Songs by Album
Demo
Written and recorded 2006
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- Floodwaters
- House of Wax
- Note to Self: More Letters
- Recent Archeology
- Seeing Up
- Waste
- One Million Things To Do
Interstate 80
Written and recorded 2006
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- Birds and Bombs
- Note To Self: More Letters
- Big City
- Dynamite
- Clear The Walls
- Dressed In Orange
- Said Letters
- Muscle Memory
- January
- I-80
Year Two
Written and recorded 2007 - 2009
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- Lullaby
- Growing Boy
- Foreign Language Appreciation
- Good Please
- Let’s Go Swimming
- Hi, Hi
- Identify 1
- These Days
- Counting
- Yuri
- Song for Brother
- Thunder, Lightning
- Little Love Song
- Collider
- Little While
- Sit On Hands
- Nested
- Out Of Water
- Drink Deep
- Bless the Humble Chlorophyll
- Clementine
- Basement
Unreleased
Lyrics & Chords
Floodwaters
???
House of Wax
House of wax, melting down look out for what you're making, you're making you're making a mess and they're making fools Policy, of shooting first these are questions for later, for later we're getting sad and we're getting sick Apparently, they can't hear the anger in our voices, in our voices even though we're singing out loud Some of us, we're not just yelling we're asking with our hearts and with our eyes but they won't listen to us So I'm leaving here yeah I'm packing up and I don't understand how you can stay here I'm moving on with my own ideals and I don't understand how you can stand for this Different ways of life may drive me from you but I know that we're both fighting for our Lives that are not nailed down we're still moving around Would it be unreasonable?
Note to Self: More Letters
Chords (capo 2nd fret)
e|----2----3----3----0----|
B|----3----3----3----3----|
G|----2----0----0----0----|
D|----0----0----2----2----|
A|----0----2----3----2----|
E|----x----3----X----0----|
D G C Em
D G
I should really write more letters
C Em D
and if I hope to remember, any of this
D G
then I should really take more photos
C Em D
and go to all the shows just to be with all of you
D G
and I should spare no effort top tell you
C Em D
exactly how I love you and how you've impacted me
G Em D
because I will not be here forever
G Em D
in fact I'll be gone this year
G Em D
and I won't take my chances with memory, it's failed me
G Em D
so please leave a mark on me
D G
this morning I decided that I will never sleep in
Em D
and I will never drive when I can use my legs
D G
it hit me for the first time today that we are leaving
Em D
and there will be no more repetition of our ways
D
so let's sew this fabric so tight
G
though we know that distance may cut it
Em
and we'll just leave these channels open
D
and we'll hope
D
that there will be brighter days
G
and we can always come home
Em
and if we meet again I am sure we'll be friends
D
and we'll have this behind us we'll have our foundation
G Em D
so look at our footprints receding
G Em D
they scare the hell out of me
G Em D
and I know I'll choke when I say that I miss you
G Em D
even though I have yet to leave
G Em D
so look at our footprints receding
G Em D
but don't take them in the wrong way
G Em D
look at where we've been and how fast we were running
G Em D
our shadows will not catch us today
Recent Archeology
???
Seeing Up
???
Waste
???
One Million Things To Do
???
Muscle Memory
There's salt on my skin and there's dirt in my hair and there's grapefruit drying on my fingernails there is so much sugar still left on my lips and I'm trying my hardest to keep my hands busy you warm hand pressed between two of mine I am finding the muscles I'm testing your digits but my nervous habits won't work all alone so I'm finding new ways to satisfy counting every kiss I would lay on your skin is math that doesn't mean anything anymore I've found a spot where the river runs deeper it's cold and it's clear and I wish you could be here sharing a rock underneath the sharp sharp sun let the water rise up and wash these feelings out of me well it tasted it tasted like salt and it tasted like blood it hurt like a tattoo I never wanted to fade and I thought I would fight as hard as anything and I'll tell myself that if I drown in music or two wheel on asphalt that I'd still be happy but I turned and listened singing things are bad, singing things are bad
Stolen Laughter
???
