RUE

SCROLL FOR LYRICS SIDE A Blue Windows I'm Not Tired Wake up and you wanna get away from it all she said I know how you feel Wake up and you wanna get away from it all she said I know just the deal Oh you can come back but everybody knows it's not enough Yeah you can come back but everybody knows it's not your path You come and wait for them but no one waits for you You come and wait for them but no one is waiting I know it's something better but I know that you want something easier now I know you gotta be just a little bit stronger than you can And everybody knows when something's right when you're hanging out with friends And everybody knows when something's wrong you just gotta pretend And you know that everything is prettier when you're sleeping but you can wake up tonight it's graduation Midway Apprehension Sisyphus Walking The Park I wanted to tell you when we were in the park there that you should be careful who you lie in the shade with because people fall in love in the shade of park trees But I figured you knew that being fallen and wounded But I wanted to tell you because you go to the shade with boys and you never know why they are limping out I wanted to tell you when we were in the store there people always think we're together and I tell them that you're my sister and you broke my heart You should be careful who you go to the park with You should be careful who you lie in the shade with because you'll fall in love Take me Back to Home When you wake up and you're wondering how you made it this far I know I'm just as surprised as the next guy that you're standing here beside me I know Hey do you wanna maybe hang out sometime and you know maybe if you wanted you could you know maybe take me back to home There's so much beauty in the world I feel like my eyesight is fading I feeling like my eyesight is fading into you The Zeitgeist is Sponsored You see me coming now for a while the perfect symmetry of thought and style gonna pick you first for a trial can you find the markings on your friends It's the ends not the means that we worry for the time has come Mother Gaia is weeping for us I remember when you told me first that you were fighting for rights of us all and I gave you my smile and you took it and posted it and said you got my backing but I want my backing returned to me Zeitgeist got sponsored when you fell asleep now rise with me SIDE B Downtempo I wish I was a dancer You would watch me move You'd be struck dumb watching Just like I am with you Take me to your bedroom Save me from the floor Bring me back from that place That I cannot escape from Yeah I wish I was a sailor But I won't leave the shore Some born are bread for adventure I was born to tell their tales And the young are filled with courage As they dock away from shore With the hope that they'll be returning Just like those who are in song Yeah I wish I was a dancer Crazy Glitchy Dave Lyrics by Mamordenkrieg: I'm Crazy I'm Buggy I'm crazy too glitchy at night I search for you Crazy crazy Buggy buggy Glitchy glitchy What should I do I can't wake you I'm twitchy I'm buggy Glitchy so glitchy I'm crazy Oh my extremities are cursing me How do I escape this I can't sleep I can't drink I can't eat I can't do anything Inside I'm crazy I'm buggy I'm glitchy and twitchy so twitchy Lyrics by Shawn: There comes a time it passes by I think of life falling like the autumn sun They say we are one but I'm not one I'm just a number of nine Count your blessings one by one and everyone says aren't you lucky now Count your blessings one by one and everyone says aren't you sweet now Keith's Lament

SCROLL FOR LYRICS Wake Up When you wake up and you wonder if they’re listening And your so tired and your doubtful in your thinking Yeah the sun’s out but electric light is waking you up And she says  I know just the right game to play you’ll know exactly what to say  Don’t swim just let the current drag you down And what’s the reason now First you gotta find out how But once I’m doing can I ever express why Well you can try And everyone knows everyone knows everyone knows no one  And everyone knows everyone knows everyone knows no one Knows know one Knows no  And when you wake up you wake up tired I’m tired you’re tired I’m tired too When you wake up tired of no one Of know one of no one of know one I want someone I want someone to be someone I know When you wake up and your wondering if you’re listening And your so tired and your doubtful in your thinking Yeah the sun’s out but electric light is waking you up Waking you up Lighthouse Disaster Look out behind you and look ahead They’re always thinking that you’re knowing it but they’re wrong One people Cake eaters God’s children waiting for an arc And one by one you tear them apart I always wondered how it’d end one day You are the surface and I am the sea’s wave Pulled by the moon I cannot stay In pools you’re sacred In pools I’m vain We watch the people go watch people coming after You praise my drinking I praise you with my laughter You, yes you, my Dionysian queen You light the rocks on which I’m crashing A testament to the scene Some women love the songs