Lyrics:

I said “New York today?”
She said “LA” and we fell back asleep
Watering plants out on the balcony
My sweatshirt tied around her waist
And last night we went out for drinks
Our shadows on the street
Were the darkest shade of green
Together in the rain
And last night she took me by the sleeve
Down an alleyway so nobody’d see
And put her lips up to my ear
And kissed me on the cheek

Baby I’ve got to know
Do you see my dreams?
From NYC to LAX
Cause you keep me packing my bags
From NYC to wherever I wake up next

I’ve searched all day for the picture of her
Standing by the statues in the park
I saw the puddles under cars shine like puddles in the sun
And the sunlight cut into the black coffee in her cup
And that’s why I’m always sitting out front
Writing in a leather-bound book
Till they turn the café lights off
Cause I might catch her on a walk
Or in the petals as they fall from the trees
Or in the water on the walls of the shower when she leaves
Her towel at my feet

And I’m somewhere in a cloud
Sitting on a plane
And across my lap
A long hair lays

NY or LA

Lyrics:

Her voice goes on when the world explodes
She’s blending margaritas over speakerphone
She tells me hurry up cause they’re getting cold
My hair drips in my face when I walk in
She’s sitting on the counter just swinging her feet
I kiss her neck and hear the limes bouncing in the sink

And what she said never left
Its still running in my head
And what she said when she laughed was
“Do you hear your heart doing that?”

We sat on the hill by the bridge
Where you can hear the birds and the ships coming in
Except I heard none of it cause whenever she spoke
The city froze, in hopes of an echo
And she kept her eyes half-closed
Biting on the end of her pen
And when she said “I’m done” I held her from behind
The smell of violet and her sketches will keep me alive

My head was under in the tub
When I heard you pound
On a door on the other side of town
And through the tunnel to the bridge
Had the windows down
Till all the papers below out

Margaritas

Lyrics:

I’ll hold you till the moonlight dies off
In the 24-hour diner
Where they serve their fries inside of
Muscle cars made of paper
And you get every vein in my body
To burn like a neon sign
While the sunrise bounces
Off the gloss of your lips and your eyes
And I drew Mona Lisa on your takeout box
Just to leave her behind
You blew a bubble with your gumball
While I bought us tattoos
Ima put ‘em all over you but don’t get mad
When my tongue starts to blur the lines

They’re open all night
Will somebody tell me when I need to blink?
We’re going all night
Cause she never gets tired of losing sleep
We’re losing sleep
And I’m high again
We’re losing sleep
Burning up daylight, my friend

You filled the tub till it poured down the staircase
While the horns on the jazz record screamed
And you cut out shapes in the drapes so the
Sun threw stars over everything
And your cat jumped out of the window
And walked on the roof
And when you told me that you don’t own a cat I cried
Cause I did all I could do
You said “I need you for scale,
Stand by the wall” then you painted a rose
I saw a flash then a blade was lodged in my leg
But we blamed it on the blindfold
Then we laughed till it all went cold and I traced
From the snake on your face
To the heart on your throat
To the sword on your leg

Then we laid in the grass holding hands
Listening to the birds and the fire alarm
You said “Baby, rest your eyes on the sun”

Losing Sleep

Lyrics:

Please don’t make me dream
About days to come
I know that everything fades
I like to read the newspaper
Folded wrong and stained
So we’re on the same page
With throwing it away
And last week an elephant braved the Atlantic
When the captain panicked
She said “Ohh yeah, and get this - they gave it a medal
But it got caught when the crane driver dozed off”

Too bad I gotta live so long
No telling when a good time’s over
Right when you wanna hold your woman
She’s gone before the pancakes are golden

She said “The largest macaroni mural known to man
Was stolen again
And they suspect it’s back in the artist’s hands”
Because the glue they’re missing fingerprints
And I flip the bacon, and I crack an egg
And I ask her “Baby, what’s this world we’re livin in?”
Then I turn around to see the paper draped
Over an empty plate
Well that’s news to me – she ended it

Too bad I gotta live so long
No telling when a good time’s over
Right when you wanna hold your woman
She’s jumps before the bread in the toaster

I’m chewing on the pit of a mango
Grab another from the bowl
I’m gonna finish them all

Too bad I gotta live so long
No telling when a good time’s over
Right when you wanna hold your woman
She’s sleeping in till noon every morning
She’s sour like the milk that you poured her
She want’s patties over links when they’re frozen

Right when you think you know your woman
She tells you that she never liked oranges

Mango Scare: Man Claims Accident

Lyrics:

Jesus little mouse
It’s a plastic owl settle down
Brown feathers, yellow eyes
Painted for mankind
Jesus little mouse
Eating with your hands
Don’t bother looking up
You’ll only see a man

