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My Madeleine
04:34
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Learned a thing or three along the way
Mostly how I don’t know nothin’
And the best I can say
It hasn’t been all bad
But when I say that you know I’m just bluffin’
If only I knew then what I know now
I wouldn’t be in such a stupid mess
But isn’t that just what
Everyone always says
When they back on their life’s progress
Where there’s life there’s hope or so I’ve read
And I would like to think that’s true
Maybe I’m the sort of man
Who’s doomed to be a failure
Or maybe one day I’ll finally break on through
Well I once had such big ideas
But looking back they seem absurd
They were the thoughts
That felt important when I was young
But now they’re all dreams deferred
Nowadays I get up at four in the morn
I have a cup and then I do some writing
Try to mark my days the best that I can
Collect my thoughts while they’re still biting
These are the days and this is the time
The time I am living in
Trying my best to do what I can
I am not yet giving in
This is the road, the road I’m on
And it’s getting near to the end
But before I get there I need to know
That it wasn’t all just pretend
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What goes up doesn’t always come on down
Sometimes it just hangs in midair
And sometimes things don’t go according to plan
Yeah sometimes life is downright unfair
What you know and what can be known
They are as separate as false from true
It all goes back
Yeah it all goes back
To the year reality split in two
What we’re seeing isn’t what’s happening
Or so we have come to learn
We were promised we would be great again
But then it all took a sinister downturn
It’s gotten so that I can’t tell
What is illusion and what is real
Just when I think I know what I know what I know
I get pulled apart by a Catherine wheel
What we know is not what we think we know
And life is nothing but a dream
Lay down all thoughts and surrender to the void
Just relax and float downstream
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3. |
Nothing but Bad
04:37
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We wanna pretend that the coast is clear
But the coast is really opaque
Yeah wanna believe all’s well that ends well
But that would be a huge mistake
Pretending don’t do it
Even when it seems there’s something to it
The shitty disease ain’t going nowhere
Even though I wish it had
The shitty disease ain’t going nowhere
And that ain’t nothing but bad
My sister she done and got it
Even though she said she was invincible
She's so pissed she swore to God
She thought she shouldn’t get it just on principle
She said nothing bad ever happens to her
But maybe now she’s not so sure
We like to think
God gives a crap
But if you do, buddy
You are one big sap
We’re smart enough to cook up a vaccine
But not so smart to actually use it
Imagine being given the key to the kingdom
And then you turn around and refuse it
Hate to say that’s pretty dumb
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Mad for You
04:45
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No matter how I look at it
No matter how I break it down
No matter how I try to get around it
I can’t change how I feel
It all feels much too real
And all I want is to expound it
Wish I could let you go
From the bottom of my soul
In the end I only compound it
I am mad for you
I am so mad for you
I am so mad for you
I’m a lunatic
You’re always on my mind
You’re always in my heart
Wish I could let you go
You’re there in my dreams
In my daily schemes
Exactly why I don’t know
Wish you would take me in
Wish you would love me mad
And we’d live forever in the afterglow
Yeah, I’m crazy
Crazy for you
I’m so crazy
Je t’en vuex
Why can't we make this work
I’m not such a stupid jerk
Won't you please change your mind
I’ve got some flaws
I’ve got some quirks
Just the way I was designed
I’m not so bad
Just gimme a try
Even if you’re disinclined
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The Wish
03:59
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There are things I kinda wish for
Even though I they won’t come true
And of all the things I wish for
The most wishy-est is you
Think about you all the time
When I’m awake and when I’m asleep
You're in me way down deep
Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
The spoon ran away with the dish
Yeah it’s true I’d do anything for you
If you’d only let me have my wish
My wish is this
My wish is this
Give us a kiss
My wish is this
There are things I kinda hope for
Like you and me having sex
Yeah I know it’s rather crass to say
But it’s my very own perplex
I know you don’t give me a second thought
If you think about me at all
When I move in and you erect a wall
There are things I kinda long for
Even though I know I should not yearn
After all this time I got the message
But for some dumb reason I will not learn
I mean, what's life without a fantasy
A fantasy of one perfect lover
One boy, one girl ravaging each other
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Never Gonna Let Go of Me
05:28
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I bleed for you in the morning
I bleed for you in the afternoon
I bleed for you in the evening
Bleed for you like a contrabassoon
And when I’m done bleeding
I am bone dry
Just a bag of old tits
Soon to mumify
Never gonna let go of me
Got me in your grip
Never gonna let go of me
Brinksmanship
I weep for you in May
I weep for you in July
I weep for you in September
I molt then butterfly
And when I’m done weeping
I go and weep some more
I crest like a wave
And wash up on your shore
I am not a-willin'
