tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67652341816192410142024-02-18T23:50:36.539-08:00Dawes LyricsMimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-60521852168599327532024-02-04T01:19:00.000-08:002024-02-04T01:19:26.237-08:00Misadventures Of Doomscroller (2022)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkvsqlIHaEk7673yG8jM03g0kOHNeCZQx_Zr9hpVrXU-YopyqwdoH-vtgDcvj5pk8436eyGJKSaTRUPY60PwxhYzvNH7IDzD7kDgmqan52eE_YRgOhGv4hGtV5iKMdTys9zPA_d_ST8-PyB85F_O5CQ-mliHG9n2ZVVmUU39NAQmEdq04pi_stLwyefI/s1000/Misadventures%20Of%20Doomscroller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkvsqlIHaEk7673yG8jM03g0kOHNeCZQx_Zr9hpVrXU-YopyqwdoH-vtgDcvj5pk8436eyGJKSaTRUPY60PwxhYzvNH7IDzD7kDgmqan52eE_YRgOhGv4hGtV5iKMdTys9zPA_d_ST8-PyB85F_O5CQ-mliHG9n2ZVVmUU39NAQmEdq04pi_stLwyefI/s320/Misadventures%20Of%20Doomscroller.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> <p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/02/someone-elses-cafe-doomscroller-tries.html">Someone Else's Cafe / Doomscroller Tries To Relax</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/02/comes-in-waves-lyrics-dawes.html">Comes In Waves</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/02/everything-is-permanent-lyrics-dawes.html">Everything Is Permanent</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/02/ghost-in-machine-lyrics-dawes.html">Ghost In The Machine</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/02/joke-in-there-somewhere-lyrics-dawes.html">Joke In There Somewhere</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/02/joke-in-there-somewhere-outro-lyrics.html">Joke In There Somewhere (Outro)</a> (Instrumental)</li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/02/sound-that-no-one-made-doomscroller.html">Sound That No One Made / Doomscroller Sunrise</a></li></ul><p></p>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-83140553079928963002024-02-04T01:15:00.000-08:002024-02-04T01:15:17.564-08:00Someone Else's Cafe / Doomscroller Tries To Relax lyrics - Dawes<div>You can poison opposition</div><div>Find out which war to declare</div><div>You can polish up the prisons</div><div>And send all your critics there</div><div><br /></div><div>You seem willing and able</div><div>And used to getting your way</div><div>But you're still waiting tables</div><div>In someone else's cafe</div><div><br /></div><div>You can call yourself a living god</div><div>If it rallies up the troops</div><div>Reinstate the firing squad</div><div>Lace up your combat boots</div><div><br /></div><div>Your vitals are stable</div><div>In your stupid beret</div><div>But you're still waiting tables</div><div>In someone else's cafe</div><div>In someone else's cafe</div><div><br /></div><div>You can make 'em call you Beelzebub</div><div>You can make 'em call you chief (chief)</div><div>Make some face paint out of baby blood</div><div>Wear a necklace made of teeth</div><div><br /></div><div>You could be living a fable</div><div>In your one man parade</div><div>But you're still waiting tables</div><div>In someone else's cafe</div><div><br /></div><div>From the rock of the cradle</div><div>'Til we're dead in our graves</div><div>We're all waiting tables</div><div>In someone else's cafe</div><div>In someone else's cafe</div><div><br /></div><div>So let's enjoy each other's company</div><div>On the brink of our despair</div><div>Does someone have a song to sing</div><div>Or a joke that they could share?</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)</div><div>On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)</div><div>Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)</div><div>Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)</div><div><br /></div><div>So let's enjoy each other's company</div><div>On the brink of our despair</div><div>Does someone have a song to sing</div><div>Or a joke that they could share?</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)</div><div>On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)</div><div>Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)</div><div>Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-9655501523842409642024-02-04T01:14:00.001-08:002024-02-04T01:14:49.380-08:00Comes In Waves lyrics - Dawes<div>A boy that grows up in a beach town</div><div>And never learns to surf</div><div>Sounds like the perfect distillation</div><div>Of my time spent here on Earth</div><div>But I have stared at the horizon</div><div>With both feet in the sand</div><div>The thing I love about the ocean</div><div><br /></div><div>It comes in waves</div><div>Waves</div><div><br /></div><div>I've been feeling like a light bulb</div><div>When the filament won't glow</div><div>Surrounded by a darkness</div><div>Cause the current's moving slow</div><div>Am I losing my intensity</div><div>Is that feeling here to stay</div><div>But that's the thing 'bout electricity</div><div><br /></div><div>It comes in waves</div><div>Waves</div><div><br /></div><div>I think I've found something in common</div><div>With nothingness and God</div><div>You stare at either in the face too long</div><div>They'll do each other's job</div><div>Sometimes those silences are holy</div><div>Sometimes I'm drifting into space</div><div>But if the spirit's moving through me</div><div><br /></div><div>It comes in waves</div><div>It comes in waves</div><div><br /></div><div>I think their grip is getting looser</div><div>I think they're giving us a try</div><div>If you feel good about the future</div><div>Then baby so do I</div><div>Let's keep an eye on all our enemies</div><div>While we're popping the champagne</div><div>Cause that's the thing about a victory</div><div><br /></div><div>It comes in waves (It comes in waves)</div><div>It comes in waves (It comes in waves)</div><div>It comes in waves (It comes in waves)</div><div>It comes in waves (It comes in