SLEEPING GIANTsome old girl says the feeling strikesstarin in the mirror turned ya knuckles whitejust some old girl, you used to know and some old kid out past his primecrows feet and sunken eye’djust some old kid, ya used to know but you and i don’t wanna fight it and left our love a sleeping giant and left our love a sleeping giant a sleeping giant, oh a sleeping giantsome old girl weighs on ya mind heavy as the web of lies, that some old kid has always told left ages since we spoke, like boney branches overgrown hack out the limbs, with roots belowbut you and i undivided don’t leave ya love, a sleeping giant don’t leave ya love, a sleeping giant a sleeping giant, a sleeping giant don’t leave ya love, a sleeping giant…
OH CAat the mercy of wind, that sweeps up this l.a. brushfiregonna take it to the canyon may i be, taken, taken tooat the mercy of the tide that drove in another swellgonna take it to the shorelinemaybe i’m still, taken with youbut i aint gonna be ya runner upand i don’t wanna stay in touch, california, oh californiasan andreas waits to unwind like a row of dominosgonna shake down that skylineand maybe i’m still all shook up, shook up toobut i aint gonna be your runner upand i don’t wanna stay in touchcalifornia, california, oh californiabut i aint gonna be your runner upand i don’t wanna stay in touchcalifornia… oh california
NOTHIN ON YOU KIDwe don’t go out in the city, we aint been part of the scenei can’t lie, i am yours like you are mineno lie we are freeand aint no lie the girls out on the strip ain’t got nothin on you kid, aint got on yawe been down in saint rose and high as the cascades standbut wherever i sleep tonight will be with hat in handand this iron will to quit, aint got nothin on you kidaint got nothin on you. aint got nothin on ya…
FORTYFIVE45 is slower when it spins on our recorder and before they all come overmy oh myshook as the wheel spun, lost from everyone, they dont know where we come fromwhere we come from45 is slower with grooves that skip over, every word ya heard before, my oh mycause our hot blood, bound by wonderlust still don’t know where we come fromwhere we come frommy my oh my…oh oh… my oh my….
HAYWIREa street riot outside, they wont reign em in tonightseen the crowd from ya rooftop, said ‘they can’t take their eyes offall they want, don’t matter if the city goes’haywire, haywire its only you and i as our cities gone, haywirea motorcade busted up, flames pour out the rooflineseen it spark up again, just when we thought it’d diedwon’t ya lielow and watch the city gohaywire, haywire its only you and i, as our cities gone, haywire, haywire its only you and i, as our cities gone, haywirehayyywire, hey hey…
HIGHWAY MILESdown highway miles your sleepin in our middle seatwith my heart as full as an ashtray at a slot machineoh california, god your cold sometimeslike you and your, like you and your vivid eyes on mine, on minedown highway miles where the twilight, turns on everythingwell my heart’s as pure as war, has a clear enemyoh new york your stray dogs run wildlike you and your, like you and your vivid eyes, on mine, on mine…
WILD MOANaint we been tense piano strings, are we ever struck by anything?aint we been moved wayward teeth, how long ya been drifting? but dont we burn rising heat or are you only blowing smoke?off tongues we rollhey didn’t i tell you, didn’t i tell you so, everythings under controlcmon i told ya, i got everything under controllike a wild moan, like a wild moanbeen static snowy tv screen howd ya picture this to be? cause this lowkey little melody been shook to snap them stringsbut maybe i still cant, still cant shake yaand need to sing myself to sleephey didn’t i tell you, didn’t i tell you so, everythings under controlcmon i told ya, i got everything under controllike a wild moan, like a wild moan
GUILTFREEa conscience is gonna clean like bleach white teethya i know, this aint what it used to besaid the choice was easy came on like a thiefgone like a thrill, sang the keyafter ya leave, after ya leavesaid your gonna be, guiltfreeafter ya leave, after ya leavehow ya gonna be? guiltfreeso let the highway bring release and distance take the memoryhey hey don’t let no history stand betweenbut mine aint ghostly, hums like a reedand clings to these, bleach white sheetsafter ya leave, after ya leavehow ya gonna be? guiltfreeafter ya leave, after ya leavehow ya gonna be? guiltfreeguiltfreeoh c’monoh cmonwill ya let your love beoh cmon, hey cmonwill ya let love be, guiltfree
REVELooohave ya had some revelation, been hopin that you’d find itand aint made up your mind yetcause theres no replacing them fingers in the blacknessmoving so backhandedoh how long?… have you been waitin on some?revelationooohave ya thoughts gone hazey as this california fog liesdraped along her coastlineand your that slowdiving dawn who sings ‘whenever i risegonna be mine dead to rights’oh how come?… your still waiting on somerevelation
