1. |
Raw Honey
03:23
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I can feel my heart beat in my chest
When my mouth is pressed against your neck
I can feel my hairs standing on end
When we are becoming more than friends
I can feel the goose bumps on my arms
When I am succumbing to your charms
I can feel you breathing honey breath
When your mouth is pressed against my neck
Don’t need to buy it by the side of the road
Cause honey we can make our own
Raw honey
Smear it on your body in place of clothes
It’s OK if just the two of us know
Raw honey
Alls I ever wanna do is make raw honey with just you
And if you dig this metaphor then you know what raw honey’s for
We can drink it until we get sick
We can both stick out our tongues and lick
Raw honey
We got something only you’s and me’s
Straight from the hardest working worker bees
Raw honey
I can feel the blood rush to my head
When you drag me by my hair to bed
We can put it on our breakfast toast
And if you want I’ll lick it from your toes
We don’t need to go to work today
We can stay inside all day and play
Drinking honey’s all I want to do
You can call me your Winnie-the-Pooh
People selling honey on the street
At the farmer’s market we can eat
Raw honey
We can dip our fingers in the jar
Do it with me baby it’s not hard
Raw honey
We should get a natural sugar high
Then love each other ‘til honey runs dry
Raw honey
When we’re done we’ll smoke a cigarette
Then come inside and start to make it again
Raw honey
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2. |
This Time Only
02:25
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3. |
Half A Book
02:15
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I've been thinkin bout the pages in this book
I've been thinkin bout the letters on this page
I've been thinkin bout the shelf in my library
but I do not think that this book came from there
but I'm reading this book anyway
I am at the beginning now
Someone told me that this book was very good
but that there was a part he could not read past
There must be a scary monster in this book
but I can't be sure cause I forgot to ask
why it was that he couldn't read anymore
I'm almost to the middle now
This book is so good I cannot put it down
The characters are well-rounded and the plot is deep
Every chapter is suspenseful and profound
I'm reading faster cause I cannot wait to see
what happens next is anybody's guess
I'm at the middle now
But when I turn the page to read what happens next
I can't believe what I see
The second half is blank
There's nothing left
I've been thinkin bout this stupid book I read
I've been trying to get the story out of my head
All I wish is that the second half was done
All I wish is that I never had begun
to read this book with half blank pages
now everybody
Why is this book half a book?
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4. |
Arrows Are Honest
02:22
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This is not a metaphor
And I am not fucking around
I am pushing wind up my neck
And out my mouth to make this sound
Designers made them simple and right
And traffic made us see what they do
I'm a line, but I'm more than a line
I've got direction and style
And I cannot tell a lie
Arrows are honest
Arrows are honest
I mean what I say
And I point where I mean
Arrows are honest
Arrows are honest
I mean what I say
And I point where I mean
This is telling, and there's no need to ask
This is knowing, this is not a surprise
Here's the thing, won't you look at the thing?
This is looking, this is open your eyes
On the plane on the safety belt sign
At the market in the checkout line
There's a service that I'm drawn to provide
And if you look at me nice I'll tell you when where and why
I mean what I say and I point where I mean
Which means I'm gonna say what I would like you to see
I mean what I say and I point where I mean
I've got something to say, and I hope that you'll agree with me
That this is not a metaphor
And I am not fucking around
I am showing at the speed of look
And I am telling at the speed of sound
And if you think that I am playing a game,
If you think that I am playing a song,
I've got a way to make it easy for you
To understand the subtle ways in which you got it all wrong
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5. |
Muddy Wendy
03:10
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Muddy Wendy
Once a Bottlecappa Kappa Pi
I was underwhelmed
Until I saw her with her guy friend
Eating fudge from the jar like she was starving
Making out in her car while she was driving
I was underwhelmed
Til I had her for myself
Muddy Wendy gets clean before she
Goes to bed in the evening, but
Wendy gets muddy in between getting clean
And going to bed in the e-vuh-ning
Wendy grabbing my arm
Dragging me to every show
Wendy double shot of whiskey
Me a cup o' joe
With the Hindenburg tattooed on her lower back
And some kind of steam punk motif above her rack
Every time her bell rings
An angel gets a nosebleed
Muddy Wendy gets clean before she
Goes to bed in the evening, but
Wendy gets muddy in between getting clean
And going to bed in the e-vuh-ning
Wendy gets around
And around
And around
W the wondering
If she likes me at all
E-N-D the ending
That her Xs all foretold of
Y the question I ask when I look back on you
? cuz it amplifies the W
I was overwhelmed
Til I lost her for myself
Muddy Wendy gets clean before she
Goes to bed in the evening, but
Wendy gets muddy in between getting clean
And going to bed in the e-vuh-ning
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6. |
Voodoo Doll
03:57
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Undo the evil spell
That has me sweating in my sleep
Stop telling everyone
All of the secrets that I keep
Who drove the pins deep in
My little voodoo doll?
