VILLAGERS - Paroles de Darling Arithmetic (2015)

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Courage

Took a little time to get where I wanted
It took a little time to get free
It took a little time to be honest
It took a little time to be me
I took a little lover but then we parted
I took a little time to get over this
From time to time, I get heavyhearted
Thinking of how you used to kiss
Courage
It's a feeling like no other
Let me tell you, yeah
Courage
In harmony with something other than your ego
Courage
The sweet belief of knowing nothing comes for free

Do you really wanna know,
About these lines on my face?
Well, each and every one is testament to
All the mistakes I've had to make
To find courage
It's a feeling like no other
Let me tell you, yeah
Courage
In harmony with something other than your ego
Courage
The sweet belief of knowing nothing comes for free
For free...
Courage
It's a feeling like no other
Let me tell you, yeah
Courage
And harmony with something other than your ego
Courage
The sweet belief of knowing nothing comes for free

Dawning on Me

I've been awake for so long now
just can't get to sleep
you've been tugging at my eyelids
you've been dawning on me
and there's a light coming through the window
but all I can see
is the light of your love
you've been dawning on me

The Soul Serene


So I go walking on the shore
And wonder what I am walking for
Rain falling in the stream
as I try to figure
I tried to figure out what it all means
And I find chameleon dreams
in my mind
Took a little ride on the carousel
When will it end I can never tell
keep spinning until the soul serene
until I got no reason
I've got no reason to figure out what it means
and I find chameleon dreams in my mind
step into the soul serene
the soul serene
step into the soul serene
step into the soul serene
the soul serene
where have you been

à suivre

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - Paroles de Beat the Champ (2015)

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Southern territory

(Verse)
Small screen, July evenin' view up and down Grand Avenue
Where the legends get made, out with the boys' brigade
Part of the motorcade, flew home from Texas last night
Slept on the flight, work like a dog all day
Born to chase cars away die on the road someday
I try to remember what life was like long ago
But it's gone, u know, climb the turnbuckle high
Take 2 falls out of 3, blackout from local T.V.

(Verse 2)
Stand in that cold empty hall, wait for ur name to get called
Burn like hillsides on fire, in the squall of the ring-side choir
High as a wire, nearly drive Danny's nose back into his brain
All the cheap seats go insane, keep my eyes open and try to think straight
No one drives on the 60 this late, feel like the last person alive
Francisquito to Glenshaw Drive, I try to remember to write in the diary
That my son gave me, climb the turnbuckle high
Take 2 falls out of 3, blackout from local T.V.

Stabbed to Death outsdie San Juan

The winter is wet & the summer is hot
Take a match in Puerto Rico, why not
Power & adrenaline flowin' like amber
From the recesses of the earth, put on ur waders
& twitch when the water runs high sometimes
Twitch when the tide ebbs low
See the sights, maybe go downtown
Sometimes u get some heat, sometimes it follows u around
When the blade hits the bone, every body hears it sing
Shower room full of people, no one hears a god damned thing
A twitch when the current runs wild sometimes
Twitch when the contact howls
All that racket out there in the arena
I am on a stretcher, here come the cleaners
& the sky goes dark & there I am
Climbin' down the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
I drop from the top of my tall steel cage
Drop to the concrete floor

The ballad of Bull Ramos

(Verse)
Drive a great big truck when I'm old, when I'm old
Haul the wrecks down to the wreck yard, help the boys unload
Keep my hair nice & long becos' I can, becos' I can
Any of my old friends who have no place to turn to
They know to call me any time they come thru'

(Chorus)
Never die, never die
Stand with a bullwhip in my hand
& rise, rise
In the desert sand

(Verse 2)
Work days, work nights, finally get laid up
By a piece of broken glass on the floor of the shop
& the doctor recognizes me as the operatin' theater goes dim
Aren't u that ole' wrestler with the bullwhip?!
Yessir, that's me, I'm him!

