B i o g r a p h y (by Mark Deming)
St. Vincent became one of the unexpected success stories of indie rock with the release of her second album, Actor, in 2009; the literate, emotionally intricate songs and rich, beautifully crafted pop melodies made her an immediate hit with critics, but few expected her music to cross over to mainstream acceptance. However, St. Vincent's beguiling sounds helped Actor rise to number 90 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts, and its follow-up, Strange Mercy, confirmed her newfound stardom by debuting on Billboard at number 19 in the fall of 2011. St. Vincent was born Annie Erin Clark on September 28, 1982; she was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and spent most of her childhood in Dallas, Texas. Clark began playing guitar at the age of 12, and she picked up some valuable lessons on the life of a touring musician as a teenager when she joined her uncle Tuck Andress on the road with his popular jazz duo Tuck & Patti. After graduating from high school in 2001, she studied at the prestigious Berklee School of Music, and recorded a self-released, three-song EP with fellow students in 2003, titled Ratsliveonnoevilstar. In 2004, Clark left Berklee and joined the extra-large Baroque pop group the Polyphonic Spree as a guitarist and a singer; she would tour with the band, and appeared on the sessions for their 2007 album, The Fragile Army. In 2004, Clark briefly worked with another unusually large group, performing with Glenn Branca's 100 Guitar Orchestra for a recording of one of his avant-garde symphonies. In 2006, Clark left the Polyphonic Spree and joined the backing band of like-minded pop composer Sufjan Stevens. She recorded a three-song EP to sell at her shows with Stevens, on which she adopted the name St. Vincent (inspired by her grandmother as well as the New York hospital where poet Dylan Thomas breathed his last.) In 2007, Clark stepped out on her own and signed a deal with Beggars Banquet, which released St. Vincent's first full-length album, Marry Me. The album was well received by critics, and in 2009, Clark moved to the celebrated British independent label 4AD for her second album. Teaming with producer John Congleton, St. Vincent's sophomore effort, Actor, was a musical and lyrical step forward from her debut, and strong reviews coupled with St. Vincent's impressive live performances helped the album rise from the indie ranks to the mainstream charts. In addition to her busy touring schedule, Clark found time to make guest appearances on albums by the Mountain Goats and the New Pornographers, and in 2011, she appeared at a special concert paying homage to the pioneering indie rock bands chronicled in Michael Azerrad's book Our Band Could Be Your Life, where St. Vincent performed a striking version of Big Black's "Kerosene" that earned praise from group founder Steve Albini. In the spring of 2011, Clark was reunited in the studio with producer Congleton, and the third St. Vincent album, Strange Mercy, was released in September 2011. The following year, Clark embarked on a collaboration with Talking Heads musician David Byrne after the two met at Radio City Hall in New York City for AIDS/HIV charity Dark Was the Night's benefit concert in 2009. The initial plan was to play a one-off show together; however, after the pair began to trade ideas, the project snowballed into a full album. They incorporated horns into the sound and traded lyrics via e-mail until Love This Giant was realized and released in 2012. Clark spent much of that year and 2013 touring in support of the project, which was a critical and commercial success. Late in 2013, Clark began work on her fourth album, once again working with Congleton. St. Vincent, which boasted some of Clark's most accessible songwriting and challenging sounds, appeared in early 2014.
The Strangers Save Me From What I Want The Neighbors Actor Out Of Work Black Rainbow Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood Marrow The Bed The Party Just The Same But Brand New The Sequel
Marry Me
Now, Now (I'm not) your mother's favorite dog (I'm not) the carpet you walk on (I'm not) one small atomic bomb (I'm not) any, any, any, any, any, any, anything at all (I'm not) the feather at your feet (I'm not) your yellow brick street (I'm not) anyone you'll see (I'm not) any, any, any, any, any, any, anything Now, now Now, now Now, now You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, I'll make you sorry (I'm not) the pawn to your king (I'm not) your world on a string (I'm not) anyone you'll beat (I'm not) any, any, any, any, any, any, any, anything Any, any, any, any, any, any, any, anything Now, now Now, now Now, now You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, I'll make you sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry You don't mean that, say you're sorry Jesus Saves, I Spend While Jesus is saving I'm spending all my days In backgrounds and landscapes With the languages of saints While people are spinning Like toys on Christmas day I'm inside a still life With the other absentee While Jesus is saving I'm spending all my days In the garden-grey pallor Of lines across your face While people will cheer on The spectacle we've made I'm sitting and sculpting Menageries of saints Oh, my man my absentee I'd do anything to please you Come my love the stage is waiting Be the one to save my saving grace While Jesus is saving I'm spending all my grace on rosy-red pallor Of lights on center stage While people have cheered on The awful mess we've made Through storms of red roses We've exited the stage Your Lips Are Red Your lips are red My face is red from reading your red lips My hands are black My hands are black inside this downtown taxi cab This city's red This city's red from riding us into the ground This city's black This city's black from all the ashes in downtown Ashes in downtown, ashes in downtown My face is drawn My face is drawn on with this number two pencil Your face is drawn Your face is drawn from drawing words right from my lips Words right from my lips, words right from my lips Your lips are red My face is red from reading your red lips My hands are red My hands are red from sealing your red lips Sealing your red lips, sealing your red lips Your skin's so fair Your skin's so fair it's not fair Your skin's so fair Your skin's so fair it's not fair Your skin's so fair You remind me Your skin's so fair it's not fair Your skin's so fair You remind me Your skin's so fair it's not fair You remind me... Marry Me Marry me, John Marry me, John I'll be so good to you You won't realize I'm gone Marry me, John Marry me, John I'll be so sweet to you You won't realize I'm gone You won't realize I'm gone Many people wanna make money make love Make friends make peace with death But most mainly want to win the game they came to win They want to come out ahead But you, you're a rock With a heart like a socket I can plug into at will And will you guess when I come around next I hope your open sign is blinking still So marry me, John Marry me, John I'll be so good to you You won't realize I'm gone You won't realize I'm gone As for me I would have to agree I'm as fickle as a paper doll Been kicked by the wind When I touch down again I'll be in someone else's arms Oh, John, come on We'll do what married people do Oh, John I don't care Come on What you want We'll do what Mary and Joseph did I want to marry you without the kid I want to marry you So Marry me, John Marry me, John I'll be so good to you You won't realize I'm gone You won't realize I'm gone... Many people wanna make money make love Make friends make peace with death Many people wanna make money make love Make friends make peace with death Many people wanna make money make love Make friends make peace with death...
Paris Is Burning I write to give word the war is over Send my cinders home to mother They gave me a medal for my valor Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say "I'm on your side when nobody is 'Cause nobody is Come sit right here and sleep while I slip Poison in your ear" We are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall I am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all We have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting We are dancing a black waltz fair Paris is burning after all Oh no Enclosed in this letter there's a picture Black and white for your refrigerator Sticks and stones have made me smarter It's words that cut me under my armor they say "I'm on your side when nobody is 'Cause nobody is Come sit right here and sleep while I slip Poison in your ear" We are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall I am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all We have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting We are dancing a black waltz fair Paris is burning after all Oh no Dance poor people dance and drown Dance fair Paris to the ground Dance poor people dance and drown Dance fair Paris ashes now Dance poor people dance and drown Dance fair Paris to the ground Dance poor people dance and drown Dance fair Paris ashes now...
All My Stars Aligned I read the signs I got all my stars aligned My amulets, my charms I set all my false alarms So I'll be someone Who won't be forgotten I've got a question And you've got the answer I do a dance to make the rain come Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down Collect the love that I've been given Build a nest for us to sleep in here You know it's real I check my palms The cracks in teh sidewalk My visions and my dreams I cross all my fingers That you'll be someone Who won't be forgotten What was your question I've got the answer I do a dance to make the rain come Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down Collect the love that I've been given Build a nest for us to sleep in here You know it's real There are no signs There are no stars aligned No amulets no charms To bring you back to my arms There's just this human heart That's built with this human flaw What was your question Love is the answer I do a dance to make the rain come Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down Collect the love that I've been given Build a nest for us to sleep in here You know it's real The Apocalypse Song Wait I'll be swifter Than the speed of light Carbon all my body A billion years of time You wake With the stitches Over both your eyes And deny me, my body And all earthly delights It's time You are light I guess you are afraid of What everyone is made of Time and light I guess you are afraid of What everyone is made of All of your praying Amount to just one breath Please keep your victory But give me little death It's time You are light I guess you are afraid of What everyone is made of Time and light I guess you are afraid of What everyone is made of It's time You are light I guess you are afraid of What everyone is made of Time and light I guess you are afraid of What everyone is made of What everyone is made of So take to the streets With apocalypse refrain Your devotion has the look of A lunatic's gaze Landmines I'm crawling through landmines Just to know where you are There's smoke in my eyes 'Cause you're burning the ground I'm crawling through landmines Just to feel where you are Under cover of night I put a pearl in the ground Where'd you go Not so far Please don't go Not too far Where'd you go Not so far Please don't go Not too far I found your ring with the feather on One arm in and one arm gone Save this ring let's bring Paris right here Oh, my dear My love Do you know, my love Do you know I'm crawling through landmines Just to feel where you've been There's gauze over my eyes But you're leaving this trail I'm crawling through landmines I know cause I planted them Under cover of night I put my heart in the ground Oh where'd you go Not so far Please don't go Not too far Where'd you go Not so far Please don't go Not too far I found your glove with the leather torn Five fingers that I'm counting on Smoke signals to call you right here Oh, my love My dear My love My dear... Human Racing Romeo Where'd you go It's been years and still no sign But I'm keeping hope alive Juliet How you've been You look like death Like you sure could use some rest From this place Human racing And the faces of people who pound at your door They always want more, they want more Hummingbird What's the word Are you still your mothers child Or have you found yourself a flower Flowerchild You're still wild Under a harvest moon Can we eat of all the fruits of our youth Tell the truth now Your heart is a strange little orange to peel What's the deal What's the deal Mary, dear How you feel Are you lost without your lamb You know I think I understand Little lamb What's your plan Greener pastures in the sky? It's a shame you want to die know why Just to find You've been blinded To the greenest of pastures they're right here on Earth For what it's worth You're not the first to break my heart You're not the first to break my heart... What Me Worry
What me worry I never do I'm always amused and amusing you Sans le fear of impending doom Life is like banquet food Pleasure to peruse Do I amuse you, dear Would you think me queer If while standing beside you I opted instead to Disappear, disappear In no hurry I'll sing my tune All my skies the hue of a ruddy bruise In my finest threads couture I'll call up my favorite muse For a drink - half full - or two Have I abused you, dear You have had it to here You say, "Love is just a bloodmatch To see who endures lash after last with panache" In the spring I'll dust off my lute Stuff my suitcase full of blues And I stir the dust underneath the thrust Of my clicking heels C'est la vie What me worry I never do Life is one charming ruse For us lucky few Have I fooled you, dear The time is coming near When I'll give you my hand and I'll say "It's been grand, but I'm out of here I'm out of here"
Actor
The strangers Lover, I don't play to win But for the thrill until I'm spent Paint the black hole blacker Paint the black hole blacker I threw flowers in your face On my sister's wedding day Paint the black hole blacker Paint the black hole blacker You show up with a black eye Looking to go start a fight Paint the black hole blacker Paint the black hole blacker Playboys under the mattress Like I wouldn't notice Paint the black hole blacker Paint the black hole blacker What do I share What do I keep From all the strangers who sleep where i sleep Desperate don't look good on you Neither does your virtue Paint the black hole blacker Paint the black hole blacker Good souls have born better sons Better souls born worse ones Paint the black hole blacker Paint the black hole blacker What do I share What do I keep From all the strangers who sleep where I sleep You show up with a black eye Looking to finish a fight But lover I don't play to win But for the thrill until I'm spent Paint the black hole blacker Paint the black hole blacker Save me from what I want The keys are in my pocket And they rattle you awake Seventh floor apartment And a fiery escape But I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away What seventeen cold showers Couldn't wash away Save me, save me Save me from what I want Save me, save me Save me from what I want Save me, save me Save me from what I want Honey, what reveals you Is what you try and hide away And you can tell the planets Or your pillowcase But I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away What seventeen cold showers Couldn't wash away Save me save me save me from what I want Save me save me save me from what I want Save me save me save me from what I want Save me save me save me from what I want Save me save me save me from what I want Save me save me save me from what I want The neighbors Sister say a prayer for us Ones we learned from nuns and such I won't believe not a word you speak Just make it sweet to hear Let's pour wine in coffee cups And drive around the neighborhood And shine the headlights on houses Until all the news is good Oh no! What would your mother say Oh no! What would your father do Oh no! What would the neighbors think Oh no! How am I supposed to sleep Roaming blackouts on the streets Oh not a word not another speech We'll run the headlights down These kids are foaming at the mouth Psychotropic capricorns Tomorrow's some kind of strangerland Where all the news is good Oh no! What would your mother say Oh no! What would your father do Oh no! What would the neighbors think Oh no! If they only knew How can Monday be alright Then on Tuesday lose my mind Tomorrow's some kind of stranger Who I'm not supposed to see Oh no! What would your mother say Oh no! What would your father do Oh no! What would the neighbors think Oh no! If they only knew, knew Actor out of work You're a supplement you're a salve You're a bandage pull it off I can quit you cut it out You're a patient iron lung You're a cast signed broken arm You're an actor out of work You're a liar and that's the truth You're an extra lost in the scene You're a boxer in the ring With brass knuckles underneath You're the curses through my teeth You're the laughter you're the obscene You're a supplement you're a salve You're a bandage pull it off I think I love you I think