Sebadoh is an American indie rock band, formed in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr bass player Lou Barlow. Along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording techniques, often on four-track machines. The band's early output, such as 1990's Weed Forestin' and 1991's Sebadoh III, was typical of this style.
Lou Barlow was the bass player for alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr in the late 1980s. While both Barlow and leader J Mascis wrote songs, Mascis' material dominated the group's output because Barlow was intimidated by the guitarist's songwriting efforts. Barlow spent progressively more time recording his own songs at home. Barlow and Gaffney released the Weed Forestin' cassette in 1987 on Homestead Records under the name Sebadoh, which was a nonsense word Barlow often muttered in his recordings. Both Barlow and Gaffney contributed songs to 1988's The Freed Man cassette. Homestead Records head Gerard Cosloy heard the cassette release of The Freed Man and released it as a full-length album on Homestead in 1989. Soon after the cassette's release Barlow was kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. Over time Sebadoh's releases became a way for Barlow to address the issues of control that manifested as the tension in and his ejection from Dinosaur Jr; Barlow said "I got a lot of hatred out just by writing those songs."Jason Loewenstein joined in summer 1989, the first release that he played on being the "Gimme Indie Rock" single in 1991. Only ten 'band' shows were performed throughout Western Massachusetts, Boston, and New York over the period 1989-1990 before the third album Sebadoh III was released.
Hey girl, do you see the thing I see?
I'm linking to a line looking your eyes at me
Dumpy young thing, just reach in for something to reach for
Baby, you're beautiful, baby, you sweet whitey peach whore
There's a man
Finger, fist; shaft to tip, mat to rug 'til you scream
Horny young ape walking with not a stall as I sing
No, I'm not the one
I know that you're trippin' my way
Bland and quite usual; swear it's a beautiful day
I've been thinking all day, but I've got nothing good to say
There's a war on my mind, let me leave it all behind
Things we'll never share are hangin' heavy in the air
With all the weird on the way, let me have a perfect day
But paranoia's contagious; I'm coming down with it, too
You better throw your trust on the fire first
Before I do
It's a world of demand, it doesn't stop to understand
And it's of world in demands, doesn't stop to understand you
If you're waitin' on me to tie you up, set you free
You'll be waitin' all day, all I wanna do is play
But paranoia's contagious; I'm coming down with it, too
Better throw your trust on the fire first
Before I do
Before I do
And if we wanna be happy, it's all here to be used
But settin' the world on fire burns, I thought you knew
You thought I knew
We never knew
We never ever knew
We never knew
Sometimes we walk hand-in-hand by the sea
And we breathe in the cool salty air
You turn to me with a kiss in your eyes
And my heart feels a thrill beyond compare
Then your lips cling to mine
It's wonderful, wonderful
Oh, so wonderful, My Love
Sometimes we stand on the top of a hill
And we gaze at the earth and the sky
I turn to you and you melt in my arms
Here we are darling, only you and I
For a moment to share
It's wonderful, wonderful
Oh, so wonderful, My Love
The world is full of wondrous things, its true
But they wouldn't have much meaning without you
Some quiet evening I sit by your side
And we're lost in a world of our own
I feel the glow of your arms holding love
I'm aware of the treasure that I own
And I say to myself,
"It's wonderful, wonderful"
When you see him again, tell him everything that you told me
tell him that I'm still your friend
and maybe you would like to see me again
I'm willing to wait my turn to be with you
but I still have a lot to learn about me
and no one's sure if we should be together
but oh, when I saw you again
a beautiful friend, she opened up her heart and let me in
no, I cannot lie to you
I'm still in love with you and I only wanna be with you
so when you see him again, tell him everything that you told me
we're more than friends
and maybe we should start again
maybe you could love me again
cause oh, when I saw you again
a beautiful friend, she opened up her heart and let me in
no, I cannot lie to you
I'm still in love with you and i only wanna be with you
Burn my mind, let's burn some time together
I need the taste of something strange
I won't deny it if you don't deny it
I won't leave here in shame
It's not weak to give in
Taste the bounds of natural rhythm
A willing girl is hard to find
The day you let me in
I killed my only friend
I've ruined everything this time
Dirty boys get hit
I should've waited forever
(I should've known all along)
I should've waited forever
Freak-girl named Heather, I'm on my way
Countdown, puzzled; the absurd, crazed
All I need to do is fall into your well
Seduced by apparition, lower a spell
Sweet princess plays games all day
She knows the rules, needs you to play
Eternal rosebud zooming down
Red goat stands, water surrounds
Glued to set, I can't take it all in
Heather's amused; drillings begin
Jumping up and down in this useless waste
Fingers dance on the map in your FACE
"Agony abounds in dreams," so you speak
Legends of torture rock you to sleep
All engaged, transmit a code
Mission execution, overload
Cowering freezebag, take a shower to cleanse (?)
Flowering demoness, 3D boss (?)
Whirlpool sermon, I wish to stall
Patterns consuming, why at all?
I know sorcery, it's miserable
I know violet teeth to pull
Lost bitch hits the switch
I don't give a hooooooooooot
(Instrumental)
Coming 'round to drain me more
Numbs me down to the core
And I hide behind a wall of doubt
Wanna know what you're all about
Twisting, everything is fine
Try to keep her down beside, but last night I set her free
Free to let her spirit fly, left my choking stare behind
Maybe if her will could grow, she might feel the need to leave
Dying in my shadow, doubting I could ever let her be herself
A sinful reflection of me, will I ever set her free?
My love has shut her up, break the spirit I don't understand
''cause even as we're walking hand in hand, my life cuts her up
An evil way to build me strong, a sad judge and so uptight
It's too bad I'm so hung up
I ask a simple question when I know the answer right
I ask me if I love her as I tell her it's all right
But nothing in my life would fit, I turned into an idiot
Vampire, draining her desire
Vampire, smother her with love
When nothing in her life would fit she came upon an idiot
Vampire
Now that you have your doubts
Will you always be looking for a way out?
And if I convinced you to stay
Two years or two days from now
I'd live in fear of losing you
Holding on and trapping you inside
Now I understand
I can't always have what I'm wanting
And now I'm wanting you
But if you don't want me
I'll have to set you free
I'll have to learn to live without you
Guilt is a stupid thing
Don't let it make you stay
Leave me if you're wanting someone else; I'll be OK
Two years or two days from now
Driven to live, but now I complain
I'm fallin' apart when I feel this way
I can't ignore, I can't exist
The door is locked and on my mind, it's
Anytime you want me
I feel good all over
Spending all my time
It really is a good thing
This is good, it's all we have
Now I know there's nothing left
I'm trapped, I'm trapped
My head is filled with facts and it's all you
Sick in the head, I think it's a game
But if it was, I wouldn't feel this way
I'm doing my chorus, I'm checking my list
I'm walking the dogs, and on my mind, it's
I'm gonna get so wasted
Gonna feel good all over
I'm spendin' all my time
Wishing you were with me
It's you, it's you, it's you, it's you, it's all you
Five years wading in the pool
With more rules than a Sunday school
Woke up, took a shower
Now I've got soul power
I smell a rat
I smell a rat
I know I smell a rat, baby
Got a ride on the midnight train
To the beauty of the brain
I got drunk, on love
Got stuck in the mud
I smell a rat
I smell a rat
I know I smell a rat, baby
I smell a rat
I smell a rat
Plant the garden on the wall
Paint the ceiling on the floor
Sit back, relax, breathe deep
I smell a rat (X8)
No one's ever looked at you and seen right through so
I can level anything I want
Oh, a smile fades a lie
Meanwhile, I choose to foreknow
Ghosting, X and Y
Please leave me alone in the land of crayons
I know soon I'll forget who I am so
Sound even swirl
I'm so glad I waited for this
Every nervous moment worth it
Every anxious wave rode through
To find me lying safe with you
All too right
Righteous coward, chicken-head waiting for a storm in paradise
Push, whine, push
To gripe to her at me
We killed the jealous; killed the judgment right
I'm so glad the wait is through
I'm moving on; plowing through
A violent landscape
Candlelight, oh, Devil Bride
Crisp until you break
Well I give so the ranks in fear (?)
You could not mystify
Limb by limb I'll feed you in
I, the Serpent in the Tide
From haunted dreams her bloke did speak,
"To expand is to slay!"
A tunnel to infinity, dazzling all the way
Radiant matter's bouncing out; thunder purified
Truer than sides, sees the lie
Laughter in the sky
There's a cry ringing out o'er land and sea
Star-crossed our weary hearts
Absorbed for light, he set us free
WALK SO WEAK, TOO STONED TO SPEAK
I KEEP IT TO MYSELF
DON'T FUCK WITH ME, I'M HOVERING
I'm not attractive today, I'm not a sight for sore eyes
I'm not an Adam or Eve, I'm just a nervous young thing
Hear my voice strain as I sing, my will won't bend and then break
The crate will break and I'll fall, I couldn't help it at all
I've got a license to confuse, what do we got to lose?
A license to confuse
I guess I got what it takes to help me make this mistake
It took a while but I learned, it took a twist but I turned
And now its clear that I'm blind, another mountain to climb
Another distance to fall, I couldn't help it all
I've got a license to confuse, what have you got to lose?
A license to confuse
I shouldn't sound so forlorn, regret the day I was born
''cause here I am and I've been, I only need a few friends
My hands are sweating all day like I've been letting me down
Like I've been letting me slide, just some nonsense on my mind
And the license to confuse, nothing I can use
Bust it, build it for a year
Strong evil, sanest feeling gone
Tried in vain
Normal evil, commonplace for good
Forever, ever wasted
I deal the torture for feeling never real
It's an easy cut for him to deal
Never say a word or hurt him now so he'll know
Coolest term, the phrase âNever Evilâ
Normal, good and easy-minded
Wasted as I try to find a jealous evil
I'm not jealous, I'm not in love with myself
I'm not next to some saint, it's just not good for your health
I'm not jealous, I'm not in love with myself
It's so hard to fall in love
Knowin' all I know
Seeing all the things I see
Maybe I should crawl away for awhile
Maybe I shouldn't have smiled so much
Who's the one with the killing secret?
