1. |
Three Rocks
02:22
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Three Rocks
She said she had a vision
A dirt road with a wire across
An orange flag hanging
Some stagnant, dirty water
I didn't know the last time I saw him
It would be the last time I saw him
Three rocks and a pile of leaves
That's where we should be looking
Ten thousand dollars doesn't
seem like a lot of money anymore
I didn't know the last time I saw him
It would be the last time I saw him
I remember being at the reservoir
The rain coming down so hard and cold
we jumped in the water
And the sky and the water
turned that same flat blue
Now I drive around and put
your face on all of these telephone poles
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2. |
Russian Winters
02:48
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Russian Winters
It's been six long years since her graduation
in that smelly mill town on the river
Falling in and out of love
with her friends and with friends of friends
The ones who wanted to keep her safe and warm
And the ones who fucked around, said they'd
always be there
She rides her bike to the mill every morning
rides it down to the bar at night
And every other Thursday she brings her guitar
sings her songs with eyes shut tight
About the men who kept her safe and warm
And the ones who fucked around, said they'll
always be there
Pack your clothes up, give the dog away
You don't need those Russian winters anymore
Sante Fe, New Mexico
I hear it's pretty in the springtime
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3. |
Crayons
01:43
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Crayons
I know you're an angel
I can see it on your face
Written there in crayon
I wrote it myself
And I know that you're Mormon
It only makes sense
And I know that you're selfless
You only think of me
I know you'll never leave
I know you'll never leave me
I know you'll never leave me
I know you'll never
And I know you want children
I can see it in your eyes
It's so scary here
But it might be all right
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4. |
The Magician's Assistant
02:48
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The Magician's Assistant
I used to wear your clothes whenever you weren't around
I'd put on a wig, look at myself in the mirror
We would drive through the country without any light
You'd stick your head out and scream at the stars
I like the way you swim
The way you jump in the water
I painted your body with thick purple paint
You sat on the fire-escape and got washed in the rain
I made models of all my favorite buildings
Blew them up just to say that I love you
I like the way you sneak in my room
The way you jump in my bed
I put pinwheels all around in your room
So when the wind came through you would think of me
I tapped on your belly and heard the echo
I thought this is where a baby should be
And now you're the magician's assistant
I saw the time that he cut you in two
I was there when he kissed you on the lips
I watched as he made you disappear
And I've been staring at this Wisconsin sky so long
Waiting and waiting to be elevated
I'm so far from where I was a year ago
Living with you on Avenue B
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5. |
Skinny Santa
05:41
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Skinny Santa
It's the seventeenth time you've moved and you're only in eleventh grade
you feel like a spaceman except nobody knows your name
You spend all of your money on tanning lotion
you're trying to change your complexion or maybe trying to change who you are
You get nostalgic about things you can't remember
You try and remember things that never happened
Walk into the dressing room strap on your fake belly
put on your Santa Claus outfit and head out into the park
The way that you start sweating cause it's the middle of July
it feels like you're twice your weight and you probably are
Take a small square piece of paper and put it in your mouth
everything all makes sense now suddenly you're having fun
Walking arm in arm with Mickey do a funny dance with Goofy
cartwheel into the fountain dancing with all of the kids
Painfully nostalgic about things you can't remember
You try and remember things that never happened
Ride your bike back to the trailer put in a frozen dinner
turn on the TV and watch until you come down
Through the door walks your mother drunk with her new boyfriend
wearing a cowboy hat he shakes and nearly breaks your hand
They turn on some music and start dancing across the carpet
he's got both hands on her ass now hers are around his neck
Boy why don't you dance with your mother he says then sits down
so you take her into your weak arms dance and close your eyes
You're so excited your face turns red
Go on and kiss her the cowboy says
Like you mean it like you're a man
She won't even notice she's putty in your hands
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6. |
The Bed is a Liar
02:47
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The Bed is a Liar
I heard a voice from this old bed
"Did you hear what the window called
you while you were sleeping?"
