Unreleased Songs

The American Analog Set Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Continuous Hit Music

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

No We didn't know to use it
So we lost the right to choose it
When they took it and abused it
Oh continuous hit music
And now continuous hit music


2.Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Please, baby Julie, come home
It'll be like before you were gone
Back when we were holding our hands only

And please, baby Julie, come home
It'll be like before he was born
Back when we were holding each other only


3.Fool Around

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Fool around
You fool around
Did an older girl
Get to school you now?

It's the rule around
You don't choose it now
You can turn around
And get turned around

There's a ring around
She don't keep around
She don't fool around
When she fools around

So he moves around
And gets schooled around
'Cause she fools around
On a boy who never
Thought to fool around

Fool around
You fool around
Did a younger boy
Get to rule you now?

It's the rule around
You don't choose it now
You can turn around
And get turned around

There's a girl in town
And she's cooler now
So he's moving out
Out where it's cooler now

And he moves around
And gets schooled around
And he fools around
On a girl who never
Thought to fool around


4.Know By Heart

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

You are a book for me to read
Line after line I read on and on
You are a film for me to see
A string of frames that just goes on and on and on

And of all the places that I've been
Name after name, it just goes on and on
You are a song for me to sing
A string of verses that goes on and on and on


5.The Postman

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

I watch the sun come up while you're sleeping it off
When you go out for your news and curse your smoker's cough

I bring you bills to pay
And letters from the state
Then you go inside and I walk away

'Cause I'm the postman
I'm the postman

And I walk you street for hours like some kind of jerk
With my gray clip tie and my pressed blue shirt

And when you leave for work
I think you're turning to flirt
But you're turning away and it always hurts

'Cause I'm the postman
I'm the postman
I'm the postman
I'm the postman

I'm the postman
I'm the postman
I'm the postman
I'm the postman


6.Punk As Fuck

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

I am on your side
We're always right
It's perfect
ANd worth it

You're on my side
We're always right
The circuit
It gets worse yet

I am on your side
We're always right
The circuit
It gets worse yet

So leave me to die in the comfort
Of my own home
Of my own home
Of my own


7.Hard to Find

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny, Lisa Roschmann, Mark Smith

We stay hard to find
'Cause it's too hard to take it
And we keep that in mind
That we're older and jaded, we can't shake it

Pacific to Eastern we're bordered and hated
We stay hard to find
'Cause it's too hard to take it
No, we can't fake it


8.Gone to Earth

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Worlds on end seen through a rocket window screen
Millions left to roam
Engines burn beautiful and bright always bring me home

The receiver in my rocket ship always stays in tune
Right waveband in galaxies unknown
Further suns in bloom


9.Don't Wake Me

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Up from the road and down the path
Sending the birds from the fountain bath
Up to the trees while I can pass
Over the hedge onto greener grass

Up from the road and over the grass
Up to the sill and through the glass
Back 'round the den and through the door
Back form the cold and back for more


10.Aaron And Maria

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Aaron and Maria ran
From the Northwest coast to the city and
Now they reside out in Brooklyn Heights
Where the rich kids hide and the years go by

Aaron writes but they both survive
'Cause Maria waits on library lines
And Aaron sighs, 'If the TV's right
Put your hat on tight or catch
Your death outside'

We're living off some modest trust
From daddy 'fore his oil went bust
And loving you is just enough
'Cause no one gives a fuck about us

Understand it's the way I am
When we argue and break the hearts we have
We only fight 'cause you love me right
And when we lay at night I feel a kick inside

We're living off some modest trust
From daddy 'fore his oil went bust
And loving you is just enough
'Cause no one gives a fuck about us


11.On My Way

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Hey babe, who's to say
He won't come for us today?
Hey babe, I'm on my way
On our way back home

Stay tight and be alright
There's no way we'll come down tonight
So right it's not worth the fight
On our way back home

And I'm on my way
To where we'll be
To where we both can live
And live peacefully

Hey babe, who's to say
He won't come for us today?
Hey babe, I'm on my way
On our way back home

And I'm on my way
To where we'll be
To where my bones can rest
And rest peacefully


12.The Only One

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Keep me like a key
I'm the only one
Worn around your neck
I'm the only one

Lucky like a charm
I'm the only one
Closest to your heart
I'm the only one

Keep me like a jewel
I'm the only one
Curled around your finger
The only one

And hold me in your hand
I'm the only one
I'm lit up like a candle
The only one


13.Blue Chaise

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

At home
At last
No hope
No haves

For a chaise divan
That I don't mind
Won't say 'Hello'
'How do you do'

