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Dogma
01:44
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i'm a dog
i'm a boy
i'm a doggone boy
i lay at your feet
hide my teeth
i gotta another home down the street
i wear boy clothes
i smell like dirt
i'm delighted when you're hurt
i wanna be pet
i wanna leave a mess
just a doggone boy
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2. |
How You Grew Up
02:18
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i grew up with a church next door
and a church right down the street
the bible was a stepping stone
but i had slippery feet
you were jehovah witness
your mama put it in your baby food
you didn't stand up for the pledge of allegiance
and you didn't play sports in school
the christian kids were the street-punk kids
rebelling against normal haircuts
singing angry songs about the price of sin
but when they closed their eyes to pray
my mind took me some place far away
away from their small minds
and out of my small mind
and if you're looking for me, god
i'm sleepin' in on sunday
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3. |
Degrees
01:33
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if you say you're over me then you're a liar
i've been trying so hard to put out this fire
but i'm drunk again calling you
not sure what i'm trying to do
i had dreams about you where i woke up crying
know how you felt when you said you were dying
it's too late
now you're so far away
they say we're all connected by seven degrees
i swear it's only one when it comes to you and me
'cause everything i say and do
yet somehow leads me back to you
and i know there's things that i wanna say
but they'll probably just come out wrong anyway
now the ties that bind are frayed at the ends
so that's while i'll never come home again
because our ghosts are everywhere
laughing in my face
oh they whisper through my hair
it hurts too much to hang around
god i hate this town
i can't sleep
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4. |
Lucky Luck
02:51
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everyday you wake up
you've been a lucky one
everyday you wake up
you have dead skin crusted on your eyelids
everyday you wake up
you send clouds down the drain
wasting hot water in the shower
wash it all away
stand naked and look at yourself now
you're just a beast with a name
but then you try to make it more complex
when you give it a name, ambition, and sex
we always want so much more
a good morning is when i can't feel my brain
a good morning is when i can't feel the weight of the world
everyday you wake up
lucky you
you wake up
lucky you
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5. |
Snapper's Jaw
01:42
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summertime is here again
i can't tell you where i've been
swimmin with the fish again
i'm sorry
one time i saw the snapper's jaw
curved and hard and ancient
we'd swim out of water as fast as we could go
jump back in the water and curl up our big toes
god i miss the summertime
when the only things we worried about
was losing our fingers and toes
summertime
it will be here again
and it will be so easy
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6. |
Once, Twice, Etc.
03:19
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i was in love once
i was in love two times
baby, baby
i thought that love was dead
but i took another step
i thought that love was dead
now i've got an owl's head
it's turning around
do you know how i feel about you?
i saw you today come through the door of my workplace
i almost dropped everything
but i just stood in place
so you could draw me in
draw me out
draw me better than i've ever been before
don't leave me behind
smash me between the pages of your life
do you know how i feel about you?
i'll do anything that you want to
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7. |
Shoplifter
01:35
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i used to shoplift
fill my shit
lost my nerve
so then i quit
yeah i'd for head for the door
with my pockets full
playin it cool
i was playin it cool
i was a christian
hungry for bread
i saw it was stale
i had pizza instead
wanted the flavor
i got the doubt
and with greasy intestines
i shit it all out
i've never done the wrong thing
i just follow the feeling
i was an athlete
a real showboat
i ran round that track
till i had puke in my throat
i still got glory in my heels
yeah, i got wheels
you should see how i run away
and i was a good lover once
but my heart turned into a sail
catchin the wind from all directions
and destined to fail
i was destined to fail
i was no good
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8. |
Only Human
02:00
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we're only human
'cause we can say we're something else
we can be where we are
be beyond where we are
jump through mirrors to kick ourselves
and we're only human
'cause we can want something else
cheers to us all
we've survived so well
now we think about more than just food like:
sleeping and fighting
eating and sleeping
fucking and fighting
drinking and buying
drinking and dying
how can you ask me to distance myself
from the shapes of these houses and wires overhead
challenge the lines on my face that know
how i like to worry on as i go
you'll take it to work
you're qualified for life
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9. |
Lyon
02:26
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we're drinking
the ground's getting softer
you're getting softer on me
in the east the cement stays colder
you gotta dance harder to warm it up
in the east some say america's wicked
it's not wicked
it's where i live
i breathe mistrust from my government
but it's just fog on the window
it's just my breath on the window
flying by fences in the euro union
an american after election day
when you can't hide in language
you can't hide at all
so what do you have to say?
give myself time to stare out of the window
let myself go out of my body
we're driving somewhere
i'm blowing in the wind
movement is a sensational feeling
it's my feeling
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10. |
Playground
02:39
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i am too eager
you're a school teacher
i spit on the playground
you made me write cursive
and stay in for recess
play you in a game of tetherball
winner take all
the sun is swinging high over my head
you know it's not fair
cry if it's a rainy day
i need my time outside to play
cry if it's a rainy day
i need hot asphalt under my feet
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11. |
Search Party
02:17
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you'll have to search
in the house i grew up in
dig through the insulation
to find my prayers
you'll have to search
in the house i grew up in
check the blankets i whispered into
for my prayers
you won't find them here
sometimes i forget that i don't pray anymore
then i catch myself whispering to no one in the dark
god bless my family
and the ones who have gone before me
god give me strength that i can keep
when i know you don't hear me
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12. |
Lie With Me
02:13
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lie with me
even though you're mad at me
i just wanna watch you breathe
before you walk away from me
i run around
stomping the minutes deep in the ground
if i were a bird
i'd be a crow with one wing flying circles for a song
let the sun go down
i know it's hard to endure something so slow
there's a flash of light before it goes out of sight
we'll act like we might do the same
it's been a dull morning
there's nothing good inside of me
it's just bread and tea
some aftertaste of you
there's ice on the ground
i swear it's got it in for me
when it's trying to freeze up my joints
but i've got to be free
let the sun melt it all away
make water down the sewer drain
a little river in a city street
that flows on
it flows on
and the water's cool
it flows on
you can say it's cruel
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13. |
Wanna Smoke?
02:00
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do you wanna smoke again?
when i feel like
it doesn't matter
do you wanna stand up again?
though i feel like
what does it matter?
drive out of the city we live in
leave our money and tips at a restaurant
in a town with a name we can't say
today could be the day you die
and i could say it doesn't matter
your skin could rip off like animal skin
and you've see it on the roadside
it doesn't matter
oh you know you could lose your life
oh you know you could lose your mind
but fuck it all
it's partytime
you either die in a car crash or die on the front line
we die
burn your belongings
throw all your money away
try to live like jesus
there's still gas stations along the way
and everything's on sale!
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