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Burnout Gets the Blues
03:25
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When I'm blue and I've several expenses
Unpaid it's a safe bet you'll find me
Awake late at night
Taking shelter in verse
And if not
I'll be eager to binge or solve riddle
Or consider the woes I am spared
Might make me feel alright
Or might make me feel worse
Or I'll look on and I'll swear
What's before me’s all starting to writhe
We're all buried alive
We're all buried alive
We're all buried alive
And the casket is still moving down.
This same time last year I went to dogsit
Besides the pay thought surely it'd do me
No harm to try getting space
From the ghost
Seeping from
How things really were and how I really wasn't
Dog and I contested to
See who could cry
On the sofa the most
And we'd look out and I'd swear
It was not something I would survive
We're all buried alive
We're all buried alive
We're all buried alive
And it really sunk in
When that odd cold front hit the draft
through the room rough the wind
Calling my name or just
Calling my bluff and I'd
Wake with a jolt and a
Pain in my jaw and I'd
Give her a call but the
The person I saw at that
Time soon left ‘cause I wouldn't hold her
And the next left naught but ink on my shoulder
These things sting more now that I've gotten older
Feels like it rots since I'm not someone else
Not sure who; now I
sing through 4-track my friend loaned me
If you should hear, sing back (decide on your own key)
‘cause I don't think I'll last if I stay this lonely
But I do tend to undersell my sustain
When I'm blue
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2. |
Like Bird Changes
03:25
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Presently indisposed
In thought or falling half asleep mid-flight
Or running laps around the block
It don't matter much at all
It hits me on the nose
I put a lot of stock in the idea
That I feel better when we talk
But if I'm telling the truth
I'm just talking to the wall
And the days are getting cold
The trees getting undressed
You can see the lost balloons
And long-abandoned nests
And sometimes when I stare up
I can forget the rest
Of the many small detrituses
That add to look alive
There's something keeping me
From changing course like bird pursued mid-flight
By raptor puncturing the clouds
It's the pride before the fall
And I feel that dive approaching
sooner than I'd like I'll hit the
Pavement or be held aloft by crowds
Of my friends and rabid fans
Or be held up by your call
And I think next time around
It is I who will give chase
Rearrange you as I like
Disappear without a trace
And I'll see my silhouette
As a shadow across your face
Like I'm soaring above
But til then
The days are getting cold....
...I have to look alive
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3. |
Railcar
03:24
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Stowed away on a railcar it rolls me along to who really knows where?
Maybe someplace where its a capital crime to stare
And nobody has hair
Stowed away on a railcar the trip seems to stretch on and on ever long
I can't recall getting on
Stowed away on a railcar I wonder how I'm gonna feel when it slows
Guess that I'll find out at some point I suppose
And the industry wanes
And the scarcity climbs
Til the cost for a stub
Is all trace of good times
And three toes
Stowed away on a railcar it rolls me along to who really knows where?
Maybe someplace where remembering is too much to bear
And nobody will dare
Stowed away on a railcar my father died on it I guess I will too
We'll lay where we grew
Stowed away…
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P.Y.W.A.
02:06
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You sing a song I recognize
I find the world inside your eyes
It's hard to deal when I've no phone and no car
it's hard to feel like you don't know who you are
but meanwhile
You whip the egg whites until pale
I learn the moral of the tale:
Life's a mess but it was best
when we made dandelion wine
and I was yours and you were mine
and I will always want for more but if that were
all it could be I'd be fine
I'd still think myself the luckiest of
souls I've known
as I got to make my home
the place you were around
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