Live At New Orleans At House Of

Better Than Ezra Live At New Orleans At House Of Lyrics
1.Intro


2.Misunderstood

Talking in her sleep again
Reciting lines start to end
But she's not crazy
(knock on wood)
Just a little misunderstood

She takes a walk at 4am
Wakes the neighborhood again
And I find myself recalling everything she used to tell me

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

She's waiting tables the next day
She pulls a double then on her way
To an audition in hollywood, yeah,
A little misunderstood

We sit around the house
Waiting for the phone to ring
And I know she alone holds the key
To everything i want to be

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All I've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.

Two years later you're a star
Who'd have thought we'd get this far?
But I'd give it all away if I
Could see you on that day again
When you quit work
And threw that coffee
At the manager jerk

You said, 'close your eyes
I've got a surprise
A house in the hills
And a car that drives by.'

Aw yeah, alright, truth hurts, don't it? inside
Aw yeah, that's right, you go around once in life

Everybody wants to be a part
Everybody loves a situation
Who would ever want to play the part
Of anonymous numbers on a governmental chart

Everybody wants to be your friend
When you've got something you can give them
All I've seen, bad and good, she's not crazy
Just a little misunderstood.

Aw yeah, all good, she's not crazy,
Just a little misunderstood.


3.Good

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Lookin' around the house
Hidden behind the window and the door
Searchin' for signs of life but there's nobody home

Well maybe I'm just too sure
Or maybe I'm just too frightened by the sound of it
Pieces of note fall down but the letter said (wahow)

It was good livin' with you (wahow)
It was good (awwawawa, wahow)
It was good livin' with you (wahow)
It was good (awwawawa)
Good, good, good, good, good, good

Sittin' around the house
Watchin' the sun trace shadows on the floor
Searchin' for signs of life but there's nobody home
Well, maybe I'll call or I'll write you a letter
Now maybe we'll see on the fourth of July
But I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud
Well I'm not too sure and I'm not too proud to say (wahow)

It was good livin' with you (wahow)
It was good (awwawawa, wahow)
It was good livin' with you (wahow)
It was good...awhh, huuuh...so good.

Awh, wahow
It was good livin' with you (wahow)
It was good (awwawawa, wahow)
It was good livin' with you (wahow)
It was good (awwawawa, awwawawanh)

Yeah you were so good
yeah you were so good
Yeah....that's right! (really high pitched, low volume, squeaky
voice)


4.Rolling

Artist:Better Than Ezra/Toddy

Rain drops bead again
They make a tide pool
On your summer skin

Shoplifting corner store
I should have got,
Should have got some more.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
Baby I don't know.

God, how you look the same.
I recognize the face,
But not the name.

Pull over, never stop
A caramel-colored girl in a halter top.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
(she said)

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From friday till sunday noon.
Stop! start a letter,
Rent-a-saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a cadillac,
And we're rolling.

Could it be that hard
To never mind the rent
And then quit your job?

Flying, at what cost?
Shout outs to the ones we've lost.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?

Don't mind me. me? I'm fine.
I just get a little lost sometimes.
But what I really meant to say,
I couldn't live without you another day.

How'd you get so low?
How'd you get so low?
(she said)

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From friday till sunday noon.
Stop! start a letter,
Rent-a-saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a cadillac,
And we're rolling.

Are you just worried to see me?
Are you just worried to need me?

Me and you
Got a lot to do.
We go rolling
From friday till sunday noon.
Stop! start a letter,
Rent-a-saint in back
Want to hit the interstate in a cadillac,
And we're rolling.
Yeah, we're rolling.
Me and you, we're rolling.

On a sunday afternoon.

Yeah...


5.Live Again

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Don't fear,
Even though you're at a loss.
I'm numb,
A shell of empty thoughts.
But you glow,
You stretch and pull me out.
Does that trouble you?
Does that trouble you?

Love me
Hate me
Make me live again
I need you around

Heal me
Hurt me
Make me live again
I want you around

So long,
I never had experienced
This bliss.
So how could I resist?
And I'm fine
A little light-headed.
Does that worry you?
I didn't mean to worry you.

