Lyrics

If this is how you want it

Ok, ok, ok.

Cool yourself

You are flush red

Your ankles make you twist cause the truth made you bend

But oh goddamn

If you wanted it you would

I will not ask anymore

I cannot ask anymore

I will love you like this now

You can recognize it later

But I would never blame you

If you would never stay here

When we swam our love to pieces

We washed up on messy beaches

You cleaned dry

I would not drift yet

I should drink salt water to forget

Oh why, oh why, oh why

Won’t you sing

Bring your hips to me

Oh bring your hips to me

Well once I arrived

But you would not receive me

I wanted it all

You could not tell

Then I paid expensive attention to detail

The fall of your face

The wish of the well

The rush of the push

The length of the spell

And you won’t

Bring your hips to me

Oh bring your hips to me

You tug so lightly on me

Work like you are on vacation

While I was swept wide

I wept for you across the nation

All my love I deny

When they place their hands

On both my sides

I can’t do the real thing

I hurt all my feelings

You gotta keep it kind

You make it a mean while

What a shameful way to be the same

But I need you to be

Better than me

And you need me to do

Better than you

I disarm you in the morning

I was up in arms all night

And now it counts

I am too, too sleepy to fight

Know Better.

Learn Faster.

What am I just a body in your bed

Won’t you reach for the body in your bed

We were the loved ones

Sworn up and down upon

You, you are a dead man

I just have to shoot the gun

What about the future of your vision

With the stare and glare of handsome men and women

It’s good to see you, it’s too good to see you

What am I just a body in your bed

Won’t you reach for the body in your bed

I have been just a body in your bed

Won’t you reach for the body in your bed

Who will run my family business

I leave it mostly unfinished

Why can’t I

My oldest is getting married

My youngest can barely bare me

Alive. Live Live Live.

Oh sweet girl remember this:

The saddest ones cannot resist

They’ll keep you if you fall for it

But I promise they will never notice

Now I am a gentleman, a gentleman

I taught you how the water moves

Of course I love you a little bit, a little bit

And that does more than I can do

I admit everything you know

An aimless man with places to go

Again. Again.

What gives. Give it to me.

We all wrote you songs

We know you like to choose

We asked our lovers to break us

So we could be of use

Good bye Good Luck

They said

Good bye Good Luck

So here we come

We have sad sex

We move steady to forget

We swear upon our happening lives

We mined

We bared

We hoped you cared

We agreed to see you next time

They said

Young hearts, you must be different

Not for us, but next time

We don’t have strength or patience to hold you

Take care with your neck and your spine

Take care with your neck and your spine

And Good Luck and Good Bye

Everybody please put your clothes back on

We must see what the trouble was for

And everybody needs sugar from your mouth

But I’ll take none for me

I was late

You’ve run out

Come back, come back, cause I got smart

In the time you took to get this far

A fight so old

Its body complains

I come back cause the punches always hit the same

Not for the world

Would we fall in the way

Of a fight so old

Hey little one

What do you think you’ve done

Good ones are going

Best one is gone

Why don’t you take it

Where they give it

What makes you think you would

When you didn’t

Oh. No.

I meant to come home to you

I meant to stay

I never said what I meant

Now I make my living take me away

Oh. No.

Since you left I’m only more sincere

I swim in it

Authentic to my ears

But we made it

Won’t we save it

And I fixed it

What you hated

Come on

I’ll keep it to myself

If I can’t sell you some

I ‘ll tell you sober truth

In my sleepy tone

Make sure to be sure are you done with me

I can prove it so your pretty eyes can see

I fall upon my only knees

Recall last time how you were pleased

I’ll go with valor everywhere

I will lay so still when you’re not there

How about now?

I’ll keep it to myself

If I can’t sell you some

I ‘ll tell you sober truth

In my sleepy tone

But I fixed it!

