Jesca Hoop Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B I o g r a p h y
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"We wanted to make sure that our inexperience showed," says Jesca Hoop about her entrancing debut album, Kismet. "This album was a process of discovery, and this is what that discovery sounds like. I wanted to hear something new, so I made what I think is something new – or fresh to my ears, anyway. I made the record that I wanted to hear. That was my motivation." Indeed, Kismet is filled with continually unfolding discoveries – from the shimmering wonder of "Summertime," its lustrous opening track, to the off-kilter elegance of "Love and Love Again," which brings it to a swooning close. Each of the album’s eleven song wanders into surprising sonic places – woozy keyboards, pop riffs that turn themselves surreally inside out, lyrics that flirt with multiple meanings and refuse to settle in any one spot. The result is a shifting, dreamlike atmosphere in which everything follows an internal logic that makes perfect sense for the length of each song, and then evaporates as the next song begins to take its equally individual shape. The album is seductive, fun and entirely mesmerizing. How it came to be is a story in itself. Hoop was raised a Mormon, but eventually left that world behind to create her own path – and her own visionary worlds. She traveled in the West – California, Wyoming, Arizona – and, finally, worked for five years as nanny to the children of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan. Hoop had already been writing songs and performing with a band, and Waits took an interest in her songs. Through him, an early version of "Seed of Wonder" made its way to Lionel Conway who in turn gave it to Nic Harcourt, the musically adventurous and influential host of "Morning Becomes Eclectic," on KCRW in Santa Monica. Harcourt began playing the song, and it became one of the most requested tracks in the station’s history.

"Nic was willing to play this weird, six-minute song that had only guitar and vocal on it on the radio," Hoop says, appreciatively. "He deserves credit for that, and I want to acknowledge him, because that's what I want to hear from deejays – for them to try something new. He did, and it's done a world of good for me." Record company interest ensued, and Hoop signed with 3 Entertainment, a partnership with Columbia Records. "From the moment I heard her demos I knew I had found a special artist," proclaims Harcourt "a unique voice, a unique songwriter, a unique record." Hoop describes Kismet as a collaboration between herself, producer Damian Anthony, and Tony Berg, the co-founder of 3 Entertainment. An industry veteran, Berg has produced the likes of Edie Brickell, Michael Penn and Aimee Mann, and much of Kismet was recorded at his home studio, Zeitgeist. "It took a little while to fall into our dynamic," Hoop says. "Tony has his production style. Damian and I had no defined production style – we were discovering our style. We wanted to keep it young and naļve, but we also wanted to make sure that it had the smarts and savvy of someone who did have experience. Tony provided that guidance." The trio managed to strike that balance. For all of its unpredictable turns, Kismet never runs off the rails. The fleshed-out, though no less provocative, version of "Seed of Wonder" on Kismet, for example, includes drums by Stewart Copeland, one of Hoop’s favorite drummers from her childhood. "That was a serious treat!" she says. "It’s a complicated song, because the structure is not...normal," she continues, laughing. "So he just sat down for an hour or so and did the most mad drumming I’ve ever witnessed – breaking sticks, throwing sticks. I'm a longtime fan."

Hoop's improvisational flair as a singer is one of the album's most significant unifying aspects. She delivers her vocals as if she is making up the melody on the spot. You listen just to see where she’s going to go next. It's an effect that often underscores the themes of her songs, as in "Summertime," where an abrupt key change and drop in pitch signal a move from a childlike world of innocent pleasure to a more adult realm of erotic longing. "It takes a funny turn," Hoop says of the song. "It's like, what about the deeper side of summer, where you're that kid who wanders off and has your first sexual experience? Or even if you’re a grown woman – there’s the heat of summer and all the sexiness involved. You have the age of innocence, and also the ripening of that innocence." "Money," meanwhile, takes a wry look at the rampant commercialism of the music industry – and the culture at large. "Money makes the world go round/Money make you change your sound, if the price is right," she sings. On another note, the haunting folk melody of "Enemy" reveals a strange beauty in the scars of love's wars – "the jewels of my story," as the singer puts it. And the mournful "Love Is All We Have" commemorates the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. "It's a way to reflect upon that wound in our country, to lend a heart to it," Hoop says. "And to let the people there know what we're thinking of them." For all of its artistic ambition and near obsession with sound and sensual wordplay ("it burned and it burned and it burrowed in/soar through the source searching/hammer and ping"), Kismet is an album of profound emotional power. That aspect of Hoop's music is especially palpable on stage, she says. "I love that people will come and lend their imaginations to words that I’ve put on a piece of paper, and that I’m singing to them at that moment," she explains. "The songs affect me, because they come from a pretty emotional place. And if I think about it affecting the people listening, it will inevitably make me cry!" She pauses and laughs. "The people who know me best, the ones who come to every show, know that I cry a lot," she continues. "These songs are very personal. There’s just nothing like the joy of playing for people." The word "kismet," of course, means fate. There's no doubt that many of the fans who discover Jesca Hoop with this album will come to feel that somehow they were meant to hear these deeply moving songs. Kismet is that sort of album, and Jesca Hoop is that sort of artist.

