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HOLD ON HOLD ON
I never thought that I
Would ever have a need
To say hold on
Things are never going to change
So I grabbed my wine
And a ghetto Jeep
I said look out
Hands are going to grab your feet
Although I set
Out for the open shore
My mind’s bereft
It rests with the bones on the shore
// Everything you want you saw on
// Saw it on the pages of Nylon
// And no you never let go
// Though it never gets cold
But hopefully you’ll find us
I’ll be in the hole
Hopefully you know damn well
That I’ll never tell
So we made a pact
That we’d never come back you know
And say hold on
Things are never going to change
So I’m standing still
Back to the safe spot
And say hold on
Things are never going to change
Although I set
Out for the open shore
My mind’s bereft
It rests with the bones on the shore
// Everything you want you saw on
// Saw it on the pages of Nylon
// And no you never let go
// Though it never gets cold (just don’t leave anything out)
But hopefully you’ll find us
I’ll be in the hole
Hopefully you know damn well
That I’ll never tell
LISTEN UP!
Listen up
I am trying to tell you a story
that could potentially
one day save your small life
break you down
and gradually beat you up
How many times must I say
The same things the same way I’ve said them before
And I lost what my heart said
One more day to gradually beat you up
It’s just that you were trying not to say that you know
and I got what you wanted to know
I’m sinking in
But you say that you don’t know
I didn’t even want it but you just don’t know
And I got what you wanted to know
I’m sinking in but you say that you don’t know
Just to be sad
Oh not but you don’t want
I think you’ve got it all wrong
All wrong but you say no,
Yeah it was the best time
The only time
The right time
So listen up
LOST IN A BINDING TIE
I shot the shit
And thought it missed
Can you give up the fight?
Lost in a binding tie
Going somewhere that I’ll never know
We said it all and hit the wall
Lights floating out to sea
All lights float eventually
Sink or swim into the sea
Cash Cash it calls
Now paying for four walls
Getting harder than I thought it would be
Lights float eventually
Sink or swim into the sea
Heeding the call
I swore and sold all of the things
That I thought I had wanted to be
Cash calls eventually
Sink or swim into the sea
We said it all and hit the wall
Lights floating out to sea
All lights float eventually
Sink or swim into the sea
Can’t count the times
We made it past shrines
Of the things that we had wanted to be
Lights float eventually
Sink or swim into the sea
ON A HOLIDAY
On a holiday
In early June late May
You gave your heart away
To another
Undercover
We walked offsides
And then we shrugged it off
We got on
And now it’s off
So you said to me
Baby you look so green
Well I suppose
That baby you don’t know
You said to me
We got to get our hearts off our sleeves
Well I suppose
That baby you don’t know
Yeah I know I miss you
You got to break her down
To kiss you
And if we both fall apart
You take our love and make a brand new start
So you said to me
We got to get our hearts off our sleeves
Well I suppose that baby you don’t know
You said to me
We got to get our hearts to leave
Well I suppose
That baby you don’t know
Yeah I know I miss you
You got to break her down
To kiss you
And if we both fall apart
You take our love and make a brand new start
SASHA
Sasha says she loves you
All you gotta do is just know it
But Dean says Sasha’s greater
Sasha says that Dean just blew it
He said have not
given all we got
Just to settle the same old scores
But baby you can’t know
Trudy says she’s on it
Even when she’s uncomfortable
Billy says he knows it
Even though Billy rarely knows
He said we have not
given all we got
Just to settle the same old scores
But baby you can’t know
We said it,
“Baby please,
You’ve got the right to know.
I said it all
All on the microphone
And if you ever stop
I know you won’t be wise.”
She’s the tops
I was the biggest lie.
I LEFT HOME
I left home
Off by the side of the road
I could not act casual
We got trapped
Caught up by the same odd attack
But now looking back
How could I ever know?
Just to be around
When you say it’s
The sound that you’ll never know
I got mine
Cause I took yours
She’s alright
She tells me most every night
I hate when she looks aside
To say that you never do wrong
Still I gotta say go
Don’t you know?
Oh no I gotta say this is my time
And not yours
You’re the only one in the world
Oh no I gotta say this
She’s alright
She tells me most every night
I hate when she looks aside
To say that you never do wrong
But then she jumped back
She tells me don’t look back
Hate when she looks aside
To say that you never do wrong
HOBBY HUNTER
Yeah I got a heart
It was weak
Weak from the start
The veins and ventricles
Born torn apart
Nurses now weak at their knees
They cried out, “Oh doctor oh please oh please!
