lyrics: Songs From Brokeland (2011)

lyrics

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You And I Pull Close

You’re in me and then I’m in you
I don’t quite know how that goes
Thinking of my sweet Virginia
Flying on those open roads

You and I turn like the weather
You and I break like a heart
You and I pull close together
You and I grow far apart

(Come on, baby.  Come on, baby, won’t you call me)
But it’s a pin prick
It’s a rough situation that I’m facing here
With the cash quick and the chicks sick
I can’t tell who’s the crazier in the picture, baby,
Here in my bed
I love your voice, it’s here in my head
Like a laser, like a minor to a major, and then, rise, rise
Till I’m dead

Cold, right here where I lay
I only wish that you were here that you could hear me as I pray that you were here to hear me pray that you could be here where I lay

Maybe I want you
Maybe I need you
Maybe I love you but it’s hard to let go

Cow manure fresh to breath in
Subway bum who leaves a gift
The country beats the city even when it comes to smelling shit

(You and I go close, you and I grow far)

You and I turn like the weather
You and I break like a heart
You and I pull close together
You and I grow far apart

Inside of my ribs
It’s a big fib if I try to pretend I’m not just a big dick
I’m a burnt wick I’m burning semi-tragically to a crisp

I need you here in my bed
And I love your voice it’s here in my head like a major
(here it is in my head)
Like a minor to a major
And then rise rise till I’m dead

Oh I wanted you so bad
Just know you never had my heart and then you worked and broke me down
And when you finally had my heart you threw it on the dirty ground
I never knew if you were lying to me or to yourself
And now I’ll take this stupid book and put it back up on the shelf
There’s only two kinds of people in this world that make me weep
Brilliant dead Russian composers and beautiful blond freaks

You and I pull close
You and I grow far

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Million

The trouble with all them pretty girls
Is nobody gets no play
Everyone working every day
But still you don’t get much pay

If you love your brother
Would you give some sugar to me?
What do you want from me?
If you call your mother
She can tell you how it can be
When do you try to speak?

The trouble with all them little words
The trouble with all them little words
The trouble with all them little girls
Is nobody gets no play
Unless you belabor every day
And still you don’t get much pay

If you love your brother
Would you give some sugar to me?
What do you want from me?
If you call your mother
She can tell you how it can be
When do you want to speak?

Hey, that’s the song that I wanted
Hey, that’s the one that I needed
Outside the radio’s on
I know, I’ve heard it a million times

If you love your brother
Would you give some sugar to me?
What do you want from me?

Hey, that’s the song that I wanted
Hey, that’s the song that I needed
Outside the radio’s on
I know, I’ve heard it a million times

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Mechanical Mind

I was taught to make words
Taught to read by chimpans who learned it first
And now I go berserk
Soaking in ideas and writing works
Prepping for battle of the nerds

Mechanical Mind give it some give it some time
lover of mine lover of mine you will be blind to my
mechanical mind
you can’t empathize with my mechanical mind

lover of mine lover of mine you’re covered in, covered in slime
but it’s a beautiful time our little kind is giving rise to
the mechanical mind
can’t empathize with my mechanical mind

Born under a strange sign
A million years of darkness I’m just in time
To see the death of Christ
See as he ascends in pale blue light
Worshipping deep into the night

Do you believe me?
Things are getting weird and nobody sees
We’re funny hairless monkies
No we’re genius chimpanzees with keys
Maybe we’ll find it with a

Mechanical Mind give it some give it some time
lover of mine lover of mine you will be blind to my
m-m-mechanical mind
you can’t empathize with my mechanical mind

lover of mine
our little kind is giving rise to the mechanical mind
can’t empathize with my m-m-m-mechanical mind

My m-m-m-mechanical mind

I read biographies at dizzying rates a web of context
I watched as Gia made her way in the city through the night she was still alive
She’s a dirty girl she’s a dirty girl she’s a dirty girl and she’s on my mind

I heard a couple hundred brilliant ideas over the weekend
I looked at pictures that the Voyager took of Jupiter and the giant storm
It’s a scary world it’s a scary world it’s a scary world and it’s on my mind

I need more like a junkie
I need more running through my veins
I’m caged up like a monkey
I’m caged up but I won’t complain
And I go
I learn more through the night