(Bridge)
Get around fine on 1 leg
Lose a kidney, then go blind
Sit on my porch in Houston
Let the good times dance across my mind 

(Chorus)

Unmasked !

(Verse)
Rain beats down, down on the outer walls
Down on the skylight, where the streetlights
Shine like unquenchable coals & I’m up high, tryna say goodbye
The only way I know how, crude & graceless
Peekin' through the eye holes, seein' the real u

(Chorus)
And just after midnight
When it feels like it's gettin' late
I will reveal u, I will reveal u

(Verse 2)
Crowd's half-gone, just a few hangers ons
Come to see me finally tear thru' the stitchin' at last
And u don't care, u look almost relieved down there
Like you're free, like u can breathe now
Like they've sawn off ur cast, just 1 mo' sleeper to see thru'

(Chorus)
And by way of honorin' the things we once both held dear
I will reveal u I Will reveal u, cast of 1000s
But we were the real 2 & when I'm alone
Befo' a mirror late at night, I will reveal u, I will reveal u

The Legend Of Chavo Guerrero

Born down in El Paso where the tumbleweeds blow
To the middleweight champ of all of Mexico
Dad fought many bloody battles and raised four sons
Chavo was the oldest one
Old man Gory could pop like a live grenade
Raised his boys in the way of the trade
Hector and Mando, young Eddie G
Chavo meant the most to me

[Chorus:]
Look high
It's my last hope
Chavo Guerrero
Coming off the top rope

He came from Texas seeking fortune and fame
Rose pretty quickly to the top of his game
Defender of the downtrodden, king of the hill
Tag-team champion with Al Madril
Before a black and white TV in the middle of the night
I'm lying on the floor, I'm bathed in blue light
With the telecast in Spanish, I can understand some
And I need justice in my life, here it comes

[Chorus]

Red Shoes Dugan
Holding his arm high all out of breath
I hated all of Chavo's enemies
I would pray nightly for their death
Descending like fire
On the people who deserved it most
Always completely unknown
Outside of Texas and the West Coast

He was my hero back when I was a kid
You let me down but Chavo never once did
You called him names to try to get beneath my skin
Now your ashes are scattered on the wind
I heard his son got famous, he went nationwide
Coast-to-coast with his dad by his side
I don't know if that's true but I've been told
It's real sweet to grow old

[Chorus]

Heel Turn 2

Get stomped like a snake
Lie down in the dirt
Cling to my convictions
Even when I get hurt

Be an upstanding, well-loved man
About town
In your child’s mind that’s
How it goes down
But I try the losing side

I don’t want to die in here
I don’t want to die in here

Drift down into the new dark light
Without any reservations
You found my breaking point
Congratulations

Spend too much of my life
Now trying to play fair
Throw my better self overboard
Shoot at him when he comes up for air
Come unhinged
Get revenge

I don’t want to die in here
I don’t want to die in here

Stay good under pressure
For years and years and years
President of the fan club
Up there choking on his tears

Let all the trash rain down
From way up in the rafters
I’m walking out of here in one piece
Don’t care what comes after
Drive the wedge
Torch the bridge

I don’t want to die in here
I don’t want to die in here

Animal Mask

Eighteen-man steel cage free for all
Through the noise I hear u call for help
U can't protect yoself, frog mask & yellow cape
So desperate to escape
I came to u, hands wrapped in adhesive tape
That was when we were young & green
In the dawnin' hours of our team

(Chorus)
Some things u will remember
Some things stay sweet foreva

(Verse 2)
Seen u backstage once or twice
Animal gimmick pops real nice 
Elbows sweep & tiger dance
Lil extra fighter's chance 
'Hold on' I cried, 'I'll be right there'
Pull ur mask down through ur hair
They won't see u, not until u want them to
That was when we were green & young
Battle cry risin' from ur tongue

(Chorus)

