1.Kid Gloves
Listen to the sounds, they're ringing out around you
These are the cries of the dying breed
Politics of hate you'd never get around to
Blood over brains that we never need
I saw you in the back, studied and relaxed
Fixed in the pose like a silent stone
Serenity intact, it's the feeling that I lack
Life in the floors of a stable home
I can trace you on paper like a sketch of a smell
You're a breath to the runner in contest
In close to the nerve, but you rest so far away
And I have to give it up someday
Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me
Pretending in a love like this
I have no choice but to put you in back of me
Don't cover my footsteps
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
You're dead weight all right, that's fine
You get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves
Buy me to the wind, you talk me out of standstill
I never felt so alive at once
Finger to the quick, yes I can feel your hand still
Pressed to the drain of the common months
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore
Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself
Yes I'm a vanity whore
Because it's race and it's power at the center of life
We are blind to the people who need us
But you're the kind of person who could understand that fault
And I hope to measure you someday
Every time I close my eyes, I see you in front of me
Pretending in a love like this
I have no choice but to put you in back of me
Don't cover my footsteps
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
Dead weight all right, that's fine
You get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable fuck
Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore
Cheer me up, cheer me, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself
Yes I'm a vanity whore
When you compromise yourself like that
It's dedication
So even on friendship (？)
Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me
Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader
Dead weight all right, that's fine, you get your hands off me
You have to touch me with kid gloves
You have to touch me with kid gloves
2.Ghost
I'll be the one to let this roof cave in on me
Buried in this house, this wooden graveyard by the sea
We push away our families to understand our needs
The love and all the hate I used to hold in front of me
Restless nights, all dizzy spells, all sand between my sheets
Showing signs of thirst I try down the boardwalk, all blistered
feet
And now I know I never knew about you, only me
We carried this inside like some disease we couldn't beat
But we could work, try to live and get by
To make our family in the second-floor apartment
Standing on a threshold, body out in flesh, cold
Go ahead and celebrate the things you lost
Try to breathe, to flex and release
To cry and work out what underrate apartment (？)
Moments are a lifetime
Nothing in a straight line
This will take a little while just to shake things off
Down by water's edge, under the dying tree
I let my body slip, so dead inside of me
But when I came around some kind of milky face
I don't ever want to be alone like this
And I will tuck into you like I always want to be
Shadows just a shade of black now, darkness in degree
Oh it was you who knew we first saw this wasn't meant for kids
like me
Some hoodoo natural force we only feel we never see
But as we (？) in time, a brotherly sigh
Their heads got small until they vanished into silence
Sinking into white foam, running to a new home
They can only understand the things we see
Just cease, desist, and leave me like this
Their eyes wide open, the beauty of the bright lights
Standing on a threshold, body out in flesh, cold
I don't ever want to be alone like this, no
I have no choice but to be vicious on my feet
I never sleep, I never eat
I am learning how to be lost completely
I want to be found, be craved like things we push away
These patterns cut like every day
I need you to reach, I need you to need me
Down by water's edge, under a dying tree
I let my body slip, so dead inside of me
But when I came around some kind of milky face
Shaking my bones, put me back in my place
I don't ever want to be alone like this
For me, by the presence of the things I miss
I don't ever want to be alone like this
For me, by the presence of the things I miss
I am becoming a ghost of myself
Oh I am becoming a ghost of myself
Trapped little secrets, little things we never tell
No I am becoming a ghost of myself
3.Firecracker
I had a lust. I had a firecracker
I had a love for the sound of this world
Im still in love its just a stab at laughter
It's just a mark of the people we are
But don't be daft no it's just a monkey business
They're running signs no remainders of sins
We dealing abstract no pain and no deliverance.
This is a punch im not punching up against
Oh, Its all just mirrors laugh and smoke
We are living in some tiny joke
And im here to show my love, ambition, dedication out to
Kick the wall smash the lights, ricochets burning up
Firecracker
Firecracker
I will not complain at all
I will never be tricked by you.
No No No
I will never be tricked by you.
