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Sing Out You Sinners!
04:05
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Sing Out You Sinners
You've got nothing to hide
For the dark devil dawn is upon you
I'm a meal you can't finish but you fork at me like
I'm a raw piece of spinach that bores you
Never found a way to get her off your mind some of this is yours and some of this is mine like an awkward cancer I wish I could hide mixing medications mixing up your mind waiting on a stranger for another ride some of this is yours and some of this is mine never found a way to get her off your mind never found a way to get her off your
Sing to the death of Sunday School teachers
And tangle our bodies like unholiest creatures
Don't pretend like you don't know what your best feature is
Just get out those pictures and burn them alive
And if it's too troublesome for you
my dear
Then pack up your animals and ride
And if it's too troublesome for you
my dear
Then get off your bandages
You gotta get em out
Get em out of here
Oh, Sing Out you sinners you've got nothing to show
for the wet screaming bodies around you
You know all of your life you've been taking it slow
Now you dance 'cause you're dying
So angels and spectres will leave you alone
Break all your wine glasses, dance to the bone
Wear headphones regardless
And hear the beast moan
In spite of his awfulness
awfulness
awfulness
awfulness
awfulness
And if it's too troublesome for you
my dear
Then pack up your animals and ride
And if it's too troublesome for you
my dear
Then get off your bandages
You gotta get em out
Get em out of here
Sing out you Sinners you've got nothing to hide for the dark devil night is upon you
I'm a mean you can't finish but you fork at me like...
Now I'm finishing sentences for you.
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2. |
Empty Bottles
02:37
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In the garage
In the dresser
In the attic of course
In the house
Behind the faucet
Under windows and floors
In the couch
Beneath the cushions
Behind every locked door
Empty bottles
Empty bottles
Empty bottles
Lives a monster
Lives a demon
Lives a sociopath
Swimmin laps
In my stomach
With a sinister laugh
If you think
That I'm trouble
Then you don't
Know the half
Of empty bottles empty bottles empty bottles
They found half of Billy's body
But I don't know which half
Some of us were horrified
And the rest of us laughed
They put a cross along the roadside
But he died in the bath
With empty bottles empty bottles empty bottles
In the backseat
With the vodka
Better step on the gas
Screaming high
Above the sirens
With our brains at half mast
And it's four in the morning
You better make that shit last
Or empty bottles empty bottles empty bottles
I'm gonna count to six
Before my bumper hits the bricks
I'm gonna raise a glass
Yeah the blood is up boys the blood is up
I'll blame a poltergeist
And I won't think twice
Because it's easy for me
Killing the ghost is easy for me
They say a person's a good person
That doesn't get caught
Well I am not a good person
So I don't worry a lot
And at the end of the calendar
And not look what I've got
Just empty bottles
Empty bottles
Empty bottles
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Emily Dog
04:01
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Emily you walk like the water is not deep
And the more you stay the same
The more I fall to pieces
You should curl up in a ball when they tangle up your leash
There'll be no where left to go
There'll be no more grass to sleep in
You may not be the best in show
But you bear the biggest teeth though
Joseph looking out
The picture window is your own
Are there squirrels out in the yard
Did you lose another bone
With eyes as dark as those do they let in any light
Do you give it all to us
Do you stash it deep inside
Do you nip at neighbors toes
When you're looking for a fight
Do you crawl inside warm clothes
Fresh out of the dryer
What do you say we get together when I die
You can lick me on the nose
And point me towards the light
And if those pearly gates are closed
You can point me toward the fire
You don't have to come along
You don't have to come along
You can sit
And you can stay
And you can bark a little song that goes
Dee dee dee dee dee
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Let your voice be the theremin
Let it wobble and shake
And feed off nearby shortwave signals
Let it mystify
And we'll do it like the good old days
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I Comes Before You
02:23
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Honey you move like a pile of laundry to the chute
