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Artist/Band: Jandek
Lyrics for Song: Worthless Recluse
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Jandek



Worthless recluse

Bang, pow, steel, muscle, k

What worse, I'm alone

Grown the bane of not being interested in the plate they passed to you

All the pleasure spots in the city

And if I walk in, my person screams

I'm obviously out of place

My shoes don't kick one over the other

So much as they used to

I'm here, God knows it

But where are you

The object of my satisfaction?

But this solitude doesn't agree with anyone

What's my name?

Go, and be alone, and stop crying

Well it's not any fun

And I look at myself being busy

And I know I'm putting something off

What is it?

I remember being alive

In the cold northern cities

I didn't need to think if I were interested

Eight-thirty wasn't too late

And I look at my lonely bed

Where once in my life I shared it regular

Oooooh, the years, and the time

These memories that keep me going

From one activity to another

Well I don't know which is the real life

What I do actively

Or when my thoughts are lost in time

My new house, in elegant comfort, is one thing

But being huddled in red, blue, and orange

Cracks in the walls, wind whistling

I'll not ever forget

And your face behind the flowers

Somehow branded to my half-life

Which may take over yet

Consciously I play the game of making money

Back in my brain, is the cold northern cities

And the cold that makes me jump up and down

I just can't seem to kill this pain today

I can't afford to do me in

And it makes me wonder whoever is happy in this world

I can't see them, are they there?

The supermarkets are always jam packed, the acceptable way

I got a big frame, born with it, sure do need a side of beef

42 heads of lettuce, 888 potatoes

And all the apple pies my Mack truck can drive away with

Cure all, better than a bandage

Better than the blue

Better even than TV

Oh oh, here comes the pain

Break out a barrel of cheese

Yep, we got ours

Ooh, coming on years since I met you

Half the time I saw you

Half the time one of your eyes looked past my shoulder

What was there? Was it better than my eyes?

When you let me see you

Nothing looked better

Even, unfortunate or not, me

Maybe that's why now, I view myself in the dream

And finding myself, and it hurts

And the dream is more fun

Anything beats the pain of being me and knowing I'm alone

And putting off doing something, whatever it is

I guess, something, like

Living in northern city doorways

Heading north, to the woods, to clean earth (?)

Back where the police invite you to

The back seat of their car, check you out

Why can't I shave and do my part to build man's home?

Where do you live, man? Do you really live here?

Why does my dream keep forgetting that?

Power, let's build power

I guess it spreads the English language

Communication, no more tribes with shrunken heads

It's inevitable, it's my playground

But I have to be serious

Step into the car, mister. What are you?

I'm a little boy, I don't wanna be big

I'll act out my part, and lean on my half-life

In times of trouble, or when it's just there

What else can I do?

Except be a man, and visit ice castle

And live on rocks even if it is cement

And anything's better than all this dirt and grass

So far from the woods, give me cement and wall to wall people

Let me know where I am

Or show me the way to the woods

Wearing deerskin shoes, and carrying a club

Or walking naked on top the snow, light as the air

Black leather head to toe

With some place to go.

I wanna be where no time is the wrong time

Where everything falls in place

Like fiber-optics, ultrasonic waves, and control systems

Control is the name of the game

Lord God, let me get it down

When I get it to a fine T, it's gone

Let it build to perfection, and stay

Oh well, take off

Target eternal light, all systems go. Satisfaction

Maybe then this worthless recluse can carry a torch

Look, I'm a human

But I'm something supernatural

The dream gives light

Listen all you dead and dying

Don't be afraid

If it hurts, let it die

The Easter lily blooms

Its smell surrounds the table

An unforgettable presence, an ominous sight

The purple foil covers the vase pot

Casting reflections through the diffused light

Such beauty and awesome fragrance

Who ever thought they could remove this sanctuary

I don't like fighting, especially when I'm fighting me

I'm staying up late and I don't really know why

I hope I can live till tomorrow and the next day without eating

I'm fed up with eating for a while

I know it, it's only weakness

That binds me at the supermarket counter

Trading green paper for something to do

Blessed are the sociable, that say stupid things

And get close to their neighbors

It takes a worthless recluse to shrink from groups

It takes a half-hearted chicken recluse

To live among people

The best of them disappear

And that's what it's all about

That's why I can't make it

I'm not strong enough to disappear

It takes a supernatural being to disappear

I'm not that good

This human thing in me wants me to be a hero

I want people to think I'm great

I want people giving me so much money

That I have an airplane, a boat and car and house that's everywhere

And the network to support all this

So where is it?

