Electric President - Safe and Sound

You took your hits with the bruises on the soles of your feet
Well, who’s to say if they’re deserved? But you’re turning reckless now
I hear you saying through your teeth that you’ll take them down first

But I saw you flinch when the doctors got their claws in you
I saw your smile start to crack
It’s not so funny when you’re sunk and there ain’t nothing you can do
And your options are all dead ends

But there’s no way out
I’ll let you build your home with me till the clocks run down
When your looks run out
Call me and I will come and fix you, get your feet on the ground
When there’s no way out
Call me and I will come and bury you, all safe and sound

And all this time you’ve been drifting out with the tide, my friend
But you can have what’s mine if it helps you stay afloat
If I close my eyes I can’t watch you drown anymore, my friend
But I’ll tell you lies if it helps you sleep at night
And the more we fight, the more we don’t get right, my friend
And the more we fight, the more we don’t get right

Heard they broke you
That you gave in
That you dropped
And the fight had left you

But don’t you worry
Makes no difference
From the start
Your options were all dead ends

When there’s no way out
I’ll let you build your home with me till the clocks run down
When your looks run out
Call me and I will come and fix you, get your feet on the ground
When there’s no way out
Call me and I will come and bury you, all safe and sound

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

Save up all the days
A routine malaise
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay

Would you always
Maybe sometimes
Make it easy
Take your time

Think of all the ways
Momentary phase
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay

Every time you try
Quarter half the mile
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay

Would you always
Maybe sometimes
Make it easy
Take your time

The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cakewalk

I, I wanna live on the stage
I wanna play the guitar
And I wanna get paid

But no responsibilities, please
I wanna do what I want
And I wanna get paid

Vampire Weekend - Horchata

In December, drinking horchata
I’d look psychotic in a balaclava
Winter’s cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals

In December, drinking horchata
Look down your glasses at that aranciata
With lips and teeth to ask how my day went
Boots and fists to pound on the pavement

Here comes a feeling you thought you’d forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

You’d remember drinking horchata
You’d still enjoy it with your foot on masada

Winter’s cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals

Here comes a feeling you thought you’d forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
Oh you had it but oh no you lost it
Looking back you shouldn’t have fought it

In December, drinking horchata
I’d look psychotic in a balaclava

But winter’s cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals
Years go by and hearts start to harden
Those palms and firs that grew in your garden
Are falling down and nearing the rosebeds
The roots are shooting up through the tool shed
Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went
Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement

Here comes a feeling you thought you’d forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
Oh you had it but oh no you lost it
You understood so you shouldn’t have fought it.

Tapes ‘n Tapes - 10 Gallon Ascots

Ten gallon ascots and booze on your shirt
I’ll come to dinner and fight off the flirts
I know I know of wash away weekends
They leave me cold so cold so cold…

Your hats they long
Of range they’ve sung
File out at night
Shock steers with fright

Shockers and shooters
They line up for the hearse
I wear my best wig and drive off the freelings
In the cold the cold
I’m bought by the sender
And I’ve been sold for coal for coal…

Your hats they long
Of range they’ve sung
File out at night
Shock steers with fright

The show the drone
The talk the call
The need the snow
I’ll show you home

Feist and Ben Gibbard - Train Song

Travelling north, travelling north to find you
Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes
Don’t even know what I’ll find when I get to you
Call out your name love, don’t be surprised

It’s so many miles and so long since I’ve left you
Don’t even know what I’ll find when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It’s many hundred miles and it won’t be long

Nothing at all, in my head, to say to you
Only the beat of the train I’m on
Nothing I’ve learned all my life on the way to you
One day our love was over and gone

It’s so many miles and so long since I’ve met you
Don’t even know what I’ll say when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It’s many hundred miles and it won’t be long

Feist & Ben:
What will I do if there’s someone there with you
Maybe someone you’ve always known
How do I know I can come and give to you
Love with no warning and find you alone

It’s so many miles and so long since I’ve met you
Don’t even know what I’ll find when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It’s many hundred miles and it won’t be long

