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the rhyming in my soup
02:25
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the rhyming in my soup AmD E
Am
been walking down the road • remembering things that i’ve been told • and not remembering but been told • so my memory keeps on spitting out Da new version every time the rhyming in my soup • the dinking round the tollbooth by the pool playing the fool
it’s still the Dbig deal every time • the rhyming in my soup • the dank and darkening stairs • where wishing wells R leading U
so i Amrun back home • home 2 C my mom • 2 hide my head in sand • do not want to B A man •
so many Dmanly things • like guns and sport car bling • exhausted from opinions racing round the kitchen sink
gone 2 meditate • on death A heightened state • where all R knowing reason seems 2 sooth and satiate our Dthirst 4 mindfulness/things • 4 justice’s twisted fist • maniacal my eyes roll back so far in2 skinhead
so i run back home • home 2 cry alone • 2 hide inside my mind • they watch me all the time •
down doing things • that later i’ll deny • but knowing all the while • they’re filming me and saving files
so they’re freezing you • you’re asleep out in the cold • you’re lost out on your own • there’s no road paved with solid gold
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I’M WRITING YOU THIS LETTER DCG
god give me back my peace of mind at least one piece at a time tonight
insist the best for your children
if you blink you miss ina second
their coming age
the trials a ntranquillers
silly struggles alone on stage
with everybody pointing
throwing scraps through a
bars cage
i’m writing you this letter - about the woolen sweater you knit - to keep me warm
i’m thanking you think of me - (so) far from home - even though you know round here - never snows
i’m writing you this letter about - all the things i say i’ll do - but have never done-
i’m writing you this letter - and missing home - wish to be upon a plane - bound for cold
i’m writing you this letter - cause in a splitting minute - can all be gone - i’m writing you this letter - too cheap to phone - i’ve never gotten used to yet - being wrong
i’m singing you this prayer - my heart and soul undone - don’t know what’s going on - and just right now - my need to know so wonderful
i’ m writing you this song cause i can feel in moments (like)we don’t belong - alone out in our universe - so far from home
i’m writhing in this sweater - it’s made of wool it’s true too that it’s getting cold - i guess i get this itch each year - just right about now - this itch again(that) i should be - heading home
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THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING CHASING ME
D C
there’s always something chasing me
banging a broken drum on some back door
feelings R ever changing
we’re going through
we try to keep our feet firm to the floor
ferris wheels keep rolling round fun
wearing us down
the rubber so slightly worn out in our souls
we’re slowly rolling weary but the warm sun shines to thee
our shelter is this sun shine along his road
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over and over and over and over A gain searching for A saviour to save US in vain murder playing with words weighing truth as A game blood pulsing wrist twitching rust dripping red rain praying jesus returns soon †tyrannical saints over and over and over and over A gain wand waving making magical miracle claims sheep people grazing while narrowing their gaze blue moon standing alone waning growing too late waiting on some long ago for got ten fate over and over and over and over A gain inquisitively questioning thoughts illogically sane raising hell immaculate earth crushing pain falling hard from A hill perching high above grace over and over and over and over A gain over and over and over and over A gain
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5. |
changing gears
03:29
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CHANGING GEARS vicky’s song (vegans will lead us back 2 the garden)CAPO3
AmBCG
changing gears down low an up hill battle
making trails A path others 2 follow
changing gears backlogged through sleepy hollow
from here on out Gthis land is their land also
changing gears mis guided by the moon light
changing gears, peddling on some old worn out ideaS
changing gears believing something silly so sublime
changing gears reaching out for rhyme
FGAm
changing gears falling in with winter
changing gears ride A long grand river
changing gears nearing cowbell brewery