Birds and Bombs
Chords
e|----3----3----0----2----|
B|----3----3----3----3----|
G|----0----0----0----2----|
D|----0----2----2----0----|
A|----2----3----2----0----|
E|----3----x----0----X----|
G C Em D
G C
bomb bay doors over a quilt of a town
G C
say hi bluebird and say hi robbin who
G C
dive dive dive dive dive dive down, and
G C
watch the bombs as they fall to the
Em
ground, and are swallod by an
G
explosion of light and heat and sound that
D
feels like the trains that
C
pass by every
G C
day by day what's left is getting smaller
G C
tree limbs get blown off and houses get hollow
G C
there are no shelters, there are no supplies
G C
birds sit and sing while the history dies and the
Em
dust, settles in the
G
streets there's some new condos built last week and the
D
trains feel louder and
C
faster than they ever have before
G C G C G C Em D
G Em
riding through the streets, at four am
C
there are, only two sounds
D C
an air conditioner, left on overnight
G Em
and the birds, who exalt, the rising sun
C D C
but get confused by the clouds reflecting New York City's light
G C
and the bomb bay doors over a quilt of a town
G C
open up in such a welcoming manner
G C
and the birds who dive dive dive dive down
D C
smash their little bodies
D C
smash their little bodies
D C G
smash their little bodies as bombs in to the ground
Big City
Chords
e|----3----3----0-------0----3----|
B|----1----1----1-------1----1----|
G|----0----2----2-------0----0----|
D|----2----3----0-------0----0----|
A|----3----0----0-------2----2----|
E|----x----x----x-------X----3----|
C F D7sus2 Em7 G
C F C F (alternating open/3rd fret on high e string)
C
driving far to the big city
F
met your friend, thought you looked pretty
C F
sleeping still on the long ride home
C
listening to the same tape play back
F
getting bored with all these set backs
C F
I want you alone
D7sus2 C F C D7sus2
to set me free from the way I feel
D7sus2 C F
about the rest of the world and
C F (alternating open/3rd fret on high e string)
worn old tapes
C F
inside my car never sounded so good
C F
no worn old tapes
C F
inside my car never sounded so good
D7sus2 C F C D7sus2 C F
C
when I found out that those tapes were loosing
F
power over speakers moving
C F
sweet music to our ears
C
I set that car aflame and
F
pushed the entire burning frame
C F
into that lake set up upon the hill
D7sus2 C F C D7sus2
to set me free from the way I feel
D7sus2 C F
about the rest of the world and
C F (alternating open/3rd fret on high e string)
worn old tapes
C F
inside my car never sounded so good
C F C
and I'm not one, to do what's right
F
when I know that I should
C F
worn old tapes
C F
inside my car never sounded so good
C F C
and I'm not one, to do what's right
F
even for me own good
C
So I will play these songs for you
F
even if it's just living rooms in
C F
hope that you will take them with you too
C
because I know, when you part
F
that it will just be the start
C
of long days alone without a tune
D7sus2 C F C D7sus2 C F
C F C F (alternating open/3rd fret on high e string)
Em7 G
Dynamite
Chords
e|---0----0----0----1----3----0----|
B|---1----1----1----1----3----0----|
G|---0----2----2----2----0----3----|
D|---2----0----2----3----0----2----|
A|---3----0----0----3----2----2----|
E|---x----x----x----x----3----0----|
C Em7 Am F G E
Intro Melody
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|----0-------0-------0-------0----|
A|--2---2-2-2---2-2-0---0-0-0---0-0|
E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---0-------0---------------------|
A|-2---2-2-2---2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-0-|
E|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2--|
C Em7 Am F
C Em7 Am F
C Em7
You're dynamite, and laser beam and
Am F Em7 C
I wanna smuggle you, across statelines
C Em7
I'll set you off, in a public place
Am F G
and watch the crowd's joy coming out their face
E F C
woah oh, woah oh, woah oh
G E F C
woah oh, woah oh, woah oh
C Em7
you're gasoline, and wedding rice
Am F C
puppy dog tails and cinnamon spice
C Emt Am
I'll turn you on, in the mall
F G
and watch the cops lose control of it all
E F C
woah oh, woah oh, woah oh
G E F C
woah oh, woah oh, woah oh
(repeat intro melody)
C Em7 Am
And Philadelphia will burn down one of these days
F C G C
you'll be the only one who makes it and I'll know why
Clear The Walls
Chords
e|----0----0------0----1----3----0----|
B|----1----1------1----1----3----0----|
G|----0----0------2----2----0----3----|
D|----2----0------2----3----0----2----|
A|----3----2------0----3----2----2----|
E|----x----x------x----x----3----0----|
C Dsus7 Am F G E
C Dsus7
Move it all out clear the walls
Am G
paint the floor and then move it back in and
C Dsus7
make it look like someone could
Am G
live in here
C Dsus7
pack a box and empty those shelves and
Am G
sort it out and do you really need these
C Dsus7
I won't know until
Am G
we are gone
C
because Saturday we're selling
F
and I don't think we'll be buying
C Dsus7 Am G
anything that will feel familiar
C
Saturday we're selling
F
and I don't think I'll be buying
C Dsus7 Am G
anything like this on the other coast
C Dsus7
like my bike, or my friends
Am G
or these books, or that photograph
C Dsus7
you packed in a box
Am G
with your letters and the envelopes
C
that your drew on
F
well that's something that I love
C
and that's something that I don't want
Dsus7 Am
to forget
C
someone that I trust
F
and someone that inspires me once
C
told me in her time of need
Dsus7 Am G
these kind words
C Dsus7 Am
she said spring is singing for you
G F
and I hope that you can hear it
C Dsus7 Am
she said spring is coming into bloom
G F
and I hope that you can see it
C
because sometimes my head gets stuck up
F C
in the clouds and everything below me
Dsus7 Am G
looks just like a model
C
I want this to bring me
F
back down and slap me around and
C Dsus7 Am G
make me look at the trees from underneath
C Dsus7
and if I have soil
Am G
and if I have sky
C Dsus7
and if I have water and if I have trees
Am G
then I will take root and I will breath
C Dsus7 Am G Dsus7 F
a sigh of relief
C Dsus7 Am G Dsus7 F C
