Sunset Rubdown - The Mending of the Gown

Sunset Rubdown - The Mending of the Gown

He made an enemy then, he made an enemy of all of you
It’s him, not you.

You never heard it from me but there’s a breach in the hull of the truth
And the water’s too deep to prove.

He made an enemy then, he made an enemy of all of you
It’s him, not you.
It’s a little red sea let the man go we could go free
See the paddle go up, and the paddle go down
And the paddle go up, and the paddle go down
And the paddle go up, and the paddle go down
And the man falls in the sea.

He was a man of many nations, had a hundred souls and a hundred to go
He was a man of many nations, two hearts, two hands, it’s a slippery slope.
He had a fear of being naked, but you’re any other man in another man’s clothes
He was a man of many nations, of revelations, oh revelations.
He wrote a book about the Bible and he wrote a book about men in the sky
He wrote a book about the smell of winter then two, a little less simple to decipher
Saying, “I am the water at the foot of the palms,
oh I am sand and wind and the shit in your nose,
but either way, I’m a man of many nations.”

Was it the mending of the gown, or the running it around?
Was it the mending of the gown, or the running and the running it around?

She had a name, she had a spirit,
She had a line in the play if you wanted to hear it.
But the master of disguises, her demise was her design, they said.
Was it the mending of the gown, or the running,
and the running and the running it around?
She said my name and my spirit are both corrupt
and if you hold me close, you gotta hold me up.
It was the tender mending of this slender gown that brought me bending to the ground.
Now you’ll wear any old thing, oh you’ll wear any old thing.
So she wrapped herself in swallowing up the fever to the air of the broken wind
It’s an actor thing, she’s just pretending. It’s an actor thing, she’s just pretending.
If you burn the virgin flags, then I will shake as the heat waves in the sun.
This one’s for Maggie, this one’s for Sam.
This one’s for Maggie, this one’s for Sam.
Oh, any other random spirit lover busted, I have lusted after you…
The way bloodsuckers do!
The way bloodsuckers do!
The way bloodsuckers do!

Was it the mending of the gown, or the running it around?
Was it the mending of the gown, or the running
and the running and the running and the running it around?
It was the tender mending of this slender gown that brought me bending to the ground.
But this ship will have to go down
See the paddle go up and the paddle go down
And the paddle go up and the paddle go down
And the paddle go up and the paddle go down
And the paddle go up and the paddle go down
Whoah-oh-oh…

At the Drive-In - Invalid Letter Dept.

At the Drive-In - Invalid Letter Dept.

Intravenously polite it was the walkie-talkies
That had knocked the pins down
As their shoes gripped the dirt floor
In the silhouette of dying
Dancing on corpses' ashes

Yeah, they had plans for him
They has spun the last of the pimps
Polyester, satin nailed jewelry lips
While the guillotine just laughed again
Dancing on the corpses' ashes

Paramedics fell into the wound
Like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant
An anesthetic penance beneath
The hail of contraband

They had been defected and excommunicated
And all the pulses were subverted
And they made sure the obituaries
Showed pictures of smoke stacks

A vivid dissection that mocked
The strut of vivisection
Semi-automatic colonies
And a silencing that still walks the streets

In the company of wolves
Was a stretcher made of
Cobblestone curfews
The federales performed
Their custodial customs quite well

Callous heels
Numbed in travel
Endless maps made
By their scalpels

On my way
Nails broke and fell
Into the
Wishing well

Animal Collective - You Could Win a Rabbit

Animal Collective - You Could Win a Rabbit

Hungry bread hussle
You be doin' it a while
Living's only hell
Where's you relaxation?
Where's the time required for your health?

Been hatin' on my new perspective
Been hurryin' it along your meal is never done
You can win a Rabbit
You can have a rabbit or a rim

The fast child is gunna have a dead hen
We can get it started yeah,
Bad mind let me put on good habits
Been workin' in put on good habits
Sometimes I can't find my good habits

Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do
Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do
Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do
Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do

Oh, Spanish bands use all the echo
Seargion kitty better stay out of the train
Glad you brought your food on,
Eat it like it's gunna get away

Your coffee sure is getting colder
Your teeth are getting tumors razor to the blade
You can win a rabbit
You can win a rabbit or a rib

Wabbit or habit?
Habit or Rib?
Rabbit or Habit?
Habit or Rib?
Rabbit or Habit?

Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do
Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do
Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do
Do-doloodle do duh duh duh de do

Syl Johnson - Back For a Taste of Your Love

Syl Johnson - Back For a Taste of Your Love

Here I come, comin' for a taste of your love,
Here I come, 'cause I like what you do for me.
Little by little, bit by bit,
I'm fallin' in love all over again.

