Be Safe-The Cribs

[00:00.00] [00:12.83]One of those ******* awful black days [00:14.67]When nothing is pleasing [00:15.81]And everything that happens is an excuse for anger [00:18.20]An outlet for emotions stockpiled, an arsenal, an armour [00:23.54]These are the days when I hate the world [00:25.92]Hate the rich, hate the happy [00:29.06]Hate the complacent, the TV watchers [00:31.81]Beer drinkers, the satisfied ones [00:34.05]Because I know I can be all of those little hateful things [00:37.33]And then I hate myself for realizing that [00:40.91]There's no preventative, directive or safe approach for living [00:43.90]We each know our own fate [00:45.84]We know from our youth how to be treated [00:48.68]How we'll be received, how we shall end [00:50.93]These things don't change [00:53.27]You can change your clothes, change your hairstyle [00:55.70]Your friends, cities, continents [00:57.51]But sooner or later your own self will always catch up [01:00.36]Always it waits in the wings [01:01.90]Ideas swirl but don't stick [01:04.05]They appear but then run off like rain on the windshield [01:07.26]One of those rainy day car rides my head implodes [01:10.39]The atmosphere in this car a mirror of my skull [01:13.55]Wet, damp, windows dripping and misted with cold [01:18.21]Walls of grey, nothing good on the radio [01:21.77]Not a thought in my head [01:23.16]I know a place we could go where you'll fall in love so hard [01:30.20]That you'll wish you were dead [01:34.04]Let's take life and slow it down [01:35.85]Incredibly slow, frame by frame [01:38.40]With two minutes that take ten years to live out [01:41.60]Yeah, let's do that [01:47.37]Telephone poles like praying mantis against the sky [01:50.40]Metal arms outstretched [01:51.92]So much land travelled, so little sense made of it [01:55.51]It doesn't mean a thing, all this land laid out behind us [01:59.00]I'd like to take off into these woods [02:00.75]And get good and lost for a while [02:03.11]I'm disgusted with petty concerns [02:05.11]Parking tickets, breakfast specials [02:07.30]Does someone just have to carry this weight [02:10.29]Be safe, be safe, be safe, be safe, be safe [02:13.97]Abstract typography, methane covenant [02:17.46]Linear gospel, nashville sales lady [02:21.65]Stocky emissary, torturous lice, mad Elizabeth [02:26.87]Be safe, be safe, be safe, be safe, be safe [02:32.75]Chemotherapy ******** [02:35.70]I know a place we could go where you'll fall in... [02:39.91]The light within me shines like a diamond mine [02:42.41]Like an unarmed walrus, like a dead man face down on the highway [02:46.45]Like a snake eating its own tail, a steam turbine [02:49.99]Frog pond, two full closets burst open in disarray [02:53.97]Soap bubbles in the sun, hospital death bed [02:57.02]Red convertible, shopping list, blowjob, death's head [03:00.80]Devils dancing, bleached white buildings, memory, movements [03:04.53]The movie unpeeling, unreeling, about to begin [03:08.84]I know a place we could go where you'll fall in love... [03:14.32]I've seen your hallway, you're a darn call away [03:17.76]I've hear your stairs creak [03:19.30]I can fix my mind on your yes and your no [03:23.53]I'll film your face today in the sparkling canals [03:27.21]All red, yellow, blue, green brilliance and silver dutch reflection [03:31.39]Racing thoughts racing thoughts all too real [03:34.33]You're moving so fast now I can't hold your image [03:37.01]This image I have of your face by the window [03:39.80]Me standing beside you, arm on your shoulder [03:42.44]A catalogue of images, flashing glimpses, then gone again [03:46.02]I'm tethered to this post you've sunk in me [03:48.96]And every clear afternoon now I'll think of you up in the air [03:52.19]Twisting your heel, your knees up around me, my face in your hair [03:55.98]You scream so well, your smile so loud, it still rings in my ears [04:03.51]I know a place we could go where you'll fall in love so hard [04:10.52]That you'll wish you were dead [04:14.75]Inhibition, distant, tired of longing [04:17.54]Clean my teeth, stay the course [04:20.68]Hold the wheel, steer on to freedom [04:24.61]Open all the boxes, open all the boxes [04:29.29]Open all the boxes, open all the boxes [04:37.27]Times Square midday, newspaper buildings [04:40.25]News headlines going around [04:41.90]You watch as they go and hope for some good ones [04:44.04]Those tree shadows in the park [04:46.08]They're all whispering, chasing leaves [04:48.38]Around six PM, shadows across the cobblestones [04:51.81]Girl in front of bathroom mirror [04:54.09]She's slow and careful, paints her face green, mask-like [04:57.53]Like Matisse,"Portrait with Green Stripe" [05:00.07]Long shot through apartment window [05:03.06]A monologue on top but no girl in shot [05:06.49]The light within me shines like a diamond mine [05:09.73]Like an unarmed walrus, like a dead man face down on the highway [05:13.81]Like a snake eating its own tail, a steam turbine [05:17.69]Frog pond, two full closets burst open in disarray [05:21.42]Soap bubbles in the sun, hospital death bed [05:23.46]Red convertible, shopping list, blowjob, death's head [05:26.36]Devils dancing, bleached white buildings, memory, movements [05:30.94]The movie unreeling, about to begin [05:42.43]That was great by me [05:44.97]Yeah? Mine were alright. Wasn't my best one but who cares [05:50.89]That's the spirit