Don’t Wake the Giant

You say shut your mouth, stand aside
Been waiting my turn, biding my time
You got me right where you want me (Done with that)
Do what I’m told (Done with that)
You try and sell it and sell it and sell it, but I’m not sold
Don’t wake the giant
Woo!

(Oh)
(Oh)…

No more digging and running
No more boy in man’s clothes
No more blood in the gutter
No more crying in the stall (Done with that)
You got me right where you want me (Done with that)
Do what I’m told (Done with that)
You try and sell it and sell it and sell it, but I’m not sold
Don’t wake the giant

(Oh)
(Oh)…
Don’t wake the giant

I know right now you got me right where you want me
Toeing the line when I should be running wild
Singin’ oh, oh, oh
I’m done
I’m done
Don’t wake the giant
Woo!

(Oh)
(Oh)…
Don’t wake the giant
Don’t wake the giant

Make a Sound

Don’t blame me for your wandering way in this land
You played the game a thousand times, now you got the losing hand
Here’s what it feels like to try and keep your lover on the books
You try and make me promise not to touch but why would I settle for a look?

(I can’t not)
When it’s right there for the taking
(Why would I stop)
When you’re miles from where I’m waking?
It’s a page right out of your book, babe
What you don’t know can’t bring you down
You gotta learn to think of me as your fallen tree that don’t have to make a sound

(Oh)
You bet you’re gonna hear it
(Oh)
When our love hits the ground
(Oh)
If you’re not gonna listen
(Oh)
Then I won’t make a sound

I know the play, I’ve seen it time and time again
You start with a little truth, an honest mood, so all your lies make sense
Here’s what it looks like, wide eyes, that tell-tale little grin
You try and make me tell you straight, but why would I wait to get back to where I’ve been?

(Oh)
You bet you’re gonna hear it
(Oh)
When our love hits the ground
(Oh)
If you’re not gonna listen
(Oh)
Then I won’t make a sound

Don’t blame me for your wandering way in this land
You played the game a thousand times, now you got the losing hand
It’s a page right out of your book, babe
What you don’t know can’t bring you down
You gotta learn to think of me as your fallen tree that don’t have to make a sound


(Oh)
You bet you’re gonna hear it
(Oh)
When our love hits the ground
(Oh)
If you’re not gonna listen
(Oh)
Then I won’t make a sound

I can’t wait
I can’t wait…

When it’s right there for taking
You’re miles from where I’m waking
Don’t have to make a sound

(Oh)
You bet you’re gonna hear it
(Oh)
When our love hits the ground
(Oh)
If you’re not gonna listen
(Oh)
Then I won’t make a sound…

Been Busy

Darlin’, where ya been?
What tale will you tell me next?
Last you left me, the where and the when
The where and the when were left out of what you said

Oh, where ya been, my darlin’? (I’ve been busy)
Where ya been, my darlin’? (I’ve been busy)
Oh, where ya been, my darlin’, darlin’? (I’ve been busy)
Where ya been, my darlin’? (I’ve been busy)

I’ve been looking all over (Ah)
Yes, I’ve been looking all over (Ah)
Lost you somewhere, I don’t know when
I’ve been looking all over (Ah)
I’m not going to wait much longer (Ah)
No I’m not going to wait much longer (Ah)
My patience, wearing thin
I’m not going to wait much longer

If you come back, if you come back, if you come back (Ooh)
When you come back, if you come back
You better have an explanation for (Ooh)

Where ya been, darlin’? (I’ve been busy)
Where ya been, darlin’? (I’ve been busy)
Oh, tell me darlin’ (I’ve been busy)
Where ya been, darlin’? (I’ve been busy)

(I’ve been busy)
(I’ve been busy)

I’ve been looking all over (Ah)
Yes, I’ve been looking all over (Ah)
Lost you somewhere, I don’t know when
I’ve been looking all over (Ah)
I’m not going to wait much longer (Ah)
I’m not going to wait much longer (Ah)
My patience is wearing thin
I’m not going to wait much longer

When you come back, if you come back, if you come back (Ooh)
When you come back, if you come back
You better have an explanation for (Ooh)

Where ya been, darlin’?
(I’ve been busy)…
Oh, where ya been, darlin’?

