Sparklehorse Album

Pain
I guess it's a matter of sensation
But somehow
You have ways of avoiding it all

In my mind
I have shot you and stabbed you through your heart
I just didn't understand
The ricochet is the second part

Cause you can't hide
What you intend
It glows in the dark
Once you've sought
The path of revenge
There's no way to stop
And the more I try to hurt you
The more that it hurts me

Strange
It seems like a character mutation
Though I have all the means
of bringing you fuckers down
I can't make myself
To destroy upon command
Somehow forgiveness
lets the evil make a loss

No you can't hide
What you intend
It glows in the dark
Once we become
The thing we dread
There's no way to stop
And the more I try to hurt you
The more it backfires
The more it backfires
The more that it backfires

Aren't you tired of when they crawl to the sea
Defaced by night
Intent on rendering obsolete

Just war, Just war
You said it wouldn't hurt
Just war, Just war

Is this just war?
Is this just war?
The last survivor crawling through the dirt
And further more
Will evolution diminish right in front of us

Late September
I heard the siren call a truce
But by December
My head returned into the grooves

Just war, Just war
You said it wouldn't hurt
Goodbye, sleep tight
Cause son, it ain't just war

The last survivor crawling through the dirt
And further more
Will evolution diminish right in front of us
For this just war

The last survivor crawling through the dirt
For this just war
A contribution till humankind
Turns to rust

Jaykub, it's time for you to wake up and accept your awards
Inside your tiny little one room apartment of the poor
Up on the podium you smile and you wave
Well, they all thought that you were dumb
But it's you who's on that stage

Jaykub, you work until the day's done and then you go to bed
and never with anyone to talk to your the hero in your head
A hero
Up on the podium you're handsome and you're tall
But actually you are just hardly five foot small

Jaykub, it's time again to wake up accept your awards
And go on smiling while your landlord is pounding on the door
Up on the podium you're famous and you're strong
Then the alarm goes of and you're a sad man in a song

A trick that people use to make you think they are smart
Is confidence when actually they're lost in the dark
Only someone with the mind of a child says hell grow up
The seven and the avalanche you're life will show up
Its nice to be loved it can never happen too late
I wanna share my food but you have stolen my plate
Hey now, hey now go your way now

You tortured little girl
Showing them what love is all about
Where did all the time go?
Everywhere it's gone, gone, gone

You get the point now
You pick yourself up off the bars
He's on his arm now
Cause they remind you off the pictures on the wall now
But you was young and I wasn't not even born yet
If you think I know a little more bit
You have this person on the streets you aren't correct
Because I'm ignorant as shit, not hear to preach men
You know I just wanna have fun, go to the beach, man
That's all I am, I'm just a simple guy who talks when
You put a microphone in front of him

You twisted little girl
Showing them what life is all about
Where did all the time go?
Everywhere it's gone

Running left in a relationship
Going in circles and I just can't wait
Running left so we can get in shape
Get in shape because we can't escape

Running left because I'm already late
Really not, I'm in the exact same place
Running laps in your relationship
Running away from the subtleties of

The worlds always amazed at how much cash you made
But not at how you made it, it's just strange
It sounded kind of cool over the phone
It killed your neighbors and their dog and crushed their bones

You tortured little girl
Showing them what laughters all about
Where did all the wine go?
Every night it's gone

You got it all worked out
Funny little girl
Showing them what pain is all about
Where did all the time go?
Every night it's gone, gone, gone

You're the coolest girl in this whole town
I just wanna parade you around

Pluckin' all day on my angel's harp
Pluckin' all day on my angel's harp

Shoutin' at the rising moon
Knowin' that I will soon stay
At the edge of the plain, on the top of the scarp

I'm pluckin' all day on my angel's harp

Though you made me a buffoon
You did not hear the words that I did croon

I'm pluckin' all day on my angel's harp

I knew you'd finally come around
Won't you please enjoy the sound
I didn't say clap, and I didn't stay sharp

I'm pluckin' all day on my angel's harp

And when I saw your eyes all brown
I pulled them boy, and lo I cut you down

At the edge of the plain, on the top of the scarp

This is where we all will fall
This is what we shall call kill

Pluckin' all day on our angel's harp
A resonator is sounding dark

Though you might be walkin' tall
Everybody got a lot to grow

Pluckin' all day on my angel's harp
Pluckin' all day on my angel's harp

This is where I'm jumping off
This is where I sail aloft

Ow! OW!

