2007 release. Lo-fi. Recorded in Turtle River, MN. Click here to download the entire album. Stream, download, & read lyrics to individual tracks below. |
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Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange I didn’t think this could ever happen /Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange I didn’t think I’d ever feel this way/I don’t want it I don’t want you/I don’t need it I don’t need you/This time I know I’m right, because every time I am right/And this little love story is straining to end and you’re still so messed up and we’re not even friends/I’m not coming, I won’t come down/I’m not coming down til I’ve calmed down/Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange, I didn’t think this could ever happen/Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange to wake up alone, wake up so elated
Gonna write a song for you/Gonna write a song for you my love/And I know it won’t take too long/I know it won’t be so long/'Cause if I wrote about every nice thing I know about you/This song would already be through
Who’s gonna shoe your pretty little foot/Who’s gonna glove your hand/Who’s gonna kiss your ruby red lips/Who’s gonna be your man/Papa’s gonna shoe my pretty little foot/Mama’s gonna glove my hand/Sister can kiss my ruby red lips/I don’t need no man/I don’t need no man oh boy/No I don’t need no man/Sister can kiss my ruby red lips/I don’t need no man/The longest day I ever knew
was the day we said goodbye/You asked me if I loved you more than this rambling life and I just could not lie/Tell me who’s gonna shoe your pretty little foot/Who’s gonna glove your hand/Who’s gonna kiss your ruby red lips/Who’s gonna be your man/I can shoe my pretty little foot/And I can glove my hand/My sister can kiss my ruby red lips/I don’t need no man/I don't need no man oh boy/I don't need no man/My sister can kiss my ruby red lips/I don't need no.../Who’s gonna shoe your pretty little foot/Who’s gonna glove your hand/Who’s gonna kiss your ruby red lips/Who’s gonna be your man When you’re gone I know I’m better off/When you’re gone I know I’m better off alone/'Cause I go crazy just at the thought of you/Maybe it’s just because I’m too damn lazy/To properly get over you/Look at me I’m such an awful mess/Oh don’t you worry, yeah I like it this way best/I write more songs when I’m depressed/When you’re gone I know I’m better off/When you’re gone I know I’m better off alone/But I want you here
I’m heading north now/'Cause I need a reason to be so cold/I’m heading home now/Don’t believe everything you’re told/I never loved you/I didn’t/Isn’t it always, isn’t al----ways/Always this way/I had a dream last night I built a time machine/And I went back to when I was eighteen/I thought I’d listen, I thought I’d see/I think I’m watching too much TV/I tried to save myself/But I wouldn’t listen/You know I never listen/Isn’t it always, isn’t al----ways/Always this way/And I bet you’re so confused/Because I said I was so over you/But last night I called you crying and diffused/I said you can’t believe a word I said to you/Because I still love you/I said I still love you/You said you didn’t/Isn’t it always, isn’t al----ways/Always this way
I’m not living, but I breath/And I might just up and disappear/Would anybody miss me/Would anybody miss me/If I were not, were not here/I’m not happy with this song/And I wish you wouldn’t sing along/'Cause I’m not happy/Is anybody happy/Happy here/'Cause I found your old love letters/In a box/In a box/Right next to the coffeemaker warranty/And that’s how I feel/That’s how I feel/Is anybody happy/Is anybody happy
I’m bleeding/The universe pulls me/Out of my skin/I’m out of my skin/And I think oh shit yeah/This is it/And I think oh shit yeah/This is it/'Cause I want you so badly/I want you so badly/So badly/I do/And I’m so there/It just isn’t fair/I’m staining my jeans/And I think oh shit yeah/This is it/And I think oh shit yeah/This is it/'Cause I want you so badly/I want you so badly/So badly/I do/Don’t you say it/I don’t want to say it/Just go back to sleep/Go back to sleep
The aliens came/I paid them to take my brain/So I’d forget everything that we ever said/I guess I should have known/It wouldn’t work out/'Cause they misunderstood the plan/And they ripped out my heart instead/Either way I wish you were here/'Cause you’re so good at misery/And I’d love company/I would/Thanks to my plan/Oh so carefully planned/I can’t feel anything/But I remember feeling everything/Now the CIA is slipping something into my tea/Or maybe all the stars have aligned evilly against me/Either way I wish you were here/'Cause you’re so good at misery/And I’d love company/I would/My sewing machine, it can fix my jeans/But I know nothing will ever fix me/So I’ll blame it all on the mercury in my head/Or on the TV screen putting off all of that bad energy/Either way I wish you were here/'Cause you’re so good at misery/And I’d love company/I would
