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Rome From Afar
04:40
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I got drunk again last night
And I fell down outside the bathroom
At my little sister's party
I will not tell you about it
I will say that this is pointless
You will say that it is not
You just need a little time
To figure out what it is you want
This could all end
Has it always been ending?
Were we just pretending we weren't heading to Rome?
This could all end
We must both leave the building
Was it just a feeling that we had found our home?
Everything dies and that's no crime
The sun will eat the earth in time
I will miss you, it will hurt
I can't think of anything worse
This could all end
Has it always been ending?
Were we just pretending these roads don't head to Rome?
This could all end
We must both leave the building
Was it just a feeling that we had found our home?
If it's hungry, let it feed
If it's hungry, let it feed
If it's hungry, if it's hungry
If it's hungry, let it feed
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2. |
Meryl
04:43
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I take a long hard drag of my cigarette
I stand too close to the microwave oven
There are some feelings in this organ
That I am not equipped to govern
We go up until we reach the stratosphere
We dive down into the Mariana Trench
But instead of putting me in the game
You wanna hang me out to dry on the bench
I'm thinking to retire
I'm thinking to retire
I had a mentor like a centaur
Too much horseplay to get the job done
I didn't know what I'd signed up for
I thought they'd let me have a badge and a gun
My mother didn't raise a bureaucrat,
A diplomat, or a state statistician
I have ways of going about things
Seen as illogical and inefficient
They want me to retire
They want me to retire
I haven't thought too much about family
Ain't got no husband or a couple of kids
I've spent 26 years in this office
I said goodbye to my relationships
A long time ago
A long time ago
What does the mayor of a small town heart do?
After she retires?
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3. |
Leave
01:32
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I take a moment every day to miss you
I never really had to learn how to grieve
Sometimes I wonder what my life would look like
If I never told you that I had to leave
But I did, and I left
It's been months since the last time we spoke
There were promises I know I didn't keep
Was it a fixable or unfixable broke?
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4. |
Look at You Go
04:00
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Show you what I'm worth
And that I'm not just some dirt on the ground
I stand up for myself and you say
I look like some bookshelf you found
I don't mind being the butt of the joke
Because a joke might make somebody laugh
It's 2018 what are you doing if you're not eating ass?
You're so original
You're so original
You're so original
Look at you go
I don't wanna be a part of
Be a part of, part of your team
Because your standards aren't double
They're quintuple, and you're all kind of mean
And I like it when my friends
Don't all look like each other
You look me in the eye after I sing my heart out
And you say, 'Hey, nice set brother'
You're so original
You're so original
You're so original
Look at you go
A bird is gonna fly its way back home
Some of the time I have no idea where I'm supposed to go
Most of the time I have no idea what this is all about
Some of the time I've got something inside and I'm gonna let it out
I'm so original
I'm so original
I'm so original
Look at me go
You're so original
You're so original
You're so original
Look at you go
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5. |
Big Art Museum
05:52
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In the big art museum
I found myself lost
I felt just like the flowing water
That in that big boat we crossed
I could tell that you were worried
A tear fell neatly from my eye
The whole world felt so far away
But I couldn't tell you why
The tears fall right down but they
They don't hit the ground they just
Evaporate in midair
Public restroom wash my hands
Mirrors paint a forgery on the wall
You try to hold me in your loving arms
But there's nothing there at all
The tears fall right down but they
They don't hit the ground they just
Evaporate in midair
Tears so salty, tears so warm
I am the water and the boat and the storm
Tears so warm, tears so salty
Why does my own drama have to involve me?
Tears so salty, tears so warm
Feel like a baby that's just been born
In the big art museum
I found, I found myself lost
I felt just like a painting of the Mona Lisa
Set me free, set me free
The tears fall right down but they
They don't hit the ground they just
Evaporate in midair
I don't know why they do that
The tears fall right down but they
They don't hit the ground they just
Evaporate in midair
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6. |
Thorn
04:20
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There is a thorn inside of me
I keep it secret, it is an ugly pain
But it goes where I go
I get caught on it again and again
It is as old as I am, maybe older
It is a rock in my gut and a chip on my shoulder
Here I am
Here I am
Here I am
I almost lost myself back there
Have you seen the moon tonight?
No, me neither, who cares about the moon?
When everything is dying
Even my kitchen, it feels like a tomb
When will the sun come up, oh horizon?
How can something be so boring, and yet so violent?
Here I am
Here I am
Here I am
I almost lost myself back there
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7. |
A Boulder Falling Slow
06:40
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You read our faces like a book
Some days I just forget to look
You log the colour of every wall
I don't remember much at all
Our separate sensitivies
Meet like a warm and a cool breeze
Isn't that how tornadoes get born?
I understand if you cannot linger on
Where have they gone?
All the moments that made me someone
I am empty and I am numb
I am numb
From my bones to my beak to my bum
And I don't feel like anyone
I am a boulder falling slow
Step out the way and watch me blow
You're a magnificent spiderweb
You feel the winds and you don't forget
Where have they gone?
All the moments that made me someone
I am empty and I am numb
I am numb
From my bones to my beak to my bum
And I don't feel like anyone
Like anyone
I used to feel those winds as well
I used to feel those winds as well
Until they got as hot as hell
I used to feel those winds as well
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8. |
Overfloweth
05:07
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I fall asleep much easier now
There were years when I didn't know how
My body is the wreckage of a watchtower
Like a little fishing boat on the loch
I've tied myself to a humble wooden dock
I feel secure that I'll wake up in the same place
And I feel comfort when the water starts to rock
The sky doesn't always have to be dark
I've made it through a couple Scandinavian winters
I'm like a baby in the belly of the beast
And I've still got a sense of adventure
Let's watch a movie on the couch
Mightn't sound like much but you know that it's ours
And tomorrow let's take the car down to the river
I count my blessings like a child can count the seconds
And hold a moment like the moment was a cup
I don't know what I did in the last 15 years
But the sign's changed now, and it says not to touch
The sky doesn't always have to be dark
I've made it through a couple Scandinavian winters
I'm like a baby in the belly of the beast
And I've still got a sense of adventure
You know I'm not about to give up
It's not time for white flags yet
Overfloweth my cup, overfloweth my cup
The sky doesn't always have to be dark
I've made it through a couple Scandinavian winters
I'm like a baby in the belly of the beast
And I've still got a sense of adventure
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9. |
Sixteen Horses
04:07
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The water broke through the dam last night
The water broke through the dam
The water broke through the dam last night
The water broke through the dam
I just wish you were here to see it
I just wish you were here to see
I just wish you were here to see it
With me
The water broke through like sixteen horses
Running through the smoke of a hundred cigarettes
Nobody knows why it took so long
Nobody will soon forget
I just wish you were here to see it
I just wish you were here to see
To see those sixteen horses come rolling down the hill
With me
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