Songs for Drella Page #2

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we're everything you hate

Andy loves old Hollywood movies

he'll scare you hypocrites to death

You know that shooting up's for real

That person who's screaming

that's the way he really feels

We're all improvising

five movies in a week

If Hollywood doesn't call us

we'll be sick

Starlight open wide

Do to movies what you did to art

Can you see beauty in ugliness

or is it playing in the dirt

There are stars out on the New York streets

We want to capture them on film

But if no one wants to see them

We'll make another and another

Starlight let us in that magic room

We've all dreamt of Hollywood

it can't happen too soon

Won't you give us a

million dollars the rent is due

Andy will give you 2 movies and a painting

Starlight open wide!

FACES AND NAMES:

Faces and names

I wish they were the same

Faces and names only

cause trouble for me

Faces and names

If we all looked the same

and we all had the same name

I wouldn't be jealous of you

or you jealous of me

Faces and names

I always fall in love

with someone who looks

the way I wish that I could be

I'm always staring

at someone who hurts

And the one they hurt is me

Faces and names,

to me they're all the same

If I looked like you

and you looked like me

There'd be less trouble you see

I'd disappear into that wall

and never talk

Faces and names

I wish I was a robot or a machine

Without a feeling or a thought

People who want to meet

the name I have

Are always disappointed

when they meet me

Faces and names,

I wish they were the same

Faces and names only

cause problems for me

Faces and names

I'd rather be a hole in the wall

looking out on the other side

I'd rather look and listen

listen and not talk

To faces and names

I had a breakdown when I was a kid

I lost my hair when I was young

If you dress older when you're not

as your really age you look the same

If we all looked the same

we wouldn't play these games

Me dressing for you and

you dressing for me

undressing for me

Faces and names

if they all were the same

You wouldn't be jealous of me

or me jealous of you

Me jealous of you - I'm jealous of you

Your face and your name

IMAGES:

I think images are worth repeating

Images repeated from a painting

Images taken from a painting

From a photo worth re-seeing

I love images worth repeating

project them upon the ceiling

Multiply them with silk screening

See them with a different feeling

Some say images have no feeling,

I think there's a deeper meaning

Mechanical precision

or so it's seeming

Instigates a cooler feeling

I love multiplicity of screenings

Things born anew

display new meanings

I think images are worth repeating

and repeating and repeating

I'm no urban idiot savant

spewing paint without any order

I'm no sphinx,

no mystery enigma

What I paint is very ordinary

I don't think I'm old or modern

I don't think

I think I'm thinking

It doesn't matter

what I'm thinking

It's the images that are worth repeating

If you're looking for a deeper meaning,

I'm as deep as this high ceiling

If you think technique is meaning,

you might find me very simple

You might find that images are boring

Cars and cans and chairs and flowers

You might find me personally boring

Hammer, sickle, Mao Tse Tong

I think that it bears repeating

the images upon the ceiling

I love images worth repeating

and repeating and repeating

SLIP AWAY (A WARNING)

Friends have said to lock the door

and have an open house no more

They said the Factory must change

and slowly slip away

But if I have to live in fear

where will I get my ideas

With all those crazy people gone

will I slowly slip away

Still there's no more Billy Name

and Ondine is not the same

Wonton and the Turtle gone

Slowly slip away

If I close the Factory door and

don't see those people anymore

If I give in to infamy

I know it seems that friends are right

Hello daylight, goodbye night

But starlight is so quiet here

think I'll slowly slip away

What can I do by myself, it's good

to hear from someone else

It's good to hear a quiet voice

that will not slip away

a crazy voice that will not slip away

If I have to live in fear

my ideas will slowly slip away

If I have to live in fear

I'm afraid my life will slip away

If you can't see me past my door

Why your thoughts could slowly slip away

If I have to lock the door

another life exists no more

Slip away

Friends have said to lock the door

Watch out for what

comes through that door

The said the Factory must change

But I don't

IT WASN'T ME

It wasn't me who shamed you

it's not fair to say that

You wanted to work

I gave you a chance at that

It wasn't me who hurt you

that's more credit

that I'm worth

Don't threaten me with the

things you'll do to you

It wasn't me who shamed you

it wasn't me who brought you down

You did it to yourself

without any help from me

It wasn't me who hurt you

I showed you possibilities

The problems you had

were there before you met me

I didn't say this had to be

You can't blame these things on me

It wasn't, it wasn't me, it wasn't me

I know she's dead, it wasn't me

It wasn't me who changed you

you did it to yourself

I'm not an excuse for

the hole that you dropped in

I'm not simple minded

but I'm not father to you all

Death exists but you

do things to yourself

I never said give up control

I never said stick a needle in your arm

and die

It wasn't, it wasn't me, it wasn't me

I know he's dead but it wasn't me

It wasn't me who shamed you

who covered you with mud

You did it to yourself

without any help from me

You act as I could've told you

or stopped you like some god

But people never listen

and you know that that's a fact

I never said slit your wrists and die

I never said throw your life away

It wasn't, it wasn't me, it wasn't me

You're killing yourself

and it wasn't me

I BELIEVE:

Valerie Solanis took the elevator

got off at the 4th floor

Valerie Solanis took the elevator

got off at the 4th floor

She pointed the gun at Andy

saying you cannot control me anymore

And I believe

there's got to be some retribution

I believe

an eye for an eye is elemental

I believe

that something's wrong

if she's alive right now

Valerie Solanis took three steps

pointing at the floor

Valerie Solanis waved her gun

pointing at the floor

From inside her idiot madness spoke

and bang

Andy fell onto the floor

And I believe

life's serious enough for retribution

I believe being sick is no excuse and

I believe I would've pulled

the switch on her myself

When they got him to the hospital

his pulse was gone

they thought that he was dead

His guts were pouring from

his wounds onto the floor

they thought that he was dead

Not until years later

would the hospital do to him

what she could not

Andy said, "Where were you,

you didn't come to see me"

Andy said, "I think I died,

why didn't you come to see me"

Andy said, "It hurt so much,

they took blood from my hand"

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