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How Soon?
02:40
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To the ruthless go the spoils
Guarded go the meek
The timer’s set, the water’s boiled,
The ransom laughs, a note I won’t leave
And I won’t tell you
I can’t bear to speak your name
Marching four by four again
And they whisper, how soon? How soon?
Plunder, pillage, sweep your gaze
Along my flesh and bone
If I’m only good for what I gave,
Why’d you shade my garden with your stone?
And I won’t tell you,
I can’t bear to speak your name
Marching two by two again
And they whisper how soon? How soon?
Blessed be the ones for whom,
the fools do march and sing
Blessed be those chosen few
Who choose not to rot in long wind middling
And I won’t tell you,
I can’t bear to speak your name
Marching down my spine again
And they whisper, how soon? How soon?
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I - I have watched you through thin windows
I - I would gladly eat your pain
I - I would die to be your widower
You - don’t even really know my name
No you don’t even really know my name
Ayeyiyi - ayeyiyi
I - I have dreamt of lifetimes greater
I - I can bare your weight, your shame
I - beg to be your emancipator
You - you only feel my love in vain
Ayeyiyi - ayeyiyi
I - confided each and every crime and
You - hold the gun like it’s a glove
I - press my fingers to take your hand in mine
You - dug the grave out of pure love
Oh you - put me six feet deep with love!
Ayeyiyi - ayeyiyi - ayeyiyi - ayeyiyi
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Left Handed Delights
03:04
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All that matter, all we’ve intertwined
So consequential, the loss of your mind
Leaning forward, the blade to your ear
It’s not your fault, we teach our daughters to fear
Blood that runs down the back of the beast
Caress my head, push the backs of my knees
Head spun circle, a yoke breaking down
Tell me, have you forgotten the sound of
Our left handed delights
Crown your crows in the night
Our left handed delights
Obey your desires, don’t you play with fire
Ground it shifts till it swallows you whole
Turn off the light, let the demon play host
Can you name him, he’s dragging you down
Wear your despair like the sparkling sound of
Our left handed delights
Crown your crows in the night
Our left handed delights
Obey your desires, don’t you play with fire
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Once Held My Heart
02:56
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There’ll be no long, drawn out goodbyes
Leave me no words to pretty your lies
I’ll take one last kiss, and then I’ll depart
I’ll be glad, you once held my heart
No rivers of moon, or mountains of green
Could cure of us of all the trouble we’ve seen
And when I feel small, beneath all the stars
I’ll be glad, you once held my heart
Foreverly wooed by your wits and your charms
But I see right through the love you lack in your arms
It’s funny, there’s fear in calling our bluff
Our love wasn’t blind, it just wasn’t enough
Those lingering lips won’t leave any marks
And I’ll look unchanged, well for the most part
Salt stains shall not stay, tomorrow’s not far
I’ll be glad, you once held my heart
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Lonely As I Can Be
03:11
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When you’re not around
And the silence stretches down
I wish you’d come back to me
With the dogs at the door
Our good linen on the floor
I’m as lonely as I can be
And love’s but a game
Where I dangle from your string
Hoping, pleading
When you’re not around
I can’t pick up my own frown
I wish you’d come back to me
And love’s but a game
Where I dangle from your string
Hoping, bleeding
When you’re not around
I can’t pick up my own frown
I wish you’d come back to me
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No Tomorrow
02:52
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Krishana - I’ll let you go
Watched you run from where you’d come
and where you once had died, you’ll hide
Wrap each floorboard with your eyes,
the ever subtle compromise
of life beyond each cry
Pining for the circumstance
Two steps behind your best laid plans
The pride’s been swallowed, no tomorrow
Oh - how you dream to disappear,
how you whisper in my ear
that there’s just no way out this
time - so you seek and so you find,
a sleight of hand played in your mind,
you’ll twist into that rhyme
Drying out your second chance
Saving up your final dance
The heart’s been borrowed, no tomorrow
Like fingers to a cactus tree
You think that I could set you free
I’ll hold your sorrow, no tomorrow
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Like a Lover
04:47
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Sings his sad songs for dirty lovers
Keep my legs crossed underneath his dirty covers