I never thought that I would be this ugly
I never thought I would be biting that hand
That feeds the mouth that spits the seeds of money
Im just a shell, im a sensitive man
We make a choice to unfold a tiny secret
Put it in lights for the grunt of this place
Is it the same thing to write it as to think it？
I'm chopping noses just to ruin my face.
Break down on the record company
Did you turn you back on me？ Or did I turn myself against
myself？
I will kick the walls smash the lights, ricochets burning up
Firecracker
Firecracker
I will not complain at all
I will never be tricked by you.
No No No
I will never be tricked by you.
Im still in love
I set the love in motion
I stare at love with the future we planned
Tell me you feel, this aint complete emotion
Im still in love with you baby I am
Oh, did you turn your back on me？
Or did I turn myself against myself？
I'll will kick the walls, smash the lights, ricochets burning up
Firecracker
Firecracker
I will not complain at all
I will never be tricked by you.
No No No
I will never be tricked by you
4.Brother In Conflict
I wanna, I wanna drown you in a pool of blood
And I wanna, I wanna fix you like a hawk
But I never had guts, no thanks I'm without it's touch
Soft money, soft looks, soft until you stop
Untangle／untether your wings and fly to the sheltered sky
No money, no voice／poise, no bullet to chain
Cold water rush inside me like a seepin' die
Clear colder in place of what you became
Oh I'll just fight now, relock and release,
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict
Drawls, bees, it's just the son and the beast
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict, now
Shake body, shake fingers, shake fists, shake a lot of things
Shakin' myself all over the floor
Such really great moves I had, oh I thought I'd sing
My voice all wrecked and ragged before
I turned my back on beauty, it's a manmade crime
Most are, most were, will do it again
Blood money, blood money, blood money, it's a manmade lie
Conquest, conflex, call me to the end
Of all this
Fight now, relock and release,
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict
Drawls, bees, it's just the son and the beast
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict, now
I don't see, I don't see, I don't see anything
Take the car, take the cash, take the heat out of me
Every day, every day losin' my sympathy
I don't see, I don't see, I don't see
Oh, this
Fight now, relock and release,
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict
Drawls, bees, it's just the son and the beast
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict
Right now, it's just the thing that we need
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict
Drawls, bees, it's just the son and the beast
I thought you'd always be my brother in conflict, now
I don't see, I don't see, I don't see anything
Take the car, take the cash, take the heat out of me
Every day, every day losin' my sympathy
I don't see, I don't see, I don't see
Why we
We took an axe
and thrust it in the sunshine
And through the glow, I lost you for the first time
And when it cleared, I hit you with a fast line
Why are you suffocating both of us now？
We picked a lot of trust over the wrong things
The freedom of our speech, and I'm just talking
What will I learn, how to chew／choose these words
I have teeth, I have teeth, I have teeth
I, have to lose my idols to find my voice
lose my idols to find my voice
I have to lose my idols
to find my voice
I have to lose my idols to find my voice
lose my idols to find my voice
I have to lose my idols
to find my voice
5.Easy
Those seven months I spent rolling around on the floor
Just like a crippled bird I had my back through the door
Still I turned my nose up at the water and bread
Despite my greater love I was pretected and fed
But I am here, I am here in the center of myself
And do you still think about me？
Yes I am here, waging battle with this version of myself
I right my wrongs and think how things used to be, yes I do
Some kind of violent spring I have to cover my eyes
Water chokes the lense spitting up on the sky
Rain down in paragraph form
Too late and I don't know why
I put my legacy first
Oh what a reason to die
All the hours past, the body pressed to the wall
Hear you breath in, breath out sometimes nothing at all
Can you still hear me now
Oh there's no labor too small
Labor run through you, it's just response to a call
But I am here, I am here in the center of myself
And do you still think about me？
Yes I am here waging battle with this version of myself
I right my wrongs and think how things used to be, yes I do
A celebration coming up
I see the rising of dawn
Oh, the sun in the scratch of the mirror it starts to blind me
Coming up fast when did it start to go wrong？
I keep a picture of you on the mantle to remind me
of a time when life used to be so easy, so easy, and so small
I want to dance something caustic and real
Oh these days we trade the earth for the things that we feel
