Oh Me Oh My.

Devendra Banhart Oh Me Oh My. Lyrics
1.Tick Eats the Olive

(Instrumental)


2.Roots(If The Sky Were A Stone)

When the roots of the tree
Are as cold as can be
When the wind in the sea
Are the moth meets the bee
When the rays of the sun
Lick your skin with its tongue
And the grass with its green
And the grass with its green
And the shine with its sheen
And the shine with its sheen
And the trains with their tracks
And the spines with their backs
And your sway with its slow
And the wind with its blow
And your scream with its soul
I don't play rock n roll
And the people with their lungs
And the people with their paws
If the sky were a stone
Made of lips
Made of bones
Count my teeth
To keep the time


3.The Charles C. Leary

I lost the gloves that my mother gave to me
While on my ways to the make believe sea
And I lost the rings that my lover gave to me
While on my ways to the Red Salt Sea
Dadaladoo...

And I lost my ways to my happy pen club
And ended up where I still can't say but
I lost my favorite pen on the way
And I lost my friend but that couldn't be
I lost the friend who sang with me
I lost my son but that couldn't be
I lost the son who sat on my knee
I lost my man I let inside me
And I lost my friend that my love and I shared
While on my ways to the make believe cares
Dadaladoo...

And I lost the tunes that stuck to my ears
While on my ways to the make believe hears
And I saw Sapiena she sang to the sea
The only person left on the island was me
Dadaladoo...

And I love the man who took care of me
He owns the ship the Charles C. Leary
Yes I love the man who took care of me
He sails the world on the Charles C. Leary


4.Nice people

Well you certainly are nice people
Yeah you certainly are nice people, nice people
Certainly are nice people

In your white ass suit and lion tattoos
In your white ass suit and lion tattoos
You've seen it all, seen it all

Pale horse licks your skin, begin
Begin, begin, begin, begin, begin
Well you certainly are, you certainly are nice people,
You certainly are nice people, nice people

In your white suit and lion tattoos
In your white suit and lion tattoos
You've seen it all, seen it all

Pale horse licks your skin
Begin, begin, begin, begin, begin, begin
Well you certainly are nice people
Nice people
Nice people
Nice people
Nice people


5.Animals In My Play

Gonna go out in the woods
Gonna find some animals
Gonna put them in my play
All in one day, all in one day

Gonna walk to Izabelle
Gonna have her comfort me
Izabelle spelled with a z
My sister and me
My sister and me


6.Cosmos And Demos

I've never told this story to another living soul
For fear it might awaken and the story would unfold
Candles in a courtyard and a paper colored cat
While demos danced on feathers and cosmos held the hat

Next came their profession and a paper colored purr
An umber armed albino and the crowd began to stir
I slid behind a linden to swallow what I'd seen
I slid behind a linden and to swallow what I'd seen

Threads of grass and thumbles, needles made of hair
Leaves a dance that stumbles, limbs laughed in the air
Threads of grass and thumbles, needles made of hair
Leaves a dance that stumbles, limbs laughed in the air

And on the day you fall, who's name would you call
The only thing you taught me is the only thing you know
How to start a fir once the umbers cease to glow
The only thing you taught me is the only thing you know
How to start a fire once the umbers cease to glow


7.Michigan state

My friend has my favorite teeth
They bend backwards when she breathes
And it whistles

And sweetness is all sweetness was
Bees are black eyed birds that buzz
And my love has my favorite ears
They lean forwards when she hears

Well evil is all evil was
Birds are blue-eyed knees that buzz

And I said, oh, Michigan, Michigan state
How I'd love to live in you
Oh I've never been to Michigan state
Still I want to live in you

And you can't talk without your tongue
Don't try to drown without your lungs

Well my snail has my favorite slow
The shell helps the snail still the skin lays low

And if my snail has my favorite slow
Then my cold has my favorite snow

But if my snail's cold and comes to a halt
Then my sea has my favorite salt
The salt keeps the sea from feeling sweet
And my toes have my favorite feet
And if I sweat salt
And the Earth sweats heat

Oh Michigan, Michigan state
How I'd love to live in you
I've never been to Michigan state
Still I'd want to live in you
Michigan state state state state

State state state state
Ah ah !
State state state state
State state state state
Ah ah !
State state state state
State state state state
Ah ah !


8.Lend me your teeth

C'mon
I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth
C'mon

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth
C'mon

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth
C'mon

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth
C'mon

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth
C'mon

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth
C'mon...

I'm lost in the dark
Lend me your teeth
C'mon...