He’s not a child, and I’m not a mother
Still he rose, he implodes right through my wonder
And he holds me
Like a lover
So tender, like I might break
When he leaves, feels like he’s haunting every hallway
While I fumble, through the echo of my name
And I know, I know, I know - if I don’t make it back home
He’ll love me just the same
He holds me, like a lover
So tender, like I might break
If I see he’s going under
I brave the water we both change
It’s a risk I won’t take, a name I won’t say
A game I won’t play, a dance I won’t save
I got down on my knees, begging to be released
From this tender embrace and this smile on my face
Wandered out on my own, down roads I don’t know
and hands I won’t hold, a truth I can’t show
Stepped outside of myself, and I feel dead now
He holds me, like a lover
So tender, like I might break
Everything, everything
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Human of the Race
02:43
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You were sadness incarnate
A barroom brawl waiting to break
You were the kind of rain that conjures lightning
A subtle roar you can’t contain
I pretended to despise you,
In that disembodied space
You were a man when I met you
You were a human of the race
You were salt lined and straight
terrifyingly clean
You were considerate of complaint
And affectionately mean
So I sat still in your presence
The blinds drew lines on your face
I wondered if I could offend you
You were a human of the race
I’ll keep on denying, I’ll wear my frown
I’ll keep on lying, I’ll cut you down
Try as I might, can’t find a word
That you meant insincere
You were a maker and a marker,
Of grins that stretch ear to ear
A sinner and a sparkle
A shiver I can’t equate with fear
And on every great horizon
That I’ll ever face
I’ll choose you as my partner,
As my human of the race
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9. |
Sweet Tooth
03:24
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I think I swallowed my own sweet tooth
Craved something sour, and that something was you
You brought me flowers, rotted in half a day
Dead perfume lingers, pooling in the parquet
It’s been pretty cool for May
It’s been a stolid, salty spring
I tried my best to let the light in
When you caught and bleached that black cat
Well I think I got my magic back!
And now I know it’s never been sink or swim,
it’s sink or die
I think I swallowed my own sweet tooth
Craved something sour, and that something was you
You brought me sunshine, that the wind chased away
So I sit sulking, with my slims in this dark cafe
Chasing my troubles away
With this half empty bottle of Tanqueray
Why does gin always make my hands shake?
I’m too drunk, I better be on my way
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My baby, he’s gone away
Said I might see him again, someday
But I’m thinking that’s a line
He gives to girls he’s loved, when they’ve run out of his time
That’s ok, that’s alright
I’ll be lonesome till the morning, but the sun will always rise
That’s ok, I’ll be fine
Got some whiskey and some Joni, to keep me warm tonight
My baby, well he’s skipped town
I keep watching my front door like he’s coming, knocking back around
And though he made me weak in the knees
My love outweighed my body but I’m not made to beg or plead
That’s ok, that’s alright
I’ll be lonesome till the morning, I’ll go searching for the light
That’s ok, I’ll be fine
Got some cold beer and some Billie to keep me warm tonight
That’s ok, that’s alright
I’ll be lonesome till the morning, but I’ll always find the light
That’s ok, I’ll be fine
Got three cigarettes and some Patsy to keep me warm tonight
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11. |
Mean Ol' Moon
03:20
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Sometimes I’m like a wound that won’t close
Like anger’s the only warmth I’m meant to know
So I dress in morning light so cold
That I might greet the day with eyes of rose
Mean ol’ moon - swimming through the stars
Shining holes right through my heart
And I won’t stitch - myself another scar
I’ll pick and pull until I fall apart
I hold my sadness like a favourite friend
Whose presence I long for time and time again
So, when I glow blue I don’t despair
I guess that’s just the way I gather air
Mean ol’ moon, swimming through the stars
Shining holes right through my heart
And I won’t stitch, myself another scar
I’ll pick and pull until I fall apart
My love, he told me once he had a dream
That I had died beside him in my sleep
He shook me awake just to see
If there was air left in my lungs to breathe
If there were drums left in my heart to beat
If there was life left in my bones to be
Mean ol’ moon, swimming through the stars
Shining holes right through my heart
And I won’t stitch myself another scar
I’ll pick and pull until I fall apart - apart
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