Lyrics
Odd Town
No you never get it right
Every time we fall the pleasure feels undignified
Standing in the doorway with its coattails pushed aside
Yes I knew it from the start
And if I never told you, I was frightened of the dark
You shouldn't carry roses in a house of bleeding hearts
Goosebump skin and stood up hair
Dirty young minds scurry up the stairs
With such an air of high society
You think your guy really loves just you
But you don't believe he could fake it too
I guess we'll just agree to disagree
Say I'm young
Say I'm dumb
Now it cuts me like a knife
All the world's Dutch courage couldn't bring me back to life
I'm walking through a dream where you were Bonnie, I was Clyde
As you stumble down the hill
Like the misty heroine out of a silent film
Worn out statue faces watch a fairytale begin
Rainy old stepping stones melt like wax
Cigarette butts fall between the cracks
Dusty homes with shiny new young love
From bean bag chairs we philosophize
On poor men's plights and rich men's lies
While drinking from Ramona's silver cup
Say we're young
Say we're dumb
So let the music take its toll
Dare yourself to dream that you can cure your lonely soul
The cosmos is a trickster with no sense of self-control
We're rising with the dead when the town is sleeping
Street lamps fading sunrise creeping
Dust to dust I guess and so it goes
It's four AM and the phone is ringing
But we don't care we'll keep right on singing
All the songs that everybody knows
Say we're young
Say we're dumb
Taphonomy
Gone through an endless stream
Born again make ends meet
Glass-eyed stuffed animals
Frightened by casts and molds
Life under painted skies
Tried stepping back in time
Home state of Illinois
For dimwits and humanoids
And it’s so hard
I felt your ribcage
Your pickled heart
Sap from the stone age
A dance with a skeleton
That swings from a pendulum
Stone jawbone filled with cracks
That held tight its teeth like daggers
Wind chill that went right through me
If not, you know I could be anyone
It’s been so long
I felt your ribcage
Your pickled heart
Sap from the stone age
Alison still gets her kicks
From dressing like the queen
She’s much too special
Don’t you know what I mean
Plant kingdom age of man
Guts with no greater plan
Form and development
Are we irrelevant
True beauty never dies
When dipped in formaldehyde
It’s been so long
I felt her ribcage
Her pickled heart
Sap from the stone age
Love Always (Texas Song)
I've gotta pay
One last visit to The Texas Moon Cafe
I won't stick around
I need feel to my boot heels on the ground
Times when I'm blue
That's when I've gone and thought of you
And how you used to laugh
Time stands still inside a photograph
So I'll ahuh
Remember when I knew you well
Oh yeah
Remember when I knew you well
Oh yeah
Remember when I knew you well
...
So I'll ahuh
Remember when I knew you well
Oh yeah
Remember when I knew you well
Oh yeah
Remember when I knew you well
I've gotta see everything that there is to be seen
Our memories one day
Will go with the breeze
I've gotta pay
One last visit to The Texas Moon Cafe
I won't stick around
I need feel to my boot heels on the ground
I'll say goodbye to my friends both old and new but please don't cry
I'm just passing through
Like the coyotes doing what they do
But I'll ahuh
Remember when I knew you well
Oh yeah
Remember when I knew you well
Oh yeah
Remember when I knew you well
Ripples
Open arms await
You take your first steps, celebrate
Just look at you
How far have you come
Go to school and say goodbye
They teach you how to tell a lie
To all your friends
How far have you come
Oh not far enough
Like a shot from cupid’s gun
It was the burden of a love
Beyond your years
How far have you come
So you have no hesitation
As you build your isolation
Half-divine
How far have you come
Oh not far enough
You can step right off the carousel
Leave behind the wishing well
But it stays just like a ghost
And it makes you laugh until you cry
It lifts you up then sweet goodbye
It’s the thing you want the most
It’s just outside
Your mind is disengaged
You’ve got a face that time will age
But not mature
How far have you come
But these visions of the past
Still make it hard to feel the grass
Between your toes
How far have you come
Looking for the light that fits inside
A mirror oh but it’s been
Cracked for years
How far have you come
Oh not far enough
You can step right off the carousel
Leave behind the wishing well
But it stays just like a ghost
And it makes you laugh until you cry
It lifts you up then sweet goodbye
It’s the thing you want the most
It’s just outside
It could send ripples
...
Speargrass
If you ever find me
Won’t you leave me where I lie
Can you keep a secret
Cross your heart and hope to die
I miss the innocence
The games we used to play
Autumn leaves are falling now
Forever and a day
Are we living underground
You’ll drown yourself in repetition
Are we living underground
Troubled waters start to fade
With all the plans you’ve ever made
Are we living underground
You’ll drown yourself in repetition
Are we living underground
Hide your treasures in the sand
Come and catch me if you can
I went back to the oak tree
Now its branches touch my head
Bringing out old memories
And things we never said
Crossed past the baseball diamond
Clouds rolled over me
Revel in the ordinary
One fine day you'll see
Are we living underground
You’ll drown yourself in repetition
Are we living underground
Troubled waters start to fade
With all the plans you’ve ever made
Are we living underground
You’ll drown yourself in repetition
Are we living underground
Hide your treasures in the sand
Come and catch me if you can
Borrowed Time
I'm all choked up
On a bottleneck road
I'm stepping into sandtraps
You're walking ten yards alone
The engine is pounding
She knows the way back
Beaming like sun rays
Then you meet a black cat
In the valley of St. Grinstead
Where the owl plays tricks on the dead
This is what she said
My love we live on borrowed time
For I'm not yours and you're not mine
Soon your face will fade again
Our trail snuffed out and washed washed in the rain
Off in the distance
A mountaintop town
Like moss on a molehill
That's where I'm bound
Dry canyon shrubs
Bleached crescent bones
Familiar traces
Desert dust in your nose
In the valley of St. Grinstead
As the planes flew right over my head
This is what she said
My love we live on borrowed time
For I'm not yours and you're not mine
Soon your face will fade again
Our trail snuffed out and washed washed in the rain
I'll find you here
In the back of a car
We're playing finger charades
And then we're apart
Something's gone missing
It's the best part I fear
It's burried in the blackened snow
Quite a way's west of here
In the valley of St. Grinstead
The sun was glowing red
This is what she said
My love we live on borrowed time
For I'm not yours and you're not mine
Soon your face will fade again
Our trail snuffed out and washed washed in the rain
Taking a swing
With a broken arm
I'm clenching forgiveness
Meaning no harm
Prank call dreams
In the silence of night
Not a word was real
When my tongue was tied
In the valley of St. Grinstead
Where the owl plays tricks on the dead
This is what she said
My love we live on borrowed time
For I'm not yours and you're not mine
Soon your face will fade again
Our trail snuffed out and washed washed in the rain