SODASTREAM
RESERVATIONS
Warm July
It's already too late to bring you flowers
It's already too late to tie these ends
Now nothing is straight and I'll spend these hours
Trying to break the weight of whets left behind
I'll do what I can to make things easy
Yeah, I'll do what I can to take this weight
Now nothing is good and we're all uneasy
And bound to hesitate and lose peace of mind
No warm July here
And when I gaze these often books
And when I found you
Misunderstood you feel
You feel like you're alone and no it don't seem right
So lay me down
Down by the river
And bury my head in the naked flames
Oh, burn me up and create another
Someone to take the weight and bring peace of mind
And warm July here
Twin lakes
I'll spend the rest of my days on burned out sheets, out of the need to please
The motel room and the suffering gloom will follow me
Because the reason's deep there's no relief
I've got someone that I never want to let leave
Tearing down the beautiful things you say to me, to make me feel ok.
I took too much now there's nothing left to celebrate
And all my body aches in these twin lakes
I'm so tired I just want to get paid
Oh you were lied to.
Oh it's shameful out here
It's shameful out here
It's shameful and you lie here by yourself
Cover my name my earnest shame in circumstance
We don't need romance today
The rose it stood by the burning wood on Saturday
I don't need these things to help me play
One true song that I never meant anyway
Reservations
I stand, here in uncertain times where, signposts are down and I can't see
for all the fog in my eyes
You need, someone to hold you, you need, someone to mould with and I can't,
see for the stars in my eyes.
That was where we ran aground and ended this
walked soft and made no sound, with shopping fits
Come back my way now
Don't leave your girlish pride in the south
It's warm here, it's dry but I could learn to live without
And the second time you came back
though your fortunes were in doubt
There's some thing, these warm things, bring reservations now
Reservations now.
Come down, oh I said he might come down
Throw away and you needn't be sure if the quarter line's on
You can, oh he said that you can
Come away and you needn't be sure if you can belong
That was where we ran aground and ended this
Walked soft and made no sound, with shopping fits
Come back my way now
Don't leave your girlish pride in the south
It's warm here, it's dry but I could learn to live without
And the second time you came back
though your fortunes were in doubt
There are sunbeams and string beans and reservations now,
Reservations now.
Young and Able
You might know
What she was trying to hide
The weakness
The weakness there behind her eyes
was real
Could have been
a warning
Said you might want to know
Said you might want to know
that the coffee trails and the windows won't stand still
and the harder I try
cause all this could end
So don't try to be
Don't try to be young and able
Cause we can't fight
Don't try to stand don't try to stand
you're much too unstable
We don't live in the light
cause all years end someday in sunlight
cause all years end someday in sunlight
Firelines
It's eight in the morning I'm reading the lines on the pavement
I don't know where the hell last night gone
I came here to listen but you took me straight to hell
and buried me behind the wishing well
Could have been the Firelines
or the fact that I'm scared
Could've been the weight outside that caught me unaware?
and buried me with the things I couldn't share
It's late in the day and there're reading my rights at the station
I don't know to whom these things belong
These things come to try us and test our caution shells
and bury us behind the wishing well
Could have been the Firelines
or the fact that I'm scared
Could've been the weight outside that caught me unaware?
and buried me with the things I couldn't share
Now bury me with the things I wouldn't share
Don't make a scene
don't come back don't make a scene
'Cause there's something on you rely
Fall, come back now let me be
'Cause the sundown can be nice
You came by to show me
The right thing to do
Now let the stillness follow you
Call now love I want to see
'cause you said you could never find
You say darling, darling come to me
but the distance is where we delight
And you came by to show me
the lines in your hair
We got southern lines out there
Tickets to the Fight
Don't cry don't cry
'Cause here we're standing on a train,
Holding our tickets to the fight down on parkway.
I'll try to be a an
I'll try to be a man
Hold my head up straight I the quicksand
Because I'm starting to hate girl
I'm starting to hate
Oh yeah I'm starting to hate girl
I'm starting to hate
And in these times I've cried and I left my fingers on
to find out
to find out
Oh… I'm letting you know now,
I'm high on a fence looking right, wanna let go
You might want to be
Yes you might wanna be
More than you are it takes strength to find thee.
Because I'm starting to hate girl
I'm starting to hate
Oh yeah I'm starting to hate girl
I'm starting to hate
and in these times I've cried and I'll left my fingers on
to find out
to find out
Anniversary
Bottled in sin,
All of my name,
Part of myself was you
Sink if you can
Nothing is cold,
Death was not far from me
and you said to me, it's funny when the rain comes
When the night passes over my bed
I know you're not far from me
You're not far from me.
