1. Linoleum (featuring David Sylvian) 4:31 lyrics
2. Years From Now 2:47
3. Swamp 4:20
4. Turned 2:33
5. Happy Child (featuring Will Oldham) 4:28 lyrics
6. The Drive-bye 4:30
7. Take Me Alive (featuring Craig Wedren) 4:25 lyrics
8. Susan 2:47
9. Microsize Boy 3:12 lyrics
10. Full Cup of Coffee 3:53
11. Empty Sheet of Paper 3:39
12. After All (featuring Craig Wedren) 5:10 lyrics
13. Come Play 4:50

Written and Produced by Chris Vrenna

Produced by Chris Vrenna except "Happy Child" produced by Chris Vrenna and Peter Reardon

All songs written by Chris Vrenna except "Linoleum" written by Chris Vrenna & David Sylvian, "Swamp" written by Chris Vrenna & Buzz Osborne, "Happy Child" written by Chris Vrenna & Will Oldham, "Take Me Alive" written by Chris Vrenna & Craig Wedren and "After All" written by Chris Vrenna & Dallan Baumgarten

All songs published by pink lava/ALMO Music Corp (ASCAP) except "Linoleum" published by pink lava/ALMO Music Corp (ASCAP) and Opium (Arts) Ltd. (PRS), "Swamp" published by pink lava/ALMO Music Corp (ASCAP) and B. Osborne (Copyright Control), "Happy Child" published by pink lava/ALMO Music Corp (ASCAP) and Royal Stable Music (ASCAP), "Take Me Alive" published by pink lava/ALMO Music Corp (ASCAP) and Sony/ATV (BMI) & "After All" published by pink lava/ALMO Music Corp (ASCAP) and Dallan and sepsis (ASCAP)

Engineered by Chris Vrenna, Rich Mouser, Dave Kent
Recorded at Amethyst Digital and The Mouse House, Los Angeles, CA, and Synergy, Napa, CA
Mixed by Paul Leary and Chris Vrenna at Blue World Music, Austin,TX
Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering, Los Angeles, CA

Additional Musicians:
Guitars: Dallan Baumgarten, Mark Blasquez, King Buzzo, Wayne Kramer,
Rich Mouser, Clint Walsh
Violins: Petra Haden
Turntables: DJ Swamp

Management: Waxploitation Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA info@waxploitation.com
A&R for Six Degrees: Bob Duskis
A&R for Waxploitation: Jeff Antebi
Business Affairs: Sendyk & Leonard
Legal: William Berrol, Esq.
Art Concept: Chris Vrenna
Art Direction/Design: Ben Tripp
Cover Painting: Joe Sorren
Photography: Roxann Arwen Mills

For fan club information, please e-mail fanclub@tweaker.net

Thank You:
To all the great guests for participating
Dallan Baumgarten
Jennifer Folker
Burton Bell
Jonah Matranga
Ted Bruner
Xzibit
Bob Duskis and all at Six Degrees Records for the second chance
Jeff Antebi for absolutely everything!
Joe Sorren for creating Elliot
Bill Kennedy
Willy McLachlan
John Van Eaton for the pedals
Tom Grimley
Dr. Susan Cooley
Bob Bortnik
Nicole Blackman
Commy and Soleh for all the support at www.podboy.net
Bill Noll at Neoview
Ransom
Chuck Radue and Steinberg
Design FX rentals
Sean Wilhelmsmen and E-mu
Tammy Miller
Digidesign
IVL/Electrix
Scanner and Main
and especially to my wife Carrie, and Priscilla, I love you both

Linoleum
***********
I hear them breathing
They know what I have done, all that I've been through
I tell them secrets
And who's to say it isn't so?

Move, don't move
stay a little while on my linoleum
Breathe, don't breathe
Walk a thousand miles on my linoleum

This is frustrating
I'm sensing some of my hostilities
Distress and conflict
I've really just about lost all control

Move, don't move
stay a little while on my linoleum
Breathe, don't breathe
Walk a thousand miles on my linoleum

What do you really want from me?
What is it?
I just really want to leave
I just really got to...

