Good old dad, he showed his hand He poured his drink on the carpet And outside I was watching the fireworks Burn out above like a card trick And when we slept you left your bed And ran to the arms of a grown man And all that night you left your light in The back of Vanessa Martin's mom's van And you still just borrow what you cannot steal You will ask what isn't owed When you find out that none of that is real Come back and dance the night away in dirty clothes One by one we all moved on While you just clung to your childhood And all that shame you prick your veins with Will never love you like I do Someone stands to hold your hand down there deep in the barroom All the night look left and right Love, tell me, tell me, where are you? And you still just borrow what you cannot steal You will ask what isn't owed When you find out that none of that is real Come back and dance the night away in dirty clothes
that was a funny show. they really didn't have room for all of us. had to rearrange the bar to make space. or, perhaps i'm speaking about the prior one. we'll be back there in the winter. come see us. we'll all get to wear coats. so many pockets:)
“The pictures of your saints hanging crooked from the drywall” - such a wicked line.. for a lot of reasons.. this dude was put on earth to write/make music… that much I know…
Weeks of enjoying your music on repeat led to mr sobering realization - so many haven't discovered your talent yet. They're missing out on something special. Your artistry is truly commendable. You deserve wider recognition. As a German fan, I hope against hope for a chance to experience your music live someday. Your sound resonates across borders. Sending appreciation from Germany. Your music matters.❤
@@Louis-nd3hmit was amazing! My only disappointment is that they didn’t play their entire discography. Also, I talked to 4 members of the band at different points in the night, including Ben. They seem like great people. I really hope you can experience them live some time, they’re something special ❤❤
The piano intro always makes me think of the theme song to Trailer Park Boys ha. Another year that Ezra Bell is in my Top Spotify listened. This song (Sandra Jo) definitely up there even though it came out late in the year.
It took me a long time to track this entire song down . It was played briefly in the 2020 Film “ Butter “. I was drawn to this once I heard something about that “ Green Eyed Gypsy “. Freakin Brilliant I say !!! I will definitely be looking forward to more from Ezra 🤠🙏♥️
Fair fair halos flying the mountains of her head Broke their crowns January whites Some say it's magic I would say that's just a guess Conjured up to con you while you hunt One hundred miles a hundred miles They like bricks and dusty paths We go up and down the aisles a hundred miles Fourteen pharaohs stood to lament to the king To death and dine with questions as to why Say lams like lions if they do not misbehave Who walk the greenest pastures when they die One hundred miles a hundred miles They like bricks and dusty paths We go up and down the aisles a hundred miles Someone smiles when they call your name And they convince you for a second you were not to blame You feel all shiny in your rusty frame one hundred miles Oh poor old Gary wore his [?] He kissed that serpent one too many times (Too many times) He don't know reason he don't care for what is true Darkness is much easier on the eyes One hundred miles a hundred miles They like bricks and dusty paths We go up and down the aisles a hundred miles Someone smiles when they call your name And they convince you for a second you were not to blame You feel all shiny in your rusty frame one hundred miles
Said you're here to serve me God knows that's a lie And I find your help unworthy Oh no and I will not be pacified Some say you're the heroes others parasites From the latter half, the cheer grows Oh no but we will not be pacified Until you talk to us like humans Till you set the wrongs done right Well you won't slow down the movement Oh no for we will not be pacified I ain't scared of your sickness I won't go back inside To your crimes I bear witness Oh no and I will not be pacified Say it once repeat you don't see black nor white You're lyin through your teeth Oh no we will not be pacified Until you talk to us like humans Till you set the wrongs done right Well you won't slow down the movement Oh no for we will not be pacified
