Travis Aaron Mcnabb

Everybody talking saying you will be walking
This neighborhood will never be the same
You said we'd understand
You found out what's happening now
So we all sat down and you broke the news

Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's still life with Cooley
Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's just still life with Cooley

All your friends show on time
They come in bringing red wine
You said if it's over then we'll go in style
You better best take care keep one hand to your ear
So you're not left hanging when they're finally gone

Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's still life with Cooley
Now Daddy don't love her anymore
It's just still life with Cooley

Whatcha' saying?
You're going to stay of at St. Madigan's?
(reeled in again)
You're just fooling around fooling around, yeah

People hanging with their good friends
Listening to those old songs

Now Daddy don't love her anymore.
It's still life with Cooley
Now Daddy don't love her anymore.
It's just still life
It's just still life with Cooley.

If they calm you down,
Then excite them
If they call you out,
Then ignore them.

You're speeding up
You're speeding up
To slow down

When they all believe,
You reject it.
When they all are for,
Be against it.

You're speeding up
You're speeding up
To slow down

If they call you out
They will tear you down
When your world falls in
Then they'll leave you dry

You're speeding up
You're speeding up
To slow down
Down, down, down

one more murder in this town,
don't mean a thing just lock your doors
and drive around.

one more murder in this town,
don't worry the rain will
wash the chalk marks from the ground

saturday night, shots ring out,
add one to the body count.
you come alive to see another's end.

plead it to a lesser count,
D.A. says without a doubt,
in 3-5 you're on the streets again.

one more murder in this town.
don't mean a thing .
you get accustomed to the sound.

one more murder in this town.
block off the street and .
wrap the crime scene tape around.

hosanna! hosanna!
I can't feel a thing at all!
hosanna! hosanna!
I can't feel a ting!

I can't feel a thing at all!

saturday night you're going out
parking lot, a figure come about
feel a piece click against your head.
pleading to his sympathy,

"take the car, I got a family"
you hear a laugh,
"It don't mean shit to me."

one more murder in this town

You come walking like someboby's lover
You come talking like somebody's friend
You wouldn't be here if I was unwilling
We both want the same thing

Pull
We both want the same thing

Brother, sister
Anoint me, absolve me
Take me with you
Below hell
You won't be here if I were unwilling
We both know what I bring

Pull
We both want the same thing

Around, surround
You subjugate me
Feel your pull
Effortlessly
Fuck me up
I'm begging you please
We both want the same thing

Pull
We both want the same thing

Your pain makes you beautiful, you love to lose control,
And mediocrity's rewarded so set your standards low.
In an imploding star, or a burned out car, I implore you.
In a carbon-arc or a dim lit park, I implore you.

Suck me in, I'm willing, I get off when you go on
Let me be your fate. Pour it on, pour it on.
In a country fair or union square, I implore you
In a shrouded face or a spray of mace, I implore you.
I implore you.

Cryptic? Elemental.
You transcend when you succumb.
One last shred of frailty left,
Embedded in our bones.
In an imploding star, or a burned out car, I implore you
In a carbon-arc or a dim lit park, I implore you

So do it again, do it again, do it again. This is what it means
Particle.

So do it again, do it again, do it again. This is what it means
Particle.

There's an angel on the stairs
(as if you'd even care)
When the lights go up,
and the sun has nearly gone down.

Did you see him on the street?
Did you pass him at your feet?
Did you think aloud, "How dare they
even look me in the eye'?

And he loves the girls.
And he loves the boys.
Going to make twenty dollars
before the weekends over.

So set him up,
Let him fall.
Turn him over in your hands.
God save the King of New Orleans.

Got a ticket to a show.
Going to see him take a blow.
When the drunk one said,
"Cat Sssstevens was the greatest singer!"

And did you kick him in the head?
Did you see the blood run down? Did you laugh at all when the
people walked right by and said aloud,
"You gutter punks are all the same.
" Probably make twenty dollars
'fore the weekends over."?

So set him up,
Then let him fall.
Turn him over in your hands.
God save the King of New Orleans.

Radio in my head.
Radio in that car.
Going down again,
he's going down again....

Anyway you look, anyway you talk it over.
It's easier to let it slip out of your mind.
But it rips your heart out.

Then it kicks your head in.
Just give him one more chance,
try to see the beauty in his world.
All the way in on my hands, in on my feet,
and shoulders. Going to make twenty dollars
before the weekend's over.

So set him up,
Then let him fall.
Turn him over in your hands.
God save the King of New Orleans.

God save the King of New Orleans.

Cut a tape of my favorite songs
Said what I can't face to face
I hoped that you would share all my thoughts
We are young and unimpressed,
with all you'd recognize.