Here I come, just like I did before,
Here I come, love this time I'm sure.
It takes two to make it,
And I know you can take it, yeah baby.

Here I come again, I'm comin' for a taste of your love,
Here I come, I'm comin' for a taste of your love

What you did, you just came down on me.
You got the lock, but baby I hold the key.
Little by little, bit by bit,
I'm fallin' in love all over again.

Here I come, I'm comin' for a taste of your love,
Here I come again, I'm comin' for a taste of your love.

Hank Williams - Kaw-Liga

Hank Williams - Kaw-Liga

Kaw-Liga, was a wooden Indian standing by the door
He fell in love with an Indian maid over in the antique store
Kaw-Liga, just stood there and never let it show
So she could never answer, "Yes" or "No".

He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk
The maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped someday he'd talk
Kaw-Liga, too stubborn to ever show a sign
Because his heart was made of knotty pine.

Poor ol' Kaw-Liga, he never got a kiss
Poor ol' Kaw-Liga, he don't know what he missed
Is it any wonder that his face is red
Kaw-Liga, that poor ol' wooden head

Kaw-Liga, was a lonely Indian never went nowhere
His heart was set on the Indian maiden with the coal black hair
Kaw-Liga, just stood there and never let it show
So she could never answer "YES" or "NO".

Then one day a wealthy customer bought the Indian maid
And took her, oh, so far away, but ol' Kaw-Liga stayed
Kaw-Liga, just stands there as lonely as can be
And wishes he was still an old pine tree.

Poor ol' Kaw-Liga, he never got a kiss
Poor ol' Kaw-Liga, he don't know what he missed
Is it any wonder that his face is red
Kaw-Liga, that poor ol' wooden head

Sonny Rollins - You Don't Know What Love Is

Sonny Rollins - You Don't Know What Love Is

Tom Waits - I Don't Want to Grow Up

Tom Waits - I Don't Want to Grow Up

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up

Seems like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb
On Grand Street

When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up

The Grand Archives - George Kaminski

The Grand Archives - George Kaminski

If ever I'd known

All of the luck in the world this time around
won't change a thing tonight.
If ever I'd known.

I've done alright for myself this time around
given the weight of the time.
If ever I'd known.

You have our love, this whole world
I've got these four leaves and walls.

If ever I'd known

All you are capable of next time around
I'll be the better man.
If ever I'd known.

This really isn't fair next time around
Alaska would be mine.
If ever I'd known.

You have our love, this whole world
I've got these four leaves and walls.

Next time around,
I'll leave all these
clovers buried in the ground
for you to find
next time around.

I'll leave all these
clovers buried in the ground
for you to find
next time around.

Michael Jackson - P.Y.T

Michael Jackson - P.Y.T

Where did you come from lady
And ooh won't you take me there
Right away won't you baby
Tendoroni you've got to be
Spark my nature
Sugar fly with me
Don't you know now
Is the perfect time
We can make it right
Hit the city lights
Then tonight ease the lovin' pain
Let me take you to the max

I want to love you (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You need some lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
And I'll take you there
I want to love you (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You need some lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
I'll take you there

Anywhere you wanna go

Nothin' can stop this burnin'
Desire to be with you
Gotta get to you baby
Won't you come, it's emergency
Cool my fire yearnin'
Honey, come set me free
Don't you know now is the perfect time
We can dim the lights
Just to make it right
In the night
Hit the lovin' spot
I'll give you all that I've got

I want to love you (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You need some lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
And I'll take you there
I want to love you (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You need some lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
I'll take you there

Pretty young things, repeat after me
Sing na na na, na na na
Na na na na, na na na na
Sing na na na, na na na
Na na na na na, na na na na na
I'll take you there

I want to love you (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You need some lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
And I'll take you there
I want to love you (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You need some lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
I'll take you there

Built to Spill - You Were Right

Built to Spill - You Were Right

You were wrong when you said
Everything's gonna be alright
Yeah, you were wrong when you said
Everything's gonna be alright

You were right when you said
All that glitters isn't gold
You were right when you said
All we are is dust in the wind
You were right when you said
We're all just bricks in the wall
And when you said manic depression's a frustrating mess

You were wrong when you said
Everything's gonna be alright
Yeah, you were wrong when you said
Everything's gonna be alright
You were wrong when you said
Everything's gonna be alright

You were right when you said
You can't always get what you want
You were right when you said
It's a hard rain's gonna fall
You were right when you said
We're still running against the wind
Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone
You were right when you said
This is the end

Do you ever think about it?
Do you ever think about it?
Do you ever think about it?
Do you ever think about it?