Summertime

Corn is getting high
And the well is getting low
Fields are getting dry
I'm gonna catch a lizard's eye
So I got to lay low
Playing in the rye
La, la, la, la...

Summer
Summertime
Summer
Summertime
Summer
Summertime
Summer

Rattle rattle, rattle grass
I hope that you won't bite
You can save your venom
Let me pass
I'm headed to the hive
La, la, la, la...

Summer
Summertime
Summer
Summertime
Summer
Summertime

Summer baby baby
Find me in the field
Follow my trail till the grain is
Higher than your ears
Bring a soft blanket baby
Lay it down for me
And roll me daddy daddy
Roll me in the wheat
La, la, la, la...

Moon is on the rise
And the sun is sinking low
Swim in a lake at night
I'm gonna sing with my cricket cicada choir
Owl on a wire
La, la, la, la...

Summer
Summertime
Summer
Summertime
Summer
Summertime
Summer

Seed of wonder

Once my love stood still like a stagnant
Well for so long, you could hear
The song of spiders, strumming fibbers
Calling her to the web
My river sits in ebb
The little ones lean over
Laughter echoes
Bounce down the dark until the hits the floor
Singing come on baby come on child, call your flo
Like a seed of wonder, faith of mustard
Oh yeah oh oh yeah
All is dark
All of the light
Is vanished it is gone
Like something large
Hovering high
Has covered up the sun
And something quiets
The silken ringing
Something breaks the strum
A wish has finally come

All I want is to be writing to be writing
All I want is to be writing and it goes something like
Once that wish did land
Like a star in my hand
It burned and it burned and it burrowed in
Soar through the source searching
Hammer and ping
And tapped my virgin spring
And prime the vein with milk of mother
And wet my river bed
Pearls strung up on silk thread
The starry one
Beams his light
He’s working under
Digging through the dark gathering particles
Finding everything you ever wished for in your soul
Like a seed of wonder faith of mustard
Oh yeah oh oh yeah

Finally that tapped spring
Come running like a river my song it came
Right away I went writing I went writing
Right away I was humming I was humming
Right away I was singing I was singing
Right away I was loving
And goes something like…light
I haven’t always been under such a blue
Only you have seen such storming in my life.
All I want is to be writing to be writing
All I want is to be writing and it goes something like
Once my love stood still like a stagnant
Well for so long, you could hear
The song of spiders, strumming fibbers
Calling her to the web
My river sits in ebb
The little ones lean over
Laughter echoes
Bounce down the dark until the hits the floor
Singing come on baby come on child, call your flo
Like a seed of wonder, faith of mustard
Oh yeah oh oh yeah
All is dark
All of the light
Is vanished it is gone
Like something large
Hovering high
Has covered up the sun
And something quiets
The silken ringing
Something breaks the strum
A wish has finally come

All I want is to be writing to be writing
All I want is to be writing and it goes something like
Once that wish did land
Like a star in my hand
It burned and it burned and it burrowed in
Soar through the source searching
Hammer and ping
And tapped my virgin spring
And prime the vein with milk of mother
And wet my river bed
Pearls strung up on silk thread
The starry one
Beams his light
He’s working under
Digging through the dark gathering particles
Finding everything you ever wished for in your soul
Like a seed of wonder faith of mustard
Oh yeah oh oh yeah

Finally that tapped spring
Come running like a river my song it came
Right away I went writing I went writing
Right away I was humming I was humming
Right away I was singing I was singing
Right away I was loving
And goes something like…light
I haven’t always been under such a blue
Only you have seen such storming in my life

Enemy

Beautiful
Alone with my enemy
And share a bitter cup
Of poisoning
My countenance
To see his face in mine
And follow every line
Back to my enemy

