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Buzzing Light
02:18
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A buzzing light just bright enough
To haunt the hallways
I got in too many bear fights today
Pace the alleys one by one
We’ll have the city to ourselves
And no one can take you away
The night I met you on that porch
You’d never even jumped a car
You haven’t seen a jumper cable since
I looked at you and through your grin
You said you’d be there thick or thin
Haven’t had a need to doubt you since
A bad idea bacchanal
I’ll always laugh too hard or loud
Hope I didn’t make you stay too late
Thanks for all the times you tried
To pick me up until I smiled
You’ll always be the one to lead the way
And from the other room I hear
Your quiet hum or turning page
I know you’re always next to me offstage
I’ll test your nerve but that’s okay
I’ll always love you anyways
And be your necessary renegade
Dancing frantically to Bowie
Don’t let go
Standing quiet on the back stairs
Be my home
A buzzing light just bright enough
To haunt the hallways
I got in too many bear fights today
Pace the alleys one by one
We’ll have the city to ourselves
And no one can take you away
The night I met you on that porch
You’d never even jumped a car
You haven’t seen a jumper cable since
I looked at you and through your grin
You said you’d be there thick or thin
Haven’t had a need to doubt you since
Dancing frantically to Bowie
Don’t let go
Standing quiet on the back stairs
Be my home
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2. |
Turnaround
03:01
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A forgotten mink’s an excuse to come back
You must admit this one’s from the back of the pack
A woman has no right smelling like a flower
Tell me what she’s doing here at this hour
Forgave you a thousand times
I built an arsenal of your debt
Year after year I hold onto my shot
And constantly remind you what you’ve got
Turn around
Songs will always be what I wish I said
But I know I’m always somewhere in the back of your head
Skirting the edge of what we might mean
Meeting in the middle just to try to glean
An undercurrent of guesses and facts
Pick the pieces looking through the cracks
I’ll be the one that keeps it together
When nobody knows you’re under the weather
Turn around
There’s a part of you
I could not ever lose
Turn around
There’s a part of you
I could not ever lose
Songs will always be what I wish I said
But I know I’m always somewhere in the back of your head
Skirting the edge of what we might mean
Meeting in the middle just to try to glean
Forgave you a thousand times
I built an arsenal of your debt
Year after year I hold onto my shot
And constantly remind you what you’ve got
Turn around
There’s a part of you
I could not ever lose
Turn around
There’s a part of you
I could not ever lose
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3. |
Convenient Way
03:38
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I never thought that this would
End in tears
Sure enough it still hasn’t for me
I dreamt of a neighborhood, where
All our fears
Were part of the scenery
Our catalog of minor sins
Right or wrong
Just isn’t fun anymore
Excuses and might-have-beens
Up and gone
And we're not what we were before
Everything becomes so clear
When seen in the abstract
You’re just a convenient way
To avoid inconvenient facts
Crashing through the ceiling
Well I tried
To keep us both in the air
See the paint is peeling
Where we lied
About answering every prayer
We were made to suffer
Silently
Which explains so much about us
If you say I’m rougher, that
Works for me
I had to learn to be more callous
It would be so easy
To just sit back and relax, but
You’re just a convenient way
To avoid inconvenient facts
Avoid inconvenient facts
You’re a convenient way
And I'm not going back again
It was always just a matter of when
I'd finally realized how wrong we've been
And I need to live for now and not then
I never thought that this would
End in tears
Sure enough it still hasn’t for me
I dreamt of a neighborhood, where
All our fears
Were part of the scenery
Our catalog of minor sins
Right or wrong
Just isn’t fun anymore
Excuses and might-have-beens
Up and gone
And we're not what we were before
Everything becomes so clear
When seen in the abstract, but
You’re just a convenient way
To avoid inconvenient facts
Avoid inconvenient facts
You’re a convenient way
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4. |
Gin & Gingham
02:51
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Standing in the bathroom with my heels in my hand
I can't stand gin and gingham
This place feels like quicksand
You showed up four years ago
I wait around till you know
Turns out that when you talk, I'd rather you not
I pretended to like baseball
Just to sit next to you
And I dealt with it till August
You ripped the filter off of your cigarettes
I'm sorry ‘bout that
Someone should have told you they're not like caps
Driving down to the city we didn't think we'd need maps
'Cause we'd never lose sight of the towers
Where did you find someone with more patience than me?
Your shit was always yours and never ours
I could text you in my pocket without looking down
phones had buttons then
Last time I saw you, you asked for forgiveness
So I said no
Driving down to the city we didn't think we'd need maps
'Cause we'd never lose sight of the towers
Where did you find someone with more patience than me?
Your shit was always yours and never ours
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5. |
Payphones
03:51
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Drag a hand through the water
In a velvet haze of heat
Yellow drips through the lemon trees
Years of borrowed memories
Nettles grabbing at shins
Spider webs tangled in hems
You’ll always remember them
Like a blink in a dream therein
Headlights streak through the dark
And we’re here through the rest without rest
And a walk through the woods
Is like a march to go home
Balanced coffees and quarters
Quietly disobeyed orders
Whether sneaking to listen
Or dancing to perdition
Dawn feels like dusk
But you have the air to yourself
Clouds fading in
And the push of time begins
Headlights streak through the dark
And we’re here through the rest without rest
And a walk through the woods
Is like a march to go home
Headlights streak through the dark
And we’re here through the rest without rest
And a walk through the woods
Is like a march to go home
The kinds of places with payphones
They were forgotten long ago
Some never leave
Or return with their bags in tow
We’ll haunt these streets
Like our mothers hoped we would
We’ll scare the boys
More than they thought we could
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6. |
Dumb Crook's Ring
03:00
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You’ve got no idea what you’ve done
And I told you not to bring that gun
Now we’re catching up to a setting sun
And we gotta keep moving on
And he said
I’m glad they lived the life they did
It’s much better than being caught
But I’ve still got that dumb crook’s ring
It’s not his fault he’s an after thought
We’re not the only ones on this road
Always knew we’d break under our own load
One day something would have to give
But it was worth it just to try to live
And he said
I’m glad they lived the life they did
It’s much better than being caught
But I’ve still got that dumb crook’s ring
It’s not his fault he’s an after thought
Never expected to get away
Just hoped for a fair fight on that day
I’m not sure how to tell you this
But I think that door’s about to give
Tell Roy I’m sorry that I had to go
But maybe he doesn’t even have to know
And he said
I’m glad they lived the life they did
It’s much better than being caught
But I’ve still got that dumb crook’s ring
It’s not his fault he’s an after thought
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7. |
Keep Pretending
02:35
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All my memories are suffused with a glow
Endless sunshine that I no longer know
Gold-limned dreams keep me up all night
And it seems that I can’t stop the light
But I have to keep pretending for now
Keep pretending though I don’t, know how
Rose colored glasses make real roses look dull
And spare hall passes are no cure for this lull
Drifting by in desperate search of a pause
Don't ask why, just accept the applause
But I have to keep pretending for now
But I have to keep pretending for now
But I have to keep pretending for now
Keep pretending though I don’t, know how
Know how, know how
But I have to keep pretending for now
Keep pretending though I don’t, know how
Bad nostalgia is a curious sin
It grabs ahold and takes me back where I been
So much drama trying to stamp out my flaws
All the trauma didn’t serve any cause
But I have to keep pretending for now
But I have to keep pretending for now
But I have to keep pretending for now
Keep pretending though I don’t, know how
Know how, know how
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