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Annabel's Dilemma
05:20
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Annabel’s Dilemma
There’s a little lake of tears
In the middle of the kitchen table
And she watches as another one
Drips from his nose into the deep
And he keeps talking and talking and talking
But talk is cheap and weak and watered down
Just another awkward sound she doesn’t need to hear
He’s just a shadow only half a man
And she can hardly muster even half a damn about this
Sorry situation
In the the back room, kids are watching Frozen
Fate’s her only opponent
Hey, Annabel
What you gonna do girl?
Hey, Annabel
What you gonna do now?
There’s only so many times
A grown woman can swallow this
Hollowness
Before her itchy trigger finger
Starts to wake her in the dead of night
So she goes walking and walking and walking
But these old streets don’t change
There’s no metamorphosis here
Were you really gonna wait until the coast was clear?
Were you really gonna wait?
She’s just a shadow
Only half a human
Living a half-life inside the institution of what?
Does she only ever get what she’s got?
With the voices in her head all screaming
Hey, Annabel
What you gonna do girl?
Hey, Annabel
What you gonna do now?
In the pre-dawn silence
Her hands are shaking too hard
To hold a secret cigarette
Strange kind of violence
When the blows never land
And the blood’s never let
Annabel
You’re one of the best
We’ll always love you
Even if he don’t
We’ll always love you
Even when he won’t
Annabel
You’re one of the best
Only a winner on a losing streak
When you can’t find strength
Doesn’t mean your weak
These were always someone else’s decisions
This was always someone else’s life
These were always someone else’s decisions
This was always someone else’s life
These were always someone else's problems
This was always someone else’s wife
It was always someone else’s husband
It was always someone else’s wife
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One In Three
She got a letter just this morning
Telling her it’s finally over
Should have read the early warning
That boy was never sober
Feels like it was only this morning
They were calling lovers names
And while the sun is still setting in the sky
They go their separate ways
And she’s free
And she’s free
He got a letter just this morning
Telling him it’s finally through
Should have read the earlier warning
That girl was bad news
Feels like it was only this morning
They were playing lovers games
And while the sun is still setting in the sky
They go their separate ways
And he’s free
And he’s free
Better alone (repeat)
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3. |
Venus Walks
03:20
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Venus Walks
Like the the girl from Ipanema
In a John Hughes film
An other-worldly creature
Not quite over the hill
I never got a chance to meet her
And I regret it still
Be still my trembling hands
True beauty walks on common ground
Venus wearing nothing but a frown
Painted faces in the round and I’m undone
Yeah I wondered were you looking for someone
Or just for fun
The only thing that says I’m a grown-up
Is the date on my passport
Man-child making a mess of it all
Just be careful what you ask for
I never knew if you were coming back
Or if your mind was made up
Be still my trembling hands
True beauty walks on common ground
Venus wearing nothing but a crown
Whispered sermons as she slowly makes her way
With a smile that started wars back in the day
Back in the day
I never knew if you were coming back
Or if your mind was made up (repeat)
Like the the girl from Ipanema
In a John Hughes film
An other-worldly creature
Not quite over the hill
I never got a chance to meet her
But one day I will…
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4. |
River Song
03:37
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River Song
The rain shuffled in on a wind from the east
Equally falling on man and beast
Where you sat between a rock and a wounded tree
And a sorrow maybe fifty fathoms deep
In gods purpose do you dwell
Or did you hang your colours on the gates of hell
Tears running clearer than a morning bell
That I know never rang for you
Go down to the river side
Where the fishes in shadow’s glide
Stay and rest your weary limbs
On the edge of where the end begins
Go down to the river’s turn
Where the secrets in shadows burn
Your scars were never hard to earn
And you’ve still got a lot to learn
You keep reliving that spark and crack
Tearing at your brain like a shark attack
And there’s no cure for a Macbeth hand
And the pounding in your ears like a marching band and
That boy lying on the blasted grass
Red wrapped round like a scarlet scarf
Jokes on him so why’s it hard to laugh?
