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Letras: Here's To Shutting Up

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01. Late Century Dream
02. Rainy Streets
03. Phone Sex
04. Florida's on Fire
05. Out on the Wing
06. The Animal Has Left Its Shell
07. Act Surprised
08. Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)
09. What Do You Look Foward To?
10. Drool Collection


Late Century Dream

well you never did like the way the road stretched out
never knowing where all these oiley black threads are tied

under the lights of a spaceship landed
on the ice of a curve unsanded
theres a clover leaf
that'll wreck your life

and everybody lives in a knot
everybody lives in a knot
everybody's trying to make space around what they think they've got
everybody lives in a knot
everybody lives in a knot
everybody's trying to make space around what they think they've got

it was never better
it was never any better
but a nation is not soothed
when they tell her
and the doctors all look shocked

but everybody grows up weened on some sick late century dream
or the happy face on a shirt smiling "shop till you drop" - yeah

everybody lives in a knot x2
everybody's trying to make space around what they think they've got

everybody's trying to hold on to a dream even as they watch it rot

ta da da da x4


Rainy Streets

and it's you they'd sneak in
and the clouds they hug that bridge just sleeping
when the wind that whistles knocks the panes from old windows
down rainy streets
there's a light that meets the ground
in the warm rush of love to lend - the fire's the same that's been around

when bags of ice and knives go hard down on the mercury
and winter's whip of cold kills everything in a nursery
down rainy streets
well there's a light that meets the ground
and the warm rush of love to lend - the fire's the same that's been around


Phone Sex

rosy cheeks and rolling eyes
on a steamy sunday night
they had a date for phone sex
oh but the princess' phone has been quiet

writes his name on the bathroom mirror while she waits
in soapy streaks
probably stuck to his couch back east
depressed
but you know he's safe at least

plane crash footage on TV
i know - i know that could be me
plane crash footage on TV
oh yeah - i know that could be me

keep your nose down
i think there's ice on our wings

another sunday night
well it's still dusk
it's still light

phone starts ringing and she's almost dry
well there'll be other nights
but admit this is the worst time
and what ever made you think i had control?
lets scare everybody lets just roll our own

plane crash footage on TV
i know - i know that could be me

keep your nose down either way
dont you ever feel you just survive some days?

keep your nose down
i think there's ice on our wings - yeah
and if you go now
keep the ice off your wings
keep your nose down and the ice off your wings

and the ice off your wings
keep your nose down
and the ice off your wings x2

there will be no sunday nights
lets just roll out own


Florida's On Fire

dont you know that the dirt's on fire down here? - yeah yeah x2

if you've got the shells build a statue to yourself down here - yeah yeah x2

dig a tunnel if it's where you want to lie down here - yeah yeah

sleeping in the smoke 'cuz the dirt's on fire down here - yeah yeah

dont you want to breathe dont you want to see where we're going?
dont you want to breathe can't you wave and see nothing's changing
nothing's ever changing

florida's - florida's on fire x4


Out on the Wing

here's to shutting up
at least until the wheels are off the ground
hum something to yourself for luck
white knuckles and looking for the sign that says "move around"

she said "i just cant be called just for this"
but we are not pulling teeth we are just flying mist

well i know but take me to the place where i can taste the mist

take me there right now x2
make me an example of a world that does not care to know how

airplanes are heavy
ships deserve to sink
well our needs deserve a levy
well tell me what do you think

well i know we are just flying
when your whole life feels like lying
and things in the rear start to shrink

doctors office wife
makes my teeth hurt like airplane bathrooms
and photo booths she said
i was raised in natural light
nothing could be further than where we are

she said - i just cant be called just for this
but all the music that i like is out of date
so take me to the place
where there's no such thing as taste
take me there right now
take me there right now
make me an example of the world that does not care to know how

i never grew up - i just showed up
never know it how
now i want out
out on that wing is where you'll find me

airplanes are heavy
ships deserve to sink
well at least deserve a levy
well tell me what do you think

well i know we are just flying
when your whole life feels like lying
and things in the rear start to shrink

