歌词
Spiders, Snakes
Did you mean the things you said?
Were you pulling ankles and legs?
Do you read when you go to bed?
Do you lie there shaking instead?
Cause it works both ways with the rain
leaving the words unread
and I want to have you again
listening to Bedhead
Try to get a little rest
There's a very big day ahead
I was lost like people feel
before they find God's love
The best I can say now,
"We made it alone,
no help from hot-air balloons,
saving us in the nick of time"
Don't get your hopes up
Keep them low
Try not to reach so high
Hard work won't pay off in the end
What a broken string of events
What a little tied up loose end
Are you mad that they are all dead?
Do you wish that you'd gone instead?
Are you pissed that when things got bad
there was one set of footprints in the sand?
When it's easy you walk alone
there's a mark for each of your toes
The best I could hope for
is what you'd expect
White lights like icicles
hung up above the porch
I'd just like to say now
before things go too far,
"I hated none of you,
I loved you all at the time"
I like having to run when I don't run
and it leaves me so, so tired
I want better for you and for my son
and the lives we're leading now
I like having a tongue when the words come
And even if it gets tied
I want cinnamon buns in the morning sun
in the airport waiting lines
I like having some fun like anyone
with loaded water guns
Your Canadian plum has got me numb
Like Novacain in my gum
The best is the smoke blown
back through the flue
like birds returning to a tree
Where their old nest used to be
Now things have changed
or maybe not
That's where you learn to fly
That's where our eggshell lies
Shirley Road Shirley
Didn't I tell you that it's lonely out there?
Didn't I lie so much and pretty darn well?
It's not that I don't trust you, but I have to check for myself.
I have to tape all the windows when the wind gets rough.
God had a plan for what happened to me.
Knowing that I'm waiting here to see
if things might still turn out alright finally.
Maybe I'll ruin all the good in my life
holding you against me like a slide to the light.
I'm resting my head on the passenger glass.
I'm rolling on the ground to scratch an unreachable back.
God had a plan for what happened for us.
Knowing the hairs on our arms and the dust
collecting on unused glasses and cups.
I can see the change it made in your face:
the slow dissolve from black to gray,
The weird delay between
the things you think and the things you say.
You're petering out, I'm petered away.
I just want to lay down with you.
I won't try anything, I swear.
You won't even know I'm there.
I'm not taking my chances, so I'm counting out loud.
Nothing worse than missing simple trees going by.
Every new day is hard in a very new way.
Every good day is good in its very own way.
Shirley Road Shirley you treated me fine.
Counting the hundreds of faded white lines.
I'm silent and green like a blank highway sign.
Suddenly you smell like winter apples
and the same ways that
make you ripe will make you decay.
And I can hear the worry in your voice,
the quiet blame you point away,
the hidden name beneath
the things you think and the things you say.
They're petering out and you will remain.
I just want to lay down with you.
I won't try anything, I swear.
You won't even know I'm there.
Screw Up Your Courage
i can't
begin
to explain
what went
down, and if
i did, would you
understand?
half of
all my eyes
don't know how
to wink
hey, my heart
it's not a race;
all the same,
a good head start helps
-simultaneously-
it would scare
you shitless, unless
you're dead;
already put down
like a horse with a broken leg/
scarecrow waits
for crows to scare
my friend paces,
twists his hair tips
so my hands
will be red again
(i'm caught canary in a mine)
and oh, your legs
will mend again
(i'll charge the gate and gleam)
oh,
be
firm, and
ask me again
-simultaneously-
i hope someone
will unpack this crate,
will unwrap this cape cos it's
choking me/
i hope someone will
pack it up,
wrap me up
in holy cloth
and store me in
pyramids
you could bring
me juice, or
saltines when
i'm under
the weather, and
over you
all our songs
in unison
(here's where you bled, and here's where i did)
get your courage
to sick in place
(fight off the doubt that sings like silence)
-simultaneously-
oh,
be
firm, and/
oh,
just
speak
up, and
ask me again
Small Potatoes
Kittens become cats
if you're not careful
you have to keep your eye on them
There was a time
when I
didn't know you
and there'll be a time like that again
And if we run as fast
as the earth moves
we'd be standing in one place
And if we shake as much
as California does
we'd be still less walking open
I can't believe you said
I couldn't love you anymore
Did you mean to no greater extent?