Tell us he’s not another catastrophe!”
The doctor slumped down and he cried
His heart now beating,
Heavy on the inside
He dried his eyes and sighed
And never ever got up
The nurses now weak at their knees cried out
As the doctor you say you know
Takes a Polaroid and he let’s go
A heart says you’ll never know
That everything will be just fine
Just like I told you so
On the end of the line
The doctor slumped down and he cried
His heart now bleeding
Heavy blood congealing on the inside
He cried out,
You know you never told me
Anything about me till you got stressed.
I studied all the maps and charts and photographs that they handed out.
I’m breaking through but all I see is only you.
We set it of now we’re bound for a heart healthy attack.
Yeah well you never say you were wrong
I often thought about
How your heart says you’ll never know I was fine
But meanwhile you never say
That the right way
Was tacky but you’d never know
I was fine.
HONEY AND BUTTERCUP
I have never been the one to complain but
There is something that I just have to say
What would you do love?
If you’re my honey and buttercup,
I hope you know
If there’s anything you wanted
Anything you say that you love at all
I don’t thing it’s great now
You just don’t give a fuck now
It’s harder to say you know
When you think it through
SOSO (Same Old Same Old)
I woke up 20 years too late
To find out I’m still in the same old state
So come on
I need all your love
Let’s give in
To give up
And get out
Come on,
You know I love you so much
It’s the saddest song that has ever been sung
But then you tend to say
That you feel the way I do
I give up
And get out
To the same old same old
So Sophie,
How about a little bit of sympathy
I get all I need to please me by myself
So Angilee,
How about a little bit of sympathy
I get all that I need when you’re near
Come on,
you know i love you so much
It’s the saddest song that has ever been sung
But then you tend to say
That you feel the way I do
I give up
And get out
To the same old same old
YOU TALK TOO MUCH
So Sandy
I’m on time
Though you drifted
Across the line
You know you’d never be quite right
If you went sailing on the sea at night
So Sandy
I know it’s right
If you lay on top the sand all night
You know you’d see above the trees
When you went walking with me
Said you’d never be on time
Kojack the crest of the mezzanine
When I come back from work
You’re always fast asleep
So Sandy
We know it’s right
If you would drift across the sea all night
You know you got to get out and go home
But you’d never see what you’re supposed to see
Don’t set your sights
At such great heights
Cause you’re bound
To be let down
Down, down
Low, low
It’s not what you wanted to know
But how was I supposed to know
If you say that you’re
Never going to get it right
Then how come you say
That you thought that you know?
You talk too much
And you never follow through
KENTUCKY WOMAN
Kentucky woman
You have the sweetest symmetry
Kentucky woman
Last night you made a fool out of me
And with just one glance
You took the romance
And sucked it out of me
Having never met
Oh no I don’t regret
Having never set foot
In your arms unconditionally
I think I feel like
I’m falling for you
And I don’t know how
I think the thought
And then it came true
And with just one glance
You took the romance
And sucked it out of me
KENTUCKY do I love her?
KENTU can see why I need her
KENTU can see why
I try to get by
So I get mine
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
When I stepped from that train
Of thought I lost my way
As I drifted again
You saw me and did nothing
Arrivals and departures
Drift like our fathers
So what I don’t care
When we lost that feeling
Girl we quit believing
So what I don’t care
Don’t she get the message
Yes she does but he’s not listening
Won’t admit he fucked up
Went to fast in the Colt Vista
Arrivals and departures
Drift like our fathers
So what I don’t care
When we lost that feeling
Girl we hit that ceiling
So what I don’t care
Arrivals and departures
Drift like our fathers
So what I don’t care
When we lost that feeling
Girl we quit believing
So what I don’t
So what she don’t
So what I don’t care
GIRLFRIEND
Girlfriend
Is this the start of the end of us?
Red lights
Stop signs
Keep me from getting to you
But now we’re through
Why then can’t I find that something
In this town
I’m sorry can’t we sort it out?
It makes me feel sorry
That I loved you only because
At night we said the far stove’s on
And if I scream my lungs out
Would you forget him?
Regret that you met him?
And if I seem quite distressed
It’s cause I’m depressed
That you love him more than you loved me
Why then can’t I find that something
In this town
I’m sorry can’t we sort it out?
