Carter Vail

ANA11535 I WANT YOU

I WANT YOU

You’re uninvited to my party
But you’re living in my head
I am trying not to think about
All the stupid shit I said
As we were standing in the kitchen
At your brother’s barbecue
I make my way into the backyard
I am diving in the pool, cause

CHORUS
I want you
I want, I want you
I want, I want you
I want you
I want, I want you
I want, I want you
I want you
I want, I want you
I want, I want you
I want you
I want, I want you
I want, I want you

Yes I think we’ve got potential
Yes I think I think too much
We’re surrounded by the lions
And I am a baby giraffe
You are turning up the TV
You are finishing your drink
I am tightening my bonnet
As I vomit in the sink, cause

CHORUS

Slipping out of my mouth
I just want to be something to you
No it’s not a breakdown
Everybody’s got something to lose
Maybe we can find out
Sink into the bottom of your pool
I think that it’s a breakdown
Everybody’s waiting for you
Now walk it out

I don’t want to be the voice of reason
Talk to me, talk to me now
In your head while you’re trying to sleep in

ANA11399 Kafka

INTRO
(Everybody wants you)
(Everybody wants you)

VERSE 1
Flashbacks to your house and Catholic school
Standing like a soldier I told you you've nothing to prove
Isn't it like Kafka on the shore
Cause you don't understand anymore

(Everybody wants you)

VERSE 1A
Backdown you're falling
I'm drinking alone
And it's so cinematic
Dramatically lone
You remind me of Paris in the rain
Cause I've never been
Don't you want to go

CHORUS
I know it's gonna be alright
I know it's gonna be alright
Oh baby give me one more night
I know it's gonna be alright

VERSE 2
Born from the garden I put on a show
The dents in the drywall the holes in the door
(Everybody's going now)
And I got so much time on my hands
(What you want, what you want)
And cut credit cards
(What you need, what you need)
I can be your man

(What you want, what you want)
(What you need, what you need)

VERSE 3
So solipsistic
I float in the pool
(Where you going now)
The future in plastics
I'll graduate soon
I can hold my breath on the couch
but I want to breath in
While your breathing out

CHORUS
I know it's gonna be alright
I know it's gonna be alright
Oh baby won't you hold on tight
I know it's gonna be alright
I know it's gonna be alright
I know it's gonna be alright
Oh baby give me on more night
I know it's gonna be alright

(What you want, what you want)
(What you need, what you need)

ANA11401 Nancy, Again

VERSE 1
There she goes again
Nancy runs the sink
Drops her cigarette
Circles the drain

PRE-CHORUS
Cause heat falls
Around you I swear it's true

VERSE 2
Oil and water mixing through her veins
(I think you need it, I think you need it)
The Alka-Seltzer slipping in her drink
(You're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it)

PRE-CHORUS
Light curves
Around you I swear it's true

CHORUS
I get so lost you found me out
I'd never let you down just a little bit low

VERSE 3
No one can compare standing on the brink
(I don't want to be, better off without you)
The world has lost control Nancy does the same
(I don't want to be, better I'm supposed to know)

PRE-CHORUS
But she stays
Golden I swear it's true
I'm rusted

CHORUS
I get so lost you found me out
I'd never let you down
It starts to rain
(I get so lost)
When she's freaking out
(You found me out)

I'd never let you down
(I'd never let you down)
I'd never let you down
(I'd never let you down)
You're just a little bit low

Just a little bit low oh oh
I'm just a little bit low
Just a little bit low oh oh

ANA11324 Best Friend

Best Friend

Amy in the basement
Wondering what the words meant
Well you told me not to leave yet
No one has to be the bad guy now

Heart is beating in the bathroom
I never would expect you
Come on tell me why you look so blue
You're just blowing off some steam now

And I didn't mean anything by it
Hiding under the pool
Everyone needs a little secret

You're my best friend
I hope you know that
I never want to let you down
You best believe it

Standing in the starlight
Stella couldn't hold a candle to
These girls are only teasing
You don't have to fall apart to mean it
And when I say it's not a problem
(It's not a problem, baby)

Give me a taste of the moment
Coming home after school
No I don't want to be your little secret

You're my best friend
(You're my best friend)
I hope you know that
(I hope you know that)
I never want to let you down
You best believe it
(I hope you know that)

You're my best friend
(You're my best friend)
I hope you know that
(I hope you know that)
I never want to let you down
You best believe it
(I hope you know that)