waves)</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-74333003738693315582024-02-04T01:14:00.000-08:002024-02-04T01:14:23.155-08:00Everything Is Permanent lyrics - Dawes<div>A product of my time zone</div><div>Mixed CDs and dial tones</div><div>Where we would listen to the universe think</div><div><br /></div><div>While our heroes from the wreckage</div><div>Deliver us their message</div><div>On the perks of knowing how to lip sync</div><div><br /></div><div>I can see the last frontier</div><div><br /></div><div>The sunshine on a perfect day</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>The single that gets overplayed</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>The bubbles in your third rosé</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>The movements of the Milky Way</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div><br /></div><div>A wilderness of gossip</div><div>Asking for deposits</div><div>Yet it leaves you with some type of withdrawal</div><div><br /></div><div>Playing on our senses</div><div>With a thousand of its lenses</div><div>On everything you ate or just bought</div><div><br /></div><div>The voices in the atmosphere</div><div><br /></div><div>The home life of celebrities</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>Subliminal obscenities</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>The side effects of ecstasy</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>All the people that we used to be</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div><br /></div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div><br /></div><div>These tangled creeping vines</div><div>Towards a life you left behind</div><div>And the people you'd forgotten you kissed</div><div><br /></div><div>A wayward strand of anger</div><div>At some controversial stranger</div><div>Who swears the virus didn't exist</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't know where we go from here</div><div>I don't know how I'm supposed to feel</div><div>The language of the hemispheres</div><div><br /></div><div>The lonely server farms</div><div><br /></div><div>The level of the rising sea</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>The politics of Christmas trees</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>The whole world within one screen</div><div>Everything is permanent now</div><div>I'm thinking we should all come clean</div><div>Everything is permanent now, now, now</div><div><br /></div><div>Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?</div><div>Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?</div><div>Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-89875319574149536342024-02-04T01:13:00.001-08:002024-02-04T01:13:59.070-08:00Ghost In The Machine lyrics - Dawes<div>Standing right outside the Echo</div><div>When we were still just cutting teeth</div><div>Turning madness into waveforms</div><div>Searching chords for what's beneath</div><div>All these existential freshmen</div><div>Trying to keep our noses clean</div><div>Scared to show our faith in</div><div>The ghost in the machine</div><div><br /></div><div>Standing right outside the Echo</div><div>When we were working for the door</div><div>Assuming all our dreams were brighter than</div><div>The bands we played before</div><div>But you could see it in their hunger</div><div>You could hear it in their screams</div><div>They too were just trying to make contact</div><div>With the ghost in the machine</div><div><br /></div><div>Through the build-ups and the breakdowns</div><div>Through the boom and through the crash</div><div>Building stockpiles of excuses</div><div>On how to trade it in for cash</div><div>All the poisonous motel rooms</div><div>The lobby call at 6:15</div><div>One million miles upon a highway</div><div>For a ghost in the machine</div><div><br /></div><div>All the doubts and hesitations</div><div>I built up in my early years</div><div>Are under reconsideration</div><div>Through the music of the spheres</div><div>Which I cannot deny any longer</div><div>When every night I reconvene</div><div>With these vibrations giving proof of</div><div>The ghost in the machine</div><div>The ghost in the machine</div><div>The ghost in the machine</div><div>The ghost in the machine</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-91243868539351663602024-02-04T01:13:00.000-08:002024-02-04T01:13:33.266-08:00Joke In There Somewhere lyrics - Dawes<div>Each morning my beloved</div><div>Asks me to open up my eyes</div><div>See what kind of attention I can pay</div><div><br /></div><div>I see a corporate coffee house</div><div>Puttin' up their Christmas decorations</div><div>Commuter cars all waiting at a light</div><div>A line outside the Roxy</div><div>Full of hopeful conversation</div><div>Some local band is playing there tonight</div><div><br /></div><div>A couple walks their dog discussing</div><div>What to eat for dinner</div><div>A runaway is being read his rights</div><div>A hotel hosts a conference called</div><div>"Investment For Beginners"</div><div>Some high school coach is breaking up a fight</div><div><br /></div><div>But there's a joke in there somewhere</div><div>A joke in there somewhere</div><div>A joke in there somewhere</div><div>One that I am not prepared to make</div><div><br /></div><div>This afternoon my doctor</div><div>Had me sit down in a chair</div><div>He asks me then to walk him through my day</div><div><br /></div><div>I heard radios bring ball games</div><div>To an ancient glacial traffic</div><div>A starving dog was whimpering in pain</div><div>A soundcheck through the alley</div><div>That sounds like something close to magic</div><div>For a traveling dad that's bound to miss his plane</div><div><br /></div><div>A boomer on a cell phone</div><div>Talking through party provisions</div><div>Beneath the giant bullseye neon sign</div><div>And I mention dixie cups and pizza crusts</div><div>And giant televisions</div><div>The allegory of the conga line</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a joke in there somewhere</div><div>A joke in there somewhere</div><div>A joke in there somewhere</div><div>One that I just don't know how to tell</div><div><br /></div><div>And now as the sun is setting</div><div>I meet my brother for a drink</div><div>And he asks if I've got something on my mind</div><div><br /></div><div>So I tell him about this movie</div><div>And how I didn't get the ending</div><div>Why do they let the creature get away?