Pavement Album

Silent kid no one to remind you
You got no heel, no reels to remind you
Silent kid don't take your pawn shop
Home on the road, goddamn you
Silent kid don't lose your graceful tone

This is the city life, come on
Let's talk about leaving

Come on now, talk about your family
Your sister's cursed, your father's old and damned
Silent kid don't listen to the grandmother's advice about Ezra
Silent kid don't listen to their ayy...

Hand me the drumstick
Snare kick
Blues call upon I knew myself in
Into the spotlight
Ecstasy feels so warm inside
Till five hours later
I am chewin'
screwin'
Myself with my hand

Well your greed for tokens and stamps
Underneath the fake oil burning lamps
In the city we forgot to name
The concourse' is a four wheel shame
And the courthouse is double breast
I'd like to check out your public (bodily) protest
So why you complaining? ta!
Those who sleep with electric guitars
Range roving with the cinema stars
And I wouldn't want to shake their hand
Cause they're in such a high protein land
Because there's forty different shades of black
So many fortresses and ways to attack
So why you complaining? ta!

Got struck by the first volley of the war in the courts
Never held my service
Send 'em a wire, give 'em my best, this ammunition never rests
No one serves coffee, no one wakes up

Stop breathin, stop breathin
Breathin for me now
Write it on a postcard
Dad, they broke me, dad, they broke me

Stop breathin, stop breathin
Breathin for me now
Write it on a postcard
Dad, they broke me, dad, they broke me

I can see the lines, open shutters, and the leaves flocked on a grid
That's what they made my hero say
But nothing gets me off so completely than when you put it down ten feet down in the ground
Call and response, negative hope

Stop breathin, stop breathin
Breathin for me now
Write it on a postcard
Dad, they broke me, dad, they broke me

Stop breathin, stop breathin
Breathin for me now
Write it on a postcard
Dad, they broke me, dad, they broke me

darlin' don't you go and cut your hair
do you think it's gonna make him change?
"i'm just a boy with a new haircut"
and that's a pretty nice haircut
charge it like a puzzle, hit me wearin' muzzles
hesitate to die, look around, around, the second drummer's drowned
his telephone is found

music scene is crazy, bands start up each and every day
i saw another one just the other day
a special new band
i dont remember lying
i don't remember lies
i don't remember what
but i don't care, i care, i really don't care
did you see the drummer's hair?

advertising looks and chops a must
no big hair!!
songs mean a lot
when songs are bought
and so are you-
bitch, rant down to the practice room
attention and fame so
career, career, career....

Plane driver
The forces against you
The rain
I know everybody wants to put you down
But I know everybody's gonna put me down, won't you
I want you
Because I'm lushing
To feel you
But I won't set you down
I don't need to
Because I'm lushing
To feel you
But I won't set you down
I don't need to

Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly
Don't try, try, try, try, try
It's a brand new era
It feels great
It's a brand new era
But it came too late

She won't let you know that -
Alright to touch her
She won't let you wait for me
For me to touch you

Crowds of the people
And voices and steeples
And wedding rings
Wild are the horses
And break up divorces
In separate rooms from

My, my, my, my, my, my, my
I love your tinted eyes
So bad, so bad, so so bad
So so bad

She won't let me break you out
When the picture's cut it free well the bitch is cunning three
Unless there is enough of us left is enough
and it's simple stuff by me and it's simple stuff i need
can't you see the stuff i need?
can't you see?
Can't you stuff me?
Stuff me.

