Old Gil – Touching Stoves – For Lenny – Good Man – Smug – Had a Friend – Stay The Same – Die Screaming – Lucky Number Nine – I Fell Asleep – The End
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Old Gil
Lyrics
Coming out, nothing’s bringing me down
Today is my day the winds of change, they blow my way
I know I have figured it out
Old ways gonna change
I’m feeling great, I see it now
Old Gil
He will
I’ll show them, make ’em so proud
Don’t know what to do, but Lord, I’m due
I always knew
Old Gil
He will
I’ve played all my cards and I’m out
Wrote cheques that can’t be cashed
They’ll kick my ass if they find out
Don’t have any other reason to cry
Today is my day, there isn’t any other way
Old Gil
He will
About
As we were writing, we realized that htis song sounded very hopeful, which is not our strength. we talked about someone who has hope but really shouldn’t – a false optimism. This led us to talking about the character ‘Gil’ from the Simpsons. So – this is for Gil.
Touching Stoves
Lyrics
I’m touching stoves, playing with fire
Burner burned out long ago
I’m touching stove, hand in the pyre
Old enough to know
Wishing I could blame danger
Or a crisis of time
I could just blame desire, baby
That I am out of my mind
Less capable now of things
I wouldn’t do in my prime
Look both ways before you cross
You step in the street
It is just a matter of time ’til they will
Roll over your feet
You know that the driver can’t see through the sleet
I could have told you at sixteen
But even back then
You wouldn’t have listened to me
So I’m shouting again
“Can you see the disaster?”
We both know how this ends
I’m touching stoves, playing with fire
Burner burned out long ago
I’m touching stove, hand in the pyre
Old enough to know
I’m touching stoves, playing with fire
Burner burned out long ago
I’m touching stove, hand in the pyre
Old enough to know
About
This is a song about making bad decisions, even when you know that they are bad as you make them. Don’t touch stoves.
For Lenny
Lyrics
Born in the wrong time
They led the same life
When they had problems
They laughed and smiled bright
It’s alright
It’s gonna be another long night
It’s alright
As bullets pierced you
A broken man wept
What’s left of him hears you
Every time that he’s slept
It’s alright
It’s gonna be another long night
It’s alright
Gold’s still shiny
Gun still shoots
About
Scarfo was playing a lot of RDR2 when this album was written and got quite emotionally attached to the character “Lenny”. This song is for Lenny. As a note, lyrics contributed by Daniel Zenebe, arranged and edited by Fighting Whiskey.
Good Man
Lyrics
I can feel my stomach drop
When your name pops up
Someone please just make it stop
Why can’t you leave me the fuck alone?
You don’t see it all
You’re not misunderstood
You’re not trying to help
You think you’re the smartest guy
In every room that you’ve been in
I’ll set that room on fire
And call it a fuckin’ win
(You’re just an asshole)
You don’t see it all
You’re not misunderstood
You’re not trying to help
Tactless, factless, this is how we learn
Smugness, arrogance, this is how we burn
(You’re just an asshole)
You don’t see it all
You’re not misunderstood
You’re not trying to help
About
Scarfo asked Boyne what he thought this song should be about when it was just an instrumental. Boyne looked at Scarfo and said, “You are completely unlovable.” Scarfo took that as a suggestion for the song and not as a non-sequitur comment about him as a person. He thought of someone – this is for that ‘good man’.
Smug
Lyrics
We can name cities
All the places we’ve been
To get a cheap pop out of those who think we’re deep
Who cares for context
Maybe your town is next
The very mention of where you live makes your life seem blessed.
We are smug
We’ve earned the right to be
A little drunk
We don’t wanna be
Playing on your tv
Despite our apathy
We care
How about the weather, I say “rain”
And you’re sad
Hole in my galoshes, a common beef
For the common man
Something familiar
Somewhere in the past
Something familiar
Keep your head right up your ass
We are smug
We’ve earned the right to be
A little drunk
We don’t wanna be
Playing on your tv
Despite our apathy
We care
(Fuck your birds)
Fuck your birds and broken wings
(Fuck your birds)
And the cage from which they sing
All we are saying is that this is for us
And if was for you it wouldn’t be as good
We are smug
A little drunk
We are smug
A little drunk
If that’s pretentious then just let it be
If that’s pretentious then that one is just on me
We are smug
We’ve earned the right to be
A little drunk
We don’t wanna be
Playing on your tv
Despite our apathy
About: This song is a bit of a mission statement. A giant middle finger to formula song writers who choose to do things that will make them popular rather tan things that are creative. We my never be popular, but we will always be smug.
