The Pressure Kids vol. 2

ANA11059 Magazine

Crimson and gold magazine
Perfectly captured your scream
Tore out the page and watched you bleed
I watched you bleed.

Immaculate, thin and gray
I tacked you up where I lay
And waited for you to speak to me
You speak to me.

A darkness crept into the room
Like blackening bulbs you consume
The walls and I can’t believe it’s true
Is that really you?

Frayed are the edges around
The corners of your crooked crown
And I can’t escape your silent sounds
Your silent sounds.

ANA11060 Inspiration Blues

Janette, Janette
Ginger dreaming, I bet.
She’s sipping blackberry wine
Just to try and forget.
She’s in the backseat, trying to come down.
Behold, behold
Lovely lady of gold
She’s got lies in her pocket that Miss America sold
If you sold it, you cannot get it back.

‘Cause I got away with it…

Mr. Fox
Holds his heart while he talks
He’s spitting little lies with every step that he walks
But I paid him
Oh, I paid him to do his job.
Marie, Marie
Shivers wonderfully
She wore her purple shoes for everybody to see
And when the flash came
The silence rang as it came down.

‘Cause I got away with it…

Little lady
you were my kind of crazy
I thought everybody was on the backstage waiting
But you were not
and I regret it from the second I said it.
‘Cause you sold it
‘Cause you sold it, ‘cause you came right back and you sold it.
I thought I told you, I thought I told you
But I guess not.

And I got away with it…

ANA11061 Stupid

Stupid
I was stupid
In your apartment yesterday.
Important, it’s not important,
I’m not important anyway.
But I’m overcome by the light of the day.

Chicago
was hollow
As I followed you around.
Losing, I was losing
I’m always losing what I found.
Overcome by a beautiful sound.

The trumpets
And the trombones
They parade around my house alone.
Leaving
I’m never leaving.
No I’m never leaving
Overcome by the light of the day.

Candle wax
I was singing with a heart attack
I’m never going back
I’m never going back
Because I figured it out.

ANA11062 Asleep on the Ocean

Asleep on the ocean
A silent commotion
Oblivion stolen
I never knew what it was

In awe of the power
Of a criminal hour
Wait til it sours
I never knew what it would become

In the bronze of the evening
Laid awake while you were dreaming
The seconds redeeming
I never knew what you had done

it was pure revival

As thin as the anger
That I use to contain her
Unsteady as a stranger
Oh god I knew where this was from

You better get your story straight
Rearrange what you can’t fabricate
Camouflage what you can’t radiate
Oh god I knew what I’d become

it was sweet survival

This was no coincidence
Another sip to kill the vigilance
A perfect view of our deliverance
Oh god I was the other one

Asleep on the ocean
Inspect what's been broken
The signals are smoking
I never thought it would come

there was no denial

ANA11063 Thin Skin

Tuesday came
I was feeling just about the same
I drove all night long to keep from dreaming.
Your undertow
Took me where I never thought I’d go
The things I did not know only took a few days to fake them.

Jesus knew
Just what you and him would do
But he was singing all day long while you were still grieving
So how could I leave your body as it’s lying next to me?
I’m screaming
“How could I leave your body?”

We tried compromise
To find a little sun behind your eyes
But you were gracious with your sighs
And I was unforgiving.
Now it’s a threat to you, you only turn a darker shade of blue
Each follow through
Took a little longer to shake it.

You can’t take that back
We become the only thing we lack
If I keep singing to your back while you are drinking honey.
Our long reprise
Surely came to you as no surprise
But there was something in the signs
We should’ve been reading.

How high, thin skin
How high was I then?

ANA11064 No Land Left in Hollywood

We got caught up in a reverie, didn’t we?
We thought no one was looking for us
I can’t write another elegy, Ellen, please
Just have another cigarette.

Marianne was playing dead on the other side of the bed
She lost a tussle with the sunshine.
I was feeling kinda hollowed out watching her chase it down
And you were singing like you’d already won.

Ellen, please
Sing it back to me?
This will not set you free,
You cannot hold it…

We lost another summertime waiting for the wind to die
You were painting pictures of the harbor town
You dressed me up in pink and blue, didn’t you?
You said you only stole it but you broke it too.

Ellen, please
Sing it back to me?
This will not set you free,
You cannot hold it…
We’ll sink like stone,
Like everyone we know
You cannot be alone
If you let me hold it

We got caught up in a reverie, didn’t we?