B i o g r a p h y (by Tim Sandra)
The wife-and-husband indie pop duo Tennis pair swooning 1950s pop melancholy with smooth-and-easy '70s soft rock in a beguiling, calming fashion that matches the sailing trips that provide them with inspiration. They formed on a months-long excursion and do most of their songwriting while bobbing on the seas. Patrick Riley helms the guitars and keys, Alaina Moore handles vocals and keys, and they often produce their own records in burnished, mid-fi tones. The band's 2010 debut album, Cape Dory, laid out their sonic template meticulously and they stuck to it for the decade that followed, with occasional tweaks like the more muscular sound of the Patrick Carney-produced Young & Old from 2012, the more sophisticated song structures of 2020's Swimmer, and the radio-friendly sound of 2023's Pollen. Moore and Riley met while students in Colorado, and after graduating college they bought a sailboat and spent seven months sailing along the Eastern Seaboard. Post-adventure, they moved back to Colorado, and after getting settled they began recording songs that had a modern lo-fi feel but a sweet '50s pop heart. The tracks were inspired by their trip and the discussions they would have about music while on board their boat (the Swift Ranger). Tennis' first single, "South Carolina," was released in the summer of 2010 on Fire Talk Records, to be quickly followed by their second single, "Baltimore," for the Underwater Peoples label. The rest of the year was spent playing shows (including a Daytrotter session in September) and recording their first album. Cape Dory was released in January 2011 by Fat Possum. The band toured tirelessly that year in support of Cape Dory, playing shows across the U.S. as well as jaunts through Europe and Russia. Following their seemingly endless tour schedule, Tennis quickly regrouped and began work on their second full-length. The album Young & Old was written and recorded in a relatively short three-month span. Produced by Black Keys member Patrick Carney and featuring drums by new bandmember James Barone, the record was released by Fat Possum in February 2012. The group soon switched labels, signing with Mumford & Sons member Ben Lovett's Communion Music before releasing the Small Sound EP on the label in late 2013. The trio returned with their third album, Ritual in Repeat, in the autumn of 2014. More accessible and diverse than previous efforts, the record featured songs produced by Richard Swift, the Black Keys' Patrick Carney, and Spoon's Jim Eno. Soon after the album's release, Barone left Tennis, and Riley and Moore began working on another album. Finding themselves blocked creatively, they set sail on another journey by sea, traveling from San Diego south past the Baja coast to the Sea of Cortez, where they docked and worked on music for four months. Once back home, they decided to start their own record label, Mutually Detrimental, and in late 2016 released two songs from their upcoming fourth album. The duo handled production chores themselves this time out and were joined on many tracks by their tour drummer, Steve Voss of the band Tetherball. Yours Conditionally was released in early 2017 as the group set out for a long North American tour. They found time to record more songs, too, and issued the We Can Die Happy EP in November. Tennis spent a year touring behind the album and EP, then took to the seas -- specifically the Sea of Cortez once again -- to begin writing another batch of songs. Once back in their Denver studio, they finished them off and added a wider range of instrumentation, unique time signatures, and more storytelling in the lyrics. All the instruments were played by Moore and Riley, save some strings provided by Josh Zubot and occasional live drums from Voss, who also served as assistant engineer. They also brought in renowned mixer Claudius Mittendorfer to handle that demanding task. The result was their group's fifth record, Swimmer, which was released on Valentine's Day 2020. Unfortunately, the band was forced to cancel their planned tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following year, they released a song, "Borrowed Time," written especially for an episode of Rick and Morty that aired in September 2021. They were able to tour North America in the latter stages of 2021 with Molly Burch, then played a handful of shows in 2022 with Belle and Sebastian. In between live dates, Moore and Riley took a four-month sailing trip during which they wrote the songs for their 2023 album Pollen. Working as a duo with the occasional drumming by Steve Voss, they set out to make a more radio-friendly album that dealt with bigger, more specific emotions.
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CAPE DORY
Bimini Bay An easterly breeze can tussle and tease A passage make her anxious to leave An S-curve rhumb line We're making good time We'll make and far by dawn Oh aren't you glad you came along Sail me away to Bimini Bay Sail me away to Bimini Bay Sail me away to Bimini Bay We've been gone oh so very long That we've forgotten where we are from We've been gone for so very long That we've forgotten where we are from South Carolina South Carolina where the Cypress grow White pine and hemlock all seem to know The tidal sweep through your southern marsh The squall last night was a little harsh Your little island lees give us shelter from the seas What was that ? The sun is sinking awfully fast Can we make it last We can't move on by looking back Can we make it last South Carolina really makes a man If The South can't do it then no one can The morning breeze is my favorite part Carry South Carolina deep in my heart We'll make a family in the quiet country You and me, in simplicity Pigeon Beam reaching for my baby Close-hauling with my darling I'll hold the sheet tight Keeping watch through the night I will be there I promise to take good care of you Beam reaching for my baby Close-hauling with my darling I'll be holding you tight Let you sleep through the night Oh let the wind blow We will be safe, I know I will be there I promise to take care of you I will be there I promise to take care of you Seafarer It was a summer day When you took my cares away When you whispered to me and it was so sweet She can blow us off track, so marry me You found the weathered boat Ocean ? you would know When you feel the bow cutting through the waves No other motion can pass the day Seafarer, look what you've done Got me chasing after the sun I've left my home and friends behind You've driven me clean out of my mind Don't tell me when you've set sail You'd face a number if you could scale And I know I never learned to set the oar Nothing left for me back on shore Will you call on me when you're living on the sea Will you call on me when you're living on the Seafarer, I must love you, Why else would I follow you I've left my home and friends behind You've driven me clean out of my mind Seafarer You and I belong together Seafarer You and I belong Seafarer You and I belong together Seafarer You and I belong Baltimore We can take it, we can make it These streets can't be tougher than the sea Baltimore, your potholes bore me Can't you see you're acting poorly Can we get a job Can we get a job We need off this dock Is that asking a lot Can we get a job Can we get a job We need off this dock Is that asking a lot Now I've seen it all before When no one's opened up their door How is one meant to survive when one is over-qualified Waterbirds Still dreaming of the thick and green Salty marsh bed by the tidal stream Look down the ? sleeping deep in the brush The night brings the hush, I can hear the current Beating by the leaves of the Cyprus trees The insects chirping underneath the leaves When you kiss me, you really kiss me Tell me how can you resist me Did we ever really leave This is all I really need Did we ever really leave This is all I really need
YOUNG & OLD It All Feels The Same Took a train to Took a train to get to you Finally got there and I couldn't find you anywhere We could be good, but we don't live the way that we should Constantly told we're imperfect and cannot be good Took a train to Took a train to get to you Finally got there and I couldn't find you anywhere We could be good, but we don't live the way that we should Constantly told we're imperfect and cannot be good Tired of waiting around for you to intervene Tired of wishing that you even knew what I mean When I say your name, I look for a change But everywhere I go, it all feels the same When I say your name, I look for a change But everywhere I go, it all feels the same When I say your name, I look for a change But everywhere I go, it all feels the same When I say your name, I look for a change But everywhere I go, it all feels the same We could be good, but we don't live the way that we should Constantly told we're imperfect and cannot be good Tired of waiting around for you to intervene Tired of wishing that you even knew what I mean Origins A sensitive heart You're doomed from the start Meant to play the penitent part Inquisitive mind, you're destined to find Tempted fate, a knowledge divine Here and there, a pitied pair Denoted by a scene unfair Will you make my children bear The consequences everywhere Is it so hard to forgive The way we've been made to live How much is required to set things right Have you confused your power with might Here in there, a pitied pair Denoted by a scene unfair Will you make my children bear The consequences everywhere Imminent, you seem to be A picture