Makers LYRICS
1. White Daisy Passsing
please slow it down / there's a secret magic past world that you only notice when you're looking back at it / all I wanna do is turn around / I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean / because I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun / passing white daisies taking turns / close the door walk into the street / catching raindrops on your tongue / and for a minute it all stops but it won't last man / it's just a passing moment gone / please slow it down / there's a secret place that I know where I could dig a grave out and climb underground for good / all I want to do is turn around / I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean / because I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun / passing white daisies taking turns / all those evenings on the back deck of our first apartment / they meant everything but the wind just carried em off / and you can't go back now just a passing moment gone
2. Portland Is Leaving
a brain that never stops ticking / sometimes an on-off switch would sure come in handy / a mind that's constantly cutting up and dissecting / looking for answers committing murders along the way
is it the red wire or the blue wire / just pick one and cut / it just doesn't matter anymore / or did it ever / cause I could never control when the bomb would explode / oh god I love you / I mean forever / I left my body behind to break the news / looks like it's over / please remember all of the things I never got a chance to say / like you look smashing in your fourth grade picture the one that we hung by the door / in our house that was so beautiful / there in our little home
if this medication upsets your stomach / take it with crackers bread or a small meal / we understand it won't do shit towards the cure / but if you buy this I promise you're gonna like the way it makes you feel
is it the red wire or the blue wire / just pick one and cut / it just doesn't matter anymore / or did it ever / cause I could never control when the bomb would explode / oh god I love you / I mean forever / I left my body behind to break the news / looks like it's over / please remember all of the things I never got a chance to say / like you look smashing in your fourth grade picture the one that we hung by the door / in our house that was so beautiful / there in our little home
3. The Night's Disguise
the days behind you are haunting / the ones your living in now / the ghost of your past carries / the weight of your name / where would you be who are you / without the scaring and the heals that stepped on you / that you cling to with all of your strength / let go - freefall - it's scary I know to forgive all of the devils / let go - i'll catch you / It's scary I know to understand what must be done
58 guthrie street / an old postcard you sent / to help close up wounds that I love to reopen / quarters in the tequila / on the streets of houston / you can keep on drinking / but never drown out where you've been / let go - freefall - it's scary I know to forgive all of the devils / let go - i'll catch you / It's scary I know to understand what must be done
there is a statesman servant beneath / the thick skin of remembering / armor for protection / let go - freefall - it's scary I know to forgive all of the devils / let go - i'll catch you / It's scary I know to understand what must be done
4. She Was Only In It For The Rain
she swore out the lights when she said that she wasonly in it for the rain / she made of her bed a naivenativity / just in case it became - just in case / here'sthe 1st of many songs you wanted me to write / justfor you I hope to god you like it / it's as pretty as itis cruel / it's as pretty as it is cruel / she swore out thelights when she dammed herself to sleep / her thirteenthfinger my whiskey drink / and she wept at the scene asthe ambulance drove off / come circumference, comecircumstance / here's the 1st of many songs you wantedme to write / just for you I hope to god you like itand it may seem pretty cruel but mercy is not my nameand our kids I hope to god you counted themyou're as pretty as you are cruelyou're as pretty as you are cruelyou're as pretty as you are cruel
5. Uppers Aren't Necessary
lead me through these cities of imaginary trends / something'sgonna be changing come the morning time my friend / as fickleas these streets are they might not even wait around till thenI've got a lot to loose so come and take it from me quickeverything you loose if it makes you stronger it makes you sicktake these cities from me I'll build buildings up with my ownbare hands / the uppers aren't necessary the guilt is the coalthat keeps the fire burning to drive out the cold / that creepsin every corner crack and never leaves you alone / till the lonelymessengers come calling you back home / the trees are stackedin rows on the side of the road / stripped of any dignity a birthingmay have had / 100 thousand crucified on the Mojave I-5 linesingers shepherds and salesmen all longing for someoneto kill the joy of wondering and end all their desireto help them to remember that the road is nothing but a liarthe uppers aren't necessary the guilt is the coal / that keepsthe fire burning to drive out the cold / that creeps in everycorner crack and never leaves you alone / till the lonelymessengers come calling you back / to the red door, crackedand crooked walk way / the fence impaling the stars / ghostlykeepers lead the way through railroads of abandoned carsthe tracks and city streets cut through like scars