I'm mad You're a cast signed broken arm You're an actor out of work I think I love you I think I'm mad You're a boxer in the ring With brass knuckles underneath I think I love you I think I'm mad Black rainbow There's a black rainbow above my house Match the curtains and the floor I think I'm glass I think I'm breaking it Wrecking ball outside the door Let the children act like furniture For the ladies of the lawn But I can't see them I can't see at all Here it's nighttime all the time Bird outside the kitchen fighting his reflection Tell him I got nothing for him Bird outside the kitchen fighting his reflection What's he gonna win when he wins The unkissed boys and girls of paradise Are lining up around the block Back pockets full of dynamite While the neighbors talk and talk and talk Bird outside the kitchen fighting his reflection Tell him I got nothing for him Bird outside the kitchen fighting his reflection What's he gonna win when he wins Throw the phone out the window If you want the neighbors woke You'll have to shout out loud And set the bed alight and slow If you want the neighbors woke You'll have to shout even louder Laughing with a mouth of blood Just like an amnesiac Trying to get my senses back Oh where did they go Laughing with a mouth of blood From a little spill I took What are you laughing at See I traded my plot of land For a plane to anywhere Oh where did you go And I can't see the future But I know it's got big plans for me Oh what does it see All my old friends aren't so friendly And all my old haunts are now haunting me Holed up at the motel Ritz With a televangelist Oh what did he say At the bottom of a swimming pool With all the water out of it How'd you get in there I'm sending consolation prizes to my next of kin, allies Oh they'll be so thrilled And I can't see the future But I know it's watching me Wonder what it sees All my old friends aren't so friendly And all my old haunts are now haunting me Tell my sister that I miss her Tell my brother that it gets much easier Tell my sister that I miss her Tell my brother that it gets much easier All my old friends aren't so friendly And all my old haunts are now haunting me All my old friends aren't so friendly And all my old haunts are now haunting me Marrow Muscle connects to the bone And bone to the ire and the marrow I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron Mouth connects to the teeth And teeth to the loves and the curses Honey can you reach the spots that need oiling and fixing H e l p Help me, help me H e l p Help me, help me Muscle connects to the bone And bone to the ire and the marrow I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron So I pretend there aren't ten strings tied to all ten of my fingers H e l p Help me, help me If you want we could go somewhere else H e l p Help me, help me… The bed We're sleeping underneath the bed To scare the monsters out With our dear daddy's Smith and Wesson We've got to teach them all a lesson Don't move Don't scream Or we will have to shoot Stop right where you stand We need a chalk outline if you can Put your hands where we can see them please We're holding up the lids of our eyes And showing just the whites Mary no one has such small hands No not the wind not even that Don't move Don't scream Or we will have to shoot Stop right where you stand We need a chalk outline if you can Put your hands where we can see them please Stop right where you stand We need a chalk outline if you can Put your hands where we can see them Please The party Honey the party it went away quickly But oh that's the trouble with ticking and talking I lick the ice cubes from your empty glass Oh we've stayed much too late till they're cleaning the ashtrays Do you have change or a button or cash Oh my pockets hang out like two surrender flags Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean I'm keeping my eyes on the exit sign steady now How did we get here with creaks in these chairs Oh there aren't enough hands to point all the fingers But I sit transfixed by a hole in your tee shirt Oh I've said much too much and they're trying to sweep up Just the same but brand new The people in the street had overtaken you By the time you rounded second avenue So I walked away all perfumed I'm just the same but brand new And anything you wrote I checked for codes and clues The letters stopped unceremoniously in June So I changed my I's and A's to yours I'm just the same but brand new And I do my best impression of weightlessness now too And I might be wrong, I might be wrong, I might be wrong But honey I believed I could Float away dangling I'm just the same but brand new to you The sequel Oh honey, I was there in the dark where you lay And I saw you with a scent on your hands Going out to get you something Oh honey, I was there in the dark where you lay And I saw you with a scent on your hands Going out to get you something One, two, three flight apartment street-side Bodies like wrecking balls fuck, fuck with dynamite
Strange Mercy
Chloe in the Afternoon
You're all legs I'm all nerves Black lacquered Horse hair whip By your heels Heal my hurt Horse hair whip Be your floor Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin No kisses No real names No kisses No real names Who will hear Hear your word Ring ring phone Send you home Find my heels Heal my hurt White white shirt Back to work Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon Chloe in the afternoon
Cruel
Bodies Can't you see what everybody wants from me Forgive the kids For they don't know how to live Run the alleys Casually Cruel, cruel Bodies Can't you see what everybody wants from you If you could want that too Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin They could take or leave you So they took you And they left you How could they be Casually Cruel, cruel Cruel, cruel Bodies Can't you see what everybody wants from you If you could want that too Then you'd be happy You were the one Waving flares in the air So they could see you And they were the zephyr Blowing past you Blowing fastly So they can't see you Cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel Cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel
Cheerleader
I've had good times With some bad guys I've told whole lies With a half smile Held your bare bones With my clothes on I've thrown rocks Then hid both my arms I don't know what good it serves Pouring my purse in the dirt But I-I-I-I I don't wanna be your cheerleader no more I-I-I-I I don't wanna be your cheerleader no more Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I've played dumb When I knew better Tried so hard Just to be clever I know honest thieves I call family I've seen America With no clothes on But I-I-I-I I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more I-I-I-I I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more I don't know what I deserve But for you I could work 'Cause I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more I don't wanna be a dirt eater no more I don't wanna be a dirt eater no more I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more
Surgeon
I spent the summer on my back Another attack Stay in just to get along Get along, get along Turn off the TV Wade in bed A blue and a red A little something to get along Get along, get along Get along, get along, get along Best finest surgeon Come cut me open Best finest surgeon Come cut me open Dressing undressing for the wall If mother calls She knows well we don't get along Get along, get along Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I tell the mailman "never you mind I'll sift through the piles" And for him to just get along, get along, get along, Get along, get along, get along Best finest surgeon Come cut me open Best finest surgeon Come cut me open...
Northern Lights
If you say it is, then I guess it is What you say it is, but I don't feel anything 'Cause your pendulum is in swing again Yeah, your pendulum hasn't swung back in It's a champagne year full of sober months Through my maudlin days, through my dry moments I saw the northern northern lights Convinced it was the end of times I saw the north the northern lights Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Gotta get young fast Gotta get young quick Gotta make this last If it makes me sick I saw the northern northern lights Convinced it was the end of times I saw the northern northern lights Convinces it was the end of times I saw the northern northern lights I saw the northern northern lights I saw the northern northern lights I saw the northern northern lights
Oh little one I know you've been tired For a long, long time And oh little one I ain't been around for a little while But when you see me, wave Oh little one Your Hemingway jawline looks just like his Our father in exile For God only knows how many years Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin But when you see him, wave Through double pane I'll be with you lost boys Sneaking out where the shivers won't find you Oh little one I'll tell you good news That I don't believe If it would help you sleep Strange mercy If I ever meet the dirty police man who roughed you up No I don't know what If I ever meet the dirty police man who roughed you up I'll be with you lost boys Sneaking out where the shivers won't find you
Neutered Fruit
Did you ever really stare at me Did you ever really stare at me Like I stared at you I ate flowers in the backyard A finely neutered fruit Shot a hundred arrows at a doe A hundred sparrows booed Did you ever really stare at me Did you ever really stare Did you ever really stare at me Like I stared at you Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Don't run Don't run little rabbit run Don't run Don't run little bunny run Did you ever really stare at me Did you ever really stare Like I stared at you Did you ever write a prayer for me Did you ever really care Did you ever really care for me Like I cared for you Don't run Don't run Don't run Don't run Champagne Year
So I thought I learned my lesson But I secretly expected A choir at the shore And confetti through the falling air I make a living telling people what they want to hear It's not a killing, but it's enough to keep the cobwebs clear Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin 'Cause it's not a perfect plan It's not a perfect plan But it's the one we got It's not a perfect plan But it's the one we got 'Cause I make a living telling people what they want to hear But I tell you, it's gonna be a champagne year
Dilettante
Oh Elijah, don't make me wait Nobody's winning The sharks are swimming in the red Oh Elijah, don't make me wait While you are sleeping My mind goes creaking down the wall Slow down, dilettante So I can limp beside you And following your houndstooth Hang on, street savant My bank in my back pocket How far you think it'd take us You're like a party I heard through a wall I'm always watching you through a keyhole But let's not forget, let's not forget Let's not forget, why we crawled here Oh Elijah, don't make me wait I got no patience for an estrangement, anyway Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Wake up, Avenue C Your hometown is still sleeping You're like a party I heard through a wall Invite me But I'm always watching you through a keyhole Let's not forget, let's not forget Let's not forget, where we crawled from Oh Elijah, don't make me wait What is so pressing That you can undress me, anyway
Hysterical Strength
Hey it's your blood That makes my veins run It's true So I tried to give it back to you Young one, look at me It's not your beast to leash Oh don't hold more than you can stand to carry Must have been a case of Hysterical strength To stand up while the room moved off its axis Old man look at me Through the teeth of your grief Oh don't grab more than you can stand to carry Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin 'Cause you went off to seize What no one else could see Oh and left more than we could stand to bury But it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't on you No, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't on you No, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't on you No, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't on you No, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't on you
Year of the Tiger
When I was young Coach called me the tiger (Oh America, can I owe you one) I always had A knack with the danger (Oh America, can I owe you one) Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Italian shoes Like these rubes know the difference Suitcase of cash In the back of my stick shift I had to be the best of the bourgeoisie Now my kingdom for a cup of coffee Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Oh America Can I owe you one Oh America Can I owe you one Oh America Can I owe you one Oh America Can I owe you one Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger Living in fear in the year of the tiger
Love This Giant
Who Who'll be my Valentine Who'll lift this heavy load Who'll share this taxicab Who wants to climb aboard Who is an honest man Who is an honest man Who'll help a tired soldier Far from his own home town Carry these men and women Who get lost when the sun goes down Who is an honest man Who is an honest man Who walks this dusty road Who always pulls their weight Who's this, inside-a me Who made a big mistake Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Who sees these constellations See them go spinning round Carry these men and women Who get lost when the sun goes down Who is an honest man Who is an honest man With a graceful motion she sat down slowly Drank a cup of co ee and she'll fold her laundry She begins to tell us all her life story All around the table, everybody staring Who shouts out hallelujah Who's gonna sing out loud Carry these men and women Who get lost when the sun goes down Who's getting out-a here Who thinks they're wide-awake Who's gonna be my friend All around the table, everybody staring
Weekend In The Dust
Once so mysterious Now decoded and used Now according to you, you What's so mysterious Once so mysterious Now decoded and used Now according to you, you What's so mysterious Wear it well, well you have worn it out Give it all, well could you give it up Where's the fun in holding all the cards Everyone gets up when you sit down I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't When the party's over we can call the dogs Dare to keep our shirts on rolling in the muck Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Weekend in the dust Weekend full of blood If you're real I'll be a hologram Why have none when you can have it all I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't I don't get it, just don't get it I don't get it, just don't
Dinner For Two
By the time the guests arrive Oh, already it was dark outside Table's set with china dishes We're welcomed in with tiny kisses What's her name I don't remember Isn't that the famous author Harry's gonna get some appetizers Now he's keeping out of range of small arms ?re Vera has a phone she says is workin' Now she's crawling on the floor across the kitchen Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Something I should tell you But we are never alone Tanks outside the bedroom window We'll be okay with the curtain closed The guests are fine behind the sofa It's much too late they should not go home Something I should tell you But we are never alone Up by dawn, already morning I ask myself what is goin' on Some tender words and sidelong glances Are you okay, have you lived here long Underneath the stairway Somebody's changing her clothes Sweatpants and a t-shirt Silk dresses cover the floor Sit down by my side Take my overcoat When will we get out Maybe a week or so Some of us losing it Some of us breaking down Some of us stick it out Used to it now Something I should tell you, But we are never alone There's something I should tell you But I've been waiting so long When it's over with Going our separate ways How about you and me Dinner for two
Ice Age
Oh diamond, how have you been Oh diamond, it's such a shame To see you this way, freezing it out Your own little ice age Ice age Ice age Oh diamond, get outta bed All unbuttoned, seams are showing It's freaking me out, freezing it out Your own little ice age Ice age Ice age Ice age Ice age We won't know how much we lost Until the winter thaws We won't know just what we lost Until your winter thaws Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh diamond, where have you been What's close to your bones is far from your shell So feel it away, reason it out Your own little ice age Thaw me out Thaw me out Thaw me out Thaw me out Thaw me out Thaw me out I Am An Ape
In a garden, stands a statue Of the man who won the war His expression, tender yearning Every nation near and far Oh sad and ancient father Sweet as honey, tough as leather Running down the hill on Christmas day I am an ape, I stand and wait A masterpiece, a hairy beast I move so fast, but take a chance And come up close, I'm not a ghost Navigator, when you wake up And you step outside your door Shoes and panties, washed and folded Taking o your dirty clothes This garden tells a story Amber close up, faded glory Running through the streets on Christmas day Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I am an ape, I stand and wait A masterpiece, a hairy beast Try not to laugh, just take a chance I visited, inside your head If you trespass, in this garden To a place you should not go If you step out, from the shadows See the city far below I am an ape, I stand and wait A masterpiece, a hairy beast No need to hide, come on inside I will not last, I too shall pass