Or it's over now for sure
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
It's hard to watch all your friends dying
and say something to make them laugh
I'm sick of all my careful planning
breaking like a wine glass
It's hard to know which time's the time right one
when to set your clocks back
It's hard to know which time's the time right one
when to set your clocks back
I can't believe you said
There's nothing moving in this room
If your skin is this warm
then your heart's pumping blood
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
I don't want it
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
That's small potatoes
Pilot's Arrow
it's all i can do
not to trust you
for all of my muscles,
i'm a clam too
dear sarah, you know
i didn't love you
dear pilot, collect
yourself, there's turbulence ahead
everthing's moving like arrows;
try to grab one
everthing's moving like arrows;
try to grab one
catch me in your teeth,
like a bullet
don't bother if you
can't live through that
putting me into a cannon
with a damp fuse
baby, i won't be taking off
ha ha, you lose
i'll be
staying right here, crammed
into the tube, i
can't really breathe, but
i'm still with you, that
makes it all worth it
sun starts to dry it,
nothing could stop it,
taken for granted;
do you wash your two hands
two hundred times now
that i'm gone?
(straight and narrow)
keep your hands where
i can see them
(eyes will follow)
i'm watching your every move
(move away from me)
easy in, easy gone
(for so long)
and i won't forget, i promise i've kept
such careful records
my favourite was when
you asked if you could
tie me to the bed,
tie me to an arrow
air traffic gets thick,
and you control it
kiss me on the chin
as a goodbye
what's that whizzing above us?
planes, or black flies
who's that sleeping above us?
what a surprise.
if the
pressure's too much, just
throw in the towel
throw up your hands, there's
no shame in quitting,
better than watching
everything falling
apart all around you,
like so many arrows
losing their feathers
mid-flight
(straight and narrow)
keep your hands where
i can see them
(eyes will follow)
i'm watching your every move
(move away from me)
easy in, easy gone
(for so long,
straight and narrow)
keep your hands where
i can see them
(eyes will follow)
i'm watching your every move
(move away from me)
easy in, easy gone
(for so long)
and i won't forget, i promise i've kept
such careful records
Oh My Stars
Now I know why
you're floating away
like a white balloon
untied today or last night
I like the sounds
you make when you sleep
like you're eating a meal
grinding your teeth or just breathing
Oh my stars
Crying, "Oh my stars!"
Oh my stars
Can't strangle anyone who has light
in their life
Put your mouth here on my belly
Put your fingers in my hair
After mountains there are valleys
We can fall asleep there
Sometimes it's hard
thinking about how the plans we made
won't happen today or tonight
I'm trying real hard
to not make you feel
like you've done something wrong
by leaving the chips open
(I won't wake you up)
Singing, "Oh my stars"
Oh my stars
Oh my stars
Can't strangle all my friends and their wives
and their sons' wives
Put your neck here on your best friend's
Hold your mouth up to the phone
Use the seatbelt like a bookend
We can sleep when we get home
Pinky Toe
i get banged up a lot,
like a pinky toe
on coffee table legs, and
rocks buried in the snow
you should leave your jacket outside,
inside's too warm
it's just a thought;
you'll wear what you've always worn
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up a lot,
like a pinky toe
on escalator steps and
welcome mats that say hello
splitting hairs with an axehead,
a chair, a plow
one hair yesterday is worth
two hairs now
when we die,
we'll be alone again
so i
want to get your everything
i move my fingers like a mouse,
to get the cat's eye
i tried to breathe
without my mouth,
and i almost died
something's wrong,
somethings worn-out,
used up, untied;
your loudest voice,
worn down
to the faintest sigh
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up (oh)
when we die,
we'll be alone again
so i
want to get your everything
there's a moth
beating at the metal screen
there's your cloth
waiting to get its seam
by
the sewing machine
i get your brown tail,
i get your heartache;
i
get
banged up,
banged up,
bang bang bang
(bang bang bang, i get
banged up, bang bang bang)
no-one should be alone;
no-one should have space
no one should be alone,
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
i get banged up a lot,
like a pinky toe
on jagged floorboards and all
your softest clothes
the ones you wore so much
your elbows
made elbow holes
and, leaning on
the ice, you can feel the cold
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up (oh)
i wish i could be
like all the other toes,
the bigger ones that don't need
to watch where they go.