When you come back, if you come back, if you come back (Ooh)
When you come back, if you come back
You better have an explanation for (Ooh)

(I’ve been busy
I’ve been busy)…

Where ya been?
Where ya been, darlin’?
Where ya been?

Summertime

Woo!

Tired of all that schooling
That fake golden ruling
The season, the season, you best be believing
We’re gonna get drunk on the sun in the sun
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime…
Woo!

Doggies are drooling
Beverages cooling
The season, the season, you best be believing
We’re gonna get drunk on the sun in the sun
In the summertime
In the summertime…
Woo!

When it gets so hot
When it gets so hot
Reach for the sun

When it gets so hot
When it gets so hot
Reach for the sun…

Reach for the sun…

Praying at the Feet of Your Love

All that I ever wanted was someone to place my bet on
A king in the corner of my life
And you’re calling, I can hear you calling
I can feel you calling
And I don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Your love (Ooh)

Wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Your love (Ooh)

I’m praying, praying at the feet of your love
I’m praying, praying at the feet of your love

Calling, I can hear you calling
I can feel you calling, I can hear you
Calling, I can hear you calling
I can feel you calling, I can hear you

All that I ever wanted was something to help me hang on
A song in the silence of my life
And you’re calling, I can hear you calling
I can feel you calling
And I don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Your love (Ooh)

Wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Don’t want to wait on (Wait on)
Your love (Ooh)

I’m praying, praying at the feet of your love
I’m praying, praying at the feet of your love

Calling, I can hear you calling
I can feel you calling, I can hear you…
Calling, I can hear you calling
I can feel you calling, I can hear you

No matter how mistreated
Broken down, defeated
Praying at the feet of your love

(No matter how mistreated
Broken down, defeated
Praying at the feet of your love)…

Wait on
Don’t want to wait on
Don’t want to wait on your love

Wait on
Don’t want to wait on
Don’t want to wait on, wait on, wait on

Whistle

To each a joy, each remorse
Each of us are reaching for
Something there, something more
Some true warmth to keep out the storm

Wherever that treasure lives
Covet it and care for it
Wherever that trouble is
Listen for the whistling wind, that whistling wind

(Wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, wait, wait)…

Don’t hog it, don’t smother it
Be honest if they discover it
At the borderline (The borderline)
At the borderline (The borderline)
Wait until the whistling wind dies

(Wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, wait, wait)
Wait until the whistling wind dies

(Wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, heard a whistling wind
Wait, wait, wait, wait)
Listen for the whistling wind
That whistling wind

(Heard a whistling wind
Heard a whistling wind
Heard a whistling wind
Wait, heard a whistling wind
Heard a whistling wind
Heard a whistling wind
Wait, heard a whistling wind)
Wait, heard a whistling wind)

Don’t Believe Your Eyes

We can all be endlessly
Hung up on things unspoken
Why does what’s unsaid become
Much more than what’s out in the open?

(Ah)
(Ah)

We should all breathe a sigh of relief
Alive and level-headed
Oh, why must all that shines go dull
Just when you finally get it?

(Ah)
(Ah)

If you don’t believe your eyes
(Gotta try to find something)
If you don’t believe your eyes
(Gotta focus on the feeling)
If you don’t believe your eyes
(Gotta try to find something)
Gotta try to find something
(Try to find something)
(Try to find something)

We could not, we could not, we could not speak
We could not, we could not breathe
Senses said the same thing then, when the bow was all bent
Said it could not, it could not be

We could not leave softly
Broke upon a black beach
Stamped out, torn down
Candle blown out
Let all your phantoms go free

If you don’t believe your eyes
(Gotta try to find something)
If you don’t believe your eyes
(Gotta focus on the feeling)
If you don’t believe your eyes
(Gotta try to find something)
Gotta try to find something
(Try to find something)
(Try to find something)

We can all, we can all be
So quick to take everything for granted
We could not, we could not, we could not breathe
We could all simply not be

We could not, we could not, we could not speak
We could not, we could not breathe
Senses said the same thing then, when the bow was all bent
Said it could not, it could not be

If you don’t believe your eyes
If you don’t believe your eyes
If you don’t believe your eyes
Gotta try to find something
(Try to find something)
(Try to find something)

Dig a Little Deeper

Don’t stray from me darlin’
No, don’t take all the blame
I drunk up the night-time
While you slept through the day

