Cold War Kids Album

We don't gamble
we don't do the stock exchange
we paint paintings
we write scenes for the stage

we will talk about well fare
we will talk about sex
talk about the golden prada shoes
no body gets gets upset
no body gets upset

and we're waiting
were waiting for your call
we're against privacy
against privacy

forget ex-girlfriends
we want little governments
we tell stories
we want to get you to join in
call us optimistic
we get the meanest looks
we are bust through romantics
history books will show
history books will show

and we're waiting
we're waiting for your call
we're against privacy
against privacy

and we're waiting
we're waiting for your call
we're against privacy
against privacy

and we're waiting
we're waiting for your call
we're against privacy
against privacy

we're sure that you'll agree

Back door, exit door
Now I wanna be your dog
Take winding up

Hot tide, rattling up
Second bottle of French, you roll
You roll with us

Oh where I walk now. Where I walk now
When I talk now. When I talk now
Oh where I walk now. Where I walk now
When I talk. When I talk

Flash lights go out
Stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names

Tide burn in the dark
Mary's beach in burn is hard
Falling apart

Hot tide kicking sand
Hot tide we're all raised to win
To taste the salt

Coca-cola
Cost a quarter on my block
On my block
Coca-cola
Cost a quarter on my block
On my block

Flash lights go out
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names
Flash lights go out
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names

We will chase the bright lights till we're done
We'll chase the bright lights
We will chase the bright lights till we're done
We'll chase the bright lights

When I taste the salt
When I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
Mexican dogs

Don't bother grandma when she's right, or you'll be in some mess
I see how you see her, creaky bones, bitchin' 'bout IRS

Well take a look child, these worn out bones
Just think they'd used to sell out a baseball stadium
Nineteen forty-eight

Now you, you'll graduate and you think you're going to move out now
I will congratulate you as soon as you pay your own way

Not tryin' to stick a pin in your shiny new balloon
Your alimony check won't buy a bigger room or a new car

Don't ever think about comin' by here
With that junoir from up the street
Sneakers squeakin' on the kitchen tile, hat pulled below his eyes
That boy is trouble in his sleep

You got your father's wreckless charm, babe
Long as you give, some body will take
Well, every story is not the gospel, babe
Let me put it in another way
Every valley is not a lake

Before I let you go with your friends, got one more thing to say
You think my love is tough, should've seen your grandma in her day

So use your wits child, cause nothing stays the same
In forty years my song will be public domain
oh oh oh

Short tall, quick switch

Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
How was I supposed to know?

Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
Tryin' not to let it show!

I tryed to call you collect
You said you would not accept
Your friends are laughin' cause
No body uses pay phones

Gave me quarters to select
So I'm on the jukebox again
People dancin'
Shoulda never chose "Girlfriend"

Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
How was I supposed to know?

Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
Something is not right with me!
I'm trying not to let it show!

Crash into the people who're
Sleepin' late into the evening
Reach behind they can hardly find their spines

Crash into the people who're
Sleepin' late into the evening
Reach behind they can hardly find their spines

Crash into the people who're
Sleepin' late into the evening
Reach behind they can hardly find their spines

You said ??????? cause
I trye to fa;ljkeoimce
It was smokey but it died in your front yard

You find out who's datin' who
But when it comes to you
Hope is pullin' punches
With different ways in my mind

Whistle blowers, gotta get outta school
They don't want poets they want pigeons on a stool

You're examining fossils, defending criminals
I'm clock watching getting dumb
Photographic models, a house painted solace
I'm like [Incomprehensible] in the sun

And I give up raising your kids America
You treat 'em like an obligation
Welcome to the occupation

The devil's in the details, devil's in the details
He's got your gold watch and chain
The devil's in the details, devil's in the details
He's got your gold watch and chain

Whistle blowers, we know how you feel
Public servants, surrender their free will
But you can't ban politics and work in the circus
You have to choose just one

You hold the nail, I'll swing the hammer
That's how things get done
And goodbye valedictorians, goodbye punks
Goodbye valedictorians, goodbye punks

And I give up raising your kids America
You treat 'em like an obligation
Welcome to the occupation

The devil's in the details, the devil's in the details
He's got your gold watch and chain
The devil's in the details, devil's in the details
Got your gold watch and chain

Thick fog grows in waves on the Golden Gate
I was checking my watch seven minutes in my shift
When I spot a black skirt on the rail
Straddling the bar like it's a quarter of rye

She's scared to jump but terrified to stay
Walked to her slow extend my hand with a smile and say
"Ma'am, how was your day? Keep your eyes on my face
I want to help you if you let me"

She startled, I look forward, wrap my arms 'round her legs
Pull her down to the sidewalk, we're both needing for air and I say
"Ma'am how was your day? Keep your eyes on my face
I want to help you if you let me"

Most folks think they'll hit the surface and never feel no pain
Water pulls you under back to the womb once again
Bodies float to the shore, bloated but, but in blue
If sharks don't get you first crabs will have their way with you

Oh, avalanche in apartment B
Everywhere white's what I've seen
I've never lived alone so near the ocean breeze
I can finally afford high anxiety

Reach up, cold air hits your hands
Snow packs like cement you can't stand
Remain calm while rescue makes plans

Oh, avalanche in apartment B
All at once a weight dropped on me
Sweating at the bar fifteen minutes ago
We were yelling our heads off
Now I'm surrounded by snow

Reach up, cold air hits your hands
Snow packs like cement you can't stand
Remain calm while rescue makes plans
The earth must contract and expand

How's it gonna feel when summer ends
Out of money, out of friends?