Now, retreating from the light
I love it when we fight
It makes me think
At least you still care

Give up, you're not going anywhere
Moonlight, illuminates your stare
And it's great, captivating you
Does that trouble you?
I didn't mean to trouble you


6.Get You In

I sit and watch your flowers wilting in the kitchen
I felt like I was one of them gasping for air.
I go from room to room hoping to find your
I play my music louder than you'd like me to

Why can't I be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when I feel without I want to get you in.
Can't I be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when I lock you out I want to get you,
Get you, get you in.

I understand that you are going through a hard time
But what you need to recognize I'm in one too
You say that maybe we should take some time apart
But you go your way, I'll get by, and you'll go get high
You just see if I mind.

Why can't I be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when I feel without I want to get you in.
Why can't I be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when I lock you out i want to get you,
Let you, get you in.

Well I could be wrong I don't even know myself
And I must be strong when you're gone so long
I don't need to know reasons why.

What I wouldn't do for you.

Why can't I be your lover?
Can there be another?
And when I feel without I want to get you in.
Why can't I be your lover?
At five o'clock you come shuffling in.
And when I lock you out I want to get you,
Let you, get you in.
I want to get you in.


7.Extra Ordinary

Written:Kevin Griffin
Artist:Better Than Ezra/Dj Swamp

I got a little bit of hope,
Like a soap on a rope,
Sweeter than sour
Getting thinner by the hour.
Fallin' fast,
And I'm runnin' out of gas,
Muggin' on your sister,
Smart as bobby fischer.

Still, I couldn't get arrested,
Though I've got more hooks than madonna got looks,
Just like that ac/dc song.
'come on, baby, shake me all night long.'

All I wanna do
Is stay 'til early in the morning. (oh, I love you, baby!)
And all I gotta say, yeah,
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary, baby.

Somebody push me through the door.
I been sleeping on a floor.
31 flavors,
Listen to the neighbors
Through the wall
At a debutante ball.
Cuma lada vista
Got a mona lisa.

So much for the late rent,
Cause your money's spent and it's cold inside.
But just like that barenaked ladies song,
I'm 'hot like wasabi' when I'm next to your body.

All I wanna do
Is stay 'til early in the morning. (oh, I love you, baby!)
And all I gotta say, yeah,
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary, baby.

Ain't love such a sweet thang?
Ain't love such a sweet thang?
Yeah!!!

All I wanna do
Is stay 'til early in the morning. (oh, I love you, baby!)
And all I gotta say, yeah,
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary.

All I wanna do (ain't love such a sweet thang?)
Is stay 'til early in the morning. (oh, I love you, baby!)
And all I gotta say, yeah, (ain't love such a sweet thang?)
Is your love's extraordinary.
You're extraordinary.

All I wanna do (all I)
All I wanna do (all I)


8.King Of New Orleans

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Got an angel on the stairs
As if you'd even care
When the lights are up
And the sun had nearly gone... down

Did you see him on the street
Did you pass him at your feet
Did you think at all
How dare they even look me in the eye

And he loves the girls
And he loves the boys
Gonna make
Twenty dollars 'fore the weekend's over

So set him up
Then let him fall
Turn him over in your hands
God save the king of new orleans

Got a ticket to a show
Did you see him take a blow
When the drunk one said
Cat stevens was the greatest singer

Did you kick him in the head
Did you see the blood run down
Did you laugh at all
When the people walked right by and said aloud
Gutter punks, you're all the same
Gonna make
Twenty dollars 'fore the weekend's over

So set him up
Then let him fall
Turn him over in your hands
God save the king of new orleans

Set him up
Let him fall
Turn him over in your hands
God save the king of new orleans

Radio in my head
Radio in my car
Goin' down again
He's goin' down... again

Any way you look
Any way you talk it over
It's easier
To let it slip out of your mind

But it rips your heart out
Then it kicks your head in
Wouldja you give him one more chance
Try and see the beauty in his world

