Lyrics to Ken Cormier's Radio Bueno

Tracks:

1. Nothing Personal  2. Plans in Mind  3. Bug Dreams  4. Everybody Kind  5. I Know You Know  6. Never Had  7. The Avenue  8. You Are Nothing

nothing personal  every morning when i piss on the cat 
and eat some fine fine food i'm always thinking about you 
and even later when I sit by the phone 
screening all of my calls because i don't want to talk to you 
it's nothing personal 
i just get so scared 
with all this talk about going out somewhere 
i just wanted to be near you 
i really want to be near 
every time i'm at the laundromat 
i get some quarters from the lady and i know that she hates me 
it's like she thinks i want to sleep with her old man 
but i wouldn't do that cause he don't do nothing for me 
it's nothing personal 
i'm not afraid of being queer 
but all this talk about going out somewhere 
i just wanted to clean my clothes 
i really want to clean my 
every night when i'm driving my car 
i get the feeling a policeman's going to break down and shake me 
it's like the time they put my name in a notebook 
and told me to shut up or they'll come back and get me 
it's nothing personal 
i trust all the boys in blue 
but all this talk about going out somewhere
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i could never be like your mom 
and i could never be like your father either 
but that don't mean to say that they're wrong 
and that don't mean to say that they're right now either 
i could never be someone strong 
i'd rather be in bed in the dark with fever 
cause i know just what you want me to- 
to be but it's not that simple be-
because you got different plans in mind 
don't look at me 
don't step on me 
i don't know what's come over me 
i don't know anything 
i could never be ten feet tall 
and i could never wrestle with herman melville 
but that don't mean to say that i'm small 
and that don't mean to say that i got no muscle 
i know that everyone sees 
exactly what they want to see 
and i don't want to fight over nothing special 
everybody falls on the ground 
and everybody gets up and falls down again 
i know just what you want me to- 
to be but it's not that simple be-
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i can't complete anything 
i got the sunny corner bounce 
fake it in the bed 
oh no oh yes oh god 
got a got a feeling like i'll run away 
buy another pack of cigarettes 
and take it to the trash can 
smoke down look around throw away 
oh god oh no oh yes 
got another feeling like i'll run away 
i can't complain about the color 
my teeth just grind one more night away 
television oughta do em 
feed it to em feed it to em 
pack up my things and run away 
spend all your time and money 
save up to buy a sunday paper 
find out the world's gone dead 
another gabba gabba freak of nature 
never put your money on a billy goat 
buying a boat and saving it for later 
you just turn around and find yourself in hell 
caught in the running with the cat bone paper knife 
pop up in another part of the pop up 
never knowing who nothing ever do 
done in a blast and a flash in the path of a rat 
continue levitating buy another bag 
and another bag and another bag 
and you bounce out can't speak can't see go home 
get sleep bug dreams wake up new day 
i can't find time to find a line to concentrate on 
eyes can drive you to hide 
but when the killing's done you just step up with pride 
and i spend my time looking up 
to a mother fucking eliminator 
and i can put my head to neighbor's door 
and hear the moans and the groans of nature 
connect the dot and find a plot 
your mind rewinds another picture 
you just turn around and find yourself in hell back to top

everybody kind everybody kind ever-
everybody kind everybody's here
i know you know tai kwan do
but i don't care
cause that's not important to me 
you know
all my friends say you're way too into your hair
but that's why i like you so much 
you know
everybody kind everybody kind ever-
everybody kind everybody's here
i don't have to try to be more than i am
i don't have the same pressures as you
you know
all my instincts point me away from your hand
but i can't help shaking it now
you know

well the park and the mushroom and the calico cat 
and your hair and the ping pong and the scratch-to-win card 
black bat dream of using it scary car boys 
follow me in to the subway don't look back 
watch your head 
you never taught me no lessons but 
i found a witness 
she had a message 
she don't talk to no one 
i know you know 
got no sense of time like a soul 
like a dead soul buried young 
take that policeman to the scene of my brain 
cut it up with a pitchfork and carry me home 
i wish that i could wake up 
you never taught me no lessons but 
i found a witness 
he had a message 
he don't talk to no one 
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penny thinks it's alright to say goodbye and hang up
and i'm never supposed to call back or anything
how many days should i wait 
before it's too late to make up my mind
penny does her hair and walks back and forth and smiles
four years shoot by and i pretend they don't
how am i supposed to collect
all these things that i've never had
penny never decided to get back to me
and i never wrote her or anything
i still have a picture i keep in a book that i never read
a book that i never read
like most books that i've ever had back to top

take a look find a change 
if i had some i'd breathe for you 
realize that magnificent landscape 
and i'll poke your eyes out for you 
you got me to keep on and i got you to hold on 
and we are directly to blame 
take the car to the carport take the dog to the dogport 
never come back here again 
rain settling on the hateful ground 
i've never seen this much before 
takes so long to realize 
you came and went a thousand times 
you always end up on the avenue 
a bloody lip and a broken nose 
and now you've got a new attitude 
you wander round grocery stores looking for so much more 
but no one can find it for you 
you're driving around and that sound that is pounding 
in your head is here with me too 
you can't hide away from it you better just soak in it 
and i'll let the cat out for you back to top

i'm not only looking 
i am seeing for the first time 
and it's not right 
feels like dying 
i take a book and throw it at your head 
you duck
it smashes everything i love 
i start to cry but i just can't 
i pick up all the broken things and i sit down 
i feel like you know something i don't 
i'm standing at attention 
the big boy parks his big car 
right alongside a small one 
and it's not the way you planned it 
and it's not the way you saw it 
but it's opening up 
if you feel like nothing you are nothing 
but you feel good and it's okay 
yesterday i looked out my window and i saw it 
it was big and round 
it wanted money 
we'd like it to be non-existent 
so go and kill it 
it's ugly anyway 
and it's not the way you planned it 
and it's not the way you saw it 
but it's opening up 
if you feel like nothing 
you are nothing you are nothing

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