Mister Los Angeles lyrics - Dawes
My trainer tells his clients he's a shaman
We smoke some DMT before we bench
My diet's strictly protein shakes and ramen
So we make sure to purge after we stretch
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, the rumors are true
Out on the bleeding edge of fashion
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, I'm calling for you
This is where the magic happens
My therapist confirms that I'm a victim
It's everyone around me that is bad
Using words like "toxic" and "intentions"
And every session ends with "this was rad"
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, the rumors are true
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I'm Mr. Los Angeles, I'm calling for you
This is where the magic happens
Yeah
I just booked a Taco Bell commercial
I eat a bag of cheese without my hands
My agent thinks it's slightly controversial
It's not great for the image of my band
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, the rumors are true
Behind every good man, there's a mansion
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, I'm calling for you
This is where the magic happens
I have a friend who wouldn't name his children
He says that it requires their consent
The oldest says he likes to go by "kitchen"
The baby thinks her name is "made a mess"
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, the rumors are true
The only way to make it here is Fountain
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, I'm calling for you
This is where the magic happens
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, the rumors are true
Where every vegan sleeps in sheets of satin
I'm Mr. Los Angeles, I'm calling for you
This is where the magic happens
Front Row Seat lyrics - Dawes
As slowly as a yogi stretches at an unsafe park
I tiptoe toward the gravity of the predicament we're in
I'd prefer leaving tomorrow sitting firmly in the dark
Instead of facing one more tired vision of the end
But if that's the ball game
If the experiment's complete
And we both stand around
To watch it all come down
At least we got a front-row seat
I got good at changing subjects nearly everywhere I went
Until all my conversations all got too good to be true
This world can wax poetic about airborne toxic events
While I'll take the time that's left me, and I'll give it all to you
'Cause if that's the ball game
If the experiment's complete
And we both stand around
To watch it all come down
At least we got a front-row seat
If it's true that it's a curse to live in interesting times
Then why do I get butterflies as I peek over the ledge?
I'll bring the popcorn, you bring some wine
Just don't pay for the whole seat if all you needed was the edge
'Cause if that's the ball game
If the experiment's complete
And we both stand around
To watch it all come down
At least we got a front-row seat
At least we got a front-row seat
At least we got a front-row seat
Still Strangers Sometimes lyrics - Dawes
I was geared up for obscurity
Excited most specifically
About knowing you'd soon reach for me
And I'd be gone
You always took me to another place
Part childhood, part outer space
But the naked truth of our face-to-face
It's just not what I want
'Cause even when your body gets that close to mine
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
And even as you claim that you can read my mind
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
Love was supposed to help me find myself
Not just put me through this private hell
That gets worse each time I tell you
What feels wrong
Just a glimpse of what's achievable
A sympathy unspeakable
Has left me a bit unreachable
For way too long
'Cause even when your body gets that close to mine
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
Even if you're still my doctor Frankenstein
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
You spend enough time with a mystery
Its powers start to atrophy
So if you can't get to the heart of me
Let's just walk away
'Cause even when your body gets that close to mine
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
Even as we cross each other's borderlines
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
We're still strangers sometimes
Surprise! lyrics - Dawes
Once the gatekeepers decided we would fade into the crowd
You took what makes you charming and you turned it up too loud
Now how many songs does the band have to get through before you steal away the mic
How many cakes do you have to jump out of before no one yells "Surprise!"?
I remember us both learning that no one's dreams come true
They're either not quite how you saw them or the goalpost just gets moved
That's when you changed your expectations and started rolling your third eye
But you still don't know the ending, you can't spoil the surprise
Now the nature of your birthday party's changed a lot for me
What was once a celebration feels like a shameless victory
I guess we all confuse our happiness with what it takes to just survive
But the moment that the switch gets flipped is always a surprise
There's a little bit of poetry in what you're doing to your face
Removing all the evidence of our shared time and space
But your eyes close when you smile now because you're squeezing it too tight
If this is how you double down you're in for a surprise
There's a nightclub deep in Hollywood for each night of the week
Watching all my fake friends congregate where no one wants to be
But you have to muddle through it if you wanna make it out alive
And the ones that find the other side are in for a surprise
No I'm not letting myself off easy here, I've been going through it too
I might've leaned into things more gracefully, but what good did that do?