Ryan Adams - La Cienega Just Smiled

photo by nick fries

Ryan Adams - La Cienega Just Smiled

"Ah the night...here it comes again"
It's on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt
And I'm too scared to know to how I feel about you now
La Cienega just smiles..."see ya around"
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
And raise my glass 'cause either way I'm dead
Neither of you really help me to sleep anymore
One breaks my body and the other breaks my soul
La Cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye
"Ah the night...here it comes again"
It's off with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt
And I'm too scared to know how I feel about you now
How I feel about you now
La Cienega just smiles and says, "I'll see you around"

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun
What a beautiful dream
That could flash on the screen
In a blink of an eye and be gone from me
Soft and sweet
Let me hold it close and keep it here with me, me

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be
In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me, me

What a curious life we have found here tonight
There is music that sounds from the street
There are lights in the clouds
Anne's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
Soft and sweet
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees, trees

Now how I remember you
How I would push my fingers through
Your mouth to make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet
Now we keep where we don't know
All secrets sleep in winters clothes
With one you loved so long ago
Now he don't even know his name

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round' the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all, at all

Deltron 3030 - Madness

Deltron 3030 - Madness

In the year three thousand and thirty everybody wants to be an MC
In the year three thousand and thirty everybody want to be a DJ
In the year three thousand and thirty everybody want to be a producer
In the year three thousand and thirty everybody want to tell ya the meaning of the music

I must appeal to you people with your faculties
Cuz everybody else is gonna laugh at me
People try to get over and take a crack at me
The universe is one and I can see what rap can be glorious
Put in the Smithsonian my podiums for holy hymns
But you see who's controlling them
Fuck myself off cuz of the egotistical mode I'm in
No I can't slap you no five
When you and your cutty is talkin shit about me outside
People take pride in what they have no hand in
Sorta like a phantom holographic handsome
But deep inside he wants to do what his man done
Just because his peers jeer and and clown
When your six foot deep no one hears you now
They say were not compatible like deers and cows and owls
So many rules and regulations say you're not allowed

I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness

If I had to describe the way I survive its like vice squeezin
The reason I'm black and still breathin
Heathens will breed heathens so
Everybody's suspect I must check your ID
Cuz you lookin sheisty you might be intelligence
Someone that Del's against
Opposite or positive
When I drop the law against nature be faithful
Why should I hate you we ain't that different

We may act different in some ways
But we still grouped together like a fuckin survey
Sufferin and fuck em all's the motto
I'm trapped in a bottle
My music's gettin hollow
That's what happens when humanity you follow
Where every leak or info is hard to swallow
Sell your Marlboros and car insurance
Put niggas on the moon and can't pay your burdens
I smoke herb and rock a turban
Meditate on the world and whats occurrin
A lot of white boys like the style and copy
Dig in something deeper and you'll peep that were not free
It's not about the separation its about the population

I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness

Simple minded people always point the finger
To bring it to a close as if life is their role, their path
When all paths are intersections
It all depends on the persons perception
When I'm mad as fuck you get shot
To some it's bad luck
I believe you held something back for too long
It grew strong
And energy has its own will
And people think they make music still
But music is there with out you or me we just manipulate
For better or worse so let it situate
I get to make records and dough
Paid out the ass hole
And still seen as another face on the totem pole
Conquer, my sponsors are monsters
And everybody thinks that I owe them one
I'm glad I love music and life
Cuz it's easy to see the pain and strife and end it all tonight

I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness
I'm caught in the grip of the city Madness

Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes

Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes

My dewy-eyed disney bride, what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde?
Monsters?
Whiskey-plied voices cried fratricide!
Jesus don't you know that you could've died
(You should've died)
With the monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth

And she's got red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes
And she's got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise
She's got an old death kit she's been meaning to use
She's got blood in her eyes, in her eyes for you
She's got blood in her eyes for you

Certain fads, stripes and plaids, singles ads
They run you hot and cold like a rheostat, i mean a thermostat
So you bite on a towel
Hope it won't hurt too bad

My dewy-eyed disney bride, what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde?
What monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth

And she says i like long walks and sci-fi movies
If you're six foot tall and east coast bred
Some lonely night we can get together
And I'm gonna tie your wrists with leather
And drill a tiny hole into your head