don't worry, dear,
we're on the inside,
the outside's so far
nothing bad
happens here in our little home
when we die,
our feet will disappear,
and our legs
will follow within a year
and turn clear
i get your brown tail,
i get your heartache;
i
get
banged up,
banged up,
bang bang bang
(bang bang bang, i get
banged up,
bang bang, bang bang bang)
no-one should be alone;
no-one should have space
no one should be alone,
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
It's Good To Know
you could take this for granted,
or you could take it so hard
nothing's ever forgotten
that you write on your arm
like a long list of groceries
or errands to run;
you feel so accomplished,
check them off, one by one
and the shopping cart's swerving
from a wobbling wheel
just a very small thing
makes it so hard to steer
and under hot running water,
see your day disappear
if you don't know they're coming,
it gets hard to go on
but it makes you glad you decided
to be alive
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things will
arrive
am i beating a live horse?
is this the wrong way
to stop things from moving,
to stop all the neighs?
you should meet me in london
where the bright goes grey
and the little birds dance
at the side of the lake
they can keep you from leaving,
though they haven't arrived
just the thought is enough
to keep you alive
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things will
arrive
大大大爱啊…… :D
Did you mean the things you said?
Were you pulling ankles and legs?
Do you read when you go to bed?
Do you lie there shaking instead?
Cause it works both ways with the rain
leaving the words unread
and I want to have you again
listening to Bedhead
Try to get a little rest
There's a very big day ahead
I was lost like people feel
before they find God's love
The best I can say now,
"We made it alone,
no help from hot-air balloons,
saving us in the nick of time"
Don't get your hopes up
Keep them low
Try not to reach so high
Hard work won't pay off in the end
What a broken string of events
What a little tied up loose end
Are you mad that they are all dead?
Do you wish that you'd gone instead?
Are you pissed that when things got bad
there was one set of footprints in the sand?
When it's easy you walk alone
there's a mark for each of your toes
The best I could hope for
is what you'd expect
White lights like icicles
hung up above the porch
I'd just like to say now
before things go too far,
"I hated none of you,
I loved you all at the time"
I like having to run when I don't run
and it leaves me so, so tired
I want better for you and for my son
and the lives we're leading now
I like having a tongue when the words come
And even if it gets tied
I want cinnamon buns in the morning sun
in the airport waiting lines
I like having some fun like anyone
with loaded water guns
Your Canadian plum has got me numb
Like Novacain in my gum
The best is the smoke blown
back through the flue
like birds returning to a tree
Where their old nest used to be
Now things have changed
or maybe not
That's where you learn to fly
That's where our eggshell lies
Shirley Road Shirley
Didn't I tell you that it's lonely out there?
Didn't I lie so much and pretty darn well?
It's not that I don't trust you, but I have to check for myself.
I have to tape all the windows when the wind gets rough.
God had a plan for what happened to me.
Knowing that I'm waiting here to see
if things might still turn out alright finally.
Maybe I'll ruin all the good in my life
holding you against me like a slide to the light.
I'm resting my head on the passenger glass.
I'm rolling on the ground to scratch an unreachable back.
God had a plan for what happened for us.
Knowing the hairs on our arms and the dust
collecting on unused glasses and cups.
