Lyrics - The Damnwells

The Damnwells – Bastards of the Beat

1. Assholes

Everybody grew up and turned into assholes
You dont have to show up, given me hassel
You just keep on walking
Never looking over at me
Is this what you call free
Is this what you call free
Wont you quit bothering me

2. What You Get

Say what you wanna say, but it don’t matter
Say what you wanna say, but we don’t care
You haven’t anything that we would bother
You haven’t anything that we would dare

Say what you wanna say
Do what you wanna do
Say what you wanna say
Do what you wanna do

That’s what you get for being afraid
That’s what you get for staying away
That’s what you get

Say what you wanna say, but it don’t matter
Say what you wanna say, but you don’t care
She hasn’t anything that you would bother
She hasn’t anything that you would dare

Say what you wanna say, but it don’t matter
Do what you wanna do, but we don’t care
Say what you wanna say, but it don’t matter
Do what you wanna do, but we don’t care

That’s what you get for being afraid
That’s what you get for staying away
Go one, regret, do it anyway
That’s what you get for being afraid
Being afraid
That’s what you get
That’s what you get
That’s what you get

3. Kiss Catastrophe

Why do you kiss goodbye every night?
Giving me every reason to lie?
Can I be in your way for awhile?
Can I get in the back seat and hide?

Take it down to the street anytime
Lock me out of the sheets for awhile
Give us a kiss with sharp little knives

You are the last thing on my mind
I’ll be the first you leave behind
and everyone knows why…

So give it up, give it back to me
Will you be mine while the winners sleep
So give it up, give it back to me
Open wide kiss catastrophe

Circling over you and in between
Your shiver and my blue restless teen
More lovely than a reason to leave

‘Cause you are the last thing on my mind
I’ll be the first to leave behind
And everyone knows why…

So give it up, give it back to me
Will you be mine while the winners sleep
So give it up, give it back to me
Open wide kiss catastrophe
Give it up, give it back to me
Give it up, give it back to me

4. I’ll Be Around

You go on leaving all of yourself
You go on keeping everything else
So come in dreaming, no one can tell
‘Cause you always wear it well
You go on ringing every bell
You know my demons are too bold for hell
I kept you letters for nobody else
I’m keepin you all to myself

So come on bleeding
‘Cause my lines completing
You ride in knockin’ the widower
Right to the ground

I’ll be around
I’ll be around
I’ll be around
I’ll be around

You come on burning me into yourself
You go on leaving your ghost on my shelf
The lights are dark at the Nile of your well
Come on lonely, cast me a spell

You come on seething
‘Cause my lies we’re cheating
You ride in knocked the widower
Right to the ground

I’ll be around
I’ll be around
I’ll be around
I’ll be around, yeah
I’ll be around, yeah
I’ll be around
I’ll be around
I’ll be around
I’ll be around

5. Newborn History

Is there something you’ve been waiting for
For a long time?
A stupid game where you’ve been keeping
score in your mind?
You write the books in your head
I’ll keep the last days instead

Can you calculate an even cure
And a crime

So you come around and we all slow down
So you come around and I tried to wear you out
With my newborn history
A faithless eulogy
And if I can’t keep you down
No one will

I have seen the bones beneath the stare
of your eyes
Have you traded in the yellow hair
for cheap smiles

Call you another doctor
This one seems to think you’re just fine
I have tasted all your sympathy
And I don’t care

So you come around and we all slow down
So you come around and I tried to wear you out
With my newborn history
A faithless eulogy
And if I can’t keep you down
no one will

So you come around and we all slow down
So you come around and I tried to wear you out
So you come around and we all slow down
So you come around and I tried to wear you out
Wear you out, I tried to wear you out
Wear you out, I tried to wear you out

6. I Will Keep The Bad Things From You

I will keep the bad things from you
I will keep a straight face honey
You can keep your last name if you want to
and I will give you all my money
I could take a plane right to you
If I could just stop running
what if all this was true?

I will keep the bank from calling
I will keep those bastards from you
I will keep your smile from falling
this time the casualties were few
‘Cause we kept the bastards brawling
We kept our hearts from view
This time we’re problem solving

Catch it while you can
It’s the feel good hit of the summer
Catch it while you can
‘Cause there won’t be another

You keep the band names coming
I’ll make the jokes real funny
We’ll keep the skeptics humming
And someone else will take the money
We’ll keep the hamsters running
I’ll be the sour in your tummy
Who’ll wipe the nose that’s running

Catch it while you can
It’s the feel good hit of the summer
Catch it while you can
‘Cause there won’t be another