You are mine
Pennyroyal wine fly
Like an innocent child
That followed every line
Back to my enemy

Beautiful
Falling fast from a state of grace
And trusting there's a light
In darkest place
My dirty knees
Hold the ground till it's done with me
I've come to see that beauty
Is a thing
That is without grace

You are mine
Pennyroyal wine fly
Like an innocent child
That followed every line
Back to my enemy

Beautiful
At home with my history
And run the scarlet ink
With the tears of mercy
My battle wounds
Lay to rest in a treasure box
And thinking of the scars
As the jewels of my story

You are mine
Pennyroyal wine fly
Like an innocent child
That followed every line
Back to my enemy
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy

Silverscreen

Stolen crown
Pillow down
All tangled in my hair
Evening gown
The lights downtown
All dangle in the air

Gates of heaven open
There is me
On the silverscreen
I hope they did good editing

Bell and beau
Buck and doe
A love of tender age
Jill and Joe
Dosy do
A tragedy on stage

Gates of heaven open
There is me
On the silverscreen
I hope they did good editing

Bye bye baby bye bye
Hello to my beautiful mind
Bye bye

Bye bye baby bye bye
Hello to my beautiful mind
Bye bye

Crystal ball
Padded walls
A bright blue TV Glare
A moth to light is as lost as I’m found
Far down cellar stair

Gates of heaven open
There is me
On the silverscreen
I hope they did good editing

Bye bye baby bye bye
Bye bye baby bye bye
Bye bye baby bye bye
Bye bye baby bye bye

Money money makes the world go round
Money money'll make you change your sound
If the price is right
If the price is right

If you want paper
If you want gold and silver
Learn now not later
People pay for what's familiar
No need to know yourself too well
You can trade in that saga you tell
For the song you know will sell

If you want cheddar
If you want smoke and roll better
Take off your sweater
To earn your varsity letter
It's a virgin feast for all
See how gracefully they fall
Into the mirrors on the wall
'Cause if you want to belong you write a sing-a-long

Money money makes the world go round
Money money'll make you change your sound
If the price is right
You forfeit your style without a fight
Who will be your beacon
The dark of night
Should have been truly bright

Where do we go
The freaks
On the fringe
When the edges are all rounded out
We just dangle out in space
You can call us when you need to find out
We go
The misfits
On the fringe
When the edges are all rounded out
We just dangle out in space
You can call us when you need to find out
What the real stars are all about
Time has turned and the scenery has changed
And all the books have
Burned
But the lyrics remain
Let the motherfucker burn let's change the refrain
Nobody needs history
Repeatin’ tin tin tin tin

Money money makes the world go round
Money money'll make you change your sound
If the price is right
If the price is right

If you want skrilla
If you're a cheddar gorilla
Stack up your bills as
You sign away your free will
There's no need to represent
The truth of self has been well spent
Moving from mortgage out of rent
‘Cause if you want to belong you write a sing-a-long

Money money makes the world go round
Money money'll make you change your sound
If the price is right
You forfeit your style without a fight
Who will be your beacon
The dark of night
Should have been truly bright

Dreams in the hollow

Why do we
Want to be
Ballerinas when we grow up
Little boys dream the night away
With fighting fires
When we grow up

Torlege relevé rond de jambe
And round and up
Round and up
Firemen slide on down the pole and sound
The siren
Everybody up

All is well
In my sorrow
Isn't she a beauty
Burning hall
Ash and shadow
Here comes the hero

Little eyes
Small but wide
Young but wiser
All looking up
All looking up
For your hat
And your axe
And your yellow jacket
Daddy get up
Ash to ash dust to dust
None could muster
Daddy get up
Daddy get up
They see what you couldn't do
When consumed by fire

Days glow
Sleep in the hollow
Dreams in the hollow
Pesky old crow
Heather and thistle
No prints to follow
Hope that they follow
Hopes all they know

All is well in my sorrow
Isn't she a beauty
Burning hall
Ash and shadow
Here comes the hero

Oh i tried to put it out
But the big tree was falling
And now i find him reaching out
But the big tree it fell

Cross the sea
Her dancing broken dream
So I’m lacing up
I'm lacing up
For musing starts
In broken hearts
The most courageous beauty
So I’m lacing up
Mother's milk
Ragged silk
Chalk's in the hall tree
Tattered toe shoes
Broken toes
Relevé turn and pray
For mother's broken dancer