Well my old shoes eat cotton And they dance for hours on end Nobody knows where I got them They always fall for that part at the end And you're here [?] Holding seats at the bar for his friends Old men [?] his grizzly white beard only so much money to spend When I run to the only thing I ever felt was mine It will give us an impositions upon hymns I could not find So I looked around for freedom and some easy place to sleep I remembered prayers and incantations And I loved you more than me (oh, oh, oh) You're little brother wears a ponytail Your orphaned mother faints I should've told you I loved you But the truth means so much less When I hold on to the only thing I ever felt was mine It will give us an impositions upon hymns I could not find So I looked around for freedom and some easy place to sleep I remembered prayers and incantations And I loved you more than me (oh, oh, oh) Oh and your voice is growing distant And the light in your eyes is still You want me to be a better man It ain't me you want it's him For it walks in filthy trousers And it floats in sodden creeks In the morning, come the sun, there won't be anyone but me (oh, oh,oh)
I heard it slightly different but thanks so much for your write up! Well my old shoes eat cotton They dance for hours on end Nobody knows where I got them They always fall for that part at the end And your hero dies here Holding seats at the bar for his friends Old men are digging his grizzly white beard Only so much money to spend I hold on to the only thing I ever felt was mine It grew guilt and impositions upon hills I could not die So I looked around for freedom and some easy place to sleep I murmered prayers and incantations And I love you more than me Your little brother wears a ponytail Your orphaned mother faints I should've told you I loved you But the truth means so much less Oh and your voice is growing distant And the light in your eyes is still You want me to be a better man It ain't me you want it's him For it walks in filthy trousers And it floats in sodden creeks In the morning come the sun There won't be anyone but me
Have you been reading your picture books About them pretty places you have never been Making friends to disappear Only to turn up in the back of some bad man's limousine If that's the best that you can do honey Well I hope it treats you fair Since tonight you are still stuck inside with me Well when we both crawl back up the stairs Let go and rest your head down Everything's alright baby now But we're too big to fit And this home is not for sale You've been walking on painted toenails You haven't called your mother in a month You've been living in that Soldiers [?] everything at once Flipping from their tongues Oh strangely [?] whiskey in the punch Soldiers [?] everything at once Everything at once Let go and rest your head down Everything's alright baby now But we're too big to fit And this home is not for sale Let go and rest your head down Everything's alright baby now But we're too big to fit And this home is not for sale
0:00 Pick a Place and Read Well I said, "Take it or leave it," and she left it on the bedroom floor There was quiet in the corners, there was trouble in a bag behind the door And all the lies too oft repeated, they were seated in repose upon the porch And in the midst of all this clamor is the struggle to remember us before Now that you're holding up your diary every time we meet Saying this may be the single saddest book there'll ever be Sit down beside me, pick a place and read And I will hear you, and I will hear you And on that day you took your turn, I sat with loneliness we learned Hungry as the desert sun, darling of the doomed and drunk And all the bad news that can fit jumps in my ear And does insist that these things always end like this Like this, oh woah This, like this Well we knew there would be trials We knew there would be faults And it was gonna take a while yet To start to see results Now that you're holding up your diary every time we meet Saying this may be the single saddest book there'll ever be Sit down beside me, pick a place and read And I will hear you, and I will hear you And on that day you took your turn, I sat with loneliness we learned Hungry as the desert sun, darling of the doomed and drunk And all the bad news that can fit jumps in my ear And does insist that these things always end like this Like this, oh woah This, like this 3:51 Dear Old Dad Good old dad, he showed his hand He poured his drink on the carpet And outside I was watching the fireworks Burn out above like a card trick And when we slept you left your bed And ran to the arms of a grown man And all that night you left your light in The back of Vanessa Martin's mom's van And you still just borrow what you cannot steal You will ask what isn't owed When you find out that none of that is real Come back and dance the night away in dirty clothes One by one we all moved on While you just clung to your childhood And all that shame you prick your veins with Will never love you like I do Someone stands to hold your hand Oh, down there deep in the barroom All the night look left and right Love, tell me, tell me, where are you? And you still just borrow what you cannot steal You will ask what isn't owed When you find out that none of that is real Come back