The Forest Awakes The Forest awakes A desert at dawn A mountain at night And the river moves on The people awake They're marching along The streets are alive With a terrible song Forwards and backwards in every direction The atom's perpetual motion The shifting of light on the banks of the river I'm free but I'm keeping my clothes on Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin We're marching along The street where you live I'm calling your name The song is a gift A song is a road A road is a face A face is a time And a time is a place A place of belief and a time of confusion The heart is a simple equation With beautiful words and with beautiful people A song is a face is a mountain A fruit that falls before it's grown I heard a sound and bird has flown It breaks pieces above the forest A million particles born today Out beyond the blue horizon Air cannot escape Underneath the weeping willow I can see your face Free form, climbing all over me Creatures great and small Doctors, pulling them out of you Hideous, virtuous, both of us Come, in my kitchen When it rains outside Sweet inspiration Sneaks up from behind The forest is true I know for a fact That the bigger the front The bigger the back My heart beating still Through the perilous night The bombs burst in air But my hair is all right The shifting of light on the trees and the houses I drown in an ocean of perfume The strangeness of words, how the meaning keeps changing But somehow the beauty will find you
I Should Watch TV
I used to think that I should watch TV I used to think that it was good for me Wanted to know what folks were thinking To understand the land I live in And I would lose myself and it would set me free This is the place where common people go A global franchise, one department store Yes there were many awkward moments I had to do some self-atonement Well if I opened up well it might set me free Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin I know, I like Behold and love this giant Big soul, big lips That's me and I am this Everybody gets a touched up hairdo Everybody's in the passing lane Adoration makes you touch dark shadows Weird things that live in there I took a walk down to the park today I wrote song called, “Just Like You and Me” I heard the jokes from the sports reporter The rival teams when they faced each other The more I lost myself the more it set me free How am I not your brother How are you not like me Ev'rybody's in the hotel lobby I'm blending in here, yes I am I feel it movin' in my arms and fingers Touch me and feel my pain It's good to lose and it's good to win sometimes It's good to die and it's good to be alive Maybe someday we can stand together Not afraid of what our eyes might see Maybe someday understand them better The weird things inside of me
Lazarus Hey, hey, Lazarus Workin' your backbone, swingin' your shovel Hey, hey, Lazarus Gold in your river, there forever One of these days I'm gonna bring that hammer down (cool water) I'm workin' hard but my heart is wearing out (cool water) Hey, hey, Lazarus Workin' your backbone, swingin' that axe home Hey, hey, Lazarus Gold in your river, there forever The captain's bell it swings from side to side (cool water) High on this hill I'm working all the time (cool water) My hammer comes down hard on everyone (cool water) I'll bring it down until my work is done (cool water) Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Hey, hey, Lazarus Water won't do, too deep was the stain Paleolithic hunters sang this song (cool water) To give them strength to work the whole day long (cool water) I am the tramp slumped in your doorway I didn't come to set you free One of these days when all my work is done (cool water) I'm gonna rest in the lap of Abraham (cool water) You will not see my face come morning I didn't come to set you free
Optimist
Waiting, but I don't mind I'm all bus stops and heat I'm neon, in your daylight I'm the optimist of 30th Street How it is is how it oughta be I got anything but moneyed esteem Drinks on Condè Nast I'm the optimist of 30th Street How it is is how it oughta be I spy Vivian Girls on the Up, Upper East There's no reason to be upset There's no reason to not expect Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin There's no room for emptiness No tea or sympathy There's no room for emptiness On a never empty street
Lightning
There's a funny lightning Threatening with striking But it moves too quick for a picture There's a funny lightning 'Round the corner hiding But I'm too smart just to catch it With gloves and rubber So I stay put right here Watching the sky for tears Let the fools and cowboys roar to wrecks But if I should wake up and find my home's in half Who is it, blame nature, I guess I have to laugh And if I should wake up and find my bed has moved Six inches, six closer to the west Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin But this funny lightning I wanna invite in If I could learn how to teach it I salt the corners of My room because, because A ghost can never be too careful And if I should wake up and find my home's in half Who did it, oh nature, I hope you have a laugh And if I should wake up and find my bed has moved Twelve inches, twelve closer to my god Whip crash there's a flash and I'm back to wanting more The crack is movin' up the wall Whip crash there's flash and I'm back to wanting more I can't help thinking this is war Whip crash there's a flash and I'm back to wanting more The crack is movin' up the wall Whip crash there's flash and I'm back to wanting more I can't help thinking this is war The One Who Broke Your Heart (ft. Dap-Kings & Antibalas) All the beautiful people They did some work on your face And in that struggle for freedom Everyone looks the same (that's right) And everybody is pregnant And everybody's in pain We're all pushin' and shoving To make those human beings Although they say you're aristocracy (that's what they say) We all deserve to wear that crown Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Sing-along With the one who broke your heart (you know you do) Sing-aloud It will keep you safe and warm (that's right) In the Garden of Eden, on a hot summer day We were totally naked, outside that small café Am I the one you imagined, am I heaven or hell But no one else can compare to, the way you love yourself (you know you do) I came to tell you on this bicycle The trees and houses say hello Sing-along With the one who broke your heart (you know you do) Sing-aloud It will keep you safe and warm (that's right) I dreamed a dream In the middle of the night (I guess I did) I sing-along To open up those teary eyes Faster and faster, and no one's holdin' the wheel Interstate highway, through those cities and fields Your friends and family, they tell your secrets to me S'not so impressive, until they all disappear Sing-along With the one who broke your heart (you know you do) I dreamed a dream Wake up and there you are
Outside of Space and Time My love, your house has many rooms The kitchen's filled with food I'll find a place inside The dreams that pass across your face Come from a secret place Everyone close your eyes It's true, I am a shaky ladder Intergalactic matter Outside of space and time But who is standing on your street These buildings are not real My tricks are useless here Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin It's true that's what a lover hears It's what a fool believes It's not too late to try Someday I'll step out from the shadow Intergalactic matter Outside of space and time Dirty feet crooked teeth Somewhere out beyond the stars A funny face so lost in space are we Everyone's enlightened everyday You may reach Nirvana when you comb your hair I know we'll join this cosmic saga Intergalactic matter Where we will meet tonight Spiraling out of sight Outside of space and time
St. Vincent
Rattlesnake Follow the power lines back from the road No one around so I take off my clothes Am I the only one in the only world I see the snake holes dotted in the sand As if Seurat painted the Rio Grande Am I the only one in the only world Sweating, sweating No wind whipping behind me Sweating,' sweating No one will ever find me The only sound out here is my own breath And my feet stuttering to make a path Am I the only one in the only world I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Is that the wind finally picking up Is that a rattle sounding from the brush I'm not the only one in the only world Running, running Running rattle behind me Running, running No one will ever find me Running, running Running rattle behind me Running, running No one will ever find me Sweating, sweating Sweating rattle behind me Running, running No one will ever find me Sweating, sweating Sweating rattle behind me Running, running No one will ever find me Birth In Reverse Oh, what an ordinary day Take out the garbage, masturbate I'm still holding for the laugh The dogs will bark so let them bark The birds will cry I'll let them cry Here's my report from the edge Like a birth in reverse What I saw through the blinds You could say that I'm saying phenomenal lies On the cosmic eternity party line Was a birth in reverse in America I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake This tune will haunt me through the war Laugh all you want but I want more 'Cause what I'm swearing, I've never sworn before Like a birth in reverse What I saw through the blinds You could say that I'm saying phenomenal lies On the cosmic eternity party line Like a birth in reverse in America Like a birth in reverse What I saw through the blinds You could say that I'm saying phenomenal lies On the cosmic eternity party line Was a birth in reverse in America Prince Johnny Prince Johnny, you're kind but you're not simple By now I think I know the difference You wanna be a son of someone Remember the time we went and snorted That piece of the Berlin Wall that you'd extorted And we had such a laugh of it Prostrate on my carpet You traced the Andes with your index And bragged when and where and who And who you gonna bed next All with sons of someone's All with sons of someone's Saw you pray to all To make you a real boy Saw you pray to all To make you a real boy Prince Johnny, you're kind but do be careful By now I know just when to stand clear When all your friends and acolytes Holding court in bathroom stalls I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Where you pray to all To make you a real boy Saw you pray to all To make you a real boy But honey don't mistake my affection For another spit and penny-style redemption 'Cause we're all sons of someone's We're all sons of someone's I wanna mean more than I mean to you I wanna mean more than I meant to him So I pray to all To make me a real girl So I pray to all To make me a real girl So I pray to all All All All Huey Newton Feelings Flash cards Fake knife Real ketchup Cardboard Cutthroats Cowboys of information Pleasure Dot loathing Dt Huey Dot Newton Oh, it was a lonely, lonely winter Fuckless Porn sharks Toothless But got a big bark Live children Blind psychics Turned online assassins So Hale-Bopp Hail Mary Hail Hagia Sophia Oh it was a lonely, lonely winter I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Entombed in the shrine Of zeros and ones You know, you know With fatherless features You motherless creatures You know In perpetual night Oh it's terribly frightening You know, you know You got the pop and the hiss In the city of misfits You know Safe safe and safest Faith for the faithless Oh dim dim and dimmer Sucker for sinners I'm entombed in the shrine Of zeros and ones You know, you know With fatherless features You motherless creatures You know In perpetual night Oh it's terribly frightening You know, you know You got the pop and the hiss In the city of misfits Oh safe safe and safest Faith for the faithless Digital Witness Get back, to your seat Get back, gnashing teeth Oh, I want all of your mind People turn the TV on It looks just like a window, yeah People turn the TV on It looks just like a window, yeah Digital witnesses What's the point of even sleeping If I can't show it, if you can't see me What's the point of doing anything I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake This is no time for confessing I want all of your mind People turn the TV on It looks just like a window, yeah People turn the TV on It looks just like a window, yeah Digital witnesses What's the point of even sleeping If I can't show it, if you can't see me Watch me jump right off the London Bridge This is no time for confessing People turn the TV on And throw it out the window, yeah Get back to your stare I care, but I don't care Oh oh, I I want all of your mind Give me all of your mind I want all of your mind Give me all of it Digital witnesses What's the point of even sleeping If I can't show it, if you can't see me What's the point of doing anything What's the point of even sleeping So I stopped sleeping, yeah I stopped sleeping Won't somebody sell me back to me I Prefer Your Love I, I prefer your love To Jesus Little baby on your knees 'Cause the world has got you down Name-tagged tourists, sick at the sight of them Tight-walking the sidewalk in spite of them As my headache moves from east to west Mother, won't you open your arms and Forgive me of all these bad thoughts I'm blinded to the faces in the fog I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake But all the good in me is because of you It's true I, I prefer your love To Jesus I, I prefer your love To Jesus Little baby on your knees 'Cause the world has got you down King-sized country wearing your worries out Headless heroes heaped by the pylons As a careless sun sets on the West Sure as mother licking her finger to Wipe the blush and smudge from my cheek and Wonder what will become of your little one But all the good in me is because of you It's true I, I prefer your love To Jesus I, I prefer your love To Jesus Little baby on your knees 'Cause the world has got you down Regret Morning pry the windows open Let in what's so terrifying Summer is as faded as a lone cicada call Memories so bright I gotta squint just to recall Regret the words I've bitten More than the ones I ever said Who's the one animal All by yourself, all of us All of us All of us Who's the one animal All by yourself, all of us Who's the one animal All by yourself, all of us I'm afraid of heaven because I can't stand the heights I'm afraid of you because I can't be left behind I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Oh well, there's a red moon rising The door slammed and it felt like a cannonball Who's the one animal All by yourself, all of us Who's the one animal All by yourself, all of us All of us All of us Bring Me Your Loves Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know I thought you were like a dog I thought you were like a dog But you made a pet of me I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know I, I took you off your leash I, I took you off your leash But I can't, no I can't make you heel Bring me your loves Bring me your loves We both have our rabid hearts Feral from the very start Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Bring me your loves All your loves, your loves I wanna love them too, you know Psychopath Running down the highway like a psychopath All the flames and fury honey at my back Wanna make a bet whether I make it back cause I'm on the edge of a heart attack You said "Honey quit your worrying Distance is exactly like a blowing wind Putting out the embers and the tiny flames and Keeping the big ones burning" I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake So I am standing in the sand where we said "It's the best day of my life" and meant all of it Keep me in your soft sights When all of the rest have moved on And I'll keep you in my soft sights When all of the crowd has gone home Keep me in your soft sights When all of the rest have moved on And I'll keep you in my soft sights When all of the crowd has gone home Every Tear Disappears Oh, a smile is more than showing teeth Oh, it's not the potion, it's the magic that I seek Every tear disappears Every tear disappears Oh, the more that I struggle the deeper in the pit If I can show a hand then I can show a fist I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Call the twenty-first century, tell her give us a break Every tear disappears Every tear disappears Oh and what about the pain? Don't ask me how, I just know that it fades Every tear disappeared Every eye is a seer Yeah, I live on wire Yeah, I been born twice Yeah, I live on wire Yeah, I been born twice Yeah, I live on wire Yeah, I been born twice Yeah, I live on wire Yeah, I been born twice Yeah, I live on wire Yeah, I been born twice Severed Crossed Fingers When your calling ain't calling back to you I'll be side-stage mouthing lines for you Humiliated by age, terrified of youth I got hope but my hope isn't helping you Spitting our guts from their gears Draining our spleen over years Found my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Wake up puddle-eyed, sleeping in the suit The truth is ugly, well, I feel ugly too We'll be heroes on every bar stool when Seeing double beats not seeing one of you Spitting our guts from their gears Draining our spleen over years Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there Well you stole the heart right out my chest Changed the words that I know best Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there Holding on and on and on Enough, enough, enough Spitting our guts from their gears Draining our spleen over years Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there Well you stole the heart right out my chest Changed the words that I know best Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there
