Actor

St. Vincent Actor Lyrics
1.The Strangers

Lover, I don't play to win
For the thrill until I'm spent
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker
I threw flowers in your face
On my sisters wedding day
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker

You showed up with a black eye looking to start a fight
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker
Playboys under your mattress, like I wouldn't notice
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker

What do I share?
What do I keep
from all the strangers
who sleep where I sleep

Desperate don't look good on you,
neither does your virtue
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker
Good souls have more better sons,
better sons were worse once
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker

What do I share?
What do I keep
from all the stranger
who sleep where I sleep

You showed up with a black eye
looking to finish a fight
Lover, I don't play to win
For the thrill until I'm spent
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker


2.Save Me From What I Want

Keys are in my pocket
And they're rattling away

Some floral apartment
and a fiery escape

But I'm a wife in watercolors
I can wash away

Seventeen cold showers
Couldn't wash away

Save me
Save me
Save me from what I want

Save me
Save me
Save me from what I want

Honey, what reveals you
What you try and hide away
You could tell the planets
or your pillow case

But I'm a wife in watercolors
I can wash away
Seventeen cold showers
Couldn't wash away

Save me save me save me from what I want
Save me save me save me from what I want
Save me save me save me from what I want
Save me save me save me from what I want
Save me save me save me from what I want
Save me save me save me from what I want


3.The Neighbors

Writer(s):Annie Clark


4.Actor Out Of Work

You're a supplement, you're a salve
You're a bandage, pull it off
I can quit you cut it out
You're a patient, I am love

You're a ????
You're an actor out of work
You're a liar and that's the truth
You're an extra, lost in the scene

You're a boxer in the ring
With brass knuckles underneath
You're the curses through my teeth
You're the laughter ????

You're a supplement, you're a salve
You're a bandage, pull it off
I think I love you, I think I'm mad

You're a ????
You're an actor out of work
I think I love you, I think I'm mad

You're a boxer in the ring
With brass knuckles underneath
I think I love you, I think I'm mad


5.Black Rainbow

There's a black rainbow above my house
Mass of curtains in the floors
I think I'm glass I think I'm breaking it
Wrecking ball outside the door

Let the children act like furniture
For the ladies of the lawn
But I can't see them, I can't see at all.
It's nighttime, all the time

Bird outside the kitchen, fightin' his reflection
Tell him I got nothin' for him
Bird outside the kitchen, fightin' his reflection
What's he gonna win when he wins?

One kiss boys and girls of paradise
Lining up around the block
Back pockets full of dynamite
While neighbors talk and talk and talk

Bird outside the kitchen fightin' his reflection
Tell him I got nothin' for him
Bird outside the kitchen fightin' his reflection
What's he gonna win when he wins?

Throw the phone out the window
If you want the neighbors woke
You'll have to shout out loud

And set the bell and slow
If you want the neighbors woke
You'll have to shout even louder


6.Laughing With A Mouth Full Of Blood

Just like an amnesiac
Trying to get my senses back
(Oh, where did they go?)

Laughing with a mouth of blood
From a little spill I took
(Oh, what are you laughing at?)

See I trade in my plot of land
For a plane to anywhere
(Oh, where do you go?)

And I can't see the future
But I know its got big plans for me
(Oh what does it see?)

All of my old friends aren't so friendly
All of my old haunts are now all haunting me

Holed up at the motel
With the televangelist
(Oh what did he say?)

At the bottom of the swimming pool
With all the water out of it
(How'd you get in there?)

If it's any consolation prize
It's to my next of kin

I can't see the future
But I know it's watching me

All of my old friends aren't so friendly
All of my old haunts are now all haunting me

Tell my sister that I miss her
Tell my brother that it gets much easier

Tell my sister that I miss her
Tell my brother that it gets much easier

All of my old friends aren't so friendly
And all of my old haunts are now all haunting me

All of my old friends aren't so friendly
And all of my old haunts are now all haunting me


7.Marrow

Muscle connects to the bone
And the bone to the iron marrow
I wish I had a channel line ????

Mouth connects to the teeth
And teeth to the loves and curses

Honey
Can you reach the spot anywhere and fix it?

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

Muscle connects to the bone
And the bone to the iron marrow

So I pretend these aren't strings
attached to all ten of my fingers.

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

If you could only go somewhere else


8.The Bed

We're sleeping underneath the bed
To scare the monsters out
With our dear daddy's Smith and Wesson
We've gotta teach them all a lesson

Don't move
Don't scream
Or we will have to shoot

Stop, right where you stand
We need a chalk outline if you can
Put your hands where we can see them please

We're holding up the lids of our eyes
And showing just the whites
'Mary, no one has such small hands
No, not the wind, not even that.'

Don't move
Don't scream
Or we will have to shoot

Stop, right where you stand
We need a chalk outline if you can
Put your hands where we can see them please

Stop, right where you stand
We need a chalk outline if you can
Put your hands where we can see them please


9.The Party

Honey
The party
You went away quickly
But oh that's the trouble
With ticking and talking

I lick the ice cube from your empty glass
So we stayed much too late
Till they're cleaning the ashtrays

Do you have change or a button or cash?
All my pockets hang out like two surrendered flags
Oh, but I'll pay an evening to keep my conscience clean
Keeping my eye on the exits, I'm steady now

How did we get here?
With creaks in these chairs
Oh there aren't enough hands to point all the fingers
But I sit transfixed by a hole in your t-shirt
I said much too much in the trying to speak up.


10.Just The Same But Brand New

The people in the street had overtaken you
By the time you rounded Second Avenue

So I walked away
All perfumed

Felt just the same
But brand new

And anything you wrote I checked for codes and clues
The letters stopped unceremoniously in June

So I changed my eyes and ????
I'm just the same but brand new

And I do my best impression of weightlessness, now too
And I might be wrong, I might be wrong, I might be wrong
But honey I believed I could
Float away ????
I'm just the same but brand new to you.


11.The Sequel