Angry?
No
Angry?
No
Angry?

Did someone whisper
I'm really not so sure
I could've been asleep
Is everyone this frightened?
Are there more like me? There's just got to be.

Move, don't move
stay a little while on my linoleum
Breathe, don't breathe
Walk a thousand miles on my linoleum
Drink, don't drink
Still I'm lying drunk on my linoleum
Dream, don't dream
All the patterns fade on my linoleum

Happy Child
**************
I imagine my hands are clean
I am revitalized by things unseen
I begin a dialogue with the road
toothless, hopeful, about to explode...

how could I have ever been so lucky
to wake up looking in her face
and see the flowers she put ‘round the room
britening an otherwise crumbling place

she told me that jesus loves me
but I never knew who jesus was
some kid somewhere fucked up
well isn’t this what a savior does?

don’t cry
don’t feel
don’t die
because death is not real
it’s good
it’s yours
and it should come when things have run their course

I wanted her melted up inside me
all the tears and the smiles shed for me
she’d disappear to the world around me
everything to be a powerful memory
...(so I could carry all that we’d been with me)

so I brought her to the swamp she loved so well
where I gently placed her in it
I brought her soul to ease with kisses
and I said to her as I’s about to begin it


don’t cry
don’t feel
you won’t die
because I don’t think death’s real
it’s good
it’s mine
and it should be
at your heels all of the time



and she said:

“and where’s the sky for me now?                its good that she sings
and who will take it down?                          the freedom it brings
and drape it all around me                          her voice is my very
head
every cloud and cosmo for a gown?”

I’m a good kid
old style
a happy child
and I’m never going to have to do that again
but if I want to, I can

don’t cry
don’t feel
don’t die
because death is not real
it’s good
it’s ours
like the sun
like the worms
like the wind
like the flowers...

take me alive
***************
return to life
feel what’s happening
the seasons
have made me whole
the storm inside
gone with the undertow
your glowing lights make me high

take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in hiding
take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in hiding
take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in hiding
take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in...


return my love
hear my offering
unreason
misplaced control
the stopless night
dawn with your kiss my love
your glowing eyes light the sun





take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in hiding
take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in hiding
take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in hiding
take me alive
don’t wake me up
no more time to spend in...

...turn around, around...I’m letting go...a peace of my soul...
here am I, come warm my bones...

after all
*********
dark night is dawning after all
strength less but standing after all
i do not fear this after all
not quite so fearless after all

after all the waning moon is full
after all the rain it feels so cool
hope can we sing, it help me survive your games
but i’m not playing after all

nothing you do can stop me, i live today
nothing you say can keep me, I’m on my way
what will you scream when there’s nothing left to say
and who will you rule when no one is left to play

your party’s over after all
a part of me missing through it all
hope can we sing, it helped me survive your games
I’m not your plaything after all

nothing you do can stop me, i live today
nothing you say can keep me, I’m on my way
what will you scream when there’s nothing left to say
and who will you rule when no one is left to play

Microsize Boy
***************

all I have to say
my monitor displayed
my circuits are away
closed down and afraid

styrofoam and latex to my icey below
soiled laces threshold into your soul

I will decide
no time to hide
but you’re not the kind
to keep an open mind
you make me microsize
microsize boy......

and you never stay
an empty, open bay
and I was on my way
but you don’t want to play

just so tired of drinking, I’m shorting out
kaleidescoping pixels, they’re crashing down

And I’m left behind
you’re no friend of mine
and you’re not the kind
that keeps an open mind
you make me microsize
microsize boy.......




and all you had to say
your monitor displayed
my patience wore away
always been afraid.....

file’s not worth saving, shut me down!


I will decide
no time to hide
but you’re not the kind
to keep an open mind
you make me microsize
microsize boy......

....boy....

And I’m left behind
you’re no friend of mine
and you’re not the kind
that keeps an open mind
you make me microsize
make me the microsize boy.......
boy