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Healing hands never choosing to heal
All this time
The laws smashed I know you like breaking laws
Something you felt, something you've seen
We are embodied inbetween
But when you're lost in your right (？)
When you are selfish and mean
You are the ugliest person that I have ever seen
And I hate you, I hate you, yes I really do
But I am here, I am here in the center of myself
And do you still think about me？
Yes I am here, waging battle with this version of myself
I right my wrongs and think how things used to be
I am here, I am here in the center of myself
And do you still think about me？
Yes I am here waging battle with this version of myself
I bite my tongue and think how things used to be
so easy
6.The Future Pt. 1
Late summer sky, two colors deep, three wide and a third all by
And set to try to take away the shadows from your eyes
You shift and sigh, do we live fully grown when we learn to cry？
This is why I never hold a grudge against you, love
But hey, this is the future
And we don't grow up like that
Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails
And we scratch to the bottle when we need
Hey, this is the future
And we don't grow up like that
Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails
And we scratch to the bottle when we need
One body bends, one body twists and breaks and the lifetime is
We rush to amend the situation but it happens all the time
I could pretend to think fondly of half the summer that I spent
In the wilderness, playing soccer and kissing girls
But hey, this is the future
And we don't grow up like that
Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails
And we scratch to the bottle when we need
Hey, this is the future
And we don't grow up like that
Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails
And we scratch to the bottle when we need
And we learn to be ashamed of each other
And we learn to be ashamed of ourselves
One busy street, one flock of birds that scatters beneath my
feet
All these simple things they stick to me like truth, like ice,
like fire
7.Every Day
Every day I picture things falling down
Landscape all tossed around
In cities I start to drown
But when I stop to push the fear out of me
Come steady my shaking knees
And drag the roots out to sea
And it's hard to be steeped in your gaze
You're always drinking me, I have no place
To be awkward and silent
Spoil your tongue with my silence
My flavor happens inside this
There is no love without trying
There is no easy way when I
Crane my neck to kiss your head, I know
That there is something that I can rely on
And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew
It's some kind of future that I can be sure of
Oh I'm just breathing air
Contracts on everything
Reluctant and measuring
The food that we choose to bring
But I can trace an invisible piece of string
Connects between you and me
Like symbols of property
Oh when I recognize, cut from a cloth
Always solid and breathing
You and I retract like swans
Always advance and receding
Believe in something worth eating
Share love in something like feeding
There is no trust without meaning
There is no easy way when I
Crane my neck to kiss your head, I know
That there is something that I can rely on
And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew
It's some kind of future that I can be sure of
And I wonder why there is no choice in the things that we hear
We hear our lives inside these sounds
There's nothing good on the radio
There's never anything good on
There's never anything good on
There's nothing good on the radio
There's never anything so I stop to sing
And these things come rushing from behind
Life is changing so fast and there's nothing I can do to stop it
But when I crane my neck to kiss your head, I know
That there is something that I can rely on
And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew
It's some kind of future that I can be sure of
Because I love you, because I love you
Because I love you, because I love you
8.Real Life Version
Love, spread out like seeds
Somebody walked away from landscape poverty
I came to find you
I came to see the beauty underway
That bloomed love, energy
And it turns around like you
And it turns around like me
Into something new
But the only thing I see
I see you, I see you
I see you, always struggling
To find some gentle song
Some mode of simple trust
and ways to understand
These reaching orchards
Of broken fame
Grown deep inside of us
By forced and troubled hands
I see you, I see you
I see you, always struggling
I see you, I see you
I see you, always struggling
To find the sun
Reaching down through shadowed brush (？)
Breaking off the bitter branch
Twisted roots like tans (？)
Dreams of all these spotlit kings (？)
Drinking up the light
Like California redwoods
Splitting up the night
And it turns around like you
And it turns around like me
All the talking we could do
Oh if only we could be
A real life version of you
A real life version of you