I say I wanna to be in love/But I don’t like what love does to me/Yeah I feel like shit/And I look like shit/And I can’t even take a shit/Yeah I’m that messed up/Yeah I’m that messed up/Yeah I’m so in love/Look what love can do for you/Look what love has done for me/Look what love can do for you/Yeah I feel like shit/And I look like shit/And I can’t even take a shit/Yeah I’m that messed up/Yeah I’m that messed up/Yeah I’m so in love
I wish the capitalist machine/Hadn’t already, already, already/Co-opted the country music scene/'Cause I need/Yeah I need/I need/I need/I want my dragon that was slain/By some arrogant, arrogant, arrogant naïve/In shiny apathy/'Cause I need/Yeah I need/I need/I need/This place is tinier than me/It’s so suffo… so suffo… so suffocating/Oh suffer me/'Cause I need/Yeah I need/I need/I need/Do—do do do do/The ice is heaving in the heat/And the darkness finally, finally, finally/Finally retreats/And I need/Yeah I need/I need/I need
I could have been your housewife baby/I could have been your cheerleader/And you could have been a rock star baby/You could have owned this world/But the ghost of Elvis came to save us in your dreams/Said I want to teach you something I learned while I was king/Don’t mistake what you want for what the universe needs/And he said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could ever be/He said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could hope to be/I could have had your rockstar babies/I could have drown them in the bath/I could have been your muse/I could have been your Sylvia Plath/But the ghost of Elvis came to save us in your dreams/Said I want to teach you something I learned while I was king/Don’t mistake what you want for what the universe needs/And he said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could ever be/He said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could hope to be/Now I’m a rockstar not a stupid housewife/Not a stupid cheerleader/And I want to thank you/I want to thank you/I want to thank you for leaving me
Yeah I got out of bed today/So I guess that makes this a good day/Yeah I got out of bed today/So I guess that makes this a good day/I saw my grandmother/And she gave me a birthday card/And she said I’m sorry I won’t see you on your birthday/I’m sorry this card is early/And I said oh no grandma it’s not early/'Cause I had my birthday last week/She just looked at me like I was crazy or maybe I’d lost my memory/So I said oh no grandma I think that you’re right/I’m gonna have a birthday next week/And she smiled/And I said I love you very much/Thanks for the card so much/I’m sorry I won’t see you on my birthday/Yeah I love you/Yeah I got out of bed today/So I guess that makes this a good day
Why are there so many hipsters in my town/Everyone used to be an artist or a cowboy or a lumberjack/Why are there so many hipsters in my town/Won’t someone tell me how do I get rid of them/How do I get rid of them all?/I was having a real good time with this British girl I know/She’s really cool, 'cause she doesn’t think she’s really cool/And she took off her shirt so I could see what was underneath/It was another one/With a black machine gun/It was a black machine gun/And it read/It read/It read/Die hipster die/Die hipster die/Die hipster die/Die hipster die
I can see the future in my dreams/I have nocturnal prophesies/I can see the future in my dreams/I dreamed when I was 18/My boyfriend was a vampire/And he ate me/So when he came over I asked why do you sleep all day/And I spent all my days studying symbols and karate/I didn’t want to take it literally but I was ready to/I dreamed when I was 18/My boyfriend was a vampire/And he ate me/Then I remembered in that dream I was not afraid/And I took that as a sign that everything would be ok/Oh I was so naïve and he just wanted me for a meal/I dreamed when I was 18/My boyfriend was a vampire/And he ate me/I can see the future in my dreams/Shiny little warning signs for me/So in the revised prophesy/I dreamed when I was 18/My boyfriend was a vampire/So I staked him
Got nothing good to say today/I guess I’m just gonna say it anyway/The day was so long/So long/The day was so long/So long/So long my love
