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Keep It Low
03:15
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Your voice on the phone, keep it low
If you want to stay I will put you up
I’ve been in the shadow you are in now
At the dusk of the day have I done enough
To tell myself I didn’t really let you down
In my haste to follow you
I got tortured for what I done
Found my faith in solitude
Now I don’t talk to anyone
Your voice on the phone, keep it low
Give us something we can sway to
We get a lot of the day to
We got loud in the day too
Anyone can see they got a piece of us
It’s better to be metal than diaphanous
Fall into a pattern of ambivalence
Calcify your heart
In my haste to follow you
I got tortured for what I done
Found my faith in solitude
Now I don’t talk to anyone
Your voice on the phone, keep it low
give us something we can sway to
If I learned a lesson from living alone
Maybe I can find another pagan to pray to
We got a lot of the day to
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It may get bad when you’re lonely and cold
But say it to me anyway
When you’re lonely and cold
Tattooed to my memory
When you’re lonely and cold
Say it to me anyway
When you’re lonely and cold
Tattooed to me
Yesterday I’m falling in love
Like water to my throat
Now I see it written in blood
My heart would never let my head go
It may get bad when you’re lonely and cold
But say it to me anyway
When you’re lonely and cold
Tattooed to me
After we’re dead and gone
They’ll forget about the life we know
The time we wasted on
The hesitation and the ego
Say you want some devotion
Listen with attention
You want adoration
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Catahoula Man
04:07
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I spent a long time holding out for a miracle
Open my eyes, now it’s too late to play the long game
I thought you knew of the remote possibility
Get around your problems before they get around to you
I remember all the ways you tried to make me feel
But that don’t mean nothin if there’s nothin you can do
When all the while I thought we were
the last of the last ones
And I know you’re not afraid
to make somebody pray to you
Twenty-five days and a broken back for the hell of it
So I’ll never deny you and I get nothin by you when I do
Hold on now, just a little bit to go
Catahoula Man
Get a little bit better before you know
I offered to talk about credibility
The way you stick it to your neighbors
The way they give it back to you
Ever wonder why the ones you had got too real for you
But that don’t mean nothin if there’s nothin you can do
Hold on now, just a little bit to go
Catahoula Man
Get a little bit better before you know
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Out there on your own
Always get the feeling that
Something's out there waiting to tell you
All the truth about your ancient past
Futures you divine to help you satisfy
You're tracing your fear
To the darkness you know
Episodes of your devotion
What's the use in starting over
You're such a servant to your word
Guess it's all about that silent ocean
It's not the fate that you deserve
You were getting on
You were catching praise again
Could it make the suffering easier?
Then spare yourself the mystery
Spaces you align and pressures you incite
I'm asking sincere
All the places you go
Spare the world your righteous notion
What’s the use in starting over
You're such a servant to your word
Guess it's all about that silent ocean
It's not the fate that you deserve
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Mythical
03:15
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I remember you staring at the window
You made a joke about living on the interstate
When everybody tells you not to worry
Then you know it’s time to get out
You’re gonna need someone to keep you awake
I know you think about packing it in
Well there’s no chance
You’ve come too far to go back to that maniac hell
I remember you holding out for a banger to dance to
When you were never more mythical
It took a minute to screw it up
It took seventeen years to fix
You got a bang-up way to make a hotel turn full
You don’t have to try to make the judges like you
You know you were never more mythical
Yes sir, heaven is a highway
Anything you say man
Turns out I could use a big favor
Do you have some pull
I remember you holding out for a day like today
Back when you were never more
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Avery
03:56
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Now that I can see you have come to take my place
Would you keep me company
Had a vision of a time I wanted to forget
Now I’m a victim of my pride and vanity
All the good days are gone and
I'm sad you won’t look back
Because I would still love you
I was just thinking of everything you never said
I would still love you
Had a vision of a time I wanted to forget
Now I’m a victim of my pride and vanity
All the good days are gone and I’m sad you won’t look back
Because I would still love you
I was just thinking of everything you never said
I would still love you
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I know you need a little road to run
But I see you looking where they aint got none
You took your debt to the house of plenty
And you laid it at their feet
Don’t waste your breath on the walk of the many
When you wait for their mercy
Live long and don’t forget
The stone around your neck
I understand you’re a noble-to-be
Isolation is a two-way street
I need to know is it enough to go on
And lie awake at night and talk to no one
You put your faith in the cult of money
To produce their own vaccine
What has the prick of the conscience done
To the use of guillotine
Live long and don’t forget
The stone around your neck
I understand you’re a noble-to-be
Isolation is a two-way street
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Waking up from fevered dreams
You kept away till now
I can see your shattered prism of fading light
Meditate on what it means to recommit your mind
To keep on raising hell til the day you die
Exorcise your fears
Of being estranged from all of this
Recognize the seasons
Are changing much faster than your friends suggest
What's the fault in breaking from
The distant past you've known
Most of all it’s easier
Than facing your days alone
How’s it feel to see them prey upon your life
If they crept inside your skin what could they find
Exorcise your fears
Of being estranged from all of this
Recognize the seasons
Are changing much faster than your friends suggest
What's the fault in breaking from
The distant past you've known
Most of all it’s easier
Than facing your days alone
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Kid
03:31
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Kid, what changed your mood
You’ve gone all sad
Now I feel sad too
I think I know
Somethings, you never outgrow
You think it’s wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
If you don’t want me to
Kid, my only kid
You look so small
You’ve gone so quiet
I know you know what I'm about
I won’t deny it
But you forgive
What you don’t understand
You turned your head
You dropped my hand
All my sorrow
All my blues
All my sorrow
Shut the light
Go away
Full of grace
Cover your face
Kid, gracious kid
Your eyes are blue
But you won’t cry
I know angry tears are too dear
You won’t let them go
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Turning The Screw
04:26
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I heard about how you’re gone for good
I took it better than I thought I would
I am alive and awake and I have no memories
Every day I wanna disappear
I want to be in a coma for the rest of the year
I want to watch my friends embrace my enemies
All around in the daylight
Everybody looks so much older
I was afraid you got too far along
I could see you in the distance
Looking over your shoulder
And I could tell you were already gone
I turn around and another two years slip away
I have a dream about a ticking clock that's getting faster
At night when the day is dead
I think about what I would’ve said
Am I gonna get a chance to go back
or am I turning the screw
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