1. |
Something to Say
04:07
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passing you by when they pass one around
used to get high but now it gets you down
like you can't get out of some trouble you're in
so certain somehow that now all of your friends
are talking all over town
the way that you've been
has been weighing you down
and everybody you've met
has had something to say about
something you’ve said
once in a while walk a mile in your clothes
so i never minded you minding your own
if i can't get out of some trouble i ve made
i'll find away how to stay out of your way
talking all over town
the way that you've been
has been weighing you down
and everybody you've met
has had something to say about
something you’ve said
talking all over town
the way that you've been
has been weighing you down
and everyone and their friends
have had something to say about
something you’ve said
they’ve got something to say
they’ve got something to say
they’ve got something to say
they’ve got something to say
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2. |
Bad Energy
07:29
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in occupied palestine
near the birthsite of christ
caught some footage that you wouldn't believe
that night on channel 7
ran a slanted segment
through the midwest on the mid-middle east
but you’ve told me how
you keep your volume down
cause all that's coming from your humming tv
is bad energy
you went to youth group first
at that lutheran church
where the pastor dressed so casually
and when your mom worked nights
and her money was tight
he kindly offered he could watch you for free
denied jesus blood
and now you sleep in sundays
but you tell me that you’ll always believe
in bad energy
bad energy
and now your engine burns
remains of ancient birds
go into town to drive around and then leave
you tore a gash right clear
through the atmosphere
and now there's nothing that can buffer the heat
but the sun is shining
and your love is smiling
in a moment getting warmed by a beam
of bad energy
bad energy
bad energy
you watched the market crash
and the marquee flash
your eyes a-darken just a-walkin the street
you felt the breath of god
in a restaurant
he was just asking what you’re having to eat
you knew you had to leave
him a gratuity
or else it’d come up to the sum of the beast
and bad energy
before the smokers crammed
between the local bands
to split a puff and flick their butts in the street
they played it loud and slow
without a metronome
he always hit a bit ahead of the beat
saw him slurring and smiling
at the girls outside
said you could sense it so immense underneath
bad energy
bad energy
bad energy
bad energy
you traced your lineage back
to all that glimmering black
around the abrahamic family tree
and in that blend of blood
counted descendants of
your holy mother mitochondrial eve
were you the chosen son
or the broken one
who had some notions up disposable sleeves
and bad energy?
and when our saviour came
she kept her maiden name
he was concepted quite exceptionally
learned if you’re only friendly
with a dozen men
one might still kill you with a kiss on the cheek
and as that muted light
fell from his wounded side
cowboy centurion was sure he could feel
a bad energy
bad energy
bad energy
bad energy
bad energy
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3. |
Beside Myself
04:43
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when i heard
what you'd learned
i was beside myself
i side-eyed
them wide-eyed
my uncertainty dispelled
i asked me
so nicely
to step out of that dark
compared scars
and matched our
identifying marks
"poor bastard
you'd pass for
my image in a mirror"
i leaned in
still reeling
and whispered in my ear
we researched
your features
there is no precedent
not recent
or ancient
no living testament
but poolside
your blue eyes
and diamonds on your wrist
i’m feeding
you peaches
you’re spitting out the pits
to caesar
what’s caesar’s
and what is mine’ll stay mine
most precious
possession
keep it with me all the time
delilah
delilah
and samson with his jawbone
i can't
be that man
or any man at all
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4. |
Always Change
05:57
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there's a crumbling statue
next to heaven’s gate
and it's covered in scratches
that the weather made
it has an old engraving
though its growing faint
and it says: things
always change
and you felt it mostly
in your melted youth
when you held him closely
and you held him true
but you grew complacent
like you knew he'd stay
now you know things
always change
you're performing favours
you're in foreign trade
your important papers
in the pouring rain
and the ink’s all bleeding
and it can't be saved
but you know things
always change
in the radiation
in the radio waves
in the drainage basin
full of ancient rain
in the publications
in the painted caves
it is plainly stated
written plain as day
that we know things
always change
though your faith is fading
you’re remaining chaste
there's a trace of anger
in your saviour’s face
and the sons of jacob
wrote an old refrain
hear the angels play it
when you misbehave
but the arrangements
always change
by the light of nothing