I looked at the window without seeing
through it
The window told me, that bed is a liar
"Stop staring at me!" screamed the mirror
And threw its image up on the ceiling
And in the bathroom the bathtub crying
A million tears for its lost babies
And in the kitchen the blender spinning
And through the window the neighbor mowing
I pull the pillow up over my head
I can't believe it I'm all alone
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7. |
Skinny Lady
03:02
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Skinny Lady
I'm in the basement and I'm trying to be quiet
because the super is upstairs, I don't want to get caught
I'm lighting matches and I'm lighting papers
and they're moving together and it's making me happy
One time Ms. Myerson told my mother
that I'd stolen a lighter from the corner store
And I got mad and I tried to burn down
her apartment but the fire-trucks came
I know that something's not right, I know that I'm not right
Fire is a skinny lady
dancing up towards my ceiling
The way she moves is so hypnotizing
I can't stay away from that red-headed girl
Fire is a dancing lady
Whirling and twirling and I'm so in love
Fire is all around me
It's a red-head girl and I can't stay away
Books and leaves and gasoline
some old wooden boxes, an abandoned car
If someone gets me really angry
I can't help it, it's like pushing a button
I know that something's not right, I know that I'm not right
Fire is a skinny lady
Dancing up towards my ceiling
The way she moves is so hypnotizing
I can't get away from that red-headed girl
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8. |
Tell Me What
03:49
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Tell Me What
Sitting on my ass thinking about Marx
Thinking about the decline of the Communist Party
Wondering where you are, wondering where I've been
It doesn't seem so great, I don't want to clap my hands
Tell me where I've gone wrong
Tell me why it is so bad
When you set out for Arkansas
You didn't know I had a brother in Batesville
The postcard you sent said he reminds you of me
except he doesn't get confused wondering who
should get his vote
Tell me what I should do
Tell me where I can go
I want to go sliding in the snow with you and Karl Marx
I want to make snow angels with you and him
Pictures of you both are hanging on my wall
you have me so turned around I don't know who is who
My tongue is tied but I can still hold my breath
Maybe I can hold my breath forever
I don't like my reflection
but I like sitting on my roof
watching the clouds move across the sky
watching their shadows on the ground
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9. |
Motel Walls
03:22
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Motel Walls
Leaning against his car
a blue Barracuda
Trying to make sense of a map
trying to make sense of his life
He throws it onto the ground
doesn't even try and fold it
soon he'll be back in his car
watching the needles go up and down
Looking at herself in the mirror
She says, "Who are you staring at
you skinny little chicken girl.
How do you have this strange hold over me, over me."
"Just look at those legs
and your hair I think it's falling out.
No wonder no one wants to be with you.
No wonder you can't stay awake."
Some things I can see
I put on my glasses and watch them
I look right through these motel walls,
I can smell the people here before me
A week from tomorrow I'll be driving away
And someone else will sleep in my bed
A kid walking through a field
and everything is perfect
He's ankle deep in fresh tilled soil
watching a big sky
But then it seems he's falling down
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10. |
Fishtank
02:09
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Fish Tank
Dreamed I was a doctor
Dreamed I was a scientist
Dreamed I did experiments
on bad dogs
Tell me what's wrong with me
I can't figure out for myself
Lying here in my bed all day
I dreamed I was asleep
You took away our new fish tank
You came to get your plaster sculpture
You left me here with all your plants
But I let them die
Tell me what's wrong with me
I can't figure out for myself
Lying here in the clothes you left I'm
Trying to forget what you smell like
Dreamed I was a policeman
Dreamed I was a fireman
Dreamed I had to rescue you
But I didn't know where you lived
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11. |
Wet Brush
03:38
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Wet Brush
When you were here last and I was sleeping
I could feel your eyes upon me
I was awakened by the sound of
Wet brush hitting canvas
Stop painting me when I'm sleeping
Leave my hair in the garbage
I'm just a worker on this subway train
A simple man
I don't want to end up in your portfolio
like all of them
The clicking shutter sound in my dreams
brings me somewhere I don't want to go
The bulb flash from your Polaroid
Is like lightning inside my head
Stop killing me in my dreams
Leave my things where they lie
I don't want to go to your opening
If I care to see my body I'll look in the mirror