You are a-killin' me
Hit me where I live
Took and never give me
Got me on my knees
So wanting to please
Make me beg like a fool
I am your tool
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Kick the Pricks
02:42
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Man they make me so angry
Man they make me so mad
Man they are so fucking stupid
It’s all so downright sad
I wanna kick the pricks in their dicks
They got an answer
For any old question you might ask
But their answer don’t make no sense
When you take them to task
Man they are so smug
Man they are holier-than-thou
Man I just wanna smack ‘em
Blow ‘em up like Krakatao
I wanna kick the pricks in their dicks
Man they talk like morons
Man they talk so fucking loud
Man they act like the world’s for the taking
And that’s something of which they are so proud
Man they are fucking crazy
Man they say such stupid shit
Man they wanna wreck the planet
And it doesn’t matter to them not one whit
I wanna kick the pricks in their dicks
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Leveling Circumstance
04:42
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Everything that can go wrong
Will eventually go wrong
Sorry but that’s just the nature of things
The world is an unforgiving beast
With evil forces
Yanking on the strings
There is a leveling circumstance
That puts down the overbearing, the strong, and the rich
There is a leveling circumstance
That kicks the bad guy down to the ditch
The machine breaks down
And the gears they lose a tooth
And one day the whole thing just grinds to a halt
People run around looking for someone to blame
But in the end
No one knows who's at fault
I'm biding my time
Biding my time
I am biding my time
Your lower back goes out
And your shingles they tingle
And nothing on you works like it once did
You feel jealousy
Of the young and the vital
You can't wait till they hit the skid
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Kingsnake
05:14
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I'm a kingsnake, baby
Slithering through the weeds
Like a crowbar with a poison tip
I'm a mass of wanton needs
I will lure you in
With my glossy scales
Then I'll squeeze you tight
Till I hear your screams and wails
Never gonna let you go
Never gonna let you go
Hsssssss
I'm a kingsnake, baby
Speckling in the brush
Just wanna seduce you
Be my main crush
Don't you worry much
I eat only rodent and frog
You gotta believe me, baby
I ain't no demagogue
They say red on black
Is a friend of jack
But red on yellow
It done kills a fellow
I'm a kingsnake, baby
Yeah I'm a powerful constrictor
Gonna glom on to you tightly
Till I'm the final victor
You will never be free of me
Once I got you in my grip
It's the way that I roll
My manner of courtship
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From the Outside
04:13
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I know how it appears
But it’s not quite what it seems
Almost but not quite
I may look hopeless
So what if I am
Apparently it’s my birthright
What it looks like from the outside
It's not what's going on within
Say, hi, hello
How you doin'
How have you been
Yeah I get it
You're all fed up
Don't wanna give me one more inch
Bring out the mob
Haul out the gallows
It's time for an old-fashioned lynch
Hooray, hurrah
Lower the rope
I am beyond all hope
There's a world
Beyond this world
Of that one thing I am certain
And one day I may get a peek
Get a peek behind the curtain
Until then
I will hide
I will hide on the outside
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If It's Not One Thing
04:58
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Got a lot on my mind
Driving me to distraction
Can't sort it out
Can't take no action
Need a reason
Got to carry on
Got to get outta here
Got to get gone
If it's not one thing it's another
If it's not one thing it's another
It's always something
Got to move it along
Got to find a road
Leave it all behind
Leave behind my load
Burn my journals
Burn my past
Hit the open road
Get real gone real fast
If it's not this then it's that
Got to make me a plan
Then I got to stick to it
Cut out the noise
Then cut out the shit
There's a brighter day
It's just up ahead
If I don't make it
You can shoot me dead
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12. |
Castaway
05:09
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I am old now
Yeah that much is certain
And I don’t like it no not one bit
Don’t like the way kids talk
When they talk in up-speak
Just sounds to me like so much shit
Don’t like the developers
And the fat construction workers
Who have all invaded my neighborhood
And as for those rich girls from China
Who dress up like cute dolls
They seem to me to be up to no good
That’s it for me, see you 'round later
It’s the end of my day
My time is up, my job is done
I’m one less castaway
Bye bye, bye bye
One day I woke up
And the world around me changed
None of its values reflected mine
People spend their days now
Staring at their fucking phones
As if they have a window into something divine
I walk these streets lost and lonely
I am not seen and I am not heard
What I believe and what I care about
At best it seems a little absurd
I am nothing now
Don't need you to remind me
I'm not who I was thirty years ago
Thirty years ago
I was young and vital
But now I am a shadow
This all happened
In the blink of an eye
And I can't believe I'm almost done
If you think it's not gonna happen to you
You're fooling yourself son
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The Revenants Boston, Massachusetts
"It was hell," recalls former child.
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