Colorblind

On a beach twenty yards from the roadside
Back again 6 AM far from sleep
Must be 290 blue on the water
It's gray to me 3 CV is all I see

Green can only hold you in the garden
Too much red will go right to your head
But if it's all the same to you
Give me back my blue
Other colors fade anyway

I'm colorblind three way tragedy
Pantone memory grayscale eyes
Maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

Stopped in the shade of a road sign
When the sun rose like a bomb
Tried to read the simple writing
But the letters came out wrong
It's all white lines to me
But things are getting clearer
I can almost read the writing in the mirror

I'm colorblind three way tragedy
Pantone memory grayscale eyes
Maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

Green can only hold you in the garden
Too much red will go right to your head
But if it's all the same to you
Give me back my blue
Other colors fade anyway

I'm colorblind freeway tragedy
Pantone memory x-ray eyes
Where'd all the color go on my radio?
You almost have to be a satellite to see.

Even The Waves

Me & judas lost at sea
Under electric twilight fading
I look at him he sees through me
40 days and we're still waiting

I'm not tired but i think i'll lay back anyway
I'm not welcome but i think i'll stay

Me & jonas lost at sea
Deep inside a dream we're trailing
Heard him whisper wait for me
Sun goes down and we're still sailing

I'm not nervous but i think i'll lay back anyway
I'm not helpless but i think i'll stay
And even the waves won't carry me away

Keep heading west that's the best
May be lost but i'm not crazy
Stay where you are not too far
Keep it up you're doing fine
Well i thought i was fine

Me & joseph lost at sea
Under rain and slowly waking
He looks around and smiles at me
41 and we're still waiting

I'm not tired but i think i'll lay back anyway
I'm not hopeless but i think i'll stay
And even the waves won't carry me away

Undertow

Last night hit the net
Woke up in a sweat
Same scene different dream sudden ending

Grabbed a pillow and covered my head
Kicked the phone off the side of the bed
Tried to sing but the damn thing kept on ringing

I know
I'll go to mexico
Someplace nothing changes
Maybe i'll call on the phone
Maybe i'll write you a letter
That's what i meant when i said goodbye

Backed the shovelhead out of the shed
Hit the interstate hard heading left
The street below is water flowing undertow

There's a song that i'd rather forget
But i don't think i've shaken it yet
As soon as i do
I'm gonna write us another one

I know
I'll go to mexico
Someplace nothing changes
Maybe i'll call on the phone
Maybe i'll write you a letter
That's what i meant when i said goodbye

I know
I'll go to mexico
Someplace nothing changes
Maybe i'll call on the phone
Maybe i'll write you a letter
Maybe i'll die maybe i'll learn how to fly
That's what i meant when i said

America The Video

I was half outside and half inside a dream
When i thought i heard your voice on my machine
Sang along had the song almost memorized
Liked the track so i laid back and let it fossilize

(i've got all of this on video
It just gets better every episode)

America i was blind but now i see
America right there in front of me

Lost my head in my hotel room when the ground shook
Had to choose between the bible and the phone book

You're never home but that's okay
It's so much easier that way
'cause i can't tell it to your face in real time anyway

America i was blind but now i see
America right there in front of me

And it makes no sense to me
Unless i see it on t.v.
So just launch that satellite
And get it right

America i was blind but now i see
America right there in front of me

And it makes no sense to me
Unless i see it on t.v.
So just launch that satellite
And get it right

(sometimes the answer just comes)
(sometimes the answer just comes)

S.O.S.