Oh this one, I can say.
Never felt magic in my one
Long distances and I pray
I lost hope in your one
and you ran to me,
You said it's cold with the lights down
With a train running right through my head I know that you're not around
Oh you're not around.
'cause I've tried,
I have tried and I won't be holding on.
Anti
When the day gets much to heavy
When I'm caught on a trip wire
When the days are just grey and gritty
These things calm me down
Theses things calm me down
When I'm out with friends and family
And there's something that's hostile
When their faces turn pale and empty
These things calm me down
These things calm me down.
'Cause we got lost
and then fell down today
I keep my eyes closed and let these bells ring
ring through the night
I only see this rain soaked morning,
I don't see any sunlight
but these things calm me down
These things calm me down
I hope you find your happy ending
I hope you finally feel right
I can't see you 'cause the waves are on me
But these things calm me down
These things calm me down.
'cause we got lost
and then fell down today
I let my eyes roll and let these shells rain, on me tonight.
'cause I'm going to shout for a little while
and then I'm gonna scream for short while
'Cause I can't sleep till this sickness here subsides
And I'm going to run for a little while
And then I'm going to turn cause I can't smile
And what have I learned,
Nothing that'll help me fights.
So bring me hope for a little while,
and bring me peace for a short while,
I'm on my knees and I'll beat this wall and cry.
***
SODASTREAM
TAKE ME WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO 2005
Cotton Fields
We work the fields,
The cotton yields
We sing our songs for the god almighty
We work strong,
We feel at home
We have the strength of the Christian county
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With little rest,
We do our best,
We have an overwhelming sense of duty,
And I’m the one,
The luckiest one,
She took my hand and told me that she loved me.
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Could’ve been mine you know,
Could’ve been a long time show,
Could’ve been a lifetime
of lonely little wishes , and your burning kisses,
now it seems to me that the high lines on,
oh yeah the low lines gone.
We married young,
Had many sons,
They worked hard in a far off country,
And then he came,
With his greedy blade,
In one stroke he took her from me…
Charity Board
Four floors up from the charity board,
I saw a cut out of me,
And there I stood flat against the wall looking out the door,
To the busying street,
‘cause everything’s changing here
Oh it’s changing here.
Now I’ve seen more than I want to see,
From the dizzying bleachers that rose up flat and strong right behind me,
They killed the highway breeze,
Now everything’s moving here,
Oh it’s moving here.
It seems we’re alone…
Couldn’t be good enough or big enough to make it my own,
Could’ve been a signpost,
Could’ve been a sailor,
A long thin boy but then I betrayed her,
Lie boy, your window’s gone
And high, high, high, come back to the rest of us low
Shed you skin cause now, yeah it’s time to go.
So bring with you all you want to do,
With your muscling bodies,
And your teachers bring you,
Fresh meat and you beaters too,
We’ll bring the law out see,
‘cause everything’s moving here,
oh it’s moving here.
It seems we’re alone
Chorus..
Oh… we’ve fallen
Set my ladies and your calls are so,
Baby I need, ‘cause you know, you know
You’re alone, alone
Let It All Turn Black
And you needn’t feel…
Though we do these things alone,
there’s always time to share in,
these honest words.
They might carry us home to where the brittle little lies live,
In honest groves
So leave now and let it all turn black
I’ve got that same shit crawling up my back.
Turn the lights down low,
Because honey we tried but we couldn’t break the lion’s hold,
On us tonight.
When I followed you home..
No… I didn’t mean to pry but I couldn't bear his hands on.
On you this time.
I’ll grieve now and let it all turn black.
I’ve got hat same shit crawling up my back
So take me home to the colours, and the recent stones show me I had a chance to change,
But then I was lost in black.
Bury me deep, down the corner, down on bleeker street, where you had a line of believers,
Pulling at your coat tail straps,
They’re coming back..
Steeps and Hollows
Because everything good fell down,
Along with our dreams that we thought would follow,
‘cause we were lost,
We were lost in steeps and hollows.
And all that I knew broke down, bound by the thoughts of constant sorrow,
‘cause we were gone, we were lost in steeps and hollows
And we walked down Gledden arcade, and we feel in love again.
We sang and drank in the parade and we felt like, we felt like it would never end.
