1. |
Trouble Nestling
05:41
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Tell me all about
your day
while I clean this mess
smoke em if you got em
cause there's always room for innovation here
and you look
like you could be
a disoriented soul
all worn out
trampled under this mess
and if you weren't here to see the world with your self conditioned eyes
what makes you think
it would look that way from here
turn and think about
the effects of karma
in everything i've ever done
and my hands already dirty in the sunshine and my joints are swelling
and I took three asprin
this morning
he who is so wise
won't speak
instead nestle into minds
of all the personalities I'm dealing with
the only problem is
they never get along
I thought I had them turned around
but they ain't ever gonna change
they never get along
I thought I had them turned around
but they ain't ever gonna change
I don't want to say its good if it ain't
don't want to say it's fine I'd be lying
again
I don't want to wake up tired anymore
uninspired anymore
it's no good
in my dreams its all strange faces
strange places
and you
hailing a cab in the snowflakes
and the steam comes through the streets
through the manholes
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2. |
Lost Balloons
04:50
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Send in the sand
clean from the sea
linking the past
to problems today
groping along
feeling my way along the walls of my brain
And I will say
that I want you
and you will say
you want me too
and i haven't been able to get you removed
and you've caught the obsession of all my moods
and we'll all die someday soon
and we'll all be lost balloons
Pack up the plans
and evil deeds
in moving trucks
try to stay clean
hiding away
from the police in my brain
It's gotten such a waste
it's left a nasty taste
it's gotten through to her soul
as things will complicate
I can't get any air in this space only the room fades
as things will complicate
I can't get any air in this space only the room fades
And I will say
that I want you
and you will say
you want me too
and i haven't been able to get you removed
and you've caught the obsession of all my moods
and we'll all die someday soon
and we'll all be lost balloons
and I'll die someday soon
smile and wave as I float from you
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3. |
White Walls
04:44
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the walls around me
are closing nearer
the walls around me
are two way mirrors
the town around me
leave me how they found me
the town around me
is full of fear
they go out at night
with torches for light
searching for monsters
to burn them alive
just like witches
the walls around me have kept me hidden
the walls around me keep you forbidden
the house around me is full of spirits
they wake me at night
and tell me to write
passages in red
we don't get no patience in its place
and its so hard
every night's just a night in a white room
every nights jus a night in the same room
every nights just a night with the same view
of the burning
the bridges behind you
the walls around me
and for all it takes
we don't get no patience in its place
we don't get no patience in its place
we don't get no patience
and it's so hard
every night's just a night in a white room
every night's jus a night in the same room
every night's just a night with the same view
of the burning
the bridges behind you
and the mobs that been sent
to pursue
and persecute
and testify to a volume of bad news
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4. |
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Sorry you had to witness the displays
of schizophrenic fits and complaints
as I'm tapping out fires in the ashtray
noticed narrowing leeways
that once were wide open
as I separate discourage from dismay
so excitement's not betrayed
with the screams to cut out the horseplay
we would disobey
and pay for it later
Thereabouts
the debacle had begun
as it shook up everything
and it took down everyone
and she states
and in comparison
that its better than settling
As I wake up on the floor of the foyer
to the sound of employees
try to make changes for her sake
but people don't break
a lifetime of behavior
wanting to let her in my brain
instead of explaining it in vain
as I apologize prior to the strange change
it isn't me really
Thereabouts
the debacle had begun
as it shook up everything
and it took down everyone
and in comparison
its better than settling
Thereabouts
the debacle had begun
as it shook up everything
and it took down everyone
and in comparison
its better than settling
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5. |
Right From You
05:42
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If I stall
if I repeat
and if I sink right down to the street
and if I hold myself up to the moon I'm see through
if I come to see defeat
lying fetus in the street
and if i fold but if I don't play I can't win
I can't win
I really don't want to try
it's just too cold in the air
upset about my robotic life
and how nobody cares that they're stuck in theirs
As I fall in bittersweet
into the past ominously
and when the fog lifts
and when the light hits the mist it's spinning
spinning
I know this came right from you
I know your not the one
your false idols
your setting sun
the morning star has just begun
to start descending
Bitten
and falling back
sin
bad
even though you couldn't be
you serve one day
the evil and dead
i went to take cover
so one day
fall away and get back
even when it doesn't tell you why
it tears you down
even though I'm one
as you ask you keep coming back
but your cut in half
and the form is bad
I was done
comin
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6. |
Seventh Sense
05:42
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Agreed
that I am nowhere to be seen
and all the things that may
end up hidden away
recede
if only to see what I could see
a locomotive train come up to haul us away
Great
and you're late
and you're caught in the traffic
hate
and you wait
running straight into problems
day after day
and you ache for the silence
stay
stay awake
stay awake for the violence instead
Concede
that this is just how things will be
until you find a way
to spell the disarray
Great
and you're late
and you're caught in the traffic
hate
and you wait
running straight into problems
day after day
and you break in the silence
stay
stay awake
stay awake for the violence instead
But it's much easier said than done
and you're pushed to the limits
take a mistake
multiply by a zillion
and all of the days
slowly gain more momentum
and a sense of urgency
The truth will change this all
no matter what you think you thought
no matter if you let go
The truth will save this all
no matter what you think you thought
no matter that you can't let go