On a ladder coming back to planet earth
Now a shadow has fallen over the universe 

Jesus little mouse
Do you still see the clouds as birds?
Cause I know better
I know better but it’s worse
Jesus little mouse
It’s time that we break out the traps
And I’m shaking
I’m shaking bad

Saw my neighbor at the store
Said he made his son a monk
The soccer team is out with lice
The devil got the whole day off
And if the boy was at the window
When the sun was at its peak
Then he heard the metal crash
And the branches squeak
Taking long meditative blinks
While blood kept kicking
Kicking, kicking in my eyes

Jesus Little Mouse

Lyrics:

I’ve met some people
I’ve done some things
But there’s all these other people
Doing other things
And I don’t want to wait for winter
But I can’t wait for spring
So what am I to do now
But lean into the dream?
I went to school and got an A
But mostly I got B’s
Only now I’m starting to learn my ABC’S
And who said I’m too big
To ride the pony machine?
Cause my whole life’s just horsing around
I’ve got another quarter I think

Let’s go where we’re going
When we don’t know where we’re at
Let’s go where we’re going
Just to see what happens next
So row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily woah
Cause life is but a dream

But every day I wake up
And brush my teeth
Do I need a knock-out punch
To get the fairy in my sheets?
I want to be someone like a king
But then I think about the dinosaurs
And it feels more like me
I walk on the right side of the road
The left is what I mean
And I always look both ways
When I jump rope in the street
And I never got a cast for my friends to sign
Cause I drank milk
But I broke a ruler in half one time
And oo what a thrill 

So row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Row row your boat
I don’t want to hear you scream
So row row your boat
Way out from the coast
You gotta row row your boat
Even if you’re unsure

Row Your Boat (an original tune)

Lyrics:

I started to write because the sun came up
A love poem for you, but you’re happy enough
We used to drive through the city and talk
Today there’s a crow on the hood of my car
Walking by buildings I’m reading their plaques
To see if I’ll be around when they’re ready to collapse
There’s sweat in my eyes as I cross the bridge
With a fistful of paper, ripped for the fish

Will I stop
Traffic If I walk
Backwards if I fall
Back into the heart
Of the road?
Will you drive
Slower if I step
Forward if I jump
Over for the sake
Of a poem?

I left work early to chase a balloon
A silver star sunk deep in the clouds
Any excuse to break a femur falling off your roof
Cause why else would you ever hold me now?
Oo that’s good let me write that down
Dropped my pen in the crosswalk
Jumped aside when a bus flew by
Guess I really am all talk
I count the cars in the parking garage
Tons of steel and concrete
Begging to cave from weight of my heartbeat
Wait, “wait”, that was all you taught me
 
You’re so pretty when you cry
Sitting behind another green light
And another green light
And another green light
And another green light
And another green light

Another Green Light

Lyrics:

Take the west road till it ends
Snap the daises at their necks
Kiss the pavement shooting sparks
Bath in falling stars again

Spill your secrets on a rock
Slide your knife beneath the scales
Sing to birds who eat their dead
Wear your crystal beads again

Smash the skull as white as bleach
Count a million grains of sand
Dig the horns into the dirt
Pray the shadows speak again

Let the raindrops on your tongue
Build a fire and let it burn
And wade into the muck and grime
I’m here today to die
And I can’t wait my turn

Schram St. Blues

Lyrics:

My head on her lap
“Just watch the pool” she said
“It comes in waves”
And the light cascades
Off the palm trees
Like moonbeams dipped in pink

You don’t know what you’re doing to me
baby woah, go slow
You don’t know what you’re doing to me 
baby woah woah

I want to go in
I’ll dip my toes then
I’m gonna dive into
The deep end
Let’s take our clothes off
The waters so soft
On your bright bright lips
In the deep end

I hold my breathe
While she kicks and twists and spins
Little bubbles on her skin
And I blink and she’s gone
I reach into the dark
But is that the bottom or the wall?

Where do I go? The moon
But how do I know which one?
My heart, it pounds
And baby won’t you come
Pull me out
Pull me out
Pull me out
Or pull me further down

in the deep end

Lyrics:

Sing, I want to hear you sing for me
Sing, I want to hear you sing for me
Sometimes it’s just a noise
Other times I can hear your voice

Sucking all the air out of my lungs
Its just what she does, just let her
Sucking all the air out of my lungs
Its just what she does to feel better

And sometimes it makes me cry
Other times I can’t keep it inside
So baby won’t you sing to me?
Sing me to sleep
And baby, if you need
Tell me, I’ll breathe

Take it away baby I can take it
Take it away baby I can take it
Take it away baby I can take it
Take it away baby I can take it
Take it away baby I can take it
Take it away baby I can take it
Take it away baby I can take it
Take it
Take it