Down to Santa Rosa and over the bay
Across the grapevine to LA
We got deserts we got trees
We got the hills of Beverly
Let's burn the hills of Beverly

Walk with your credit card in the air
Swinging nunchucks (nachos?) like you just don't care
This is a slow, sick suckin' part of me
This is a slow, sick suckin' part of me And when I'm sucking kisses, sour

Up to the top of Shasta gulch
To the bottom of the Tahoe Lake
Manmade deltas and concrete rivers
The south takes what the north delivers
You film hack, I don't use your pay

Lost in the foothills of Mount Pine
Drinking Euro, say goodnight
to the last psychedelic band/
from Sacto Northern Cal
South Sacto, Northern Cal

Taylor, neighbor
You're my neighbor
And I need favors
You're my neighbor
You don't need favors
Cause I'm your neighbor
(I'm not your neighbor
You crazy street (bakersfield) trash

Go back to those gold soundz
And keep my advent to your self
Because it's nothing i don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change?
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now

I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secrets crets crets crets crets crets back right now

Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found

Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret cret cret cret [etc.]... back right now

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in december
That i won''t eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long
I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up all you've got to waste

five minus four equals unity
five minus four equals unity
yeah baby oooh
with impunity
impunity

a bottle of red
a bottle of white

I'll take my chances
show me how sweet romance is

five minus four equals unity
UNITY! YEAH!!!

after the glow, the scene, the stage, the set
talk becomes slow but there's one thing i'll never forget:
hey, you gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent.
over the turnstile turn out in the traffic
there's ways of living it's the way i'm living
right or wrong, it's all that i can do,
and i wouldn't want to let you be

i want a range life, if i could settle down,
if i could settle down, then i would settle down
[x2]

run from the pigs, the fuzz, the cops, the heat
pass me your gloves, there's crime and it's never complete
until you snort it up or shoot it down
you're never gonna feel free
out on my skateboard the night is just hummin'
and the gum smacks are the pulse i'll follow if my walkman fades
but i've got absolutely no one, no one but myself to blame

don't worry- we're in no hurry
school's out, what did you expect?

i want a range life, if i could settle down,
if i could settle down, then i would settle down
[x2]

out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, i/they don't have no function
i don't understand what they mean
and i could really give a fuck.
the stone temple pilots,
they're elegant bachelors
they're foxy to me are they foxy to you?
i will agree there isn't absolutely nothing
nothing more than me

dreamin' dream dream dream....

Heaven is a truck
It got stuck
On the breeze
Ask the driver nicely
I need a lift
I need release
The sand in the boats
On the rose covered floats

She is the queen of the castle California, thrill

I know arcs can't fly
I know the sharks they don't have wings
But lady you need some cold advice about a few things
Loosen my dress
Tie me up just like all the rest

She is the queen of the casa pasadena/ house of california/
Thrill

I'm up on a hill top where I
Keep you in sight, my little toys
I buried you because the sun
Will melt them

Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down

Taking over

Taking over your life
I'm taking over your scene
Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya
I would hope see the face I would hope you see her face

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down (taking over)

There's no survivors
There's no survivors

Don't even snow (we're not that disturbed)
Don't even snow

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down (taking over)

There's no survivors
There's no survivors

Taking over your life
Taking over your life
I'm taking over the scene
I'm taking everything
All I wanted it all
My little trick
I wouldn't mind just a milligram up my sleeve
I've got you up my sleeve
I've Got you up my sleeve
I've got you up my sleeve

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
There's no survivors

Taking over your life
Taking over your life
I'm taking over the scene
I'm taking everything
I'm taking everything

I've got to melt it X 10
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down theres no survivors
There is no survivors

Hey lady, what do you need?
Do you think you'd like to come and bleed with me?
I'd like to invite you to a taste of my chalice
It's a special one, it's made of gold
(passed out)
Passed out on your couch
You left me there (thank you)
Let me sleep it off
I need to sleep it off
I need to sleep why don't you let me
I need to sleep why don't you
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep, why won't you let me
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
Why won't you, why won't you let me sleep?

The jam kids on the vespas
And glum looks on their faces
The street is full of punks
They got spikes
See those rockers with their long curly locks
Goodnight to the rock and roll era
Cause they don't need you anymore
Little girl, boy, girl,
bo...................y

Their composures are so distracted
Jasper's skinny arms
And the dance faction, a little too loose for me
Every night it's straight and narrow
Laws are broken, amusing era
walls are broke in the music era
Round and round and round and round she goes....
( something is being said here, I don't know what)

Pull out their plugs and they snort up their drugs
When they pull out their plugs and they snort up their drugs
Their throats are filled with