It won’t be long
It won’t be long
It won’t be long

Send “Train Song” Ringtone to your Cell

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Some Trees (Merritt Moon)

And now a road connects the cul-de-sac
To the adjacent development
But there used to be trees stretching back
And there was no way through

And I was thankful for the mystery
But by the time that girl had hanged herself
I could have looked out my back window
And watched her neck just snap

Baseball field lights that shine
Over the shedding pine
Each bulb’s a blinding sphere
In the secular nation
Unhurried sirens moan
Pitches that glaze my eyes
She’s just a pale fleshy typewriter-light advertisement for a wind chime that emits rays which resonate in the polluted sky

All entrances to the
Merritt blocked off I mean
I’d love to believe that death’s
Just the beginning as the
Shutters fly open and the
Breeze gives me pause
I know what’s out there
morning phone calls silence and resentment and craters a new moon built in a line
Send “Some Trees (Merritt Moon)” Ringtone to your Cell

Paper Rival - Bluebird

home, here with your family
home, to hell with the rest
i knew you were crazy but never
thought you would do this

blood, there’s blood on the carpet
blood, there’s blood on your hands
if the two are connected
i’ll know where we stand

bluebird don’t sing that song.
noone wants to sing along
we’re all so scared of dying
bluebird don’t fly too far
i won’t know where you are when i
i get so scared of dying

you, caught in the middle
you, cut to the core
you’re left in the dust of decisions
begging for more

now, you’re high and alone
be careful, dont’ swallow your tongue
just put an ear to the ground
where you did it
wait for them to come…

bluebird, don’t sing that song
no one wants to sing along
we’re all so scared of dying
bluebird don’t fly too far
i won’t know where you are when i
when i get so scared of,
so scared of…

bluebird, don’t sing that song
no one wants to sing along
we’re all so scared of dying
bluebird, don’t fly too far
i won’t know where you are when i
when i get so scared of dying

when i get so scared of it

LoveLikeFire - Wish You Dead

It’s not easy to let you ignore me
Ask me; I’ll tell you a story
About a boy with a love
And another one who can’t let go, ‘cause

It’s quite clear, my dear
Your heart is somewhere near
But not so near
We’ve got a problem here

In my mind, we creep into the desert
Just the two of us
And we slide away, into forever

I can’t help but wish you dead,
I wish you dead
Sometimes I wish you dead, my friend
Sometimes I wish you dead, my friend

It’s not easy to let you ignore me
Ask me; I’ll tell you a story
About a boy with a love
And another one who can’t let go, ‘cause

You’ve been out so long
I am a sweet gone wrong
You’re in it for the drama
I’m in it for the love

In the night, I fly into your bedroom
Lay there by your side
And we dream away, into forever

I can’t help but wish you dead,
I wish you dead
Sometimes I wish you dead, my friend
Sometimes I wish you dead, my friend

Sometimes I wish you dead, my friend
Sometimes I wish you dead, my friend

You would send me to the wolves
You would send me as a sacrifice
Cut me up and throw me out, that’s what you do

I will never look to you with regrets
I will never miss you
I wish you were dead

Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines

Packed and all eyes turned in, no one to see on the quay. No one waving
for me just the shoreline receding. Ticket in my hand and thinking wish I
didn’t hand it in. Cause who said sailing is fine? leaving behind all the
faces that I might replace if I tried on that long ride, looking deep inside
but I don’t want to look so deep inside yet.

Sit down, sit down on the prow to wave bye, there might not be another
stop, further on the line. Look out, look out at each town that glides by,
and there’s another crowd, to drown in crying eyes. And see how that
light you love now just won’t shine, there might just be another star,
that’s high and far in some other sky.

We sing, is that marionette real enough yet to step off of that set to decide
what her hands might be doing. Ruining the play to in the ensuing melee
escape. We packed up all of our bags the ship’s deck now sags from the
weight of our tracks as we pace beneath flags black and battered rattling
our swords in service of some feted foreign lord.

We sail out on order from him but we find that the maps he sent to us
don’t mention lost coastlines. Where nothing we’ve actually seen has been
mapped or outlined, we don’t recognize the names upon these signs.

