Mary Ann, with a drawl,
Asked me how did you get so tall
I moved in just a week ago
I’d been doing fine, yea I’d been sleeping well
But I’m just never satisfied.
There’s no place I can be myself
No there’s no place I can be myself
She never said a word that meant a thing to me
She’s an alien yea she’s just another alien
Feel like the city sky burning through the night.
I can’t sleep in this town when I see him around.
Don’t wanna step on anybody’s toes
But the only thing I love, God knows I stole.
And now I’m gonna have to pay.
Yeah my judgement day, it is upon me.
Something sad is in my bones
Telling me I’m better off back home
The meteor across the sky
Has no home; it just wants to die.
I went down to the reservoir
He was looking dumb, like a movie star
He wouldn’t want to talk and, man, I ain’t got nothing to say
So just send me off; yeah just throw me away.
Feel like the city sky burning through the night.
I can’t sleep in this town when I see him around.
Don’t wanna step on anybody’s toes
But the only thing I love, God knows I stole.
And now I’m gonna have to pay.
Yeah my judgement day, it is upon me.
credits
from Underneath Eyelids,
released June 14, 2012
david- piano, keyboard, lead vocals, melodica
ben- drums, sleigh bells, rumbles, vocals
vanessa- guitar, bass, flute, vocals
The sprawling new single from Irreversible Entanglements continues their combination of roiling free jazz and potent spoken word. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 16, 2019