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Novacaine
03:55
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_____Novacaine_____
I turn out the lights and lay down not knowing I died
And when the sun gave out, it burned up the ground where we once strived
If there was something to notice, we noticed it too late
Blame the constant alarm, that gave appeal to all the novacaines
I scream out my lungs and inhale radioactive fallout
I did every step right, but it didn’t disarm the bomb
And if there was something to say, gosh I said it a beat too late
Goodbye novacaines, goodbye constant alarm
If they sell us another half-truth somebody should die
We’ve been short-changed but they think we’ll take it in stride
There’s no avoiding the risk
Them novacaines, they kill
Wouldn’t it be nice if it was nice for a change
And wouldn’t it be sweet to be peaceful
To hold your love, hang your head, and breath
Just breath
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Shoes
04:31
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_____Shoes_____
I got these new shoes on
I’m gonna work em til the soles are worn
I’m gonna work and work until I’m dead
When the job is over, start again
I got these worn shoes on
I’m gonna walk em til the soles fall off somehow
I’m gonna walk and walk until I forget
If I forget maybe I could rest
Somehow I got these old shoes on
They’re gonna give out but I’ll go on
I’ll light em a candle and leave them to rest
In a garden set to ash
How many more miles to go?
The road gets shorter with each sole
Worn down, into the ground, into the Earth, into the dirt
Beneath your feet
There is a hand to pull you out
Push to your lips to cure your draught
Keeping your head above the dark
You must try
What did you mean when you said goodbye
How many lifetimes must go by
Until you let go of the hurt I’ve done
Can’t you see that I’ve made up my mind?
Fix what’s broken, leave nothing behind
Can’t you see that I’ve made up my mind?
To treat each other in kind?
It’s not about walking, not about toil
And certainly not about my shoes…
It’s about where I’ll go, who I’ll love
And the fight behind the good I could do
How many more miles to go? Seemingly,
The road gets shorter with each soul
How many more miles to go?
Does the road get shorter? I don’t know
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3. |
Grand Well
05:01
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_____Grand Well_____
Time gives us everything,
Including the space to be.
Gravity, all around you and me
Holding each moment in place
As the sun shines into the void
Like a jewel at the bottom of a grand well
An eternity is so much time … time, time, time
I don’t know what it was
I was dreaming of being a person
In a time, in a place
In that thing that happened
I don’t know what it was
Though it seemed so important
But that time and that place are so long ago … time, time, time
You may feel great pain
It’s insignificant
Deep in space, there’s an Earth ray
A silent movie, a reflection projecting our perfect day
Our friends in a line, we had tears in our eyes
Holding both hands, we meant every vow that we made that day
Back again
Haven’t we been here before
I coulda sworn this story’s recurring
Haven’t we said this before
I coulda sworn, coulda sworn
Haven’t we done this before
I coulda sworn this moment’s repeating
Trapped in time (running out of time)
I was dreaming of being a person
You may feel great pain
It’s insignificant
Did all of your dream come true?
Did it feel like there was someone for you?
Did all of your plans come through?
Did it seem like there was a purpose to you?
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4. |
Squares
03:00
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_____Squares_____
You have me trapped,
You made me a slave to your will,
You've become an enormous cost but yet,
I'm still here still
Foolish me to think
That I would some how be able,
Be able to not fall in love,
Fall in love with the feeling of
You
From the start you knew
That you would have me like this,
Impatiently waiting for you to have
My next fix
My lovely poison
Beautiful mercury or lead
The skin constricts,
Goosebumps,
Just like they said
Oh lovely,
Just like the poison of your lips and your tongue
Oh heaven,
Just like the black from the smoke in lungs
Échale
Oh sweet nicotine,
Oh my nicotine,
Leaving you has left me with anxiety,
You have no idea how hard it was to put you out,
I gave up my relief
It isn't easy,
You are my favorite worst habit,
You are as dangerous to me as
Matches and kerosene
Oh lovely,
Just like the poison of your lips and your tongue
Oh heaven,
Just like the black, from the smoke, in my lungs
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Mask
04:16
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_____Mask_____
Leading where I point my arrow
A restless mind interred
Waiting for the word
March in time to my bolero
Follow for the cause
For the cheers and the applause
They will brand us as an evil
Yet they call on us to fix
What they have wrought
And so I cannot
To seek protection brings upheaval
The feelings are misplaced
It will not be erased
I wear this mark upon my face
As the one who’s trapped inside
This is no ordinary space
Where I’ve come to hide
To the world I have outpaced
Will you take my hand?
For that high I’ve gone to chase
For that one I’ve gone to chase
Won’t you come to see what I’ve done?
It’s worth it to us all
The ones who have to fall
To all those who said I had none
My brilliance resounds
Breaking all those bounds
Looking for the perfect outcome
To those caught in the crossfire
Won’t you see
What this has done to
Nothing gained is lost in my sum
We’re standing at the gates
An endless precipice
Noticing you standing silent
I am loathe to say
You must set aside
This is the only way
Stand apart or lose your heart
I wear this sign of my disgrace
Forged in a blaze of fire
Cannot hope to please the base
Drawing endless ire
Let us hope to leave this space
Will you take my hand?
Go beyond where they can trace
Lead you where they cannot chase
You’ll come to my side
Find strength within me
You’ll slip and I’ll fall
Into what we can’t see
Peace was never an option
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6. |
Promptly
03:54
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_____Promptly_____
Searching my mind
Came across my feelings for you
Treat it all in kind
What is it that you want to do?
Am I meant to opine
On the reason you’re standing here?
Would you state it clearly if
I looked without fear?
You come to me
Searching for an answer
Want it promptly
Never took you for a chancer
Would I be remiss
If I gave you the chance to say
How, “My heart’s for you, my baby”
As you cast me away?
You come to me
Searching for an answer
Want it promptly
Am I meant to oblige?
Feel pushed aside
No, don’t throw me away
I still need you
Been left to rot
Down in this hole
Don’t you dare say
I did this to myself
As you stand at your cross of judgment
Oh, when you die
Will you come home?
We come to believe
The other’s naive
And I won’t let you through
I’ll take the lead
That you won’t concede
What else can I do?
There is no reprieve
Though you feel aggrieved
There is no reprieve from this
God of the Storm
Though you may leave
I won’t be deceived
We will carry on
Now you are gone
And there’s nothing left here to say
I am not your pawn
You’ll be safe from the world, I pray
You held my heart
Tightly bound within a tether
Though you’ve torn us apart
We will always be together!
You come to me
Searching for an answer
Want it promptly
Am I meant to oblige?
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7. |
Collective Frustration
04:06
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_____Collective Frustration_____
He was preoccupied late again last night
Your schedules didn’t line up, you lost touch, lost sight
He was working on solving a puzzle
That could do a terrible good in the world… and open doors
He could offer you a bright future, if you’d hold on
Provide us a safe world if you’d only hold on
Uncuttable
Somehow you are fundamental to him
An irreducible bond he never thought could break
But ambition took it for granted and forced a coupling apart
When you split it brought an atom death
Vaporized a world
The shocking blast from your last glance
Annihilated a future
On such an absurd line to have stumbled
Between happiness and the fate of existence
Blinding blooms
Tore
A World
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