Cos it’s nothing that he didn’t deserve
Nobody else around made the car swerve
Showing his face around here he had nerve
White outline still ghost on the curb
Brand new black hole so deep it’s absurd
I know you miss her
I know you miss her
Miss her
Go down to the river side
Where the fishes in shadow’s glide
Stay and rest your weary limbs
On the edge of where the end begins
Go down to the river’s turn
Where the secrets in shadows burn
Your scars were never hard to earn
But you’ve still got a lot to learn
Twenty four nights in McCarthy’s landscape
Staring down the barrel of a demons handshake
Crossing crossroads on lost roads on off-worlds
Scanning star maps for the eyes of a lost girl
You can’t stay here much longer
In the back of the Honda
Another back of beyonder
Too sad, too somber
Feeling like hope’s a goner
But I don’t wanna leave you neither
Digging up the seeds of the fever
You need to find a phone and call your mother
She told me she’d not sleeping either
And nobody back home believes that what you did was right
But who could be too quick to blame
If they’d been in the same position you were
They’d have all done the same
I know you miss her
I know you miss her
Miss her
Go down to the river side
Where the fishes in shadow’s glide
Stay and rest your weary limbs
On the edge of where the end begins
Go down to the river’s turn
Where the secrets in shadows burn
Your scars were never hard to earn
But you’ve still got a lot to learn
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5. |
Get Your Shoes On
04:08
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Get Your Shoes On
I still can’t believe that you love me girl
I’ve always been an average guy
Never even been that sociable
I’d rather stay home and get
Some sleep with you, just eat with you
We’ve got kids to feed and mysteries to solve
And hands to hold and common colds to cure
And there’s only one thing I know for sure
We need
One night alone
Yes just
One night alone
I know it’s only
One night alone
But it’ll be fabulous, fantastical
And quite good
Has it really been thirteen years
Only unlucky for some
I doubt I could have been more into you
If cupid had a submachine gun
And I know, and I know,
And I know, and I know
Sometimes it’s boring and tedious
Feels like the feeling is leaving us but
Hold on just a little bit longer
Stay with me
And I know eventually we’ll get
One night alone
Yes just
One night alone
I know it’s only
One night alone
But it’ll be fabulous, fantastical
And quite good
Don’t interrupt me while I’m speaking
Daddy got drunk on the weekend
Tried to bust a move like MJ
Still be paying for it in ten days
Feeling uncomfortable like a futon
I just need my fucking kid to get her shoes on
I’ve asked her about five million times
And the five million rhymes
Is the… *mumble mumble*
See? Tiredness has got me rambling
Half the time I don’t know what the hell’s happening
I spend days just distractedly wrangling
Play Dough mangling, trampoline trampling
And I swear that we could sleep for a decade
Just as soon as we get this double bed made
But I know we’re only heading for a headache
Four in the morning going off like a grenade
Still late night sipping on lemonade
Me and Mr Attenborough
Natures renegades
Next doors cats doing the moonlit serenade
Sometimes this is the hardest game we’ve ever played
Take a breath
One night alone
Yes just
One night alone
I know it’s only
One night alone
But it’ll be fabulous, fantastical
And quite good
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6. |
No Cause For Alarm
03:08
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7. |
Krush
05:06
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Krush
I can still see you
In your beautiful pea-green boat
Standing in the bow
With a miniature silver Jesus
Hanging at your throat
Love was so inaccessible
Like a castle with a lava moat
Tell me what can you do
When it’s all too tangible
And your younger self
Don’t know how to cope
All that year I was kicking myself
Cos I never could have loved you more
You were just a public school posh
But never cut glass
Tear it out my chest
And you can fly it from the mast
It was just a crush
It was just a crush
It was just a crush
It was only
Young dopamine
Sinking like a submarine
Just like a memory
When you duck and disappear
Into a hazy shade of summer
I can still see you
Riding through the yard
With no hands on the handle bars
Expensive confidence
Unaware of consequence
So sure of your place in this world
You were like the heir to the Greenleaf fortune
And you chose my sister over me
But I can hardly go about blaming you
Back then everybody did
You were a fully fledged
Solid gold demi-god
And I was just another snotty kid
Trying to be rid
Of this thorn in my side
All that year I was kicking myself
Cos I never could have loved you more
You were just a public school posh
But never cut glass
Tear it out my chest
And you can fly it from the mast
It was just a crush
It was just a crush
It was just a crush
It was only
Young dopamine
Sinking like a submarine
Just like a memory
When you duck and disappear
Into a hazy shade of summer
So many days have gone
And I realised somewhere along the line
That your sharing a name with my son
CHORUS
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8. |
Too Young / Too Old
04:33
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Too Young / Too Old
See I’m not dancing like I used to
Sometimes it’s hard to get free
But it’s a feeling that I’m used to
Muscle memory
And we’ve been caught out in the wilderness
Somewhere between
Knowing too much and not knowing enough
All these people around me are taking sides
Like they’ve got nothing to lose
But I’m not ready to choose
Too young to be old
Too old to be young x3
Too young to be old
To twist or to fold
My body’s been better
But my mind still holds it’s own
I’m no longer afraid of the fact
That I’ll never be holding the throne
Butterfly is not the destiny of every caterpillar
Clinging to this spinning leaf
Life can be such a boring bastard
And still a glorious intrigue
Oh lord cut the cord
I’m a fake I’m a fraud
But no more than anybody else
I’m wiser as I’m older
No chips up on my shoulder
At least that what I’m telling myself
Too young to be old
Too old to be young
Too young to be old
Too old to be young
I’m not ready for this
i don’t know if i will ever be
I’m not ready for this
i don’t know if i will ever be
I’m not ready for this
i don’t know if i will ever be
I’m not ready for this
But I know that one day
I’d better be ready
Too Young, too old (repeat)
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10. |
Ebb & Flow
03:19
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12. |
Krush (Radio Edit)
04:02
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