of fragility What is it that you think of me Is it a woman that you see Is it so hard to forgive The way we've been made to live How much is required to set things right Have you confused your power with might Is it so hard to forgive The way we've been made to live How much is required to set things right Have you confused your power with might My Better Self My better self still knows That meaning comes and goes What is innate, I do not know But meaning comes and it goes Each and every attempt A bit of substance spent Despite the effort I have lent You seem to lose what I've meant If I don't use words then each sound goes unheard Utterly senseless without nouns and verbs Symbols suggest they are fit to posses A purpose and function that cannot be met Those who create it know There is an ebb and flow Of neither value given shows That meaning comes and goes My better self still knows That meaning comes and goes What is innate, I do not know But meaning comes and it goes If I don't use words then each sound goes unheard Utterly senseless without nouns and verbs But symbols suggest they are fit to posses A purpose and function that cannot be met If I don't use words then each sound goes unheard Utterly senseless without nouns and verbs But symbols suggest they are fit to posses A purpose and function that cannot be met My better self still knows That meaning comes and goes What is innate, I do not know But meaning comes and it goes Traveling Now with your hand in mine The heat strikes me as divine Seated here by my side The day blurs into the night How is it you seem to know what I try not to show This must be rare 'Cause nothing else could compare Not that I'm aware of This must be rare 'Cause nothing else could compare Not that I'm aware of Seems like we traveled for days though we've been a short way Tell me where you mean to go Darling, can we take it slow Let's not stop, please, let's go Say you're mine Say it slow to be sure we know Across the saccharine plain Cracked and devoid of rain I think of life without pain To hide my hopefulness is a strain How is it you seem to know what I try not to show This must be rare 'Cause nothing else could compare Not that I'm aware of This must be rare 'Cause nothing else could compare Not that I'm aware of Seems like we traveled for days though we've been a short way Tell me where you mean to go Darling, can we take it slow Let's not stop, please, let's go Say your mine Say it slow to be sure we know Petition I prefer to think of him as a man of many means Of powers extreme, exposed to the extreme Nature so determined, he may never change his mind The only possible excuse for pretending to be blind Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no I can't know the why of this, his motives are mysterious His anger extreme, exposed to the extreme Has he a hidden past, my memories, they don't go back Enough to remember what I'm supposed to lack Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no For those who've never had, you keep coming back You take, take, take away 'til the very last For those who've never had, you keep coming back You take, take, take away 'til the very last Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no Petition for a life unknown To all my predecessors shown No, no Robin Why did you ever leave today Now you've been blown miles away You took a chance leaving at first glance You can blame it on your circumstances You set off on a simple lark Meant to be home long before dark Now you see that All was not as it seemed A fate you can't believe Then I glimpsed you as you lighted near Cautiously began moving near And I can't be sure if you can hear me Now you can rest your tiny feet Tuck away and rest your tired wings Now you dream A world perfectly green Too lovely to believe Seeking shelter from the wind It blows with strength that has no end So small you seem within my hand You gather strength to leave again The storm is strong But you carry on And now it's gone Seeking shelter from the wind It blows with strength that has no end So small you seem within my hand You gather strength to leave again High Road At Jewish Creek, they come to meet Weathered and edged by the summer heat The sun is always in their eyes They hold their glasses like a prize On Aquatic Fare And Gin they dine They're always losing track of time A swampy mangrove paradise They import everything that's nice Comfort is a word rarely heard Wages are transient, they look For opportunity to grow But better times, they never show By now their dreams have all been dreamt All of their money has been spent The crashing surf upon the ground And no one ever hears a sound A life of middling at best Put that potential to a rest Was it a choice they do not know But better times, they never show Paradise is all around But happiness is never found Paradise is all around But happiness is never found Dreaming I've searched high and low I've looked deep inside But how can I know For such a long time I've hoped for a sign That one day I'd find Within and without Inside and out I haven't a doubt Your meaning contained Your value displayed By speaking your name You revealed yourself in a dream Then you told me how to believe Dreaming, I'm dreaming I can still believe in I'm dreaming I can still believe in you I've searched high and low I've looked deep inside But how can I know For such a long time I've hoped for a sign That one day I'd find Within and without Neither inside and out I haven't a doubt Your meaning contained Your value displayed By speaking your name You revealed yourself in a dream Then you told me how to believe Dreaming, I'm dreaming I can still believe in I'm dreaming I can still believe in you Dreaming, I'm dreaming I can still believe in I'm dreaming I can still believe in you I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming I can still believe in I'm dreaming I can still believe in you Dreaming, I'm dreaming I can still believe in I'm dreaming I can still believe in you Take Me To Heaven There's nothing left for me There's nothing left for me So far as I can see There's nothing left for me As a child I was told We all possess a soul And wonder when I'm old I'd wish I'd been more bold Oh my mistakes, imperfections, they make me Long for a place where they can't overtake me There's nothing left for me There's nothing left for me So far as I can see There's nothing left for me But if you're only passing through Then, please, don't forget when you do If you're only passing through Then take me to heaven with you I've never believed in what I can't see Oh if all you say is true Then take me to heaven with you When I pass away All this will fade away My promises are made I know I may not stay When I pass away All this will fade away My promises are made I know I may not stay There's nothing left for me There's nothing left for me So far as I can see There's nothing left for me But if you're only passing through Then, please, don't forget when you do If you're only passing through Then, please, don't forget when you do If you're only passing through Then take me to heaven with you If you're only passing through Then take me to heaven with you I've never believed in what I can't see Oh if all you say is true Then take me to heaven with you Never To Part Little virgin, clean and bright Milk white skin hidden from night Unblemished are your private thoughts Desire can't oppress your lot Puerile movements that you make Will not make men hesitate Lest your charms are all revealed Then your power you may wield Do not furrow that perfect brow Chaste lips never to part till now Do not furrow that perfect brow Chaste lips never to part till now Child, all of this we have done for you Child, we are only thinking of you Little virgin sweetly made Knows not of the plans we've laid Guard the fragile flickering light To extinguish as we like Free from every wicked thing You'll receive a diamond ring Pre-pubescent wedding bed Thereupon you lay your head Do not furrow that perfect brow Chaste lips never to part till now Do not furrow that perfect brow Chaste lips never to part till now