I will sleep above the covers
I will love you like no other
I will be your dad and mother
I will give you older brothers
I will feed you fries with steak sauce
I will keep the price below the cost
I will lead the way from “All Is Lost”

Catch it while you can
It’s the feel good hit of the summer
Catch it while you can
‘Cause there won’t be another, won’t be another

I’ll keep the bad things from you
I’ll keep the bad things from you
I’ll keep the bad things from you

7. Sleepsinging

It’s up to you now
This place is filling up with smoke
You won’t let me breathe in or out
So I resolve to cut my own throat

And I will never change
Not for anyone
Sometimes I wish
I could leave myself alone
I could leave myself alone

Each day you bring me closer
to going nowhere
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah
Someday you’re gonna wish
You’d taken better care of me
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah

I have been such a fool for you
I put my faith in things you could never do
Now I’m chasing myself to catch up with you
And you mixed every drink of lies with the truth

Each day you bring me closer
to going nowhere
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah
Someday you’re gonna wish
You’d taken better care of me
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah

I will never change, no
Will you ever change? …No

Each day you bring me closer
to going nowhere
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah
Someday you’re gonna wish
You’d taken better care of me
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah
Someday you’re gonna wish
You’d taken better care of me
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah
Like sleep walking I’m sleepsinging, yeah

8. The Sound

On the blank lines ring the words right
sing the same things for the new fight
did you forget
I give it my best but not only take the worst
when the song rings through your new skin
will you listen
I will go back to the sound
with good luck, with good luck
if you keep the backbeat down
with good luck, with good luck
on the same lines it’s about time
curse the sad site of your white trite
and it’s always the same
I give it away but it just comes right back
when the song rings through your new skin
will you listen
I will go back to the sound
with good luck, with good luck
if you keep the backbeat down
with good luck, with good luck
I will go back to the sound
with good luck, with good luck
if you keep the backbeat down
with good luck, with good luck

I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
I will go back to the sound
with good luck, with good luck

9. The Lost Complaint

When you gonna stay the same
Not till I’ve gone away
When you gonna take the blame
Oh when your love has strayed

When you gonna taste the same
Go and perform again
When you gonna call the game
This is the lost complaint

Chorus:
I just want the focus on you
My photograph won’t disappoint you
I just want the focus on you
Marie Claire’s /Mademoiselle’s /Seventeen’s
got nothing on you
I just want the focus on you

When you gonna change your name
To one that we can say
When you gonna keep the take
That’s when the crime has paid

Chorus

10. Electric Harmony

The clock would ring just like a bell
the green in her eyes dropped out and fell
everywhere
but I don’t care
I can see
that she’s made of something else entirely
has she completely gone crazy
she kissed me back and ran
she’s my electric harmony
and I’m her little paper tree
she looks me up and down again
she’s looking out and I’m looking in
she’s my electric harmony
I’ve counted all the things I can see
the spots and bumps and valleys that
are keeping you in
then you begin
to become a million things
I tried to gather all of them but I couldn’t sing
has she completely gone crazy
she kissed me back and ran
she’s my electric harmony
and I’m her little paper tree
she looks me up and down again
she’s looking out and I’m looking in
she’s my electric harmony
did I catch your name?
was it something weird or something strange?
did I catch your name? did I catch your name?
was it something strange?
she’s my electric harmony
and I’m her little paper tree
she looks me up and down again
she’s looking out and I’m looking in
she’s my electric harmony

11. New Delhi

What’s the deal with you and Lucinda
she said that you broke her hymen
while playing kick ball
I just think that you really weren’t trying
I’ve seen you slay bigger dragons
in the Moorestown mall
give me a call
we’re having a ball
run and slide on your belly
folks are in New Delhi
we’re making prank calls
is that all you really remember
there was something behind your eyes
when you punched Sam Roy
please excuse our son he doesn’t feel right
he just doesn’t seem to enjoy all the things
that a little boy should
give me a call
we’re having a ball
go and turn on the TV
naked women on 63
I wish I was tall
Gloria just confused with Walter
she would never hold hands with a boy like you
’cause you’re made of slime
don’t tell me that my boy has big problems
don’t you worry about my son
he’ll be just fine
give me a call
we’re having a ball
run and slide on your belly
folks are in New Delhi
we’re making prank calls
give me a call
we’re having a ball
go and turn on the TV
naked women on 63
I wish I was tall
don’t you wish you were tall
we’re having a ball x 7