a sigh of relief
Dressed In Orange
Leaning back in his chair with a pile of orange peels in his lap his fingers smell like the oils and if it gets in his eyes he'll cry but she was delicious what of these fruits with no seeds what do they come from anyway a tree that never dies well this is what history would taste and she was so delicious and I love these oranges and I love these oranges to death
Said Letters
I just sold my car and letters can only travel so far in what they say and I'm feeling so alone out here so why didn't I stay these rules are made for breaking I know it can be done my best friends are making their lives the only ones that they could ever live in I wish I was so strong but I just fall to pieces falling in a song and if I play my guitar any louder then you won't be able to hear my words and if that keeps us from crying then I guess it works behind these six string there's a body aching to come home behind every letter there are my words I wish nobody ever had to go
January
She asked me how I was feeling and all that came to mind was that most wonderful feeling when we hung out, for the last time and I answered honestly it feels fucking great being able to talk to you like your next to me and not three thousand miles away and I can't wait for January and January will get the best of me and I can't wait to see the snow again to back in town and feel at home and see what's grown of my best friends these three months may seem longer than anything else in the almanac and I've pulled leaves from everything new here it comforts me the child and if I'm getting a hold on this then I'm applauding off stage when I would rather be drinking hot chocolate and feeling free staring and sharing two couches and I can't wait for January and January will get the best of me no I don't want to think about October and fuck November, and fuck December too I miss you
I-80
when the blue ridge mountains fill the horizon I will know I'm not far from home a yellow painted lines weaves back and forth on the pavement it is broken, but will lead me back to you how many gallons of gasoline and roadside diners will it take to fuel me on my way five days out and I'm running dry almost home, and almost by your side and all I want is the time to sit by you and watch somebody else traveling by and all I'll ask is if you're mine when the blue ridge mountains fade from view I'll feel their weight, we'll both be blue a yellow painted line weaves back and forth on the pavement it's sympathetic, and we're both broken how many gallons of gasoline and roadside diners will I forsake if I forget your face five days out and I'm running dry too far from home, I wonder if you feel that too
Lessons
Not much for me to say that I haven't said before you're always on my thoughts and, what's more I can't stand you. I can't stand you. On my mind like thoughts of dying, I demand you. If I've said it once I've said it twice, it bears repeating; we are what we make and we are made of what we're eating. And I can't stand you, I can't stand you. But like the taste of sour grapes, I demand you. And, this time I think I've had enough And this time I think I'm running out of luck. The moon glowing orange was, hanging low like citrus fruit when the branch starts to bow, I can't stand you. I can't stand you. Sleepless and in denial, I demand you. There was a fire inside of me and I'm pretty sure that if you looked inside of me you wouldn't concur. You'd say it's dark and it's red and it's wet, then you'd sew me up. As if my heart sill beating wasn't enough. And this time I think I'm running out of luck. And, this time I think I've had enough
Modest Musings
it's the modest musing of a modern mouse puts pen to paper the analogy of a house to a head that's filled from all sides from all sides and can't quite explain why the internal turning tape doesn't recognize that words are work, all these apologies and lies that hit our heads from all sides from all sides and can't quite explain it and it's a stay-at-home kind of day right for self destruction and I don't know hot to relate i'm just a new thing that's broken What was your high today let me tell you about my low and I don't know how to relate but you can tell me which way to go Useless claws, like a cat walking among sheep Resilient love, like plastic in the sea I don't know, maybe I'm right but I hope not, I hope not it's just the modest musing of a modern mouse puts pen to paper the analogy of a house to a head that's filled from all sides from all sides and can't quite explain why the internal turning tape doesn't recognize that words are work, all these apologies and lies that hit our heads from all sides from all sides and can't quite explain it
Pieces
Verse1
C
that night I felt like shit
C Am
i was still tearing myself to pieces
F C G C
and when I thought of what you said it made it all feel worse
F C G C
the facts still remained they were descending like a curse
Chorus
F C G C
my legs broke free they were heading to the west
as my heart beat beat beat its way out of my chest
my hands went numb I lost my fingers and my thumbs
F G F C
and I was left with only the rest, what a mess
Verse 2
my friends helped me to find
the wire and screws and twine to put me back together
when I found out what you did it somehow made me feel better
my head found itself back on my shoulders
Chorus
and my hands were re-connected to the ends
of my long long arms that started working again
i found my legs in motion they were limping toward the ocean
but thankfully they both had been broken in
where'd they been?
Bridge
F C G F
so I will pretend, that we can still be friends
F C G C
but like Kimya Dawson said I'll wind up crushed out in the end
F C G F
but that doesn't matter much to me anymore, anymore
F C G F C
when I put myself back together I left my heart on the floor
Chorus
and my hands were re-connected to the ends
of my long long arms that started working again
i found my legs in motion they were limping toward the ocean
but thankfully they both had been broken in
where'd they been?