The stupid little boy with the killing crush
Count the times that you looked away
Thinking over and over
Every word we had to say
Now I know what I wanted
Another chance to reach too high
Nothing will last forever and ever
I'm just next in a long, long line
You love too lonely, you live too free
You're pushing under and squeezing free
Your life's too fragile, your style too loose
You're burning and freezing, you cannot choose
Love's deceiving and life's a game
I got in the car and then I scream your name
There's no magic reason for the powers that exist
But you don't try to walk the line, always say you're doing fine
Oh well, I'll just believe these
I'm so jealous of Jesus
He's all to the world He could be
Everybody wants to dance with Jesus
Nobody wants to dance with me
Hey, Hey, Yaaaaaaay
Girls just waiting for Jesus
Hey, little girl all alone
Hey, little girl all alone
Hey, little girl all alone
Never did and never will
It's just the way it's always been
I've made mistakes before, I'll make the same again
And all this tension we ignore surely works its ugly way inside
I have known that nothing's fair, surely what did I expect?
When magic slips into the air and every day's another test
And all this tension we ignore, it surely works its ugly way outside
So let it build, let it explode
Leaving blood and shattered bone
Or bite your tongue 'til you've forgotten what to say
And take another step back, until you find you've walked away
Silence like disease, but I dare not say it hurts
''cause if I honestly react, nothing's ever gonna work
All this tension back and forth
It's just the beauty of the ride
It's just the beauty of the ride
So let it build, let it explode
Leaving blood and shattered bone
Or bite your tongue 'til you've forgotten what to say
Descended from Emerson, into this life
Falling, falling, falling into my seventh life
My father rode a motorcycle naked in the rain
Mother, a flower girl, blonde and 18
Three long days in the Colorado jail
Seven months pregnant, on the western trail
She met El in San Francisco, so it goes
(She met El in San Francisco, yeah so it goes)
Elwyn was out of his head, speed up his nose
Mother met a second man, by chance
She remembered from a hometown high school dance
The night they got to fighting, man's arms, they let me fall
My head hit the concrete floor, I didn't move at all
My mom hysterical, thinking I was dead
She ran into the street, scared out of her head
I watched the stars in the heavens for a while
Then I came around for good, but not with a smile
Moved home to the valley where the hippies conspire
Even my grandma loved to get high
My father dosed liquid LSD
Fried his mind for years to come, look what it's done to me
The breakup ensued, I held my baby brother's hand
I held my baby brother's hand
The nights that followed, footsteps could be heard
(The nights that followed in the house, footsteps could be heard)
No one on the second floor 'cept spirits I have learned
Mom and her best friend said, "It's time to go"
To Aroyo Hondo, New Mexico
Adobe huts, I recall every gathering adobe
I was hungry in the desert; I wanted to go home
Morning I awoke; I was all alone
(But I walked outside I realized)
No one but a fucking geek to share the dusty home
(No one was there; I thought I would die)
As I walked outside I realized
(Time stood still; I watched the dome)
No one was there; I thought I would die
(Then the bug came back, tears in my throat)
Time stood still as I watched the goat
(Next thing I knew I was in public school)
The nurse of a new bug came back; tears in my throat
(It wasn't much, but it followed the rules)
Next thing I knew I was in public school
(Sat alone; stood alone)
It wasn't much, but it followed the rules
(Tried my best to understand my broken home)
Sat alone; stood alone
(I got to watch my poor mother cry)
Tried to understand my broken home
(Empty, exposed to all she felt inside)
I got to watch my poor mother cry
(And then I hear these hippies philosophize)
Empty, exposed to all she felt inside
And hear these hippies philosophize
And dreaming of the commune in the sky
(Too many changing partners at different times
Brothers and sisters, don't get too close
And dreaming of the commune in the sky
And mother waves him goodbye, so I'm left here on my puzzle with nobody's help)
Boycott society, then the kids can't socialize
(My faith is my strength, living in hell)
We had a cat named "Hope" and soon it died
(Thinking about our locks too thin, wondering if I'm at all like him)
There were nervous breakdowns every day, numerous crises games
(Before the flood, before the flood, of blood, I'm dead serious, you just you wait)
Parents like to play, too many changing partners
(The Nazi Klan looked like 6)
At different times
(The plan is well underway)
Brothers and sisters, don't get too close
(Those who crossed me are cursed, will see fewer days)
Another routine goodbye
(You'll listen to me; let's kill in the street)
So I'm workin' on my puzzle with nobody's help
(You made a big mistake so just you fuckin', livin in hell, El)
My faith is my strength because I'm living in hell, thinkin' about hell,
Locked in the bin, wondering if I'm at all like him
Before the flood, before the flood of blood
I'm dead serious, so just you wait
The Manson Klan will look like saints
(The Nazi Klan will look like saints)
The plan's well underway, those who crossed me will see fewer days
(The plan's well underway, those who crossed me are cursed)
You're wastable to me; you're roadkill in the street
(Just you wait, you will see fewer days)
You're so wastable to me, like the roadkill in the street; you made a big mistake
(Satan)
So just you fucking wait
(Satan)
Blood on the walls; blood on the walls
(Satan; Satan)
Dear friends, goodbye, needlessly you fuck with me; now you're gonna die
Blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls; blood on the walls
I'm hiding nine wives, close my eyes
Valiant, like a god I fly
Merry-go-round, window-speak
Working only for luxury
Married to failure, dulled by grief
I'm fighting on and off full-cheek (?)
Since when again, I care, I swear I don't intend to be mean
Siren glides from surf to cliff
Endearing language, provocative
I'm here to say what's done is done
Serving shark's fin soup for everyone
Beautiful women in the world to see
I'm a born romantic, EAG
Gotta right to find an American dream
And so what?
Stranded here high and dry
Got a cause on the region, on the beach I lie (?)
Fortunate to wait and see
On these stepping stones of dust we've roped at defeat
Feeling as weak as a circus freak
I gotta relocate, I wanna sail the seas
We should've never kissed, never played
Pardon me, I had a place to stay
Enlighten my wives, close my eyes
Fell to you, like a god I fly
Merry-go-round, window-speak
Working only for luxury
Married to failure, dulled by grief
I'm fighting on and off full-cheek (?)
Since when, again, I care, I swear I don't intend to be mean
Siren glides from surf to cliff
Endearing language, provocative
I'm here to say what's done is done
Serving shark's fin soup for everyone
[strange days]
I'm scared (I'm scared of dying)
Don't let me die
Where's my lover? (Where is my lover?)
Crying on your shoulder, I'm headed for Boulder
Rather take the train; got no money to pay
Sleep in a boarding house, soup in a can
Hey, little girl how long's it been?
The air is thick and you're still thin
My mind is blank so fill me in
What kind of trouble I've got myself in
Black-haired gurl, head full of lies
The truth is all up to you tonight
I read the letters that you sent
Your perfume well won't catch me again
Oooooh, hoooooooo-oh
You don't care 'til you compete
For the affection that you cheat
I read the letters that you sent
Your perfume well won't catch me again
Hey, little girl how long's it been?
The air is thick and you're still thin
My mind is blank so fill me in
All washed down the drain
All washed down the drain
Take it home with you
I don?t know what to say to you
And I know how it can be
Drop to the whisper
And take it while you can
It?s only a little bird
In the palm of your big hand
Racked my brain
And now I?m confused as hell
I don?t know what you want
If it?s all the same
I think I?ll go on home
Droppin' a whisper
And take it while you can
It?s only a little bird
In the palm of your big hand
No one can change
It's a joke I play 3 times a day to sticky magazines
Tired wrist and greasy fist, erotic sister scenes
Bitter, unreal; too worn out to feel
Resisting, grasping and never lasting
And nulling out my pleasure
So I never know what's real
3 times a day, 3 times I see
Just how pathetic my need can be
3 times a day, 3 times I see
Just how pathetic my need can be
3 times a day, 3 times I see
Just how pathetic my need can be
Pick a habit you can trust
We all need the reassurance
Blanket stretched across the window
A friend to walk you through it all
That could change if I was angry
But after all, it turns me on
It made all my good decisions; even helped me write this song
Back when I was young and clever
Traced a pattern in the wood
I thought I'd get my shit together
Now I know I never could
''cause it's a pornographic sunrise
Static curtains that draw on our lives
But we still thrive, through every time
But we still cry, through every dive
But we still try
Too old to apologize (X2)
We're too old to apologize (X2)
So pick a habit I can touch
Be as happy as you should be
It was never my intention
To blindly feed the boy/girl game
I know romance isn't everything
But I'm obsessing just the same
Because today I don't feel worthy
You seem so beautiful and strong
These unsure hands could never soothe you
Too afraid of doing something wrong
And this confusion wears me down
Until I feel like a nervous stranger
And could I help you grow? I guess we'll never know
Set up for a let-down
These things happen all the time
And I'm not longing to explore it again
I'm too scared of what you'll find
And this confusion wears me down
But I'll smile when I'm with you
''cause there's so much we could do
Together or alone
Is something missing in my touch, a tension tugging at my smile?
If there's a right thing to say, I'm sure I missed it by a mile
Swallowed in some detail, heavy in my blood
I wanna hold you close, but I can't lift my arms up
Is there a reason for this distance?
More than the drug that floats my days
A nervous bug in my system, it keeps me edgy and ashamed
I've got a saint, never ever will forgive
That never understood me but still tells me how to live
It fits when I stretch and I stretch because I can
I stretch until I'm sore and then I open up for more
I do it out of habit, not addiction
And if I give it up, clean out my blood
Will I still feel bored and disconnected?