So play it all over
Turn it wide.
Now there is nothing but a
Mix tape left behind
Now it won't rewind

In my care we are superstars
Run you lipstick down your chin
While up ahead we saw such a crash
Right there a song became a soundtrack
for this space in time.

So play it all over
Turn it wide.
Now there is nothing but a
Mix tape left behind
Now it won't rewind

Wonder is often lost
Jaded at such a cost
Age undermines you when you close your eyes.
We pass right by you.

So play it all over
Turn it wide.
Now there is nothing
But a mix tape left behind
Now it won't rewind.

Rewind.
Yeah-eh-eh-eh-heh.

Are you lost?
Do you find life turning out
Not quite the way you planned?
Come around stay awhile

That's okay
That's all right
Couldn't get to sleep so talk about it.
Let's talk about it right now.

Here it comes on my head again
I guess I'm born to be the long lost friend.
(A-woo-oooh)
Friend
Long Lost Friend

Are you cold?
Is there no place better, safer, friendlier than this?
Call me up, I'm alone.

That's okay
That's all right
Rather it be me than go without it
So don't think about it right now.

Here it comes on my head again
I guess I'm born to be the long lost friend
(A-woo-ooh-hooo)
Friend
Long lost friend

I've given ballast
Held you up when you were falling down
What happens when I'm not around?

Friend?
Friend?
Long Lost Friend.

I still remember you dressed in grey.
Working undercover for the CIA
You were cursing Silber
Living in Back Bay
Sailing on the Charles when I heard you say

Let's go down to Normal Town
Right now
Down, Down, down

I washed you lover and scrubbed your face
Running from Miss Porter's you showed up one day
From a flat in South End where you made me strong
You said, 'We're burning out at both ends.'
So I came along.

Let's go down to Normal Town
Right now
Down, down, down

Hey! Wouldn't it be great
To never worry 'bout your future, never asking why?
Hey! Hey!
In a subdivision
Watching television
And our lives go by.

Let's go down to Normal Town.
Let's go down to Normal Town.

Right now
Down, down, down....

Strong hands
Big plans
All reduced to this.
Hard won freedom
How could you have missed?

Scared, are you?
You do it on your own
You do it all alone.
We all did.
Scared, are you?
Half the lines we make up dear
The best that we can do.

Everything you would be
Passed you like a ghost.
And kind words are scarce at best
When you need them the most.

Scared, are you?
You do it on your own
We all did.
Scared, are you?
Half the lines you make up here.
The best that we can do.

Hope brings you luck
Doors open up.
And if you should fall,
I'll catch you dear.
It must be!
It must be!

Scared, are you?
Finally on your own
You do it all alone
We all did
Scared, are you?
Half the lines you make up dear.
The best that we can do
And we do....

High stool sweet tarts
Equipped with green cards
Chomp their 401 k's
Semi-chocolate brie

Digging in Los Cruces
for an army drab container Carbon dating clothes for the last time they were washed

Shelby and Sheila
Onomatopoeia
Catch hang nail on Banlon
Shiver Martin Sheen

Preschool mothers
in Technicolor
Are fire bombing Dresden
Stanton, Harry Dean

Feeding line caught tuna to a neutered Bodhisattva Writhing peaches for the President Out on the White House lawn Beating Herbert Hoover With a leather tipped Pinada Thorn and Katy drink the milk tinted Amerasian Green RETURN, RETURN, RETURN
B A C

They say you're off
(A bit confused)
But when the day is done
I'll be with you
I like your eyes
They say you're true
The others whisper and lie

And you framed the sun
Shot out the stars
You paled the sky
And hung the moon

They say, 'your loss'
That your mind's diseased
But when you've finally won,
Tell me who always believed

And you framed the sun
Shot out the stars
You paled the sky
And hung the moon

Down way low
They never remember
Down way low
Down way low
You always remember
Don't let the words you hear
Leave your head.

The say you're gone
That you left today
But if you change your mind
Know I still feel that same way

And you framed the sun
Shot out the stars
You paled the sky
And hung the moon

Past the road to your house
That you never called home
Where they turned out the lights
Though they say you'll never know

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

When they pumped out your guts
Filled you full of those pills
You were never quite right
Deserving all the chills
They say the worst is over
Kicked it over and ran
Then they ask what went wrong
When they turn you on again
They turn you on again.

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting

Kick them right in the face
Make them wish they weren't born
And if they bring up your name
Well they'll say you won the war.
Baby burst in the world
Never given a chance
Then they ask what went wrong
When you never had it right

Oh, the letters have dropped off
Though they say you got them all
I finally figured out some things you'll never know.
Take back your life and let me inside
We'll find the door if you care to anymore.

