Generica Vol II

These ten songs for the ongoing Generica releases were recorded by Jon Crosby, accompanied by Adam Rebeske on cello, in front of a live studio audience in the deserts of Arizona on the cusp of the new year. Don't miss out on these stirring sonic portraits of life in...Generica.

"Some of these songs were written years ago, intended for other records. Some were written in hotel rooms only a few days before the recording. Lyrically, this is my most diverse endeavor to date. I am obviously a folk star."-Jon Crosby

 

 

  
   
   
 
Generica Vol. II (download)

Those Jealous Lips
One Way To Win (And a Million Ways To Lose)
Poor Chicken
Evan
Generica
When We First Met
Lullaby
Ya Just Don't Count
You
Having Part of You



  

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Those Jealous Lips

I heard her knock
I heard her pound
I heard her crying outside of my door
I let her in
I caved in
I let her lie to me again
I don't know why
It feels so good
To kiss those jealous lips
We talked an hour
We talked of love
We talked until the silence came
She washed her faced
I gave her wine
She told me it would be different this time
I don't know why
It feels so good
Those Jealous lips

There's One Way To Win (and a Million Ways To Lose)

There's one way to win and a million ways to lose
A million people singin only some have the blues
All the way from Nigeria
There's one way to win and a million ways to lose
The oil flows to a movie star
The oil flows to you whoever you are
All the way from Nigeria
Forty thousand people died in their cars
There's a million ways to lose whoever you are
I think i found my ticket babe I'm gonna leave
I'm gonna sail my keeler ship across the sea
All the way to Nigeria
Some people dream about what others will be
There's a million ways to lose and one way to be free

Poor Chicken (by Old Hack)

Chicken Poor Chicken
You got wings but you can fly
You wont ever touch the sky
Oh Chicken poor chicken
No one cares how you die
You're battered dipped and deep fried
Oh Chicken ain't got many friends
Chicken roams around in the pen
Pluck your feathers cut off your head
Chicken is better off dead

Chicken poor chicken
Farmer comes and steals your eggs
Just as soon as they get laid
Oh chicken poor chicken
Clip your beak and slit your throat
Served with fries and a coke
Oh Chicken ain't got many friends
Chicken roams around in the pen
Pluck your feathers cut off your head
Chicken is better off dead

Evan

When you tell your daddy who you are
Will he throw you down the stairs
Sometimes it's hard to say the way you feel
Evan, they love you
Heaven loves you too
Walk beside me in a soft parade
Walk beside me for awhile
Sometimes it's hard to know the way you feel
Evan, they love you
Heaven loves you too
I would like to change it all, just for you
I would like to change it all, just for you
Walk beside me in a soft charade
Walk beside me, I won't fall
You can always know the way I feel
Evan, I love you
Heaven loves you too

Generica

They’re gonna throw my ashes into a landfill
They're gonna put a logo on the moon
I sit in my cage and call myself free
It’s hard to feel and harder to see
Generica
Generica
The whole world points its filthy fucking finger
at a country that was once so beautiful
They sit high up and call themselves free
but they're the same as you and me
Generica
Generica
They say if you don’t like it you should leave
But there’s no spaceship as far as I can see
The price goes up and she goes down
It’s hard to miss if you just look around
Generica
Generica


   When We First Met

She came home two hours after she said
The butterflies in me turned to fire instead
Can you tell me what went wrong my love
Do you remember how it was when we first met
Kiss my lips before they go away
Let me kiss your lips while their still mine
Please don't tell me what went wrong my love
do you remember how it was when we first met
I awoke alone and full of pain
She has left a letter I won't read
I won't think of what went wrong my love
I'll only think of how it was when we first met

Lullaby (by Sgt. Barry Sadler)

Go to sleep its getting late
My watch says it's half past eight
In an hour I must go
When I'll be back, well I don't know
While I'm gone you'll be a man
Help your momma when you can
It's a big job I can see
For a boy just pushing three
Son can I have a little kiss
Just a small one you won't miss
Thats right close your sleepy eyes
You shouldn't see your daddy cry
So go to sleep It's getting late
My watch says It's half past eight
In an hour I must go
When I'll be back, well I don't know

You Just Don't Count

You wrote a couple of words and called it a review
You had an ugly girl and even she left you
You just don't count
You just don't count
You just don't count to anyone at all
You're twenty five years old and still live at home
I think you better get used to being alone
You just don't count
You just don't count
You just don't count to anyone at all
You wrote a couple of words and called it a review
You had an ugly girl and even she left you
You just don't count
You just don't count
You just don't count to anyone at all


You

Your dress looks good on you my love
And your house looks like it's heaven
Why are there so many people outside of it
Everything you have will be
You can't take anything with you
Except the love the love i have for you
Your eyes look like they're from god
And your face looks like it's from god
Why are you going to be outside eternity
Everything we know will be
You can't take anything with you
Except the love the love i have for you
I know you want to


Having Part Of You

You come into my sunrise, just to sleep all day
You laugh when we are kissing, you laugh when I'm afraid
You're Angry when I'm sweet, you're angry over nothing and...
I'm trying to believe, I'm trying to believe
That Having part of you, will fill the whole of me
Let me lose myself, in the emptiness you bring
Getting half of you, it feels like everything
Spinning in your circles, cowering in the dark
When I touch your shoulders, You always move away
Having part of you, will fill the whole of me
Let me lose myself, in the emptiness you bring
Getting half of you, it feels like everything