If I do it all for love, will I ever give enough?
''cause you can never be too pure or too connected
You can never be too pure or too connected
All I need is one true friend
I want total peace of mind
To leave the hurting world behind
I'm not scared; I swear I'm free
It may collapse the fear
That burns to bring the worst from me
Much too smart to sound uptight
Not to cheat what I deserve
Nothing hidden and nothing wasted
So far from dead, frustrated
Too smart to ask for more
This is all I've waited for
Nothing hidden and nothing wasted
Nothing past the love I've tasted
It's wrong but right; magic change
I finally hurt to live on up to this name
Not right; it never changes
See how we've taken all this sweet time to decide
Watered that tree, watched it grow another 50 feet high
Together, shared and strong
Step right in
Forever is not that long
Let's begin
Feel this connection like the earth underneath me
I feel this connection if I'm here, there, or anywhere I stand
Feels right, all poured down
We'll see it through
The future, the here and now
Me and you
And it's sweeping our childhood away
Hand in hand, we set off on our own
But Heaven's not ours, and truth could be a game we play
Strip the branches bare, but the tree stands on its own
See how much we've grown
Pleasure takes its toll, people lose control everyday
Hypocrites like us deserve a little trust along the way
Together, shared and strong, we try again
Forever is not that long
Let's begin
True hardcore is hard to find
Takes the peaceful selfish kind
To realize where the power lies in music
The beauty may be hard to take
Pray it's not the evil fake
There's always time to change your mind
And still be very true
Always will be true
Like evergreens in wintertime
Or elks around are sleeping, dying
True hardcore is forever young
True hardcore is left undone
Someone who has always known it
Someone who has never lost it
And as the others act so strange
You've had the strength to never change
Make it easy and I'll hold it against you
I'm on a string dangled right in front of you
Make it hard and I'll run away
Keep tomorrow as I kill today
Trying to figure just what I deserve
Slashing lines all across the earth
Patience only makes the dream come true
Everything I see I hold to you
Tell me, this is itâ
The Truly Great Thing
The love you've hoped to find
Any doubt will simply wipe itself out
As we're rising deeper the first and last time
Lift me up and drop me down again
Every day I feel confusion, pain
Love is what we've all been waiting for
Something powerful to smash it all apart
Can't love if you're locked up tight
The dream of perfection, nothing ever seems right
All the world will tell you, "You're all wrong"
Big big deal if you're wrong
This is itâ
The Truly Great Thing
The love you've hoped to find
Any doubt will simply wipe itself out
Did you think I was dead inside?
There was no room to grow
And if I loved you still, I didn't let it show
I never left you, though I've always loved you
And you were free to leave me
If you didn't believe in me
Dumped, don't mind me
I didn't know what I had till it was gone
In love, so scared, couldn’t stay
Cliche
I had a good time
Remember the good times
Before it had to happen
Cracked our world wide open
Dumped, don't worry about me
It wasn't up to you to set me free
There never is good time, so they say
Time to fake a miracle, memorized emotion
Memorize lullaby; changin' the arranged deal
Tell me every reason why, cradle my confusion
Memorize lullaby; changin' the arranged deal
I wish we were colorblind, we could heal ourselves
I wish we were colorblind
I wish I were invisible, I'd sink into myself
Black and white and beautiful
Why'd they make it ugly?
Crackers in their camouflage, headin' for the hills
Now it's time to close your mind ''cause Mother Nature tells you to
I wish we were colorblind, we could heal ourself
I wish we were colorblind, kept it to ourself
Colorblind, lullaby, haunted 'til I'm pacified
Think it to myself
I wish we were colorblind, we could heal ourself
I wish we were colorblind and kept it to ourself
Colorblind, lullaby, hold me 'til I'm pacified
I arrived with the lie I've forgiven
Didn't wanna live on the wrong side of love
I couldn't leave, though you made me a victim
Standing in the kitchen with the keys in my hand
When you ride me with your eyes closed
Are you fixed on a picture of a friend?
I'm crystal-crossed, I still feel lost
But I refuse to be your victim
Are you in love with the boy or a drug?
Are you high when he bends to hug you?
When you're with him are you outta your head?
Is he the ghost floatin' over our bed?
When you ride me with your eyes closed
Are you fixed on a picture of a friend?
I'm crystal-crossed, I still feel lost
But I refuse to be your victim...again
I refuse to be your victim
Thinking everything could be a lie
And have to wonder if you're with him
And when you ride, do you look him in the eye?
And when you fuck him, do you look him in the eye?
(A peaceful instrumental)
Burning out the thoughts that once were true
Can't help but wonder if I use you
But oh, the time has come now that I've learned how
To rip you into little shreds
'Til you're my little sleepy-head oh oooohhhhhhh
Not looking up to anyone
Except the moon and the sun
Talking like some stupid war
Can't go on no more
Children playing in the dirt
One of them gets hurt
One start is easy to be sure
I don't know how to sleep, I forgot how to eat
But I hail to the command
I took my only chance
All I ever wanted is just to know what's up
But when I try to fake it, I always fuck it up
The basement is haunted, my heart palpitates
I'm worried about something, my voodoo of the day
It should be easy, but it's hard to give it up
The way it used to be was just not happening enough
Crocodile tears, six-packs of beer
Denying, undenying
I woke her up today and I heard her up inside
Feeling something has to burn, it's much too big to hide
I dreamt the bridge was you
And I was scared to walk it, too
Thought I'd fall right through, but I'm
You've been broken for a long time
Swallowing what you deserve
You think you're dirt, so it's dirt you suck
I can't help
Everyone is really hung up
On who or what they want to fuck
Sex is power for the moment
Suck and burn your worthless need
Shaft you move the in and out like dreamin'
Body hears and words that don't mean shit
Holy Communion is friction to scrape your soul
Give and take; so real, but not quite whole
But almost, so do it again
You've been broken for a long time (X4)
Restless eyes close, maybe it'll go away
Please rest tomorrow, bring a satisfying day
The restless urge of love that's worth the burning for
Surely it's that one consuming love to give you more
Any thought could be the beginning of
The brand new tangled web you're spinning
Anyone could be a brand new love
Any tithe that holds can be broken
Tear your bitter world to the open
Anyone could be a brand new love
You won't be the first, your twisted change is normal
Gossan dirt, whispered to the nodding head
Thrilled you fell apart, instead of them but they will
Any hope for love can be killed
If you need a different face
It's definite time to destroy this place
Any thought could be the beginning of
The brand new tangled web you're spinning
Anyone could be a brand new love
Follow what you feel, you alone decide what's real
Watch the night slip away
It's what I've done because your eyes saw such a tragedy
Such a tragedy
Tell the rest to me now
It's what you mean, but I feel like I'm getting in too deep
I'm getting in too deep
You're threatened by this town so, lock your door and break free
Lines nurse lies 'til the end
I understand, but it's a shame that you let me in on them
You let me in on them
But I can be good, and you can be good, and we can be good
In blase and dream away
Nothin' grew, so mark it bland (?)
I'm sad, fuck sad, I'm teary-eyed
Want a lovey-dovey honey, that's what I like
I'm the finest drifter you'll ever meet
I'm the kindest drifter you'll ever meet
Don't think nothin' cards condemn
I'm sure we both cut and shuffle them
I cry ''cause I'm drunk, plead ''cause I'm down
Gravity immune, yeah, I didn't leave town
Learn to talk, teach me alchemy
Now the witch can't spell what my future might be
Want a lovey-dovey honey that will learn to talk
I bought the gin and tonic, if you care to walk
Carry on I will, my soul melting down
Rotten beans, stumbling, now it's nothing but the town
I'm the finest drifter you'll ever hate
Come on girl, tell me something
Tell me something I don't know
Little girl, should I be scared the way I am?
Does it feel OK to stand so close to me?
Take my hand, try to walk in time together
I'm doubting it could ever be that real
Can't be sure, cannot rest inside worlds
Either one could change tomorrow
Then they'd see that none bear hurt
It isn't fair; it can't be worth the pain
Last time together
You know she's lost her mind for good this time
Every thought's dragged around with a weight behind
She sees herself in need of repair
Maybe someone'll help her lay her soul down bare
If you see the patient never compromising
Short of wonder, I wouldn't be surprised
Her lilac breath reminds me of you
She gives a sign, doesn't mind being stalked
Tension dissolves, she's taking off her socks
Draws in the sky, doesn't mind me at all
Curls up and away then the line dissolves
Without hesitation I sail the course
Exploration, a supernatural force
White eyes grow at what I detect
Pulling us both into the pretend
Glorious connection due to end
Advertising innocence floating in the air
Little man, you are too impatient to understand
This hateful world
It's twisting you right through another girl
Please slow down
Let's help to find the secret of yourself
Please believe you owe it to yourself to worship me
I know a mystery or two
A natural order always leaves a place for you
I choose to gather strength from most what I see
I live to give to you, but you don't give enough to me
Remember this: I possess a subtle holy gift
I'm always here; never changing, scared, and half-sincere
I'm obsessed to share with you the noise that I love best
Let me in, then we'll sing together just like friends
Can't think twice about the way I feel
No one on Earth can stop the wheel
There's an awful sound when you push me down
Pin my shoulders to the ground
You're so insane to close the door on me
When you know everyone is going to see
Things are all strewn about, can't figure out
Wanna tear me apart, make a new start
Spoiled children soon to fall
Freedom is the lie we live
We will wait for tragedy
And scatter helpless to the fire
Sorry for ourselves
Sorry for the things we've seen
No one cries for help
Waiting for the fire
When all our toys are burning
All these empty urges must be satisfied
Acted outside
Precious strength to turn the game to history
Giving up, I'm blown away
He said all I had to say
The final days have come and gone
Safe inside; there's nothing wrong
Nothing in these words
Sorry force of habit
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Dumb & cruel
Cut before it's grown
Lies so forced in bored control
My soul mate is a special girl
A girl that€™s just like me
She€™ll share tremendous oral sex
And try everything she sees
She won€™t be insane or hung-up
Like most other girls
I€™ll worship her until it hurts
€˜Cuz she€™s on top of my world
Ewwwww, I€™m a sad man
I can€™t ignore what life beholds for me
And I€™ll probably have to have sex with a lot of girls
Before my soul mate reveals herself to me
You are sweet diversion as I stomp my darker way
Don€™t let your heart get out of hand
I€™ll step on it someday
Maybe it€™s too sad to mention
Maybe I am gay
A moment or two may shine and sure to quickly fade away
Ewwwww, it€™s a sad life
Sometimes little sweet girls get left behind
But baby, baby, baby it€™s a man€™s life
And I gotta tear up everything I find
"Soul and Fire" by Sebadoh
Written by Lou Barlow
from _Bubble and Scrape_
It's all a matter
of soul and fire.