12. Star/Fool

Take a bite right out of me
and burn the rest in effigy
hang me from the family tree
and what you try to steal
will one day set me free
is this what you’ve come to see
all this blood I’ve got to bleed
southern fruit cut from the tree
and burning through the heart
with no apology
I’m coming back for you
yeah yeah
I sing the Devil’s blues
yeah yeah
I’m burning like a star
searching for a fool
so give me what you lose
yeah yeah
I will keep this little seed
it won’t be beat by no police
I will swallow it for me
so cut me from the poplar tree
I have been received
I’m coming back for you
yeah yeah
I sing the Devil’s blues
yeah yeah
I’m burning like a star
searching for a fool
so give me what you lose
yeah yeah
I’m coming back for you
yeah yeah
I’m coming back for you
yeah yeah
I’m coming back for you
yeah
I’m coming back for you
yeah yeah yeah

coming back for you
yeah yeah

13. Texas

I’m ten thousand miles from you
my sky is black when yours is blue
you just steal my broken faith
and put it back together
you’re cheating on the weather with me
I sing a song i wrote for you
a hundred melodies so blue
will you be my stolen rain
that washed it all together
I love you like a fever gone cold

chorus

I’m singin in my sleep
driving across texas with you
and you look so good
I’m singin in my sleep
driving across texas with you
and you look so good

I could stay another day with you
stall winters pain till june
will it stay the same
will winter be in summer
I’m already gettin older with you

chorus

The Damnwells – Air Stereo

1. I’ve Got You

I’ve got doubts I can’t even count
I’ve got mirrors that take me apart
I’ve got blues mounting revolt
I’ve got songs that stall when I start

But I’ve got you babe
Diamonds and pearls, babe
I’ve got you girl
And that’s all I need

I’ve got rockets from Brooklyn to Gaul
I’ve got nightmares about waking up
I’ve got Senators I never consult
I’ve got a wintering heart in a lead cup

But I’ve got you, babe
More than a feeling, babe
I’ve got you, girl
And that’s all I need

I’ve got black bones wrinkling
I’ve got walls, and walls, and walls
I’ve got friends I only insult
I’ve got so many people I need to call

But I’ve got you, babe
Radar love, babe
I’ve got you babe
I want you to want me, babe
I’ve got you girl
And that’s all I need

I’ve got symbols and idols everywhere
I’ve got no good news and a family disease
I’ve got true things that come back corrupt
I’ve got bad manners, I never say please

But I’ve got you, babe

Don’t stop believin’, babe
I’ve got you, babe
Kick-start my heart, babe
I’ve got you babe
Sweet child o’ mine
I’ve got you, babe
Wanna be startin’ something babe

I’ve got you, babe

2. Accidental Man

It’s been days, months, and years
Since your tongue ties knots in my throat
Got me high
Left me dry

I was cold, driving tears
Over double yellow bloodlines
Well I tried
And I lied

Go and say what you will
All these French words seem to fail you
Every time
Get on line

Kiss my cheek, ring my ear
Merry hit list, happy new fear
You’re so fine
When you’re not mine

I’ll be your accidental man,
You be my circumstantial lover.
I’m here to ruin all your plans,
I’m here to steal you from your mother.
I’ll be your accidental man,
You be my worst kept secret.
I’ll come and take you by the hand.
But you take it all and keep it.
I’ll be your accidental man.
I’ll be your accidental man.
I’ll be your accidental man.
I’ll be your accidental man.

3. You Don’t Have to Like Me to Love Me (Tonight)

Honey I know it’s late,
But I’m on a roll with you.
I’m on a roll with you.
The sugar is on.

Honey I know your faith
Is making a ghost of you.
It’s making a ghost of you.
So why don’t you let me take you home?

So come on surrender to this here pretender,
For once in your life.
Don’t dare consider a cold, hungry shiver,
‘Cause I’m your fire tonight.
I’m your contender for cheap silly splendor,
And you’re my restless bride.
And you don’t have to like me to love me tonight.

Honey I know you’re tight,
So come have a drink with me.
Come take a sip of mine.
Crooked teeth and wine.

Honey I know you’re bright,
Your blinded with apathy.
Your body’s a ministry.
But darlin if you’re 18, I’m 23.

Ohhhh don’t be a fool,
I’ll take good care of you.
Noooobody, it’s true, can tease me like you.
Should we never be ours,
Leave it all, the skies and the scars.
Please don’t leave me alone tonight.