All the way in on my hands
In on my feet and shoulders
Gonna make
Twenty dollars 'fore the weekends over

So set him up
Then let him fall
Turn him over in your hands
God save the king of new orleans

Set him up
Then let him fall
Turn him over in your hands
God save the king of new orleans
Yeah


9.Rosealia

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Where have you gone, my Rosealia
Into the crowd, he'll never find 'ya
If you walk real fast, and you stay down low
So many times, so many chances
This one could be your last

You say no no no, the fighting has left you tired
You say no no no, but the fighting goes on

Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
Put on your mask, my Rosealia
Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
Put on your mask, my Rosealia

What has he done, my senorita
His kind of love is gonna kill 'ya
Do 'ya fake a smile, when you dodge the blows?
So many times, so many chances
This one could be your last

You say no no no, the fighting has left you tired
You say no no no, but the hurting goes on

Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
Put on your mask, my Rosealia
Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
Put on your mask, my Rosealia

Jealousy - can rip your heart out
and Jealousy - can turn a hand into a fist--

You say no no no, the fighting has left you tired
You say no no no, but the fighting goes on

Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
Put on your mask, my Rosealia
Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
Put on your mask, my Rosealia

Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
hay hay
Put on your mask, wearin' your cape
My Rosealia
My Rosealia

Rosealeh Rosealia
Rosealeh Rosealia
Rosealeh Rosealia


10.At The Stars

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Maybe I should drop you at your door.
Or leave tonight and vanish up the shore.
Anywhere but here.

It's three o'clock we're driving in your car,
You're screaming out the window at the stars,
'Please don't drive me home!'

Blame us because we are who we are.
Hate us because you'll never get that far.
And who'd suppose you would go?
I've already learned enough to know.

Tell me all the places we could go.
And count the headlights passing on the road,
A long, long time ago.

Here we are.
Foreign to their world.
Straight and composed.
Your sermons I can do without
And I finally found.
That everybody loves to love you
When you're far away.

Could it be we've done something wrong
We'd make it home to your place before dawn
'Please, don't take me home.'
'Please, don't take me home.'


11.A Lifetime

Allie woke up 8am
Graduation day.
Got into a car,
And crashed along the way.

When we arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they
Looked away,
And drove to the beach
'cause I knew you'd want it
That way.

And you were standing
On the hood of the car
Singing out loud
When the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

It felt like a lifetime

And you move like water
I could drown in you.
And I fell so deep once,
Till you pulled me through

You would tell me
'no one is allowed to be so proud
They never reach out
When they're giving up.'

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

Are you sitting in the lights?
Or combing your hair again,
And talking in rhymes?
Are you sitting in the lights?

When I got home, heard the phone,
Your parents had arrived.
And your dad set his jaw
Your mom just smiled and sighed.

But they left soon
And I went to my room.
Played that disc that you'd given me,
And I shut my eyes
Swear I could hear the sea.

When we were standing
On the hood of your car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes,
Three and a half minutes,

Felt like a lifetime.


12.In the Blood

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Can you be so warm
Can you know what I feel
Well, it's the way you move your hands
And it's the way you understand

And that's the reason that I'm askin' (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I want to know (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I'm askin' (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I..

Can you throw away
Everything you live for
Well it's the way we shake and sway (aawwhhh)
And it's the passion that you play

And that's the reason that I'm askin' (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I want to know (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I'm askin' (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I..

Too many lost
Links in a chain passed down through the years
Through the years, but ending here if we just face the pain
And the fear

Did you love before
Didn't they love before you (for you, for you)
But it's the way you move your hands (aawwhhh)
And it's the way you understand

And that's the reason that I'm askin' (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I want to know (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I'm askin' (hey yeay yah)
And that's the reason that I..

