I don't even remember recording this motherfucker.
You never know quite what to do
You shut up when I'm in the room
You lead me around by the tongue
I see it all clear as the sun
You love me when I play guitar
Then throw me away in the yard
You lead me around like a dog
So lead me around like a dog
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do
All right yeah
You lead me around like a dog
So cook me some breakfast tonight
I'll hold you if you got to puke
I'll hold you 'til you feel alright
Puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke puke
Alright yeah
Lost on North Avenue my job took me there everyday
A different world a new country I found out today
It's like I'm a foreigner born in the u s of a
Tension so thick you can cut it I'm here anyway
Driving on back to my home where the radio's free
Crank up the Velvets and Ice Cube and vintage PE
Pop in the Replacements and drift to a van on the road
Every once in a while I just want to explode
The magic of music's a cascading ballet of junk
Stuck in the middle of metal and country and funk
Sometimes I feel lost when I'm writing I want to be Neil
Every musician I know they just want to be real
Yeah
All of these labels for music mean jack shit to me
Subconsciously divide and conquer the will to be free
I don't want no purists around me it's forrest or trees
Give me a forrest and watch me sink into the leaves
Sinkin deep
Yeah, sinkin deep
Ah-oo lord
Ah-oo lord
sinkin deep
Yeah sinkin
Sinkin deep
Here's some chips and dip
Have a nice party, son
I can see it clear as day
All smiling cakes and fun
Bring my chips and dip
To your party later on
I got some peanuts too
For your happy birthday song
Here's a dirty card
Don't show it to your mother
Here's a briefcase and a check
When's last you saw you brother?
Take my stuff on back inside
It's yours now take it light
Yeah and don't drink too much beer
When you're partying tonight
No
I come from overseas
My dad and me no way
And I didn't see him die
My plane was late that day
My old house like a wall
I ain't ever left them doors
Look how they've wrecked my yard
I left my home
What for
So I got my kid chips and dip
He turned 25 today
I took him overseas
You should really see him play
My son looked kind of sad
When I said goodbye
But I taught my boy one thing
A real man never cries
(That's wrong)
Now I don't ever look back
When I drive my truck away
And I hardly see my kids
Except on Christmas Day
So I walk on up them steps
Take my shoes off and lie down
On my stinking single bed
On the lonely side of town.
When I look in your eyes
The clouds leave the skies
My pain starts to wane
So I'll say it again
Say you love me too
It's good making love
Feels so good making love
Tell my buddies roll on
I'll catch up later on
But we all know I won't
Something I just won't do
They're all down at last call
While I'm in bed with you
Say you love me too
All of my life
I searched for what's true
Without even looking
I found it in you
I guess we both know it's right
Even though we m,ight fight
It's a timeless affair
It's like wind in the air
Because when I look in your eyes
The clouds leave the skies
My pain starts to wane
So I'll say it again
Say you love me too
Do you remember giving me your number
And your address too
Do you remember videos of thunder
Can't ignore you
Come sweetly watch your step and shudder
I thought that you were someone's girl
To another empty form of flatter
But not from me
Hanging with my little sister
But you should be
Around my house at dawn for California
I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you
Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific
This song is for you I hope you
Dig it love is what you make it
But it makes you
Just like dying hell you just can't fake it
But it fakes you
Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter
Faces in a whirl I'm taking cover
So what's the reason for all of this clamor
Build you with a chisel and a hammer
Drinking a 40 on the second day of spring
We just sent off the mailing list
Got a keg flowing in the afternoon
It's time for drinking this
So many cats on the mansion porch I know everyone inside
Girl living in an upstairs apartment
One day she'll be my bride
Picked up D down in old Pigtown
Got a ride in the van inside
Smoking around an ounce of weed
Laughing 'til it hurts my sides
Thank god it's finally spring
Snow's been thawed a couple months
It's still been cold as shit
Keeping warm with whiskey and tequila
And a million beers with it
Keeping numb with pills and something
That I got for lifting weights
In springtime there's so many girls
Ain't no need to masturbate
Thank god it's finally spring
Now everyone can sing
Birds fly through the wings
Whistling as we sing
Love me
Let me
Love you
Ooh
Let's agree on disagreeing
Let's agree on moving on
Let's agree just for agreement
On second thought don't call me on the phone
'Cause I'm flashing back on days of sorrow
Cold and melancholy like the night
Frown around and feeling stupid
On second thought I'm going out tonight
I ain't going out just for the movement
'Cause I'm liking sitting here just fine
Yeah
Let's argue for just the talking
Let's drive aroiund and talk some more
Buy a twelve pack close to midnight
And never wonder what's outside that door
Let's just keep our heads and rotate
Round and round each other like the stars
Create panic from enjoyment
I'm sick of all these goddamn local bars
I ain't going out just for the movement
'Cause I'm liking sitting here just fine
Hey
Let's agree on being different
Let's agree on being sane
Let's agree that life is awesome
Let's agree that life is pain
I ain't (etc)
