1.Nothing But Change Part II
Yeah yeah yeah yeah every kingdom came
Steve, believe I still got game
Wanna sing you songs so plain
That you'll go un-half-insane
and I know I'm just a singer
but I feel it in my fingers
there are changes coming soon
nothing but change
nothing but change
nothing but change
Sleepless people know
Sleepless people know
Sleepless people know
Don't leave before you go
Feeling some the worse for wear
Steve, believe that I still care
Somehow pop just feels so fair
in this tangled, injured air
and I know I'm just some singer
but I feel it in my fingers
there are changes coming soon
nothing but change
Sleepless people know
sleepless people know
sleepless people know
1 down and 9 to go
2.Strictly Game
Up from the basement to my best friend's farm
Where we'll work so hard, we can do no harm
We'll till the land and duck our debts
Underneath soft sun, chewing Nicorette
This will be a better year
This will be a better year
Make a little money, take a lot of shit
Feel real bad, then get over it
This will be a better year
Oh I keep pushing boulders
I stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
Oh, I keep feeling older
I stay game, stay game, stay game
The East Coast kids, man, we just don't know
Singing wait, wait, stop, drop me, go, go, go
But I'm taken by the hand to a blue pay phone
We can break blue laws with our skin and bones
And now I'm back in the city, I'm counting frick frick frick
Heard of milk great things, speaking soft and thick
He said, 'If life gives you lemons, then thus god bade.
So put a little bit of bitter in your pink lemonade'
I'm sick of thee sheep, I'm sick of thou shepherd
Sick of dressing like a human when I'm feeling like a leopard
I'm sick of slow rock, I'm sick of quick quips
Sick of holding on to nothing when I just want to hold your hips
This will be a better year
This will be a better year
Make a little money, take a lot of shit
Feel real bad, then get over it
This will be a better year
Oh I keep pushing boulders
I stay game till sun'll shake my shoulders
Oh I keep feeling older
I stay game, stay game, stay game
3.TFO
You say I'm blind and deaf and fun
my gamesomeness a loaded gun
you guard your nerves, like they're your sons
say that you've been burned before
well you and me can burn some more
we'll fight fire with fire but without a fight
we can swim in this coney island ocean
all gray and thick tonight
Reel in
your feelins
we got time to waste some time
we got time to waste some time now
Burn through
your virtue
we got time to waste some time
we got time to waste some time now
Oh why oh why oh why all the bloodlet
our bodies blush pink like new jersey sunsets tonight
oh what oh what oh what will the flood get
our bodies can't think
let's rush to the sunset toniight
Reel in
your feelins
we got time to waste some time
we got time to waste some time now
Burn through
your virtue
we got time to waste some time
we got time to waste some time now
4.Niagara Falls
I don't even know if you're still with me
I don't even know if you're still new
But I can find you in Poughkeepsie
Drive all night til the names ring new
Niagara Falls, your beauty calls
You taught me all I need to know
Always awake, you break and break
And crash and crash, and flow and flow
I don't even know what I'm in the game for
I don't even get your T-shirt's pun
Let's chast a night there ain't no name for
We can drive all night til beneath new sun
Niagara Falls, your beauty calls
You taught me all I need to know
Always awake, you break and break
And crash and crash, and flow and flow
5.Sunlight
I had a coat of many colors
sold it off online
and now I duck my older brothers
'neath a longleaf pine
well I did what I thought I was supposed to do
all I sang so close to true
now they wanna know what really means the most to you
means the most to you
Sunlight, sunlight baby
we just let go of the night now slowly
we won't dance, we won't sing, we won't talk
we just gonna watch how it bends
Sunlight, sunlight baby
we just let go of the night now slowly
we won't dance, we won't sing, we won't talk
we just gonna watch how it bends
I had a coat of many colors
sold it off in time
now I'm just a laymen pagan
in a young man's grind
well I did what I thought I was supposed to do
all I sang so close to true
now I wanna be the one that means the most to you
means the most to you
Long live sunday seekers
slack-jawed by the speakers
long live pro-am pagans, tonight
Sunlight, sunlight baby
we just let go of the night now slowly
we won't dance, we won't sing, we won't talk
we just gonna watch how it bends
Sunlight, sunlight baby
we just let go of the night now slowly
we won't dance, we won't sing, we won't talk
we just gonna watch how it bends
6.Unhurried Hearts (Passaic Pastoral)
We'd meet at midday in my bedroom
a DVD of fade to black
the sun won't rest till we both undress
and rug burns bloom on our backs
then we'd forage at the farmer's market
and dine on dirty fruit
the sun won't rest till we all face west
and sirens turn to flutes
Why can't we have unhurried hearts
to beat in time with our stops and our starts
why can't we have unhurried hearts
We met at a pre-war protest
saw your brother getting maced with my zoom
the sun won't rest and we're still obsessed
and the bustle don't block the gloom
but take solace in solipsism
does anyone know a good joke?