Masseduction
Hang On Me I know you're probably sleepin' I got this thing I keep thinkin' Yeah, I admit I've been drinkin' The void is back and I'm blinkin' I cannot stop the aeroplane from crashin' And we circle down from the sky Yeah, so hang on me Hang on me, hang on me 'Cause you and me We're not meant for this world You and me We're not meant for this world I know you hate my hysterics I promise this time it's different I won't cry wolf in the kitchen Just please, oh, please don't hang up yet I cannot stop the taxi cab from crashin' And only lovers will survive you always copy, paste and cheat Yeah, so hang on me Hang on me, hang on me 'Cause you and me We're not meant for this world You and me We're not meant for this world You and me We're not meant for this world You and me We're not meant for this world Pills Pills to wake, pills to sleep Pills, pills, pills every day of the week Pills to walk, pills to think Pills, pills, pills for the family I spent a year suspended in air My mind on the gap, my head on the stairs From healers to dealers and then back again From guru to voodoo and voodoo to zen Pills to wake, pills to sleep Pills, pills, pills every day of the week Pills to walk, pills to think Pills, pills, pills for the family you always copy, paste and cheat Pills to grow, pills to shrink Pills, pills, pills and a good stiff drink Pills to fuck, pills to eat Pills, pills, pills down the kitchen sink I'm behind the wheel I'm leavin' your state I can't even swim in these waves I made From the bath to the drain, and the plane to the stage To the bed, to give head, to the money I made Pills to wake, pills to sleep Pills, pills, pills every day of the week Pills to walk, pills to think Pills, pills, pills for the family Pills to grow, pills to shrink Pills, pills, pills and a good stiff drink Pills to fuck, pills to eat Pills, pills, pills down the kitchen sink I heard the tales, fortune and blame Tigers and wolves defanged by fame From the chains to the reins to the vein To the brain, anyway there's a day And I'll pay it in pain Pills to wake, pills to sleep Pills, pills, pills every day of the week Pills to walk, pills to think Pills, pills, pills for the family Pills to grow, pills to shrink Pills, pills, pills and a good stiff drink Pills to fuck, pills to eat Pills, pills, pills down the kitchen sink Pills to wake, pills to sleep Pills, pills, pills every day of the week Pills to walk, pills to think Pills, pills, pills for the family Pills to grow, pills to shrink Pills, pills, pills and a good stiff drink Pills to fuck, pills to eat Pills, pills, pills down the kitchen sink Pills to wake, pills to sleep Pills, pills, pills every day of the week Pills to walk, pills to think Pills, pills, pills for the family Pills to grow, pills to shrink Pills, pills, pills and a good stiff drink Pills to fuck, pills to eat Pills, pills, pills down the kitchen sink Come all you villains, come one and all Come all you killers, come join the war Come all you wasted, wretched, and scorned Come on and face it, come join the war Come climb the rafters, come out to space Come for the answers, throw them away Come kiss me stupid, come kiss me sore Come find me standin' under the wall Come all you killers, come out to play Everyone you know will all go away Come all you wasted, wretched, and scorned Come watch me standin' under the wall Come all you children, come out to play Everyone you love will all go away Masseduction Seiken no fuhai (Power Corrupts) Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Black saint, sinner lady Playin' knockoff soul A punk rock romantic Slumped on the kitchen floor Nuns in stress position Smokin' Marlboros Lolita is weeping The bride is beautiful you always copy, paste and cheat Masseduction Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I hold you like a weapon Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I hold you like a weapon Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on Smilin' nihilist met Angry glass half full Drinkin' Manic Panic Singin' Boatman's Call Teenage, Christian virgins Holdin' out their tongues Paranoid secretions Fallin' on basement rugs Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I hold you like a weapon Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I hold you like a weapon Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on Oh, what a bore to be so adored Oh, what a bore to be so adored Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I hold you like a weapon Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on Mass destruction Mass destruction Mass destruction Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on Mass destruction Mass destruction Mass destruction Mass destruction Sugarboy Oh, yeah, oh, yeah Oh, yeah, oh, yeah Boys Oh, yeah, oh, yeah Oh, yeah, oh, yeah Girls Sugarboy, I'm in need How I wish for somethin' sweet Sugarboy, I am weak Got a crush on tragedy Oh, here I go A casualty hangin' out from the balcony Oh, here I go Makin' a scene, oh, here I am, your pain machine you always copy, paste and cheat I am a lot like you (Boys) I am alone like you (Girls) I am a lot like you (Boys) I am the one like you I am a lot like you (Boys) I am alone like you (Girls) I am a lot like you (Boys) I am the one like you Sugargirl, figurine Pledge all your allegiance to me Sugargirl, dissolve in me Got a crush from kicked-in teeth Oh, here I go A casualty hangin' out from the balcony Oh, here I go Makin' a scene, oh, here I am, your pain machine I am a lot like you (Boys) I am alone like you (Girls) I am a lot like you (Boys) I am the one like you I am a lot like you (Boys) I am alone like you (Girls) I am a lot like you (Boys) I am the one like you Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Boys, girls Los Ageless In Los Ageless, the winter never comes In Los Ageless, the mothers milk their young But I can keep running No, I can keep running The Los Ageless hang out by the bar Burn the pages of unwritten memoirs But I can keep running No, I can keep running you always copy, paste and cheat How can anybody have you How can anybody have you and lose you How can anybody have you and lose you And not lose their minds, too How can anybody have you How can anybody have you and lose you How can anybody have you and lose you And not lose their minds, too The last days of the sunset superstars Girls in cages playing their guitars But how can I leave? I just follow the hood of my car In Los Ageless, the waves they never break They build and build until you don't have no escape But how can I leave I just follow my hood to the sea, go to sleep How can anybody have you How can anybody have you and lose you How can anybody have you and lose you And not lose their minds, too How can anybody have you How can anybody have you and lose you How can anybody have you and lose you And not lose their minds, too Oh my Lord, oh, we really did it now I'm a monster and you're my sacred cow But I can keep running No, I can keep on running How can anybody have you How can anybody have you and lose you How can anybody have you and lose you And not lose their minds, too How can anybody have you How can anybody have you and lose you How can anybody have you and lose you And not lose their mind I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built I try to tell you I love you and it comes out all sick I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built I try to tell you I love you but it comes out all sick I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament Happy Birthday, Johnny Remember one Christmas I gave you Jim Carroll Intended it as a cautionary tale You said you saw yourself inside there Dog-eared it like a how-to manual Remember one summer we walked in Times Square I showed you the zombies with hundred-inch stares You took a Bic, set your hotel on fire We took the blame, took the bags to the train Happy Birthday, Johnny Wherever you are Happy Birthday, Johnny Wherever you are The last time you called it was on New Years' Eve You asked me for dough to get somethin' to eat Since we last spoke, you live on the street Yeah, I wouldn't believe all the shit that you seen Happy New Year, Johnny Is it twenty three Happy New Year, Johnny Are the lights on the trees you always copy, paste and cheat When I said, “Let me think,” and you yelled through your teeth Accused me of actin' like all royalty Always for show, no true charity You saw me on magazines and TV But if they only knew the real version of me Only you know the secrets, the swamp, and the fear What happened to blood, our family Annie, how could you do this to me Of course, I blame me When you get free, Johnny I hope you find peace Savior You dress me up in a nurse's outfit It rides and sticks to my thighs and my hips You put me in a teacher's little denim skirt Ruler and desk so I can make it hurt But I keep you on your best behavior Honey, I can't be your savior Love you to the grave and farther Honey, I am not your martyr You dress me in a nun's black habit Hail Mary pass, 'cause you know I'll grab it Hand me a badge, and a little billy club Like I'm supposed to book you on a hit-and-run Adore you to the grave and farther Honey, I can't be your martyr Maybe it's just human nature But honey, I can't be your savior you always copy, paste and cheat But then you say, "Please" Then you say, "Please" Dress me in leather Oh, that's a little better But that's still not it None of this shit fits But I keep you on your best behavior Honey, I can't be your savior Love you to the grave and farther Honey, I am not your martyr But then you say, "Please" Then you say, "Please" "Please. Please" "Please" (They call me a strange girl) (And they speak to me in bruises) "Please" (I got 'em tryin' to save the world) (They said, "Girl, you're not Jesus") (They call me a strange girl) "Please" (And they speak to me in bruises) (I got 'em tryin' to save the world) (They said, "Girl, you're not Jesus") "Please" (They call me a strange girl) (And they speak to me in bruises) "Please" (I got 'em tryin' to save the world) (They said, "Girl, you're not Jesus") "Please" (I got 'em tryin' to save the world) "Please" (They call me a strange girl) (And they speak to me in bruises) "Please" (I got 'em tryin' to save the world) (They said, "Girl, you're not Jesus") New York New York isn't New York Without you, love So far in a few blocks To be so low And if I call you from First Avenue Where you're the only motherfucker in the city Who can handle me New love wasn't true love Back to you, love So much for a home run With some blue bloods If I last-strawed you on 8th Avenue Where you're the only motherfucker in the city Who can stand me I have lost a hero I have lost a friend But for you, darling I'd do it all again you always copy, paste and cheat I have lost a hero I have lost a friend But for you, darling I'd do it all again New York isn't New York Without you, love Too few of our old crew Left on Astor So, if I trade our hood for some Hollywood Where you're the only motherfucker in the city who would Only motherfucker in the city who would Only motherfucker in the city who'd forgive me I have lost a hero I have lost a friend But for you, darling I'd do it all again I have lost a hero I have lost a friend But for you, darling I'd do it all again Fear The Future When the Earth split in two I was I, you were you I run for you, run for me too When the wall rose and fell And the oceans are swell I run for you, run for me too Come on, Sir, just give me an answer Come on, Sir, now I need an answer I won't be gone with the goners Come on, Sir, just give me the answer I fear the future When the club come and go To the top of your skull I run for you, what can I do When the war start anew In our bed, in our room I come for you, come for me too you always copy, paste and cheat Come on, Sir, just give me the answer Come on, Sir, now I need an answer My baby's lost to the monster Come on, Sir, just give me the answer I fear the future Young Lover How long has this been going on I found you in the bathtub with your clothing on Oh, so what, your mother did a number So, I get gloves of rubber to clean up the spill, yeah No, I, young lover, begging you please to wake up Young lover, I wish that I was your drug No, I, young lover, I miss the taste of your tongue No, I, young lover, I wish your love was enough, enough You say you got no room to talk, babe You're boozin' on a midday and I don't see no cake Oh, but these pills, I can't even pronounce them Your thousand watts of light dim then you're gone again, yeah No, I, young lover, begging you please to wake up Young lover, I wish that I was your drug No, I, young lover, I miss the taste of your tongue No, I, young lover, I wish your love was enough, enough, enough We were in Paris, the Eiffel was shining All that I wanted was lyin' on tilin' I heard the robins and thought they were sirens Wake up, young lover, I thought you were dyin' you always copy, paste and cheat No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I, young lover No, I, young lover Slow Disco I sway in place to a slow disco And a glass for the saints and a bar for the road Am I thinking what everybody's thinkin' I'm so glad I came, but I can't wait to leave Slip my hand from your hand Leave you dancin' with a ghost Slip my hand from your hand Leave you dancin' with a ghost There's blood in my ears and a fool in the mirror And the pain of mistakes couldn't get any clearer Am I thinking what everybody's thinkin' I'm so glad I came, but I can't wait to leave you always copy, paste and cheat Slip my hand from your hand Leave you dancin' with a ghost Slip my hand from your hand Leave you dancin' with a ghost Don't it beat a slow dance to death Don't it beat a slow dance to death Don't it beat a slow dance to death Don't it beat a slow dance to death Don't it beat a slow dance to death Don't it beat a slow dance to death Smoking Section Sometimes I sit in the smoking section Hopin' one rogue spark will land in my direction And when you stomp me out, I scream and I'll shout "Let it happen, let it happen, let it happen" And sometimes I feel like an inland ocean Too big to be a lake, too small to be an attraction And when you wander in and start to flail a bit I let it happen, let it happen, let it happen you always copy, paste and cheat Sometimes I stand with a pistol in hand I fire at the grass just to scare you right back And when you won't run, I'm mad but I succumb Let it happen, let it happen, let it happen And sometimes I go to the edge of my roof And I think I'll jump just to punish you And if I should float on the taxis below No one would notice, no one will know And then I think What could be better than love, than love, than love And then I think What could be better than love, than love, than love It's not the end, it's not the end It's not the end, it's not the end It's not the end, it's not the end It's not the end, it's not the end It's not the end, it's not the end It's not the end, it's not the end Seiken no fuhai (Power Corrupts) (Japanese Bonus Track) Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai you always copy, paste and cheat Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Otagai no me to me wo sikkari awasemasyou (Make eye contact each other) Aite ga sukosi kinchougimi desitara Relax dekiru BGM wo kakerunomo iidesune (If your partner is a little nervous, it's good to play some BGM to relax) Ato, heya wa sukosi kurame no houga mood ga demasuyone (And it can be more romantic if you turn the room a little darker) Masseduction Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Masseduction Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Masseduction Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Masseduction Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Otagai no me to me wo sikkari awasemasyou (Make eye contact each other) Aite ga sukosi kinchougimi desitara Relax dekiru BGM wo kakerunomo iidesune (If your partner is a little nervous, it's good to play some BGM to relax) Ato, heya wa sukosi kurame no houga mood ga demasuyone (And it can be more romantic if you turn the room a little darker) Masseduction Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai Masseduction Seiken no fuhai Seiken no fuhai...
