Jed Davis Wastes 8 Years Of His Life For Your Listening Pleasure

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A best-of-to-date released by J-Bird Records to coincide with the tribute album Everybody Wants To Be Like Jed. Contains alternate versions and demos in addition to previously-released studio tracks, as selected by fan vote.

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released 12 October 1999
© 1999 Jed Davis

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Track Name: The Hanslick Rebellion - Grub (live)
I call my muse
For I need to get laid
To get laid, I need a chick
To get a chick, I must look cool
To look cool, I need to lie
To lie creatively, I must have drugs
Do you have..?
I call my muse
Have you a drug for me?

I can't get it up without some weed, baby, weed, baby, weed, baby, weed, baby
Hit you back, I promise, buddy
I can't get it up without some shroom, baby, shroom, baby, shroom, baby, shroom, baby
Gladly pay you Tuesday, pally
I can't get it up without a dose, baby, dose, uno dose, baby, dose, baby
Come on, drop one on me now as

I call my muse
For I need to get laid
To get laid, I need a band
To have a band, I need to sing
I think I sing, therefore I sing
To sing effectively, I must have drugs
Do you have..?
I call my muse
Hast thou a drug for me?

I can't get it up without some weed, baby, weed, baby, weed, baby, weed, baby
Don't you love my lyrics now?
I can't get it up without a band, baby, band, baby, band, baby, band
Got a spotlight I can stand in, buddy?
I can't get it up without a car, baby, car, baby, car, baby, car, baby
Drive on pal, you look so cool with me.
Track Name: Collider - Ground The Paper Planes
If we were together now
What would we be doing?
Making paper airplanes
And throwing them around the room?
Eating Chinese takeout
Crosslegged on the floor?
Don't pass me anything.
I'm not hungry anymore.

If we were together now
What would we be doing?
Sitting silent in the car
As I drive you home again?
Counting stars in my backyard
As we wait for ours to fall?
Don't bother counting stars.
You'll never count them all.

I'll take you home
I'll apologize tomorrow
I'll ground the paper planes
And put the fallen stars back in place.

No matter how we try
This plane will never fly
So let me drive you home and say goodbye.
Track Name: The Shower
Worms eat shit and they never complain
All they ever ask for is a little bit of rain
Just a shower on their bodies, so squishy and round
To rinse off all the daylight and to soften the ground.

Little miss sunshine, do you hate the rain?
Tell me, what am I supposed to do?
Worms need water on their clammy skin
And I'm nothing but a worm to you.

Would you like to cut my head off?
Would you like to see me squirm?
Would you like to see me shrivel in the sun?
Well, I'm standing in the shower on a chilly afternoon
As I run out of hot water and my hands begin to prune...

A shower is a potent and mysterious thing
For no apparent reason it can move you to sing
When I'm standing in the shower I'm completely alone
I am securely protected from the door and the phone.

But somehow the curtain doesn't keep out the sun
A little light always gets in
And sooner or later I will have to step out
And another crappy day will begin.

Would you like to cut my head off?
Would you like to see me squirm?
Would you like to see me shrivel in the sun?
Well, I'm standing in the shower on a chilly afternoon
As I run out of hot water and my hands begin to prune...

I thought I had some privacy, I guess I was wrong
I thought I was alone, I should have known all along
You shine around the blackest cloud and slip through every crack
I try to shut you out, but you worm your way back

Little miss sunshine, do you hate the rain?
Tell me, what am I supposed to do?
Worms need water on their clammy skin
And I'm nothing but a worm to you.

Would you like to cut my head off?
Would you like to see me squirm?
Would you like to see me shrivel in the sun?
I could linger in the water, I could scrub and scrub all day
But I won't get any cleaner, and it won't wash you away.
Track Name: Skyscape - Step On Me
You keep your head down
And slip behind things
A silhouette with substance
A black hole tugging at me
And not even my gaze can escape your gravity.

