B i o g r a p h y (by Jason Ankeny)
An under-recognized pioneer of the lo-fi revolution, Smog was essentially the alias of one Bill Callahan, an enigmatic singer/songwriter whose odd, fractured music neatly epitomized the tenets and excesses of the home-recording boom. Melancholy, poignant, and self-obsessed, Callahan's four-track output offered a peepshow view into an insular world of alienation and inner turmoil, his painfully intimate songs ping-ponging wildly through a scrapbook of childhood recollections, failed relationships, bizarre fetishes, and dashed hopes. Smog debuted in 1988 with the spare, primitive Macrame Gunplay, a cassette-only release issued on Callahan's own Disaster label. Cow followed in 1989, while three more tapes — A Table Setting, Tired Tape Machine, and Sewn to the Sky — were issued a year later. With 1991's Floating EP, Smog signed to the Chicago-based indie label Drag City, and with the move began an advancement toward more traditional songcraft. The subsequent full-length, Forgotten Foundation, was his most well-rounded effort yet, employing a stronger sense of melody while remaining true to the trademark bare-bones atmosphere. Released in 1993, the superb Julius Caesar raised the stakes considerably. Recorded with collaborators Cynthia Dall and Jim O'Rourke, the album expanded the Smog palette to include touches of cello, violin, and even banjo. At the same time, Callahan's songs were his best yet; highlighted by the touching "Chosen One" and the menacing "Your Wedding," Julius Caesar also featured "I Am Star Wars!," a hilarious rant built around a tape loop of the intro to the Stones' "Honky Tonk Women." The six-track Burning Kingdom EP appeared the following year. Issued in 1995, Wild Love continued Smog's approach toward relative sonic grandeur. Led off by the remarkable "Bathysphere" (its title a fitting metaphor for Callahan's self-absorption) and climaxed by the epic "Prince Alone in the Studio" (a virtual theme song for a solitary creative existence), the LP reflected his bitter obsessions with stunning clarity, emerging as a triumph of abject failure. After 1996's Kicking a Couple Around EP, Smog resurfaced later in the year with The Doctor Came at Dawn; Red Apple Falls followed in 1997. The peripatetic Callahan relocated to Chicago prior to the release of 1999's Knock Knock, resurfacing in the spring of 2000 with Dongs of Sevotion and the Strayed EP. 'Neath the Puke Tree followed that fall, an EP that reinvented several tracks and included a few new ones. By the next year, Callahan changed his project's name to the more intimate (Smog), drawing attention away from the "idea" of Smog and putting more emphasis on the music. The next album, Rain on Lens, followed on this path by unveiling several more reflective and sensitive tracks. A year later, the Accumulation: None singles collection arrived with five new songs and the continued use of parentheses. Classically voluble, Callahan returned with Supper in 2003. The literary, laid-back A River Ain't Too Much to Love — which reflected Callahan's move to Austin, Texas and featured performances by Drag City labelmate Joanna Newsom — arrived in 2005.
Souped Up II (Instrumental) Kings Tongue Garb (Instrumental) Hollow out Cakes (Instrumental) Confederate Bills and Pinball Slugs Coconut Cataract (Instrumental) Fruite Bats Peach Pit Disgust (Instrumental) Russian Winter (Instrumental) Polio Shimmy (Instrumental) Smog (Instrumental) Lost My Key Fried Piper (Instrumental) Fables Puritan Work Ethic A Jar of Sand I Want to Tell You About a Man Olive Drab Spectre (Instrumental) The Weightlifter
Wild love - 1995-03-27 -
Bathysphere Wild love Sweet smog children Bathroom floor The emperer (Instrumental) Limited capacity It's rough Sleepy Joe The candle Be hit Prince alone in the studio Goldfish bowl
The Doctor came at dawn - 1996-09-10 -
You moved in Somewhere in the night Lize Spread your bloody wings Everything you touch becomes a crutch Carmelite light (Instrumental) All your women things Whistling teapot (Rag) Four hearts in a can Hangman blues
Rain On Lens 1 Song Natural Decline Keep Some Steady Friends Around Dirty Pants Lazy Rain Short Drive Live As If Someone is Always Watching You Rain On Lens 2 Revanchism
Feather By Feather Butterflies Drowned In Wine Morality Ambition Vessel In Vain Truth Serum Our Anniversary Driving A Guiding Light
Back in school Drunk on the Stars I break horses My family My shell (electric version) Not lonely anymore Renee died 1:45 The Desert The orange glow of a stranger's living room Wine stained lips Your new friend
Sewn to the sky
Kings Tongue Pawn broker got all my clothes on And he's looking pretty mean I bought a kings tongue with the money Preserved in fire water And I'm feeling pretty mean Oh I want to dance With you buckles between my teeth Oh I wanna pull flying birds eggs out of your nest I'll steal your stars Spit comes in turbulent wakes on planet mars (pretty mean) Palm ?Brokers? looking Palm ?Brokers? looking Pretty mean Your past out past by the fire (?black coal?) Doused in fire water Surprised you're not a mother The shape that in you're in Yeah I'm feeling, feeling pretty mean
*** Thanx a lot to Dan who corrected some mistakes ***
Confederate Bills and Pinball SLUGS Saving all your money for fame Giving everything, giving everything You hate ones face And hope that others will love the other So many shadows under my eyes Hiding me in the shadows You hate ones face And hope that others will love the other Saving all your money for fame Giving away everything You buy fame with Confederate bills and pinball slugs You hate ones face And that hope others will love the other
Fruite Bats A symphony of fruite bats Wrapping on my window pane I ask them so gently To go away Please go away A symphony of fruite bats Wrapping on my window pane You know your What you're doing to the eye Do you have a purpose? Tapping on my window pane A symphony of fruite bats Go away Please go away
Peach Pit Went down to Georgia When a wild dog got bit Went looking for a girl With a peach pit With strands all hanging down Between her teeth And that was the juiciest peach I ever saw Went Down to Georgia When the wild dog got bit Went looking for a girl (for a girl) With a peach pit With strands all hanging down Between her teeth And that was the juiciest peach I ever saw
A jar of sand I heard the treasure lay beneath the sounds of your (little lake?) (brittle bay?) When I left the shore that day it looked like the moon And the deck on the seas on the storming seas I can see the southern cross, the southern cross Tide pools big enough Tide pools just deep enough to drown in Lots of drowning girls little hands dived for pearls To wear in your wedding ring I know, I know what's buried under the sands Of your (little lake) Tide pools big enough to drown in Tide pools just deep enough to drown in I gave you a jar of sand from the coast I gave you a jar of sand from the coast I gave you a jar of sand from the coast
