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Cul-de-Sac
03:54
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I keep hoping for a sign
Just a card or just a letter
Won’t you please drop me a line
Anything would make me feel better
I keep hoping you’ll return
But days go by and there’s no word
Where have you gone my special one
When will you ever come on back
I been praying all these years
And I’m stuck here in this cul-de-sac
I look out on this old world
And all I see is pain and woe
Thought that you could help us out
But your response has been slow
I am waiting on the stoop
The dream I have has been deferred
Where have you gone
Where have you gone
Can’t you give a little hint
Can’t remember your face
Were your eyes brown or blue
I do recall you had a beard
And you knew a little jujitsu
People are starting to suspect
That you may not exist at all
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Measure of Comfort
03:24
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We can be side by side
And still somehow be together
You can do your thing and can do mine
Like discrete strands on a feather
We can be a coupling
But we don’t need to be linked
We can flow through each other like a river
But we can also be distinct
Measure of comfort
Quantum of solace
Measure of comfort
Quantum of solace
We can tell each other stories
We can just stare into space
We can be shacked up together
Or we can have a separate space
I can be living in Boston
And you can be out in LA
Even though we’re three million miles apart
We are never all that far away
We may not see each other
Maybe we’re invisible
Maybe we're ghosts flitting about
Both inviolate and divisible
But in the end it’s only you
And it’s only me as one
Together forever and forever
A bond that can’t be undone
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What do I have here going on
What do I have to show
I am one big fat mess
Through the tulips I tiptoe
What am I doing hanging 'round
I should be on that train and gone
I should be riding on that train to the unknown
What am I doing hanging 'round
What am I doing hanging 'round
What am I looking forward to
Will it be more of the same
I am counting out the days
In this lifelong waiting game
What am I doing
Where am I going
Where do I wanna be
And when I get there
What do I get
At the apogee
That old clock on the wall
It says it's time for me to leave
I better get my shit together
Time to ho and heave
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4. |
Waltz for Debby
04:51
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What can I say
That cannot be said
No mere words
Can express the dread
A black dog wails
And wakes up the dead
And you put on that dress
And you take my hand
And together we waltz
Through this strange, strange land
I have known you
Nearly all my days
But what do I know
Your most peculiar ways
Try to hang on
But nothing stays
I take what you give
Don't ask for more
If I should dare to cross that line
You close the door
All of our lives
We've been at war
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Spanish Kitchen
04:06
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Pearl stood at the door
She said, Come on in
And you had a meal like none other
You felt welcomed
You felt like family
And Pearl she was your grandmother
That's how it all went down
Down at the Spanish Kitchen
But how it all wound up
Could set you a-twitchin'
It was over on Beverly
And all the stars were there
There was Barrymore, Pickford and Hope
One day Johnny got sick
And they closed for vacation
When Pearl she found it hard to cope
Well Johnny up and died
And Pearl closed down the joint
But she left out the silver, the napkins and the chairs
What was once a gracious host
Was now tending to a ghost
Yeah it was spooky up the back stairs
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6. |
Don't Hide Your Light
05:00
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You sit in silence like a buddha
Your legs crossed quite comfortably
But hidden behind the cool facade
I know there's something you won't let me see
Don't hide you light
Don't hide you light
Don't hide you light from me
Don't hide you light
Don't hide you light
Shine it down for all to see
Behind your eyes there are stories
There are stories I won't ever know
Don't matter how down deep I dig
You don't want to let it show
Shine it down on me
Shine it down on me my love
Let me see
Shine it down on me
Shine it down on me my love
Set yourself free
Set yourself free
You keep your doors locked tightly
And all your curtains are drawn
You ain't ever gonna let me in
Just how long can this go on
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7. |
Can't Shake It Off
04:28
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Got a feeling deep inside me
Kind of freaks me out
My heart is racing round a million miles an hour
The voices in my head they shout
Wish that I could let you go
You've shot me with your crossbow
No matter what I try
No matter what I do
No matter how I think we're done and through
Can't shake it
Can't shake it
Can't shake it off
Got a feeling deep in my guts
Makes me feel so frickin' sick
No matter what I do to push you out
Doesn't do a lick
You get me right where I slumber
You've always got my number
You're in my heart, you're in my dreams
You haunt me all my days
You with your deep green eyes
You with your means and ways
Got a lump deep down in my throat
I can barely speak
I do my best to resist you
But then you always make me weak
No matter what tactics I use
I am bound to lose
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Just when I think I'm being clever
Just when I think I got it made
Just when I think I got it all sewn together
It's then I know that I got played
I may be smart but you're much smarter
You're smack dab at the apogee
I may be quick but you are much quicker
You're always one step ahead of me
Come on and slow it down
Come on and slow it down
Just when I think I'm really cruising
Just when I think at my peak
Just when I think about to break the tape
You make me feel like an antique
Just when I think I am truly hopping
Just when I got my ducks in a line
Just when I feel like I've thrown off my shackles
You bit down like a canine
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9. |
To Know Me
04:24
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It’s so easy to put me in a box
And label the box
He’s this or he’s that
It’s just so easy
To simply sum me up
And squirrel me away like a pack rat
It takes some work to know me
And you don’t know me at all
It takes some work to know me
You don’t wanna see behind the wall
You wanna tell me who I am
And who I am
Fits with what you want me to be
It’s more convenient
It ticks all your blanks
It’s all so very neat and tidy
It takes some work to know me
And you don’t know me at all
It takes some work to know me
You don’t wanna see behind the wall
And you don’t me, no
You don’t know me
I tell you that I’m swamped with my feelings
And those feelings
Seem to swallow me whole
It may seem that I’m out of my mind
But its just that this old world
Has taken its toll
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10. |
Never Get Over It
05:22
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The pain that I feel is as real
As real as chromium steel
Cuts through me like an obsidian knife
Cuts me within an inch of my life
And I'll never get over it
Never get over it
Never get over it
It will haunt me forever
The hurt that I feel is as raw
As sharp as a bandsaw
It is mine and mine alone
It lives down in my bone
No matter what I do
I'll never get over you
My blood is as red
As red as all bloodshed
It gushes out from down deep
As I drift off to my final sleep
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11. |
This Misadventure
03:40
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Why did I think I could make it work
What in hell was I thinking
I let my heart rule my brain
What Kool-Aid was I drinking
I set off on my journey
But now my journey is at an end
It was one long misadventure
And I can no longer pretend
This misadventure
What in the world was I doing
Why did I ever let it begin
If I could go back to that very first moment
I would have never let you in
Who can explain just who we love
It never makes any sense
All we know is what we feel
All we know is it's intense
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Woeful World
06:06
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Can’t stop my tears from falling down
They gush outta me like a raging gale
But who am I to shed a tear
For this fucked-up fairytale
I am no one and I am nothing
And there ain’t nowhere to go
You don't see me and you don't know me
But know that I overflow with woe
For this woeful world
The path I’m on is leading me to ruin
Ain’t gonna change until I change tack
I can talk and scream all about it
But all that won’t fix what’s out of whack
Can’t do nothing about nothing
I am but a single speck of dust
The wheels keep turning around and around
While the gears slowly, slowly rust
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"It was hell," recalls former child.
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