Infatuation
or true desire.
The thrill of discovery,
divine intervention;
cruel, cruel change,
pain of rejection.
As you walk away
think of all the joy we shared.
If you decide you need me,
I'll be wondering if I care...
Not there to soothe your soul,
friend to tender friend.
I think our love is coming to an end.
King persuader,
congratulations.
You share her heart,
you bought her soul
Princess confusion
come to me again.
Saying goodbye
was so much fun.
When you walk away
feel the freedom in your heart.
There's a joy in letting go,
free to find a love apart.
When I lose control
I need a kind, forgiving friend,
but I think our love is coming to an end.
Close the Venetian blind
Shut out the light and say goodbye to you
Soon I can see right through
You're sitting here talking to
Real eyes, pools of blue
Making what you say the rule
You make me dream of broken tools
I need the Dramamine
To be as crazy as your scene
I know it's not a dream
Don't know what you're telling me?
It's like wasting everything
On someone else's dream
It's like wasting everything
On someone else's dream
Seems pretty crazy to me
Seems pretty crazy to me
Seems pretty crazy to me
It?s what they call switching lanes
In the left hand driving in the right hand driving
And it all seems the same
I can?t get enough and you can?t set it up
A big omission and a thin disguise, ooh
And I was hoping for a nice surprise
Down on my knees
I was saying it and you wouldn?t listen
And it all can?t go on
I was getting higher; I was trying hard
Oh, drag me down
I need it
Oh, drag me down
Those suspicions are a waste of time, ooh
And I was hoping for a nice surprise
Feed our trouble well
Learn to feel, I can learn to feel, I can hate it
Oh, drag me down
Those suspicions are a waste of time, ooh
What's all this commotion?
You can break the alarm
Restrain, please, don't bite me on the arm
Capricorn Rising
Diligent, she waits
Bright eyes wink
Future wife in a mini-skirt
Buying me a drink, I abandon every plain
Not your Mr. Right
Committed like a burglar, arrive in style
Nailed a warning sign
Oh, when we get into square land, you'll get your little fish (?)
Reel that sucker in
In this condition, the elixir is zog
Concentrated salvation, a region squad
The way in my skeptic, blinded by grog
In my dreams I react as my true self
And I learn humility
Twisted moral planes
As real as circumstance, each night I dance with primal urges
Pornographic scenes
That always start as they are ending
In my dreams I walk with my true friends
We discover secrets; we run through our lives
Everything is twisted like abyss
To the past and distant future
I'm prepared for some big show
Tried to arrive but I moved too slow
Something's wrong when someone died
Then I opened up my eyes
Something's wrong when someone died
It's time to live inside
But don't complain of need to hide
The air is all expandable
[Incomprehensible]
Wander 'round the bend
While we are trying to begin
Vision lifelong wasted meaning
Explain, please expand upon
Clearing out the closets
And nothing's what we need to build
In the first place you're alright
The way you are, the way you are
Grabbing all success begins
Where you thought it would all end
Don't complain, just clear away
Take off your shades
And put them away
You're okay, you're okay
You're okay, you're okay
You're okay, you're okay
Fatal missy, daring you to kiss me
Crystal gypsy, light my fire
Tonight I die to realize
I bury my shit deep inside
I suck up all you think and I'm thirsty
Convoluted hell run dry
Fatal missy, daring you to kiss me
Crystal gypsy, light my fire
When it starts to suck and I'm stuck here
Carrying me far away
I just send a wink to the trustee
Check's in the mail, it's time to pay
Freeze out, I squeeze out something
To stumble out, stumble down
It's my kinda highway really
I feed on you; you feed on me
When we agree, it's good to be bold
When you act frightened, I'll make you feel stupid
''cause nothing's more stupid than thinking I'm evil
But if you smile then I'll smile, too
There's nothing better to do
I'm just me-- listen to me
A old All-American original
You're down in the mind
And don't say I don't see
You're treating me badly; it's pulling me downmind
Can't bring me downmind, sorry-sack downmind
You're not an only fully true sad man
Though I may seem a flaming total bitch
I'm a special friend
I'm just me-- listen to me
A old All-American original
You're not the cool-cool
You're just a scared fool
Thinking I'm evil & sure of your sickness
Sick just to follow; follower gutless
Mistaken for goodness
And pulling me downmind
Down in the mind; you're sick in the soul
You're treating me nicely; it's pulling me downmind
I'm just me-- listen to me
You give faith to deadly snakes
Retain the need for names
Now burn your books for me
Confusion must end, jarred up sympathy
I've been here, but you won't hear, what have you to say to me?
Blood crazed
Vampires wear a straight face
The love, hate
Expression of your dead weight
Oh, go back down and load up what you can't sell
And you don't sound the same
And there's no one around who cares what you say
Oh, I trust you, don't do that to me
I'm right here without my fear and all I need to be
Can't take a switch hitting twist in the name game
I made a mistake trusting you with what I make
Crowd control, assume the role
Mr. Pointy shoes put a pen to your soul
Crowd control, assume the role
Mr. Pointy shoes, put a pen to your
Blood crazed
Vampires wear a straight face
All the love, hate
Expression of your dead weight
I like saying yes and watching you take
I don't need to sleep or eat
I smoke a thousand cigarettes
These days are so nurturing
When you're gone I'll eat and sleep away
My days again
Crazy people are right on, crazy people are right
Crazy people are right on
You're shit soup
And I'm in the reflection booth
Two glass eyes behind
Cheap sunglasses move
Stained-glass gazebo
I really don't know
Our futures are so separate
Bespectacled and desperate
It's not my job to undo
The dying prophecy of you
It's not my job to undo
I like saying yes and watching you take
I don't need to sleep or eat, I smoke a thousand cigarettes
These days are so nurturing
When you're gone I'll eat and sleep away
My days again
Crazy people are right on, crazy people are right
Crazy people are right on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
I waited for you
No one helped me through
I can't believe in you
And nothing is true
Following you around
Shoveling through our problems
I don't hate myself for being so dumb
I'm totally back and you're doing that
I can't fuckin' stand
I can't fuckin' stand this confusing shit
Story of water stronger than a man
Town crier: day of the dam!
More than a hundred years ago
The flood raged on fast and cold
Smashed barrels and broken chests
Bridgework carried along to rest
Crisis; cry sister
Crisis; cry sister
It's been real; it's been nice sis
I can't help with your crisis
C. Graves riding double speed
Clear the factories you all must flee
One in a panic turned to face the wave
Raised his arms; met his fate
Still in the riverbed you can see
The broken pieces of pottery
Cry sis; cry sister
Cry sis; cry sister
Yes, I'm gonna miss your kiss
But i can't go on like this
I AM A TRIBAL CHIEF
MY NAME DISORDER
FLESH AND BLOOD
A TANGO FLOOD
When there's someone doubting everything you do
It keeps you alive unless someone's shaking their head at everything you do
It keeps you true
Never learned to feel I must take it out on you
I am so open-minded
Everyone should be united
Everyone should fight for tell the truth
Truth could never hurt the true
Don't be as weak to try to figure it out
It's not his problem; deny it as you churn inside
Truest love he'll ever find
No one could stand such a blatant invitation
A stinking display of your sexual confusion
You could never respect someone who
Never knew he'd not resist
No one could stand such a blatant invitation
A stinking display of your sexual confusion
You could never respect someone who
(Instrumental)
Sweep the dirt under your rug, you're on your drug
And then it hits me
It's paregoric in my head, I'm all doped-up
And just a baby
Doing just fine
You're making up your mind at sixteen
I'm all grown up and what I know
It isn't from your mouth
And now I'm confused 'cuz you don't talk
Or wonder what I think
I'm standing here and still I cannot hear you
My passion's locked inside me, divulging your imperative
For during, though it's easy, a hundred years of therapy
Thanks, thanks anyway, I'll soon be leaving
There is history in this place
There are dragons to be chased
And though I don't know who you are
An easy flow and a strong, a strong heart
And the charm in the way you hide
Gently take my skull for a ride
And I don't know who you are
But I know what I would like you to be
A one-night stand under stoned persuasion
But a joy that I can't hide
Gently take my skull for a ride
We can never ever go too far
The pain we can't escape at least will wait
So let's go quickly, no we go slow
Let's go chasing dragons through the snow
Kindly take my all
And give me all you have
Gently take my skull for a ride
Take and shake your soul
But never lose control
(instrumental)
Damned, if I do and damned, if I don't
I told you I loved you, I wish that I hadn't
You don't seem the same
I guess I know you too well
I knew I was falling, but I didn't know how low I'd fell
Sister, oh sister, who told you these lies?
I haven't got time to teach you what it could be like
To pull you from this, child
You don't smell the stink
But your mind has found the bed
You think I'm all yours
And I wish that I were dead
The words were not your own
It was something your mother said
Umbilical bloodline, mind control
By the whiny chat
Sister, oh sister, I thought it'd be nice
That thing I felt when we first met just will not suffice
The glimmer in your eyes
I love you, sister
A bloodline to condescend
I thought so, sister
But I cannot pretend
It's hard to believe this blood
This isn't healthy love
It's hard to believe this love
This isn't healthy blood
Sister, oh sister, you thought you're so wise
But we're still fishing and coming from the blindest eye
If I'd had any sense, would it come to grips?
