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Pretty/Stupid
03:36
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I was a young man I was an idiot Now I'm older and I'm still pretty stupid
I wanna feel young again Cool and strong Give me a break give me a boner
I need something Today and tomorrow Give me a break give me a perscription
I'm still pretty stupid
The lines on my face
My lack of understanding
Everything it takes just to get by
My lack of understanding
Everything it takes
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Worrying, Texas
03:52
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I wish that I could see you again and I wish I'd never left Texas
But wishes and wants and lonestar thoughts do no good for me tonight
I'll admit I could have been better but believe I never meant to cause you pain
Sorrow and shame and a decade of suffering ain't all I have on my mind
Oh worry
Please let me be
Deep in the heart of me I want to believe in peace
Maybe we could get away to a place we've never been
Somewhere peaceful and quiet where we can be free
Oh suffering
Give me a break
Deep in the heart of me I don't know how much more I can take
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Hold Me Back
02:32
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Ain't nothing that can hold me back
Let me rephrase that there's plenty of things
and they happen all the time I'm just trying to be a bit more positive
I'm not afraid except you know I am
Every night I wake up sweaty, fretting bout who I was and who I'll be tomorrow
I've been cold and I've been tired
I've been sorry I've been shamed
I can't sleep at night too often
If I'm honest, I only have myself to blame
I'm gonna blame you anyways
I'm gonna blame you
I'm gonna blame you anyways
I'm gonna blame you
I'll put it all on your shoulders
Clear eyes full heart can't lose
C'mon and be my soldier
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Fiberglass Chest
02:32
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Sold my soul searching for something
Twenty years old in some tragic basement
Oh what a sight - spitting up red dye
I didn't fight - how could I
I gave it up all for what
I never was much of a gambler
I may be strong but I ain't tough
I got holes in my pockets
and I got problems in my lungs
I got wreckage all around me
and the sewing will bring the reaping soon enough
I got plenty of validation
never enough US dollars
I'm saving all my thoughts and prayers
until I really need them
It ain't too bad yet
who knows about tomorrow
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What's Mine is Y'alls
02:56
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The statehouse is captured campus is on fire
praise be to the energy supply
City council was teargassed so they budgeted gasmasks
praise be to the police union
The river's not burning it's just full of poison
praise be to our own toilets
Welcome home friend how long have you been gone
save the five-over-ones it really hasn't changed much
I remember the jet fighters overhead
Opening day shopping mall traffic
and I just want to walk
But this place ain't made for us
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Bugs
03:22
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Oh no Goddam I don't have the patience to go through this again
I'm rotten, you're exhausted, the debt collectors keep calling
It's all piling up - too much stuff
You and I let's start a trashfire
we can hash this out
I'll quit sleeping in if you'll quit running round
learn something new about ourselves
We could be dreaming
It ain't to far away
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Black Light
03:12
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Like a jukebox playing Jack White lit up by a blacklight
Something here's just not right and I'm looking pale
Got to be a better way to get my point across
These cheeky jokes are getting ridiculous
I'm gonna make a change make a difference not in feeling but in mind
I'm gonna change in time
I'm gonna change in time
Like a crosseyed racecar driver I'm feeling out of place
in between what's coming and everything it takes
and there'll be time enough for smoking with our brand new angel lungs
and there'll be time enough for joking when the suffering's done
when the sufferings done
There'll be time enough for drinking when we've burned all of our love
we once held in packs of plenty it could never be enough
for us, there's never enough
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I Hope I Can Hold On
02:38
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Elevate me to a new plane beyond this dirt, babe
Teach me to fly
Show me the ways of your people and I'll agree
I'm agreeable
Lay it on me
Take my hand
Take me for granted
Oh no, I didn't mean that
I guess I just need something to hold on to
something to hold on
give me something to hold on to
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I Want Everything
03:40
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I want to let my son believe he's got powers
I want to live on a lake when I'm old
I want to grow a whole mess of flowers
I want to be a hero to something
I want to be a hero to something
maybe a little bug
maybe a baby
I want everything I want
I want everything everything
I want better luck fishing
I want to go fishing in the first place
I want the tools to do the job
There's always a first time
There's always a first time
You don't have to be who you are today
You can change
You don't have to be who you are today
You can change
You don't have to do what you don't want to
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I Love You Stranger
02:40
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I love you baby
I love you family and friends
I love you neighbor
I love you stranger
I love you brother
I love you sister of mine
I love you out there
I love you stranger
I love you
Until we die, I'll be right by your side
I love you
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Ashtabula
03:28
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If we had alot of money like you know we should
I'd move us to Ashtabula if I could
yeah we'd move to Ashtabula if we could
You and me darling get married again
buy a little house with a big garden
yeah you and me darlin get married again
Tomorrow is just another day
Our dreams ain't so far away
I'm no fool I know a flood's gonna come
so we raise the kids strong we raise em tough
you and me baby we can clean it up
gonna take alot of suffering gonna take alot of love
but you and me baby we can clean this up
Tomorrow is just another day
Our dreams ain't so far away
Well we gotta be strong we gotta be tough
gonna take alot of suffering gonna take alot of love
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