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 You turn on a spindle

 You are so much looser now

 But you're not explaining how

 You gained such new repose

 I touch the clasp of your locket

 With its picture held

 Some secret you wouldn't tell

 But let it choke your neck

 So we imagine a darkness

 Where all shapes divide

 Solids changing into light

 With a burst of heat so bright

 Well fine

 Don't you do what I want you to

 Yeah, don't degrade yourself the way that I do

 'Cause you don't depend upon all the shit that I use

 To make my moods immmmmmprove

 And near a sea of pianos

 There were waves of chords

 That crashed against the shore

 In one huge and pointless roar

 And there were girls bringing water

 Like a dream they came

 To cool the fever of my brain

 And soothe my burning throat

 And they made me a necklace

 Hanging beads of sweat

 On a string of my regrets

 And placed it 'round my neck

 And they were singing

 Don't you do what you've wanted to

 Yeah, don't destroy yourself like those cowards do

 And maybe the sun keeps coming up 'cause it's gotten used to you

 And your constant need forrrr proof

SONG - A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks

 Here is a scale, weigh it out and you will find easily

 More than sufficient doubt that these colors you see

 Were picked in advance by some careful hand

 With an absolute concept of beauty

 They are smeared and these blurs come in random order

 To color the eyes of your former lovers

 Hers were green like July except when she cried

 They were red

 Now I know a disease that these doctors can't treat

 You contract it the day you accept all you see

 Is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be

 A reflection of something we're missing

 And language just happened, it was never planned

 And it's inadequate to describe where I am

 In the room of my house where the light has never been

 Waiting for this day to end

 And these clocks keep unwinding and completely ignore

 Everything that we hate or adore

 Once the page of a calendar is turned it's no more

 So tell me then, what was it for?

 Oh tell me, what was it for?

- The Calendar Hung Itself

 Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning

when you start to raise your head?

 And does he sing to you incessantly

from the place between your bed and wall?

 Does he walk around all day at school

with his feet inside your shoes?

 Looking down every few steps

to pretend he walks with you?

 Does he know that place below your neck

that is your favorite to be touched?

 And does he cry through broken sentences

like "I love you far too much"?

 Does he lay awake listening to your breath?

 Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?

 Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?

 For every speck of tile there are a thousand more

 That you won't ever see

 But must hold inside yourself eternally

 I drug your ghost across the country

and we plotted out my death

 In every city, memories would whisper

"Here is where you rest"

 I was determined in Chicago

But I dug my teeth into my knees

 And I settled for a telephone

Sang into your machine

 "You are my sunshine,

  My only sunshine.

  You are my sunshine

  My only sunshine"

 I kissed a girl with a broken jaw

That her father gave to her

 She had eyes bright enough to burn me

They reminded me of yours

 And in a story told she was a little girl

In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field

 And there were rows of ripe tomatoes

Where a secret was concealed

 And it rose like thunder

 Clapped under our hands

 And it stretched for centuries

 To a diary entry's end where I wrote

 "You make me happy (WHAT?)

  When the skies are gray

  You make me happy (WHAT?)

  When skies are gray and gray and gray"

 Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest

 With hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself

 But I will not weep for those dying days

 For all the ones who've left there are a few that stayed

 And they found me here and pulled me from the grass

 Where I was laid

SONG - Something Vague

intro and main progression:

 Now and again it seems worse than it is

 But mostly the view is accurate.

 You see your breath in the air as you climb up the stairs

 to that coffin you call your apartment.

 And you sink in your chair

 Brush the snow from your hair

 And drink the cold away

 You are not really sure

 What you're doing this for

 But you need something to fill up the days

 A few more hours

 There is a dream in my brain that just won't go away

 It's been stuck there since it came a few nights ago

 And I'm standing on a bridge in the town where I lived

 As a kid with my mom and my brothers

 And then the bridge disappears

 And I'm standing on air

 With nothing holding me

 And I hang like a star

 Fucking glow in the dark

 For all those starving eyes to see

 Like the ones we've wished on

 But now I'm confused

 Is this death really you?

 And do these dreams have any meaning?