Skeptic
Take a picture it lasts longer that's what he says but he wishes he was stronger just wants to stay in bed He's got a bad idea of a good time or studies show oh oh And I'm not skeptical anymore the fires keep burning we don't know what for oh oh There are four ways to count there are three ways to read there are two things that he needs to eat and breath but he's lost his appetite and the air's just not there oh oh and I don't understand anymore the fires keep burning we don't know what for oh oh
Spider In My Window
spider in my window standing on your web so still are you watching me or are you starving you've made your thin home both in shadow and in sun you retreat within where I know but I can't see how little you need would you last forever pulling food from the air if I pulled the shade you're too small to see you shrink to dust one day you're far too small spider in my window tell me what you've seen am I finding grace or am I starving
You For Me
Verse 1 C G lay down on the couch, not that C F couch I meant this one, lay down by C G me it's so hot and I'm already Am F sleeping Verse 2 your skin is cool like the breeze like your breath through the trees I hear you talking to me Verse 3 i try to smile at people I pass, some look on and some smile back, but none of them have what I need F C there's only you for me
Lullaby
I said I'm sorry, I'm sorry for what happened I didn't see thje other car and now you're bleeding from your head, from your head, from your head I said I was sorry so lay down your head lay down your head so lay down your head lay it down the ambulance will be here soon and when it come it will play for you a little song the one that goes wee oo, wee oo, wee oo that's how it goes so don't close your eyes don't close your eyes don't close your eyes don't close your eyes and I'll shake you, shake you if you go to rest I don't want to die alone and so I think it's for the best, for the best, for the best if we stick together with your hand in mine you hand in mine your hand held tight in mine held tight in mine I said I love you, I love you but you've gone cold the only things that's worse than death is the thought that you'd go, that you'd go, that you'd go and never know
Growing Boy
Verse 1 E |----------------------------------------| B |----------------------------------------| G |--9----------------------------7--------| D |--9----------------------------7--------| A |--7----------------------------5--------| E |--0----------------------------0--------| an affiliation of bone muscle and cord E |----------------------------------------| B |----------------------------------------| G |--------------6--------------------8----| D |--------------7--------------------9----| A |--------------7--------------------9----| E |--------------0--------------------0----| a heart beats unaware for no limb, no love E |----------------------------------------| B |----------------------------------------| G |---------9---------------------------6--| D |---------9---------------------------7--| A |---------7---------------------------7--| E |---------0---------------------------0--| the whole communicating only hunger and debt E |----------------------------------------| B |----------------------------------------| G |-7-------6------------9-------------1---| D |-7-------7------------9-------------2---| A |-5-------7------------7-------------2---| E |-0-------0------------0-------------0---| but I'm not listening anymore Chorus E |----------------------------------------| B |----------------------------------------| G |--6-------1-----------8-----------------| D |--7-------2-----------9-----------------| A |--7-------2-----------9-----------------| E |--5-------0-----------7-----------------| when you ask me for what won't be the last time today when are you going to come home? with your eyes that cut through me like a ghost in the way and your voice as low as a thunder roll Verse 2 the summer comes from behind like an old friend you'd forgotten and you can't trust anything he says nowadays the cottonwood chaff floats down and it reminds me of snowfall but this California we'll have none of that here Chorus when you ask me for what won't be the last time today when are you going to come home? with your eyes that cut through me like a ghost in the way and your voice as low as a thunder roll
Foreign Language Appreciation
You really know how to make me shake from my fingers to my toes maybe I don't know how to stand and, down I go and I'm satisfied telling you how I feel like something's gonna break you really know how to make me hungry from my stomach to my little teeth like I haven't fed in days and all I smell is meat and I'm satisfied telling you how you're the only thing I can taste and there's still time before the cities turn red and there's still time before we go to bed
Good Please
it's a pain deep in my chest keeps me from moving deeper than the rest keeps me from speaking and you wouldn't know from looking and you wouldn't know sharpen the knife I'll need it for later if you leave your wife to chase the dumb waiter and you didn't know what I had cooking and you didn't know that you weren't looking forgive my mistake I don't think we've met though I may look used I feel like a new wreck
Let’s Go Swimming
???
Hi, Hi
you've gotta let me start over because sometimes I get a little scared and sometimes I feel ill prepared and sometimes my arms don't do what they should and my chest doesn't feel so good and my head has nothing to say for itself so I guess it seems I have nothing to say but please don't let that fool you I only get this way when I'm near you and all I want is to find out the things you like and to learn you like riding a bike and just maybe if things turn out you'll se it my way and thing we could hang out so please you've gotta let me start over
Identify 1
waking up from a dream thinking that I was three other people for the rest of the day i couldn't see what was in front of me and I'll ask you now did you have a good night last night as always you sing as always you sing oh yes sing yes yes yes yes you sing oh yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes so you give me that look like I've asked a stupid question but I know you just need some time to realize if we're just the flesh then there's no need for the incorporeal no more promises of threats of what will happen when we die so scream oh no oh no no no no scream oh no oh no no no no no no no no etc.