the sun won't rest and we'll do our best
not to die unloved and broke
Why can't we have unhurried hearts
to beat in time with our stops and our starts
why can't we have unhurried hearts
to keep the time when things fall apart
runaway once, it's always forever
runaway once, it's always forever
runaway once they peg you as clever
runaway once forever and ever oh yeah
7.Winter Water
My mind is flooded
skies rain the news
i can name 300 medicines
i just can't choose
my skull for a filter
my house for a lock
i can name 300 medicines
won't stop all this talk
free shit from bodegas,
a nighttime so dim
the power comes back,
we're lit to the brim
learn how to gamble
don't learn how to swim
now i told you, now you know
our sea all undertow
recall me when you go
if we are leaving, we're leaving together
our sky all i's that fly
recall me, we'll collide
if we are sleeping, we're sleeping together
if we are sleeping, we're sleeping together
my mind is flooded
skies rain the news
i can name 300 medicines
i just can't choose
my skull for a filter
my house for a lock
i can name 300 medicines
won't stop all this talk
luck sleeps in the ocean
luck sleeps in the sea
luck sleeps where she wants to sleep
she just don't sleep with me
learn how to gamble
don't learn how to swim
now i told you, now you know
our sea all undertow
recall when you go
if we are leaving, we're leaving together
our sky all i's that fly
recall me, we'll collide
if we are sleeping we're sleeping together
if we are sleeping we're sleeping together
8.Natural Man
Damn, your dad's basement feels like '98
same sad Starks poster
same sweet fate
your jangly jewelry shook
took my gum... in your hand...
you make me feel like natural man
boombox intones like a greek chorus
it sang of being nobody's baby
zima saturday sunsets, watching the world
see how sad the real fun gets with the morrissey girls
at the spiral with lila
just watching the world
zima saturday sunsets, watching the world
see how sad the real fun gets with the morrissey girls
at the spiral with lila
feeling feelings unfurl
at the spiral with lila
just watching the world
9.Radio Orlando
In phoenix couldn't find my feelings
consorted with the brokerage king
back home I couldn't find my best friend
sometimes it feels so strange to sing
Every time I go
see more than I can know
been lost in Orlando
and I saw too much
yeah I saw too much
yeah I saw too much
Time had us to kill
we drove to Jacksonville
of the mall-side, free-ride commune
couldn't get enough
couldn't get enough
Murder motel outside Houston
four the bed, four the floor
I courted luck could not seduce him
broke his glasses slammed the door
Every time I go
see more than I can know
been lost in Orlando
and I saw too much
yeah I saw too much
yeah I saw too much
In Buffalo at the public library
I saw too many sad people looking just like me
I saw too much
never enough
10.Technicolor Health
When the game just ain't the same
every sicko kingdom came
rain rings when you wake up
just remember fall '03
dull december you and me
and girl go get that cup
You give me health
that technicolor health
You give me health
that technicolor health
When the game go just the same
finger through a candle flame
day's inn fake last name
go ahead and have a laugh
lionize a golden calf
and boy, go stake that claim
You give me health
that technicolor health
You give me health
that technicolor health
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