If I go on home, would I have stayed around so long? So
I don't know, I don't know
Pressing it to your lips
Threaten me with your fist
We're swimming out to sea
I think, I know how it will be
Oh, what I wanted
All I can have
Oh, what you wanted
All you can have
So you keep the change
You stay the same
No, I mean it, I'm really sorry; here I'll say it again
I want you to know it, but the more I say it
The less it means in the end
Working for respect's like climbing a mountain
And I think I'm losing my grip
Once I'm fallin' and I think I'm fallin'
There's no gettin' back on pace
But my face makes that sorry shape
I know who I am, but I lost my grace
I'm gettin' a stick and I march for more
Now I was wrong, everybody knows
My mouth is moving but nothing's changing
I just can't leave it alone
Nervous defense that's doubled to senseless
Milked it dry like a bone
I milked it dry like a bone
I just can't leave it alone
I milked it dry like a bone
I just can't leave it alone
But my face makes that sorry shape
I know who I am, but I lost my grace
I'm gettin' a stick and I march for more
Now I was wrong, everybody knows
Everybody knows
No, I mean it, I'm really sorry; here I'll say it again
Many mistakes will wait to be made
Has one more ruined its life today?
Torn down wide by the slightest suggestion
Never believe in the perfect protection
There's no peace anywhere, it's decided
I don't know what I'm gonna do
Never find peace in anything I can say
One more ruined its life today
Insisting on, depending on impossible confusion
The last attack on this delicate illusion
If you just wanna smoke a bowl of the finest homegrown
No matter where you're coming from
You can find my man there on the street
You can find a man that'll peddle and you meet
Weed makes you feel happy when you're feeling down
Oh, yeah
Weed even makes you smile when there's no one around
Oh, yeah
It's the weed that makes you sing when you'reâ¦
Half-asleep, you can singâ¦
Bored and nothing to do
We sit
In a
Beat up old Chevy
He'll tell ya; he'll tell
He'll tell ya
Yeah, he'll tell ya
Yeah, I guess he'll tell ya
Sittin' around with my homemade bone
I'm naked and loose when no one's home
And I may let my fingers roam
Juicing free on my holy bone
Here I am, on my knees
Praying to the beast that stole the sex from me
I see something we should do
If you need one, then you need two
I won't hold back, so why should you?
I won't hold back, so why should you?
Here I am, on my knees
With nothing to blame but my curiosity
It got the best of me
There's still pictures in my mind
I've been addicted all this time
Taught me everything I know
Tell me, girl, did it leave me cold?
Here I am, on my knees
With nothing to blame but my curiosity
She is got a deep providing love for you
But he knew not, can't make her be true
And he will follow where you go
He'll disappear in you
But even I can't make him be true
Control my ancient call
Control the depths across the pain
Understood nobody aim before we load again
Rock my days the harder way, my body and my mind
Beautiful and old
Keep the boy alive
When I'm feeling sorry let it go
Cause that won't change a thing
When I say no, the hunger starts to scream
Control my ancient call
Control the depths across the pain
Understood nobody aim before we load again
Rock my days the harder way, my body and my mind
Beautiful and old
Keep the boy alive
Dieing gonna keep providing
Dieing gonna keep providing
Dieing gonna keep providing
Dieing gonna keep providing
Dieing gonna keep providing
Dieing gonna keep providing
Love more than you
And I can share I think I can be true
You are the calls and falling walls
Unreachable behavior
I'm the one who jumWed the gun to be the guy to save her
It's getting old, I'm going old
Do it for the love
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!
I'm being myself, I'm all confined
Em's paid to tonight with a hunting knife
A fire, a wiry frightened disease
Agitated and edgy, yaaaaaaay
Here's to my health and living right
Brain tuned out to the radio dial
the storm may be all we want to avoid
Everybody has been burned before
Everybody knows the pain
Anyone in this place can tell you to your face
Why you shouldn't try to love someone
Everybody knows it never works
Everybody knows and me
We know that door shuts just before
You get to the dream, you see
I know, I know all too well how to turn and how to run
How to hide behind a bitter wall of blue
But you die inside when you chose to hide
So I guess instead I'll love you
I love you
This or that or what you will is all the same to me
There's danger almost everywhere as far as I can see
Careen them maybe if you can, charm my troubled soul
The farther I go, the worse I get
Electric current, my arms outstretched
I may be hostile, sick with rhyme
Spirit all-able, time is on my side
Destroys the funny plants, my dear
Go pull one at the root
You'll find if I'm not at fault, unlucky rabbit's foot
Deal me insincerity, clairvoyance is not an act
If there's any concern, my nerves to soothe
But my face would never fuse in to be with you
I'm entertaining on the street, 12 degrees
To sweet college girls and friends with fleas
Dreaming our direction crazy, some real-life stories go
Await sweet, crazed adventure, I want someone to know
It's scary how I view my life to book, yet written and unsigned
A violent piece of addict grows, I live on borrowed time
Child-like, I was always a terror, I need to be held
Ammunition cynical, damn all memory
Fooled in subtle majesty
A truer lonely blue inside
Some friends are safe to live behind
Giving peace enough to hide behind
Needlessly weak; a waste in real time
Grow from âSelfish Little Boyâ
To âFeeding Evil Little Manâ
Some friends never understand
Weaker friends don't deserve your hand
Stretch it deeper 'til you cry
Wisdom kills me open wide
See beneath our simple play
This wisdom kills me every time
A truer beauty deep inside
I don't wanna be the one who rides flame
I don't know her name
And I don't wanna go where the seekers all go
I don't wanna know
You can feel anything you wanna feel
You can feel anything you wanna feel and call it real
But I don't wanna be the one who rides flame
I don't wanna be the one who rides flame
I can't complain, though I'm wrapped up in chains
I can't complain
Everybody's got the right to be free
But that's not me
And you can feel anything you wanna feel
You can feel anything you wanna feel
You can feel anything you wanna feel
And call it real
But I don't wanna be the one who rides flame
I don't wanna be the one who rides flame
Hit the flame, burn a hole in my brain
Never be the same
I try to take it slow, but she's pushing me to go
Where I don't wanna go
And you can feel everything you wanna feel
You can feel everything you wanna feel
You can feel everything you wanna feel
And call it real
But I don't wanna be the one who rides flame
A cap comes off the 40 ounce
The bowling captain's out to pounce
Uncap the joy, out of control
The night cat goes within my soul
Yeah, all right
Gonna ride with the flood tonight
Yeah, all right
I'm gonna ride with the flood tonight
The girls, the bars
We're smoking joints in the car
A hundred miles an hour through the meadows
I'm stump-jumpin' drunk from the get go
Yeah, all right
We're gonna ride with the flood tonight
Yeah, all right
We're gonna uncap with flood tonight, let's go
The night cat makes me wanna sing
Because I don't feel a thing
Except all the joy in the world
Come on, get in the car, let's go
Yeah, all right
Gonna ride with the flood tonight
Yeah, all right
I'm stump-jumpin' drunk from the get go
Stump-jumpin' drunk and let's go
She don't need the guilt, she don't need the pressure
But she craves a guilty pleasure
She has no conscience, call her a seeker
Let her know if she can please you, she's eager to please you
Pig-boy, heart-breaker, forced love dictator
Is she as shallow as she seems?
Sweet, yet heartless; mindful, yet thoughtless
Loved to kiss the final conflict of interest
Gave myself away by what I didn't say
I tried to talk, but my pride got in the way
And I would never dare to break her heart
Too scared and selfish to watch my security fall
Pig-boy, heart-breaker, forced love dictator
The boy that crippled all her dreams
Sweet, yet heartless; mindful, yet thoughtless
Loved to kiss the final conflict of interest
And I would never dare to break her heart
Too scared and selfish to watch my security fall
Take me back, I'm not proud
To share the glory if I'm allowed to
''cause nothing can be lost
This magic never existed, I hope I never miss it
Leave it alone, let it die
It can't be worth the pain we've hidden
Nothing will be lost; a love that couldn't be trusted
Drop your guard, I'll get to know you
Simon says it's time to move
And God only knows I think about you
'Cuz it's never time to show and prove
It's never time to show and prove
Hiding all the time destroys me
Never know what's right to do
I only needed to feel a balance
I just want to do right by you
Sitting safe beside the truth
Beside you
Watch out for my bullshit
Everybody's got it
Careful as a soldier we're so strong
Begging my new teacher
Thought you'd never reach her
She's standing there in front of you
It's twice as hard to fool us
It's twice as hard to fool us
Careful as a soldier we're so strong
Burn out, man
Typically bitter
Find me locked into the vicious cycle
Find me trapped and scared simple
Money, money, money
Money, more money
The helpless slob in his dead-end day job
Helpless slob in his dead-end day job
I'm reaching every goal
Maybe a girlfriend under control
An easy target and drag-down anchor
The co-dependent self-styled nightmare
And it's a shame ''cause I really don't care
This land is very small
A bum scrawl with people crawl (?)
America's the greatest way
I'm counting thoughts; I'm counting days
Well I know it's true, ''cause God told me to tell it to you
I know it's true; a God told me to tell it to you
This metal cuts my skin
America has eaten my cousin
Green boots and a hard green helmet
I feel so bad ''cause I'm left and spent
I know it's true, ''cause God told me to tell it to you (X2)
Close the Venetian blind
Send out before I can say goodbye to you
Soon I can see right through
You've seen her talking to
Real eyes, pools of blue
Making what you say the rule
You make the dream of broken tools
I need the Dramamine
To be as crazy as your scene
I know it's not a dream
Don't know what you're telling me
It's like wasting everything
On someone else's dream
It's like wasting everything
On someone else's dream
Seems pretty crazy to me
Seems pretty crazy to me
Count it off smart guy
Now what the hell are we doin'?
