A Promise

Xiu Xiu A Promise Lyrics
1.Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl

You say I am loca because I am your girl
You say I am stupid because I am your girl
You leave me out on the steps you dress me up like a boy
You say that I am your secret love
You say to be quiet but I want to tell the whole world
I like my neighborhood I like my gun
Drive in my little car I am your girl and I will protect you
We do it in the back of my little car
Pull up my pants and fix my bra go on home to your kids
I'm going to be quiet and I'm going to tell the whole block


2.Apistat Commander

Up, along the rocks,
It's good, it's not so hard now.
Up, I bite my tongue, who cares?
This chance to drop off
All that you left you left for someone all of this hurt that's
wilted off
All this relief, it's the oddest thing
Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
Chen, he'll never come that's fine,
I lost my thought
Wei, Huai could talk me down
Still, still this chance to drop off


3.Walnut House

Think about it before you spray paint 'don't worry mom'
On the dumpster of the nursing home they have as many
Eyes as a pineapple
I am the dumbest bitch on the planet
On the second floor landing sweating buckets
My arm pits are like black moons shaking at the end of
A cord my leather daddy dancing very near
Like a sweetheart would
Hurting my butthole like a sweetheart would
Oh, oh it's a little titmouse
Ah, ah little chickadee
Oh, ooh it's little ruddy duck
Don't worry mom


4.20,000 Deaths for Eidelyn Gonzales, 20,000 Deaths for Jamie Peterson


Awful is all, awful like cookie
Sour and ringing and lost to this world
These are times, i should shut up about iris and oly,
He didn't know how else to be
Hmm hmm hoot hoot
Cherry oh cherry
While your friend killed her baby
Cherry oh cherry
I am at your command
Hmm hmm hoot hoot


5.Sad Redux-O-Grapher

He talked to me like I was smart he sexed me up
All the time I did not get it, was this my time to shine
I did not get it, had my luck finally turned
LA LA LA LA LA
I saved up to take him out at night
He said the restaurant was all wrong
He said he had a dream about me
And in that dream I was beautiful
I made him a present it was a photograph of me
I did not get it, he said it did not cost me anything


6.Blacks

I've only got one bra to my name
He said it's alright
Did he hear that, did he hear it?
That's enough of even trying
I wish it didn't matter
He told his son
He wants to kill himself
He said it's alright
I have had enough of this life


7.Brooklyn Dodgers

Sorry I walked away when you told me what you were scared of the
night that you turned 12
Trying not to cry in front of your older brother
He knows where I live, he's not interested
I can't have nice things,
Like a boy who stays who stays around
When I needed him the most on your walk
Hold your head up high and when you watch me fall
Please look back for the last time
Brooklyn dodger


8.Fast Car

You got a fast car,
I wanna ticket to anywhere,
Maybe we can make a deal,
Maybe together we can get somewhere,
Any place is better,
Startin' from zero, got nothin' to lose,
Maybe we'll make somethin',
Me myself I've got nothin' to prove.

You got a fast car,
I got a plan to get us outta here,
Been working at a convenience store,
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We won't have to drive to far,
Just 'cross the border and into the city,
You and I can both get jobs,
And finally see what it means to be livin'.

You see, my old man's got a problem,
Lives with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for workin',
I say his body's too young to look like his,
My mama went off and left him,
Wanted more from life than he could give,
I said somebody's got to take care of him,
So I quit school and that's what I did.

You got a fast car,
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision,
Leave tonight or live an' die this way.

CHORUS:
So I remember when we were drivin',
Drivin' in your car,
Speeds so fast I felt like I was drunk,
City lights lay out before us,
And your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder,
And I, I had a feelin' that I belonged,
And I, I had a feelin' I could be someone,
Be someone, be someone.

You got a fast car,
We go cruisin' to entertain ourselves,
You still ain't got a job,
And I work in the market as a checkout girl,
I know things will get better,
You'll find work and I'll get promoted,
And we'll move out of the shelter,
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs.

CHORUS

You got a fast car,
I got a job that pays all our bills,
You stay out drinkin' late at the bar,
See more of your friends than you do of your kids,
I'd always hoped for better,
Thought maybe together, you and me'd find it,
I got no plans, I ain't goin' nowhere,
So take your fast car and keep on drivin'.

CHORUS

You got a fast car,
Is it fast so you can fly away?
You gotta make a decision,
Leave tonight or live and die this way


9.Pink City

Anthony Llyod cops horse like a reporter
A two hour plane trip from his life's work
His most important story, sound is faster in water than it is in
air
A hydrophone will let you know faster that your grandma and your
niece are shot dead
There's a call at tonite's last hour
A bitter pill you've got to swallow it unravels like an affair
your only chance to leave BOOGIE TOWN
All my life in the pink city


10.Ian Curtis Wishlist

Some day Jane S. when you tell me everything
it will make me want to take it too far
and when you ask me everything
I will take it too far
the 20 hundred private loops
making up my AHHHHHHHHH!
Ian Curtis (I can't believe I said it) Wish List
via heave and via gasp
it will seem like and will actually be
just wicked stupid pride
oh what will happen
will you ever bleat out
'DO YA LUV ME, JAMIE STEWART?!'
Jane S. I am kidding
I'm just kidding