Blue chaise divan
When words are subside
And days go dim
And daylight fades

No, I don't mind
Hearing voices and
Seeing shapes go by
No, I don't mind


14.Dim Stars (The Boy In My Arms)

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

I'm sorry, the day is done
In hindsight, it don't seem wrong
He's an angel though he cannot speak
He's content to walk around

He's an angel, though he's getting weak
Boy in my arms let me down
Holding dim stars around
Beautiful dim stars


15.Diana Slowburner II

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Foolish in believing that
Your conscience will remain intact
I'm wondering if we're doing all we can
We are

Consciences lie unguarded
And foolishness is in demand
But all of our friends come down
To lend a hand to us


16.White House

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Everywhere you go
There's someone looking for you
And everyone you know
In the house that you've come to

Tom and Elizabeth
And unbearable Steven
Diana thinks you'll stay
So think about what you leaving

The note you left behind
I hope it made you feel better
Diana sat and cried
Michael and I read your letter

'I saw you on the way
On the way to the White House
I'm sorry I can't stay
I said before I'm on my way'


17.Modern Drummer

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

And you will be
Or you won't be
But you kill me
Every time you kill me

And you end me
And it mends me
But you kill me
Every time you kill me

No we didn't know to use it
So took it and abused it
When we lost the
Right to choose it

No continuous hit music
Now continuous hit music
Now continuous hit music
Now continuous hit music
Now continuous hit music


18.The Kindness Of Strangers

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

There was no doubt
The moment it was savored
With or without
Your dad's coda speaking out of anger

When word got out
The kid was in danger
Then we all went south
For skirting the chains of labor

For the kindness of strangers

So we all got out
For the kindness of strangers
And we just walked out
The kid was leaning on a leg to favor

But there was no doubt
The kid was in danger
'Cause she was cast out
But turned a corner and her dad forgave her

For the kindness of strangers


19.Two Way Diamond I

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Bright first star
High as we are
We whisper while
Just beyond these walls
The engines roar

Gone five days
Then home by eight
Ten mountain
The steel bird touches down
It's wings to wait


20.Million Young

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

You're sending me a postcard from the sand
A photograph and how you're doing
You write the words with ink and cursive
And I follow along with my fingers and pretend

They'll follow you when you leave
Only if they want you
Around the world when you leave
But only if they want you

Sending me a postcard from Japan
A photograph and how you're doing
You write the words with ink and cursive
And I follow along with my fingers and pretend

They'll follow you when you leave
Only if they want you
Around the world when you leave
But only if they want you

They'll follow you when you leave
Only if they want you
Only if they want you
Only if they want you


21.Choir Vandals

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Burned out like all Cathie candles
Marked up with the choir vandals
Reading 'Destroy, destroy, destroy'

Two speed cycle, streamered handles
Evenings with the Roman scandals
I just want to be someone, you know


22.New Drifters II

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

From Austin to LA, CA
It's a day away
Cross the border, we were half awake
Into the Golden State

And the only place for us to play
Was a cabaret
We're kids with on the fashion page
Or too young to stay

And so we're never going back to Los Angeles
If even for a day
Ask us where we'd rather be and we'll say anywhere
It's why we hate LA

It's the city with no time to waste
And we just can't stay
So it's goodbye California
For better place

And if we're ever going back to Los Angeles
It just won't be to stay
Ask us where we'd rather be and we'll say anywhere
That's why we hate LA


23.Weather Report

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

I haven't seen a comb now for days
It's indie on the radio waves
The girls will get reports on the hour

From boys on the catwalk by the tower
Don't worry now, the kids at the record shop
Will show you how

The cool's moving out and moving in
Moving in and moving out
Moving out and moving in


24.A Good Friend Is Always Around

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Hopes pretending
It's timber on the fire
Embers free the cinders
And send them ever higher

I dreamed I saw you
When you're old and tired
Afraid to move your hands
And expose the wires

We can't be caught and
Can't stay here with
Heat close by and
You're insides spilled

And do your friends know
The way to go?
When they leave your hands
The chamber's empty glow

It's a lonely ending
When your heart's grown cold
The kid is bored pretending
Now you'll never grow old

We can't be caught and
Can't stay here while
Guilt sets in with
Night's cool chill


25.It's All About Us

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

It takes all I've got
To listen and not
Just come all apart
It's all about us

And it's never been wrong
To listen so long
It's my favorite song
But the ending is gone

I'll be the boy in the band just drifting
You'll be the belle of the ball
You know the one wasting time not dancing
And be the best of them all

And it takes all I've got
To listen and not
Just come all apart
It's all about us

But when you answer to me
'I know that'
I'm going to come when you call
Or you're alone in your room
And still the best of them all