I’m taking my time I think for once you’ve got the right/There’s nothing good wine and a bad girl couldn’t teach you/Nothing good wine and a bad girl couldn’t teach me too/Oh oo oh/I’ve been thinking I’ve been thinking I’m so gone/I’ve been thinking I’ve been thinking what the hell is wrong/'Cause I’m so pretty and strong/I’m so witty and brave/I’m so courageous and clever/Oh yeah man whatever/Sometimes I tower oh with strength and with ease/Ignore all the theorizing expert fairytale priests I so love to please/Oh let down your hair/Fall into a deep deep sleep/I’ll let down my hair/So you can come here and rescue me/I’ve been thinking I’ve been thinking I’m so gone/I’ve been thinking I’ve been thinking what the hell is wrong/'Cause I’m so pretty and strong/I’m so witty and brave/I’m so courageous and clever/Oh yeah man whatever/I’m taking my time I think for once I’ll get this right/I’m just gonna cut my hair and climb down from this tower/Yeah I’m taking back my power/Take back the power/Oh ooo yeah/I’ve been thinking I’ve been thinking I’m so gone/I’ve been thinking I’ve been thinking what the hell is wrong/'Cause I’m so pretty and strong/I’m so witty and brave/I’m so courageous and clever/Oh yeah man whatever
I’m leaving in the morning by train/Leaving in the morning by train/I’m leaving in the morning by train/And I know there won’t be time to explain/There’s no one else I’d rather hold/No one else I’d rather hold/There’s no one else I’d rather hold/I just thought you’d like to know/Love can be so simple and sweet/Love can be so simple and sweet/Love can be so simple and sweet/Oh but right now you’re just selfish and mean/'Cause you don’t/want my love oh no/You don’t want my love oh no/You don’t want my love oh no/You don’t want anything you can’t control/I’m leaving in the morning by train/Leaving in the morning by train/I’m leaving in the morning by train/And I know there won’t be time to explain
When you go out at night/How do you look so proud/How do you stand so tall/How do you?/'Cause I had a friend but she had to go away/She couldn’t take it anymore looking at your face/When you go out at night/How do you look so proud/How do you stand so tall/How do you?/She was a saint yeah she’d forgive anyone anything/But I am different, I am different you see/I am no angel yeah I have my own fantasies/Of tying you up to a dumpster in some dark alley/I’ll teach you what no means/I’ll teach you what no mean/When you go out at night/How do you look so proud/How do you stand so tall/How do you?
I know this might sound profoundly pessimistic/but how can things be so fucked up
and so many people just miss it/won't you send me a letter downstream/something I could touch something I could feel/won't you send me a letter downstream/something I could touch something I could feel/everyday now seems our future just gets dimmer and dimmer somebody shout “amen”/I swear if one more asshole calls my mother demanding money I swear/won't you send me a letter downstream/something I could touch something I could feel/won't you send me a letter downstream/something I could touch something I could feel/I don't want to be here I don't want to be here/I just want to be home you see/it's not that bad trading your dreams for minimum wage slavery/it runs in the family/won't you send me a letter downstream/something I could touch something I could feel/won't you send me a letter downstream/something I could touch something I could feel/all this singing can't support me hell/I can't even support myself/and I feel so selfish, so ashamed that/I can't think of anything else to say but/won't you send me a letter downstream/something I could touch something I could feel/won't you send me a letter downstream/send me your fears I'd like to plant a garden, and stick around to watch it grow/I'd like to hold your hand and just see where this could go/oh, but you know I'm leaving I'm as good as gone/yeah I'm leaving this is the last song/and wishes are just horses I am too afraid to ride/I wish I could just open my mouth and say what I know is true/Like I wish there was time to do everything I want to do to you/but you know I'm leaving I'm as good as gone/yeah I'm leaving this is the last song/and wishes are just horses I am too afraid to ride/Your smile/your hair a mess/in that white white summer dress/in the cool winter heat of New Orleans/And if I saw you/saw you again I just might take your hand/and take you down and buy us pockets full of seed/but you know wishes are just horses I am too afraid to ride/you know wishes are just horses and I am too afraid to ride/I'd like to plant a garden, and stick around to watch it grow/I'd like to hold your hand and just see where this could go/oh, but you know I'm leaving I'm as good as gone/yeah I'm leaving this is the last song/and wishes are just horses I am too afraid to ride
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