No, it can't
Eleven times a scapegoat
It?s not a hug but a choke
And you?re not what I?ve been missin?
And I?ll be damned before I listen to you
Prince-S of distress
You?re a Prince-S of distress
Everything you want
And nothing that you need
But somehow it all just fits in
I?d climb your mind just to go wishing
I guess there?s no use really ?cause
?Cause there?s nothing like a real thing
Welling up in my throat
I love you, you must know
There?s not much that needs fixin?
I can?t quit when I?m addicted
I guess there?s no use really ?cause
?Cause there?s nothing like a real thing
I guess there?s no use really ?cause
Don't wanna show you a smile
I wanna shut up 'til I die
I cherish all that's pure
So I lock my sound inside
Don't hold these sweaty hands
To view nothing fit
Please realize that I've got nothing
'Cept the one, it's you that's it
You can see the way I run
It's no secret where I hide
Masturbating Jesus creep, I jerk off 'til I die
You should pound my skinny head
To bleed me dry and true
Then we'd sing together ''cause there's nothing else to do
Heart-broken and attractive
A sad, sloppy mess
Lookin' for approval
And easily impressed
Beware they say, but why would I listen?
I need to know what I've been missing
I'm no one you can trust
All little-boy lonely with curious lust
Confusion turns me upside down
Lost as quickly as I'm found
But soon enough it turns around
On the rebound
Call it fate or true love, never forced romance
Fell into a new love
Maybe perfect love by chance
Beware they say, but why would I listen
When it feels this good?
No one lives their life
Doing all the things they say they should
Confusion turns me upside down
Lost as quickly as I'm found
But soon enough it turns around
Well I'm acting like a guy who just knows
''cause I'm lookin' for a punch in the nose
I'm just lookin' for a punch in the nose
You can be my best friend
Or at least you can pretend
I'm not lookin' for a punch in the nose
If I say everything stinks
It's ''cause I'm bobbling for my own link
Pray not lookin' for a punch in the nose (?)
You make your words so nice
I'm waiting you to name a price
One will walk along
Praying as you sing your song
Way and winters upon the season
You baby to me so right, would it be out of reason?
You're me and my mouth; you know to my size of treason (?)
The breezes went in their way to May
Ride the darker wave
Hello tomorrow today
Ride the darker wave
Post-hardcore, pre-apocalyptic, science-fiction, drone-loving
Renaissance Man
Oh, what is true? What is real?
No bullshit, brother
Pot-smokin' Renaissance Man
Wasted effort to stand up
Real things happen when you're down
Soulcore worship, whirling sound
Brother, make a list, pierce your dick
Future tribal-thought & rebel, greedy Renaissance Man
Backbeat bloody conviction
Power-sludge storm suckin' down
Violence is cool, one of two things real
Violence is free for all; live for revenge, ideal
Don't wimp out; kill the pig
There is no doubt; kill the pig
Post-hardcore, hardass, intellectual
I like saying yes and watching you take
I don't need to sleep or eat, I smoke a thousand cigarettes
These days are so nurturing
When you're gone I'll eat and sleep away
My days again
Crazy people are right on, crazy people are right
Crazy people are right on
You're shit soup
And I'm in the reflection booth
Two glass eyes behind
Cheap sunglasses move
Stained-glass gazebo
I really don't know
Our futures are so separate
Bespectacled and desperate
It's not my job to undo
The dying prophecy of you
It's not my job to undo
I like saying yes and watching you take
I don't need to sleep or eat, I smoke a thousand cigarettes
These days are so nurturing
When you're gone I'll eat and sleep away
My days again
Crazy people are right on, crazy people are right
Crazy people are right on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
They're so off they're on
We're not here to crawl away
Or find blame for wasted time
Straight or high is not wasted time
Feeling true in poor Paranoiaville
Excuses are so easy
When any jerk could push you down
We got reason to learn how
Trust any reason to rise now
Turn your weakness on itself (?)
Not right for you
It's all right with me to fight with my friends
When faith is near impossible
And trust just isn't practical
It's all right with me to feed on my friends
You know what, he's got nothing to say
They just wanna be rich and say,
"Fuck those groups who get the 4 star" (?)
Nothing could be betterâA rockstar
Blood-stained avant-garde popstar
Peace doesn't underpush; exploit science, spacejam rockstar
Rockstar
Rockstar
Rockstar
Trust any reason to rise now
Don't let the simple truth bring you down
Money brings freedom, brings a new day
Trust any reason; get rich, crawl away
Faith is near impossible
Trust just isn't practical
Trailing on next to sick
Only broken magic sticks
Evil pins never snare
Figured out how to get nowhere
Flying lead-filled flapping gills
Phantom God in frozen time
Comfort crawls into flight
Wait for men grown, thunder dyin'
Free toes roost on dancing wire
Puzzling out a selfish high
Commandment of meadow mouse
Kiss the ground, lift up the house
Wrapped in blankets of the mother's skin
Perpetuate a freedom
But there's nowhere to begin
Bind one sky, ground to soil
No one could care how your blood is boiling
Grab a rubber needle, try to stick someone
Needle is inverted to a rotten heart
Simple, plain and simple
Stars for eyes
He's eager and overripe
His tongue gets tied
Weakened by a mighty blow
Scars, four eyes
A limping "fell to stupid man"
With my head so low, the way I think could scrape the ground
I will give them all control, I will crumble all around
There's no need to say a word as logic burns right trough my head
I could almost laugh out loud, the way this silence leaves me dead
Feel afraid to speak, and I feel afraid to smile
As I crave sacred attention, you could hit me all the while
And you might be the weaker one, and I may stand and stare
Close my eyes
Feel the fire
Overwhelming fear and desire
(so hard for you to stem the tide)
Wavering heart, the flames growing higher
(grab your bottle get your coat and hide)
Lose what I have
To test new water
My mind is awash 'round the thoughts of her
(so hard for you to fill my eyes)
So much at stake, can't stay awake
(temptation for me and for you)
Drifting off
(out with the tide)
Dreams come so easily
Filled with wasted fantasy
We're together until the tide
(so hard for you to stem the tide)
Time enough to quell the day
(test the water, there's the place, fill your heart)
Tide's going out, here I am to stay
On my way to temporary dream
On my way to temporary dream
Temporary dream
On my way to temporary dream
On my way to temporary dream
I don't quite get it but I know you've got it
I don't care if nothing else goes my way all day
I'm taking your morning warmth with me out into the day
And I don't care if nothing else goes my way all day
I think I can stay here a while with you
You make me feel much better, scared indeed to be without
Storm renders compass useless
Unwanted to be here, I feel the end of something
Everything before us is hopeless
Everything before
I don't quite get it but I know you've got it
I don't care if nothing else goes my way all day
I'm taking your morning warmth with me out into the day
Where are all the good things, good things that I used to see?
I need a simple good thing, a good thing that will stay
Could I be a proud man, proud of what I have to show?
A satisfied and proud man, blessed without a guilty soul
I only speak excuses, bitterness is all I know
There are no excuses, bitterness must not take hold
Good Things (X4)
I didn't really want to hold your hand
I didn't wanna wait around to understand you
You were just a test who cut into my head
It's nothing real around I cried to you instead
I wanted you to think you'd stuck another boy
I fell in love as if I had no other choice
A little nothing-child who'd just misunderstood
Took a little friendship for something true and good
I'm into things I can't see I'm into things I can't see
Sun's rising up; it makes my head just spin
''cause Lord God only knows what state she's living in
Here's to you, baby, have a beautiful day
''cause the time is surely close when you'll be heading my way
I believe in fate
''cause fate believes in me
Some girl I don't know is waiting to marry me
And I've been stewin' in a place just short of hell
Is the woman soon to love me alive and well?
God sent me a dream and it's the woman of my heart
My future girl is walking healthy
Prime to play the part
I believe in fate
''cause fate believes in me
Some girl I don't know is waiting to marry me
Soon we'll be together and maybe even touch each other
Pretend that it's forever
And then proceed to crush each other
I believe in fate
''cause fate believes in me
Hoppin' up and down
Smilin' at the ground
I don't like no one 'round here
Everywhere wandering eyes
Stab me through paranoid sides
What are the odds; what are the rules?
Jumped around so quick
At a snicker, at a flinch
Back way against the ropes
In a stupid joke
Time for toast*
Time, too bold*
Time, too bold*
Sittin' around with my homemade bone
I'm naked and loose when no one's home
And I may let my fingers roam
Juicing free on my holy bone
Here I am, on my knees
Praying to the beast that stole the sex from me
I see something we should do
If you need one, then you need two
I won't hold back, so why should you?
I won't hold back, so why should you?
Here I am, on my knees
With nothing to blame but my curiosity
It got the best of me
There's still pictures in my mind
I've been addicted all this time
Taught me everything I know
Tell me, girl, did it leave me cold?
Here I am, on my knees
With nothing to blame but my curiosity
Now's the time to melt to walls
Needles and pins and a voodoo doll
With you I'll gladly overdose
One march to snow, the heavens know
Bring me through your please-me groove (?)
