the stavelEy project

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I could
Not be
Incidental

If you’re not gonna bury me
Then carry me out to the shore
If you’re not gonna bury me
Then carry me out to the shore
And if you’re gonna bleed
don’task trouble to find you
a way out of
misery
If you’re gonna pacify
All of this endlessly
don’t come looking around
With those Dark Eyes
and Sweet Dreams

I could
Not be
Incidental

He’s fallen on bended knees
Never seen the daylight
Not crawling for Liberty
Just painting the Room that he
Wants us all to live for

In the lane this car’s got a flat tire
In the lane this car’s got a flat tire
Well they told me to stand up straight
and abandon doubt
But they thought the game was played,
Noone’s holding out
Now this table has won, full of stars,
shots & smug little girls
And that picture has fallen down
off that wall onto yoursI could not falter you

And I could not just sit here in this
backyard trash in little piles
Abandoning this mother ship that’s
fallen out to sea with no escape
Locked inside this backseat hold your hands up,
hold your hands behind your face
And I will not just sit here in this
backyard trash in little piles

On Tuesday you told me you’d ride me a bicycle
Latter Day Lovers on Eastern meets Standard Time
Coffee and cigarettes lulling the morning to come
Not too quickly, just quiet and clear

Not bittersweet chocolate, just raised on the radio
I’m searching these walls for a sign of some life
They’re heaving with wonder,
They’ve watched all my sweeter dreams
And I’ve never had it so clean

I’m so far away that I miss you my dear
But I’ve got what it takes to make it I swear
I’m so far away that I miss you my dear
But I’ve got what it takes to make it I swear

Pass Under Reach
Everything's All the Same
Since After My Name didn't Change
And You Can't Hate Me
And You Can't Take Me
'Cause I'm Not Your Baby

And I Could Use silicon in NeverLand
And Do you Get the Chance to Understand
That You Can't Hate Me
And You Can't Take Me
'Cause I'm Not Your Baby

Well the rifles they fell when you
Turned on your face in the morning
I could taste on your tongue
All the lies that you never would tell
And the rifles they fell when you
Turned on your face in the morning
I could taste on your tongue
All the lies that you never could tell

The last time I saw you
was down at the old corral
You were hitting the dark
With your head held up high
And your eyes way down low
You could see all the things that they
Just won't know

So I'm going out for a drive
And I think I'll be back soon
She's got 4 little wheels that could
Take me away from you
Said I'm going out for a drive
Don't know if I'll be back soon
She's got 4 little wheels that could
Take me right up to you

When the sun woke me up
Thought I'd walked to the edge of the world
Stood right down in the sand
With your heart on my sleeve
Facing North to the seas
That I never could hear
Just might swallow me whole

Now I could hear rolling thunder
From inside my knees
Knew the storm it was coming
Before you could break me
Just want what I've paid for
For that I might be
So much more than you've
Asked for
With or without these stone homes

So I'm going out for the night
Don't know if I'll be back soon
'Cause I hate all the things that we do
When we're passing through
Said I'm going out for the night
Don't know if I'll be back soon
'Cause I love all the things that you do
When you love me too

So I'm going out for a drive
And I think I'll be back soon
She's got 4 little wheels
That could take me away from you
Said I'm going out for a drive
Don't know if I'll be back soon
She's got 4 little wheels
That could take me right up
To you

Let's smoke some god, I'm drowning here
I am not dressed
But neither are you I bet
You see me and marx
We've got a system here
Just like Jesus and Mary Chain
Well I saw your eyes
But I drowned in mine
In old Cincinnati, WKRP taught us

Well Susan woke Sylvie
And asked her to find the sweet Jezebel
Oh how could you do it
To the luckiest girl in the universe
We won't check our bags
And we will build mountains from Lincoln Logs
In the morning, I am still an Optimist

We all are the products of our parentage
Rangers we were, and still not afraid of bears

I don't want to see your face
I can't say goodbye one more time
Put your pictures in an old shoe box
In a Palace down the street
And I'm pretty sure that
The mice have been sleeping beside you
In Zagreb, and Munich
While I dream of you infront of me

I could hang you out to dry
But You wouldn't lose that smell not ever
Like that old knit hat that you wore when you hit the road
And the people stared, when we opened up the door
And let the flowers touch the ground and lie there

In this God Damn Town
Yeah this God Damn Town
You took me by surprise and somehow
Still I wasn't ready yet

Well i heard you cry out loud
From the bottom of the steps at midnight
Aw, you said you'd take me up and out of here
To see the bears
And to touch the face of somewhere somewhere

From this God Damn Town
Yeah this God Damn Town
Well you took me by surprise and somehow
Still i wasn't ready yet

We could lie down now
And just sleep all through the night together
Not a word not yet, Not a word not yet

For this God Damn Town
Yeah this God Damn Town
When you took me by surprise
and somehow
Still i wasn't ready yet

lift me up slowly with my head on the concrete
and i'm grasping arms length from the sidewalk
half lit by, half cut by
and if you don't know which way is up then
i will just go back to bed, cause i'm tired
of saying the right words over and over again
we are smoking up on the stage

I'm saving up for a brand new leg
I've got pins in my eyes and I say,
I've got better things to do than you

Naked as Angels standing in
My backyard with blood on my shirt,
I am watching you eat

Drink me down like I'm going out of style,
take a Knife unto mine, You can go faster
when you're close behind

The cracks on the wall singing,
Dirty fingernails are laughing
in the kitchen sink,
I'm drowning turn me in

The parking-lot under the sink,
the bathroom floor linoleum,
the great OutDoors are
calling on the
telephone it's ringing
and it's

I'm saving up for a brand new leg
I've got pins in my eyes and I say,
I've got better things to do than you

Well I think that this chocolate
it smells like that love on those hot days
And that dirty mesh back
has been waiting so patiently
on the handle bars
And I can see plainly now
that you just won’t go away
And I can see plainly now
that you just won’t go away

All the extras are lining up
single file in the back yard
they’re just waiting so patiently
for the exit light to stop flickering
And I can see plainly now
that their footprints won’t go away
And I can see plainly now
that their footprints won’t go away

And I can’t catch my breath
No I can’t catch my breathin the face of disaster

And you just might be dangerous and dangling
Like that dirty mesh back
that’s been hanging so patiently
on the handle bars
And I can see plainly now
that these fears just won’t go away
Yeah I can see clearly now

Cause I can see my breath
And I can’t see my breath
No I can’t see my breath on those days of disaster

And they're shouting across the Pavement Field
Did you forget your dignity
Did you forget about me, me, me, me
Down at the Wishing Well
And throwing hard not deep
Did you forget the keys to your Little Green House
Did you forget about You

And the headlights that flickered
were warning us to slow down
The bridge up ahead is under water
Not a moment too soon
we were swimming and laughing
By the last light of yesterday
Did you forget about You

And there's a rhythm that happens
when you're all alone
Some eyes fall out like black stars
Some eyes stay shut to keep the light out
I never thought that haircuts made the man
I never thought that I could, thought that I could
Did you forget about You

Come inside for quick prevention
I'm grinding with these 18 wheels
Against Bovine, Sweeter than Turpentine
It's professional, I am less than full
Now tell me
That you are not still afraid of this

Lying here wide open with you
On my mind with you on
Simple thoughts of, Simple times
For the light to come and splash
Our faces through the cracks
On this door
Take me back to the place that I miss

Find me, find me, Find me
When and if and will you marry me
Dear Sir I said to you with love
Like the cold nights in September
I am waiting for my freeze to fall
I am waiting for my knees to give
How beautiful you are
Just like you always were