Unreleased Songs

The Damnwells Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.I'll Be Around

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

You go on leaving all of yourself
You go on keeping everything else
So come in dreaming no one can tell
'Cause you always wear it well

You go on ringing every bell
You know my demons are too bold for hell
I kept you letters for nobody else
I'm keepin you all to myself

So come on bleeding
'Cause my lines completing
You ride in knockin the widower
Right to the ground

I'll be around, I'll be around
I'll be around, I'll be around

You come on burning me into yourself
You go on leaving your ghost on my shelf
The lights are dark at the Nile of your well
Come on lonely case me a spell

You come on seething
'Cause my lies we're cheating
You ride in knocked the widower
Right to the shelf

I'll be around, I'll be around
I'll be around, I'll be around, yeah

I'll be around, yeah I'll be around
Oh I'll be around, I'll be around, I'll be around


2.I Will Keep the Bad Things from You

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

I will keep the bad things from you
I will keep a straight face honey
You keep your last name if you want to
I will give you all my money

I can take a plane right to you
If I could just stop running
What if all this was true?

I will keep the bank from calling
I will keep those bastards from you
I will keep your smile from falling
This time the casualties were few

'Cause we kept the bastards brawling
We kept our hearts from view
This time we're problem solving

Catch it while you can
It's the feel good hit of the summer
Catch it while you can
'Cause there won't be another

You keep the band names coming
I'll make the jokes real funny
We'll keep the skeptics humming
And someone else will take the money

We'll keep the hamsters running
I'll be the sour in your tummy
Who'll wipe the nose that's running

Catch it while you can
It's the feel good hit of the summer
Catch it while you can
'Cause there won't be another

I will sleep above the covers
I will love you like no other
I will be your dad and mother
I will give you older brothers

I will feed you fries with steak sauce
I will keep the price below cost
I will lead the way from all is lost

Catch it while you can
It's the feel good hit of the summer
Catch it while you can
'Cause there won't be another, won't be another

I'll keep the bad things from you
I'll keep the bad things from you
I'll keep the bad things from you


3.Kiss Catastrophe

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

Why do you kiss goodbye every night?
Giving me every reason to lie
Can I be in your way for a while?
Can I get in the back seat and hide?

Take it down to the street anytime
Lock me out of the sheets for a while
Give us a kiss with sharp little knives
You are the last thing on my mind
I'll be the first you leave behind, everyone knows why

So give it up, give it back to me
Will you be mine while the winners sleep?
Give it up, give it back to me
Open wide kiss catastrophe

Circling over you and in between
Your shiver and my blue restless teen
More lovely than a reason to leave
'Cause you are the last thing on my mind
And I'll be the first you leave behind, everyone knows why

So give it up, give it back to me
Will you be mine while the winners sleep?
So give it up, give it back to me
Open wide kiss catastrophe

Give it up, give it back to me
Give it up, give it back to me


4.Sleepsinging

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

It's up to you now
This place is filling up with smoke
And you won't let me breathe in or out
So I resolve to cut my own throat

And I would never change, not for anyone
Sometimes I wish
I could leave myself alone
I could leave myself alone

Each day you bring me closer to going nowhere
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah
Someday you're gonna wish, you'd taken better care of me
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah

I have been such a fool for you
I put my faith in things you could never do
Now I'm chasing myself to catch up with you
And you mixed every drink of lies with the truth

And I would never change, not for anyone
Sometimes I wish
I could leave myself alone
I could leave myself alone

Each day you bring me closer to going nowhere
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah
Someday you're gonna wish, you'd taken better care of me
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah

And I will never change, no
Will you ever change? No

Each day you bring me closer to going nowhere
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah
Someday you're gonna wish, you'd taken better care of me
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah

Someday you're gonna wish, you'd taken better care of me
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah
Like sleep walking, I'm sleepsinging, yeah


5.New Delhi

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

What's the deal with you and Lucinda?
She said that you broke her hymen
While playing kick ball
I just think that you really weren't trying
I've seen you slay bigger dragons
In the Moorestown mall

Run and slide on your belly
Folks are in New Delhi
We're making prank calls

I don't think you really remember
There's something behind your eyes
When you punched Sam Roy
But please excuse our son, he doesn't feel right
He just doesn't seem to enjoy all the things
That a little boy should