 No, no, I think it is more like a ghost

 That's been following us both

  Something vague that we're not seein

 Something more like a feeling

SONG - The Movement Of A Hand

 You follow the footsteps

 Echoes leading down a hall

 To a room, there's music playing

 Tiny bells with moving parts

 Here the shadows make things ugly

 An effect quite undesirable

 The bold and yellow daylight

 Grows like ivy across the wall

 And bounces off of the painted porcelain

 Tiny dancing doll

 Her body spins as she pirouettes again

 The world suddenly seems small

 On an off-white subtle morning

 You stretch your legs in the front seat

 The road has made a vacuum

 Where our voices used to be

 And you lay your head onto my shoulder

 Pour like water over me

 So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this

 Drive that would be fine

 And all the trees that line this curb would be

 Rejoicing and alive

 Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes

 Fountains of your eyes

 Because you finally understand the movement of a

 Hand waving you goodbye

SONG - Arienette

 The fragile keep secrets gathered in pockets

 And they will sell them for nothing, a cheap watch or locket

 That kind of gold washes off

 And the sad act like lepers, they stick to the shadows

 They long to ring bells of warning to tell of their coming

 So that the pure can shut their doors

 And the angry are animals, senseless and savage

 They act without order in logical lapses

 They stain their mouths with blood

 So take my hand, this barren land is alive tonight

 Oh, the corn has grown stalks that form a wall to hide

 The wind carries sounds that I can't see from beyond that line

 Then the stalks begin to sway

 Oh, stay with me, Arienette

 Until the wolves are away

 YUP

 Well the wicked are vultures, they bake in the canyons

 They circle in sunlight and wait for their victims

 To collapse and call to them

 And the desperate are water, they'll run down forever

 As they soak into silence and end up together

 In a dark and distant, dark and distant place

 So don't leave me here with only mirrors watching me

 This house, it holds nothing but the memories

 And the moon, it leaves silver but never sleep

 And then the silver turns to gray

 So stay with me, Arienette

 Until the wolves are away

SONG - When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass

 Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother

 And making him take me back down to the water

 That lake where we sailed and we laughed with our father

 I will not desert him, I will not desert him

 No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean

 Or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me

 I put my face in the dirt and then finally I see

 The sky that has been avoiding me

 I started this letter, I'm gonna send it to Ruba

 It will be blessed by her eyes on the gulf coast of Florida

 With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit

 She will recite the prayer of my pen

 Saying, time take us forward, relief from this longing

 They can land that plane on my heart. I don't care

 Just give me November, the warmth of a whisper

 In the freezing darkness of my room

 But no matter what I would do in an attempt to replace

 All these pills that I take trying to balance my brain

 Seen the curious girl with that look on her face

 So surprised she stares out from her display case

SONG - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh

 The phone slips from a loose grip

 Words were missed, then some apology

 I didn't want to tell you this

 No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with

 I don't know, the past couple weeks, I guess

 Thank you and hang up the phone

 Let the funeral start, hear the casket close

 Let's pin split-black ribbon to your overcoat

 The laughter pours from under doors in this house

 I don't understand that sound no more

 Seems artificial like a TV set

 Well Haligh Haligh Haligh Haligh

 This weight, it must be satisfied

 You offer only one reply

 You know not what you do

 But you tear and tear your hair from roots

 From that same head you have twice removed

 Now a lock of hair you said would prove

 Our love would never die, well hahaha

 I remember everything

 The words we spoke on freezing South Street

 And all those mornings watching you get ready for school

 You combed your hair inside that mirror

 The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears

 Something about those bright colors would always make you feel better

 But now we speak with ruined tongues

 And the words we say aren't meant for anyone

 It's just a mumbled sentence to a passing acquaintance but there was once you

 You said you hate my suffering

 And you understood and you'd take care of me

 You'd would always be there, well where are you now?

 Haligh, Haligh, Haligh, Haligh

 The plans were never finalized

 But left to hang like yarn and twine

 Dangling before my eyes

 As you tear and tear your hair from roots

 From that same head that you have twice removed

 Now a lock of hair you said would prove

 Our love would never die

 And I sing and sing of awful things

 The pleasure that my sadness brings

 And my fingers press onto the strings

 Yet another clumsy chord

 Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie

 This weight will now be satisfied

 I'm gonna give you only one reply

 I know not who I am

 But I talk in the mirror

 To the stranger that appears

 Our conversations are circles

 Always one sided

 Nothing is clear

 Except we keep coming back

 To this meaning that I lack

 He says the choices were given

 Now you must live them

 Or just not live

 But do you want that?