Why? - These Few Presidents

Why? - These Few Presidents

At your house the smell of our still living human bodies and oven gas
You pray to nothing out loud
Two first names and an ampersand
Embroidered proudly on a kitchen towel
You're a beautiful and violent work
With a skinny neck of a chinese bird
In a fading ancient painting
And if you're in heaven waiting
You made it there fighting
The tightest kite string
In a bad storm with lightning

And now these few presidents
Frowning in my pocket
Can persuade no god
To let me let you talk, oh
These few presidents
Frowning in my pocket
Can persuade no god
To let me let you off

Even though i haven't seen you in years
Yours is a funeral i'd fly to from anywhere

I thought i had a pebble in my sock
I pulled it off and shook out a wasp
It stumbled out lost, and without a pause
I'm stung as i was, still i stomped it
I thought, there is no paved street worthy
Of your perfect scandanavian feet
My crooked chinese fingers groped
The machinery of your throat

And now these few presidents
Frowning in my pocket
Can persuade no god
To let me let you talk, oh
These few presidents
Drowning in my pocket
Can persuade no god
To let me let you off

Even though i haven't seen you in years
Yours is a funeral i'd fly to from anywhere

The Afghan Whigs - I Keep Coming Back

The Afghan Whigs - I Keep Coming Back

I wanna leave you
But I just can't leave you
I keep coming back for a little more of Your love
I wanna go away But honey, I just can't stay
I keep coming back for a little more of your love

And I can't understand when try as hard as anyone can
Each night I dream I wake up and scream
Ah Baby, That I love you woman I love You
Oh Baby, I realize I treat you wrong
But I'm so sorry Let me come back were I belong
You see I'm Your fool I lost my cool
Ah Baby, that love You woman
I love You And I wouldn't lie
Oh, but I lay down and die

Oh Baby, that I love you woman
Oh Baby, that I love you woman
That I love you woman

I love you

The Afghan Whigs - Fountain and Fairfax

The Afghan Whigs - Fountain and Fairfax

Angel, I'm sober
I got off that stuff
Just like you asked me to
Angel, come closer
So the stink of your lies
Sinks into my memory
She said baby, forever, but I don't like to be alone
So don't stay away too long
Baby, forever, well it's Tuesday now
I hear him breathing inside of her
Let me drink
Let me tie off
I'm really slobbering now
Let it stink
Let it dry up
It's impossible
How?

Angel, forever
Don't you promise me what you cannot deliver
Angel, together
I'll be waiting for you on Fountain and Fairfax

The Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

The Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted

Baby, I see you've made yourself all sick again
Didn't I do a good job of pretending?
You're saying that the victim doesn't want it to end
Good. I get to dress up and play the assassin again
It's my favorite
It's got personality
I should have seen this shit coming down the hall
Every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall
If I could have only once heard you scream
To feel you were alive
Instead of watching you abandoning yourself
Baby you can open your eyes now
And please allow me to present you with a clue
If I inflict the pain
Then baby only I can comfort you
Out of the night we come
And into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you
Then you have to say so

No Age - Things I Did When I Was Dead

No Age - Things I Did When I Was Dead

Problems when I wanna see you everyone I knew
Uncle lied and I could die and I said somewhere new
Would you like the things I saw and bring you too I should
Tell me more I'd like to see me I know where I would

Oooooooooooh

I went down my war I shoots and I take everyone
Parties like my policy and I take where I'm some
Damaged like my every thoughts and when you talk I do
Things I did when I was dead and everyone loves you

Oooooooooooh

The Smoking Popes - Let's Hear It For Love

The Smoking Popes - Let's Hear It For Love

Let's hear it for heartache
Let's hear it for pain
Let's hear it for poison tears that wash your dreams down the drain
Let's hear it for sleepless nights
Let's do it again

Let's hear it for love
Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love
Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love
Pick your heart up off the floor
This is what you've been waiting for
Let's hear it for love

Let's hear it for promises
Something sealed with a kiss
Let's hear it for big mistakes
That you just couldn't resist
Let's hear it for bucket seats
Let's try it like this

Let's hear it for love
Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love
Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love
Pick your heart up off the floor
This is what you've been waiting for
Let's hear it for love

Let's hear it for letting someone totally ruin your life
Let's hear it for love
Let's hope it's everything you hoped it would be

Let's hear it for jealousy
Let's hear it for hate
Let's hear it an apology before it's too late
Let's hear it for cigarettes
Baby you were great

Let's hear it for love

Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love
Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love
Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love
Let's hear it for
Let's hear it for love