</div><div>He reminds me that all it is</div><div>Is costumes and pretending</div><div>But there must be something else they're trying to say</div><div><br /></div><div>About these buildings and the asphalt</div><div>In their natural habitations</div><div>The pigeons, cats and rats and parasites</div><div>This wild and dancing city</div><div>Conducting perfect orchestrations</div><div>The way a stranger wishes us goodnight</div><div><br /></div><div>But he says, "every time we've sat here</div><div>Getting nervous for the future</div><div>We've ended up some version of ok</div><div>These songs that we are singing</div><div>Shouldn't give in to the rumors</div><div>They should give some kind of strength to meet the day"</div><div><br /></div><div>But there's a joke in there somewhere</div><div>A joke in there somewhere</div><div>A joke in there somewhere</div><div>We just gotta find a way to laugh</div><div>We just gotta find a way to laugh</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-63437037683175885192024-02-04T01:12:00.001-08:002024-02-04T01:12:53.596-08:00Joke In There Somewhere (Outro) lyrics - Dawes<i>(Instrumental)</i>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-12152105901279886522024-02-04T01:12:00.000-08:002024-02-04T01:12:26.519-08:00Sound That No One Made / Doomscroller Sunrise lyrics - Dawes<div>The morning fog descends upon the late night's cheapest thrills</div><div>The most committed socialites see the sunrise in the hills</div><div>Mistakes are slowly realized</div><div>Memories distilled</div><div>And the static starts to fade</div><div><br /></div><div>From the laughter of a maniac</div><div>To a songbirds melody</div><div>From the howling of the sirens</div><div>To the swaying of the trees</div><div>It fuses all together</div><div>To find that perfect frequency</div><div>And then forever ricochets</div><div>Into a sound that no one made</div><div><br /></div><div>I look up to see you slowing down while</div><div>Signaling a right</div><div>The older man behind us now</div><div>Is flashing you his brights</div><div>We both seem so distracted</div><div>By this growing appetite</div><div>To punish and persuade</div><div><br /></div><div>The silent conversation gets directed toward the view</div><div>The cursive in the branches describes the avenue</div><div>The words like "I am sorry" and "I'm still in love with you"</div><div>Become a debt that won't get paid</div><div>Just another sound that no one made</div><div><br /></div><div>I am rolling down the window to the city's radiation</div><div>The connected dream still dancing through the sky</div><div>I just need someone who will listen</div><div>Through this strange and dark existence</div><div>Or the consolation of knowing that you'll try</div><div><br /></div><div>As we pull off of the freeway</div><div>A hospital appears</div><div>I see a man up in the window</div><div>On the back end of his years</div><div>And I imagine him there dying</div><div>With that ringing in his ears</div><div>That we all end up with someday</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a code within the symptom</div><div>A morbid sort of sign</div><div>The ominous reminder of the body's slow decline</div><div>As constant as a heartbeat</div><div>But stronger over time</div><div>While the rest of us decays</div><div>Listening to a sound that no one made</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-30954976385777585672024-01-30T01:15:00.000-08:002024-01-30T01:15:13.674-08:00Good Luck With Whatever (2020)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEwk5FFA7x1Huqva_tjeKjcmFVWK4TdA0c1_pemIW9fw8RvzZfcRtrbkBQOZhurDsj09kcxyRLaRsy0QMWaFEv57pdzARu08zkgim74h0o0Ibflxtn0W7udQkKPy8xzwRP9GHLHGUwG2AgLhF0ASsiTyxSA0fI0MR6ipgX6b0_7yzP1FuDw9iw1P3QHKQ/s225/Good%20Luck%20With%20Whatever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEwk5FFA7x1Huqva_tjeKjcmFVWK4TdA0c1_pemIW9fw8RvzZfcRtrbkBQOZhurDsj09kcxyRLaRsy0QMWaFEv57pdzARu08zkgim74h0o0Ibflxtn0W7udQkKPy8xzwRP9GHLHGUwG2AgLhF0ASsiTyxSA0fI0MR6ipgX6b0_7yzP1FuDw9iw1P3QHKQ/s1600/Good%20Luck%20With%20Whatever.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> <p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/still-feel-like-kid-lyrics-dawes.html">Still Feel Like A Kid</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/good-luck-with-whatever-lyrics-dawes.html">Good Luck With Whatever</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/between-zero-and-one-lyrics-dawes.html">Between The Zero And The One</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/none-of-my-business-lyrics-dawes.html">None Of My Business</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/st-augustine-at-night-lyrics-dawes.html">St. Augustine At Night</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/who-do-you-think-youre-talking-to.html">Who Do You Think You're Talking To?