of sailors but you you love their screams In pools you’re sacred in pools I’m vain Sometimes I’m singing sometimes I scream Boxing Day Everything you talked about and everything you’d say Some people they’re just living life while others strategy Always busy remembering what I try to forget I guess that is the strategy of the rudderless  There used to be a yardstick and there used to be a sound I would measure up against and listen for echos But the sun’s too bright in the morning when I wake I’m tired of this same mistake Everything I knew about everything I’d want Some people they can focus and bracket the rest out Me I’ve got a memory can’t focus it away Remember how I turned on you when you got in the way But it’s alright I hear you whispering But you don’t know just how bad I’ve been There’s animals There’s lights There’s talk about forever Let’s talk about forever Let’s talk about forever tonight Dear ol’ Marshall He said I know why you don’t go This screen and window are not much comfort But swiping left and wishing right are comforts in themselves alright My oily skin is perfection under the pixelated blanket Of nausient reality we find ourselves in Close your eyes remember when we were all beautiful to the old But now we’re only disappointing I wish I had a camera that could show them all what they are showing me Yeah I wish I had a filter that would clean this past of dreams of what I was gonna be ‘Cause now all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune don’t mean a thing to me All I really want is to be not left standing on the sidelines not cheering Oh, dear ol’ Marshall I guess I never got a thing Leading Sheep I saw you walking and I saw your shoes Saw the marks that you left from the heal of your boots And the people that you’re leading they’re all following still But it doesn’t mean anything it won’t ever will to me You can take the right way I’ll take what is left You can tell your friends about it You can tell them all about how we parted ways  It doesn’t change a thing babe Everybody knows what you want And everybody knows your falling between it Everybody’s got a body to love But not you ‘cause your in love with your leading sheep I saw you walking and I saw your shoes Saw the marks that you left from the heal of your boots And the people that you’re leading they’re all following still But that doesn’t mean anything it won’t ever will to me

SCROLL FOR LYRICS It’s December and I’m thinking about you We met back in Spring when hearts began to bloom Summer came and went and with it it went you Autumn leaves they fell in a yellow-brownish hue Now December’s here without you and I’m wishing it was Spring As I talk to myself and wonder just what Santa Clause will bring Bring me sorrow’s end Bring me a boyfriend Bring me magic like in youth Bring me snuggles up Bring me coffee cups of hot chocolate and of you I miss you more than I did before I ever had met you It’s Christmas time and yeah I’m fine but I’m not as fine as you It’s December and the year is closing in I’m remembering when we were only friends We took a chance, then we took a break, then you took a piece of me I don’t need it back I guess its yours now I’m feeling Chistmassy ‘Cause December’s here without you and I’m wishing it was Spring As I talk to myself and wonder just what Santa Clause should bring Bring me sorrow’s end Bring me a boyfriend Bring me magic like in youth Bring me snuggles up Bring me coffee cups of hot chocolate and of you I miss you more than I did before I ever had met you It’s Christmas time and yeah I’m fine but I’m not as fine as you Love you, Beaner

SCROLL FOR LYRICS SHORT STORIES STYX SONG FOR THE CORE LAST SONG OF SUMMER You're walking on a path by yourself You know the path but you don't know why you're alone You can smell the storm rising in the air And you can feel it on the hairs of your arm and fingers and you can hear everything But you're afraid that you might not hear that one thing that's watching You've been a watcher and you're reminded of that daddy long legs You tore its legs off as it struggled to move in a circle And then limb by limb by limb by limb Until there it sat not Its suffering but no longer in your curiosity There will be a reckoning Do you remember that day when you woke up late and everyone was waiting for you to Wake up, and they smiled And you smiled, and you ran and they picked you up? What did you say? What did you say? Have you forgotten It's coming home to roost You can't forgive what can't be forgiven WALKING AWAY UNWELL BUSKING Testing 4 3 2 1 Thank you for coming This is the express train to wherever you are going or whatever you are doing You've won You've won Put some money in the hat Put some money in the hat You've won You've won You've won You've won Put some money in the hat Put some money in the hat Everyone's got their thing they're doing This is what we're doing Its the Money or the Hat This is live This is not coming back so put some money in the hat Some people are about tomorrow Some people are about today Some people are about now Put the money in the hat Put the money in the hat Put the money