Give me a call, we're having a ball
Go and turn on the TV
Naked women on 63
I wish I was tall, alright

Gloria just confused with Walter
She would never hold hands with a boy like you
'Cause you're made of slime
Don't tell me that my boy has big problems
Don't you worry about my son
He'll be just fine

Run and slide on your belly
Folks are in New Delhi
We're making prank calls

Give me a call, we're having a ball
Go and turn on the TV
Naked women on 63
I wish I was tall
Don't you wish you were tall

We're having a ball
We're having a ball
We're having a ball

We're having a ball
We're having a ball
We're having a ball
We're having a ball


6.What You Get

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

Say, what you wanna say but it don't matter
Do what you wanna do but we don't care
You haven't anything that we would bother
You haven't anything that we would dare

That's what you get for being afraid
That's what you get for staying away

Say, what you wanna say but it don't matter
Do what you wanna do but we don't care
You haven't anything that we would bother
You haven't anything that we would dare

That's what you get for being afraid
That's what you get for staying away

Go on regret do it anyway
That's what you get for being afraid


7.Texas

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

I'm ten thousand miles from you
My sky is black when yours is blue
You just steal my broken faith
And put it back together
You're cheating on the weather with me

I sing a song I wrote for you
A hundred melodies so blue
Will you be my stolen rain
That washed it all together
I love you like a fever gone cold

I'm singin' in my sleep
Driving across Texas with you
And you look so good

I'm singin' in my sleep
Driving across Texas with you
You look so good

I could stay another day with you
Stall winter's pain till June
Will it stay the same?
Will winter be in summer?
I'm already gettin' older with you

I'm singin' in my sleep
Driving across Texas with you
And you look so good

I'm singin' in my sleep
Driving across Texas with you
And you look so good

I'm singin' in my sleep
Singin' in my sleep
Driving, driving

I'm singin' in my sleep
Driving across Texas with you
And you look so good
You look so good


8.Star / Fool

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

Take a bite right out of me
And burn the rest in effigy
Hang me from the family tree
And what you try to steal
Will one day set me free

Is this what you've come to see?
All this blood I've got to bleed
Southern fruit cut from the tree
And burning through the heart
With no apology

I'm coming back for you, yeah yeah
I sing the Devil's blues, yeah yeah
I'm burning like a star, searching for a fool
So give me what you lose, yeah yeah

I will keep this little seed
It won't be beat by no police
I will swallow it for me
Cut me from the poplar tree
I have been received

I'm coming back for you, yeah yeah
I sing the Devil's blues, yeah yeah
I'm burning like a star, searching for a fool
So give me what you lose, yeah yeah

I'm coming back for you, yeah yeah
I'm coming back for you, yeah yeah
I'm coming back for you, yeah
I'm coming back for you, yeah yeah yeah

Coming back for you, yeah yeah


9.Electric Harmony

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

The clock would ring just like a bell
The green in her eyes dropped out and fell
Everywhere but I don't care I can see
That she's made of something else entirely

Has she completely gone crazy
She kissed me back and ran
She's my electric harmony
And I'm her little paper tree

She looks me up and down again
She's looking out and I'm looking in
She's my electric harmony
I've counted all the things I can see

The spots and bumps and valleys that
Are keeping you in then you begin
To become a million things
I tried to gather all of them but I couldn't sing

Has she completely gone crazy
She kissed me back and ran
She's my electric harmony
And I'm her little paper tree

She looks me up and down again
She's looking out and I'm looking in
She's my electric harmony

Did I catch your name?
Was it something weird or something strange?
Did I catch your name? Did I catch your name?
Was it something strange?

