Superchunk Album

shallow end

well you're barking out what you think
and you're drinking your expensive drinks
you're in your car and you're on the phone
think you better follow that cord back home

is that a pearl i'm supposed to keep
cause you are putting me to sleep
well i know you think you're deep alright
but you should stay in your shallow end

now you're feeding me watery drinks
and i'm singing while your sunfish sinks
you got a ponytail dragging you down
like the cloud that follows you around

is that a call i'm supposed to keep
cause you are putting me to sleep
well i know you think you're deep alright
but you should stay in your shallow end

Nothing gets in my way today
No one has the power of steel beneath them
I'll leave the world ??
And left to rot beneath the bay

Chorus
It was a robin's egg and it was blue
It was a robin's egg and it was blue
It was crushed to bits and you saw it, too
And you say about these things
We say about these things
We have no idea what we're saying

Don't you stay in one place to long
They will crawl inside your shoes
They will eat you from the inside
They will make you play to lose

Chorus

Cut it short, we take the easy way every time
We have no idea what we're saying

Five minutes on the phone
And i completely sick
And i'm puking up stories
I want a stupid ?? bordem
Know that i'd do anything for you
You won't let me do anything for you

And i've never even been to your new house
And i bet i know exactly what it's like
And when we're both alseep
I kiss you on the mouth
Later on the couch i spend the night

Yeah

We're only six more hours
I feel i want a gun
I'm extra
Really extra sorry, too
Tell me now
Tell me
When its time to join the world
And time to leave you alone

And i've never even been to your new house
And i bet i know exactly what it's like
And when we're both alseep
I kiss you on the mouth
Later on the couch i spend the night
Yeah
When we're both asleep
I'll crawl into your room
Or maybe i'll just stare up at your light

Well i bet i know exactly what that's like
Yeah i bet i know exactly what that's like

A serious end
The serious air is calling
But look around
Look around
Isn't the atmosphere charming?

Chorus
Why do we ever go outside anymore?
The air in here is cadmium red
Why do we ever go outside anymore?
The air in here is fine

I let you live inside my lungs
You couldn't leave anyway

I'll build you up 'til you are strong
'til i can't breathe anyway

Hit the one that's self-destruct
It's marked especially
It's easy to read
We'll light one up and celebrate our disease

Chorus hit self-destruct
It's marked especially
It's easy to read

[No lyrics]

My path is a wide ribbon
Each bow cuts a circle into it
Its clearance you're not given
Given 'til you're through with it

My path is a wide ribbon
It's mapped out but it's all even
And this power is self given
And it's clear and it's bright and it's thick
And it's without
Without edges

When will everything be quiet?
When will everything be quiet?
When will our fucking hearts cease to riot?
When will everything be quiet again?

Each bow cuts a circle into it
?the inside sometimes full of ???
And it's easy for people to read things into these
Shattered wings, but who knows
Who knows really?

When everything will be quiet?
When everything will be quiet?
When our fucking hearts will cease to riot?
When everything will be quiet again?

It would be nice to breathe

[it would be] nice to breathe

[it would be] be nice to [leave] sometimes
Nail the windows shut
Leave on the [heat]
We have bowls to burn up and back
It would be nice to breathe
It would be nice to leave sometimes

I remember miami beach
I remember you under the umbrella
I remember dc
I remember you with your bicycles

It would be nice to leave
It would be nice to breathe sometimes
It would be nice to leave
It would be nice to bring it all back

Unfold the map again and drive
Take 40
Take 95
It'd be nice to leave
It'd be nice to breathe sometimes
I remember our lies
I remember the liquor i helped you buy

I remember no lights
I remember you with your glasses off
I remember tv
I remember the couch sucking me in
I remember dc
I remember wanting you to laugh again
I remember how foolish i was

It would be nice to breathe
It would be nice to leave sometimes

100,000 Fireflies

I have a mandolin
I play it all night long
It makes we want to kill myself

I also have a dobro
made in some mountain range
Seems like a mountain range in love

But when I turn up the tone
on my electric guitar
I'm afraid of the dark
without you close to me

I went out in the forest and caught
100,000 fireflies
As they ricochet round my room
they remind me of your starry eyes

Someone else might not
have made this so sad
But this is the worst night
I've ever had

Cause I'm afraid of the dark
without you close to me

You won't be happy with me
give me one more chance
you won't be happy anyway
Why do we still live here
in this repulsive town
When all our friends are in new york

