The Sorrow
- 7 Gold
- Walking down the street with you in hand is gold
- "Then go and try to sell it," I've been told
- But I would rather have that kiss from you
- Than all the microphones that I can hold
- Let's all try to go outside where it's bright
- Although it's long been time to go we still can make it right
- And you better hope I don't begin just sniffing on my coat
- Cause I've been feeling turned around, you don't allow the smoke
- I wake up every morning to the sound of love
- And everybody's telling me to stop now, that's enough
- But I would rather spend my day than wait till the night
- To let it out
- Come on baby get in bed, it's been too long
- It doesn't take a scientist to see that there's a bomb
- And let's explode it somewhere soft, close the door
- Or are you gonna make me do you on the floor
- 8 Holiest Hole
- She's skating into town, she's waiting in the lounge
- They all say it's her she's got the holiest hole
- It's the one that they know
- And it gets picked up in a laundry truck
- It's a long way home, and if we take it slow
- We will miss the part where he's still young
- And he first meets Burt in the back of the club
- He's walking through the house
- He's waving at all the fraus
- We all think it's not the time but lo and behold
- It's the way that it goes
- And it's hard being me when it's you I want to be, oh yeah
- I got a long way to go, and if we take it slow
- We will miss the part where he gets old
- And he asks "Mr. Reynolds, can I come back home?"
- 9 Bessie
- You always liked the river
- At least that's what you'd say
- Everybody knew you were blue
- But oh they don't know you liked it that way
- And underneath the willow tree
- Is where you'd lie
- And think about the day you'd hop in
- And say good night
- So come on Bessie I know you
- Come on Bessie with me
- We'll order it up like we used to
- Oh and you know we'll get it for free
- Cause old Joe remembers you from when we used to come down
- And everybody'd sit right down and listen to the sound
- 10 Make Change
- How's England and London treating you?
- In the springtime on the weekend what do you do?
- When they say it's all over, you just stand up and say
- Make change, do change, with a capital ok!
- Come on, sing it right
- How's the lord and his wife in the south?
- Is she wearing any clothes around now?
- When everything's just right, and she comes up to you in the night
- Tell her:
- Make change, do change, with a capital ok!
- It's a holiday
- 11 You
- Though they know you're mine, it doesn't mean they care
- And they will stand in line till I'm no longer there
- They will roll their eyes, and they will sharpen knives
- And they will sit around the fire seeing signs
- While you stand alone at the side of the sea
- And you wait for the rain to come down to your knees
- They all want you to sit at the side of their beds
- Laying down your hands on their heads
- They all want the kind of luck it happens I got
- So they plan to throw me down on the rocks
- As you lay there by the phone at the side of the street
- And you wait for the sun to come down to your feet
- 1 The Sorrow
- Cut your wig, comb your hair
- I know what you want is happening again
- I got nails on my hands
- There's nothing left to do but to put em in their heads
- I say "what you've gone away and you've got no time?"
- I see what you've thrown away and this ain't no rhyme
- I want what you've thrown away this ain't no time
- To come up to the sorrow, lay yourself down
- We'll go running down the street
- We're taking off our clothes and showing em our teeth
- Hide the knife in your bag
- Sooner than you think you'll be cutting em in half
- I say "what you've gone away and you've got no time?"
- I see what you've thrown away and this ain't no rhyme
- I want what you've thrown away this ain't no time
- To come up to the sorrow, lay yourself down
- 2 Rosalia
- Take my shoes and don't take the plane
- Take this heart of mine, don't you know it's all the same
- You're gonna need to hitch a ride, or you might try a train
- You make it to the beach on time, I'll have no one to blame
- When I'm back in bed, Rosalia
- I hope you're handsome and I hope you're strange
- I hope you've met someone, oh I hope you found a date
- If you want to stay alive, darling you gotta try
- Don't sit down on the runway
- Cause you're gonna lose your head, Rosalia
- I don't want to fight
- 3 The Coast
- It's a way, it's away, have you seen the coast?