Don’t pray for me darlin’
I’m far too proud to be saved
You know I dig a little deeper each day
You know I dig a little deeper each day

And they say we don’t find out
’Till we’re deep in the ground
No earthly sound
It’s one cruel way to go
We don’t find out
’Till we’re deep in the ground
And I dig a little deeper each day
You know I dig a little deeper each day

Don’t wait for me darlin’
There’s no time to pretend
I don’t care how it started
But I know how it ends

Don’t wait for me darlin’
There’s no time to pretend
I don’t care how it started
But I know how it ends

And they say we don’t find out
’Till we’re deep in the ground
No earthly sound
It’s one cruel way to go
We don’t find out
’Till we’re deep in the ground
And I dig a little deeper each day
You know I dig a little deeper each day

Don’t wait for me darlin’
There’s no time to pretend
I don’t care how it started
But I know how it ends

Don’t wait for me darlin’
There’s no time to pretend
I don’t care how it started
But I know how it ends

Born Lucky

Miles ahead, two steps back
Can’t go on tonight, caught in the curtain
Time again, yeah
We’re all left with no good exit

Sunk my head in the sand (That won’t work)
Dunk my head in cold water (That won’t work)
Stuck here out on the ledge (That won’t work)
That won’t work

(Oh) Born lucky
(Oh) Born lucky
(Oh) Born lucky
(Oh) Born lucky

Daily, I’m falling for you
Far-flung desire
All these finer things
Glow once they’re mine

But I’m worried (That won’t work)
Got doubt in me (That won’t work)
Want everything (That won’t work)
That won’t work

(Oh) Born lucky
(Oh) Born lucky
(Oh) Born lucky
(Oh) Born lucky

Got so much
Got so much to lose

(Oh) Born lucky
(Oh) Born Lucky…

Why Can’t

You’ve got a voice in your heart saying, ‘Break me’
Thinking it’s someone you love saying, ‘Save me’
You’re in it again with a villain, a bad man, a devil
Trying to get on a level where souls get a free ride

Why can’t, why can’t
Why can’t a girl take the law in her own hands?
When it’s just the tiniest bullet (Ooh)
Why can’t two hands lift it?
Just one time
Just one time

You’ve got a voice in your heart saying, ‘Break me’ (Break me)
Thinking it’s someone you love saying, ‘Save me’ (Save me)
You’re in it again with that villain, a bad man, a devil
Trying to get on a level where souls get a free ride

Why can’t, why can’t
Why can’t a girl take the law in her own hands?
When it’s just the tiniest bullet (Ooh)
Why can’t two hands lift it?
Just one time
Just one time

Stop her now, she’s on her way
To make the same mistake so many others made
Stop her now, she’s on her way
To show her man how to die for love

(Oh)
(Oh)
(Oh)
(Oh)

You’ve got a voice in your heart
You’ve got a voice in your heart

As Long As I Live

You can’t have it, you can’t have it
You can’t have what you want
You can’t hide it, you can’t hide it
You can’t hide what you are

Under all the overgrowth
Fine land to sow
Beneath these knees, the ground quakes
And calls me by name
But for as long as I live...

You can’t have it, you can’t have it
You can’t have what you want
You can’t hide it, you can’t hide it
You can’t hide what you are

Back then all those years ago
My hand was a hammer, my heart was a stone
That skin’s been shed, been haunted since
By heavy heart, by phantom limb
But for as long as I live...

You can’t have it, you can’t have it
You can’t have what you want
You can’t hide it, you can’t hide it
You can’t hide what you are

For as long as I live
I can’t take back anything

In Your Light

Sanctuary is a mill for the grist
A moment spent under peace and quiet
An open window with the wind blowing in
Right there, right then, your sanctuary ends

Off and On a life recollected in flashes
The way the light hits the undersides of your eyelids
Come and gone with the lift and the lower of your lashes
Between the iris and the eyelid

In your light, in your light
In your light, in your light

If it floats away, I’ll follow after it
Blown in through a window open
Cause what am I if not just dust, just dust
Off and On a life recollected in flashes
The way the light hits the undersides of your eyelids
Come and gone with the lift and the lower of your lashes
Between the iris and the eyelid

Why not warm inside a while and lay your boots to dry
And then where you wake where you are will be where you were in the first place
And all I’ve done may brown may rust

If it floats away, I’ll follow it
And if I lose its scent, I've still got all it left me with
All I’ve done may brown, may rust
What am I if not just dust, just dust?

