“This Love” (Tongue Tied)
It goes without saying
That’s because it can’t be said
Like the freckles on your cheeks
It’s not a thing you can wash away
And I would say it
But if I do
I’m afraid that I’ll be sad
I’m afraid you’ll be sad too
Why can’t we say?
Words that we want to
This love
Is as plain as day
My hearts shouting
Please stay (Please stay)
Please stay (Please stay)
Please say
Words dance on the tip of your tongue
To tango takes more than one
Look at the wine painted on the walls
There are stains that don’t dissolve
And we could say it
We both know the truth
So afraid of four little words
“I Still Want you”
Why can’t we say?
Words that we want to
This love
Is as plain as day
My hearts shouting
Please stay (Please stay)
Please say (Please stay)
I wonder why it is? (I wonder why it is?)
I wonder why it is? (I wonder why it is?)
I wonder why it is? (I wonder why it is?)
I wonder why it is? (I wonder why it is?)
Why can’t we say?
Why can’t we say?
Words that we want to
I know I want to
I still belong to
This love
Is as plain as day
My hearts shouting
Please stay (Please stay)
Please stay (Please stay)
Why can’t we say?
Tongue tied so tight
There’s a noose on the words that I’ve hidden in my mind
Behind the bars
Of the prison I’ve built just to silence my heart
Is pounding beating against the walls of my chest
Begging and pleading
Let down your guard
It’d be so easy to say
So easy to say
“1700 State”
I realized just what it meant
As we ascended the icy steps of your double wide
The Christmas lights implied
That you were the perfect guy
I reflected on my life
Like sunlight off the moon
Figured if I shined bright enough
I might stand a chance with you
And as the minutes passed us by
It felt like I
Was in a Fourth of July Parade
It felt like I
Was a child who made dollar selling lemonade
It felt like
All the things I thought that I could never feel again
You took my hand
Like the ocean takes the sand
To a place so deep and dark
It might as well be pretend
Then our lips met
Like to shopping carts colliding in the supermarket
Two star-crossed lovers
A tale as old as time
I wonder what it is
That makes me feel like this?
I wonder what it is
That makes me feel like this?
I wonder what it is
That makes me feel like this?
I wonder what it is
That makes me feel…
Like I
Am in a fourth of july parade
Watching as the moments
Slowly march away
Like I
Am a child who made a dollar selling lemonade
Like all the things I thought that I would never feel again
I wonder what it is
That makes me feel like this?
I wonder what it is
That makes me feel like this?
I wonder what it is
That makes me feel like this?
I wonder what it is, what it is, what it is?
Make me feel like this
“Charlie”
I can’t remember the name of your bear
Or how he came to be yours
I think that it’s Charlie
Even still his origins unclear
Does that mean you’re also forgetting
How I used to be yours?
Days are so unrelenting…
Has it already been three years?
“Bread and Butter”
How hard can it be
To keep things simple and lead
A life of leisure?
Keeping things chill
Cooler than your freezer
Don’t need much
Just bread and butter
Fresh strawberries and water
And a little champagne…
We’ll be toasting everyday
Dancing in the rain
Oh like I’m nineteen again
Sun shining on your face
You’re the perfect cast away
We don’t have to live
Under the shade people keep throwing
We can simply reside
Beneath the palm trees that are growing
On a beach so white
They’re gonna think that we got snowed in
Don’t need much
Just bread and butter
Fresh strawberries and water
And a little champagne…
We’ll be toasting everyday
Dancing in the rain
Oh like I’m nineteen again
Sun shining on your face
You’re the perfect cast away
With a little champagne
We’ll be toasting everyday
Dancing in the rain
Oh like I’m nineteen again
Sun shining on your face…yes
You’re the perfect cast away
“John Travolta”
You’re like John Travolta
It’s like 1978
The way you got me moving
It’s like I’m 19 again
Some are born to sing the blues
We were born for platform shoes
They’ve been saying disco’s dead
Does that mean I’m in heaven?
I wanna feel
The way you make me feel
You’re playin me
Like a reel to reel stag film
I wanna live
The way you make me live
Do we exist to dance?