</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/didnt-fix-me-lyrics-dawes.html">Didn't Fix Me</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/free-as-we-wanna-be-lyrics-dawes.html">Free As We Wanna Be</a></li><li><a href="https://daweslyrics.blogspot.com/2024/01/me-especially-lyrics-dawes.html">Me Especially</a></li></ul><p></p>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-53208963363765353092024-01-29T21:37:00.001-08:002024-01-29T21:37:34.235-08:00Still Feel Like A Kid lyrics - Dawes<div>I just asked my folks not to pay my rent</div><div>But I still feel like a kid</div><div>Finally learned what NASDAQ meant</div><div>But I still feel like a kid</div><div>My whole week's booked with dinner plans</div><div>But I still feel like a kid</div><div>I'm about to be a married man</div><div>But I still feel like a kid</div><div><br /></div><div>Still feel like a kid</div><div>Still feel like a kid</div><div><br /></div><div>I can't stay up past midnight anymore</div><div>But I still feel like a kid</div><div>There's always part of me that's a little sore</div><div>But I still feel like a kid</div><div>I got dreams of coaching little league</div><div>But I still feel like a kid</div><div>And I bet the day that I turn eighty three</div><div>I will still feel like a kid</div><div><br /></div><div>In fact, I spent my whole life battling</div><div>'Til I learned to let it go</div><div>That was back when I knew everything</div><div>Just a few short years ago</div><div><br /></div><div>I love dancing through a grocery store</div><div>Makes me still feel like a kid</div><div>I go three times 'round revolving doors</div><div>Makes me still feel like a kid</div><div>I love the music from the ice cream man</div><div>Makes me still feel like a kid</div><div>I am a singer in a rock 'n' roll band</div><div>'Cause I still feel like a kid</div><div><br /></div><div>Still feel like a kid</div><div>Still feel like a kid</div><div><br /></div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-23422915353748678272024-01-29T21:37:00.000-08:002024-01-29T21:37:12.604-08:00Good Luck With Whatever lyrics - Dawes<div>There's a man with a chainsaw</div><div>Standing out in my yard</div><div>He says he's just trimming trees</div><div>But he's clearly trying too hard</div><div>And a Chevy Suburban</div><div>With the government plates</div><div>And an idling engine</div><div>While I'm planning out my escape</div><div><br /></div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>Whatever awaits</div><div>Whatever endeavors</div><div>I'm sure you'll do great</div><div>I'm cutting the tether</div><div>I'm clearing the air</div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>I really don't care</div><div><br /></div><div>My crystal ball television</div><div>The sacred voice of the grid</div><div>Asking rhetorical questions</div><div>About where the bodies are hid</div><div>The guillotine in the camera</div><div>We all pretend to ignore</div><div>All of the souls it's collecting</div><div>And what the collector is using them for</div><div><br /></div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>Whatever awaits</div><div>Whatever endeavors</div><div>I'm sure you'll do great</div><div>I'm cutting the tether</div><div>I'm clearing the air</div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>I really don't care</div><div><br /></div><div>The silhouette of my neighbors</div><div>Staring deep in their phones</div><div>They said they'd be in Honduras</div><div>But there's clearly somebody home</div><div>And I'm still not learning my lesson</div><div>Despite having every excuse</div><div>How all of my biggest fears</div><div>Are the same ones that never come true</div><div><br /></div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>Whatever awaits</div><div>Whatever endeavors</div><div>I'm sure you'll do great</div><div>I'm cutting the tether</div><div>I'm clearing the air</div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>I really don't care</div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>I really don't care</div><div>Good luck with whatever</div><div>I really don't care</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-4920015023095124432024-01-29T21:36:00.001-08:002024-01-29T21:36:46.675-08:00Between The Zero And The One lyrics - Dawes<div>When they sat down at the Ouija board</div><div>He could feel her fingers move</div><div>Trying to find their future with her hands</div><div>Turning to the spirit world</div><div>Looking for some cosmic clue</div><div>In a language that they both might understand</div><div><br /></div><div>But she wasn't looking for a remedy</div><div>She knew she'd break his heart</div><div>She just wanted to go quietly</div><div>Like it was written in the stars</div><div>But it all comes out eventually</div><div>No matter how hard you resist</div><div>That might be a harsh reality</div><div>But that's the only kind there is</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not the whisper in your ear</div><div>It's not the banging of the drum</div><div>It's not the person that you were</div><div>It's not the person you become</div><div>It's not where you're headed to</div><div>And it's not where you're coming from</div><div>The only life you're gonna live</div><div>Is out between the zero and the one</div><div>Out between the zero and the one</div><div><br /></div><div>When she shuffled all the tarot cards</div><div>He could see her stack the deck</div><div>But still turned up the Tower and the Moon</div><div>Which she then tried to disregard</div><div>And clutched the crystal 'round her neck</div><div>While they both felt a presence leave the room</div><div><br /></div><div>And he finally saw the difference</div><div>Between her history and her past</div><div>How she's been looking for deliverance</div><div>From something she will never grasp</div><div>She even had the nerve to tell him</div><div>That she tried hard as she could</div><div>It's like she never even loved him</div><div>As much as the reasons why she should</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not the whisper in your ear</div><div>It's not the banging of the drum</div><div>It's not the person that you were</div><div>It's not the person you