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Lovers & Friends
03:42
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I still want to hold you
But I’m glad to know you more
The wounds I’ve got are mine alone to mend
It’s a poverty of spirit
That settles every score
And a lover’s not so precious as a friend
A lover might inspire all the dreams that you reflect
But everyone’s a liar when there’s too much to protect
You only get a few who might forgive all you pretend
And a lover’s not so precious as a friend
When you’re grinning like a bandit
And your eyes are stolen jewels
I think perhaps I’ll love you once again
But that kind of thinking’s foolish
And this life won’t suffer fools
And a lover’s not so precious as a friend
A friend that sees you changing like a person’s bound to do
Might even know you better when your transformation’s through
And when they’re free of all the hopes on which your bitterness depends
No a lover’s not so precious as a friend
No a lover’s not so precious as a friend
No a lover’s not so precious
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Catalpa
03:11
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Cold March and I dream of June
Under the catalpa tree in full bloom
Only in June
Sleepless nights and I dream of you
Under the catalpa tree in our swimming suits
Only me and you
There’s no rewind on time
Only a memory, fading into history
The remnants of a fallen tree
Lost limbs and a lack of sun
That old catalpa tree is long gone
It ain’t singing its song
There’s no rewind on time
Only a memory, fading into history
The remnants of a fallen tree
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Auntie
04:12
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When silence heals and bonds they tighten
And bitterness starts becoming sweet
Minds ponder, senses heighten
Loosening my grip is necessity
I should have listened to my Auntie
When she told me not to speak severely
I got gravel in my throat
And the gravity is pulling me down
It’s high time to be clear on what I need
And crystal on what I don’t
This hellish stuff it’ll fuck you up
Beware of pouring from an empty cup
Pouring from an empty cup
I should have listened to my Auntie
When she told me not to speak severely
I got gravel in my throat
And the gravity is pulling me down
I am tired I can’t sing
And a worn out bell won’t ring so sweetly
I got gravel in my throat
And the gravity is pulling me down, pulling me down
Let me bounce from place to place
Without losing an ounce of grace
I swear on my dog I can do it all
I was a kid and was not thinking
I could lose what I was given so easily
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Patty's Diner
04:20
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There’s a vacant billboard sign
Out on mile forty-nine
I was sure by now somebody would’ve bought
‘Cause it’s a magnet to the eyes of anybody going by
And every time I get a glimpse I get the thought
That I ought to test my luck and finally sell my sister’s truck
It’s just been sitting in the driveway since she died
More that life keeps wearing thin
The more her dreams start creeping in
The image just gets brighter in my mind
Sayin’ “Come to Patty’s Diner
Where the coffee’s fine and the comp’ny’s finer”
With that picture of her grinning while the oven’s catching fire
I can see it now
There’s a spot I’m looking at used to be a laundromat
But it’s all been boarded up since early May
Bill can’t stomach the idea
Says “Holly, you’re not thinking clear,
And you haven’t done since Patty passed away”
Well it might be that he’s right
‘Cause I keep sitting up at night
With her talkin’ at our table late last year
And when the radio comes on
There’s an ad before the song
It don’t take all that long until I hear
Her pitching “Come to Patty’s Diner
Where the food is fine and the folks are finer”
And she’s laughing while she says it but she’s serious as hell
I can hear it now
I never did much dreaming on my own
Patty did the scheming for us both
And her eyes would get lit up
They would glow right through the walls
But now everybody’s living like she never lived at all
She was already pretty sick
And the treatment wouldn’t stick
You could tell by then what everybody knew
And I couldn’t understand
Why she would keep on making plans
She’d say “Holly what else am I supposed to do?”