I remember running through the wet grass
Falling a step behind
Both of us never tiring
Desperately Wanting.

WWOZ is on in stereo
A string of flowers haloed around your head
Candle light
Ceiling fan
Curtains blow away and back again
Back again
Don't wake me, I think I'm in a dream

Sleeping is easy
I used to lay in bed for hours
I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn

Calling back and forth through heavy air
The barges sound their warnings in the dark
Peace comes like a trusted friend
As it starts to rain again fall away
Fall away
So don't wake me I think, I'm in a dream

Sleeping is easy
I used to lay in bed for hours
I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn
Sleeping is easy
I used to walk the streets for hours
I've waited a lifetime now maybe I'll learn

Let go of your fear, let's grow old together
Find a place along the way
Let's reel through the years
Each makes the other better.
But what thoughts can I call allies
When this circle of ribs keeps working on its own?

Chorus

WWOZ's on in stereo. Well it's on in stereo.

And though you will say I'm wrong.
It's much easier with you along.
Sundays were made for this.
Seeing Bond give the villain a kiss

Holding your face in the glow
Play on, Play on
Happy endings

I thought that you'd like to know.
I'm finally letting her go.
You always said, 'Tell me when. . .
You're ready at last to begin.'

Learning to chance it again
Play on, play on
Happy endings

So let them all dissolve
And welcome a new resolve
Here's where the credits run
Riding off into the sun

And love is real
Reading your eyes in the glow
Play on, play on
Happy endings

We're all a scene in mona's dream...

A paris street.
A quiet stream.
Far away from Cabrini green.
Forgotten love at seventeen,
Where her children got a chance,
Not a dead end street.

Cause some got religion,
And some got drugs,
Some got money and,
Some got love,

All of her days in a dry-eyed haze,
Just another scene in Mona's dream.

Maybe I should drop you at your door
Leave tonight and vanish up the shore
Anywhere but here...
It's 3 o'clock
We're driving in your car
You're screaming out the window at the stars.
Please don't drive me home!

Blame us 'cause we are who we are
Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go
I've already learned enough to know that...
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo (repeat)

Tell me all the places we could go
And count the headlights passin' on the road
A long, long time ago

Blame us cause we are who we are
Hate us cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go?
I've already learned enough to know that
Here we are
Forgein to their world
Straight and composed
Your sermons I can do without
And I've finally found that everybody loves to love you when you're far awaaaaay!

Could it be we've done something wrong?
And make it home to your place before dawn.
Please don't drive me home.
Please don't take me home!

Blame us 'cause we are who we are
Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go?
I've already learned
I've already learned...
Enough to know that
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo

Calling from that porch again
Low dress blowing in the wind
(I should have known I'd regret it later)
But she blow like a Tsunami

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

Terra Cotta, window pane
Brown skin soaking up the rain
(I should have been a cynical writer)
But she don't care just where he be

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

She can move you!
She can move you!
What's your name?
Destiny.

I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that

'Calmly, like a razor
I got us on the door,'
Or 'I got a tape of 'Clerks'
Someone left the night before.'

So I come over later,
You're sitting in that chair
Smoking on your cigarette
Fingering you hair

So I get drunk and stoned,
Every time you come around.

Twenty-nine and aimless
You bartend down on fourth
Your parents pay insurance
And the Parson's Audit course

Over-schooled and uninspired
Tust fund up your nose
All that wasted talent but, uh
Ain't that how it always goes?

So I get drunk and stoned,
Every time you come around.
Yeah, yeah yeah

So long Allison Foley
So long, bye-bye

(Come up higher, take a step higher)
Sometimes you understand
The reasons how you went astray
But least of all the answer,
That it hurts to watch you waste away.

So I get drunk and stoned,
Every time you come around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So long, Allison Foley
So long, bye-bye

Along the edges, colors blur at seem familiar.
While you read your magazine,
I was counting all the markers.

And california seemed to draw you like a siren
From a postcard, or a letter, in a frame of film melting.

But under you, i hear your breath move in, out slowly.
Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me.

A hollywood flat where we'd laugh about our fortunes
Well we held jobs in this bar down at 3rd and san vicente.
And ramen noodles at 4:30 in the morning,
When we barely could survive, i was never more alive.

Under you, i feel your blood flowing out slowly.
Under you, let go completely feeling you take over me

You moved in slow degrees
A sudden memory
You're a leonard cohen song

But every now and then i'd swear i see you standing on a sidewalk, in a
Restaurant, from a taxi cab passing.

