Eponymous

Radio Free Europe
Gardening at Night
Talk About the Passion
So, Central Rain
(Dont Go Back) to Rockville
Cant get from there to here
Driver Eight
Romance
Fall On Me
The One I Love
Finest Worksong

1. Radio free europe (original Hibtone single)

Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay.
Reason: it could polish up the grey.
Put that, put that, put that in your wall
That this isn't country at all

Radio station, decide yourself

Keep me out of country in the wood
Deal of (mumble, mumble) absurd.
Don't ask, don't ask, don't ask how you fuck
That they're pushing forest too far.

Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling out in a transit, calling out in a transit
Radio free europe, radio.

Decide defying media too fast
Instead of puting carbon up the wall
Push that, push that, push that up your wall
That this isn't nothing at all

Radio station, decide yourself
Calling out in a transit, calling out in a transit
Radio free europe, radio free europe

Decide yourself, (calling all of the) calling all of those...
Keep me out of country in the wood
Reason it could follow up absurd.

Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling out in a transit, calling out in a transit
Radio free europe, radio free europe

Calling out in a transit, calling out in a transit
Radio free europe, radio free europe

2. Gardening at night (different vocal mix)

I see your money on the floor.
I felt the pocket change through a hole.
The feelings that broke through that door just didn't seem
To be too real. The yard is nothing but a fence,
The sun just hurts my eyes.
Somewhere it must be time for penitences.
Gardening at night is never where. Gardening at night.
Gardening at night. Gardening at night.
The neighbors go to bed at ten.
Call the prayer line for a church.
Georgia's changing every road.
They said it couldn't be arranged.

Ya' recollect the garbage sound, but they were busy in the rows.
Better not to see the sun, gardening at night just didn't grow.
I see your money on the floor.
I felt the pocket change through a hole.
The feelings that broke through that door just didn't seem
To be too real. Gardening at night. Gardening at night.
Gardening at night
Your sister said that you're too young.
She should know she's been there twice.
The call was two in fifty one.
They said it couldn't be arranged.

Ya' recollect the garbage sound, but they were busy in the rows.
Better not to see the sun, gardening at night just didn't grow.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes.
Somewhere it must be time for penitences.
Gardening at night is never where. Gardening at night.
Gardening at night. Gardening at night.

3. Talk about the passion

Empty prayer, empty mouths, combien reaction
Empty prayer, empty mouths, talk about the passion
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world

Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion

Empty prayer, empty mouths, combien reaction
Empty prayer, empty mouths, talk about the passion
Combien, combien, combien de temps?

Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Combien, combien, combien de temps?

Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
(repeat)

4. So. Central rain

Nb : (parts quoted by michael stipe in
rolling stone in a letter in dec 1988)

Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The trees will bend, the cities wash away
The city on the river there is a girl without a dream

I'm sorry

Eastern to mountain, third party call, the lines are down
The wise man built his words upon the rocks
But I'm not bound to follow suit
The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine

Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine

5. (Don't go back to) Rockville

Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a
Bus going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not
Enough going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody
They don't know you'll wind up in some factory that's full time
Filth and nowhere left to go walk home to an empty house,
Sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long

Don't go back to rockville
And waste another year

At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back

It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and that's
Not how it ought to be
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long

6. Cant't get there from here

Nb : (published in guitar magazine in 1985.
a few lines were reprinted in goldmine in 1987
and some appear in the video as well)

When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
If you're needing inspiration
Philomath is where I go by dawn
Lawyer jeff he knows the lowdown
He's mighty bad to visit home

I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way

When your hands are feeling empty
Stick head jumpin off the ground, 'round
Tris is sure to shirr the deers out
Brother ray can sing my song

I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way

Hands down, calechee bound
Landlocked kiss the ground
Dirt of seven continents going round and round
Go on ahead mr. Citywide hypnotized, suit and tied
Gentlemen, testify

If your world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Philomath they know the lowdown
Throw your trolls out the door

I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way
can't get there from here
I've been there I know the way

Thank you, ray.

7. Driver Eight

The walls are built up, stone by stone,
The fields divided one by one.
And the train conductor says
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long"

And the train conductor says
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"
I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm.
The power lines have floaters so the airplanes
Won't get snagged. Bells are ringing through the town again,
Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing
And the train conductor says
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"
Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself to sleep.
Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself, my children to sleep.

He piloted this song in a plane like that one.
She is selling faith on the go tell crusade.
Locomotive 8, southern crescent, hear the bells ring again.
Field of wheat is looking thin

And the train conductor says
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long."
And the train conductor says
"take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

8. Romance

Nations fall, par-parallel
Neighbors call
All in all in all in all in all

That's worth saving of the four
Put our heads down on the dash
Also need and erase for rest
Easy come, easy go

Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go

Sears give seal, par-parallel
Neigh-neighbors call
All in all in all in all in all

That's worth saving of the four
Put our heads down on the dash
Also need and erase for rest
Easy come, easy go

Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go

If vince is yours then call the shot
Keep it in a parking lot
With one romance, one romance
Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go

Neighbors call, par-parallel
Day and night nations fall
All in all in all in all in all

That's worth saving of the four
Put our heads down on the dash
Also need and erase for rest
Easy come, easy go

Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go

(what?)

9. Fall on me

There's a problem, feathers iron
Bargain buildings, weights and pullies
Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky
Don't fall on me (what is it up in the air for)
(it's gonna fall) fall on me (if it's there for long)
(it's gonna fall) fall on me (it's over it's over me)
(it's gonna fall)

There's the progress we have found (when the rain)
A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)
Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)
Isn't anything at all (melt the statues in the park)
Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky
(repeat chorus)
Don't fall on me

Well I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it whole
Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky

(repeat chorus, etc.)

10. The one I love

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

Fire (she's comin' down on her own, now)

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love

11. Finest worksong

The time to rise has been engaged
You're better best to rearrange
I'm talking here to me alone
I listen to the finest worksong
Your finest hour

Another chance has been engaged
To throw thoreau and rearrange
You are following this time
I beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)

Take your instinct by the reins
Your better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused been confused (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)

(repeat 3rd verse)