UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK

About a Girl
 
 





 
 
 
I need an easy friend
I do ... with an ear to lend
I do ... think you fit this shoe
I do ... won't you have a clue
 
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I do
 
I'm standing in your line
I do ... hope you have the time
I do ... pick a number too
I do ... keep a date with you
 
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I do
 
I need an easy friend
I do ... with an ear to lend
I do ... think you fit this shoe
I do ... won't you have a clue
 
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night (x2)
Free
I do ... (x4)
 
 





 
 
 
 
Come As You Are
 
 





 
 
 
Come as you are, as you were, 
As I want you to be 
As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy. 
Take your time, hurry up 
The choice is yours, don't be late. 
Take a rest, as a friend, as an old memoria 
Memoria (x3) 
 
Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach 
As I want you to be 
As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria 
Memoria (x3) 
 
And I swear that I don't have a gun 
No I don't have a gun (x2) 
 
Memoria (x4) 
 
And I swear that I don't have a gun 
No I don't have a gun (x5)
 
Memoria
 
 





 
 
 
 
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam / Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam
 
 





 
 
 
Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me (Alt: Sunbeams are laughing at me)
 
Don't expect me to cry,
For all the reasons you had to die
Don't ever ask your love of me
 
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me
 
Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me (Alt: Sunbeams are laughing at me)
 
Don't expect me to cry,
For all the reasons you had to die
Don't ever ask your love of me
 
(x2)
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me
 
Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me (Alt: Sunbeams are laughing at me)
 
Don't expect me to cry,
For all the reasons you had to die
Don't ever ask your love of me
 
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me
 
Originally by The Vaselines. Correct title should be "Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam".
An incorrect title, using "Doesn't", is printed on the MTV Unplugged CD and covers.
 
 





 
 
 
 
The Man Who Sold The World
 
 





 
 
 
We passed upon the stair
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone
A long long time ago
 
Oh no, not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World
 
I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare 
At all the millions here (Alt: We walked a million years)




(Alt 2: With multimillionaires)
I must have died alone
A long, long time ago
 
(x2)
Who knows? 
Not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World
 
Originally by David Bowie
 
 





 
 
 
 
Pennyroyal Tea
 
 





 
 
 
I'm on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture
 
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty
 
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm anemic royalty
I'm a liar and a thief
I'm anemic royalty
 
I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids
 
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
I'm anemic royalty (x2)
 
 





 
 
 
 
Dumb
 
 





 
 
 
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy
 
Think I'm just happy (x3)
 
My heart is broke
But I have some glue
Help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
And have a hangover ... 
Have a hangover (x3)
 
Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up
 
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
 
Think I'm just happy (x4)
I think I'm dumb (x12)
 
 





 
 
 
 
Polly
 
 





 
 
 
Polly wants a cracker 
I think I should get off her first 
I think she wants some water 
To put out the blow torch 
 
It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you 
I have been true 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 
 
Polly wants a cracker 
Maybe she would like more food 
She asks me to untie her 
A chase would be nice for a few 
 
It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you
I have been true 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 
 
Polly said 
 
Polly says her back hurts 
She's just as bored as me 
She caught me off my guard 
It amazes me, the will of instinct 
 
It isn't me 
We have some seed 
Let me clip 
Your dirty wings 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 
I've got some rope 
You have been told 
I promise you 
I have been true 
Let me take a ride 
Don't cut yourself 
I want some help 
To help myself 
 
 





 
 
 
 
On A Plain
 
 





 
 
 
I'll start this off without any words 
I got so high that I scratched 'till I bled 
 
I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
 
The finest day that I ever had 
Was when I learned to cry on command
 
I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 
I'm on a plain 
 
My brother died every night 
It's safe to say, don't quote me on that 
 
I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
 
The black sheep got blackmailed again 
Forgot to put on the zip code 
 
I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
 
I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 
I'm on a plain 
 
Somewhere I have heard this before 
In a dream my memory has stored 
As a defense I'm neutered and spayed 
What the hell am I trying to say? 
 
It is now time to make it unclear 
To write off lines that don't make sense 
 
I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
 
And one more special message to go 
And then I'm done, then I can go home 
 
I love myself better than you 
I know it's wrong so what should I do? 
 
(x3)
I'm on a plain 
I can't complain 
 
 





 
 
 
 
Something In The Way
 
 





 
 
 
Underneath the bridge 
The tarp has sprung a leak 
And the animals I've trapped 
Have all become my pets 
And I'm living off of grass 
And the drippings from the ceiling 
It's okay to eat fish 
'Cause they don't have any feelings 
 
(x2)
Something in the way, mmm 
Something in the way, yeah, mmm 
 
Underneath the bridge 
The tarp has sprung a leak 
And the animals I've trapped 
Have all become my pets 
And I'm living off of grass 
And the drippings from the ceiling 
It's okay to eat fish 
'Cause they dont't have any feelings 
 
(x4) 
Something in the way, mmm 
Something in the way, yeah, mmm 
 
 





 
 
 
 
Plateau
 
 





 
 
 
Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau
Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand
To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands
 
The nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
Who needs action when you got words
 
When you've finished with the mop then you can stop
And look at what you've done
The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen
And the work it was fun
 
The nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
Who needs action when you got words
 
Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau
Some said it was in Greenland and some say Mexico
Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could
 
Originally by the Meat Puppets
 
 





 
 
 
 
Oh, Me
 
 





 
 
 
If I had to lose a mile
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do
 
I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news
 
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?
 
I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me
 
If I had to lose a mile
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do
 
I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news
 
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?
 
I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
 
(x2)
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me
 
Originally by the Meat Puppets
 
 





 
 
 
 
Lake Of Fire
 
 





 
 
 
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July
 
I knew a lady who came from Duluth
She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
And she flew away howling on the yellow moon

VOLVER