Artist: Emmett and Mary
Title: S/T (Original Mixes)
Release #: MIF064
Format: CD

Side A:
01. Precautions (Intro) [MP3]
02. The Upstanding Sons and Daughers of East Heights Country Club [MP3]
03. Trilogy: Preview [MP3]
04. Trilogy: Feature [MP3]
05. Trilogy: Sequel [MP3]
06. Fanatical Hunting Club [MP3]
07. The Summer's Pull [MP3]

Side B:
08. You're So Beautiful (Interlude) [MP3]
09. To Absent Strangers [MP3]
10. The Book of Idols [MP3]
11. Hell on Echo Avenue [MP3]
12. There Are No Groupies in Heaven [MP3]
13. Surveying Revelations [MP3]

In December of 2008 My Idea of Fun hired Kunaki to manufacture 30 copies of Emmett and Mary S/T that were sold on Decembenr 27th, 2008 at the 709 Railroad Street Christmas Show.

Emmett Karson, Survivor
Born in Steeple Hill Ohio in October of 1987 to Emily and Harvey Karson. His older sister is Annette Karson. Emmett’s father Harvey dies of a heart attack in May of 2002. Emmett’s mother Emily then marries Charles Hoover in October of 2003, Emmett driving his mother to her wedding. At the wedding Charles feeds Emmett several rufees in order to shut him up so he’ll pass out. Emmett begins to get more and more suspicious of his stepfather’s business as he goes through the motions in high school and starts dating Veronica Connel in September of 2004. Emmett is in attendance at the wedding of his sister Annette and Andrew Strayer in March of 2006. Veronica breaks up with him in July of 2006 after both graduate from Steeple Hill High School. She then goes to Paris to study abroad.

Emmett then attends Fayette University in Connecticut getting paired up with Linus Mansfield as his roommate. In September of 2007, Emmett starts dating Misty Chapel at Fayette and in October of that same year he forms his band Technological Epidemic with Linus. By September of 2008, Emmett and Misty both start using heroin together in Fayette along with Kerry Perich and some others. Misty breaks up with Emmett in November of 2008, before Emmett almost O.D.’s in his apartment.

Linus saves Emmett’s life by taking him to the hospital where he meets Mary Lugar for the first time. Emmett and Linus then both decide to drop out of school and join the church of Surveillance together in February of 2009. Emmett and Mary become romantically involved in June of 2010 and are in the cult until November of 2010, when Emmett, Mary, Linus and Lee Fisher all decide to steal money from Ken and run away back to East Heights. They then form their own group, The Civilized Union Liberal Track. These four are then safe in the woods in Mary’s inherited cabin during the apocalypse before returning to East Heights and setting up shop along Ash Road.

FICTION: Surveying Revelations, Any and All Odd Ends, Systems and Symptoms

SONG HIGHLIGHTS: Trilogy: Preview, Trilogy: Feature, Trilogy: Sequel, Fanatical Hunting Club, To Absent Strangers, Surveying Revelations, The Ballad of Emmett and Mary (This Love So Tragic), Actual Air, The Summer’s Pull, The Book of Idols, The Upstanding Sons and Daughters of East Heights Country Club, There Are No Groupies in Heaven, Early Dismissal (Teenage Queen), The Scheduled Details (Replacement Parts), A Bridge to the End of the World, Seeds, Soil, Milk, Water (Aftershock)

Linus Mansfield, Survivor
Born October 30th, 1987 in East Heights, Vermont to Graham and Sandy Mansfield. His parents divorce when he’s seven. Sandy runs off with Graham’s best friend Craig Roseman. She then dies when Linus is thirteen.

Graham marries Alice Hughes when Linus is ten, thus making Paige Hughes Linus’ stepsister. They all live on Birch Avenue. Linus falls in love with Ramona Strayer his freshmen year of high school. He fools around with Paige’s best friend, Joan Foster, that same year, and Lucy Parrish that summer. Linus finally dates Joan Foster for the summer after his sophomore year of high school only to dump her for Josephine March who moves in across the street, July of 2004.

