1. |
MF Down
05:06
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i came out west
i been here a while
i taught me how to drink
and i remembered how to smile
and even in this devil town
i think i could stick around
even though my stuff
would barely fill a shopping cart
you see i like the lighter load
because it seems good for my heart
cuz the more i have possessions
the more i start to feel possessed
still i don't sweat much
i got no need for the stress
i just say bless this mess
and try to pay my rent
and i laugh at the movies
that i watch on my vhs
chorus:
and maybe i could build us a house
and then we'll get real drunk
and burn that motherfucker down
cuz when you're here with me
i don't feel i need nothin else
then we'll go down south
to where the sun is hot
on a beach with margaritas
and we'll smoke a lot of pot
and we'll look up at the stars
from our hammock hangin above the sand
then we'll wake up sun burnt
in the afternoon
and i'll have to find some aloe
and i'll rub it onto you
and you'll rub it onto me
and we'll drink tequila just to stay cool
then we'll go out to the airport
and we'll high jack a plane
so we can fly around the planet
for the rest of our days
and we'll visit all the places
from the pages of the books we've read
(chorus)
then we'll go and see some monkeys
while we hang in the trees
and all the sloths will think we're lazy
when we catch a couple Z's
and eat a breakfast of bananas
with the toucans and the ocelots
then we'll go and see some penguins
and we'll see some killer whales
we'll even tame a polar bear
and file down his nails
and name him albert
and teach him how to juggle and play guitar
and we won't have to go home
cuz that's where we'll be
or at least that's how i feel
as long as your here with me
and we'll fight just for fun
cuz it's so nice makin' up.
(chorus)
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2. |
99 Problems
03:14
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well i got
99 problems. i got
100 solutions.
200 reasons and excuses not to do them. on the
300 block, you see i swear i lost my mind but i found myself a little more for the
400th time. there are
500 cracks on the cement of the sidewalk that i've counted the amount of
600 thousand times. the
700 club is seen on the screen of your neighbors TV. and i got the beer you like that cost me
800 cents.
900 numbers span the whole width of the cover of a magazine sitting in the gutter near your house
10000 pounds of pressure rush into my face as i brace myself for your embrace
chorus:
well i got
99 problems
100 solutions
200 reasons and excuses not to do them
100 problems
99 solutions
maybe if i had one more i could finally see who you are
i wake up tomorrow at
1100 hours
1200 warnings span the ticker of my news
1300 dead in a protest against a war when
1400 officers faught with excessive force
1500 onlookers just standing on the side lines and i realize i am
1 of them
1600 stars in our sky start to align and
1700 people are awakened in the night
1800 steps rest between them and revolution. after
1900 years did you really think we'd have it right?
(chorus)
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3. |
Tamoszius (hit me baby)
03:13
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someone once wrote
"that dreamers often lie
in bed asleep and dream things true"
if that's the case
then can someone tell me why
everynight i dream of you
the pain of it all
will soften over time
but what is to be done 'til then
it gets hard to call
the one you love a friend
with such masochistic tendencies
chorus:
so hit me baby
one more time
if i'm the type of guy
you'll leav behind
you've lost your mind
someone once wrote
the story of a man upon a boat
alone longing for his home
for days he was dragged
across the waves of the sea endlessly
working for his catch to make ends meat
he made his kill
with patience love and skill
but as he sailed home in the dark
the sharks swarmed and tore apart
every last thing that he loved so
(chorus)
so now i write
my ink well's filled with spite
and i'm hoping that i might incite
a change in you
but it gets hard to say
when my feelings so frequently change
exactly what i think that we should do
so i'll suggest
although you may protest
but it would be in both of our best interests to speak in truths
(chorus)
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4. |
poor me
05:26
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When you're always high
your poison looks so kind
and the same ties that bind us to the truth
they can make us look for lies
now my guitar ain't around me
all my friends have gone to bed
and even though all these bars are closed
these word float around my head
chorus:
poor me
poor me
pour me another whiskey
poor me
poor me
pour me another beer
the world seems clear
then i start to think
so wont you pour me another drink
you know i hear that train a-rollin'
rollin' thru the night
and i know it's close to mornin'
but i'm here waitin' for a light
they're fightin in the streets
in the beds they are pullin' hair
a police man came a-rollin' up
and he said these words i swear
(chorus)
again it's all gone quiet
i'm alone on this back porch
i think up the chords then i find the words
and they guide me like a torch
and i don't care if you hear me
i never listen much myself
just pour another whiskey
and i will drink it to your health
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5. |
ruok
03:28
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i sit on the phone and you're nothin' new to me
i just don't know how you can say what you do to me
i live life like type and a page is a day to me
why can't i understand a single word that you say to me
ruok? how can i help you today?
these don't grow on trees and neither do tv's
please don't own don't lease and keep liesure duty free
forget your disease and what it can do to you?
torment your police cuz what can they do to you?
ruok? how can i help you today?
break in take the cake and leave nothin there at all
high stakes take their place but he doesn't care at all
he goes to the edge and there's nothin there at all
he cried all the way home and there's nothin there at all
ruok? how can i help you today?
i had all i can take but get nothing back at all
you take all you can take and give nothin back at all
i'm a starving plate giving a snack to you
eyes closed, you're awake and it's all coming back to you
ruok? how can i help you today?
