Chemical Strain lyrics - Cursive
Chemical strain
A trickle trickle in your viny veins
Puppeting your heart-strings
You'll behave the way you should behave
Unless you crush it up, chop it up
Pour the old elixir down the drain
Your drain
The naughtiest wolves get the worst restraints
Chemical strain
Chemical burn
Your cerebrum's getting upturned
A deforestation of every memory you once preserved
Smash it up, smash it up
Beat them at the psychopathic games
You're truly in control, out of control
All those bottles in your drawer
They made you so sane
So sane
It slips in your veins
As your heart starts to race
The beat gets stuck on repeat
And breaks!
Chemicals, chemicals
Chemicals, chemicals
No more chemicals, chemicals
No more chemicals
Chemical strain
Frankly, Mr. Shankly lyrics - Cursive
(originally by The Smiths)
Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way and it corrodes my soul
I want to leave
You will not miss me
I want to go down in musical history
Oh
Frankly, Mr. Shankly, I'm a sickening wreck
I've got the 21st century breathing down my neck
I must move fast, you understand me
I want to go down in celluloid history
Oh
Fame, fame, fatal fame
It can play hideous tricks on the brain
But still I rather be famous
Than righteous or holy
Oh, any day, any day, any day
But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled
Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill
I want to live and I want to love
I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of
Oh
Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way and it corrodes my soul
Oh, I didn't realize that you wrote poetry
I didn't realize you wrote such fucking awful poetry, Mr. Shankly
Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask
You are a flatulent pain the ass
I do not mean to be so rude
But still, I must speak frankly, Mr. Shankly
Oh, give us money
Mama's Baggage lyrics - Cursive
We stole all Mama's baggage
And stuffed it with Daddy's cologne and Sunday best
And then I sat up in bed in a nervous sweat
Waiting for those creaking warning stairs
As the lights went out, I snuck out my window
And ran down those railroad tracks
There's no turning back
No, I ain't turning back
This city's a crucifix and I have suffered for it
Just feel the scar along my side
And I'm no savior
But I could have saved you from this Bible-beating life
The train leaves half past twelve
You're too afraid to live without
Without a father
With no provider
We're bastards all along
When they dumped you in the lake
Were you held under too long?
My only brother
We swore we'd both escape from the cloth
In Mama's baggage, I found a photo
Of our trip to Colorado Springs
I was young and defiant, but you were compliant
A happy toddler in Daddy's arms
I hung the picture upon the mirror in my dingy motel room
The sirens howl at night, strangers prowl outside
I tremble in bed thinking of you
I tried to call the house
I keep hanging up the phone
When I hear his voice, I remember those Sundays
And I'm glad I finally left home
I'd rather be alone than wrong
You keep nesting away your doubt
But I'm no sinner
Sure, I've made some mistakes
Some I can't forgive
And this might be my hell
But at least I damned myself
No more preachers nailing me to the cross
You're too afraid to live without
He who believes will be saved
He who believes will behave
So I'm condemned, huh?
Some baptism, anointed with piss and spit
How could you leave me behind and join their side?
How long until we all surrender?
Modern Love lyrics - Cursive
I know when to go out
And when to stay in
Get things done
I catch a paper boy
But things don't really change
I'm standing in the wind
But I never wave bye-bye
But I try, I try
There's no sign of life
It's just the power to charm
I'm lying in the rain
But I never wave bye-bye
But I try, I try
Never gonna fall for
Walks beside me
(Modern love) walks on by
(Modern love) gets me to the church on time
(Church on time) terrifies me
(Church on time) makes me party
(Church on time) puts my trust in God and man
(God and man) no confessions
(God and man) no religion
(God and man) don't believe in modern love
It's not really work
It's just the power to charm
I'm still standing in the wind
But I never wave bye bye
But I try, I try
Never gonna fall for
Walks beside me
(Modern love) walks on by
(Modern love) gets me to the church on time
(Church on time) terrifies me
(Church on time) makes me party
(Church on time) puts my trust in God and man
(God and man) no confessions
(God and man) no religion
(God and man) don't believe in modern love walks beside me
(Modern love) walks on by
(Modern love) gets me to the church on time
(Church on time) terrifies me
(Church on time) makes me party
(Church on time) puts my trust in God and man
(God and man) no confessions
(God and man) no religion
(God and man)don't believe in modern love
Modern love (modern love)
Modern love (modern love)
Modern love (modern love)
Modern love (modern love)
Modern love (modern love)
Modern love (modern love)
Modern love (modern love)
Modern love (modern love)
(Modern love)
(Modern love)
(Modern love)
(Modern love)
Modern love, walks beside me
(Modern love)
Modern love, walks on by
(Modern love)
Modern love, walks beside me
Modern love
Modern love, walks on by
Modern love
Never gonna fall for
Modern love
Modern love
Piccolo Pete lyrics - Cursive
You can devote your life to trying to get it right
But what's that even mean?
