released February 26, 2019
recorded by shaun curran @ the napoleon complex
mastered by kurt schneider
art by peaches goodrich
good long life
i’m out of matches but you’re still blowing smoke
we’re sifting through the ashes but you’re still telling jokes
you can sing to yourself without naming the notes
well there’s blood in the water and the bars have all run dry
got a whole town full of martyrs with no good reasons to die
it’s hard to say you’ve found something you can’t describe
i need a saturday night to get this weight off my shoulders
i want a good long life but i’ll be glad when it’s over
‘cause i’ve been ghosting again
it’s like we emptied out the ocean
you can walk across and back
and it sounds like an explosion
you keep making me laugh
the colorfulest part of this burnt brown grass
while the water flowing coldly through some mountain pass
party every day
wardrobe battering ram bass guitar
and everything that we could fit into your car
and no one ever tells me to shut up but somebody ought to
with lipstick swimming in the bathtub gin
stepped out for a smoke and never came back in
and it ain’t like everyone remembers where they were but god damn i do
there’s a going away party every day
so we party every day because we’re going away
sunglass catapult a shot and a beer
so fashionably late we are the last ones here
and no one ever tells me to go home when i’m having a good time
so hold that thought i’m gonna step outside
lipstick swimming in formaldehyde
and it ain’t like everybody noticed what was not there
there’s a going away party every day
so we party every day
we are marching in parades
a holiday with weight of going away
strength of a bear
did you see what he did?
the good cop / bad cop kid
got one of them and one of us
a cop car and a city bus
either way you lose if you fight about the news
we’re all set to explode but you’re big fish / small town slow
and we can keep our cities clean
we’ll start with the rust on the guillotines
he’s got the strength of a bear and the mind of an astronaut and some bad ideas
he’s gonna need the strength of a bear and the mind of an astronaut to get out of here
the sidewalk cafe wrote a book about the crusades
but who reads these days?
then a flash of light and someone died on the pike
but the good cop / bad cop kid
he’s gonna end up like his brother did
with the strength of a bear and the mind of an astronaut and some bad ideas
he’s gonna need the strength of a bear and the mind of an astronaut to get out of here
back in time
the whole city is on the fence
and everyone is runnin for mayor again
well, i’m sticking to the party line
i wanna go back in time
the front yard is dry as dirt
all the boys are wearing matching shirts
one thousand marble squares in parallel lines
so we’ll remember that they died
and hope history is kind
i hope history is kind
well, i heard they fixed the crack in the liberty bell
newspaper says the war is going well
and i saw the president drinking a glass of wine
i guess we’ve all got to unwind
and hope history is kind
i hope history is kind
timid swimmer
breathe more slowly
there is a plot unfolding
a patch of land where things are growing
so listen real quiet
a splash of water could start a riot
ominously silent
looking not staring
you never learned to speak without swearing
a wolf in the aquarium
or a grizzly in the pentagon
‘cause this bar always keeps it’s TVs on
audibly neon
but if we burn down this place
we will see so far away
a bright animal in a small cage
we are living through the dog days
livin through the dog days
bigger than this building
a lion in a room full of children
the first nine planets that i believed in
turns out they don’t grow nothin
a splash of water would serve no function
a timid swimmer crying in the ocean