Or do we dance to exist
To exist
To exist
I can tell by the way you use your walk
You’re gonna boogie down no time to talk
Music’s loud and you’re so warm
When you hold me in your arms
Disco Dance floor shakin
All my life I have been waitin
Don’t care what decade I’m in
You’re saving this boy like Kevin Bacon
You can’t dance in this town!
I wanna feel
The way you make me feel
You’re playin me
Like a reel to reel stag film
I wanna live
The way you make me live
Do we exist to dance?
Or do we dance to exist
To exist
To exist
I wanna feel
The way you make me feel
You’re playin me
Like a reel to reel stag film
I wanna live
The way you make me live
Do we exist to dance?
Or do we dance to exist
To exist
To exist
“C.C.C.”
I see how you save
All your lonely days
Next time that it rains
Why don’t you take’em to the bank
Cashing in your sorrow
Liquidate so you can wallow
Financing your fears
On a fortune made of tears
Of tears, of tears, of tears
I know what it is
To give in to the sadness,
Throw up your white flag…
Don’t surrender to the madness
Just need a little cleanse
Some Mexican beer and some cannabis cigarettes
A backyard hot tub with your friends
A kind hearted lover whispering sweet nothings
A full year of unemployment
Just crashing on couches and dodging rent
A little taste of heaven
Your own slice of freedom
Just a few moments of real living
Passing all your days
With the errors that you’ve made
You can dwell with your mistakes
Just knock they’ve saved some space
At the table you’ve a place
Don’t worry there’s more than too much on your plate
Savoring your past
A feast of pain you know will last
And last, and last, and last
I know what it is
To give in to the sadness,
Throw up your white flag…
Don’t surrender to the madness
Just need a little cleanse
Some Mexican beer and some cannabis cigarettes
A backyard hot tub with your friends
A kind hearted lover whispering sweet nothings
A full year of unemployment
Just crashing on couches and dodging rent
A little taste of heaven
Your own slice of freedom
Just a few moments of real living
“You Too Can Be A Queen”
Daddy's talking bout engine warranties
The queen’s just catching some sun
got some stoned hipster soaking in the pond
Watching the algae growing
O-oh the rose gardens burning
Aunt Lydia keeps the circus going
Ring master for the king of lies
His highness likes it televised
Swiping right and swiping left
Aye Papi lets take this off of SMS
Dissect the myth of a market based meritocracy
Want my latte with extra steam
This dream is scheme kiss the ring
and for a limited time you too can be a queen
We should continue this discussion
over a mason jar of overnight oats.
Avocado toast!
Mamas tell your chil how the west was won
Empty guarantees on voided warranties
A victory that was stolen
Caught up in the gears of progress
An engine of chaos spewing toxic exhaust
When you see a profit do you consider the cost?
When you strike gold do you feel what's lost?
How can they sell us what was already ours?
The sun, The Sea, The Moon, The Stars
Convertin souls into graphs and charts
Commodifying beating hearts
The poor, tired huddled masses
Fuel for a prison-military industrial complex
Exit Kipling, Exit Ward,
Gotta get the hell out of this god forsaken autoplex
Oh lord
Avocado toast!
“Molecules”
Slightly scratched and getting old
Got some dust in the grooves
And you’re a little warped
Even still, when that needle drops you’re solid gold
Your dark exterior gets mistaken for your soul
They’re just not listening
Even when you speak you sing
And even when your lips are sealed
The melody is all I hear
Going La La
Even when you’re standing still
Caught up in a cosmic twirl
Going round round
Even when you’re sleeping dear
Your heartbeat is the bass I feel
Going boom boom
Even when the song is done
The atoms in you have to hum
Going
Oh oh oh oh ohm
Little worn but you got the sweetest sound
Dripping honey when you open your mouth
Resonate when you let your hair down
Waves of gold lost and found
I’m always listening
Even when you speak you sing
And even when your lips are sealed
The melody is all I hear
Going La La
Even when you’re standing still
Got me caught up in a cosmic twirl
Going round round
Even when you’re sleeping dear
Your heartbeat is the bass I feel
Going boom boom
Even when the song is done
The atoms in you have to hum
Going
Oh oh oh oh ohm