2 the north, west ward god rich bound
changing gears re cycling WAR with suffering
changing gears, wind stinging, in their solemn stare
changing gears what has our just ICE answered
changing gears unanimously slaughter
FGAm
changing gears falling in with winter
changing gears ride A long grand river
changing gears nearing cow bell brewery
2 the north, west ward god rich bound
changing gears tethered to the weather
changing gears now knowing not 2 never never land
changing gears all life OU/R souls CO nnected
respecting U dO on 2 me that i am
FGAm
changing gears falling in with winter
changing gears ride A long grand river
changing gears nearing cow bell brewery
2 the north, west ward god rich bound
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sam son i am
04:39
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SAMSON samsam i am such a worried man trying to live the best i can sam i am seeing • all or nothing inthedark my eyes burn true2U done stumbling • sam i am such A lazy fan º when the point spread gets too far and few between • sam U took AWAY my breath and left me here2bleed 2death • done suffering samsam i am such a lonely man ºalone • only waiting on a dream † sam i was always hoping to discover under everything we know IS true º it isn’t really what it seems ºthat all so much is really just made up and all that’s real is really only make believe ºi faced your stare the dark upon the dawn i'll wander on from here ONOUT my eyes too blind 2C samsam i am such a frightened man making up a brave new world 2 make believe † sam i have been hiding round the corner in a mind minding my business ON my knees † sam the answers have been blowing on the wind for longer now than anyone couldconceiveOF † sam U left my soul out in the cold around the corner where my body growing old now longs 2B samsam i am such a helpless man misguided in gods streets of suffering man 2 man could i take you by YOUR hand divinely leading U towards eternity † sam i know the moment that you go i’ll feel relief ºand even thoughº i know all of this • i smile and still believe • sam i am ºso happy having had the chance 2HOLDU • though be it brief samsam i am finally finding freedom in my heart so heavy from defeat sam i think u’ve changed me in ways of being with out truly perceiving all you’ve done to make me more or less complete sam i am grieving out of selfishness ºa lonely ship out lost upON the sea sam i see the demon of my death on the horizon the life i have left worthwhile 2live
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7. |
elephant in the room
02:09
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love is a splendored roar C G F G C capo4(PLANT BASED)
love is the only thing that we can bring
across the board
love’s a wide range of things
but most oF all A splendoured roar
love is a factory setting set on
getting ready
love creeps A long A line arriving just in time to find
out in down to earth again
beginning things by scratching chin up eye on the itch
wait ON what day break will bring offering Glife, health and limb
signs warning under sun shining turning round A world un done
love is a thunder bolt reckoning with A vote
to stay here stubborn or to go
love is like many things a room with circus rings
round an elephant
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new song Dm G C f Bb F Dm • Dm G C f Bb F C chorus DmGCDm all these things R answers lying where Another/ tree has fallen all these things R answers lying where Another/ tree is falling hearing oF conspiracy theories for against a tree falling in the forest fires raging all around us all these things R answers lying where Another/ tree has fallen all these things R answers lying where another tree is falling hidden in the cracks of eaves crevices trying 2 deceive you in2 esenarios oF super justice leagues all these things R answers lying where Another/ tree has fallen all these things R answers lying where another tree is falling honouring hierarchy out oF order breaking free taking on controlling channels • full and overflowing all these things R answers lying where Another/ tree has fallen all these things R answers lying where another tree is falling
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today i'm not myself
04:20
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today i don’t feel myself aug2018 AGD she said
i’m not myself • not today • i’m someone else
i AM not ok • IN anyway • i don’t feel well
why when it rains • sunshine blames me to be bright
then when the sun comes • he hides his head inside and smiles