6. Wait Out The Days
when the memory is a blank page / and the teeth in yourmouth are all cliches / you heart is a bag of rocks / yoursoul is a pile of ashes on the sidewalk / there's an eaglescout project / I used to come to to feel some kind of magicnow a story less - we'll wait out the dayswait out the days / till death comes to claim / anything that
7. Streetlights
we can go and walk in the darkness / get relief at each streetlight / I don't know how much it would cost us probably more than I've spent in my whole life / on these silly ideas that waste more time than I had to loose when I woke up this morning / seems like I've got so much more to loose now than I ever had before little beanie-bean with the calculator keys / can he add it all up, make it all make sense to me / I've got no idea how much more time / I've got left if I can't get my mind right / the simplest little melody has got me all tangled up in knots / we can go and walk in the morning / we don't need streetlights just a new start / not paralyzed by appearances with big ideas and just way to smart to walk around on the surface when there's an ocean just beneath it's blue-green smile / all the while nothing stopping me from jumping in and sinking fast / I'll sing you to sleep first
8. Tennessee Train Tracks
come dry me out / cause I've been drinking all night before I pass out I need your ghost to tell me this bloodless voice is as meaningless as it sounds / hard fought for some spare time to sit around and search for something I aint never gonna find colors fade in the night sky / lightning bugs are flashing on the front porch no it's in my head / to take me back to another time cause once its gone it's just something you aint never gonna find no matter how hard you try / there's no reason to stop it and you couldn't if you wanted now / come dry me out / just not with your fist I'm not looking for a fight / hard fought for some spare time to search through books and records for something you aint never gonna find / if you could just make up your mind / train tracks can't decide / Tennessee morning leaves you paralyzed
9. Goldfield
car 5032 of the union pacific / is passing by on the right to bring back all the hopelessness / of a trailer park in the old mining town / where the irony's laying thick on the ground in the dirty streets of Goldfield / if you're searching for silver or an easier fortune / finding nothing in the way of love or a life of living any better than before / you'll know you've arrived in Goldfield / car 5032 of the union pacific / is passing by on the right and she's thinking of escaping out to Frisco / from the trailer park in the old mining town / where the irony's laying thick on the ground / in the dirty streets of Goldfield / laying roots down to soak up the poison for generations / finding nothing in the way of love or a life of living any better than before / you'll know you've arrived in Goldfield / gotta get the hell out of Goldfield I'm gone this time / I'm really leaving
10. Tinfoil Hats
he reminded me that the only way to / keep aliens from reading your mind / is to wear a tinfoil hat friend and wear it all the time life keeps on changing / tell it to stay still but it won't listen I just want you near me like you are now for good / transistor tape recorder, tell me about everything that I've lost / I know you've got it all stored somewhere / at least I'm keeping my fingers crossed / life keeps on changing / tell it to stay still but it won't listen / I just want you near me like you are now for good kid I'm gonna be with you longer than the world can stand cause there's a light that's stronger / shinning out of your eyes I see it and it won't be long now / life keeps on changing / tell it to stay still but it won't listen / I just want you near me like you are now for good
11. Where We Left Off
there's a hotel in my memory / Pink Flamingos and light flickering from the TV screen / come lay down here with me / your mom and dad are right outside / so we climbed up here so we can hide from everything / from all the lies that we've lived beneath / let's pick up where we left off / let's string up everything that we've been afraid of we've been living under, we've been taught to remember / and let's learn how to love / there's a hotel in your memory / Pink Flamingos and light flickering from the TV screen / come hide up here with me thinking it up is making it real - you create the scene / you've lived in for years - it's scary to think / what some lies will make you believe
12. Makers
death keeps calling me, she's gonna set me free / no more sunshine sidewalk streets or misery / like she did for you Oh Allen how you suffered / lower east-side apartment we stayed up late / the bones inside your mind where all broken / and the keys that opened any answers were all stolen filling and refilling up the glass with makers / we both agreed The Final Moment! / the sweetest remedy to ever be delivered! heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness so she came for you, well I guess you wanted her to / now in the safety of a coffin rest you're through / no more debts or memories no more heart blood or skin on teeth / final dosage to set you free heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness