We Brave Bee Stings And All

Thao We Brave Bee Stings And All Lyrics
1.Beat (Health, Life And Fire )

beat my brow
beat my chest
beat the ones who love me the best
oh how could they be liars?
they assure me health, love, and fire

who who-ooh hoooo
who who-ooh hoooo

oh no!
how can you stand it
when i run, when i run like a bandit
i wear him like a habit
in the lining of my jacket
and oh my gunpowder
and an emergency
i must battle without her
she is surely killing me

who who-ooh hooo
who who-ooh hooo

so you're never gonna leave
and i'm never gonna leave
but i'm proud to say i've got us beat
and you're never gonna leave
and i'm never gonna leave
but you're never gonna love me like i need

who who-ooh hooo
who who-ooh hooo
who who-ooh hooo
who who-ooh hooo


2.Bag Of Hammers

I am all in a ball
In your front yard
I have this bag of hammers
And I won't ask to come in
'Cause I have sold everything
Still I have, have got some manners

And there's a hole in your head
Spilled your thoughts on the floor
We wanted you bad
You wanted it more
The trick is
You do not get on that interstate bus
The catch is
You stay and see what becomes of us

Shake shake shake
Shake the frame of this house
Distress the wood
Make it shout

And as sharp as I sting
As sharp as I sing
It still soothes you
Doesn't it?
Like a lick of ice cream

I am all in a ball
In your front yard
I have this bag of hammers
And I won't ask to come in
'Cause I have sold everything
Still I have, have got some manners

Shake shake shake
Shake the frame of this house
Distress the wood
Make it shout

And as sharp as I sting
As sharp as I sing
It still soothes you
Doesn't it?
Like a lick of ice cream


3.Big Kid Table

You are strong, strong, strong,
Stronger than me
With a heart much more
Much more lovely

And I reach high
As high as I was able
Such a small kid
At the big kid table
And you follow me
Into the forest
Positioned and ready
Ready for a kiss
But I never gave you nothing
Not even to hope
Or wear around your neck
Or rest against your collarbone

But I got reasons
I have been excused
I want to reconvene
I want to tell the truth

That you are strong, strong, strong,
Stronger than me
With a heart much more
Much more lovely
You are strong, strong, strong,
Stronger than me
With a heart much more
Love, lovely

And it is not as though
I do not know it's hurts me
It's just I drink only
That which makes me thirsty
We are at the

Can I recall, reclaim
Pretend we did not do it

I got reasons
I have been excused
I want to reconvene
I want to tell the truth

Well you are strong, strong, strong,
Stronger than me
With a heart much more
Much more lovely
You are strong, strong, strong,
Stronger than me
You are strong, strong, strong,
You are strong, strong, strong,
You are strong


4.Swimming Pools

CHORUS 1:
We are sore the length of our bodies
We restore water we cry
We are nothing if not your granddaughters
We have been nothing but dignified

CHORUS 2:
We, we brave beestings and all
and we don't dive, we cannonball
and we splash our eyes full of chemicals
Just so there's none left for little girls
Just so there's none left for little girls

Roll, roll, roll up your denim
We've got to pedal 10 hours south
They pour it down from their balconies
You've got to push all the doubt to the side of your mouth

CHORUS 2

CHORUS 1

CHORUS 2


5.Geography

Oh, geography
Is gonna make a mess of me
Oh, geography
Is gonna make a mess of me

My my mouth
A confessional cannon
Run away from me
With the most reckless of abandon

Are you unhappy for me?
I am unhappy for you
All I can think to do
Get you get you get you
Good good good good

But I don't know
What I don't know
Well I don't know
What I don't know
Oh, oh

Fire compels
Fire consumes
You are a cheater
You are too fireproof
You are fireproof
I am a smoky plume I am
Climb a ladder up to
Your bedroom

But I don't know
What I don't know
Well I don't know
What I don't know
Oh, oh

My blood is thin
With aspirin
I throw you in
I throw you in
My blood is thin
With aspirin
I throw you in
I throw you in
I throw you in


6.Feet Asleep

toss up
so you'll fall asleep
cook you dinner
but you would not eat
your sharp mouth forgets when you swore
god damn, you wouldn't do it again
but i
bend back
with an eye
for love
and i take it on the chin
and then i patch you up

but all these years, my feet asleep
move them around
that they might breathe
and oh, so little time
i, i have gone old
this shock
this shock and awe

come back to see me
i know they have a rainy season
come back to see me
i know they have a rainy season

you
you are mine
so i never would mind
i work my arms so hard
just to give you an airplane ride


7.Yes, So On And So On

Love large enough to want to shrink
Been done enough to start to think
I might cut right back on the heart attacks
I might cut right back on the heart attacks
And so on, so on, so on and on
So on, so on and on

It was brave to play
It was an honor to lose
All the banners wave
All the fans salute

I am going away but not away from you
I have found the difference between the two
So on
So on
So on

We want too much
It's a given
In the bones of the matter we live in
I want more than can be given
At the heart of the matter we live in
So on


8.Fear And Convenience

I have seen fear and convenience
I have never glimpsed a romance
All my riches in the company van
I drove much faster than the rain

Then it hurts you
In a new way
In a new way
In a new way
Then it hurts you
In a new way
In a new way
In a new way

All our senses dry as cotton
Petrified hearts
Let 'em know if you got 'em
And all I can give
I wander from the shower
My legs on your bed
So I do not think about her

But tell me did it hurt you
In a new way
In a new way
In a new way
Tell me did it hurt you
In a new way
In a new way
In a new way

Did it hurt you
In a new way
In a new way
In a new way


9.Violet

Oh no, Violet, don't you go
Violet, Violet, don't you go (x2)

I will keep my station wagon stationary
And I will learn to juggle all the things we carry
Must be hard on your bodyguards
When you charge at icicles
Eye level to your heart
And then you sing,
'Don't they need any? Won't they need any? Won't they? They
won't. Won't they? They won't.'

Oh no, Violet, don't you go
Violet, Violet, don't you go (x2)

I built a light tower for my town pillar
Low fly an aircraft dark on a...
Gonna kill her
I laid these bricks
You want stones
You won't be carried
You must be thrown
Oh no, Violet, oh no
Violet


10.Travel

darling did you hate
the way i made you travel
all pain and scrapes
scrapes and safety hazards
we only only roll so far
and then i rolled you from my zooman cup

but i took a million looks
how they ate me up
made me heavy and for what
but you float you float
how could you know
i never can tell
and i never can show

oh i oh i oh i i i
oh i oh i i i

but i took a million looks
how they ate me up
made me heavy and for what

but you float you float
how could you know
i never can tell
i never can show


11.We Go

Let's go home and eat sweet things
Throw our arms across our eyes
They are angry like motorcycles
Tuck your chin and ride

We are not so bad
We are not so
We are not so bad
When we go
When we go
When we go

We have burned our tongues
While we burned your ears
You are patient ones
We have worn you thin and clear

We will go on on
We will go on on
We will go on on
We will go on on