1. |
Mercer & Bleecker
03:05
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It was July there on Mercer and Bleecker
It rained on my new high top sneakers
Baby I'm a sucker for those round glasses
You're a sucker for NYU tee shirts
Even though we made for a manic twosome
December winds did grow ever more gruesome
You kept me warmer than a Summer in Tucson
Even with my two soaked canvas shoes on
I was wearing a button down and a sunburn
There were no stones there left unturned
Manhattan beaches made for a holiday
How am I supposed to pretend like you're not faraway when you are
Seat in the upright position
I didn't know what I was missin'
I got dangerously high at a party
But Felix told me that that party was bitchin'
I tried to kiss you but you turned away
I tried to kiss you but you turned away
I tried to kiss you but you turned away
I tried to kiss you but you turned away
I was wearing a button down and a sunburn
There were no stones there left unturned
Manhattan beaches made for a holiday
How am I supposed to pretend like you're not faraway
I tried to kiss you but you turned away
I tried to kiss you but you turned away
I tried to kiss you but you turned away
I tried to kiss you
I tried to kiss you
I tried to kiss you
I was wearing a button down and a sunburn
I was applying to be another unpaid intern
Every day was the same but I swore that I loved it
How am I supposed to pretend like I'm so well adjusted when I'm not
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2. |
Dwarf Planet
03:05
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Lost in a haze
Feeling some kind of way
I'm in love with you still
In love with you still
In love with you still
I never thought that I
Would go in for the kill
In love with you still
And in for the kill
Did loving me burn
Did Sisyphus learn
Not to die on that hill
Classify me as something different
Separate from what I used to think and
Am I just your dwarf planet, love?
I used to be the real thing and
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your
Minutes to days
In an endless malaise
I'm in love with you still
In love with you still
I found a way back home
But you lacked all the will
In love with you still
You lacked all the will
Days into nights
Were astronomers right
To ban me from their ilk?
Classify me as something different
Separate from what I used to think and
Am I just your dwarf planet, love?
I used to be the real thing and
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your dwarf planet?
Am I just your
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3. |
Jay Leno
03:34
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I saw Leno eat pancakes
And fuck he looked lonely
Just like everyone I know
You said that you'd reach out
You never called me
You never called me
Try reflexology
Overhaul all of me
My head connects to my big toe
Wait for the first time
Borrowed or earned time
Tell me something I don't know
Suction cup out the toxins
They even took walk-ins
I'm too old to be young and restless
The world's so much wider
Than North Carolina
But we're talk show hosts eating breakfast
We're talk show hosts eating breakfast
Some online creator
I never heard of
Assumed I was a fan
So I pretended
Starstruck for a minute
Saw an out and then I ran
Are we just the same guys
Under the same guise
Screaming into voids to be denied
Watching weight for the first
Borrowed or earned time
If Leno eats pancakes
Why shouldn't I
Still got a lot to learn I guess
Learned my toes carry so much stress
I got you postcards in London
I never did get your address
You never gave me your address
Oh
Suction cup out the toxins
They even took walk-ins
Too old to be young and restless
The world's so much wider
Than North Carolina
But we're talk show hosts eating breakfast
We're talk show hosts eating breakfast
We're talk show hosts eating breakfast
Oh
I saw Leno eat pancakes
And fuck he looked lonely
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4. |
Fix Me
03:44
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All of the things that I believe
They're going down in flames now
All of the things that I believe
They're going down in flames now
You ask why and I don't think about it
It being us and us no longer a thing
I try and try I just can't understand it
Feeling love's inevitable sting
You've got the right to hurt right now
You've got the right to hate me
You say you're better off now
You say you're better off
I've got to figure myself out
Got to try and fix me
You say you're better off now
Just go ahead and sign that lease
And leave me forever
All of you and my old friends
They're throwing me in flames now
You ask why and I don't think about it
It being us and us no longer a thing
I try and try I just can't understand it
Feeling love's inevitable sting
You've got the right to hurt right now
You've got the right to hate me
You say you're better off now