9.Hey Miss Cane

Hi Mrs. Cain
Thanks for the phone call

Isn't it isnt it
Strange

Oh things do change
Oh they don't change at all

Isn't it isn't it
Strange

Oh some things go
Oh some things do remain

Isn't it isn't it
Strange

Blood in the veins
And love that's all over
You've got blood in your veins
And love felt all over

Isn't it, isn't it strange
Isn't it, isn't it strange
Isn't it, isn''t it strange
Isn't it
Strange


10.Soon Is Good

Soon is good
Sooner is best
Under evil doorsteps

The end of May
Of May, of May
Of May DALW!

Mid july
The middle of June
Evil Elvis
Good afternoon

Soon is yours
But soon to be mine
Prize beats puzzle everytime

Oh la la la da da da...

Well the end of May
The middle of June
They'll be coming home
Sooooooon

Soon is good
But sooner is best


11.Tell Me Something

Tell me something
Do you love him
Does he love you too
Like I love you

I know nature is beside me
When he's inside you
I feel it too

Here's a picture of my mother
There's no one like she
And finally
I do goddamn
I do goddamn see


12.The Red Lagoon

There's one way to whistle
Whistle while you work
I know I am the plateau
Just one way to whistle
But it's too soon
My love the red lagoon


13.A Gentle Soul

He told me himself
He's a gentle soul
I saw for myself
He's a gentle soul
Camilla's a calming name
Like windowing
Camilla's a calming name
Like windowing
There's nobody else with your babe's little eyes
This is number fourteen out of how many tries
Your voice has a calming strain
All whispering
My voice wants to do the same oh brothering
All alone in your zoo of numbers and clues
Of colors and hues
He told me himself
He's a gentle soul


14.Happy Happy Oh

She's got the happy happy oh
She's got the happy happy oh
They had the falling falling oh
They had the falling falling oh
He had the coming out oh
He had the coming out oh
And I thought loving a man takes strength to me
When no one takes you seriously
Sick out tonight, with the flat out flat out


15.Pumpkin seeds

There's a lot of love
But not the kind I need
Y'ever made a soup out of a pumpkin seeds
There's a lot of skin and flesh I never should have seen
There's too many half ways in betweens

There's a lot of stays, I think I wish I done
There's a lot of leaves my true love gave to me
There's a lot of stays, I think I wish I done
There's a lot of leaves my true love gave to me

There's a lot of birds people like to draw
There's a lot of sees I wish I'd never saw
There's a lot of birds that people like to draw
There's a lot of sees I wish I'd never saw

There's a lot of love
But not the kind I need
There's a lot of love
But not the kind I need


16.Thumbs Touch Too Much

If I were more like city girls
if I were more like city girls
If I were more like fancy girls
And thanks little bee, think of me
Here's four photographs
Just for laughs

My Miss Shipwreck sinks
Yes she sings
My Miss Pitchfork pinch
Yes she pinch
My Miss Sidewalk slips
Makes a mess, tickle flesh
When the night doesn't want you
And the sounds all surround you
And the steps to the temple
Are the breasts made of puddles

And if I were more like city girls
If I were more like fancy girls
And all my thumbs touch too much


17.Legless Love Snail Along

Legless love and spider love
Webless love and fragrant mud
Caked in birds, cased in words
I buried your hair in a bed of swords
I buried your legs in a knife less snake
And I buried your songs in a drowning snail


18.Marigold

Catastrophy
Imments the sea in sound
Spend a day
By the beach and swimming around

La la la la la ...

Marigold
Sunrays to unfold and frown
Spit past the cracks
And the cataracks in sound

La la la la la ...


19.Make It Easier

To lose the love I've had
Lose the love I've had
Make it easier on me
Easier on me

Said it's cold outside
Well it's cold outside
It's so cold outside
Yes it's cold outside
We should come inside
'Cause it's cold outside
We should come inside
'Cause it's cold outside

Said it's cold outside
Yes it's cold outside
Yes it's cold outside
It's cold outside
We should come inside
We should come inside
'Cause it's cold outside


20.Ones

Ones the most calming tune the others the giving
Ones the softest calming lagoon
The others he's dancing
Ones the I's the O's and the rings
While the others the movement
Ones the sway it slips and sings
The mantles and the blankets
Its four and four time to sing some more
It eight and eight time to celebrate
Better not be late
Don't ya miss it
Don't ya miss it at all


21.Little Monkey

Little monkey swinging by me from your fig tree
Your Jewish canteen
Baby pigeon yellow diamonds, queen of catskills
So long sweet thing
Tiny spider, tender fighter
Rin tin tin with all of your fathers


22.The Spirit Is Near

Christmas is here, all the leaves are jumping
When will they learn, the spirit is near
All the trees are dancing, ready to burn
The spirit is near, all the roots are singing
What will they learn, they're ready to turn
My father would say certainly lovely weather, I do recall