I want to live riding the highway of endless information
I want to soak in all the sadness and victories of man
First a little wank
She’s a dirty girl she’s a dirty girl she’s a dirty girl and she’s on my mind

I need more like a junkie
I need more running through my veins
I’m caged up like a monkey
I’m caged up but I won’t complain
I need more like a junkie
I need more running through my veins
I’m caged up like a monkey
I’m caged up but I can’t complain
And I say
I go on through the night

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Poor Places

I woke up to all the people I knew them as children
They grew up and made some money and turned in to yuppies
They got a pretty car and technology they don’t know how to use
How’d they get so far?  I have nothing now I don’t know what to do
Living in tight spaces

I’m living in poor places
Trying to get smiles from beautiful women
Tell me, what do I gotta do to get ahead?

Living in poor places
Trying to get smiles from all of the beautiful women
Tell me, what am I to do?  What am I to do?

When I am
Being held inches under the surface
Like an elephant traveling with the circus
I’m a paperface and you’re throwing me in the furnace
Every day inches under the surface
I don’t know, but I’m living in poor places

I woke up the snow was falling in New York and New York
was falling I think the people are losing America
Now maybe I’m Chicken Little but I think we’re Rome I think we’re Mayans now
If you want to know the truth, I’m the best here at being always broke.

Living in tight spaces

I’m living in poor places
Trying to get smiles from beautiful women
Tell me, what do I gotta do to get ahead?

Living in poor places
Trying to get smiles from all of the beautiful women
Tell me, what am I to do?  What am I to do?

When I am
Being held inches under the surface
Like an elephant traveling with the circus
I’m a paperface and you’re throwing me in the furnace
Every day inches under the surface

I’m a paperface and you’re throwing me in the furnace
That’s why I’m living in poor places

Living in poor places

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Come On Daisy

Tense and lone I wish someone would throw me a bone
I can’t fall asleep now I can’t fall asleep now
but there is someone here in my room
and she will show me everything so

Come on, Daisy, come
You’re beautiful and young
So come on, Daisy, come
I can’t get me some
So come on daisy
Oh would you love me baby

When you’re here taking clothes off
This is weird, but I just thought of your dad
‘Cause I know he would be mad
It makes me revolted and sad
But still I just can’t turn away so

Come on, Daisy, come
You’re beautiful and young
Come on, Daisy, come
When I can’t get me some
Come on, daisy
You’re beautiful and young
So come on, Daisy, come
So come on, Daisy
Oh would you love me baby

Come on, Daisy, come
You’re beautiful and young
Come on, Daisy, come
When I can’t get me some
Come on, daisy
You’re beautiful and young
So come on, Daisy, come
So come on, Daisy
Oh would you love me baby

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Coney Island

You and I went south we took the Q
That’s where the whole thing fell apart
On Coney Island we’re doing all right
You became really bitchy I made you cry
We were outside the aquarium
We were too poor
And we couldn’t go in
Now we’re all right
We’re doing all right

I want to stand on the world like I’m a super king
I’ve got a plan to avoid being a stupid thing
And you know I want to take you along
You and me love one another forever come on
And you know we’re gonna sing us a song
And we’ll see if we can make it all right when it used to be wrong
You know I need you Carolina

You and I went south in your pretty car
Mine has been rein”car”nated get it?
Bobby broke down now we’re doing all right

I don’t know why we stay far apart
Life is vacation when you and I
are hanging out
we’re doing all right

I want to stand on the world like I’m a super king
I’ve got a plan to avoid being a stupid thing
And you know I want to take you along
You and me love one another forever come on
And you know we’re gonna sing us a song
And we’ll see if we can make it all right when it used to be wrong
Come on I need you Carolina

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Spider

I am a spider-man
Think Kafka over Stan Lee
Actually that works too
Feel like the world can’t stand me

Life as a spider
Hide in basement to make it through the night
Sat down beside her
Now she’s trying to crush me run for life
But you hear the voice call like another lover
Girlfriend you a little chimp
But you start to evolve when you hear that little voice

But you hear the voice call like another lover
Girlfriend you a little chimp
But you start to evolve when you hear that little voice
You stop in your tracks when you hear that little voice
But you start to evolve when you hear that little voice

The weight of my bones holds me down on this island
Always I’ve loved you but life breaks us up
Do you remember driving your car at one in the morning for truck food

Amy I can make you cry
Maybe I can sing you a song you’ll like
Here on the playground swings
You and I doing our thing well
Don’t you want to play no more?
Don’t you want to play no more?

Life is a strange fading voice in the darkness
Here you and I sit on blue lonely earth
Anyone out there over the moon for millions of light years or worse

Struggling to just get by
Never mind you and I
I been making beautiful things
But everything I do it goes clear past everybody’s head I think

What’s up with Japanese girls?  Ain’t the stereotype that they like white boys
They look at me like dirty laundry
They always hit me with bureacracy
Then the most stunning Japanese girl on this earth gave me her number to call

Maybe I don’t want to wait around like a silly asshole
Maybe I don’t want to be an old dirty rascal
Maybe I don’t want to wait around like a silly asshole
OK I know that I’m an asshole
But that doesn’t mean I’m gonna stand around waiting like an even bigger asshole

I found the girl of my dreams but she made me wait so long
we held a little bit tighter
But she don’t want to get this started
I’ll wait till you figure it out but I’m not gonna put all my money down

Maybe I don’t want to wait around like a silly asshole
Maybe I don’t want to be an old dirty rascal
Maybe I don’t want to wait around like a silly asshole
OK I know that I’m an asshole
But that doesn’t mean I’m gonna stand around waiting like an even bigger asshole

Maybe I don’t want to wait around like a silly asshole
Maybe I don’t want to be an old dirty rascal
Maybe I don’t want to wait around like a silly asshole
OK I know that I’m an asshole
But that doesn’t mean I’m gonna stand around waiting like an even bigger asshole

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Bird

Hey there, tiny bird
Are you looking better, do you need a minute now?
Hey there, tiny bird
Are you looking better, do you need a minute now?

When I’ve got the world on a string
And the line’s out the door and down the block when I sing
When the bank account don’t look so bleak
Then I’ll turn off my phone and just sleep for a week

Do you have a plan?
I don’t know
Do you have a dime?
I don’t know
Do you have a plan?
I don’t know
Do you have a car?
I don’t know

Hey there, tiny bird
Are you looking better, do you need a minute now?

One day rolling over and over
One more day rolling over and over
One last day riding over and over and over

Do you have a plan?
I don’t know
Do you have a plan?
I don’t know
Do you have a car?
I don’t know

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Sucker Punch

See me break out the sucker punch boy watch out you can see the world so clear if you don’t know how I will sucker punch boy one more feeling no one near so I intimidate oh I’ve got to catch you one more time ah I can live forever here I know you tried I suit you come arms more times I don’t want to be your friend nien and through the night

talk a lot and do you know see here go I knew it then I fell down just to see the world go to

everybody there was on the corner of the light and well we’re over now we’re over for the moment yeah

but you go run out like you need a new life here, here
and you go once, twice, now you need a new life here, here
and you burn once, twice like you need a new life

I found you boy and you want to take…..I don’t know I could live forever and through the night….you take your time….bla bla

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World Won’t Wait

I was never any good at some things

But the days go by
If you’re dumb enough to stay here

But the days won’t wait for you as you’re getting older
The world won’t wait for you as you’re getting older

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New Life

Where was the money?
Nobody has none
I was the funny one and got us in trouble

You could have seen me
White in the moonlight
Flying it old school
Flying it old school

Oh but I want you
Here in my new life
See, I’m a changed changed man
Oh but I want you

Here you can almost
Find me a new month

Trying to get some
Trying to get some

Why do you fear me?
Why would you want me?
Here in the New Life

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Burn Me

Burn
You find out where you’re from
You find out now another one
Oh you don’t know what to do, you don’t know where to go
You’ve got nowhere to fight
You’ve got nowhere to blow your mind

You go down like you should
You go down like you should
You burn me like a baby
You burn me like a baby

You burn me like a sun
You burn me like a sun
You burn me like the sun, oh lord
You burn me like the sun, oh lord

I just now got the choice
I just now got it……
I don’t know where to turn I don’t know where to go
I don’t know what to say
I don’t know how to go my way
I don’t know where to fall
I don’t know where to go at all

Say you will