Linus is best friends with Mitchell Graft in Easton High School and graduates in 2006. That summer Linus drives with Josephine to Euclid, Nebraska to visit her father Raymond Vaughn, the two having an odd experience together. He is then Emmett Karson’s roommate in college, the two forming the band Technological Epidemic together at Fayette University, Connecticut by October of 2007. He finds out Josephine is cheating on him with Ken in November of 2008 after following her to the movies. Linus saves Emmett’s life that same night after he almost O.D.s. Linus continues dating Josephine until December of 2008 where she dumps him and joins the Church of Surveillance. Linus then joins the following February of 2009 with Emmett.

The two are in the church until November of 2010 when they decide to steal most of its funds and run away with Mary Lugar and Lee Fisher. They then set up shop at East Heights as the Civilized Union Liberal Front and are at Mary’s cabin on the outskirts of town when the apocalypse finally happens. They then take over East Heights by the summer of 2011, and attempt to survive from there. Linus lives at 1325 Ash Road after the apocalypse.

FICTION: Narrator-The Annexation of the Living Room and Surveying Revelations, Character in Any and All Odd Ends, Stay Young and Numb and Systems and Symptoms

SONG HIGHLIGHTS: The Summer’s Pull, Book of Idols, Hell on Echo Avenue, The Upstanding Sons and Daughters of East Heights Country Club, Surveying Revelations, Fanatical Hunting Club, A Separate Piece of Shit, The Formal Me For Any Occasion, Conversation by Appointment (Spin Go Round), The Scheduled Details (Replacement Parts), Hazy Programming, Blink Twice, The Persistence of Double Vision, The View From Across Linden Street, Seeds, Soil, Milk, Water (Aftershock)

Lee Fisher, Survivor
Born in New York City, Lee attends Jefferson Middle School until December of 1999 when he moves with his parents to East Heights, Vermont. Lee instantly becomes friends with Peter Watts and Ramona Strayer and starts getting pot off of Henry Vaughn. Lee fights Chase McHugh behind Galloway’s Corner Store in December of 1999, the same day as the East Heights Blackout.

In July of 2000, Lee has a sorted relationship with Amber Jenson until she goes back to Doyle Finely once high school starts up. Lee starts buying pot off of Henry Vaughn more regularly in his sophomore year and dealing to various Easton High School students. He meets Aimee Shields at the East Heights Mall in the fall of 2002, the two starting a drugged-out relationship together. Lee also meets Linus Mansfield in October of 2002 outside the homecoming dance, the two becoming good friends and going on burns runs with Ramona everyday while they have study hall and he has shop class.

Lee takes Aimee to the winter formal dance in January of 2003, although the two hit a slight rough patch by that March. Lee fools around with Joanna Fuller at Phoebe Dwyer’s party that same month before reconciling with Aimee. These two then go to prom together that year. In May of 2003, Lee’s drug dealer Henry Vaughn dies of heroin overdoes, Lee inheriting some of Henry’s plants and beginning to grow his own crop in his bedroom closet. He graduates from Easton High School in June of 2004. Lee then starts working at Potter’s Pizza as a chef and delivery boy that same summer, Aimee working there as well.

In the summer of 2005, Lee’s cousin Jim stays in East Heights the two working for Lee’s father’s company and basically just doing deskwork. Lee returns to Potter’s Pizza in September of 2005, working with Zeke Morgan and Chas Weller as well as Aimee again. Lee and Aimee continue to date and eventually get an apartment together in March of 2006. By September of 2006, Aimee gets pregnant and has an abortion. She then breaks up with Lee by January of 2007, before going to school at Clover University in Ohio.

Lee stays around East Heights and continues to deal and work at Potter’s Pizza until January of 2009 when he hears about the Church of Surveillance. Lee joins up with them only to soon go against the norm and start growing his own marijuana plants in the woods outside of the complex. Lee eventually flees with Emmett, Mary and Linus in November of 2010 before setting up shop back in East Heights after the apocalypse. Lee starts growing his own pot plants again and also develops an addiction to the porn section at Big Time Video, while he waits for his one true love to find him.