*** Thanx a lot to Gregory for this one ***
I Want to Tell You about a Man I want to tell you about a man You won't find him on your MTV He doesn't drop acid He doesn't even read Dick K. Phillips He's not a seminal member of New York's new wave scene He doesn't publish a phantazine His name is Jesus Christ His name is Jesus Christ Don't make me say it twice His name is Jesus Christ
The Weightlifter The weightlifter wears t-shirts in wintertime The weightlifter wears no shirt in summertime The weightlifter prays and prays for summertime The weightlifter has a playboy air freshener Dangling from his rearview mirror But something on his mind His car is red he's saving for a water bed Oh what a love nest that'll be The weightlifter wears t-shirts in wintertime
Julius Caesar
Strawberry Rash Meet strawberry rash One on each cheek Coins in the crack Meet strawberry rash It's the banquet of a starving girl (x2) She's gonna swallow glass Meet strawberry rash Red eggs and brown apples She's gonna swallow glass Meet strawberry rash Coins in (poison?) the crack It's the banquet of the starving girl (x2) She's gonna swallow glass meet strawberry rash Coins in the crack And beggin' her to piss
Your Wedding I remember Entering you Entering you I'm gonna be drunk, so drunk at your wedding (x4)
37 Push-ups 47 push ups In a winter-rate Sea side motel I feel like Travis Bickle I'm listening to Highway to Hell It's a shitty little tape I taped off the radio 39 push ups In a winter-rate Sea side motel 32 push ups In a winter-rate Sea side motel Not looking too good Not feeling so well 37 push ups In a winter-rate seaside motel I'm going up again (x2) Goin' up to go down again
Stalled on the Tracks Stalled on the tracks (x2) No turnin' back I'm stalled on the tracks A turtle on its back I think I hear that train a-comin'
One Less Star So there's one less star in the sky Well, who cares
Golden Girl, what you give me is pure gold (x2) Girl, what you give me Makes me feel like I'm four years old It's out of control (x2) What you give me Oh, it's pure gold It's out of control
When You Walk When you walk It's a parade With bears dancin' fish swimmin' Monkeys laughin' hard When you walk It's a parade With bears dancing, fish swimmin' Monkeys all around When you walk It's a parade And I'm walkin' too (x2) When you walk, it's a parade (x2) And I'm walkin' too
I am Star Wars! I am Star Wars today I am no longer English grey
Connections I hate men with connections I hate your connections I said, I don't like your connections I don't like your connections I hate men with connections I said, I don't like your connections I hate men with connections (I whoo-bop) I don't like your connections (I can't stop)
When the Power Goes Out
When the power goes out In the grocery store You just take, take, take Just take, take, take When the power goes out In the grocery store You just take, take, take Just take, take, take See a mother with a cart full of pampers Out the door and back for more See the minor with six cases of beer only the finest, spare no expense here When the power goes out in the grocery store You just take, take, take You just take, take, take
*** Thanx a lot to Ed for this one ***
Stick in the Mud
There's nothin' I'd rather see Than for you to fail There's nothin' I'd rather see Than for you to fail And where is the beauty That I once had? Where is the beauty That I had once? I feel like I'm becoming a stick in the mud I feel like I'm becoming a Lou Reed - Mistrial stick in the mud There's nothin' I'd rather see Than for you to fail And where is the beauty That I once had? Where is the beauty I had just once? I hate songs with questions in them I feel like I'm becoming a stick in the mud I feel like I'm becoming a Lou Reed - Mistrial in the mud
Wild love
Bathysphere
When I was seven I asked my mother To trip me to the bay And put me on a ship And lower me down Lower me out of here Because when I was seven I wanted to live in a bathysphere Between coral Silent eel Silver swordfish I can't really feel or dream down here And if the water should cut my line (*2) Set me free And if the water should cut my line Set me free, I don't mind I'll be the lost sailor, my home is the sea When I was seven My father said to me 'But you can't swim' And I've never dreamed of the sea again
Wild Love Wild love Wild love Somebody chopped down my wild love Wild love Wild love Somebody shot down my wild love
Sweet Smog Children Well come on Sweet smog children, come on Sweet smog children, come on But I can't really talk to you I can only sing Sweet smog children, I can only sing for you And I don't want to hear from you Sweet smog children It feels like I want to hear from you But I don't really want to hear from you Sweet smog children I just want to touch you Sweet smog children Like the invisible man Sweet smog children, come on To be untouchable, come on As only a child can, come on Sweet smog children
Bathroom floor Bloody rag and a broken string of pearls On your bathroom floor When I overheard your mother say "Maybe she's just a late bloomer" But what she didn't know was Oh, what she didn't know was You'd already bloomed and died Bloomed and died Bloomed and died Bloomed and died
Limited Capacity I painted myself into a corner again Because I didn't like the colour of my floors After you walked all over them You're full of white lies Oh, you're full of white lies But I've got a limited capacity Yeah I've got a limited capacity And I'll paint my floors again I'm sure I'll paint my floors again
It's Rough When you're down on your luck Aand you just can't cope When the times are bleak And the friends are few Don't turn to me 'Cause I'm no hope Don't turn to me 'Cause I don't know what to do Maybe you should have a drink I don't know why you ever stopped anyway Oh, it's rough Baby, to live Oh, it's hard Baby, to survive Everyday lately My mind feels like glass Ready to be smashed Ready to be smashed Oh well, my best friend Took a bullet through his eye First he had a patch Now he's got a glass eye One hard, glass eye He says sometimes he wishes Both his eyes were glass Well, it's rough Baby, to live And it's hard Baby, to survive Everyday lately My mind feels like glass Ready to be smashed I'm ready to be smashed At times I lock myself up In my room Don't come over While I listen to a record I stare at the cover Don't come over Don't come over 'Cause I'm no hope to you I'm no hope to you
Sleepy Joe I slept through most of April I got up in May and had some toast Then I bedded down again I bedded down again Because I was sleepy In June I made enough chili in my crockpot To last `till the winter 'Cause winter will be here sooner than you think Winter will be here sooner than you think That's when I hibernate Oh, can you hear the bells Can you hear the bells Well neither can I Neither can I And I don't hear trumpets When I enter a room The fire you build for yourself Could be so cold Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe You say you feel like you're dead Oh well, I think it's just those books you read You say you can't feel a thing I'd like to break a chair across your back And throw you in the ocean Then tell me you don't feel a thing When you slept with Jenny You said you couldn't feel a thing Well I did Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe Nature abhors a vacuum Nature abhors a vacuum And so do you Especially when you're trying to sleep late Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe
The Candle I was on her body He was on her mind I progressed her He possessed her I was there every day He was there one day And then went away Well, I'm gathering these splinters to make a raft someday She gives me so little I'm gathering these splinters to make a raft someday and sail away But the candle, she still burns a candle "A light", she says, "I need a light" And it's the only light in our room tonight And she fills her face With bananas and plumbs Yoghurt and crumbs And sexual (drums her fingers, comes, numbs?) And the vibrated ..?.. And my dumb smile
Be Hit Every girl I've ever loved Has wanted to be hit Every girl I've ever loved Wanted to be hit Every girl I've ever loved Has wanted to be hit Every girl I've ever loved Left me, 'cause I wouldn't do it. Got some advice for you friend Ba-ba-bruise 'em, you'll never lose 'em Ba-ba-bruise 'em, you'll never lose 'em Alright now Seems my sensitive touch Can be given by, any old shmuck Alright now (repeat chorus)
Prince Alone in the Studio Prince alone in the studio It's two a.m. and all the girls are gone The girls thought they were going to be able To have sex with him They wore their special underwear Once the tracks were laid down Prince's back turned around Raspberry headphones on his head On his ears Prince alone in the studio It's three a.m. Prince hasn't eaten in eighteen hours Dinner's burned on the stove But Prince, he doesn't even know Prince alone in the studio It's four a.m. And he finally gets that guitar track right And it's better than anything any girl could ever give him Because Prince is alone Prince is alone Oh Prince, you are so alone And when it's all complete He feels like a hunter on the street And when it's all complete He feels like a hunter on the street
Goldfish Bowl With all your health tips and your guilt trips I can't even walk You're watching me like a hawk With all your guilt trips and your health tips I can't eat at all You're watching me like a hawk You know this appartment is so small Oh, how can I expect a wild love to grow Oh, how can I expect a wild love to grow It's like a fish in a goldfish bowl It's like a fish in a goldfish bowl It's like a fish in a goldfish bowl
The doctor came at dawn
You moved in to my hotel You could have done better But Oh Well
Red Apple Falls
The Morning Paper The morning paper is on it's way And it's all bad news on every page So i roll right over And go to sleep The evening sun will be so sweet I roll right over And i have this thing Red apple falls
Blood Red Bird I was not woken by the rooster Nor by the crow's tough song But the midnight cry of a blood red bird Brought this sleeplessness on Threw open the window Moonlight on a black garden of thorns And the cool wind on my sweat What cries home Where cries from A blood red bird lies in the woods Weeping into dead leaves With wing torn and jutting bone What hand bent it to bust To be ueseless What hand I could have done it With two fingers A blood red bird A blood red bird We can continually sink into each other Just deep enough to rip out a bit more flesh When we move away A scarf of skin trailing out behind Like an arrow I was only passing through A blood red bird A blood red bird
Red Apples I went down to the river To meet the widow She gave me an apple It was red I slept in her black arms For a century She wanted nothing in return I gave her nothing in return I gave her nothing in return The ghost of her husband Beautiful as a horse Pulled up an apple cart Full of millions of red apples For us
I Was a Stranger I was a stranger When i came to town Just yesterday I was a stranger They dont come much stranger So why Why did you believe All every word I said Why did you believe Believe a stranger A stranger And why do you women in this town Let me look at you so bold When you have seen what i was In the last town In the last town You should have seen what i was If i was a stranger I was worse than a stranger I was well-known
To Be of Use Most of my fantasies are of Making someone else come Most of my fantasies are of To be of use To be of some hard Simple Undeniable use Like a spindle Like a candle Like a horseshow Like a corkscrew To be of use To be of use Most of my fantasies are of Making someone else come On a horse Over palms laid On the threshold On the coming day Coming day Coming day come
Red Apple Falls The widow says It's hard to live With a man A man like me The widow says It's hard to live On the lonely version of love i give And i've seen the way her eyes light up When she looks at the man in a family way He's made of iron and he knows the way And when i think about my brother dying And my parents trying To slowly do themselves in Inch by inch, day by day And the telephone's ring Is like a banshee wail The widow says i broke her first Of course i say, just the reverse And we cant get past this Something she did On the 14th of June Because of something i said On the 13th of June And we can't get past this And if we could lock our lips And block our noses And swim beneath the barriers And come up clean On the other side But we can't get past this
Ex-Con Whenever i get dressed up I feel like an ex-con Trying to make good Jean jacket and tie Feel like such a lie When i go to your house I feel like i'm Casing the joint In the grocery store In line behind a mother and a child I'm going to take take that child I'm going to take take that child I'm going to take take that child See because alone in my room I feel like such a part of the community But out on the streets I feel like a robot by the river Alone in my room I feel such a warmth for the community But out on the streets I feel like a robot by the river Looking for a drink
Inspirational If you're living the unliveable By loving the unloveable It's time to start changing the unchangeable Be leaving the unleaveable Come on If you're living the unliveable By loving the unloveable It's time to start breaking The unbreakable And replacing the irreplaceable
Finer Days Granted passage Into the finer days How i got here I do not know And if it were all to disappear I would not know how to return And all of my old friends Wat me to stay down down down With them I could extend them a hand But they would only pull it off In their grasp, in their power So i find myself Isolated Isolated in these fine, fine days
Knock Knock
Held
For the first time in my life I let myself be held Like a big old baby I surrender To your charity I lay back in the tall grass And let the ants cover me I let the jets fly I'm wishing for their destruction Born to black in a perfect blue sky For the first time in my life I am moving away, moving away, moving away From within the reach of me And all the wild being held Like a big old baby Waouh!