You move in riddles
In opposite directions
You speak in silences
And look at everything but me
I'm a crack in the sidewalk that you have to step around.

Step on me
Oh what I would give just to be the ground you walk on
Step on me
I'm a break in the monotonous concrete gray
And if you just avoid me, I'm stepped on anyway.

I form ontologies
What's it like to be you?
I form cosmologies
What's it like to be with you?
And I look at you and I know you're everything I think you are.

You keep your head down
And slip behind things
A silhouette with substance
A black hole tugging at me
And not even my gaze can escape your gravity.

Step on me
Oh what I would give just to be the ground you walk on
Step on me
I'm a break in the monotonous concrete gray
And if you just avoid me, I'm stepped on anyway.
Track Name: The Hanslick Rebellion - Starlet (live)
Tell us more of strength and class and dignity, my love
As we trap you under glass and watch you pose, my love
You can stuff yourself with fish eggs and champagne, my love
But tonight, your shit will smell like shit. Too bad, my love

Someday you will be old, and someday you will die, my love

Be the model of perfection
Be the pinnacle of grace
As the tabloids proudly tell us what it took to make your face
And we know what makes you fuss
And we know what makes you cuss
And we watch you on TV as you pretend to be us

And we see you when you're sleeping
And we hear you on the phone
And we've seen you in the bathroom
And we've seen you all alone
And we've seen you hurt
And we've seen you cry
And we've even seen...

Well, of course you never get what you deserve, my love
And of course it's everybody's fault but yours, my love
We've all seen your tits; you can put your tits away, my love
And if you've got nothing new to add, shut up, my love.

Someday you will be old, and someday you will die, my love

Be the model of perfection
Be the pinnacle of grace
As the tabloids proudly tell us what it took to make your face
And we know what makes you fuss
And we know what makes you cuss
And we watch you on TV as you pretend to be us

And we see you when you're sleeping
And we hear you on the phone
And we've seen you in the bathroom
And we've seen you all alone
And we've seen you hurt
And we've seen you cry
And we've even seen...
Track Name: Ready For The World
In a coffee shop somewhere under Lark Street
I am sitting waiting, waiting for the next thing
Will she be a cool girl or another dumb idea?
I don't know, but when she comes, I'll be waiting right here.

And there are a million better places for both of us to be -
Tell me, when you're ready for the world,
Would you mind being seen with me?

Do you like it here, working under Lark Street?
Everyone's a hipster, everyone's a rock star
Everyone's a mover, everyone's a shaker
Everyone is everyone is everyone is everyone is...

And there are a million better places for both of us to be -
Tell me, when you're ready for the world,
Would you mind being seen with me?

In a coffee shop somewhere under Lark Street
I am sitting waiting, waiting for the next thing
Will she be a cool girl or another dumb idea?
I don't know, but when she comes, I'll be waiting right here.
Track Name: Symbiosis (demo)
Garden green, beside the tree
I raise you, you raise me
Breathe my air and I'll breathe yours
We'll help each other be.

Person with the rake and hoe
We tend each other well, you know
Give me your food, I'll give you mine
We'll help each other grow.

There's no shore without the sea
No more flowers without the bee
Without you, there is no me
So keep me carefully.
Track Name: Seven And The Ragged Tiger (demo)
Duran
Duran
Duran
Duran

I love to say Duran Duran
I say it over and over and over again
The World Premiere Video is on at eight
For a brand-new song called "Union of the Snake"
I love to say Duran Duran
While I dream of Ms. Pac Man
Come on everybody and say Duran Duran with me

Duran
Duran
Duran
Duran

I went without hot lunch for weeks
Just so I could afford that record
"Reflex" and "New Moon on Monday"
Taunted me on MTV
Till finally my mom agreed
To take me to Sam Goody and I
Saw it shining in its shrink-wrap
In the front display it was