Then came bodies here..
Hold you hands out my love,
We’ll save all the prettiest things until tomorrow.
Because everything good fell down,
Along with our dreams that we thought would follow,
‘cause we were lost,
We were lost in steeps and hollows.
And all that I knew broke down, bound by the thoughts of constant sorrow,
‘cause we were gone, we were lost in steeps and hollows
Cane and Rice
Don’t shed a tear ‘cause I’m missing you tonight,
You’re walking away from me and feeling fine.
Up to my neck in the panic that I can’t hide,
You’re running far from, the rest of them lied.
Ground into the stones and the weather that I can’t win,
I’ve fallen far within, my exit’s right.
And I guess I didn’t want to make you stand by.
Stand by myself in a field of cane and rice,
Said I won’t kiss and tell, but I might.
Write a letter with a hand so taken by haste,
What a bitter taste, so righteous and bright.
And I guess I didn’t want to make you stand by.
All these things, we’ll make it through
Stand by..
Keith and Tina
She broke both her legs hitting the ground,
I stood over her screaming.
Turned my head to the siren sound,
And my back to her bleeding.
Tell my girl that I’m sorry,
Now there’s so many locks on my door.
Seven women came, seven bodies slain, still they called out for more.
‘cause these voices they talk to me daily, and they get wild when they’re ignored.
Oh I’m lost here, it’s a cost dear, it’s something we can’t afford.
Oh when the lights go down and the clanging walls shut me away.
I know, I know.
We built this, I killed him, ‘cause he got in the way.
I came to bed about half ten,
I could see that he’d been there.
From the cum on your dress and the mess of your hair,
I knew then that I’d kill him.
So I walked slowly down to my kitchen.
I took a knife from the second drawer.
I barreled on down to the beerhall and
There I called his name just to be sure.
Though he pleaded with me to be patient,
Still I stuck him like a two bit whore.
Oh he bled out, red it gushed out and sprayed up against the toilet door.
Oh when the lights go down and the clanging walls shut me away.
I know, I know.
We built this, I killed him, ‘cause he got in the way.
Now it’s been fourteen years since I cut him down,
Fourteen more till I see her.
And I think of the times when she loosened her gown,
And the whispers that I heard.
So tell my girl that I miss her,
And I didn’t mean to do her harm.
Cowering in my cell when the ringing bells,
Sing loud the alarm.
Because the borderline’s close now to breaching and
I’m tired of these calls.
The cutters in my hand and the other man
Is slipping down the call block wall.
‘cause I’m tossed and I’m tired and I’m beaten,
And I’m sick of all these chores,
Oh I’m lost here, it’s a cost dear,
It’s something we could never afford.
Oh when the lights go down and the clanging walls shut me away.
I know, I know.
We built this, I killed him, ‘cause he got in the way.
Looking Back
‘cause all of you were looking back, you were looking behind,
Worried about the strength of all your stolen lifelines
When all you that you need to be is right here,
Holding out your sins and your stories so clear.
Because it all came back today.
It all came back today.
All of you were holding on,
you were losing control.
Slip, slipping away now your borders are so cold
And my hands fell weak and the ones we meet,
Fell down, over in city streets,
Because it all came back today.
It all came back today.