It makes me feel sorry
That I loved you only because
At night the best is yet to come
And then
When you’re down and wasted
I’ll be there
You’ll call
We’ll talk
And happy together we’ll be
Just like the beginning
Of this fan assault
It makes me so hot
Can we sort it out
You make me feel sorry
That I loved you only because
At night
I’m on fire
Cause you said it all
SAD TO SAY
Sad to say
I stopped trying today
When I found out
That the tongue of my girl
Was stuck in the mouth of another
I followed that wake
Sidewards and straight
But it’s all talk
And she threw me
Down and out on the sidewalk
Oh girlfriend
That’s the end
Of what once was
A big installment
So she left him
For another
And it came out
Feeling assaulted
Sad to say
I stopped living today
When she left me
And I’m sorry
For all the things that I said
I followed that wake
Sidewards and straight but it’s all talk
And she threw me
Down and out on the sidewalk
Oh girlfriend
That’s the end
Of what once was
A big installment
So she left him
For another
And it came out
Feeling assaulted
So she left him
For another
And it came out
Feeling assaulted
Oh fine then
Can you tell me why we’re crying?
Cause it eeked out
A little piece of my heart
THE CONSTRUCTION
Evan is alright
Everyone cares
Q tipped me off
That I don’t take that dare
She’s afraid of something
Though it’s nothing at all
Keeps living in her head
They’ll leave nothing left out
After all
All it sad and done
I have fallen out
She has killed herself
After all
Evan’s missing something but it’s nothing at all
He felt it from the offset begin
She’s afraid of something but it’s nothing at all
Call on the construct
And fall becomes all
All is sad and done
I have fallen out
She has killed herself
After all
I need it
I loved it
I showed it
Now fall becomes all
All is sad and done
I have fallen out
She has killed herself
After all
BOSS
When I finally find out
Please don’t say it’s a cop out
As long as you didn’t
And when I finally blow out
Please don’t say that you noticed
I wasn’t sure
Please don’t take it away
If for a day
Say that you’ll stay out
Please don’t take it away
If for a day
Say that you’ll stay out
And when I finally reached out
All I got was a piece of paper
Saying why and why not we
Could be together complete
Now I’m unsure
Please don’t take it away
If for a day
Say that you’ll stay out
Please don’t take it away
If for a day
Say that you’ll stay out
IT ALL DEPENDS
So you say you’re back to busing tables
I don’t think that was right
I’m inclined to say that I once needed you
But you’re still just the same
And there’s no one left to blame
Cause it all depends
On whether or not
You’re with your friends
And now I’m sorry
But you turned quickly
In the other direction from me
Sorry now about me flying off the handle
We both know how I can get
So tell you friends and their
That I’m sorry now
For the things that I read
And those nasty things I said
Cause it all depends
On whether or not
You’re with your friends
And now I’m sorry
But you turned quickly
In the other direction from me
DIRTY SUNDAY
If I’m dirty Sunday
Would you love me Monday?
I think we both know
That if we stuck it out right
It wouldn’t last but one night
I think that’s for sure
See, I go in a new wave of sound
And I guess I’m on your side
Then you say
You feel the way I do
And I guess I’m on your side
The corner stone’s been taken
Saying he’s mistaken
I get it all the time
She says it’s not my business
Cause I’m always her
I get it all the time
So sad in a new wave of sound
Then I guess I’m on your side
So stop, then it’s overcome
Then I guess I’m on your side
ACTUAL AIR
I give you affection
And you take what you need
When I need some attention
You just want me to leave
And it next revolution
When I know that you care
I would reach out to touch you
But you’re never ever there
So try so hard tonight
To feel those sunbeams between my eyes
And if I need it
Would you believe it
Couldn’t foresee this tonight
You coming on strong
And I just couldn’t know
Though I still have glucosamine
The cracks still got me
I got a feeling that I’m lonely
And I know that you care
When I reached out to touch you
All I got was actual air
So try so hard tonight
To feel those sunbeams between my eyes
And if I need it more
Would you believe that it’s for sure?
At night we can’t predict the storm
But you live in the past world
And it’s OK
In that crash united day of late may
I got a feeling I’m lonely
And I know that you care
When I reached out to touch you
All I got was actual air
So try so hard tonight
To feel those sunbeams between my eyes
And if I need it more
Would you believe that it’s for sure?
At times I want to tell it all
THE IMPERSONAL SUPERTRIBE
Positively
I felt for you once
I had no idea
Feeling was not right
You and I
We take it on the outside
You and me
We feel it from within and out
Call
If you got to follow me out of town
Let’s go
Over what I do with any other fool
But you can’t be ignored
Choices
I got all I ever needed
Voices
On my side
Romance
All my insides
See if can
With my outsides
TEARS FALL
Tears fall
From my eyes when you call
And you say
That you’ll stay
Then you go
What more
Could I want to explore?