26.High Fidelity Vs. Guy Fidelity

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

If all the time
We were used
For all good time
We'll play it cool

For we were faithful
Representatives
Of things best
Left alone


27.I Must Soon Quit The Scene

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

All the kids you follow around
Know what it's all about
Or at least that's what they'll have you believing
You walk when there's no cabs going south
And your light goes out
And they're waiting there the following evening

It's eight 'til two when you're drinking in town
And you turn around
For ten to seven in shipping and receiving
You remember when nothing was wrong
But it's been so long
And you're tired of the scene and you're leaving


28.Dr. Pepper

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

From the ocean
To big city motion
From the A train
To the mid western airways

That's where I want to be
Just you and me
And your Dr. Pepper


29.Magnificent Seventies

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

You know, the fun of watching fireworks
Is built pretty much around the acapella vocal
Approval that you do with or after each explosion
All right, we provide the fireworks
You do the 'Oohs' and 'Aahs'

You left the house to see it shine
And when you came back it was gone
You leave a place like this in flames
You won't come back to its remains
If you shine, then I'll shine
If you fall, I'll fall behind

You left the house to see it shine
And when you came back it was gone
Sure, you've left worlds like these in flames
But then again you've made
Made some friends along the way
If you shine then I'll shine
If you're far, I'm far behind


30.The Wait

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

On the first day
I was aching
It was okay
You were faking

It's not worth it
You just don't try
Love so perfect
You just get by

Now it's all day
My hands are shaking
It's on the airwaves
And the news is breaking

It's not worth it
Just don't try
Through the nineties
We just got by

Now I'm waiting for you
Like a life
That is passing you by

It's not worth it
You just don't try
Love so perfect
You just get by

It's not worth it
You just don't try
Through the nineties
We just got by

It's not worth it
You just don't try


31.Will The Real Danny Radnor Please Stand?

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Gnashing teeth where we once saw only smiles
And claws that draw pain where glad hands were extended
Already gone are the people that wander
With hands cupped to 'er ears

Hear brothers that spite them
And see unfriendly faces and bullets will strike them
But offer their backs while a pistol lies waiting

There are angels
They are angels
Who see angels
All around them


32.A Schoolboy's Charm

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Warm like June
Sweet like Caroline
And still like leaves
Dying on the vine

When the same blank stare
Hurts more than it should
And it hurts when you move
Do you have to be so good?

Do you? Do you? Do you?
Do you?
I do, I do, I do
I do

And a schoolboy's charm
Is saying what he means
And it does no harm
And unravels at the seams

And the golden tine
Is twisting in your back
And it hurts when you move
Do you want to be like that?

Do you? Do you? Do you?
Do you?
I do, I do, I do
I do


33.The Hatist

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Hangs at Casino with her cub scout T.
Do you know Julie the way she knows me?
Maybe Julie, you can rescue me
Maybe Julie, you can ransom me

Hangs at Casino with her cub scout T.
Do you know Julie the way she knows me?
'Cause liquor pays and it pays handsomely
So maybe Julie, you can ransom me
You can ransom me


34.Where Have All The Good Boys Gone?

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

And who's the one that don't know all your friends?
And who knows that you've been up crying?
And that it can't go on like this
But it starts with you

And who's the one that can take all your fear
And turn it into something useful?
He's been waiting all along
And then it comes to you


35.You Own Me

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

I drove up all the way
Put a pencil to a page
And it only took a day

Though you had to move away
You didn't have to stay
With a girl that's half your age

'Cause you own me
Control me
You own me

We just had so much to say
Every word carefully laid
And we didn't learn a thing

So I drove up all the way
And put a pencil to a page
For a girl that's half my age, my age


36.Promise Of Love

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

Oh no, you get so drunk that you can't tell
Or maybe you're too young and you can't tell
But you know, you know, you know that it's pretend
You know, you know, you know 'cause it don't end

Oh, maybe you're too drunk and you can't tell
Or maybe you're too young and you can't tell
But I know, I know, I know that it's pretend
And I know, I know, I know 'cause it don't end
No, it don't end


37.Immaculate Heart I

Lyricist:Chester Burnett

Hands, where you wanna go?
Study at the dock where the schoolgirls flirt
Not sure what you're losing though
Right through the crest on the breast of your school shirt

And now that you wanna know
Why it hurts worse than it did first hurt
'Cause it never lets you go
It's through the crest on the breast of your school shirt


38.JR

Lyricist:Andrew Kenny

I threw my bike off the road
And lie in the grass
The hot winds blow
Promises I'll never know

Don't act twelve
With a delinquent mind
The sky turned yellow and blue
Like a week old bruise

These days things loom above me
My head is empty
My tongue and lips
Are swollen