Duran
Duran
Duran
Duran

I love to say Duran Duran
I say it over and over and over again
The World Premiere Video is on at eight
For a brand-new song called "Union of the Snake"
I love to say Duran Duran
While I dream of Ms. Pac Man
Come on everybody and say Duran Duran with me

I ran towards my holy grail
Past High N' Dry and Back in Black and
Just as I was reaching out
A voice behind me called my name
I turned around and saw her in
A Ricky Schroeder t-shirt and
She said she wanted puffy stickers
But I knew I'd die without

Duran
Duran
Duran
Duran

Here's the latest on Scott Baio, won't you let me hold your hand?
Here's a Ricky Schroeder pin-up, won't you let me hold your hand?
I cut up my 16 magazine for you
Now loving me forever is the least you can do

Give me back those stickers
Girls are stupid anyway.

I love to say Duran Duran
I say it over and over and over again
Years have passed and I feel the same
Though I never got that record - now I can't recall its name
I love to say Duran Duran
While I dream of Ms. Pac Man
Come on everybody and say Duran Duran with me

Duran
Duran
Duran
Duran
Track Name: Collider - Magnetic North
"We're gonna get you people, and we're gonna have the bloodiest war, because right now I've declared war on the underground." -GG Allin

There's a great big hole in the sky above the North Pole
Opened by a bullet that was fired from the Grassy Knoll
Ripped out wide by the spray of the brain
And the blood and the bone that was something Cobain

And the hole in the sky is a hole into Hell
D.B. Cooper jumped in and he fell and he fell
Now he rots in the silt 23 fathoms down
With a hundred unsinkable ships.

Swing it back and forth
Until we find magnetic north

Hollow Earth lit up by a tiny sun
The sun spins around at night - look up, I can prove it now -
Those are not stars, those are Chinese lights

There's a great big hole in the sky above the North Pole
Opened by a bullet that was fired from the Grassy Knoll
Like a mirror image of a crack in the equator
Full of arsenic, Hawaiian Punch and sewer alligators

And the hollow Earth is a ball of fire tonight
And the future is bright in this nuclear light
It shines like the Hope Diamond.

And the hollow Earth overflows with lemon drops
And we're jumping like bugs in a microwave
Dancing and twitching and why? Because we're supposed to.

Swing it back and forth
Until we find magnetic north
Track Name: Little Tumors (reprise)
You've got seven little tumors on your ribcage
You've got a roommate who can't stand you 'cause you felt up his ex.
There's a girl who screwed you over eighteen months ago
And the only thing you want is her back.

You've got an open pack of cigarettes you can't touch
You've got best friends who you can't even talk to anymore.
There's a girl who screwed around with all your best friends, too
And the only thing you want is her back.

But from pain comes inspiration
And the portrait of Shakespeare on the wall stares in awe of you.

You've got a roommate who can use you to get back at his ex
You've got best friends who forgive you when they need something.
You've got seven little tumors and they're all benign
So it's okay to start smoking again.

Too bad you're boring as shit now
And breasts from eighteen months ago obscure the page in front of you
The blank white page in front of you
The empty blank that lies
Right in front of you.
Track Name: The Hanslick Rebellion - Leave Your Boyfriend (live)
Right now, every eye in the room is on me
But I'm making sure you're all I see
You're the one with the hair and the smile and the eyes
And the fucking little boyfriend

I am the master of a million things
I scribble words and everybody sings
I am here to kick the world's ass, baby
What's one little motherfucker?

Here I am -
I think you better leave your boyfriend now.

Now is the time 'cause you bet I'm going fast
I'm out the door in an hour and you know you'll be the last
Thing that I ever think about if you fuck up and allow
Someone else to get with this so you better leave your boyfriend NOW.

Here I am -
I think you better leave your boyfriend now.

Right now, every eye in the room is on me
But I'm making sure you're all I see
And when I look down from the top of the world
Will I see you with your boyfriend?