You found your way to rage against the dying of the light
I thought I planned for all contingencies
I thought I knew who I was meant to be
All those roads laid out in front of me
But it's still a big surprise
House Parties lyrics - Dawes
Next on our list is the M&M store
Then the Statue of Liberty
After FAO Schwartz
And as I carry the bags
I wonder what we're doing this for
You don't find the good stuff
On a guided tour
But house parties and local bands
Back porches with Bowie fans
Spilled drinks on a baby grand
And midnight singalongs
I don't care for designer brands
Souvenirs from a trinket stand
House parties and local bands
That's where I belong
This sunburn is bad
And it goes all the way down
And these drinks in the daytime
Are never quite as fun as they sound
These days at the beach
Feel more like just sitting around
So if anyone needs me
You know where I can be found
House parties and local bands
Good weed with some Joni fans
Old friends playing Mega Man
And a little Donkey Kong
I don't wanna see Disneylands
Beer bellies and farmer tans
House parties and local bands
That's where I belong
We've come to Chicago
At the wrong time of year
My eyelids are frozen
And I can't feel my ears
It's not that I don't like museums
But we live near a few
If you want the real thing
You know what you gotta do
House parties and local bands
Someone yelling at Kanye fans
"How can you possibly stand that man
After all he's done?"
I don't care about Paul Gauguin
A Starry Night or The Son Of Man
House parties and local bands
That's where I belong
House parties and local bands
That's where I belong
King Of The Never-Wills lyrics - Dawes
I watched you hold court with the graduate class of your fan club
Those same tired stories at the end of your favorite bar
And to give 'em a bit of suspense
You tell them in the present tense
As if you believe that's the person you somehow still are
The assumption was always that you were a little too special
To pay the same share of the dues that all of us owe
You convinced us to change up the plan
And prepare the road for the man
Instead of just simply preparing the man for the road
Well, everything goes out of fashion
You went way over that hill
You couldn't go on as a has-been
You had to be king of the never-wills
You used to say that my beers were a bit too expensive
To get to the heart of what drove a true seeker to drink
And after we both forced a laugh
Your eyes tried to take that joke back
Once you could tell that I knew that's what you really think
How did this catastrophe happen?
And why is it happening still?
You couldn't go on as a has-been
You had to be king of the never-wills
As we walked to my car, we both heard a small pack of coyotes
Telling the neighborhood they all found something to eat
And after the howls died away
You sobered up only to say
"It's too late to be anything we never wanted to be"
I dropped you at Hillhurst and Franklin
To let the long night go in for the kill
You couldn't go on as a has-been
You had to be king of the never-wills
Now you're the heart of a story that goes on without you
We've distilled your whole person to only the best memories
You're a fixture at all open mics
The kids asked me if we were alike
But when I look in the mirror
Yours is the face that I see
And it's worse than I could've imagined
As I lift up my glass to get filled
I refuse to go on as a has-been
I'd rather be king of the never-wills
I'd rather be king of the never-wills
I'd rather be king of the never-wills
The Game lyrics - Dawes
Millie came up playing in the boys' clubs
But they made her play at midnight or at 8
Her friends all said the times were finally changing
It only felt a few centuries too late
Her eyes were always deep inside her notebook
Her hands were always tuning her guitar
And while some stayed busy waiting for permission
She was on her way to be a star
But if you asked her if anyone had held her back
She'd tell you she forgot most of their names
The losers only think about the winners
The winners only think about the game
Then Millie fell in love with a civilian
Or at least we know he fell in love with her
He could see how bright her light was shining
He could feel how wild her fire burned
But love has its own kind of symmetries
You have to give as much as you receive
And once he realized he would never give her nothing
He decided it was time for him to leave
But now he likes to criticize her privately
While she simply says that neither were to blame
The losers only think about the winners
The winners only think about the game
So Millie kept on adding to the setlist
And working on her studio tan