It was hard to overlook that she was such a lousy cook
Man, she couldn’t fry an egg to save her life
But if you harbored any doubts, she knew how to talk ‘em out
Make you certain that it all would go alright
And that we’d open Patty’s Diner
Where the coffee’s fine and the company's finer
And the kids could wait the tables, me and Bill pick up the slack
I can see it now
I can see it now
I can see it now
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5. |
Befriend
04:44
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I just need more money, pay my blues away
Then maybe I’d be okay
I just need more light, light up every night
And I won’t need to sleep
You can’t count on a shooting star to fly across the night sky
It may never come for you
But you can look inside, look deep in at the ugly
And maybe you could befriend the enemy
I just need some helium, swallow it down
And float away from everyone
I just need more stuff, maybe in time
Enough could be enough
You can’t count on a shooting star to fly across the night sky
It may never come for you
But you can look inside, look deep in at the ugly
And maybe you could befriend the enemy
Befriend the enemy
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6. |
Metaxy
04:24
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Saint Paul said to Saint Stephen
Well I guess that makes us even
As Stephen wiped the rubble from his brow
And Stephen said to Paul
You’ve seen one you’ve seen ‘em all
I hope that we can laugh about it now
And Henry said to Becket
I don’t know what you expected
Even God said render Caesar what is his
Said Becket to the king
That won’t amount to anything
If you can’t recognize just what it is
You don’t know how it will break from where it bends
Just don’t mistake the middle for the end
And Flannery O’Connor
Couldn’t summon up the honor
To sit and face James Baldwin in the South
She knew the Truth was something more
Than what she had a stomach for
Or a misfit’s kind of grace to sort it out
A calm came over sister
Saint Theresa Benedicta
Praying in a train car heading east
For Love’s lasting mediation
In our reconciliation
That could swallow all creation in its breach
You don’t know how it will break from where it bends
Just don’t mistake the middle for the end
You don’t know how it will break from where it bends
Just don’t mistake the middle for the end
What you give and what you take, it all depends
But just don’t mistake the middle for the end
Don’t mistake the middle for the end
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Sally
04:34
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Oh Sally, come and rescue me
Feed me sugar and feed me water
Oh come sweet Sally, come and rescue me
Oh Henry, she’s gone and left you
For another, for someone other than you
Oh Henry, how you feeling now?
Oh mother, oh father
You made a child, oh how you doing?
How you feeling now that you’re living now
That you’re living your separate lives?
I hear about ‘em
Sometimes I’m in ‘em
Tears of laughter and dreams of horror
Oh why do we suffer love for one another
Betray our lovers
And oh Henry, you love Sally
And I love an idea I’ve already torn to shreds
Now it’s time to go to bed
Now it’s time to rest your head
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I’ll get around to it
Before too long
Before September
I’ll remember
Before somebody
Beats me to it
I’m not ready yet
But I’ll get around to it
I’ll get around to it
Quit that job
Quit this drinking
Quit from thinking
There’s some easy trick
That ought to do it
I know what sticks
And I’ll get around to it
And I mean it this time
I made up my mind
And I know what I’m living down
So just let me unwind
Through a few more signs
And I promise that I’ll come around
I’ll come around
I’ll get around to it
Clean my car
Clean the basement
Find where that case went
Full of letters you sent me
Before I blew it
I never wrote back
But I’ll get around to it
And I’m sure it won’t be
More than I can bare
‘Cause I’m too bright to fool
And too dim to scare
And I mean it this time
I made up my mind
And I know what I’m living down
So just let me unwind
Through a few more signs
And I promise that I’ll come around
I’ll come around
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9. |
WYDFL
02:52
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On the good days he would miss her like a souvenir
And the bad ones he would miss her like a limb
He’d remind himself of just how good he’d had it
And get stuck on what he’d never have again
She could wear all her burdens like a feather
But mostly she’d just wear herself too thin
She knew just how to keep her life together
But she couldn’t always keep on loving him
Hunny, there’s no virtue in following your heart
What you did for love was easy
It’s what you’ll do in spite that’s hard.
When the giving dries up
And the cup in hand it lacks a liquid shine
All there is to do is give in to the aching
And to give up for the sake of losing time
Hunny, there’s no virtue in following your heart
What you did for love was easy
It’s what you’ll do in spite that’s hard
What you did for love was easy
It’s what you’ll do in spite that’s hard
It’s what you’ll do in spite that’s hard
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10. |
Everything Changes
04:35
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One day we were friends
We’d hold each others’ hands
Laugh at each other’s jokes
Stole our mother’s smokes
We’d go down the slide
Not wondering when we’d die
Everything changes faster than you thought it would
You moved ages ago
Further west than Buffalo
Further than I could throw
Might as well be Mexico
You used to live next door
I barely know you anymore
Everything changes faster than you thought it would
Everything changes faster than you thought it would
Everything changes faster than you thought it would
Everything changes faster than you thought it
Everything changes faster than you thought
Everything changes faster than you
Everything changes faster than
Everything changes faster
Everything changes fast
Everything changes
Everything
Every
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Melanie Glenn, Mary Webster, Harry D'Agostino, Dylan McKinstry
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