In your light, in your light
In your light, in your light
On and On you can’t turn in on yourself
On and On you can’t turn in on yourself

Pull Me Under

Got me by the leg, Got me by the toe

Can't keep my head above the water
Got my neck, Got my throat
Can't keep my head above the water

Pull me under, pull me under

All that flees is fair all the leaves forgiven
All that, all that, I can't keep it
All that, all that, I can't keep it
All that stays will suffer
Left alive but breathing under
Water, water
Can't keep my head above the water

Pull me under, pull me under

The motorboat moans in baritone
Magnetawan harvest
Song sung slow
Magnetawan harvest
Magnetawan Harvest

Got him by the neck
Got him by the throat
Canopy covering it all
Branches on branches on branches above
And from the back of the boat
There comes a mournful tone
Got him by the neck, got him by the throat
Your chances are low
Pull me under, pull me under
Pull me under, pull me under

The motorboat moans in baritone
Magnetawan harvest
Song sung slow
Magnetawan harvest
Magnetawan Harvest

In deep, in deep, drowned in the deep end
I bleed for it, as ever, in over my head
I reach for it, I reach for it, I reach for it
As ever, in over my head

Pull me under, pull me under
Pull me under the boat

Warden

Warden, warden, warden
Go to sleep
Wake up in the morning
Roll-call calling for
Rolling rain on the horizon
Warnin', warnin', warnin'
About a rain that never comes
Oh warden, warden, warden
Gonna be waiting a long time
A long time

The Shaky embraces
Of haunted house generations
Come home everyday with grey driftwood hands
I wanna make 10 new holes in the ground
Start over again
Uou're like a house that grew up boarded up
Straight out of the ground

Loosen up, liberate, tighten up, straight ahead
Joyful, tragic, runaround
When the world was old and we were young
We wanted to care and not care in a good way

Bent back to bear it how well you wear it
Swept back by the sweep of your own sway
Bent back to bear it how well you wear it
Scented by the sweet of your own spray

A real living promise land
Is a draft coming through the door
Milk and honey contraband
You take in vain for something more
Shovelin' smoke in your own home, on your own time
Hang the load out on the line
A lifetime to the simplest things
When you follow the wrong signs
The wrong signs.

Say Yeah

Seeing that face in the window gave him pause
And made his blood run like

A screen door banging in the wind
He said, "it finally found me...
Unsuspecting and alone in the house
That wore with age as I grew up
That splintered like a muscle from the bone
Away from the ground beneath me

And when the moment arrives
There's no amount of run and hide that can bluff the human blindside
Of sooner or later

Now it's comin' to find you
All around ahead and behind you
Now it's comin' to find you
All around ahead and behind you

Part of me knew it would show up
Part of me hoped that it wouldn't
But now I see it comin'

When the moment arrives
There's no amount of run and hide that can bluff the human blindside
Of sooner or later

Now it's comin' to find you
All around ahead and behind you
Now it's comin' to find you
All around ahead and behind you

He said the screen door's swingin’ harder now
There's a frosting on the glass
(It finally found me)
Finally, it found me out
And there inscribed in his breath it said
Soon what's come to collect you
Later on will come to protect you
Sooner or later

He said the screen door's swinging harder now
He said the screen door's swinging harder now

I've been found out

Open Flame

Cut away, cut through
The lightning veins, the thunder moves
Calling for rain, now a river's let loose
It's coming in waves
Now the devil's come to roost
This devil will lure you in
A shower of gifts
With a vote of confidence cast and then complimented
Lays to rest, your most sordid sins
And claims your past may forgive you if
Only your body can stand in lieu
Can stand to lose
Can stand for you

An open flame
To rid of, to rid of
Whatever you've got, whatever you've got
Whatever you've got to burn
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the
Open flame
All lit up, all lit up
Whatever you've got, whatever you've got
Whatever you've got to burn off
Throw it on the fire
Throw it in the middle the middle the middle of the fire

And in the air before the lighting strikes
Though it deafens me, the thunder breeds a peace
Unholy beast, please, don't spare me
Douse my quarters in gasoline
A bit of black 'round the corners
Won't scare me off that easy
I don't need this darkness and doubt