Days glow
Sleep in the hollow
Dreams in the hollow
Pesky old crow
Heather and thistle
No prints to follow
Hope that they follow
Hopes all they know

All is well in my sorrow
Isn't she a beauty
Burning hall
Ash and shadow
Here comes the hero

Love Is All We Have

The night before the night she came
Katrina the hurricane
Oh was calm
Calm for a land untame
That spill the boarders of New Orleans
Oh was calm
The plow boys played their old favorite "the city's on parade"
On parade
But deep in the heart of
The ocean
Their beds were made

Love me now
Love is all we have
Love me now
Love is all we have

And the rains that came
With the force of a runaway train
Oh run away
And the waters rose and the levees the levees
Broke
Oh run away
And the cradle broke my beloved
The cradle broke
Oh I must stay
For deep in the heart of
Our home
My beloved was washed away

Love me now
Love is all we have
Love me now
Love is all we have
Love me now
Love is all we have
Love me now
Love is all we ever really had

The old church bell
Is in the graveyard
The old church bell
Oh lace and stone
The naked feet
Pound the pavement
Of nameless streets
Oh faceless homes
But deep in the heart of
The American
Prayers for New Orleans

Love me now
Love is all we have
Love me now
Love is all we have
Love me now
Love is all we have
Love me now
Love is all we ever really had

Intelligentactile 101

Can I borrow your bones and marrow till i get my own
Lovely lovely lovely bones till i get my own
I won't tell my new friends that they're on loan
They won't know
It's no smart thing to do when you're far from home

Can I borrow your skin blushing to get lucky in
Lucky lucky lucky lucky with a special friend
Well I hear that on planet earth that it's a sin big sin
We'll all the more fun for me to get lucky then

Oh I’m gonna be a baby girl
A round trip ticket to a blue planet
Flip a uuueyy at mars
Oh I’m gonna swim in the water first
Blowing up her belly though she didn't plan it
I took the invitation when she rocked the hammock
Pulling all the wild cards
And now I’m swinging from the stars
From an umbilical cord from an umbilical cord
From an umbilical cord feels like I’ve been here before

On my tongue on my tongue
I want your fingers on my tongue
I want some intelligent tactile
When foreign play things come
I'm gonna study ‘em with my tongue
I want some intelligentactile 101

Can I borrow your hips and your lips
And your wink and curl
Is I is or is I ain't one flossy girl
I'm gonna paint that planet red
‘Cause I’m in the world
In the world
And leave a trail of kisses when my loves unfurled

Will you steady my ground
Dizzy ground when I’m turned around
Dizzy dizzy dizzy ground
When I’m lost you'll found
Well I’m headed to planet earth to search the sound
Deep sound
So keep my compass wound when I’m on the ground

Oh I’m gonna be a baby girl
A round trip ticket to a blue planet
Flip a uuueyy at mars
Oh I’m gonna swim in the water first
Blowing up her belly though she didn't plan it
I took the invitation when she rocked the hammock
Pulling all the wild cards
And now I’m swinging from the stars
From an umbilical cord from an umbilical cord
From an umbilical cord feels like I’ve been here before

On my tongue on my tongue
I want your fingers on my tongue
I want some intelligent tactile
When foreign play things come
I'm gonna study ‘em with my tongue
I want some intelligent tactile
On my tongue on my tongue
I want your fingers on my tongue
I want some intelligent tactile
When foreign play things come
I'm gonna study ‘em with my tongue
I want some intelligentactile 101

Havoc in heavan

Red ribbon on witch we ride
Carry us over horizon as the sun setting
Night puts on a phantom cloak
Sing violet light and emote
The protection that violet evokes

Fasten your focus on your sole cause
Is your fruit and flowers on red ribbon
Swift justice comes delivery white bone demon

Oh oh oh oh
Begun the havoc in heaven
Oh oh oh oh
Begun the havoc in heaven

Deep deep in the green sea
There is a weapon for me
A pin that is fixing the sea
A pillar gold shiny
And if I can pull it free
The cudgel is coming with me

Fasten heave ho
Pillar of gold
Runs through the deepest darkest stone
Cudgel undone weighing one ton
Bring on your force white bone demon

Oh oh oh oh
Begun the havoc in heaven
Oh oh oh oh
Begun the havoc in heaven

Don't believe your eyes
When the maiden does arrive
You fool
She is the enemy
And do not trust the guise of a woman old and wise
For truly she is the white bone demon

