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Don't you think I know
It doesn't do me any good
To hang on to you this way
Don't know why I find it so hard
To let you go
Such an old cliche
But before I say my goodbyes
Pretty mouth and green my eyes
I know seem foolish
And, well, downright dumb
For thinking there might even be a chance
But c'mon I know
That there just ain't know way
Under no such circumstance
We're just too old to fuck around
We just got to make the most of it
Time to move ourselves right along
Time to make toast of it
What do I hope to gain
What am I thinking
The two of us that's not a thing
Still I cling by a thin reed
To that one slim wish
That suddenly we could take wing
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Keep It Simple
05:04
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How come you gotta complicate matters
And make it so hard to get stuff done
You set up all sorts of barriers and roadblocks
Then wonder why the race can't be run
Is it part of the human condition
To always procrastinate
Wake up early each and every morning
So how come you're running late
Keep it simple
Keep it straight
Keep it simple, yeah
And you won't be late
How come you gotta muck things up
Make a mess of a perfect design
Don't you know that shortest distance
Is a straight and narrow line
Do you fear what will happen when its over
Do you fear your mortality
Do you fear your death and your taxes
Sorry but that's reality
Come on and keep simple
There's no need to fancy it up
Come on and keep simple
As simple as a paper cup
How come you gotta be so self-defeating
And never finish what you start
Like that novel sitting in the corner
You should know it all by heart
Why put off till tomorrow and tomorrow
What you can do for yourself right now
What if there were no tomorrow and tomorrow
Are you ready for your final bow
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I looked out on the road ahead
The longest ride of my life
I didn't know if I were alive or dead
The longest ride of my life
I took my car out on the highway
Hadn't driven in years
Did not care where I was headed, boy
Out beyond the trail of tears
I drove out to oblivion
The longest ride of my life
The sky was as black as obsidian
The longest ride of my life
Met a stranger on the highway
Her lips were full and her hair was blonde
I asked her where she was headed to
Somewhere 'tween here and the great beyond
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4. |
Too Old to Fuck Around
04:33
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WitHow many days do I have left
Don't know for sure but it's not a lot
I can't be wasting my time
With what little time I got
I know I'm being foolish
I know I'm being dumb
Might as curl up in a ball
And suck my thumb
What I am seeking it can't be found
And I am too old, too old to fuck around
The clock is a-ticking
And time is just flying on by
The things that I thought I knew
Gone in the blink of an eye
Wanna hang on
Wanna hold you with all my might
But when I open my eyes
I see you've taken flight
Got get on with it
Before I lose yet another day
Got to let you go
Much to my dismay
Once I had all the time in the world
At least that's what I thought
I fooled around and fell in love
A tempest in a teapot
I believed had tomorrow
But tomorrow has come and gone
And all that I got left
Is a measly denouement
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The Ballad of Daisy Gaye
05:51
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Long ago and not so far away
I met a girl who stole my heart
I would do for her any dumb ol’ thing
If she’d be Becall to my Bogart
I wanted you and you wanted me
We thought that we were meant to be
Why didn’t make it my Daisy Gaye
I wrote it all down and made you this song
To show how I got it wrong
Why didn’t make it my Daisy Gaye
She thought that I was funny
And maybe just a little bit nuts
That’s ‘cause she drove me out of my mind
She told me my approach took more than a little guts
I said that’s the way I was designed
Some stuff’s best left a fantasy
Especially the stuff between you and me
We may have wilted like an old bouquet
But I still love you my Daisy Gaye
My Daisy Gaye, my Daisy Gaye, my sweet Daisy Gaye
Long ago and not so far away
I met a girl who stole my heart
I would do for her any dumb ol’ thing
If she’d be Josefine to my Bonaparte
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Ideanu Slept
04:40
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This is the story of Ideanu
Who slept through an atomic bomb
Her brother and sister tried to wake her
So did her dad and her mom
But she was too busy dreaming
While the rest of the world wept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu dreamt about chocolate mountains
And rivers made of classic Coke
No one could disturb her
Not even with a great big poke
The rest of the world suffered losses
Losses she could accept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu dreamt she was a tiger
Running through the jungle wild
She attacked everything that moved
Even ate a child
The waking world had no place for her
So away from it she kept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu slept
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Oh, Marianna!
03:20
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When I saw you dancing
It made me wanna laugh
You bounced around your room
Like a rubber-necked giraffe
Loved that crazy look on your face
And the way you knocked your knees
You tromped around in your underwear
Moving any which way you please
Oh Marianna
How I love to watch you dance
You seem kind of goofy
Even though I don't know you well
You make independent movies
And I think that they're pretty darn swell
You look hip and together
You speak in a Scottish brogue
You wear your funky sunglasses
You could be on the cover of Vogue
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Wish that someone would tell me
What is normal
Don't think I know what normal is no more
Normal's not these feelings I have for you
My head and my heart
In a constant tug of war
All I want is a little bit of joy
Can't we be just a girl and just a boy
Just a girl and just a boy
I know we got ourselves
A strange dynamic
And there ain't no way we can get around it
It breaks my heart to know
We can't cobble it together
No matter how hard we pound it
All I want is a little bit of joy
Can't we be just a girl and just a boy
I will be your Paris and you will be Helen of Troy
Just a girl and just a boy
I know we don't stand
A snowball's chance in hell
But I wanna believe that we can beat the odds
Not everything's gotta be
A tragedy
Playing out like some mythical Greek gods
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I don't believe you
I don't believe you
I don't believe you
You're a liar
Can't believe you don't feel it too
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10. |
A Little Lovin'
03:37
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All them colors of the rainbow
Are merely shades of gray to me
You may think that I'm a downer
But it's just the way that I see
You can try to cheer me up
For all the good that it will do
But then you start to get irritated
And shout I am through with you
Just a little bit of lovin'
That's what I need
All the fluffy clouds up in the sky
They look foreboding to me
You see something warm and fuzzy
Me I see ugly reality
You can try to make me laugh
But you won't get very far
It's just the way I am built
Like some broke down car
Just a little bit of lovin'
That's my simple creed
All the wonders of the world
Aren't so wonderful to me
They all look rather common
They look rather touristy
You can get all frustrated
And scream, Hey, snap out of it
But that will only bring me down
When I'm having a bout of it
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I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna talk about it
I don’t wanna talk about these hurtful things
Just wanna keep a civil tongue in my mouth, oh yeah
Don’t get me
Don’t get me started
Don’t get me going on all the ways that I’ve been hurt
I may blow right up in your face
I don’t wanna talk
I don’t wanna talk about it
Don’t wanna talk about nothing at all
Just wanna keep my old mad mouth shut, yeah
I don’t wanna talk
I don’t wanna talk about it
I don’t got nothing I wanna say to you at all
No not at all
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna hear your lies
Don’t wanna hear you twist the truth the sweet way that you do
Don’t say I love you
Don’t say nothing at all
I ain’t gonna
I ain’t gonna let you hurt me
Ain’t gonna let you hurt me no way no how
You don’t get to do that
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Where I Belong
04:42
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This is where I belong
And where I always will remain
This is where I belong
I go with the grain
I live in a happy place
Nothing ever goes wrong, goes wrong
My friends are by my side
Been here my whole lifelong
I never feel too scared
I have no reason to be, no reason to be
Bad weather passes me by
Living under the yum-yum tree
And all the sadness of the world
Seems so far, far away
Like someone else's bad dream
It does not hold me in its sway
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"It was hell," recalls former child.
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