GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU (2009)
Lyrics by Jason Manriquez
Seen It All
Summer's done the girls have gone
the days are short the nights are long
standing here up against the wall
The time has passed or so they say
for taking some to give away
and let them fly I'll believe what I see when I've seen it all
Crawling North but falling south and drink the words that won't come out still standing here up against the wall
The time has passed for having fun for growing old and dying young and fade away
I'll believe what I see when I've seen it all
Living from day to day
Astronaut
Far away but close with instruments you're finding out the hard way you radio for replay
You turn away the plans they implement have got you stranded on the sky way they've got you staring at the sun
You're counting tin foil stars in a plastic room while I'm taping up my halo
A toy astronaut on paper moon see him lighting up the sky
Fall from heaven like a stone fall so very far from home
You're far away but Texas instruments have got you finding out the hard way they've got you empty out your ashtray
You run away the plans they implement finding out the hard way they've got you paraphrase and catch phrase
Shining Places
She don't move on 'cause she don't know she don't move on just walks that road
'Cause all of it's far away alone in the dark taken your lights away it's only a spark
She don't get out 'cause she don't care running on empty to some place out there
Shining places
Calendar Girls
Hey Miss November we met back in high school we talked just like old friends and looked at your tattoo you told me your secret you showed me your pretty wrists played 'Station to Station' you lean in to steal a kiss and then the stars all aligned and fell into your pretty eyes
Calendar girls you're the one
Hey Miss September caught putting your make up on we missed you at sound check you dance like a hellion you're hot like the Summer but wet like a swimming pool with one dollar hand jobs kept us after school then the stars all aligned and fell into your pretty eyes
Starsign
It's like a slow celebration you heat it with a one night stand you've got to put it all together drop it in a letter send it airmail with these thorns growing 'round your heart and these stars spinning 'round your head you've got to bring it all down 'til the starsign disappears
You've got to give a little take it on up find yourself yeah a little's enough you've got to pull it all together just this side of center it's a landslide with these thorns growing 'round your heart and the sun shining from your head you've got to bring it all down 'til the starsign disappears
It's like a slow celebration zone
The Queen Himself
He's always alone in dance halls he's lining his eyes in pencil he's given his heart away just answering the phone he's always long on chances he trying the wine romance us too far away to ever be this close
The queen himself has found his words to be quite wanting the queen himself he sees the hours in his hands the minutes pass this broken engine with no reply the queen himself must rattle on
Our Song
Living on the edge but needing answers I've got your picture on the wall above the phone in case you call too much rope I slip and tumble other voices other rooms stay the tide from hidden moons
You sacrifice your inner eye and begin to cry for our song
Given your choice between disasters blood will obfuscate this doom a heated love your pump renew too much time to stay the last bird a lonely song in empty breast to soulless throngs cards close to chest
They sacrifice their inner eye
All You Do Is Crazy
Convince your self there's no one else now you've got to get by feel the ground beneath your feet now go on and step high
'Cause you don't have to sacrifice to try and understand with everybody telling lies you haven't any friends When all you do is crazy
Pull your dreams down off the shelf now you say it's high time go on and get high Found yourself in someone else now don't let them slip by you let them slip by
The Girls Are Alright
Clouds stitched tight with stolen invention you try to lean on yourself at sea alone at the wheel left holding the anchor you try to lean on yourself at sea
Because the girls are alright they go bump in the night from their heads to theirs toes it's what everyone know the girls are alright they go bump in the night with me
So lower your flag she sets sail tomorrow you try to be what they want you to be last trick in the bag what you're feeling is borrowed you try to be what they want you to be
Hard Swallow
Your shining a light that you can't put a candle on talking to people out in the street the cars are all crashing the lights go flashing caught me staring at my feet
You don't even have to stay you could be so far away it's in everything I do it's in the pills we swallow too
Talking to loud to practically everyone high on my list of people to meet the cars still crashing the lights go flashing caught me staring at my feet
Outlaw
Crossing out angles left and right and shamelessly photograph them she's a chemical
Call me the outlaw dressed in white
Blotting out metaphor tonight the sisters have activated the record machine
Ride The Artifact
I don't like the happiness to be alone I'm hard set and unimpressed upon my own I need sunshine and emptiness on my way
Don't cross the devil with a broken heart as you make like a shiver falling all apart with a starsign to happiness on my way
I'm plowing your open fields to help them find a way ride the artifact turn it on press play and keep those bright lights on through that market crash 'til she finds her way ride the artifact
These simple tensions I call mine she's emptied over me these vehicles have intertwined car collision tree
The Last Days
We go dancing untried dark days a little sugar before the fall crazy in bed we call honest the little lies we were before and give it to the last days
We doubt most things we make bad face a lonely finger salutes them all cold nights in here his crime ended a little sugar before the fall and give to the last days