Dance macaques round the fire
Warrior drums, banshee cryer
Call to them visions of her pyer
Fuelled by the demons throne
We shall subdue her to bone
And ashes to ashes her home

Fasten your focus on your soul
Cause is your fruit and flowers home
And in one blow
I smite down my foe
And ashes to ashes welcome home

Oh oh oh oh
Begun the havoc in heaven
Oh oh oh oh
Begun the havoc in heaven
Oh oh oh oh
Begun the havoc in heaven

Out the back door

When we rock the house watch the roof go bump
Watch the swingers swing on the floor
And all the brick houses
Gonna shake da rump
And all the swingers gonna swing it some more
And all you players gonna round em up
And all you lovers get ready to score
The beat gets harder when the love erupts
And all the flames shooting out the back door

Out the back door
Out the back door
Powder boost and gloss it
Brush your shoulders floss it
And we're out the back door
Out the back door
Left hand on the bible
‘Cause daddy's got a rifle
And we're out the back door
Out the back door

And it's one on one from moon to sun
What we do from sun until moon
We waltzing on water dipping Lucy Liu
And all the flames flicker red and then blue
And we cut that time in two in two
And baby I’m turning purple like you
When we move we move with wings on our shoes
Sickest angels you ever knew

Out the back door
Out the back door
Rollin up the window
Smoking up some indo
And we're out the back door
Out the back door
Mellow in the cloudy
Knock it back get rowdy
And we're out the back door
Out the back door

Spin the vinyl cut the bopshoobop
A get down and bump hip hop
It's a motto when it come to rock
Tick tock and it do not stop
Hey now tick tock and it do not stop

Spin the bottle where will it stop
Get down on the table top
It's a motto when it come to rock
Tick tock and it do not stop
Hey now tick tock and it do not stop

Out the back door
Out the back door
Rollin up the window
Smoking up some indo
And we're out the back door
Out the back door
Left hand on the bible
‘Cause daddy's got a rifle
And we're out the back door
Out the back door

When we rock the house watch the roof go bump
Watch the swingers swing on the floor
And all the brick houses
Gonna shake da rump
And all the swingers gonna swing it some more
And all you players gonna round em up
And all you lovers get ready to score
The beat gets harder when the love erupts
And all the flames shooting out the back door

Out the back door
Out the back door
Rollin up the window
Smoking up some indo
And we're out the back door
Out the back door
Mellow in the cloudy
Knock it back get rowdy
And we're out the back door
Out the back door
Powder boost and gloss it
Brush your shoulders floss it
And we're out the back door
Out the back door
Left hand on the bible
‘Cause daddy's got a rifle
And we're out the back door
Out the back door
Out the back door
Out the back door
Out the back door

Love and love again

( Written by Jesca Hoop and David Baerwald )

Come the sun
Heaven's rays
And the stormers are gone and the white cloth is raised
Golden days
And the city is in love again
And we dream
In a daze
And we drink and we dance and we throw cares away
Lovers gaze
And the city is in love

My heart was so dark dear
With you not here
And the cold wind's
All that would meet me at my door
I waved goodbye and wished you well
Life's a carousel
When it brings you round it never never tells
When you find yourself in love again

Love and love again
Love and love again

The merry-go-round never ends

I waved goodbye and wished you well
Life's a carousel
When it brings you round it never never tells
When you find yourself in love again

Bitter rose sour plum
And the birds sing to soothe where the roses were stung
Hearts undone
And the world is in love again
There's a spell on the air
And the sailors all drift and get lost in her hair
Hearts are bare
And the soldiers come home again
My eyes they grew dark dear
With you not here
And the cold wind's
All that would dance me round my floor

I waved goodbye and wished you well
Life's a carousel
When it brings you round it never never tells
When you find your self in love again

Love and love again
Love and love again

The round and round ride never ends

Baby boy

( Live )

Because my baby boy
He's got my heart in wraps
Better believe my baby knows he's met his match
Oh yes my lover boy
He always got my back
If ever an adversary attacks and that's a fact.

