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So Many Roads
06:06
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Thought I left you long ago
Well it looks like I thought wrong
Thought I had the strength to let you go
But I guess I was not that strong
So many roads I’ve gone down
So many places I’ve passed on through
But every direction I’ve ever taken
Always leads me straight back home to you
Every night when I go to bed
Well I pray you are not in my dreams
Thought I relieved myself of you
But I’m still bursting, bursting at the seams
I bet that you must hate me
For all of the pain that I’ve wrought
I just hope you can forgive me
It’s all I’ve ever sought
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2. |
Road to Tomorrow
04:00
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This is pretty good
What we got here
Got it going on
For an old buccaneer
It's clear up ahead
Least that's what I heard was said
We are on the road to tomorrow
Best to just sit back and enjoy the ride
Here on the road to tomorrow
Well it's good to have a companion by your side
This is pretty cool
These devices
Plays to our strengths
And our vices
All these accessories
Now bare necessities
This is pretty neat
All this media
We are one big
Encyclopedia
We're an open book
Full of gobbledygook
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3. |
If I Let Go
05:38
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Everyone is leaving for parts unknown
Everyone has packed up
Charged their cell phone
The taxi is a-waiting to take them to their trains
Got their tickets altogether
Letting go of the reins
And I would like to join them but I can't find the time
I need a small vacation
I'm no longer in my prime
If I let go will I make it eastward
If I let go will I make it eastward
Or drift on to shore
I am standing on a platform with guilt in my heart
But if I don't ever leave here
I can't make a start
Now I'm on a subway
A girl is sending a text
And I would like to ask her what will happen next
I am traveling far and wide with no guidebook and no plan
I am going here and yon in this strange and distant land
I am living on the cheap
Going native where I can
I am seeing inside out
I've become a different man
Everyone is gone now
I am gone as well
All the streets have been deserted
All the lawns have gone to hell
Don't plan on me returning
I've got new fish to fry
See you on the flip side
This is my goodbye
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4. |
Sing-La-Dee-Day
04:21
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Terrorists in the closet
Ebola under the bed
Seems wherever I turn
Somethin's 'bout knock me dead
The world's pretty spooky
Lotsa shit is a-goin' down
And the ones who run the thing
Are the loudest ones around
I sing, I sing
Sing la-la-la-la
Sing la-dee-day
Monkeys makin' moolah
All over this here land
Even the smart guys
Well they ain't so smart
Yeah, the don't understand
People sending texts
While the world goes up in flames
And who, who is responsible
Well you won't even know their names
I sing, I sing
While the world is going to hell
In a tourist cruise
Only celebrities
Make front-page news
While the world is going to hell
In a reality show
The rest of us wait around
For Godot to show
And all through it all
I just want to sing
I just want to sing
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5. |
Uneasy Street
04:30
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A woman on the subway platform
Is shouting that she's clean
Been off the stuff since late last week
Says she's quit that ugly scene
Nobody is listening
Except for me and my kid
My kid spins her finger 'round her ear
Can't keep her feelings hid
I am walking down
This uneasy street
People are so strange
On this uneasy street
Nobody knows me
But that's all right
I can walk this uneasy street
In the dead of night
A big man in a red bandana
Is holding a brown bag
Something odd is oozing out
He's not your usual swag
He sees me looking
My first and last mistake
He gives me a fearsome stare
His eyes black like a snake
A baby in a baby carriage
Starts rolling toward the tracks
Some dude in the middle of a text
Doesn't see it when it smacks
He stepped right out of its way
Didn't notice and didn't care
Never heard the mother screaming
Over his iPhone blare
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I was a baby boy in a big boy's world
Didn't know my left from right
When it came to a girl
I was always trip, trip, tripping
Always playing the fool
Didn't know what I was doing
Didn't know any rule
Girls they always laughed at me
But I never seemed to know it
And when I finally wised on up
I tried to never ever show it
Well I stood by and I took my licks
I never bothered to shove
I got kicked
Kicked in the butt by love
I was a baby boy in a big boy's town
When it came to loving a girl
Didn't know my up from down
I always said something kinda lame
I always sounded dumb
I was just about as subtle as a big bass drum
Girls they always gave me grief and I didn't get why