- I've not been in a while, no one owns a boat
- When we walk on down, oh we will fall on a rock
- But we can't fall on sea, we'll get down and fall asleep
- Let's say eight o'clock, down by second road
- Have your helmet on, sometimes it can get so rough
- And long in the South, so let's try to stay alive
- And later on that day you'll be sorry that you came
- I'll say "that's alright,
- Your feelings will change by the end of the night"
- And we'll sit on the ground, hoping that we can't be found
- Rolling on the sidewalk, our arms upon each other it's warm
- 4 Tickets
- Got nothing to smile about, I'm busy making holes
- I've seen a lot worse
- Got nothing to laugh about except the idea man
- That she ain't made of gold
- And all the dances you danced won't let you forget her man
- The story's still the same
- It's nothing to write home about, but oh ain't it strange
- I got a new best friend
- Got so many tickets to burn, you might as well give them away
- But who wants to hear them say
- That all the money you have won't be enough to get them back
- Simple things don't change
- 5 Vampire Man
- I've seen sorry, I've seen thanks to my friends
- Don't go walking out, we got things to laugh about
- Cause happiness is nobody's hand, I'll say again
- You'll come falling in, Halloween is cancelling
- The dates you set are lost, vampire man get a cross
- Take another look, she'll hide behind an open book
- 6 Summer
- Summer, take your time and waste it
- Your ideas of bed are sacred
- So sit up right on your couch
- And watch the trees start growing up beside your house
- And you won't be alone
- You will wake up in the past and wonder what it's like with us
- You end up talking to your father
- Now you've got no time for mother
- Oh it's hard to find these times
- But I've got luck alright, I got a date every night
- And I don't feel alone
- I wake up inside the house and wonder what it's like without her
Surround the Birthday
- 7 It's Raining Out
- I've seen a lot of girls, but who cares cause this one's better
- And I've had a lot of flowers
- This one might not be pretty but it's hers
- Oh, you're not around although it's raining out
- Give me another reason, cause I'm all out
- Let's go I don't know where
- We'll figure out what to do once we're there
- And after about a year
- We'll think about if we want to come back here
- 8 She's a Liar
- She's done so much lying
- Her nose so long it's touching mine
- She's done so much crying
- Her eyes I see are drying, but I won't look down
- My boats are set to sail
- I'm going back to hell and I'm not coming back
- We've done so much walking
- Our legs are bound to let us down
- I've done too much talking
- My throat's so sick I'm coughing up a lung
- I've done too much sleeping
- I'm so tired I'm weeping cause I won't get up
- I've done enough
- 9 Watch Out
- It's another band that you haven't seen
- Watch out if you want to make it out alive
- Lord knows I tried to get along with your momma
- Everybody says I'm a sweet guy
- So good-bye marijuana if you want to get a job
- So long to the summer, it was alright, now I'm alone
- Look, it's another man you haven't seen
- Watch out if you want to make it out alive
- Lord knows I tried to get along with your momma
- Everybody says I'm a sweet guy
- So good-bye marijuana if you want to get a job
- So long to the summer, it was alright, now I'm alone
- 10 Running Queens
- There's so much that I can do I swear
- There's trucking and machines
- There's running up to Queens out of love
- Love makes it easy
- There'e no one I want to talk to now
- It's been a long time they've been gone
- They just like moving on to get jobs
- Jobs make them money
- If there's someone you can't see cause they're the only one you got
- What about the sad ones you see on the street
- So you say I'm always looking down
- What's so exciting on the road
- But I just like going slow
- So the sound comes along
- If there's someone you can't see cause they're the only one you got
- What about the sad ones you see on the street
- 11 I'm Fat
- I'm too fat to be bored, but come on baby give me some more love
- I'm alone cause I'm big-boned
- 1 Looking for Your Hat
- It's not the same thing anymore
- I watch the ladies coming out of their house in a rush
- It seems so well thought out
- It's all you asked for, I know
- A friend to look for your hat
- That you left on the ground in the park at night
- 2 Bucket of Laughs
- These days nobody looks, nobody cries and nobody smiles
- Nobody laughs and shakes their head inside
- Most days are pretty long, and pretty long is not what you want
- You want compassion and what comes along
- Is this, with her hair done up like a ghost
- And you act like you forgot all those times you were close
- This lamp isn't enough to light my way deep into the rough
- Maybe my tee shot was a little off
- My sweetheart is a book written in German on the way to Japan
- I wish you could but nobody can
- Take her away from under my bed
- And there's an alarm going off in my head
- 3 Megaphone
- You ask and you get megaphone, smile and you win
- A man you pull into a lake without it, the echo's sad
- Till you find something that can pull you back
- You say it's hard but it's not, just get going
- Pull out another one of them ice cubes so
- Into the heart of problems this is not
- Till you find another you can do instead
- 4 That's My Girl
- (co-written with T. Whitney)
- That's my girl on phone, she's got her homework done
- And her throat's in pain from all the cigarettes she bought
- She's got a high opinion of books, and I just get high
- Stunden lang, Gott im Himmel, etc.