you’re writing lines of code
you’re dividing constants
trying to find unknowns
and there’s this endless number
filling every page
and it proves things
always change
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5. |
Eggshell
03:03
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limits of the rivers
sideways-sliding to the south
rounding out the boundary
of the plain
darkening the carpet
at the far end of the house
summer spurred a seizure
in my brain
ambulances came
weaving a whinin’ siren down the highway
leaving a smilin’ silence in your life, babe
and even your sharin'-cherry-cola mind
fragile as an eggshell
eggshell
buried me, remarried
you were barely getting by
just you two 'n' a justice
of the peace
split out to the city
you were really getting tired
of finding what
reminded you of me
but the kids you had to keep
doing their best impression of the dead, babe
leaving a smilin’ silence in your best days
resembling every memory you have left
up in your sharin'-cherry-cola head
fragile as an eggshell
eggshell
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6. |
Somewhere In Between
04:31
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finally getting light out
see the sun as it cuts through the trees
been up for a while now
but you left me in bed, still asleep
the little bit of kindness
in my heart’s getting harder to see
you said "i wouldn't mind it
if you kept a percentage for me"
but now you're driving
bit above the limit on the highway
cigarette but nothing there to light it
a song came on the radio that made you feel
like you haven't felt in years
and now you're crying
cause every time you hear it you're reminded
of a younger love but now you're undecided
if it's a piece of trash or a masterpiece
probably somewhere in between
had to turn the light on
couldn't tell what the hell you were seeing
you'd walked in on the lion
with the lamb and his hand to the heat
the little bit of kindness
in my heart's getting harder to see
but what you've been supplying
i will happily help you deplete
and you've been driving
jetlagged like the red-eye to the island
bitter heart departing and arriving
the rain they're draining out by the refinery
and when you finally sleep
you're having nightmares
even when i'm sleeping there beside you
waking up just shaking in the quiet
wondering if it’s real or if it’s still a dream
or something in between
and now you're driving
bit above the limit on the highway
all pretty with the glitter on your eyelids
magically avoiding a tragedy
and the hand that feeds
you wanna bite it
never were the kind to turn to violence
hesitate to even break a silence
you're saying it's not entirely you or me
it's somewhere in between
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7. |
Nothing at All
04:21
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crooked headboard
crooked bed
crooked landlord is raising your rent
if its under freezing
overnight
pray to jesus that engine will light
you say it's nothing at all
the kind of thing that just goes away on its own
fascination
flashing lights
tractor trailer right through the divider
half an hour
half a mile
have to ask ‘bout that look in your eyes
you say it's nothing at all
the kind of thing that just goes away on its own
but it's going so slow
the smell of winter
on your coat
brought it with you from out of the cold
hardly knew you
hardly time
hard to move from that place in my mind
should be nothing at all
the kind of thing that just goes away on its own
but it's going so slow
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8. |
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didn't sign up for this
when i moved to the city
people talk all the time
all milk-mouthed and mindless
with the pulse of the club
and the shuddering subway
and the folks making love
in the unit above me
and the cries of the kids
through the wires of your window
and the hiss of the heat
and the sizzling streetlight
and the cars passing by
on the highway behind it
and the hum of the fridge
as we spin in the kitchen
qualifies as silence
the closest i can find
used to play in a band
back when you were a grandchild
just some friends drinking beer
y’know - nothing too serious
had a couple good songs
but you can barely recall ‘em
though you weren't one to tour
got some lucky support slots
but when you walked on that stage
started acting all strange-like
and you’d peel back your eyes
press ‘em against the amplifiers
and you’d stretch out your lip
hold it up to the cymbals
till you noticed the sound
getting louder and louder
qualifies as silence
the closest i can find
tucked away from the road
far from all that commotion
no more sirens at night
just the wind in the pine trees
and the moon on the lake
and the droning cicadas
but on my quietest night
that's when my memories find me
all the words that i said
words i later regretted
and the love that we made
and the love that i wasted
see my dad in his chair
and the soil where he's buried
and the men that i trust
and the room where they touch me
qualifies as silence
the closest i can find
this qualifies as silence
the closest i can find
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