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Mental Health Day
01:51
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Everybody Lies Down
03:06
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Well, I found proof that you’re aloof
When the world passes you by
And I’m amazed by the haze and that you don’t even try
To get away from the fray that’s cluttering your mind
All alone, on your own
You’ve run out of things to hide
Someday tides come in and somehow lives begin
When someone burns the town, everybody lies down
I’m feeling stuck and out of luck
When you come for your prey
And nothing’s here, you’re in the clear
Don’t waste another day
This is a joke so go for broke the minute that you can
I won’t ignore because I’m sure you’ve found another man
I’m upset about all this
I never thought there’d be a change in you
And it turns out without a doubt
The plans I’ve made have sorely fallen through
And I won’t sit and wait, no, no
I will not sit and wait
And light my cigarette, no, no
I will not sit and wait
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3. |
Count The Whys
03:26
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Why are you so toothless?
Sucking down your pudding that remains ever-proofless
Wait until you wake up in a cold, cold sweat
But the flood of regret has not set in yet
Starving for attention, how it hurts
Filling up on your just desserts now
Leaving, ain’t no one grieving
I’m not trying to berate you, I’m succeeding
How do I hate thee?
Let me count the ways, let me count the ways
This could go on for days and days and days and days
What’s your sign? I bet it’s “kick me”
Strutting like a high-tailed, yowling pygmy
Figuratively spit in the melee
Sideways glancing as if you’re Pele
You need to believe to believe, to hold onto the dream
To the cheese in your cream, to the fans that ain’t screaming
Listen, in your position you’re missing
Give my regard to the wind you piss in
Why?
Believe everything I say
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I like the way that you wake up
You’re like the summer in my cup
You float around clutching your crooked spine
I like the mood you put me in
It nestles gently on my chin
I feel obliterated all the time
The light is flashing on the message machine
Why do I own one of them? It’s 2017
I’m in a panic but it’s only a dream
And when you swing into view it becomes too hard to scream
I like the writing on the wall
That gives the chips a place to fall
And I beam proudly at it, satisfied
I like this convoluted mess
The sound when my head meets my desk
And how you pick up all the shards I’ve tried
You’re gonna do whatever you want
And whatever you want is what I want
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5. |
There's Only One Sky
04:07
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There’s only one sky in every direction
We all breathe together all at the same time
It seems like a trick, it’s almost too perfect
But it can’t hold a candle to the look in your eyes
But if you try to believe in the orbit you bleed
You could sense a disturbance between you and me
And if there’s something to breathe while I’m down on my knees
Then the sky that it falls from is what we can’t see
There’s only one sky hovering above us
No one knows where the end lay or where it begins
The world rattles on as if punching a timeclock
But still we unravel and nobody wins
There’s only one sky with all permutations
Driving us faster, driving us nowhere
Driving us crazy with the notion
That we’re gaining on something
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6. |
Ugh, Gawd
03:14
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I spat upon the waking thought
Of not knowing what to wake for, ugh, gawd
And I exalt everything I’ve done
Without paying mistakes forward, ugh, gawd
I’m only with the ones you told me were full of light
Refracted, lonely and shook up, sprawling all sugar sprites
And the phony extract they showed me was almost right
But I guess you know me so I’m stuck bellowing into the night
I tried to stare around the screen
A side effect of not sleeping, ugh, gawd
And I’m not about to blow the dream
Though I’m not sure if I’m dreaming, ugh, gawd
I rocked the room all full of sins
Collected my paycheck and bailed, ugh, gawd
And I won’t hesitate to turn it in
To a framed example to impale, ugh, gawd
Well, you should have told me
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7. |
Long Long Nothing
02:19
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Falls to joy for the years that bound
Beats the fear leaving all men struggling
I suspect we could be consumed
As we pray for the long long nothing
Such a craze that my hair stands up
Watch the curls of my child mind gulping
You and I could play catch-up now
As we stray for the long long nothing
I know you like when I substantiate
The way you’re feeling
But only when you’re not feeling great
Hope that springs like a measured risk
Hearts that pound like they know what’s coming