These Days
There are holes, in my sheets, they don't stop me from sleeping. There are holes, in my teeth, they don't stop me from speaking. No they don't, no they don't. So I do, so I do, so I do. There are days when I, will play along. There are ways that I, will do you wrong. Through my words and through my work, try to affect a reduction of harm. And I've been feeling out of body these days. And I've been feeling out of my mind these days. I've been feeling awful out of body these days. And I've been going out of my mind. Based on what we know of particles that go in straight line trajectories they'll bend around the heavy things but really there's uncertainty the same kind for you and me and I can't trust, in anything, and I can't say, anything. I'm trying to learn, how to think, and I'm trying to learn, how to speak. Neurons fire concordantly, like flames onboard a ship sinking into the sea. And I've been feeling out of body these days. And I've been going out of my mind these days. And I've been feeling awfully out of body these days. And I said I've been going awfully out of my mind these days. these days Based on what we know of particles that go in straight line trajectories they'll bend around the heavy things but really there's uncertainty the same kind for you and me and I can't say anything.
Counting
You remind me you, you warned there are five reasons to leave there are five reasons to leave I've been feeling much smaller lately there are four reasons to grow there are four reasons to grow And I don't want to hear them And I don't want to fear them Don't go on don't move along there are three reasons to stay there are three reasons to stay I've been hungry for lovers lately your two arms fit well around me your two arms fit well around me And I don't want to feel them And I don't want to fear them
Yuri
Oh Yuri did you get the leather in your hands from your father? Oh Yuri did you get the music in your throat from your mother? Oh Yuri did you get to say goodbye? Oh Yuri did you get to say goodbye? It must have been the loudest thing and the motherland hears, the motherland knows when her son is a'flying above her It must have been the loudest thing Oh Yuri, did you blame the radio when they called for you to come home Oh Yuri could you blame them for the show the medals around your neck Oh Yuri they'll ask did you see any god up there Oh Yuri don't spoil the show And it must have been the loudest thing and the motherland hears, the motherland knows when her son is a'flying above her It must have been the loudest thing
Song for Brother
the last time i wanted to hurt you it was snowing in upstate the last time I told you that you were the best for me well I don't remember that's a damn shame someone ought to remind you dear brother how old were we when we learned how to swim i was so scared the only thing i could do was jump in with you that's how it's always been now I find with you so far it gets hard to see but I still feel that it's true that you are the best for me and I feel so very lucky
Thunder, Lightning
As I remember it started off quiet, I rode my bike to your house in the dark, and in the lightning. When I got there you were all wrapped up in a blanket and movie, and everything looking so airtight. And we stood on your front porch and watched the sky break wide. When the rain came rolling in I was by your side. And as the last best storm of the summer finally hit its stride, all my little problems, they fell aside. All the songs that I sang for you, well I must admit, they were never mine, never mind. Though you'd sit, and you'd listen while I'd play, and I'd choke up on words that would serve me so much better if I, ever spoke up. And when I said it was raining, well I really meant to say it was pouring. And when I said goodbye, I meant to say that I loved you that I'd always love you as the last best storm of the summer finally hit its stride, all my little problems, all these little problems, you my little problem, you fell aside.
Little Love Song
If I wrote you a letter but never sent it would you still write back to me if I wrote you a love song but never played it would you sing along on the second refrain no I don't expect you would how could you but that's just what I need
Collider
I'm drinking out of jars again I've learned a loving job again but friend you say "you've got a long way to go and If I'm a liar then you are alone" how old do you need to be to know you love your family how come every time you ask "is everything alright?" you look at me like nothing is alright and once a week you'll call me and I'll confide that I feel week and hungry without you by my side so let's collide let's collide the curious sensation of being alone again am I surprised that nothing feels the same since you've rattled my frame this bed of mine is lacking that which you so kindly provide your warmth your hips your smell and your lips how can I hope to survive and once a week you'll call me and I'll confide that I feel week and hungry without you by my side so let's collide let's collide and once a week you'll call me and I'll confide that I feel week and hungry without you by my side so let's collide let's collide
Little While
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Sit On Hands
I'm just ashamed of the letters that I write in my head The sweet little nothings that I wish I had said. But you don't want to read them so I don't want to write them down. Sitting on my hands and biting my lip Regretting your song that I learned on my trip When you sang, "I don't think, that you miss me too." But I do, but I do. These are the words that I don't want you to hear I miss you and it hurts when you're around me, but I can't get near If I show it you might share it and that's what I really fear One lonely person's only half as sad as a pair I'm sorry I felt so familiar so fast, was So forward with you with my bent and my past. Sometimes at night, I don't really know how to speak Yes I know that you need to catch up on your sleep Circumstances allow for so few warming things I don't think I'd waste your time, but what do I know I swore to myself, wouldn't play any my songs for you When I'm feeling vengeful that's the worst I can do But instead I'm all open, inviting anything through Symptomatic, I'm so badly into you