And every night finds us rocking and rolling on waves wild and wide, well
we have lost our way, nobody’s gonna say it outright. Just go la la la la la
la la la la…

Born Ruffians - Hummingbird

The grass & the daisies
Think a lot more of the days than you
& You’re you

The walls of the maze
Know the will more than the way than you
& You’re just you

The buttons on my phone
Know I hate to be alone
When I dial, I’m in denial

But now at least I know
Where it is I have to go
I need supplies before I arrive

“You’re running down my thigh,” she said
“He’s such a wonderful guy,” she said
“There’s pride in wanting to die,
I think I’ll give it a try,” she said
“I can’t make it on my own
& It’s so hard to be alone
When I die
I’ll be alright,”
& Now at least she knows
Where it is she has to go
She’ll need supplies before she arrives

We’re not gonna die like this
We’re not gonna die like this
Sing it with me, it goes like this
We’re not gonna die like this

HUM-MING-BIRD

Fly away little humminbird!

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday

I can’t stand to see your picture
on the dress where i left you
another sunny day
and you’re 80 miles away, tuesday

but come saturday, you’ll come to stay
you’ll come to sway in my arms
who cares if there’s a party somewhere
we’re gonna stay in

come saturday, you’ll come to say
maybe there’s no harm
in a wasted summer with no drummer,
we’re gonna stay in

i could stand to be a fixture
in a faded family picture
but i can’t see into the sunset
all i know is that you’re perfect right now

but come saturday, you’ll come to stay
you’ll come to sway in my arms
who cares if there’s a party somewhere
we’re gonna stay in

come saturday, you’ll come to say
maybe there’s no harm
in a wasted summer with no drummer,
we’re gonna stay in

you don’t have to write at all
you don’t have to make a call
i know that you will come again and again
you don’t have to dress to please
perhaps undress for me
i know that when you come we’ll be staying in

Grizzly Bear - Plans (Covered by Band Of Horses)

Juan from Argentina, such a strange predicament we find ourselves in
Baby it’s a long way to South America
Every option I have costs more than I’ve got
If you trust in me, if I could I would be there
All I have to give seems to be all over you and everyone else
I guess I’m guilty spreading thin with my love
If you trust in me, if I could I would be there

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice

Blue you radiant blue
I don’t know how you can stand next to me
You you talk like a noose
And only confuse my perplexity
Now that I’m so sad and not quite right
I could dance all night
I could dance all night

Shake your rattle-snake skin
And become a part of society
Wait on down the highway
To see how far I’ll come a-run a-run
run running
All that we had salvaged from the fire
Was a waste of time
(But) what a waste of time

Should I trust all the rust that’s on TV
I guess with some distaste I disagree
With quite a fashionable dispassion for
The dispossessed under-stressed
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
And I don’t care if you don’t like it
Or just don’t see

Now that we fattened the cow
And set out to plow unknown enemies
“Wow!” shouts the startled crowd
“How now did you see what I did see?”
the ravaged cabbage drifts on dark red skies
and it looks so nice
gee it looks so nice

shout just let it on out
confusion becomes a philosophy
down we’re reaching the town where we
don’t have to stand around and look
over our shoulders
hell I never knew was what we made it
let’s just take it slow IN THIS HOME ON ICE

Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain

Slow walk
It’s land mine
It’s coal mine
It’s a bad thought
On the way to god don’t know
My brain’s the burger and my heart’s the coal
I’m trying to get my head clear
I push things out through my mouth
I get refilled through my ears
I’m on my way to god don’t know or even care
My brain’s the weak heart, and my heart’s the long stairs
Inland from Vancouver shore
The ravens and the seagulls push each other inward and outward
Inward and outward
In this place that I call home
My brain’s the cliff, and my heart’s the bitter buffalo
My heart’s the bitter buffalo
We tore one down, and erected another there
The match of the century: absence versus thin air
On the way to god don’t know
My brain’s the burger and my heart’s the coal
On this life that we call home
The years go fast and the days go so slow