MANY LIVES - Lyrics by Howlin’ Whale

I come from the land of the bubbling bog

The big rock, the gunshot, skunk cabbage, and frogs

Trains, they sang, they sang my name

Wanderlust Incarnate, that’s what I became

Trains, they rumbled, they rumbled my brain

Rattling the windowpane while I packed my suitcase

I’ve lived many lives (lives)

I’ve surfed many tides (tides)

I’ve been born and I’ve died

Yes I’ve hurt and survived

I am a woods woman who knows the city

Though I’ve left the woods, the woods will never leave me

I’ve lurked underground and I’ve spun on top

Love and destruction, flight, forget-me-not

I carry the seed of a displaced people

I watch closely and listen, yes I feel you all

I’ve been a prisoner, now I am free

The dark side’s tried to trap me, but it cannot catch me

Whales, they howl, they howl my name

Cetaceanite Incarnate, that’s what I became

I’ve lived many lives (lives)

I’ve surfed many tides (tides)

I’ve been born and I’ve died

Yes I’ve hurt and survived

Little girl, I’m here with you, little girl

The world is big, little girl

So dream bigger, little girl

I will help you, little girl

It’s all okay, little girl

‘Cause I’ve lived many lives

I’ve lived many lives

I’ve lived many lives

I’ve lived many lives

I’ve lived many lives

BAD SPELL - Lyrics by Howlin’ Whale

Birds sang with miners’ shaky breath and clogged lungs

The hearts of the trees stuck like sap and beat like wilted drums

Smoke poured through the crater, crushed deep by a giant’s toe

As the wind cried like a child, lost to his daddy’s tome

I said it like a bad spell (like a bad spell)

I cast me under

I said it like a bad spell (bad spell)

I cast me under

Rhythm of bats’ wings stirs the air wild and cold

We hunt for the small things, the weak, sick, and old

Owl beaks tear like lightning, silent, bright and hot

As the withering veins of the leaves start to clot

Why’d I taste that sweet honey

That fell from that pot?

Why’d I taste that sweet honey

That fell from that pot?

I said it like a bad spell (like a bad spell)

I cast me under

I said it like a bad spell (bad spell)

I cast me under

(Like a bad spell)

(Bad spell)

Streams leak like blood over dust charred and sore

Birds rip hair for nests from skulls cracked and bored

Crows fly like spies with grit teeth and locked jaws

And the boiling, muddy water slowly swallows the frogs

No sound cuts the air but my love, wild and true

A shout that was sucked up, sucked up without you

I said it like a bad spell (bad spell)

I said it like a bad spell (bad spell)

I said it like a bad spell (bad spell)

WAITING - Lyrics by Howlin’ Whale

If I danced through the stars and tripped on Aries

I’d still be at war, still down on my knees

And if I soared through the barrel of kaleidoscopic sky

You’d still be here wondering, wondering why

And if I slept through the seasons and turned over in time

I know you’ve got your reasons why you still are mine

And I’m asking your reasons, can I leave you behind?

You’re still there waiting, waiting for me

Waiting, waiting

Waiting for me

Waiting, waiting, waiting

Waiting for me

If I entered Venus with no smoke screen

My body would melt, you’d still be where you’ve been

If I endured Saturn and ran on the ring

You’d hide like dark matter, just waiting to sing

And if I walked on and on without feeling my feet

You’d know where they were and you’d know where to meet

Oh you’re still there waiting, waiting for me

Will you ever stop waiting, waiting for me?

Waiting, waiting

Waiting for me

Waiting, waiting, waiting

Waiting for me

Waiting, waiting

Waiting for me

Waiting, waiting, waiting

Waiting for me

If I smoked myself silly and went laughing on at clouds

If I stared in the mirror and saw my stance, proud

If I raced to the sea like a burning hot sun

Right where I’d end up is right where I’d begun

If I shouted like lightning and I crashed like a train

If I thundered and thundered, I’d see you again

If I stang like a hornet whose nest was destroyed

That sting couldn’t stand it

Your breath can’t avoid

My breath can’t avoid 

Your breath can’t avoid

My breath can’t avoid your breath

RAT - Lyrics by Howlin’ Whale [EXPLICIT]

What do you do when you sniff a rat in our midst?

