Nate Weiner - Lyrics

SNOWMAN Suit Last night I freaked out, I lost my snowman suit, Through the melting and through the water, rose a ten foot tidal dispute, Well I don't know the way you feel tonight, cuz I can't finish drinking up your eyes, And I hope that we can still make it right, cuz you taught me the definition of sublime chorus Finding out, that you jumped in love too soon, Is a product of doubt, I'm gonna try to change for me, for you So let's destroy our presets, cuz mine only tune me in to being alone, And I can't stand my mindset either self destruction or romance poems, And I know that I'm a fool for all that, but I'm also a sucker for what you have, And I'll win ya back everyday, if you never let me run away chorus So if I sound like a heart attack, well it's probably cuz I lost my snowman suit, Cuz when there's ice inside your heart, you replace cool for everything that's real, Now my muscle is a vessel for your love, and you can pump it with whatever you're thinking of, And you can leave dem coats and mittens with your skis, cuz you'll never catch cold from me chorus KEEPING Time You followed me here, Your actions spoke clear, And your body keeping time, Will stay forever in my mind, The wind smells just like a rose, Bought on the streets where we used to go, You chewed with the bite of a hunter's trap, And I was sure that it would last, So I'll bury all the books I've read, Open up the cork and flush out my head, But your body keeping time, Will stay hidden in my mind GOLD Fever It's a common mistake that you think that you're the one for this heartache, Butchya got me reeling on your sporting line, oh you know just how to bait a hook And I wanna plant you in the ground and watch you grow, through the turning leaves and the big black snow, bewilderbeasting at a steamtrain captain, am I boarding yes or no And babe all it really takes is one piece of gold to spark the fever in my soul, so watchya thinking, ride out west as fast as we can, you and me girl, handkerchief balloons flying from our limbs Well I never met a girl who could torture me just like the way that you seem to do, and I'm feeling like running up a mountainside and skipping down with pockets of gold This old gravy train has lost it's brakes, rolling too fast down the tracks, oh my baby, oh no jumpaduckroll, don't let go, I love you city girl Strolling into town and I don't care about all these other fools with their oogles, hey, ho, steady up slow, watch that temper, I just want to keep you safe and close It ain't no mistake that you are the one for this heartache, got me reeling to be a trapping, gunfighting man, I'll do anything for you my city girl Well you can count on me, I already feel the west in my veins, and I'm feeling like blowing up a mountainside and skipping down with pockets full of gold FACE Backstage at the high school play, I tried to ask you if you were okay But me tongue got stuck in the awkwardness, you were too worn out to talk I guess And the people cheered in the seats below, they called out your name, but you did not show I wonder if you knew the end was near, was it death of god whispering in your ear chorus I thought about you today And what made me afraid I couldn't see your face No, I couldn't see your face When I had you, I loved you so, but you left me for a life I'll never know we used to dance to an old disco tune, with your hands in the air and my eyes on you We used to be so hoped up, could we have been in a sober love Don't know the last time we talked on the phone, don't know how you felt, no I'll never know chorus I'm sorry babe, I can't stay the night, can't sleep in your bed you hold me too tight I've lied to you so many times, I thought they were white but that don't make it right And all these regrets that I have to hold, will stay with me until I am gray and old The men in my tree have all done the same, why should I be different when it comes to shame chorus PATHS Of Our Ways Well I do apologize for all the times I've been cruel to you And I know I was bad, cuz I made you sad, I guess my colors weren't too true And when I lay down, when I rest my crown, I feel like I should talk to you But it won't do any good, cuz I definitely won't be understood, I'd rather be written off as a fool So please part the paths of our ways, I guess I won't be seeing you But I, I'll be missing you, I'll undoubtedly be thinking bout you When will the eyes fall off my body When will you drop labels like artsy Why can't we take each other for who we are Without our minds becoming a barrel of skeptics Well, I do apologize for all the times I was cruel to you I know I was bad, cuz I made you sad, I guess my colors weren't too true And when I lay down, when