And a real life version of me
A real life version of me
I see you, I see you
I see you, always struggling
I see you, I see you
I see you, always struggling
9.Blood Red Blood
Lonely boy, where do we go
I'm stuck believing in the other side
Stuck on my own
Run fast, you're dreaming
No place to hide
Safety in things i'm dumb for thinking
'Cuz a piece of plastic
is nothing more than a piece of plastic
Empty streets under my feet
How did we get so far？
From the general beat
Across that great
Held fast together in the dying day
Oh you are swimming inside the magic hour
Oh and when you wet your skin
You can suck up all you need to know
You can suck up all you need to know, oh oh
Picture me, how will you picture me when i am dead？
All fast and free, building a fantasy with blocks in my head
A legacy, do these things disapate in the years unread？
I've got a pain just like a knife, and the time has left me
Oh i'm just trying to do my best
I'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
Build my love in the things i say
You've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
Oh i'm just trying to do my best
I'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
Build my love in the things i say
You've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
So i ran and i jumped and i flew till i came to the center of an
earth so cold
And the wind picked me up and took me straight to the belly of
the fears i hold
And i ran and i ran and i ran and i ran
Then i came right back
Threw my arms around you,
You were dressed in black,
I'm so glad i found you
For they burned my stuff,
Objects all around me
Memories outlast things,
Memories astound me
To a fate like this
Keep your body down to the ground
To the soil that we love so much
I always wanted to return
Return to the place where i was born
I always wanted to return
And i ran and i ran and i ran
Oh i'm just trying to do my best
I'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
Build my love in the things i say
You've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
Oh i'm just trying to do my best
I'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
Build my love in the things i say
You've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
Because in time it leaves you,
It leaves you like blood, red blood
It leaves you like blood, red blood
It leaves you like blood, red blood
It leaves you like blood, red blood
10.Loan Shark
Dream love come into me easy
Washed out and breezy
The rivers occur
Beneath the sky lines
Swallowed up by towers
Too many hours
Spent eating the world
Oh what a country
Brought me to a clearing
Direct upon hearing
The beautiful song
Of progress sweeping like a shimmer
Develop and simmer
The fever is gone
Cause there's a hole in the pocket where the money ran out
At the time it was better I believe you
But it was grace under fire, there's no reason to doubt
You had a blast.....didn't you？
Hard／hot rain boils underneath me
I want you to teach me
Whatever you learned
Of all the secrets, harboring desire
Professional fire
Which passively burns
Oh what a waste of
Beauty and retention
We don't ever mention
The grit and the grime
But I still trust you
I will always love you
Don't let the papers
Unravel your mind
Cause there's a hole in the pocket where the money ran out
At the time it was better I believe you
But it was grace under fire, there's no reason to doubt
You had a blast.....didn't you？
And tell me what was it like, and how did it feel,
Who breaks a butterfly, on a wheel
Robert took the rap and spent 10 months in jail
We had to lie.... to lie
Sometimes I feel like all my heroes are, dying around me
And all my answers are the questions and dreams
I have to shake myself, to the voices that hold me
I have to dream.....waking
But maybe when I breathe my last, I'll be steadied by reason
To throw my nerves at the wall of the earth
Oh don't you leave me here
No direction and vision
We have to trek.....slowly
And I will throw.... caution bravely to the wind
I'll cut myself
Free from burning stretched within
I'll have no self
Greater than the thing I am
And we drift, we drift like sound
And beauty breaks our ears again
We drift, we drift like sound waves
We drift like sound waves
Take a long walk carpal stone and city (sitting)
Did you used to run it？
Did you used to show
I had a long day, trying to remember
Breathing in silence
And breathing it out
11.New Love
We had no business doing what we did
I was defacing buildings like a latchkey kid
We were fed up and busy on a losing bid
It was cheap and easy
But now I understand it's common place
We have no point of entry no protected space
When we stumbled in love ah it's a losing race
It was deep believe me
But then I see you running with a brilliant stare
You got a fighters lines you got a lion's share
Of the touch and grow but listen I don't care
Never pictured you, I never placed you there but
I know that you're in love with her
I can tell by the way you never touch her, or look at her
I know that you're in love with her