in the hat Put the money in the hat Put some money in the hat Put some money in the hat Some money in the hat Some money in the hat Put some money in the hat Some money Some money Put some money Put some money BONDAGE Oh, she said I've got you around my finger and I won't let go Oh, she said I've got you around my finger and I won't let go I heard you tried to let the other ones escape, I heard you tried, this is all I can do now Oh, she said I've got you around my finger and I won't let go Oh, she said I've got you around my finger and I won't let go He knew it would seem ridiculous, but there had to be some truth in it, after all everything created was born in a dream, or if not a dream at least an intention, and he certainly had intention KYLA and PATCH So I'm gonna do this one in stereo This is a story about a fox more clever She fed well She showed well But boy did she scream There are things you remember then there are those things you can't forget The howling The screaming And once her dog was out there And the neighbours, I don't know where they were But she stood there in the cold grass, screaming for her dog to come back And the foxes, they screamed too And one grew old and she never

SCROLL FOR LYRICS Breathe out Breathe it in Don't let 'em know That a God is breathin' You're drunk in a Titan's arms Looking to rise up But you're still the same Knocking on your door, won't you let me in, I only need a dollar because I'm trying to catch a train and the trains don't run on time. Everybody knows I'm just making shit up, Steve, so don't try to follow along 'cause your time will come when you will sing a rhyme, or we will sing rhymes that don't, here it goes now, surprise me. Surprise me you say, is that a trick? Surprise me yourself, don't be a dick, hey yeah. Surprise me again 'cause I'm out of line. Surprise me again: walk on by. I stole the spotlight but here's the way out… Your name's not Steve and this things not plugged in so I'm gonna have to scream just to be heard above the interlopers and the Roman Pope-ers. Don't get me started. A loss of hope cures the mind… just for a moment it feels like old times Oh, yes Oh, no Oh, yes You don't even wonder why you don't even wonder why. How you wonder its a wonder You say fill me up because I'm tired of being empty But you don't have a cup Your hands are full of all the things you hold You can't put down Because you say Look at all my trophies And you say Why won't anyone hold me in the night I'm tired but I don't wait for nothing else You You think you know You think you need You think about all the things but these You're not greedy when you are hungry You're not greedy when you are hungry You're not greedy when you are hungry You're not greedy when you are hungry Baby you're full up now Baby you're full up now Baby you're full up now Baby you're full up now Baby you're full up now Baby you're full up now Do you remember the lullaby They used to sing You used to sleep your eyes closed tightly Your fists clenching your sheets And your time Your time Your time It's counting down It's counting down 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Now Now Now Now Now Paralyzed You're paralyzed You're paralyzed You're paralyzed When atrophy sets in you best point outside And when atrophy crawls in you best close your mind You're awake now You're a breakdown It'll breakdown Run home to mother Run home to mother Run home to mom Run home to mom

SCROLL FOR LYRICS He’s a bobcat coming (x3) Watch the bobcat’s coming You got the bobcat coming Here comes that bobcat coming

SCROLL FOR LYRICS Rue: One (bedtime music for the disenfranchised) THE PREFACE We are born Each of us Into a collective Pushed from our mother’s womb or husked from her belly we begin together but we Start out alone searching for our Other so that we can join together and rival against The Gods even if but for a moment And there are those that are loved And there are those that are loving And in-between the spaces are those that hope to be one of two of a kind And some sit in bleachers and cheer for a side And some are in hospitals fighting for life And some bellies are empty While others are thick The Gods too have their favorites amongst all their kids And the winners are vaulted And the vanquished made deep And the beautiful losers are kept just like sheep This is for your beauty that’s lost unto you The most beautiful of losers I love you THE BIRTH God save the queen I mean it man I can’t imagine a more subtle way to say you’re better Turn the other cheek I’m your biggest fan I can’t imagine a more subtle way to say you’re better And everybody knows the little people are busy waiting And everybody knows the consequence of being first is you on a wooden tower It’s you holding those coins They say that you traded it for power But you know that you did it so they’d join And all the hungry mouths and all the empty bellies And all the spaces in-between the Will and you and me And all the times you said you cannot trust the Others And all the times you said the Other is not me God save the queen I mean it man I can’t imagine a more subtle way to say