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Paint Chips
04:07
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Take that mask off and wipe the blood on your shirt
Take a look in the mirror, you gotta try to find what this was worth
You paint your hallways yellow, but your closet's a dirty green
The paint in your hallway's cracking, what's underneath can now be seen.
Oh what a terrible fight. It didn't have a reason, and it didn't have a victor
Despite what they said, oh no, just bruises and anger
and paint chips on the ground
Oh no it didn't have a victor
because of what was found underneath
The yellow
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2. |
Forever Feel
04:25
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There's a summer that we spent, there's a window that was left open
There's this image in my head, and a promise that was made but broken
And in every minute since then,
I'm like an addict in recovery scraping for a token.
I'm broken, on the mend
fearing the relapse that will steal this progress of emotion
Scraping towards forgetting you
Oh and it takes a while
These things take a while
Oh it's gonna take a while
because...it takes a while
I'll forever feel the weakness but they say that it numbs with time
I've never learned the secret of what makes the time go by
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This is a recipe for the worst disaster
hike up your pants don't let your feet sink in the shit
Call off your dogs muzzle them leash them to the ground
and bite your tongue in preparation for the awful sound
it's bound to make, and we'll make it out unscathed
We cover the injuries with the sex and the laughter
the fight of your life wasn't what you dreamed it would always be
The night is gone your fumbling through your apologies
and your head it pound with memories of all the awful sounds
your mouth creates
and this may have been the one that breaks us.
It'll be a long time 'til you feel this way again about another man
but you'll find another man
and he'll be strong and he'll be kind and he'll say all the things you need to hear and goddamn will he say them right
but he won't be me
This was a good one
We had a good run.
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4. |
Ember
03:11
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I've built a fire that can't be dimmed
stoked by the love and lives of all of my friends
a gorgeous ember that burns within
a glowing pyre without any end
You can't put us out
No the wind can't snuff us and the waves can't quell us, no
You can't put us out
We're the envy of the stars
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5. |
These Blankets
02:03
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These blankets don't understand what they'll do
to cover the sins and secrets of these two
as they writhe and their eyes won't ever meet
to deny that there's any love between these sheets
And this stereo will never know the role it holds
to drown out the guilt she feels on the ride home
see the enemy is anything that makes her feel that
"there's a better me I'll never see, she isn't real"
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6. |
Anna Louise
04:39
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It's a small town love affair gone horribly wrong
a father's daughter, this beautiful girl
and a boy who did wrong
He left a trail of those who cared for him in his wake as if to say
"I'm leaving this town behind"
He's burnt the bridges to everyone that could understand what he's going through
This girl is haunting his mind, this girl she haunts his mind
He found a bridge that could be useful after all
Anna Louise, she's the cutest he's ever seen
around these parts
Billy Eugene he will die when he's 23.
And nobody will miss him.
(She was so young her father was so in love and so proud of the girl)
Oh when his body goes missing
(He couldn't know when he met the boy that he would destroy his world)
With a knife he found in the kitchen
(3 lives were taken)
On the night that he swore she would kiss him
(the saddest night that this town's ever known)
They both found out the only way to leave this town
Billy Eugene he went to clear himself of all of his sins
Anna Louise she's in the ground
And if her father sees him, he'll tear him apart
(he'll tear him limb from limb, show him just what he did)
but he was searching for a way out of town when he found
a way to drown
Anna Louise she's the cutest he's ever seen
around these parts
Billy Eugene he couldn't handle that she wanted nothing to do with him
Anna Louise received a funeral fit for a queen,
Billy Eugene was never seen.
And nobody will miss him
(he took a leap tried to get clean of all the sins that he'd done)
But they'll miss Anna Louise, ahh the queen
(her father wept and wished that he'd had his very own son)
Just so he wouldn't grow up like him
(First lost the mother, now the daughter now he's losing himself)
a father's epitaph of life and love and death
(Mr. Eugene and Ms. Louise oh what a story to tell)
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7. |
Oh How
03:20
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Oh how I'd love to be a vampire
and gnaw away at your neck
curse to eternally be wrecked
by a lust for flesh
Oh How I long for you, my beautiful
I'll suck the life out of you, it's all I know how to do
I'm a vampire, and I'm coming for you
I'm a vampire, eternally cursed
Oh How did I miss (I've been waiting so long for it)
my chance when you were near?