- That's my girl on the run, she's got her sneakers on
- She's taking steps the size of mountains, steps the size of camps
- And I'm sitting at home with nothing on
- Es muss so sein, wenn du nicht da bist, etc.
- 5 As Kids
- Forget all the things that you had in your hand
- Watch the troubles come back
- Wait for the summer to rot
- Headphones on and an open bookbag
- You know you can get a stone in your hand
- And throw it back to them
- Put back all the memories you had as a kid
- Why remember it now
- And work till you're dead in the pants
- Will your wife even give us a damn
- You better pass this test it's the last one you get
- You cannot do too bad
- 6 You Know the Dance
- Go take your partner back to the dancing floor
- Cause you know the dance man, you do with whores
- And when you're with her take care to lock the door
- Cause you know your woman might make her no more
Your Own Girl
- 6 Your Own Girl (Happy Husbands)
- Happy Husbands need a bank they say
- To rip apart everything they've earned on top of clocks
- Future heroes take their pay and say
- I've got everything I want to burn
- So you come back home, have a beer, hope you disappear
- Sooner than you have, how can you be so sad
- When you got one or two nice girls that like you
- It's fine you gonna be alright
- Trust me, it's fine and you'll be alright
- Something happened
- Like a mad man you drove across the ocean in your car
- You realize a little later the car doesn't float
- It's not a boat, it's a car
- You want to know how the world has gone
- Into the bottom of a house in a dream you wonder around at me
- And you scream without it, you want to be without it
- And you said you are alright
- You said you're gonna be alright
- 7 Your Keyboard
- Take your computer and roll it down a hill
- Stranger things have happened
- Sit down sit down take a breather, another pill
- Take your walkman and throw him off a plane
- Who need tunes anyway
- Sit down sit down have a breather from the day
- Lytle your keyboard is more than a friend
- It'll come with you in the end
- Come on come on play a chord some more
- Get on your comet and take it for a spin
- What galaxy are you in
- Take off take off don't come back again
- 8 Caught in a Car
- When you're caught in a car
- With a girl that you want to escape from
- What's the matter with you
- You're walking on cars
- Inside you discover a peace sign
- You're a stubborn peace sign
- You take your hat off in the rain of a hurricane
- Seasons change or don't they
- You take your station at the wheel of a monster truck
- Times are strange aren't they
- You fought for your cards
- But alone your just skin and bones, 202 bones
- You're stuck with your arm in a cast
- That you got from the last blast
- Don't complain, please don't complain
- You take your hat off in the rain of a hurricane
- Seasons change or don't they
- You take your station at the wheel of a monster truck
- Times are strange aren't they
- 1 Mountains Learn to Talk
- You learn to talk to girls when you're 20
- And all they do is smile cause it's so funny haha
- You always act this way when it's raining
- They think they understand all that you say
- And what is it that you cannot have I swear it's in your head
- And what is it about the understanding of the things you wear
- I just don't care anymore
- Your mom says you don't want to come home
- That you'd rather sleep under somebody's phone, and that's fine
- You'd rather be a man without arms
- Than to go back to your unstrung old guitar, oh man
- And what is it that you cannot say, I bet it's not too great
- And what is it about the understatement of the things you say
- It's just not fair is it
- 2 Wake Up
- You woke up to a dog barking at you
- It was so loud you nearly burst, and your head still hurts
- You robbed a store, take the money to your mom
- Hand it over to your dad and stay with them
- Then you stole your grandma's favorite couch
- But you might just give it back
- She deserves it
- 3 Taking Money from Kids
- Taking money from the kids, you get up earlier than this
- So you can climb around
- Between the windows hanging upside down
- You make the morning news, you guessed it
- Stealing cookies from the jar, hop inside your German car
- And drive it 75, hope you make it to England alive
- How you gonna live with this wrong
- Once you even tried to take a plane to the States
- But they are so far away and you remain in your house
- Watching movies on the couch, no you never leave the house
- Oh I guess it's wrong, you know you can keep this up too long
- It makes you want to jump off a cliff