i took turns against • with my strength • it left me weak
deep within their ranks • out on MY own • bound in between
why when it rains • sunshine complains º of melting ice
then when summer sings • wedding rings her heart felt sighs
now i’m lining up • from fooling round • to see ALL new
and with help and luck • and love will see that you get through
and with help and luck • and love we will see that we get through it
i am not myself • for today • i don’t feel well
once thought i could be • someone else • who was not me
i’m not myself • not today • i’m somewhere else
i am not ok • i am far away • though wishing well
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dºN’t dEPEND ºN ME(i’ll ºnly let yºu dºwn)NAZIS/NAtURE/LUST/LOVE/GOD
the dawn is always darkest *
the daze about 2 break †
the mourning sun shines down UPºN • brightening US 2wake
and fuck forwards • can’t find 4words 2 say
my 1thought trapped ºN trying 2TRK a train
i never meant 2 hurt you †
i cºuldn’t help myself †
the ºnly thing • you’re feeling • is the way i’ve always felt †
and when my feelings fall • all goes to hell †
dON’t depend ºN me 2 break your fall
don’t depend on me to break your fall † best not to depend on me at all
don’t depend on me to set you free somehow † you’re gonna have to somehow free yourself
don’t depend on me † for anything at all
don’t depend on me † i’ll only let you down
the heat down here is heavy †
this well’s about to bleed †
the love U have to offer me could never fill the need †
it’s always me who gets down on my knees †
it’s always you i’m bending down to please
this tricky trigger finger †
all thumbs gummed up with lead
the blue pill U choose tried and true instead of bleeding red
obeying doctors orders • warm from bed
trying SO hard 2 hear what’s up ahead
don’t depend on me to break your fall - best not to depend on me at all
don’t depend on me to set you free somehow - you’re gonna have to somehow free yourself
don’t depend on me - for anything at all
don’t depend on me - i’ll only let you down
don’t depend on me - CUZi’ll only let you down
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i’ve tried TO SEE the light of DAY Am Dm E
(I TRIED TO DRINK FROM BUTTERCUPS)
i tried to drink from buttercups - i tried to please - i tried my luck - i tried to be a better man - i couldn’t in the end
i’ve tried to see the of light day - i’ve tried to see from far away - upon a star against the sky - cold darkness crushing light
i’ve tried to make my mother cry - i tried to feel her pain inside - i’ve tried to be her only child - two sisters out at sea
i’ve tried to be the butterflies - the bees that hover apple pies - expecting great-ly what’s in-side - the apple of her eye
i’ve tried to be my mother’s child - i’ve learned i can’t be running wild - that life is better ON HER side - a child is never free
i’ve tried to see another way i’ve changed my ways and tried to stay - above the waves that crash and break - cold darkness into grey
i tried to drink the buttercups - i tried to please - i tried my luck - i tried to be a better man - i couldn’t give a damn
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new song southere alabaska working title CAPO6
Bm Em Cx2 - Am Em Dm Em, Am Em F
take your chance down to southern so i’ll ask her
don’t deny the fool ON his thrown UP ON the mountain
sand through slippery hands oasis desert ending
caged clawless guinea piggy still will B
hanging in the window in the mourning
dog day after noon we all have called this meeting
gathered all the heads R embedded in the board
honouring great thieves whose dissonance they’ve stolen
spitting up what blood clot dry dishes dripping
drenched in poison
Em C Bm
won’t no i won’t let it go my will i still strong so i won’t
let it go until the spill is all cleaned up
don’t give up on love coming 4 U after
dinner minds made UP oF loud and rival laughter
and don’t cry A river that’s running(2U dry) A way dry
don’t get down just to get up side down the ground
appears AS clear blue sky
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lightening loads mayend2019 A Dm E
ode 2 all that’s owed cold water washing o’er
A new born BB beats his heart pounds hARd 4 peace
Eearly birds riseGO peep peep peep
Dand i can hardly get2 sleep beneath the summer Ambreeze
SUN º big ball of fire º sky lightENing º my desire
lava flowing love warm flames burnt stars above
Eheightened 2 the heat BB breathes fast asleep º deep beside me
light a long the load far4 ward GO slower road
wild horses 2 tired 2 bolt 2 hands 2 handles hold
engraved ways weighed in gold
