Daisy
VICES
"Far away from any road
Roams my heart in solitude
Where no passer by can see
On life's highway, God with thee
Knowing when all else doth fail
Thy compassion shall prevail
Father with thee, let me be
On life's highway, God with thee"
We need vices
We need vices
Where's all my hope and my marriage license?
(Where's my hay?)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and fifteen thousand degrees
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
Our good Creator (oh no)
The dog in the manger
Where is my shrink and my mind's eraser?
(we sing a sad song)
That forest burned (do you see smoke?)
That forest burned (a halo)
That forest burned
We need ten years on rewind so we can return
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
We need vices
We need vices
We have neither the plans nor disguises
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and wheels to the funeral gate
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
BED
My head is lead I don't ever want to go to bed
Your hair is on fire
You snuff the blaze turn to vapor then you float away
We got into a bad fight
Later on the bed
My eyes are lungs, I'm a prophet and I speak in tongues
I know how you'll die
Your sister groans, an usurper to the holy throne
To me she is just a dead spy
Later on the bed
Lie to all your friends (x4)
I don't know what you feel like
Ambushed on the road, stole your gold, you're a rose and you're laughing now
Everything that I own starts to pile up
Like bones make the walls of a prison
Later on the bed
I don't ever want to go to bed
He stay out for the fight
The champ goes down like a clown in the second round
I wish we'd had a better goodbye
Lie to all your friends
AT THE BOTTOM
Wait
I watched you throw out your bouquet
Now I think about you everyday
I'm alone now in my bed
And there's a lake
And at the bottom you'll find all my friends
They don't swim cause they're all dead
We never are what we intend or invent
Cause I make little lies and then I pulled them apart
I think something dark's living down in my heart
And if I wanted to die before I got old
I should've started some years ago digging that hole
Well I carry this box to the proper place
And when I lower it down
I let it you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
A deer that a hunter shot in the heart
Some dogs that got hit by cars
All came to spill their guts
And we spoke
About the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
And which Psalms we had loved the most
And then we all turned to dirt and dust
Some men die under the mountain just looking for gold
Some die looking for a hand to hold
Well I carry this box to its proper place
And when I lower it down
I let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
I stole bricks from the dam almost every day
Now I'm drowning in the flood I made
Explain myself to me on the other side
I'm gonna want some answers when I die
I carry this box to the proper place
And when I lower it down
I let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
GASOLINE
So you tried to put a fire out
But you used gasoline
And when the congregation gathered 'round
You’re screaming, “It wasn't me!"
So there's a sickness that is going 'round
But no-one’s got a vaccine
I think it drowned in holy water
I think it's time we all come clean
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
When the army had to hold the line
Well you were nowhere near the front
Before the kids could tell the dog "goodbye"
Well, you were loading up your gun
I wanna know I've left the great divide
I wanna know what I've become
You think that no one else is lonesome
You think that you're the only one?
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
Well I'm trying to find a way
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
Well I'm trying to find a way
YOU STOLE
Last night they said the fire had spread
And we said our prayers
And now the flames are burning me in my bed
But I just don't care
We all go to sleep in the same place
And in the morning hope that we're all the same
Just sit around like broke down cars in the lot
Waiting for repairs
There you go
There it goes
Well I wish that I was as good as you
Caring and trusting
And I wish that my condition was new
But I'm old and rusting
So we just hurry up only to wait
Add to the list of all the places we hate
And I pretend like I got something to say
But I've got nothing
Now I know that you stole
Yeah, you stole
From the cradles they were rocked in
You took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole, yeah, you stole
So if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So let's end this tonight
You stole
Yeah, you stole
From the cradles they were rocked in
You took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole, yeah, you stole
So if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So let's end this tonight
BE GONE
It's getting hard to stay up
I think I can hear God calling my name
He'll try to make my heart break
But I was told you'd call me tonight
They're calling my name
They won't slow the car down
I'm scared that I will keep it for my own
The one that is calling my name is telling "come down"
They're calling my name
They're calling my name
Calling my name
SINK
I don't want to let you go
But it hurts my hands to hold the rope
I won't be such an easy mark
You're no better than they say
And all the candles on the cake
All set fire to the gate
Turn the cannons towards the boat
Men were drowning in the moat
It was the end of all the rowers' oars
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
All I want's some earth and seed
But only grow the things I need
But first I must find my way back
And you go lay down on the track
In Youth I had an even keel
But now I'm not sure what is real
It's taken me this long to learn
That every dead is ate by worms
And once they're gone they don't return
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
Then the fire snuck into your bedroom
Now I'm falling asleep to forget you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and boney, exposed for a phoney
But we heed the last words that he penned
Haste to disgrace the traitor, do not wait till later
I don't think that you've got to pretend
I see God in birds and Satan in long words
But I know what you need in a friend
So now when I leave you, I hope I won't see you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and boney, exposed for a phoney
But we heed the last words that he penned
Haste to disgrace the traitor, do not wait till later
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
Well, I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
Then the fire snuck into your bedroom
Now I'm falling asleep to forget you
BOUGHT A BRIDE
Trees will make a forest, trees will make a bow
These are all the harder words you have to know
If everyone's a structure where their own savior sits
I'm a little red house, but no one's living in it
Cars are little blood cells, we are oxygen
City is the airways, suburbs appendages
She was feeling lonely, tired of the hive
Rented out a family and he bought a bride
Little cities' names on very lonely maps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
Where are all the seedlings we grew for violins?
