Unreleased Songs

The Philosopher Kings Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Charms

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

Sleep, my love
Dream warm and hard and true
In pieces, in colors
In a cloud of awkward blue

Hold, my hand
I feel the things you tell no man
Move through you, so easy
It's a knife that cuts me through

And you bring me your charms
In the cool of your soft little hands
In the heat of your legs and your arms
You bring me your charms

In, my arms
In the circle of my arms
You're my baby, my lover
That is warm and hard and true

When you bring me your charms
In the cover of our evening sheets
In the twist of our legs and our arms
You bring me your charms

In, my arms
In the circle of my arms
You're my baby, my lover
That is warm and hard and true

When you bring me your charms
In the cover of our evening sheets
In the twist of our legs and our arms
Oh, you bring me your charms

Oh, you bring me your charms
Oh, you bring me your charms
Oh, you bring me your charms
....


2.Lay My Body Down

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

So I came all the way from Trenton, spent a full night at the
station
In a suitcase made of Calico Brown
Now I'm almost out of money and I'm sleepy and hungry
I wanna lay my body down

I don't wanna cause trouble, I don't need a bath of bubbles
Just a floorboard for the pavement on the ground
I'll take a steeple or a stable or a dining room table
Just to lay my body down

Lay, lay my body down
Lay, lay my body down

So I go back to see my baby, since no other place'll take me
When I stop to brush my hair back with a comb
I can almost see our porch light and it's shining like a
northern light
God how I wanna be home

To lay, lay my body down
Lay, lay my body down, oh

But some joke from Albuquerque with some white wine and a turkey
Came to entertain my girl while I was gone
This bear thinks everything is funny, he's got his paws into my
honey
Then he lay her body down

Just as every schoolyard has a teacher, every chapel has a
preacher
Every angry man has 6 shells to a round
Oh, I've been an honest man, I've walked as straight as I can
I'm gonna lay his body down

Lay, lay his body down
Lay, lay his body down

Lay, lay his body down
Lay, lay his body down


3.Fingernails To Claws

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

When you see a big injustice
Will you disobey the laws?
Will you fight for any army
And turn your fingernails to claws?

And try a little vengeance
Try because
Contemplation won't ever
Turn your fingernails to claws

Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws

I know you see a peaceful vision
And though you understand that cause
When the enemy won't listen
Turn your fingernails to claws

I've been on the wrong side
I've been bad
I've been careful finding ways out
Every chance I had

Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws

Act with all your passion
Find the beauty in the cause
Find the strength and volition
To turn your fingernails to claws

When rational is hopeless
And constructive thought is lost
Empathy is pointless
Turn your fingernails to claws

Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws

Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws

Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws
Fingernails to claws


4.Give Back The Love

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Jon Levine, James Mccollum, Marc Rogers, Brian
West, Duncan Whited

I would never give back the love, you gave me
I would never undo the past, that made me
Even when the memories hurt it would only make me feel worse
If I were to give back the love, you gave me

You were never more than fifteen minutes away from me
Growing up on the very same street never you without me
I was there when you crashed and you burned and cutoff your hair
It was me that helped you find your way back from nowhere

Oh, time flies and wipes away all my regrets
So young how could we know what we have
But now that I know
I wouldn't forget no

So I would never give back the love, you gave me
I would never undo the past, that made me
Even when the memories hurt it would only make me feel worse
If I were to give back the love, you gave me

Always say it like you say something
No one else could see
There were nights when you burnt so bright
I thought that you would blind me

I was there when you cried through the night
And you let your guard down
I was there when you stepped off track
And started running around

Oh, time flies and wipes away is a regret
So young how could we know what we had
But now that I know
I won't, won't forget oh

I would never give back the love, you gave me
I would never undo the past, that made me
Even when the memories hurt it would only make me feel worse
If I were to give back the love, you gave me

When your promise was broken
Thats when your love was stolen from me
I'm on my knees
All I have left to trust, your memories

I would never give back the love, you gave me
I would never undo the past, that made me
Even when the memories hurt it would only make me feel worse
If I were to give back the love, you gave me

I would never give back the love, you gave me
I would never undo the past, that made me
Even when the memories hurt it would only make me feel worse
If I were to give back the love, you gave me


5.All to Myself

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

I'd start with the boys that hang at the pier
Like bats in the night get tangled in your hair
I'd take away the weekend shore leave lovers
That flood the ports with drunken tales of far away

I'd take away the Eiffel tower
I'd take away the port of Spain
I'll take your yellow coat
No more romantic walks in the pouring rain

Then I'd make washboard, wind-blown
Sea-side, serenading, prep school boys disappear
That flock in the summer like gulls to the beach
And pick at your heart like the garbage on the street

I'll take away all the things
That make you look away from me
I'd take away everything
Then I'd have you all to myself

I'd take away the guy with the monkey wrench smile
He'll steal your heart away and make a Minnesota mile
Like a corner store crook on a prison break
Or a porno queen in a party cake

I'd take away the Spanish steps
I'd take away the Golden Gate
I'll take away everything
Just to have you all to myself
All to myself, yeah