Fly blackbird fly
Frozen the sea i see you
Old cover clouds new snow there they go

Silent but wings
Sun orange small i see you
Nowhere is home go alone and alone

Fly angel fly
Older than me i feel you
Coalcovered clouds white snow there you go

Heard myself call
Far from them all i feel you
Left them behind or ahead and he said

Sooner or later you get up off the floor
When no one wants to hear it anymore
Someday soon you're gonna get up off the floor
'cause no one wants to hear that shit

Cry blackbird cry over the waves i hear you
Coalcovered clouds white snow there they go
Ice on your wings songless he sings i hear you
Nowhere is home go alone there's a phone

On The Page

Tell me something stupid
Auction off my diary
Life is getting esoteric
Let me in your movie
Each time i walk out the door
Someone mixes metaphors
Life is so much cleaner on the page

It's like the morning when i'm dreaming
And everything is so pristine
It's just a seven hour movie
And i'm in every scene

Let me in my t.v.
Get this tape to tori
Got to have a subplot
When i sell them my life story
Maybe i should write it first
And do the living later
'cause life is so much cleaner on the page

It's like the time i lost my body
And then i saw it on t.v.
Somehow it shed a whole dimension
But it still looked like me
(hey! that looks like me!)

Each time i write lines for it
Someone improvises it
Life is so much cleaner on the page
Life is so much cleaner on the page

Mouse

(now, now I know I'm not crazy. the fucking mouse, the mouse is back again. and I got him here, mother fff - he's in the fucking radiator. this prick, and he's lay - he's eating a fucking Dorito. and I can't get him. and he's looking at me, and he'll still eat the Dorito. he's behind the fucking - i'm gonna fucking kill him. this is war. now this is war. now watch what happens.) [Todd Farrington]

Took the flower back
His wayward love had been mislead
The sun is dying
Apologies she can't accept
Check the window quick
The sun is dying
Blue and red of day to purple night
And absent light to disarray
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been mislead
The sun is dying
Apologies she won't accept
Check the window quick
The sun is dying
A candle marks her tears
The flame will fade
She'll greet the dawn in disarray
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
Took the flower back
His wayward love had been misled
The level's rising
Steps into the stream
We're so misled
She'll watch the pain the level's rising
Blue and reds of day to purple night
And absent light to disarray
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising
She steps into the stream the level rising

Get Back In The Car

So the man was tired and the car was starved
And the sun was setting
No the moon was tired and the cow was carved
I remember every second

Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
Yeah i saw the way you talk to your cell phone

Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
Then i thought about the man with the shotgun

So the man took a shotgun out of the trunk
Waited on the hood with the headlights on
Radio was playing christmas songs

Later on he thought he saw something
Realized he never saw anything
Now he drives with his headlights off

Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
Yeah i saw the way you climbed out the window

Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
Forget what you don't know yet
And now you never answer your cell phone

Another Permanent Address

Sometimes i wanna sleep in the street
But it feels a little funny without you
Down in the basement feeling the pavement
Holding my stomach

And sometimes i can't believe my own feet
So i found another permanent address
Sold the old mattress keeping the changes
Talking to strangers

I knew i could forget you
That's what i'm gonna do
Now i'm staring at a stop sign
Just like the last time

Hey you're everything you dreamed you'd be
What a civilized way to be angry
Locked in the attic, starting to panic
Wait, that's me

Always it's the same situation
It's got to be somebody's fault
But i never know what to do
So let's say we put the blame on you

Standing in a phone booth
Waiting for the punch line
Trying not to call you
Just like the last time

Sometimes i wanna sleep in the street
But it feels a little funny without you
Down in the basement feeling the pavement
Holding my stomach in

And sometimes i can't believe my own feet
So i found another permanent address
Sold the old mattress keeping the changes
Talking to strangers

I knew i could forget you
That's what i'm gonna do
Now i'm staring at a stop sign
Just like the last time

Nice To Know

Saw her at a red light
Headlights flashing like shooting stars
In the fast lane like an airplane

Never saw the tail light
Windshield cracked like an insight
Was a long flight but i'm alright now

I can tell you're falling
It's nice to know
I can tell you're falling
It's nice to know

Oh no there you go
Now i won't be home for the late show
Sorry about the window what a nice throw

Sometimes i can see
That you finally got me where you want me
Guess i can't complain though
'cause i can't go home

I can tell you're falling
It's nice to know
I can tell you're falling
It's nice to know