J CHURCH – PARKAS AND FLAGS

Hey, does the sound just grate?
Hey, well it’s a bit too late,
The mods look like Vulcans in parkas and flags,
The mods look like Vulcans in expensive rags,
The mods look like Vulcans and I don’t want to look like that

Talking ’bout my generation,
Talking ’bout my generation,
Talking ’bout my generation,
I can’t explain my generation

Hey, do you look great,
Hey, why are you afraid,
The kids are wearing their parents clothes,
The kids are wearing silver and gold,
They used to be wearing Read more…

J CHURCH – ANALYSIS YES VERY NICE

It’s simplistic presentation,
Your caustic realization,
Motivation in TV screens,
Vanguards built deliberately,
Feminization on every sex,
Stop, go back, re-read the test,
Feminization on every sex,
You’re the anti-Oedipus

Who’s remapping moral highways,
New speed limits you crave,
You think you’re transforming infinity,
You’re just lost in hyper-reality

What was easy to define now becomes so sublime,
What was easy to define you can dismiss as political lies

What was easy to define now becomes so sublime,
What was easy to define you can dismiss as political lies

Sweetest dreams, now Read more…

J CHURCH – SWITZERLAND

I am drawn by intrigue,
Could I ever live in Switzerland?
Could I ever please any number of secret societies?
This isn’t Socrates,
It’s not the roots of ancient trees,
Maybe disease,
The secret of secret societies

Should I go to Yale like my father’s father’s fathers?
I can cite examples,
Visions planted, superimposed,
If I can smell the trees can I smell the industry?
What’s to beliefs?
Denial is a quality

J CHURCH – GHOSTWRITER

Does anyone ever get their due?
I don’t think it will take much from you,
To find out that it’s scarcely true,
If you take the time to watch Shampoo,
Keep in mind the years of solitude,
Some angry men put her through

She didn’t have to prove anything,
Still she took one for the team,
Now we can say how it changed everything

Taking her cue from people she knew,
Ida Lupino and Eisenstein to name a few,
She is searching for the truth,
She’s a ghostwriter Read more…

J CHURCH – STAR OF THE SHOW

Ignoring the messages on your machine,
Even your name is sounding obscene,
It’s all I can do to keep to myself,
When I set next to you

Deep in the Valley I feel afraid,
We look like junkies in a raid,
We hate the MOCA, we hate “art”,
We’ll be apart

An empty whiskey bottle helps to see us through,
I wish I had a bit more faith in me and you,
Now I know why you will go,
You’re the star of the show

I took a Read more…

J CHURCH – WHAT COULD I HAVE DONE

I remember when we said goodbye,
I didn’t know it would be the last time I’d see you alive,
I never had your fear of death,
But a certain fear of what I don’t expect

And I do see what’s in front of me,
Now I ask myself the same old things,
What could I have done?
What could I have said?
Before I read in the paper that you were dead

You never liked the things I had to say,
Now every ideology has melted Read more…

J CHURCH – LAMA TEMPLE

I’m looking at the broken pieces on the floor,
There goes my magic key to success,
I’ve got to win back all of my alleged luck,
I’m going to Lama Temple, Chicago, Illinois

On the floor – I’ve got to… ,
Out the door – I need to… ,
On the floor – don’t ask me why,
Out the door – don’t ask me why

It’s not so smart to burn your candles all day long,
It’s not so smart risking bodily harm,
It’s not so Read more…

J CHURCH – DIET COKE

With perfect prose and a broken nose,
He beats the early morning streets,
He’s not a king or anything and he’s felt like this for weeks,
The rain has come again and it doesn’t mean a thing,
Everyone’s mouth is moving but they don’t say a thing,
I spent last night in bed with a young photographer friend,
She’s a wounded dove. A pretty swastika,
Her smile is like amphibian,
Won’t you take a picture?
Develop it in liquor,
Keeping it in frame,
Diet Coke is a Read more…

J CHURCH – NEVER HAPPY

She is never happy with the weather,
I don’t know why I try to understand,
She acts as if it’s always getting better,
And dresses in accordance with her plan,
She always ends up soaking with the shivers,
She looks at me with nothing in her eyes,
She says “Why did you let me go out in this weather?”
For some reason I apologize

She sticks out her thumb like she’s going somewhere,
One eye watching what I’m gonna do,
I try real hard to act Read more…

J CHURCH – CONCEDE

I was feeling old today,
I know there comes a point,
When there’s nothing left to say,
Lately everything sounds the same,
The things I hate in this fucking world,
Haven’t gone away

Tomorrow, if I haven’t lost my mind,
I’ll beg and borrow all the words I can’t define,
Today I woke up and I had nothing to say,
24th and Castro on any Saturday

It’s hard to live with yourself,
When all the power seems to belong to someone else,
It’s pretty easy to concede,
When everything Read more…