River guard
When I take the prisoners swimming They have the time of their lives I love to watch them floating On their backs Unburdened and relaxed I sit in the tall grass and look the other way And when I haul them in they always say Our sencences will not served We are constantly on trial It's a way to be free Most nights I go for a drive To the highest place I can find Stand there on a cliff with gooseflesh Watching the wind rip the leaves from the trees Death defying Every breath Death defying Soon we will all be back in the yard Behind the wall Living hard Dreaming of cool rivers and tall grass We are constantly on trial It's a way to be free We are constantly on trial It's a way to be free
*** Thanx a lot to Kellie for this one ***
No dancing
There's always some bird-dog Snuffling, choking Looking like you came to collect Something you said you owed There's always some turtle snapping in my head Saying you can't just waltz in here Acting like nothing is wrong No dancing, no dancing, no dancing Not while the road is racing No dancing, no dancing, no dancing Not while the time is chasing There's a poacher on the land I recognize his hand In the mail He's fogging up the glass The bird is on the last And here he comes Here he comes, oh No dancing, no dancing, no dancing Not while the wires are showing No dancing, no dancing, no dancing Not while the time is flowing There's a poacher on the land I recognize his hand In the mail He's fogging up the glass The bird is on the last And here he comes Here he comes, oh No dancing, no dancing, no dancing Not while the time is flowing No dancing, no dancing, no dancing Not while your wires are showing
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one ***
Teenage spaceship
Flying around The houses at night Flying alone A teenage spaceship I was a teenage spaceship Landing at night I was beautiful with all my lights Loomed so large on the horizon So large, people thought my windows Were stars So large on the horizon People thought my windows Were stars A teenage spaceship A teenage spaceship And I swore I'd never lay like a log Bark like a dog I was a teenage smog Sewn to the sky
Cold blooded old times
Cold-blooded old times The type of memories that turns your bones to glass Turns your bones to glass Mother came rushing in she said we didn't see a thing We said we didn't see a thing And father left at eight Nearly splintering the gate Cold-blooded old times The type of memory That turns your bones to glass Turns your bones to glass And though you where Just a little squirrel You understood every word And in this way they gave you clarity A cold-blooded clarity Cold-blooded old times Now how can I stand and laugh with the man Who redefined your body Those cold-blooded old times...
*** Thanx a lot to Daniele who corrected a mistake ***
Sweet treat
If there where something so Hard and clear It would have been Bought and sold long ago So take your sweet treat In the evening Take your sweet treat In the evening Please to know this Please to know this If someone offers you Some sugar You should eat it
*** Thanx a lot to Elisabet for this one ***
Hit the ground running
I had to leave the country Though there was some nice folks there Now I don't know where I'm going All I know is I'll hit the ground running Only cowboys The Southern gentlemen Betting women That will Never mend They ride the roads as they bend As they bend to there dead ends I had to leave the country Though there was some nice folks there And now I don't know where I'm going All i know is that I'll hit the ground running I was raised in a pit of snakes Blink your eyes I was raised on cakes I couldn't memorize a century of slang Or learn to tell the same story again again and again I had to leave the country Though there was some nice folks there Now I don't know where I'm going All I know is I'll hit the ground running Bitterness is a lowest sin A bitter man rots from within I've seen his smile Yellow and brown The bitterness is rotting down I had to leave the country Though there was some nice folks there Now I don't know where I'm going All I know to do is hit the ground running Hit the ground running
I could drive forever
Left only with love
Dongs of sevotion
Justice Aversion It happens on a side street maybe It happens on a main street maybe Lion bites zebra neck Zebra stomps lion head It's just this justice Aversion For the improper way Things are done today I route for the underdog No matter who they are Like the bankrobber In the getaway car It's just this justice Aversion For the improper way Things are done today We could stay up all night talking About my animal nature And the unverse's hesitance To grant us grace It could happen on a side street maybe It could happen on a main street maybe It's just this justice Aversion I route for the underdog No matter who they are Like the bankrobber In the getaway car
Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife For the first time in your life Wear your blouse undone to hear And your skirt split up to here Oh Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife For the first time in your life Oh Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife Wink at the minister Blow kisses to my grieving brothers Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife And when it comes your turn to speak before the crowd Tell them about the time we did it On the beach with fireworks above us On the railroad tracks with the gravel in your back In the back room of a crowded bar And in the graveyard where my body now rests Oh Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife For the first time in your life Also tell them about how I gave to charity And tried to love my fellow man as best i could But most of all don't forget about the time on the beach With fireworks above us
Strayed
Well, it's strange the way You walk behind But seem to lead the way Oh, I know I, Oh, I know I have strayed I have taken you for a ride Left you waiting in the car While I played death games inside Oh, I know I, Oh, I know I have strayed I have loved in haste I've been an alleycat and a bumblebee To your panther and your wasp Oh I have loved While thinking only of the cost Oh, I know I Oh, I know I have strayed I've raised a sick child to your lips And in asking you to kiss What I would not kiss Oh, I know I Oh, I know I have strayed Well I never thought I'd be One of those men With pin-ups on their wall For all to see I thought that was just mechanics Oh, I know I Oh, I know I have strayed I have taken you for a ride Left you waiting in the car While I played death games inside
The Hard Road I'll take the hard road I believe I'll see you there In a cyclone of stones Wooden spikes in your hair Or maybe you'll resting Leaning up against a busted fence Pluck a bird from the coop Then we're back up on the hard road We could sleep in a barn Bathe in a lake Steal the pipe Let hunger dictate The steps that you take Along the hard road And when winter comes We'll bottle some The nearest washing line And when summer comes It's almost impossible Not to have a good time Out on the hard road
Easily led
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one ***
*** Thanx a lot to Joe & Adam & Ian for this one ***
Devotion There are some terrible gossips in this town There are some terrible gossips in this town With jaws like vices And eyes like drains There are some little weasels in this town Scampering around loose With yellow teeth And the beady eyes We should set a standard amount of words That I am to say to these We should set a standard type of look That you are to give to me When you wanna leave There are some terrible gossips in this town With jaws like vices And eyes like drains I won't tell what they say about you I won't flourish the shit You are my dearest friend And I will protect you Until the end With a will like vices Complete as a drain
Cold Discovery I know your teeth have gnashed through death Still you come to me So gently Find a soft place on your body And rub me with it Oh, this I won't soon forget You're the one that will remain You're the one that will remain Bust a lock with a rock Don't need a key to have me This was your cold discovery We needed a fever, we needed a cure The bait no longer lured Say goodbye, if you can The car waits for me Just across the border Wish me luck, no good luck No bad luck, just wish me luck With my cold discovery You are gone My cold discovery You're the one that will remain Well, I can hold a woman down on a hardwood floor Well, I can hold a woman down on a hardwood floor And your teeth can gnash right through me Looking for a soft place And of this you won't soon forget I had no soft place for you to rest And this was your, your cold discovery Your cold discovery Well, I can hold a woman down on a hardwood floor Well, I can hold a woman down on a hardwood floor This was my, my cold discovery My cold discovery If you saw it for what it really was My cold discovery My cold discovery My cold discovery