Didn't get why I bugged them so like a tsetse fly
I was a baby boy at a big boy's table
Didn't know which fork to use
Didn't know nothing, Mable
Thought I could fake my way
But I lacked finesse
Wound up in a no man's land, but I digress
Girls they seemed pretty foreign to me
Never got the hang
Whenever I endeavored to make a move
It was all sturm and drang
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7. |
Cracking Up
04:00
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I can't hold it together
Can't keep it in one piece
Can't make sense of it all
Can't find a new lease
My life is melting down
Nothing I can do
I'm cracking up
Cracking up
Just like Humpty Dumpty
Amen, amen
Just like Humpty Dumpty
Can't put the pieces together again
Thought I'd find an answer
But it never did arrive
Just wound with the question
How can I survive
Things are falling apart
The center does not hold
Giving it one last chance
Then I'm packing in
No one's gonna miss me
Or ask where I been
The car is in the ditch
And the road is at an end
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8. |
I Just Live Here
05:00
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Don't recognize the signs
Don't recognize the faces
Nothing looks familiar to me
Don't know the names
Don't get the language
Don't share a history
Don't you look me in the eye
Whatever you do
Don't need nothing from me
Don't need nothing from you
This is your world
This is your time
I just live here, I just live here
You got it all and I got squat
I just live here, I just live here
Don’t feel I belong
Don’t feel a connection
I am nearly invisible
What happened to our pledge
One nation under God
One nation indivisible
Don't tell me ‘bout diversity
It’s one big lie
You got yours
And no rules apply
Don’t mind me
I don’t want much
I really don’t want nothing at all
You got the money
And you got the means
You got the wherewithal
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9. |
Days of Wonder
04:43
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These are the days
The days of wonder
And they are crashing down like thunder
These are the days
The days of wonder
And they leave me wondering
They leave me wondering
These days of wonder
These days of wonder
I see things I simply can't believe
Things that completely blow my mind
I see a kind of insanity
A craziness that can't be defined
I see a world spinning out of control
In ways it's never done
People are fighting tooth and nail
They are taking away the fun
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10. |
Don't Let Go
04:20
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How many times must I ask you
To reach out and take my hand
Yeah, yeah
And how many times must I ask you
Before you finally understand
Don't let go
Don't let go, now
Don't let go
Don't let go, my old friend
How many pleas must I make of you
Before you'll finally listen to me
Yeah, yeah
And how many tears must I shed
Before you take me seriously
How many years will it take you
Till you finally get it in your head
Yeah, yeah
And how many years will it take you
Will you wait until I am dead
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11. |
River Road
05:55
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A green light it flickered all down the coast
And a voice on the TV said, Who loves you the most
You awoke that morning and cleaned the crumbs from your bed
But when the drugs kicked in
You couldn't clean out your head, no, no, no
You took a drive down on River Road
The sea ate the land down on River Road
The dream came true, the world turned blue
Down on River Road
Down on River Road
A siren had sounded down on Beacon Street
The gum ball light swirled and dispensed you a treat
You downed it so gladly
You awaited a change
A revolution of the mind
Didn't seem so strange, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooo-ooo the river is rising
A taxi is waiting
His meter is running
He's all out of patience
His engine is gunning
Won't you hop on aboard
Let the world explode
Get out while you can
Down that river road, yeah, yeah, yeah
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12. |
Long Road Home
04:02
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I heard a noise
Then I saw you there
In the weary blue light of dawn
Your eyes were gray
And your dress was torn
You said, "I really don't belong"
I said I'd follow you wherever you roam
Even the long road home
We gathered our stuff
And we packed our bags
And headed out to the train
The wind was cruel
Nearly blew us down
How we cursed the Memphis rain
Where we go who really cares
Just that we go is the point
Our time is done
We've had enough
Let's go blow this joint
We travelled for weeks
To distant lands
Where street signs were carved in trees
You said this must be it
Let's set up camp
And you fell down on your knees
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The Revenants Boston, Massachusetts
"It was hell," recalls former child.
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