Lost, bitter, pain is flowing through
She's just a flower choked by weeds
I've got to try to cure my need
Obsessed with selection, I'm a boy with horns
An eyeful of reflection, I know no form
Change the infusion, do it alone
Land jeeps stammering, disrupt the flow
Close to death, foolish and trashed
Heart drawn in ashes; drink down another glass
I wish that I couldn't stand
We could put this cyclone in a trance
Believe you angelic one, my nerves are tried
I aim to conquer and divide
I see the holy picture to know
Maybe a werewolf chewin' on your bones
Wondering forever, uncertain of my health
Like me I saw you hiding, drowning in yourself
Scrambling my heart, trembling a laugh
(Instrumental)
I used to be an angry guy
But I've grown beyond that now
I'm gonna be somebody's baby tonight
As long as I'm singing and that big bell keeps on ringing
I'm sure my life outside is out of sight
No more homosexual hassles
Life among the grownups is in full swing
But I'm not a swinger forever
I fully desire what I already have
No more psychosexual battles
Life above the hung-up is my new thing
And I'm gonna keep it together
I'm a walking invitation
But no one invites me
I want to be excited
But no one will excite me
No one dare invite me ''cause I'm waiting for you
No one could excite me any more than you
Still inside, I'm a healthy blue
''cause I'm not complete with these thoughts of you
Nothing satisfies me when I'm thinking of you
No one could excite me any more than you
I have the truth, I held you
Loved you so sincere
Through all the shit-stained curtains
Our love was really quite clear
But all that you left me is the empty need
But I hurt you more evil before you hurt me
''cause nothing satifies me when I'm thinking of you
No one could excite me anymore than you
You are the inspiration, evil prince I fear
That's not the truth, rock-hard life lying right here
Of these times, it's where we make the most +
Boredom fabricated, words are flowing
Down each others' throats
And I'm so excited, happily divided
Smashing all my windows, rocks falling in the yard
Pretending that you're bigger than you really are
Pretending you're bigger than you really are
Happily divided
Yeah, you're big only when your numbers grow
All dressed up with nowhere to go
What was that you just said?
That didn't make any sense to me
It's not the way I see it, man
I'm almost tired of listening to you
Why do you tie me up with words?
The way your eye shifts makes me wanna go
Black-jawed living room, couch professor
When will you be through with me? I'd like to know
Everywhere I go, I feel it
But I won't talk, I won't get stuck with you
Everyone's so lonely, I dig it
But I'm afraid I can't share this with you
So don't make me your captive
I don't feel like talking your shit
I nod my broken head
If I'm right, sometimes I forget I might
Shallow as the brook out back
Bedtime stories that you can't take back
Figure how to be a friend to you
God knows I want to
There's a lot of girls in the world
That are nothing like you
There's no need to condescend
Not knowing, careful to pretend
Give away your fucked-up friends
Tired news and damaged trends
Figure how to be a friend to you
God knows I want to
There's a lot of girls in the world
That are nothing like you
If we play your games
Won't have time to play my games
Forget how to be myself
But now I've got it figured out
They're nothing like you
They're nothing like you
They're nothing like you
You can walk on fire
You can talk to the dead
You can wait 'til tomorrow
You can't lose
Ain't it nice to find some wasted time wasn't wasted blind?
You only need to believe it
Don't you worry, right away under
You possess the perfect power
All above, others under
Hopeless, selfish, stupid power
Superstar, super just like me
Beauty is just a state of mind
It don't matter how I waste my time
Truth's just changin' every day today
I think I like it that way
I think I like it this way
Almost weak enough to get me off
No one's strong enough to make me stop
Ankle-deep in your personal concerns
Love it or leave it, it's all the same
Find that perfect way to keep you happy
Change the past if you can find it
Get someone to help you out
Find that perfect way to keep you angry
The point that's pointed dull
The edge that doesn't cut anymore
Halfway up that wall
But there's another right around the corner
Drive a wedge, put your weight behind it
Get someone to help you out
Find that perfect way to keep you busy
The point that's pointed dull
The edge that doesn't cut anymore
Halfway up that wall
But there's another right around the corner
You've got anger in your eyes, I don't buy it
And if you're holdin' I'll shake you down
Share that perfect way to keep me happy
It's no drama or a hurting kind of love that never gives
I've got a sister with an open mind
And the sweetest urge
Whisper, fight it; a bed for me (?)
Warmth rising to share with me
Not damaged; a restless love or just wasting time?
The wait has been satisfied
I'm not jerkin' to lose my mind again
I'm not smart enough to fake it
No fool could fake a feeling this good
C'mon girl, let's walk through this perverted world
A few times; it's too insane
A "no-trust monster" stomping in my brain
Broken solid; solid shattered
Forgot it forever and ever and everâ¦
Slow down to a loving pace
To the place I'd rather be
Suddenly, it?s all the same
The pink moon is on its way
No use to stand so tall
The pink moon is gonna get you all
It?s a pink moon
Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink, pink
Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon
Suddenly, it?s all the same
The pink moon is on its way
No use to stand so tall
The pink moon is gonna get you all
It?s a pink moon, pink moon
Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink, pink
Drifting herrings in your bed
Here comes a nowhere man on quick southern feet
You're on the quickest ways to lonely
And you cry too much to sleep
Guns aren't hard to get
And he's in love with you
Love's a funny feeling
And triggers can change the truth
Under her eyes
She's got circles
Under her eyes
She's got circles
Under her eyes
She's got circles
So you think you're in the middle of the ocean
Stranded on an island of your own
Or stuck in the top of a mountain
Either way you're gonna say you're all alone
And I hesitate to say that you're a liar
I never tell the truth myself
But I tried to chase you down and I got tired
So I'm leaving you to you or someone else
''cause you never wanna hook up in the middle
And I'd meet you there to talk if you would show
But you answer every question with a riddle
And refuse to even choose to let me go
It used to be I'd tell you all my secrets
Giving you the credit you deserve
I guess you didn't care to lose or keep it
And we never quite connected from the first
And I wish I had a way to make it better
To rearrange the world and make you smile
But it's dumb to even think I had that power
And we haven't been that close in a while
And I don't even wanna try to name it
Explain it for the one who couldn't care
''cause all that matters is the way you choose to frame it
And I hesitate to say that you're a liar
I never tell the truth myself
But I tried to chase you down and I got tired
So I'm leaving you to you or someone else
''cause you never wanna hook up in the middle
And I'd meet you there to talk if you would show
But you answer every question with a riddle
My opinion could change today, but I'm responsible anyway
For second or third hand information
That complicates the complication
And I don't think before I speak
And I don't know how far my words reach
So wrong nearly every time, that I'm sorry I speak my mind
If what I said was unkind
Now it feels like I'm on fire
It's burning the world through
But don't hold it against me, ''cause I know you're lying, too
Is there any need for apology? There's no reason to believe me
Judgments born in my jealous mind, creeping inside outside
Connections I've made never follow through
And sooner or later disappoint you
Or cross you twice when your back is turned, that's how I've learned
That someone has got to be burned
Now it feels like I'm on fire, these words are not the truth
But don't hold it against me, ''cause I know you're lying, too
Feels like I'm on fire, it's burning the world through
Don't let me fall without someone to hold on to
Here's an open-ended threat, subject to interpretation
But I don't wanna fight just yet, I wanted to see what would happen
And maybe I don't know my place, still thinking like a child
Only trying to shake this shadow, squinting through a broken window
Know who deserves it, who got there first
Who lied about it and made things worse
See, it don't matter I've only begun to confuse you
It's what I do
Here's an open-ended threat to tip the balance we've been riding
With all this talk of honesty, I look and see who's really hiding
Know who deserves it, who got there first
Who lied about it and made things worse
See, it don't matter I've only begun to confuse you
It's what I do
You deserve it, you got there first
I didn't make it and that's still hurts
I could be floating or ready to explode
There's a lie we've been living through
Think you're all alone, it's not quite true
No one cares, ''cause no one should
Everything you see was meant to be misunderstood
Safe & sound, so safe & sound
Move your body back and forth and round & round
And all my friends are killing me, all my friends are killing me
I feel disconnected like I don't know where I am
Things will be OK they say, but they don't understand
The wait of every word that must mean everything
Don't mean anything, put me down again
I think and think 'til I feel fried and hope it goes away
They don't listen unless it's special secrets first to say
No one knows, no one cares and no one knows the way
Unless of course you fall in love and everything is gray
Everything is gray
I want something, something very true
Something worth my while, something special to do
Every word, people push for love
People push and shove, people far above
You are my dream love
Earnest little lover, little mystery man
Nothing thrills you like denial
There's nothing wrong with the need to please
And children know no shame
Baby on your bended knees and she'd love to play your game
She's a curious girl easily swayed by your force of will
Empty to be filled with the hunger for more
What if time denies you, the key to your fulfillment fails?
Around the world again on a boat that sinks as it sails
Stand shoulders above her
Pick her up when you love her
Rub it right when you use her
Need it so bad you abuse her
But don't leave her alone ''cause soon she'll be tasting
The sweet unknown
If it feeds her candy she'll follow it home
Make your claim, she's legally yours
When she shares your name
But don't lose control ''cause you'll scare her away
Hey, I'm startin' to feel OK
I think I could make it through
I'm feelin' much smarter today
I think I'll be friends with you
Friend, I'm sorry if I don't talk
It seemed like there's nothing to say
Is it enough just to share some time
Before it all falls away?
I'm no one to stand and fall
Not satisfied with your respect
I'm digging you under today
And I'm laughing at your pact
Just scream if I cut too close
I'm not a good friend, I'm not a friend at all
It's never resolved, I'm nervous when you call
My words are limp, and my mind is dry
I try to be polite, but I feel like I'm stuck for life
I follow my heart, it leads me far from you
No matter how close we are, I'm far, far away
I have too much now to fill my day today
I'm not a good friend, I'm not a friend at all
I don't need obligations to our crippled conversations
I'd never tell you, it's something you should know
I'm not a friend at all, oh, please let me go
Somehow I don't trust you
I don't trust myself
And I may never forgive you
''cause I can't forgive myself
Somehow I don't trust you
I don't trust myself
And I may never forgive you
''cause I can't forgive myself
Don't break my stride
Don't break my stride
Don't break my stride
Lookin' at a new routine is the way to be
Ain't no way out and the wheels are lazy
Give a livin' when you're that again
Hoard in sunshine, medicine
Fell apart as humans will, they walked away from everything
Carry a lantern, ''cause I may live away
Where I can relax when I leave this place
Defined by age, I'm a monkey in rage
Store it in rhythm ''cause they cover more space (?)