I rest my crown, I feel like I should talk to you But it won't do any good, cuz I definitely won't be understood, I'd rather be written off as a fool So please part the paths of our ways, I guess I don't be seeing you But I, I'll be missing you, I'll undoubtedly be thinking about you We're always walking behind each other, always We never walked side by side, never I feel like we are living in shadows of each other So please part the paths of our ways FEELING Like Myself I've been having problems lately, cracking a joke I feel like a beat down bloke I'm stuck up against a wall, with no conceivable exit at all And I'm slowly dying inside out Trying hard to start Feeling like myself Haven't felt that way in too long a time Feeling like myself Hell, that is what life it supposed to be about The pressure to be someone I'm not What's cool, what's hip, what's fly, what's hot The choice is lying in my hands Won't drop it, no, gonna take it right in I will start Feeling like myself Haven't felt that way in too long a time Feeling like myself Hell, that is what life is supposed to be about Well, I don't do a lot of the chewing gum, but I got a lot of the bubble one in my soul And puts the skippity skip in my step, in my smile When I'm old I'll have a wrinkles on my face, cuz comic outlook is my saving grace Happy is the number one priority, this is what the call step one Oh, I am Feeling like myself I'm trying to feel like this all of the time Feeling like myself Hell, that is what life is supposed to be about So we've been laughing all night Improving songs by the bonfire light Our souls are smiling, and our faces too Because we are feeling like ourselves STANDING on the Ocean The moment I met you I knew exactly who you were The moment I met you I knew exactly what to say You put a stamp on my heart And I can't seem to rub it away There is nothing I would rather do than keep trying my hardest for you There is nothing I would rather do than keep trying my hardest for you Had a dream that I was standing Standing on the ocean, holding your hand Said I had a dream that I was standing Standing on the ocean, holding your hand Even though I still love you I'm glad I made myself leave You put a stamp on my heart And I can't seem to rub it off Had a dream that I was standing Standing on the ocean, holding your hand Said I had a dream that I was standing Standing on the ocean, holding your hand
GET Change Hey lady I've been thinking about you Making money in corners with my koo koo crew Running with the dogs, not the kind you wanna pet, but I swear I'm the best fisherman's bet Need ten gallons of sense slapped into me, Need a headstrong woman, Not a sexy baby, Goo goo goo goo gaa gaa, cliquish and quiet, club hits and get rich quick diets I'm an old fashioned brother, can't you see, but the good ships are boarded se la vie, when life gets despereate you gotsta get change, so I'm shooting baskets and hoping for rain. Let me down, let me down, how can I walk with falling watermelons on the ground, I know I've made mistakes with the devil and his posse, but money was for making, so dirty and ugly, is it too late upstairs to get a friendly nod, cuz I live right for me, not for government not for god, and I've been thinking about you lady, and I know sometimes I act a little crazy, but I just got a heart that sings, to the rhythms that beat on nature's wings, so pretty pretty lady, sitting on your still, let's take each other away from the vile and the ill. Let me down, let me down, I'm the watermelon falling to the ground, got a lovepunched monkey on a tirerope swing, singing tin can love songs to a fever dream, Evaporate, I'll leave it all behind, cuz you're the girl and I wanna make you mine! PLAYGROUND Tune Conceal me like self inflictions from a razor blade Ignore me like a drawn out annual parade And take me to your fancy house We'll lie for hours and talk by connecting our mouths chorus Oh, I wasted so much time with you Following you like some lovestruck fool Oh, I wasted so much time with you To this tune it makes me feel like I was happy too Skippin' class, we go get high Show up late and laugh at the time rolling by Stare at the back of your head I know we just talked, but now I think of all the things I wished I would said and chorus Oh, we were just kids dancing around to a playground tune Oh, I wish I could look back and smile, if I wanted to Remembering you to this tune, almost makes me feel, almost makes me feel like I was happy too DEATH of a Man's Man White feathers falled from the blue sky, as the gun shot echoes slowly died And the kids came out from their video game, and they cheered and clapped and praised their father's name Holding the kill, the hunter