Chocked out

Diamonds in the firmament 
All reserves completely spent 
Someone set up the oxygen tent
Everybody here's real proud to present
Choked out! 200 dolla take all purse 
Half Nelson to Suplex reverse
Worried look on the face of the ringside nurse
At one, for once, with the universe
Choked out! Choked out, choked out, choked out!
I stretch & strain with all my might
Drift off into the velvety arms of the night
Kick & claw & scratch & bite
Fire up the grill, everybody eats tonight
Choked out! No brakes down
An endless dark incline
Most of the boys won't eva cross this line
If they all want to die dead broke that's fine, that's fine
Everybody's got their limits, nobody's found mine
Crowd screamin' like hounds at the heat of the chase
All the colours of the rainbow flood my face
I lift right off into space
I can see the future, it's a real dark place
Choked out, choked out, choked out
Choked out, choked out, choked out

Fire Editoral

Too blinded in Detroit! Somethin' must be done
Jaws droppin' at ringside in the blood tide
When the fireball hits
Down Indiana way, make them check their guns
Real tears when it's ova, smell the sulfur
When the dark vault splits
Lord of the hidden pocket knife
Tawdry dreams all come to life
Save yoselves, save this town
Save everythin' not nailed down
War in Ontario! Dead befo' the bell
Crushed hopes of the young breed
All the best bleed, all the proud boys break
Who will stand befo' the flood?
Who will mop up all the blood?
Who's alone?! Skin, bone, steel, stone
Swim or drown, save this town
Save everythin' not nailed down

Hair Mask

U will be maybe lungin' for the bad guy’s hip
No one anticipates the sunset flip
The referee & ur opponent will hold u there
& we're gonna bring in a foldin' chair
We'll stipulate that there will be no cameras filmin'
But of course there will be several in the buildin'
& if by chance somebody hits record
& stands real still somewhere back behind the soundboard
Cheap electric razor from the Thrifty down the street
2 guys down around ur ankles so u will stay put in ur seat
Buzzin' razor held aloft & just about to strike
I luvd u befo' I even eva knew what luv was like
Some people leave befo' it's over, but most of them stay
Some hide behind their programs, some turn away
Out in the parkin' lot u look up at the stars & all the cheap cars

Luna

The winter is wet & the summer is hot
Take a match in Puerto Rico, why not
Power & adrenaline flowin' like amber
From the recesses of the earth, put on ur waders
& twitch when the water runs high sometimes
Twitch when the tide ebbs low
See the sights, maybe go downtown
Sometimes u get some heat, sometimes it follows u around
When the blade hits the bone, every body hears it sing
Shower room full of people, no one hears a god damned thing
A twitch when the current runs wild sometimes
Twitch when the contact howls
All that racket out there in the arena
I am on a stretcher, here come the cleaners
& the sky goes dark & there I am
Climbin' down the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
I drop from the top of my tall steel cage
Drop to the concrete floor

Foreign Object

(verse)
Whipped like a dog, down on the cards
Square in the spotlight sweatin' real hard
All soaked in blood like a newborn babe
Sharp thing hidden in my hand shaped like an astrolabe

(Chorus)
Gonna stick u in the eye with a foreign object
Gonna poke u in the eye with a foreign object

(Verse 2)
March through the red mist, neva get my vision clear
Learn to luv this kind of atmosphere
Strike funny poses, keep my weapon hand low
Whip my head around a lil, get blood on the front row

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Sink my teeth into ur scalp, take a nice big bite
Save nothin' for the cameras, play the angles all night
1 of these days my legs will both snap like twigs
If u can't beat em make em bleed like pigs 

(Chorus)