In two days tarot reveals cupid's arrow
Aurora I might have to glow, oh
Feathers of a dove guide
And ??? Our love
Because you love her, love her, love her

And your love turns into punch
And you'll do anything drunk
Uh my ocean
And 'cause he sunk

On a champagne descent
Whilst you live is therein
Because you love her, love her, love her

Baby boy
You've got my heart in wraps
Better believe my baby knows he's met his match
Oh yes my lover boy
He always got my back
If ever an adversary attacks and that's a fact

Strong arms
Wrapped around
Delirium
On the ground

Under the sky her deeper blue eyes
Make the ocean feel shy
On a desert dry skin
There grows a garden
Because you love her, love her, love her
And now in the garden
You say that since you pick your lip
On a granite smiles and face
And you keep on digging
Throughout the winter fat or thin
Because you love her, love her love her

On a stormy ship
On a sunny ??? ???
Fashion bringing back blue
On a paramount
In a god of fon???
I am always in love with you

Sing it with me
Baby boy
You've got my heart in wraps
Better believe my baby knows he's met his match
Oh yes my lover boy
He always got my back
If ever an adversary attacks and that's a fact

Strong arms
Wrapped around
Delirium
On the ground.

Big Fish

( Silverscreen Demos EP )

I made up my mind
I’m leaving this town
I’m leaving this town
You won’t find me look around

After twenty years of carving my name in the wet cement
Hand your head down and lament
You won’t find me look around

Baby boy, baby boy
Don’t follow me
I’m a seed, I’m a seed, I’m a seed
From a dandelion wish
With intent to be big fish
In the sea in the sea in the sea

I made up my mind
I’m leaving this town
I’m leaving this town
You won’t find me look around

After twenty years of carving my name in the wet cement
Hand your head down and lament
You won’t find me look around

Baby boy, baby boy, set me free
Don’t sabotage
Don’t hide away my key
I’m a lark inside a cage
And the world is but a stage
For to sing, for to sing, for to sing

I made up my mind
I’m leaving this town
I’m leaving this town
You won’t find me look around

After twenty years of carving my name in the wet cement
Hand your head down and lament
You won’t find me look around

From a dandelion wish
With intent to be big fish
In the sea in the sea in the sea
In the sea in the sea in the sea...

( Live )

Lay your head on my breast close your eyes and call upon rest. Your could be my baby child, how tenderly I feel about you. And I can see for miles and miles the foreign land in my mind. And would you come here be near me…lay awake with me till dawn breaks. And take my love no price to pay…i don’t wanna make you mine, I just wanna hold you baby so fine. Lay your head on my breast close your eyes and call upon rest. I have let down I have let down I have let down a wall I have let down. We fall and humble down to grace. Boy you take me down since you endeared me to you all of my pain has gave way. And love has healed my wounded dove. Boy you take me down. Lay your head on my breast close your eyes and call upon rest.

If there is trouble in the deep blue sea
There is trouble in me
Trouble in me now
Trouble in the deep blue sea
There is trouble in me
Well your house in the hill
The fat on your face
Your green rolling bills
And your heavy iron gate
If you live in the big bad world-
No stone steel or name
Could separate your from beyond
That gate in any type of way.

You just might be protected
By the front lines from attack
But on levels of soul dear you
You can’t avoid impact

If there is trouble in the deep blue sea
There is trouble in me
Trouble in me now
Trouble in the deep blue sea
There is trouble in me

Fixit men

( Silverscreen Demos EP )

You got to keep them fixit men fed you get
You got to keep them buttered and breaded
You got to keep them sweet
Sweet things said
No love at the door they won't come no more.

My oh my
My pipes is dry
What I’m gonna do with dry pipes
Forlorn it's early morn
What I’m gonna do with dry pipes

I call my man but he won't stand
Cause all I paid him was a bag of sand
Now baby what I’m gonna do with dry pipes
Oh boy, now what I’m gonna do with dry pipes

You got to keep them fixit men fed you get
You got to keep them buttered and breaded
You got to keep them sweet
Sweet things said
No love at the door they won't come no more.

No fun my car won't run
What about the car that won't run
Work work gotta get to work
What about the car that won't run

I call my man but he won't stand
‘Cause all I paid him was to shake my hand
Now baby what about the car that won't run
Oh boy, now what about the car that won't run.

