pretty genius
feel the miracle every day,
count the numbers fill the cup.
every move in every way.
every move is built on blood.
chorus:
go find your brightest colours,
tear all your curtains down.
don't hide beneath the covers.
don't sit around, don't face the ground.
pretty genius.
you could lose your little mind
never knowing what to find.
you could lose your little mind
staring blind into the light.
chorus 2:
go find your brightest colours,
tear all your curtains down.
take heed of diet mothers.
don't sit around, don't face the ground
pretty genius.
pretty genius,
pretty genius.
my revenge on seattle
maybe there's more to life
than just writing songs.
maybe not.
maybe there's more to life
than just righting wrongs
maybe not.
I grow so cold, you reach for gold
I fail to hold your attention.
chorus:
their pretty boy ways
always take you away,
take you away.
my revenge on seattle -
I retreat from the battle.
won't you stay?
maybe there's more to life
than just biting tongues.
maybe not.
out of the sky
and left to die -
believing the lie of protection.
(chorus x 2)
maybe there's more to life
than just writing songs.
maybe not.
dry cleaning ray
dry cleaning ray,
at the end of the day,
always knows what to say,
always knows what to play.
it's the same old song
with the same old bits
thirty years without a hit.
dry cleaning ray
says he's wasting away,
feeling red turn to grey,
watching overcoats fray.
it's the same old thing
it's the same old shit
thirty years without a hit.
sicknote
come dazzle me
come saddle me
with your hands so soft and white
and your words so hard and right
in the heat of this pointless night
dazzle me
there's no need to flap
there's no need to slap
there's no need to slaughter your name
there's no need to fear
there's no need to be here
you can tell them where to go
when you're the star of the show -
dazzle them
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it's dim and dismal but it makes you laugh
fills in the time you can't wait to pass
there's so much wisdom in the heart of trash
the freezing coffee and the falling ash
carolina skeletons
cowboy kate came too late,
she'll never see the dawn.
cowboy kate came too late,
she'll never face the sun.
the love goes by and the life runs dry,
pulls the tinsel from her hair.
she loses sight in the velvet night,
drops a tin can by the chair.
chorus:
through all the tiny victories and the big defeats,
it's carolina skeletons that keep her rooted to her seat.
cowboy kate came too late,
she'll never read the signs.
cowboy kate came too late,
she'll never have the time.
the love goes by and the life runs dry,
pulls the tinsel from her hair.
she dreams of flight in the velvet night,
throws a tin can in the air.
(chorus)
chorus 2:
through all the shitty obstacles and all the words so sweet,
it's carolina skeletons that make her stranger when she eats.
something falls
you're still too near it to feel it.
you're still too near it to fear it.
chorus:
something has fallen on you.
something has fallen on me.
just listen to the trees sing,
just listen to the trees.
I'd fall down on the forest groves,
and kneel and pray for you.
I'd fall down on the earth and leaves,
I'd cry and die for you.
(chorus)
you're still too near it to feel it.
you're still too near it to fear it.
only rain
what can you say?
a million ways to stay the same.
day after day,
a million ways to pass the blame
you catch me and hold me.
no more fountains, only rain.
returning jesus
slow it all down, it always moves too fast.
slow it all down, it always moves too fast.
follow me down to where I'll always be.
follow me down to where I'll always be.
I don't want to stay a million miles away.
I don't want to stay a million miles away.
chelsea cap
last time that you smiled like that,
you looked good in your chelsea cap.
your face was thin, but your legs were fat.
you questioned where all our lives were at.
wasting time with some ageing lad,
still good looking though your eyes were sad.
you sold your books and you sold your flat,
and ran to where your illusions sat.
chorus:
no-one but me to hear it
no-one but me to fear it.
no big deal,
no big deal.
no-one but you to be with,
no-one but you to see with.
no big deal,
no big deal.
not wanting to know what I know
or needing to do what I do,
every time I close my eyes,
all I see is you,
all I see.
(chorus x 2)
chorus 2:
no-one but you to be with,
no-one but you to see with.
no big deal,
no big deal.
photographs in black and white
the city in a hundred ways,
it wouldn't let you stay.
remember all the thankless days
and the lousy take home pay?
the photographs in black and white
that show you playing close to type -
your eyes against the midday light,
your eyes when they still had the fight.
they loved you
when you thought that no-one could.
they loved you
when you said that no-one should.
you talk so fast
to stop yourself from thinking.
you move so fast
so you'll never see you're sinking.
they love you
when you think that no-one can.
they love you
and they'll tell you that they understand.
they love you,
then they say you're much too,
much too bland.
spending days on the phone,
while the cold eats your bones.
how in the world do you make it right?
how in the world do you make a life?
the break-up for real
go back and see the folks,
they're always glad to see you.
trot out the same old jokes,
avoid the things that seem new.
no talk about the wife -
she lives with someone else now.
forget your former life,
warm love became a cold cow.
driving to the coast,
it's hard to know what hurts the most.
chorus:
learning how to feel,
it's the break-up for real.
go out to see some friends,
you hope that you won't lose it.
you sit there and pretend -
play adolescent music.
singing to the sea,
you sing the songs that set you free.
(chorus)
(bluecoda)
(instrumental)