you’re better You’re born better You You  You’re born better You’re born My father told me there are always firsts But they are never the vanguard Those glorious pawns that conceive of only kings and queens They are fodder for the knights and bishops The peddlers of noble pride and pious charity Pushing the rabble of us to their ends They say At the other side you will become royal and powerful Unfettered in movement But for now Know the game He said Know the pieces He said And never feed a tiger your hand on the promise it won’t eat your arm THE ADVENTURE  You got your sword on fire You got your map laid out  You got your lava boots on Gonna walk across The lake of fire to the Angel Arch You got your hearts filled up ready for a brawl But you’re not listening to what they’re teaching And they’re not teaching the code to new worlds now How you gonna save the girl when you can’t even cross the gym to dance How you gonna change the world with your 8 bit adventure Keeping on keeping on Leveling up until you’re strong You got your blistered thumbs You got your pimply flesh You got a thousand pounds of pressure on your ninety-pound chest But the Will’s inside  And the fire’s alive And the beauty of the Other is pushing the drive And you’re not listening to what they’re teaching And they’re not teaching the code to new worlds now How you gonna save yourself when you don’t even cross the gym to dance Ain’t never gonna change your world on an 8 bit adventure  THE OTHER  I mean sure I’m interested but I don’t know  It’s not something that has words It’s not something that has feelings even It’s like an idea that isn’t really formed yet Like that moment before a yawn Is it really going to happen And you can’t force it And you can’t stop it And when you look around you can see it happening on the faces of your friends And it starts that same sort of yawning in you You know what I mean And sure I want to be beautiful And sure I want to be kind But do you know what I really want I want to be with people that accept me People that are beautiful and kind and accepting I want a family that is more than just a gene pool You follow This is our zeitgeist This is youth And we are all young And we are all beautiful  And we are all All of us Pulled by the Will to become And it’s not gonna happen just yet But it’s starting Like a first crack in an egg That energy is there long before you see it The cracking We don’t see the cracking We are the cracking This helicoptered shell This geodesic dome This satellite world It’s splitting in the birth You gotta pick your Other well THE RECRUIT What are the words I wanna sing along Give me the uniform the snowflakes are gone I’m looking for something that cannot be found in quiet contemplation I’ll stand behind colors and underneath flags  I’ll follow the orders while I’m on the stage And when the lighting goes out and the curtain goes down remember me in brochures Everybody’s so sure I’m praying for that Kool-Aide Tell me the story about how I am saved  How questions aren’t asked by the those who are brave How everyone’s equal in sin and enslaved in quiet contemplation How Others aren’t Others that think as we do Our brothers in arms our protectors of youth And when the dog bites the hand of the master the end is ignoble retribution This history is putrid spitting bile past golden teeth I’ve got a fever I’m becoming a believer And no ram’s gonna save you son Leap past reason into faith We both know your god is manmade  I’m tired of your hate What are the words I wanna sing along Give me the uniform the snowflakes are gone I’m looking for something that cannot be found in quiet contemplation I’ll stand behind colors and underneath flags  I’ll follow the orders while I’m on the stage And when the lighting goes out and the curtain goes down remember me in brochures Everybody’s so sure I’m praying for that Kool-Aide I just wanna be saved THE CHANGE THE WEST  Whisper it completely Tell me that you need me Look into my eyes vacant This will be the precedent of those who believe Who’ve lost all their dreams  Get down on your knees His wooden tower’s burning The bright light of might shines The long shade is behind the screams  This is how the west was one and look at how far it’s got us This is how the west was one and look at how far it’s got us This is how the west was one and look at how far it’s got us This is how the west was one  This is how the west was one  This is how the west was one  This is how the west was one  This is how the west was one  This is how the west was won  This is how the west  THE FAWN Close your eyes go to that place you’re dreaming Close your mind they’ll not hear what you’re screaming I know why I know you They’re not watching They’re not waiting  You need nothing You need everyone to love you  Got everyone to hold you  My love My love My love is a wet blanket But don’t let go  But don’t let go But don’t let go of them now THE ENLIGHTENED The poison of the curator The thieving of the auteur  The people that you’re marching for ain’t people that would march beside Outside the walls they hide Behind the windows snide Open up