1. |
Good Like You
03:28
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You're easy to love
And I say that as a woman
Of steel wool
And she knows she's rough
To the touch
You're letting me in
This rough hewn stone
Eating off the china
In your home
And it's just such
A strange change
Of plans
Laying like modeling clay
In the palms of your hands
Chorus
They say it's cause
You got something I don't
Teach me to be good like you
Where'd you get that heart
What did you trade
There are things I'd be willing to do
To be good like you
You tell me we're square
That love never bothers
With a larger half even though
We both know it's there
I had plans on being lonely
Righteously so, and so slowly
I'm learning to share
With you if you'll have me
Chorus
I'll study at the feet
Of a man who believes
In a place where we can grow
Somewhere safe no one else can go
And every shore I swim from
I drift from
He's always there to
Call me home
Calling me x 4
Chorus
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2. |
Move Me
04:19
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I wanna give you everything
But I'm the one who takes
And in the tall, tall grass
You walk in I
I am the snake
And man I'd change
My stripes and scales I
I try
But every time I shed my skin
It's just another snake inside
Chorus
But baby you move me
And I'm sorry if I move you too
I got you hypnotized
You got me thinking
Thinking I'm worthy of you
As low to the ground as I am
You tend to feel it all
And you can't hear
Of any other way to live when you're
Only one inch tall
All I can do is rear up
Bear fangs against change
And all your faults
But I wanna be better
Different, quiet, whole
Give you only the best of my soul
But I can't find it, no
Chorus
I don't know
how you stand
That I slip
Right out of your hands
Every time you risk
Picking me up
But the only other thing
I can do is choke whatever
Wants me to move
Chorus
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3. |
Look
04:17
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It was always
Gonna end this way
I knew it, you knew it
But we're doing this anyway
Still, one step forward
Two steps back
I like it like that
I like it like that
How many people
Saw you leave
Slinking like a dog
Up a too-dark street
Just me, ooh
What else could I do
But follow you
You look just like him
Chorus
I don't go out looking for you
Down alleyways on corners
But I find you going around them
All the same
I don't know what's got into me
You'd get it if you knew me
It's easy to explain
(I just want you to look my way)
You look just like him
(Look my way)
It's not that I'm fixated
I admit I'm a little bit frustrated
(Look my way)
It's not my fault
I do my best to lay low
(What can I say?)
But there you are
Everywhere I go
(When you look at me that way)
You look just like him x2
Look I know
It's not like me
To be so confused
But I'm afraid that if I wait
I'm gonna lose
What it felt like
To be looked at by you
What it felt like
To be looked at by you
Chorus
Now I find myself
Losing care
For getting caught
Or catching shame
Just for you to look my way
(I know exactly what I'm doing
I'm gonna make you see me)
I'm afraid of what I'll do
For just one look from you
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4. |
Much Too Much
05:51
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Could we stop
Pretending that talking about it is
Something we can do
Every blink of my eye
Every impulse I fight
Every day into night
Lie in the light
Takes me back to you
Could you stop
Expecting I pick up my pace
I've already gone too far
And chasing down forgiveness
Has proven to be too hard
Chorus
It's much too much
For a little heart like mine
I'm already full to the brim
With all the years that I lay paralyzed
If I can be well
Well then I think I'd like to try
And I cannot do that
With my illness at my side
Could you try to
Understand that
All that I did
I didn't do it for you
All that I held together is what
Kept me from falling through
All of the quarries you carved out
I'm still down one and screaming loud
Chorus
I know I know I know
It pains you
Your bed of nails
It isn't my aim to punish
But all else
Fail fail failed
I did what I could
To soothe you
It's all that I know
You mistook it for shelter
That I cannot leave our home
Chorus
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5. |
It's On Me
03:44
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I think about you
Every fuckin day
And I don't want to
(I don't want to anymore)
If you knew
You'd think less of me
Be let down
Tell me not to
(Tell me not to anymore)
There's a hole
In you, somewhere
That matches mine
You've no sense of urgency
To understand, you've managed
With yours just fine
(You call that fine? Fine)
I should have listened when you said
This is the best I'd get
(And you said it before)
It's time I go on
Letting these sleeping dogs lie
When I wake them up
They shake me down
And drink my well dry
(That's not what this love is for)
Chorus
I didn't want to believe
But it's on me now
To set you free now
Set you free
You are you
I guess that's what you always said
(Always telling me no more)
This more that I beg for
You claim not to have it
I ought to believe you
You've made such a goddamn habit of it
You're nothing
If not consistently unchanged indifferently
I know you don't mean to be
I can't get mad
When you won't meet me
Even halfway
You never said you'd try
You told me not to wait
Chorus
There's a hole
In you, somewhere
That matches mine
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6. |
Reservoir
05:37
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What are you doing down there, kid?
