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Okay, I have most of the lyrics so I am just going to post them here for future reference and whatnot. ALso, I made it sticky, that way it will always be easy to find, since questions like this tend to come up a lot. I will add more to new songs and whatnot as I get them.

A Sea Chanty of Sorts

Do what you like, you dont have to be nice
just pour yourself a cup of coffee
leave anytime, you dont have to be right
youve gotta live the best you know how

And if you love, well that should be enough
instead, it turns your joy into sorrow
and I cant breathe with the dust of retreat
Im choking on the fumes of my wayward bride.

My woman lied, she was a witch in disguise
and she dressed her wounds in sackcloth and ashes
the children weep at their dead mothers feet
her husbands drunk, a wolf in a sheepskin coat.

And when you kissed, it didnt feel poisonous
and when you cried, I dried off your blue eyes
She smiles at me as she is falling asleep
says WEVE GOTTA LIVE THE BEST WE KNOW HOW TO.

On A Freezing Chicago Street

On a freezing Chicago street, we shook
your hands were trembling from all those pills you took
and we got drunk on cheap red wine in a paper cup.

I was barely awake when you got home
and climbed yourself into bed wearing cheap perfume
And Sarah screams youre every breath is a gift!
if you werent so selfish, then you might want to live.

So if your lover should leave, dont get too sad
And dont compose epic poems to win her back
cause when your bird has flown, shell never return home
Though all your life youll wait, she never will return.

Vampires in Blue Dresses

Somebodys gonna love you
But somebody oughta lay you out
Dont give it away, cause I need you the most when Im half of waht I was
When I was in your room

Dont pick up the phone
and dont answer the door,
cause those villians want your blood
and theyre gonna get it

Your mother is a vampire
She sucked your old mans life away.

Turn everything off, and just cover your neck
cause life is full of your regrets and I should be one
Try telling me off
Try slamming the door and tell me Im not worth yoru time
or the breath Im breathing.

Dont throw it away, oh calico queen
cause now you are merely a machine
and not a person

Try telling me off
Try slamming the door, and tell me
Im not worth your time
or the breath Im breathing.

Quiet As A Mouse

Tourists rob you of your home in sunken boats
And you can hide quiet as a mouse, but theyll find you out
She asks me why have you felt so down and out?
You can stay with me at my house...

When I woke, my back was broke from lying on the floor
Sunlight poured through all the cracks in my front door.
Wake up, youve got a lot of things to do,
Wake up, the sun is rising without you.

Tourists robbed me of my child, they smoked him out
He was draft-dodging some war, til they found him out
He came home late in the night to his mom and me
And he said, Times, theyve gotta change, but so do we.

When I woke, I was alive in somebodys room
I felt life and love and hope infesting my bones.
Wake up, youve got a lot of things to do.
Wake up, the sun is rising without you.

When I woke, my body was dying all over the floor
I felt apathy and hate infesting my bones.
Wake up, youve got a lot of things to do.
Wake up, the sun is rising without you.

Jen is Bringin the Drugs

Jen is bringin the drugs
She wants to get real fucked up
She used to laugh and smile, but the years of denial
have taken their toll on her dial.

But me, I do as I please, I caught you and I set you free
cause I have been left alone by the people Ive known
and I dont know when theyre coming home.

And Jen dont wanna be seen,
but I saw her in a swank magazine
she had an airbrushed face, but the lines of distaste
were crossed without crossing of legs

And I dont wanna be found,
So when you get home, Im skipping town
Im leaving to go someplace where nobody will have any clue where I am

And Jen is bringin the drugs
Shes gonna get me fucked up
Cause love is an inkless pen, its a tavern, its sin
its a horrible way to begin.

I'll post Barfight Revolution later, it's not typed up yet...

Dress Me Like a Clown

I am alive, I am alive
and that is the best that I can do.
Gomer, you lied
YOu swore you were mine
I took you back a thousand times

The talk of the town, youve been around
if he;s the man you want, then go
but tonight well leave all our lovers behind
and try to live a quiet life
my love has dressed me like a clown

You are an asp, a snake in the grass
vanity seeps from out your pores
and baby its time to pay for my crime
nothing I say could make you mine

be that singin' in key, or runnin' to me
I can fake it as good as you
but tonight well leave all our stupid songs
well drive and reach the hills by dawn
my love has dressed me like a clown.

Tonight well leave all our lovers behind and try to live a quiet life
Margot will dress me like a clown.

Tonight, well drink into an early grave
well laugh, but we will not be saved
someone has dressed us all like clowns.

Darlin' it's sin, where do I begin
puttin' your contact lenses in
you see the lights scurry like mice
reflecting the streets in your blue eyes
out on the roof, way to grow up
turn me around then bog me up
baby, you are an asp, a snake in the grass
vanity oozes out your pores.


Skeleton Key

I did a sick, sick thing to my love
My lack of loyalty, it swallowed her up
And she cooked me food, and she squirmed and turned
like a skeleton key.
She left her man and attended to me,
and dont call me that,
and claim you love me, cause you know that aint true.
My dire affliction, Ill attribute to you
and youre finally free to twist and turn like a skeleton key.