*** Thanx a lot to Joe for this one *** Permanent Smile Oh God, can you feel the sun in your back? Oh God, can you see your shadow, inky black on the sand? Oh God, can you hear the saltwater drying on your skin? Oh God, can you feel my heart beating in my tongue? Oh God, by being quiet, I hope to alleviate my death Oh God, by sitting still, I hope to lighten your load When your shadow covers me from head to toe Curtain every flies, tell me it's mine, my time to go Seven waves of insects make babies in, in my skin Seven waves of insects make families in my skin (It's just like animals) It's just like animals that play And the flesh...flesh...flesh...rotted off my skull And then I will have earned my permanent, my permanent smile Oh God, I never, never asked why Oh God, I never, never asked why
Rain on lens
*** Thanx a lot to 'Lowlife' for the Rain on lens lyrics ***
Rain on lens 1 Rain on lens Rain on lens Boom in frame All is ruin Let's call it a day Song I'm a bit like a soldier In the way I wear no uniform And choose not to fight And fight all night For some other cause I'm a bit like the grave digger Who wields no shovel And digs no hole But leaves the bodies to rot In the places that they stand For some other cause I'm a bit like the pack mule Carrying no load Into the canyons of your jive For some other cause I'm a bit like the freelance fence painter Then eyes your backside as you leave For some other cause I'm a bit like the peephole That falls in love with all the eyes That look through Watching major things unfold From minor flaws For some other cause (Have Mercy) Natural Decline The mind is always working The mind is always turning The mind is always working The mind is always turning Things over and over and over And over and over The upside the downside The inside the outside The sightside the blindside The wifeside the fightside here is no rest for your brother Pulleys are clinking Ropes are fraying Down to thread Maybe was made wrong Rubbing on the wrong thing Or is it just the natural decline Of a body sister The mind is always working Out ways to see The things I shouldn't see And have the things I shouldn't have I see the night sky as a jewelry store window And my mind is half a brick Keep some steady friends around Keep some steady friends around Best thing you can do Keep some steady friends around Best thing for you Find a little place to go When you want to get away Find a little place to go When you have to get away But don't stay away too long Because we love you too much But don't stay away so long Because we love you so much To build your own house Might be the best Following your own design Like some kind of God With a fence all around A fence all around But don't forget to put in a gate Don't forget to put in a gate So you can have some steady friends come around You can have some steady friends come around Someone asked me just the other day About souls and such And if I believed in Judgement day Dirty Pants And so I dance in dirty pants A drink in my hand No shirt and broken tooth Barefoot and beaming The crowd is stomping Stomping a song For me to dance to Break glass and give in My head is ringing My blood is singing So I walk down to the creek And I slither in I catch my breath Icy cold Then I walk out to your house And let myself in Back you into the corner And I multiply I could toll endlessly Into the bottomless night God does not answer this type of prayer
*** Thanx a lot to Alice who corrected this one *** Lazy Rain It's snaining outside Or is it just lazy rain It's six AM and I'm walking home While the city twitches In a sleep of dog dreams Me and a friend of mine We just cheated death Now I'm walking home For death's rain check I open the door quietly So as not to wake The blue-eyed wedding cake But she's watching me with one eye The sleepy little spy She helps me off with my shirt Because my arm was hurt In a recent fall I slide into the bed Then my leg I thread Between hers I put my good arm on her belly Her hips Her knees She is made of several babies I keep my scratchy cast to myself As I feel our bodies melt Into two drops of lazy rain Snaking down the window pane And when the two drops merge Then there is the surge Of one larger drop We move faster towards the sill Short drive I took your party invitation list And wrote 'enemies' across the top of it Then I asked you To go on a short drive with me So I could point out Some more of our enemies Drive with me Scowl with me I put my hand on your knee And say to your left you will see Some more of our enemies I dragged you half across the United States I drove for 24 hours straight I would not stop to let you pee On a single bumblebee Drive with me Scowl with me I put my hand on your knee And say to your left you will see Some more of our enemies And 'though this that seems ongoing Ever flowing Will one day when we look back Just be a short drive Made back in our endless lives Live as if someone is always watching you Live as if someone is always watching you In all you do Live as if someone Is always watching you Eventually you will find That both of you will need to come to some compromise Maybe one or the other could agree To sleep at different times Or go off alone Or at least shut their eye Shut your eye off once in a while Shut your eye off once in a while So at least one of us Can with some conviction say : I am not of this glutty room Or of this flubby body Rain on lens 2 Rain on lens Rain on lens Boom in frame Boom in frame All is ruin Let's take it again Revanchism Sister sister I know you hate to hear me sing Sister sister I know it makes your skin crawl To see my father mouth Do anything at all Sister sister You used to dance as a child Sister sister I never sang back then Until the night you stopped dancing Sister sister I picked up what you dropped Picked it up and ran Sister sister Now we have children of our own Sister sister The boy is so silent There'll be no singing Around the home Sister sister Is the the daughter a dancer I will not ask her
Accumulation None
Astronaut
I feel like an astronaut Suffocating on the moon So far from home Encased in this plastic dome I can barely see the earth from here I cut my tether willingly 'Til i realise it's killing me But something always saves my life Wish i knew it's name I should never be an explorer Makes me sick
A hit
It's not going to be a hit So why even bother with it? It's not going to be a hit So why even bother with it? Just lay it down, and forget about it Lay it down fast, forget about it I'll never be a rock and roll saint I'll never be a rock and roll saint 'Cause i can't sing Oh no i can't sing That's not the only reason That's not the only reason I'll never be a bowie I'll never be an eno I'll never be a bowie I'll never be an eno I'll only ever be a gary numan I'll never be a rock and roll saint
Spanish moss
Anybody else would tell you My face is dead But I say it's a lie There's only one road in And it's easy To miss It's surrounded by swamps With green Snakey vines. Anybody else would tell you My face is dead But I say it's alive There's only one road in And it's easy To miss It's surrounded by swamps With green Snakey vines. Anybody else would tell you My face is dead But I say it's a lie
Chosen one
Well you're a wild horse On a collision course With the sun Well you're a wild horse On a collision course With the sun And I wanted to ride that wild horse Into the sun I wanted to ride that wild horse Into the sun But I no longer think that I'm your chosen one Oh no I no longer think that I'm your chosen one Well maybe it's best for you to ride Ride into the sun Maybe it's best for you to ride Ride into the sun Because I no longer think that I'm your chosen one Oh no I no longer think that I'll ever find a chosen one
Floating
Floating Hear a name From which planet Do you beckon I don't reckon It could be too far from here I'll bet you look like marc bolans girlfriend I've only heard a voice I've only seen your song It keeps me awake It keeps me floating Hear a name From which planet Do you beckon
Real live dress
She was wearing A real live dress Waiting for a friend of mine She was wearing A real live dress Waiting for a friend to undermime This dress was better than flesh She wore it when she wanted us to look our best She hadn't worn it for a long time But now we are three One scattered Two fallow Three that's me I mean who really gives a fuck About that dress Not me Or my then friend Or the mess That enlivened the dress Don't you know there's no subsitute for human flesh There's no subsitute for human flesh There's no subsitute for human flesh There's no subsitute for human flesh There's no subsitute for human flesh There's no subsitute for human flesh There's no subsitute for human flesh My anaconda Don't want none Unless it's got buttons on Baby's got back I like big butts
Came blue
There's a hunger In my hands I try to rub in Into your body But I don't believe In this I don't believe In you I don't believe in me I came blue, came blue Came blue, came blue Your eyes are drunk Why don't you close them I came blue, came blue, came blue, came blue Your eyes are drunk Why don't you close them I came blue Like i pictured you to do? I came blue To do? Twenty seven years I came blue And there is still a hunger I came blue, I came blue I came blue, I came blue Came blue, came...