I try so hard

I give up so violently

I don’t know how

I still could go so quietly

You want to go home

You won’t take me too

Oh what I lovely start

Oh how I mishandled you

But don’t you think we came close

Don’t you want to come home with me

But I remember the most

Don’t you want a new memory

I will wait the winter long

I think I could burn you up

Quick to taste cause you never know

I think I could burn you up

This is what strangers do

I want no part

I kiss your ears with the truth

How could it hurt so hard

But what did we decide

What can strangers decide

I’d take you to the cinema

We’d show our love and grief

I would be serious, I could be serious

You would be sweet

But oh. What of this desert between

What then of the strangers

What then of us

Hand to chest

How could we forget

What then of us

I know the stories of those before me

You have so much information

But you only know why not

How come, how come

Look at all the time they got

Before me

I make it easy, easy to stop

I’ll make it easy, easy enough

But don’t you let me see you weigh the worth

I don’t get to leave cause you left first

So don’t you let me see you weigh the worth

Before me

I make it easy, easy to stop

Are you gonna keep it easy, easy or what

Beat my brow, beat my chest

Beat the ones who love me the best

Oh how could they be liars

They insure me health, life and fire

Oh no

How can you stand it

When I run, when I run like a bandit

I wear him like a habit

In the lining of my jacket

And oh my

Gunpowder

In an emergency

I must battle without her she is surely killing me

So you’re never gonna leave

And I’m never gonna leave

But I’m proud to say

I’ve got us beat

I’m never gonna leave

And you’re never gonna leave

But you’re never gonna love me like I need

I am all in a ball

In your front yard

I have this bag of hammers

And I won’t ask to come in

Cause I have sold everything

Still I have got some manners

And there’s a hole in your head

Spilled your thoughts on the floor

We wanted you bad

You wanted it more

The trick is

You do not get on that interstate bus

The catch is

You stay and see what becomes of us

Shake Shake Shake

Shake the frame of this house

Distress the wood make it shout

Oh, Oh

And as sharp as I sing

As sharp as I sting

It still soothes you doesn’t it

Like a lick of ice cream

You are strong, strong, strong

Stronger than me

With a heart much more, much more lovely

And I reached high

High as I was able

Such a small kid

At the big kid table

And you followed me

Into the forest

Positioned and ready

Ready for a kiss.

But I never gave you nothing.

Not even to hold.

Or wear around your neck, or rest upon your collar bone

But I’ve got reasons; I have been excused

I want to reconvene; I want to tell the truth

It is not as though

I do not know it hurts me

It’s just I drink only that which makes me thirsty

We are after all

Locomotives

Cannot recall, reclaim, pretend we did not do it

We are sore the length of our bodies

We restore water we cry

We are nothing if not your granddaughters

We have been nothing but dignified

We, we brave beestings and all

And we don’t dive, we cannonball

And we splash our eyes full of chemicals

Just so there’s none left for the little girls

Just so there’s none left for little girls

Roll, roll, roll up your denim

We’ve gotta pedal ten hours south

They pour it down from their balconies

You’ve gotta push all the doubt to the side of your mouth

Cause we, we brave beestings and all

And we don’t dive, we cannonball

And we splash our eyes full of chemicals

Just so there’s none left for the little girls

Just so there’s none left for little girls

Oh geography is gonna make a mess of me

Oh geography is gonna make a mess of me

My, my mouth a confessional cannon

Run away from me with the most reckless of abandon

Are you unhappy for me

I am unhappy for you

All I can think to do

Get you, get you, get you good

But I don’t know

What I don’t know

Fire compels, fire consumes

You are a cheater you are fire proof

Fire proof

I am a smoky plume

I am up a ladder to your bedroom

But I don’t know

What I don’t know

My blood is thin with aspirin

I throw you in, I throw you in

Talk soft so you fall asleep

Cooked you dinner but you would not eat

Your sharp mouth forgets when

You swore goddamn you wouldn’t do it again

And I bend back

With an eye full of mud

And I take it on the chin

And then I patch you up

All these years my feet asleep

Move them around that they might breathe

Oh so little time

I have gone old

This shop, this shop

And all it owns

Come back to see me

I know they have a rainy season

Come back to see me

I know they have a rainy season

You, you are mine

So I never would mind

I work my arms so hard

Just to give you an airplane ride

Loved large enough

To want to shrink

Been dumb enough

To start to think

I might cut right back

On the heart attacks

And so on, so on, so on and on

So on, so on, so on and on

It was brave to play

It was an honor to lose

All the banners wave

All the fans salute

I am going away

But not away from you

I have found the difference between the two

So on

We want too much it’s a given

In the bones of the matter we live in

I want more than can be given

At the heart of the matter we live in

So on

I have seen fear and convenience.

I have never glimpsed romance.

All my riches in the company van

I drove much faster than they ran

Did he hurt you

In a new way

All our senses dry as cotton

Petrified hearts let ‘em go if you got ‘em

And all I can give: hot water from my shower

My legs on your bed so I do not think about her

But tell me

Oh no Violet don’t you go

Violet, Violet, don’t you go

I will keep my station wagon stationary

And I will learn to juggle all the things we carry

Must be hard on your bodyguards

When you charge at icicles

Eye-level to your heart

And you sing

Don’t they need any

Won’t they leave any

Won’t they

They won’t

I built a light tower for my town pillar

Low flying aircraft are gonna kill her

I laid these bricks

You want stones

You won’t be carried

You must be thrown

Oh no Violet

Darlin did you hate

The way I made you travel

All pain and scrapes

Scrapes and safety hazards

We only only rolled so far

And then I rolled you from my zooming car

But I took

A million looks

How they ate me up

Made me heavy and for what

But you float, you float

How could you know

I never can tell

I never can show

Let’s go home and eat sweet things

Throw our arms across our eyes

They are angry like motorcycles

Tuck your chin and ride

We are not so bad

We are not so

We are not so bad

When we go

We have burned our tongues

While we burned your ears

You are patient ones

We have worn you thin and clear

We will go

We will go