My best friend
I hope you know that
You're my best friend
I hope you know that yea
You're my best friend
I hope you know that
You're my best friend
I hope you know that

(It's not a problem baby)
You're my best friend
I hope you know that
(It's not a problem baby)
You're my best friend
I hope you know that
(It's not a problem baby)
You're my best friend
I hope you know that
(It's not a problem baby)

ANA11325 On/Off

On/Off

Standing by the wall
What a picture of elegance
Writing on the stall
Phone number such a gentleman
Who you gonna call baby
I've been waiting for you

We don't have to talk
We can sit still, reticence
Corner of my eye
What a wonderful cardigan
Slipping out my mouth baby
I've been waiting for you

No I don't want to dance
But baby after you leave

I'm showing up on your phone
Be the last one you see

I get so nervous when I think of you
Alone in your bedroom
With the radio on or the radio off
I get so nervous when I think of you
Nothing that I can do
Turn the radio on turn the radio off

You're everything I want
In a pixelated sonogram
Taking off your top
It's a product of the way you've been
Listen to your mom baby
I've been waiting for you

But now I'm falling in love
As you're falling asleep
Don't it feel like a drug
Is it just what you need

I get so nervous when I think of you
Alone in your bedroom
With the radio on or the radio off
I get so nervous when I think of you
Nothing that I can do
Turn the radio on turn the radio off

Oh I don't want to stay too long
I don't want to say something wrong
I'm gonna mess this up

Come here come here come here

I get so nervous when I think of you
Alone in your bedroom
With the radio on or the radio off
I get so nervous when I think of you
Nothing that I can do
Turn the radio on turn the radio off
I get so nervous when I think of you
Nothing that I can do
Radio on radio off

ANA11188 Rocket Guy

Rocket Guy

I spent the summer like an atom bomb
Cutting wires from the inside out
And when I put myself together again
I’m going to move out of my parents house

Every summer it’s the same
And I know that I’m to blame

I’m going to build myself a rocket ship
Out of shoelaces and Elmer’s glue
And in the middle of a thunder storm
I’m going to roll it down the avenue
If you miss me while I’m taking off
I’m going to call you while I’m on the moon

If you never hear my name
If you never see my face
Tell me everything’s OK
Well I hope you’re doing fine
Well I hope you’re doing fine

ANA11187 Love-15

Love-15

I can be your third man, doll
Just a symptom you’ve forgotten
You slip me in your pocket
Turn off the television now
Set me in the corner
Now in technicolor
Geppetto won’t you hear me out?
You’re painting on my features
I’m everything you needed
Don’t put me on the shelf, no
I’ll never find another

Don’t ask me what my name means
I don’t believe in that
Conversations one sided
Pull my strings and watch me come apart for you
I don’t believe in that
Trouble speaking whenever you’re around
And tell me what you want to do
I don’t believe in that
Wooden pieces inside
You pull my strings
And watch me come apart for you
I don’t believe in that
I don’t believe in that

Bienvenue à tous et a tout au championnat interstellaire de tennis
Pendant le match, veuillez ne pas utiliser d'appareils de téléportation
De transport cybernétique ou de photographie avec flash en la matche

I wonder what you dream about
You’re smoking out the window
Oh, darling Geppetto
I’m wishing on a star too
Grow legs and start talking
Walking right beside you
Cut off the strings and put me down
Tell me what I’m missing
Oh I never listen
To the crickets on my shoulder

Don’t ask me what my name means
I don’t believe in that
Conversations one sided
Pull my strings and watch me come apart for you
I don’t believe in that
Trouble speaking whenever you’re around
And tell me what you want to do
I don’t believe in that
Wooden pieces inside
You pull my strings
And watch me come apart for you
I don’t believe in that
I don’t believe in that

De la parte de tous vos amis à l'ITC, merci et bienvenue

ANA11190 Space is Lonely, That's OK!

Space is Lonely, That’s OK!