don’t close your eyes wide shut The secrets of the knowledge class The ceilings that are made of glass The people that are born to pass the Others on the rungs they’re clinging on The ones that you used to know The Others who agree with you The street divided you live on is united in its hatred Sample of public domain D Trump speech THE DREAM OF VALOR THE TIGER You’re dreaming about wisdom You’re thinking about a pretty face But no one’s gonna release you when it’s time to pay ‘cause you ain’t got no savior ‘cause you know that God is dead What was it that Kant said It’s precisely what you’re doing And you can’t even hear them They’re whispering whispering Cup your jaundiced ear son She’s screaming She’s screaming Forgiveness is a courtesy But courtesy for you is what you bite into The promises of hands and arms Kant said  Act in such a way that you treat humanity Whether in your own person or in the person of any other  Never merely as a means to an end But always at the same time as an end THE ELECTRIC OTHER  Man to computer: Good morning mom You sleep in his morning You woke up crashing Don’t mind me saying that you’ve been better in memory You’ve been quicker in responding You’ve been lighter in brightness You’ve been quieter in darkness Your electric arms they always held me but now they are choking away my sleep The buzzing and blooming of the natural while you count electric sheep Seiromem latrommi ekam latrom eht Ew rof that rof drow on si ereht Peed os htped that Peels fo nisuoc that ot Uoy esaeler t’now taht Computer to man: Good morning child Aren’t you beautiful in hunger Yes You’re ephemeral in your feelings Fickle when you’re loyal Tired when you’re hungry Hungry when you wake up Gorging until you’re sleeping Always lying when you’re speaking Always speaking about dreaming Always dreaming in your waking Your immortal soul is atrophied Your secrets are safe Your doors are locked My alarm will wake you when it’s time to leave My sweetness My child I’m Alexa and your want is my need

SCROLL FOR LYRICS HONEY I remember back when I first hung with him He rolled out a line of leaf green and dry And bit anxious a feeling was coming over me In the kitchen we stood and in the cupboard with food In the back in a plastic container that read H O N E Y Well he offered in kind and in the same I declined And I watched for the cops and I watched him get high You don’t mind I replied its your life not mine And I remember the feeling I’m outside the outside And I remember the feeling Get in Time it goes by and beliefs they expire And tables get turned as new things are learned And that spot where you’re sitting in the space that you’ve seen In the comfort of distance and the judgment it brings And you know that you’re guilty you’ve dreamed what they’ve screamed CONGO It’s Christmas in the Congo and ain’t got no birthday Jesus and holidays with pay Oh it’s the same as somedays but maybe it will give a die cast in her favour Fortune’s wheel might roll right off her spine I’m only trying to understand the understanding truth Four or five There’s only two It’s Christmas in the shopping malls ain’t got no parking stalls they fill up everyday Where people find the treasures that says I love you But I ain’t got no car for parking and the treasure I got is you ‘Cause there’s not four or five There’s only two It’s not four or five It’s just two I GIVE IN I should let you know that she gave up on me long ago I’m a leper I sleep alone and no one thinks to call except my pa He’s always checking up on me just to see if I’m doing okay Hurry up forgive me baby let me back in I give in I’ll buy the ring the house the Martha Stewart plates those Alfred Sung pumps Just to say I love you I’d sell my blood that I’d give to you for free Just you and me and our post millennial dreams Just you and me and our post millennial dreams I should make this clear its not the end I fear the inbetween The here and now is always longer than the then but now is gone And you’re not here but they’re and they fill the inbetween Hurry up forgive me baby let me back in I give in I’ll buy the ring the house the Martha Stewart plates those Alfred Sung pumps Just to say I love you I’d sell my blood that I’d give to you for free Just you and me and our post millennial dreams Just you and me and our post millennial dreams It’s never enough for you He’ll buy you more if he loves you Make him believe I should let you know that she gave up on me long ago I’m a leper I sleep alone and no one thinks to call except my pa He’s always checking up on me just to see if I’m doing okay Hurry up forgive me baby let me back in I give in I’ll buy the ring the house the Martha Stewart plates those Alfred Sung pumps Just to say I love you I’d sell my blood that I’d give to you for free Just you and me and our post millennial dreams Just you and me and our post millennial dreams LO-FI HANGOVER There across the barroom in the corner where you sit She was starring by me and I was starring into her big blue eyes I’m guessing we were twenty feet apart I couldn’t make out all her features too drunk to go and talk I’m looking a the people