La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la (lalalalalala)

La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la


13.Porcelain

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Hey, you've got a lot of nerve
showin' your face around here
Hey, you've got a lot of nerve
to dredge up all my fears
Well I wish I could shake some sense into you
And walk out the door

But your skin is like porcelain
Yeah your skin is like porcelain

Just the other day I felt - I had you by a string
Just the other day I felt - we could be everything
But now when I see you, you're somebody else
With somebody's eyes

And your skin is like porcelain
Yeah your skin is like porcelain

I don't know what I'm sayin'
Well, I don't know if you're there
In the words you are fadin
Do you even care-- yeah

Well I wish I could kill you, savor the sight
Get into my car, drive into the night
Then lie as I scream to the heavens above
That I was the last one you ever loved

(skin is like)
Porcelain
Yeah your skin is like porcelain
Yeah your skin is like porcelain
Yeah your skin is like porcelain
Yeah


14.Sincerely, Me

I can still recall
The way you looked that fall
In your favorite dress
The day before you left
And since that time
I wrote a simple rhyme

And I miss you and the things you do
The time we had, the good and bad
The day we met that i can't forget
Signed sincerely, me

Are you cross at your loss?
But could you be more obsessive
If I'd given you the chance
But since you asked, a reply but it's the last

And I miss you and the things you do
The love you fake, the heart you break.
The buzz you caught, and the times we fought
Signed sincerely, me.
Oh, my god, and don't forget p.s.
I moved away to a new address
It's far away and I think it's best
Signed sincerely, me.

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain falls, the summer ends.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.

And I confess, I was such a mess
I drove for fifteen hours
On this nasty greyhound bus
Yes, I've returned.
(you'd think that I would have learned.)

But I miss you and the things you do
The times we had, the good and bad
The day we met that I can't forget
Signed sincerely, me

Could you really be a bitch like that?
Broke my door when you stole the cat.
Someone said that you even laughed
Signed sincerely, me

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain falls, the summer ends.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.

And I miss you...

The hope you give.
The life you live.
The cross you bear.
The way you swear.
The face you make
When you masturbate.
Our bed in the moonlight.
And the night we fought
You were so distraught.
And the lies I denied
Even when you cried,
God knows I apologize,
Signed sincerely, me.

Why can't it be like it was?
The rain goes, the sun returns.
Why can't it be like it was?
You always said you'd never go away.
You'd never go away.
You'd never go away.

Signed sincerely, me.


15.Desperately Wanting

Lyrics:Kevin Griffin
Music:Kevin Griffin

Past the road to your house
That you never called home
Where they turned out the lights
Though they say you'll never know

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately wanting

When they pumped out your guts
Filled you full of those pills
You were never quite right
Deserving all the chills
They say the worst is over
Kicked it over and ran
Then they ask what went wrong
When they turn you on again
They turn you on again.

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately wanting

Kick them right in the face
Make them wish they weren't born
And if they bring up your name
Well they'll say you won the war.
Baby burst in the world
Never given a chance
Then they ask what went wrong
When you never had it right

Oh, the letters have dropped off
Though they say you got them all
I finally figured out some things you'll never know.
Take back your life and let me inside
We'll find the door if you care to anymore.

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately wanting.


16.Cold Year

I have fallen over
I am on the floor
Could you be the answer to a question I've ignored
Everything is you and you are lying here with me
I was cold and distant for a brief eternity
You told me

Ok now I feel like I slept for a hundred million years
And I don't want to live a life avoiding every fear
And I feel like I've slept for a hundred million years
While I was living in my cold year
Cold year (2x)

She was your addiction
You would disagree
She was my aviction for positivity
Something must have woke you up to make you walk away
Summer must have made you see the error of her ways

You told me
Ok now I feel like I've slept for a hundred million years
And I don't want to live a life avoiding every fear
And I feel like I I've slept for a hundred million years
While I was living in my cold year
Living in my cold year

Fall by the wayside
Out from the inside
I, alls well ends well
All you ever were
Saved by your sorrow
All you ever loved

You told me
Ok now I feel like I've slept for a hundred million years
And I don't want to live a life avoiding every fear
Well I feel like I've slept for a hundred million years
While I was living in my living in my
Living in my cold year
Cold year
Living in my cold year
Cold year


17.Stall