I know you are up to
Not any good at all
Hold my head to the flames
Make me remove my woolen cap
Twist my spine all around
Until you’ve made me a hunchback
Who drove the pins deep in
My little voodoo doll?
I know you are up to
Not any good at all
My skin of cloth and thread
The better to manipulate
The vice around my head
To squeeze my brains into a paste
Who drove the pins deep in
My little voodoo doll?
I know you are up to
Not any good at all
Tie my legs up in knots
So that I’m sitting Indian style
Then place me on the tracks
And make me wait there for a while
Who drove the pins deep in
My little voodoo doll?
I know you are up to
Not any good at all
Finally bury me
Under the flowers in your bed
And leave me there for weeks
Until my friends all think I’m dead
Who drove the pins deep in
My little voodoo doll?
I know you are up to
Not any good at all
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7. |
Can't Can't Can't
02:21
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No one should have to be
A stranger in their own skin
Nor play the walk-on role
In lives their friends are starring in
This is a human game, so first make sure that you are one of those
People are made for people
I did not make the rules
Some people fit together like puzzle pieces
And some have to use
Blunt instruments to fly into a temporary fit
And I can't can't can't get used to it
These hands are lion's hands
And I've got a lion's tail
And I'm walkin all around
Inside my padded lion cell
And wouldn't it be nice to pick the kids up from their mom's and bring em here
On this fine afternoon?
See me walk all around
Take pleasure in my presence
Delight in this rare treat you found
But when you leave I'm still a lion walking all around
And I can't can't can't get used to it
If I fell in my apartment
Would it even make a sound?
Would I hear the upstairs neighbor
Shout that I should keep the noise down?
This is a lion thing, so don't come round or you could lose your head
And that's not something that comes back
No matter how you try it
Cause no mind that gets out of its head
Would come back in its right it
And things that never happen never ever will because they
Can't can't can't
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8. |
Cats Broke In
04:13
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When it's nice outside I like to keep the windows open
Let the night roll in and smell the overlapping seasons
Now it's dark inside, can't see the things in my apartment
But I know they're there and I think something is crawlin on em
Cats broke in my house
I tried, I couldn't keep them out
They wanted it so bad
They wanted in
Get home late from work, take comfort knowing I'm alone
Greet my furniture like normal "honey I am home"
Then across my path, hey what the hell is hap'nin
Then right out the door, them crazy cats was back again
Now I'm all alone again and that's the way I like it
Patched the hole in the screen where the cats made their unlawful entry
Now it's straight to bed or I won't get any Christmas presents
But guess what I find more of as soon as I turn down the covers
All the cats in the town want something that I have.
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9. |
Dangerous Shapes
02:12
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I know, I know
How it goes
Dangerous shapes never know their place
In the world, make a home in a junk drawer
A dangerous space
For a tender place
Somebody better come
And turn these lights back on
And file the edges down so we don't cut our fingers off when
We try to touch each other in each other's sleep
Sleep safe
Dangerous shapes
Are always on the make
Until they find
A friendly face
To make them feel
Make them feel less dangerous
It's a lonely and a sad affair
That wonderful and rare
Are words that have become synonymous to you and me and
The time we spend together
Rubbing up against each other with our
Dangerous shapes
We're in a ragged state
So we'll stand perfectly still
Like chickens with our heads still on
But not for long
Cuz we can only do wrong
In the nighttime, broken glass rattles in the sack like
Dangerous shapes
We gotta watch our backs
Until we find
A friendly face
To make us feel
Make us feel less dangerous
Well look what we did!