I've seen enough of nothing new
The blackest stain on history or last laugh blues
Not gonna fight, not gonna cry
Not gonna shop around for one flag to fly

I've seen enough, inventor's age
I've covered up my face, browbeaten shame
I've got the edge, I feel the sting
I've fallen into the deepest sleep, telephone rings

How's it gonna feel when summer ends
Out of money, out of friends?
How's it gonna feel when summer ends
Out of money, out of friends?

I've seen enough, the angry mob
Yelling in unison da, da, da, they can't be stopped
Sitting at home, making plans
Don't wanna be another silly set of accident hands

How's it going to feel when summer ends
Out of money, out of friends?
How's it going to feel when summer ends
Out of money, out of friends?

Every man I fall for drinks his coffee black
Love and hate are tattooed on his knuckles
And my name is on his back

Every man I fall for works the graveyard shift
He kisses me softly to wake me up
And takes my place in bed

And I fall, I live with one concern
It's the law, diminishing returns
It's the law, diminishing returns

Every man I fall for keeps his anger on a string and holds it tight
When other man walk by blinking their eyes at me
He always pick a fight

I go walk alone down ocean boulevard peeking your windows
Tired housewives nagging at their husbands but
Is this the life you choose?

And I fall, I live with one concern
It's the law, diminishing returns
And I fall, I live with one concern
It's the law, diminishing returns

Every man I fall for, nearly every man
Every man I fall for, nearly every man

Thought I was laying in the gutter
In milk cartons and bones
But I was standing on a mountain top
Looking over your homes

Thought I was laying in my garden
With my hands deep in soil
But I was there on an island
Shooting flares at your boat

Thought I was soothing like a violin
Confess a new reign
But I was popping like a trumpet
Frantic for fame

Thought I was built like a building's built
On concrete and stone
I realized I'm just a hack actor
Finished playing my role

You're reading my books, dreams old men dream
It's just like when we were kids
We'd lay around wondering
We try to listen to what they say

Thought I was writing for a hundred hours
Looking straight into me
But I was reading on the newspaper
Obituary

Thought I was nervous like a mailman
Reading your letter's deal
But I was at our anniversary
Toasting thirty years

You're reading my books, dreams old men dream
It's just like when we were kids
We'd lay around wondering
We try to listen to what they say
We try to listen to what they say

Push, drop me in or outside
I don't care, I don't care
Make the media black sky
I don't care, I don't care

The neighbors will complain
Let them stare, let them stare
Who knows where the time goes
I don't care, I don't care

What would you think of me if I told you
I haven't slept in weeks?
I've been up chasing my childhood with a pen
These are dreams old men dream

On the night that my love broke through
On the night that my love broke through
Revelations that came unglued
On the night that my love broke through

Cell doors were opened,
God stepped out the way,
prisoners got one acre of land and one year's pay.

Flower's long since dead
stiffened at the neck.
Colours came back in green and yellow and in red.

Unemployed cowboys
staggered on Fairfax.
Trucks pulled up and fifteen men hollered and hopped in back.

A copy of Vechouski[?],
at the bottom of the stack,
got picked up by some dropout who read it front to back

Send me out the tin hands of the past![?]

Hands are crawling out of
grimy bathtub drains.
Janitor was laughing, he had finally gone insane.

City buses swerving,
arriving right on time.
Vending machines were serving glasses of white wine by the dime.

Street lights got a burst of
electricity.
Sparks danced across windshields like a grand finale.

Metal detectors beeping,
sound was deafening.
Everywhere bleeding at dug up wedding rings.

We all stopped to listen to it sing!

On the night that my love broke through..
On the night that my love broke through..
Revelations that came unglued..
On the night that my love broke through..
On the night..
On the night..
On the night..
On the night..

Fresh blood, you got too comfortable
So I showed you, who's really in control

You gave all of your savings to the poor
Lightning on the river and you're shivering, with your fishing pole
Same night you bought a ring and you proposed

You never really know what you can't really see
I'll be there, I'll be there
You made it out alive, oh what a relief
I'll be there, I'll be there

Earthquake in your pijamas huddled in
doorways while your houses sway
Blue blood,
pumping like a hundered fists

I'd love to say:
Your faces make
Oh ma thank you for keeping me safe
Even thou you know
It don't always go that way

You never really know what you can't really see
I'll be there, I'll be there
You made it out alive, oh what a relief
I'll be there, I'll be there

Everything will be explained
Your wild guess, everything will be explained
Go ahead, everything will be explained
Your wild guess, everything will be explained

I sold you for parts, you get what you want
Bet I wanted to, I know who you are
Don't know who you're not, I don't dare ask
Come back, use the stove
We'll make plans in the back of your pickup truck

Oh, why no one told, she crowns my lips and waits up
Her look of dissent, watching bird's eye
That's when I dropped
And oh, my hands were behaving like maps six five

These rags have been kept, my body is spent
Can't stop and rest, oh no, your comfort blessings, I see it in 3-D
You can't dream so slow, don't check the index for reference
'Cause the sky, Lord give me heads, I search the place for your prince

I feel your cryptomnesia, cryptomnesia