I never thought it'd get this bad inside of me
I never thought that I'd be so consumed with jealousy
I need you every night and every day in bed
These thoughts keep spinning in my head

Then I'd make the big screen, battle-scarred
Bold-faced, leading man lone star heroes disappear
That fill your heart with thoughts of being swept away
But that's a part a man like me could never play

I'll take away all the things
That make you look away from me
I'd take away everything
Just to have you all to myself
All to myself

Oh let's make it funky guys
Yeah, I know you can do it
James, James, oh yeah
Bass, oh yeah
Do you, do you like it? Yeah


6.All Dressed Up For San Francisco

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

She's got spider web hair
And a skin like see through jelly
With a, a porcelain stare
That moves the walls of my belly

But she used to have a Cherub's glow
That lit a lamp gas nose
Her eyes were full of hot wine
And her body was a rose

Now, she moved like a liquid
Through the boys of Mason City
Had every Gatling gun slinging soldier
Every grease monkey, every Walter Mitty

She finally settled on some corn husker
With cotton seed teeth under a diamond smile
Dressed up for San Francisco but
Held up in Mason City for a while

Now, her man used to work
To make the corn belt grow
While she would dream of a city
With the soft heart, San Francisco

Dream a quiet burrow
For a husband, child and wife
And poke another hole
Into the heart of American life

Now, San Francisco's no place
For a Mason City couple
You can get thrown into a turbine
And get lost in the shuffle

She keeps everything she owns
In a Saratoga trunk that's going out of style
Dressed up for San Francisco but
Held up in Mason City for a while

No, no, no
No, no, no
No, no, no
...


7.Turn My Head Around

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

How many times do I have to say that I love you
How many times do I have to say the words
I will hold you, I will love you
I will think the whole world of you

I stumble past your misfortunes and drag them to the ground
When I see your tiny faults. I turn my head around
I turn my head around, I turn my head around
I turn my head around, I turn my head around

How many times do I have to say that I love you
How many times do I have to say the words
Although I hate to see you lonely
I can't just think about you only

I won't believe any claim you make to be worse off than you are
When I see your tiny faults, I turn my head around
I turn my head around, I turn my head around
I turn my head around, I turn my head around

La, la la la, la, la, turn my head around
La, la la la, la, la, turn my head around
La, la la la, la, la, turn my head around

I turn my head around
How many times do I have to say the words

I stumble past your misfortunes and drag them to the ground
When I see your tiny faults, I turn my head around
I turn my head around, I turn my head around
I turn my head around, I turn my head around

You're Venus of all love
Venus of all love
If it's gonna make you happy
Gonna make you happy, gonna make you happy

La, la la la, la la, turn my head around
La, la la la, la la, turn my head around
La, la la la, la la, turn my head around
La, la la la, la la, turn my head around


8.Everyone'll Let You Down

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

Ok now let me get it

Why do you talk that way?
Why you so stuck on money?
Now it's the top of the world
But it's beneath the girl I love

You used to speak my name
And you filled it up
And you filled my name up
Filled it up with your spirit

Did he raise a fire?
Did you roll up in flames?
Turn to black and yellow
Did you think of me at all?

And how we cut ourselves
On all the sharp tongues in town
When you thought that I could
Never let you down?

My baby died in North Carolina
When she traded me in at the
Newbourne city diner
Remember when you thought that I
Could never let you down

Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down

I'm just an empty hand
And a swollen belly
Born upside down
Guess I'll die before my time

Can't I love you madly
When it's not that way?
When it's not the other way
Not the other way around

C'mon and walk me home
With your blessed body
Paint your name on my lips
And the rest comes naturally

Did you scare yourself
And hide that face in the ground?
When you thought that I could
Never let you down

My baby died in North Carolina
When she traded me in at the
Newbourne city diner
Remember when you thought that I
Could never let you down

Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down

Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down
Everyone'll let you down

All good things, and all the bad things
And they all fall down
All fall, fall down, down, down
Down down let it down
Let it feel you
Let it ever feel you

Everyone'll let you down
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody
...


9.Leave That Man

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

In my dream
You were stronger than ever
Built ten feet tall
And tougher than the Stacey's leather

And in this dream you were stronger than real life
And in this dream you turned him down against me
When the wheel cogs choked to kick up blood
And spit out everything you ever wanted

Baby leave that man
Turn him down
Leave that man

But some cold nights
Are colder than others
And you can lose your small body
In the hot skin of another

Oh this lifeboats leaving soon, girl
When I say I'm gone, I'm gone and I mean forever, yes I know
And when the spirit of temptation comes to take you, girl
I know it's never easy

Baby leave that man
Turn him down
Leave that man, oh

You are everything to me, girl
You are all God's charity now
You are everything good in my life

And if I should lose my balance
You keep me down with gravity now
Everything's upside down

Oh this lifeboats leaving soon, girl
When I say I'm gone I mean forever
All things I had, all the things we did, did together

Baby leave that man
Baby leave that man
Baby leave that man

Baby leave that man
Baby leave that man
Baby leave that man

Baby leave
Baby leave
Baby leave
Baby leave

Baby leave that man
Baby leave that man
Baby leave that man


10.No Woman Around

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

On the main streets and the avenues
In the condos white as knuckles bruised
With the carmine of the busy liquor bars