Down in Jersey lumber, still in prosthetic limbs
Should've been a soldier, I could've fought and died
There's no revolution, so I bought a bride
Coming down the aisle while the horns play Taps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
If somehow I was new and everything was unsaid
I'd go and buy a hammer, never sing again
Sleeping on a stairway, dreamt I had a boat
Sailed it out the harbor, shot it full of holes
Folded up my prayer book, I couldn't see the lines
Drowning in a kelp bed, I bought a bride
DAISY
"And we sing this morning
That wonderful and grand old message
I don't know about you but I never get tired of it
Number 99: Just As I Am"
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a river that is all dried up
I'm an ocean nothing floats on
I'm a sky that nothing wants to fly in
I'm a sun that doesn't burn hot
I'm a moon that never shows it's face
I'm a mouth that doesn't smile
I'm a word that no one ever wants to say
"I don't wanna be
He wasn't finding anybody when he was on a shelf
I saw him in my dream"
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a fugitive that has no legs to run
I'm a preacher with no pulpit
Spewing a sermon that goes on and on and on
Well if we take all these things
And we bury them fast
And we pray that they turn into seeds
To roots and then grass
It'd be all right, it's all right
It'd be easier that way
Or if the sky opened up and started pouring rain
Like he knew it was time
To start things over again
It'd be all right, it's all right
It'd be easier that way
(We’re dumb enough to retain
While you look down with a frown
We don’t know our right
Increase the flood…
Don’t say we weren’t scared
And don’t mention all the good
And don’t say he’s alone
Increase the flood…)
IN A JAR
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your mouth
Stones in your ears, stones in your mind
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Living in a jar, think the lids the sky
You're hoping for a savior on your cross outside
Stars are just a million little fireflies
The sun is just a hole, it's the light outside
No one saves me cause I'm
Sinking, drowning alone
Struggling to save my life
Where there's nowhere that is safe tonight
Holding out for rest but on the seventh day
I've created nothing and I'm wide awake
So can I tie my key to your electric kite?
The rooster crowed twice and you kissed me goodnight
There's too many saviors on my cross again
I know I'm never going to be a perfect man
Everyone's an oyster with their grain of sand
I love you most in summer, now it has to end
No one save me tonight
Take a try, but leave a light
Somewhere safe but I know
Where you're going, is it safe tonight?
Where you're going, is it safe tonight?
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
I'll run a million miles if you win first prize
No one save me tonight
Take a try, but leave a light
Somewhere safe but I know
Where you're going, is it safe tonight?
NORO
Little light, lead us through the night
And if we die, burn down the forest
Chariots, carry us
Distances we don't care to walk
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
Why doesn't anyone I know sleep?
Are they all just scared of their dreams?
When they lay their heads down at night
What are they haunted by?
Why won't anyone just close their eyes?
Could it hurt them to rest for a while?
Do they need their friends to be a lover?
Or a lover to be a friend?
Because I'm on my way to hell
Well, I've tried, God knows that I've tried
I'm on my way to hell
One time, two times, three times again
Getting dark, running out of luck
Our car's stuck on the train crossing
How am I ever gonna know peace?
How will I ever see your light through the trees?
I want to burn down everything we've begun
I want to kill and eat my young
I'm on my way to hell
Well, I've tried, God knows that I've tried
I'm on my way to hell
One time, two times, three times again
I'm on my way out
Well, I've tried, God knows that I've tried
I'm on my way to hell
One time, two times, three times again
I'm on my way to hell
"Oft times clouded is the ray
That in heaven beckons me
Oft my wandering heart is lured
On some bypath far from thee
Father, when my footsteps stray
Guide me back into thy way
Father with thee, oh, let me be
On life's highway, god with thee"
"Far away from any road
Roams my heart in solitude
Where no passer by can see
On life's highway, God with thee
Knowing when all else doth fail
Thy compassion shall prevail
Father with thee, let me be
On life's highway, God with thee"
We need vices
We need vices
Where's all my hope and my marriage license?
