Robert Francis Album

When you’re lost, in an old part of town, got no friends to carry you around, I can here you calling, in the dead of the night, behind a moon bounce, waiting for the light. No one’s going to find you, if you ever get lost this time, I never want to see you alone.

I remember the old motel, you were tearing ‘part the windows, tearing ‘part yourself. I helped you, when you were in a bind, good love is hard to find. But no one’s going to find you, if you ever get lost this time, I never want to see you alone.

Darkness be my friend tonight. I never want to be alone, I never want to see her alone. Darkness be my friend tonight.

I never was the one for you, you never were the one for me.

Junebug, I remember everything. The blue carpeted floors, the
tall wooden doors, I held you in my arms. Junebug, I'd burn
down a picture of a house, say it was ours, when we didn't
need it anymore. And that was when I loved you best. We were
kids then. We shouldn't think about the rest.
You'd put the moon in a basket on your bike front by the
coast. The way your face lit up in pale grief you were a ghost.
You liked to play with darkness, all the universe could give.
I was the home you once tried to escape, the dark in which
you lived. And soon they'd find you laying there on several
different homes. They'd find you laying on their porches, did
you need to use the phone? And lure you into their rooms,
that was the last I heard of June.
That was love I could not allow. You were beautiful then,
you're just a coke jaw now.
I remember everything. That was love I could not keep. You
were beautiful then. I'm still in too deep.

Honey, I know I’m moving too fast, walking over water, walking over stained glass. Little white sparrows overhead. Fast as they fly away from here, baby I’d as soon be dead. All life, hillsides being torn down. Losing my mind, buildings all around. It’s too late, it’s too late, I ain’t gonna wait around. Honey, I’ll be gone before the nightfall.

Polish off some Ballantines and chase it with some gin. Ten thousand scaffolds holding half a million kids. I reached to grab a glowing rose but instead I burned my hand. It was just a thousand moths covering a light, hoping that they’d found land.

Life could be a luxury if life forfeited time. Because all that time has done to me is give then take what’s mine. It’s not mine, it’s not mine, I ain’t gonna waste more time. Honey, I’ll be gone before the nightfall.

I climbed down a mountain in my dreams a long time ago. And I will tell you a little story, in a voice, so unkind.

I can’t lay in your arms, I can’t feel you in the night. The doctors told me when it’s dark I’ll see the light. When I close my eyes, I can feel you laying there. You’re like a broken down ride at a carnival fair.

When you’re tired, when you’re scared, when you’re lying cold and bare, I’ll be lost, in your mind, death’s not hard to find, I get high, I get holed, I tell you I ain’t old, but I can’t help you anymore, I can’t help you, climb a mountain.

Filed down coffins in the neighbourhood. A spanish girl walking by the cemetery wood. Five in the pan, we do what we can though it ain't right. A fat man sitting on the side of his remote, his daughter on the kitchen trying to clean his coat, I bet she can't. The rattle of the bottle on a warped wooden desk, shaking back and forth beside my bated breath. A blind girl laughing while I stare at her chest, I'm in the zone. I won't survive if I make it out alive. Seven/ten split, I don't got...

Down on Main Street, I got friends waiting there. I don't need no drop off girls. I like the air.

Elysian park through the dark about a mile. A little white girl with a Bobby king smile. Blue little bags she says she knows I'm feeling bad I'm worth your while. But here 'tween the palette feelings I don't understand, cardboard cutouts, just be a man. have fun walking home in Mike Davis land. Pull the wool over my eyes. I don't want to understand. I like the trees, the army and the colors that they wear, they like to scare. A few blocks home from remembering my name, a few blocks home.

Down on Main Street, I got friends waiting there. I don't need no drop off girls. I like the air.

(Grazie a Manon per questo testo)

I heard you knocking at my back door
You said your family’s gone
And you can’t help me anymore
I heard you knocking, I heard you say
It’s not funny that things have to turn out this way

I broke out into the night
For something out of sight
Kept moving faster
Decisions I made, losing you to the narrowing light
I always loved you
You knew I always loved you
Oncoming traffic, fading into...

The end of the world
You know I’ll keep on running
We gotta get out of here
Before the cops start coming

I held a job for a while
To keep you happy
To keep you laughing
I knew it wasn’t enough
I could not keep acting tough
And I would find you
Just the way I raised you
Those pale green eyes, burning into...