Had a Friend
Lyrics
I had a friend
Been around forever
A good man, hard man
A no nonsense kind of guy
But piece by piece
He crumbled away
Choose your opinion, but facts are facts
No shades of grey, just whites and blacks
Had a friend
Thought he’d be here forever
But he’s gone, I don’t know
How to bring him back to life
Piece by piece
He crumbled away
Choose your opinion, but facts are facts
No shades of grey, just whites and blacks
I had a friend
Now he’s gone
About: This is simply a song about how we have lost a sense of objective truth in the world.
Stay The Same
Lyrics
I can’t fake it
Make it penetrate
It won’t matter anyway
The more things change
The more they stay the same
“It’ll be okay,”
Is what we’ll say
What I wanted
It’s not so strange
I’m not playing god damn games
The more things change
The more they stay the same
I won’t wait
I can’t relate
“It’ll be okay,”
Is what we’ll say
Got so bad
Gone cold
Got nothing
Got old
Got so bad
It’s sad
Got nothing
Got nothing
The more things change
The more they stay the same
I can’t wait
I won’t relate
I’m okay
I’m not okay
About
This is a song about a difficult relationship. Trying to find common ground with someone for the grater good but knowing you are the only one trying.
Die Screaming
Lyrics
Minipax, Minitru, me and you
Telephone, tell a lie can we try
Playing games, playing games, instant rage
Fuck the rest, fuck it all, fuckin’ small
Fuck you and what you want
I hope you die screaming
Fuck you and what you want
Lately I’ve been dreaming
Of a world
Where words mean what they mean
You imply to suggest what is best
Better best? Best for who? Best for you
I get paid call a spade a fucking spade
Fuck the card, fuck it all, fuckin’ small
Fuck you and what you want
I hope you die screaming
Fuck you and what you want
Lately I’ve been dreaming
Of a world
Where words mean what they mean
In a world
Where things are as they seem
Fuck you and what you want
I hope you die screaming
Fuck you and what you want
Lately I’ve been dreaming
Fuck you and what you want
I hope you die screaming
Fuck you and what you want
Lately I’ve been dreaming
About: No real comment here – Scarfo was maaaaaad the day he wrote this. Fun note, Boyne actually made Scarfo soften up the lyrics. It was worse.
Lucky Number Nine
Lyrics
Shoot my toe off because my lucky number is nine
There’s no god damn way I’ll get in my way
Give it all away cause I’ve got a way, my own way
Cut my nose off to show my face who is in charge
Shoot my toe off because my lucky number is nine
I’m climbing a wall I built brick by brick
Won’t lie in a bed that I don’t make
Cut my nose off to show my face who is in charge
Shoot my toe off because my lucky number is nine
About
This is a song about getting in your own way.
I Fell Asleep
Lyrics
I seem to know
I need to know that I’m not dreaming
Have I lost control
Does it even show
Do I have a place left to go
I lost the plot
What I had, I forgot
I lost the plot
I feel asleep
It’s in my head
I’m looking through you
Don’t fall asleep
Seem to know
Seem to know that
What does it mean
I’ve seen the hole
Crawled down in it
Seen the whole thing
Turn to black
What I used to know
I used to know that
There’s no sense in dreaming, no
I lost the plot
What I had, I forgot
I lost the plot
I feel asleep
In my head
I’m looking through you
Don’t fall asleep
Seem to know
Seem to know that
What does it mean
I lost the plot
What I had, I forgot
I lost the plot
I feel asleep
About: This is a song about losing your grip.
The End
Lyrics
If I just make it up
Will I know the answer
You just pick apart
What I’ve got so I have to start again
All I have to do is see it your way
Is it the end
Is it the end
I guess
Is this wasted
Seeing minutes turn to hours
It may be shit
At least it’s ours
Before we begin
Is this the end
Is this the end
I said
Is this wasted
Seeing minutes turn to hours
It may be shit
It’s ours
If I just work it out
Does it sound very unfamiliar
Enough? It’ll pass
They won’t laugh unless we want ’em to
Somewhere I care
What happens with it after
Not now, but when
It happens at the end
About: A love song for the place where we write music, and the inevitability that it will one day disappear forever.