(my one chance my only chance)
It would take just one kiss to keep you here
As the dawn it breaks, in my eyes and in my mind
Oh How my heart it aches,
I'm no vampire.
I'm no vampire
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8. |
Streetlights Laughing
04:13
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Wasting our Sundays, drunk under streetlights, laughing
Passing these nights away, and it wastefully feels
so perfect.
We got nowhere to be, we've got no one to answer to but you and me
We've got nothing to show for the hours we've spent on the floor
but we're happy.
I know they can't understand why we're so in love with this sort of life
and we'll never contend that we're lost in love and drunkenly lucid
I can't understand why they're so caught up in other people's lives
I just gotta remember that there's nothing wrong with being, lost in love
We spent the last 3 days,
in the comfort of your comforter and this lazy haze
we're not leaving for anything, except to maybe get some more to drink
cuz we're alone and we're in love and it's the perfect day to snub
the world out there
And we'll make love and sleep and forget about the things
that they want us to care about.
I know they can't understand why we're so in love with this sort of life
and we'll never contend that we're lost in love and drunkenly lucid
I can't understand why they're so caught up in other people's lives
I just gotta remember that there's nothing wrong with being, lost in love
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9. |
To Deny
01:49
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These blankets don't understand what they'll do
to cover the sins and secrets of these two
as they writhe and their eyes won't ever meet
to deny that there's any love between these sheets
And this stereo will never know the role it holds
to drown out the guilt she feels on the ride home
see the enemy is anything that makes her feel that
"there's a better me I'll never see, she isn't real"
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10. |
Threaded
04:59
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No one can see the best in you the way I do
No one could ever be threaded to you the way I am
For all that you are I need you to know
that you're the best that I am
and all the threads that make you up
I'm weaving 'em all
into the best that I am
to make the rest of what I'll be
You turned to face the sun and you were oh so stoic as you stood
I watched you cast the longest shadow that you could
The rays they framed your frays so true, the end of threads I'm clinging to
to help to weave a life worth floating through
There is no way yet to convey all the gifts you've given me
you are a spool ever-unraveling
The best of you is woven through every fiber inside of me
You are the art, the artist I strive to be
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11. |
The Ship
06:37
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It's a secret thing so you'll lock it away, but won't forget it
a broken promise that will haunt til the end of your days, and you'll let it
you wanna feel the shame, you wanna feel like you're defeated
so you can make the change, know this mistake so you won't repeat it
You know you're better than this you know you say it all the time
to yourself and everyone around
there must be something you missed there's something buried in the ground
or in the air you can't get your fingers around
you're gonna drown in this the captain's going down with the ship you built
you're choking on the guilt
You're gonna burn for this, unless you really learn from it.
You let the weakness reign you let it set fire to all you created
and you watched
you got caught up in the waves, you came off course while you were sleeping, and you lost it.
now you just can't be saved, the current's too strong
and the wind is raging
And as it fans the flames you wonder if this mistake's the last
you'll be making
You know you're better than this you know you say it all the time
to yourself and everyone around
there must be something you missed there's something buried in the ground
or in the air you can't get your fingers around
you're gonna drown in this the captain's going down with the ship you built
you're choking on the guilt
You're gonna burn for this, unless you really learn from it.
And as you learn how to float, you'll find there's a better you
that you'd never known
because he wasn't real, no he wasn't so until you unburried him
from deep beneath what's broke
So you'll give it your all, you'll dig and you'll claw,
you'll fight and you'll crawl to come back from this fall
and though your ship is in ashes at bottom of the sea
it went up like a book full of matches, it stranded you
but it may have set you free
cuz it's the things that you lost, that you wanted to lose
whatever the cost, because somehow you knew
That Soon the Spring will wash everything
and they'll shine and they'll sing
and reveal the man you thought you'd be.