Nested
We're still asleep as the morning wakes the world turns and, trees shake but we've got a nest of cotton and chocolate and fruit and the world looking in says what'll they do I'll tell you, I'll tell you I'll tell you, I'll tell you We hide our shoes underneath our feet but the, truth comes out likes babies teeth no, we don't worry we've got boxes for them too and the world looking in says what'll they do I'll tell you, I'll tell you I'll tell you, I'll tell you We take what's good and we break it down three parts salt water mix it around with what's fast and what's cheap and what's smart, and what's new and if that doesn't hold nothing will do and if that doesn't hold nothing will do I'll tell you, I'll tell you I'll tell you, I'll tell you
Out Of Water
and what sucks the most is having no idea and what hurts the worst is knowing it's out there and you can't have it now and what feels the best is not looking forwards 'cause then you're just missing out you're loosing count as numbers run backwards and voices get drowned out in the tides in the tides out in the tides of march you've got a plan we've all got plans but you've got a backup plan it's not coming out it's not giving in it's not having anything to lose in the tides in the tides out in the tides of march watch out for the undertow of the tides of the tides of the tides of march
Drink Deep
Verse
Am Am
No Coffee never did right by my tongue
Am E
it brings back the taste of words I've said, and wrongs I've done
F C Em7 Am
and the tea that you sent me will always brew up blood red
Am E Am
I take it as a sign of things to come
Chorus
F F C Em7 Am
Together we drink deep
Am E Am
We're born with a hole inside that wants to feed
Verse 2
Hot apple cider recalls to me
a city with a sister, both born of the sea
and they two share an affliction, the beating of their hearts
traffic coursing through their veins will someday come to a halt
and the tide washing into their harbors
will stain it all blood red
you and I watch the end of the world before we go to bed
together we drink deep
we live with a hole inside we work to feed
verse 3
on this last evening
you suggest to me
that the color of love flowing thick through the world
may be all that we need
now I don't mean to divide us
but I must disagree
the blood it comes from someone
we can't see
together we drink deep
and we'll die with a hole inside we fail to feed
Bless the Humble Chlorophyll
I've heard some sing "when it rains it pours" but when you cry I can't imagine anymore, ever coming out so lets put down our guards and fight it out It feels like it's been years since anything new grew in this town and as records will indicate it starts in the underground Driving up from Florida rainstorms come and rainstorms go but they don't, wash out the road and when we find somewhere new we know good things are gonna grow Our face in the sun we turn it into sugar our face in the sun we turn it in to sugar our face in the sun we turn it in to sugar our face in the sun
Clementine
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Basement
I remember falling asleep on a basement couch in the middle of the summer in your parents house I woke with a start wet with our shared sweat and I went for a walk and I tried to forget the feeling of you in my arms the feeling of you in my arms so I rearranged the verbs and I struck out all the nouns but the feeling stayed with me though I double-crossed the T's and I didn't dot the I's the feelings still followed me around early in the morning when I had to leave and you stole that car or at least borrowed the keys I felt I'd done good or at least not done harm as I drew my fingertips up your arm felt your skin as you drove me away felt your skin as you drove me away so I rearranged the verbs and I struck out all the nouns but the feeling stayed with me though I double-crossed the T's and I didn't dot the I's but the feeling still followed me around and the first time I tried to kiss you I told you I felt wrong but the second time I kissed you I was already gone and in the days turned weeks turned months turned years the feelings persisted and now reappears the feeling of you in my arms the feeling of you in my arms so I rearrange the verbs and I strike out all the nouns but the feeling stays with me though I double-cross the T's and I don't dot the I's but the feeling still follows me around around around and it gets me down
Goodnight Boston
Having trouble sleeping Imagine you were by my side & all the things we'd talk about Until we both got tired Tell me about your day I'll tell you what I've read Tell me what you've seen I'll tell you what I've said Or we don't have to talk at all Falling asleep in Boston, I am I don't really know you But I think you're kind & I think we'd get along If we were given time So lay your head down next to mine
Home Sewn to Bone
there's a feeling of home that is sewn to each of our bones it makes no difference where we sleep but secretly I'm waiting very very patiently until the day that I can set me free like the summer my days will carry the heat and if you're still on your own maybe, you'd come along with me I've been trying to earn some discipline some truth to my words it's taking me a while I'll admit give it four more years or so see if anything, anything sticks or maybe I'll just up and quit and move up north to be just another warm body and if you're still feeling cold maybe, you'd come along with me
Thirsty Me