Now is the time 'cause you bet I'm going fast
I'm out the door in an hour and you know you'll be the last
Thing that I ever think about if you fuck up and allow
Someone else to get with this so you better leave your boyfriend NOW.
Track Name: Skyscape - Deep Deep Down
The air that night becoming day
The moon, the blue, the deep, deep blue
The stars that wink and fade away
Leaving me, the sea, and you.

On the horizon, two small lights
One green, one red, each a mystery
Passing ships, or luminous fish?
Either way, we joined them in the sea

The scene last year: so deep, deep down
I thought you went so deep, deep down
But every time I turn around
There's a little less left of you.

Your poetry, your deep, deep eyes
Your deep, deep mind so ocean blue
In passing months it's all dried up
Leaving so shallow a puddle of you

I shine like a fish in a tidal pool
Your small, dry world too shallow for me
I know you were never profound as you seemed
And so I return to the deep, deep sea.

The scene last year: so deep, deep down
I thought you went so deep, deep down
But every time I turn around
There's a little less left of you.
Track Name: My Brother's On A One-Way Flight To Heaven
From the album We're All Going To Jail!

The plane went down two weeks ago; my brother was inside
And that night as I cooked dinner I'd swear I heard him screaming as he died
Voices coming from the pots and pans as I began to cook
Was it just coincidence, or should I read the book?

My brother's on a one-way flight to Heaven
And God only knows where his luggage ended up.

The plane went down two weeks ago; the letter came today
My brother's name was on the front in type all smudged and gray
Oh I'd love to have seen their faces - oh, they must have been all smiles
When those bastards totalled up and sent his frequent flyer miles

My brother's on a one-way flight to Heaven
And God only knows where his luggage ended up.
Track Name: The Hanslick Rebellion - We Wait And We Wait (live)
She waits for a fable
For the start of a story
That she heard long ago
Too good not to come true

I can't compete, no way.

Because the man, the man in the moon
Is cooler than me, so constant and brightly smiling
Oh the man, the man in the moon
Cuts holes in the night and leaves me washed out by his light
Oh to be the man in the moon
Nothing to prove, swaddled in nonexistence
Oh and I'll be sick of this soon
But she'll remain
In love with the man in the moon.

I wait for a fable
For the start of a story
That I heard long ago
Too good not to come true
Track Name: Enlightenment
After all the football games
After all the shows
After all the dances
Where do we go?

I stand on the corner of Conklin and Main
As the clouds roll in and it starts to rain
The rain is warm, and it weighs me down
And I know I'll never leave my town.

You can change all the faces and lose the name
But a town is a town, every one is the same
And there's gravity and there's entropy
And that's physics enough for me.

I stand on the corner of Conklin and Main
As the clouds roll in and it starts to rain
The rain is warm, and it weighs me down
And I know I'll never leave my town.
Oh, I know I'll never leave my town.
Track Name: Collider - Only A Woman
Baby, put your hand in the mouth of the lion
But when his jaw clamps shut, you better not start crying
Go on and let it hang, go on and let it swing
One of these days, you'll turn on the wrong motherfucker when you shake that thing

And you're only a woman
You're hair and skin
You're only a woman
And they're only men
What do you expect, dear?

In the bitter cold
Go without a coat
Jump without a parachute
Talk back to the man with the gun
Will they find you in the bullring wearing red?
Will they find you wearing blood in the lion's den?
Call it what you want
Urban camouflage
Don't dress to impress if you don't know who you're impressing

And you're only a woman
You're hair and skin
You're only a woman
And they're only men
What do you expect, dear?

You're asking for it asking for it asking for it!
Track Name: Piece Of Crap (demo)
This is crap
A piece of crap
I churn it out
I dump it out
You lap it up
You eat it whole
19 dollars for this piece of crap
You'll take it

Pay for me
Make me sexy, buy me groupies
High school kids are stupid you can
Trick them
Use them
Look I'm what you wanted all along

I love this song
How do you do it?
You're so angry
Just like me
You know the pain
Middle-class white rage
Mom and dad won't let me out past midnight
I'm in Hell

Sell to me
Say you hate me, give me bootlegs
You're official spokesman for my
G-G-G-G-Generation
Talking with your mouth full -
BANG!