I'll greet him with two shrugged shoulders
I've only a body to keep
These bones have been rattling
Too long to hold up
Only a body to keep

Lay it down before me in ashes
Lay it down before me in ashes

An open flame
To rid of, to rid of
Whatever you've got, whatever you've got
Whatever you've got to burn
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the
Open flame
All lit up, all lit up
Whatever you've got, whatever you've got
Whatever you've got to burn off
Throw it on the fire
Throw it in the middle the middle the middle of the fire

Or So I Dreamed

A night of fitful dreaming
The day in such a way beyond believing
Uphill along no path at all with a nature hard to bear
A good man turned bad, badder than the baddest man

And his fullness fears unrelief and relief
Now he’s doing double time for drawing blood and keeping love alive in grief

Oh, marvel at the sight and the sound
Of a love that grew up boarded up straight out of the ground
Or so it seemed

Had a dream in which my garden overgrew my house one year
Put my faith in evolution ’cause it said nothing is pure
Took a broken window man in abandoned house embrace
And lay there in a reminiscent seizure of a long forgotten place

And it seemed that the sight and the sound
Like an avalanche of memory would have us digging up when up was down
Oh, marvel at this fight that I’ve found
For a love that grew up boarded up straight out of the ground
Or so I dreamed

An image like a dying word
A memory like a dying fire
The sun rising on your resting place
Shines on me like a friendly liar
An image like a dying word
A memory like a dying fire
The sun rising where you lay

Adrenaline

One foot out front and one foot followin' after it
Heart-rate racin', I think I heard hollerin'
Off in the distance, I did
I heard, I heard screamin'

And if I pry your fingers from her
You can bet your final breath
That the last man you'd want to meet is upon thee

The sudden blow I plant upon you won't
Be the last thing to pass through your skull
No, but you can bet it will be a suitable penance
Anything goes

So you'd better hope beyond hope beyond hope that you didn't
That you never laid your hands upon her
You've gotta know, goddammit, who I am
That I've been, I've been listenin' in

The knuckle-splittin' blow I plant upon you won't
Be the last thing to pass through your skull
No, but you can bet it will have a beautiful finish

Anything goes, hot-headed adrenaline
In sudden blows, I'll let it take hold and then I'll let go
Anything goes

So you'd better hope beyond hope beyond hope that you didn't
That you never laid your hands upon her
You've gotta know, goddammit, who I am
That I heard, I hear everythin'

Adrenaline
Anything goes
Adrenaline

Cliffs & Coves

Your cliffs, your coves, all cloaked in night
Bull rushes and reeds do flutter and fly
The pressure may change, I think it just might
Be rough if by sea and red in the sky

Your ship, at shore, by tether and tie
Wake washes and weaves and pummels its sides
The tides may change, may retreat, may subside
But one eye's on the beach and one's in the sky

Cold wind, cold wind
Blowin' in, blowin' in
All clatter and clamour
All powerful fist
Low cliffs, low cliffs
Do hold do protect
Oh mountain resist, oh mountain resist
Oh mountain resist, oh mountain resist

Chupacabra

I live inside a body left to wander
Soon there’ll be nothing harder than the simple life I know
One I, I show
One I, I know
I’m awake inside a city unawoken
Built by invisible hands that shake the sense of signs I know
One I, I show
One I, I know

Oh, I don’t know where
My body goes
Oh, I don’t know which I
I will show

A night of fitful dreaming
Drawn inside a cave of lights
A frame inside a frame inside
A body left to wander where
No path at all is a nature hard to bear
Born out of a pair of open hands intent to gather what
I love and what I let become itself

Take it to mean
More than it seems
I worry that I’ll miss out
I worry I’ll be misled
Toward a statement
Fit together too fast
Fit together too slight
For reply
We think the way we
We think away the soul

A night of fitful dreaming
Drawn inside a cave of lights
A frame inside a frame inside a frame of mind misled

And when the day comes
And I’m alone
I’m at a loss which I
I will show

Oh, I don’t know
Where my body goes
Oh, I don’t know which I
I will show

One I show, One I know

Inside / Outside
I guess you don't have to go out
If you really don't wanna go out
But you could use a walk
And lift those shoulders up too
Like you wanna