***
SODASTREAM
A MINOR REVIVAL
Out
i've got a battered hand
i wrote it on my list
didn't know what your feeling was
but it must be better than this
don't go out
and don't give in
my head is in this country now and
tells me i can win
so pretty baby
show me how
these wicked ladies
are starting to shout
with your head upon my pillow
i wish that it could be, so cold
and despite your bleaker warnings
i wanted to believe
i wrote it in the sand
a single parting gift
didn't know what redemption was but it
can't be worse than this
so don't go out
and don't give in
my head is in this country now and
tells me i can win
so pretty baby
show me how
these wicked ladies
are starting to shout
with your head upon my pillow
i wish that it could be, so cold
and despite your blue eyed warnings
i wanted to believe
Blinky
could've been shot by this one though it might've been mine
should've been left by the rest stop if you had been kind
'cause i've got a funny way of feeling
and feeling you wasn't right
there's nothing left to believe in
so believe in me this time
the senator said as he called his blushing bride
oh his bride
but why hold steady
when tomorrow's always turning out bad
and why hold steady
when the future's in the walls but the malls are coming back
coming back
should've been called to the rescue down at morgan dell
could've been left by the pumphouse if you had been well
but all this was there in the sand dunes
so set it up and let them ride
you got dressed up too soon, now you're starting to feel alright
if you can't be great you might as well be bright
oh be bright
but why hold steady
when tomorrow's always turning out bad
why hold steady
when the future's in the walls but the malls are coming back
coming back
and you're making the eyes
and you're making the eyes all wooden
and why hold steady
when tomorrow's always turning out bad
why hold steady
when the future's in the walls but the malls are coming back
coming back
Brass Lines
the two of us are guilty, i wrote it on my sleeve
from your marriage bed, were you holding out on me
though this story might, i never want to see you leave
with these men in lights shouting out to me
'cause i want to be high
yes i want to be bright
oh there's something on my sleeve
won't ascribe, won't abide
by the words that you might keep
and if what you say
'cause it might be true i've got to go
go and find you, i'll wait for you this time
through the milano storms and the blossoms through the week
i saw this battle born, i was holding you in the street
ended by my house, 'cause a red light's warm indeed
and these men about will be shouting out to me
'cause i want to be high
yes i want to be bright
oh there's something on my sleeve
won't ascribe, won't abide
by the words that you might keep
and if what you say
'cause it might be true i've got to go
go and find you, i'll wait for you this time
go and find you, it's hard to let it slide
Chorus Line
then i got lost and scared
because i don't want to fight
these things were too much to bear
though nothing here is wrong
i'd sworn that all this had been
and along with the chorus line i sang for you and me
then i got up and ran
thought all this might belong
to the trouble and the worries at hand
if i had caused you doubt
don't you know that i believe in these things
and along with the chorus line i prayed i could hear you sing
what's outside your .. don't let the rain in
you sang, you sang
with your bitter armies behind your eyes
on my shoulder, on my keychain
with your lightning sticks and your surprise
i've known this, yes i've known this
that the devil was tired but sure to begin
wanted to be sure of these things
thought you might be strong
didn't know what the seasons would bring
if i had stolen south, i'd call it honest and say
and along with the chorus line i sang as you went away
what's outside your .. don't let the rain in
Horses
said you didn't need no horses on the ground
no satellite to trace his little head
i stopped for a drink then i left without a sound
but the stories they followed me
someone stole the right words
to try and frighten me
come down i am sure, sure of who i am
'cause the chorus is my sword
and the lightings in my hair
the seasons i recall
are the ones that i have shared
there's violence in my heart
and i guess i had..
said you wanted more than stories in the sand
no heavy bellied caution around your neck
you loaded up the sick and cut your mother's hand
scraped and washed her clean
someone stole the songbird
and tore it's book from me
come down i am sure, sure of who i am
'cause the chorus is my sword
and the lightings in my hair
the seasons i recall
are the one's that i have shared
there's violence in my heart
and i guess i had..
Undone
well here they come
all walking at pace
a little bit hostile
and a little bit grey
with sarin walls behind
i won't recognise you
always despise you but i'll hold your hand
so i said don't try to thrill me
i said don't try to feel me
i had time to be restless
i had time on the ceiling and at
half after midnight i'm undone
i'm a little undone, i'm undone
i'm a little undone
if being low required i want your headdress
want your mistress but i won't be kind
and autumn came again by the sideshow
all of the kids know it's a fucking dive
so i said don't try to thrill me
i said don't try to feel me
i had time to be restless
i had time on the ceiling and at
half after midnight i'm undone
i'm a little undone, i'm undone
i'm a little undone
call the partisan
put all the horses down
with a line of angels
shouted down
with a line of angels
and you might find that all these certain trial are done
all these vials are drunk but you're still fine
and you arrived again so full of courage and grace
all these memory days will still be mine
don't try to thrill me
i said don't try to feel me
i had time to be restless
i had time on the ceiling and at
half after midnight i'm undone
i'm a little undone, i'm undone
i'm a little undone
Mrs Gray
