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Kiss Me Screaming

by Khalid Hanifi

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1.
Avalanche 03:36
Rock on, ooh yeah baby come on We can throw it all out when we get done Avalanche You plant the dynamite, I’ll light a match We’ve got no control, it’s such a relief We can share this We’ve always been thieves Avalanche We’ll talk about it as the boulders smash The flesh is weak, the spirit willing The CEOs are used to killing It’s natural and beautiful Those tragic smiles at the bottom of the hill The flesh is weak, the spirit willing Youth has never seemed so thrilling Unsightly and unusual Those groping limbs reaching out from the rubble Avalanche We’ll talk about it as the boulders smash
2.
I Wandered 01:48
I wandered out today The little bunny rabbits have been begging me to come out and play I brought my baseball bat But when I started swinging all my little friends scampered away And I hope that you are waiting for me I’ve been called away I’m buying me an Uzi and I’m headed to the Briarwood Mall I’m gonna kiss them all Then guzzle cappuccino and purge into the boiling fountain And I hope that you are waiting for me
3.
Apocolypse of whimsy Rocks off and dizzy I thought she was makin’ me She thought I was makin’ her Now she’s glowing in the dark We know that this might be a start She asked me if I’d swallow her pearls I’ll never know what it’s like to be a girl Sometimes she thinks it’s a beautiful world I’ll never know what it’s like to be a girl She says she’s got this notion She wants to be an ocean So she can give and she can take life
4.
Swamp 03:54
Puddles, stumps, logs, algae, peat bogs, cattails, mud, logs Sinking It’s too familiar to me We’ve got to change it you see Knee deep and rising Blackbirds, frogs, salamanders, beavers, rot Living, sinking It’s too familiar to me We’ve got the changes we need Pop songs, knee deep and rising We’ll build a club here Just rock and roll and fun here We’ll build a club here Just rock and roll and dope here We’ll build a club here Just rock and roll and fuck here We’ll build a club here Let’s build a club here!
5.
Take off your shoes I’m tied in a knot I don’t want to say it, so maybe I should not I know the secret, I know the rent Courting the masters for their 25 cents How will they ever come down? It’s not in the belfry The belfry’s not there Tied to a leather sofa And trying to climb the stairs It’s in their stool, it’s in their whipping cream They’re fishing like egrets in an Ontario stream A disease of elevators There’s someone to sue Sue someone you know They’re waiting to trust you So give the sucker a blow We’ll never be happy if we’re eating to clean We’ll never be monsters reading Forbes magazine
6.
Doze 02:58
I’m seeping out of my head into luscious conversations I’m leaking out of my hair into sensual conflagrations I’m 8 pounds, 2 ounces, 3 tons Buzzin’ with opposing thumbs Off I doze, rumpling my clothes and it feels so fine My pen slips out of my hand But I was talking to Scott McWhinney A blur and a moist shirt sleeve Contortion that sets me free
7.
Flush 02:59
My secret’s safe, I’m sure that no one has a clue Least of all me, but perhaps you do The streetlight’s on, I’m the lone loitering suspect Ear to the ground, hoping for sympathetic judgment As I listen to the rush in the sewer drain It’s the early evening flush after the rain I’ll paint it black, slapping my thirty-first thick coat on It’s my dad, waiting for me to call him Trying to stop trying to improve Trying to give in and never, ever lose I’ll be a boy, I’ll be a Chinese jump rope champion Why not? I’d don’t remember how it happened
8.
There’s a nipple in a haystack And it’s so overwhelming, it’s so hard to grasp By the time I get to love it, it’ll be in the past Time’s gonna crush me like a ton of bricks I’m rootin’ through the medicine chest for valium Tryin’ to prevent these persistent tantrums I’m a heavy living weight And emptiness falls on me like a ton of bricks Hey dad, can I smash the car? And drive it over your head, and take mom to the bar? And leave her with them boneheads that I fought with last night? Love reigns over us all like a ton of bricks
9.
Tumescence 04:49
A simple thing can become complex Love’s greedy tumescense He’s got a mantra: California He’s the president of Livonia A copulation of ideas He doesn’t want to know how it feels To be headless, to be aimless To have emotions about abortion He’ll ask her, or maybe he should tell It seems that she might listen, who could tell? But he won’t inform her That everytime he looks at her he sees the future and it’s bound in leather He’ll ask her, or maybe he should tell It seems that she might listen, who could tell? But he won’t inform her That everytime he looks at her he sees he sees his mother and he wants to stab her He says later I’ll see ya later Good luck woman I’m a masturbator
10.
Hunger 03:45
Hunger, plunder, and nod At peace when I can soothe my God He’ll whip me till I’m tantalized Till I’m bleeding right out of my eyes This thunderous desire is pining It’s moping at my pleasure shrine Where Barbies in flames don’t scream They still smile like they’re the prom queen Oh now, feel that hunger I love this firebrand The singe as it’s removed from my back Oh yes I know, I know who I am Pounding nails into my hand
11.
Slowly 04:54
She’s got a smile so wide I crawl in and disappear She swallows me I’ve never felt more alive Pumpin’ through the vein slowly, clickin’ my ruby heels It’s worth too much Bang bang, did you miss me? If we made love, could I make it as slow as a century? Back on a bed in Kansas we’re doin’ it without fear The sky is so so clear I finally found my rainbow, but it whips up into a tornado There’s no tomorrow
12.
I came, I saw, I wondered Is it worth it? I don’t know No, no, no Not even for one damned night Privileged and scattered and useless What luxury my birthright I don’t want to leave No, but even so There’s an alluring nuisance Is it fiction that’s dragging me out? Pulling at my tail and congesting my snout Lies, all lies I read about them all the time I came, I saw, I wondered It made me dizzy I fell, I flailed, I slumbered She said she missed me But do I even know her? This roof has got a real steep pitch I know you’ve seen me panting at my neighbor’s window Maybe I was blowing them a kiss But I have to say it’s intriguing that someone might want to know
13.
Untitled 00:35
14.
We shiver in a molten iron core At the center of a planet that we can not explore Epithets on infinite loop The alphabet is lost in the soup Mutually assured destruction A cradle in a grave where we can suck our thumbs These passionate, didactic absolutes Your argument – I’ll never ever let you lose We’re yin and yang, we’re sick of the form We’re a swastika, we tend to get bored Mutually assured destruction A cradle in a grave where we can cock our guns I’ll drag you down, if you’ll drag me down too Mutually assured destruction Eventually the victory will come down

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released January 1, 1996

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Khalid Hanifi Ann Arbor, Michigan

Over the course of three decades, Khalid Hanifi (Map of the World [Atlantic Records], Kiss Me Screaming, Maypops, and as a solo artist) has built a deeply compelling body of work that combines uniquely thoughtful, personally-charged lyrical content with impeccably crafted, irresistibly infectious melodies. ... more

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