RITUAL IN REPEAT Night Vision The taste of sweet wine The way you keep time Makes me feel light Don't trust your magic Can't change your habits So let's be light The way you hold me Careful unfolding Makes me feel light It's not surprising We go on rising All through the night Looking past the streetlights See the colors, they obscure Straining your night vision For a chance to pierce the heavens In the darkened light Wandering through the moonlight Feel the softness of the air Sleeping in the shadows of the heavens So expansive in the waning light The taste of sweet wine The way you keep time All through the night Don't trust your magic Can't change your habits So let's be light Looking past the streetlights See the colors, they obscure Straining your night vision For a chance to pierce the heavens In the darkened light Wandering through the moonlight Feel the softness of the air Sleeping in the shadows of the heavens So expansive in the waning light I knew all the love songs I knew all the love songs I knew all the love songs I knew all the love songs I knew all the love songs I knew all the love songs I knew all the love songs Looking past the streetlights See the colors, they obscure Straining your night vision For a glimpse of something pure Wandering through the moonlight Feel the softness of the air Sleeping in the shadow of the heavens So expansive in the waning light Never Work For Free I never work for free No, I can't give up what never belonged to me I never work for free Like an incantation, I've been repeating Looking back from the outer edge I'm still the same Looking back from the outer edge I changed my name Just to stay the same Just to stay the same Fell in love with a traveling man I'll make him mine, do whatever I can Fell in love with a traveling man I'll make him mine, do whatever I can Got me looking for love Got me looking for love A little sympathy Goes a long way, but it never comes easily Even a young girl knows That the first snow lands right where the cold wind blows A single syllable contained my history Never knew one word could mean so much to me Fell in love with a traveling man I'll make him mine, do whatever I can Fell in love with a traveling man I'll make him mine, do whatever I can Touching me with such sweet blindness Hiding where our past can't find us You're the vine, you are the door But, baby, I need more I can't live on metaphors Oh baby, I need more Fell in love with a traveling man Gonna make him mine, do whatever I can Fell in love with a traveling man Gonna make him mine, do whatever I can You got me looking for love You got me looking for love Needle And A Knife She works hard, does it all without complaining She believes that sacred things don't need explaining And the mind is elevated Though the body devastated Leading a life of sweet sacrifice, yeah Armed with nothing but a needle and a knife Only a lonely love can devour you But when you're lonely The same love empowers you, yeah She foresees apocalyptic Earth split open She believes in something she can put her hope in It's the holiest fixation And it's taken cultivation A pioneer in a foreign land, yeah She's devoted to a real good man Only a lonely love can devour you But when you're lonely The same love empowers you, yeah I'm Callin' Tonight I'll trace a fragile curve The dim horizon that you serve Holy movement, holy sound A whisper rising from the ground It's saying, "Let me in, I'm calling" Come on and let me in, I'm calling Can you feel it, night is falling I'm calling, I'm calling And now I hear your voice Like a soft ringing And all at once it seems Like you've been singing to me Just when I think that you're mine You start to slip away But your love is divine You know I'm coming for ya When I think that you're mine You start to slip away Let me in, I'm calling Come on and let me in, I'm calling Can you feel it, night is falling I'm calling, I'm calling Just when I think that you're mine You start to slip away But your love is divine You know I'm coming for ya When I think that you're mine You start to slip away But your love is divine I hear you calling When I think that you're mine You start to slip away But your love is divine You know I'm coming for ya When I think that you're mine You start to slip away You slip away You slip away You slip away Bad Girls Even bad girls can do good things Even bad girls have holy dreams Oh I, I'm not so transparent My intentions, they ain't so apparent Bad girls, bad girls, bad girls, bad girls Even bad girls have tender hearts Even bad girls can fall apart In the night, oh I am transformed By the next day, I've been reborn If it were physical, it would show If it were spiritual, I would know If it were physical, it would show If it were spiritual, I would know There is a need always dividing me From all things that I've been hiding The truth, you know, I'll never find I'll never have any peace of mind It's true, I know, I'll never find I'll never have any peace of mind If it were physical, it would show If it were spiritual, I would know If it were physical, it would show If it were spiritual, I would know You know I love a good ceremony That's why I chose matrimony Oh I never want to feel ashamed I just can't bear that kind of pain There is a need always dividing From all the things that I've been hiding Bad girls, bad girls, bad girls, bad girls Bad girls, bad girls, bad girls, bad girls Timothy Jot some things down on a list Under the header, "Things to Fix" It's wrong, I know, but I can't let go You were always quick to judge Baby, you were slow to love It hurts, I know, but I can't let go Timothy, say something sweet to me Say it slowly until you believe Tell me that you find increasingly Elements of merit within me Seems like nature cannot help But incriminate itself It's hard, I know, but I can't let go Baby, you are either-or And I'm the other at the door It's wrong, I know, but I can't let go Timothy, say something sweet to me Say it slowly until you believe Tell me that you find increasingly Elements of merit within me Hard heart will make a man blind And a hard heart gets harder with time It's wrong, I know, I can't let go Hard heart will make a man blind And a hard heart gets harder with time It's wrong, I know, I can't let go Timothy, say something sweet to me Say it slowly until you believe Tell me that you find increasingly Elements of merit within me Hard heart will make a man blind And a hard heart gets harder with time It's wrong, I know, I can't let go Hard heart will make a man blind And a hard heart gets harder with time It's wrong, I know, I can't let go Hard heart will make a man blind And a hard heart gets harder with time It's wrong, I know, I can't let go Viv Without The N I ain't afflicted with a mind That's either feminine or kind Our history is incomplete Your memory's been cruel to me Oh darling, now the way is so far And it won't come easily The way is so far back to me Oh I ain't looking to back you up Oh I ain't looking to back you up Oh I ain't looking to back you up Below the Earth, the dark roots clutch But I know that don't count for much A classified to bring you home Make you a lover of my own Oh darling, now the way is so far And it won't come easily The way is so far back to me Oh I ain't looking to back you up Oh I ain't looking to back you up Oh I ain't looking to back you up Oh I ain't looking to back you up Oh I ain't looking to back you up Oh I ain't looking to back you up Wounded Heart Here bring your wounded heart Here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow But your love can remove Watcher is at the gate An eager listener Words long forgotten That may be exhumed Steadfastly keeping, you are so resolute When my ideas rush in pell mell And your look does not bear a reprove Your look does not bear a reprove Here bring your wounded heart Here tell your anguish Come my disconsolate And be renewed Steadfastly keeping, you are so resolute When my ideas rush in pell mell And your look does not bear a reprove Your look does not bear a reprove Your look does not bear a reprove This Isn't My Song If it's not the end, then it's the means That's your way of doing things Only simple melodies Find their way into your memory This will never be my song This one was meant for you all along It's nothing profound, just a sweet sound If it's not the end, then it's the means That's your way of doing things Stacks of paper mute and white Lay neglected in the glaring light I will always be your girl In the still point of the turning world But this isn't my song This isn't my song It's nothing profound, just a sweet sound If it's not the end, then it's the means That's your way of doing things If it's not the end, then it's the means That's your way of doing things If it's not the end, then it's the means That's your way of doing things Solar On The Rise I will be your history I'll be the blame Like the sacred mysteries They're all the same Dark, I roam like plants that throw Their fragrance round Roots that clutch Thread through the dust Below the ground Silver moon is turning Now I feel the glow burning Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise See a miracle, but My baby don't believe If that gift is given You better not receive There's a hymn within Sing it over and again Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise Lift your burdens high My solar on the rise Meter And Line Some things just slip from my mind Sweet memories leave me blind Just like a love song meant for the dead How should the rite be read I remember the warm embrace I remember the way you taste in my mouth Speak to me in three-quarter time Oh my love is a slave to meter and line Oh glorious, oh glorious, oh glorious Hope of my heart a'trembling Like a winter flowers cold springing I see her lying there unchanged Drifting along the astral plane Even as she was growing thin You could still find her looking into my mind Heavy voice with a velvet look There's a stillness in place of breath that she took Closer to me than my anatomy Some things just slip from my mind Closer to me than my anatomy Some things just slip from my mind
