1. |
Any Takers, Any Time
02:46
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any takers, any time
you'll meet your maker
across the great divide
arms of chaos
will sign you are here
come to take us away
from what we all fear
put your arms around me, baby
lift and twist
to reach the door
built four walls around me
killed all ghosts
and exorcised
poor old souls
never realized
arm a kid with a gun
they're ready to fight and die
make them pay for your mistakes
without telling them why
carve and draw
to ricochet
built bigger guns
to get our way
any day now
you'll do as I say
spared no sense
of dream and desire
hell hath no fury
hell hath no fire...
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2. |
Ms. Prime Minister
02:24
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i woke up for work this morning
i didn't want to go
i look in the mirror these days
my age begins to show
i look across the bed at you
you're dearer every day
i'm escaping thru my literature
you're dreaming of a way
to become ms. Prime minister
no second rate job will do
i feel like i have such small aspirations
but i'm the one backing you
i got back from work today
and didn't know what to do
these alternating shifts we've got
don't change my love for you
but every little second
i must occupy my mind
it leaves me wondering what it was
i did to deserve your kindness
and you became ms. Prime minister
of my heart
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3. |
Inner Voice
03:16
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by the time i had the mind enough
to understand a rhyme
i was trying to think of clever ways
to complete the next line
and i would second guess my best
and i would second guess the rest
and i'd still come to the same conclusion
i didn't pass the test
though i'm my own worst critic
it's more than nit-picking;
it's amplified by some dumbwit's
widiotic irrevision
i don't buy it...
but i can't hide it,
you keep trash talking,
i keep feeling like smashing someone's head in
i can't hold a key
but i've held the key to my own freedom
i traded it though, for a verse
and some six string idiom
worsened by my inner voice
they didn't give me the choice
by the time i had a clear
perception of reality
the packaging of it changed
and mine didn't include batteries
i've been running on alternate
means ever since
though all my instincts tell me
to cease and desist
worsened by your inner voice
they didn't give you the choice
it was never up to you
by the time i had the mind enough
to understand a crime
i was conceiving of ways to break all ties
with all my fellow mankind
that feeling it came and went
that feeling still comes to get me
and i still come to the same conclusion
one day it will get me
though i'm my own worst critic
i'm trying to change that
'change comes from within'
it was a smart man who said that
worsened by my inner voice
i wasn't given the choice
it was never up to me
ha! you know i don't really believe it
we take responsibility for our own dreamin'
and if we lay it on the line
it somehow makes it all the more appealing
by the time i had the mind enough to understand
you live in this world, and if i don't give a hand
then i won't get anything back in return
you get what you give and that's the way you learn
by the time that feeling came and went
i hadn't really learned, i had to learn in retrospect
and this all came out in a burst
i don't know what i was thinking but i felt like worse...
worsened by your inner voice
they didn't give you the choice
it was never up to you
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4. |
Countdown
04:21
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countdown until we get to be alone
can't wait til everything else is gone
I'm the one
You wanna spend your life with...
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5. |
Earnest
05:35
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hell, i didn't make up the rules
why i choose to even heed 'em, i don't know
everyone's got a level of tolerance
why i get angry at the subtle nuance, it goes to show
patience wears thin on me,
in fact it barely fits at all
the tailor of my birthday suit
didn't allow for my mind to take root
and he's got the gall to tell me
there's something wrong with my frame-of-mind
believe me buddy,
i think of you in kind.
i believe it, i earned my keep
when we get down to the heart of the matter
i just haven't kept it up
week-to-week.
The days are packed with excuses
for avoiding the truth
and the games we employ to do it for us
make it all the more gruesome.
I will try to avoid
the metaphysical slaughter
or i'll have the taste of the taint of the blood
of innocence in my water...
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6. |
Well
08:02
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no i didn't say that
you put those words right in my mouth
and then ripped them out again
waved them around for all to see...
you say "i didn't start this"
i say "i didn't start this"
it seems nobody started this
it just welled up
it just welled up...
from somewhere inside
we walked out early
the party still went on
the lights left tracers
on the highway until dawn
you say "i didn't start this"
i say "i didn't start this"
it seems nobody started this
it just welled up
it just welled up...
from somewhere inside
from somewhere inside
hush...