4 fathers being bold • brave in Ambelief
flight in open sky sweet dessert dripping dry sand skips in the wind
with dandy lion grin/s ºpride from eye 2 eye
wondering when the sky and earth will meet
tried so to be true SOtrue so true 2 U
light a leaning beam guides US 2ward our dreams
swaying in the praise gleaning sage Of age (less ness manw KRP)
beneath orchard apple trees
swing under crab apple trees
praying that u’ll stay º while knowing all the way
that nothing lasts 4 long
not even this here song
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levis®athan
03:16
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LEVIATHAN Dm3baet Am3beat aka hipocracy
re-arranged 4 Cm 4 holy CRP recordings contesting common reasoning CAPO3 AmE
AMBb
leviathan you’re wearing thin you’re not eating enough lately scary monster on the
moor
LEVIS® A than
shame is UP your highness under garments showing draping ºheld beholden
TOP above time • OVER same last century
under ground god golden idols ºburning up in effigy • surrendertRUth by rendering
sun2 shine on sunny DAZE
the Hipocracy of ignorance is growing vines around your fence ºing U in2 A corner
closing in on U again
strangling U by coroner ºquincy A dams apple (A)day • gulping in the guilt
double cruci -fixed christ sympathy
flying over fields of fortune dropping bombs ON children reading ºbOOks on
safe removal oF live mines ºin jungle sanctuaries
believing ghostS of gallantry • citing quotes on chivalry • gaping eyes young mouths
2feed • gauntlet lancing WARt worries
bureaucracy leviathan’s clammy hands clamp round your ring • fingering
distracting U • soothing what YER SOOth seeing
creature comforts creep A way • themeek inherit last class seats • leaving earth
2burn behind • A monu mental man made feat
sad seeing things through eyes strain hardening 2 comprehend • living in among mere
GIANts • immoral mortal hope less MEN
sins accusing god excuses lacking IN self lESS restraint • behaviour gone
unpunished • due 2 kamicosmic skeptic debt
the democracy of cretins ºis dreaming in what’s seem ing ly • impossible 2 C thin air
seeping bREAth • 2 black 2 breathe
changing blind direction • waiting on A new BORN dream • prying out enamellED
nails • scratching right back at U babe
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15. |
big mon(k)ey blues
02:27
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Eb
BIG money (monkey) chorus dance tune holy cr*p Eb
A D E capo6
pooling at the corner big money on the pocket
chick hens chec king clucking stare ring popping bottle rocket
a hun dead doll A.R. raising de pends on if i’ll drop it
i smoke her through the hazing pur ple rain
poor ºold seat bucket
chorus D A E DC/AE x4
big money booze drug sex drin king eve nings deeper in debt
big money funny how up set U get once i lose i’ll bet
pinching pe ne noodle • rol led oats hall car pet ting
a lie a loof in plain dis pute • Oºver co star red orion
cinematic story boredºsell an atom apple early
evening in the sand paper re fining fables glory
phoney ball be lonely for lorn • eich man searching h’ordeurves
taste testing his tory dress sing up in arms crossed for war
sa luting tears salt watering • gas wide eyed re volving
carousel piggy backing bacon wrapped warm hiding
loo king love ly in the light low laughing at the chorus
the bears row in a thruple • fun nelling nature’s golden porridge
bon ding by james’ river º7 ven dou bull split ban-ananas
mo no 2 nal monk keys un lock • neo lithic cam er as
oranges mourning sun day • kiss sing lips buzz squirrely
squirming with the worms the early birds absurdly worry
arg u ing down town preaching • blaming HIGH attendance
on the dancers folding flaps up on the pants hot trotting
ten ets
chorus D A E DC/AE x4
big money booze drug sex drin king eve nings deeper in debt
big money funny how up set U get once i lose i’ll bet```
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CANDY
02:25
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CANDY
candy craving coloured candy sticky sickly
sweet need to get my sugar fix sweet candy
calling me
candy colour coated sugared dreams of jellied beans planted 2 grow love❤️
candy orange and yellowed corny tEEth
climbing up a hot tin roof of ginger breaded dreams
sweet dreams oF sugar plums and candied beets
peanut butter spreading me out thick
slices oF vegan cake
candy limping with my candy cane
in the rain craving something sweet
22 carden street • got 2 get my can-dy´
candy need to get some candy treat
grab the grape ape licorice sticks slippery
but so sweet • 22 carden st.
