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Something Better
03:56
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I know what I’m expected to say
I guess you like it best that way
Yet again I think I’m trying to find
Something Better
You were laying on a hospital bed
I knew what could have been instead
Suddenly, another one just like me
What a nightmare
Shouting out something obscene
30 strangers had been staring at me
Cause I couldn’t even hide it at all
How pathetic
It’s like picking traits right out of a bag
Half of them I wish I’d give back
If you need me I’ll be trying to find
Something better
Somehow I would
Somehow I wouldn’t change
If sometimes I could just
Play the sideline, pay me no mind
Trying not to say it’s the end
I wish my parents could be friends
But you can’t rewind to get what you want
Say the word, we’ll all go back in time
But then I get out of bed
Regretting all the shit that I said
Fucking crying out the name of a girl
That I’m dating
Somehow I would
Somehow I wouldn’t change
If sometimes I could just
Play the sideline, pay me no mind
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I ain’t trying to kill the mood tonight
I wanna get away forever
Spider will spin
Down on a nightmare on repeat, however
Let me imagine out loud
Home movies with my folks around
Command+Z, return
(Let Down Lately)
Nothing’s gonna change their minds
(Let Down Lately)
Future fiction left behind
(Let Down Lately)
Memories of an endless fight
I felt it every time
Now I take it like a punching bag
But haven’t felt a thing in years
Instant recall
To a stuffed toy dragon so sincere
(Three Two Eighty)
Cement rubber for a stick figure family
Say what you want now
I need it this much
(Let Down Lately)
Nothing’s gonna change their minds
(Let Down Lately)
Future fiction left behind
(Let Down Lately)
Memories of an endless fight
I felt it every time
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3. |
Strangers In A Nightclub
04:26
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Sporting a redcoat with his right hand stamped
All through the night he is pounding out his theme song
In the search for something better lately
Selling sinking ships and brakeless cars to all the weekend hoppers
Should I say something?
Showed up to the nightclub on a Space Age train
Pomade in his hair and grease on his dead leg
Winning races, didn’t even bother running
Still a shoulder for the friends of all the sunken children
Step inside the circle
Don’t know him, and I don’t know
How anyone could tear apart two
Strangers in a nightclub
Behind the counter she's been mixing and fidgeting the thoughts out of her hair
Venom spews from her snakeskin boots, a narcissistic guru in training
Sporting retro-future, she’s a talker
Dabbled in gothic erotica, you know
She can dine with his fetishes and have a feast
Near the head of a murdered deer
Step inside the circle
Don’t know her, and I don’t know
How anyone could tear apart two
Strangers in a nightclub
It’s just my imagination
Strangers I'm creating
But I don’t really care to talk about
Strangers
Step inside the circle
Don’t know them, and I don’t know
How anyone could tear apart two
Strangers in a nightclub
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4. |
Fell Into A Hole
04:47
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Slept alright
But took a walk and I fell into a hole this time
Cleared the dirt with the roots while Johnny walks the line
Bear in mind
(Are we falling into line?)
You may not get what I’m implying
Mulled about
Spent a decade planning how my life turns out
The band is doing great, we haven’t yet sold out
It takes some time
(Are we falling into line?)
The 9 to 5’s been so unkind
Droogs, you tell me you have a plan
A little of that Ludwig van
To get me outta my head again
Ever falling in, better find something
I think about
How all our friends are getting sober
It freaks me out
Push the bookshelf, Alfred, there is much to figure out
Georgie boy, what a sorry sight
Just tell me I’ll be cured, all right
The End
Get me outta my head again
Ever falling in, better find something
I'm so sick and tired
Wasting all my time
They said if I’d been cured, all right
It wouldn't read the same
Wouldn't feel the way I’m feeling
Tell me, does it feel the same for you?
No need to try and run
The company has got no time for you
No need to try and run
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5. |
You Always Look So Cool
03:40
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You forced my neck up high
To marvel at your grace
Smoke rings around warm eyes
A name without a place
The advertisement girl
You always look so cool
Forget me not, for sure
But please remember
I’ll deftly try to fake
Some thought provoking line
So you'd appreciate
What’s printed on my mind
Went fishing for the words
The letters swam away
Went driving for my worth
But had no where to stay
Forward thinking, I won’t turn it into stone again
Don’t you want to waste our lonely lives together?
You burned your wedding gown
As I’ve been sewn up tight
But did I let you down?
Forward thinking, I won’t turn it into stone
Been thinking, I won’t turn it into stone again
I’m an open book
Without any pages turned
Don’t you want to waste our lonely lives together?
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Hell is a lonely penthouse view
And I stand bathrobed, attempting to croon
(I’m slurring at the sky)
Been stumbling over complimentary chaoses
A futuristic tune
Sang “I’m afraid for you to die”
Guess you’ve had enough
Help me I’m restless
Acting tough
I never let this set me off
The way I see it now
I’m panicking
Side by side, tied in line to railroad tracks
A crudely drawn cartoon
(Still not looking right)
I lie amidst a broken home
But if I lose you, my crew
Then nothing will get me high
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6:17
06:17
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Alone lies on the bed in which it's made
6:17
All the walls look on at the stranger inside his screen
What’s it mean?
Please indulge my interest
There’s nothing left to undress
Obliviously obsessed
I'd like to take a look inside your dreams
Just to see
How I appear and how we would compare reality
(Where’d you go, why the wait so long?)
Apprehensive access
Hide your secrets, actress
An empty return address found
Like a fool I am pacing around
Wide awake with the lies I can’t recount
If you need me, I'm waiting inside
Wondering if my message has arrived
All the times I danced my voice around
Jealousy
Calibrated thoughts in your mailbox
Fucked my legacy
Never mind that maybe
I fear the distance lately
And wish it didn't phase me now
Like a fool I am pacing around
What to think when the phone won't make a sound
If you need me, I'm waiting inside
Wondering if my message has arrived
I'm not looking for a pause in the action
(You're hesitating, I understand)
But I've been chasing like it's gone outta fashion now
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8. |
I Don't Really Know
03:52
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I don’t really know
Whether five years ago
We thought this out
Time turns to doubt
And I’m ever down
Monumental or middling?
Will we read between the lines?
Have you heard this old song before?
Should we be happy or resigned?
Try to peek inside a critic’s mind?
Or thank you for giving us the time?
I don’t really know
If in five years or so
We’ll figure out
Time turns to doubt
And I’m ever down
Where do we go from here?
(Some one-star review)
Where do we go from here?
(Start on something new)
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Loose Buttons is:
Eric Nizgretsky
Zack Kantor
Manny Silverstein
Adam Holtzberg
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