I have this brain function where I can just accept a phonetic sound without ever needing to interpret it as a word. It think it comes from growing up with ABBA on the radio. (Remember "Wannadoo"?)

<<Wannadoo. Wannadoo alien anyhoo..>>

It makes singing along with CT so easy.

Can’t look out
Can’t look in
Can’t kiss right
Get yourself get right
Out of the doors in the light then make love
And we can’t be found and we can’t be found
We’re covered by the sacred fire when you call to me you cut me to the bone

Summer summer Saliva!

The thing to remember is that Liz rarely wrote lyrics that made much sense until Heaven or Las Vegas. Blue Bell Knoll is supposed to be the apex of incomprehension, where she admitted that she was just throwing totally unconnected words together for much of the album. When she did write lyrics that had some sort of lyrical meaning, she would obsfucate them so completely with odd phrasing, weird pronounciations or a combination of both - to the point that the original words would be completely lost.
A good example is the difference between the album version of Bluebeard (from 4 Calendar Cafe) and the "acoustic" version from the cd single. Another good example was witnessed by anyone that saw Liz sing for the 4CC tour - she was so obsessed with obsfucating the lyrics that she turned many of the songs into scat-ish freeform vocal exercises.

Oh yeah and...

The breath of god in my mouth.

Okay, I've seen this Peanut Butter thing, but have no idea what song that is. I'm gonna have to pop in Blue Bell Knoll on the way home from work. LOL! But if anyone can help me with what song it is I would be most grateful.

Also, the more I listen to A Kissed Out Red Floatboat I'm thinking that the chorous is "He did love me back" instead of what I wrote earlier. What do you all think?

I do the chicken pot pie thing too!

Love this thread!

Most of the intelligible lyrics come from Garlands (although I'm guessing on a few):
"Now listen my children, the devil lies dead-we wax and wane, we laugh in their faces; the devil lies dead and we wax & wane, devil lies dead and we wax & wane..." ("Wax & Wane")

"Of the bosom, of the breast, of the forehead, of the face; blind, dumb, deaf in our face; I'm a slave or I'm part of it; my mouthing at you, my tongue the stake; I should welt should I hold you, I should gash should I kiss you..." ("Blind, Dumb, Deaf")

"Things from the forests die here, but I don't; dead forest things are offered here, but I'm not..." ("But I'm Not")

"Wing water, fetid river, dirty rich soil, strong and fertile...; the then-shallow she, Earth as we know it; the then-halo she, a sky for the sacred; stars in my eyes, stars in my face; womb in the belly, capital place" ("Shallow Then Halo")

"Garlands evergreen, forget-me-not wreaths, chaplets see me drugged, I could die in a rosary, die in a rosary, die in a rosary, die in a rosary..." ("Garlands")...although I loved the interpretation, "die in a grocery" (perhaps Liz was listening to the Clash, "Lost in the Supermarket"...heh.)

"Grail overfloweth, there is rain, and music and there is love...; grail overfloweth, there is rain, and there's saliva and there's you" ("Grail Overfloweth")

"Hearsay please, I please deny it should be so; though I swore, by and by, ve-oooh(??), justice please..." ("Hearsay Please")

From the Lullabyes ep...
"Feathers, oars, blades; spitting the feathers; spitting out oar-blades, spitting out oar-blades..." ("Feathers-Oar-Blades")

"Get off of my, off of my, off of my...; kiss my, kiss my, kiss my...; barking & biting, all more on starsails;...head over heels, it's all but an...all but an ark-lark" ("All But an Ark-Lark")

From Head Over Heels:
"When Mama was Moth" opens with the lyrics "sunburst and snowblind" and at one point Liz sings "when mama was moth, I took bulb form...", but that's all I recognize.

"Tinderbox of a Heart": "so bloody and blunt, with big crystal eyes" and "tinderbox of a heart, left a shell is all."

"No longer multi-colored, multifoiled; I'm no longer multi-colored, I'm just multifoiled" ("Multifoiled")

"Fly, won't you fly...it's that whirly-gig, it's because of whirl-jack...; please won't you fly..." ("Because of Whirl-Jack")

Some I've guessed on from Treasure:
"Peep-bo, peach-blow, pan-door, pompadour; pee-wee, pea-sweet...." [I have no idea on the rest of it, except that we all know Liz nicknamed Ivo "Peep-bo"]. The chorus is something like..."he's a deer or a doe (door?), it's Ivo; deer or a doe (door?), oh it's Ivo..."

Four Calendar Cafe:
"Cry, cry, cry 'til you know why, I lost myself, identify. I'm not real if I deny it; I won't heal unless I cry; I can't grieve so I won't grow, I won't heal 'til I let it go..." ("Know Who You Are at Every Age")

"Are you the right man for me? Are you safe, are you my friend? Or are you toxic for me? Will you betray my confidence?" ("Bluebeard")