A play-related injury
There's body parts for picking up and picking the ones to save
You're a train wreck
And I suspect
That things are dangerously close again to shaping up that way
Until we find
A friendly face
To make us feel
Make us fell less dangerous
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10. |
Shake Ground
03:15
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some day you'll see the ground shake me
a romantic necromancy
now that i'm back from the dead
what would you have me do
i'm waiting for orders from you
the one that i'm indebted to
you seem so surprised
that your crazy ritual actually worked
by bringing me back around
you might have seen some change, but i'm still the same though i've decayed
i've spent some time underground
for ten long years
the worms chowed down on my remains
not too much left of me now
but your incantations made my old bones a home again
and called my spirit back home
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11. |
Subtraction
03:25
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That girl is a liar and she knows too much
About the thing and another thing is this what
I thought it was I guess it’s not
Black lights like cobra strikes all night long
That burn like fighting words in a song
I’d never write it would be wrong
Like throwing up when you turn me on
Just kick me out and put your clothes back on
Hey wait hey hey
Subtraction! My captain!
Are the bones in the mouth are the xylophone sounds
That they make
When they shake
Are the bleed in the nose are the tooth in the ache
Wear hot pants do a dance just for me
Or if not gimme tea and sympathy
Another Christmas on TV
You gave me your black mirror for our art class
But then got married and wanted it back
Are you for real I have to ask
Or just a ghost from my art class past?
I thought we would but we didn't last
Headaches like rattlesnakes in a sack
That girl’s a liar when she says she has
A kiss for me for the plane ride back
These pants don’t fit because I’m not the same
As I was when she drove me to the plane
I’ll never wear these pants again
You said I looked like a dead salesman
Comic relief with shaky hands
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12. |
Factory Of Love
02:41
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13. |
Start The Presses
04:09
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14. |
Move My Pieces
04:17
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15. |
Calculations
04:01
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A guy came by here today
said he was from some kind of bureau
Wanted to know if I was OK
my lucky number and my brand of smokes
Told me to wait in the car for a while
taught me to drive around in perfect circles
He had number that I'd never seen
scratched problems in the dirt at his feet
then scrubbed them clean
Said he could fix me up
and make me happy again
Let's do some calculations
Let's build you a nice new friend
Some guys came by here today
and one of them looked like he could've been
you from a different life
His hair was longer and he wore nice pants
He showed me how to separate the light
Wanted to know if I knew what made airplanes fly
He took some measurements and wrote things down
Tore off long sheets of paper
let them float to the ground
Said he could fix me up
and take me back into time
to the year it was soft and cold
for months on end and the sun barely shined
We can fix you up
and make you good as new
Let's do some calculations
Run our hands all over you.
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16. |
Marches
03:44
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of all the ways we have to get down to B from A
the organized walk in time creeps me out
the protest the funeral the municipal "come one come all"
and speaking of funerals
i hope i never have to ever carry your pall
i hope i never have to ever carry your pall
so line up the lost toys in endless columns of rows
and send them down to first and main with the band
when we are numerous in our discontent
we will sick in and we will walk out
and we will circle the block until you meet our demands
we will circle the block until you meet our demands
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17. |
I Love New York
05:00
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I've never lived here but I've always been here
like the guy in the black and white picture
at the end of the movie it turned out he'd been there
his whole life but he'd never lived there
except for the once and it didn't work out right
He died outside, had a fight with his wife
and he ran all around in the maze of the mind
of the ghost of the love that was trapped in his heart
And speaking of love there's a heart on my sleeve
not the sleeve but the front of this white t-shirt
not a shirt but a mug not a mug but a glove
not a glove but a No. 2 pencil
When it's sharp and I hold it straight up on the desk
it's a relative I know from pictures
But a picture's enough to rekindle the love
Like a sister you see just at Christmas
And the people who aren't from here wish that they were
And the people who are know they're smarter
than the people who dream of New York cuz they know
that the grass isn't greener it's harder
And it grows to incredible heights and it turns
into metal and glass and burnt coffee
And the light from the sun is that guy from the maze
with the axe trying to hack through the city
They thought that they knew us
Well how could they know us?