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chilling tale song Bm F#m F#m A F#m Bm capo3
bridge Em A Bm
they R lying in the road • they’re taking way our children
preaching us that luck • ain’t too far a way
guns hired out for haunting houses/dollars five and dime ing
watches turn rewinding back 2 golden age
Em A Bm
i won’t be playing with no GUN CUZ we gotta a lot of fun gus
among us in U.S.
the states making A atate ment ON becoming # 1
trusting US 2 slouch 2 beth le ham
trusting that we’ll slouch to beth le hem
groping in the grandeur of A castle building
broken banks cliff hanging waving busted legs
reaping joys of sticky hand ling greener groceries
jamming in the basements factories A ban doned
Em A Bm
i won’t men TOR fOR rote i got a coat of coloured things 2 sing
2 fill my throat • the sinking in my chest for what we all all ready know
the hole2 crawl through ’s quickly closing UP
time/light has(co) lapsed/stalled throwing US back in2 the dark (in time to start)
we’ve been playing in the sellar tired of printing money
galloping far behind every black knight’s mare
warning is the sun shine high above US burning (infirmary)
petered OUt ON paying river jor DAN SIN
Em A Bm
i won’t be playing with no GUN CUZ we gotta a lot of fun gus
among us in U.S.
the states making A atate ment ON becoming # 1
trusting US 2 slouch 2 beth le hem
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`YouVEGANuary new song all oF a sudden Dtingle CAPO4
world’s an unforgiving storm howling winds volcanoes roaring
river feeding mouths for lorn fire breathing dragons burn
asbestos mines lungs unsung 2ward future cancers reap rewards
all that’s well has ended worse
lies R baiting out B4 U leap U look so badly bored
your ditch dug deep in creep the worms
until your mind your brains destroysA god tattling tales oF holy warsG
touchdown 2 ground begin again truth B known oF course is now
here then B the tolling hour beyond the void oF evil power
light shining brightly showing how
rampant running stampede 4 ward classy work war hero lords
abysmal grandeur chores oF choice not seeing trees B for the forest
statesman sounding warning horns
breast plates full of musket holes the war is over truth B scorned
shores of borders formerly owned melodic chords keeping 4 score
A new year’s fold envelopes the world
all that’s well has ended worse
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19. |
i broke it down
04:06
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i broke it down (back home again) 4Gfm7
BANGLEDSH YEARS
i broke it down head home again i swim
around these stones so thin for great
skipping i throw toward this sun i’m following
i have a heavy load i’m swallowing
my tongue and i am heading/bleeding/coming home
i’ve got no right or wrong too puzzling
but things do send me through to trip in blue
the colour red imbues is bubbling
inside my head i think i’m over due
to take a drink i need sometime to think
an older fire burns deep inside of me
i won’t go in the borders warm my feet
when i was young it all surrounded me
i’m older now i know it’s not around me at all
and you are all around me
i’m not going to go into the fire
i go around the warm and drawing desire
when i was young the fire surrounded me
but it’s not it’s not around you either the fever in the fire
is the believer
the bones you throw me freezing at my feet
i fall down hard on knees to eat the meat
repeating all the bending bleeding feats
i send you all my love but i am heading home
my soul so cold from eating meat
frozen in the snow the cold is killing me
we are getting old
ritual of defeat and picking up the peace
all the senseless sleighs down hills to
timbucktwo i have to find my place real
soon and all is said a nd/or done
it was me i was the one all along
i sold my home my pack i’m carrying
move like a snail the shell i wear a bring
i’ve only got the clothes i wear they stink
i look for water flow to clear my mind
and drink new life begun and i am heading out
in new world sun htis time i’m on the run
to forward hoe the
another load (of shit) of carrying it
protects my soul from anyone i’,m warying