FICTION: Clips of Dissonance, The Annexation of the Living Room, Stay Young and Numb, Surveying Revelations, Don’t Tread on Lee, Systems and Symptoms

SONG HIGHLIGHTS: Fanatical Hunting Club, Hell on Echo Avenue, Trilogy: Feature, Trilogy: Sequel, Surveying Revelations, Early Dismissal (Teenage Queen), Ghost Lands, A Bridge to the End of the World, Against Students, A Separate Piece of Shit, The Same Song Repeats, The Annexation of the Living Room, Seeds, Soil, Milk, Water (Aftershock), The Upstanding Sons and Daughters of East Heights Country Club, The Summer’s Pull, The Book of Idols, To Absent Strangers, The Ballad of Emmett and Mary, The Scheduled Details (Replacement Parts)

Ken Lugar, Deceased
Born in Fayette Connecticut in June of 1979, Ken then attends Fayette High School, graduating in June of 1996. Ken then attends Fayette University where he majors in religion, meanwhile his older brother Cyrus works for the family business Lugar’s Pawn Shop. Ken then graduates with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies in June of 2000. In August of 2000 he moves to Los Angeles attending California University and going for his masters in religion. While in California, Ken has Robert Ditko as a student.

By May of 2003, Ken has his masters in religion. He leaves LA in September of 2005, traveling across America looking for signs of life. Ken ends up at the Vaughn Hotel in October of 2005, learning various lessons from its owner Raymond Vaughn until January of 2006 when Ken leaves and returns to Fayette. He gets a job teaching World Religion at the university that semester. In February of 2006, Ken meets Mary Corwin at Tweedy’s Bar and Grill. Ken and Mary are then married in April of 2006, Ken’s brother Cyrus giving him a handgun as a wedding gift. Ken soon returns the gift back to Lugar’s Pawnshop.

In January of 2007, Mary and Ken have their first son Isaac in Fayette. Ken then continues to teach and writes his book Answers: The Truth Behind the Church of Surveillance in July of 2008. Ken then self-publishes the book and assigns it to his students the upcoming fall semesters. In August of 2008, Ken meets Josephine March for the first time, her taking his World Religion class that year. In early October of that year Ken and Josephine start fooling around, Josephine feeding Ken two hits of acid in the middle of October.

Ken then completely loses his head that same night and starts driving around East Heights looking for any available signs of life. He calls Robert Ditko and talks about the Church of Surveillance waiting for any kind of confirmation. Ken then goes to his brother’s pawnshop to regrettably find that Cyrus has been shot dead. It’s also at the pawnshop that Ken meets drug dealer and traveling circus manager Clay who’s searching for Arlo Fry. These two then join up eventually finding Arlo and Kerry Perich having sex in Sidney Decker’s car parked in front of Judd Kruger’s house.

Clay forces Arlo and Kerry into the car before also finding Sidney. Ken then drives the four of them to his brother’s house where his nephew Joe Lugar is with his best friend Wade Langham, both having huffed ether the entire night. Ken lets Sidney leave while Arlo, Kerry, Clay Joe and Wade are the first recruits for the Church of Surveillance, Robert Ditko joining up later that day. Ken becomes Joe’s legal guardian after Cyrus’ death, thus inheriting all of the available land on the outskirts of Fayette.

Ken then slowly begins to build the church up, Josephine soon dropping out of college and joining him along with his wife Mary and their son Isaac. Linus Mansfield, Lee Fisher, Emmett Karson, and Adam Mazes also all join the Church right after that. Ken then slowly builds his empire up from November of 2008 until January of 2011. His second son David is born in May of 2009. The Church of Surveillance gets tons of new coverage as the complex gets bigger and bigger during these years.
All of the hype starts to go to Ken’s head as he pegs himself as a Christ-like figure. Mary, Emmett, Linus and Lee steal funds from the Church in November of 2010 and leave setting up the Civilized Union Liberal Track soon after. The apocalypse happens on January 14th, 2011, Ken soon dying as a wave of light consumes him and his followers.