Daddy's Home
Pay Your Way In Pain You got to pay your way in pain You got to pray your way in shame I went to the store, I was feeling kinda hungry But I didn't have the money and the shelves were all empty So I went to the bank to ch-ch-check my checking The man looked at my face, said, "We don't have a record" Oh no, you thought we had forgotten The show is only getting started The road is feeling like a pothole Sit down, stand up, head down, hands up and Pay your way in pain You got to pray your way in shame Give me what I want What do you want, what do you want You know what I want What do you want, what do you want You know what I want What do you want, what do you want You relax, baby I, I, I wanna be loud Pain Shame Pray Shame So I went to the park just to watch the little children The mothers saw my heels and they said I wasn't welcome So I, I went back home, I was feeling kinda queazy But all the locks were changed, my baby wouldn't see me Oh no, you put your finger on it The stove is only getting hotter The sun has got to, got to melt you Stand up, sit down, hands up, break down What do you want, what do you want You know what I want What do you want, what do you want I wanna be loud (Pain) What do you want, what do you want (Pain) What do you want, what do you want (Shame) I wanna be loud (Pain) What do you want, what do you want (Shame)
Down And Out Downtown Last night's heels on the morning train It's a long way back downtown Ten missed calls, they don't know where you are It's a long way back downtown Hey, I was flying (flying, flying, flying) Over the Empire State (over, away) Then you kissed me (kissed me, kissed me) And I crashed again When'd it start This feeling so wrong When you're down and out downtown Bowery John forgotten but not gone Praying at St. Ann's bodega roses in my hands Down and out downtown And that joker with the funny laugh Is digging through the basement of my past And it's a long way back down Down and out downtown Hey, I was flying (flying, flying, flying) Over the Empire State (over, away) Then you kissed me (kissed me, kissed me, kissed me) And I crashed again Daddy's Home I signed autographs in the visitation room Waiting for you the last time, inmate 502 Daddy's home You still got it in your government green suit And I look down and out in my fine Italian shoes And we're tight as a bible with the pages stuck like glue Yeah you did some time, well, I did some time too Daddy's home Daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home Daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home We're all good puritans, they'll pray about reform You swore you had paid your dues, then put a payday in your uniform We're all born innocent, but some good saints gеt screwed Hell, whеre can you run when the outlaw's inside you Daddy's home Daddy's home Daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home Daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home Daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home Daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home, daddy's home Daddy's home Live In The Dream Hello, do you know where you are You've been out cold, we almost called the cops Don't get up, can you count to ten Oh boy, you're so lucky we found you when we did 'Cause there's a lot of people here who wanna do you harm But stay with me, you fallen lamb And I'll keep you in my arms But I can't live in the dream The dream lives in me Welcome child, you're free of the cage Trying to seem sane makes you seem so strange You look tired, go on, rest your head Oh girl, you're so lucky we found you when we did 'Cause there's a lot of people here who wanna do you harm But stay with me, you fallen lamb And I'll keep you in my arms But I can't live in the dream The dream lives in me Oh I can't live in the dream The dream lives in me The Melting Of The Sun So sorry, missed the party Hello on the dark side of the moon Jane lost it, crashed her corvette Ran into the tide in Malibu And we all heard the gun But I was slow to run It's just the melting of the sun It's just the sun I wanna watch you watch it burn So watch it burn Saint Joni ain't no phony Smoking reds where Furry sang the blues My Marilyn shot her heroin Hell she said it's better than abuse So who am I trying to be A benzo beauty queen It's just the melting of the sun It's just the sun I wanna watch you watch it burn So watch it burn We always knew the day would come The day has come It's just the melting of the sun Brave Tori told her story Police said they couldn't catch the man Proud Nina got subpoenaed Singing "Mississippi good goddamn" But me I never cried To tell the truth I lied Girl, the world's spinning round Spinning down and out of time Girl, you can't give in now When you're down, down and out Girl, the world's spinning round Spinning down and out of time Girl, you can't give in now When you're down, down and out
Humming (Interlude 1) Listening The kitchen My mother fixing Something missing And all the while she's humming The Laughing Man 911 (911, what's the emergency) I'm in love (I see, so how can I help you) I can hear the angels sweeping So why do I feel like sleeping Little birds, little birds Chirp, chirp, chirp Singing like the day is perfect But to me they sound psychotic I know you're gone, you left the scene Heaven had more important things but I can't sleep I know you'd know exactly what I mean If life's a joke, then I'm dying laughing Brown liquor Why not, sure Like the heroines of Cassavetes I'm underneath the influence daily Remember when (remember when) We were kids (just kids) Best of friends (best of friends) All grass stains and chicken dinners Menthol mouths and secret stitches Half pipes and Playstation Suicidal ideation I know you're gone, you dropped the scene Left all of your guitars to me, but I can't play I know you'd know exactly what I'm saying If life's a joke, then I'm dying laughing
Down You hit me one time Imagine my surprise When you hit me two times You got yourself a fight I was a patsy You were a creep from the cheap seats Thinking that my little scratch was like your big victory, see But I'll take you down Tell me who hurt you No, wait, I don't care to Hear an excuse why you think you can be cruel (Cruel, cruel, cruel) Mama always told me (My mama told me) You got to turn the other cheek (My mama told me) But even she would agree You're an exception to that rule (Rule, rule, rule) I'll take you Yeah I'll take you I'll take you I'll take you down (I'll take you down, down, down, down) I'll take you down (I'll take you down, down, down, down) Go get your own shit Get off of my tit Go face your demons Check into treatment Go flee the country Go blame your daddy Just get far away from me 'Cause I'll take you down (I'll take you down, down, down, down) 'Cause I'll take you down (I'll take you down, down, down, down) I'll take you down Go tell your friends Go tell your friends you're down Run to your friends If you got any left, you're down Go tell your friends Go tell your friends you're down Run to your friends If you got any left, you're down
Somebody Like Me Paint yourself white Clip on the wings Climb high to the top Of a building Does it make you a angel Or some kind of freak To believe enough In somebody like me Baby Oh I (oh I) guess we'll see Who was the freak Dress up in white Slip on the ring Walk straight down the aisle To the violin strings Does it make you a genius Or the fool of the week To believe enough In somebody like me Baby Oh I (oh I) guess we'll see (I guess we'll see) Who was the freak Time (oh I) tеlls us things (I guess we'll see) That you and I can't see My Baby Wants A Baby My baby loves me like a saint My baby hates when I'm away My baby wants a baby How can I go on What in the world (what in the world) Would my baby say "I got your eyes and your mistakes" You make a home (you make a home) I run away and the story starts again Then I couldn't stay in bed all day I couldn't leave like my daddy And I wouldn't be your only baby anymore My baby's closer than a shave My baby's blue when I dye greys My baby wants a baby How can it be wrong But I wanna play guitar all day Make all my meals in microwaves Only dress up if I get paid How can it be wrong What in the world, what in the world, would my baby say "I got your eyes and your mistakes" I wanna run, I wanna run, I wanna chase The еnding I can't see Then I won't have no legacy 'Causе I won't write no symphony Won't have no streets named after me Won't even have your sympathy No one will scream that song I made Won't throw no roses on my grave They'll just look at me and say "Where's your baby" ...At The Holiday Party At the holiday party Red wine-lipped a little early Reminiscing got us laughing That's when I saw your face cracking Smiles and smoke and screens Your Gucci purse a pharmacy Pretend to want these things So no one sees you not getting Not getting what you need Need You can't hide from me Are you still working on your screenplay Or did those lights go out on Broadway Think if you can just keep spinning You won't miss what you've been missing Pills and Juuls and speed Your little purse a pharmacy And hide behind these things So no one sees you not getting Not getting what you need Need You can't hide, you can't hide from me You can't hide, you can't hide No, you can't hide from me... Candy Darling Candy, darling Who knows why the caged bird even sings For high priced low lives Red bodega roses, you and me I never wanna leave Your perfume candy dream So Queen of south Queens We never did stop cheering for you, babe And your wig, blonde, rolls home Waving from the latest uptown train I never wanna leave Your perfume candy scene So Candy, darling I brought bodega roses for your feet And Candy, my sweet I hope you will be coming home to me Humming (Interlude 3) Down in the park She didn't show up You take a high note And I'll join a chorus And all my ghosts will keep haunting you
The Nowhere Inn
The Nowhere Inn Driver, do you mind Turn off Patsy Cline Walking on my own tonight Hate being impolite But no small talk, I'm tired Just wake me when we arrive Oh pick up speed and sandwiches A ziploc bag, a fifth of gin Don't ask me why Oh drop me by the burnout sign Where hell is near and heaven hides Within paradise Here at the Nowhere Inn Where nothing and no one wins Where our last days are spent Wasted on song and sin Here at the Nowhere Inn The hallways are labyrinths Where I last sold my myth Now I live at the Nowhere Inn Always knew you'd end up here Been waiting now for years to see you In my everlasting mirror Everybody knows your name And knows you are to blame For every trickle of your mama's tears We're all nowhere and where are you now We're all nowhere and where are you now You're at the Nowhere Inn Where nothing and no one wins Where our last days are spent Wasted on song and sin I'm here at the Nowhere Inn The hallways are labyrinths Here I sold my last myth Now I live at the Nowhere Inn We're all nowhere and where are you now We're all nowhere and where are you now We're all nowhere and where are you now We're all nowhere and where are you Where are you... Palm Desert In a white limousine In the Palm Desert heat We're too far from the sea So your waves crash on me Dark shades on your eyes Singing, "What doesn't change dies" Driver, do you mind To hit the brakes on this ride Running 'round the road Tired of my old clothes I got what I want But I don't want it all No, I don't want it all Footprints in the sand I lie where they end Black hawks circle in Over no promises land So ride your white limousine Into a hungry ravine All hail lizard queen You'll never see me again Running 'round the road Tired of my old clothes I got what I want But I don't want it all No, I don't want it all Waiting On A Wave I took a walk down my own street But a little thought occurred to me I belong to the street more than it does to me How deviously Sophoclean To look for signs of poetry In the golden litter And the tinfoil shining Wave I'm waiting on a wave For someone just to say Oh honey, you'll be safe Oh baby, you're so good to me But these benzodiazepines Make me foggy as a London day Well, fuck sentimentality It's for the weak and lazy Under your velvet cloak I see your pitchfork shining Wave I'm waiting on a wave For someone just to say Oh honey, you'll be safe A wave I'm waiting on a wave For someone just to say Oh honey, right this way
ALL BORN SCREAMING
Hell Is Near Empty cup and a can full of marigolds Half-burned candle, a picture pinned on the wall Letters, records, and ash on linoleum Signs of life, the beginning, the beginning, our beginning, begin again I was bare, and your word was still warm in my hand I was bare, wanted all under heaven allowed Snubbed-out smoke in a pack from the Nowhere Inn Water glass with the smudge of a lipstick stain Box of nails, olive branch, and the holy ghost Leave the rest, but come back for the marigolds The beginning, the beginning, the beginning, still ahead I was bare, and your word was still warm in my hand I was bare, wanted all under heaven allowed Give it all away, you give it all away 'Cause the whole world's watching you Give it all away, you give it all away 'Cause the whole world's watching you Give it all away, you give it all away 'Cause the whole world's watching you Give it all away, you give it all away 'Cause the whole world's watching you Reckless I watched you all night till the dawn had come And the angels came down and picked you up breathless The smell of your hair on curtains, babe The wind blew the windows out in the rain Reckless, reckless And every part of you is in me now There's no going back I breathe you out Breathless, breathless, breathless London sun, the air like a shot Hey, ma, I'm cracking, cracking up Reckless, reckless, reckless And I've been mourning you since the day I met you Stranger, come in my path And I'll eat you up, I'll tear you limb from limb, or I'll fall in love Reckless, reckless, reckless If your love was an anchor, then I am lost at sea I hear the riders calling They're calling for me Calling for me Calling for me Calling for me Calling for me Calling for me Calling for me Calling for me Calling for me
Broken Man On the street, I'm a kingsize killer I can make your kingdom come On my feet, I'm an earthquake shaking So open up, my little one Hey, what are you looking at Who the hell do you think I am And what are you looking at Like you never seen a broken man Lover, nail yourself right to me If you go, I won't be well I can hold my arms right open But I need you to drive the nail Hey, what are you looking at Who the hell do you think I am Hey, what are you looking at Like you never seen a broken man How do you see me now You built my tower to tear it down And how could you see me now If I stopped cracking up myself If I stopped cracking up Who the hell do you think I am Hey, hey Like you never seen a broken man Like you never seen a broken man Like you never seen a broken man Hey, hey, hey (Who the hell do you think I am) Lover, nail yourself right to me (Like you never seen a broken man) If you go, I won't be well (Who the hell do you think I am) I can hold my arms right open (Like you never seen a broken man) But I need you to drive the nail What are you looking at What are you looking at What are you looking at Hey, hey What are you looking at What are you looking at What are you looking at Hey, hey, hey
Flea I'm just like a hungry little flea Jumping on somebody's warm body When you start to itch and scratch and scream Once I'm in, you can't get rid of me Once I'm in, you can't get rid of me Drip you in diamonds, pour you in cream You will be mine for eternity Hair in my shears fall at your feet You will be mine for eternity When you're walking down your sunny street (I got it) Thinking of your bills or what to eat (I got it, I, I got it) Then you feel that little prick from me (I got it, I, I got it) Look at you and all I see is meat Drip you in diamonds, pour you in cream You will be mine for eternity I'll bring you China milk for your tea You will be mine for eternity Eternity Drip you in diamonds, pour you in cream You will be minе for eternity Hair in my shears fall at your feet You will bе mine, my everything
Big Time Nothing Don’t blink, don’t wait, don’t walk, you’re late Don’t fall from grace behave don’t trip Sashay, ok sashay Don’t kid, don’t blame, don’t snap insane Don’t crack, don’t act, your age don’t change your name It's all the rage Do ask but don’t tell, don’t laugh but do smile Don’t have a glass, don’t stay a while, don’t take a pic Don’t feel so sick Big time nothing I look inside, I look inside I look inside nothing I look inside, I look inside I look inside your eyes One, two One, two Don’t show, don’t flake, go hard debase Don’t make a dishonest mistake, don’t be so sure I need a cure One more score Big time nothing Just like a Big time nothing I, I, I I look inside, I look inside I look inside nothing I look inside, I look inside I look inside your I look inside, I look inside I look inside nothing I look inside, I look inside I look inside your eyes Big time nothing (Big time nothing) Big time nothing (Big time nothing) Big time nothing (Big time nothing) Big time nothing (Big time)