- Once you even tried to take a boat to the States
- But they are too far away and you remain in your house
- 4 Sorry
- Sorry, I didn't mean to run
- I didn't mean to take so long this way
- Sorry, I didn't mean to leave
- I didn't mean to take so long to say this
- 5 I Be Back
- Gotta admit I'm a bit of a loser, spend all day in bed
- How does it feel to be dead, breathing smoke out of your head
- It's not that bad
- Gotta admit you're a bit of a poser, ride your board all day
- How does it feel to be young, hold your head till you're undone
- You might as well quit
- Think I'll just sit back, and watch you crawl away to that
- You better bet I'll be back
Scotland
- 5 It's Ok Kate
- It's gonna be ok, Kate
- Get on top of your mattress and jump around on it
- Unless you're too drunk to even stand
- Grab your party hat and go to the picture show
- Until the last scene
- And I'm sure you won't be sorry
- As you overtake that red Ferrari car
- And you'll smile inside as he just frowns
- I'm sure you'll be a racing star
- It's gonna be ok, Kate
- Just jump on in
- Hang around till you forget, smile on your secret
- I'll be with you without, jump around and shout
- At all the people standing there
- 6 Beach
- We sat with our hands in the sand
- Construction of something began
- I forget everything we said, and who cares
- I don't want to sleep in a car
- I'd much rather sleep on the beach
- And that's exactly what we did, in a hole
- And we dug it ourselves, with our own hands
- Just think of it now, what a silly bunch we were
- I think of it now, that unusual night
- And I remember why I want to do it all again
- 7 Eating Aeroplanes
- I was laughing at the theories you had in your head
- When you were thirteen and a half
- As you're dancing, careful you don't spin too much
- You'll get tangled up
- Sitting on the swings, talking about some stupid things
- Eating airplanes
- Both a little drunk, I saw you smile as you wiped my arm
- I was happy
- And I'm sorry I put your head in the grass
- I didn't mean it
- I should have put your hand in my hands, I'll admit it
- But I'm an idiot, I am so dumb
- 8 La La
- 9 My Room
- 1 Tea
- I might be lonely but I think I'll stay
- Inside my room all fucking day
- I don't mind being sad sometimes
- I might be stuck between my bedsheets now
- Wondering just how the hell I got to this town
- I want to leave it
- And as I'm walking down the road
- I remember what it's like to be cold
- And it's so sad I need someone to hold my hand
- There might be something wrong with my eyeball
- Afraid to say it's gonna fall out
- The doctors don't have any bright ideas
- I might be faking but I'm telling you
- The only time I don't feel blue
- I'm staring at a cinema screen
- And as I'm sitting in my room
- Drinking tea until the afternoon
- It is quite clear I'm gonna be around for half a year
- 2 Clubbing
- There are better things to do on a Wednesday afternoon
- Than go to class all day
- I'm the mayor of this town
- Getting out of bed to work is outlawed now
- Can we run around for hours in the glaring sun
- It comes out only twice a month
- And hides away behind the clouds every other day
- Can we kick the ball one last time
- I swear it won't be long till we decide
- To go away and hide our heads beneath the blankets of my bed
- Let's go party at a club, I hope they let me in
- I'm sure you'll wish me luck
- And I'm convinced I'll make you sad
- So go away and don't come back, don't say good-bye
- Can I kiss the girl one last time
- I don't understand the influence she has on me
- Oh honestly I think I'm only incomplete with her around
- 3 Zoe Zoe
- Zoe Zoe, I've got good news
- You've been accepted to the school
- Where the kids go when they're cool
- Lazy Daisy, I can't explain
- How bad I feel when you're away
- And I guess I'll be this way
- For a fortnight times 22, and until it's over
- I'll be struggling not to have a breakdown every day
- I might be stupid but I'm not insane
- Holy Moley, it's all in vain
- I'm stuck in the US of A
- And you're oh so far away
- Holy Lonely, I think I'm through
- I'm giving up looking for you in the closet of my room
- It might sound crazy but I know it's true
- I might be alone but I still got you
- Practicing summersaults inside my mind
- I might be gentle but I'm not kind
- 4 Party
- I am scared that the only one I want to talk to
- Has run away once again
- I want to be able to take her back
- I am upset that you hid my keys somewhere
- And went to bed anyway
- I guess I'll go to sleep, cause when I woke you up you were mad
- And after all it's a party
