1. |
Failed Disney Pilot
00:53
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There are lots of things to do
There is lots that you can do to pass the time
But you can’t pass the time to someone else
Who’d use it better or appreciate it more
Or finish writing the lyrics to the song
Before you have to sing the line
No you can’t pass the time because it’s yours
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2. |
Secs 'n Babes
03:49
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I’ve got two stress blisters where my heart should be
Made from beating away at the cage that’s right in front of me
If it all just stopped I feel like I’d fall straight ahead
If you are fuckin happy then I wanna be a baby
I wanna be a baby if you are
And I don’t wanna see what happens next so I play
Peek-a-boo with my fears instead
Cus I’ve been struggling
Wish I wasn’t
I looked you dead in the eye
When you tried to say “hi” to me
Running
Just straight fronting
With no time to decide
Why I’m not who I wanna be
Well you grew up and that’s a sin
Cus it’s a fucked up world we’re in
I just can’t trust you with the kids
It’s all just sex and babies
All just sex and babies
And “I don’t want none unless you got buns, hon”
No I don’t want none at all
Cus I’ve been struggling
Wish I wasn’t
I looked you dead in the eye
When you tried to say “hi” to me
Running
Just straight fronting
With no time to decide
Why I’m not who I wanna be
Like to pretend that it’s a waterfall
But it’s just a little stream
That cleans me in the morning
When I’m half asleep
And some days I like to stay in there
And one day I’d like to live in there
But then the hot runs out
And I move on
I always just got out of bed
Just stumbling through this fucking mess
Trying to make sense of a dream I had
And I still don’t have a plan
I always just got out of bed
Just stumbling through this fucking mess
Trying to make sense of a dream I had
Like I don’t know what it meant
Yeah I’ve been struggling
It hasn’t sunk in
Cus I want all the things that I’m not
And I wish it were humbling
But I’ve been fronting
I drove past your house windows down
And the radio bumpin
It’s keeping me running
And I don’t want none unless you got buns, hon
No I don’t want none at all
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3. |
Life is a Petting Zoo
02:59
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I was just a little goat when I was born
Trying to hide my little horns
Under a hat or something
But I’ve been dancing in the woods
With the strangest friends from high school
And I think they’ve always known the truth
So witness me and I’ll witness you
Cus they don’t make awards that say
“You’re Living Like You Wanted To”
Let’s be friends (romantically)
Let’s make out (platonically)
Let’s take everything we’ve learned and run away
Put the world into boxes
You won’t even have to face it
It’s just another game to play
You can live a real life for one day
Wash your hands when you wanna stop
Go back to your shitty job
Send the cash you can to those who aren’t as blessed with laptops
Life is a petting zoo
Let’s be friends (romantically)
Let’s make out (platonically)
Let’s take everything we’ve learned and run away
We’ve all reached out (ironically)
For a little help (potentially)
I think some days today’s the day we start again
Put the world into boxes
You won’t even have to face it
Let’s be friends (romantically)
Let’s make out (platonically)
Let’s take everything we’ve learned and run away
We’ve all reached out (ironically)
For a little help (potentially)
I think some days today’s the day we start again
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4. |
funny
03:16
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God was funny when I grew up
But She didn’t talk to me enough
So I wrote down jokes that I made up
To repeat em again and again to myself
God taught me how to cross my T’s
Bite my nails and skin my knees
And when she taught me how to read
Damn sure I was never seen again
And I thought I fell in love with you
So she laughed and laughed til I lost my fuckin head
And I thought “oh, I get it now”
So I decided I was done with you
And I ripped my heart out so I could tell the jokes instead
And I laughed and laughed til I lost my fuckin head
God made it hard to like my name
She kept on shouting in my brain
Things I believed and turned on me
Until I felt the voices fade away
And I thought that I was failing you
So I cried and cried til I had nothing left
And I thought “oh, I get it now”
So I did just what you told me to and I lost my mind
I haven’t cried since
But she told me I was fucking up again
The darkest thoughts run through my head
With the smile of the devil so when I see red
I see black too
Then I look into your eyes