Made of so many dams
You're a reservoir
Nobody told you
What water is for
Hand built with sand-filled
Shells of the men willed
Into a silence
And so you've all been
Pulling back the moon until
All of the tide's killed
That's how it all began
That's how it all began
Chorus
And now these walls
Are too high for me to climb
I got nothing but assumptions
About what's on
The other side
If from your place
At the bottom
Of your deep deep water
You could describe
What is it like, kid?
What wouldn't I give?
I've asked about
All the fossils you've kept
With so much pressure on your soul
There are bound to be some gems
But I can't get in there
With you insisting it's too dark
All you do is put out fires
Is that how you lost
Your spark?
Chorus
But as it is I
But as it is I
But as it is
I've stopped chiseling
My way in
I know where I'm not wanted
Even if it's haunted
This choice is all I got kid
What I wouldn't give to know
What it's like down there?
What I would give to know
What are you doing down there?
What are you doing down there kid?
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7. |
Canary In the Coal Mine
05:19
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Sometimes you're a bird
Born underground
Tasked with mapping
The dark by sound
And you carry a message out
Tell them it's safe to come down
Not everybody
Wants to hear it sing
It's unnatural there
Living underneath their feet
But it carries a message out
It's safe to come down
Chorus
No I didn't say it wouldn't be hard
But I've been down here for a bit
No I didn't say it wouldn't be dark
But I'm keeping the fires lit
I'll be your canary in the coal mine
Sometimes you're a bird
With uncommon lungs
You prefer the sulphur
Of the inner earth
Cause that clean air gets you spun
Someone's gotta get the dead across the river
And so it is with my darker kingdoms
It's best your guide
Survives the winter
Chorus
Carry a message out
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8. |
In a Room With You
05:16
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I know I didn't do this right
I know I never do
And I know it isn't fair to you
It's not a good excuse
But time seems to leave me alone
I hide like this
Because I can
Though I wish
I were a bigger man
It works for me
It isn't like I was facing things back then
They were just in a room with me
Chorus
But I don't want to fight
There's nobody here
The demons were a stretch of years
Give it time
You'll call them up
No I don't want to talk
I just want to be new
I just want to stand in a room with you
Give us time
We'll catch up
I'd hoped to be
A great deal better
Instead I choose a storm that's weathered
With my head in the sand
This dead horse you see me riding
Is really running from
The whip in my hand
So what I'm saying is
I don't wanna make
You wait for the day
I'm finally outran
Go on, go on, go on
Without me now
While you can
I'll find you down the road a ways
Someday
Wherever you stand
That's the place
We'll build the new place
On new land
Chorus
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9. |
Work
03:55
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I hate to be the one
To break it to you
Do what you can
Not to shoot the messenger
Holy of holies
You got a gift
You packed it up
Now you're packing it in
But it doesn't work that way
It isn't a present
It's a divine mandate
You gotta do what the muses say
You know it as well as I do
It doesn't matter what you believe
There is only the truth
Holy of holies
Beating it back
Bloody your knuckles
While it changes tack
You know it as well as I do
Chorus
It's gotta do it's work through you
Unbind your hands, you fool
You know better than anyone
We haven't the time to lose
Let it do it's work through you
What are you playing at?
How long do you think you'll last?
How many times will you have to bleed like that?
Before you understand
This is all you have
Holy of holies
Too big for you to keep holding them back
Holy of holies
They'll burn you up like that
Chorus
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10. |
Lately
03:33
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I give myself a lot of trouble
For coming out just the way I did
I've been thinking on it
There are things I can't change
And I'm sorry if I told you I could
Man I give myself some shit
For being the only way I know
It's getting more permanent
As I get older
I'm even more me somehow
But I'm feeling better about it
Feeling better
I don't ever want to get
Ahead of myself
I've accepted there's an inborn hell
But I'm feeling better about it lately
I'm feeling better
I'm gonna try doing just
A little more every day
It's only been a couple of weeks
But it's going okay
Dare I say it's working?
I'm cautiously optimistic that I'm feeling so good lately
Could go the other way
But maybe this is where I'll stay
Just doin a little more every day
I'm feeling better
Lately
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