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6. |
Burning Church
05:28
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i dreamed i lived in a burning church
the bell came crashing down thru the rafters
it was followed closely by the tower
that was covered in millions of ants
the bugs had eaten all their sons and daughters
the childrens ghosts were livin on the run
from nowhere and noone.
i dreamed i was captive in a high stone tower
gaurded by a beast with seven heads
my room was empty but for seven arrows
laying right next to my broken bow
and my tears of blood were always flowing
fell until they drowned the beast
and drowned me and bathed me
and healed me and saved me
i dreamed i lived under the deepest ocean in an apartmen where my walls were thin
i saw my lover walking out thru the courtyard
she was never comin back again
so i ate up all my broken bottles
and all my teeth were falling out
and growing back in
i dreamed i stood in an open meadow
sky was shining and the sun was blue
let my gaze scan across my horizons
finally rested when in fell on you
so we slowly walked toward eachother
and all our love was pouring out
when you found me it changed me
it cured me you saved me
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7. |
water song
04:18
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i walk to the bank and i sit by the river
the water runs out to the sea
the tide of the ocean gets pulled back and forth
by the moon hanging low in the sky
the sky hold the clouds and the stars and the planets
so still we can count one by one
the clouds in the sky hold the raindrops that fall
and they won't let the river run dry
and the life thats in the water
feeds the living things of the earth
the living things live to kill and they kill eachother
and i know it could be worse
i walked on the bridge that goes over the water
as a boat floated by underneath
the man on the boat had one ore and no hope
that he'd ever wash out to the sea
he called out to me to throw him a rope
i said,"my only rope's tied 'round my neck."
he said,"then again you could just jump in
and together we'd swim from the wreck."
and the current of the water
pulled my body over the earth
took me far from my home
with a prayer and a poem
and i know it could be worse
i walked step by step
up the side of the mountain
and i looked at the valley below
the valley holds the town
that holds the houses
that hold the people
that hold the emotions
that make houses homes
the homes hold the lives
and the stories and legends
so that houses can fill up with ghosts
the ghosts are just memories and longing and love
for the ones we want to hold close
and the ghosts of ancient waters
haunt the air above the earth
i breathe in their tears
their tears quench my thirst
and i know could be worse
i looked at my feet
on the mountain beneath me
and i wondered which way i should go
it said,"if you leave the ground
i'll just pull you back down
with my love, to keep you close."
so i kept my feet planted securely and walked
down the hill to the valley below
the town and the houses and people and ghosts
and my memories
were waiting at home
and our lives all flow like the water
and someday our ghosts will be haunting the earth
when our bodies are gone
our ghosts can still haunt
but i know could be worse
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8. |
stories
03:14
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i sit in front of a book
a printed look
upon your history
you are history
the situation in your text
guides me to fret
within your misery
it ain't no misery
i tear the envelope at edge
magnet that letter to my fridge
it's from my family
they're still my family
chorus:
and as i amble down the sidewalk
i count the blocks these thoughts don't stop
inside my head
they collect like every word i've ever read
all these sentences on pages
representing all the ages
that he lived a gift
a present from a friend
my attention spans the story
of this broken allegory
and it told me i'll get old
and i will die
and though it all remains
we have a name we have a day
we have an age a page
and image of ourselves
(chorus)
the way we dance over the stanzas
romance and bliss and grandeur lift
suspended on their wings
all these notes, these postcard pictures
torn and ripped, a holy scripture
now just confetti in the wind
and as they float over the distance
the distance still was greater between the characters
the story seemed to be about
(chorus)
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9. |
pooh
03:08
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you weren't a puppy when
we got you from pat & char
a winnebago had taken away
your kin our old dog charlie
with little adjustment
you fit right in with our crew
i don't think we'll ever see
another dog like you
chorus:
oh pooh
i need you
you're an awesome dog
you fuckin rock
oh pooh
i love you
the awesomest dog in the world
you wouldn't fetch a stick
if we wanted one we could go get it
you like to lick the couch fabric
and lay on you back to get pet
i'd walk you after school
with mom out in the field
sometimes it even felt
you had us trained like seals
(chorus)
i moved away from home
i saw you less and less
i have say sorry girl
you really were the best
and i'm glad that it happened there
next to dad on the porch in his chair
quiet and loved and at home
but where oh where oh where is my pooh?
(chorus)
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10. |
only you
03:31
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i'd burn all my bridges if not for the shelter underneath
i am a begger, an alm pan at your feet
i am an old man waiting for you at my door
i'm in my deathbed just waitin for the cure
when i left minnesota i didn't have much
now i'm in montana i still don't have much
i'm a broken ankle waiting for a crutch
i'm a lonely child just waiting for your touch
chorus:
it's not unusual to want some one around
in a town that gets so damn cold
and it could be any town... any town,
but only you.
i used to smile more or less
i sometimes try to do my best
i used to wonder why
good people still sometimes
end up all alone
i used to want to go back home
i did but it just wasn't there
i wondered where to go
somewhere to make it bearable
so i came back to you
(chorus)
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