flower of the cosmos
Lyrics
01. Can’t Do This In Your Head
I should have known. We should have known.
We wanted to believe we couldn't really be that dumb
See we wanted to be seen the way we think we are alone
So we lied and we cried
Yeah it's wrong and It's been so long
I can't do this in my head
Gotta open my arms out wide
And let it carry off what's left of my pride.
What's the point of even trying to hide? How many bosses are we picking up on the side? How many months till our lifestyle gets reclassified a crime?
Oh we’ll cry and we’ll hide
Yeah it's wrong and it's been for long
We can't do this in our head
Gotta hold your arms out wide
And let it carry off what's left of your pride
We can try. I will try.
Yeah it’s hard and we must go far
I can't do this in my head
Gotta hold my arms out wide
And let it carry off what's left of my pride
What's left of you?
02. Like Hate
Don't tell em to hold their breath they've been keeping it out too long
Don't ask em to bow their heads they've been keeping em down too long
Don't tell her to hold her tongue she'll be whipping around Whipping around
Whipping around and now it'll smooth out all the ugly corners of our home
Are you feeling old
So are you feeling done?
Or Giving up on life?
Tearing into everything at once?
Which is nothing more than a natural reaction to the
Way we live
Today we live
like hate we live
In places with unrivaled guilt
And say we built it this way
Cause it's all the same
What sets it apart what makes it remain The biggest piece of your heart? If there is strength in these arms I'll hold you again and again and again and again. Let's get outta this place We can move to the north and I’m sounding insane I guess I’m half the way there. Gotta give me a chance to put you into my head so you can see the way i’m fighting it.
Never treat me cold
Never let me go
Never tell me no
Never give me everything I want
Cause the wanting's made by those who all accept the way we live
Today we live
Like hate we live
In places with unrivaled guilt
And we claim we made it this way
Cause we’re all insane
Where we think we're safe
Yeah we think we're safe
03. Faks
I’m gonna tell you the sugar see
I’m going to sell you the summer breeze
All we want is a break from all the
Falling apart on your hands and knees
Constantly coming apart at the seams
We've all gotta take off all our problems now were here
We’re here You’re here
Let go of all your hope it’s causing you to feel remote
Just let it in the only sin is to pretend you’re on the right side of the war
I’ve said before we’re wrong
I said come on- let’s have a little fun before we’re dead and gone
Why don’t you get me a drink i can sip
Why don’t you give me a place I can sit
Why won’t you let me lay down for a bit
Why won’t you forget the things I did
Why can’t we live inside microchips
Why not - I’m sure we’d get used to it
Why can’t I find my thoughts about it
Why can’t I hold on to words oh they slip
Why am I getting obsessed with this
Why can’t I find enough time to go quit
Why can’t I own this relationship
Show me the shit that could justify this
Where is the fun at the end of this list
When will we fill with accomplishment
Is this the extent of my consciousness
Head up my ass in the creative class
I have some thoughts about the world
They are the best you’ve ever heard
They are original and of so very clear
so come on here and hold my head in your hands
04. Golden Door
Yeah I'm weak and I'm scared
And I'm small but you're there
And you hold over your head
What I want
Did you see her face
Yeah she knows how to hold herself
There is no way to get it under her skin, not today
Gee I hope she's made her peaces with the waves
Since everything under the sun will be swimming
Since nothing's been done and nothing's been given
Were gonna beg women and beg all the children We need them to keep us from drowning and sinking we need them to keep us from sinking
But the best is on the way we have a a man who got some plan
He's telling us all the same
He’s gonna He’s gonna
We've done our best to make him go away but it's in their hands now don't you worry babe
We'll have a plan give it a couple more days
Till then till then just smile for em baby
We can smile for em girl
This is our patented reaction to the world
05. Fill Up Glass
You're alright. At least I hope you're alright after what you've been doing for weeks.
Actually months. Probably years. Despite all my fears you're actually here so tonight, We’ll change our minds again. Yeah tonight, we'll have some fun again and then we'll run away out to the streetlights to the rain let it fall. Let it fall and watch it fill up all the holes. Soon everything below 36th street will be floating on the foam of flooded subways and and the scum of yuppie traders as they survey the likely end of every decent brunching place maybe they’ll move away. Maybe they’ll move away?
I'm not a betting man but I can see an opening
Here we are rooting for the end
As if we know we're gonna be here when the hurricanes end. A lotta faith in how we’ll learn to live like roaches in the sand. You can hold my hand. I promise you we'll stay here somehow, some way. We will squat in all the decay and the shells of the olden times will float away.