Make sure those fangs are showin
And greet 'em with a grin that glows red
With total radiance
Just keep the gradient tuned
And keep it on 'em

Easier said
It's different to do it
The thought was well meant
But it's different to do it
Yourself
You used to be a wolf in sheep skin clothes
Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf go
Well god only knows

Something's out there singing like a kettle
Something's howlin out in the backyard
That rotten ring shrieks so sour, so unsettled
Something's howlin out in the backyard
Could be sheets of metal all whistlin together
Something's howlin out in the backyard
And the song it sings tells of demons and of devils
Something's howlin out in the backyard

And the light that shines from a belly bright yellow
Brings (ah) creatures of the night out to bellow
To wince and to bark, to coo and to caw
To treat you as the yellow-bellied dweller that you are

Oh, something's out there screaming like a kettle
Something's howlin out in the backyard
A racket, a racket, uproarious revel!
Something's howlin out in the backyard
Could be throat-worn ghosts, lost stalking rebels
Something's howlin out in the backyard
With one voice raised as a devistating treble
Something's howlin out in the backyard

And I haven't seen the (ah) wolf in ages now
Not even when the mynah birds come calling out
You used to have a howl that sent shivers through town
You can hardly get a wimper out now

Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf go?

Well god only knows

Steamroller

Oh my oh, I'll go for what you know
Who I own I know, I owe who knows who
I own my home or owe who knows who I owe
Why own when you can just
Sell it

Oh my oh, I'll go for what you know
Buy the city sell the farm
Either or / Either or
Either or / Either or not

Cause I could throw a rock
And put a hole
In the yard behind the beehive rows
Set along my road
Straighter than the treeline grows

We'll see this country in a car
Dinner in dining halls
Give to the grind and haul out
And let 'em tear the barn down

And let 'em put up
A new line of beehive rows
Well, I just couldn't call it my own any more
When they blocked up the road
Where the first would go

So let's die out

I know not to meddle
To keep off the path this steamroller runs
Been all set and settled
Since day one they've wanted
What I own I know, I owe who knows
Who I owe I know, I own who knows

Those gloves just take 'em off
Move before the city moves to us
And sucks the simple parts of living out from under us
Move before the city moves to us, to us, to us

So let's die out.

The greatest forest fire burned our forest down

2nd 4th World War

For all those millmen who cut their teeth
Whose minds were made up on roof and feed
I’ll come and I’ll leave
Aching from a night in the city
It might ruin me now, but I’d probably already be ruined

For skin burned black with coal and grease
That stuck to their lungs whenever they’d breathe
I’ll come and I’ll leave
Tempted by the lights of the city
No clowning around
T onight we’re going out to get ruined

And I probably woulda never have thought
If it weren’t written on metal
That this is very old ground that you’re running from
Can’t look for long, gotta be left and gone by five
To be half-seas over by nine
And bleeding drunk by midnight

Forever indebted to the feats of our fathers
But carry it on your back, it’s a sure collapse
Laid out flat, gaspin’
All the trouble you attract
With cause to match
Would bring a quick collapse
If you always had to carry that

If the gear wheel goes
(There’s gonna be a flood comin’)

When the wallower rolls
(There’s gonna be a flood comin’)

Next thing you know
(There’s gonna be a flood comin’ on)

And the water won’t spare us
(The water won’t spare us)

If it comes to get us
(If it comes to get us)

And it won’t let up ‘til all that’s dear and precious is gone
And our hearts all screech a hault
Whenever there’s a flood coming on

And when that flood comes it comes as a canon
One that lets you catch the shot in your hands
But just to send its shocking tidal wave
Through every bone in your body
Dealt our hands, mine’s low on luck
If you’re all going out you can sign me up
Seems the only time that I can collect my thoughts
Is if I’m bleeding, stinking drunk (so drink up)

We’ll admit in the names of our fathers
But carry it on your back, it’s a sure collapse
Laid out flat, gaspin’
All the trouble you attract, with cause to match
Would bring a quick collapse
If you always had to carry that

And even though the doubt we all felt
Came to prove itself
The overflow came down
With a force we never dreamed off
When that rolling canon shot
Rolls along again, our guard is up
All the damage and all we’ve lost
Lost it all with a canon shot

Shutters

Like water from a whale spout
The spraying veils its ground
What's dug inside the body
A black gasp bubbling out

Oh as the ocean is bled dry
A mountain is a mouth eating up the sky
Oh as the ocean is bled dry
A valley cuts the tongue from its gullet

Who knows who will say what now?