FICTION: Any And All Odd Ends, Surveying Revelations, Losing Sensation, Systems and Symptoms

SONG HIGHLIGHTS: Trilogy: Feature, Trilogy: Sequel, Fanatical Hunting Club, The Book of Idols, Surveying Revelations, The Ballad of Emmett and Mary, A Bridge to the End of the World, Seeds, Soil, Milk, Water (Aftershock)

Mary (Corwin) Lugar, Survivor
Born in New York City in September of 1982, Mary attends Jefferson High School, graduating in June of 2001. She then attends Fayette University in Connecticut, majoring in nursing. Mary graduates from Fayette in May of 2005, and decides to stay in town, getting a job a local hospital. She meets Ken Lugar in February of 2006, the two getting married two months later in April of 2006.

Mary continued to work at the hospital until she gets pregnant and has her first born son Isaac in January of 2007. He relationship with Ken then slowly starts to fade in the next two years as she raises his son and eventually goes back to work at the hospital. Mary first meets Emmett Karson in November of 2008 right around the same time Ken is setting up the Church of Surveillance. She is Emmett’s nurse after he almost O.D.’s. By December of 2008, Ken persuades Mary to quit her job and move to the outskirts of the town with about dozen followers and start the Church of Surveillance. She agrees for the sake of her son.

Mary is then a member of the Church of Surveillance acting as their nurse among other things as their funding and numbers grow over the next two years. She gives birth to her second son David in May of 2009. It’s around this same time that Mary feels as if she’s being used by Ken. She also finds out about Ken and Josephine from Emmett. By October of 2009, Emmett and Mary have started having an affair, although they try to keep it a secret as the buzz grows around the church.

Finally as Ken slowly loses his mind Emmett convinces Mary to run away and start a counter movement, the Civilized Union Liberal Track. Mary agrees, leaving both her sons with Ken in November of 2010 and fleeing with Linus, Emmett and Lee. These three then attempt to get other followers and have a group meeting at Mary’s inherited cabin in the woods of Connecticut on January 14th, 2011. The apocalypse then happens, Mary returning to East Heights with Emmett, Linus and Lee. She sets up shop at Easton Middle School in Mr. Hooper’s old room and starts to help people as they come upon the small town. Her and Emmett are happy together despite the fact that the world they knew is completely gone.

FICTION: Any And All Odd Ends, Surveying Revelations

SONGS HIGHLIGHTS: Trilogy: Feature, Trilogy: Sequel, Fanatical Hunting Club, The Book of Idols, Surveying Revelations, The Ballad of Emmett and Mary, A Bridge to the End of the World, Seeds, Soil, Milk, Water (Aftershock)

1. Precautions (Intro) (Locher)

JOSEPHINE
I’ve been looking for a way to leave you
I’ve been asking no questions
Some answers

I can’t believe what life’s done to me
I can’t believe what life has done to me

2. The Upstanding Sons and Daughter of East Heights Country Club (Bell/Locher)

LINUS/EMMETT
I’ve been feeling oh so strange
Everybody knows my name
I never know just what to say
As I keep hiding away
I never wanted it this way
Let’s find a place and run away

LINUS/EMMETT/LEE
To like somewhere in the south
Where it rains
Not snows
And nobody knows us
Yeah, nobody knows us.

LINUS/EMMETT/LEE/PETER
Let’s fake smiles and steal drinks
We’ll stare at the tree and ignore all our family
We’ll get too drunk to drive ourselves home
I’ll feel alive for once and not so alone.

And I’ve been feeling oh so strange
You’re always out of range
I never know just what to say
Cause I’m bored with the day, today
We never really say
How everything’s
So gray
Like back pages of the press,
Our lines and faces dressed
And nobody knows us
Yeah, we barely know us.

UPSTANDING SONS AND DAUGHTERS
We Upstanding Sons and Daughters
Saints and Sinner, Drunks and Martyrs
Find our lovers under covers
So hungover Christmas Morning

PETER:
Merry Christmas
La la la la
Merry Christmas
It's a Merrily Christmas Day!