She's my electric harmony
And I'm her little paper tree
She looks me up and down again
She's looking out and I'm looking in

She's my electric harmony
She's my electric harmony


10.The Lost Complaint

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

When you gonna stay the same
Not till I've gone away
When you gonna take the blame
Oh, when your love has strayed
Oh, your love has strayed

When you gonna taste the same
Go and perform again
When you gonna call the game
This is the lost complaint
This is the lost complaint

I just want the focus on you
My photograph won't disappoint you
I just want the focus on you
Marie Claire's got nothing on you
I just want the focus on you

When you gonna change your name
To one that we can say
When you gonna keep the take
That's when the crime has paid
That's when the crime has

I just want the focus on you
My photograph won't disappoint you
I just want the focus on you
Mademoiselle's got nothing on you
I just want the focus on you

I just want the focus on you
My photograph won't disappoint you
I just want the focus on you
Seventeen's got nothing on you
I just want the focus on you

My photograph won't disappoint you
I just want the focus on you


11.Newborn History

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

Is there something you've been waiting for
For a long time?
A stupid game where you've been keeping score
In your mind

You write the books in your head
I'll keep the last days instead
Can you calculate an even cure
And a crime?

So you come around
We all slow down
So you come around
I tried to wear you out

With my newborn history
A faithless eulogy
And if I can't keep you down
No one will

I can see the bones beneath the stare
Of your eyes
Have you traded in the yellow hair
For cheap smiles?

Call you another doctor
This one seems to think that you're just fine
I have tasted all your sympathy
And I don't care

So you come around
We all slow down
So you come around
I tried to wear you out

With my newborn history
A faithless eulogy
And if I can't keep you down
No one will

So you come around
We all slow down
So you come around
I tried to wear you out

So you come around
We all slow down
So you come around
I tried to wear you out, wear you out

I tried to wear you out, wear you out
I tried to wear you out, wear you out
I tried to wear you out, wear you out
I tried to wear you out


12.Sweet Marie

Sweet Marie
I am the lost and found
Come and find me
Sweet Marie

Got so loud
Got kicked out of a bar
Got so drunk
You lost your car
Sweet Marie
I long to be with you
Come and find me
Sweet Marie

Marie
I can't believe that you believe
Marie
Lost somewhere at sea
Marie
You saved me
Marie
I owe you but you don't know me

I see you watch the second hand
See you sitting
Waiting for your man
You always get the last word
At least that's what I heard
Marie
I long to be with you
Come and find me

Marie
I can't believe that you believe
Marie
Lost somewhere at sea
Marie
You saved me
Marie
I owe you and you don't know me

Sweet Marie
Sweet Marie
Sweet Marie
Sweet Marie


13.The Sound

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

On the blank lines ring the words right
Sing the same things for the new fight
Did you forget? I give it my best but only walk the worst
And when the song rings through your new skin, will you listen

I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck, with good luck

On the same lines it's about time
Curse the sad site of your white trite and it's always the same
I give it away but it just comes right back
But when the song rings through your new skin, will you listen?

I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck, with good luck

I will go back to the sound
With good luck, with good luck
If you keep the backbeat down
With good luck

I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
With good luck


14.Sell The Lie

Lyricist:Alexander James Dezen

Go out under white street lights
And find the real black and white
The blueprints just might say you were right

I won't go home till I've found my way there
I wont leave here with old faded fears
Of what's gone and what was never here

Don't call me tonight
I can't make it right

Just say anything you want to
You don't need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth
Give away the truth

I have seen, among the oldest of things
The beginning, the start of the seam
That holds together
And keeps it from losing me

Don't call me tonight
I can't make it right

Just say anything you want to
You don't need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth

Just say anything you want to
You don't need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth
Give away the truth

Just say anything you want to
You don't need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth

Just say anything you want to
You don't need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth
Give away the truth


15.Assholes

Everybody grew up and turned into assholes
You don't have to show up giving me hassles
You just keep on walking, never looking over at me

Everybody woke up to some new disaster
Wearing all the makeup and playing the bastard
Call me up to go out
But you just make it so hard to breathe

Is this what you call free?
Is this why you keep bothering me?

Pass another cream ale and give me a haircut
If you want me to smile then fire me you fuck
I don't feel like waiting
Waiting here to catch a disease
(No don't catch it, no don't catch it)

Come a little closer and sing me a love song
I will be the bad guy and you will be damn wrong
I just wanna stay up and watch you fall asleep under me

Is this what you call free?
Is this why you keep bothering me?
(Hey, hey, hey)

Everybody grew up and gave you the finger
Every high school sweetheart married a swinger
Come on keep on knocking
But you know she's the lock and the key

Is this what you call free?
Is this why you keep bothering me?