about to poke my head at out
i don’t care much ‘bout things i’m unaware
of stuff supposed to be inspiring me
in others’ dreams of caring careless cares
and all my dreams have left to go up stairs
to sleep (2U)sweet dreams to u my sweet
sugar is tooth’s enemy to chew the tart
the stick is in decaying grounds where friends
have been a traveller i’m travelling alone
again but i am headed home i can se the lit i phone
put me to sleep tip toe up if you dare
are only leaving the human league
receding to deal with all its deeds
it cheapens me to care ‘bout t he stares so
burnt in all our ears of caring what other
think the cliff that leads us to the brink
of who care what anybody thinks
you think you think you know what i think
as travellers on this road i see as friends
without the sort of suffering you leave behind
when you begin to
i know what i have done
i know what i’m doing
i know where i’m going
i’m heading home
i can’t care much for things i’m unaware and i’m supposed to be
inspiring me in others’ dreams of are only leaving the human league
receding to deal with all its deeds
a heavy handed slides me home
frightened long walks dark down roads
a steeple chase ensue unfolds
i’m giving in to please my lord
for things to cum and i am coming home
around so stoned a nd thin a gain
this living with me alone has been
taking in it’s toll s spending thin again
i found my
and open house for friends and folks alone again
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20. |
talkin' A bout PEZ
01:14
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PEZpodcastJINGLE capo3
F C Bb
talkin’ A bout PEZ • while remembering with my past
legs sweet sugared bricks • slim body plastic cast
A head made 2 tilt back 2 throw UP coloured blocks
talkin’ A bout PEZ • cuz smoking i give UP
i’m talking about PEZ while i’m walking through my thoughts
so many things • that we ought 2 talk A bout
plastic fills OUR seas • the animals R fucked
talkin’ A bout PEZ • 2 escape this other stuff
feelin’ like A PEZhead • lEANING 2 FAR back
burping cherry fizz • orange lemon, Eduard Hass
in 1927 B4 hitler gets his grasp • was born 2 Austria
the first PEZ dispenser
talkin’ A bout PEZ • while remembering with my past
legs sweet sugared bricks • slim body plastic cast
A head made 2 tilt back 2 throw UP coloured blocks
talkin’ A bout PEZ • cuz smoking i gave UP
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1SAD AMENDS SONG capo6
GCD • CD GC • CEmAmC
wild life a fair fight 2 thee enD
i’m sad and i have a Dchance to make amends a gain
in 2 black hills from under burning bridges standing
alone in a corner with little jackie hornier
and hungry still longing for summer songs of some thing sexy
CDGCEmAm C
and i know i master bate far too much
don’t have much on my plate
but i’ve got enough to eat
got some(too much) thing 2 say
i’m sad and i have a Dchance to make amends a gain
in 2 the hills from under burning bridges standing
still in high heels hoping every thing that’s ever changing
will UP ON willing B well all IS always re arranging
C Em Am C
believing in U
believing in U
that you would ( come 2)save me
baby U gonna make me crazy 4 U 2 again
i’m sad and i have a Dchance to make amends a gain
in 2 the hills from under burning bridges standing
still in high heels wonder LUSTing where the rocks R wearing
OVER AND out on the DOWNtown painting each door red
i’m sad because i’ve had A Dway 2findnew friends again
in 2 blue films shining starring long legs lovely spreading
guided by light voices in my head ING shaking steady
holding tongues tight righteous playing safe with 5th amendment
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the tortoise and my hair Guelph, Ontario
diary of a decomposing dog
this diary on this scary day is one of warmth again and
play i am not going to say what my feeling really is in fact it’s just a lark that i have any at all no one’s left to listen, no one ever has, my bed’s been made un-wizened so been judged to be the best, but somehow just one wrinkle in my head is always left.
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