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Summer Nights
04:05
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There's a TV in my attic always on, telling me to act my age
Channel 9, never static, always filing me with rage
But tonight I'm ecstatic there is someone in my cage
I'm uncouth and I'm erratic, you're peaceful like a sage
And so we kiss and it's emphatic and you say that, if you're like a book then I'm like a page
Well there's a house where we vacation and we go there every year
And it fills me with frustration so loud I can barely hear
All of your lamentations as my dad he drinks a beer
And as I contemplate vocations you draw me near
And it's a marvelous sensation until you, you look me in the eyes and you're filled with fear.
And I don't know just what I've done but I know what I've become
I feel like someone's left me here and I'm afraid my song's unsung
And I don't know what I will do but I'll stay right here beside you as long as you are here with me and that's the way that things will be.
And there's a book I never read yet I know it back to front
It's all right here in my head, poetic verses, meanings blunt
But I can't leave these words unsaid, this childish authors pathetic stunt
And so this fire that I've fed has grown too much and I don't think I can confront it
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You're sick of all the ways your life could better suit yourself
You think you'll never change that you are stuck in your own hell
And you can't even see the light for all the clouds there in the sky
And you can't even see the trees because you don't sleep at night
And so you suture oppositions thinking only of yourself
And when you're done you cannot recognize these pieces of your shell
As you assemble your own novel anecdotes and meanings fall
They come from times not remembered places you cannot recall
And as the construct comes together showing you before the fall
There's a journal left unwritten there's a journey left here after all
And there'll be roadblocks there'll be hurdles there'll be prices that we pay
And though it might not be so pleasant there isn't any other way
To make it to a place we both agree will let us sleep tonight
So we can tuck our tails and run or simply keep it all inside
Until the time is right until we no longer have to hide
Until that we can belt it out and say that this is how we chose to live our life.
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Damn it, Janet
02:23
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Dear Danielle I don't know just what to say
Dear Danielle I'm trying everyday
I'm getting better I'm learning how to say what I could never ever say before
Dear myself I can't take it anymore
It takes all that I have not to end up on the floor
In a ball crying about what I'm worth so if I mean an ounce to you please take me off the earth
And I will live alone in space without regret
No one here gives me anxiety, I will finally let
Myself do what I want to do and I will play these tunes for you and anyone who comes along as long as they'll sing too
So dear my parents I live to disappoint
Everything I do serves to disjoint
Me from the ones I love so I will leave you now, what's the point
Dear Danielle I don't want to keep you long, days are growing longer and I'm still wrong but I don't care cause you were with me all along.
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Skid Row
03:02
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Traffic's bad and I don't think I'll make it home in time for dinner
Life gets bad before anything gets better so we live each day, superstitious of our failures
Never forward, always steps back, we are stuck here, stagnant sailors
So we adjust our dreams to compensate for all of our losses
Not today maybe tomorrow I will finally start those projects
But we don't we just play games and jerk off inside of our houses
Days get longer, but we won't give it up
Nights get shorter, but we're not giving up
We won't get any younger, but we're not giving up
Days will get harder, but we won't give up.
Frozen dinners in the microwave and endless TV
Small apartments, cramped spaces, boiled tempers that never settle
It's never you who's on my nerves, it's always me who brings me down so I don't sleep and I don't eat
I never act quite like myself
Days get longer we won't ever give it up, we won't give in, we won't give up
Nights get shorter when there's nothing left to lose we won't give in especially not to you
Sure we won't get any younger but we will never crack, we can't give in when this is all we have
Days will get harder but we'll try and try again, if we don't do this now we won't get a second chance
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Freeze Ray
05:57
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Have I told you that I'll be with you when you're dead?
Because I'll still be alive somewhere in your head
I'll be buried next to you as you lay there
We'll be trapped under the soil thinking this aint hell and we'll be here until the worms eat all our hair
But I mean it I won't ever leave your side
I'l be right here, and we'll be buried alive
With our anxieties and all the good they brought
They will keep us alone they will make us rot
And we won't ever have a moment we forgot
And that's the way that we'll live out the rest of our days
We won't waste no time struggling to say
The words that keep us glued down to this life we hate we'll just lay here together until we fade
Don't let that bring you down
We will find warmth in the ground
It'll be the worms inside of our skulls they'll keep us safe and sound they'll tell us how
To live, to die, they'll relegate our lives
Like kings with pawns they'll edge us on they'll lead us towards a glowing light
But it's not death we're heading towards it's life alive without the spite
The metaphor for all our plight that lives around us singing loud
It's a song you know don't let it go or it might make your troubles all they're worth
Don't let that stop you
Don't let that bring you down
Don't fucking listen to whatever they have to say
I'll be right here keep it all away
If that's what it takes never rest a day
I'm here for you love, I'm here to stay.
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