stood tall, and he posed for a picture for the family wall Self described as a man's man he loved his gun, you have to be a real man he preached to his son To his wife he was distant, but never rude, he needed a few drinks with her to get in the mood Many a night, he came home late, but of this she thought nothing, things were still great She came home one day, to find a man on her bed, embracing her husband on his head Crazy eyed with the hunter's gun, she stormed in, the man's man held up a pillow to hide his sin And white feathers falled from the blue sky, as the gun shot's echoes slowly died SHUT Down Well it's gonna be a long, hard climb up the stairs to your apartment If I don't get these questions settled in my head So why do I feel that sometimes you don't even care So where do I get this notion of these undeniable signals Is it all in my head, just trying to ruin a good thing Maybe I no, I'm gonna shut down, gonna relax Well now we're cruising with the new strategy flexing And I'm feeling like this is where I wanna be But then I vibe that she wants to do some sharing Baby it's all in your head, don't try to ruin a good thing She needs to talk, says I'm not caring, maybe I should start But oh, it's so easy, just to shut down, just to relax If I could paint her an explanation that would calm her need for this interrogation I would need a magic button which one is better dead or alive So I lie, lie, lie, lie But, oh, it's my turn, no, no, no, I'm gonna shut down, gonna relax Well it's gonna be a long hard climb up the stairs to your apartment Cuz I just told you the questions that were in my head So why, do I feel like I just said something, um, stupid And so much for your plan, looks like sharing just ruined a good thing Guess what, I'm gonna shut down, gonna relax HUNTER'S Summer And if I run back to white flower river, Will you be there, fishing at the shore? Waiting for the gore? Hunter's summer, tracking, all the ways, the ways we used to love, the ways we used to love. I remember when, we were laughing at somebody's expense, And in the rain we shared your last cigarette, Soaking wet, in the boxcars chugging, Drinking up the ways, the ways we used to love, the we used to love. And you went away, in the summer of '98, I was still just a boy, I can see your airplane flying over Tokyo Bay, the mischief you gave to me, I still carry to this day, Now my mind's a school of scholars and they're debating, and I'm losing the ways I used to love, the ways you...
OPEN Your Eyes So you woke up To find your flowers are dead The lights have burned out There's dust on your bed chorus You slept and missed the show Closing night has come and gone Washed away into melted dreams The well ran dry While the wine aged Your records still play But the songs all have changed And you can't take it back The mistakes that you made And time has passed But the pain, it don't fade chorus Your sleep, your sleep So open your eyes The writings on the wall You hurt her so bad And time can't fix it all DROP That Tension Time to get naughty, bust out the Bacardi Watch your consciousness float away Cuz it doesn't even matter how late it gets Cuz no one's going home to their beds Just like the celebrations of past liberations To the victor we drink, the party's on the brink And let's loose our heads and escape our minds Cuz we constantly using them all the time Yeah, so everyone drop their guard, come join the revolution in the yard chorus And drop, drop, drop that tension And move, move, do I got to mention It's been so long, since you've moved along And drop, drop, drop that tension And move, move, do I got to mention It's been so long, since you're worries have been gone So roll it up, scoob it up into a cone Send off your problems all the way home Everybody needs to feel free Go on ship your troubles out to sea This is just a time to realize that having fun is not a crime So people stop thinking, can we just start drinking from the vine So let's loose our heads, and escape our minds Cuz we constantly using them all the time So everyone drop their guard, come join the revolution in the yard chorus Staring at yourself in the mirror, your eyes are worn and torn Your mind is heavy, your shoulders are rocks, and your stomach is a knot So please, free your mind, you don't have to carry the world all the time And please, relax yourself, do it for the benefit of your health chorus WHEN I Was An Actor When I was an actor it was never cool Emotions on stage in high school I didn't know who I didn't wanna be So I auditioned for the universities When I was an actor I did lots of drugs Praying in my own wacked out synagogue I played different roles every day I got good parts in every play chorus