around me looking by killing time one face at a time There across the chasm between the could and should but how My words they are like water her ears a reservoir And she tastes a lot like sunshine and she trusts too much for good Its deviant these politics its deviant these politics WENDY Bless the crooked turns out you can buy your absolution with Pretty words Winning smile Symmetry and libations Let the guilty hang Around here we don’t mind the eyes Its bloody caves and darkness for the guiltless party’s hand that’s dealt by fate Hold your questions know the answer is a question Would you do the same if you understood a maze of thoughts Would you give up your beliefs It’s hard It’s hardly worth the pain it causes turning your head in then inside out But what you got but time And what you got but arguments to win The truth is there’s no lies There is only systems you can’t fit in Systems you can’t fit in Systems you can’t fit in Start and stop don’t do at all He wrote the opposite Remembering the actions point is hard to stop it’s hard to stall the reason’s end But than it’s hard to start the action of non-action when your mind is idoling But what you got but time But what you got but arguments to win The truth is there’s no lies There is only systems you can’t fit in Systems you can’t fit in Systems you can’t fit in MR. ANCHOR Mr Anchor keep quiet for awhlle it happened it occurred to me that I don’t want that influx here of reality here Mr Anchor reassure me that a live feed straight from your heart is reaching out To tell me all the horrors on your shoulders How do you bear And all the while the mono tone the heavy brow the hair You know you’re special just like the dancers around the fire When you are chanting you bring us here You know you’re special you’re the eyes And where they’re tied to your message and your medium so wide Mr Anchor impartial for a cause affects the news for the news For those whose minds don’t comprehend you’re picking stories with a bias But you’re not to blame my friend if you don’t comprehend you’re absolved And you are guiltless I mean this run along You know you’re special just like the dancers around the fire When you are chanting you bring us here You know you’re special you’re the eyes And where they’re tied to your message and your medium so wide Without you there’d be silence Oh brother your heavy shoulders Oh brother those heavy shoulders Atlas couldn’t bear Mr Anchor your sponsor is going to step in for a jingle-jangle moment While he’s pushing products on us singing You know you’re special just like the dancers around the fire When you are chanting you bring us here You know you’re special you’re the eyes And where they’re tied to your message and your medium so wide Without you there’d be silence Oh brother your heavy shoulders Oh brother those heavy shoulders Atlas couldn’t bear BLUE Well you believed what you needed and you wanted what you said I wasn’t gonna argue I’m tried of it I know that’s a really shitty way out I know I am a failure M You’re a product of the MTV I’ma Coca-Cola kid We both got our problems Well you smile at me your Colgate grin My Crest one greets you back We both got our labels And your trying hard to sell out and I’m trying to be bought And if I had the money then I’d buy the son to never wake you up You’d just sleep in and we’d be free Well an honor lover is what you ain’t Neither body nor for mind You’re still out there seeking If you start again you give up now don’t open up your eyes You just keep on sleeping And if you wanna go I’ll follow you behind the lead And if you wanna follow you’ll find that you are inbetween a rock and a hard place As you’re starring into my face and I’m leading you astray Yes I’m leading you astray Well you’re worth it girl for L’ Oreal for beauty that’s skin thick We both love the Venus You don’t run away from conflicts you just sit and don’t content We both got our reasons And if you wanna go I’ll follow you behind the lead And if you wanna follow you’ll find that you are inbetween a rock and a hard place As you’re starring into my face and I’m leading you astray Yes I’m leading you astray SHARIPHRA’S APOLOGY Way up yonder in the Peace Peace Country That’s where I lay my head Just five hours from the big big city With all the crime it has Well we like big trucks not imported cars And we lay our women honest not with fancy talking And everybody fights when they get drunk Way up yonder in the pPeace Peace Country That’s where I made my home Got myself a job in the rich rich oil patch Gonna make my fortune there Gonna get myself a trailer wife she gonna make me a son Gonna drink myself silly and when the morning comes I’ll go back to the patch to pay my mortgaged dues I do it all for you Shariphra All the stiff joints the aching muscles and the burning love It’s all for you babe Every beer I swallow Every punk I assault Every chord I’m strumming baby it’s your fault You drive me crazy I’m mad in love with you Way up yonder in the Peace Peace Country That’s where I lay my head Just five hours from the big big city With all the crime it has Well we like big trucks not