- You're supposed to be real cool, but I think I've lost something
- Is it the truth that I treated her so bad
- She had to lock me in a room and make me feel this bad
- I'm a cigarette
- We were sitting on the ground
- Wrapped in blankets to keep us warm
- We sang along sometimes to stereo sounds
- And after all it's a party
- You're supposed to talk to girls, as many as you can
- But I think I've lost something
1502
- 6 Thousand French Movies
- Five thousand French movies can't cure me
- When you're running round the yard with a frown
- And a million dollars can't buy me
- There are more important things in the pond
- And a good pair of pants is key
- When getting girls in your pants
- And a good pair of pants is the most you can wish for
- When you've lost all hope
- And the beauty of indie rock girls
- Is written on the front of their shirts
- And the beauty of sleeping outside
- Is having the moonlight flooding your eyes
- And nine officers don't scare me
- When I'm watching them from afar
- And fifty squad cars can't find me
- When I'm hiding in your house, in your arms
- And in 1502 I'll be tall enough to stand with you
- In 1503 the world will be turning without me
- 7 Ten Times
- Ten times before I changed my mind
- Ten times before I dreamt of you
- Ten times before I dreamt of you
- Ten times before I listened to you fuck all I knew
- Late after while I fought my time
- Was all I ever knew, I raped my lines
- The salty boxes came through
- I walked on my hind legs and sands of all my time
- My own fault
- 8 Mi Numero de Telefono
- So far I am gone and lost in the world
- Believe in the world in the shoes and the churches
- And the sun is not a god, it's song of love
- To kneel on the leaves with the bees is love
- And all I ever saw was lost in the view
- Fall in your heart in your hands, be true
- And Allah is Allah, I don't know how
- Reading the looks in the books, this love
- 9 Two Mercedes
- I try so hard to describe the visions of your eyes
- I try so hard to recall what happened last night
- Why should I want a girl in the day when I have you at night
- You turned your head
- And echoed something lovely from your mixed up head
- Now I know the best that I can do is find someone like you
- And I'll never forget the image that I'm carrying in my head
- Toodle-oo I say to you with your words still stuck in my head
- Bye bye
- 10 Shindig Number Two
- 1 Shindig Number One
- 2 Under the Covers
- An undefined rocker is underneath the covers
- An∂ I can't be that stable with you under the table
- And craziness is able to forget all the rainstorms
- The light will shine down your eyes
- It's gonna kill you some day
- 3 Hippie Charms
- So you're still underestimated
- With your hippie charms and your pop alarms
- And you're still underrated
- With your orchestras and your drum machines
- You're too far away to be calling home like you want something
- You just don't seem to feel it
- When the carpet's wet and the chairs are green
- All the time you spent cleaning your room left you cold
- And icy like some winter cave in the snow
- And all the rock and roll you played in your youth
- Left you warm and fuzzy on the inside of your shoes
- You're still a bit unstable
- With your arms around another girl
- But you don't know what she's saying
- Because you're too fucked up from all the drugs you took
- But you're still appreciated
- For your Indian chimes and your perfect rhymes
- But you don't think it's real
- When your momma tells you how you should feel
- All the tv sets you broke in your rage
- Fell through the window on a nice warm summer day
- And all the rejects you had kicked out of your school
- Broke you into a thousand pieces and called you a fool
- 4 Leaf me Alone
- The leaves on the tree fall lalala
- Lie down and watch the stars
- And wish they had legs and two arms to hold eachother
- The gleam in your eyes is gone
- Turns out you're not so strong
- Now you're crying a tear too much
- The girl who's never seen the trees is not to be believed
- The girl who's always tied her own two shoes
- And in the house there's a fire
- It smokes and screams all night
- Till it's put out by your cold blue eyes
- When God made Italian women
- He was going for beautiful
- But he took it a step too far
- Little boys in love should not be made fun of
- You're my walking iv
- 5 Quoi
- Are you too tired, are you falling off your rocker
- Are you too defined, are you going insane crazy
- Are you too defined
- Are you all alone, are you going to cry for momma
- Are you too inspired, are you falling out of school
- Are you too inspired