Never trying to find myself Always doing impressions of somebody else As I drift through this world Gotta search for my own pearl When I was an actor perfecting my form I was dealing out of my college dorm Learning how to fuck up left and right Shaking in my bed in the dead of night Well mom and dad I am sorry That cornfed place was not for me I'll find a brand new start Just gotta learn how to drive my heart chorus Spitting words to folks that I wrote Feels better than any Andreyev quote Creating characters was a waste of time Cuz I didn't even know who I was inside chorus SING Low Well my nights are railroads and the passing bullet trains have become my days and that's okay Cuz when I walk that empty rail, got nothing but time to reminisce and that helps perserve the memory of you The nights are too long and too alone, I miss you like I'm away from home, but I ain't complaining too hard darling Cuz I don't mind thinking about you, I don't mind missing you, but I hate the thought that you don't feel the same And I sing low, I sing low The cattle blocks my line of sight, don't have the plans to win no fight, I guess I ain't the captain of no powerful machine If I could find a brand new train, if I could find a pretty young thing, then I'd be traveling to the sea But that's just the night and just the drink, helping me build up a foolish think, but there ain't no pride for a man to find in drunken dreams And I hope you're doing fine, I hoped you burned that letter of mine, cuz sometimes a railroad man only knows how to sing And I sing low I sing low So bust my gut, lose my head, ain't no room for poetry in my bed, said I can't ride with you on my tracks I've seen tougher men at this noose, breaking bones for a greater use, but you can find meaning in anything if you try But I don't mind thinking bout you, I don't mind missing you, but I hate the fact that you don't feel the same And I hope you're doing fine, hoped you burned that letter of mine, cuz sometimes a young man only knows how to sing And I sing low Tonight I sing low I DON'T KNOW By now you should know This play is a one horse scence The bibles come with glowstick pencils And I've been hoping That she's gonna look my way And tell me how she hates this place Then we'll calmly walk away Laugh at the pictures of a phase Children get out your billy clubs Bully and tax the monsters under the rug Throw em over your shoulder like a first year soldier And I've been thinking That the way that things are Is different in the books then through the car And I read both from afar I always have to keep one in the dark I can't claim much But you seem to have the golden touch I am bound for Santa Barbara Meet me when you're ready, I'll have a number rolled for ya I'd like to live safe I grasp from branch to branch before I let go and swing away The dog and pony shows I could sleep all day and watch my nails grow She wants me to quit the jokes I don't know it I can so my answer is no JOIN the Thousands Through exhaling I forget everything I know, About my place of time and my sense of world, I can't stop my mind from multiplying, All I can hear is an army crying Join the thousands, Join the thousands Two days later, nothing still made sense, A structure doubting magnified kind of lense, I couldn't look fickle friends in the eye, All I could hear is a choir cry Join the thousands, Join the thousands Closing in, slowly sticking fingers in my chest, What is your will Great Bender, is this a test? And if I march, I'll never get a single thing done, Pretell trumpets, with what did I buy this hum? Join the thousands, Join the thousands	DEAL Me Another Card Easily the misery is totally engulfing me I can't seem to shake it loose I need to jump on a train and get the hell away from this ole pain I'm so tired of this fight chorus I'm gonna pack up my things I'm gonna see what tomorrow brings And you, dropped me so hard But life will deal me another card Forgetting you won't be easy, cuz baby you were one fine missy Taste of regret is on my tongue But I won't turn around, hope you enjoy the sound Of me not there, I'm through with you I know I'll be fine, traveling down this railroad line Sunlight is beaming strong I will find some laughter, yes I will encounter disaster Oh that is life, you can deal me in chorus IF ONLY It's getting cold, it's getting late But we're still here, talking in the same place Cuz it's so easy now to be myself You took me off that dusty shelf You illuminate the whole place When you walk through the door with your beautiful face And with you I don't have to choose my words Or be contained or be absurd Cuz it's so easy now to be myself You took me off that dusty shelf You illuminate the whole space