Ok the eyes are taking over
read between the lines
i try to find your face in the dark
we're doing fine, we're doing fine
you say "i didn't start this"
i say "i didn't start this"
it seems nobody started this
it just welled up
it just welled up...
from somewhere inside
on my stereo disco mixer
the sounds come out all wrong
interpreted for a reason
sounds make me feel strong
you're feeling strong
we can't go on for long
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7. |
Bound
08:48
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We are bound by dirt and dust
Spend years trying to escape
Before we find what we want is right here
We let it slip away
Mothers find your sons
Something to keep us whole
Fathers teach your daughters
How to stay at home
we have found our hearts
we are hands unguarded
now we are bound in love and art
And we will discover the rest of our secrets together
We are bound by unspoken trust
Wasted too long trying to put words to it
In our love and lust
I can always see right through it
Sisters keep your brothers
Strong enough to shine
Brothers make your sisters
the envy of all time
we have found our hearts
we are hands unguarded
now we are bound in love and art
And we will discover the rest of the secrets together
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8. |
Dangerus
05:57
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What's more dangerous than a summer breeze?
We've come a long way
Since we started to keep track of these things
The chemistry that ignited this flame
Will form a bond
That will keep our dna
Strip all but the essence away
The dangers that I pose
You couldn't clean them all up
And the love will linger on forever
What's more dangerous than a speeding love?
Full-throttle at my heart
My arteries slipped thru your
Driving gloves
You couldn't clean them all up
The love will linger on forever
The dangers that I pose
You couldn't clean them all up
And the love will linger on forever
The mathematics are so precise
The mathematics are so precise
I haven't after
All this time
Devised a way to make you better?
Better, better, better
The dangers that I pose
You couldn't clean them all up
And the love will linger on forever
What's more dangerous than a winter chill?
We've come a long way
Since you choked down on that bitter pill
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9. |
Lemon'Lime
03:59
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after the rapture died down
I'd all but left all the pieces behind
Not to be unkind
It was simply time to let it all go
In every refreshing time
There's bitter moments and sweet lies
Beyond all that jazz
There's lemon'lime
Soda you're sipping thru a straw
From the can
Caught you off guard
It's all the things I wanted to discard
Introducing illicit crimes
One more try
One year to the day
Will it all go away?
After tomorrow today
I'd rather we moved some other place
Not to be unkind
I simply want to let it all go
In due time I'll let you know
I love you more than these metaphors
Could show
Beyond the green
Beyond the lows
Together we grow
Caught you off guard
It's all the things I wanted to discard
Introducing illicit crimes
One more try
One year to the day
Will it all go away?
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10. |
Behind Me Now
03:58
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lines
made up in my mind
the words belie the lies
stars are falling from the sky
it's all behind me
now
the skies are dimmer still
the time fades fast but still
in elements of disguise
You just never
realize
they were made up on the spot
little attract-me-nots
what does it matter still?
it's all behind me
now
the times we broke it down
to the barest layer of skin
you took it on the chin
times were thick and
then
it happened all again
the time we fell in
what does it matter still?
that's all behind us
now
stars are falling from the sky
it's all behind us now
the skies are dimmer still
it's all behind us
now
the skies are growing lines
no traces of your eyes
you wore the perfect disguise
i just never saw through the
lives
made to forget me not
the smiles led to getting hot
the sun is fading fast
and it's all behind us now
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11. |
In Your Pretty Old Coat
04:35
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in your pretty old coat
hides a fairer site still
and when I started this angry
I thought about you
and the rest
just all disappeared
you smoothed out the edges
of a roughly hewn heart
and when it comes to these matters of love
everyone thinks they're so smart
I'm breaking up for wanting more
she couldn't have met me on the other side
I had a surprise
I had so much in store
we never got to walk along the shore.
Now and not then
I have learned not to kill
The desire
To put up a fight for love
Just for the thrill
But you kept me on level
Because we all must endure
If we all thought alike
About love,
We'd be done for for sure
I'm breaking up for wanting more
You wanted to meet me on the other side
I have a surprise
I have so much in store
I promise we'll get to walk along the shore.
in your pretty old skirt
that I've never seen before
we walked through the market together
with strawberries galore
on the hottest days of summer
thin city air to breathe
we toasted together with orange pop
how soon we would leave
I can't ask for anything more
you came and met me on the other side
you made me realize
none of this is a chore
and we've already walked along the shore.
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12. |
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everybody's got an answer for you
and everybody's got a solution for you
you'll pay for it dearly
one way or another
it don't come for cheap,
I promise you that much
and everybody thinks their heart is on fire
and until we forget, it don't make us all liars
but we'll get to the core
one way or another
and we'll rip it apart
and use it as a crutch
Until we forgive & forget
We won't get anywhere
All these lies untold
Just keep getting in our hair
And it 'comes
Bigger over the years
Until we forgive & forget
We'll payback in fears
Until we forgive & forget
These lies will haunt us
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