ANDREW
Hands where they wanna go
Let’s study the body of schoolgirl’s flow
In the crest of her breast she knows
Let’s study the body of schoolboy’s flow

LINUS
Do what you wanna do, run where you wanna go
Drink what you wanna drink, smoke what you wanna smoke

ANDREW
Hands where they wanna go

ANDREW/LEILA
Let’s study the body of schoolgirl’s flow
In the crest of her breast she knows
Let’s study the body of schoolboy’s flow

EMMETT
Emmett and Mary lost in their collective shells

LINUS
We can rest easy now alone, don’t go

ANDREW/LEILA
Hands where they wanna go
Let’s study the body of schoolgirl’s flow
In the crest of her breast she knows
Let’s study the body of schoolboy’s flow

EMMETT
I can’t really please you now at home, alone

Certain Death Lies Ahead

ANDREW/LEILA
Hands where they wanna go
Let’s study the body of schoolgirl’s flow
In the crest of her breast she knows
Let’s study the body of schoolboy’s flow

LINUS
Josephine, you split late last night,
I can’t complain or put up a fight

LEE
Let’s study the body of a schoolgirl’s flow
I know, she knows, we know

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
Do you want to come true, to you?
Do you want to come true, to you?
Do you want to come true, to you?
Do you want to come true, to you?

Cause when you do
I never know what’s true
I never know what to do
Without doing a thing for you
I got what you do
Give me a little to give a lot
Back to you

3. Trilogy: Preview (Locher)

EMMETT
Up the street reflects the cars with people driving in
Are you going somewhere faster than the blue bird?
Are you going somewhere far across the town?

EMMETT/MARY/LINUS
Why don’t you just slow down, slow down?
Why don’t you just slow down?

EMMETT
So I can catch you in a far off land
Where they hug our arms and we can get tans
I wanna kiss you in exotic places
From the backside of our faces
As we drift inside the landfill that we slip on
That is broken like ice

EMMETT/MARY/LINUS
I got no problem with your lawyer
I am no lawyer
Lie to me
I want to die, the night

EMMETT
Everyone in our block is just driving around
Because their heads are attached to cellphones
Broken up corduroy phones

EMMETT/MARY/LINUS
To call their sons and daughters
To tell them that they love them
Cause when they return home
They will be fast asleep.

4. Trilogy: Feature (Locher)

EMMETT/LINUS
Garden breath like moss from the dirty teeth my sister stole
From the uptown down-cross latitudes

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
Caring for the crops I grow
Cross-town locked-up avenue

ALL
Fuck all cops that fuck with you!
Cause I don’t want to dream tonight
Close your eyes and cut the lights we’ll have novocaine solos
Ingested into our brains
Like the sandman without rain

GREG/JOSEPHINE
Who checks the kid down the block who’s been sleeping all day

EMMETT/MARY/LINUS/LEE
I’m not sure what it all means
It means you’re something like a disease

EMMETT/MARY/LINUS/LEE/JOSEPHINE
And that’s been on my mind this whole time

EMMETT
So you walk through France without care
Beat up, choked up in a room with no hair

ALL
And that darling mother Christ has got a hold of me
Hold of me
Holy

M. FELDMAN
Well I thought of the sun and the see as a lesser evil

KEN
That darling mother Christ gotta a hold of me, a hold of me

ALL
And that darling mother Christ has got a hold of me
Hold of me
Holy

M. FELDMAN
Well I thought of the sun and the see as a lesser evil

KEN
That darling mother Christ gotta a hold of me, a hold of me

ALL
And that darling mother Christ has got a hold of me
Hold of me
Holy

J. LENNON
An intuitive theatrical guy, Beautiful guy.

KEN
That darling mother Christ gotta a hold of me, a hold of me

ALL
And that darling mother Christ has got a hold of me
Hold of me
Holy

J. LENNON
An intuitive theatrical guy, Beautiful guy.

(Mary and Josephine bounce basketballs while Peter swats flies)

EMMETT (IN TIME)
Sinking soul in your locket
You’re the quarterback with a half-open smile
Bleeding eyes in your sockets
Yes, you run your mouth, but you make no sounds