And for the first time found it hard telling the difference
Between all her friends and all her fans
Which left her with a special brand of emptiness
She channeled right back into the songs
She wasn't gonna ask herself the question
If this is what she wanted all along
Some people said she was a genius
Some people said she was insane
But those losers only think about the winners
The winners only think about the game
She wouldn't suffer any fools
She danced to her own rhythm
She wasn't playing by the rules
She was playing with 'em
Millie knew just when the dust was settled
When it's time to put the pencil down
When the harmony is only just a shadow
Of the way it felt the first hundred times around
Which left her to the critics and the experts
To tell the world how Millie really felt
To somehow say she lost a competition
She was only ever having with herself
Well, some might look for meaning in the ashes
She just misses standing in the flame
The losers only think about the winners
The winners only think about the game
Oh, the losers only think about the winners
The winners only think about the game
Enough Already lyrics - Dawes
Never got angry enough to be funny
Never stopped caring enough to be cool
Haven't been broken enough to feel holy
Never loved someone enough to be cruel
Never been hungry enough to get cracking
Haven't quite fallen enough to atone
Never could cry hard enough to start laughing
Haven't stopped moving enough to be home
But it's not like I'm keeping score
Only when I feel unsteady
Am I getting a little more?
Or have I had enough already?
Man, enough already
I haven't cleared enough of my record
I haven't covered enough of my tracks
I haven't cashed in enough of my winnings
I haven't tried on enough of my hats
But I've always failed enough to keep trying
I've always worked enough to get by
I've always felt enough hope in the mornings
To help me wrestle the demons at night
So where's the medal I'm waiting for?
And who is throwing the confetti?
Am I getting a little more?
Or have I had enough already?
Man, enough already
Man, enough already
Maybe I've said enough to be quiet
Maybe I've stood enough to sit back
Maybe I've told enough lies to be honest
Let someone else try and mount the attack
Or maybe I should just ask for help
If I'm living in the land of plenty
And still hoping for something else
When I know I've got enough already
Hilarity Ensues lyrics - Dawes
Knucklehead 1 falls in love with Knucklehead 2
They tell each other all their secrets
They start to share a point of view
There's a bit lost in translation
Always something misconstrued
And hilarity ensues
This knucklehead pair tell the oldest of their knucklehead brood
You can be anything you want, son
We believe in you
So he sets out for the real world
Thinking this is true
And hilarity ensues
Let our substances impair us
Let the deadly virus spare us
Let our horror movies scare us
Then let's do it all again
Let's root, root for the home team
Then buy each other ice cream
Let's live inside the daydream
That is all it's ever been
This knucklehead boy thinks he's talking to his knucklehead god
God says, "This is all your fault, kid
You should've taken odds
But if you give me all your money
I'll see what I can do"
And hilarity ensues
Let our substances impair us
Let the deadly virus spare us
Let our horror movies scare us
Then let's do it all again
Let's root, root for the home team
Then buy each other ice cream
Let's live inside the daydream
That is all it's ever been
That is all it's ever been
Someone Else's Cafe / Doomscroller Tries To Relax lyrics - Dawes
You can poison opposition
Find out which war to declare
You can polish up the prisons
And send all your critics there
You seem willing and able
And used to getting your way
But you're still waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
You can call yourself a living god
If it rallies up the troops
Reinstate the firing squad
Lace up your combat boots
Your vitals are stable
In your stupid beret
But you're still waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
In someone else's cafe
You can make 'em call you Beelzebub
You can make 'em call you chief (chief)
Make some face paint out of baby blood
Wear a necklace made of teeth
You could be living a fable
In your one man parade
But you're still waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
From the rock of the cradle
'Til we're dead in our graves
We're all waiting tables
In someone else's cafe
In someone else's cafe
So let's enjoy each other's company
On the brink of our despair
Does someone have a song to sing
Or a joke that they could share?
Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)
On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)
Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)
Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)
So let's enjoy each other's company
On the brink of our despair
Does someone have a song to sing
Or a joke that they could share?
Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)
On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)
Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)
Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)
Comes In Waves lyrics - Dawes
A boy that grows up in a beach town
And never learns to surf
Sounds like the perfect distillation
Of my time spent here on Earth
But I have stared at the horizon
With both feet in the sand
The thing I love about the ocean
It comes in waves
Waves
I've been feeling like a light bulb
When the filament won't glow
Surrounded by a darkness
Cause the current's moving slow
Am I losing my intensity
Is that feeling here to stay
But that's the thing 'bout electricity
It comes in waves
Waves
I think I've found something in common
With nothingness and God
You stare at either in the face too long
They'll do each other's job
Sometimes those silences are holy
Sometimes I'm drifting into space
But if the spirit's moving through me
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
I think their grip is getting looser
I think they're giving us a try
If you feel good about the future
Then baby so do I
Let's keep an eye on all our enemies
While we're popping the champagne
Cause that's the thing about a victory
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
It comes in waves (It comes in waves)
Everything Is Permanent lyrics - Dawes
A product of my time zone
Mixed CDs and dial tones
Where we would listen to the universe think
While our heroes from the wreckage
Deliver us their message
On the perks of knowing how to lip sync
I can see the last frontier
The sunshine on a perfect day
Everything is permanent now
The single that gets overplayed
Everything is permanent now
The bubbles in your third rosé
Everything is permanent now
The movements of the Milky Way
Everything is permanent now
A wilderness of gossip
Asking for deposits
Yet it leaves you with some type of withdrawal
Playing on our senses
With a thousand of its lenses
On everything you ate or just bought
The voices in the atmosphere
The home life of celebrities
Everything is permanent now
Subliminal obscenities
Everything is permanent now
The side effects of ecstasy
Everything is permanent now
All the people that we used to be
Everything is permanent now
Everything is permanent now
Everything is permanent now
These tangled creeping vines
Towards a life you left behind
And the people you'd forgotten you kissed
A wayward strand of anger
At some controversial stranger
Who swears the virus didn't exist
I don't know where we go from here
I don't know how I'm supposed to feel
The language of the hemispheres
The lonely server farms
The level of the rising sea
Everything is permanent now
The politics of Christmas trees
Everything is permanent now
The whole world within one screen
Everything is permanent now
I'm thinking we should all come clean
Everything is permanent now, now, now
Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?
Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?
Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?
Ghost In The Machine lyrics - Dawes
Standing right outside the Echo
When we were still just cutting teeth
Turning madness into waveforms
Searching chords for what's beneath
All these existential freshmen
Trying to keep our noses clean
Scared to show our faith in
The ghost in the machine
Standing right outside the Echo
When we were working for the door
Assuming all our dreams were brighter than
The bands we played before
But you could see it in their hunger
You could hear it in their screams
They too were just trying to make contact
With the ghost in the machine
Through the build-ups and the breakdowns
Through the boom and through the crash
Building stockpiles of excuses
On how to trade it in for cash
All the poisonous motel rooms
The lobby call at 6:15
One million miles upon a highway
For a ghost in the machine
All the doubts and hesitations
I built up in my early years
Are under reconsideration
Through the music of the spheres
Which I cannot deny any longer
When every night I reconvene
With these vibrations giving proof of
The ghost in the machine
The ghost in the machine
The ghost in the machine
The ghost in the machine
Joke In There Somewhere lyrics - Dawes
Each morning my beloved
Asks me to open up my eyes
See what kind of attention I can pay
I see a corporate coffee house
Puttin' up their Christmas decorations
Commuter cars all waiting at a light
A line outside the Roxy
Full of hopeful conversation
Some local band is playing there tonight
A couple walks their dog discussing
What to eat for dinner
A runaway is being read his rights
A hotel hosts a conference called
"Investment For Beginners"
Some high school coach is breaking up a fight
But there's a joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
One that I am not prepared to make
This afternoon my doctor
Had me sit down in a chair
He asks me then to walk him through my day
I heard radios bring ball games
To an ancient glacial traffic
A starving dog was whimpering in pain
A soundcheck through the alley
That sounds like something close to magic
For a traveling dad that's bound to miss his plane
A boomer on a cell phone
Talking through party provisions
Beneath the giant bullseye neon sign
And I mention dixie cups and pizza crusts
And giant televisions
The allegory of the conga line
There's a joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
One that I just don't know how to tell
And now as the sun is setting
I meet my brother for a drink
And he asks if I've got something on my mind
So I tell him about this movie
And how I didn't get the ending
Why do they let the creature get away?