You say you're better off
I've got to figure myself out
Got to try and fix me
You say you're better off now
You're such a good friend
That's why I have to break your heart
Take my love and take my life
All my friends with no goodbyes
Take my love and make me cry
All my friends with no goodbyes
Take my love and make me die
All my friends with no goodbyes
Goodbye
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5. |
Water Signs
02:58
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I'd never seen anyone in their underwear before
I'd never stuck around to see what's under there for sure
But Ava used to tell it like it is
Said there's more to life than wives and kids
But I'd never seen anybody else in their underwear
An American flag and string lights on a conifer
An American dream in a town full of commoners
But Ava always made it crystal clear
Romance only lasts a fiscal year
But I'd never really tried to just be myself before
In dire straights on my flight
Who's gonna love me in the middle of the night
Got off the plane only to find
Ava's still raising cain in my mind she
Replies I'm such a water sign
I don't even know what that means
Don't try if you're seeking dollar signs
You can't make a living off dreams
But oh my love is a fever
I'll love her still then I'll leave her she
Replies I'm such a water sign
Fish don't have a say in these things anyway
I'd never seen anyone in their underwear before
A decade later and now I'm too cool to care and poor
But bloodied and bruised I stagger on
And when all my stab wounds are gone
I'll forget the pain and remember the reason I swam ashore
Oh my God I know I can take it
I can hear her words in my head
She replies I'm such a water sign
I don't even know what that means
Don't try if you're seeking dollar signs
You can't make a living off dreams
But oh my love is a fever
I'll love her still then I'll leave her she
Replies I'm such a water sign
Fish don't have a say in these things anyway
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6. |
Backwards 4 Fun
02:39
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Backwards for fun
Ride share with Bezos the Hun
The doctor says "This all used to be trees"
We don't even care to look up
Backwards for fun
Legacy of the King Tut
Exploit the shell of a human being
So somebody makes a quick buck
Big storm, pitchfork
Screaming at a picture of a lit torch
Bible thumpers
All just a bit more
Than I wanted
We're all going back
It's so nice to be back
Backwards for fun
We're all going backwards for fun
There's no progress is in the forecast
We're all going back to square one
Backwards for fun
No time for passionate sons
You all doth protest too much
All of this must be undone
Yes it all must be undone
Yes it
Backwards for free
A court mandated luxury
To not think of how it could be
When a book tells you how to feel and to think
Broken home, mobile phone
Gather troopers til you don't feel all alone
Silly truthers
There is no open road
Just the losers
You're all going back
It's so nice to be
Backwards for fun
They're chasing you better run
There's no time to think ahead
When your head is already shattered and shunned
It's just you versus us
Don't think what there is to be done
Shift your hearse back into reverse
And just go backwards for fun
Backwards for fun
We're all going backwards for fun
There's no progress is in the forecast
We're all going back to square one
Backwards for fun
They're chasing you better run
You all doth protest too much
All of this must be undone
Yes it must be undone
Yes it
Backwards for free
A court mandated luxury
Waste all the years but now perfectly clear
It's backwards for you and not me
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7. |
LAundromat
02:31
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LA's not much of a view
Bitter thoughts bitter thoughts
They're best kept a secret
Success ain't following you
Better thoughts better thoughts
They're just out of reach it's
Enough to give you a panic attack-ack-ack
Enough to give you a
A City ripe to pollute
Dry heat and Summer smoke
Bake me to pieces
We're lost with nothing to lose
Except that first month's deposit for
Breaking our leases
You're a noose, You're old news
You're unused to loving like we used to
You're too afraid to be wrong and that's what's wrong with that
Take dirty looks that you gave me to the laundromat
You're too afraid that you'll fail and that's self sabotage
Once all that weight's off your back you'll need a back massage
Breathing smoke isn't great for an asthmatic
My lungs are stuck in traffic
I'd rather just not have it
All the stars in the sky wouldn't employ me
I'd eat my weight in soy meat
Those rich kids would destroy me
LA's not much of a home
Bitter thoughts bitter thoughts
Are best kept a secret
I've got me some dreams of my own
Better thoughts better thoughts
They're just out of reach, kid