(Intstrumental break)

ANNETTE
Sinking chair in your office
You’re the quarterback with a half-open smile
Bleeding eyes in your sockets
Running your mouth when it makes no sound

5. Trilogy: Sequel (Locher/Bell)

EMMETT
Sinking soul in your locket

EMMETT/MARY
You’re the quarterback with a half-open smile

EMMETT/MARYCLAY
Bleeding eyes in their sockets
You run your mouth, but you make no sounds

EMMETT
Tasting water and tasting wine

EMMETT/LEE
Bloodshot corners and bloodshot eyes

EMMETT/LEE/LINUS/JOSEPHINE
These cars are driving me blind

EMMETT/LEE/LINUS
Seeing sound and

EMMETT/LEE/LINUS/KEN
Tasting might

EMMETT
(Spoken) Can you taste might because I think the birds can

EMMETT/LEE/LINUS/KEN
Broader shoulders with a bright mind

EMMETT/LEE/LINUS/KEN/JOSEPHINE
These cars are driving me blind

EMMETT/MARY
Seeing sound and tasting sight

KEN
(Spoken) Trees are tasting, ring by ring

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE/CLAY/JOSEPHINE/KEN
Broader shoulders with a bright mind

ALL
Sinking soul in your locket

EMMETT
(Spoken) It’s in hi-fi now

ALL
You’re the quarterback with a half-open smile
Bleeding eyes in your sockets
Yes, you run your mouth, but you make no sounds

KEN
And we know strangers

ALL
Out here and in there
And we’re all neighbors
Who care and share

EMMETT
Until you pick a little pocket or two

ALL
Pick a little pocket of you
Just pick a little pocket of you …
Pick a little pocket or two

EMMETT/JOSPEHINE/LINUS
And we know strangers
Out here and in (out) there
And we’re all neighbors
Who care and share

ALL
Until you pick a little pocket or two
Pick a little pocket of you
Just pick a little pocket of you …
Pick a little pocket or two …

EMMETT/LINUS
Oh my god who has no god that great great God that terrible god
I’m terrified I’m scared for our lives
Oh my god who has no god that great great God that terrible god
He’s terrified; God’s scared for our lives

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
He’s the underground messiah
Mechanical pariah
When he comes home from work
To beat his kids and pork his wife
Outside all alone

EMMETT
She’s got the achiest breakiest heart that I want to sting

EMMETT/LEE
She’s got the achiest breakiest heart that I want to sting

EMMETT/LINUS/CASEY
She’s got the achiest breakiest heart that I want to sting

EMMETT/LINUS
She’s got the achiest breakiest heart that I want to sting

EMMETT
Shhh! Clear the air space.

(After a moment to cleanse the audio pallet Zeke Morgan screams Benji Tate's trumpet part while the microphones start to feedback)

6. Fanatical Hunting Club (Locher/Bell)

EMMETT
Well I got this guitar
I’m gonna teach it how to sing
Though I’ve never sang before I’m still gonna teach my guitar how to sing

And I got this girl
Who loved before
But I’m ready to show her a new way to love like she never did it before

We’ll do it in Paris, France
If we ever make it there
But it’s been two weeks since I’ve left my house
I just gotta get out of here

You gotta start with what you know
And bullshit the rest

Like the times I fucked too hard
Like a superstar
With some pornstar

Like the times I ran too far
With a stomach full
And a head full

Like the times I drove a car
Up the street and down the street
It was like the time my mom told her sister I was a bad kid
Like the time I re-met you

You are so crude
So evenly killed
Let’s do it in Paris, France
If we ever make it there

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
Well I got this gun
For my eleventh birthday
Doe a deer I shot before
You better run to the wholesale store

And I got this girl
Who never held my gun
But I’m ready to show her just how to love to shoot up
Shoot up a little more

And we got this syringe
Deep in our arms

God’s ready to show you a new way to live
God’s ready to show you his cure

You gotta cut your hair
And bury your head in the good book

You gotta learn your prayers
Like a saint, like a martyr

You gotta learn how to share
Like your teachers, like your mother

You gotta drive to intensive care
Up the street
And down the street

It was like the time you drove your mother to her wedding
Like the time you drove her mad

