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[Intro: Mike Ladd] Yes Virginia, there's a boogeyman The boogeyman is me [Chorus: Mike Ladd & Lani Hall Sample] Sofa bed Catastradamus (Such a pain) Lazy-Boy soufflé (To be alone) Waiting on Pompeii (And lonely) My brain's a war machine Waiting on the next (It hurts with such a pain) Another shoe is another day (To be alone) As long as it don't fall I'm okay (And lonely) (And it hurts with such a pain) Welcome Home [Post-Chorus: Lani Hall Sample] Such a pain To be alone And lonely And it hurts with such a pain To be alone And lonely It hurts with such a pain [Verse 1: Mike Ladd] Level headed, friends embedded Someone said "California smells like this in dreams" To me in visits LA's a workman's city Worn out Dickies and rock-in sheets Little glitter If man makes world as construction site Demolition teams work best at night We hunt you down [Chorus: Mike Ladd & Lani Hall Sample] Sofa bed Catastradamus (Such a pain) Lazy-Boy soufflé (To be alone) Waiting on Pompeii (And lonely) My brain's a war machine Waiting on the next (It hurts with such a pain) Another shoe is another day (To be alone) Long as it don't fall I'm okay (And lonely) (And it hurts with such a pain) Welcome home [Interlude: Mike Ladd] Yes Virginia, there's a boogeyman [Verse 3: Mike Ladd] She said "There's something so America about California Yet California is so Third World" The tentacles of cinderblocks and studs as thin as dimes The material of contract mundo The soul and heart of concrete floors that bloom and crack the concrete floors Baghdad by toothbrush San Diego New York can barely fake Bombay charm In the streets of this megadebacleopolis I give my hand you take my arm Your heartbeat and helicopters Dust here ain't the same But oh so similar Going down on you A bouquet of burning tires We sixty-nine Have a ball Fire mushrooms Yeah it's all confused when I think of you now But I got space time and room In the largest limousine In the traffic jam to paradise Televise and rip fueled So many familiar faces Some I left faceless There's no mystery in the murder clouds It's the abnormality of normal I smell roast beef I smell Taco Bell I smell cordite in the meadow I smell new car I watch South Park I clutch the sofa Quake and tremble Welcome home