Elephant Talk
Talk, it's only
talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate
announcements
It's only talk
Talk, it's only talk
Babble, burble,
banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo
It's only
talk
Back talk
Talk talk talk, it's only talk
Comments, cliches,
commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat,
chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It's only talk
Cheap
talk
Talk, talk, it's only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words
with a D this time
Dialog, duologue, diatribe,
Dissention,
declamation
Double talk, double talk
Talk, talk, it's all talk
Too
much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials,
explanations, exclamations, exaggerations
It's all talk
Elephant talk, elephant
talk, elephant talk
Frame By Frame
Frame by frame
Death by drowning
In your, in your analysis.
Step by
step
Doubt by numbers
In your, in your
analysis.
Matte Kudasai
Still, by the window pane,
Pain,
like the rain that's falling.
She waits in the air,
Matte Kudasai.
She sleeps
in a chair
In her sad America.
When, when was the night so
long,
Long, like the notes I'm sending.
She waits in the air,
Matte
Kudasai.
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad
America.
Indiscipline
I do remember one thing.
It took
hours and hours but...
by the time I was done with it,
I was so involved, I
didn't know what to think.
I carried it around with me for days and
days...
playing little games
like not looking at it for a whole day
and
then... looking at it.
to see if I still liked it.
I did.
I repeat myself
when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when
under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat...
The more I
look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.
The fact is...
no
matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I
break it down,
It remains consistant.
I wish you were here to see it.
I
like it.
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Thela Hun
Ginjeet
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Thela Hun
Ginjeet
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Thela Hun
Ginjeet
Qua tari mei
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Qua tari mei
Heat in
the Jungle streets...
Well, first of all,
I couldn't even see his face.
I
couldn't see his face.
He was holding a gun in his hand.
Umm... I was
thinking...
This is a dangerous place...
This is a dangerous place...
I
said, 'I'm nervous as hell from this stuff.
I thought those guys were going to kill
me for sure.
They ganged up on me like that.
I couldn't believe it.
Look,
I'm still shakin'.
Weird.
There out in the streets like that.
It's a dangerous
place.
It's a dangerous place.'
So, suddenly, these two guys appear in
front of me.
They stopped.
Real aggressive.
Start at me, you
know.
'What's that?' 'What's that on that tape?'
What do you got
there?'
I said, 'huh?'
They said, 'What are you talking into that for?'
I
said, 'It's just a tape, you know'
'Well play it for me'
I said 'oh, no'
I put
it off as long as I could.
And finally they turned it on, you know
They
grabbed it from me.
Took it away from me.
Turned it on.
And it said,
'He held a gun in his hand. This is a dangerous place.'
They said, 'What
dangerous place?' 'What gun?' 'You're a policeman!'
And the deeper I talked,
the worse I got into it.
I talked, I told him... I said, 'Look man, I'm not
talkin'...'
It went on forever.
Anyway, I finally unbuttoned my shirt, and
said,
'look, look... I'm in this band, you know, I'm in this band you know,
and
we're makin' a recording, you know.
It's about New York City, it's about crime in
the streets...'
The explanation was going nowhere, but,
Finally, they just
kinda let me go, I don't know why.
So I walk around the corner,
and I'm like
shakin' like a leaf,
and I thought, 'This is a dangerous place'
Who
should appear, but two policeman.
The Sheltering Sky (Instrumental)
Discipline (Instrumental)
All words by Adrian Belew
All titles
© EG Music Ltd.