Why do we keep shreiking
when we mean soft things

The way i told you
I never thought you'd believe me
And you took my offer
And doubled it back [above me]
And now it
[hold on
Expect you
Decision
Pull her tightly]
Never said the same thing
But they don't mean the same thing

Please accept this invitation
Please do not accept this invitation
Please do not accept this invitation
Please accept this invitation

And we will have our little scene
Set it up with lots of cameras
For one minute we will be
Just for the sake of being
And then we'll try hard to forget it

Please accept this invitation
Please do not accept this invitation
Please do not accept this invitation
Please accept this invitation

I could spend
The day i average in bed
Now you say
I'm sick in the head
For wanting that again

Oh oh oh
We used to live there
We don't anymore
I'm pretty poor
In that department right now

We used to sit there
It was a good year
We used to live there

Waterslides
Imagine that
You see your feet through the glass
We kissed
But i looked past you

Oh oh oh
We used to live there
We don't anymore
I'm pretty poor
In that apartment right now

We used to live there
It was a good year
We used to sit there

Don't try to sit
Don't try to sit with me
Don't try that shit
Don't try that shit with me

Ease off the suction
I've held this position
For an hour
Wipe the blood from my chin
Bring me some water

He's always happy about something

It was 1950
Into the room
It's gray
It's covered with flowers
He keeps his golden cup
He makes jewelry for his daughter
He's always happy about something

He hands the drill to his son
And he says go to it
He's collected his share of pain
And he puts you through it

He hands the drill to his son
And he tightens the soder
He keeps his golden cup
He makes jewelry for his daughter

He's always happy about something

He hands the drill to his son
And he says go to it
He's collected his share of pain
When he puts you through it
And he puts you through it

One more week and i'm going home
Sitting [downtown]
Eat my tongue
Take a risk
I will search for the real thing
I go
Water's edge
Scary thoughts
A hoping sea

[in sales]
Use any excuse
For what you want

And its not true
Its not true

[bumming
So trying to find you
I'll try to find you]

[ah hell]
Mark the spot
Put an x
Cross my heart

You say i'll use any excuse
For what you want
[i
Will
Never go to sleep
Generous mind]

[i am not that fine
No i'm not
I am not you]

[every word]

[and i will feel a bad, bad high]

Every thing that i've done
Has been judged as if the woman has won
Yeah all that i do more or less
Is for some womans sake

Make them laugh make them cry
Try my best waste my time
Yeah all that i do more or less
Is for some womans sake

Thoughts of a maniac
Saturday is lying in state

Your cigarettes burned down
And your eyes avoid mine
Yeah youre sitting praying hoping waiting
Putting on your pained today face

You dont talk and whats worse
You take the car keys out of your purse
Well did you see too much
Or did you shoot the horse
And then close the gate

Thoughtless minds that taverns find
Saturday is lying in state

[No lyrics]

I'll be your mother
I'll be your sister yeah
I'll be your lover
Well if you need somebody

Well if you need someone to love
I'm the one you should be thinking of

I'll be your [aunt] and your love
I need love
I [need] a lover
I'll be your [mr.] baby
I'll be your lover
I'll be your sister yeah

Well if your [me]
The feelings higher
You need someone to set your heart on fire
With [??]
I'm [a] warrior
I'm [a] warrior

Sitting watching clouds go by
Falling across a very wide sky

Its the night of the chill blue
And i'd like to say how I love you
But it's all been said in other songs
And if i try to say it new
Then i'll say it wrong

So I think of you, the only one
I wish that it was just us two
But it's you and me and us - that's three

Twinkling stars over foreign lands
Silent camel train on desert sands.

Its the night of the chill blue
And I hope to god you feel this too

[No lyrics]

Turned over and spun around
Take me back you've got it down
Reciting lines out of a book
Who wrote it? i forgot to look

I tried to grab a bunch
But there was only one
I tried to crawl away
But gravity made me run

I tried to resist
I tried to resist
You held me by the arm
I tried to make a list
But there was only one

Two hours of sleep
Think that's enough
Straining my eyes to see
To find my stuff
I'll leave you sleeping
Turn off the light when i'm leaving

I tried to grab a bunch
But there was only one
I tried to crawl away
But sudden words make me run

I tried to resist
I tried to resist
I end up walking home at dawn
I tried to make a list
But there was only one

Do not pass me
Just to slow down
I have precision auto!