become</div><div>It's not where you're headed to</div><div>And it's not where you're coming from</div><div>The only life you're gonna live</div><div>Is out between the zero and the one</div><div>Out between the zero and the one</div><div>Out between the zero and the one</div><div>Out between the zero and the one</div><div><br /></div><div>So she can mistake these superstitions</div><div>For the excuses that she needs</div><div>To keep explaining her condition</div><div>To the few friends she can keep</div><div>But don't give them another thought</div><div>There's no need for us to dwell</div><div>They are fine and they are not</div><div>Just like everybody else</div><div>Yeah like everybody else</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not the whisper in your ear</div><div>It's not the banging of the drum</div><div>It's not the person that you were</div><div>It's not the person you become</div><div>It's not where you're headed to</div><div>And it's not where you're coming from</div><div>The only life you're gonna live</div><div>Is out between the zero and the one</div><div>Is out between the zero and the one</div><div>Out between the zero and the one</div><div><br /></div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-68808115671579497772024-01-29T21:36:00.000-08:002024-01-29T21:36:17.460-08:00None Of My Business lyrics - Dawes<div>He grabbed me by the shirt while I was paying for my beer</div><div>And screamed "There you are, Balthazar! I knew I'd find you here!"</div><div>He hit me in the teeth and then he spit into my face</div><div>Took the keys to my Mercedes as he quickly left the place</div><div>Well, if I were in his shoes maybe I woulda done the same</div><div>But I don't know who he was and Balthazar is not my name</div><div><br /></div><div>And it's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>I should be minding my own</div><div><br /></div><div>And once the show was over I met a fan at my hotel</div><div>He asked if I've met Father John and if I knew him well</div><div>He said, "Is it true he doesn't eat but lives off staring at the sun</div><div>Or that he keeps a monkey for a pet and taught him how to tune his drums?</div><div>I also heard the only drugs he'll takes are what he'll synthesize himself</div><div>Sir, I wanna be a writer and I think that this'll help"</div><div><br /></div><div>And I said it's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>I should be minding my own</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>I should be minding my own</div><div><br /></div><div>And on the fateful day when I get buried in the ground</div><div>I bet that I could tell you which friends make it into town</div><div>They'll tell you all my dirty secrets and my brothers gonna sing</div><div>Just make sure my suit is pressed and that they let me keep my ring</div><div>I'm not getting into heaven and I don't believe in hell</div><div>I just wanna know my friends and family are remembering me well</div><div><br /></div><div>But it won't be none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>I should be minding my own</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>It's really none of my business</div><div>I should be minding my own</div><div><br /></div><div>I should be minding my own</div><div>I should be minding my own</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-8091511659190704772024-01-29T21:34:00.001-08:002024-01-29T21:34:34.772-08:00St. Augustine At Night lyrics - Dawes<div>The cherry gum would cover up the cigarettes we smoked</div><div>The 7-Up would balance out the beer</div><div>Mom would make us dinner, and we'd all try not to choke</div><div>Dad was working later every year</div><div><br /></div><div>We'd count the trucks on Highway 1 on their way to Jacksonville</div><div>Wonderin' where they headed on from there</div><div>My brothers and my sister all stood spiritually still</div><div>As if those roads became the answer to their prayers</div><div><br /></div><div>But I didn't want it any other way</div><div>This town was the one thing that felt right</div><div>All these tourists could be kings during the day</div><div>But not in St. Augustine at night</div><div><br /></div><div>I was working at the bait shack, supplying all the fishing tours</div><div>Pretty soon I was chartering a boat</div><div>My dad said I needed dumb luck and a secret stash of Coors</div><div>If I stood a chance at keeping things afloat</div><div><br /></div><div>That's when my girlfriend told me, "There's a baby on the way</div><div>And I need to know you're gonna go to bat."</div><div>Well, I never put off 'til tomorrow the things I should've done today</div><div>No, I've always waited way longer than that</div><div><br /></div><div>I have never had much say in how I felt</div><div>I've been guided by my barroom appetites</div><div>So if this world belongs to everybody else</div><div>Just leave me St. Augustine at night</div><div><br /></div><div>The Lord must really love us common folk</div><div>'Cause he made so goddamn much</div><div>Now, if he'd just point the way to go</div><div>If he could just start speaking up</div><div><br /></div><div>Our oldest brother left this world for leading one too many lives</div><div>I guess he settled for none at all</div><div>The rest of us just grew apart and blamed our husbands and our wives</div><div>When anyone was asked why they don't call</div><div><br /></div><div>Life became a series of birthdays, cars, and pets</div><div>Just anything to look forward to</div><div>I don't talk about mistakes. I don't talk about regrets</div><div>At this point, I'm not sure what good it would do</div><div><br /></div><div>And I'm not asking for anybody's help</div><div>As I gaze out where the stars dance with the lights</div><div>If I'm not sure how I feel about myself</div><div>I still got St. Augustine at night</div><div>Oh, I still got St. Augustine at night</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-41501915664153990922024-01-29T21:34:00.000-08:002024-01-29T21:34:12.321-08:00Who Do You Think You're Talking To? lyrics - Dawes<div>Who, who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Is it the man that was here before me?