We are so pure
Come join our ranks
We are the civilized union liberal track

LINUS/LEE
We are watching you

EMMETT
This is my idea of fun 64

ALL
My idea of fun
My idea of fun

Well I got these old friends
They’re better than the rest
We walk around town, holding hands
Telling our neighbors all our plans

And I got this zine
Printed for you mind
But I’m ready to show you a new way to dance like
We’re a brand human kind

Rule #1: tell all your friends
To sell their things, to sign their checks, to leave it all behind

Rule #2: Follow the rest
And we march in time
Like the seconds, like the hours

And we march in line
Flower people, Church and steeple

And we drink ourselves blind
Up the street
And down the street

It was like the time my stepfather fed me all the rufees
Like the time I ran away

I’m not so certain
I should drink this wine…
But I’ve been hurting to just say that I’m just fine

7. The Summer’s Pull (Bell/Locher)

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
Do you wanna go down
To the basement underground
We can lock the doors
To drowned out the sound

You left your hat downtown
We checked the lost and found
It wasn’t around
We’ve lost and found ourselves on a sunny day in June
Our voice out of tune
And we ground ourselves in the sound
I’ll take you pound for pound
Pound for pound

Another fallen son
Gets all his work done
He, (I) (We) start(s) to run
To the girl who’s been standing around
Waiting for her mother’s cloud of smoke
To fade like broken radio

She says life’s a hazy show
Until you find the ground
Until you find the ground
I’ll take you pound for pound

8. You’re So Beautiful (Interlude) (Locher)

JOSEPHINE
You’re so beautiful
I could tie you to a wall and photograph you
You’re simply beautiful
I could tie to you a wall and photograph you
In silly rags
Clean and pretty

9. To Absent Strangers (Bell/Locher/Jackson)

MITCHELL
Everyone meets under false pretenses
Everyone says just whatever anyone says
No one knows much of anybody else

LINUS
To wake up she said to me and we gave ourselves

MITCHELL
She said to me and we gave ourselves
To absent strangers
Everyone’s a stranger

LINUS
Everyone is stranger

MITCHELL
Everyone is a stranger

LINUS/MITCHELL
Everyone is strange

MITCHELL
Heroine and college loans go (hand in hand)
Everyone is spending all their money on a scam

LINUS/MITCHELL/LEE/EMMETT
Like we got psychedelic balloons
And psychedelic shrooms
Let’s go eat them in your room
And wait for the big boom

10. The Book of Idols (Bell)

LINUS
We’re searching for signs of life
And the switch to turn off our minds
And the twitch to make her blind
And another manufactured line

LINUS/EMMETT
Shouted loud on a movie screen
Another misinterpreted scream
From the girl in the back row
Her boyfriend left the show

To call his other bride
And say that he was fine

To say that we’re all fine
We need that push from the edge
We need to be perfect tens
Yeah she’s a perfect ten

UPSTANDING SONS AND DAUGHTERS
And we march lines
Back and forth in time
Corrupting all our minds
With sentimental lies

EMMETT
Sensory overload
I’m finding it hard to breathe
We’ve found, the motherload
I can’t hear her screams

EMMETT/LINUS
Shouting loud from the balcony
The curls in her hair unwind
The clothes on our backs rewind
With time

Sheltered form the storm
She’s going out of her mind
She says her prayers to the crucifix

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
Above the chalkboard
God says he’s gonna heal the blind
God says he’s gonna help us find
The truth in our hapless hearts
The truth in our helpless rhymes
He’s gonna lead us to the edge
We’re gonna be perfect tens
But I’m only a nine and a half

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE/PETER
No a seven
No a six
No five
These cars are driving me blind

No a seven
No a six
No five
These cars are driving me blind

EMMETT/LINUS
Find me on the corner of sixth and ninth
Money in my pocket, but it’s not mine

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
Loving you feels like a crime