I can see the change it made in your face:
the slow dissolve from black to gray,
The weird delay between
the things you think and the things you say.
You're petering out, I'm petered away.
I just want to lay down with you.
I won't try anything, I swear.
You won't even know I'm there.
I'm not taking my chances, so I'm counting out loud.
Nothing worse than missing simple trees going by.
Every new day is hard in a very new way.
Every good day is good in its very own way.
Shirley Road Shirley you treated me fine.
Counting the hundreds of faded white lines.
I'm silent and green like a blank highway sign.
Suddenly you smell like winter apples
and the same ways that
make you ripe will make you decay.
And I can hear the worry in your voice,
the quiet blame you point away,
the hidden name beneath
the things you think and the things you say.
They're petering out and you will remain.
I just want to lay down with you.
I won't try anything, I swear.
You won't even know I'm there.
Screw Up Your Courage
i can't
begin
to explain
what went
down, and if
i did, would you
understand?
half of
all my eyes
don't know how
to wink
hey, my heart
it's not a race;
all the same,
a good head start helps
-simultaneously-
it would scare
you shitless, unless
you're dead;
already put down
like a horse with a broken leg/
scarecrow waits
for crows to scare
my friend paces,
twists his hair tips
so my hands
will be red again
(i'm caught canary in a mine)
and oh, your legs
will mend again
(i'll charge the gate and gleam)
oh,
be
firm, and
ask me again
-simultaneously-
i hope someone
will unpack this crate,
will unwrap this cape cos it's
choking me/
i hope someone will
pack it up,
wrap me up
in holy cloth
and store me in
pyramids
you could bring
me juice, or
saltines when
i'm under
the weather, and
over you
all our songs
in unison
(here's where you bled, and here's where i did)
get your courage
to sick in place
(fight off the doubt that sings like silence)
-simultaneously-
oh,
be
firm, and/
oh,
just
speak
up, and
ask me again
Small Potatoes
Kittens become cats
if you're not careful
you have to keep your eye on them
There was a time
when I
didn't know you
and there'll be a time like that again
And if we run as fast
as the earth moves
we'd be standing in one place
And if we shake as much
as California does
we'd be still less walking open
I can't believe you said
I couldn't love you anymore
Did you mean to no greater extent?
Or it's over now for sure
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
It's hard to watch all your friends dying
and say something to make them laugh
I'm sick of all my careful planning
breaking like a wine glass
It's hard to know which time's the time right one
when to set your clocks back
It's hard to know which time's the time right one
when to set your clocks back
I can't believe you said
There's nothing moving in this room
If your skin is this warm
then your heart's pumping blood
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
If I can't have this forever
I don't want it at all
I don't want it
That's small potatoes
and I'm just
splitting hairs
That's small potatoes
Pilot's Arrow
it's all i can do
not to trust you
for all of my muscles,
i'm a clam too
dear sarah, you know
i didn't love you
dear pilot, collect
yourself, there's turbulence ahead
everthing's moving like arrows;
try to grab one
everthing's moving like arrows;
try to grab one
catch me in your teeth,
like a bullet
don't bother if you
can't live through that
putting me into a cannon
with a damp fuse
baby, i won't be taking off
ha ha, you lose
i'll be
staying right here, crammed
into the tube, i
can't really breathe, but
i'm still with you, that
makes it all worth it
sun starts to dry it,
nothing could stop it,
taken for granted;
do you wash your two hands
two hundred times now
that i'm gone?