This isn’t like you, San Francisco
All of life’s a silent disco
That’s what they told you back in flight school
Before you learned to fly

And later on in your compartment
You draw the shades and sit in darkness
Reading screens on aeronautics
Measure space and time

Don’t know where you’re going to land
In California or Japan

With your helmet on
And pens in your pocket
Think of the girl that you loved in college
She kept your shirt and you built a rocket
It wouldn’t fit you now

The Falls been cold but space is freezing
Houston tells me how you’re feeling
These knobs and buttons have no meaning
They flicker on and off

I won’t ever understand
If you’re a comet or a man

If the station close and the stars don’t glimmer
If you might want to come home for the Winter
The Teflon suits and polyester
Hang them by the door

ANA11189 Computer Love Song

Computer Love Song

You’re still shaking
I’m barely moving at all
Green lines cut through
A black screen tells you I’m fine

You’re Gwyneth Paltrow
I’m Richie Tenenbaum
I cut my hair off
You like me either way
And every summer
It’s going to be the same

Going back to Telluride
Riding round with nothing on
Staying at your parents’ house
Acting like there’s nothing wrong
Going back to Telluride
Sleeping with the TV on
Darling so coledified
Oh, I know it won’t be long

Pull my sutures
And climb in I’m warm inside
You’ll breath my lungs
I’m florescent and infrared
And I’m yours

Smoke out the window
Listen to CD Roms
You’re like a race car
You are a palindrome
And every summer
Will never be the same

Going back to Telluride
Riding round with nothing on
Staying at your parents’ house
Acting like there’s nothing wrong
Going back to Telluride
Sleeping with the TV on
Darling so coledified
Oh, I know it won’t be long

ANA11098 Melatonin

Now Jane
Standing over in her nightgown
She’s got the phone cord twisted ring finger
She’s a sight to see
See jane
Why you staring out the window
With the red eyes tell me his name
That got you tangled up

Now Jane
She’s a lover like a pipe bomb
She’s got the pink sunglasses high heels
Gonna walk it out
Now Jane
Whatchya doing in the backseat
I always thought you were a front seat
Cadillac burning up the town with us

She said you feeling all right
Cause you look like hell
I think I’m doing just fine
As far as i can tell

Well its just so easy
When everybody talks so carefully
But you’re my melatonin daydream
Pretend you don’t but you know
You know you know
That they all want you
Theres nothing else you really can do
And if you could you wouldn’t want to
Oh i know

Now Jane
Where the hell did all your friends go
They got a job in the city and a kid
Used to be so close
Jane
You remember what you told me
When we were standing in the bathroom,
Midnight baby we were so messed up

You said well you can be mine
I wouldn’t mind being yours
I wouldn’t take up your time
And i could sleep on the floor

Well its just so easy
When everybody talks so carefully
But your my melatonin daydream
Pretend you don’t but you know
You know you know
That they all want you
Theres nothing else you really can do
And if you could you wouldn’t want to
Oh i know

ANA11109 Milk Carton

You’re always talking about leaving
Milk carton black and white face
Smile vacant for the picture
Parents waiting in the driveway

Oh my darling Arizona
Why you packing up your suitcase
Hasn’t anybody told ya
Oh

My mouth on fire
Drowning in your

Holy water I could be better
It’s time to move on I won’t be yours forever
Holy water I could be better
It’s time to move on I won’t be yours forever

Now I’m waiting in your basement
Blood stains on your pink dress
Don’t you leave me on the pavement
You look so good in red

Don’t you cry Arizona
I never want to see you that way
I’ll be your milk carton darling
Leave me cut cut up
Cut cut up

Holy water I could be better
It’s time to move on I won’t be yours forever
Holy water I could be better
It’s time to move on I won’t be yours forever
I won’t be yours forever

ANA11103 Pontiac

You leaned in closer
I should have kissed you then
Your hair was longer
I pulled away from it
And moved to the city
Over the Tappan Zee Bridge
You like the colors
I can’t see anything

I’ll be your coffee
I’ll be your poster child
Walking like Jesus
When all the stores are closed
You think of drowning
Out in your parents pool
The water’s freezing
It was September

I think I know you
I was here before the start of the storm
It’s all around you now you’re coming back home
Now you’re coming back

You own that glimmer
I should have told you then
Now more than ever
The broken pieces fit
Scars and confetti
Sawmill and pontiac clips
You kept Valhalla
I still want everything

I’ll be your sweater
You be my wailing wall
Fighting like Ghandi
When all the lines are down
You dream of flying
Over the Zuiderzee
The sky was yellow
I still remember

I think I know you
I was here before the start of the storm
It’s all around you now you’re coming back home
Now you coming back
I think I know you
We were here before the start of the storm
It’s all around us now we’re coming back home

ANA11113 A Fine Way to Close

Don’t talk about me that way I can’t stand it
Dress me up and push me down the aisle
Raise your glass and won’t you stay a while
You can take my eyes if you need to
They’re always looking for you
Another branch, offered for the pyre

Don’t put me in the back seat I’ll stay quiet
Sing to me the FM radio
And smile as you look out the window
Won’t you tell me I look pretty?
Like the first day that you met me
And kiss me one more time before I go

And you tell me that it’s raining
I can’t feel it anymore

Don’t paint the fence, I like the way it’s fading
Covered mirrors, blacked out in the hall
Won’t you leave the windows open for the fall
Would you be there when I come to?
And read the letters for you?
And miss the way you held me in your arms

I’ll be there when you come to
Mmm

Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh….