Hey, Dad, I'm dying
Hey, son, I done my best
Hey, Dad, you're lying
Hey, son, I done my best
Hey, Dad, I'm thinking
Hey, son, I'm thinking through
Hay, Dad, I'm starving
Hey, son, I'm hungry too
Hey, Dad, I'm running
Hey, son, I'm running through
Hey, son, I'm gunning
Hey, Dad, I'm drinking brew
Hey, Dad, it's night time
Hey, son, it's morning dew
Hey, Dad, it's summer
Hey, son, it's winter too
instrumental break
Build the levee
Hold back every tide
Submerge every wake
Stifle every ride
Raze the pounding surf
Stop the raging wind
Break the tree that bends
Never grow again
Shade the morning sun
Pave the pastures pure
Sweep up all the dirt
Make a tree a door
Shelter from the storm
Melt the smoldering ice
Then unleash the beast
Suckling on you life
Got in my truck and I drove off I didn't say shit
Looking for words when they left me to stew over it
Every once in a while I just can't shrug it off
16 years sober will make you a shiny self cross
So I apologized when we did plug in the gear
All of this time I been wanting it's year upon year
How can a something be somewhere wherever it is
Can't it be nowhere and nothing and not of the biz
Sinking deep
Checking on back with our hero he's feeling his oats
Making his way as a young man with three leather coats
Has one for weddings and such and one to stay warm
His favorite is over his shoulders it shelters the storm
It's meloncholy and it's bright green and newer than new
Every once in a while I don't know what to do
Living vicariously 'cause that's a writer will do
Put it all in here and then some and do it for you
Sinking deep
Lost on North Avenue my job took me there everyday
A different world a new country I found out today
It's like I'm a foreigner born in the u s of a
Tension so thick you can cut it I'm here anyway
Driving on back to my home where the radio's free
Crank up the Velvets and Ice Cube and vintage PE
Pop in the Replacements and drift to a van on the road
Every once in a while I just want to explode
The magic of music's a cascading ballet of junk
Stuck in the middle of metal and country and funk
Sometimes I feel lost when I'm writing I want to be Neil
Every musician I know they just want to be real
Yeah
All of these labels for music mean jack shit to me
Subconsciously divide and conquer the will to be free
I don't want no purists around me it's forrest or trees
Give me a forrest and watch me sink into the leaves
Sinkin deep
Yeah, sinkin deep
Ah-oo lord
Ah-oo lord
sinkin deep
Yeah sinkin
Sinkin deep
Do you remember giving me your number
And your address too
Do you remember videos of thunder
Can't ignore you
Come sweetly watch your step and shudder
I thought that you were someone's girl
To another empty form of flatter
But not fropm me
Hanging with my little sister
But you should be
Around my house at Dawn for California
I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you
Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific
This song is for you
I hope you dig it
Love is what you make it
But it makes you
Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it
But it fakes you
Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter
Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover
So what's the reason for all of this clamor
Build you with a chisel and a hammer
Do you remember giving me your number
And your address too
Do you remember videos of thunder
Can't ignore you
Come sweetly watch your step and shudder
I thought that you were someone's girl
To another empty form of flatter
But not fropm me
Hanging with my little sister
But you should be
Around my house at Dawn for California
I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you
Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific
This song is for you
I hope you dig it
Love is what you make it
But it makes you
Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it
But it fakes you
Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter
Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover
So what's the reason for all of this clamor
Build you with a chisel and a hammer
Do you remember giving me your number
And your address too
Do you remember videos of thunder
Can't ignore you
Come sweetly watch your step and shudder
I thought that you were someone's girl
To another empty form of flatter
But not fropm me
Hanging with my little sister
But you should be
Around my house at Dawn for California
I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you
Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific
This song is for you
I hope you dig it
Love is what you make it
But it makes you
Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it
But it fakes you
Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter
Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover
So what's the reason for all of this clamor
Build you with a chisel and a hammer
Do you remember giving me your number
And your address too
Do you remember videos of thunder
Can't ignore you
Come sweetly watch your step and shudder
I thought that you were someone's girl
To another empty form of flatter
But not from me
Hanging with my little sister
But you should be
Around my house at Dawn for California
I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you
Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific
This song is for you
I hope you dig it
Love is what you make it
But it makes you
Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it
But it fakes you
Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter
Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover
So what's the reason for all of this clamor
Build you with a chisel and a hammer