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Clocked
03:18
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I’m not going to work today
Gonna stay at home
I’m not going to work today
Gonna stay at home
Gonna count my heartbeats
While I sit around alone.
I swore I locked the door
They broke it down but everything’s fine
I swore I locked the door, they
Broke it down but everything’s fine
I told you before
You won’t see me again for a long time.
I’ve known the truth a while now
Couldn’t tell you so
I’ve known the truth a while now
Couldn’t tell you so
But I got what I need now
And you got what you need to know.
So as I drove to your house
All the lights were green
As I drove to your house
All the lights were green
And I knew when I got there
You would be waiting for me.
So as I drove to your house
All the lights were green
As I drove to your house
All the lights were green
And I knew when I got there
You would be waiting for me.
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We read my books together
When we were only 17
We’d get real high and argue
How much less punk could we be?
I stumbled off to class
I killed some time, I bummed a light
I wasn’t sure if you were wrong,
I wasn’t sure if I was right
If I was mistaken,
Accept a full apology from me
Will you, please?
I thought I knew just what it means
To be alive, to be around,
To be on time, no counting down
That’s when I know it’s not about
The things you do, but the people you hang around.
By age 21,
I thought I’d learned a thing or three
I’d come home after work
And play this guitar faithfully
So then we went down to the road
The one we walked a thousand times before
You told me that you loved me
Now, but how could I ever be sure?
If I was mistaken,
Accept a full apology from me
Will you, please?
I thought I knew just what it means
To be alive, to be around,
To be on time, no counting down
That’s when I know it’s not about
The things you do, but the people you hang around.
And so the sun came up this morning
And everybody knew just where we’d been
But I wasn’t ashamed
‘Cause I was standing with my friends
And so the sun came up this morning
And everybody knew just where we’d been
But I wasn’t ashamed
‘Cause I was standing with my friends
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3. |
Abraham's Wife
02:56
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I walk behind in every row
I never win but I’m never slow
Don’t be too near, don’t come too close
Touch from a distance, then leave alone
With your bathroom fights and kitchen knives
And all your friends someday will die
Thank God for love, mercy, and grace
But you can’t come back, can’t stay awake
It’s hard to know all the things I’m knowing.
It ain’t easy when you aren’t the things you are.
A friend walks home in the rain
But I wasn’t there, I felt no pain
Just wear the clothes you wore before
The shoes don’t fit—my feet are sore
I had a dream, you bound my chest
You cut my hair, you tore my dress
It wasn’t real, it never is
I know you support me, I kiss your lips
A river cuts a ribbon through the trees,
And the summer sun sets behind them.
A river cuts a ribbon through the trees,
And the summer sun sets behind them.
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4. |
Bad Electricity
03:34
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I swear there’s something I missed,
Driving too drunk past your interstate exit
It’s kind of like the feeling when you lose something great
We took our chances as we crossed the state,
Too busy shouting at you ‘cause you were making us late
The place we’re looking for doesn’t even exist anymore
Missed opportunities are all that I know
If you’re someone like me, you ain’t got nothing to show
For all the nights that you tried to get over yourself
Or maybe someone else who needed your help,
They were crying, begging, don’t put them on a shelf, well
You never thought anyone would bring you this low.
There’s a bad electricity in the air
You can’t get away, ‘cause it’s everywhere.
Sitting, listening to Pat the Bunny, he’s
The only guy who’s never lied to me
He’s my favorite next to Craig Finn from the Hold Steady
And I never could figure out why
Ian Curtis had to die so young
He must’ve been feeling like we do,
He must’ve been not having fun.
There’s a bad electricity in the air
You can’t get away, ‘cause it’s everywhere.
‘Cause here’s a bad, bad, bad electricity in this air
You can’t get away from it,
No, no, no.
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5. |
While You're Alive
02:15
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When you're a ghost,
When you're a ghost,
They'll sit around and talk about
How they liked you the most
When you're a dream,
When you're a dream,
I'll wake up to warm sun-rays
That make me want to scream
I wanna let you know while you're alive
Because everybody loves you when you die
But when it matters, they're not there
Not there
When love is dead,
When love is dead
We'll remember gentle nudges
That were keeping us in bed
Or laughing at funerals,
Or queasy at carnivals
Listening to heartbeats slowing down
As we keep growing old
I wanna let you know while you're alive
Because everybody loves you when you die
But when it matters, they're not there
Not there
I gotta let you know while you're alive
Cause I'll be a disaster when you die
Chubby body, wet hair, don't care
It's not like the love that they showed us on T.V
It's a home that can burn, it's a limb to freeze
It's worry
Love is worry
Love is worry
Love is worry
Love is worry
Love is worry
Yeah.
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6. |
Annie Wilkes
03:14
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Yesterday I tore up a story I wrote
All the way back in 2008
The character development was lacking and
Nobody had nothing to say
I enjoyed solitude until it wasn't a choice
Now I just feel so alone
So I get up,
I go to work,
Then I go home.
There is a thundercloud that hangs out over my life
Made up of all these drugs I try not to use
And I'm like Annie Wilkes in that book Misery
Except I'm also Paul Sheldon too
And like the citizens of Hitler's Germany
I'll put up with things til it's too late
I'd be more ashamed
If I weren't so busy making mistakes.
I wanna be happy with this girl that I love
But my mind won't let me be okay
I hate being separated from my friends
But some of them I secretly hate
I'm kidding about that, I love you all
And I promise you that's totally true
So if you won't say it
Then I will,
I love you.
Last night I tore up some lyrics I wrote
Late at night the day before yesterday
Nothing I wrote felt accurate
And I couldn't convince you to say
What you'd thought the whole time
Now you're gone and it's hopeless
And so once again, I'm alone
So I get up,
I go to work,
I get off work,
Then I go home.
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