</div><div>The one that wrecked you hard and walked?</div><div>'Cause if it then I'll let you talk</div><div>It's clear, that's somethin' you're still workin' through</div><div>But who, who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div><br /></div><div>Where, where do you think you are right now?</div><div>Is there a reason you're still diggin' up the past?</div><div>Because you haven't touched your drink</div><div>And you haven't stopped to think</div><div>If that holds you back from anyone that cares for you</div><div>But who, who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div><br /></div><div>What do you want me to say to this?</div><div>Frankly I think we would be remiss</div><div>If we don't remind ourselves</div><div>To share the painful memories too</div><div>So baby tell me, who?</div><div><br /></div><div>Do you need to be alone?</div><div>Can you find your own ride home?</div><div>And is that still the house that you can't bear to leave</div><div>Does his coat hang in the hall</div><div>Or his pictures on the wall</div><div>And is there one of us you're trying to deceive?</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, babe, the trains will all stop runnin' soon</div><div>And I don't know how long it's been since you walked away</div><div>And after all I said so far</div><div>The tender of this bar</div><div>Says, "The only people left here man are me and you</div><div>So buddy, who, who do you think you're talkin' to?"</div><div><br /></div><div>What do you want me to say to this?</div><div>Frankly I think we would be remiss</div><div>If we don't remind ourselves</div><div>To share the painful memories too</div><div>So baby tell me, who?</div><div><br /></div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div><div>Who do you think you're talkin' to?</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-40116267133352438262024-01-29T21:33:00.002-08:002024-01-29T21:33:45.808-08:00Didn't Fix Me lyrics - Dawes<div>I went to see a healer</div><div>With that mic strapped to his face</div><div>Talked about which habits to surrender</div><div>And which habits to embrace</div><div>And for the next few days or so I was</div><div>Feeling pretty good</div><div>But it didn't fix me</div><div><br /></div><div>I even started volunteering</div><div>With the local Sacred Heart</div><div>We feed the homeless on some weekends</div><div>We pick up trash in all the parks</div><div>And even though we're cleaning up</div><div>The whole damn neighborhood</div><div>It didn't fix me</div><div>It didn't fix me like I thought it would</div><div><br /></div><div>I got that book you recommended</div><div>About the spy in East Berlin</div><div>I really like the way it ended</div><div>How he forgives his friend who turns him in</div><div>And I think I see what you were saying 'bout how</div><div>Technically it should, but</div><div>It didn't fix me</div><div>It didn't fix me like I thought it would</div><div><br /></div><div>It didn't fix me</div><div>It didn't fix me</div><div><br /></div><div>I finally got a nomination</div><div>For an award that I don't need</div><div>But I said that out of obligation</div><div>I really spent hours on my speech</div><div>I thanked my biggest inspirations</div><div>And the good folks back in Hollywood</div><div>But it didn't fix me</div><div>It didn't fix me like I thought it would</div><div><br /></div><div>Didn't fix me</div><div>Didn't fix me</div><div><br /></div><div>I finally found someone that loves me</div><div>And to her I will be true</div><div>She sees the ways in which I'm ugly</div><div>And loves me for those reasons too</div><div>And even though I'm feeling stronger than I</div><div>Ever thought I could</div><div>It still didn't fix me</div><div>It didn't fix me</div><div>It didn't fix me like I thought it would</div><div><br /></div><div>Didn't fix me</div><div>Didn't fix me</div><div>Didn't fix me</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-36765297283616831772024-01-29T21:33:00.001-08:002024-01-29T21:33:23.983-08:00Free As We Wanna Be lyrics - Dawes<div>If I cant see the ways they're selling to me</div><div>I might miss something that I need</div><div>If I don't look up from the mirror in my hands</div><div>I'm gonna miss what's on tv</div><div><br /></div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div><div><br /></div><div>There's proof that they've been following me</div><div>But I don't throw 'em off the scent</div><div>There's proof now that my life is not my own</div><div>Which I've done nothing to prevent</div><div><br /></div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div><div><br /></div><div>And when the dream becomes a nightmare</div><div>When the hardware meets the software</div><div>We'll see how ugly this can get</div><div>Cause if the basis of our grievance</div><div>Doesn't outweigh the convenience</div><div>Then they already won the bet</div><div><br /></div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div><div>We're as free</div><div>As we wanna be</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-91837265736445713402024-01-29T21:33:00.000-08:002024-01-29T21:33:00.522-08:00Me Especially lyrics - Dawes<div>As far as I could tell</div><div>I was the center of the universe</div><div>The favorite step-child of our Mother Earth</div><div>And every camera's dream</div><div><br /></div><div>'Til something broke the spell</div><div>And the cold hard facts I was hiding from</div><div>Were at the mercy of the pendulum</div><div>And I was smashed to