Werewolf Gimmick

I was not there for rehearsal, I don’t need it any more
when I show up just in time to pop you can clear the goddamn floor
empty out the locker room, let me find my space
let him who thinks he knows no fear look well upon my face

nameless bodies in unremembered rooms
know how a man becomes a beast when the wolfbane blooms

sail past all the grasping hands, floodlights white and hot
bring my vision into focus, find out what I’ve got
some sniveling local babyface with an angle he can’t sell
full werewolf off the buckle like an angel straight from hell

nameless bodies in unremembered rooms
run howling through the carnage when the wolfbane blooms

half the city sound asleep and safe inside their beds
get lost inside my thoughts and nearly tear his face to shreds

blood pooling on the canvas as the atmosphere gets hushed
bring your heroes to the wolf’s den, watch them all get crushed
get told to maybe dial it back backstage later on
everyone still in this building right now: dead before the dawn

nameless bodies in unremembered rooms
the pure at heart go putrid when the wolfbane blooms

Smog - Paroles (3) A River Ain't too Much to Love

Palimpsest



Winter weather is not my soul
But the biding for spring...


Why’s everybody looking at me
Like there’s something fundamentally wrong
Like I’m a southern bird
That stayed north too long


Winter exposes the nest
Then I’m gone
Winter weather is not my soul
But the biding for spring...

Why’s everybody looking at me
Like there’s something fundamentally wrong
Like I’m a southern bird
That stayed north too long


Winter exposes the nest
Then I’m gone

Say valley maker


With the grace of a corpse
In a riptide
I let go
And I slide slide slide
Downriver
With an empty case by my side
An empty case
That’s my crime

And I sing (Say Valley Maker)
To keep from cursing
Yes I sing (Say Valley Maker)
To keep from cursing


River Oh
River End
River Oh
River End
River Go
River Bend


Take me through the sweet valley
Where your heart blooms
Take me through the sweet valley
Where your heart is covered in dew


And when the river dries
Will you bury me in wood
Where the river dries
Will you bury me in stone

Oh I never really realized
Death is what it meant
To make it on my own


Because there is no love
Where there is no obstacle
And there is no love
Where there is no bramble
There is no love
On the hacked away plateau
And there is no love
In the unerring
And there is no love
On the one true path


Oh I cantered out here
Now I’m galloping back


So bury me in wood
And I will splinter
Bury me in stone
And I will quake
Bury me in water
And I will geyser
Bury me in fire
And I’m gonna phoenix


I’m gonna phoenix


The Well




I could not work
So I threw a bottle into the woods
And then I felt bad
For the done paw
And the rabbit paw
So I went looking for the pieces
Of the bottle that I threw
Because I couldn't work


I went deep
Further than i could throw
And i came upon an old abandoned well
All boarded over
With a drip hanging from the bucket still


Well I watched that drip but it would not drop
I watched that drip but it would not drop
I knew what I had to do
Had to pull those boards off the well

When I got the boards off
I stared into the black black black
And you know I had to yell
Just to get my voice back

I guess everybody has their own thing
That they yell into a well


I gave it a coupla hoots
A hello
And a fuck all y'all


I guess everybody has their own thing
That they yell into a well

And as I stood like that
Staring into the black black black
I felt a cool wet kiss
On the back of my neck


Dang

I knew if I stood up
The drip would roll down my back
Into no man's land


So I stayed like that
Staring into the black black black

Well they say black is all colours at once
So I gave it my red rage my yellow streak
The greenest parts of me
And my blues I knew just what I had to do


I had to turn around and go back
And let that drip roll down my back
And I felt so bad about that


But wouldn't you know
When I turned to go
Another drip was forming
On the bottom of the bucket
And I felt so good about that


Rock Bottom Riser




I love my mother
I love my father
I love my sisters, too.
I bought this guitar
To pledge my love
To pledge my love to you.


I am a rock bottom riser
And I owe it all to you
I am a rock bottom riser
And I owe it all to you


I saw a gold ring
At the bottom of the river
Glinting at my foolish heart
So my foolish heart
Had to go diving
Diving, diving, diving
Into the murk


And from the bottom of the river
I looked up for the sun
Which had shattered in the water
And pieces were rained down
Like gold rings
That passed through my hands
As I thrashed and I grabbed
I started rising, rising, rising


I left my mother
I left my father
I left my sisters, too
I left them standing on the banks
And they pulled me out


Off this mighty, mighty, mighty river


I am a rock bottom riser
And I owe it all to you
I am a rock bottom riser
And I owe it all to you


I love my mother
I love my father
I love my sisters, too.