They read in the shape of a cloud we'd been bad
So they blew into town and they took souvenirs
from a place that I had never seen though I had
But instead of a snow globe they took the whole thing
leaving only the snow and a hole in the globe
By the time that I got there I got there too late
to do anything
even say that I'd been there.
I love New York
I love New York
I love New York
It's written on my shirt.
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18. |
Hydroxyzine
04:07
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X-Y-Z Hydroxyzine
Cutest little pill I’ve ever seen
Not afraid to go to bed not afraid of anything
Somnus
X-Y-Z Hydroxyzine
You’re the only one I really need
That’s not true I need all thirteen
Somnus
X-Y-Z Hydroxyzine
What once was hell now’s a dream
Take it for yourself and see what I mean
Somnus
X-Y-Z
X-Y-Z Hydroxyzine
Laying on my bed and staring blankly
Beats wanting to strangle everybody I see
Somnus
X-Y-Z Hydroxyzine
One does the trick don’t need to take three
Not afraid to talk to people not afraid of anything
Somnus
X-Y-Z Hydroxyzine
Cutest little pill I’ve ever seen
Not a wolf in a cage or a ghost in a sheet
Somnus
X-Y-Z
Somnus
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19. |
False Point
04:34
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When I get back from where I'm going
I expect to see your fancy luggage
Packed and by the door
Take your piggy banks
And snow globes with the skylines
Cuz I don't want to shake those anymore
I hope I'm making myself clear
I'm going back on the pills
You drove me off of
I've heard about a place
I've seen some photographs
That made me feel like when I was a child
I know that I'll fit in there
I've got a matching hat
I'll sign the breakup papers that you filed
I hope I'm making myself clear
You'll never see me again
Unless you come on down to False Point
Your welcome in False Point
Where nothing's for sale
No circular treadmills for chasing your tail
Evolve at your leisure
Hold on to your wings
Don't busy your pretty head with material things
The mayor is a bird
The D.A. is a bird
The warden is a bird
You think about the future
I'll think about a hole
You always said that I would die alone
You're right about the one thing
I'm probly gonna die
But how and when you couldn't be more wrong
I hope I'm making myself clear
I've got no business here
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20. |
Your Life In Hell
07:06
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I am a shell of my former self
I am a shell of my former shell
I am the ghost of the husk that I was yesterday
I am that man in the photograph
reading his own epitaph
I never know if I'm dead or doin' OK
You can sleep for days and hide yourself from the scene
You can do a J with Socrates if that's your thing
If you want to speak with management just ring the bell
Enjoy your life in Hell
I was a hat in a former life
I would go back at the drop of me
and see the world from a salesman's head again
But now I'm here wedged between these rocks
feelin' the flames lick my thermal socks
and a three-headed dog brings the paper in everyday
People with their noise and lights might really scare you
but you can talk on couches you can scream your prayers you
can take as many pills it takes to make you feel well
Enjoy your life in Hell
I was in love with a brown-haired girl
I sent her poems from the underworld
with little hearts where the dots of the "i"s should be
I played her voice in my brain like a song from a tape
I'd make my hands feel her hands feel her face on my face
She's real for sure but before she was more real to me
You can think of Sarah but you can't embrace her
You can scrub your memories of her with a pink eraser
You can disinfect your life of all the love that you felt
Enjoy your life in Hell
Third circle
Second circle
Outer circle
Your floor, sir
So now I'm back in my bed asleep
Feelin' the drugs in my brain at work
And when I wake she'll be sleeping there next to me
You might take forever
You might bide your time
And you might write the memoirs of your crowded mind
You might sing the blues forever - only time will tell
So enjoy your life in Hell
Yes, enjoy your life in Hell
You better enjoy your life
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United Shapes Austin, Texas
United Shapes are an alternative pop/rock duo formed in 2004 in Austin, TX by Joseph Devens and Drew Cave. New studio album Confuseograph now available on Flim Flam Records.
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