Little girl shoes
Your little girl shoes I was attracted to your Little girl shoes I was distracted by your Little girl ways And that little boy hat Did you have to wear that In combination with those Little girl shoes Dismantled in the lab Your shoe is cold leather Your foot is beastly calloused Closer to cloven (yeah) But... Paw plus shoe Equals i don't know what to do And does the girl imitate the woman Or the woman imitate the girl Your little girl shoes Kick the dust right out of me Your little girl shoes Kicked the dust right out of me Your little girl shoes Kicked the dust right out of me
Cold-blooded old times The type of memories That turns your bones to glass Turns your bones to glass Mother came rushing in She said we didn't see a thing We said we didn't see a thing And father left at eight Nearly splintering the gate Cold-blooded old times The type of memory That turns your bones to glass Turns your bones to glass And though you where Just a little swirl You understood every word And in this way they gave you clarity A cold-blooded clarity Cold-blooded old times Now how can i stand And laugh with the man Who redefined your body Those cold-blooded old times... White ribbon
I went down to the harbour To meet my new bride She said "i'll wear a white ribbon tied high" She wore a white ribbon tied high on her thigh Dark clouds on the horizon A few spatters on her dress And with my coat buttoned up to her throat From the hotel balcony She stared out towards the sea From the hotel balcony she stared out away from me And if there's one thing i know It's when not to speak She came lay beside me Touched my hair soft as a breeze I was just like a child On christmas day But with the strength of a man And just like snow Falling into hot milk That little woman disappeared Against my skin When i woke in the morning i walked up towards the balcony
I break horses
Well i rode out to the ocean And the water looked like tarnished gold I rode out on a broken horse Who told me she'd never felt so old She asked me if i'd feed her And ride her now and then No no no, no no no, no no no I break horses I don't tend to them I break horses They seem to come to me Asking to be broken They seem to run to me I break horses Doesn't take me long Just a few well-placed words And their wandering hearts are gone At first her warmth felt good between my legs Living breathing heart-beating flesh But soon that warmth turned to an itch Turned to a scratch Turned to a gash I break horses I don't tend to them Tonight i'm swimming to my favorite island And i don't want to see you swimming behind Tonight i'm swimming to my favorite island And i don't want to see you swimming behind No i break horses I don't tend to them
Hole in the heart
Anyone who's ever had a hole in the heart Knows how hard it is to start a new day Anyone who's ever had a hole in the heart Knows how hard it is to start a new day Anyone who's ever had a hole in the heart
Supper
Feather by feather You spent half of the morning Just trying to wake up Half the evening Just trying to calm down And you live for The same things A cloudburst seems rarer every time And it's crow vs. crow A brawl in mid-air Beak click on beak clack No reason is there But for the brawl in mid-air If you're losing your wings Feather by feather Love the way they whip away On the wind When they make the movie of your life They're going to have to ask you To do your own stunts Because nobody nobody nobody Could pull off the same shit as you And still come out alright If you're losing your wings Feather by feather Love the way they whip away On the wind It's Ali vs. Clay Both pummeling away A champ always fights themself And you are a fighter You are a fighter You are a fighter And Kids got heart Kids got heart Kids got heart If you're losing your wings Feather by feather
*** Thanx a lot to Roberta for this one ***
Butterflies drowned in wine Butterflies drowned in wine I'm headed into town Where up is up and down is down None of this fumbling around Phantom fingers straighten a phantom tie I'm going to talk to some people there Forget everything I'm told In one ear and out the other An eagle flies right through my mind The shadow skims across the land Some people add and some subtract I love an expert I hate a hack You've got to bust up a sidewalk sometimes To get people to gather round And I'm prepared to do whatever it takes I'm prepared to do whatever it takes For temporary brother sisterhood Move the tables and the chairs aside And give me some room I'm going to show you something You won't soon forget Butterflies drowned in wine Butterflies drowned in wine I'm headed into town Where up is up and down is down None of this fumbling around
Morality I could kiss you The sunlight coming through your blouse Words wont tell me what your bodys all about I could take you You could take me With hands and hair and eyes and bones and knees But hey What would my wife say What would my wife say If I was married I could keep you With money every month Some city apartment where I Where you will stay But hey What would my wife say What would my wife say If I was married
Ambition
I just dropped by to see you as I'm on my way In your bedroom just off the highway Came in through your window Think I tore your ribbons on the way I never use doors no mores I never use stairs just trees And I hear their voices breaking up from down below the toes I just dropped by to see you as I'm on my way Say Are you still tight with that pharmacist Well I've got to get there now don't I And when I get there I've got to sleep well now don't I And when I wake up in the morning I've got to Wake up in the morning now don't I And when I meet with them I've got to be on the ball Now don't I And when I do their dirt I've got to feel none Now don't I And when it's all said and done I've got to celebrate Now don't I And when I'm done celebrating I've got to unwind Now don't I I just dropped by to see you as I'm on my way In your bedroom just off the highway
Vessel in vain I cant be held responsible for the things I say For I am just a vessel in vain And I cant be held responsible for the thing I see For I am just a vessel in vain No boat out on no ocean No name there on no hull And its not a strain at all to remember Those that Ive left behind Theyre all standing right here beside me now And most of them with a smile My ideals have got me on the run Towards my connection with everyone My ideals have got me on the run Its my connection with everyone Such free reign For a vessel in vain