You're too afraid to be wrong and that's what's wrong with that
Take dirty looks that you gave me to the laundromat
You're too afraid that you'll fail and that's self sabotage
Once all that weight's off your back you'll need a back massage
You're terrified that you'll fail you poor unhappy soul
Keep taking shots at my face behind your grassy knoll
You're so afraid that you go off like a firecracker
Once you pull your head down from there you'll need a chiropractor
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8. |
Kafka at Parties
03:30
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Cream soda in my cup all night but I'll say that it's malt scotch
Brushed my hair to the side my damn cowlick always looks like a bald spot
Anne kissed me on the mouth and now I just taste like her vodka
Now I'm crawling the walls like a bug just call me Franz Kafka
Arts kids post postmodernity
Impressive how these alcoholics all earn degrees
Been this way since their mascot wall Colonel Lee
I flipped the number three and founded a fraternity so
No slowing down until
My GPA has been deflated
Or until my folks tell me my
Best damn years have all been wasted
Freshman girls that don't know better
Hungover in my nine A.M. but see
Kafka would not sleep with strangers
He'd turn into that mite again
He'd turn into that mite again
He'd turn into that mite again
I'm thinking that I might again
I stepped outside and was jumped by cigarette smoke
On my back in the backyard hoping nobody else knows
Don't want to grow older but I do not want to die soon
Don't want to be a shoulder for some drunk girl to lie to
Arts kids post postmodernity
Impressive how these alcoholics all earn degrees
Statue on campus still Colonel Lee
Flipped the number three and founded a
You get it
No slowing down until
My GPA has been deflated
Or until my folks tell me my
Best damn years have all been wasted
Freshman girls that don't know better
Hungover in my nine A.M. but see
Kafka would not sleep with strangers
He'd turn into that mite again
He'd turn into that mite again
He'd turn into that mite again
I'm thinking that I might again
No slowing down until
My GPA has been deflated
Or until my folks tell me my
Best damn years have all been wasted
Freshman girls that don't know better
Hungover in my nine A.M. but see
Kafka would not sleep with strangers
He'd turn into that mite again
He'd turn into that mite again
He'd turn into that mite again
I'm thinking that I might again
He'd turn into that mite again
I'm thinking that I might again
I'm thinking that I might again
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9. |
In The Air
02:31
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The evil was swift
To meet her with violence
No one knows what comes next
A joke on the Styx
To break up the silence
So much that was left unsaid
The musket rang out
They drove in their quietus
God took pulls of cigarette
The last scene is approaching
Better be off-back now
The gun that was established
Needs to pay off for the crowd
She smiles and she comforts
Lucky souls that are there
I ran to the plane but she passed me
She passed me in the air
You arrived at nightfall
The stars were your guidance
Now you know what comes next
Heavy is the weight
On the shoulders and eyelids
She finally goes to gets some rest
Beauty in not knowing
Is that what denial is
We're all just waiting for the check
The last scene is approaching
Better be off-back now
The gun that was established
Needs to pay off for the crowd
She smiles and she comforts
She is kindness grace and care
I ran to the plane but she passed me
She passed me in the air
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10. |
9 out of 10
01:03
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Nine out of ten nights there's no
Place I'd rather be
Out of ten nights I'm sure
That you'd rather be with me
And not somebody that's new
You know I want only you
But one out of ten
Isn't certain you're mine
Nay no nein
Out of ten nights I'm sure
That you haven't packed your bags
Out of ten nights I'm sure
That we're really meant to last
And not just to split in two
You know all that I've been through
But one out of ten is still filled with suspense
And that one out of ten thinks we're on the descent
I still just cannot shake that old one out of ten
But nine nights I know that we're content
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11. |
Autumnal Harvest Soup
02:58
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12. |
Jay Demo
00:19
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I watched Jay Leno eat pancakes
And fuck he looked lonely
Just like everyone I know
You said that you'd reach out
You never called me
You never called me
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Tennis Elbow New York, New York
Ryan Wentz lives in New York City and makes tennis music.
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