Stuck in the dream, because I don't have the courage to disappear

I know it's the only way to salvation, but

The old nag human me still wants to play with money, people and things

To make a name in the world

Disappearing to God's eye

And away from the eye of the world

Is the big step

Weaklings like me have to hang around, and play, and fudge, and delay

For fear of the big step

I'm just lucky I even know about it

The only reason I do know

Is I begged god to tell me about it

On my knees, screaming with pain

On the sixth floor, in New York City

So I'm telling you about it

Everyone doesn't have to live in northern doorways

To take the big step

Or go to the woods, or ice

We all have our way to go, but everyone knows

Now that I'm telling you

That there is something to do

A big step to take

Into the eye of God

Play human if you have to

But at least know

And don't kid yourself

Behind that big piece of delicious poison

All you dead and dying

Disappear to your own eye

So that you don't see yourself

Live the half-life

Step inside the dream


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Jandek


Jandek
"Other Songs - Jandek"


1. Ace Of Diamonds
2. Aimless Breeze
3. Alexandria Knows
4. All In An Apple Orchard
5. Alone On That Mountain
6. Ambient Instrument
7. Angel Moves
8. Answer
9. Anticipation
10. Ballad Of Robert
11. Bedside
12. Bells And Voices
13. Birthday
14. Bitter Tale
15. Blood And Bone
16. Bludgeon
17. Blue Blister
18. Blue Blue World
19. Blues Turned Black
20. Branded On A Telephone
21. Breast In A Moonbeam
22. Breathtaker
23. Bring It Back To Seventy-Five
24. Bring It In A Manger
25. Bring On Fatima
26. C F
27. Call You The Sun
28. Can I See Your Clock
29. Caper
30. Carnival Queen
31. Cat That Walked From Shelbyville
32. Cave In On You
33. Cellar
34. Centaur Train
35. Chilocothe
36. Close To You
37. Closing
38. Clothes
39. Collection
40. Come Over Here
41. Comedy
42. Corner Of The Street
43. Could Be Anyone
44. Couldn't Be A Reader
45. Crack A Smile
46. Crazy
47. Crime Pays
48. Customary
49. Darkness You Give
50. Delinquent Words
51. Desert Voice
52. Didn't Have To Cry
53. Didn't Really Die
54. Do You Want Me
55. Don't Get Too Upset
56. Don't Know If I Care
57. Don't Want To Be
58. Down At The Ball Park
59. Down Clown
60. Down In A Mirror
61. Dozen Drops
62. Dreaming Man
63. Dunes
64. Echo
65. Elementary Talk
66. Embrace The World Outside
67. Equaled In Life
68. European Jewel 501
69. Evening Sun
70. Every Sentence
71. Ezekiel
72. Faceless
73. Falling Down Deep
74. Faye
75. Feathered Drums
76. Find Me Again
77. First Awake Moment
78. First You Think Your Fortune's Lovely
79. Flowers On My Shirt
80. Fly
81. For Today
82. For You And I
83. Forgive Me
84. Four By Four
85. Frosted Field
86. Frozen Beauty
87. Gate Strikes One
88. Georgia East
89. Ghost Town By The Sea
90. Give It The Name
91. Go To Bed
92. God Came Between Us
93. Going Away
94. Gone Wait
95. Governor Rhodes
96. Green Dreams
97. Gretchen
98. Ha Ha
99. Hand For Harry Idle
100. Helena
101. Hey
102. Highway
103. Hilltop Serenade
104. Honey
105. House Of The Rising Sun
106. House Up On The Hill
107. How Many Places
108. Humility Of Pain
109. I Ain't Got None
110. I Can't Leave A Clue
111. I Found The Right Change
112. I Gave My Eternity
113. I Had'nt Been There Before
114. I Just Might Go Now
115. I Knew About Them
116. I Knew You Would Leave
117. I Know The Times
118. I Love You Now It's True
119. I May Not Be Around
120. I Need Your Life
121. I Never Left You Anyway
122. I Passed By The Building
123. I See Lights
124. I See The Open Door
125. I Stared
126. I Stepped Out Of It
127. I Threw You Away
127. I Want To Look In
127. I Went Outside
127. I'll Come Back
127. I'll Sit Alone And Think A Lot About You
127. I'm Not That Good
127. I'm Ready
127. If Your Fortune Fails You
127. Interlude
127. It Rang Eleven Times
127. It Seems Forever
127. It Would Only Be Action
127. It's Febuary
127. It's Your House
127. Jackson's Gone Down The Mississippi
127. Janitor
127. Janky
127. Jessica
127. John Came
127. John Plays Drums
127. Just Like The Floor
127. Just Whisper
127. Kick
127. Killer Cats In The Carribbean
127. Know Thy Self
127. Lake Lagoon
127. Leave All You Have
127. Left The Beach Last Sunday
127. Let Me Hear The Words You Say
127. Letter
127. License To Kill
127. Liquids Flow To The Sea
127. Living End
127. Lofty Rider
127. Lonesome Bridge
127. Long Long
127. Look At It
127. Lost Cause
127. Love, Love
127. May 7, 9: 15 A.M.
127. Message To The Clerk, Pt.1
127. Michael
127. Morning Drum
127. Mostly All From You
127. Mothers Day Card
127. Moving Slow
127. Must Have Been A Miracle
127. My Escape
127. Naked In The Afternoon
127. Name I Had
127. Nancy Sings
127. Native Land
127. Needs No Sun
127. Nepoleon In Russia
127. Never Never Never
127. Nevermore
127. New Rendezvous
127. New Town
127. Niagra Blues
127. Nine-Thirty
127. No Break
127. No One Knows Your Name
127. No Time
127. Not Even Water
127. Nothing Is Better Than God
127. Nothing You Lack
127. Number 512
127. Oh No
127. One Last Chance
127. One Minute
127. One Of Those Moments
127. Only Lover
127. Only Way You Can Go
127. Open E
127. Out Of The Cave
127. Part Yesterday
127. Pending Doom
127. Phillip Was Mentioned
127. Phoenix
127. Picture
127. Place
127. Plenty
127. Point Judith
127. Poor Boy
127. Preacher
127. Professional
127. Quinn Boys II
127. Quite Nonchalant
127. Rain In Madison
127. Rather Be Blind
127. Real Afternoons
127. Real Fine Movement
127. Real Wild
127. Relief Of The Night
127. Remain The Same
127. Remind You
127. Riddles Riddling Me
127. River To Madrid
127. Rooftop Sunset
127. Sadie
127. Sailors
127. Same Road
127. Sand I
127. Sea Of Red
127. Second End
127. Sense Of Reason
127. Shadow Of Leaves
127. Share My Life
127. She Fell Down
127. Show Me The Way, O Lord
127. Simple As That
127. Situations
127. Slinky Parade
127. Slow Burn
127. Solid Stone
127. Some Of Your Peace
127. Spanish In Me
127. Spiritual Song
127. Split To The East
127. Star Of Zenith
127. Star Up In The Sky
127. Starless
127. Stars Spell Your Name
127. Steal Away Home
127. Stick With Me
127. Sticks In The Marsh
127. Stopped
127. Strange Phenomenon
127. Stumble
127. Such A Thrill
127. Sung
127. Supression
127. Take It Easy
127. Take My Will
127. Talk That Talk
127. Telegraph Melts
127. Tell Me When
127. Ten O'clock Shadows
127. The First End
127. The Image Of You
127. The Other Side
127. They Don't Matter At All
127. They Knew My Game
127. They Told Me I Was A Fool
127. Thing Called Me
127. Think About Your Lady
127. Thinking
127. This Is A Death Dream
127. Time And Space
127. Time Will Come
127. Twelfth Apostle
127. Twelve Minutes Since February 32'nd
127. Twenty - Four
127. Uncle Steve
127. Unconditional Authority
127. Until Then
127. Upon The Grandeur
127. Van Ness Mission
127. Variant
127. Walking Around
127. Waltz In Two-Fourths Time
127. War Dance
127. Way That You Act
127. We're All Through
127. What
127. When I See You Again
127. When The Telphone Melts
127. Where I Stay
127. Whiskers
127. White Box
127. Wild Strawberries
127. Wondering
127. Work Of Art
127. World Stops
127. Worthless Recluse
127. Wouldn't You Agree
127. Wrap It Up
127. Yellow Pages
127. Yes You Are
127. You Ancient
127. You Can Stop Now
127. You Didn't Lie
127. You Don't Have To Entertain Me
127. You Made Me Know It
127. You Painted Your Teeth
127. You Sing A Song
127. You Standing There
127. You Think You Know How To Score
127. You Took Me For A Ride
127. You Wake Up Deadmen
127. You Won't Get Up
127. You're The Best One
127. Your Other Man
127. Your Own Little World
127. Your Visitor