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I woke up the bad desire
slow moving into the fire
unfold from the long car ride
waiting for the chance to slide
away
And she don't have anything to calm me down
and the sun shines in on my hands
and I can't get anything solid to stay down
and the hands cause an accident
I slept as events transpired
just adding fuel to the fire
so many things to decide
I call upon the rising tide
You know I love you so passionatley
that I gave up my throne
Everything is memory
see saw on your half bent summer
sugar in the thunder
I am working under
save my own
conditions are worsening
there's no pull
for me I'm not aware
I fall
when I'm not
working on my heartache
and hoping I'm not loosing
and working on my picking
and there's no words in me now
and there's no words to be said
I woke up the bad desire
slow moving into the fire
unfold from the long car ride
waiting for the chance to slide
away
and she don't have anything to calm me down
and the sun shines in on my hands
and I can't get anything solid to stay down
as the hands cause an accident
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8. |
Missionary Converts
06:13
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I wondered if I could call in sick
I wiped my fingerprints off the sink
I saw three evil ghosts and tried to stand still
they looked just like white colonists
And they were trying
to conquer my mind
like missionaries
convert indigenous tribes
I wondered
if I was on the brink
I watched the TV
and dealt with it
I watched the language
and tried to sit still
but like all evil
it would persist
Down
there's so much vacancy
sore bones
bleeding feet
Sigh for waiting
my eye is not on you
to leave my camera
and say you're driving
if I'm not found dead
I would be there
but count on raising it on
your working rhymes
words coming trying
I'm working on your wasted time
we make it hard
what's left for fun
Sigh for waiting
my eye is not on you
to leave my camera
and say you're driving
if I'm not found dead
I would be there
but count on raising it on
your working rhymes
words coming trying
I'm working on your wasted time
we make it hard
what's left for fun
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9. |
Hospital Bills
08:51
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It's been a rotten day
I just can't seem to steal away
dwelled on it all day
blacks and whites
blending grey
you've got a lot to say
no one gives the time of day
well
not with good intentions anyway
without a ticket on a train
And the scenery
is getting so surreal
Its been a trying day
just can't seem to feel the same
as I did yesterday
cause everything has up and changed
how about that lobotomy
make me forget I'm me
or maybe some morphine
and an IV
so I can get through
On these pills
and those pills
they caramelize my insides
don't write more
they're not fine
they caramelize my mindset
it's not right
I don't know why
my cataracts are on fire
all the time
on these pills
and the scenery is getting so surreal
is this all the pain that I have to feel
the scenery is getting so surreal
how will I ever pay all these hospital bills
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10. |
Storyboards
05:14
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Even if you had to do it again
you wouldn't sense the difference
of friends and skin
and bends and turns
along the gorge you learn
but the karma I've created
it's a thought I'm pushing away
until it pulls back and welts my face one day
all you see is open
and all you feel seems real
with a positive reaction
and a conscience made of steel
wrapped my head remorse like fishhooks
and they're biting hard today
and the voices are carrying corpses
and the storyboard go blank
and so does my face
so does my face
oo
I can't even function without sound self medication
without serious reservations
without being segregated from our needs
I'm like a butchered rhythm section
as defense mechanisms go off in my peripheral vision
The plateau of feeling
is I'm counting my eggs too much
and some days
it's a decade to erase
and you hold down
emotions
pushed well over the quota
The faux pas of dealing
is I'm leaning on drugs too much
and some days
it's a prisoning refrain
but overall it's second nature
besides what's a blind man
who's never seen at thing
at all
As these things get covered up in mud this doesn't end
and all the in-betweens are slowly devouring the truth
as these things get covered up in mud this doesn't end
and all the in-betweens are slowly devouring the truth
as these things get covered up in mud this doesn't end
and all the in-betweens are slowly devouring the truth
And in my
peripheral vision
there are young girls being slain
and I can't help in any way
in my
peripheral vision
the demons are entertained
smoking cigars
and digging my grave
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11. |
Leap
05:01
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Getting up
I ask the waitress for another cup
I rub my eyes
cause I need to keep awake
at 9 am
my own personal dawn
reflecting off the steel
napkin holder
by the still unworking jukebox
used in 1972
The tiles match my feet
men sit at the counter
eating hogs
my shadow sits drinking
its coffee wanting to
be here even less than me
I hit the door and I'm smoking
already 85 at 9 am
and the desert looks
uninviting at best
i think I took the wrong route to mexico
and what would ensue
Here the wind
blows away beneath your feet
and you can't see further than your nose
in the heat
spirits leap
in and out of your soul
it's been rough maintaining control
and I know you don't believe me
cause this just hasn't been made
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12. |
Fish Nightmares
05:21
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Flipping and a flopping
gasping in the netting
a million dying bodies
grasping onto false things
and coming up with nothing
a whole species in headlights
looking up at the sky
cirrus clouds through fish eyes
day moon to the west, soon
I'll always be sleeping too
getting grand visions of
things I haven't been yet
swimming in this huge school
feeling so alone still
want to get away but
can't breathe the air or walk much
where I want to go
Sometimes I wish I'd get caught
looking for worms with a hook
following the tuna
I'd prefer certain doom
the big fish make the big rules
I don't want to adhere to
Sunlight cuts the surface
swimming with no purpose
then scooped into the dry air
gills in shock they don't care
then, sorting with their gloved hand
bad from good and waste
and too late to save my vitals
I'm thrown back in the water
sink down to the bottom
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Links Last Moment Akron, Ohio
Members:
Jeremy Reitzel
Gloria Heinricht
All music and lyrics by Jeremy Reitzel
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