1. |
Get Off My Lawn
03:18
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You said you’d tread light
But you crushed my skull
You know it all
I’m sure that’s all you know
The sickness was passed down to me
By a tribe that had fallen asleep
And reason led us to think
We had a clue
Well lately I get the feeling
This is all just fake
Sometimes I’m not thinking about always
I’m just trying to stare into nothing
Oh please just get o my lawn
You stared at the sun
But all you saw was gold
You tried to stay young
But all you got was old
You saw something new in a dream
A machine inside a machine
Never content to just be
Passing through
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2. |
Idiot
03:29
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Tripping down the road
Thinking ‘bout all the things I lost
Everything that I can hold
I just as sure could drop
Looking out the window
And falling down the well
I learned a real secret
‘
Cause words could never tell
Wage a war against the sin
That makes you what you are
Love yourself and hate yourself
Forget it at the bar
Your head’s under the pillow
You still hear everything
Everyone’s a loser
And everyone’s a king
If I never froze
Then I’d never be warm
I beat it till it’s dead
Then I kill it some more
The idiot forgot to lock the door
Feed myself with paper
Then the paper turns to dust
Feed myself with nothing
Then the nothing turns to lust
Everything’s an object
And nothing is a thing
I dress a paper doll up
And give the doll a ring
Wade into the river
Where the filthy go to bathe
Wash away the dirt
And then just build it up again
I found a magic drug that
Will cure all of our ills
Ain’t it kind of funny
All it does is kill
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3. |
Alive Or Dreaming
02:56
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I hope there’s no one around
I’m feeling my feet leave the ground
I stumbled in through the timewave
I heard the familiar song
The one that’s eternally long
But nobody ever played it
I want to find it too
But when I think it through
It disappears into the light
I couldn’t scratch the itch
So I built my castle in the ditch
Am I alive or dreaming
I meant to say what I said
We’d all just be better off dead
Everything we touch crumbles
We’re on a permanent climb
Forwards and backwards in time
And I want to know what falling is
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4. |
The Truth
02:17
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The truth is that it’s all a joke
And the taste is quite bitter
I suppose we could change a thing or two
I suppose something different
Wake up in the warm sunshine
Give it another day
Everything goes away
I am the mask that he wears
To make it go away
Everything goes away
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5. |
Windows For The Blind
02:45
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The only work that I could ever find
Was just installing windows for the blind
My aim has been a little off the mark
I’m trying to thread a needle in the dark
And all I want is nothing more
Than to feed the flesh of the king
To the ones he ignores
You can fall in love with a bad idea
But it’ll turn out wrong if you’re right
What the hell are you doing to me
I
t never was quite clear enough to see
The tallest tree absorbs most of the light
I lost the war without a chance to fight
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6. |
The Visitor
03:53
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Oh black water take me down
Kill the vision and the sound
The strangest thing happens to people
If you just give them some time
Find myself locked in a cage
All the money that I saved
Won’t bail me out
The key it lies within my grasp
But I forgot how
The visitor whispered something to me
From the other side
I wasn’t listening
I was thinking of something else
An unpleasant heat
The pounding of feet
Down the hall in purgatory
An unloaded gun
We were just having fun
But how are you going to shoot me
Twist the screw into the wood
Twist until it’s understood
That each turn I take turns out worse
Than the turn that I took before
Snake the servant of the dead
I’d stake it all on what he said
But it’s bittersweet
The knowledge that
Everything must fall to rise again
Spend my life in chains
Inside of this cave
Shadows are all I can see
So how can I frame it
The voice of the Ancients
The language of the churning sea
Oh black water take me down
Kill the vision and the sound
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7. |
Lonely Life
03:19
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I was trying to become the flood
I was not clear-minded at the time
Still crawling out of the mud
And they told me
That there is no way out but through
Stop filling in the hole that we dug for you
It’s a lonely life
But it’s the only one that I will live
Got the Devil on my mind
But I don’t have a soul I can give him
In the meantime
It’s clear the time’s not right
It never is
It’s something immaterial
A refraction of the light
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8. |
Tedium Everlasting
02:34
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Tedium everlasting
Always barking up the same damn tree
The pile of bricks that we’re stacking
Is gonna fall down eventually
Well shouldn’t I try
To look it in the eye
I just need to finish one more thing
You say I’m on top
But I know I’m not
Everything here looks the same to me
Tedium everlasting
Peace and love under lock and key
Don’t even know why I’m asking
Wherever I go I’ve already been
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9. |
A Joke
03:18
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Oh that night
She introduced me to my shadow
She was unkind
A violent ripping of the veil
Slip out of my head
To the black and the red
It’s under the curtains
The land of the dead
That’s where I find
The Overmind
It’s realer than I could’ve realized
Now I know this is all
Just a joke
Oh that night
I tried to force the dust to settle
I
Relaxed my mind
But she pulled me back up through the tunnel
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10. |
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I thought that I thought the thought
That caused the world to stop
And I was horrified
Whispers in my ears
Like a virus spreading through my brain
Into your brain
I tried to take it back
But it was far too late
My head split open wide
And spread out into space
Now nothing’s funny
But I’m laughing anyway
On my way out
I thought that I thought the thought
That caused the world to stop
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11. |
Reassemble Me
03:48
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I tricked myself into thinking I was free
I’ll do my best to reassemble me
I’ll climb back down
The ladder that I came up
There’s still something
Hiding in the basement
And it’s afraid of the light
I bet I can tame it
Then it’ll be mine
You all say you want to live forevermore
Well I wish that I were never born
I’ve walked all over this world
Thinking things that I never should
I’ve fallen down on my face
A frozen man in a warm embrace
I’m so sick of the rules I follow
Take ‘em out of my empty grave
I got a strange obsession with tomorrow
What a wonderful gift he gave to us
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12. |
I'm Still Looking
03:49
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The things I’ve barely seen
The long-forgotten dream
Somehow I lost the thread
And I just can’t seem to find it again
A prisoner in this life
Who’s got the sharpest knife
Walk through the open door
And shut it behind me
Oh I’m not that bad
I’m not quite a fallen angel
Just an ant that’s stuck in the hill
Spending my days
Watching them waste away
Thinking ‘bout the spoke and the wheel
Oh I’m still looking for a hole in the tapestry
My senses wove within my mind
I’m still looking for his soul in the photograph
Sometimes I see it when I shut my eyes
A single step beyond
One drop in the pond
It’s all the same in here
So I’m always forgetting myself
It’s so bright and clear
My shadow likes it here
A great wide-open space
Where there’s no use in running away
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And And And Portland, Oregon
Hello friends,
After many years of playing together, And And And has decided to call it
quits.
We’re thankful for all the friends we’ve made. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to play music for a whole decade.
Love,
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