He reminds me that all it is
Is costumes and pretending
But there must be something else they're trying to say
About these buildings and the asphalt
In their natural habitations
The pigeons, cats and rats and parasites
This wild and dancing city
Conducting perfect orchestrations
The way a stranger wishes us goodnight
But he says, "every time we've sat here
Getting nervous for the future
We've ended up some version of ok
These songs that we are singing
Shouldn't give in to the rumors
They should give some kind of strength to meet the day"
But there's a joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
A joke in there somewhere
We just gotta find a way to laugh
We just gotta find a way to laugh
Sound That No One Made / Doomscroller Sunrise lyrics - Dawes
The morning fog descends upon the late night's cheapest thrills
The most committed socialites see the sunrise in the hills
Mistakes are slowly realized
Memories distilled
And the static starts to fade
From the laughter of a maniac
To a songbirds melody
From the howling of the sirens
To the swaying of the trees
It fuses all together
To find that perfect frequency
And then forever ricochets
Into a sound that no one made
I look up to see you slowing down while
Signaling a right
The older man behind us now
Is flashing you his brights
We both seem so distracted
By this growing appetite
To punish and persuade
The silent conversation gets directed toward the view
The cursive in the branches describes the avenue
The words like "I am sorry" and "I'm still in love with you"
Become a debt that won't get paid
Just another sound that no one made
I am rolling down the window to the city's radiation
The connected dream still dancing through the sky
I just need someone who will listen
Through this strange and dark existence
Or the consolation of knowing that you'll try
As we pull off of the freeway
A hospital appears
I see a man up in the window
On the back end of his years
And I imagine him there dying
With that ringing in his ears
That we all end up with someday
There's a code within the symptom
A morbid sort of sign
The ominous reminder of the body's slow decline
As constant as a heartbeat
But stronger over time
While the rest of us decays
Listening to a sound that no one made
Still Feel Like A Kid lyrics - Dawes
I just asked my folks not to pay my rent
But I still feel like a kid
Finally learned what NASDAQ meant
But I still feel like a kid
My whole week's booked with dinner plans
But I still feel like a kid
I'm about to be a married man
But I still feel like a kid
Still feel like a kid
Still feel like a kid
I can't stay up past midnight anymore
But I still feel like a kid
There's always part of me that's a little sore
But I still feel like a kid
I got dreams of coaching little league
But I still feel like a kid
And I bet the day that I turn eighty three
I will still feel like a kid
In fact, I spent my whole life battling
'Til I learned to let it go
That was back when I knew everything
Just a few short years ago
I love dancing through a grocery store
Makes me still feel like a kid
I go three times 'round revolving doors
Makes me still feel like a kid
I love the music from the ice cream man
Makes me still feel like a kid
I am a singer in a rock 'n' roll band
'Cause I still feel like a kid
Still feel like a kid
Still feel like a kid
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