Matthew Good Album

(Words & Music by Matthew Good)

This is a commercial for my army and my navy
This is a rehearsal for all the empty promises I will be
And I won't let you down
Done letting you down

This is a commercial for freedom while freedom is in Hades
This is a rehearsal of incoherent double talk and maybes
And it won't let you down
Done letting you down

It's okay to be their disappointment baby
It's okay to fly the flag
It's okay to be my disappointment baby
It's okay to fly the flag

This is a commercial for my army and my navy
This is a rehearsal for all the empty promises I will be
And I won't let you down

(Words & Music by Matthew Good)

I've a favour to ask, maybe this is a bad time
You know whenever you ask there's never a good time
How do you take your heart out of it?
How can you take your heart out of this?
And how do you stop once you've started?

Somebody gave you a choice
And all you do is abuse it
If god he gave you a voice
Then use it

Here's something to ask if these are the bad times
Because whenever you ask why it's never the good times
How will we get ourselves out of it?
How can you take your heart out of this?
And how do you stop once you've started?

Somebody gave you a choice
And all you do is abuse it
If god he gave you a voice
Then use it

(Words & Music by Matthew Good)

Here by my side an angel
Here by my side the devil
Never turn your back on me
Never turn your back on me again
Here by my side it's heaven

Here by my side you are destruction
Here by my side a new colour to paint the world
Never turn your back on it
Never turn your back on it again
Here by my side it's heaven

Careful, you be careful
This is where the world drops off
Careful, you be careful

And you breathe in and you breathe out for it
Ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon
And you give in and you give out for it
Ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon
Never turn your back on it
Never turn your back on it again

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Here it comes and there it goes
Another day of decomposing light
In a world called catastrophe my native tongue is blasphemy
So that's the one I'll write
And baby can you feel it?
And don't it make you want to lay down and close your eyes?

Remember how we started because since then I'm a waste
Since then I'm a fool
Since then I'm a dog
In a world called catastrophe
Since then I'm a waste

Here it comes and there it goes
Another day of getting up to fight
In a world called catastrophe my native tongue is blasphemy
So that's the one I'll write
And baby can you hear it?
And don't it make you want to wake up and open your eyes?

Remember how we started because since then I'm a waste
Since then I'm a fool
Since then I'm a dog
In a world called catastrophe

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One foot in front of the other
One foot back to counter it
Days like these you've got to find it in some other way
It's all or nothing baby

Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, down through the trees
Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, hell down through the trees

If everyone's a casualty
Then take your time there ain't no trouble
If the weather's fine and we're feeling crazy
There's always drinks and dancing in the rubble
I'm spinning and you're spinning
The world's spinning and we're laughing
And I'm charming, the devil's charming
And we're ruined but we're still building
And I'm selling and you're counting
The world's stopping but we keep going
And we're ruthless and we're cunning
And I'm heir to it all

Days like these you've got to find it in some other way
It's all or nothing baby

Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, down through the trees
Avalanche, start inside of me
Avalanche, hell down through the trees

This key is to your kingdom
This key is to your heart
Neither one a doorway
But both of them a part

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You know, today I was only asked one question
And that one question all day
Do you know what that was?
"Do you want that supersized?"

You know, come to think of it, I'd like the whole fuckin' world supersized
"Supersized guns!"
Supersized planes, supersized satellites
Think about how many more channels you could get with supersized satellites
"Supersized sales"
How do you supersize a sale?
How about we supersize third world debt relief?
"Supersize love," "supersize honesty," supersize government
Come to think of it, actually nah, let's not supersize the government
I'd like to supersize death
Can I have a supersized death?
I'd like a supersize of death with a coke

You know what we need?
Some back-up singers
We'll have like a little jingle

It's all right, sooner or later

Kind of like that, you know?
Let's supersize this song
Really, that's the goal isn't it?
We can supersize the record, we'll sell more records
It's a supersized record
That is after all our ambition

Fake lightning flashes over the skyline
A deer in your headlights
So gun it, gun it, gun it, gun it, gun it
We're singing songs about 21st century living
If hate's in your heart man
You'll take what you're given

Ambition
Ambition's a tricky thing
It's like riding a unicycle over a dental floss tightrope over a wilderness of
razor blades
Ambition can backfire
Ambition means more
Ambition means faster
Ambition means better
I wonder if you can sup-…can you supersize ambition?
Does that make you ambitious if you supersize ambition?

