Advance Base

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Advance Base歌詞
1.Old Panda Days

I've dreamt of this haunt
The ghosts of 1666
The hazy lecture halls
Lund cathedral in wisps

The bells get carried aloft
By the strong nordic wind
But don't remind me of how oft
I got carried away with them

At uni we went
Insane when we took cocaine
Now I don't think I ever want
To hear 'genius of love' again

Ive been searching this town
And all I have found
Are nights of bad sex
With stupid boyfriends I shouldn't have kept
In a stupid flat I never swept

So taxi take me away
The sullen students and corner cafes
Remind me of old panda days
Give me old panda days


2.Lesley Gore on the T.A.M.I. Show

i finally wrote you the letter
with all the things i've been meaning to say
but i was walking to your apartment
and the letter fell out of my pocket on the way

seven pages on 16th street
i lost my words under tires and feet
and you'll probably never have a clue
coz i'll probably never say a thing to you

i've been watching out the window of the bus
every time it passes by
just to see if you were outside
smoking cigarettes & passing time

i think of things that i wanted to say
when i ride by almost every day
but you'll probably never have a clue
coz i'll probably never say these things to you


3.White Corolla

Your little white car looks like a rental
& it's stalled at the sav-on coz the starter's temperamental
Call your boyfriend it goes to voice mail
Leave a message baby get me please

Wait at the laundromat read a magazine
Tear out the page with the picture of some shoes
You get impatient go to a cafe
See a girl from your high school but you look away

You take your coffee black the way your mother would
One packet sweet n low one packet sugar
Your boyfriend texts you he's sorry that he's late
He didn't hear the ring he's on his way

You take your cough drops you call them hoarse pills
But they won't help anything if you keep smoking
Go to a movie go to the rodeo
Ride the train with the vagrants & watch the buildings fall away


4.White on White

In my dream last night everything was so bright
I could barely make you out through the light
In my dream last night there was no sound to your sight
& all your comforts were subtitled white on white

Put a penny on a railroad track
For you to pick up on your way back
How can it be that you are gone to stay

In my dream last night anything that you'd write
Would unravel & lift like a mist out of sight
But in my dream last night I guess you seemed alright
You weren't scared or anything

Put a penny on a railroad track
For you to pick up on your way back
How can it be that you are gone to stay

All the rain on the day that you died
I've never seen the reservoir so high
I guess this is as close as it gets to goodbye


5.Holly Hobby

dear Holly I apologize
I've been telling lies
and you've gotten wise
oh Holly I never meant you harm
it's just romance and charm
with somebody new
and I'm sorry that you fell
but you should have known just as well
you're just a hobby Holly
you're just a hobby Holly
you're just a hobby Holly

poor Holly you were always true
and I don't blame you
I would hate me too
say Holly if you give it time
then I'm sure you'll find
someone who still can be kind
and I'm sorry that you fell
but you should have known just as well
you're just a hobby Holly
you're just a hobby Holly
you're just a hobby Holly

and I'm sorry that you fell
but you should have known just as well
you're just a hobby Holly
you're just a hobby Holly
you're just a hobby Holly
you're just a hobby Holly


6.Lonesome New Mexican Nights

i sent the message when i left yesterday
from the station back in santa fe
that when the 619 comes around
i'll be found

i know that leaving seemed right
but on lonesome new mexican nights
i've been lost on familiar streets
and counting the weeks

i never put a quarter into a phone
it would just give him a chance to say no
but when the 619 comes around
i'll be found


7.The Only Way To Cry

a man goes to the movies
and buys every seat in the house

he cries alone in the darkness
until the end credits roll

he saysi know it seems extravagant
but have you ever tried
man it's the only way to cry


8.It's A Crime

you can't deny that cut flowers given time will surely die
they'll do fine with candles and some wine but it's a crime

yeah its a crime that you're kissing on that girl for all to see
and its a crime that she's going home with you and not with me

it's plain to see that boxes of candy will make her sigh
but confidentially they'll just rot her pretty teeth and its a
crime

yeah its a crime that you're kissing on that girl for all to see
yeah it's a crime that she's going home with you and not with me

it has been proven that pups and kittens too will make her swoon
but it stands to reason that they'll just give her fleas and its
a crime

yeah it's a crime that you're kissing on that girl for all to
see
yeah it's a crime that she's going home with you and not with me


9.Missoula

they took my cash took my library card
took the picture of you in the back yard
when your hair was short i took it hard

doubled from the fists and the feet
slumped in the street without a quarter to ring
tonight missoula turned its back on me


10.Hot Boyz


11.Born in the U.S.A.


12.Streets of Philadelphia


13.Graceland


14.Sunday St

when it gets so dark
that i can't see out
i think about my brother
and how i cannot leave him
and i know i'll see this through

drove around all night
slept in the back seat
woke up lost and clouded
walked around and thought about it

it was sunday and the street was empty
the sound of ringing bells
pulled me back again
i don't want you to hear those bells
ringing for me
ringing for me
ringing for me

the sunday street (xn)


15.Voice of the Hospital