What do you do when you sniff a rat in our midst?

Bad Voodoo, take it down

Loving guns shooting now when they used to just smoke 

Oh you better hear me rat, listen up, ain’t no joke

I am coming after you like a panther through the trees

Every breath out of you like a boa I’m gonna squeeze

‘Til it hurts, ‘til you’re blue, ‘til you’re falling on your knees

You won’t take my brother man just to eat your poison cheese

Scamper rodent if you want to keep your brains inside your skull

‘Cause while you’re lurking all about you know I won’t be standing still

Sniff you out by your stink, then I twist that knife to kill

You got me murdering you rat, exterminate your nest of evil

Oh what do you do when there’s a rat in our midst? 

Gonna run it outta town, take a knife, make a twist? 

Oh I know just what to do when there’s a rat in our midst

Gonna run it outta town, take a knife, make a twist

What is justice here for dealers of the devil’s piss?

I know that I despise your business

I can’t stand one more time to witness

This ratty plague from your dirty cave

Spreading poison that will never leave the hearts of addicts

To your crack junk it’s madness

I know you cut that shit with plastics 

So rat behave ‘cause you’re in the way of helping my friends slow their decay 

I just want them to be okay but with you around there’s no way

So little rat get going

Or your life will be pouring

Out of you onto the floor and what would you do if it were your hand

That stopped this cold evil in motion but had to cause some commotion

I wish you heard these words spoken by every throat you are choking

Get out rat!

You better scat!

Pussy cat behind your back!

Tell me, what do you do when there’s a rat in our midst?

Gonna run it outta town, take a knife, make a twist?

Oh what do you do when there’s a rat in our midst?

Gonna run it outta town, take a knife, make a twist

What is justice here for dealers of the devil’s piss?

Pay attention ‘cause I know where your nest is

Pay attention, I am poison like asbestos

Kill you fast, kill you slow, you are going down for sure

I am calling out your name and wiping it across the floor

‘Cause those fleas fall from your fur got me itching all around They’re biting all my friends while I watch them hit the ground

It is violent as ever even when shots make no sound

And you are gone forever when you’ve gone underground

Oh get out you reeking rat, there’s some pavement, better pound 

Better move those dirty paws ‘cause you do not want to be found

What would you do? 

Somebody help me 

What would you do? 

Oh, somebody help me 

What would you do? 

Oh, help me               

Oh, help me 

What do you do? 

Help me

RUN - Lyrics by Howlin’ Whale

Oh the Texas sun sets and the sky is wide

Blind if I believe I’ve found a place to hide

I’m leaving my baby and I don’t know why

Hope he don’t hate me for being child

My foot’s on the pavement and my toes dig in

Up ahead I hear the truck’ll do me in

Oh why don’t I run, why don’t I run? 

Why don’t I run, oh why don’t I run?

I said, up ahead I hear the truck, it’s for that I’m done

I’ve made some mistakes and told a lie or two

Now shame’s got me wishing that I never knew you

My blood flows weak and I can feel my heart turn

‘Cause I gotta give him so much less than he earned

And making that man frown makes me so damn sad

It’s a double thick cut, boy, do I got it bad

A good baby needs a baby loyal and true

How could I be crying for you and cry for him too?

Oh I’d rather be bright or not be here at all

I’d rather be bright or not be here at all

I’d rather be bright or not be here at all

Up ahead I hear the truck, that horn is my call

I’m leaving my body and the sun falls fast

At least I’d hoped I go out with a fiery blast

But the dark is big and the gravel shakes

Dreaming of a place where I did not know this place

Oh I wish I could run, but there’s nowhere to run

I wish I could run, but there’s nowhere to run

I wish I could run, but there’s nowhere to run

No, there’s nowhere to run when you’re in love with someone

There’s nowhere to run when you’re in love with someone

There’s nowhere to run when you’re in love with someone

Nowhere to run when you’re in love with someone