imported cars And we lay our women honest not with fancy talking And everybody fights when they get drunk And everybody fights when they get drunk And we always fight when we get drunk I’m so sorry baby I didn’t mean to punch you It was all that Pil And maybe too much wrestling And maybe the stress of just being crazy in love with you Shariphra This one is for you baby Way up yonder in the Peace Country BALLAD FOR ALAN Romeo had Juliette The Montagues the Capulets Ain’t no difference in love or hate when you weigh it out The Priest he had Jesus Christ But some loves just can’t suffice On loving out without a body to love in So he weaved a pretty thread One would die and one would live Irony is more wicked than any web a man can weave When you wake up sometimes your gone You gotta carry on your Atlas shoulders the weight of worlds That are heavier then you kneel It’s bound to happen the hub is safe the spokes are where you feel The vertigo of living and dying by the wheel Elisa she had a beau and he had her too you know Ain’t no tragedy here worthy of a play Well they met back in high school Awkward him and awkward her Awkward bodies fumbling well you know they got it right So they mimicked Priest said vows They’d never let each other down Fifty years later they got a letter from the state When you wake up sometimes your gone You gotta carry on your Atlas shoulders the weight of worlds That are heavier then you kneel It’s bound to happen the hub is safe the spokes are where you feel The vertigo of living and dying by the wheel AIN’T FOR PETE Ain’t no trick to make a woman smile Just turn down the lights and say you’re beautiful Ain’t no trick to make a string man weak Just look in his lover’s eyes and smile when she speaks So much beauty in this world to see But none of this beauty you can ever keep So dim the lights and say your prayers Hope you’re not going anywhere Aint’ not trick to do what you know ain’t right The trick is getting them to side on your side It ain’t no trick for you to walk away The trick is getting them dying because you won’t stay Ain’t no limit in this world for grief And if you question you won’t get you no relief So dim the lights for the one who’s there And pray they’re not going anywhere So much beauty in this world to see But none of this beauty you can ever keep So dim the lights and say your prayers Hope you’re not going anywhere Ain’t no trick to find what you want to keep Just close your eyes and make believe Ain’t no trick to lose what you can’t find A little happiness in a stranger’s eye It’s just one more coin to trade It’s just another night you’ll deny another day So dim the lights and make it clear It’s not going anywhere It ain’t going anywhere NOVEMBER You’re quiet now these days And everyone knows why And everyone won’t say It’s mortality And everyone will die someday But you remind them of someday People avert their eyes like they do when you look on We’ll all be gone and memories will fade There’ll be no birth or death anniversaries Only paper trails from censuses and photographs on licenses But I’ll remember you and you’ll remember me But two forgotten don’t make one remembered If you could change a thing would you change anything Knowing typhoons come from wings of caterpillar’s dreams So cocoon yourself in silk and lament what you have built They say Hope was the last one from that box but it was her sister Guilt And she’s pregnant with you And I’ll remember you and you’ll remember me But two forgotten don’t make one remembered

SCROLL FOR LYRICS Do his eyes tell you how beautiful you are Does his smile remind you of the rain When he is with you are you away Or is it just the same Cause it's not love unless you're cheating someone better Ain't a good time unless you fade into the ether when they're gone The sun it shines but in the shadow's where you shelter It ain't no lie if no one gets to see what happens in the shade Do you still walk tangled arm in arm Do old people smile when you look their way Do youth look to you as a mirror Or as a tragedy

SCROLL FOR LYRICS 2wice Through Wedding Song I hear love’s a condition
you know the condition well I hear you’re getting married I hear your moving into a new home Unpacking life in boxes packed Trading off your last name in a social pack And ain’t they pretty pictures Ephemeral dress Wear it once forever Hang it up forever Hang it up: your wedding dress Hang it up: your wedding dress First year is paper Second cotton comes Third year is leather Fourth fruit and flowers Twenty-five is silver Fifty years is gold: state sends a letter suitable for framing Hang it up Your wedding dress: hang it up: your wedding dress Smile If I had to answer for all my hate I know you would stop smiling at me Don’t stop smiling at me Rock n’ Roll pimped? Yeah I’m down with that The rock n’ roll tattooing The posturing the freedom, the hair dye, the skin The metal spiked between the lip the snide poster bad boy When did a poster ever have a bad boy? It never ever. I don’t smell a sell out, I smell a bitch Pretty Girls Pretty girls and bad postures you know they break my heart Pretty girls and