MAMA

Released 2012 via Partisan Records and Thesis & Instinct

1. Piece of It

I want a piece of it, I want a piece of it

I want a piece of it, just a teeny tiny little piece of it

Sunlight streaming through the open blinds, just one piece to make all mine

Sunlight streaming through your open lips, I want a piece of it

I want a piece of it

Running round the hillside and my feet are bare

Just one piece and I’d toss away my cares

Sunlight streaming through the open door

If I ever got it I’d just want some more

I want a piece of it

Sunlight streaming through the windowpane

If I ever got it I’d just give it away

Cause the world could really use a little light today

I want a piece of it

Had a little piece and I give it away

2. DIRTY SNEAKERS AND UNDERWEAR

Dirty sneakers and underwear, I lost myself in your dirty hair

Lost my love in a rhapsody, found my love in a factory

Stained knees and a mouth of glass, spilt milk and a horse’s ass

Built my house outta sass and wood, burn it down and it’s gone for good

Water water well the babe’s on fire.  Fire fire climbed the steepest spire

Slide down in my underwear, dirty sneakers and I don’t care

I just wanna feel better, I just wanna feel right

Best friends in a parking lot, I lost myself but I took a shot

Lost my love in a factory, found my love in a rhapsody

Bruised lips and my ringing ears. Go to sleep to forget your cares

Woes woes yeah we got a few, I bit it off now I gotta chew

Ways ways well we got too many, going downtown and you look so pretty

Love love, we got plenty, got more love then we ever had money

Joy joy we got a lot, best friends in a parking lot

And if you got your, you got your hands on me

You’ve got your hands on me

3. passenger

I’m a passenger, I’m a passenger, give me the keys I wanna drive

I’m a passenger, I’m a passenger, if you give me the keys you know I won’t survive

Pour it down my throat, I need it just to cope

Hey kitty kitty, say it ain’t so

I’m drowning on tomorrow, losing all my hope

Bottom of the well and I just lost the rope.

I had a feeling this might not end so hot

So tell me tell me doctor you know how to make it stop

Give me all your medicine, give me all your pills

Your bedside manor, just to cure my ills

I’m a buffalo, I’m a lone ranger, I’m a squad car, I’m your stranger

Teenage boys are sure to take a tumble

The reigns the reigns, And my lover

I will be waiting for you

4. mama’s gonna give you love

Mama’s gonna give you love, Mama’s gonna give you love

O boy boy you’re a heartbreaker, I’d tell you everything if it didn’t take her

School shoppin and the neighborhood mall, I know I know that I killed it all

When you say nothin well you say in all

Can’t blame you baby, I can take the fall

Tuck you in just a one last time, tell you little baby it’ll be alright

O boy boy you are the one, sights so high it’ll never be done

Love you so hard and everyday, letters on my body I can read your name

I flew the coop I said it all

Left you in the nest in a tree so tall

Darkest summer and we’re losing light, tell you little baby it’ll be alright

Mama and your mama don’t see, you mama mama mama’s comin after me

5. johnny cash’s mama’s house

Hey, you never knew what you had til you lost it

You never knew what you had

Hey, you never knew what you had til you lost it

You never knew you pretty little fool

Orange juice and my youth, livin it up in the poor house

Vinyl records and violins, spinnin and squawkin

Short eyelashes and your daily bread, learning bout love in your little head

Marmalade and pancakes, cookin it up in the back house

Creek ran dry but the water came in, dry earth so how we ever gonna swim?

Take me down to the riverside, take me there so we can cry cry cry

Then we’ll be at a babbling brook

Read me from your pages and tear me from your book

Bleed your ink right into me, fill my lungs with empathy

6. let your guard down

You got a house in the desert, got a house by the sea

You got everything you wanted, yeah, everything but me

You let your guard down baby let your guard down

You got a house in the country and one in the city

You got everything you wanted, yeah, everything but me

You let your guard down baby let your guard down

So you’re drawing up papers and your picking fights

Meet me in a restaurant at the end of your long life

And let your guard down baby let your guard down

I’ll take my hilltop and you can rest on yours

Meet up in the middle baby just to do the chores

Cookin and cleanin and all I ever knew about

being in love is what I learned from you

I let my guard down baby let my guard down

How you gonna wear this on your sleeve?

Cause I can’t give you what you need

I got a house in the desert got a house by the sea

I got everything I wanted, everything but me

I let my guard down baby let my guard down

7. fire song

My old house, gonna burn it down.  That old house, gonna draw a crowd

Then you’ll say you lost it in the fire, then you’ll say you lost in the flame

Puttin out old desire, so you don’t have to give it name

You’re alright, you’re alright you’re alright til you’re not

If I gave you everything you wanted, if I gave you all you say I should

There’d be nothing left to me but honest, smoke and glass and nails burnt out of wood

My old house, gonna burn it down. Neighborhood gonna gather round

Then they’ll say you lost it in the fire, babe just say you lost it in the flame

Puttin out old desire, so you don’t have to give it name

8. no good

You paid me with your currency, I paid you with the sun

Smoke a cigarette and get in bed if you wanna have some fun

And baby, do you, do you know the stakes,

of lovin somebody who only makes mistakes?

Cause I’m no good, at bein alive, I’m no good at getting by.

Wake up in your bed, wake in a cherry tree

Fallin out on the dewy ground, you know how to touch a bruised body

And baby, do you, do you know the cost,

of loving somebody who’ll always be lost?

The past is the lover you can’t have

9. instrumental

10. darlin’

I’m leavin home on the first train tomorrow

I call it home cause it’s where I leave my sorrow

So goodbye Pappi, goodbye Ma, goodbye Chick and the rest of it all

If I had any sense, if I had my innocence,

I’d take you home with me, darlin’ I’d take you home with me

Someday soon I’ll be walkin down the street,

swingin hands with someone I’m bound to meet.

And if you see me, will you tip your hat?

Will you pull the curtains? Will you hold me back?

So goodbye lover, goodbye friend, goodbye baby and all we’ve ever been

We ran through the woods like some wild kids

We knew nothing ‘cept abandonment

O forgiveness, you’ve got nothing on me

‘cept your pocket watch and your golden key

why don’t you just take me? Take me