And swear I’m gonna see this through
God was funny when I grew up
God was so fuckin funny then
Now we just clasp our hands and wait until we get the joke again
God was funny when I grew up
God knows I really got this down
I just wait until the next mistaken
“Oh, I get it now”
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5. |
Xtian Boy
03:26
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Well I’m glad you found a christian boy
Cus you really always needed a christian boy
And I wrote some songs that are full of shit
And I hope this one will make up for it
Thank you for not saving me
Guess some things aren’t meant to be
Cus I’m fucked up now but I’ve always been
Like I was with you and I’m glad you’re with him
I forget the night we said was the best one of our lives
When we sat underneath the stars listening to Holyoke sirens
I forget the day we spent with a mountain to climb
When we did things we shouldn’t as we clung to the sides
We were so fuckin horny that your dad almost killed us
And sometimes I kind of wish he had
I forget the night you had to say you loved me back
Because I had to say it first,
Just to see what it felt like
But I still feel the mess I was when you left
Months it seemed I’d gone insane
Maybe I’m just embarrassed by the pain
I wish I were sad or bitter but
I really can’t find a fuck to give anymore
Only thing that breaks my heart is when you
Stopped feeling special to me
I wish I’d do it all again
I wish I’d do it all again
I would not do it all again
I would not do it all again
I hope you’re standing close to him
I hope you’re standing close to him
I would not do it all again
What did we do?
Glad you found a christian boy
You used to be special
Glad you found a christian boy
Wish you were still special to me
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6. |
New Year's Dissolution
04:28
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I wanted to do drugs in high school
Cus all the other kids were having fun
While I was spending my youth
Dreaming of the things I’d almost done
Since then I’ve found better ways to
Pass the time in beers when you have gone
Drinking back old memories
Until the future’s numb
I wanted to be more to you
Than I had ever been to anyone
I wanted to sleep in and wake up
Nothing left for me to prove to anyone
I wanted to get higher here
Than they had ever seen in anyone
But my brain wanted to fail me more
Than I thought that it could before
And the world wanted to scare me
With some shit I hadn’t known
But I learned that I could survive
With a quote even when half alive
So I sang
“We are love, we are love”
I wanted to do drugs in high school
Cus all the other kids were having fun
How the child grows from fear to fall behind the other ones
Since then I’ve found better ways to
Pass the time in beers when you have gone
So here’s a toast
To another year’s mistakes and rights gone wrong
I wanted to breathe easy
My god, did you have other plans
I wanted to fall out of love
But learned that sometimes you just
Can’t
Cus my brain wanted to fail me more
Than I thought that it could before
The world wanted to crush me
With some shit I hadn’t known
But I learned that I could survive
With a quote even when half alive
So I sang
“We are love, we are love”
Feels like I’ve been
Distant and listless my whole life
I think it’s time
To stop being the nice guy
And try to be kind
So it’s the fourth fucking anniversary
Of me saying that this year would be better to me
And it’s the last time I’ll be praying for a peace I’ve never known
Cus I don’t wanna spend another year repeating
Shit about how down I’ve been feeling
Saying I’ll feel better when I’ve finally found a home
“We are love, we are love”
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7. |
DAYCARE
05:13
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Wake up in a world with no afterlife
Wondering how to get out of this place
They took the swing set yesterday
And all for the sake of a couple of things
That I know I couldn’t have changed
The summer is taking me away
I don’t practice magic
I don’t get the chance
I spend my days in a coffin dance
And I can’t shake the feeling
That I could snap my fingers
Or I could make a choice
And feel the difference
But my spells don’t work that way man
Do you have time for your mental health?
Can you take care of yourself?
Will you survive on your pills and your 9-5 now?
Searching for more of the peace that you thought you had found
On the playground
Woke up deep in my afterlife
A bargain bin Stephen King hell
And I found the devil in myself
And after a while
He taught me to hate
Cus it keeps him safe and I wish him well
Held hands and built a wall for his cell
Do you have time for your mental health?
