L'ajre



Temporary Freedom 1992 TEMPO 1


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St. Patrick's Day

Take a drink as black as coal
And a world around again
They can try to bring me back
They couldn't tell me when

Those hands reach out to hold me up
On that special day
All eyes look to me
And they float away

Staring at the door
With her feelings on the floor
She takes a smile up off the shelf
She's waiting for the war

Those hands reach out to hold me up
On that special day
All eyes look to me
And they turn away

As they chew? down the hole?
We could be somebody else
Could look into those loose? eyes
If you look you'll see your face

And those hands reach out to hold me up
On that special day
All eyes look to me
And they float away

Hands reach out to hold me up
On that special day
All eyes look to me
And they float away

Welcome to St. Patrick's Day
Everything will float away
Welcome to St. Patrick's Day
Everything will float away
Everything will float away

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Homoactivity

I could never be like you
But that's alright
I can still pick you out like a star in the sky

You step in the front room
I'll step out in style
I think I'll hang out in the back room for a while

There's nothing I can say
And there's not much I can do that
Niagara Falls they're falling all over you

I can't talk to people who think I'm dumb
I just sit in the corner and suck my thumb
And try not to come unglued

I could never be like her
But that's just fine
I can still pick you out like gold from a mine

The way you cross up to their feet
By a country mile
By the shape of your smile
You've got 'em beat
Line 'em up single file

There's not much I can say
And there's nothing I can do
Niagara Falls they're pouring all over you

And I can't talk to people who
Tell me that she's got one hand on the hem of her skirt
And another hand's on your thighs that ?

? a heart
Is a heart of gold
? things that
You could have said to me
But you're no ?
You're just another friend ?
Is she still an avid reader
Upon her knees

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Scrawl

First you take the incident
Blow it off blow it off
Straight to the gutter
It was time to die
Saw your father there
Mafia style mafia style
My friend a game he says everything is freestyle
Then we know she got eyes for you
Then we know she got eyes for you
Then we know she got eyes for you
Then we know she got eyes for you

First you took the incident
Blew it off blew it off
Straight to the gutter
It was time to die
Saw your father there
Mafia style mafia style
My friend a game he says everything is freestyle
Then we know she got eyes for you
Then we know she got eyes for you
Then we know she got eyes for you
Then we know she got eyes for you

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Three Beatings

Honestly she loves me
Honest I do
Honestly she loves me
Honest I do
Honestly she loves me
Honest I do
Honestly she loves me
Honest I do

Is she getting anywhere
Not getting anywhere
Not getting anywhere
Not getting anywhere

Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on

Tonight this rain knows where we're going
Tonight this rain knows where you've been
Tonight this rain knows where you're going
Tonight this rain knows where you've been

Honestly she loves me
Honest I do
Honestly she needs me
Honest I do
Honestly she loves me
Honest I do

And I can feel my heart and it's breaking
Honest I do

Not getting anywhere
Not getting anywhere
Not getting anywhere
Not getting anywhere
Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on
I can feel my heart and it's breaking
Tonight this rain knows where we're going
Tonight this rain knows where you've been
Tonight this rain knows where you're going
Tonight this rain knows where you've been

It's wet tonight
The rain
Knows where you're going
Tonight this rain knows where you're going
Honestly she loves me
Honestly she loves me
Honest I do
Honest I do
Tonight this rain knows where you're going

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Slow Burn

Like a puppy
Like a kitty
Like a little prayer
Yeah I told you
I'm with it like bullets in a gun
I'm with you

'Til the sun finally fades away
Leaving bare another day
Until the sky returns to gray
'Til we can shoot the moon

I've been standing around
With neither foot on the ground
I've got my blessing in disguise
I think I'll undress you with my eyes
Yeah that'll have to do

We've been side by side so long you don't even care
You can tell me to come but I'm already here
So here's to your health dear here's to you

I would probably follow if you'd follow me
Hey would you follow me like everything else I see
Baby you're a riddle coming on and on like a color tv

But to tell you the honest truth
really matters very much
Was if anything at all I get from your touch
Well you were the first one that I knew
I guess I should have learned
That trying to live without you would be like a slow burn
But I didn't know

I know you're not a prophet
I say a little prayer for you
Whenever I'm not with you
I'm off near the sunset
I break into a run from you
Well your mind's gotten blown away
Taken over for another day
When you just stayed the same
?
I blew it too
Yeah I blew it
?
On me and you

Yeah well I didn't know
Which way to go
I guess I cut my own throat
I made myself the scapegoat
Yeah I missed the boat

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Little Sister

Little sister says that I'm on fire
Little sister says I'm ?
She sleeps alone so
She can see some vision
When I wake I see my blind ambition
Part of life it's part of growing older
Now I think that she's growing colder

I ? weave this tangled air
I'd be safe again to dream of you out there
When I see those burning laterns burn so bright
You know the fire inside could blow this ?
I've got a perfect way to make look perfect
Now she needs something to feed this in between
Getting caught up in a way I cannot tell
Then again maybe for her it's just as well
Little sister says you're all you're cold
Open up your eyes

? when I looked into your eyes
God will save us and as if he really tries
? happen in ?
Can't stop her ?
There's gotta be a way to look for way
Gotta be a way to change today
Little sister says she's feeling naked
? that's what the vision made her say
Oh little sister says you're all you're cold
Open up your eyes
Your eyes
Just close your eyes
Your eyes
Those eyes
Your open eyes
Just close your child eyes

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Scruffy

It's a long fall down to that canyon floor
But it's too hard to make a plane to fly with
I guess I'll just jump
That's the hard way I know
It's a far cry from crying to suicide
But I need those wings to guide me
I think I might crash
It's the hard way I know

When you're this tanked you don't care who's driving
And you've got an excuse if you're being a geek
Just pass me that sour mash it's the hardest stuff I know
Well going downhill's a lot faster than climbing
But it makes me sick and skins my knees
I think I'd better tuck and roll
It's the hard way I know
Discovered that it's getting lost
Like I wouldn't say never I just might
Make my life a lot harder than it came

It's a long fall down to that kitchen floor
But all that trash will make a perfect mattress
I think I'll just go to sleep
It's a hard looking floor you know
I'll dream about love and a great decide
I'm upside down in a straight up singles' match
And I've been doing it the hard way I know
Every time my chances going
If i take it it works and i wait too long
I'm cleaned out like a fish
And I feel like I might die

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Shithead

What is wrong with my life
Why am I living in squalor
I used to be a boy genius
Now I drink and smoke and do nothing
I don't need any girls
I feel like a waste of a life and a shithead
I have no future
All I want now is Sinead O'Connor's breasts and lips against me in my bed

Used to have things to do
Now I have nothing
My room is a pit and there's not a chance in a hell of me cleaning it
I used to write and draw and paint
Now I stare at the walls and procrastinate
There's nothing that interests me anyway
All I want now is some man who'll come and press his lips against me in my bed

I like music
But it's not worth a lot to me
And doing something new
Is not so important to me

All I want now is Sinead O'Connor's breasts and lips against me in my bed

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Pearl Harbor

Same as on ...his absence?


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L'Ajre
by Silkworm
(C) 1992 Temporary Freedom
TEMPO 1

Joel Phelps - guitar, vocals on 1,4,6,9
Andy Cohen - guitar, vocals on 3
Tim Midgett - bass, vocals on 2,5,7
Michael Dahlquist - drums, vocals on 8

Lyrics transcribed November 1996 by Brian Eck <eck@eskimo.com>

Last updated 4/13/98.

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