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12. |
Artifacts
03:54
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The sunburn on the top of your shoulders after we've left the beach
tired from making love
The warm embrace if the weather ever gets colder and you scared to reach
from underneath your blankets love.
Boxes stacked with black ink letters telling you where to put them
Ancient artifacts of a time before we knew each other
before we wanted each other
before we lived for each other
Although these things may never be
It feels as though they've already been
So many things I've yet to see
But I'm already in love with them
You may be a wonderful Mother
I may make a hell of a Dad
And we may place rings on each others fingers
One day you may be a bitter old woman
I may become a grumpy old man
but we'll still have rings on each others fingers
And although these things may never be
I cling to them and I sing for them
All of these things I'll never see
Well I dream of them
and I scream for them
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13. |
Not To Sleep
06:42
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We took the longest way we knew would take us home to bed
but not to sleep
hand in hand we listened to the city streets accompany us
as we hid from city spies
They walk our beat they haunt these streets and so.
We took the long way home.
I left you there, with a promise that we'd speak again
and I left more there than I ever wanna leave again, anywhere
I've spent so many shitty weeks on other city's streets
and I know New York is where we should be
because it's such a long, long way home
when you're so far from home
Well it's broken
I broke it
We make these promises in confidence that our hearts will never change
but a promise just isn't a promise anymore
when there's no one to keep it to
San Francisco's so far away and I've got no one and nothing to blame
but me
I was searching for magic and passion in 3rd and 4th chances before
I had to leave, and before we got to see
if this is the love that you read about
if these are the things that you dream about
if this is the drug you can't do without
and if this is the love that you'll never doubt
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14. |
Altruism In Winter
06:29
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The Winter makes her broken the coldest months she spoke
in nothing but dirty words
I've seen the Spring do such amazing things
to her off demeanor, and I was pleased to meet her
She's so kind through June and July,
in the sun she sings of beautiful things
In the middle of September she feels the weather
coat her skin and she settles in
as Autumn ends I do my very best
to tell her winter isn't all for sinners
and you've done amazing things, all through November
but please remember your altruism when Winter comes
She takes her clothes off and examines the scars
left by knives and by speeding cars
she's clothed in guilt for escaping from harm
she leaves reminders of lives on her arm
As the sun kisses her skin her scars begin to fade
and she measures her life by the things she gives away
She knows she can't atone for the lives she took that day
But she strives towards it
She would die for it
She lives with such regret
But when Spring comes she does the very best that she can
When the mercury drops and she can see her breathe
seems her good deeds aren't enough to fulfill her debts
As she's scraping the frost off of her windshield again
Her hands remember and the tremble removing the rest
Her blankets bundle her up and it warms her chest
The heat's not deep enough, her heart is as good as dead
The Winter freezes her thoughts in hopelessness she says
"This is it for life, this could be as good as it gets"
But please know that this won't be as good as it gets
Soon The Spring will clean this mess
Please remember your Altruism.
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15. |
Bit by Bit
04:16
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Once our mothers told to us, that everything happens for a reason
but they're wrong
And once I gave into lust, and I'm perfectly certain it ruined my truest love
But it wasn't what you would think, not some mindless trangression
you wash yourself of in the bathroom sink
no this was permanent.
And it brought us both to the brink of the measures we'd take
to change what we made and destroy everything
even though we created it.
And it started a war, where either side was unaware of
what the fuck they were fighting for, or that they were fighting
And it cut to the core of my beliefs of what it means to be in
this wonderful world and if I deserve it.
So I stood on the shore and watched the waves proclaim how the change in the tide is like change in our lives
The ebb and the flow of it.
And I shouted for more, for some clarity, some purpose, a reason
for what all the pain is for
But I'm better off not knowing it.
Are we just stones on the shore watching waves washing pieces of us away, stealing us Bit by Bit
No I'm not a stone, not anymore, I'm not a stone
And if a man falls to his knees and there's no one there to see it
is he a man? Does he feel it? Is it real?
No I'm not a stone, not anymore
Not anymore.
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