smithereens</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's try and have some fun tonight</div><div>Let's act like we got nowhere else to be</div><div><br /></div><div>Like we're just as young as we used to be</div><div>That goes for everyone but me especially</div><div><br /></div><div>Documents and names</div><div>An eye twitch away from what they really mean</div><div>In the shadow world of the in-betweens</div><div>That's surrounds us on all sides</div><div><br /></div><div>You can look the other way</div><div>In fact, that's all I did until recently</div><div>'Til the expiration of my amnesty</div><div>Left me nowhere else to hide</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's try and have some fun tonight</div><div>Let's act it could always be this good</div><div><br /></div><div>Like we're just as young as we used to be</div><div>That goes for everyone but me especially</div><div><br /></div><div>A flat lining learning curve</div><div>On the last leg with low reserves</div><div>A desperado that lost his nerve</div><div>Trying now to serve</div><div>Teach me how to serve</div><div><br /></div><div>'Cause we're not as young as we used to be</div><div>And it goes for everyone but me especially</div><div><br /></div><div>Why am I still the youngest guy my age?</div><div>Why am I still reading the same page?</div><div>I know it's hard for everyone but me especially</div><div>And you especially</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-24515159641293305972024-01-25T04:31:00.000-08:002024-01-25T04:31:47.835-08:00Dawes other songs:<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxNilg6baWZyKqkDHnanR36ILMP0rmc7dJNQ4QYRdNum5O1f62XV8xbiRD7Pny69zzPQNI_gRd4Nxd1F8IuzrZDr6SFCayNTIawuxxevAOCpIMXVbMrFeYjhGhNNurmUP82x7KHjS5bWSiV7arb03sGRdSlRWyNc-r1QbFJC7tOlKAbppiOhsh10cf3E/s2000/Dawes%20lyrics.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxNilg6baWZyKqkDHnanR36ILMP0rmc7dJNQ4QYRdNum5O1f62XV8xbiRD7Pny69zzPQNI_gRd4Nxd1F8IuzrZDr6SFCayNTIawuxxevAOCpIMXVbMrFeYjhGhNNurmUP82x7KHjS5bWSiV7arb03sGRdSlRWyNc-r1QbFJC7tOlKAbppiOhsh10cf3E/s320/Dawes%20lyrics.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-53998536177451630262024-01-25T04:30:00.001-08:002024-01-25T04:30:29.877-08:00What It Takes lyrics - Lee Pardini & Dawes<div>If you look out at the skyline</div><div>From far enough away</div><div>The city's just a row of broken teeth</div><div>Its rumbling and it's growling</div><div>It festers and decays</div><div>But I still hear it calling out for me</div><div><br /></div><div>I thought my debts were settled</div><div>That some rules had been enforced</div><div>As a bead of sweat starts rolling down my cheek</div><div>I was good at treating symptoms</div><div>But I never found the source</div><div>So these voices might not ever let me be</div><div><br /></div><div>But I know I'm never gonna break</div><div>If I can find you at the end of every day</div><div>They'll say I don't have what it takes</div><div>I just won't let go of what it takes away</div><div>What it takes away</div><div><br /></div><div>I coulda been a contender</div><div>But I burned a bit too bright</div><div>Until I couldn't take another swing</div><div>I kept up w the training</div><div>But I've given up the fight</div><div>And now I'm being forced back in the ring</div><div><br /></div><div>I know I'm never gonna break</div><div>If I can find you at the end of every day</div><div>They'll say I don't have what it takes</div><div>I just won't let go of what it takes away</div><div>What it takes away</div><div><br /></div><div>What it takes away</div><div>What it takes away</div><div><br /></div><div>What it takes away</div><div><br /></div><div>What it takes away</div><div>What it takes away</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-45600789760153599592024-01-25T04:30:00.000-08:002024-01-25T04:30:03.816-08:00All My Failures lyrics - Dawes<div>Addressing a prayer</div><div>Into the air</div><div>And the shadows of satellites</div><div><br /></div><div>So nobody heard</div><div>Love's not four words</div><div>In a world at the end of its night</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh everyone that left me</div><div>They're so easy to forget</div><div>'Cause I haven't let my failures hit me yet</div><div><br /></div><div>Your voice on the phone</div><div>The blood from the stone</div><div>And tears that I can't understand</div><div><br /></div><div>As if I could heal</div><div>With guilt I don't feel</div><div>Or by silently giving my hand</div><div><br /></div><div>Well I'm sure "I never loved you"</div><div>Can be too fierce and too correct</div><div>'Cause I haven't let my failures hit me yet</div><div><br /></div><div>May my demon reveal himself tenderly</div><div>May he not leave me broken</div><div>May he leave my to be</div><div><br /></div><div>So wherever I'm bound</div><div>My ear to the ground</div><div>And my thoughts on their way back to you</div><div><br /></div><div>As eternity's slave</div><div>You can write that on my grave</div><div>When I've finished resisting its truth</div><div><br /></div><div>And while I'm shaking hands with darkness</div><div>It's with the warm wind that I admit</div><div>That I haven't let my failures hit me yet</div><div><br /></div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-18886076743695119552024-01-25T04:29:00.001-08:002024-01-25T04:29:41.026-08:00Don't Send Me Away (Remix) lyrics - Dawes<div>You can send me a letter if you'd rather not talk</div><div>Or to make sure I don't interrupt</div><div>It might help you let it go, it's hard for you, I know</div><div>To act like you're not giving up</div><div>You can send me your brother to buy me a drink</div><div>And explain the ways I let you down</div><div>The girl you were before, a heart that I've ignored</div><div>You can send him to turn things around</div><div><br /></div><div>But don't