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America ii
03:10
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Please don’t go dear.
I know you’re kind of unstable.
Sitting in a grocery mart,
trying to clean your stable you open up.
This is the verse where i re-rehearse your silly lies.
And I’d quit you,
but you just quenched my thirst and
looking back on time I could’ve done a little worse.
You’re on my mind.
I never sing, you’re always singing in the backseat.
Now I don’t know you.
And i tried just to quit it, but
you were too keen and all the time you were on my mind.
I had a dream last night that you died in a car crash -
a big fiery one in the back of that abandoned Ray’s parking lot
and i never knew you.
Well I got so hung up on those god damn Pitchfork reviews,
I forgot about the people, the people that could lose
their jobs and their buildings.
People climbing ceilings.
Well I’m giving up, but you’re nothing, hey!
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2. |
Bowie
04:05
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Don’t hang around me cause I love you
More than asking you is less than i could do
So tell me what to do
I never really see you in the springtime
You don’t listen when you don’t have the time
To hear what’s on my mind
Because you know
You’re more than three words
You’re a dictionary
From the 90s
You know you’re like Bowie
You do what you want until you die
So please don’t take me for my answer it’s not the truth
I see God I see Vishnu
And for now we’ll pass our youth
So don’t tell me darling
Please don’t hate me when I say
Don’t cover your face
This isn’t the place
And I love you, but you know that
I just hate this fucking town
To see me in malaise
You won’t see me for days
Harry Potter, Harry Potter all night, all tonight
Hairy mothers, fuck your druthers all right, all tonight
I never really see you see you when you don’t want to
“Can’t you be more like that?”
Well I could force it
But you’re a force kid
I never really scream when you’re just not here
Like I could never ever
Well I don’t know you
So how could I own you?
Because you know you’re more than three words
You’re like forewords in my journal
You know you’re like Bowie
We’ll do what we want and until you die (die die)
So please don’t give me all the answers to my youth
I see God, I see Vishnu
And for now we’ll pass on you
So don’t tell me darling
Please don’t hate me when I say
Don’t cover your face
This isn’t the place
And I love you, but you know that
I just hate this fucking town
To see me in malaise
HEY THAT RHYMES WITH MAYONNAISE!!!
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When you were young your brother sucked your thumb
You didn’t know then that he was the lucky one
Now at night when they talk to you
They couldn’t see past, but he could see right through
I will never let you go
If you’d only see me you would know
When I was 9 this was great
Grayed out the rest and we were all the same
And at the top of the world you were my inspiration
Now at the bottom you are rued by nations
Parents tried to talk with you
But they couldn’t see it through
For a while you were gone and I’m drunk
And this one is for families
I will never let you go
If you’d only see me you would know
When I was 9 this was great
Grayed out the past and we were all the same
And at the top of the world you were my inspiration
Now at the bottom you are rued by nations
Parents tried to talk with you
But the dirt’s in the pew
For a while you spoke of your inclinations
Of how you’re tired and you just hate this nation
Now I just don’t talk with you
And how could you
For a while you were gone and I’m drunk
But this one is for families
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4. |
Cigarettes & Weed
06:20
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It smells like cigarettes and weed.
I knew I loved you when I met you, but I couldn’t do a damn thing.
I want to see the world, I want to see the sea.
Well you can't be yourself if you never change
You’re just dumb and young, but that’s too cliche
It smelled like something else to me.
Drunk in love, pissed and kissing at 16
I want to see the world, but I’ll never be
Drunk and cold sulking in the rain
If I stay inside licking windowpanes.
Now I’m feeling guilty in my dreams
When I’m stoned at dinner and I can’t breathe
And I said “Lisa you took me and fed me a lie
August took me from you and July”
(I never really got still.)
You never had the time to flee
And no one really ever loves you when you’re 15
I want to see the world, I want the world to see
All my songs dripping with disdain.
I’ll just sit in bed and it’ll never change.
Now I’m feeling guilty in my dreams
When I’m stoned at dinner and I can’t breathe
And I said “Lisa you took me and fed me a lie
August took me from you and July”
Now I’m feeling guilty in my dreams
When I’m stoned at dinner and I can’t breathe
And I said “Lisa you took me and fed me a lie
August took me from you and July”
(I never really got still.)
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5. |
Is It Snowing Today?
02:40
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Do you even want to go home when you’re off work?
Clock in, clocking out. But it never works.
Do you even want to stay up until a quarter past 5?
Or is that just your body telling you that you don’t want to be alive?
Oh oh oh oh oh
I’ll never even try
And now you’re on the fringe and you never work.
You just got bad grades and your mom’s hurt.
Never want to stay up until a quarter past 9.
And now your band is saying “Listen babe, you’ve got luck on your side”
Oh oh oh oh oh
I’ll never even try
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