Old as the water we sigh
A mountain is a mouth eating up the sky
Oh as the ocean is bled dry
A valley cuts the tongue from its gullet

Who knows who will say what now?

Sigh along and our sighs align
We'll set a table and drink some wine
Fine tether of the moon-yard view
You pause as the pleasure misconstrues
Whats real and what's entombed
Sigh along or silence be
Be our song

And it calms me down
Don't try to calm me down
Hey hoorah
Don't try to calm me down

And the whale is sleeping
The tongue's inclined
And we spout and speak to reveal the rush
as it bubbles out

And it calms me down

Weave Myself A Dress

The one whose shame is left too long
Is the one whose name is lost along the
Clear and shallow shore

A reflection in the water stays
The thing it grew upon is an ashen sail
No more
Turn straw to gold how can you hold
Onto the courage to own a name
To think of raising up out of these seas
The thing that I will raise up is a dress I weave myself
Of freshly plucked anemones

So collect the flowers
In the shallow water all along the shore
And take them away with you
The eye and a reflection of an eye
Is what that flower sees
A space we've learned here too
Turn straw to gold
What can you hold onto the courage to own a name
To think of raising up out of these seas
The thing that I will raise up is a dress I weave myself
Of freshly plucked anemones

And I'll be in the water
See my hand come through the water
And their eyes do close up tight

And when they open again a sail is born

Crabapples

You can't survive on just crabapples
Tastes just fine to me
You can't get by with a sack for a saddle
Least I'm ridin' free
You got to know where you're headin'
We never know where we're headin'
Oh oh no, we just ride and see

And do you live the good life? Oh Hell No!
Got kids and a wife? Oh Hell No!
Is your money your time? Oh Hell No!
We live our life for the ride

I saw your bones on the road
Just waitin' for the vultures to come
Cockroach killers comin' over
How you made it, I just don't know

And do you live the good life? Oh Hell No!
Got kids and a wife? Oh Hell No!
Is your money your time? Oh Hell No!
We live our life for the ride

You don't know my
You don't know my mind

I saw your bones on the road
Just waitin' for the vultures to come
Cockroach killers comin' over
How you made it, I just don't know

Shanty Song

Fallow from the loss of sun
Fields turn into spoil
And sought along the arid plains
For food left in the soil
And all the mothers, fathers with,
Their water and their wood
Give life to an inheritor
Relieved not understood

I come from a line of crooks
Bitter and brittle men
So I won't be around when those
Wedding bells ring
But I'm mean and marked up enough
To give you my hand
With none of my roots showing

So leave me a little privacy
Don't call, don't come around at all
Leave me a little decency
And call off all your dogs
Or their collars are coming off

Following the loss of laws
Saying in their turn
For every man to live his life
She'll have to last and burn
And all the brothers, sisters, mothers,
Fathers and their sons, will
Be passed along the daily deal
Alike the day before

La da, da da, da da, da da, la da

Don't get like that
Don't recoil back in silence
All that I ask is just a couple of seconds
In private

Leave me a little privacy
Don't call, don't come around at all
Leave me a little decency
And call off all your dogs

Oh, I'm sorry darlin', you're just gonna have to choose
It's either me or the elephant in the room
I can't stand to lose ya, I can't stand to lose ya
But it's either me or the elephant in the room

Drinking All Day

I been drinkin all day
And day before
When i get sober
Ain't gonna drink no more

Well they'll call you sugar
And they'll call you pie
They'll take all your money
Call you country guy

Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move babe, sugar where they don't 'low you
No they don't, no they don't

Walkin down fifth street, twenty-nine Vale
Lookin' for that woman that sell cocaine

Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move babe, sugar where they don't 'low you
No they don't, no they don't

Northbound / Southbound

Break the glass and pull the lever
And file down the tracks with everybody else
And all the gentlemen sniff out the girls in dresses
And all the decent kids with dirt in their nails

Someone has to warn 'em

The folks on the Northbound
Better warn 'em
Or the Southbound
Will run us down

Down