One more time might be one too much
Still we fly toward the long long nothing
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8. |
Megaplex
03:31
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Come to the megaplex, they said, it’ll be so much fun
So I put my best shirt on
And borrowed some cash from my mom’s purse
I saw you in line, oblivious to everything around you
And darling, now that I’ve found you
I’m not certain that I’ve had time to rehearse
And it’s a long dark alley to here
And it’s a crooked avenue home
If you don’t stop waiting it’s a long time waving hello
You finally notice me, I think
I honestly can’t quite tell, this feels like a private hell
My feet are cement blocks affixed to the floor
Then ten hours pass, perhaps
I can’t measure the time I’ve spent
I don’t know where my friends went
But this isn’t about the film anymore
The screen lights up but nobody’s watching
‘Cause they’re falling apart
The scene gets hot but nobody’s watching
‘Cause they’re falling apart
Come to the megaplex, they said
I snapped back to find you gone
I guess someone put the movie on
But it’s the same as the last one
Which was same as the last one
Which was same as the last one
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9. |
Get Through
03:22
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Sent you a melodica in the mail
You sent it back with a parchment that read “no sale”
What do I have to do
What do I have to do to get through
What do I have, what, what do I have to do
What do I have to do to get through to you?
I shouted your name on the tin can phone
Your voice crackled on the line to say you weren’t home
I dreamed that we fell into new habits
But even there you retorted to call it quits
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10. |
Barbara Said It
03:42
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“Smile”, she said, “’cause everyone is falling to pieces”
She said it never was quite her own idea
She said it wouldn’t be the same if I wrapped it up in tinfoil
To disseminate the blame
Will you be there to cover me in fear?
It finally happened today
Barbara said it was coming this time last year
Now she’s out of things to say
Now go on back
Back to the patio where everything started
I never understood so I smiled and nodded
She tried to look me up and down
With malevolence in hand to turn a smile into a frown
She looked like a kid leaving a candy store empty-handed
And she stared at the ground
And told me in confidence, “I want you around”
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11. |
The Money You Make
02:32
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I don’t care about the money you make
And I don’t mind if you’re a little bit late
And I’m all right with what you wanna do
It’s all just fine as long as I’m with you
You wanna scream and shout in the distance
I won’t put up a lick of resistance
Care about the money you make
I’ll overlook all the steps you don’t take
And I’m on board with the people you know
Ain’t got no income since a decade ago
Well, I can’t get back the days that you chatter
I don’t pull back, it’s mind over matter
Care about the money you make, let’s do it
I see the man sidling up to your side
He gonna flash the teeth, wanna go for a ride
And when you come home, got a spring in your heel
Anything just to get a hot meal
I put up with the false adoration
You’ve got the gall to go on vacation
One day you’re gonna drain that account
And wish you could jump right back in the fountain
I’m not the one betraying myself
‘Cause all that you want is somebody else
Who cares about the money you make
Someone who cares about the money you make, ha
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12. |
Pancake Cough
04:54
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A road to ruin paved with gold, a plot line ready to unfold
A damsel living with distress
Another big, Caucasian mess
You were the one worth waking up to
You make me, in time I’ll make you back too
When everything is falling apart
You still manage to stir my heart
You are the handlebar to grip for life
When my situations and my laces untied
I fell around the phone and that’s where I woke up
I woke up there alone
If you say to me you ache then I ache in the same place
A day spent turning people off
You say you’ve got a pancake cough
You are the light through venetian blinds, dear
You make the dictators chance their minds here
I dove into your open lungs
And the cat inside ripped out my tongue
You wish and dream that it’s April first
And the feeling of the stop-and-go won’t mind
I fell around your feet and that’s where I’d throw up
But you’re still underneath
You grew a disguise on your face always
You knew exactly what to say always
Your skull protects the admiral
He wants all of us to pay in full
So, don’t you worry and wain for us
‘Cause there’s no sense for both sides to freak
I fell around the stone and that’s where I’ll grow up
I’ll grow up here alone
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