1. |
Garden Hose
04:19
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shallow breathing
little lungs, you’re feeling
scared of what you know
terrified of what you don’t know
so take off all your clothes
jump screaming through the garden hose
and lay me on the rooftop
and say my name
don’t ever stop
oh you’re so funny always running
from yourself nobody’s gonna catch you
you’re so funny always running
from yourself nobody’s gonna catch you
you’re so funny always running
from yourself nobody’s gonna catch you
you’re so funny always running
from yourself nobody’s gonna catch you
you’re so funny always running
from yourself nobody’s gonna catch you
you’re so funny always running
run forever, you think I wanna catch you?
Oh that’s right,
you wanna pick a fight
you wanna stay up all night
wanna see me cry
Oh that’s right
you wanna make it alright
wanna make it right?
I’d like to see you try
aaa ooo aaa
shallow breathing
little lungs, you’re feeling
scared of what you know
terrified of what you don’t know
so take off all your clothes
jump screaming through the garden hose
and lay me on the rooftop
and say my name
don’t ever stop
aaa ooo aaa
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2. |
Brother
03:01
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you were born five years after me
in a town in northern Kentucky
and you loved to climb the maple tree
and you lived to scare and impress me
like when I was 13 and you chased me
with a butcher knife down the alley
through the maple leaves
the light shone green
on your face
the dirt was split by streams
of the tears you cried
I know that I should not have lied
I told you I’d be right back home
but then I left you all alone
for the whole night
maybe two or three
it hadn’t crossed my mind
you might be lonesome just like me
ooo
when you’re a little older
I’ll explain it all to you
why the good will never stay
and all the dark and scary things
will never go away
but we’ll be bigger than them someday
ooo
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3. |
Dog Days
04:08
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I ain’t worried about nothing
it’s the dog days of summer
take my shoes off at the river
slip into the water
pine wood smoke from the back yard
drifts up to my window
cold night air through my bedroom
hide out under the covers
ooo I don’t feel ready
stumble over my feet
trying to face myself
ooo I do my best
pray the summer lasts
while I feel it turning
and I’ll be heading back before long
I hope everything is different
you let go of all that went wrong
and i want to hear you say
you're giving it your best
it ain’t that bad anyway
like back when we first met
and you didn’t run away
ooo I don’t feel ready
stumble over my feet
trying to face myself
ooh I do my best
pray the summer lasts
while I feel it turning
ooo I don’t feel ready
stumble over my feet
trying to face myself
ooo I do my best
pray the summer lasts
while I feel it turning
my mama called me up
Mrs. Nickell lost her fourth son
and now I’m heading down
to lexington to put him in the ground
and I hate that you’re out of sight
I love you, keep her in your prayers tonight
and search your whole life long
there ain’t nothing strong as a Kentucky woman
ooo I don’t feel ready
stumble over my feet
trying to face myself
ooh I do my best
pray the summer lasts
while I feel it turning
ooo I don’t feel ready
stumble over my feet trying to face myself
ooo I do my best
pray the summer lasts
while I feel it turning
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4. |
Trouble
03:09
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I had trouble sleeping
the dawn does pursue
in the still of the morning
all cornflower blue
and the chill April air,
rolling all ‘round the room
let the golden light kiss me
I’m all brand new
and it’s blowing all through
it’s blowing all through
and I kept it to myself
he, for his hunger
knew nothing of me
laid us down, one by one
all beneath the old willow tree
my back in the sand
busted glass in my knee
felt the fear for that man
as he tore into me
now it’s blowing all through
it’s blowing all through
and I kept it to myself
and I held your hand
shut your sunken eyes, the cancer
ate your muscles
all up from the inside
your skinny bones
now frailer than mine
and your tangled legs
cling to sheets, bleached white
and when you left
I kept you with me,
still smell your sweat
when I least expect it
your skinny bones,
hair all cotton white
and you ain’t so tough
as you was that night, now.
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5. |
Your Bed Was Tall
04:04
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your bed was so tall
I needed you to lift
my small body
to lie next to yours
and the night was all quiet
but the tree frogs and crickets
and the glow from the street
poured in over our feet
and I liked it better
before you were weathered
and the walls of our house caving in
when through all the helplessness,
hopelessness, doubt,
was a light in our hearts that held out
did it give out?
mother, I know you’re doing your best
you stand tall in spite of the mighty tempest
and I never think less when you show me your fear,
nervous laugh at the darkness, or swim in your tears
when the world ain’t crumbling
will I have a place in your heart
and when the world ain’t crumbling
will we recognize anything
and when the world ain’t crumbling
do you think we’ll stop fighting
and when the world ain’t crumbling
will I let you in, will I let you in
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