recently I've started liking tea but I drank it all and there's no one to blame but thirsty me who started liking you when you called me late last year in the fall and I can't help but fear that something will go wrong I'll sing the wrong refrain and end this song that would be so like me to ruin something nice just looking for a poetic device to wrap around my head to keep it nice warm and sharp and I'll pay the price as I am always striking out just when I am falling in I guess it's like a game that I don't know to win
Shadow
G Am
today I followed my shadow home from work
C G
it stopped at the grocery and the bookstore
G Am
and made its way downtown where it met up with a few of my friends
D D7 G
and I watched from a doorway as they talked
C G
my shadow doesn't stumble
C G
it slides so easily
Am D7
it never eats alone
G
preferring company
saw my shadow leaving last night
it rode of with the girl in the dirty white dress
and it stole my fucking bike, of course it didn't take any lights
so I stayed up all night, just sick with freight
but my shadow doesn't choke
no it speaks so easily
its voice, I swear it's a river
so wide and so deep
No I don't think my shadow needs me
this morning when I woke up my shadow was sewn back to my feet
but something was different in the way it fell
its edges were sharper, and it's darkness was so much more deep
something must have happened when I was asleep
but my shadow never tells me
of anything it's done
leaving it up to my
imagination
Learn a Skill
Chords (capo 3rd fret)
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B|----3----1----1----1----3----0----0----|
G|----0----2----0----2----0----0----1----|
D|----2----3----0----2----0----0----2----|
A|----3----3----2----0----2----2----2----|
E|----x----1----X----x----3----3----0----|
C F Em7 Am G G7 E
C
Well I've read lots of books about
F
the way the world works really small
C
and I've read lots of books that tell me
Em7 Am
pretty soon, we all will fall
C
but none of this will do me any good
F
if I can't remember
C G F
I'm a person with two hands
C G F
I'm a person with a head
C G F
I'm a person with air in my lungs
C G7 C
and lots to get done before I'm dead
C
looking out of my window
F
where someone told me it was gonna rain
Am G
well I guess that someone's wrong again
C
I'm barefoot in the kitchen
Em7 Am
ready to move on with the day
G
I'm taking everything I need
F G C
that is three square meals and a silver ring
F G C
that is three square meals and a silver ring
Am E F C
And I would work so hard for you }x4
C
I'm gonna build you something real
F
something I can shape with my hands
Am G
but first I need to learn a skill
C
I'm gonna make you something nice
Em7 Am
something that you won't ever find
G
if you looked for years
F G C
but forgive me if it takes a little time
F G C
but forgive me if it takes a little time
Am E F C
Oh I will work so hard for you }x4
C Em7 Am E F G C }x4
Headed South
well the North West is a magnet and the East Coast for me it's just a big mess and when my mood starts headed south will you reach in to me and pull me out with your strong arms and hands your arms and hands, your arms and hands I hope that by now you know enough of me to be a little patient when I'm unduly angry and if I don't come up for air please don't mistake me for a body that doesn't care right now you're a ghost that I want to believe in flipping lights on and off, hiding under my sheets as I sleep the train moves quietly and you hold me with your strong arms and hands your arms and hands, your arms and hands with your strong arms and hands your arms and hands, your arms and hands But I wake up to find that it's all the same that everything new will disappear as steam riding those faster particles
I Have an Idea
C Am F C
I have got an idea of the things that we could do
C Am G F
and I have got an idea of the things that I would say to you
C Am F C G
if you'd like I could write them down on a 3x5 in straight little lines
C Am G F
and if you'd like I could sing them out at the top of my lungs every night
C Am
as you sleep with your bruised little knees curled up
F C G
in a bed that's made of non-real stuff
C Am
I'm awake, but still in yesterday
F C G
I promise to you I'll be on my way
E F
i am traveling as fast as allowed
C Am F C G
sixty minutes an hour
I have got an idea of the things that we could be
and I have got an idea of how you might balance me
with your hands at the back of my head pulling out undue anxieties
with your hands on a fretted neck, playing such sweet little melodies
as I sleep with my long long legs curled up
in a bed that's made of non-real stuff
you're awake, but you're a day away
i promise to you I'll be on my way
i am traveling as fast as allowed, thirty six hundred seconds per hour
Handful
there's a handful of words that I know and they're growing, resentful, and overused there's just a half-dozen ways to tie them together now I'm stretching those strings, they are such very tired things if you come home I'll learn how to talk and we won't have to fight anymore, and if you come home the rains will stop and we won't have to fight anymore, and if you come home I swear I'll stop doing all those things that you hate so much, and if you come home I'll learn to talk I'll learn to talk, I'll learn at least I'll try to learn I promise that I'll try I won't forget that promise well, alright if ever it was raining, it must be pouring and our bodies, they must be, sewn up like shoes if ever we're in bed we must be waiting, and watching the city, as it's falling into the red red red red the red red red red the red red red red and blue
Nicer Still
at night when I'm trying to clean up from the day it's nice to turn on my stereo and hear you sing it's be nicer still if I could play with you either way I admire the things you do at work all day I'm just trying to pass the hours and I find myself humming those melodies and songs of yours it's be nicer still if we didn't have to work at all but I guess I'm lucky just to have a job
Use My Words