And you're like a flower that grows in an ashtray
But it's not where you're from
It's just how you bloom
And sweetie I mark the years
With other people's tears
So it's with confidence I can say this to you
Honey I come first
Darlin I come first
Sweetie I come first
And if there's time remaining
You can come to
I spent the last three Halloweens
Screaming into answering machines
And explaining to the cops
What it was
I was about to do
And sweetie I mark the years
With other people's tears
So it's with confidence I can say this to you
Honey I come first
Darlin I come first
Sweetie I come first
And I comes before u
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6. |
You Are A Dracula
01:41
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7. |
Everybody Wants my Money
03:28
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Laying face down in a hospital bed
Got an embolism poppin like a dark sunset
Now it's IV fluids and a dark red sweat
Cause everybody wants my money
Family's in the waiting room shufflin cards
Now it's two to the dealer cause it won't be long
The nurse's finger's on the button
And the doctor's playing god
Cause everybody wants my money
All you bastards are stuck in my will
My body's jerkin back and forth
I can't afford a decent meal
My body's jerkin back and forth
When I was 13 I was a rodeo clown
When I was 14 I was a rodeo clown
When I was 15 I ran the whole fuckin place
Now everybody wants my money
They grow up wicked and they grow up fast
And your grandkids learn that you got a little cash
So you stuff it in a mattress and you buy a bigger gun
Cause everybody wants my money
The last thing I remember was spittin on a cop
I blew a 9.0 at a traffic stop
Then he recognized my face so I bought the fucker off
Cause everybody wants my money
I grew up in a life of fame
Hookers in my lap, hookers on the brain
Now tell me what would Jesus do I bet he'd do the same thing to
Got a catachrestic theroy that this thing is gonna work
I'm on a graveyard shift shovelin dirt
And my family wants to know how much I'm really worth
And they take
And they take
And they take
And they take
And they take
And they take
And they take
And they take
And they take
Later that evening yeah I gave em all the slip
I'm in Mexico City on a cardiac drip
And the service here is awful so I never leave a tip
Cause everybody wants my money
You gotta stomp your hands
Clap your fists
You gotta keep your heart pumpin just so you can stay rich
I gotta golden parachute so you can suck my dick
Cause everybody wants my money
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8. |
Stick to Beer
04:38
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I picked up my big rabbit's head and I strapped it on tightly
I wandered around Six Flags with the kids like I do nightly
I handed out balloons to four foot buffons
Snapped a few photos and then
Everything went dizzy
I was in a tizzy
Swimmin in vomit and fur
Stick to beer man
Stay away from that rum
If you're doin shots with me it might as well be from a loaded gun
Smells like vodka and wine
In the unemployment line
And gettin sick at work is no fun
So even though you won't listen and I'm wastin my breath
Stick to beer
The back porch the screen door looks like it's been open all night
She usually comes when I call her so I know that somethin ain't right
I swear to god that I locked it but I must have been out of my mind
I hope that somebody found her
I hope she's doin ok
I guess that my ex wife was right
And I will be safe from drownin in the sea
And nothing's worrying me
Cause at the last second I always get lucky
I always get set free
Late last night we finally heard what happened
Ol Neil wrote his last words on a cocktail napkin
One things for certain
We all saw it coming
Some of us were even relieved
He always meant well
But hurt everyone around him
If old Neil's to be believed
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9. |
The Blueprint
04:55
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There's a ferris wheel inside the mall
There's a bomb in a briefcase in a bathroom stall
There's an old lady circling the lot
She knows where she is but not where's she's not
I have been very patient
I have been watching for weeks
I have been very patient
I have been parcel post on your doorstep
I have the blueprint
There's a beam loose under the floor
It's how the boys will topple the retaining wall
I have been very patient
I have been watching for weeks
I have been very hopeful
I have been parcel post on your doorstep
I have the blueprint
I don't wanna take the L Train to Brookyln