well tell me what do you think? x3


The Animal Has Left It's Shell

there've been skeletons out of steel north of town
and it'll be at least fifteen years before the comet now
well and the charm wears off at the very first rings of frost
well this village is littered with beetle husks
and they're rising like ghosts in the dust

and we all shrug "oh well"
well now the animal has left it's shell
and we all shrug "oh well"
but now the animal has left it's shell

but when there's nothing more to consume
for people that just eat land

well then the crickets are drowning out
the sound of dry wringing hands

leafing through numbers that used to belong
to their bankers, mechanics, and newspaper scores

and we all shrug "oh well"
but now the animal has left it's shell
and we all shrug "oh well"
but now the animal has left it's shell


Act Surprised

standing stunned in the hall
while you fumble with your lighter
and i could make sure you recall
but i'm a lover not a fighter

and it's a wonder that you're here
and it's a wonder that i'm still waiting
well act surprised - act surprised now baby

drop your delivery oh oh oh
drop your delivery oh oh
hold still and look at me in the eyes

well i always loved your accent
fake though it was
like you just got back from somewhere
and you could not adjust

well it's a wonder that you're here
and it's a wonder that i'm still waiting
act surprised - act surprised now baby

and drop your delivery oh oh oh
drop your delivery oh oh oh
wake up that stony face with any little smile

the least you could do x4
drop your delivery oh oh oh x2

hold still and look at me in the eyes
and act surprised

drop your delivery oh oh oh x2
hold still and look at me in the eyes


Art Class (song for Yayoi Kusama)

here we go in spurts
the colors nearly burst
and you may notice a shaking in your eye
mataphors the worst
but are you being driven or do you drive?

on a trip between two points in your infinity net
obliterate yourself from the scene but please do not forget

cover me with spots - black and red dots
until i'm crowding up your visual field
bare assed and beautiful you're climbing on your art like a shield

now i want - i say sang - i do
everybody dance now

welcome to art class
forget your acid-free paper and glass

welcome to art class
be a bride stripped bare of the past

why so serious?
why so serious when it's only your life thats at stake
why so serious
when your life is the art that you make
life is the art that you make

sell anything you want
but it's worth no more and no less than a kiss
try not to represent even that
cuz this moment is all that it is
in a garden of glass theres a red plastic tree
so shit in a can but your art is not free
i sang - i want - i do
and everybody dances with me

welcome to art class
and yes it does involve shaking your ass
welcome to art class
always keep your face to the glass

why so serious?
why so serious - when it's only your life thats at stake
why so serious - when your life is the art that you make
life is the art that you make
why so serious?


What Do You Look Forward To?

i spot a phone
across the lot
just out of the light
and the breeze
familiar ICME
and we drift
like the little bit of dry snow
into these stations
when it blows

the corporation
would like to thank you for your visit tonight
we know it's late and you seek the familiar

now my left eye's leaking
control is sneaking away
and i'm crashing on the phone

my left eye's leaking
the world is creeping out on me
i'm gonna ride this blanket home

i saw anticipation and a smile on the face of this girl
and her mother through the glare on the glass of the windshield as they drove away

pale and pretty as the moon
what do you look forward to?
'cuz it can't be today

please forget what i said on the phone last night
well we were lost
we weren't lost
but it was late alright
and a family - a few suppliers
would like to thank you for your visit tonight
we know it's late but it's cheap to keep on these lights

and now my left eye's leaking
control is sneaking away
and i'm crashing on the phone
my left eye's leaking
the world is creeping out on me
i'm gonna ride this blanket home x5


Drool Collection

i could feel my arms this morning
a little sore - thats just a warning
and i've been getting (?malafoes?)
and it's foolishness i know
but after last night's jibberish i should really sing you something

and it was just one of my favorite selections
from my drool collection
yeah it was just one of my favorite selections
from my drool collection

this morning i could feel my feet
i was surprised 'cuz i had blisters
from running all night in my dreams

running from some draft
i was relieved to find that i did not accidentally kill her standing back

one of my favorite selections
from my drool collection
yeah it was just one of my favorite selections
from my drool collection