I can tell by the way you never touch her, or look at her
And you get in all kinds of interest
Oh oh and you get in all kinds of deep regret
Oh you come in burst and it's so bitter sweet
Relax you have no wisdom for your tired feet
You have a piece of cheating it's not all you eat
It's just; it's half of winning and I swear
I'd argue patience of a dying man
I would parade my virtues over open land
But I'd relax if only I could have what you have
But I can't make new love
I'd take a hundred years to make a calm reserve
Then I'd scrape these wires over open nerve
Do we fall out basking in the glow of harm
I remember trusting you with open arms but
I know that you're in love with her
I can tell by the way you never touch her, or look at her
I know that you're in love with her
I can tell by the way you never touch her, or look at her
And you get in all kinds of interest
Oh oh and you get in all kinds of deep regret
From the silent beating of the autumn night
Caught a piece of memory and I gripped it tight
And it's just my luck, oh yeah it's just my luck you hang around
But then I felt it twisting little legs and feet
From a chrysalis I got a tiny beast
And I let it go and now it's just my love that hangs around
And there's a ray of hope you know I'm sick of hate
I'm sick of losing sleep I'm sick of sleeping late
When I tell myself that that's a loser's fate
I expose this life for all that I am
Some jealous kid who would do the same
If I believed in love, I don't believe in love, I don't believe
in love
Do you believe in love cause
I know that you're in love with her
I can tell by the way you never touch her, or look at her
I know that you're in love with her
I can tell by the way you never touch her, or look at her
And you get in all kinds of interest
Oh oh and you get in all kinds of deep regret
Ah ah, I'll make a promise to be different in the future
When you undress your love it's not your fault
It's human nature it's a shame
12.Introduction
Open your eyes and stretch your hands
This house is clean but it is not my home
Did I make this bed
The two hands touch on two
Sometimes I think of some place colder
The sound of traffic and the way it's worn
When you feel yourself grow up inside of here
And you love me just like a stranger
But you love me just like I am
Remember we ran through lovely streets
We made our rules and then we broke them first
It felt like we were running all the time
When I wouldn't give one ugly moment
I'd wrap it up, I'd keep it in my sock
I can keep it, yeah, I know what's yours is mine
And you love me just like a stranger
But you love me when
I stand to the sea ..., lets me love some other day
We get bored of weakness all the time
Now I won't know how much I lost until I've gone away
Your sun sets when my sun starts to shine
13.Steven
Steven, I love you, I can't grow past you,
I'm, homesick in spite of the place
that I fostered and styled to raise this child
who keeps me in pitch and in pace
But I miss reaching for the lasers,
the sound of the beat is eight clicks away,
classes, school behavior.
sweating the night out of the sky,
learning to laugh and not ask why.
Steven, I missed you,
the whole world kissed you.
You shut up in bloom like a fern
that was spotted and black,
with the leaves swirled backwards,
as same trick too easy to turn.
Should I change my name and move to the country？
A life full of children and animals,
white fences, landed gentry.
Maybe I want to be myself,
but I am somebody else.
Nine months later, I'm the lonely one,
with all the fruit of labor and half of the fun.
(just like) crisp and cozy in the rising sun,
we've got a heart of gold, man, it beats like a drum.
It shakes, the pebbles are cracking and break,
(the kid logic) dissolves and it all starts to give away,
then nothing is ever the same,
I can't stand it.
I want to be myself,
but I am somebody else
Steven, I'm watching the world get boring,
there's too much restraint in the mix.
I'd be overly flattered to feel so shattered to,
have something broken and fixed.
But i know the world outside is knocking
the dream, the drive or the pedigree.
The forces interlocking,
well, maybe I want to be myself,
but I am somebody else.
Nine months later, I'm the lonely one,
with all the fruit of labor and half of the fun.
Just like crisp and cozy in the rising sun,
he's got a heart of gold, man, it beats like a drum.
It shakes, the pebbles are cracking and break,
(the kid logic) dissolves and it all starts to give away,
and nothing is ever the same,
I can't stand it.
I want to be myself,
but I am somebody else
And you'll never have someone like me,
if you'll never leave then you'll never see.
I swear that I will pull you from the wreckage
of this sunday, monday routine.
I will pull you from the wreckage.
oh, don't you need me on my own.
Cos you and me,
we're two of a kind.
We're two of a kind.
Steven, I love you, I can't grow past you,
I got nothing left to give to you
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