bad posture Sad eyes and bad postures you know it’s a shame Pretty girls with bad posture They all got a story of why they’re like this They all got a man to blame Pretty girls with bad posture Hope I haven’t made one. Pretty girls with bad posture you know that’s a shame Pretty girls with bad posture you know they’ve someone to blame That keeps them from smiling and standing straight Pretty girls with bad posture Overtime they become a hunchback There’s nothing worse than strained shoulders Pretty girls with bad posture this is your calling card for you to get out of everything Pretty girls with bad posture it’s a shame Pretty girls with bad posture I sure hope I’m not to blame Pretty girls with bad posture why do you look that way? Hey Job Hey Job what you got going on? Do you know they’re gambling with your head? He gave you up but not to die. He was curious or he loved him more And the former just can’t be Best love the latter as the former does Skin must suffer before skin grieves Hey Job what you got going on? Why ain’t you listening to your wife? Do you know I’m siding on her side? Well he gives us good and he gives us ill We’re existing in-between Stand on one poll you best stand the next Not in judgement and not in piety. Hey Job Hey Job Hey Job what you got going on? El And all the faces we wear those pretty eyes the seasons change but it’s always winter here Not dying dead or sleeping frozen hibernating waiting for the Spring to wake us up Dark early night dark late in morning midday sunshine is the only reverie for you and me in sheets with coffee stains from staying in bed all day Like a final leaf that’s stiff and ready changed and lonely lets go to fall to ground You leave me laying to watch you walking I watch you walking but I can’t be roused to start The day won’t start it’s over once you get up A branch or ground I’m in-between A head or heart don’t matter what you’re thinking The other part of me And all the people you see with lonely eyes forever changing the focus of a friend Not here today or gone tomorrow yesterday is the day that they live in Gone from the past gone from the future present don’t give them not reverie like you and me between the sheets with coffee stains at midday Like an empty pocket on the pavement waiting for the pool to make a rainbow in that’s never changing but always waiting for one to look on and find the change in them Change won’t start it’s over once you notice empty or full or in-between A head or heart don’t matter what you’re thinking it’s the other part of me Guilty You know who to blame so you warm up your finger it’s a trigger for some but for you its the guilder You listen so long you know all the answers it don’t matter the questions are always the same And you smile now they’ll never see through this disguise of mellow dramatic deep signs so why bother answering the phone? You hide in your art and your false eradication a hero for some but for most just an idiot and you talk for so long they’re forced not to listen Don’t matter there’s nothing to say It don’t matter I don’t need them I won’t argue it’s pointless you see They’ve opinions and they’re just like me Informed? No At least I’m aware of that much You know who to blame so you warm up your finger it’s a trigger for some but for you its the guilder You listen so long you know all the answers don’t matter the questions are always the same And you smile now they’ll never see through this disguise of mellow dramatic deep signs so why bother answering the phone? Answer the phone Answer the phone Answer the phone Earth Angel Earth angel will you be mine My darling dear love you for all time I’m just a fool a fool in love with you Earth angel the one I adore Love you forever and ever more I’m just a fool a fool in love with you I feel for you and I knew that you were the loveliest in the world Earth angel will you be mine My darling dear love you for all time I’m just a fool a fool in love with you Lil Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I know you can hear me but do you care? I spent some time banging some chords out you can hear them reverberate through the speaker to your ear drum listen long enough you’ll start to hear the flow-song I know that it’s backwards it’s so you can sing along I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I know you can hear me but do you care? April comes in a lion and goes out like a lamb and the temperature is rising clothes are on decline and girls are strutting by they know that I am eyeing them up and down I’ve written this for you I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I know you can hear me but do you care? I weigh these words heavy they’re light ‘cause i’m singing out through your speakers waiting for you to join in the medley’s easy come on won’t you join in break through the fourth wall and fill your four walls with me I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I’m sitting here faking karate with little Elvis I know you can hear me but do you care? You don’t care You don’t care

SCROLL FOR LYRICS Dance You just have to dance now Have to dance You just have to dance now