YOURS CONDITIONALLY In The Morning I'll Be Better I'll write your cares away That I might spare you pain Let everybody say that I'm gone for ya Say you're my baby, we're sublimating I'll write a hymn again (I'll write a hymn again) I'll be your woman (woman) Keep on believing in our own healing, oh baby I'll wrap myself around You where we can't be found I'll hide you from the world till we're forgotten Say you're my baby, we're sublimating I'll write a hymn again (I'll write a hymn again) I'll be your woman (woman) Keep on believing in our own healing, oh baby In the morning, I'll be better, better, yeah In the morning, I'll be better, better, yeah Through our bodies have betrayed us in a million different ways In the morning, I'll be better, better, yeah My Emotions Are Blinding Women are much closer to nature So but can't you understand Binary opposition hits me like a divine plan I get hysterical, it's empirical I get hysterical, it's empirical My emotions, they are blinding This is one night I can't go on surviving Tell me one truth worth confiding Baby, don't you know that my love is binding My emotions, they are blinding This is one night I can't go on surviving Strike me like a sacred vision If the night goes exactly as planned I'll be giving all my attention To the world's most interesting man I'm just a vehicle for the material I'm just a vehicle and I won't be back again My emotions, they are blinding This is one night I can't go on surviving Tell me one truth worth confiding Baby, don't you know that my love is binding My emotions, they are blinding This is one night I can't go on surviving Tell me one truth worth confiding Baby, don't you know that my love is binding It's metaphorical for the categorical It's metaphorical for the categorical I get hysterical, it's empirical I get hysterical Fields Of Blue Follow me into sweet fields of blue Moving right in to deliver you Follow me into deep fields of blue Moving right in to Delivering me to you I really love you, what could I do I really need you, oh what's the use in resisting I really love you, I cannot help myself I really need you, oh what's the use living without Follow me into infinite blue All of the meaningless interludes Every wave that rises in place Strikes with a pattern Obliterating me and you I really love you, what could I do I really need you, oh what's the use in resisting I really love you, I cannot help myself I really need you, oh what's the use living without You and I only over one hundred stories Maybe I'm dreaming, feel a bit like oblivion You and I only over one hundred stories Maybe I'm dreaming, feel a bit like oblivion Ladies Don't Play Guitar Ladies don't play guitar Ladies don't get down, down to the sound of it Maybe we can play pretend Baby, I can go down deep just to be what you're needing Ladies just need your love Don't you know we are all caught up in it Baby, I've been listening I can be the archetype of whatever you're feeling What you're feeling Maybe then I can try and give my love again We pretend I can be the one that you've been dreaming Tell me what can I give If all my work is oblique and abstracted Try to build a legacy That will not complicate the future of your own progeny Maybe then I can try and give my love again We pretend I can be the one that you've been dreaming You will, but I won't You will, but I won't You will, but I won't You will, but I won't Maybe then I can try and give my love again We pretend, I can be the one that you've been dreaming In the end, I decide how much my love can bend We pretend I can be the one that you've been dreaming Matrimony Haven't got the time for vain excuses Let me lead you to the cool spring bubbling There we linger till you fill right up Parted lips instead of paper cups Long lashes curling on your cheek Hide your gaze, so I don't catch you looking at me Spreading out into the tiny spaces Emanating from your sweet embraces But I feel your burning look Oh my God, it feels so good Oh yeah Sweet summer morning early in July Sweet summer morning when you made me your wife Doesn't matter if we're rich or poor The less we have, it makes me love you all the more I'm not waiting for some twist of fate To tell me that our lives interlacing But I feel your burning look Oh my God, it feels so good Oh yeah I'll wear the dress that my sister made And the blunt haircut your dull scissors gave me Sweet summer morning early in July Sweet summer morning when you made me your wife Sweet summer morning early in July Sweet summer morning when you made me your wife Sweet summer morning early in July Sweet summer morning when you made me your wife Baby Don't Believe I never got over childish dreaming Guess I left my head up in the clouds I never accepted all your reasons Let me think it over with a hand to hold Standing alone, standing alone, lonely wingman I will wait in the background Working alone, working to hold in this feeling Give me your hand, make me a man if you mean it I will wait for you, baby I will go where my body is leading I never accepted all your reasons So give me your hand, make me a man in the heat of the evening Do you remember all the trouble I never wanted to be seen How it all ended in a moment When you took my hand and let me hold it freely Standing alone, standing alone, lonely wingman I will wait in the background Working alone, working to hold in this feeling So give me your hand, make me a man if you feel like you mean it Happiness leaves me yearning Tell me that you feel it too If you see me hurting, you'll know Happiness can leave you cold Standing alone, standing alone, lonely wingman I will wait in the background Working alone, working to hold in this feeling Give me your hand, make me a man if you mean it I will wait for you, baby I will go where my body is leading I never accepted all your reasons So give me your hand, make me a man in the heat of the evening Standing alone, standing alone, lonely wingman Working alone, working to hold in this feeling Feeling the earth, feeling my worth and I'm reeling Giving it up, living it up like I mean it Standing alone, standing alone, lonely wingman Working alone, working to hold in this feeling Feeling the earth, feeling my worth and I'm reeling Giving it up, living it up like I mean it Please Don't Ruin This For Me Have you heard a serpent speak Would you lift a veil to take a peak Hold a mirror up to me Mirror back my unbelief Please, don't ruin this for me I have everything I need Please, don't ruin this for me I have everything I need, yeah Build an alter stoke the flame Speak half truths that sound arcane All my dreams so deeply hidden Rise up to my throat unbidden All the comforts I forsake Like afterlives and divine fate Forge your own way merrily Fill the world with new meaning Please, don't ruin this for me I have everything I need Please, don't ruin this for me I have everything I need, yeah 10 Minutes 10 Years You could have me for ten minutes You could have me for ten years I could lose you in the hours I could lose you in the tears The feeling's lost without you, oh my baby Without you, oh my love The feeling's gone completely Those who measure time and distance Haven't known a love like mine There is only perfect closeness Don't you leave it all behind The feeling's lost without you, oh my baby Without you, oh my love The feeling's gone completely The feeling's lost without you, oh my baby Without you, oh my love The feeling's gone completely The feeling's lost without you, oh my baby Without you, oh my love I lose myself completely What have I got without you... You could have me for ten minutes You could have me for ten years We are only single moments Strung together and held dearly Modern Woman Kate, I'm so afraid you'll hate me I think I might have made it true There's no need to implicate me You would never want one for proof All I want is comfort in a touch or a look All I want is to get back the closeness you took I know, that's the way you appreciate me Even though we haven't spoken lately I think I might have made it real I think I might have made it so real I think I might have made it real I think I might have made it so real Kate, I know a modern woman By the look and by the feel We both got imposing figures Getting good at striking raw deals All I want is comfort in a touch or a look All I want is to forget the way you mistook No, I'm not asking for forgiveness I'm just getting tired of living with this I think I might have made it real I think I might have made it so real I think I might have made it real I think I might have made it so real I think I might have made it real I think I might have made it so real I think I might have made it real I think I might have made it so real I think I might have made it real (All I want is comfort in a touch or a look) I think I might have made it so real (All I want is to get back the closeness you took)... Island Music Why can't I cry I've been trying every day Why can't I cry I keep sighing through a haze The earth in bloom It's delicate and new But, baby, I'm unmoved by you Unmoved Why can't I cry Wings are flying 'cross the sky Why can't I dream my way Through the living and breathing and living like a daze The earth in bloom It's jealous and new But, baby, I'm unmoved by you Unmoved I feel the prolapse of my heart Tends to tear the night right apart On our faces in the spring Never to feel a thing I cannot cry Cannot cry Cannot cry