I think you're so And you make me feel really Normally I would just turn to jokes Normally I would just turn away But this time I'll use my words And say That you're so goddamn pretty And you make me feel better And you're so fucking smart And you make life feel forgiving
Penny Whistle
sunday morning I wake up at half past nine my weekend's just starting so far, it's alright but then I remember that dream I had and the song you played for me on borrowed pennywhistle and it went monday morning well it's coming up fast wish I didn't have work wish I could just stay in bed and sleep wrapped up in sheets pretend I have a lover one who would sing to me, you sing
Know You’re Dead
Chords
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B|----3----3----0----0----7----9----|
G|----3----2----0----2----7----9----|
D|----3----0----3----2----5----7----|
A|----0----0----3----2----5----7----|
E|----x----x----2----0----0----0----|
A D F# E D2 E2
A
when I die
D
will you give my nitrogen
F#
to the plants? I don't know
D2 E2 A
maybe they could use it when I die
D
will you set my bed on fire
F# D2 E2 A
and smash my dirty out of tune guitar
A E F# D2 E2
I will never get to know that I'm dead
A E F# D2 E2
you will never get to know that you're dead
A
when you die
D
I will use your bones for drumsticks
F#
play a song that
D2 E2 A
somebody could dance to when you die
D
will I finally feel free
F#
to travel to all those
D2 E2 A
places you didn't really want to see
A E F# D2 E2
I will never get to know that I'm dead
A E F# D2 E2
you will never get to know that you're dead
A E F# D2 E2 A
no we will never get to know that we are dead
Rings So Fine
Well you taste so sweet between my crooked yellow teeth and in the tips of my fingers a feeling of you sleeps and in the shell of my once niave but newfound mind the thought of you rings so fine the thought of you rings so fine the thought of you rings so fine And it doesn't take much to remind me of your touch soap in the air will recall to me your hair and with the slightest provocation I, fall to my knees as you wash over me as you wash over me as you wash over me And I, I told you I would try and I, I cannot tell a lie And I know it will be some time before you're in my arms still I will gladly fall a victim to your charms a victim to your charms a victim to your charms Every morning when I wake, well I make the same mistake: I roll over try to sing "oh, hello you" but I'm not the only one yes, my bed is also blue it was built for the weight of two it was built for the weight of two it was built for the weight of two And every meal that I eat adds to my bones no meat, and I am finding myself constantly dry but one of these days I'll set a table for two and I will dine with you I said, I will dine with you god damn, I will dine with you And I, I told you I would try and I, I cannot tell a lie And I know it will be some time before you're in my arms still I will gladly fall a victim to your charms a victim to your charms a victim to your charms a victim to your charms
Withering Sights
INTRO Lying in bed with my eyes shut tight I ask myself, what of these withering sights a vision in advance of you and I we are running to the sun you've had a haircut and your smile is flashing I turn towards you but I hear the sound of scratching eyelash on pillow case and I am waking up alone morning reminds me I am not yet home I have to remind myself I am not yet home CHORUS (guitar only) so I go to school and I come home from work I talk to you but I feel like a jerk when you're losing sleep on account me and the curve of the earth and it always lifts me to see your face talking to you brings joy to this place and I'm counting on you to help set my heart's pace I owe you so many hours of time if I could then I would give you mine CHORUS: so come and take them from me these hours alone offer me nothing and I will wait just a few years more to come home if it's you I'm heading toward I'll come to see you and stay for a week some things will change but you stay so sweet comfortably we will write our new routine I'll face the pain of having to leave the days we share are outnumbered it seems airplanes and postage and phone calls will fill in between I owe you so many hours of time and I do want to give you mine CHORUS OUTRO capo 2 intro: 4x picking E chord e|------------ b|--O--------- g|----1-Oh1--- d|----------2- a|------------ e|-O-O-O---O-- 2x picking A chord e|---------- b|---------- g|----2---2- d|---------- a|--O---O--- e|-O-O-O-O-- verse: 2x E A E 2x Gb A E chorus: A E A E B A E Gb A E outro: A E Gb A E B A E Gb A E-
Ball of Fire
Chords
e|----2----0----2----3----5----|
B|----3----3----2----3----5----|
G|----2----0----2----4----6----|
D|----0----2----3----5----7----|
A|----0----2----3----5----7----|
E|----x----0----2----3----5----|
D E F# G A
melody
e|----2-3-2-0-0----|
B|----3-3-3-3-3----|
G|----2-2-2-2-2----|
D|----0-0-0-0-2----|
A|----0-0-0-0-0----|
E|----X-X-X-X-X----|
D(melody)x2
E G D(melody)
the dog days of summer have finally come home
G A D(melody)
and there is sweat on my hands
G A F# G
and I will learn to be an honest kind of man
D A D(melody)
if this incredible heat doesn't finish me first
E G D(melody)
when I speak I may not say much
G A D(melody)
that's not to say I have nothing to say
G A F# G
only that I am deeply terrified
D A D(melody)
of the slip of my tongue that would push you away
E D G A
but I will reach my arms into this ball of fire
E D G A
hope my hands don't douse the flame
E D G D
if you see the smoke continue rising higher
E D G A
I hope you would do the same
D(melody)x2
E G D(melody)
I am no stranger to denial
G A D(melody)
and I trust you're familiar too
G A F# G
the feeling of sinking alone is enough to weigh a person down
D A D(melody)
but I firmly believe there is nothing we cannot do
E D G A
so I will reach my arms into this ball of fire
E D G A
hope my hands don't douse the flame
E D G D
if you see the smoke continue rising higher
E D G A
I hope you would do the same