Under you i feel you moving in/out slowly
Under you let go completely feeling you take over me.

Take over me

so long, alison foley
So long, bye-bye

Don't fear,
Even though you're at a loss.
I'm numb,
A shell of empty thoughts.
But you glow,
You stretch and pull me out.
Does that trouble you?
Does that trouble you?

*Love me
Hate me
Make me live again
I need you around

Heal me
Hurt me
Make me live again
I want you around

So long,
I never had experienced
This bliss.
So how could i resist?
And i'm fine
A little light-headed.
Does that worry you?
I didn't mean to worry you.

*Repeat

Now, retreating from the light
I love it when we fight
It makes me think
At least you still care

Give up, you're not going anywhere
moonlight, illuminates your stare
and it's great, captivating you
does that trouble you?
i didn't mean to trouble you

*Repeat & fade

So i could ask you why you live your life
(disregard the pretense that you made).
Come alive, come alive, watch the city go by.
Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, turn me up

Your face is creased by the pillow case sheets,
The bedroom is a mess.
Can i get some room service please?
Are you lucid? drug induced?
Through bloodshot eyes the city come alive,come alive,come alive.

Ah, how wonderful you are!
Ah, how wonderful you are!

Outside, you feel like you were born with a kick-me sign
Taped permanently to your back.
I can relate, video tape,
You got a laugh when you fell face first on the floor.

Ah, how wonderful you are!
Ah, how wonderful you are!

Are you listening?
Are you breathing?
Give me something, i can believe in,
Because you give me soul
Illuminating everything!
Aw, push it boy, push it like you never should.

Understate.
You were great,
Summering out on the cape.
I said last night how i feel about you,
But you wouldn't recall no,
You don't recall anything do you?

Ah, how wonderful you are
Ah, how wonderful you are

I wrote a three page note
I wrote a three page note
I wrote a three page note
Happy day mama,
Happy day,
Happy day,
Happy day mama!

Well, your photo stills
In your wallet with your unpaid bills
And you show it like it means something
You could never know the pain it brings

And here you are
Standing in our drive
(when absence suits you best)
Your letters and your cards
But no return address

Now you come around
Now you come around
Your familiar sounds
We are your beautiful,
We are your beautiful mistake.

Waiting for this day
Well I memorized the things I'd say
How you broke her when you disappeared
How I hear her say,

'You'd make your father proud.'
It echoes through the years
As if I could forget all a mother's tears

No, don't say a word
Leave while you still can
Put out your light

Now I guess you're going
A figure through the door
And your taillights faded
Like twenty years before

Cut me out of this role.
I can't play it anymore.
It must be something in the water here.

Give me up,
I confess.
I feel as though I'm living less.
The strangest gravity affects my way.
Because I was born incomplete,
Drowning in the brevity.
Kind of like a road you're travelling on.

Everything in 2's
You often lose
You make me whole again
Everything in 2's
You never knew
You'd make me whole again.

Someone said, someone wrote,
We're floating tethered to a rope.
So complicate me,
I could use the weight.
In how you move the scenery,
Lover, how you mirror me.
But stop me if you've heard it all before.

And now and again,
You find yourself over your head.
In a cynical time, in you I find
A reason to live.

Cut me out of this role
I can't play it anymore
It must be something in the water here.

I push the limits of good taste
Whenever i open my mouth
You got a worm in your ear
Like checkov from kahn

Shame! shame!
I hit a new kind of low.

All the way from south dakota
Like a green leprachaun
She got a sun dress in heat
He got his latex gloves on

Shame! shame!
I hit a new kind of low.

And if you ever come here
You're tweaking on the phone
"i got a new connection"
I never leave the light on

Shame! shame!
I hit a new kind of low...

B) Coma

All the time,
A loss.
Black like you were blessed,
I was sobered blind.
Let you take me there
And laughed loud when they found
I was devoured. devoured.
Devoured.

You in your coat
Writing a note,
'Dear Sal, I hope you'll agree...'

Then catching a bus,
Just after dusk,
A one way trip to the city.

A cold water flat.
A hot plate,
A hat.
The want ads are strewn on the floor.
And you get so mad, when your ma and dad
Reflect when you look in the mirror.

But I see you there
Nude at the top of the stairs
(but so far away)
And I recall all
Your dreams and your schemes
Moving me.
The plans that we made,
A street serenade

You can't be like your brother and mike,
Content just to live and get by.
I hope that you're fine,
At 13th and 9.
Waxing or waning?
Your call.

But I see you there
A light at the top of the stairs
But so far away
And I recall all your
Hands and your plans moving me
The sense that it made
A street serenade.