(Where's my hay?)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and fifteen thousand degrees
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
Our good Creator (oh no)
The dog in the manger
Where is my shrink and my mind's eraser?
(we sing a sad song)
That forest burned (do you see smoke?)
That forest burned (a halo)
That forest burned
We need ten years on rewind so we can return
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
We need vices
We need vices
We have neither the plans nor disguises
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and wheels to the funeral gate
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped
BED
My head is lead I don't ever want to go to bed
Your hair is on fire
You snuff the blaze turn to vapor then you float away
We got into a bad fight
Later on the bed
My eyes are lungs, I'm a prophet and I speak in tongues
I know how you'll die
Your sister groans, an usurper to the holy throne
To me she is just a dead spy
Later on the bed
Lie to all your friends (x4)
I don't know what you feel like
Ambushed on the road, stole your gold, you're a rose and you're laughing now
Everything that I own starts to pile up
Like bones make the walls of a prison
Later on the bed
I don't ever want to go to bed
He stay out for the fight
The champ goes down like a clown in the second round
I wish we'd had a better goodbye
Lie to all your friends
AT THE BOTTOM
Wait
I watched you throw out your bouquet
Now I think about you everyday
I'm alone now in my bed
And there's a lake
And at the bottom you'll find all my friends
They don't swim cause they're all dead
We never are what we intend or invent
Cause I make little lies and then I pulled them apart
I think something dark's living down in my heart
And if I wanted to die before I got old
I should've started some years ago digging that hole
Well I carry this box to the proper place
And when I lower it down
I let it you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
A deer that a hunter shot in the heart
Some dogs that got hit by cars
All came to spill their guts
And we spoke
About the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
And which Psalms we had loved the most
And then we all turned to dirt and dust
Some men die under the mountain just looking for gold
Some die looking for a hand to hold
Well I carry this box to its proper place
And when I lower it down
I let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
I stole bricks from the dam almost every day
Now I'm drowning in the flood I made
Explain myself to me on the other side
I'm gonna want some answers when I die
I carry this box to the proper place
And when I lower it down
I let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
GASOLINE
So you tried to put a fire out
But you used gasoline
And when the congregation gathered 'round
You’re screaming, “It wasn't me!"
So there's a sickness that is going 'round
But no-one’s got a vaccine
I think it drowned in holy water
I think it's time we all come clean
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
When the army had to hold the line
Well you were nowhere near the front
Before the kids could tell the dog "goodbye"
Well, you were loading up your gun
I wanna know I've left the great divide
I wanna know what I've become
You think that no one else is lonesome
You think that you're the only one?
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
Well I'm trying to find a way
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
Well I'm trying to find a way
YOU STOLE
Last night they said the fire had spread
And we said our prayers
And now the flames are burning me in my bed
But I just don't care
We all go to sleep in the same place
And in the morning hope that we're all the same
Just sit around like broke down cars in the lot
Waiting for repairs
There you go
There it goes
Well I wish that I was as good as you
Caring and trusting
And I wish that my condition was new
But I'm old and rusting
So we just hurry up only to wait
Add to the list of all the places we hate
And I pretend like I got something to say
But I've got nothing
Now I know that you stole
Yeah, you stole
From the cradles they were rocked in
You took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole, yeah, you stole
So if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So let's end this tonight
You stole
Yeah, you stole
From the cradles they were rocked in
You took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole, yeah, you stole
So if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So let's end this tonight
BE GONE
It's getting hard to stay up
I think I can hear God calling my name
He'll try to make my heart break
But I was told you'd call me tonight
They're calling my name
They won't slow the car down
I'm scared that I will keep it for my own
The one that is calling my name is telling "come down"
They're calling my name
They're calling my name
Calling my name
SINK
I don't want to let you go
But it hurts my hands to hold the rope
I won't be such an easy mark
You're no better than they say
And all the candles on the cake
All set fire to the gate
Turn the cannons towards the boat
Men were drowning in the moat
It was the end of all the rowers' oars
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
All I want's some earth and seed
But only grow the things I need
But first I must find my way back
And you go lay down on the track
In Youth I had an even keel
But now I'm not sure what is real
It's taken me this long to learn
That every dead is ate by worms
And once they're gone they don't return
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
Then the fire snuck into your bedroom
Now I'm falling asleep to forget you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and boney, exposed for a phoney
But we heed the last words that he penned
Haste to disgrace the traitor, do not wait till later
I don't think that you've got to pretend
I see God in birds and Satan in long words
But I know what you need in a friend
So now when I leave you, I hope I won't see you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and boney, exposed for a phoney
But we heed the last words that he penned
Haste to disgrace the traitor, do not wait till later
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
Well, I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming, now
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm gonna let you
Then the fire snuck into your bedroom
Now I'm falling asleep to forget you
BOUGHT A BRIDE
Trees will make a forest, trees will make a bow
These are all the harder words you have to know
If everyone's a structure where their own savior sits
I'm a little red house, but no one's living in it
Cars are little blood cells, we are oxygen
City is the airways, suburbs appendages
She was feeling lonely, tired of the hive
Rented out a family and he bought a bride
Little cities' names on very lonely maps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
Where are all the seedlings we grew for violins?