*** Thanx a lot to Roberta for this one *** Truth serum Me and some friends of mine We stayed up all night taking truth serum We soon realized the mistake we made And went our separate separate ways. I went up on the roof Where I thought Id find some truth There beneath the stars But questions followed me Do you miss me, when I go Honey I love you and thats all you need to know Well then, what is love Love is an object kept in an empty box How can something be in an empty box Well well give me another shot Of that truth serum I went back downstairs to check on my friends Because truth has a way of beginning an end Big Bruiser Ken walks in says I like men I excuse myself and go back up on the roof again More questions follow me Is death really the end Honey I love you and that's all you need to know Well then, what is life Well thats a good song (sings) Without you by my side. Taking that serum People people theres a lesson here plain to see Theres no truth in you Theres no truth in me The truth is between The truth is between
*** Thanx a lot to Gerard & Dan & Roberta for this one *** Our anniversary It's our anniversary I leave it ajar And go outside To look at the driveway stars The crickets are chirping They stop at my step I stop my step And they start up again It's our anniversary and the bullfrogs And everything that can sing is singing Its mating song The soil is steaming Grass is swooning Guns or fireworks are popping Down in the town A woman is running A man jumps up and down It's our anniversary and you've hidden my keys This is one anniversary you're spending with me I slide in the front seat The drivers side To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind But still in the driveway Fixed like the stars I flip on the headlights And go back inside The climates controlled While the battery dies Clipping the wings of your morning flight The night will end In some form of excess Pants around ankles Too weak to fully undress It's our anniversary A celebration of And heres to next year Maybe youll join me in my car We'll drive together But not too far We are far from flowers Cut and dried So let us thrive let us thrive Let us thrive Just like the weeds We curse sometimes
*** Thanx a lot to Roberta & Jeremy for this one *** Driving
And the rain washed the price Off of our windshield
*** Thanx a lot to Graham for this one *** A guiding light The sun peaked at noon I watched it hoping it would rise Just a little higher And give me a guiding light A guiding light I must admit I felt some relief When the sun began to sink I mean who really wants to see Things in blinding white Blinding white It grows dark I feel my way home Sleep Sleep if you can sleep Me I'll be staying up Long into the night Trying to prove wrong All the statements I made All the statements I just made A guiding light You were born in the middle of the night What better time for a guiding light
A River Ain't Too Much To Love
*** Thanx a lot to Jon for these lyrics *** Palimpsest Winter weather is not my soul But the biding for spring... Why's everybody looking at me Like there's something fundamentally wrong Like I'm a southern bird That stayed north too long Winter exposes the nest Then I'm gone Say Valley Maker With the grace of a corpse In a riptide I let go And I slide slide slide Downriver With an empty case by my side An empty case That's my crime And I sing (Say Valley Maker) To keep from cursing Yes I sing (Say Valley Maker) To keep from cursing River Oh River End River Oh River End River Go River Bend Take me through the sweet valley Where your heart blooms Take me through the sweet valley Where your heart is covered in dew And when the river dries Will you bury me in wood Where the river dries Will you bury me in stone Oh I never really realized Death is what it meant To make it on my own Because there is no love Where there is no obstacle And there is no love Where there is no bramble There is no love On the hacked away plateau And there is no love In the unerring And there is no love On the one true path Oh I cantered out here Now I'm galloping back So bury me in wood And I will splinter Bury me in stone And I will quake Bury me in water And I will geyser Bury me in fire And I'm gonna phoenix I'm gonna phoenix The Well I could not work So I threw a bottle into the woods And then I felt bad For the doe paw And the rabbit paw So I went looking for the pieces Of the bottle that I threw Because I couldn't work I went deep Further than i could throw And i came upon an old abandoned well All boarded over With a drip hanging from the bucket still Well I watched that drip but it would not drop I watched that drip but it would not drop I knew what I had to do Had to pull those boards off the well When I got the boards off I stared into the black black black And you know I had to yell Just to get my voice back I guess everybody has their own thing That they yell into a well I gave it a coupla hoots A hello And a fuck all y'all I guess everybody has their own thing That they yell into a well And as I stood like that Staring into the black black black I felt a cool wet kiss On the back of my neck Dang I knew if I stood up The drip would roll down my back Into no man's land So I stayed like that Staring into the black black black Well they say black is all colours at once So I gave it my red rage my yellow streak The greenest parts of me And my blues I knew just what I had to do I had to turn around and go back And let that drip roll down my back And I felt so bad about that But wouldn't you know When I turned to go Another drip was forming On the bottom of the bucket And I felt so good about that Rock Bottom Riser I love my mother I love my father I love my sisters too I bought this guitar To pledge my love To pledge my love to you I am a rock Bottom riser And I owe it all to you I saw a gold ring At the bottom of the river Glinting At my foolish heart Oh my foolish heart Had to go diving Diving diving Into the murk And from the bottom of the river I looked up for the sun Which had shattered in the water And the pieces were raining down Like gold rings That passed through my hands As I thrashed and grabbed I started rising rising I left my mother I left my father I left my sisters too Left them standing on the banks And they pulled me out Of this mighty mighty river I am a rock Bottom riser And I owe it all to you I Feel Like the Mother of the World Whether or not there is any type of god I'm not supposed to say And today I don't really care God is a word And the argument ends there Oh do I feel like the mother of the world With two children Oh do I feel like the mother of the world With two children fighting When I was a boy I used to get into it bad With my sister And when the time came to face the truth There'd only be tears and sides Tears and sides And my mother my poor mother Would say it does not matter It does not matter Just stop fighting Oh do I feel like the mother of the world With two children In the Pines The longest train I ever saw Went down that Georgia line The engine went by at six o'clock And the cab went by at nine In the pines In the pines The sun never shines And we shiver When the north wind blows Well I asked the captain For the time of day He said he Threw his watch away A long steel rail And a short cross tie And I'm on my Way back home In the pines In the pines The sun never shines And we shiver When the north wind blows Little girl Little girl What have I done That makes you treat me this way Well you have caused Me to weep You caused me to moan You caused me to leave my home In the pines In the pines The sun never shines And we shiver When the north wind blows Drinking at the Dam I remember drinking at the dam With the jarheads on the other side Warm beer and tearing up the cans And all of us yelling abuse Cutting school to go drinking at the dam Skinmags in the brambles For the first part of my life I thought women had orange skin It was the first part of my life Second is the rest And now teenage warchests fill And do the dirty dirty work It was the first part of their lives Drinking at the dam Holding back what I can But the power is so much Drinking at the dam Holding back what I can I'm just drinking at the dam I'm just drinking at the dam I'm just drinking at the dam Running the Loping I lay on the bed in the dark Laughing at things i think of Getting off on the pornography of my past Lighting matches and dropping them Into a wet glass It's summer now and it's hot And the sweat pours out And the air is the same as my body And i breathe my body inside out With sunlight around my skin turns brown