I bought this guitar
To pledge my love
To pledge my love to you


I feel like the mother of the world


Whether or not there is any type of god
I’m not supposed to say
And today
I don’t really care


God is a word
And the argument ends there


Oh do I feel like the mother of the world
With two children
Oh do I feel like the mother of the world
With two children fighting


When I was a boy I used to get into it bad
With my sister
And when the time came to face the truth
There’d only be tears and sides
Tears and sides
And my mother my poor mother
Would say it does not matter
It does not matter
Just stop fighting


Oh do I feel like the mother of the world
With two children




Running the loping


I lay on the bed in the dark
Laughing at things i think of
Getting off on the pornography of my past
Lighting matches and dropping them
Into a wet glass


It’s summer now and it’s hot
And the sweat pours out
And the air is the same as my body
And i breathe my body inside out


With sunlight around my skin turns brown
And you wouldn’t know me from your pa
Or Adam or Allah
But I haven’t changed
No I haven’t changed
Day is all that resolves

All we need is here on earth
About every other day


Scratchmarks on my knees since I’ve been running
The bramble lee
When I’d much rather be wanting to be
Running the loping
Peace on your hand
Don’t be silly
But peace on my body
When tired and beaten

All we need is here on earth
About every other day


Oh to live in the country
With a chicken and those other things
Where the hills loping
Where the dress and the hair in the river
Undulating


To take a wife and no paper
Never again to wonder
Did that rapper rape her

All we need is here on earth
About every other day


Drinking at the dam


I remember drinking at the dam
With the jarheads on the other side
Warm beer and tearing up the cans
And all of us yelling abuse
Cutting school to go drinking at the dam


Skinmags in the brambles
For the first part of my life
I thought women had orange skin
It was the first part of my life
Second is the rest


And now teenage warchests fill
And do the dirty dirty work
It was the first part of their lives


Drinking at the dam
Holding back what I can
But the power is so much


Drinking at the dam
Holding back what I can
I’m just drinking at the dam
I’m just drinking at the dam
I’m just drinking at the dam


Im new here

No No No No
I did not become someone different
I did not want to be
But I’m new here
Will you show me around

No matter how far wrong you’ve gone
You can always tournaround
Met a woman in a bar
Told her I was hard to get to know
And near impossible to forget
She said i had an ego on me
The size of Texas


Well I’m new here and I forget
Does that mean big or small

Turnaround turnaround turnaround
And I’m shedding plates like a snake
And it may be crazy but I’m the closest thing I have
To a voice of reason


Turnaround turnaround turnaround
And you may come full circle and be new here again


Running the Loping


I lay on the bed in the dark
Laughing at things i think of
Getting off on the pornography of my past
Lighting matches and dropping them
Into a wet glass


It’s summer now and it’s hot
And the sweat pours out
And the air is the same as my body
And i breathe my body inside out


With sunlight around my skin turns brown
And you wouldn’t know me from your pa
Or Adam or Allah
But I haven’t changed
No I haven’t changed
Day is all that resolves


All we need is here on earth
About every other day


Scratchmarks on my knees since I’ve been running
The bramble lee
When I’d much rather be wanting to be
Running the loping
Peace on your hand
Don’t be silly
But peace on my body
When tired and beaten


All we need is here on earth
About every other day


Oh to live in the country
With a chicken and those other things
Where the hills loping
Where the dress and the hair in the river
Undulating