Down in Jersey lumber, still in prosthetic limbs
Should've been a soldier, I could've fought and died
There's no revolution, so I bought a bride
Coming down the aisle while the horns play Taps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
If somehow I was new and everything was unsaid
I'd go and buy a hammer, never sing again
Sleeping on a stairway, dreamt I had a boat
Sailed it out the harbor, shot it full of holes
Folded up my prayer book, I couldn't see the lines
Drowning in a kelp bed, I bought a bride
DAISY
"And we sing this morning
That wonderful and grand old message
I don't know about you but I never get tired of it
Number 99: Just As I Am"
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a river that is all dried up
I'm an ocean nothing floats on
I'm a sky that nothing wants to fly in
I'm a sun that doesn't burn hot
I'm a moon that never shows it's face
I'm a mouth that doesn't smile
I'm a word that no one ever wants to say
"I don't wanna be
He wasn't finding anybody when he was on a shelf
I saw him in my dream"
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a fugitive that has no legs to run
I'm a preacher with no pulpit
Spewing a sermon that goes on and on and on
Well if we take all these things
And we bury them fast
And we pray that they turn into seeds
To roots and then grass
It'd be all right, it's all right
It'd be easier that way
Or if the sky opened up and started pouring rain
Like he knew it was time
To start things over again
It'd be all right, it's all right
It'd be easier that way
(We’re dumb enough to retain
While you look down with a frown
We don’t know our right
Increase the flood…
Don’t say we weren’t scared
And don’t mention all the good
And don’t say he’s alone
Increase the flood…)
IN A JAR
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your mouth
Stones in your ears, stones in your mind
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Living in a jar, think the lids the sky
You're hoping for a savior on your cross outside
Stars are just a million little fireflies
The sun is just a hole, it's the light outside
No one saves me cause I'm
Sinking, drowning alone
Struggling to save my life
Where there's nowhere that is safe tonight
Holding out for rest but on the seventh day
I've created nothing and I'm wide awake
So can I tie my key to your electric kite?
The rooster crowed twice and you kissed me goodnight
There's too many saviors on my cross again
I know I'm never going to be a perfect man
Everyone's an oyster with their grain of sand
I love you most in summer, now it has to end
No one save me tonight
Take a try, but leave a light
Somewhere safe but I know
Where you're going, is it safe tonight?
Where you're going, is it safe tonight?
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
I'll run a million miles if you win first prize
No one save me tonight
Take a try, but leave a light
Somewhere safe but I know
Where you're going, is it safe tonight?
NORO
Little light, lead us through the night
And if we die, burn down the forest
Chariots, carry us
Distances we don't care to walk
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
Why doesn't anyone I know sleep?
Are they all just scared of their dreams?
When they lay their heads down at night
What are they haunted by?
Why won't anyone just close their eyes?
Could it hurt them to rest for a while?
Do they need their friends to be a lover?
Or a lover to be a friend?
Because I'm on my way to hell
Well, I've tried, God knows that I've tried
I'm on my way to hell
One time, two times, three times again
Getting dark, running out of luck
Our car's stuck on the train crossing
How am I ever gonna know peace?
How will I ever see your light through the trees?
I want to burn down everything we've begun
I want to kill and eat my young
I'm on my way to hell
Well, I've tried, God knows that I've tried
I'm on my way to hell
One time, two times, three times again
I'm on my way out
Well, I've tried, God knows that I've tried
I'm on my way to hell
One time, two times, three times again
I'm on my way to hell
"Oft times clouded is the ray
That in heaven beckons me
Oft my wandering heart is lured
On some bypath far from thee
Father, when my footsteps stray
Guide me back into thy way
Father with thee, oh, let me be
On life's highway, god with thee"
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