Sing

Lyrics:

Tell me how you feel about it baby
We could put our hearts in a bulletproof safe
If you say they’re worth saving
Or if “love” is our safe-word I’m sorry don’t hate me
I’m deaf till your little shoulder blades hurt
Love is work and I love to make your legs shake girl
Another song about sex what’s next
Got a place I don’t stay in I stay out of step
Right left keep your legs straight girl
Feel my pulse but don’t fuck with my heart
Yeah its really that hard handcuffing a star
Maybe I’ve gone too far

Stuffed all my dreams in the bottom of a backpack
No room for her
She got a body I could ride around the world with
What a whirlwind 
For a little little little little bird

I might go to Paris only for the catacombs
Let her hold my head until the morning I’m gone
When I said “I’m sorry” I was in a bad mood
What I should’ve said was nothing at all
Some things go smooth some things go wrong
And I don’t need my palms read
To know that I’m heartless
I flip her on her back like a tarot card
Now tell me that that’s
The future you want
Now tell me that ass is just for me
Then break my heart
I deserve no more and no less
Said goodbye but I lied I’m a mess
Ima throw love around till they lasso my neck

If loves in the air I’m out in the surf

Whirlwind

Lyrics:

Had a dream about a girl
Who swung around a knife
Stuck it right in my eye
But I slept in late
Cause I don’t get to see her
like that these days
Come over we can talk
She said no I’d rather walk
To the center of the ocean
Well, isn’t that
just a little over the top?
My bad I was stoned when I called
And I lost my patience
I know it’s outrageous
But I saw you last night
We made a mess of my basement

Dynamite in my jaw
Yeah, what sensation
Your kisses sparked
Bitch I barely made it
Bitch I barely made it
Dynamite in my jaw
Come give it to me baby

Biting my lip
while I write this song
If she taught me anything
it’s how to ride the storm
I’d say I’m at a loss
but I’m always wrong
Cause I can walk away now
No foul no harm
I found her heart in a zip lock bag
With a couple other charms
I never tied on her neck
Put a dreamcatcher on the rearview mirror
Still wake up shaking
Ever since seven or eight when
I stuck a firecracker up a poor frog’s anus

Remember when we found
Those baby birds
And we cut them worms
Till they grew feathers
Well its all the same
And because I’m tired
I didn’t put them in the air
I stuck them under your tire


Dynamite in my Jaw

Lyrcis:

Either get lost or talk to me how I want
Yeah you know how I want
And we both know it’s wrong
Sharing one heart that pumps
And when all that moonlights not enough
And the engine runs too hot to touch
I bent over to pick you up
And I’ve been told I don’t care enough
But I don’t care at all

Down dirty roads and roads of dust
In a stolen car full of stolen stuff
I hope you know I know we’re done
I’m in overdrive headed nowhere good

Would it make you happy
If I sold your grandmas bracelet
back to your grandpa
We can’t recoup the damage but I’m no amateur
Stashed the gold
Trashed the amethyst
Baby look, I’ve burned through all my bandages
And those baby picture books
What’s the problem
You said we’re living in the past I’m trying to solve it
Hit 120 and I’m just getting started

I know we’re good
You don’t have to tell me
I know we’re good


Nowhere Good

Lyrics:

If you need a place to cry
You can stay the night
But don’t let me find mascara on my sheets
If you really need to breathe
We can get a hotel and baby that
Safety deposit means nothing to me
But the bruises on my knuckles still here
And the holes in the all the walls are still there
Got the footage but the footings unclear
Whose foot is up there?
I’ve come down with a real bad sickness
I’ve got the spins and I’m calling women bitches
Doing donuts till we’re dizzy
Coffee colored hickeys
Don’t give a fuck about your best friend

Tell her we’re at the bed and breakfast
We’re at the bed and breakfast
Couple sundaes on the nightstand
Cherries on the bedspread
And no, it’s not a question
Bet your friends got friends too
Tell them we’re at the bed and breakfast

I threw a pillow
And now there’s all this glass
She walked across it
Barefoot and laughed
Smoke fills up the room
We almost crack a window
Imagine if it went though
Our bodies crushed in the hood of a rental
Baby what’s the matter?
Look at the ocean all around us
She said we’re only in a bathtub
At least she’s good with her surroundings
Laying on the bed face down
Towel on the floor but her hairs still wet
Answer the door with my pants unzipped
You didn’t tell me you had friends like this
Don’t worry bout a mess bitch

Sunlight again
My head is going crazy
She opens the fridge
To champagne me
Shh, we don’t want to wake ‘em
Quick, get your heels and your makeup
She said I’m sorry but my mom keeps texting
Tell her we’re at the bed and breakfast

Ben Hardy

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