The end of the world
You know I’ll keep on running
We gotta get out of here
Before the cops start coming

It's the end of the world
You know I’ll keep on running
We gotta get out of here
Before the cops start coming

I heard you knocking at my back door
You said your family’s gone
And you can’t help me anymore
I heard you knocking, I heard you say
It’s not funny that things have to turn out this way

It's the end of the world
You know I’ll keep on running
We gotta get out of here
Before the cops start coming

Mescaline
in the sun
you try so hard to find someone
i used to be a hero
blood on my saddle
fighting every battle
i used to be alone

you shoot up
then you go to class
its funny how nobody asks
cause all your teachers love you
everybody loves you
everybody loves you
the same way that i do

what a wonderful world that we live in

your a lone disaster
your heart beats faster
when its with mine
your a likely story
morning glory
on the vine

there are holy ghosts
pushing past the tide
they let me know every time you cry
your burning in some backseat
burning in some room
burning is the one thing that you should know how to do
but i cant put out a fire when it looks like you
you didn't do the same when i asked you to.

what a wonderful world that we live in

your a lone disaster
your heart beats faster
when its with mine
your a likely story
morning glory
on the vine
mescaline.

Sugar on the highway, something 'bout he way she moved made it worth my staying there. I might have been a bit abused.

Man she was a sweet machine. Coffee smokes out on my jeans. Slid across the bed like gasoline. Burned right, never kept it clean.

Not a girl in the city reminds me of you. Not a girl in the city reminds me of you. Not a girl in the city reminds me that you go home, all alone.

And no one knows wher you came from.

(Grazie a Manon per questo testo)

I loved a girl once
And she was very young
Everyday I wonder
What I could've done

Now she's sitting somewhere
Where the walls are all white
Losing herself underneath
Those fluorescent lights

Each day goes by
Where the world looks the same
Where the seasons come and change
But I find myself the way I came

And I've lost all the things
That I lost in you
From losing ourselves
In each other like we use to do

Time moves on and those moments
That I held in my heart each day
Have now disappeared

Oh well the mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could've done
We end up passing one by one
One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one

Like a flower dancing
By the side of the wind
Like a tree growing thin
I had nothing to believe in
Cause now the wind blows through me
On the side of the road
Like a freight train
Howling in the belly of my soul

Now the ocean's nestled
In a blanket of stars
Dreaming by the streetlights
Dreaming by a freeway of cars

The mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could've done
We end up passing one by one
One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one

I lost my brother when I was very young
To a drug he never knew
Cause he could not remember what he'd done
It was my first taste of fear in the hospital hall
Staring through a window at his eyes
That were black as coal
And even though something inside of him died
He left the room a different person
But he made it out alive

Oh he'd switch our cereals in the morning
Out of fear of being poisoned
By the people that had raised him
By the people that put him here

Oh but time moves on
And those moments
That I held in my heart each day
Have now disappeared

Oh the mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could've done
We end up passing one by one
One by one
One by one

The mountains stare at the face of the sun
The sky smiles down on everyone
We all wonder what we could've done
We all end up passing one by one
One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one
One by one

(Grazie a Chloë per questo testo)

Desert, mountains, life. We drove out where the winds blew. For what we did those nights, we'd lose what was inside you. I took my parents' car, and you slept the whole way. I paid up in cash, how much I loved you those days.

Too mixed up to pass on, we were pretty with the worst genes. I'd just 'bout lost my mind by the time that you turned eighteen. Destroyed what I had left, some different kind of monster. Almost drank myself to death... So I could look down, on her.

I know that I an young, but I will love another. And I know that I'll have fun, fun enough to bother, All the places I would go where no one else could follow, in the long hallways pf my life.

All the places we would go, where no one else could follow, in the long hallways of my life.

(Grazie a Mat per questo testo)

There's a place inside each tear, that you'd shed for me in fear of my knowing all the darkness that you sang to every night. Your pale white, it's dressed in bones and skin it shoxs, it's not a feeling that you own. We were a playground not a home, but it was worse to be alone.

I've got a long way to go. I've got to carry you load. I had a heart too heavy to hold. You were my playground and I was you home.

My love digs deep, inside my mindless numbing sleep, and builds a pillow for the soul, an endless gaping quiet hole, that drowns the shadows from their walls.

I've got a long way to go. I've got to carry you home. I had a heart too heavy to hold. You were my playground and I was your home.

(Grazie a Mat per questo testo)

I still think 'bout the days
driving around
with nothing to do
but find all the things we never found
you were so pretty
and we were so young
windows rolled down
singin' old songs
we'd come back to my room
the sun peeking in
you put on your clothes
and say 'babe i think,
i think i might like you'

i listened to the shadows
hanging pictures
we were drifters
we'd get too close
and then you'd drift away
from the one thing hanging in the silence
oh, our love was just too violent
and you'd start screaming
with my head in your hands
i remember the time i said
'babe i cant be your man'

but i'll do what i can.

and i always knew your bite was bigger than your bark
i remember all those nights i used to watch you sleep in the dark
i had a good heart.
i had a good heart.