Violent Times Violent times Almost lost you in these violent times I forgot people could be so kind In these violent times Dollar signs Almost lost it chasing dollar signs Know the cost, but I forgot the price Of buying my lie I must have been dreaming I fell down the well Waking up Waking up in hell Different eyes You're the same, but I've got different eyes How could I ever have been so blind? Blame these violent times When all of the bombs inside All of the wires I hide All of the wasted nights chasing mortality When in the ashes of Pompeii Lovers discovered in an embrace for all eternity I must have been dreaming I fell down the well But I swear you were hearing me Through the noise and static and the call The Power's Out Monday morning, subway station Pushers pushing, racers racing Came the message on the station "The power's out across the nation" And "Ladies and gentlemen, it seems we've got a problem" The man on my screen said, just as somebody shot him And all mothers gasped, the children cried Almost could not believe my eyes The power's out And no one can save us No one can blame us now That the power's out It was pouring like a movie Every stranger looked like they knew me Handsome cowboys praying, Gothic Said, "I just remembered being happy" And "Ladies and gentlemen, do remember me smiling" The queer on the train said as she jumped off the platform And some blind folks held the police, crying I swear to you I would not lie The power's out And no one can save us No one can blame us now That the power's out And no one can save us No one can blame us now That the power's out That's why I never came home Sweetest Fruit My Sophie climbed the roof To get a better view of the moon Moon My God, then one wrong stair Took her down to the depths But for a minute, what a view What a view You're a natural, baby You don't have to quit Sweetest fruit You're a natural, baby You know this ain't it The sweetest fruit is on the limb My Danny took a bus To find America It goes on and on and on and on and on 'Cause you're a natural, baby You don't have to quit now Sweetest fruit You're a natural, baby You know this ain't it The sweetest fruit Is on the limb You're a natural, baby You don't have to quit The sweetest fruit You're a natural, baby, you know No, this ain't it The sweetest fruit You're a natural, baby You know this ain't it The sweetest fruit So Many Planets Misfiring chemicals and scary ideas This revolution isn't fun, ma I'm out of fashion, I got God on my heels I'm dropping promises like H-bombs But keep calm I'm at the back of my head Watching my life happening Watching the sink filling red And I'm not stopping it I have to visit so many planets Before I find my own I fall asleep in the golden highway Before I finally find it Hemorrhaging heartthrob with a six-pack of beer Leaning outside her burned-out window She isn't smiling, but she's happy you're here We'll make a killing from her trauma, oh mama Here at the back of my head Watching my life happening Feeling distinct smithereens I've gotten used to it I have to visit so many planets Before I find my own I fall asleep in the golden highway Before I finally find Finally find it All Born Screaming (feat. Cate Le Bon) I have climbed power lines and mountains just to feel above the ground I have crawled out your hallowed houses just to feel my headache pound I feel like graffiti on a urinal in the abattoir, well it goes and it goes I can't stop my legs, I can't feel my feet, I own nothing, and nothing owns me We're all born screaming We're all born screaming, yeah I have climbed into open arms, they turned into a straight jacket Stolen hearts I didn't need, but man, I always paid for them I was a pantomime of a modern girl Those were the days, and I was miserable A karaoke version of Leonard's "Hallelujah," My whole damn life, I had never exhaled Oh well We're all born screaming We're all born screaming We're all (All) born (Born) screaming We're all (All) born (Born) screaming, yeah Well, yeah Well, well, well All born screaming All born screaming All born screaming All born screaming
TODOS NACEN GRITANDO El Inferno Está Cerca Copa vacía lata con calendulas Vela quemada, un foto clavada en la pared Letras, registros y joyas sobre suelo Signos de vida El principio El principio El principio otra vez Desnuda Y tus promesas cálidas Desnuda Quería todo bajo el cielo Humo de un cigarillo del Nowhere Inn Vaso de agua con mancha de labial Caja de clavos y espíritu santo Deja el resto, pero vuelve por calendulas El principio El principio El principio otra vez Desnuda Y tus promesas cálidas Desnuda Quería todo bajo el cielo Regalalo todo Regalalo todo Por el mundo entero Regalalo todo Regalalo todo Por el mundo entero Regalalo todo Regalalo todo Por el mundo entero Regalalo todo Regalalo todo Por el mundo entero Salvaje Te mire toda la noche Llego al amanecer Y Los Ángeles bajaron y te besaron Salvaje El olor de tu pelo en las cortinas El viento arraso las ventanas Salvaje Salvaje Y cada parte de ti Ahora esta dentro de mi No hay vuelta atrás Te respiro Salvaje Salvaje Salvaje El sol de Londres el aire Un tiro me estoy desmoronando Desmoronando, madre Salvaje Salvaje Salvaje Y he estado de luto por ti desde que te conocí Extraño ven a camino te comer E te hare pedazos o me enamorare Salvaje Salvaje Salvaje Si tu amor fuera una ancla Estoy perdida en el mar Escucho a las sirenas Llamando por mi Llamando por mi Llamando por mi Llamando por mi Llamando por mi Llamando por mi Llamando por mi Llamando por mi Llamando por mi
Hombre Roto En la calle soy un gran asesina Puedo hacer caer tu reino De pie soy terremoto temblando Ábrete, mi pequeño Que estas mirando Quien crees que soy Y que estas mirando Has visto un hombre roto Amor, clavate a mi Si te vas, no estaré bien Aquí estoy con mis brazos abiertos Pero tu tienes que clavar el clavo Que estas mirando Quien crees que soy Y que estas mirando Has visto un hombre roto Y como me ves ahora Me rompiste en pedacitos Y como me ves ahora Si ya no me vuelvo loca Si no me vuelvo loca Quien crees que soy Has visto un hombre roto Has visto un hombre roto Has visto un hombre roto (Quien crees que soy) Amor, clavate a mi (Has visto un hombre roto) Si te vas, no estaré bien (Quien crees que soy) Aquí estoy con mis brazos abiertos (Has visto um hombre roto) Pero tu tienes que clavar el clavo Que estas mirando Que estas mirando Que estas mirando Que estas mirando Que estas mirando Que estas mirando
Pulga Soy una pequeña pulga ya Saltando sobre un cuerpo cálido Empiezas a picar, rascar, gritar Ya dentro no te libraras de mi Ya dentro no te libraras de mi Te dare diamantes, te ahogo con crema Serás mio para eternidad El pelo mis tijeras cae a tues pies Serás mia para eternidad Paseando por una calle soleada Lo tengo Pensando en tus cuentas o en que comer Lo tengo, oh lo tengo Sentiras el pinchazo de mi Lo tengo, oh lo tengo Te miro y solo veo carne Te dare diamantes, te ahogo con crema Serás mio para eternidad Te dare porcelana, leche para tu te Serás mia para eternidad Eternidad Te dare diamantes, te ahogo con crema Serás mio para eternidad El pelo mis tijeras cae a tus pies Serás mio para eternidad
El Mero Cero No veas, no esperes No vengas, vas mal Más bien, compórtate Tranquilo, sashay Ok, sashay No bromea, no culpes Ojo loco No toques, no seas viejo No seas tan serio Está de moda Pregunta, no digas No te rías, sonríe No tomes trago, eres raro No tomes foto Alejate un poco Mero cero Miro adentro Miro adentro Miro adentro Cero Miro adentro Miro adentro Miro adentro Tus ojos Uno, dos Uno, dos No muestres, no falles Más duro, degrades No hagas error deshonesto Estás segura Necesito cura Una dosis más Mero cero Es como Mero cero Yo, yo, yo Miro adentro Miro adentro Miro adentro Cero Miro adentro Miro adentro Miro adentro Miro Miro adentro Miro adentro Miro adentro Cero Miro adentro Miro adentro Miro adentro Tus ojos Mero cero Mero cero Mero cero Mero cero Mero cero Mero cero Mero cero Mero Tiempos Violentos Tiempos violentos Casi te pierdo en estos tiempos violentos Gente puede ser tan amable En estos tiempos violentos Dinero Casi perdí todo persiguiéndolo Sé el precio, pero me cuesta Creer mis mentiras Estaba soñando Caí dentro de un pozo Despertándome Despertándome en el infierno Ojos nuevos Eres la misma, pero tengo ojos nuevos Cómo pude ser tan ciega Culpo estos tiempos violentos Cuando todas las bombas Dentro de todos los cables Escondo todas las noches desperdiciadas Cuando en las cenizas de Pompeya Hay amantes abrazados Por toda una eternidad Estaba soñando Caí dentro de un pozo Pero seguro me oías A través del ruido, los susurros Se Fue La Luz La mañana en el metro Empujando corredores El mensaje en el metro Se fue la luz por todo el país Señoras y señores, tenemos un problema Un hombre dijo justo que le dispararon Y las madres gritan, los niños lloran No podia creer mis ojos Se fue la luz Y nadie nos salvará Nadie nos salvara ahora Porque se fue la luz En la lluvia como película Los extraños parecían conocerme Vaqueros guapos tan rezando Diciendo yo recuerdo ser feliz Señoras y señores, se recuerdan de mi sonrisa El extraño dijo mientras se tiro de la plataforma Ciegos vieron la policía llorar Te juro que no mentiría Se fue la luz Y nadie nos salvara Nadie nos salvara ahora Se fue la luz Y nadie nos salvara Nadie nos salvara ahora Porque se fue la luz Y por eso nunca regrese La Fruta Más Dulce Mi Sophie se trepó Al techo para ver a la luna Luna Ay, Dios, un mal paso La mandó tumbando Pero por un momento qué vista Qué vista Eres una natural No renuncies La fruta más dulce Eres una natural Sabes que este no es La fruta más dulce Está por las ramas Mi Danny tomó un tren Para ver América Eso sigue, sigue, sigue, sigue, sigue Eres una natural No renuncies La fruta más dulce Eres una natural Sabes que este no es La fruta más dulce Está por las ramas Eres una natural No renuncies La fruta más dulce Eres una natural Sabes que еste no es La fruta más dulce Erеs una natural No renuncies La fruta más dulce Tantos Planetas Químicos fallando y ideas de terror Revolución no me gusta No estoy de moda y aquí viene dios Dejó promesas como bombas Pero calma Dentro de mi mente Viendo mi vida pasar Lavabo lleno rojo Pero no lo pararé Tengo que ir a los planetas Hasta que encuentre el mío Dormida en carretera dorada Antes de encontrarla Rompecorazones con unas cervezas Asomándose de su ventana No está sonriendo, pero está feliz Hacemos lana de su trauma Ay mamá Dentro de mi mente Viendo mi vida pasar Me siento enferma Y ya me acostumbré Tengo que ir a los planetas Hasta que encuentre el mío Dormida en carretera dorada Antes de encontrarla Antes de encontrarla Todos Nacen Gritando (Feat. Cate Le Bon) He escalado nubes y montañas para no sentir el suelo Me he arrastrado fuera de casas santas y me duele la cabeza Y me siento como basura en el matadero pues así, así va Estoy corriendo, no siento mis pies, no tengo nada, nada me pertenece Todos nacemos gritando Todos nacemos gritando Me he metido a brazos abiertos que me atraparon Corazones robados no eran mios, pero yo pago por ellos Yo era pantomima de mujer moderna e se fue antes y me sentía muy mal Un version fea de hallelujah en toda mi vida jamas exhalado Todos nacemos gritando Todos nacemos gritando Todos (todos) nacemos (nacemos) gritando Todos (todos) nacemos (nacemos) gritando Todos nacen gritando...
Non Albums Tracks All Tomorrow's Parties (I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico” Feat. Thomas Bartlett) In what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where will she go, and what shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns To all tomorrow's parties And what will she do with Thursday's rags When Monday comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown For whom none will go mourning A blackened shroud A hand-me-down gown Of rags and silks, a costume Fit for one who sits and cries Fit for one who sits and cries All tomorrow's parties For all tomorrow's parties All tomorrow's parties For all tomorrow's parties All tomorrow's parties For all tomorrow's parties All tomorrow's parties
And Then She Kissed Me (The Crystals cover / Universal Love Project) Well, she walked up to me and she asked me if I wanted to dance She looked kinda nice and so I said that I might take a chance When she danced she held me tight And when she walked me home that night All the stars were shining bright And then she kissed me Each time I saw her I couldn't wait to see her again I wanted to let her know that she was more than a friend I didn't know just what to do So I whispered, "I love you" She said that she loved me too And then she kissed me She kissed me in a way that I've never been kissed before She kissed me in a way that I want to be kissed forever more I knew that she was mine so I gave her all the love that I had And one day she took me home to meet her mom and her dad Then she asked me to be her bride And always be right by her side I felt so happy I almost cried And then she kissed me Then she asked me to be her bride And always be right by her side I felt so happy I almost cried And then she kissed me And then she kissed me And then she kissed me And then she kissed me What Oh no
Bad Believer ( St Vincent Deluxe Ed. ) What do you know I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know From the nave and down into the altar I left my momma sitting in the pew Knelt before the trembling pastor Fainted as he touched my trembling hand What do you know I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know Show me your stones I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know Momma held me up through the rapture Dragged me through the eyes and the whispers Lost the spirit out the car window Bad by righteous, righteous hands Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better What do you know I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know Show me your stones I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know But now I'm not afraid I know that love is stranger Held up and arriving in the light No, I'm not ashamed There really is no danger Give me life Give me life Give me life What do you know I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know Show me your stones I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know What do you know I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know Show me your stones I'm just a bad believer What do you know What do you know
Bad Girls (Bob's Buskers) (Bob's Burgers Season 2, Episode 8: "Bad Tina") Bad girls don't want to go to Dog Prom And bad girls don't like to pay for lip balm I don't want to be this bad I don't want to be this bad Bad girls make mean announcements at lunch And bad girls think that you're being a boob punch I don't want to be this bad I don't want to be this bad Bad, bad, bad, bad Bad, bad, bad, bad Bad girls like to fight with their moms And bad girls don't use pads as tampons I don't want to be this bad I don't want to be this bad Bad girls don't want to go to college And bad girls rip off all your doll's heads I don't want to be this bad I don't want to be this bad Bad, bad, bad, bad Bad, bad, bad, bad I was always the good girl But then I fell in with the wrong crowd Now I'm mouthing off to my mom and skipping school Are the boys and their cute butts really worth all this Watch out Bad, bad, bad, bad Bad, bad, bad, bad
Bicycle You stole my bicycle so i had to walk 20 city blocks in the rain You took my tennis shoes so I took the train to avoid the rain You saw me on the street you offered me a seat then when i blinked you were
Dig A Pony (Beatles cover / Live at Great American Music Hall, 2009) I, I, I I dig a pony You can celebrate anything you want Yeah, you can celebrate anything you want I, I, I I pick a moon hog You can penetrate any place you go Yeah, you can penetrate any place you go I told you so, all I want is you Everything has got to be just like you want it to Because Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I, I, I I pick a moon dog You can radiate everything you are Yeah, you can radiate everything you are I, I, I I roll a stoney You can imitate everyone you know Yeah, you can imitate everyone you know I told you so, all I want is you Everything has got to be just like you want it to Because I, I, I I feel the wind blow You can indicate everything you see Yeah, you can indicate everything you see I, I, I I dug a pony You can syndicate any boat you row Yeahm you can syndicate any boat you row I told you so, all I want is you Everything has got to be just like you want it to Because
Emotional Rescue (The Rolling Stones Cover / A Bigger Splash OST) Is there nothing I can say, nothing I can do To change your mind, I'm so in love with you You're too deep in, you can't get out You're just a poor girl in a rich man's house Yeah, baby Yeah I'm crying over you Don't you know promises were never meant to keep Just like the night, they dissolve off in sleep I'll be your savior, steadfast and true I'll come to your emotional rescue I'll come to your emotional rescue Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Yeah, baby, yeah I'm crying Oh baby, I'm your child baby Yeah I'm crying, crying, crying Oh, baby Like a child, child, child Oh, crying baby Like a child, child Crying baby Yeah, I'm crying, crying, crying You think you're one of a special breed You think that you're his pet Pekinese I'll be your savior, steadfast and true I'll come to your emotional rescue I'll come to your emotional rescue Yeah, I was dreamin' last night I was dreamin', dreamin' you'd be mine I was cryin', crying Like a child, baby Yeah I was cryin', cryin' Like a child, baby You could be mine, mine, mine Mine, all mine baby You could be mine, mine, mine You could be mine, baby I'll come to you, so silent in the night So stealthy, so animal quiet I'll be your savior, steadfast and true I'll come to your emotional rescue I'll come to your emotional rescue Yeah, you should be mine, oh mine
Every Drop Of Rain (David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Candie Payne and St. Vincent / Here Lies Love LP) Candie Payne: I was just a young girl A girl with curly hair Your mother called me family I became quite close to her I handled all the money Washed the clothes and made the meals In the night she'd wake up screaming So you children slept with me Candie Payne & St. Vincent: They called us garage people Where we lived there, you and me When you're poor - it's like you're naked And every drop of rain you feel Candie Payne: When it rained we slept on boxes There was water all around St. Vincent: But the people in the big house Never bothered to find out No clothes, no bed, no jewelry Sometimes I had no shoes Candie Payne: A typhoon came - the house collapsed And the neighbors passed us food Candie Payne & St. Vincent: They called us garage people Where we lived there, you and me When you're poor - it's like you're naked And every drop of rain you feel St. Vincent: Every little tiny drop of rain you feel - every drop of rain Every little tiny drop of rain you feel - every drop of rain Candie Payne: I handled our finances I myself was never paid St. Vincent: My teachers paid a visit I felt, felt so ashamed But I had kept my dignity Some things cannot be killed I smiled and kept my head up A Romualdez I was still Candie Payne: They called us garage people Where we lived there, you and me St. Vincent: When you're poor - it's like you're naked And every drop of rain you feel Candie Payne: Every little tiny drop of rain you feel - every drop of rain St. Vincent: Every little tiny drop of rain you feel - every drop of rain Candie Payne: Every little tiny drop St. Vincent: Every little tiny drop - every drop of rain
*** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one ***
Funkytown (Minions: The Rise of Gru OST) Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me Time to keep me movin' Keep me movin' with some energy Well, I talk about it, talk about it Talk about it, talk about it Talk about it, talk about it Talk about it, movin' Gotta move on Gotta move on Gotta move on Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me Time to keep it movin' Keep me movin' with some energy Well, I talk about it, talk about it Talk about it, talk about it Talk about it, talk about it Talk about it, movin' Gotta move on Gotta move on Gotta move on Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Won't you take me to Funkytown Funkytown Funkytown Funkytown Funkytown