Around here, our ambition hurts more than it helps
Yeah, around here, our ambition throws a non-perishable item in a donation bin
at Christmas
And then pats itself on the fucking back because it thinks it's done something
decent
Yeah, we're supersizing ambition
Make no mistake about it
Ambition will televise the revolution
And it'll sell more fuckin' commercial spots
Than the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the World Series, and the tragedy du jour
combined
We're supersizing
We're supersizing the record, because we're ambitious

Fake lightning flashes over the skyline
A deer in your headlights
So gun it, gun it, gun it, gun it, gun it
We're singing songs about 21st century living
If hate's in your heart man
You'll take what you're given

If hate's in your heart man

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Buy in it'll shut you up
Try it, it should shut you up
We've brought someone in to shut you up
It's a life's work

While we were hunting rabbits
I came upon a clear
The sky its stars like fortune drilled me
Until now I was a soldier
Until now I dealt in fear
These years of cloak and dagger
Have left us disappeared

And I dance and I sing
And I'm a monkey in a long line

Buy in it should shut you up
Try it, it should shut you up
They've brought someone in to shut you up
And it's getting to be light work

While we were hunting rabbits
I came upon a clear
And the sky its stars like fortune filled me
Until now I was a soldier
Until now I dealt in fear
These years of cloak and dagger
Have left us disappeared

And I dance and I sing
And I'm a monkey in a long line of kings
And we dance and we sing
And we're all monkeys in a long line

I'm just a boat on the ocean

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Here's the bright end of nowhere
Here's the results of all our days
Used to lay on the roof and drink beer
And try and count up all the ways
That you could waste away
Looking back it seemed so simple
But having done it I couldn't say

The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
The lights are out
Baby so hear me out
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse

So here's the bright end of nowhere
Here's the commercial of all our days
Go on vacations and drink beer
And try and forget all the ways
We let ourselves get away
Looking back it seemed so simple
But having done it
It's not the same

The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
The lights are out
Baby so hear me out
The lights are out baby

(Words & Music by Matthew Good)

The pink pills are for your sanity
We are buried in the earth because we can't beat gravity
You are still here and so made to figure
You are an important part of the computer

Born of the sea, blink
The sea is dead
Falls out of me these sockets in my head
Everyone's a captain baby, ship of fools
Drowning while they're telling you it's been all right

Dream the dream of your attrition
The nameless name of your condition
It will be needing you a little while longer
You are an important part of the computer

After this mission it will let you go
Help you to forget everything and everyone you know
In a world of captains baby, ship of fools

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This lightning's fine
She picks up these tired parts of mine
Who's carrying you tonight?
She carries me all of mine

Up again, down again, out of your head
When she's beside you you're nearly not so dead
Up again, down again, out of your head
When she's beside you you're always at your best

This lightning's fine
She picks up these tired parts of mine
Who's carrying you tonight?
Every now and then baby
Ain't it good to be alive?

Up again, down again, out of your head
When she's beside you you're nearly not so dead
Up again, down again, out of your head
When she's beside you you're always at your best

(Words & Music by Matthew Good)

How now are you gone awry?
How now are we back here tonight?
That's all there is
Roll the dice
This is all there is
Roll the dice

How now baby is a little bit enough of it
When you live a double life?

How now are you going to bite both hands?
That's all there is
Roll the dice
This is all there is
Roll the dice

How now baby is a little bit enough of it
When you live a double life?

Well I knew but I've forgotten
Because everyone keeps asking
How come they feel so terrible

(Words & Music by Matthew Good)

Today I'm leaving
This bullshit one horse town
Full of cowboys and Indians
Who only have balls when there's a camera around
Where the girls they move to you
When money gets thrown around
Even happiness is using you
Maybe you'll figure that out

It's a long way down
You know it's a damn shame the sun don't shine underground
Maybe that's where it's been
Maybe that's where I've been
Maybe that's where it's been
A long way down

So today I'm leaving
This bullshit circus town
Do you ever get the feeling
There ain't no hole when you're not around?
Where the world it moves to you
When the money gets spread around
Even happiness is using you
Maybe you'll figure that out

It's a long way down
You know it's a damn shame the sun don't shine underground
Maybe that's where it's been
Maybe that's where I've been
Maybe that's where it's been

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There's the house
There's the doorway
Been locked out
The lights are out anyway
And loosely reconditioned
To be just so refined
A last grasp at the life worth living
In these standard shoes and what's left of my lines
You can see right through me

Hey
I've been thinking
Why don't we get out of here tonight?
Get in the car and just start driving
Fuck them if they can't take a joke
Right?

I've fallen asleep again
And when I wake up you won't be here
Don't you think I don't know why?
I've been asleep for years