This is a wonderful time to be a rock n'roller
Pray that your connections are as good as mine
Watch me put my grocery list to music
Watch it sell a million copies
And the kids find poetry in every line

This is crap
A piece of crap
I churn it out
I dump it out
You lap it up
Swallow it whole
Silly rabbit, you are what you eat
Don't touch me

I know:
I'll get a kickin drum and bass loop
I'll make some noises on a keyboard
Hey back off buddy, I'm an artist
Now I'm on the cutting edge.
YEAH!
Track Name: Pal
Today I sat with three of my friends
Discussing herpes over lunch -
Sean said he had it and was taking medication to relieve it.
Eventually the conversation turned to AIDS
I just smiled and said, "Guys, I'm not afraid of AIDS
'Cause I don't use IV drugs,
And I don't know a single girl who would fuck me."

I'm a pal, I'm a shoulder, I'm an ego boost
And there's nothing between my legs
I'm a 24-7 complaint line
And I'm an all-purpose backup plan
If I meet one more girl who just wants to be friends
Man, I'm off to the monastery
And the only social disease I've contracted is bitterness.

Sean says, "Hey, it's a dangerous world -
I think maybe I should slow down
'Cause I don't know which of those ten girls gave me herpes."
I said, "Sean, you're a dick. Man, I can't believe
You've had sex with ten times as many women as me -
But then again, that's not exactly true, is it -
'Cause ten times zero is still zero."

I'm a pal, I'm a shoulder, I'm an ego boost
And there's nothing between my legs
I'm a 24-7 complaint line
And I'm an all-purpose backup plan
If there's one thing in the world that turns off a girl
It's a straight up honest guy
And the only social disease I've contracted is bitterness.

I can't believe there was ever a time when I did not know your name
Now it's years and years and years and years
And I wish I'd never heard your name
And we can talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk for years
And I can sing this song a million times, but this is all the woman hears:

Blah blah blah ya ya ya da da da blah blah blah.
Track Name: Silhouettes
And I turn to the back of the book from the shelf
To the pages that a hundred people signed
We were so quick to say "forever and a day"
But I guess out of sight, out of mind

Silhouettes, flickering shadows
Silhouettes, all that you've left me
Are faded names on yellowed pages
Wish you were more than a memory.

In the years since we left, we have changed, we have grown
We have all gone our own separate ways
Now we pass on the street and pretend we'd never met
Trying hard to avoid one another's gaze

Silhouettes, flickering shadows
Silhouettes, all that you've left me
Are faded names on yellowed pages
Wish you were more than a memory.

Silhouettes, flickering shadows
In my mind, the clearest that you get
Is a tiny voice all wrapped in static
Just a blur, just a silhouette.
Track Name: Skyscape - Conform
I sleep when everyone is awake
And when I'm awake, they sleep
My world is always dark, always night
If you think for yourself, you're wrong
And if you think for me, you're wrong
And if you think you're wrong, you're absolutely right

Well, it was all over before I even started
Didn't cross my i's or get my t's dotted
And I don't know which way to go now
No, I don't know where to go
I ski in July and swim in December
And I think I'm forgetting how to remember
And I don't know which way to go now
No, I don't know where to go.

We were born
Constricted quite tightly
Why can't everybody just let me be?
And if I want to be a rabbit, why can't you say:
"I'll let you be, I'll let you be."

Well, it was all over before I even started
Didn't cross my i's or get my t's dotted
And I don't know which way to go now
No, I don't know where to go
I ski in July and swim in December
And I think I'm forgetting how to remember
And I don't know which way to go now
No, I don't know where to go.