When you walk through the door with your beautiful face Oh my babe I've got to give you up Cuz connection alone Is never enough RUNNING to His Grave Sitting on the front steps of a two-story home, wondering why, why did you have to go Davy Crocket's jungle this time of year, reminds me of how we dug up all of our fears and Put me back up on your horse again, so I can try to remember when Pictures were full of smiles, on our fridges not locked in files chorus Well he's running to his grave, from the woman he loves I was just a little kid, wondering where my grandfather was They used to lock me in the dark, but I made friends with the lambs and the sharks Oh mama, mama please come see, I'm coming home with a backful of teeth and Got myself a tiny shiny bumblebee, buzz, buzz in my heart until I'm free Cuz I got a world to grasp, and when I fall I'll be sure to laugh chorus Yeah the used to trap me with no light, chained to porcelain away from the fight Like a calf taken from his home, lock me in a cage of my own piss and moan Then I will walk out fine, as cool as plastic fruit hanging from the vine When I talk towards the floor, I'm so small you can't hear my anymore chorus Where did the typewriter go, ten page stories, fantastic and rolled Voices never again to be found, Davy's jungle has burnt to the ground Why did you leave me so fast, so quick I had to fill up the holes in my past I never been to the South, will you die there with your heart in your mouth WHEN Sleep Is a Far Off Dream Well is it a crime, living this way, wishing for the past, riding on the past And tell me my dear, well did I fuck it all up, no need to be nice, I just want to hear the words Cuz when I tasted the ground like some drunken crook, like a punch in the head, like a heart pumped with lead Well in that dark, dark night, when sleep is a far off dream, don't think of me, don't think of me Cuz I would do it again, and you should know that I would, so please be cold, curse my name And when I hit that cold, cold bed, I won't even dare to wish for you CICADAS Wood If I was a tree and you cut into me, could you count the rings to tell me the time, Cuz out here in the wood in the hot cicadas wood my mind forgets the marks and the signs In the tallest of grass, white cotton dress, my cheek to your breast, and your heart playing in my head It's just like you said, that night on the makeshift bed, ride each other through the feathers and the rock, I found life in the juice, you found art in the bruise, but oh we were a pair of blind circus players In the crown of caves, your silhouette dancing on my breath, and your heart playing in my head Freak show caravans, peanut shells, I couldn't even buy a bath, You took me to the cicadas wood and now I got no need to clown for cash And you said an alley is not a home, a meal is not a soup bone, and love and money don't belong on the same arm, I said that's fine by me, shall we hitchhike to the sea, but you said you prefered the evergreen In the gold of the night, my body's blessed with your moonlit chest, and your heart playing in my head It Was All Too Much When the night is done, and my crazy's just begun, remember the friends I had, I made those roads turn bad so fast, so bad, so fast. All them girls that I kissed well I guess I love the one I miss And it won't be long, till I get right again, right again, right again Boy toy sonofabitch drunk, come see me if you want some drugs, I was over my head With those drugged up Valley heirs, with the money and the malcolm and the tiny squares, I wonder if any of them got out, especially Natalie, you know she had such a smile Well now I'm older, and thank god things are slower, it was all too much, up all night mix and mash, my girl buys the gas with her daddy's cash And it won't be long, till I get right again, right again, right again FREE Up Your Mind Look at me, and try to believe that I'm for real Cuz I always have to climb, footlands and tidelands through this gambler's jail I don't mind being a fool for you, if that's what it's gonna take to free up your mind When I can see your hair frame your face, I forget the breeze Nervous hesitation is racing through my bones at breakneck speed I don't mind trippin' like a fool over you, if that's what it's gonna take to free up your mind Well I'll build a cabin in the willows, fill it with trampolines and pillows, and when our feet are back from the bounce, all you'll hear is my love in the ground, my foolish sound Well I know that sometimes, I give my heart away to the opening bid But I know this ain't the case, cuz you're the only one who's drawn a bubble bath in my head I don't mind being a fool for you, if that's what it's gonna take to free up your mind