And you wouldn't know me from your pa Or Adam or Allah But I haven't changed No I haven't changed Day is all that resolves All we need is here on earth About every other day Scratchmarks on my knees since I've been running The bramble lee When I'd much rather be wanting to be Running the loping Peace on your hand Don't be silly But peace on my body When tired and beaten All we need is here on earth About every other day Oh to live in the country With a chicken and those other things Where the hills loping Where the dress and the hair in the river Undulating To take a wife and no paper Never again to wonder Did that rapper rape her All we need is here on earth About every other day I'm New Here No No No No I did not become someone different I did not want to be But I'm new here Will you show me around No matter how far wrong you've gone You can always tournaround Met a woman in a bar Told her I was hard to get to know And near impossible to forget She said i had an ego on me The size of Texas Well I'm new here and I forget Does that mean big or small Turnaround turnaround turnaround And I'm shedding plates like a snake And it may be crazy but I'm the closest thing I have To a voice of reason Turnaround turnaround turnaround And you may come full circle and be new here again Let Me See the Colts Knocked on your door at dawn With a spark in my heart Dragged you from your bed And said let me see the colts Let me see the colts That will run next year Show them to a gambling man Thinking of the future Have you been drinking no Nor sleeping The all-seeing all-knowing eye is dog tired And just wants to see the colts We walked out through The dew dappled brambles And sat upon the fence Is there anything as still as sleeping horses Is there anything as still as sleeping horses
Back in School
(Kicking a Couple Around EP) I saw you standing there With your hand in his hair And his hand in Your back pocket I couldnt help but stare I wanted to tell you That i was back in school But in the dark of the club I knew it wouldnt carry much weight Well, i'm trying to learn your language I'm trying to learn your language I came to your party empty-handed I came to your party, uninvited I came to your party, a headstart on the drinking I wanted to tell you That i was back in school But in the chit-chat, chit-chat should that... Well, i'm trying to learn your language It's like a fly learning how to bark I'm trying to learn your language It's like a fly learning how to bark That smile on your face That smile on your face That smile on your face I try to erase That smile on your face But a kiss was not the answer A kiss was not the answer A drunken kiss was not the answer
(Burning Kingdom EP)
I Break Horses
(Kicking a Couple Around EP) Well I rode out to the ocean And the water looked like tarnished gold I rode out on a broken horse Who told me she'd never felt so old She asked me if I'd feed her And ride her now and then No no no, no no no, no no no, I break horses I don't tend to them I break horses They seem to come to me Asking to be broken They seem to run to me I break horses Doesn't take me long Just a few well-placed words And their wandering hearts are gone At first her warmth felt good between my legs Living breathing heart-beating flesh But soon that warmth turned to an itch Turned to a scratch Turned to a gash I break horses I don't tend to them Tonight I'm swimming to my favorite island And I don't want to see you swimming behind Tonight I'm swimming to my favorite island And I don't want to see you swimming behind No I break horses I don't tend to them
My family
Mother's smoking pot In the bathroom I can hear her butt Squeaking on the tub As the water grows cold Around her legs And father Is in the study Watching a vague Lesbian scene Don't go in He gets to me Planting foot prints Where I hope I'll never be da da da da da And sister phones to say She isn't coming home She says she'll write to me But I know She won't write to me Da da da da da
Not lonely anymore
I am not lonely anymore Now that I realized I got two hands not four So, I'm not lonely anymore When the ship goes down There will be 1000 rats Swimming 1000 shores So I'm not lonely anymore You will try open hands You will be kissing sweet sand And that pretty wedding ring doesn't mean a damn thing You're going down I'm not lonely anymore Now that I realized I got two hands not four
Renee died 1:45
I really want to like girls But it's seems every time I get burnt Is it because they can hurt me Like no other man can Or is it because I am a jealous bitch All I know is I want to see her Golden hair shine in the sun again All I know is I want to see her Golden hair shine in the sun again
The Desert
I'm crawling through the desert Without water or love I'm crawling through the desert Without water or love Then it starts to rain Big buckets of rain So I open my mouth For a kiss And to drink the rain But it's just an illusion Oh it's just an illusion Yeah, love's just an illusion That keeps you crawling through the desert The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room
(Kicking a Couple Around EP) Under stars of violet Under stars of green Under stars of silver Under stars.. of you When i walk the city streets at night I'm scared shitless When i walk the country roads at night I'm scared shitless But still i go out 'Cause i get so restless Under stars of violet Under stars of green Under stars of silver Under stars.. of you The orange glow of a stranger's living room Looks so much warmer than mine
Wine Stained Lips
(A Hit EP)
Well I woke up this mornin' Thinking about the conversation we had last night All the stupid things I said Through wine stained lips Well I woke up this mornin' Thinking about the conversation we had last night All the stupid things I said Through wine stained lips I don't know why I wanted to tell you everything Why is it so tempting for me to boast? I don't know why I wanted to tell a stranger everything Why is it so easy for me to boast? I turned it into a joke But I still boast Some people shouldn't go to parties Some people shouldn't drink wine at parties Some people shouldnt've woken up this morning
Your New Friend (Kicking a Couple Around EP)
When the conversation is over And there's nothing left to say I know what you're going to do So i'm going my seperate way You're going to call your new friend On the telephone I wonder what you call him When i'm not home Now this has been Going on every night Since that week i left town It really makes me think I shoulda stuck around So i'm.. going to my living room / bedroom You know this is apartment is so small We used to share a bedroom Until you got that call You close your door So firmly That i put up My chinese screen But you know I cant hide a thing at all Now you've got your doors And i wonder What goes on I've got my chinese screen But you know I cant hide a thing at all You've got your radio on low To cover the sounds But your voice so soft, so soft It could only be heard by your new friend I've got my radio blasting To show that i dont care about anything You could possibly say to your new friend Now you've got your door And i wonder What goes on I've got my chinese screen But you know I cant hide a thing at all And all that i can think of Is that how you used to be me On the phone to you While your lover died.. outside.. And in this chair tonight I wouldnt mind if i die And left you to your new friend Your new friend Now dont get me wrong I know.. i'm still your boyfriend But that doesnt mean a damn thing at all As long as you've got Your new friend