send me away</div><div>This is where I'm supposed to be</div><div>Don't send me away</div><div>You don't know what you do to me</div><div><br /></div><div>You can send me to church if you think that would help</div><div>Shape me into something that's true</div><div>I'll go there everyday, I'll bow my head and pray</div><div>To send me from life without you</div><div><br /></div><div>But don't send me away</div><div>And break my poor heart in two</div><div>Don't send me away</div><div>'Cause I won't take losing you</div><div><br /></div><div>People all want something they belong to</div><div>I've decided I belong to you, oh</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't send me away</div><div>Oh, and break my poor heart in two</div><div>Don't send me away</div><div>'Cause I won't take losing you, no</div><div>Don't send me away</div><div>This is where I'm supposed to be</div><div>Don't send me away</div><div>You don't know what it do to me, oh no</div><div><br /></div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-40729623985366047702024-01-25T04:29:00.000-08:002024-01-25T04:29:20.009-08:00Easy/Lucky/Free lyrics - Dawes<div><i>(originally by Bright Eyes)</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Did it all get real, I guess it's real enough</div><div>They got refrigerators full of blood</div><div>Another century spent pointing guns</div><div>At anything that moves</div><div>Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot</div><div>My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts</div><div>I never really dreamed of heaven much</div><div>Until we put him in the ground</div><div><br /></div><div>But it's all I'm doing now</div><div>Listening for patterns in the sound</div><div>Of an endless static sea</div><div>But once the satellite's deceased</div><div>It blows like garbage through the streets</div><div>Of the night sky to infinity</div><div><br /></div><div>But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)</div><div>Don't you weep (don't you weep)</div><div>There is nothing as lucky</div><div>But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)</div><div>Don't you weep (don't you weep)</div><div>There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't be a criminal in this police state</div><div>You better shop and eat and procreate</div><div>You got vacation days then you might escape</div><div>To a condo on the coast</div><div>I set my watch to the atomic clock</div><div>I hear the crowd count down 'til the bomb gets dropped</div><div>I always figured that there'd be time enough</div><div>I never let it get me down</div><div><br /></div><div>But I can't help it now</div><div>Looking for faces in the clouds</div><div>I got some friends I barely see</div><div>But we're all planning to meet</div><div>We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves</div><div>All together for eternity</div><div><br /></div><div>But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)</div><div>Don't you weep (don't you weep)</div><div>There is nothing as lucky</div><div>But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)</div><div>Don't you weep (don't you weep)</div><div>There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free...</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-41315677069898897722024-01-25T04:28:00.002-08:002024-01-25T04:28:54.406-08:00Fisherman's Blues lyrics - Dawes<div><i>(originally by The Waterboys)</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I wish I was a fisherman</div><div>Tumbling on the seas</div><div>Far away from dry land</div><div>And it's bitter memories</div><div>Casting out my sweet line</div><div>With abandonment and love</div><div>No ceiling bearing down on me</div><div>'Cept the starry sky above</div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div><br /></div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div><br /></div><div>I wish I was the brakeman</div><div>On a hurtling fevered train</div><div>Crashing a-headlong into the heartland</div><div>Like a cannon in the rain</div><div>With the beating of the sleepers</div><div>And the burning of the coal</div><div>Counting the towns passing by</div><div>In a night that's full of soul</div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div><br /></div><div>Well I know I will be loosened</div><div>From bonds that hold me fast</div><div>That the chains all around me</div><div>Will fall away at last</div><div>And on that fine and fateful day</div><div>I will take me in my hands</div><div>I will ride on the train</div><div>I will be the fisherman</div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div><br /></div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div><div>With light in my head</div><div>You in my arms</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765234181619241014.post-13449580965013821312024-01-25T04:28:00.001-08:002024-01-25T04:28:28.353-08:00I Love lyrics - Dawes<div>I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks</div><div>Slow movin' trains and rain</div><div>I love little country streams, sleep without dreams</div><div>Sunday school in May and hay</div><div><br /></div><div>And I love you too</div><div><br /></div><div>I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends</div><div>Birds of the world and squirrels</div><div>I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups</div><div>Bourbon in a glass and grass</div><div><br /></div><div>And I love you too</div><div><br /></div><div>I love honest open smiles, kisses from a child</div><div>Tomatoes on the vine and onions</div><div>I love winners when they cry, losers when they try</div><div>Music when it's good and life</div><div><br /></div><div>And I love you too</div><div><br /></div><div>And I love you too</div>Mimi Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07982951806515673823noreply@blogger.com0