SWIMMER I'll Haunt You As the sun slips over my shoulder I can tell I've been getting older Drawn to you like the horizon I'm the first one to break the silence I can tell I've been getting I can tell I can tell I've been getting I can tell As the sun blips over my shoulder All my need is pulling me closer Only you make this rock spinning Off to nowhere, much more appealing On the edge of the earth On the crest of a wave How long can we stay like this Leaning in for one more kiss I'm holding you so long I will haunt you when I'm gone Need Your Love Baby, I'm fated, but you will be waiting I will have made it, but you'll be explaining What you think the world owes you Looking for someone to carry you into Futures that beckon, but need to be followed through I hope you're happy, I hope you're pleased I thought you were a victim, but it's clear to me I need your love and I need your touch like I need a bolt of lightning from the sky above I've been thinking about you, thinking about you I can't escape you Thinking about you, thinking about you I can't escape you Talking a lot like a prophet, but there's no Wisdom in what you've been saying And I can't seem to get a read on you Burning your bridges and spreading around those Rumors that sprout from the cracks in the ground, oh no I hope you're happy, I hope you're pleased I thought you were a victim, but it's clear to me Baby, you've got more poison than sugar Baby, you've got more poison than sugar Baby, you've got more poison than sugar Baby, you've got more poison I need your love and I need your touch like I need a bolt of lightning from the sky above I've been thinking about you, thinking about you I can't escape you Thinking about you, thinking about you I can't escape you Oh who could blame me Every time I hear your name, I go crazy Oh pretty baby Every time I hear your name, I go crazy I need your love and I need your touch like I need a bolt of lightning from the sky above I've been thinking about you, thinking about you I can't escape you Thinking about you, thinking about you I can't escape you I can't escape you... How To Forgive You take your love so freely Can't you go easy on me Hard to resist, harder to give up like a habit Why do you go losing control What are you looking for All this noise when I need silence Love shouldn't feel like violence Swallow your pride, open up wide Let the whole world in Empty again, punish a friend, make 'em all suffer It's so easy I can't help it How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling I've got my reasons, I could give you a million How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling I've got my reasons, I could give you a million My mind has been divided And I've been questioning myself Can't keep on hesitating It's starting to affect my health Hard to resist, harder to give up bad habits Why do I go losing control What am I looking for It's so easy I can't help it I can't help it I can't help it I can't help it Oh I know that I can't control But it's so hard to let it go All the worries, they keep coming back And the disappointments from our past I can't help it How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling I've got my reasons, I could give you a million (I can't help it) I'd move on if I could only remember All that it takes is just an act of surrender (I can't help it) How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling I've got my reasons, I could give you a million (I can't help it) I'd move on if I could only remember All that it takes is just an act of surrender (I can't help it) I can't help it I can't help it Runner Runner, I know you're living with a wild hunger Let me make the most of us You know you'll never be a runner And leave me in a cloud of dust Living in the same old sin I feel it blowing in the wind Like manna in the desert oh Gonna take a miracle Every little bead of sweat Feel it running down my neck When you look at me like that Feeling like we can't go back If I become a pillar of salt I'll know that it was all my fault Every little bead of sweat Every little bead of sweat Runner, you're just a bottomless pit of hunger Lead me to the promised land Your manna is only a famine Wandering the desert oh Gonna take a miracle Every little bead of sweat Feel it running down my neck When you look at me like that Feeling like we can't go back If I become a pillar of salt I'll know that it was all my fault Every little bead of sweat Every little bead of sweat Let me make the most of us You know you'll never be a runner And leave me in a cloud of dust Leveled in a burning heat Red Sea devouring me Flowing over my stoned-soul Gonna take a miracle Every little bead of sweat Feel it running down my neck When you look at me like that Feeling like we can't go back If I become a pillar of salt I'll know that it was all my fault Every little bead of sweat Every little bead of sweat Echoes Finally found a place to lay my head Looks so good from down here on this hospital bed I'll be the one to be undone I'll go where the sun isn't shining Once I was young, those days are long gone Suddenly I'm thirty-three and on a gurney Apologies and obligations All the myriad sensations compounding Echoes in my brain Echoed in refrain Always a replay Like a Grecian tragedy Oh where the time goes Who really knows You said, "Get a doctor, my wife's going under" She's off where the sun isn't shinning I thought I would argue or cleverly bargain It looks like I won't be going down stoically Oh to love you and be loved To have the final memory of you compounding Echoes in my brain Echoed in refrain Echoes all the same way, away Oh where the time goes Who really knows Swimmer Some summer you have planned for me Look at all these tourists as they flock to the sea Getting in the water like it's nothing But it's not without a consequence I hear it comes quite naturally But that description doesn't fit with me Not going over, never going under Not without a consequence The narrows, the river empty into the sea Some summer you have planned for me Emptied into the sea Some summer you have planned for me Emptied into the sea Such a good man had a good job I'd take up swimming for the patriarch Now dispersed so casually like sediment in the sea The swollen moon all flushed with red One eclipse from the bay of the dead It ain't right, I'm telling you It's more than coincidence One stroke at a time on my way back to land It's better for me with my feet in the sand Some summer you have planned for me Emptied into the sea Some summer you have planned for me Emptied into the sea Tender As A Tomb With my heart in my throat and the sun in my face Lying here in your arms, I know this is the place I would never try to explain how it felt when we kissed Courting reason in dreams while my body resists I know my logic can lose you But I think that we can get used to My footsteps over the concrete blistering in June My heart leaps over the concrete Oh I live for you Each footstep over the concrete, tender as a tomb My heart leaps over the concrete Oh I live for you With my throat in my heart and my face on the sun In your arms, I will lay till my dreaming is done Buried under mountains of earth On the crest of a wave Courting reason in love is a terrible waste I know my logic can lose you But I think that we can get used to My footsteps over the concrete blistering in June My heart leaps over the concrete Oh I live for you Each footstep over the concrete, tender as a tomb My heart leaps over the concrete Oh I live for you Oh I live for you Oh I live for you Oh I live for you Oh I live for you Late Night Late night carried by the wind It took such a long time to make up my mind Everything is changing, but I would not attempt to control you I never could help myself, I waste my time It's taking a toll on my health, I waste my own time Like Mary Magdalene, I'm on my knees again But if you see me as a saint, you'd be mistaken Late night turning into morning blue It took such a long time to make up my own mind about you Now the sun hangs heavy and I cannot even lift my eyes To where it sits indifferently, unmoved mover of the sky I never could help myself, I waste my time It's taking a toll on my health, I waste my own time Like Mary Magdalene I'm on my knees again But if you see me as a saint, you'd be mistaken I am the master of my ship, my ship the master of the sea Through a rhetorical distinction, I think I'm finally feeling free For the first time For the first time Matrimony II I only have certainty when you hold my hand There's so much that I don't understand Baby, we've been orbiting each other helplessly I guess that I blacked out, but remembered to move my mouth So much for my vows, more concerned with here and know No one knows of love that's slow held like the longest breath Or the gentle pull of gravity that's being unto death I can't go on living with a spark that's only flickering I only want that tenderness with every moment left I could never find something better I even changed my name By my side in every kind of weather I'll never be the same I could never find something better I even changed my name By my side in every kind of weather I'll never be the same "Come closer," you say Black cats in the neighborhood Aren't necessarily a sign of something You know me so well There goes the neighborhood Let it all go burning down around us No one knows of love that's slow held like the longest breath Or the gentle pull of gravity that's being unto death I can't go on living with a spark that's only flickering I only want that tenderness with every moment left I could never find something better I even changed my name By my side in every kind of weather I'll never be the same I could never find something better I even changed my name By my side in every kind of weather I'll never be the same