Glory Box (Portishead cover / St. Vincent & The Roots / Live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away Leave it to the other girls to play For I've been a temptress too long Just Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be A woman I just wanna be a woman From this time, unchained We're all looking at a different picture Through this new frame of mind A thousand flowers could bloom So move over and give us some room Yeah Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be A woman I just wanna be a woman So don't you stop being a man Just take a little look from our side when you can Sow a little tenderness No matter if you cry Just Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be A woman It's all I wanna be is all woman 'Cause this is the beginning of forever and ever It's time to move over I just wanna be a woman, yeah I just wanna be a woman I just wanna be a woman I just wanna be a woman
Grot
( Krokodil EP ) Power doesn't care what you want Power just wants to watch And power doesn't care what you need As long as you're on your knees Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Power pigs Power pigs Power kills Power pigs Power pigs Power pigs Power kills Power pigs Power doesn't care what you think Power just wants the real peace And power doesn't care how you feel As long as you learn how to kneel *** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one ***
Lithium (Nirvana & St. Vincent / Live on HBO Rock Hall of Fame 2014) I'm so happy 'Cause today I've found my friends They're in my head I'm so ugly That's okay, 'cause so are you We broke our mirrors Sunday morning It's everyday for all I care And I'm not scared Light my candles in a daze 'Cause I've found God Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah I'm so lonely That's okay, I shaved my head And I'm not sad And just maybe I'm to blame for all I've heard But I'm not sure I'm so excited I can't wait to meet you there But I don't care I'm so horny That's okay, my will is good Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah I like it - I'm not gonna crack I miss you - I'm not gonna crack I love you - I'm not gonna crack I killed you - I'm not gonna crack Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I like it - I'm not gonna crack I miss you - I'm not gonna crack I love you - I'm not gonna crack I killed you - I'm not gonna crack I'm so happy 'Cause today I've found my friends They're in my head I'm so ugly That's okay, 'cause so are you We've broken our mirrors Sunday morning It's everyday for all I care I'm not scared Light my candles in a daze 'Cause I've found God Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah I like it - I'm not gonna crack I miss you - I'm not gonna crack I love you - I'm not gonna crack I killed you - I'm not gonna crack I like it - I'm not gonna crack I miss you - I'm not gonna crack I love you - I'm not gonna crack I killed you - I'm not gonna crack
Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover / St. Vincent & Justin Vernon / Live at Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York, 23-01-2010) St. Vincent: Come a little bit closer Hear what I have to say Just like children sleeping We could dream this night away But there's a full moon rising Let's go dancing in the light We know where the music's playing Let's go out and feel the night Because I'm still in love with you I want to see you dance again Because I'm still in love with you On this harvest moon Justin Vernon: When we were strangers I watched you from afar And when we were lovers I loved you with all my heart But now it's getting late And the moon is climbing high I want to celebrate See it shining in your eye Because I'm still in love with you I want to see you dance again Because I'm still in love with you On this harvest moon Justin Vernon & St. Vincent: Because I'm still in love with you I want to see you dance again Because I'm still in love with you On this harvest moon
Jolene
(Dolly Parton cover / St. Vincent & Justin Vernon / Live at Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York, 23-01-2010) Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you, please, don't take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Please, don't take him just because you can Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Your smile is like a breath of spring Your voice is soft like summer rain And I cannot compete with you, Jolene Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you, please, don't take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Please, don't take him just because you can You could have your choice of men But I could never love again He's the only only only one for me, Jolene I had to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you And whatever you do, Jolene Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you, please, don't take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Don't take him just because you can
Krokodil
( Krokodil EP ) I need to bite Sweet krokodil, dil, dil, dil Never had gums for much Never had fun Never was much for lives But you're mine, by the sharp Of my fucking teeth I need to bite Sweet krokodil, dil, dil, dil I need to bite Sweet krokodil, dil, dil, dil Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Shut up so I can think Of damn nerves, damn everything Never was much for love But you're mine, by the shine Of my bloody teeth I need to bite Sweet krokodil, dil, dil, dil I need to bite Sweet krokodil, dil, dil, dil And when it starts to sting Don't worry, got to be clean Never was much for sing But you're mine, by the sharp Of my fucking teeth I need to bite Sweet krokodil, dil, dil, dil I need to bite Sweet krokodil, dil, dil, dil
Oh Sister (Bob Dylan cover / Andrew Bird & St. Vincent / Live in Columbus, Ohio, 19-10-2009) Oh sister, when I come to lie in your arms Please, do not treat me like a stranger Our Father would not like the way that you act And you must realize the danger Oh sister, am I not a brother to you And one deserving of affection And is our purpose not the same on this Earth To love and follow His direction We grew up together From the cradle to the grave Died and reborn And then mysteriously saved Oh sister Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Oh sister, when I come to knock on your door Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow Time is an ocean and it ends at the shore You may not see me tomorrow Never fear anymore Fear anymore Fear anymore Fear anymore Now are you coming to shore Coming to shore Coming to shore You never know any doubt Know any doubt Know any doubt Know any doubt We who breathe in and out Breathe in and out Breathe in and out Breathe in and out We who breathe in and out Breathe in and out Breathe in and out Breathe in and out We who breathe in and out Breathe in and out Breathe in and out...
Pain For Fun (Willow feat. St. Vincent / Empathogen LP) There's always and always and always and always a need There's always and always and always and always a need When I see you smile, there's always that familiar feeling Somehow I'm not the only one There's always and always and always and always a need There's always and always and always and always a need When you start to cry, I get that familiar feeling Somehow I'm not the only one I'm so close to tears I'm biting, holding back I'm so happy, I could break down and cry Break down and cry So alone and so at home So alone and so at home I'm always and always and always and always in need I'm always and always and always and always in need When we lock our eyes, I hit my head on the ceiling I'm not the only one Always wanting something, yearning Feel indifferent, undeserving What am I, what am I now And if I catch a glimpse of you while I hide Will you walk away from me and kill my pride It's fine 'cause I feel this pain for fun I'm so close to tears I'm biting, holding back I'm so happy, I could break down and cry Break down and cry So alone and so at home So alone and so at home
Pietà Baptized in the shallow end Of a Holiday Inn Limbs dangled over my Pa Like an inverse Pietà Mother Nature cried "You are Leviathan, my child You are Leviathan inside" And my lungs runneth over With chlorinated water And I pleaded with my Pa But he said, "I can't carry you no more" I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Mother Nature cried "You are Leviathan, my child You are Leviathan Inside" Mother Nature sighed "What hell is this I made this time You are Leviathan inside" Can I make a pet of you Dress you up for all the girls Will I keep you begging now Or touch you with my gentle words Mother Nature cried "You are leviathan, my child You are Leviathan inside" Mother Nature sighed "What hell is this I made this time You are Leviathan inside"
Lovin' You (Minnie Riperton cover / John Legend and St. Vincent / 7-Inches For Planned Parenthood LP) Loving you is easy 'cause you're beautiful Making love with you is all I wanna do Loving you is more than just a dream come true 'Cause everything that I do is out of loving you La la la la la La la la la la La la la la la la la la la la Do do do do do No one else can make me feel The colors that you bring Stay with me while we grow old And we will live each day in springtime 'Cause loving you has made my life so beautiful Every day of my life is filled with loving you Loving you, I see your soul come shining through And every time that we ooh I'm more in love with you La la la la la La la la la la La la la la la la la la la la Do do do do do No one else can make me feel The colors that you bring Stay with me while we grow old And we will live each day in springtime 'Cause loving you has made my life so beautiful Every day of my life is filled with loving you Loving you, I see your soul come shining through Every time that we ooh I'm more in love with you La la la la la La la la la la La la la la la la la la la la Do do do do do One more time La la la la la La la la la la La la la la la la la la la la Do do do do do
Make Believe ( Jack Shilkret/Benny Davis / feat. Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks - Boardwalk Empire OST ) There are times when you feel sad and blue Something's wrong, you don't know what to do When you feel that way stop and think awhile Just make believe and smile Make believe you are glad when you're sorry Sunshine will follow the rain When things go wrong, it won't be long Soon they'll be right again Though your love dreams have gone, make believe don't let on Smile though your heart may be broken For when bad luck have departs, you will find good luck starts Don't grieve, just make believe When you think your luck is bad And you're feeling mighty sad With all your cares and trouble far behind Keep on smiling that's the way And remember what I say Perfect happiness is just a state of mind Though your love dreams have gone, make believe don't let on Smile though your heart is still broken For when bad luck have departs, you will find good luck starts Don't grieve, just make believe Though your love dreams have gone, make believe don't let on Smile though your heart may be broken For when bad luck have departs, you will find good luck starts Don't grieve, just make believe
Maniac (Kid Cudi feat. Cage & St. Vincent / Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager LP) Paint the black hole blacker Yeah Paint the black hole blacker I swear to tell the truth Paint the black hole blacker The whole truth Paint the black hole blacker And nothing but Paint the black hole blacker Yes Paint the black hole blacker Hey I am the maniac I am the ghoul (the ghoul) I'm in the shadows in the corner of my room (my room) This my new hideaway This is my tomb (tomb) This is my coffin This is my place for unruliness, no worries I love the darkness, yeah I like to marry it It is my cloak, it is my shield, it is my cape (cape) I love the dark, maybe we can make it darker (darker) Give me a marker I am the maniac I am the maniac I am the maniac I am the maniac, I am the fool I found a monster in me when I lost my cool It lives inside of me eating what's in its web Put black spray paint on my windows during the day Wanna spend time with it I think I'm losing it Or I found it and I'm using it I wear my shades at night so I can look in the abyss I see something in nothingness, if you could picture this Put black holes in my jar lid I climb the wall I'm too high and now I'd die from the fall Before the waters to our knees We can't climb on the tree's wash away And you and I are the disease I am the maniac I am the maniac I am the maniac I am the maniac I am the maniac I am the maniac
Masseduction / One Kiss (St. Vincent & Dua Lipa / Live on Grammys 2019) Black saint, sinner lady Playing knockoff soul A punk rock romantic Slumped on the kitchen floor Nuns in stress position Smoking Marlboros Lolita is weeping The bride is beautiful Masseduction Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I hold you like a weapon Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I can't turn off what turns me on Masseduction I hold you like a weapon Mass destruction I don't turn off what turns me on All I need R E S P E C T Find out what it means to me R E S P E C T Find out what it means to me R E S P E C T Sock it to me, sock it to me R E S P E C T Let me take the night, I love real easy And I know that you'll still wanna see me On the Sunday morning, music real loud Let me love you while the moon is still out Something in you lit up heaven in me The feeling won't let me sleep 'Cause I'm lost in the way you move, the way you feel One kiss is all it takes Falling in love with me Possibilities I look like all you need One kiss is all it takes Falling in love with me Possibilities I look like all you need I look like all you need Something in you lit up heaven in me The feeling won't let me sleep 'Cause I'm lost in the way you move, the way you feel Masseduction One kiss is all it takes Masseduction One kiss is all it takes Masseduction One kiss is all it takes Possibilities I look like all you need
Mistaken For Strangers (The National cover / Live at The Allen Room, New York) You have to do it running But you do everything that they ask you to 'Cause you don't mind seeing yourself in a picture As long as you look faraway As long as you look removed Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends When you pass them at night Under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes, glazing under Oh you wouldn't want an angel watching you Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch Another un-innocent, elegant fall Into the un-magnificent lives of adults Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts You got something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves So you swear, you just saw a feathery woman Carry a blindfolded man through the trees Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters Showered and blue-blazered Fill yourself with quarters You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends When you pass them at night Under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes, glazing under Oh you wouldn't want an angel watching you Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch Another un-innocent, elegant fall Into the un-magnificent lives of adults You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends When you pass them at night Under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes, glazing under Oh you wouldn't want an angel watching you Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch Another un-innocent, elegant fall Into the un-magnificent lives of adults
Need You Tonight (INXS cover / Beck feat. St. Vincent / Record Club) Come on in I need you tonight 'Cause I'm not sleeping There's something about you, girl That makes me sweat How do you feel I'm lonely What do you think Can't take it all Whatcha gonna do Gonna live my life All you got is this moment Ttwenty-first century's yesterday You can care all you want Everybody does, yeah, that's okay So slide over here And give me a moment Your moves are so raw I've got to let you know I've got to let you know You're one of my kind Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I need you tonight 'Cause I'm not sleeping There's something about you, girl That makes me sweat How do you feel I'm lonely What do you think Can't take it all Whatcha gonna do Gonna live my life So slide over here And give me a moment Your moves are so raw I've got to let you know I've got to let you know You're one of my kind I need you tonight 'Cause I'm not sleeping There's something about you, girl That makes me sweat How do you feel I'm lonely What do you think Can't take it all Whatcha gonna do Gonna live my life So slide over here And give me a moment Your moves are so raw I've got to let you know I've got to let you know You're one of my kind
Oh My God The dishes in the sink don't care if i wake late Or soak till the bath runs cold, leave the bed unmade But when the drink goes in the devil comes out Days go by still the past don't seem so far But when the drink goes in the devil comes out Days go by still the past don't seem so far Oh my god Oh my god The plants in both the windows aren't listening for the door Or counting all the footsteps, keeping the bath warm But when the drink goes in the devil comes out Days go by still the past don't seem so far But when the drink goes in the devil comes out Days go by still the past don't seem so far Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god
Piggy (Nine Inch Nails cover) Hey, pig Yeah, you Hey pig, piggy, pig, pig, pig All of my fears came true Black and blue and broken bones You left me here, I'm all alone My little piggy needed something new Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore Nothing can stop me now 'cause I just don't care Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore Nothing can stop me now 'cause I just don't care Hey, pig Nothing's turning out the way I planned Hey, pig There's a lot of things I hoped you could help me understand What am I supposed to do I lost my shit because of you Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore Nothing can stop me now 'cause I just don't care Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore Nothing can stop me now 'cause I just don't care Nothing can stop me now...