Youve gotta let me know.

I did a horrible thing to that girl
I bred my misery and drowned it in her
and she got me high, and I hardly noticed there were tears in her eyes.

And I miss you less and less every day,
and its true the whiskeys helped to wash you away
and its clear to see that youre nothing special,
youre a skeleton key.

Youve gotta let me know.

Paper Kitten Nightmare

My paper cat has covered my skin in chills
And my basement home has made me as cold as ice

So meow meow et chante a moi
meow meow meow meow meow yee haw
meow meow meow
meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

My island home is gonna be mine quite soon
And your concrete mouth is spewing that filth again

So Ill walk in, shivering, paws dried up from wandering.

Meow meow meow
meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.

My glass-eyed pet is purring about blonde on blonde
That sweet old man is gonna be your best friend.

So wash your paws, alley cat. Once youre dead, you cant come back.
Meow meow meow
meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.

A Light on a Hill

Thats no way to live:
all tangled up like balls of string.
and we woke at dawn
and watched the sun glide over the hill

I just said the first three words that popped into my head
let me off the bus, Im tired and sore and should probably change clothes
the circuits have blown, and my woman is cold, my children are stoned and worthless
theyre all waiting for you to tell them the truth
the truth is a line that youll never use.

Her dignity shone so bright like a light on a hill
And she burned for me, no other man came near the flame
and bad country songs, the deafening twang of the rich white kid blues
you can o wn the stage, but the lights and glares will not make you real
she whispers to me, I was meant to be free. This life that we built is deadly.
She crawls from my bed, runs the comb across her head
she crawls to the street *sometimes he says "train instead* and drives herself home.


Talking In Code

Ive gotta go, and youre talking in code
Saying I know where youve been and I know where you go.
But Ive been tired from the minute I woke, i stopped listening the moment you spoke and said Im long gone, yeah I m long gone.

And Im sleeping alone in a house I dont own
cause if youre touring your mind, youll get lost every time
And youll sing to me sad songs to keep me awake in that bedroom
where we hid away, baby, Im long gone,
yeah Im long gone.

And your voice cracks like a piano,
you keep moving....where are you going, baby?
Were long gone,
yeah were long gone.

Bookworm

Im in a book for you to read and then throw out
I wasnt born, I was just dropped into your arms
Well, mom, Ive been bad and I wanna come home.

And you couldnt breathe with all those doctors at your side
but youre talking to me, saying I wish that I had died,
cause Im being prodded, and crushed in your hands.
I wanna come home on the f-train.

And you were just a paper bow floating throught he gutter
lost at sea,you drift to me and into someones nightmares
a home is a highway,
your pillows a lock. Im in a rusted car,
Im bound to get lost.



Broad Ripple is Burning

Darlin, Broad Ripple is burning and the girls are gettin sick
Off snortin coke up in the bathroom while their boyfriends pick up chicks
Darlin Im lost, I heard you whispering that night in Fountain Square
The trash filled streets make me wish we were headed home

There was love inside the basement where my woman used to lie
In the sleeping bag we shared upon the floor most every night
Darlin, Im drunk, and everything that I have loved has turned to stone
So pack your bags, and come back home.

And Im wasted, you can taste it
Dont look at me that way
Cause Ill be hanging from a rope
Ill be hangin from a rope.

And if my woman was a fire, shed burn out before Id wake
and be replaced by pints of whiskey, cigarettes, and outerspace
Then somebody moves, and everything you thought you had has gone to shit
Weve got a lot...dont you dare forget that.

And I wrote this on an airplane where the people looked liek ants
and where a woman that Id loved just gone, she was bombing east Japan
Dont fucking move, because everything you think you have will go to shit
We have a lot, dont you dare forget that.

And Im wasted, you can taste it
Dont look at me that way
Cause Ill be hangin from a rope
Ill be hangin from a rope.

The Ocean

Strung out, needle in arm
and the ocean, its bleeding salt on your wounds
so I sat as armies marched
but you found me awake but asleep on the porch

and dont you cry, my darlin
nashville is forgotten
and dont you cry, my darlin
new york is the ocean

brooklyn, quiet and cold when the bars close
youre stuck counting cracks on the street
the wall breaks and youre swinging the gun
but when the bomb drops youre stuck counting cracks in your teeth

and dont you cry my darlin
nashville is forgotten
and dont you cry my darlin
new york is the ocean

strung out, needle in arm
and the ocean is bleeding salt on your wounds

Holy Cow

Settle down, youre startin to freak me out
and calm your hair if Im to take you anywhere
Ive got it made, while my woman is away
Off taming goats with compassion, I suppose

Youve gotta believe me, believe me, believe me
Youve gotta believe me, believe me...

Holy cow, I want you to get out
and tell all of your friends that Im not myself again
But I cant talk cause Id do the same to you
No, I cant talk, cause Id up and wig out, too.

youve gotta believe me, believe me, believe me
youve gotta believe me, believe me...

Jen sings about being born in Montana
where everything was great and the people knew her name
I sing about lying on some floor and how your mother used to cry
when she found us in the hallway

youve gotta believe me, believe me, believe me
youve gotta believe me, believe me...