SIKTH LYRICS

1. How May I Help You?

[concept and lyrics by Mikee W Goodman]

This is a story bout
A little man named Rod Who did not have a mind of his own
Just went along with his pathetic lonely

Even when he went to school
The teachers said jump and he jumped and he jumped and he jumped
Then he fell on the floor

Never let his feelings out
Didn't have any friends
Once he left school he hoped
This would
All change now
But
It was not to be
The world for him to see
Mercy
Oh, mercy

Arrrgghhhh!!!!!!!!

He had to get a job
Wanted to go somewhere in the middle of nowhere to relax for a while
He went to work on a boat as a cabin boy
"Get on you knees and scrub the decks, I want to see you sweating
Make sure you're in my quarters around half past ten this evening"
He didn't like this one bit
He got to get another job
So he jumped off the boat and swam to shore to work on the beach in a bar

He met a chick working there who was just like him Not too pretty, Not too pretty
She was sad and lonely just like him
They went to the cinema together and then Went back to his room and
Made sweet loving to each others only friend Only friend

The night after he walked out of the room and heard a voice shout
"Boy! Go pick the dead rats outta the drain!!"

First day
But it's OK
From then he talks to Rodney like shit all day

But Rod, doesn't do anything, just keeps it in

He thinks, "fuck it, I just put up with this shit I got a girl and a friend I don't need nothing else"

"How are you doing, my good man?
(As Rodney gazes at Miranda) You like the ladies, eh?
I see you got good taste, Miranda is very nice girl, very nice girl"

"What's that supposed to mean? You trying something, say it!
Very friendly girl, very friendly girl, what's that supposed to mean?"

Where does he go from here, What's going on?

"Miranda your girl?"
"Yeah, what of it?"
"She very good expressing her affection for her friends,
She my girl, your girl, everyone's girl"
"So you're saying that you and all the other people that have come into this here bar have been with her?
But no one's come in for days, apart from a couple of piss-heads"
"She had lovely tight cheeks!"
"Not after I saw to her"

Rod was furious
Rod said to Miranda
"How could you do this to me?" "Well once I was with you my whole life changed!"
"So you got the confidence to disgrace yourself?"
"No longer do I want to be a slave!" "What? What did you say?"
Asked Miranda would she say sorry "You're weird, stay away from me!"
Then he put some Laxatives into her tea
(noises)

And he was on his own again

2. Suffice

[concept and lyrics by Mikee W Goodman]
[additional lyrics by Justin Hill]

Clinging on to any piece of mind
That elevates me beyond those thoughts
Start to focus, I'm flowing again
Got it sussed now

Flying high, check it out it's so sweet
Suddenly I'm chillin on a white beach
Then the sun disappears
Lightening strikes the tree that falls on me

Please sing along
My life is just a page saying
All gone wrong
Suddenly I don't feel so strong
Like a castle in the sand, then it gets washed over it's
All the same
All collapses before my
Eyes

Why am I here tolerating everything when it feels incomplete
With all that was meant to be
Left looking for a chance to leave

Don't think like that, fuck the way you're feeling
Now you gotta concentrate on breathing
Try to look up Think about what you got
Listen to me I wanna be alive

Try to be strong
Even though it may be so confused
Why but why
Everything is going wrong
I am fighting now
With the desperation
In my mind
A thousand thoughts are spinning round my
Mind

Why can't I control my thoughts
See past them out into the light
But everything stands against

Everything goes wrong all at once
Try to think positive or the pain will flood
Into your mind and under your skin
Thought for today is not to give in
Thought for today is not to give in
Thought for today is not to give in
Open your eyes or the pain will flood in
Thought for today is not to give in

Your real life is there more

Everything goes wrong all at once
Try to think positive or the pain will flood
Into your mind and under your skin
Open your eyes to what you could be
Thought for today is not to give in
Open your eyes to what you could be
Open your eyes or the pain will flood in

Real Life

Your Life

[Mikee scat]

3. Tupelo

[by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. 1985]

Looka yonder! Looka yonder!
Looka yonder! A big black cloud come!
A big black cloud come!
O comes to Tupelo. Comes to Tupelo
Yonder on the horizon
Yonder on the horizon
Stopped at the mighty river
Stopped at the mighty river and
Sucked the damn thing dry
Tupelo-o-o, O Tupelo
In a valley hides a town called Tupelo
Distant thunder rumble. Distant thunder rumble
Rumble hungry like the Beast
The Beast it cometh, cometh down
The Beast it cometh, cometh down
Wo wo wo-o-o
Tupelo bound. Tupelo-o-o. Yeah Tupelo
The Beast it cometh, Tupelo bound
Why the hen won't lay no egg
Can't get that cock to crow
The nag is spooked and crazy
O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo!
O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo!
Ya can say these streets are rivers
Ya can call these rivers streets
Ya can tell ya self ya dreaming buddy
But no sleep runs this deep
No! No sleep runs this deep
No sleep runs this deep
Women at their windows
Rain crashing on the pane
Writing in the frost
Tupelos' shame. Tupelo's shame
O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo!
O go to sleep lil children
The sandmans on his way
O go to sleep lil children
The sandmans in his way
But the lil children know
They listen to the beating of their blood
listen to the beating of their blood
listen to the beating of their blood
listen to the beating of their blood
They listen to the beating of their blood
The sandman's mud!
The sandman's mud!
And the black rain come down
the black rain come down
the black rain come down
Water water everywhere
Where no bird can fly no fish can swim
Where no bird can fly no fish can swim
No fish can swim
Until The King is born!
Until The King is born!
In Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o!
Til The King is born in Tupelo!
In a clap-board shack with a roof of tin
Where the rain came down and leaked within
A young mother frozen on a concrete floor
With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw
Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo!
With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw
Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals
And a child is born on his brothers heels
Come Sunday morn the first-born dead
In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red
Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo!
In a shoebox buried with a ribbon of red
O ma-ma rock you lil' one slow
O ma-ma rock your baby
O ma-ma rock your lil' one slow
O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo!
Mama rock your lil' one slow
The lil one will walk on Tupelo
The lil one will walk on Tupelo
Black rain come down, Black rain come down
Tupelo-o-o! Yeah Tupelo!
And carry the burden of Tupelo
Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo! Yeah!
The King will walk on Tupelo!
Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo!
He carried the burden outa Tupelo!
Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo! [Repeat]
You will reap just what you sow





SIKTH LYRICS