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The Furniture is:
Nicholas G Ward
Jeffrey Walsh
Michael O'Brien
Lucy Nadeau

Recorded and Mixed by Shaun Curran
@ The Napoleon Complex

Mastered by Nicholas Zampiello
@ New Alliance East

Released on St. Patrick's Day, 2020.

o control

couldn’t find you

they were right behind you

the whole time

but with a circling something

and a well-trained know-nothing

one two three go on five

an introduction

to machine-made function

the straight line

do you even need it

already undefeated

the baddest man alive

o control

yr runnin on capital letters

and things ain’t gettin any better

i won the nobel in physics

and the winter olympics

and the palm d’or

but with the charm of a musket

and the arms of a bucket

scooooooooreboard

o control

yr runnin on capital letters

and things ain’t gettin any better

we’ve gone for gold

the number one best record setter

and things ain’t gettin any better.

breakfast and laundry

gimme gimme gimme coffee

this morning is beyond me

breakfast and laundry

never never never tycoon

i coulda killed it in the boardroom

then i got this neck tattoo

i coulda been a good detective

had the characters connected

just as we suspected

i couldn’t couldn’t couldn’t prove it

there’s nothin nothin nothin to it

in fact i feel a little stupid

so bottoms up bottoms up

to never ever ever ever ever enough

no time’s a good time to go

bottoms up bottoms up

to never ever ever ever ever enough

to bad times a long time ago

i ran i ran i ran a campaign

for governor of a cold state

promised i could stop it from rainin

which of course i could not

and at the ballot box

big promises are long shots

…

new wheels on an old whip

national parks road trip

nobody to go with

and if i don’t come back

if i get sidetracked

…

landline

well i called you up casual and your father answered the phone

he said god damn what a polite young man when i asked if you were at home

he said…

he yelled upstairs are you up there or did you sneak out of the house

the window shade you been dark for days until idle brightest sound

and the hallway runner run a race to the kitchen

and wrap around the corner til the cord stops stretchin

and everybody’s on their landlines

everybody’s on their landlines all the time

speaking interrupted the telephone ring thank you for holding thank you for holding

but between the shop clerk and the secretarial work been up early morning overtime answering

and the hallway water cooler cool talk weekend to switchboard busy signal operator beepin

and everybody’s on their landlines

everybody’s on their landlines all the time

ok morse code smoke signal radio outside looking up

and i said god damn to quote a wise old man at the top of my lungs

and for a good long while it was quiet then echo echo and back to being silent

and everybody’s on their landlines

everybody’s on their landlines all the time

everybody’s on their landlines

king of NE

well i never met the man until the day that he died

in new hampshire i’m damn sure

and you shouldn’t drive so late at night but he said somehow i’m alive

and he drove off laughter disaster

well she went to college in maine and now she jumps out of planes

for a living thanksgiving

and the equipment never fails with the wind in her sails

downward willing fulfilling

plus she’s making a killing

weren’t the seventies good

and the eighties a drag

i wanna live in the woods

i wanna rob a bank

university life for an idiot

the king of NE

like a bell in a tower you go banging around like you might grow wings

you know things

the boston times you’re throwing knives you had them bury you alive

and without warning good morning

headline everything’s boring

florida

drunk driving step-daughter into swimming pools of water

copper wire i need a vehicle

cigarette fire in some dried pine needles

i was everybody’s bad time

everybody’s bad time back then

keep it running like an animal into something a little bit more comfortable

silver wire and turquoise jewelry

southern tired but one in a century

i was everybody’s bad time

everybody’s bad time back then

i was always in the headlines

just getting out alive again

must’ve been the thunder

could’ve been the batteries

a come and gone lover still living the seventies

o alligator turn up your radio

we’re drunk swimming and feeling incredible

…

i was everybody’s bad time back then

honey movin’

is it loud enough to make the neighbors call?

i’ll be a strobe light you be a disco ball

and we’ll get it honey movin

did all the squares go home?

did all the dorks get bored?

well if the drugs aren’t doin it

ask your friends for more

and we’ll get it honey movin

we got the medicine right in the hive tonight

over strawberry fields we move like air force drones

we got the kids alright bringin it all back home

and tonight’s the night here where the sun don’t shine

we got a strobe light and all the drugs work fine

we can get it honey movin

we got the medicine right in the hive tonight

F Em All

ooooooooooooooooh

fuck em all fuck em all fuck em all

spray-painted on a brick wall brick wall brick wall

a song that i did not know not know not know

a speaker in a window window window

calling all cars all cars all cars

a fire in the backyard backyard backyard

and the cops don’t ever come here come here come here

except that one time last year last year last year

‘cause you used to lock your mother out of the house

well i call bullshit bullshit bullshit

a bottle in a cabinet cabinet cabinet

up air-conditioned penthouse penthouse penthouse

up open window fallout fallout fallout

but the band in the basement basement basement

the singer’s getting naked naked naked

and you feel it in the floorboards floorboards floorboards

knock knock knocking on your front door front door front door

‘cause you used to lock your mother out of the house

soooooo fuck em all fuck em all fuck em all

and your grown up bullshit phone call phone call phone call

you and i aren’t best friends best friends best friends

or lovers when the day ends day ends the day ends

these are not the good times good times good times

but party every day right day right day right

in a space to small to echo echo we echo

a speaker in a window window window

‘cause you used to lock your mother out of the house

HIGH SCHOOL

i

i think

i think you

should drop out of high school

because you

you all

you always

are uncomfortable

i

i think

i think you

should drop out of high school

because you

you all

you always

doing just what you’re told to

we don’t know enough to worry

and i i think i think you should drop out of high school

i

i think

i think you

should quit your day job

yeah you

you all

you always

finding loopholes in tax laws

and i

i think

i think you

should quit your day job

because you

you all

you always

advertising in sports bars

we don’t know enough to worry

and i i think i think you should drop out of high school

deal

big deal

no big deal

you live in the rich part of your hometown

real

it’s real

it’s unreal

there’s a doctor in your bed now

we don’t know enough to worry

and i’m sick of this boring old thing

so i

i think

i think you

should drop out of high school