SONG - The Center Of The World

 At the center of the world there's a statue of a girl

 She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry

 I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand

 This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand

 It came to rest upon a beach with a million others there

 We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear

 Into the endlessness of blue into the horror of the truth

 See, we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew

 But we knew what we could taste

 Girls found honey to drench our hands

 The men cut marble to mark our graves

 Said we'll need something to remind us of

 All the sweetness that has passed through us

 The priests dressed children for a choir

 But found no joy in what was sung

 The funeral had begun

 In the middle of the day when you drive home to your place

 From that job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake

 Long after night has come to claim any light that still remains

 In the corner of the frame that you put around her face

 Two pills just weren't enough

 The alarm clock's going off but you're not waking up

 This isnt happening happening happening happening happening

 It is

SONG - Sunrise, Sunset

  ? - XX6555

 Sunrise, sunset

 Sunrise, sunset

 Swiftly go the days

 Sunrise, sunset

 You wake up, then you undress

 It always is the same

 A sunrise and the sun sets

 You are lying while you confess

 Keep trying to explain

 A sunrise and the sun sets

 You realize, then you forget

 What you have been trying to retain

 But everybody knows

 It's all about the things

 That get stuck inside of your head

 Like the songs your roommate sings

 Or a vision of her body

 As she stretches out on your bed

 And she raised her hands in the air

 Asked you, when was the last time you looked in the mirror?

 'Cause you have changed

 Yeah, you've changed

 Sunrise, the sun sets

 You are hopeful and then you regret

 The circle never breaks

 With a sunrise and sunset

 There's a change of heart or address

 Is there nothing that remains?

 For a sunrise or a sunset

 You're manic or you're depressed

 Will you ever feel okay?

 For a sunrise or a sunset

 Your lover is an actress

 Did you really think she'd stay?

 For a sunrise or a sunset

 You're either coming or you just left

 But you're always on the way

 Towards a sunrise or a sunset

 A scribble or a sonnet

 They are really just the same

 To the sunrise or a sunset

 The master and his servant

 Have exactly the same fate

 It's a sunrise and a sunset

 From a cradle to a casket

 There is no way to escape

 The sunrise and the sunset

 Hold your sadness like a puppet

 Keep putting on the play

 But everything you do

 Is leading to the point

 Where you just won't know what to do

 And at that moment you may laugh

 But there is someone there

 Who will be laughing louder than you

 So it's true

 The trick is complete

 You've become everything you said you never would be

 You're a fool

 You're a fool

 Sunrise, sunset

 Sunrise, sunset

 The sunrise and the sun sets

 Sunrise, sunset

 Sunrise, the sun sets

 The sunrise, the sun sets

 Sunrise, sunset

 Go home to your apartment

 Put the cassette in the tape deck

 And let that fever play

 Sunrise, sunset

 Where are you Arienette?

 Where are you Arienette?

SONG - An Attempt To Tip The Scales

Intro

 Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?

 Like the sun is just gonna drop if it's night you demand?

 Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve

 Once we're gone, who's gonna care if we were ever here at all?

 Well, summer's gonna come, it's gonna cloud our eyes again

 No need to focus when there's nothing that's worth seeing

 So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales

 I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details

 They seemed so important at the time but now you can't even recall

 Any of the names, faces, or lines, it's more the feeling of it all

 Well, winter's gonna end, it's gonna clean these veins again

 So close to dying that I finally can start living

  (repeat) end on

SONG - A Song To Pass The Time

Start with fingerpicking E

 There is a middle-aged woman, she's dragging her feet

 She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat

 While the Mexican children kick rocks into the street

 And they laugh in a language I don't understand

 But I love them... why do I love them?

 So the neighborhood's dimming, I smoke on the porch

 Watch the people as they pass enclosed inside their cars

 And on their faces just anger or disappointment

 I start wishing there was something I could offer them

 A consolation... what could I offer them?

 And they are sad in their suburbs, robots water the lawn

 And everything they touch gets dusted spotless

 And so they start to believe they've not touched anything at all

 And the cars in the driveway only multiply

 They are lost in their houses, I've heard them sing in the shower

 Making speeches to their sister on the telephone

 Saying you come home, you come here, don't stay so far away from me

 This weather has me wanting love more tangible

 Something I can hold... it's getting cold

 I say hold up our fists to a flame in the sky

 To block out the light that's reaching for our eyes

 'Cause it... 'cause it would blind us, yeah it will blind us

 Well I've locked my actions in the grooves of routine

 So I may never be free of this apathy

 But I wait for a letter that's coming to me

 She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope

 So there still is hope, yes, I can be healed

 There is someone looking for what I've concealed

 In my secret drawer, in my pockets deep

 You will find the reasons that I can't sleep

 And you will still want me... but will you still want me?

 Will you still want me?

 Well, I say come for the week, you can sleep in my bed

 And pass through my life like a dream through my head

 It will... it will be easy, I'll make it easy

 But all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time

 A melody to keep me from worrying

 Some simple progression to keep my fingers busy

 And words that are sure to come back to me

 And they'll be laughing... and they'll be laughing

 My mediocrity

 My mediocrity