When you’ve shown me that door
So many times before
I never thought I’d lose you
So I abused you
I never thought I’d need you
Thought I’d just lead you on
Now I’m solo
I am feeling so low
Now you’re gone and
I’m feeling so much less strong
I’ve changed
Got my life rearranged
Had my head in the clouds
Now it’s out
I’ve always been
At most 20 minutes
Ahead of know who
And now you’re gone
I never thought I’d lose you
So I abused you
I never thought I’d need you
Thought I’d just lead you on
Now I’m solo
I am feeling so low
Now you’re gone and
I’m feeling so much less strong
Cause tears they fall
HEART TAKES
Riding the rails of outrageous fortune
Given all the pieces but never building them up
Living at breakneck speeds the same way that your father lived
You like the way the wind feels on your face with the windows down
Put the windows down now
It’s time to get up
In case no one was ever kind enough to tell you
Nothing’s going to happen
Unless you make it happen for yourself
It’s time to get up get out get going
It’s time for you to participate
You don’t want to look back at these years and have a hole where the heart takes.
You’re always
Always at arm’s length
You’re picking up the pieces but never building them up
Living at breakneck speeds
Then give him a ride from home to mom.
This is what it feels like to have a hole where the heart takes.
Everyone and all their friends
Told you that it was pretend.
You know what you’ve got to do.
Cause I just laid it all for you.
INDIAN SUMMER
I thought I left it all behind
I think about you and it shows
The summer days have passed and gone
No need to worry now
No need to hurry now
Endless days we spend apart
Meet at night and go to shows
I’m watching you dance in the moonlight
You know I need you now
You know I feel you now
Together let us be
Forever you and me.
Together let us be
Forever you and me.
I walk through Paris in the sun
Ignore myself and everyone
To keep myself from giving in
Before we find ourselves
Floating down the Seine
Homesick drunk and having fun
Ignore myself and everyone
To keep myself from giving in
You know I need you now
You know I feel you now
Together let us be
Forever you and me.
Together let us be
Forever you and me.
So hold me down
I might need you
To hold me down
I’m slipping through
Together in the sun
It’s you me and no one
Together in the sun
It’s you me and no one
I love you
RED THREAD
Take me to the bar
And tell me what I need
Honey how’s that my fault?
I’m stranded out at sea.
You’re taking this too far
Just tell me what you need.
You cursed my name again.
Take me to the bar
And tell me what I need
Honey how’s that my fault?
I’m stranded out at sea.
You’re taking this too far
Just tell me what you need.
You cursed my name again.
La da dee da…
I see her
Shining
I’m rising
Erasing my world
Won’t you find me
No I found myself
On a red thread
La da dee da…
SUN GOES
Sun goes down for me too may I show you now
Sun goes down for me too I need to know yeah
Maybe if tonight
Baby if tonight
Oh yeah
UNBREAKABLE
Unbreakable
But bound by the bounds of my own insights
I thank the Lord
For giving me two eyes so I could see the light
Darling can’t you see
I’m drowning out at sea
And I don’t know just what to do
I’m heading the call
I swore and sold all of the things that I thought that I could be
When the last one is the first one
I’ll know that I made the right choice
Holding on steadfast as the rising winds and hurricanes come out
And planes crash into planes
And nothing ever stays the same for so long
I got these feelings drilling down into my bones
These feelings they’re unknown
And it’s the caustic cautionary tale
That was the word and final sale
Oh but I still do try
And I just don’t know why
Why you didn’t call me up on the telephone
To hear you cry
You say that you love to leave
And you leave me standing saying goodbye
So so long when you say that you know
You say that you love to leave
And then you leave me all alone
But I don’t know why
I got shut out
SHOOTS
Shoots
What if I don’t want to drive into town tonight
I could say that I got a flat
Or that the car wouldn’t start
And that would be that
I could be at home and off the hook
And not back where I need
To be in 9 hours at 7:43 for a meeting
That is assuming
I can beat the rush hour traffic
Then I’d find a decent place to park my car
Hopefully it’s not too far from my office building
Cause the walk is hilly
Much much hillier than it needs to be
And this week the rain’s supposed to be pounding
And I don’t have a jacket that can handle it
Or at least I think I might have left it on my desk at work
Along with a game I’ve been meaning to play
Shoots what if I don’t want to drive into town tonight
I said I hope you know
I just want to see you