Smog - Paroles (2) : Supper

Feather by Feather

You spent half of the morning
Just trying to wake up
Half the evening
Just trying to calm down
And you live for
The same things
A cloudburst seems rarer every time


And it's crow vs. crow
A brawl in mid-air
Beak click on beak clack
No reason is there
But for the brawl in mid-air

If you're losing your wings
Feather by feather
Love the way they whip away
On the wind


When they make the movie of your life
They're going to have to ask you
To do your own stunts
Because nobody nobody nobody
Could pull off the same shit as you
And still come out alright


If you're losing your wings
Feather by feather
Love the way they whip away
On the wind


It's Ali vs. Clay
Both pummeling away
A champ always fights themself


And you are a fighter
You are a fighter
You are a fighter


And Kids got heart
Kids got heart
Kids got heart


If you're losing your wings
Feather by Feather
Butterflies drowned in wine lyrics


Butterflies drowned in wine
I'm headed into town
Where up is up and down is down
None of this fumbling around


Phantom fingers straighten a phantom tie
I'm going to talk to some people there
Forget everything I'm told
In one ear and out the other

An eagle flies right through my mind
The shadow skims across the land


Some people add and some subtract
I love an expert I hate a hack
You've got to bust up a sidewalk
Sometimes
To get people to gather round
And I'm prepared to do whatever it takes
I'm prepared to do whatever it takes
For temporary brother sisterhood


Move the tables and the chairs aside
And give me some room
I'm going to show you something
You won't soon forget


Butterflies drowned in wine
Butterflies drowned in wine


I'm headed into town
Where up is up and down is down
None of this fumbling around



Morality

I could kiss you
The sunlight coming through your blouse
Words wont tell me what your bodys all about


I could take you
You could take me
With hands and hair and eyes and bones and
knees


But hey
What would my wife say
What would my wife say
If I was married


I could keep you
With money every month
Some city apartment where I
Where you will stay

But hey
What would my wife say
What would my wife



Ambition


I just dropped by to see you
Cause I’m on my way
In your bedroom
Just on the highway


Came in through your window
I think I’d throw your ribbons on the way


I never use doors no mores
I never use stairs just trees
And I hear their voices
Breaking up from down below
The toe


I just dropped by to see you
Cause I’m on my way
In your bedroom
Just on the highway


Say, are you still tight with that pharmacist

Well I’ve got to get there
Now don’t I
And when I get there
I’ve got to sleep well
Now don’t I
And when I wake up in the morning
Gotta wake up in the morning
Now don’t I
When I meet with them
Gotta be on the ball
Now don’t I
When I do their dirt
I’ve get to feel numb
Now don’t I
When it’s all said and done I
I just got to celebrate
Now don’t I
When I’m done celebrating I
I just have to unwind
Now don’t I


Just dropped by to see you
Cause I’m on my way
In your bedroom
Just on the highway



Vessel in vain


I cant be held responsible for the things I say
For I am just a vessel in vain

And I cant be held responsible for the thing I see

For I am just a vessel in vain



No boat out on no ocean

No name there on no hull

And its not a strain at all to remember

Those that Ive left behind

Theyre all standing right here beside me now

And most of them with a smile



My ideals have got me on the run

Towards my connection with everyone
My ideals have got me on the run

Its my connection with everyone


Such free reign
For a vessel in vain

 Truth Serum


Me and some friends of mine
We stayed up all night taking truth serum
We soon realized the mistake we made
And went our separate separate ways.


I went up on the roof
Where I thought Id find some truth
There beneath the stars
But questions followed me


Do you miss me, when I go
Honey I love you and thats all you need to know
Well then, what is love
Love is an object kept in an empty box
How can something be in an empty box
Well well give me another shot
Of that truth serum


I went back downstairs to check on my friends
Because truth has a way of beginning an end
Big Bruiser Ken walks in says
I like men
I excuse myself and go back up on the roof again
More questions follow me


Is death really the end
Honey I love you and that's all you need to know
Well then, what is life
Well thats a good song
(sings) Without you by my side.


Taking that serum
People people theres a lesson here plain to see
Theres no truth in you
Theres no truth in me
The truth is between
The truth is between


Our anniversary

Its our anniversary
I leave it ajar
And go outside
To look at the driveway stars


The crickets are chirping
They stop at my step
I stop my step
And they start up again


Its our anniversary and the bullfrogs
And everything that can sing is singing
its mating song

The soil is steaming
Grass is swooning
Guns or fireworks are popping
Down in the town
A woman is running
A man jumps up and down


Its our anniversary and youve hidden my keys
This is one anniversary youre spending with me

I slide in the front seat
The drivers side
To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind
But still in the driveway
Fixed like the stars


I flip on the headlights
And go back inside
The climates controlled
While the battery dies

Clipping the wings of your morning flight
The night will end
In some form of excess
Pants around ankles
Too weak to fully undress

Its our anniversary
A celebration of
And heres to next year
Maybe youll join me in my car
We'll drive together
But not too far

We are far from flowers
Cut and dried
So let us thrive let us thrive
Let us thrive let us thrive
Just like the weeds
We curse sometimes



A guiding light


The sun peaked at noon
I watched it hoping it would rise
Just a little higher
And give me a guiding light
A guiding light


I must admit I felt some relief
When the sun began to sink
I mean who really wants to see
Things in blinding white
Blinding white


It grows dark
I feel my way home
Sleep
Sleep if you can sleep


Me I'll be staying up
Long into the night
Trying to prove wrong
All the statements I made

All the statements I just made
A guiding light


You were born in the middle of the night
What better time for a guiding light