Can you take care of yourself?
Will you survive on your pills and your 9-5 now?
Searching for more of the peace that you thought you had found
On the playground
On the playground
Where they knocked your breath out but let you take it in
On the playground
Where you hoped you’d never see those kids again
On the playground
That you left to let your life begin
On the playground
Fuck me up
Cut me loose
Set me off
On the playground
Fuck me up
Cut me loose
Set me off
On the playground
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8. |
i.d.k.t.b.o.m.h.
04:35
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I’ve never seen a pot start to boil
And I’ve never had the time of my life
Been holding out long
Waiting to find a moral
It stormed in the morning
A reminder that I lied to write my fight song
Someone told me it would be alright
I just passed it on
Keep waiting to feel it click
Or for the shoe to drop
I’ve never seen a pot start to boil
And I’ve never had the time of my life
Been holding out long
Waiting to find a moral
I’ve never seen a pot start to boil
Never waited til the perfect time
So I’m talking myself into all of the sense in trying
A different way
Let the heart be what it may
I’ve just been listening to Coltrane these days
And it doesn’t make sense to me
Nothing makes sense
But there’s beauty in what I don’t understand
Someone told me it would be alright
I’ve never seen a pot start to boil
And I’ve never had the time of my life
Been holding out long
Waiting to find a moral
I’ve never seen a pot start to boil
Never waited til the perfect time
So I’m talking myself into all of the sense in trying
A different way
Sing us a song
You’re the piano man
You’re the fucking piano man
Is something wrong?
You haven’t touched
Anything you asked for
None of this was good enough for you
So you trade it all
For something new
I died in the morning
With just a little bit of a song I had no time for
Was just a little bit of a song
Just a little bit of a song
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9. |
Rideout
03:26
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Coffee is my only anti-depressant
Trying to live like there’s no time like the present
To be fucked up enough to have something to write
For the rest of my life
Cus when I grow up I’m gonna be stable
Take my chances when I’m willing and able
I felt alone
My philosophy’s taking a beating
Telling myself this is what I’d been needing to hear
Taking deep breaths so I can count up my fears
Chasing what’s left of a few golden years
In a rush like Tom Sawyer
It’s Missouri in here
I felt alone
So feel me
While I fall apart
I felt alone
So I’ll ride this one out again
Music is the better part of my libido
Still so much that got fucked inside of me though
I don’t want anyone to be
Filled up with me like a roll in the deep
Falling in love again
Unwillingly
I felt alone
So feel me
While I fall apart
I felt alone
The story is coming apart
I felt alone
So feel me
I felt alone
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10. |
Diet Coke Saint
03:53
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Lying on the concrete with the soreness in my mind
Pressed up against the pavement palms inside my eyes
I’d always thought the kids who shimmer in the heatwaves
Wouldn’t notice but I hear them step around me
Stretched out like Jesus in the summer
Say what you will mom but I don’t think that they’ll understand
I won’t be remembered as a saint
I want to fly away but lying here for once I’m feeling grounded
And I take shape inside the breeze
Stretched out like Lenny Kravitz in the summer
Lenny Kravitz in the summer
Feeling like it got a little warmer
Letting my body go
And it takes you there and leaves you there
Takes you there and leaves you there
And it’s me
Met a wandering man who had a face just like my dad’s
And when the stars came out I realized that he’d found me
Told me that the most American thing he could do was drink
Diet Coke off the pavement where they spilled it
(Gotta love a reason to exist)
Spilled out like Jesus in the summer
(Feels like an old friend you had missed)
Diet Coke stain in the summer
(Gotta love a reason to exist)
Like when grandma saw his face in a potato
(Feels like an old friend you had missed)
Feeling it taking hold
And it takes you there and leaves you there
Takes you there and leaves you there
It takes you there and leaves you there
She takes you there and leaves you there
And it’s gone
And it’s gone
And it’s done
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