Nice Cheekbones and a Ph.D.

Nice Cheekbones and a Ph.D. Released 27 February 2001
Label Houston Party
Recorded MG 57 Studios, Barcelona. “With Those Eyes” recorded at Egg Studios. “No Consolation” recorded at 220A (keyboards added at MG 57).
Recorded By Roger Rodes & Manu Guix at MG 57; Johnny Sangster at Egg; Jon Auer at 220A.
Mastered Rick Fisher at RFICD

Layout Nathan Breskin-Auer
Cover photograph Ken Stringfellow
Back photograph Barbara Mitchell

01. Matinée
02. Chainsmoking in the U.S.A.
03. With Those Eyes
04. No Consolation
05. Lady Friend

bonus tracks on the Japanese edition:
06. With Those Eyes [live at the Crocodile Cafe, 10 March 2001]
07. World [live at the Crocodile Cafe, 10 March 2001]

Matinée

Ever get that feeling
That you’re just enough
Even though you know it as a fact
And in the old equation
You thought that it would do
You didn’t care which way you turned the screw

But the curtain falls much harder
And the stage is made of powder
But the matinee plays on
By the time they fill the seats up
You will be gone

Each time I save my hopes up
They’ve raised the price again
And I’m looking for a Wednesday night friend
I’ll see through you tomorrow, baby
Thanks for being kind
But you wouldn’t want to know a mind like mine

There’s got to be a 9 o’clock
I think that I can get there
I’m having trouble staying awake that long
And there’s so many obstacles I put here to distract me
The keys must be scattered here among

There’s a matinee tomorrow
There’s a ticket you can borrow
Stay for all three shows
Your friends are going to be there
Even some that you don’t know

Not once did I invision
I’d be so entertained
Or that I’d want to see it again and again
And never did I count on
Such pleasant company
Or that the night would pass by so quickly

And now
I want to stay til the end
With you my friends
I want to stay til the end

There’s a matinee tomorrow
There’s a ticket you can borrow

Chainsmoking in the U.S.A.

Chainsmoking in the USA
I bought another fucking pack today
A cup of coffee in Palestine
A good friend and a bottle of wine

Heavy metal at a puppet show
Everybody needs a place to go
I’m gonna feed another habit today
Chainsmoking in the USA

But it’s getting way too easy
It’s getting way too easy
To say it again
It’s getting way too easy
For me and you
To do what we want

Met my baby in the ??
Everybody needs a place to be
There’s two faces on the TV screen
Nice cheekbones and a Ph.D.

But something’s missing in the USA
Everybody’s gonna die someday
I wanna live with the golden rule
A girlfriend and a swimming pool

But it’s getting way too easy
It’s getting way too easy
To say it again
It’s getting way too easy
For me and you
To do what we want

I’m gonna drive through 50 states
Hitch a ride if I’m not too late
Leave a message with a collect call
A chain letter on a bathroom wall

But it’s getting way too easy
It’s getting way too easy
To say it again
It’s getting way too easy
It’s getting way too easy
For me and you
To do what we want
It’s getting way too easy

With Those Eyes

You wonder why
You can make them cry
Amd get your words ??
And why they’re ??
Amd what you did

Well it don’t come down to circumstance
With those eyes
You could turn cynics to sycophants
With those eyes

Press your face up against the glass
And rally from your class
Battle ?? you diss with pride
But you can’t hide

That it don’t come down to rank of birth
With those eyes
You could charm your way out of a hearse
With those eyes

Tell me what you want to contemplate
To turn your gaze on me
Tell me you want
Tell me you need
I’ll make it trouble free

Can’t get to sleep cause you got away
With everything again today
And do I see something hollow there?
Are you aware

That it could be cloudy, could be clear
With those eyes
Did you cataract your conscience dear
With those eyes
Well it don’t come down to circumstance
With those eyes
You could forge from cynics, sycophants
With those eyes
You could turn cynics to sycophants
With those eyes

Tell me what you want to contemplate
To turn your gaze on me
Tell me you want
Tell me you need
I’ll make it trouble free
Tell me you want
Tell me you need
I’ll make it trouble free

No Consolation

Salutations from a Southern town
I’ve got tales from the dark side, ?? down
And in the back of my head there’s a three-act play
But I don’t mind what the voices say

You were
You were
Everything you said you’d never be
I made good time
To a place all mine
I was lucky I remembered
But that’s no consolation
It’s no consolation

Now the earth is angry and the sky is blue
And there’s so much more I wanna blame on you
Like how you can’t go the distance in a foreign car
And what you wish will take you only so far

Don’t speak freely
You might have to hear what you’re saying
I can do my time in a place all mine
Where it’s lovely to remember

But that’s no consolation
It’s no consolation
No consolation
It’s no consolation

Lady Friend
written by David Crosby

ere it comes again, it’s going to happen to me
Here it comes, I should have learned to duck
She’s going to say, she’s going away
And I will have to live without her and survive

Here it comes, it looks just like the last wave I drowned in
Here it comes, and I’m so far from shore
She’s going to go, and take her trinkets
And I will have to live without her and survive

Here it comes again, the night is going to fall
Here it comes, she’s going to say good-bye
She’s going to go, and leave only me
And I will have to live without her and survive