I won't conform
I was born
Born to learn
I'll let the yuppies burn
Waste away each day
I'll go my own way

I sleep when everyone is awake
And when I'm awake, they sleep
My world is always dark, always night
If you think for yourself, you're wrong
And if you think for me, you're wrong
And if you think you're wrong, my friend, you're absolutely right

Well, it was all over before I even started
Didn't cross my i's or get my t's dotted
And I don't know which way to go now
No, I don't know where to go
I ski in July and swim in December
And I think I'm forgetting how to remember
And I don't know which way to go now
No, I don't know where to go.

Let it go -

You can all go take a hike
You can't make me do anything I don't like
I don't care if my actions don't commit to your norm, no no
You can't drag me out of my dream
I will kick and I will scream
I'll confound you to the end
I won't conform.
Track Name: The Knowing Ones (demo)
There's an old oak chest by the window
That my great-grandfather built one shining June
And I love to sit and look at it, proud on the hardwood floor
Gleaming in the rays of summer afternoon

They changed the family name at Ellis Island
And no one here today know what it was
They ripped up all the records around the second World War
And time took the knowing ones, as it always does

And no one here can tell me any more than what they know
It's a shame the knowing ones were gone so long before
The ones who need to know
What we were so long ago

Look in the old oak chest, and you won't see much
Just a few loose baubles and things
But even if my ancestors were noting more than carpenters
There's no one here to say they weren't kings;
In the old oak chest, I see them all as kings.

And no one here can tell me any more than what they know
It's a shame the knowing ones were gone so long before
The ones who need to know
What we were so long ago

There's an old oak chest by the window
That my great-grandfather built one shining June
And I love to sit and look at it, proud on the hardwood floor
While the knowing ones are smiling in the rays of summer afternoon.
Track Name: It's Always Christmas In Siberia
I drifted up here, wayward, like a snowflake
And as soon as I arrived, I wished that I was home
But a good friend said, "My man, this is your home now
Thought it might be stark as molten hell, as cold as frozen Nome.

"I know you're stuck a long, long way
From your sweet, warm house in the USA
And cold has more than one way to turn you blue
But here we relieve the inner chill with a choice word or two."

It's always Christmas in Siberia
Santa practically lives in this town
Such a winter wonderland, Siberia
And I never have to take all of my lights down

You know, I used to hate the winter
'Til I moved here, where it's winter all the time
It's been so long, I can't remember summer
Winter's all I know, so it suits me fine.

It's always Christmas in Siberia
Santa practically lives in this town
Such a winter wonderland, Siberia
And I never have to take all of my lights down
[Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow]
[I'm dreaming of a white Christmas]

It's always Christmas in Siberia
Santa practically lives in this town
Such a winter wonderland, Siberia
And I never have to take all of my lights down
It's always Christmas in Siberia.
Track Name: Despite (demo)
Despite the guitar that you brandish before you
As you tell off a crowd that's content to ignore you
And despite your soul-searching, and the ingots of wisdom
Which disguise all the shit that's pent up in your system
And the old man who pays for the place where you live
And the woman who pays for the demos you give
To the promising people in the back of your cab
As you pray that the next fare will take the wheel
From your gifted little hands

And despite the guitar that you brandish before you
As you tell off a crowd that's content to ignore you
Whose every yes means they'll never forget you
And every no means they're all out to get you
And despite the club owners who won't have you back
And despite all the girlfriends who won't have you back
And the buddies who've seen way too much of your back
As you walk out in another huff and swear
That you're never ever coming back

And despite the guitar that you brandish before you
As you tell off a crowd that's just there to ignore you
And despite your frustrations and your bitter demands
The mistakes you displace, and your uninformed plans
You will still be surprised when we all move on
And there's nary a sniffle for you when you're gone
'Cause despite your falsetto and the friends you suck dry
The blonde in your hair and the blue in your eye
The world wasn't waiting for you to save it
The world wasn't waiting for you.