4. Golden Days

On your mark, get ready, set and run away for good
There’s a bold unbridled lie where my soul once stood
Fall apart confetti, come on, cry right on my sleeve
I am just a ghost of hearts that break bittersweet

Am I in tune?
Yeah, I can’t hear much but the melody coming from you
Baby please don’t rush
Keep the tempo slow and blue
Let me hear the words you say
Let’s go and get tangled in chains of golden days

Counting down T-Minus 10, 9, wait I still believe
There’s a distance in your eyes only mine can see

Leave the ground behind us, I’ll be floating ’round your lips
I am just a host of arms holding one fool wish

5. Louisville

I never wanted to get you down or start you up
I tried to bet on your winsome frown with sad Irish luck
I never thought you would wake me up and take me out
I wanted to feel anything from you, even a handsome doubt

All I wanted was going home
All they gave me was Louisville
I don’t want love or conquered Rome
Just your voice and a sleeping pill
Louisville, Louisville

I’m gonna trade in Friday nights for a piece of your heart
Me, you, and bourbon beating down in Echo park
I never wanted to keep you up or leave you alone
Cell phones and stars only tease you, they never take you home

All I wanted was going home
All they gave me was Louisville
I don’t want love or conquered Rome
Just your voice and a sleeping pill
Louisville, Louisville

I wanna make up my mind
I wanna waste all your time
I’ll be forever your thief
Sweep me on my feet

I never wanted to get you down or start you up
You know you could turn my luck around with a touch

All I wanted was going home
All they gave me was Louisville
I don’t want love or conquered Rome
Just your voice and a sleeping pill
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville, Louisville
Louisville

6. Sell the Lie

Go out under white street lights
And find the real black and white
The blueprints just might say you were right

I won’t go home till I’ve found my way there
I wont leave here with old faded fears
Of what’s gone and what was never here

Don’t call me tonight
I can’t make it right

Just say anything you want to
You don’t need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth
Give away the truth

I have seen, among the oldest of things
The beginning, the start of the seam
That holds together
And keeps it from losing me

Don’t call me tonight
I can’t make it right

Just say anything you want to
You don’t need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth

Just say anything you want to
You don’t need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth
Give away the truth

Just say anything you want to
You don’t need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth

Just say anything you want to
You don’t need all the things they promised to you
Sell the lie and give away the truth
Give away the truth

7. Shiny Bruise

Contract killers cannot find me
I’m at home when I’m with you
No matter where I am

Give me my last rights, I’m converted
Forever yours, my horny lord
We’re introverted

The end will be much quicker than the beginning
I’m hoping that the things I said
Are remaining with you
For everytime I doubted you
I give myself a shiny bruise
I will be the sweetest thing
Surrendered

Is it too late to say I’m sorry?
Some bitter bile for the selfish child
Who missed his chance for holy mercy

Better rely your own sorrow
If this was me, I’d let you run away
With all you borrowed

8. Heartbreaklist

Your beat is the same beat that played for me
Half-time, with a sweet skin harmony

Locked down on a fool’s note
Laid up on your bruised hope
Your love is the same love that set me free

You’re on the heartbreaklist,
You’re on the payroll.
You come with a hit and miss
And gone when the lights go
You’re on the heartbreaklist
You’re on the payroll
You’re on the payroll

Come dance, ’cause my head waits for your lead
Sin silk and a deep breath of what you breathe

Lost track of your cruel code
Lapped lust on the wrong road.
Take stars ’cause you’re dim light is all I need

You’re on the heartbreaklist
You’re on the payroll
You come with a hit and miss
And gone when the lights go
You’re on the heartbreaklist
You’re on the payroll
You’re on the payroll

You’re on the heartbreaklist
You’re on the payroll
You come with a hit and miss
And gone when the lights go
You’re on the heartbreaklist
You’re on the payroll
You’re on my payroll

9. Kung Fu Grip Kiss

Forgive me baby, I am so full of hearts
Swelled up with sadness and broken in parts
Forgive me baby, I know not what I do
But I do know, honey, I love you

Forgive me child, for the tears that I’ve cried
I’m so frightened to death that I’m starting to die
Forgive me child, if I can’t find the truth
I was lookin’ for Jesus and I wound up with you

Cracks in the ceilin’
Split-screen feelin’
And the sad/happy blues
We’ve got nothin’ to lose
‘Cept me, this, and you

No one’s gonna let you down
No, not while I’m around
No one’s gonna leave you here
I will always be near

Can’t you feel this?
It’s like a kung fu grip kiss
There are stars just for you. Wish

Forgive me love, if the coast wasn’t clear
There was so much debris when I looked in the mirror
Forgive me love, for my broken bones
It’s the same anxious heart bleeding right through the phone

Forgive my grace, for my part in the war
They were beating me down, breakin’ right through the door
Forgive me grace, for the distance I feel
I was running away from this thing that was real

Cracks in the ceilin’
Split-screen feelin’
And the sad/happy blues
We’ve got nothin’ to lose
‘Cept me, this, and you

No one’s gonna let you down
No, not while I’m around
No one’s gonna leave you here
I will always be near

Can’t you feel this?
It’s like a kung fu grip kiss
There are stars just for you. Wish

Come and free your prisoner from his burnin’ cell
I’m with you baby, rain or shine, heaven or hell
I can’t be alone
Without writing a sad, sad song
When are you comin’ home?

