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Odyssey
05:50
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Enjoy your Odyssey
and don’t for get to write to me
Take photos of
everything you love,
Memories worth while to keep holding on to
Enjoy your Odyssey
if you feel the need to get me something,
Bring back a view
one that stuck with you
Painted vividly, as if I were right there with you
Send me your menacing
madness and misery,
Don't send me home until I’m shook.
I can’t tell if you are serious or just dark,
but I like that you still find it fun
that after years of us sitting here
mocking the regulars,
we’ve become them
and it feels so empty here
I just thought that there’d be more
Odysseys in foreign cars
to strange places after dark
were the only times I felt at home
Where do you see yourself
when you finally leave yourself?
I don’t know, that seems so far from now.
Do we love because we need to be
told we’re good company?
Because it seems to me
we’ve both become boring
How could you love anything
while you’re holding out for something more?
I thought that I was bad enough to hope to make it with you,
but you’ve been really beating up on my heart
and its a shame that I can’t stand to see you
lonely or with other people
and its a shame that I can’t move on
Good morning, sweet Odyssey
Forever cursed to always answer your call
Good morning, sweet Odyssey
I’ll be sure to lock the door behind you when you go
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2. |
What is Happening to Me?
04:10
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Once again,
here I am
everyone’s staring at me
because I thought in this stall
I’d get some privacy
Is it hot in here or is it just me?
Oh I want to keep up,
but somethings happening to me...
Once again,
here I am
I can’t hold down anything
but I don’t care,
broke is in when you have everything.
My friends take me outside,
said some air’s what I need
and when we opened the door
something happened to me…
When we get to my room
and you start staring at me,
waiting for me to move toward you provocatively
These dances with certain strangers sure used to be my thing,
but lately it feels like something’s happened to me...
Once again,
here I am
burnt out on trashing things
that I like, that I loath
now I know its phony
Though I try to dress well,
what I wear’s out of style
so I look like a dick
and thats why you all smile
but its cool…
Outsiders are the middle
the ends are on top
I forgot all of our safe words
when we jerk ourselves off
Where’s the joy in being shallow?
Because its been lost on me
You don’t take me nowhere
because there’s nowhere to be
I can’t keep up with post modernity
and I feel like that should scare the shit out of me.
Tell me, what side of irony is the ‘cool’ place to be?
and does anyone here know
What's happening to me?
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3. |
High Fidelity
04:40
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I’m still young
Though old in mind
Out to make sense of an average life
If I told you all the things I think
I’m sure you’d lose my number
My god you’re so easy on the eyes
You’re terrible at hiding it,
that you are mad like me
and weirdly I find that comforting
Im gushing over you
cuz I dig your taste in tunes
I went through all your CDR’s
titled XOXO in red ink
and all I want from you is more to listen to
next time we meet
to make me feel like you’re here with me
in High Fidelity
in High Fidelity
Apart we are whole,
Together we’re shapeless.
My Beatrice Divine, a power much greater than I
Until we become united through patience
Jack White’s your God,
you’re my Saint Mary
I’ll rush through hellish flames awaiting me
on lip marked sleeves of Bowie-era Iggy
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4. |
Ghosts
04:36
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I'm riding vicious waves of loving and hating you,
its something new
I'm only human, after all
I felt my chest stop beating
When you passed right through me
I guess I knew, what could I do?
You had your mind made up
(Hey, Hey, Hey)
Your only problem is that you're terrified
(So am I)
You're only calling 'cause your guilty for lying
for wasting both of our time
so you think that you would sleep better
if you knew I was standing by.
Your honeymoons with someone else
will come up short until you love yourself,
the future ain't what it used to be
and you and me gotta get used to being better off alone
You would be surprised
how long I've been torturing myself keeping tabs on you, baby.
I almost wish there was someone else
so I could make you an enemy
because I'm having problems letting go
(I said goodbye)
You never call when I am just on your mind
(I don't have time)
You're only calling 'cause your guilty for lying
for wasting both of our time
so you think that you would sleep better
if you knew I was standing by.
Your honeymoons with someone else
will come up short until you love yourself,
the future ain't what it used to be
and you and me gotta get used to being better off alone
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5. |
State Of Emergency
04:04
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Its been far too quiet in the sprawls of suburbia
Its been too good here for far too long
Mr. Henley next door has been acting kinda funny
and the families down the street
have been locking up their doors when we pass by
Whats got them acting this way?
Oh you must have seen it on the news…
Surely you’re not okay,
Oh you must have got the memo
We’re in a State of Emergency,
You cant be too careful…
Watch what you’re saying and who you’ve been saying it to,
Secrets come in short supply these days
and everyone has it out for you
What’s your family been saying
about you when you’re not around?
Is all of it pleasant?
Or would some of it confirm what you already think about yourself?
State of Emergency,
You can’t be too careful…
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6. |
(30)
04:46
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When they come for the body
tell them I had it coming
Oh I used to look too damn good in black and white,
until the colors started running
Where are all my heroes now?
What am I to do?
The lights came up on my youth
and the DJ says she’s through
I think we let our parents down,
because we’re not out there being astronauts
I thought we would be though,
I thought we would be by now…
30's the new dead
In my will there’s only pennies and regret
30's the new dead
Or at least that's what I’m told,
but I don’t feel all that old
What if the cake has been a lie
made to keep us hungry?
While we’re living in the shadows of our sisters
making money in the valley
Always working to keep up,
but always end up burning out
before you know it 28’s here
and we’re the last gang in town
Because 30’s the new dead
in my will there’s only pennies and regret
30’s the new dead
Or at least that’s what I was told,
but I don’t feel all the old just yet.
We will start to couple up
and we’ll hang out few and far between
Because our others don’t like
people like the old you and me
and they’re right to, probably.
But from time to time
the stars align
I will catch you on the town some night
and they’ll have to tolerate us both
as you and I party like
30’s the new dead
and we don’t wanna die alone
30’s the new dead
and its coming up quick
only when we’ve just begun to get the hang of all this…
30’s the new dead
and we’re not gonna die alone.
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Sunset Exotic is Charlie Foltz. Charlie makes music out of his garage in Santa Rosa, Ca.
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