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it got so dark
03:30
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it got so dark that i couldn't see the stars
i couldn't see the rest of you
and i couldn't feel my heart
got so hard that all i wanted was more
and all i needed was less than you'd ever ceded
it got so dark that i couldn't see the stars
and everybody thinks that they know what i'm talking about
it got so hard that i couldn't feel my heart
and i couldn't see anybody else's
there's a lot that i don't wanna admit
but i'm gonna admit the whole lot of it
there's a whole damn lot i don't wanna admit
but i'm gonna admit the whole lot of it
you got your hands around my throat
you got your foot upon my neck
and you'll be taking my last breath
and it'll be all she wrote
i got my hands around your throat
i got my foot upon your neck
and i'll be taking your last breath
and it'll be all she wrote
it got so dark that i couldn't see the stars
and i couldn't hear the cars passing by in the road
and though you never truly know
if someone means what they bellow
you should probably stand back when someone's eyes glow
cos all i know
is i gotta get used to it
i gotta get used to it
i gotta get used to it
cos you're used to it
gotta get used to it
let my heart get used to it
gotta get used to being used,
to being used
it got so dark that it couldn't be the stars
it couldn't be the rest of you
and it couldn't be my heart
got so hard that the other kids all ran off
and i just stood there staring into that river.
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never enuf butter
02:38
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my god how i got no family
my god how i got no money
my god how i got no plans to be
anything but your honey
my god how i got my late late nights
my god how i got my whiskey
my god how i got my animal rights
my god how i love to get frisky
and god knows, god knows
god knows i'm greedy so honey come and get me
god knows, god knows
my boy, i can picture the way that you sit
behind that big old drumkit
i want you holding me as tight as you hold them sticks
baby you'll be mine and you'll like it
god knows god knows
god knows i'm greedy so honey come and get me
god know, god knows
god only knows what i'm thinkin
god only knows what i'll do
god knows that i been drinkin
god knows that i'm coming for you
god only knows what i'm plannin
god only knows what i'll say
god knows i done in shannon
and god knows to stay outta my way
my god how i got no family etc.
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ohio
03:34
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well he's just left the house of our heroine
and he's swearing that he's never going there again
and she weeps in the corner the tears of the mourner
she swore she'd never ever be again
and i watch, in the car on my friend's cell phone
in this town where, if every secret's known,
then i sleep to the sound of my creaking bones
never being left alone
so you'll translate this slow wreck to silent film
which you'll sell to make your baby sing again
but she won't last two weeks on that stuff that you eat
and she'll never feast where her fancy feet've been
heard yr cruisin on out there to ohio
and the mind that yr losin in some light show
and i know how we fought the ephemeral
still i'm hoping you'll make it home
maybe i was asleep and you caught my lie,
maybe what you repeat will not pass you by.
you don't hate me for what i did to you,
you hate me for who i am.
well he's just left the halls of our harrowing
and he's laying there praying the spring will return
but i know that the pages we light with our pens
won't create enough heat to roast every hen
but at least we can make the most of this end:
i'm a sleek silk scarf on a puff beige coat
he'll warm your arms as i surround your throat
i'm as damaged as Hamrick's will sell
hot damn if i ain't doin well
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4. |
gimme grief
02:26
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i don't wanna sing the songs that i don't wanna hear
don't wanna tell the truth about how bad it's gotten for me
all my clothes got holes in them that let in all the cold air
i don't feel like i'm anywhere and no one's got nothin i want
so much snow and so much white
and so little is alright
so much grass and so much blow
so much wind between these windows
so much cream and so much rinse
so much circumstantial evidence
so much meat falls off the bones of these drinks
give me grief and i will give you grace
give me pain and i will take your place
give me all that you don't want inside you anymore
and i will make a home for it
behind this bathroom door
nothing changes you
nothing changes you like what you lose
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5. |
alison wonder
02:29
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on we go down the homophonic rabbit hole
come on, down the homophonic rabbit whole!
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you don't plan
04:01
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all the souls in heaven looking down on you,
all the souls in hell, well they look up to you
but what soul on earth will negate your birth?
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cos if i gotta be livin without you, it won't do.
there's a million feelings i can not subdue, or undo
so i gotta stop thinking about you, about you
what you dream in the night, well that's hardly your fault.
but your dreams in daylight, well, that's another matter.
and i wanna do right, oh, but it's all for naught
as the words that i write just keep getting sadder, like,
"i'm tied to a powderkeg strapped to the tracks of a train,
"I'm just waitin til that lovely locomotive will choo-choo my name,
cos when he finally does, there will be nothing left to explain,
it all will be out in the open on the scraps of my brains"
can you help me stop thinking about you, about you?
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8. |
pop music
03:15
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look what you done to me
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9. |
dirty grounds
04:48
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we made a splash on the screen but we're just a flash in the pan so come on baby and take my hand and we'll laugh so hard about how we hardly matter to anyone and anyone is welcome to join in, laugh it up laugh it up its real funny, so funny i forgot how to laugh at it, but i'm laughing now cos i finally remembered how
we were making a music so mad to be made that a sudden stop was the only way to save us from shucking all the songs that we sand about everything, we started to sing about nothing but everything and everything that everything isn't, and everything is what it was and it's been and it will be again someday some way and somehow, i'm thinking about it now cos i finally remembered how.
we could be doctors of disco if we moved to San Francisco and got it goin in a way it'd not been, you say miracles don't grow on trees well look at these that i picked for you without you having to ask me to i spent some time and i signed a dotted line waiting for the bus to take me one more time to that town where the lost feel found on the dirty grounds that they're around and they've a right to be around
the alarm's goin off i kept hittin snooze cos i couldn't bear to leave those dreams that were keepin me layin in bed waiting there for a hope not seen, i didn't care if i slept away my whole life as long as you were there, but you've not been you such a long time, i gotta get up, walk around, find a way to be wide awake.
we were painfully shy but believing the lie that we shouldn't be, we tried so hard to speak up but our voices ignored, oh we angrily swore that we would keep our mouths shut forevermore, well didn't you get mine open a little while, i wish you still did, but i guess you still do, cos i'm thinking of saying all this to you, but it wouldn't do to bother you
we were sweet sacks of red wine eating chocolate at bed time till the money went and away i got sent to that factory where they got jobs to spare so menial, well i do declare that i don't want no memorial for the little i done, oh it sure was fun while it lasted and you'll be the last one i let leave so easily because now i see that i was so arrogant about that
we made a splash on the screen but we're etc.
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10. |
hi five hands
03:46
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as we head out the door
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