(straight and narrow)
keep your hands where
i can see them
(eyes will follow)
i'm watching your every move
(move away from me)
easy in, easy gone
(for so long)
and i won't forget, i promise i've kept
such careful records
my favourite was when
you asked if you could
tie me to the bed,
tie me to an arrow
air traffic gets thick,
and you control it
kiss me on the chin
as a goodbye
what's that whizzing above us?
planes, or black flies
who's that sleeping above us?
what a surprise.
if the
pressure's too much, just
throw in the towel
throw up your hands, there's
no shame in quitting,
better than watching
everything falling
apart all around you,
like so many arrows
losing their feathers
mid-flight
(straight and narrow)
keep your hands where
i can see them
(eyes will follow)
i'm watching your every move
(move away from me)
easy in, easy gone
(for so long,
straight and narrow)
keep your hands where
i can see them
(eyes will follow)
i'm watching your every move
(move away from me)
easy in, easy gone
(for so long)
and i won't forget, i promise i've kept
such careful records
Oh My Stars
Now I know why
you're floating away
like a white balloon
untied today or last night
I like the sounds
you make when you sleep
like you're eating a meal
grinding your teeth or just breathing
Oh my stars
Crying, "Oh my stars!"
Oh my stars
Can't strangle anyone who has light
in their life
Put your mouth here on my belly
Put your fingers in my hair
After mountains there are valleys
We can fall asleep there
Sometimes it's hard
thinking about how the plans we made
won't happen today or tonight
I'm trying real hard
to not make you feel
like you've done something wrong
by leaving the chips open
(I won't wake you up)
Singing, "Oh my stars"
Oh my stars
Oh my stars
Can't strangle all my friends and their wives
and their sons' wives
Put your neck here on your best friend's
Hold your mouth up to the phone
Use the seatbelt like a bookend
We can sleep when we get home
Pinky Toe
i get banged up a lot,
like a pinky toe
on coffee table legs, and
rocks buried in the snow
you should leave your jacket outside,
inside's too warm
it's just a thought;
you'll wear what you've always worn
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up a lot,
like a pinky toe
on escalator steps and
welcome mats that say hello
splitting hairs with an axehead,
a chair, a plow
one hair yesterday is worth
two hairs now
when we die,
we'll be alone again
so i
want to get your everything
i move my fingers like a mouse,
to get the cat's eye
i tried to breathe
without my mouth,
and i almost died
something's wrong,
somethings worn-out,
used up, untied;
your loudest voice,
worn down
to the faintest sigh
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up (oh)
when we die,
we'll be alone again
so i
want to get your everything
there's a moth
beating at the metal screen
there's your cloth
waiting to get its seam
by
the sewing machine
i get your brown tail,
i get your heartache;
i
get
banged up,
banged up,
bang bang bang
(bang bang bang, i get
banged up, bang bang bang)
no-one should be alone;
no-one should have space
no one should be alone,
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
i get banged up a lot,
like a pinky toe
on jagged floorboards and all
your softest clothes
the ones you wore so much
your elbows
made elbow holes
and, leaning on
the ice, you can feel the cold
i get banged up (oh)
i get banged up (oh)
i wish i could be
like all the other toes,
the bigger ones that don't need
to watch where they go.
don't worry, dear,
we're on the inside,
the outside's so far
nothing bad
happens here in our little home
when we die,
our feet will disappear,
and our legs
will follow within a year
and turn clear
i get your brown tail,
i get your heartache;
i
get
banged up,
banged up,
bang bang bang
(bang bang bang, i get
banged up,
bang bang, bang bang bang)
no-one should be alone;
no-one should have space
no one should be alone,
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
no one should be alone
no one, no one
It's Good To Know
you could take this for granted,
or you could take it so hard
nothing's ever forgotten
that you write on your arm
like a long list of groceries
or errands to run;
you feel so accomplished,
check them off, one by one
and the shopping cart's swerving
from a wobbling wheel
just a very small thing
makes it so hard to steer
and under hot running water,
see your day disappear
if you don't know they're coming,
it gets hard to go on
but it makes you glad you decided
to be alive
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things will
arrive
am i beating a live horse?
is this the wrong way
to stop things from moving,
to stop all the neighs?
you should meet me in london
where the bright goes grey
and the little birds dance
at the side of the lake
they can keep you from leaving,
though they haven't arrived
just the thought is enough
to keep you alive
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things
it's good to know when good things will
arrive
大大大爱啊…… :D