Rosyln
( With Bon Iver ) Up with your turret Aren't we just terrified Shale, screen your worry from what you won't ever find Don't let it fool you Don't let it fool you...down Down's sitting round, folds in the gown Sea and the rock below Cocked to the undertow Bones blood and teeth erode, with every crashing node Wings wouldn't help you Wings wouldn't help you down Down fills the ground, gravity's proud You barely are blinking Wagging your face around When'd this just become a mortal home Won't, won't, won't, won't Won't let you talk me Won't let you talk me down Will pull it taut, nothing let out
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (Kate Bush cover / Live at The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony, 2023-03-11) It doesn't hurt me Do you wanna feel how it feels Do you wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me Do you wanna hear about the deal that I'm making It's you It's you and me And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill Be running up that building Say, if I only could You don't wanna hurt me But see how deep the bullet lies Unaware, I'm tearing you asunder Oh there is thunder in our hearts Is there so much hate for the ones we love Tell me we both matter, don't we It's you It's you and me It's you and me Won't be unhappy And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill Be running up that building Say, if I only could Come on, baby Come on, darling Let me steal this moment from you now Come on, angel Come on, come on, darling Let's exchange the experience Say, if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get him to swap our places I'd be running up that road I'd be running up that hill With no problems Say, if I only could I'd make a deal with God I'd get him to swap our places I'd be running up that road I'd be running up that hill With no problems Say, if I only could I'd be running up that hill With no problems If I only could I'd be running that hill
Sad But True (Metallica cover / The Metallica Blacklist LP) Hey (hey) I'm your life I'm the one who takes you there Hey (hey) I'm your life I'm the one who cares They (they) They betray I'm your only true friend now They (they) They betray I'm forever there I'm your dream, make you real I'm your eyes when you must steal I'm your pain when you can't feel Sad but true I'm your dream, mind astray I'm your eyes while you're away I'm your pain while you repay You know it's sad but true You (you) You're my mask You're my cover, my shelter You (you) You're my mask You're the one who's blamed Do (do) Do my work Do my dirty work, scapegoat Do (do) Do my deeds For you're the one who's shamed I'm your dream, make you real I'm your eyes when you must steal I'm your pain when you can't feel Sad but true I'm your dream, mind astray I'm your eyes while you're away I'm your pain while you repay You know it's sad but true I'm your dream I'm your eyes I'm your pain I'm your dream I'm your eyes I'm your pain Hate (hate) I'm your hate I'm your hate when you want love Pay (pay) Pay the price Pay for nothing's fair Hey (hey) I'm your life I'm the one who took you there Hey (hey) I'm your life But I no longer care I'm your dream, make you real I'm your eyes when you must steal I'm your pain when you can't feel Sad but true I'm your truth, telling lies I'm your reason, alibis I'm inside, open your eyes I'm you sad but true Sad but true Sad but true
She Is Beyond Good And Evil
( The Pop Group cover / Live on Jimmy Fallon ) My love was born on a ray of sound Sleeps on water, walks on ice, ice Sleeps on water, walks on ice Got no father, immortal wife I would give my life for her There's no antidote for her My love was born on a ray of sound Oh my love was born on a ray of sound Like a dancing flame on a bed of nails She is one thing that you cannot buy With zero reasons for living With zero reasons for living My love was born on a ray of sound Oh my love was born on a ray of sound Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin Our only defense is together as an army Our only defense is together as an army I'll hold you like a gun Our only defense is together as an army I'll hold you like a gun My love was born on a ray of sound Oh my love was born on a ray of sound Western values mean nothing to her, nothing to her Western values mean nothing to her, nothing to her Western values mean nothing to her, nothing to her She is beyond good and evil She is beyond good and evil
Sisters Of The Moon (Fleetwood Mac cover / Craig Wedren feat. St. Vincent / Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac LP) Intense silence As she walked into the room Her black robe trailing My sister of the moon And a black widow spider Make more sound than she And a black moon in those eyes of hers Made more sense to me Heavy persuasion Made it hard to breathe She was dark at the top of the stairs And she called Out to me And so I followed As friends often do I cared not for love nor money And I think she knew The people who love her Could still be the most cruel She asked, "be my sister Sister of the moon" Oh my sister of the moon Some say illusion was a game They want to wrap you in velvet Oh does anyone know your name
Sleep All Summer
( St. Vincent with The National / Crooked Fingers Cover ) Weary sun, sleep tonight, go crashing into the ocean Cut the line that ties the tide and moon, ancient and blue We take our empty hearts and fill them up with broken things To hang on humming wire like cheap lamps down a dead end street Close your weary eyes And every time we turn away Until the wintertime It hits me like a tidal wave I would change for you but, babe, that doesn't mean I'm gonna be a better man Give the ocean what I took from you so one day you could find it in the sand And hold it in your hands again Cold ways kill cool lovers Strange ways we used each other Why won't you fall back in love with me There ain't no way we're gonna find another The way we sleep all summer So why won't you fall back in love with me Combing over Broken Cross I held on you Haunted by the ghost of something new Curtains fall, fashions fade, an endless summer over Another tide to launch an autumn moon over the dunes There must be a better way to pull a whole apart To keep a world from caving in Another way to while away from you, frozen and blue Close your weary eyes But everytime we turn away Until the wintertime It surges like a tidal wave I would change but, babe, that doesn't mean I'm gonna be a better man Give the ocean what I took from you so one day you could find it in the sand And hold it in your hands again Cold ways kill cool lovers Strange way we use each other Why won't you fall back in love with me There ain't no way we're gonna find another The way we sleep all summer So why won't you fall back in love with me Why won't you fall back in love with me Why won't you fall back in love with me Why won't you fall back in love with me
Something On Your Mind (Pete's Dragon OST) Yesterday Any way you made it was just fine So you turned your days into night time Didn't you know You can make it without ever even trying And something's on your mind, isn't it Let these times Show you that you're breaking up the lines Leaving all your dreams too far behind Didn't you see You can make it without ever even trying And something's on your mind, isn't it Maybe another day You'll want to feel another way You can't stop crying Haven't got a thing to say Feel you want to run away There's no use trying anyway Didn't you see You can make it without ever even trying Something's on your mind, isn't it Something's on your mind Oh tell the truth now Something's on your mind Something's on your mind
Sparrow No eyes are on the sparrow, eyes are on the sparrow He is singing anyway The lark keeps whistling his number, silly little number Although he's being chased And no eyes are on the sparrow, eyes are on the sparrow How could that be the case The lark keeps whistling his number, silly little number As if he isn't prey I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake And they're calling Maria Momma, Momma Maria They're calling Maria No eyes are on the sparrow, eyes are on the sparrow I could've told you that The finch keeps gathering all the branches Ignoring all the chances the wind will blow it flat And they're calling Maria Momma, Momma Maria They're calling Maria
Tango Till They're Sore (Tom Waits cover / SPIN cover shoot, 07-2011) Well, you play that tarantella all the hounds will start to roar The boys all go to hell and then the Cubans hit the floor They call along the pipeline, they tango 'til they're sore They take apart their nightmares and they leave them by the door Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair Deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past So send me off to bed for evermore Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Yeah, make sure they play my theme song, I guess daisies will have to do Just get me to New Orleans and paint shadows on the pews Spit on that shit and kick the drum and let me down Keep my clarinet beneath your bed 'til I get back in town Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair Deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs I'll tell you all my secrets, you know, but I lie about my past So send me off to bed for evermore Make sure she's all in calico and the color of a doll Wave the flag on cadillac ?, and a skillet on the wall Find me a switch, hold your breath 'til the sun goes down Write my name on the hood, and send me off to another town And let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair Deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs I'll tell you all my secrets, you know, but I lie about my past So send me off to bed for evermore And let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair Deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past Send me off to bed for evermore
Teenage Talk Katie kept the list of times Now that she had really done it, done it So we swarmed like flies Pretending that we weren't terrified 'Til we snuck out that night Rolled the Chrysler down the driveway But once we were inside Couldn't figure out where we were off to That was before we had made any terrible mistakes Well, that's just teenage talk Pink swear that you won't go changing Drank so much that night Carved the state of Texas in our forearms You know I never loved you more Than when we were hiding from those sirens, sirens Oh we laughed so hard Threw up in your mom's azaleas I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake That was before we had made any terrible mistakes That was before we had made any terrible mistakes That's just teenage talk I don't think the past is better, better Just 'cause it's cased in glass Protecting us from our now and later You know I never loved you more Than when we were hiding from those sirens, sirens Drank so much that night Carved the state of Texas in our forearms How do you see me now Now that I'm a little bit older, older Nevermind the albatross Smoldering on my shoulder, shoulder, shoulder, shoulder
The Antidote
( The Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn Part 2 OST ) I am the antidote I'll suck your venom out Show me where it really hurts I'll show you where it really hurts Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Honey, your clothes are soaked Mom leaves my daddy's trapes Show me where it really hurts I'll show you where it really hurts I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love Should've stopped for the wind Should've stopped for love
These Days
( Jackson Browne Cover ) I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days These days... These days I simply think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times I had the chance to I've stopped my rambling I won't do too much gambling these days These days... These days I simply think about How all the changes came about my way And I wonder if I'll see another highway I had a lover I don't think I'll risk another these days These days... These days I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song It's just that I've been losing so long I've stopped my dreaming I won't do too much scheming these days These days... These days I sit on cornerstones And count the time in quartertones to ten Please don't confront me with my failures I have not forgotten them
This Is The Last Time (The National feat. St. Vincent / Live at Bonnaroo Festival 2013) Oh when I lift you up You feel like a hundred times yourself I wish everybody knew What's so great about you Oh but your love is such a swamp You don't think before you jump And I said I wouldn't get sucked in I This is the last time Oh don't tell anyone I'm here I got Tylenol and beer I was thinking that you'd call somebody Closer to you Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Oh but your love is such a swamp You're the only thing I want And I said I wouldn't cry about it I This is the last time This is the last time We were so under the brine We were so vacant and kind We were so under the brine We were so vacant We were so under the brine We were so out of our minds We were so under the brine We were so vacant Oh when I lift you up You feel like a hundred times yourself I wish everybody knew What's so great about you Oh but your love is such a swamp You don't think before you jump And I said I wouldn't get sucked in I I won't be vacant anymore I won't be waiting anymore I won't be vacant anymore I won't be waiting anymore I won't be vacant anymore I won't be waiting anymore I won't be vacant anymore I won't be waiting anymore Jenny, I am in trouble Can't get these thoughts out of me Jenny, I'm seeing double I know this changes everything Jenny, I am in trouble Can't get these thoughts out of me Jenny, I'm seeing double I know this changes everything It takes a lot of pain to pick me up It takes a lot of rain in my cup It takes a lot of pain to pick me up (Baby, you gave me bad ideas) It takes a lot of rain in my cup (Baby, you left me sad and high) It takes a lot of pain to pick me up (Baby, you gave me bad ideas) It takes a lot of rain in my cup (Baby, you left me sad and high)
Under Neon Lights ( The Chemical Brothers feat. St. Vincent ) Under neon lights Under neon lights Got no husband Got no wife All I want All I want All I want Is this really all I want Let it go, let it go Let it go, let it go Let it go, let it go Let it go, let it go And she moves to suicide In and under neon lights Got no husband, got no wife All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight Let it go, let it go Let it go, let it go Let it go, let it go Let it go, let it go Eye to eye, face to face I guess this is Heaven Got no pride, got no name I guess this is Heaven I guess I'm in Heaven Oh I guess I'm in Heaven And she moves to suicide In and under neon lights Got no husband, got no wife All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight Got no husband, got no wife All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight All I want's a view tonight As she moves to suicide Under neon lights Got no husband Got no wife All I want All I want All I want Is this really all I want
Wouldn't Want to Be Like You (Sheryl Crow feat. Annie Clark) Money is the Bentley parked on Wall Street Money is the new friends you make each week Money is the inside guy at the bank Money is the yacht right before it sank Bet you never thought you'd want so much Bet you never thought it'd be so tough So you sell your soul for a piece of the pie Now you can't sleep so you don't even try I wouldn't want to be like you I wouldn't want to be like you No way I wouldn't want to be like you You tell a lie, you tell a lie, you tell a lie But that don't make it true Money is the monkey giving you a back ache Money is the grease in the palm of a handshake Money covers up all the evidence Not taking all the money would have made the best sense Bet you never thought you'd bleed that much Bet you never thought it'd be so rough You thought you could beat them at their game But they wrote the rules, now you take the blame I wouldn't want to be like you I wouldn't want to be like you No way I wouldn't want to be like you You tell a lie, you tell a lie, you tell a lie But that don't make it true All the players on the sidelines Feigning shock and innocence Hear no, see no, speak no evil Take the fall for all of the place Money is the orange jumpsuit you're wearing Money is the gray roots in your blonde hair and Money is the ex-wife and the ex-girlfriends Money you hid is the money they're spending Here's to the brand new diamond bracelet Here's to the too tight ankle bracelet Here's to the days before you went down 'Cause what goes around comes around and around I wouldn't want to be like you I wouldn't want to be like you No way Oh, I wouldn't want to be like you You tell a lie, you tell a lie, you tell a lie But that don't make it true I wouldn't want to be like you No way Oh, I wouldn't want to be like you You tell a lie, you tell a lie, you tell a lie But that don't make it true No, that don't make it true No, that don't make it true
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
(The Magnetic Fields cover / St. Vincent & John Vanderslice / Live in Los Angeles, CA, 10-05-2007) Are you out of love with me Are you longing to be free Do I drive you up a tree Oh yeah, Oh yeah Do I drive you up the wall Do you dread every phone call Can you not stand me at all Oh yeah, Oh yeah Though I need you more than air Is it true you just don't care Are you having an affair Oh yeah, oh yeah Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better When we met I thought Money was everything So I let you buy the house The car, the ring But I can't take your perpetual whining And you can't sing Oh yeah, oh yeah I though if we live apart We could made a brand-new start Do you want to break my heart Oh yeah, oh yeah I've enjoyed making you miserable for years Found peace of mind in playing on your fears How I loved to catch your gold and silver tears But now my dear What a dark and dreary life Are you reaching for a knife Do you want to kill your wife Yeah, oh yeah Oh I die, I die, I die So it's over, you and I Was my whole life just a lie Yeah, oh yeah