You can read every book, see every film
Now if you only knew how to make up your mind
You can yell from the mountains or down the well
To the same reply
Lucky bask in white
It's the echo of mankind
All we are is all we are; so what?
The more I learn, the more I just give up
From the highest cliff, o'er the raging sea
We march single file
Try as you might to step out of line
Eventually, we're all going to take a dive
You can halt the ticking of a clock
But you can't bind the hands of time
Lucky bask in white
It complicates mankind
We're born and procreate and then we die
Everything between's just beating off
The birds fuck, the bees fuck
The flowers fuck, the trees, all wrong
Just one big happy fucking family
We're almost to the sea, I can hear the crashing tides
Baby, I wish I weren't so afraid to die
Take my hand, we'll get there side by side
We never got answers, just wrinkles and cancers
Well, here we are at the head of the line
Supernova 95 lyrics - Cursive
Watching TV with the sound down
Listening to Primus on repeat
Scraping resin with the antenna
A fresh bag could be another week
Crashing out on the couch
You found curbed in the suburbs
Your roommate just became your ex
Her new man's taking over your bed
You're so bored with everything
You used to dream in color, so American
Reds and whites and blues, but mostly green
Until you learned economy is just a Ponzi scheme
Burnt out, burnt out
It's hard to give a shit
Burnt out, burnt out
When it's easier to quit
What's effort going to get me?
Responsibility?
Another job?
Some shitty job?
Making out with whoever'll have me
Drinking with whoever gets the drinks
America on a dollar a day
One buck, a dozen hush puppies
Bought an ax
Bought an amp
In the back kicking out the jams
30 pack of Natty Light
9.99's going to pull us through the night
I've worked each restaurant from downtown to the lake
Raking in the minimum wage
Doing part-time at 3.25
Became 4.25
Burnt out, burnt out
These jobs are fucking jokes
Burnt out, burnt out
The dollar is a hoax!
What's a degree get me?
Opportunity?
A foot in the door?
The doors are closed
So burn out, burn out
Burn out, burn out
What's effort going to get me?
Responsibility?
Another job?
Another job?
Another job?
Another job?
Some shitty job?
Another job
Universal Shrug lyrics - Universal Shrug
It's not your parents
It's not your friends
It's not your siblings' indifference
It's not your job
It's not your boss
It's not the last five years you lost
It's not that girl you could never get
It's not the lover you never met
It's not your stuffy studio
It's not that shitty car you want
It's you
You're the sum of all the mistakes you've plotted through
The product of all pleasures
The situations you should come to
The guilt you've gone through afterward
You're the reason you don't sleep well sober
The whole of your hangovers; poor kid
The measure of your motives
And where those motives led
It's not the city you never left
That haunted house where you shared a bed
What'd that woman say to you?
It's not me, it's you
It's not me, it's you
It's you
It's you
It's you
It's no big deal
You're the total of all the trials you've been through
The remainder of your anger
It's the albatross you'll never lose
That bird's been on your neck
Since you learned the world will always turn against you
You choose to live counter-clockwise
You're the time of your life
So what's in that dapper necktie?
Raise your cup to the universal shrug
Why get so worked up?
Just shrug it off, and pass the peanuts
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