Why can't we just stay home and fuck
Leave your crazy-haired friends to themselves
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12. |
Magnets
02:11
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Magnets
If my arms were wings
It doesn't mean I would fly
And if my eyes were marbles
Would you trade me for a pack of cigarettes
An old metal doll or a can of worms left out in the rain
If my head was wooden
It doesn't mean I could float
And if my thoughts were flowers
Would you pick them all away and
Boil some water eat them as if they were soup
I want something for nothing at all
I want everything all at once
I take pictures and I throw them away
I find pictures and I pretend they're mine
If these hands were magnets
It doesn't mean you'd come near
And If my dreams were children
Would they grow and want to kill me
or leave at sunrise while I was sleeping
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13. |
Fallout Shelter
03:06
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Fallout Shelter
A broken jukebox Jesus on the cross
And a tattooed tear run down her face
Parents in the ground left her this mess
If there was anyone she'd never have come back
Tie up loose ends and you could be tied down for life
This barren diner off of the main road
Plaster falling down dishes in the sink
Deer head on the wall staring at her
All her friends dead, in jail or raising white-trash kids
When she went off to school she thought she'd left for good
The days of feeling safe are over
Never again will you be holed up in that fallout shelter
Eating astronaut ice cream from silver wrappers
Falling asleep to Hank Williams
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14. |
Save Me
03:42
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Save Me
You throw a cup at me in a loving sort of way
In a way that says I love you but I don't know what to do
You take a shower then roll with me in bed
When we go to sleep at night I keep one eye open
We go to the beach and you bury me in the sand
I watch the water creep up real slow
I'm digging holes and then filling them back up
I dig a hole and I jump right down in it
Some things are not for free even when they're given to you
Sometimes you have to sleep when you've been sleeping all night long
One time I had money to burn, I had a million bucks and a dog
But I burned the money and I gave my dog away
I walk around I'm walking in circles
I'm talking backwards and thinking of the circus
I dream of Madonna that I'm sleeping right next to her
But I can't wake up to touch her and I can't wake up to tell you
That I love you
Save me from my friends
Save me from myself
Don't let me walk, don't let me walk on the water
Don't let me walk on myself
Some things are not for free even when they're given to you
Sometimes you have to sleep when you've been sleeping all night long
One time I had money to burn, I had a million bucks and a dog
But I burned the money and I gave my dog away
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15. |
For Sadie Mae
03:00
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For Sadie Mae
I told you to go and do something witchy
I told you to go out into the night
Asked you to kindly do my bidding
But I never asked you to be my wife
Driving through the desert in our buggies
Waiting in a cave for the end of the world
Lying on the floor listening to the Beatles
I told you the songs were written for us
I love everybody, I love me especially
I hate everybody, I hate me
I've looked at this heart so black and shriveled
All I have now is memory
I thought when I saw you on the TV
Somehow girl you got old on me
I love everybody, I love me especially
I hate everybody, I hate me
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16. |
Buck Tempo (Dom Leone)
03:18
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Buck Tempo (Dom Leone)
I don't know the time and I don't know the day
of the week or the month or the year or my name
I don't understand why it seems so important
to be somewhere when you're not sure why you came
I broke my watch when I put up my calendar
I left my map on the roof of my car
I need somebody to make it seem worth it
To search for a light switch or reach for a star
Would you be my clock if I promise not to hang you
Too close to the window or the picture of the Pope
I won't set you back and I won't push you forward
I just want to look in your face and see hope
There's so much to do and so much time to do it
I try hard to concentrate I try hard to think
I got a new oven that cooks food in twelve seconds
Now eating's so quick I've got hours to drink
Time's unpredictable just when you think that
You've learned how to save it you spend all day on hold
I need someone who can show me the difference
Between using it wisely and just growing old
Would you be my clock if I promise not to hang you
Too close to the window or the picture of the Pope
I won't set you back and I won't push you forward
I just want to look in your face and see hope
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