You got to keep them fixit men fed you get
You got to keep them buttered and breaded
You got to keep them sweet
Sweet things said
No love at the door they won't come no more

Roof roof got a leaky roof
What I’m gonna do 'bout that roof
Drip drop the rain won't stop
What I’m gonna do 'bout that roof

I call my man but he won't stand
Cause nothing’s sizzling in the frying pan
Frying pan

You got to keep them fix it men fed better get it
Got to keep them buttered and breaded
You got to keep them sweet
Sweet things said
No love at the door they won't come no more
No love at the door they won't come no more
No love at the door they won't come no more

( Live )

It wasn't the leprechaun
It wasn't the Easter bunny
It wasn't Santa Claus
With his cider paws
And his bag of coal
That stole my child
Made me grow old

The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man
The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man

It wasn't the day go down
It wasn't the burning sound
It wasn't years go by and mama died and went under ground
That stole my child made me grow old

The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man
The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man

Now daddy was a man like the heroes on TV
Until I caught him chasing the cat up a tree
And he made the world go round
He made the sun go down
The day I met my dad was the day that I met gravity
The day I met my dad was the day that I touched down
Touched down
Touched down
Touched down

The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man
The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man

Do as I say to do
Not as you see me do
Well I saw you do it
Saw your soul go down in hell
It's just as well
Better than lies

The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man
The man is just a man like any
The man is just a man

Now daddy was the man like the heroes on TV
Until I caught him chasing the cat up a tree

And he made the world go round
He made the sun go down
They day I met my dad was the day that I met gravity
The day I met my dad was the day that I touched down
Touched down
Touched down
Touched down
Touched down

( Silverscreen Demos EP )

The come and they go
My woes and my joy
I know getting attached to that temporal toil
Is…is…is…is ignorant

They ebb and they flow
My frowns and my smiles
I know getting attached to that miracle mile
Is…is…is…is ignorant

State of bliss
Tell me are you happiness
Something’s gone terrible wrong
If you are the other than this

Turn out the sun
All of your golden days are gone
There’s a world better than this one is your favourite song

Observe and then note
The flux in your power
Your efficiencies in spinning your hour to hour
Is…is…is significant

Deserve and then don’t
Your bouquet of flowers
The universal candy is bitter-sweet-salty
And sour get …get…get…get used to it

State of bliss
Tell me are you happiness
Something’s gone terribly wrong
If you are other than this

Go get your gun
No need in leaving the safety on
I’m going higher one day is your favourite song

Yeah they come
Sure as they go
Yeah they come
Sure as they go
So they come
Sure as they go
Yes they come
Sure as they go
Sure as they go

Life within a life
Has ended and begun
Again my tune is sung
Oh yeah
We sail into the sun
Light and brightest night
Dark and dismal day
Has ended and begun
In out and in of one
We sail into the sun

Life within a life
Has ended and begun
In out and in of one
Oh yeah
We sail into the sun
Light and brightest night
Has ended and begun
In out and in of one
We sail into the sun

Light and brightest night
Dark and dismal day
Has ended and begun
In out and in of one
We sail into the sun

Make me dance

What I know is it's raining and I’m alone
Ooh I like to call you on the phone
If only I had your number
I'd take you for my lover
All my own

Do you know
I rehearse the lines
I'll say to you
Then you'll say to me
And how I set my eyes
I think about all the things I did say to you
Now I’ve been wasting time
Waiting on our coincidental meeting
I'm hanging on your line
Oh you got your strings tied to me
Well if you're such
The puppeteer
Then while you have me here

Make me dance
Make me dance
Make me dance
Oh no no no no
Woah lord there's a fool on the floor
From flopping his ?chance/chairs?
Oh no no no no
Me dance
Make me dance
Make me dance
Oh no no no no
Woah lord there's a fool on the floor
Come on for the ants crawled up my pants
Me dance

I think of a lingerie
To the cafe
My sisters my ???
I want people staring at me
I'll sting my lips with sugar peas
I wear high heel galoshes
Oh the 'oh my goshes' that be

Do you know
I rehearse the lines
I'll say to you
Then you'll say to me
And how I set my eyes
I think about all the things you did say to me
Now I’ve been wasting time
Waiting on our coincidental meeting
I'm hanging on your line
Ooh you got your strings tight on me
Well if you're such
The puppeteer
Then while you have me here

Make me dance
Make me dance
Make me dance
Oh no no no no
Woah lord there's a fool on the floor
From flopping his chance
Oh no no no no
Me dance
Make me dance
Make me dance
Oh no no no no
Woah lord there's a fool on the floor
Come on for the ants crawled up my pants
Me dance

What I know is it's raining and I’m alone
Ooh I like to call you on the phone
If only I had your number
I'd take you for my lover
All my own

( Live )