i will be on my knees with a one way ticket to the broadway trees
i needed your hand, needed then i pleaded to get away
and by the lake, while i stayed i grew tired of this
and the constant grey
so i broke up his hand and turned to the one he'd been kissing
'cause everything's falling down today
the shooter's over there in the sand
i got no reason to celebrate
but i could use a little helping hand
concentrate, be amazed by the tight blue jeans worn by mrs gray
and the rest of the gang tumbled out of the classroom
i don't need cotton sheets or the book that spoke of the
autumn breeze and the times that we had
fumbling around in the bathroom
'cause everything's falling down today
the shooters over there in the sand
i got no reason to celebrate
but i could use a little helping hand
yeah i could use a little helping hand
by the trees we agreed to abort his will and the need to please
with purpose and pace all of this was new to my head
and i adored this crumpled lawn and i greeted you
with a grinding jaw and a beer in hand
the laugh lines made me second rate
but everything's falling down today
the shooter's over there in the sand
i got no reason to celebrate
but i could use a little helping hand
yeah i could use a little helping hand
Nervous
seated by the window don't you know
don't you know you make me nervous
though the fire outside is making me feel kind of strange
we'll sit in the dark, talk of purpose and all the
wishes around our bed
though the lines are down i think this is coming to an end
been living too long under sunny posts i had a record
and the record shows and the chorus blows a certain share
in the dark of a tuesday night i had a reason to listen
to what was said
and the record shows that my heart was thrown against the stair
we had a punishing lesson
and the chips they fell on you
oh what a comical blessing
now there's sadness in my shoes
now there's sadness in my shoes
Constant Ships
constant ships sail, i watched from the bay
the border lies open but i've wrestled these skips again
it's the reason she died
it's the reason she died he said i won't blame you
ascensions comes
i guess i know what's right
i hardly can wait
the satellite was overboard and i'll be home again
with all that i know
curled and disarmed, i clung to the rail
the road has no clearance but this wreckage will hurt to send
it's the reason i cried
it's the reason i cried i said i won't name you
ascensions comes
i guess i know what's right
i hardly can wait
the battle lines were overdrawn and i'll be home again
with all that i know
the senator was on the ball
he asked me to stay
cancelled the curtain call
and he walked me away from all that i know
Otherwise Open
the time is now to come of age
pack up your doubts don't let them find their feet again
all this division isn't helping me to mend
and old time religion is begging to depend
i rode through the summer waiting for the end
and i spent
so little time with this one
before i swiftly got bored
so little time with this one lately
maybe that's why i needed
why i wanted to be ignored
maybe that's why i feel so jaded
i'm otherwise open
rescue rangers come again
asked them to teach me and then turn them all away
all this confusion is tucked into the fray
and all these revisions had never been made
bound by the news and the worry lines of age
and i paid
paid no mind to this one
so i could never get bored
paid no mind to this your lady
maybe that's why i needed
why i wanted to be ignored
maybe that's why i feel degraded
i'm otherwise open
all this rain won't let me in
spent no time with this one
before i swiftly got bored
spent no time with this your lady
maybe that's why i needed
why i wanted to be ignored
maybe that's why i feel so jaded
i'm otherwise open
all this rain won't let me in.
America
warm bodies, they told me
out east there was something new
in seasons, i called out
i thought i had something due
'cause i've got a ticket to america
we'll be there soon
we'll meet in america
how about you
i want to meet in america
shoot across the country with you
i want to meet in america
with the cinnamon and the violence too
maybe we could trip down to phoenix
with your black hair and your favourite cartoons
i want to meet in america
how about you
how about you
i want to meet in america
been working with the nation blue
i want to meet in america
we'll be skating and throwing harpoons
maybe with a day trip to memphis
we'll see the king and all his blue suede shoes
i want to meet in america
how about you
how about you
The Women's Revue
saw your picture frame
it's getting dim
i guess it's all i had to show
are you cold again
or full of song
i guess it's all i'd ever known
if i decide to come
i had tried to grow
to find my place
and call to settle in
i would settle in
though my mansions may be cold
i would settle in
the hostile glow
do you need guidance in the walls
can't dye or soil my hands
can i save myself from this
and i never knew what god meant
no i never knew it's sense
i tried a loaded gun beside by bed tonight
i tried looking up the dresses that were giving off the light
so i might find my way home
find my way home
my daylight, my only daylight
i had a line of small women by my left side
through daisy chains i'd seen them all
through countless waves i saw you fall
my daylight, my only daylight
i had four friendly horses by my west side
through an empty haze i saw you born
and through countless days i saw you mourn
Weekend
here in the later blue night
Constance came to get it
stayed up and beaten till blind
the rest of us let it
continue tonight
till the early grey light
gone, gone again
i left it with you
she held the light and it's all i can do
but continue tonight
the reasons, though the reasons were mine
i waited to hurt him
the weekend yes the weekend was fine
but i broke down and cursed him
cursed him in time
till the early grey light
gone, gone again
i left it with you
she held the light and it's all i can do
is continue to fight