and dance the night away in dirty clothes La da dee da Da dee da dee da Da dee da dee da Da dum [x4] And you still just borrow what you cannot steal You will ask what isn't owed When you find out that none of that is real Come back and dance the night away in dirty clothes 7:19 Goat's Milk Well I remember you, you haven't changed a bit You've still got that sadness, it's hanging from your lips You point your tattooed fingers at the fish As they swim off to the sunset so freely (Oh there they go, there there they go) With the contents of your pockets you give surnames like Shabazz Treat them like your children and you dress them up in drag You're all down passing out predictions on the ave To conclusions of the book we are both reading (Somewhere between the spines) They say time is always watching, he pours himself a drink He says "well I don't read the news, I'd rather use that time to think How I fly on by while you fiddle with your phones Like foolish waves go crashing over unsuspecting stones" You look into the mirror blowing kisses at your flaws Speaking broken Spanish, drinking goat's milk through a straw The twinkle from your eyes is said to stimulate the gods Or the businessmen who idolize your lunchbox (Saying what's he got, well what's he got) You watch the soldiers starving from your bleachers in the shade On Halloween you heed their knocks and feed them hand grenades You'll suffer through martinis while ol' Frank Sinatra's played On the speakers there to drown out the gunshots (Oh my, my, my, my) Time is always watching, he pours himself a drink He says "well I don't read the news, I'd rather use that time to think How I fly on by while you fiddle with your phones Like foolish waves go crashing over unsuspecting stones" (Oh my, my, my, my) Communism's crumbled, cabinets have lied And if they told you half the truth, you'd do your best to act surprised There are holes in every mountain, lines on every road There are tractors at the tree line making gypsies of the Joads 10:09 May the Road May all the roads that you take now be smooth ones And you will awake with a smile Should all your wanderings bring to you wisdoms Which you can forget for a while When there is gold darling for you to find there May you make of it the most It will not matter now too much if I'm there You'll be there, there, there for us both May all your happiness these days be lasting And you'll know what's real and what's not Go now and glorify all of your passions And be good to what you have got When you are called, darling down to the river Don't you just run to get wet Stretch your paws along the shores And gaze, gaze, gaze into her depths Stretch your paws along the shores And gaze, gaze, gaze into her depths Stretch your paws along her shores And gaze, gaze, gaze into her depths 12:44 Junk Food Chiminey I could be happy if I died today If I go on living, I will try do same And all of our old quarrels may swing down soon They are calling from the rafters, our clarity a fluke But for now, let's make love with the lights on And I won't wonder where you have been nor with whom The pictures of your saints hanging crooked from the drywall The body of the goddess in your thin red shoes And none need understand all the reasons we have come here But as the days grow shorter they may have their say Look me in the eyes before they do, little darling I would be happy if I died today 13:54 Heaven is a Chandelier Go and get your drugs, honey Go and get your drugs I am fond of those things too Some of them so much Give away my whole life to 'em Give away my bed Come about on some strange couch Just wishing that I were dead Ashley hitched from Houston She was raped in Abilene Beaten with a bottle As the night laid mute her screams When she finally reached here She was happy as can be There's a bright light shining in the big blue sky And I never know what it means And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month Heaven is a chandelier But don't all look up at once I go down to the park to give away my cigarettes I go down to the park where I sit and wait for death But I can't wait forever with the breezes and the bums The soldiers came to shoot us down but Jesus jammed the guns And when the bottles all were empty, when he called us to our feet He promised us salvation and some real nice things to eat We were good then 'til the morning when the daylight did us in Oh the past it picked our pretty little pockets, it gets thirsty for revenge And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once Oh I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month Heaven is a chandelier, so don't all look up at once (Lyrics Pasted from Genius Lyrics)
This song makes me melt everytime I listen. I’ve listened to almost everything you’ve put out - definitely to all the songs I’ve been able to find. Pure mastery, I love you guys.