THIS WORLD IS TOO _____ FOR YOU

Released 2019 via Thesis & Instinct

1. Remind Me To Remember

I am a humble servant.  I serve, myself.

I am a humble servant, don’t look at me, don’t look at me yet.

cause I can be better, better than that.  I can be better.  Yeah.

I can be better, better than that. 

Don’t look at me.  Don’t look at me yet.

In the morning I wake up, tears in my eyes

Every evening, I’m so blurry.

In dark I, I hold my baby so tight

Every morning, we’ll be cryin’, We’ll be cryin’

Throw yourself, throw yourself in the water if you want to get cold

Throw yourself, throw yourself on the fire, if you want to burn to death

Throw yourself, throw yourself at the crowd if you really want to get wet

Don’t look at me, don’t look at me yet

cause I can be better, better than that.  I can be better.  Yeah.

I can be better, better than that. 

Don’t look at me.  Don’t look at me yet.

I can be louder, louder than that.  I can be louder.  Yeah.

I can be louder, louder than that. 

Don’t look at me.  Don’t look at me yet.

2. Stay Up

Forget the flood, when I was out praying in the yard

Listening for forever 

Drag the carpets out, into the sun

Don’t you get lonely? yeah

Don’t you get angry?  yeah

Stay up until your friends come out

You heard the cry and you wanna cry back

Forget the flood, when I was out trying to be someone

Listening for forever 

Drag my body down, into the sun

Don’t you get lonely? yeah

Don’t you get angry?  yeah

Stay up, Stay up

Hangin’ around

Wastin’ my time with you.

You heard the cry and you wanna cry back

You want to be held, you want a reaction baby

Go make yourself good, we’re all singing for ya

There’s always something out there swaying

Go make yourself quiet if you want to move with it

oh you want to move with it.  Do you want to move with it?

3. Come On Doom, Let’s Party

I’ve been waiting on an invitation

I’ve been waving like a teenager

I’ve been playing like it’s already over

Come on doom, let’s party

Come on doom, come on in

Come on doom, let’s party

Get it over.  Get it.  Get it over.

I’ve been waiting on an invitation

I’ve been waving like a dowager

I’ve been playing like it’s gonna last forever

4. Eulogy for the Lucky

Can’t make ice in the desert, can’t fool the heavens

Don’t make me feel better.  Don’t want to feel blessed

In the furnace that made us, that’s where I will rest.

And for the rest, real suffering.

No one’s gonna save us, gonna be no Jesus

No personal Jesus, gonna save us.

Luck isn’t freedom, they’re not even brothers.

Luck’s just a way of life, we’ve grown accustom

My luck is my greed.  Luck is having a news feed

I got enough.  Enough is too much.

No one’s gonna pay down the debts of our daddy

No one gonna clean the whole house

No one gonna love us madly, give us mouth to mouth

No one gonna save us, from ourselves

How does it go?  The earth will inherit.

Remember our gentleness, forget our excesses

Just keep the music, and fuck all the rest of it

yeah, fuck all the rest of it.  yeah, fuck all the rest of it.

No one’s gonna save us, gonna be no Jesus

No personal Jesus, gonna save us.

We need each other to save us.

5. Misconceptions on Forever

Out there, in the dark, everything is moving

Make me that brave.  I want to be out moving

Without the lights, without the lights on.

Take my body, make it stop humming. 

I want to be still, I want to be something.

Alive.  Alive.  In the dark moving.

Alive, alive, in the dark moving.

Out there, in the dark, everything is moving

Make me, that brave.  I want to be out moving

Without the lights, without the lights on.

Take my heart, make it stop wanting. 

I want to be here I want to be someone.

Alive.  Alive.  In the dark moving.

Alive, alive, in the dark moving.

Alive.  Alive.  In the dark moving.

6. I Need A Placebo

Come back news night, give me meaning

Come back brother

I want you to come back night cap

Cause I lost my God. My God.

I asked for small relief, all I got was free will

Set the table in mono.  Want a drink, but not the bottle.

Pour a little out, for all the days I lost to… 

Pour a little out for all the days I lost to misery, some small desire

Relieve me.

I need a placebo

I need water

I need. I need. I need.

7. Ruthie

Wish we were getting on a plane,

I wish you were running your hand through my hair

Say my name.  Say my name. 

Honey take me away from here.  

Can you hold it there?  Can you carry, can you steer?

Is it too much, this burden to share?

I can promise I can pay.  I’ll return it some day.

But honey please please take me anyway.

Honey please, take me away.

On the other side of this mean twilight there’s a clearing, or so I hear

Like a child too late, like a mother in the street

Like an old cliché 

Honey take me, take me away.

8. Rock N Roll Man

You don’t have to worry about a thing.

Time’s been rearranged and you are new again.

You’re a rock n roll man.  You’re a new idea.

Goddamn Goddamn.

You don’t have to sing another song.

There’s a choir inside of you, just sing along

You’re a rock n roll man.  You are singing with them.

Goddamn Goddamn.

I will be there for you in the night, if you need a song.

I will be there for you if you need to dream on.

What are you so afraid of (honey)

Don’t you want to be here (with me)

Everybody’s got a new friend in you.

Singing all the new songs forever and ever and ever, amen.

You don’t have to worry about a thing.

Time’s been rearranged and we are new again.

We’re a rock n roll band. We’re a new idea.

Goddamn Goddamn.

What are you so afraid of (honey)

Don’t you want to be here (with me)

Everybody’s got a new friend in you.

Singing all the new songs forever and ever and ever, amen.

Amen, Amen.

9. Your Apocalypse Was Fab

What’s better than understanding? What’s better than knowing the price of your sin?

What’s better than understanding? Don’t you dare say ignorance.

One bright February, we were all showing some skin. The gods they were laughing.

They were playin’ their cards, they were placing their bets all in

They said, “play now, play now, play now, you pay later for price of this sin.”

Gotta come down, gotta come down, gotta come down.

Don’t wait for me… no.

I grew weary of the threshold.  Yeah I know, I know, I like to see.

Take matters like that in your own hands, you might drown on your own company

Oh but the gods they were laughing. Can you believe, they were calling me a fool?

They said, “play now play now play now, you’ll pay later, for the price of this too.”

Gotta come down, gotta come down, gotta come down.

Don’t wait for me… no.

What’s better than understanding? What’s better than knowing just right where you stand?

What’s better than understanding? Don’t you dare say ignorance.  Don’t you dare say ignorance.

10. Hymn For The New World

I didn’t want to go away so soon.  I wasn’t done with you.

I didn’t want to give it up like this.  I’m not prepared to miss.

I didn’t want it bad enough.

So go on, get it going on in a new world.

Hallelujah, in a new world.

Can’t we just carry on? Can’t we just carry a little longer?

Can’t we just get it!?

I didn’t want to look away just yet.  I want my provenance.

I didn’t want to tell the truth, you know that’s when it’s time to go.

I didn’t want it bad enough.  

There is no going on with it.  Everything you know you learn to quit.

There is no going on with it.  Everything you love you learn to quit.

There is no going on with it.  Everything we love we learn to quit.

So go on, go on, get it going on in a new world.

Hallelujah, in a new world.