I'm alright. I guess I'm alright with a rash that never really goes away. I've got the mornings to myself I've got the sunrise on the bay at 23rd street and Broadway. It's quite relaxing to watch the skyscrapers collapsing. I’ll never move away.
06. Bubble Scum
You can say something obvious like this is not where I'm supposed to be
You can sit down right across from us and get a better picture of the scene
You can stare or you can shrug
you can count up all the drugs
you can take another stab at how one cuts some little rug
you can melt into the couch
You can slide or you can pounce
You can write down all your thoughts and then give up
Stranger times have come and gone my dear
Stranger things have made their home right here
They've all come and they've gone
And the scum just carries on
When the bubble pops you can still trace out the sphere
How you feel about me doesn't matter much at all
How you feel about you is between you and the walls
How we feel about feelings is the gas that has us reeling
How we feel doesn't change the things we do
An ending comes and the whole world carries on
It's almost here
07. Raising Kids in the End Times
And when we had given birth to our first kid we watched in terror as the fires grew. Then we had the second baby we watched the government break beyond all reason and then we knew. It’s an awful realization - we have to choose. Forget about our civilization - we gotta move.
Get em in the air
Get em into space
Get em outta here
Get em far away
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing’s gonna change
We’re gonna watch it all just fail away
We’re gonna feel the pain
Every other day
Is gonna be the same
Watching it decay
And everything is strange
Living day to day
Here we go…
I gotta get some power over everything in front of my eyes and over horizons and powers be. And in my mind I know there i know there has to be some kind of potent nowhere left for us to hide our seeds. Where do we get some high explosives? We used to know how to ride explosions. All the way to low earth orbit everything is not too high a cost and i’ll pay it
08. Dorito Dreams
Here it is that's where it went you never thought it'd come to be
You spend your whole adult life hoping for change and get a brand new king to please
It isn't easy to put him back in a box
It isn't easy to mix the word and thought
It isn't easy to reexamine your faults in front of this country please
We've been lying
Everyone does, everyone knows and everyone shrugs
Everyone has a definition of what everybody thinks it's cuz
And we’re trying
To keep it above to keep it above the muck and mud
To keep it focused on what we think people love
According to the deputies right?
Nothing is left
Nothing is free
Nothing is kept
Nothing is clean
Nothing’s been happening
The way you hoped
The way you said
The way is broke
The way is dead
And we're fracturing
And all them Dorito dreams
About the way things can be
I guess this means we're easy
I guess this means that we’re easy to please
So please me?
Save me.
That's what they would want to make you choose from your cubs
Which one is going to grow up and be
slaving
from dawn into dusk
wiping old peoples butts
or better yet testing drugs.
Oh There's No Way Home From Where We've Fallen Now
09. Crude Wave
We have the best in our hearts have the best in our minds all there for you
We had a thousand false starts and a million excuses just to feel our way through
Oh - You don't know what you're doing with this
Just keep your head down keep your eyes low and someone will show with a clue and a charge card. Just hold it down cause in a little while success will identify you.
We thought we knew just how to fill the holes you gouged out from the blue.
But you just kept on leaking out the crudest wave will never change.
Now that it's starting fall
Now that we’re starting to fold
Now that it's steaming us out
Now that it's eating the world we always had below us
Where we trusted it to hold us
now it's growing soft and porous
now it's filling up our mouths and noses
10. Romance
The street is getting louder now everything is wet with faith
It’s on papers and on tongues that i don't speak.
In mirrored rooms the pain plays out and they play it out just great
And I have no doubt they're counting off the days.
Put your hands on my chest little darling let me smell your breath
Let me circle around your neck and tuck in the small of your back
Tell me tales of the clean and cleanly sing me notes of the endless immense
Take it down this is something to treasure, something to keep in your glass
Romance
And if the end is near its making me hungry
And if the sky is red it's pulling me down
Let me kiss you everywhere
Look around
If you're waiting on the good lord, then you've left it up to chance
But i look at you and i see you so alive
And i'm hoping you can get your yourself just one more chance
Close your eyes close your eyes close your eyes
Put your hands on here head and take that pain up to the sky
And make a bed out of the clouds for her to spend that endless time
In the glory of the past in a bath of joy and laughs
In a place i’ll never find a way to get myself to pass
It's a sad but strange comfort
It is the best lie that we tell
Cause it's the way you've always wanted it to be
For you But also for me
And so it drags us all to hell.