POLLEN Forbidden Doors What's another highway, I can't explain it Can't help the way it takes us over (can't overthink it) Cut through the silence, I've got no patience (all that I needed) We're knocking on forbidden doors First time that our eyes met Never thought I could regret Taken down in two steps, baby Curled up in the backseat Palms pressed out of concrete Take it down, take two steps, baby I know that it's over, but it took me forever So consumed I could nеver understand it Taking me ovеr, I got lost in the logic Got caught up in the logic I've been spinning Can't overthink it, I get caught up And all that I needed (right here with me) When you and I go knocking on forbidden doors That's when we go falling through the floor First time that our eyes met Burned right through a sunset Take it down, take two steps, baby Curled up in the backseat Palms pressed, feel my heartbeat Take it down, take two steps, baby Now that it's over, burned past in a fever Like a true unbeliever, I've got questions Taking me over, I got lost in the logic Got caught up in the logic I've been spinning I can't get back everything I lost You know I can't begin to count the cost The sun's coming out, but it's raining soon I got nine lives that I'm running through I can't get back everything I had Like every question that I've asked The sun's coming up, but the rain comes fast I'd turn to salt if I look back What's another highway, I can't explain it Can't help the way it takes us over (can't overthink it) Cut through the silence, I've got no patience (all that I needed) We're knocking on forbidden doors Glorietta Like a gift from the Earth wrapped up in chemtrails Fluorescent glow of Glorietta Like a rift in the Earth erupting arrows And magnetic fields, Glorietta Their patriotic displays are so loud I can't see the sunset through the sound You can't resist the urge to dominate Like it was a biblical mandate Glorietta Glorietta Just like watching planes in the sunlight Paving all over the shoreline Can't believe what it looks like We're doing whatever feels good I could hold you tight On the way down, it'll bе alright Watch them dive through the sky In a v-formation It's raining in on Gloriеtta She's blank as the walls, adorned with silos Like concrete halos, Glorietta Thei patriotic displays are so loud They're controlling Eden from the clouds You can't resist the urge to dominate Like it's written in your DNA Just like watching planes in the sunlight Paving all over the shoreline Can't believe what it looks like I only want it to feel good Like a gift from the Earth, look up, no halos Wrapped up in chemtrails, erupting arrows And magnetic fields She's blank as the walls Out of the ashes, she's Lazarus Wrapped up in chemtrails Watch them rise and fall In v-formation I can feel it in my teeth She's as blank as the walls She's as blank as the walls I can't see through the sound I can't see through the sound She's as blank as the walls I can't see through the sound She's as blank as the walls Let's Make A Mistake Tonight Let's make a mistake tonight Like palm trees in the twilight Let's turn water into wine We're gonna find something better Let's cruise in the vesper night Concrete in the headlights Wheels set in their arc like gods We're gonna find something better For every mile of pavement You and I making a statement I don't know what I expected But now you see what I'm left with If I see nothing, then nothing's there I close my eyes tight, but I can't remember You could deny me, but I know what I want I can feel it in my body Hand on the wheel Hand on my thigh Closing our eyes Let's make a mistake tonight Concrete in the headlights Drive west till there's nothing left We're gonna find something better Whatever's crowding my vision I will it out of existence I don't know what I expected But now you see what I'm left with If I see nothing, then nothing's there I close my eyes tight, but I can't remember You could deny me, but I know what I want I can feel it in my body I don't know what I expected With every moment suspended I don't know what I expected But now you see what I'm left with I can't help it, I can't walk away Take my pain with pleasure any day We live on the ashes, nothing could get past us We move faster I can't help it, no I'd never walk away Take my pain with pleasure every day Living on the ashes, everything burned past us We're holding the matches Hand on the wheel Hand on my thigh Driving all night Hand on the wheel Hand on my thigh Closing our eyes One Night With The Valet White doves come down I'm out here standing in the wind And even now I'm tempted by the face of love I feel it coming like a flood Finding myself tempted by the face of love Really fear that I could never get enough I'm riding high up watching over silent things Like pearls scattered at our feet Top down, head in the clouds You get yours from us My baby in the physical world Tell me you get yours from us (Not enough doors) Top down, head in the clouds (Not еnough heat) You get yours from us (Not enough crowds) My baby in thе physical world (Not enough heat) Tell me you get yours from us I'm riding up I'm watching over silent things Like pearls scattered at our feet And even now I'm tempted by the face of love I feel it coming like a flood Pollen Song You point to the trail where the blossoms have fallen But all I can see is the pollen fucking me up Everything moves too fast, but I've Been doing the same thing a thousand times over But I'm brought to my knees by the clover And it feels like it's just the pollen Blowing in the wind Growing back again Through the pouring rain I have said in vain I could get ahead You know, you know I could get ahead I could get ahead You know, you know I could get ahead We follow the trail where the blossoms have fallen But all I can think of is the pollen fucking me up Everything moves too fast, oh I Don't know when my body became so fragile Even a spring rain is too much to handle And it feels like it's just the pollen Raining from the trees Carpeting the streets Through the pouring rain I have said in vain I could get ahead You know, you know I could get ahead I could get ahead You know, you know I could get ahead Baby, you and I We go cruising over highways Your hand on my thigh I got one hand out the window You and I check out the sky We go cruising over highways Your hand on my thigh I got one hand out the window Baby, you and I We go cruising over highways Baby, check out the sky I got one hand out the window Your hand on my thigh I got one hand out the window I got one hand out the window Hotel Valet I've been up In the clouds Only you can Bring me back to my body You worked the graveyards and you slept through the day Wearing the uniform of hotel valet I worked the kitchen when I carried your plate Who would have known that I was serving you fate What had I been doing Was I at the door listening What had I been doing Was I at the door listening What had I been doing Was I at the door listening To your frantic Latin I was at the door I was at the door Down my neck Beads of sweat Nothing untouched Not my face, not my body You worked the graveyards and you slept through the day Wearing the uniform of hotel valet I worked the kitchen when I carried your plate Who would have known that I was serving you fate Been to the fountain Drink from the fountain What had I been doing Was I at the door listening What had I been doing Was I at the door listening What had I been doing Was I at the door listening To your frantic Latin To a stone cold miracle Baby, I've been stacking cups Over and under, I raised the stakes Saw the sun come up, rearranging cups In and out of the kitchen Hands full of plates Hands full of plates Paper Early morning Quiet in the springtime Without warning Passing in a fever Sweet as honey Flowers in a thin rain (Flowers in a thin rain) Daylight driving Me back to your arms (Back to your arms) We've been rising from the ground Can't keep my head out of the clouds Another plane to carry the sound like echoes I work real hard, but I'll never be sure To provide for my baby in the physical world But you don't care about material things like paper When you know, you know It's better with your eyes closed We draw circles Halo in the skyline Through the window Caught up in a breeze Early morning Stretching over hours (Stretching over hours) While you go on Talking in your sleep Can you get it, it's subtle and quick Feel the earth begin to shift How can anything contradict our nature (our nature) I work real hard, but I'll never be sure To provide for my baby in the physical world But you don't care about material things like paper (like paper) We've been rising from the ground Can't keep my head out of the clouds Another plane to carry the sound like echos (like echoes) All I hope for takes me deeper With never any plan, only echoes All I hope for takes me deeper With never any plan, only echoes Gibraltar Hung out in Gibraltar Hung out until October Footsteps on the brown earth Open the door, we can live Just you and me in the free air Blue breezes through arterial streets Hung out on a hairpin turn Make our slow ascent Earthbound constellations Red clay to the horizon Take a step, we're on the air Take a step, we're better You and I live on the air You and I live on the air I see Gibraltar I could never hold you Can't speak 'cause I falter I remember nothing I could leave everything You and I can take our time I see Gibraltar Hung out in the fast lane Light up a hurricane Strike a match, hair screaming Open the door, we can live Just like a moth to a flame Blue breezes through arterial streets Take a step, we're on the air Take a step, we're better You and I live on the air You and I live I see Gibraltar I could never hold you Can't speak 'cause I falter I remember nothing I believe everything That was ever whispered to me I see Gibraltar I could never hold you Can't speak 'cause I falter I remember nothing I could leave everything You and I can take our time I see Gibraltar I see Gibraltar Never Been Wrong I've never been wrong about anything or anyone Irrefutable as the rising tide or setting sun How can I work with all of this inexactness It's like