My Morning Jacket - The Bear

My Morning Jacket - The Bear

Its a bad idea, to go down to the pier by your self after dark.
It's a bad idea, cause they're down on their luck
And they've lost touch with their bleeding hearts.
Bad idea, cause I've felt that way and I know I shouldn't have gone.
The time is near,
To come forward with whatever killed your spark.
There's still time, for you,
To change your mind or whatever
Else you do there's still time whoaa

The Mountain Goats - Lovecraft in Brooklyn

The Mountain Goats - Lovecraft in Brooklyn

Gonna be too hot to breath today
But everybody is out here on the streets
Somebody has opened up the fire hydrant
Cold water rushing out in sheets

Some kid in a Marcus Allen jersey
Asks me for a cigarette
Companionship is where you find it
So I take what I can get

Lovecraft on the Car Length fun house mirrors
Lovecraft in Brooklyn

Well the sun goes down
The armies of the voiceless
Several Hundred-thousand strong
Come without their bandages
Their voices raised in songs
When the street lights sputter out
They make this awful sizzling sound

I cast my gaze towards the pavement
Too many blood stains on the ground
Rhode Island drops into the Ocean
No place to call home anymore
Lovecraft in Brooklyn

Head outside most everyday to try to keep the wolves away
In every set of self if copenation come

Woke up afraid of my own shadow
Like, Genuinely afraid
Headed for the pawnshop
To buy myself a switchblade
Someday somethings coming
From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It will store our brains in mason jar
And then the girl behind the counter asks "How do you feel today?" and
I say, "I feel like Lovecraft in Brooklyn!"

Yeah!

The Reindeer Section - Grand Parade

The Reindeer Section - Grand Parade

I love the way I feel so calm although I can hardly wait.
I hear your voice, it feels like rain,
I’ve made my choice, I know.
I taste your skin, it melts and sings, yes, we can win, I’m sure.
I’ll see your heart like golden fire, it leads me on for good.

I love the way I feel so calm although I can hardly wait.
I hear your voice, it feels like rain,
I’ve made my choice, I know.
I taste your skin, it melts and sings, yes, we can win, I’m sure.
I’ll see your heart like golden fire, it leads me on for good.

Man Man - Ice Dogs

Man Man - Ice Dogs

Am I supposed to close my eyes as you walk away from me
Am I supposed to blind myself so I'll never have to see
You walking side by side with a different kind of man
Who'll redefine your body in ways I know I...
What if I don't want to go now
Will you come and put these eyes out for me...
So don't go and blame your mother for what's your father's fault
Or all of your daughters will turn out just like you
Bent on destruction and burning through their beauty
And looking beyond their years by the time they're only (twenty)...
And what if I don't want to go now
Will you come put these eyes out for me...
Oh c'est la vie please don't go and abandon me
When the bridge burns down and the bad blood tastes like wine on the wind
And they c'est beware of the man in shades
Beware beware of the man in shades beware
I stutter step my way across desert lakes to try and sweat the ghost of the past and
Lay my anchor at last at your feet
As they c'est beware of the man in shades
Beware beware of the man in shades beware I am the man in shades
Yes I am Ii am the man in shades
Yes I am I am the man in shades
Yes I am I am the man in shades
Yes I am

Okkervil River - Love to a Monster

Okkervil River - Love to a Monster

Lover, now that you've left me, I'm glad you're unlovely.
Becuase if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you,
I wouldn't be able to bear the way you cannot love me.
It's much easier of me make a monster out of you.

And so here I go, substituting the glow from your temples,
all our sighs and our trembles, and each last letter sent you
from the cheap little pen of this weak little man
- the one singing - out his jangling, ringing
and hopefully stinging attack upon you.

Yeah, so here I go, just exploding the hope we'll be speaking
some day, years from now, seeking friendship and understanding.
Yeah, I hope you get angry, and hurt, and have the hardest of landings.
And I hope your new man thinks of me
When he sees what a number I did on you.

I grow tired of this song, turn my eyes
to the blonde in the bleachers.
She's a lovely young creature.
I think she's seeking adventure.
I think she's ready to see that the world isn't so sweet or so tender.
I won't break her, just bend her,
And make her into my new ringer for you.

I stay in the same comfy town, write the same old songs down,
Drive the same streets, seek the same sense of dull peace,
Whisper the same sweet words to the chippies.
The same walk by the road and where the same muddy snow's finally leaving,

But i'll fight off the spring; I don't want lovely things,
I don't want the earth new.