(Undone and I can’t forget about it)
(Undone and I can’t forget about it)
(Undone and I can’t forget about it)
(Undone and I can’t forget about it)
(Undone and I can’t forget about it)
(Undone and I can’t forget about it)
(Undone and I can’t forget about it)

ANA11101 Velvet

Kama Sutra
Does it suit ya?
Your velvet dress is slipping off
Would you stay with me?

It’s coming through ya
Never knew ya
Never knew how much it’d mean
When you spoke to me

But everyone needs something
I know that I’m no different

Swore picket fences
Meet your parents
Cast your shoes off in the pool
Don’t it seem?

Carolina
Treat you better
I won’t steal and I won’t cheat
Would you stay with me?

But everyone needs something
I know that I’m no different
And if you’re not home I’ll be happy for you
I’m happy for you

ANA11105 Death by Telephone

Baby, I think I’m finally starting to get you
She told me through here teeth and her perfume
I never want to see you again

But in the morning she’s pulling off her clothes in the bathroom
I’m standing in the hall I’ll be gone soon
Who did I think I was?

And it’s breaking up again
Telephone lines
Wrapped around my neck
I don’t want to think about
Anything you said

And now you’re living on the south side
Staring at the cars as they pass by
Drinking up the smoke if you’re too high
You’re never gonna come back down

And you said that it was Jesus
Who broke into your room in an earthquake
And shook you from your bed, all the glass frames
Shattered on the carpet floor

And it’s breaking up again
Telephone lines
Wrapped around my neck
I don’t want to think about
Anything you said
I don’t want to think about
Anything you said

ANA11096 Guest Room

I’ve got a job in the city
I’ve got a house with a guest room I don’t know who’s there
Got a person that loves me
She hates the way that I talk, I smoke, I stare

I’m a king in a castle
I’m the ghost in the corner, holes cut out in the sheet
I’m about to be thirty
I’m dead and I’m gone, that’s alright with me

Just give me something to live for
(Oh)
Give me something to do when I turn out the light
So hard being honest
(Oh)
But I’ll try
Everything’s fine right now, everything’s fine

I am storming the castle
I am turning my head hundred eighty degrees
My whole body is hurting
I am burning my last will and testimony

Calling friends from high school
Telling people I love them they don’t know my name
Writing songs for my parents
They’ve always been there for me hope that I do the same

(Ah)
Just give me something to live for
(Oh)
Give me something to do when I turn out the light
So hard being honest
(Oh)
But I’ll try
Everything’s fine right now, everything’s

I got something to live for
(Oh)
I got someone to talk to at the end of the night
Just trying to be honest
(Oh)
Figure out all the things that make me feel alright
I’m gonna go to a party
(Oh)
Take drugs from strangers
(Oh)
Black out in the kitchen
(Oh)
Wake up in the guest room

ANA11111 Drive Home

Wake up, Virginia, is your daddy home?
Is your daddy home? Is your Daddy home?
Did he turn out the lights and the telephone?
And the telephone, and the telephone
Come out Virginia come down the stairs
Hell I know your headed somewhere

Come out, Virginia, what you waiting for?
What you waiting for? What you waiting for?
Got your ball gown on and you locked the door
And you locked the door and you locked the door
Come out, Virginia, can’t be so bad
But who am I to say you’re wrong?

And in the backseat all your clothes
Are resting on the posters that you got
When you turned sixteen

And from the window of the kitchen
Stand your parents and some people you’ve never seen
You’re asking for another one
You’re asking for a way to spend the night
If you’re asking for another one

Come out, Virginia, if it seems so wrong
Seems so wrong and it seems so wrong
And I’m just waiting for the rest to fall
For the rest to fall, for the rest to fall
Well maybe you were the best of me
And maybe I’ll learn, maybe I’ll learn to crawl
Well maybe you were the best of me

If you’re asking for another one
You’re asking for a way to spend the night
If you’re asking for another one
You’re asking for a way to spend the night
If you’re asking for another one
You’re asking for a way to spend the night
If you’re asking for another one

ANA11093 Andrew (revisited)