doing needle point with a hatchet I cannot hold the bright gaze of everything And project a smile like sky split above the rain How can I suffer through another sunset It's like doing needle point with a hatchet For a long time I would obsess I read the signs But couldn't get past it Lingua dicere potest non quid nescitur Tu ne quaesieris visum miraculum Lingua dicerе potest non quid nescitur For a long time I was obsеssed It came to a point I couldn't get passed it You ask, but don't mind You are the staff striking the rock I don't know how It's never enough I don't know how It's never enough Pillow For A Cloud If only I could think and feel along Over seven paths at once If only I could think and feel along Over seven paths at once I'd never let you down If only you and I could linger on Way up higher in your arms Got a pillow for a cloud Living on sighs taking our time Before it takes us over If only you and I began again Instead of reliving old sins I'd never let you down If only you and I could ask the dust What it's ever done for us I'd never let you down Time passing used to thrill me Now it only terrorizes me And it's evidence carved into my skin And over everything I ever loved Time passing used to thrill me Now it only terrorizes me And it's evidence carved into my skin And over everything I ever loved Never coming down Got a pillow for a cloud Never coming down Got a pillow for a cloud Never coming down Got a pillow for a cloud Never coming down Got a pillow for a cloud Never coming down
FACE DOWN IN THE GARDEN Weight Of Desire Sleep the world to forget it And even then I won't let it, hold me now All the choices that I've made Are coming back around for me Now I'm two steps from the water And it's so clear that I do this to myself I feel the weight of desire I feel the weight of desire Lead me on Now I stare at things breathing At all the things that are living 'Cause I want to and I feel it And it's so clear that I do this to myself I feel the weight of desire I feel the weight of desire even now And I could hardly describe you When I am right there beside you I'm beside you, honey Sleep the world to forget it And even then I won't let it 'Cause I want to and I feel it I am stone cold, tell me how to help myself Two steps from the water Pull me closer, hold me now I feel the weight of desire I feel the weight of desire Lead me on And I could hardly describe you When I am right there beside you I'm beside you, honey
NON ALBUMS TRACKS 100 Lovers (Small Sound EP) One hundred lovers ago That's when I met him and now you know One hundred lovers ago He was a heartbreaker He was a heartbreaker Melissa was her name at that time She was a poet with hair that shined I never thought I could make you mine A fate to which I had been resigned One hundred loves will make you bold One hundred more will make you cold Oh he was a heartbreaker One hundred loves will make you bold One hundred more will make you cold Oh he was a heartbreaker And I will laugh until I'm tired I will burn with a strange desire I watched each girl come and go For years I waited, but could not show One hundred lovers ago Back then I loved him and now you know One hundred loves will make you bold One hundred more will make you cold Oh he was a heartbreaker One hundred loves will make you bold One hundred more will make you cold Oh he was a heartbreaker And I will laugh until I'm tired I will burn with a strange desire And I will laugh until I'm tired I will burn with a strange desire Born To Be Needed (We Can Die Happy EP) Baby, I was born to be needed Baby, I was born to be needed I always resisted Conventions like mister and missus But I do it, do it, do it again Do it, do it, do it again Immune to biology It's a lonely road to autonomy But I would do it, do it, do it again Do it, do it, do it again Why should I deny myself Never really cared about my health The simple kind of life Cuts through me like a sharpened knife Baby, I was born to be needed Baby, I was born to be needed Motherhood might do me good At least that's been the word around the neighborhood We're born into it, do it, do it again Do it, do it, do it again I know it's an old refrain But the need hit me like a hurricane I'd fall into it, do it, do it again Do it, do it, do it again Why should I deny myself Never really cared about my health The simple kind of life Cuts through me like a sharpened knife Baby, I was born to be needed If my heart can't take it, then maybe I will give right into the feeling Baby, I was born to be needed If my heart can't take it, then maybe I will give right into the feeling Borrowed Time (Rick And Morty OST) I thought that the sun burned brighter With you by my side And that we'd go on forever Together you and I Now I'm waking from a dream I've been following you foolishly Leaving you is hard for me But I gotta do what's right for me Thought we'd go on, you by my side Forever, you and I We raised hell, every night Together, you and I I thought the world stopped turning Without you by my side How we burned it down together Every single night Now I'm waking from a dream I've been following you foolishly You were playing God with me And I bought it all completely Honestly, I Sometimes I've been good for you I'm not dreaming You're already leaving me Thought we'd go on, you by my side Forever, you and I We raised hell, every night Together, you and I Running on borrowed time Forever, you and I Thought we'd go on, you by my side Together, you and I Building God (We Can Die Happy EP) You were looking for devotion Made of promises in motion I can change, I can change, I can change Never could find a way to explain We're only building God Until we have the one that we want As I said with hands that quiver Gesturing over our dinner I can change, I can change, I can change Let me be what you need, it's okay We're only building God Until we have the one that we want What my heart is hoping for What my heart is hoping for What my heart is hoping for What my heart is hoping for What my heart is hoping for What my heart is hoping for Cured Of Youth (Small Sound EP) Her steps delicate Who can resist So easily upstaged That really I'm amazed With eyes alight and her hair so bright Like I'll never find, never find anything so divine Here's your one chance, baby, I know you can Here's your one chance, got them in the palm of your hand Now show the world what you're worth Make an entrance at the doorway Best not to remember that baby, it ain't easy She might leave the mark But that's just the start Hard to be self aware To be the one who cares It's when she's close that I feel the most Like I'll never find, never find anything so divine Here's your one chance, baby, this is your night Here's your one chance, better hope you get this right Now show the world what you're worth Make an entrance at the doorway Best not to remember that baby, it ain't easy Deep In The Woods I'll bring down this house, I'll creep in and out The thieves of the wind leaving no trace about But all that I touch will be changed beyond doubt Mind you, I'll mind you are mine to protect I will watch over you, who will suspect Deep in the woods where no one can detect In the woods, something glowing A burning light has started growing It feels like a change is upon us at last Consuming us fast, change is upon us The smoke in the night, the ash on the light I think that it might be the last thing in sight I know I am right to let you be consumed by the light The curse on this house has been cast throughout Only I know what lingers without All that is left will be proof beyond doubt Bury my love right deep in the ground Hide them from watchful eyes all around Save for the treasure that cannot be found In the woods, something glowing A burning light has started growing It feels like a change is upon us at last Consuming us fast, change is upon us In the woods, something glowing A burning light has started growing It feels like a change is upon us at last Consuming us fast, change is upon us The smoke in the night, the ash on the light I think that it might be the last thing in sight I know I am right to let you be consumed by The smoke in the night, the ash on the light I think that it might be the last thing in sight I know I am right to let you be consumed I know I am right to let you be consumed by the light Diamond Rings (We Can Die Happy EP) I've been looking at your diamond rings And reflecting on the things they tell me That they move too quick to misbehave A dissenter cannot be a slave I'm waiting on you to make my heart move Baby, won't you come to me Come and make my heart move Time to light the lamp and trim the wick I see crimson through a colored slit, oh yeah Waiting for the day I change my name I've been told it doesn't mean a thing I'm waiting on you to make my heart move Baby, won't you come to me Really make my heart move Come and make my heart move, baby Oh baby, I'm waiting for the magic Come and make heart move, baby Oh baby, I'm waiting for the magic Come and make heart move, baby Oh baby, I'm waiting for the magic Come and make heart move, baby Oh baby, I'm waiting for the magic Dimming Light (Small Sound EP) Silently, you slip through the way Graceful, you move beneath the living room I know it's you A vision I held in the night Of rivers that run dry Although you're lying next to me I know that you're not mine Is it ever enough to know what you're looking for Is it ever enough to have what you're waiting for When the night comes, we will be restored You're the one that I love Silently, you slip through the way Graceful, you move beneath the living room I know it's you If I could form a heady phrase Or hold a steady gaze And maybe you'd appear to me Transparent as the day Is it ever enough to know what you're looking for Is it ever enough to have what you're waiting for When the night comes, we will be restored You're the one that I love Is it ever enough to know what you're looking for Is it ever enough to have what you're waiting for When the night comes, we will be restored You're the one that I love Guiding Light (Television cover) Do I, do I Belong to the night Only, only Only tonight All the ladies Stay inside Time may freeze A world could cry All this night Running loud I hear the whispers And I hear the shouts And though they never Cry for help Tell me who sends these Infamous gifts To make such a promise And make such a slip Oh no Can't pull a trick Never the rose Without the prick Oh but tell me How do I say I woke up And it's yesterday Do I again Face this night Guiding light, guiding light Guiding through these nights Darling, darling Do we part like the seas The roaring shells The drifting of the leaves But all intent Remains unknown It's time to sit up Up in the throne You've seen before But it's always new So look close See who's come through Never again To face this night Guiding light, guiding light Guiding through these nights