To take a wife and no paper
Never again to wonder
Did that rapper rape her


All we need is here on earth
About every other day


Drinking at the Dam



I remember drinking at the dam
With the jarheads on the other side
Warm beer and tearing up the cans
And all of us yelling abuse
Cutting school to go drinking at the dam


Skinmags in the brambles
For the first part of my life
I thought women had orange skin
It was the first part of my life
Second is the rest


And now teenage warchests fill
And do the dirty dirty work
It was the first part of their lives

Drinking at the dam
Holding back what I can
But the power is so much


Drinking at the dam
Holding back what I can
I’m just drinking at the dam
I’m just drinking at the dam
I’m just drinking at the dam


Let me See the Colts


Knocked on your door at dawn
With a spark in my heart
Dragged you from your bed
And said let me see the colts


Let me see the colts
That will run next year
Show them to a gambling man
Thinking of the future

Have you been drinking no
Nor sleeping
The all-seeing
all-knowing eye is dog
tired
And just wants to see the colts

We walked out through
The dew dappled brambles
And sat upon the fence
Is there anything as still
as sleeping horses
Is there anything as still
as sleeping horses

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

Smog - Paroles (1)

A hit


It's not going to be a hit
So why even bother with it?
It's not going to be a hit
So why even bother with it?
Just lay it down, and forget about it
Lay it down fast, forget about it

I'll never be a rock and roll saint
I'll never be a rock and roll saint
'Cause i can't sing
Oh no i can't sing
That's not the only reason
That's not the only reason


I'll never be a bowie
I'll never be an eno
I'll never be a bowie
I'll never be an eno
I'll only ever be a gary numan

I'll never be a rock and roll saint



My shell

When you crawl into my shell
You're after my jokes
They serves you well
When you crawl out of my shell
You stole my jokes
They serves you well
When you crawl into my shell
Your after my jokes
They serves you well
When you crawl out of my shell
You stole my jokes
They serves you well


I should have taken them back into my shell
When I think of what you did my shell ache
Stinking mussel-hands
Oh, I left her for dead


Stole my jokes
They serves you well


You can't comeback into my shell
I don't want you back to my shell



I Break Horses

Well I rode out to the ocean
And the water looked like tarnished gold
I rode out on a broken horse
Who told me she'd never felt so old
She asked me if I'd feed her
And ride her now and then


No no no, no no no, no no no,
I break horses
I don't tend to them
I break horses
They seem to come to me
Asking to be broken
They seem to run to me
I break horses
Doesn't take me long
Just a few well-placed words
And their wandering hearts are gone


At first her warmth felt good between my legs
Living breathing heart-beating flesh
But soon that warmth turned to an itch
Turned to a scratch
Turned to a gash
I break horses
I don't tend to them


Tonight I'm swimming to my favorite island
And I don't want to see you swimming behind
Tonight I'm swimming to my favorite island
And I don't want to see you swimming behind
No I break horses
I don't tend to them



Back in School

I saw you standing there
With your hand in his hair
And his hand in
Your back pocket
I couldnt help but stare


I wanted to tell you
That I was back in school
But in the dark of the club
I knew it wouldnt carry much weight
Well, I'm trying to learn your language
I'm trying to learn your language


I came to your party empty-handed
I came to your party, uninvited
I came to your party, a headstart on the drinking


I wanted to tell you
That I was back in school


But in the chit-chat, chit-chat should that...
Well, I'm trying to learn your language
It's like a fly learning how to bark
I'm trying to learn your language
It's like a fly learning how to bark


That smile on your face
That smile on your face
That smile on your face
I try to erase
That smile on your face


But a kiss was not the answer
A kiss was not the answer
A drunken kiss was not the answer



Chosen One

Oh whoa (x4)


Well you're a wild horse
On a collision course
With the sun
(repeat)

I wanted to ride that wild horse
Into the sun
(repeat)

But I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
On no, I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one


Oh whoa (x2)


Maybe it's best for you to ride
Ride into the sun
Because I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
Oh no, I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one


Oh whoa (x4)