Red Eyes think of me kindly
Kindly they’ll take me
I’ll be your story
Child you think of
Looking at headlights
From inside your window
It’s cold in your room

And I’m in your window
Loosing my shadow
And now I’m twenty three
There’s three at your table
Speak to her softly
As if I’m beside her
Just like my father
I’ll be alright

Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t

Sleep now that everything’s undone
I’m brushing your hair back
They’re calling you home
Oh Mrs. Darling, what did they tell you?
If I start to shake
I got it from you

Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it
Undone and I can’t forget about it

ANA11095 Tigers on Trains

If you’re heading for the coast
Hearing voices up ahead you
Who am I to let you go?
You’re a wrecking ball
Can you kiss me slowly?

We can turn the headlights off
All our friends and all their voices
Falling silent in the car
And do you remember?
The fog was lifting

Tigers on trains watching you go
Head in the glass fogging up the windows
And you’re never gonna come back
Not much for you here
You’re never gonna come back
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright

Now you’re heading for the show
All your memories through a broken telecaster
Would you be here in the fall?
And a long december, pull me closer

Say this town is for the ghosts
And I’m buried in the rocks, dear
If you’re leaving let me know
Is it in the paper? Is it in your bloodstream?

Tigers on trains watching you go
Head in the glass fogging up the windows
And you’re never gonna come back
You don’t really care
You’re never gonna come back
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright
It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright

Oh oh oh it’s alright
Oh oh oh it’s alright
Oh oh oh it’s alright
Oh oh oh it’s alright

ANA11091 A Fine Way to Start

Bye bye caarter
Say bye
Say bye honey

I want to stay
I want to stay
I want to stay
I want to stay
I want to stay
I want to stay
I want to stay
I want to stay

ANA11210 DMV

DMV
You know who you came to see
License please
You buzz like a bumblebee
Here’s what you gotta do

Move
Dance

Problem? Delete it
Mantra? Repeat it
Take it or leave it
Pick up your feet &
Move to the beat &
Hands to the ceiling

Balance sheets
At the Summer company retreat
No I.D.
Gonna help you move your feet
Here’s all you gotta do

Move
Dance

Problem? Delete it
Mantra? Repeat it
Take it or leave it
Pick up your feet &
Move to the beat &
Hands to the ceiling

ANA11211 Hollywood

Barely been out lately
Tonight I’m glad I tried
Only had a few drinks
When someone caught my eye

You look like California
Silver screen and marquis lights
And I want to be your James Dean
Tell me what you need tonight

‘Cause
I know you
From somewhere
Can’t place it
Can you take me there

You’re such a movie star
And I’m hanging on your shoulder
Red Carpet caviar
I’ll love you in slow motion
I’m such a loaded gun
Baby you’re my trigger
Don’t keep me on the run
Woah

See the way you’re moving
Love the way you shine in the night
Creeping ‘round the corner
Got to keep it under cover tonight
Tonight
Oh

‘Cause I know you
Can’t stay here
But you’ve got me
Just take me there

You’re such a movie star
And I’m hanging on your shoulder
Red Carpet caviar
I’ll love you in slow motion
I’m such a loaded gun
Baby you’re my trigger
Don’t keep me on the run
Woah

ANA11212 Now That I Know

Why don’t you walk with me?
Talk to me
Outside
Outline
Everything to make it clear

I’ve waited all night
Grasping at a lifeline
You can take your sweet time
I’ve been waiting years
Dear

But now that I know

It’s been a mess love
I’ve done had enough of it
Now that I know

Cause
Now that I know I don’t need you
Don’t know why it took so long to let you go

Now that I know I don’t need you
It’s making me wonder why I did before
Dear

Now that I know I don’t need you
I don’t know why it took
So long to let you go
I don’t know why I

Convinced myself the whole truth
Was everyone else was wrong about you,
No, dear
But now that I know

Yes
Now that I know

There’s still some part darlin
That wants to go back
It’s sprialed too far from me

Our words had greater meaning
Back then, when I believed ‘em
But meaning makes a fool believe until
He finally don’t

It’s been a mess love
I’ve done had enough of it
now that I don’t

Now that I know I don’t need you
I don’t know why it took so long to let you go

Now that I know I don’t need you
It’s making me wonder why I did before
Dear

Now that I know I don’t need you
I don’t know why it took
So long to let you go
I don’t know why I

Convinced myself the whole truth
Was everyone else was wrong about you,
No, dear
But now that I know

Yes
Now that I know