Holiday Road (Lindsey Buckingham cover) I found out long ago It's a long way down the holiday road Holiday road Holiday road Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Take a ride on down the West Coast kick Holiday road Holiday road Holiday road Holiday road I found out long ago It's a long way down the holiday road Holiday road Holiday road Holiday road Holiday road
I Miss That Feeling (We Can Die Happy EP) I can be true to you even when losing Every little thing I've ever known And all of the love I've ever show Something like pleasure, you'd never believe it Every little need dismantling Recorded by the needle of an EKG I miss that feeling Flicker hot and hovering Like my own discovering Eagerly, tenderly I miss that feeling Flicker spread into an itch Into a burn, into a twitch Slow and even How to explain it or even contain it When I feel that ragged edge descend My heart splits open like a vent Something like pleasure, you'd never believe it Every little thing starts trembling Recorded by the needle of an EKG I miss that feeling Flicker hot and hovering Like my own discovering Eagerly, tenderly I miss that feeling Flicker spread into an itch Into a burn, into a twitch Slow and even I miss that feeling, I miss that feeling I miss that feeling, I miss that feeling I miss that feeling, I miss that feeling I miss that feeling, I miss that feeling Is It True (Brenda Lee cover) Listening to the talk that's going around town Everywhere I look, they're spreading it around Saying that you've gone and found another one Is it true, my love oh What about the ring you gave me yesterday Is it hard for me to throw it all away As you said goodbye, if you have no lie Is it true, my love oh Don't you know, don't you know That you're making me blue Baby, baby, say it isn't, say it isn't true Everywhere I look, the story looks the same Everyone I meet is whispering your name Saying that you've gone and found another one Is it true, my love oh As you said goodbye, if you have no lie Is it true, my love oh Don't you know, don't you know That you're making me blue Baby, baby, say it isn't, say it isn't true Everywhere I look, the story looks the same Everyone I meet is whispering your name Saying that you've gone and found another one Is it true, my love oh
Mean Streets (Small Sound EP) Summer up in the Catskills, baby Singing just for the thrill Everyone knows all about you, don't they You're doing it for the thrill Whatever's left, you'll find You've got to give it what you got now You've got to give it what you got Baby, it's true, we leave nothing for you You've got to give it what you got now You've got to give it what you got Laura, there's nothing wrong with fame Laura, you'll never be the same Didn't you know they would love you, baby Even more, now that you're gone Leaving them surreptitiously Could make a hit out of any song Whatever's left, you'll find You've got to give it what you got now You've got to give it what you got Stay, on your own, or leave it alone You've got to give it what you got now You've got to give it what you got Laura, there's nothing wrong with fame Laura, you'll never be the same Born and raised on the mean streets That's where she learned how to keep the beat Some say that girl's got something I heard her name half a million times Hustling in the mean streets (Laura) That's where she learned how to keep the beat (Laura) Some say that girl's got something (Laura) I heard her name half a million times (Laura) No Exit (We Can Die Happy EP) I've got a little bit left, I know That I can give a little bit I've got a little bit left, I know That I can give a little bit It's starting all over again I feel my heart beat quickening Anachronistic, a young mystic He's prowling around in the night Under a shadow wherever we go Whatever I need to survive We go down, down to the deep void Right back into place, I can breathe again We go down, down to the beat boy Right back into place From where we are, we're never gonna come back From where we are, we're never gonna come back I am ecstatic like a hymn In that the feeling's disciplined Apocalyptic, my own mystic I'm moving right into the end Under a shadow wherever we go Our features again and again We go down, down to the deep void Right back into place, I can breathe again We go down, down to the beat boy Right back into place From where we are, we're never gonna come back From where we are, we're never gonna come back I've got a little bit left, I know That I can give a little bit, ah I've got a little bit left, I know That I can give a little bit, ah We could die tonight We could die tonight Oh my God, I feel like I'm dying Die tonight, we could die tonight Oh my God, I feel like I'm dying From where we are, we're never gonna come back From where we are, we're never gonna come back From where we are, we're never gonna come back From where we are, we're never gonna come back
Sunset Inn (Griffy Jams feat. Tennis) It's okay, I know you well The pictures shows you're overdeveloped You're underwater swimming In a landscape full of foreigners What is everyone screaming Cannot decipher to the beginning Want to rely on a sense of meaning That compels me through the end Sunset Inn You crazy diamond Sunset's in Let's drink from the fountain Since I'm alive again I'll try to do it right, my friend Spit-out from the rooftop Watch it fall eternally I saw you long ago You cut your hair and did your nose You're fetching and put together In a non-conforming way Since I'm alive again Since I'm alive again Saw my death in the blue diamond Come and drink from the fountain Stardust, stardust, star (stardust) Shut up, shut up now (now) Stardust, stardust, star (stardust) Shut up, shut up now (now) Stardust Stardust, stardust, star Star Sunset Inn Sunset Inn You crazy diamond You crazy diamond Sunset Inn Sunset Inn Let's drink from the fountain Come and drink from the fountain Saw my death in the blue diamond Sunset Inn Come and drink from the fountain Sunset Inn Saw my death in the blue diamond Come and drink from the fountain Superstar (The Carpenters cover) Long ago and oh so far away I fell in love with you Before the second show Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear But you're not really here It's just the radio Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby You said you'd be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby I love you, I really do Loneliness is such a sad affair And I can hardly wait To be with you again What to say to make you come again Come back to me again And play your sad guitar I've been lonely And I can hardly wait To be with you again Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby You said you'd be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby (Don't you remember you told me you loved me) You said you'd be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby I love you, I really do
Tears In The Typing Pool (Broadcast cover) Succumb to the line The finishing time The long distance runner Has stopped on the corner But I won't give up Although I've stopped too Before the end of me and you The patchwork explains The land is unchanged Interpret the rooms My tears in the typing pool The letters are sighing The ink is still drying I told you the truth And now I sigh too The page turns on me and you Across that white plain The land is unchanged Tell Her No (The Zombies cover) And if she should tell you, "Come closer" And if she tempts you with her charms Tell her no, no, no, no, no-no-no-no No, no, no, no, no-no-no-no No, no, no, no Don't hurt me now for her love belongs to me And if she should tell you, "I love you" And if she tempts you with her charms Tell her no, no, no, no, no-no-no-no No, no, no, no, no-no-no-no (Don't let her down from your arms) No, no, no, no Don't hurt me now for her love belongs to me I know she's the kind of girl Who'd throw my love away But I still love her so Don't hurt me now Don't hurt me now If she tells you, "I love you" Just remember she said that to me Tell her no, no, no, no, no-no-no-no No, no, no, no, no-no-no-no (Don't take her love from my arms) No, no, no, no Don't leave me now for her love belongs to me