groovy, and funny,
Cottingley Fairy.
Crawl through the petals, they are so dainty.
Laugh through a cloudburst.
A pretty painting.

I wish that I could take a bath
In cool vanilla
Speeding towards a dead sun
Inside a giant orange peel.
Don't know 'bout you,
But I can see how that'd be fun.

Oh, fuddy duddy, licking a sparkly.
Blowing some bubbles,
Frothing and sudsy.
Sea is so blue.
The waves are so glassy.
Joanie loves Chachi and Edith Massey.

Punish the evil.
Break for pedestrians.
Live like a madman.
God will not save you.

Staring at my shoe
Is such a cliche,
but you know it's true.
A sleeper 'tween the corn rows knows it, too.
I'm sorry that I mentioned it to you.

Pez int he flores.
On time and lazy.
Vases and bottles.
Infant cutlery.
Hum in the noontime.
Picnic Lake Erie.
Tele con carne.
Haysi Fantayzee.

I wish that I could telegraph
A secret message to the beat of Foot Foot on
A black rice paper spirograph
Pronounced arachnid.

Love how you want to.
Writhe in the silly.
Two, three, potato.
Purr like a kitty.
Rest for just enough.
Hang with the lonely.

Almost forgot, the meaning of life is

CUTEST BABY

It should stop.
We should all be destroyed
For the horrible crimes
Against anything we could get our hands on.

Even the cutest baby
Will grow up to be a dickhead.
Humans are mostly assholes.
You're even probably a shithead.

I wish it wasn't true,
But it is true.

Won't be considered finished
Till Earth is uninhabitable.
Anyone with half a conscience
Would feed themselves to the animals.

Government obviously doesn't work,
But we'll never see it fall.
Shouldn't have ever existed
If we had the balls to think for ourselves.

Hostages from the moment we're born.

REVOLUTION IN A BOX

The best way to control thew youth,
Rather than force them in line,
Is somehow make evil look good,
And watch them throw themselves in the ovens.

And you can dance
And take their shitty drugs
To their techno marching bands,
Which is quite similar to what they in boot camp

Jedi good/Dark side bad.
People good/People bad

Revolution in a box.
Can't wait for the happy meal.

Watch them stagedive into the ovens.

I could be singing anything
And then you follow what I sing.

I have, want, and need to fuck shit up.

1-800

Too tired to get up today.
I'm an apathetic bastard today.

Too tired to glue the locks on MacDonalds' front door.
Too tired to blow up a Shell.

I'm out of my fuckin' mind.
(You go girl)

Too tired to dial 1-800 all day.
Too tired to bring down the man.

CANDYLAND

Candlewax poured in a mold and it's hardening.
Gingerbread houses.
Lollipop Lane.
Candyland.
Weebles are wobbling.
Stretch Armstrong's stretching and
Raggedy Andy holds hands with Raggedy Ann.

Sounds unreal.
Some people'd do anything
To feel anything at all.
Now, why is that such a difficult thing?

We act.
React.
Sometimes melt down.
Sometimes we fall off the log with wings on.

San Diego residing Rob Crow is the frontman for Pinback. When he's not touring with, or making albums for one of his many collaborations including Goblin Cock, Optiganally Yours, Anal Trump, Pinback, The Ladies, Other Men, Alpha Males, etc., he makes solo records.