1. i don't wanna do the dishes
i don't wanna sweep the floor i don't wanna be ambitious anymore you're the only good news walking in and out the door so i'm thinking that i could use a new plan moving forward CH i wanna quit everything but loving you it's the only thing that i wanna do cause i'm so good at it makes me wanna quit i wanna quit everything but loving you cause i, i don't have a fucking clue how to save the world but i can love my girl so i'm gonna quit everything but loving you yes i'm gonna quit everything but loving you 2. i'm not thinking about tomorrow barely thinking about today i just wanna keep the sorrow and the anger and worry at bay i'm so thankful for my baby she always knows what to say so here's to being lazy and letting love lead the way CH
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1. ain't no stopping my frightening appetite
i snap like a snake, always take the biggest bite oh, too busy chewing, i know i'm not doing it right oh, no one ever told me how to hold a fork and knife so i swallow it whole taking it down losing control ain't no stopping it now i regurgitate spit it back out must be something i ate ain't no stopping it now 2. ain't no stopping my rising Fahrenheit i'm sick as a dog, always crying every night oh, reticent to medicine, hesitant to taking care oh, cause when everyone leaves, my disease is always there so i swallow it whole taking it down losing control ain't no stopping it now i regurgitate spit it back out must be something i ate ain't no stopping it now here it comes again better out than in i swallow it whole taking it down losing control ain't no stopping it now i regurgitate spit it back out must be something i ate ain't no stopping it now here it comes again better out than in Verse: Bm A Chorus: E D Bridge: E Bm are you my friend are you my enemy remember when you used to take good care of me lately you’ve been treating me unbearably ego, ego please let me know where did we go off track ego, ego you got my brain do you got my back are you Jekyll or Hyde it’s still not clear to me are you on my side or just tired of being near to me are you satisfied you got another tear from me we’re gonna have to make things right you gotta let me have a say cause we can’t keep having this fight and i can’t live this way is the weight of the world wreaking its havoc is the state of affairs so scary it hurts is that venomous voice in your head automatic just letting you have it making you feel like dirt baby you're the damn grand canyon baby you're a big great lake you got that majesty, that beauty you can see from outer space all those tall sequoias they didn't grow in just one day you know a landmark kind of life takes time and time is on the way time is on the way carving marvels out of clay yeah time is on the way is the hardest part of your day in the morning turn on your phone, feel alone, and lament does the pressure you feel steal your breath without warning feel that furrowed brow forming making you feel irrelevant baby you're the damn grand canyon baby you're a big great lake you got that majesty, that beauty you can see from outer space all those tall sequoias they didn't grow in just one day you know a landmark kind of life takes time and time is on the way time is on the way carving marvels out of clay yeah time is on the way time is on the way coming round to save the day so slow down, let it pave the way yeah time is on the way Chorus: Bm slide to D Verse: Bm D // Bm A Bm C don't overthink it, don't overdo it sometimes it's good enough to get up and get through it you don't have to kick every single wall down sometimes it's good enough to get up and walk around what's all this talk of getting on the saddle? what's all this talk of climbing back on the horse? what if the saddle's not compatible? what if the horse threw you off your course? what if the thing that you need currently is to stop indulging worry so repeatedly? question marks circle like sharks in your anxiety but their fins are only figments of the swim you see what's all this talk of persevering, all this outrageous talk of getting ahead? if persevering's too severe today, it was courageous just to get out of bed what if the thing that you need currently is to stop indulging worry so repeatedly question marks circle like sharks in your anxiety but their fins are only figments of the swim you see if i wore all the bells, if i blew all the whistles
if i drew the parallels, if i called my officials would you want me? would you want me? if i cashed a bigger check, if i cooked a better dinner if i slept more or less, if i went to bed a winner would you want me? would you want me? if i lost all the weight, if i started medication if i stopped to meditate, if i understood creation would you want me? would you want me?
back away from a snake
play dead for a bear howl at a wolf climb a tree for a deer i know all the protocol when something wild’s coming at you got no clue what to do when i’m the attacker do i run do I hide? do i dig a big hole and climb down or stand my ground and lock eyes? do I demand apologies or do I apologize? when it comes to my beast i’m just doing my best to survive eat for a cold starve for a flu ice for a sprain take an aspirin or two i know these remedies for the sick and bed-ridden got no clue what to do when i’m the affliction
she is a mother who gave me a father
her name is norma jean bill was a deacon after he quit drinking he married her when she was sixteen he moved her out west when the greatest depression chased them, they escaped by the skin of their teeth i watched him adore her, do everything for her he carried her purse, and he watched her sleep 64 times they circled sun til he shot off the earth like a rubber band gun her soul folded up like a thin paper plane waiting for takeoff to see him again the man of her dreams, the man in her dreams i’m a granddaughter who lost my grandfather my name is lindsay ann meaningless moments turn into memories he picked me up from school in a mercury sedan what I’ll most miss is the forehead kisses cause I grew up taller than my family tree he left me a lesson that kindness is best you can survive a hard life with no enemies 32 times we circled the sun til he shot off the earth like a rubber band gun i got no right to complain, no reason to cry he told me to relax, let the world go by the man of my dreams (repeat) the man in my dreams i feel unshakeable sadness i feel unbreakable guilt everybody’s just sitting on their axis it’s just the way my axis tilts i think a lot about life i think a lot about death everybody’s trying to do what’s right with the life that they got left won’t you tell me what would you rather be the careless chaff or the worried wheat i’m losing my sense of direction i’m losing my will to proceed done running for reelection im ready to concede who am I to call this hurting who am I to be afraid sometimes your blessing is a burden sometimes a feather is a weight when you're the worried wheat i will get on the saddle i hope this horse can swim right now i don't even want to paddle i’ll be better in the morning Verse: E A E B7 A E Chorus: A E A E B7 A E there i was driving fast past the desert windmill farms couldn’t see energy in their lifeless heavy arms never thought something so still could make me feel such an alarm maybe my anxious observation made them nervous to perform the outlaw sun had every one frozen like a stick-up they were praying for momentum, wondering when the wind might pick up the sharp scare of the dead air could surely cure a case of the hiccups i’m still clicking both my heels but now the dust won’t even kick up i didn’t know what to do, i didn’t know what to say i didn’t wanna go but sure as hell didn’t wanna stay can’t recall every moment but I’ll always know the the way I felt in the desert wild, a lonely child on mother’s day i slowed down near a truck stop town when something caught my sight a cactus backed against the rocks, flexing for a fight needles and pins pushing in and out with all their might it looked thirsty, at the worst, it may not make it through the night i felt sorry for that plant and the way it can’t give love how should a cactus act when it’s offered a proper hug of course i cared but wouldn’t dare to give it more than a sad shrug i looked on the ground all around but never found my kid gloves somewhere the weather’s not so hot and the ocean comes to play otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away but daughters cling to other things cause they’d drown if they stayed i thought in the desert wild, a lonely child on mother’s day |
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