I don't wanna cross the Tappan Zee
I don't wanna eat no more of your cooking
If you ain't around to help me finish
I don't wanna waste no more time in orbit
I don't wanna miss her birthday again
Everyone around me is getting old
And I ain't around to see it happen
We're not gonna make it here
There's a hole in the roof that I found
There's a K-9 Unit sniffing around it
I have been very patient
I have been watching for weeks
I have been very hopeful
I have been parcel post on your doorstep
We have the blueprint
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Patrick Swayze does his own stunts
He don't need no help from me
I would ask him if he wanted to
But I'd just be in the way
I was born in a Hardee's bathroom
While my mom worked second shift
I was raised in the Honeycomb Hideout
My sister died on a jungle gym
They're auctioning the church
They're ripping out the pews
They're dismantling the alter where my parents were married
Where my grandpa say us down
And explained the life of Christ
And my brother and I wondered
Can we really trust this guy
Patrick Swayze
And Sam Elliott
Rowdy Herrington
Kelly Lynch
They make up the cast of Road House
Where would we be without them
They're auctioning the church
They're ripping out the pews
They're dismantling the alter where my parents were married
Where my grandpa say us down
And explained the life of Christ
And my brother and I wondered
Can we really trust this guy
When they stormed the Double Deuce
With their knives inside their boots
And I had a sinking feeling that Brad Wesley was there
Then we remembered the rules
And decided to be nice until it's time
To not be nice
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Springfield Springfield oh what is the deal
Is my shadow still on your wall
Well you'll sit in that booth til you're long in the tooth
Or til summer bleeds into fall
She's doing a bump behind Brewhaus
Sinatra says it's time to go
And I'm so full of hate that I can't see straight
I carry a hammer into the woods
New York New York you're on life support
I'm so bored with the Brookyln sound
I'd trade all of the trains to North White Plains
to watch everything burn to the ground
And we're slurring our speech down at Olive's
Yeah we're shutting down the bar
So I get in your suitcase
And go back to your place
And take all your lip gloss off
St. Louis St. Louis made naked and useless
In two trips around the sun
So goodbye babysitters
And goodbye to the glitter
You know it's so very hard to get off
And we're screaming down at Mangia
Yeah we're shutting down the bar
You know I was obsessed with
Getting undressed witih
All of the women I saw
"And my old man always told me
That hell would have no flames
Just a front row seat to watch your one true love
Pack her things
And drive
Away (-David Bazan)"
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14. |
bonus: The Cold War
04:49
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Ugly mothers have ugly babies
Ugly mothers won't ever know
They'll never outgrow their awful laughter
You'll be an enemy to everyone you know
Chain me to the wall
Push me underneath the door
You know that ugly kids will play in traffic
They'll make hats from traffic cones
You know their mother's gonna be the one to hold em closer
And their father's gonna leave em by the side of the road
They got you
Chain me to the wall
Push me underneath the door
Dead kids get the biggest picture in the yearbook
Right next to the table of contents
Your name was on a coffee can at the reunion
And no one's ever thought about your ugly ass since
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Old gun
New bullets
I was born to spill blood what makes you think I can control
Fresh dirt
Empty stomach
No one wants to die face down
I did the dirty work
Down in the cellar
And now I'm so rich bitch that I tip my bank teller
And I wanna see my kids but they ask so many questions
And if you'd paid attention dear you'd be the first to know
I am at my happiest when I'm dying slow
They put a hit on you when you were out runnin
It's the one that's coming for you that you never see comin
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Acorns To Oaks St. Louis, Missouri
Sea Ward began playing as Acorns to Oaks in New York in 2005. His first album was Goodbye Entire Empire State. He began performing live around 2007 or 2008 in the Springfield, IL area. Past members included: Joe Jacobs of Vlantis, Matt Flesch & Kevin McKenzie, Sara Beth Skorczewski, Big Dave Graun. Current lineup is Matt Big Hustle Champion and K8 Peterson. He lives in south St. Louis ... more
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