11. Hell on Echo Avenue (Bell/Locher)

EMMETT
I barely slept the night before
While waiting by the double door

LINUS
Birch and Echo Avenue
Bus stop station, crazy glue

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE
Bloody family locker chains
Catholic sin and splattered brains
Public hazy blue eyes
Little white lies

Standing at the end of the line
How I wish she were mine

Freshman titles never fit
Wearing black, she was lit.
Transferring anxiety
To try and win the spelling bee

She was so symmetrical
Only seen peripheral
Pretentious summer reading
Life goes speeding by

Standing at the end of the line
How I wish she were mine

Hell has so many names
And I’m not sure why I came
Ripping halves into pieces
This is the only road to take.

Numb again and on the bus
Remedial depression
After school specials
We all can’t deny

That life is so much easier high
And how I wish she were mine

Hell has so many names
And I’m not sure why I came
Ripping halves into pieces
This is the only road to take.

EMMETT/LEE
(Cool and level thoughts are true
I find myself lost in you
In time
A breakdown at the end of the line
A former lover I’ll never find
While these cars are driving me blind)


12. There Are No Groupies in Heaven (Bell/Locher)

EMMETT/LINUS/PETER
Do you wanna call me?
Outside of your bedroom door
Are you feeling lonely?
Smoking cools on your bedroom floor

Everybody’s asking baby who’s that girl
Who’s that spectacle?
Don’t you know I’ve been here before?
We’re identical

With our broken jaws and tongue
We had a lot of fun
Until you found God upstairs
He’s been playing monopoly on your broken floor
Rolling dice for a cure

THE GHOST OF HENRY VAUGHN
Do you wanna ride with me?
Underneath the lemon trees
I never know why I died
I just wanna give you a ride
Why won’t you let me be?
I just wanna be free
And alive

EMMETT/LINUS/PETER
Do you wanna call me?
Outside of your bedroom door
Are you feeling lonely?
Smoking cools on your bedroom floor

Everybody’s asking baby who’s that girl
Who’s that spectacle?
Don’t you know I’ve been here before?
We’re identical

With our broken jaws and tongue
We had a lot of fun
Until you found God upstairs
He’s been playing monopoly on your broken floor
Rolling dice for a cure

THE GHOST OF HENRY VAUGHN
Do you wanna ride with me
Underneath the lemon trees
I never know why I died
I just wanna give you a ride
Why won’t you let me be?
I just wanna be free
And alive

John Lennon
George Harrison
Janis Joplin
Keith Moon

Jeff Buckley
Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
John Coltrain

They are all dead.

13. Surveying Revelations (Locher/Bell)

EMMETT
State wide service call
Sent across the radios
To all mothers sisters and brother
Brother is so far away
He’s never coming back

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE/MITCHELL
He’s been out all night, drinking too much wine
Smoking grass while finding ass
We never knew him
He always kept to himself
He never spoke much to no one
Only to his plants
That are growing
Inside his mind
While the man up the street builds a bomb

GREG
While the man up the street builds a bomb

ALL
To feed his young sons and daughters
He has so many of them
And they’re so goddamn fearful
Of what he’ll do to them
When he hears the announcement
That our world is coming to an end

Do what you’re gonna do
Run where you’re gonna go
Downtown

Drink what you wanna drink
Smoke what you wanna smoke
Now, Now

EMMETT/LINUS/LEE/LEONARD
I don’t wanna die today
I don’t wanna find my way
To anywhere other than your room
You are my only Kaboom
I only want to say
I’m sorry

LINUS
Josephine
You are my queen
I wish I’d said everything
Anything to be.

LINUS/LEE/EMMETT/MITCHELL/THE GHOST OF JOSEPHINE/THE GHOST OF JOAN
Josephine
The world was green
We reigned supreme
Your head asleep on my shoulder

When we were teens
You were so mean
Another scream
I want to hold her

Josephine
The world was green
While we danced on each other’s shoulders

Teenage drama queens
Lean and deranged
We never really age

GHOST OF JOSEPHINE/GHOST OF JOAN/LEE
And I’ve been feeling oh so strange

ALL
I’ve been feeling oh so strange