There's a dark and mystic beauty
To these inner-city girls
That slide by in the velvet of their cars

Through the dance halls and the shopping malls
And the subways filled with Dresden dolls
To the school of fallen angels on the ground

The whole city's just an expensive whore
A forest nymph with a pompadour
But there ain't no woman around

No, there ain't no woman around
No, there ain't no woman around
Well, I'm surrounded by these girls
But there just ain't no woman around

And the girl that fills my bed
Will hear the words I should've said
To the only true love I ever found

I'll pretend that make-up in her purse
Is a day-dream, not a curse
That comes just to kick me down
I can still taste the youth of her kiss

Maybe it's the childhood that I missed
The first time around there's a weird shape to her charms
There's a strange meat on her arms
But there ain't no woman around

No, there ain't no woman around
No, there ain't no woman around
Well, I'm surrounded by these girls
But there just ain't no woman around

Sometimes I feel I'm running
Like a fever through the night
And I've run myself straight into the ground

I miss your smile, your name
And your breath on my skin
And I'm lost and alone in this crowd

From the locks and curls and strings of pearls
To the drunk and eager, jelly girls
It's an all-day floor show Matinee in town
And it suddenly occurs that I'm surrounded by these girls
But there ain't no woman around

No, there ain't no woman around
No, there ain't no woman around
Well, I'm surrounded by these girls
But there just ain't no woman around


11.Can't Get My Mind Around You

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

I saw a foreign movie at my girlfriend's place last night
Through smooth pictures in a dream of black and white
Saw this girl with the clean soul of a maharani queen
She reminded me of someone I know

The lines she was reading seemed to reach just this man
Though her painted lips hung, words I couldn't understand
And as I turned out the station, swear she spoke to me alone
She said 'Please, ain't it time you come home'

For the doorway I started light headed and heavyhearted
Can't move on, can't get through
I just can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind

I could feel myself falling, it's my spirit that's been cut
Torn through shattered muscle to put the ginger in my blood
Now my baby calls me and my name falls down like rain
'Cause I'm back in your soft smile again

And on my soul you wage your war
With your nerve gas and your mortar
And I can't fight, I can't move
I just can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind around you

For the doorway I started light headed and heavyhearted
Can't move on, can't get through
I just can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind around you
Can't get my mind


12.Do You Swear

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Craig Hunter, Jason Levine, Jon Levine, James
Mccollum, Brian West

You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear, do you swear
You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear on that

And would you want to take a Bible oath
And would you want to tell the Holy Ghost
Would you put your faith in standing me by
Darling would you testify?

Are you full with truth or full with lie?
Would you cross your heart and hope to die?
Stick a pin needle in your eye
Baby would you lie

You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear on that

You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear on that

When the knife comes down will you turn to go
Will you fold like the rose of Jericho?
Sing my love song on your knees
Do you pray to God or pray to me?

Is your Rosary made of loyalty?
Is your Cross made of veracity?
Would you offer your soul to the sky?
Baby would you lie?

You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear, do you swear
You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear on that

You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear on that

And so many lovers have left a space
'Tween things they do and things they say
A promise left to dangle gets scratched and frayed
Words get tangled and memories play

So many lovers have gone this way
Trying to keep their hounds at bay
How the earth got tender and hell did crack
When Dante wanted his Beatrice back

So would you want to take that Bible oath
And would you want to tell the Holy Ghost
Cross your heart and hope to die
Baby would you lie

You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear, do you swear
You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear on that
You call me sugarbaby but do you swear
Do you swear


13.Somebody To Love Me

Lyricist:Gerald Eaton, Jon Levine, James Mccollum, Marc Rogers, Brian
West, Denton Whited

Ooh, hah

There was a time
When all that I wanted was to be alone
Runnin' around, nothin' holding me me down
I was on my own

Now I never thought, I would feel like this
My friends and I would laugh at all that corny stuff
Guys who took it serious
Said that that could never be us
But

Now I want somebody to love me
To share my dream, be on my team
Now I want somebody to need me
And all I see is you for me

Now I want somebody to love me
To share my dreams, be on my team
Now I want somebody to need me
And all I see is you for me

There are so many nights filled with so many faces
They start to look the same, love 'em and leave 'em
Cheat and deceive 'em that was my game

I never thought this could happen to me
After all these years laugh when they would fall for me
Acting to selfishly, now I guess the joke is on me
'Cause

Now I want somebody to love me
To share my dream, be on my team
Now I want somebody to need me
And all I see is you for me

Now I want somebody to love me
To share my dreams, be on my team
Now I want somebody to need me
And all I see is you for me

More and more, it feels like I'm waitin', yeah
On the outside looking for a way in, oh
I'm tired of all the games I'm playin'

Used to laugh at all that stuff
Never took it serious
Girl, maybe that could be us

Now I want somebody to love me
To share my dream, be on my team
Now I want somebody to need me
And all I see is you for me

Now I want somebody to love me
To share my dreams, be on my team
Now I want somebody to need me
And all I see is you for me