The Garden of Eden is a garbage dump
Wild with daisies, I'm a hardcore punk
There is no soul; it's an everlasting tease
In scared control; patterned easy, pleasing
Why try to understand? It's never meant to be understood
Logic is the bottomless pit
A no-cure find; questions behind
Take what you can
Cut out the heart
Who could ever blame you, man?
Nothing's fair, we're all doomed from the start
No different for us
No different for us
We're just like the others, no different for us
Can't stop the change; the change can't stop
Though we leave our souls for a hopeful trust
It's different for us
It's different for us
We will survive the change
It's different for us
It's not cool to fall in love
Scared and desperate in this life
Safer, cool to judge outside
Oh, to be complaining cool
Never cool, though too excitable
All that we will ever be
They don't have to feel the pain we feel
Pass their judgment, be sure, decide what's real
I guess when you met me
It was okay
?Cause you made an exception
For a thousand ways
I?m sorry baby
Yes, I was unkind
I'm really forgetting
You?re a friend of mine
Destroying us
In destroyer world
We don?t need to know
What you?re worth
Compare yourself
To nothing and no one
You know it because
You started out
I guess when you met me
It was okay
?Cause you made an exception
For a thousand ways
I?m sorry baby
Yes, I was unkind
I'm really forgetting
You?re a friend of mine
Destroying us
In destroyer world
We don?t need to know
What you?re worth
Compare yourself
To nothing and no one
You know it because
You started out
You started out
It was the nick of time
Girl, you got it all right
It was the nick of time
Girl, you got it all right
It was the nick of time
Rest now Mr. Genius Eyes, your work has all been done
Speak in special riddles, standing pointing at the sun behind you
There is no way around you
(I wish I never found you)
A bitter gifted girl, look at what she's done
Making fun of boys on the other side of the sun
I'm here to be used
Try to be confused with someone
It's no one; the special boy is only no one
I should be free to be what I am
As you should have what you need
But if you see what you need in me
Then you can't have what you need
It's not fair to expect that from me
''cause that's not what I am
You think I reject you, but I never wanted to hurt you
Now you want to hurt me ''cause I won't set you free
That's what you see, but that's not what I am
They're quite more simple than you
They don't see half that you do
You're walkin' on clouds way up high
Life has been cuddled in your mind
They're guessing suspicious, not true
But we're not to care like you do
You skip leaves over bows
God makes you sound like you do
They're quite more simple than you
They're quite more simple than you
You were right
I was battling you, trying to prove myself
I tried to bury you with guilt; I wanted to prove you wrong
I've got nothing better to do than pay too much attention to you
It's sad, but it's not your fault
Self-righteous and rude
I guess I lost that cool
Tapping 'til I drive you insane
I'm self-righteous, but never right
So laid back, but so uptight
Destroying your patience to tolerate me
With all the negative spirit I bring
Right, I was obsessed to bring you down
Watching your every move
Playing a little-boy game
Always with something to prove
Waiting to cut you down, making it hard to live
With only one thing to do
Cut me first, make it easy
Now you will be free
Now that nothing depends on me
Tapping 'til I drive you insane
Now you will be free
With no sick people tugging on your sleeve
Your big head has that "more room to grow"
A glory I will never know
Could I hold on, or should I hold on to you?
Ask, I'll tell the truth; there's nothing I should hide
And if I move to slow, if you're bored I need to know
I'm weak to hide inside, to force what I don't feel
If all we have is a question, there's no hope to find a future
But something in me cries for you
It feels too real this time
I think I love you, though I don't know what love means
Girl of my dreams, or a friend that one day leaves
Could I trust this when I've lied to myself before?
Will I do it all again to taste what I've imagined we could be?
Look what I've become; this pressure that we feel
In a world of possibilities, this may not prove real
But could we give enough, backed against a wall?
Too close to breathe, but too far to fall
All I ever wanted was to feel you closer to me
And it's sad to feel this resistance
What once before had felt so free
Let tomorrow bee
I can't be so impatient
Pushing every answer, when there isn't any question
Let me feel good now
And though this may have to end, I hope I'm always with you
Honestly your friend
Eyes never close; little head never stops
Naked little no-man with a whisper in his walk and hand
Wait, I'm afraid to ask your name
I'd kill myself just to prove it to you
A narrow little girl who looks a lot like you at the scene
I'm afraid to break this shadow
Pretty girl, you crack the gate that leads to hell
Zone doubt, born to be alone
Save the sermonette, there?s no one home
I ascend to make amends I think I know
I was beggin? the police to let you go
But I can?t stop the clock
Passed out to take in, let the unconcern begin
Tell your suspicious dreams to the wrong guy
Volunteer your beer to the blue sky
Out of my mind, half of the time confused
All my patience are abused and everybody knows
They found you on the floor in an ashtray by the door
At your hotel, an infidel with ESP, a blind man
Out of my mind, half of the time abused
All the patience are amused
I?ll have to think about it
It?s what she said to me
I?ll have to think about it
All the time in the world to be
When I sleep I dream about it
I chew it when I eat
After something I can?t explain
The court?s adjourned in the big debate
The way you are
That?s the worst thing you could do
Don?t you know that?s the worst thing?
Fantasy land, come dig my art
I?m just rehearsing
I?ll have to think about it
It?s what she said to me
When you leave behind all the guts it takes
Who will you be?
The way you are
That?s the worst thing you could do
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed the sea
[Incomprehensible]
In the land of submarines
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, a yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, a yellow submarine
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed the sea
[Incomprehensible]
In the land of submarines
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, a yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, a yellow submarine
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed the sea
[Incomprehensible]
In the yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, a yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Your time is up little manâ¦
There's a man running up your streets
From his belt hangs dead parakeets
He holds that big old club real tight
He holds a wrench and a very sharp knife
Your time is up little man
Down, down, down with the club
Drown, drown, drown in your blood
Can't take a piss he's here
Can't watch TV he's here
He'll fucking bash your precious little head, Little Man
He's beating you with his club
My girl's tired, she's shaking at me
Just watch kid cry, jumping beans
Little kiss, broken teeth
And I feel that I should pull
Painted grass, unseen waste
Every day I've seen she's poutin' on the face
She can try on my mind but I gotta kick ya out
You could but she cried and you can't go back
Feel like a pawn when we screw
So if ya wanna split, it's up to you
Peas, porridge hot
Peas, porridge cold
Peas, porridge in the pot nine days old
Peas, porridge in the pot nine days old
Girl's tired
Loose 'n' screw
Look, baby, I'm not a mind reader
You're gonna have to tell me so
You're lookin' down at your shoes again
Take us down off of a cloud
I'm ridin' high in the sky
You'd have to tell me so
Look, baby, I ain't extrasensory
You can't reach me with your new telepathy
It's raining down all your blues again
Take us down off of a cloud
I'm ridin' high in the sky
You'd have to tell me so
I'm not a mind reader
I'm not a mind reader
I'm not a mind reader
A troubled baby's raised on moldy bread
Abusing mind-fuck drugs softening my head
Out of control, energy on the ground
Christ slips on ice, all falls crowned
Digging ourselves deeper into holes
Becoming blind to our dirty souls
Alive with the magic I know it's a crime
Stirring in the ocean of my mind
Below the surface a presence remains
Subjective indecision, signs I'm deranged
Psychokinesis, through all it isn't mine
Designed to a degree, I welcome the life
Be aware I'm a weary wreck, so wrap your hands around my neck
Half-crazed elf friend given an escape
The band's so misgiving, I call it a mistake
Dreaming of a goddess I admire and trust
Deal with my neuroses and satisfy my lust
Dreaming of a goddess I admire and trust
Deal with my neuroses and satisfy my lust
Alive with the magic I know it's a crime
Stirring in the ocean of my mind
Psychokinesis through all it isn't mine
Leaving is a test that I've never had to take
When your mind dissolves, you don't know me anymore
Try to make you see what you meant to me before
When you told me off, the other door
The house won't be close without you to see
Leaving is a test that I've never had to take
(repeat verse)
Made real the time, it's a wonder at all
Creature's ears up to the wall
Fold it over, try to get it inside
I like to shake for awhile
Watch as it flails like a Burning Man
Try to catch me if you can
Catch me if you can
Got some, a vicious sight
I hate the day & I love the night
Got some and my woman is tight
I've gotta find a way to loosen up
I'm wound tighter than a magnet's coil
The longer I try to keep my mouth shut
The sooner little brain is gonna boil
And if you turn back just to fuck me up
I'll cut you loose and watch you fall
It feels good just to bitch about it
Scratch that itch until it bleeds
But I don't really wanna lose you
But I can't play the silent game
''cause when I talk the silence follows
You never say what's on your mind
If you laugh to see me so defensive
I'll know I've made another enemy
Nobody wants another mirror on their fears
I guess that's all you are to me
But I don't really wanna lose this
Does it all depend on me?
It's always personal between us
You won't say what's on your mind
What's on your mind
Please give me back my life if you plan to let this die
I said I don't mind when I do
''cause I'd do anything for you
I'd watch us waste away if you smile
And if we lose it all in style
We had style
But I'm not happy where we are
Let me blame it on the stars, the words, the room
Love is stronger than the truth
Another year in paradise, but something's wrong
Do your best to play along
''cause I won't make you tell me why
''cause I don't take my own advice
If I'm here to save your life, let me try
Love is stronger than the truth
I have everything to lose if you leave me
And truth won't ever set us free
Oh, we're magic spiked with lies
We may never realize what we've been through
''cause love is stronger than the truth
I love sleeping, I love eating
When it's boring, I love to fight
Anger, confusion, illusion, bullshit
Charmed the woman, drank the whisky
Just made history
Bullshit