A massive headache in my aging skull
Means I do not feel well

Pain, pain, pain
Bad brains must always feel pain

The problem started with my attitude
It's lust, direct and crude
There are good people in this world of bums
But, sadly, I am not one

Pain, pain, pain
That's why I'll always be in pain

Good karma will not get you anywhere
Look at Jesus and his hair

Pain, pain, pain
Bad brains must always feel pain

Justice, religion, and success are fake
And the shiny people stink

I'm a mix of god and monkey

Pain, pain, pain
To feel pain is all that will remain
Pain, pain, pain, pain, paaaaaaaaain

Pain
Pain
Et cetera, I give up, I quit!

Like to teach you

Blue
Sky
Sun
Shine
Be
Mine
Star
Eyes

I can't catch it
I can't catch it
I can't catch it

Love
Please
Come
Back
Send
You
Cry
Gone

I can't catch it
I can't catch it
I can't catch it

Please
Please
Sun
Shine
Be
Mine
Come
Back

I can't catch it
I can't catch it
I can't catch it
I can't catch it
I can't catch it

Come
Back
Send
Love
Gone

Every time I'm with you
I am drunk
And you are too

Well what the hell
Else are we
Supposed to do

Yeah every time
You come by
We get so trashed
And stay up all night

Well it's so wrong
But it's so right
Yeah, it's alright

Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
I'm with you
I guess it's true

Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
I'm with you
I guess it's true

And every time
I'm with you
I'm fucked up
And you are too

Well what the hell
Else are we
Supposed to do

Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
I'm with you
I guess it's true

Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
Every time, Every time
I'm with you
I guess it's true

How will it turn out?
Starting needs are waiting out
On the way to the dead hotel
Beside an empty light
Falling into their pretty hands
All of them androids have a

One day's flight
Take you back in time
When I wasn't such a
Brand across your breast
Strain upon your back
When a good life was enough

Would it be so wrong
Daddy needs you up in his place
Can your batteries replace this heart?
Lying in the yard
Wanted it to be natural love
A sun fallen under

Dreams float up
From fishes in the flood
At a new dimension
Leaving only parts to play
Needs are forming again
A good life would just never be enough

Dreams float up
From fishes in the flood
At a new dimension
Leaving only parts to play
Needs are forming again
A good life will never be enough
A good life will never be enough
A good life will never be enough

Daddy's gone
Daddy's gone to go to work today
To make a little money
He gotta get paid

Bake a cake
Bake a cake and set it on the plate
Up high where the dogs can't get it
So it don't get ate

When you lay your head
On your pillow, I'll be gone
I'll be gone
Will you breathe your dreams
To your pillow like a song

I woke up and all my yesterdays were gone
Close your eyes
Close your eyes until your dreams arrive

I keep em tied where the hounds can't get em
So they don't get ate
When you raise your head
From your pillow don't delay
The sleep will decay

When we let they rays
Of the sun help you along
I woke up and all my yesterdays were gone
I woke up and all my yesterdays were gone
I woke up and all my yesterdays were gone
I woke up and all my yesterdays were gone

Think about the world you love
Now think of where it wants to go

All things you can see around you
You can change them
Rearrange them in your mind

If you've heard tales of transformation
Now then one two three,
You could be the man who played god

Hammer it until it breaks
To every shape that nature makes

All things you can see around you
You can change them
Rearrange them in your mind

If you heard tales of transformation
Well then one two three
You could be the man who played god

The girl becomes a bird on a flower
In your state you feel your power

All things you can see around you
You can change them
Rearrange them in your mind

If you've heard tales of transformation
Well then one two three
You could be the man who played god

One two three, you could be
The man who played god
One two three, you could be
The man who played god
One two three, you could be
The man who played god

Both our families after gathering
We're cutting a baby out
With my grandmother's heirloom antler-handled carving knife
They were under her grand chandelier
Where we all, together, have shared holiday dinner
But it was your father that was holding the knife
Yeah, I begged you not to make me tell ya
Yeah, I pleaded with you to, to leave it alone
I told ya
I told you that you didn't want to know
What went on in my horrible dream
I was peering in through the picture window
It was a heart-warming tableau
Like a Norman Rockwell painting
Until I zoomed in
I was making noises in my sleep
But you wouldn't believe me when I told ya
That I wasn't with someone in my dream
Catfish were wriggling in blood and gore in the kitchen sink
Yeah, I told ya
I told ya
I told you
Now sweetie, please promise me
That you won't sing
This sad song, grim augury

Dark dream world
All alone
Shadows movin'
Shadows have long gone by
Shadows have long gone by
Dark night of the soul

Our souls
Time slippin' by
I call out your pain
All alone
Shadows movin'
Shadows movin'
Shadows have long gone by
Dark night of the soul

If you had only liked my face
Where are you baby
Where are you baby
Dark dream world
Shadows have long gone by
Dark night of the soul

Distant bell ring
But steps echo
No one on these streets
Callin' out your name
Where are you baby
It's a dream world
Dark dream world
Dark night of the soul