No one’s gonna let you down
No, not while I’m around
No one’s gonna leave you here
I will always be near

10. I Am a Leaver

Lock your lips in eastern time
Bleed my heart, I’m leaving mine
See my soul makes it home
I’m high in wretched wine
Spinning here alone

I left you on the street
With a face so long
That it touched your feet

I am a leaver
Is my time wasting well?
I am a leaver
I haven’t landed since I fell

Running streets I’ve never found
Singing songs without a sound
Can I shake you from the tree
And sow you in the ground
And keep you next to me?

You left me in defeat
With a loss so great
That I can’t retreat

I am a leaver
Is my time wasting well?
I am a leaver
I haven’t landed since I fell

Treasures drop in the sea
Lovers leave like you and me
I am sucker and a sin
But baby, I believe in no effigy

I left you on the street
With a face so long
That it touched your feet

I am a leaver
Is my time wasting well?
I am a leaver
I haven’t landed since I fell

I am a leaver
I am a shaken, battered shell
I am a leaver
I am a liar, can’t you tell?
Can’t you tell?
Can’t you tell?

11. Graceless

The sun is shining downtown.
It always wants to cry out loud
But I’m a little too late

The gun is testing your faith.
It always wants to shoot you down
When you’ve already been saved

Don’t you burn away?
Don’t you feel ashamed?
Don’t you take the blame?

I give my heart and soul to the ageless
I give my blood and bone to the faceless
Burning bright and cold
With a nameless night
I give my life and love to you, graceless

Your wish is spinning ’round
It only wants to lie you
It never wants to come true

This road that you found
It was buried alive in your dreams
With all your second-hand blues

Do you need a place to stay?
Do you see a face when you pray?
Don’t you leave a trace?
Don’t you sleep awake?
Don’t do it for my sake

I give my heart and soul to the ageless
I give my blood and bone to the faceless
Burning bright and cold
With a nameless night
I give my life and love to you graceless

There’s no time for a destination
We were killers before we were on the run
I’m a one wandering second-hand son

I give my heart and soul to the ageless
I give my blood and bone to the faceless
Burning bright and cold
With a nameless night
I give my life and love to you, graceless

12. Keep a Little Organ

Keep a little organ in you now
Sing about the promises you found
Keep it up ‘cause no one likes it down
Get lost in an overrated down

Keep a little organ in you now
Sing a song that filled your mother’s house
Little Thomas, he just wants to doubt
So sing a song you never sing aloud

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Don’t you wanna be the last one standing out?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Don’t you wanna be filling up the dark?
Oh yeah, yeah yeah
So just say it proud
What you think you figured out

How did you grew up so fast?
Humming to the face inside the glass
You kept the beat
But you always came in last
And I’m the kiss keeping in your secret stash

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Don’t you wanna be the last one standing out?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Don’t you wanna be filling up the dark?
Oh yeah, yeah yeah
So just say it poud
What I never figured out

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Don’t you wanna be the last one standing out?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Don’t you wanna be filling up the dark?
Oh yeah, yeah yeah
So just say it proud
What I never figured out

Keep a little organ in you now
Sing about the promises you found
Keep it up ‘cause no one likes it down
Keep a little organ in you now
Keep a little organ in you now

13. God Bless America

God bless America and our enemy dudes
Land that I love, if we win or we lose
Standing beside her, and keeping score
Guiding her freedom to the enemy’s door

God bless America, by land and by sea
Saving the world from catastrophe
My home, sweet home, with a lock and a key
The dawn’s early light on a big screen TV

Oh how I loved you, it’s true.
Your skylines and coalmines
And your strippers, too
Do you ever miss me?
‘Cause baby I miss you.

The mountains and prairies
To the prisons and malls
I’ve got a bible and a Barbie doll
God bless America and her Kodachrome flag
From purple mountains majesty
To the streets of Bagdad

Oh I loved you, it’s true.
The judges, and casinos
And happy hour, too
Do you ever need me?
‘Cause baby I need you.

God bless America
At the great finish line
Winning the war with their hearts and minds
Standing besides her with a Union jack
Whatever she’s done
She can’t take it back

Oh how I love you, it’s true.
Your winners, and losers
And your cheaters, too
Do you ever want me?
‘Cause baby I want you.
Baby, I want you.
Baby, I want you.