Choo da choo choo
Come the chariot to carry me away
Boohoo da boohoo
Carry me away my misery
All alone trying to beat
The cold in my shack
Feel the work and the lack
Of touch on my back
Smart people say
You don’t know what you have
Tell it’s gone away
Who is gonna miss me
Who is gonna miss me
All the tests
And all that’s missed and lost
Honey you can’t afford the cost
Bailing rain bailing rain
Bailing rain soaks bones in pain
Well I must have something
Cause I’m overwhelmed with joy
Like a brand new baby toy
Leaping around with my arms
Open wide living out loud
Singing come inside inside inside
Hello hello hello
Hello hello hello
Wave goodbye
And hear the rail go clack
Engine rolls
Blows coal on down the track
Carry carry me
Carry me my misery
Who is gonna miss me
Who is gonna mis me
Choo da choochoo
Come the chariot to carry me away
Boohoo da boohoo
Dig my grave dig my grave
Dig my grave dig my grave

( Live )

Everybody needs their own oasis
Their own paradise to call their own
But ?while the penny's scratched? For single spaces
Move in with some strangers and call it home
Oh no

They greet you with some smiles and lemon meringue
But there is something sketchy about the pie
Soon enough the crust will start revealing
All the filling failed to catch your eye

The floor is made of eggshells
The roof is made of rain
The walls are opaque paper
The bones are a brittle ?frame?

But nonetheless the life is mostly normal
But there was trouble brewing deep inside
And sure enough one night our star crossed lovers
Turned into dr. Jekyll and mrs. Hyde
And through the night I suffered intimate violence
She would bite and kick and he would cry
And by the time I’m begging god for silence
She let out a scream as if something just died

Oh terror on paradise
The price for a rented room
And a pot to piss in while they smoke their lives
Into a paramedic doom
'Cause that girl is a powder house
With an abbreviated fuse
And he's a sucker for a tramp like a ?mess?
He's a trigger fool

When the tempest past
The worst is over
The underwear was washed and on the line
But as for me the innocent bystander
I fear their underwear has stained my mind
Oh no
Oh no

Happy days again
A dinner party
She served her rack of lamb and sadistic too
For all the wild hair big eyes batting
Add an apple other than ?her ???

The food turned into foreplay
The wine turned into truth
Desires walking her way
But what she'll leave is you
The floor turned into quicksand
Sinking where he stands
He needs me to be his saviour
He needs me to take his hand
Inevitably the house caved in
Me a desperado and a pile of wood
I listen to him bash but then I gave up
When he said I’ll leave her if I only could
And she runs down in the ruin like a lone soldier
Riding her little engine that could
She pulled him from the dust and said 'we can rebuild it'
He took her in his arms like a lover junkie would

Oh terror on paradise
The price for a rented room
And a pot to piss in while they smoke their lives
Into a paramedic doom
'Cause that girl is a powder house
With a schizophrenic moon
And he's a sucker for a tramp like ?a master?
He's a trigger fool

Phonograph

( Live )

I fell in love
With a brilliant boy
I gave him my heart
When he captured my voice
He carried across the sea
How did he
Tangibly

Black was my true lover's hair
His eyes were green and his skin was fair
I bent to kiss the ground where he is
Standing ???
The sugars rose
When springtime came
The fields were green
When I took his name
Our love was ripe as summer's rain
When they cut down that cane

Then the word came to my door
All the world had gone to war
He dropped his papers on the floor
He was called for the draft
I see him now in silhouette
Fading toward an army jet
Carrying with him bayonet
And a phonograph

I fell in love
With a brilliant boy
I gave him my heart
As he captured my voice
He carried across the sea
How did he
Tangibly turn a needle crank
The cylinder round
Until we meet again
Send the men underground
Bands of angels clean the blood from your brow

Through the smoke of firing guns
Man by man the war is won
One no mothers fathers son
Not children no pass
Then at last his letter came
The poem read of love and shame
All I have to keep me sane
Is my phonograph

I fell in love
With a brilliant boy
I gave him my heart
When he captured my voice
He carried across the sea
How did he
Tangibly turn a needle crank
The cylinder round
Until we meet again
Send the men underground

( Live )

You sit up there
Did you know what you were in for
The change in air when you walked through the door
You were blue, but now you're green
For now you belong to me
In the way storms may grey the sea
You belong to me
Maybe you feel a bit brighter by now
Maybe you hear the violet in your crown
Maybe you see your troubles wash out
Showering your colors with sound and let them wash away
You sit up there
Did you know what you were in for
The change in air when I stepped to the floor
You were blue, but now you're green
For now you belong to me
In the way storms may grey the sea
You belong to me