Matt Waterman - Screw Your Christmas Presents

feet are scraping by the water/ smell the smoke the sickly darkness/ you an ever kissing daughter/ energy i could not harness here or anywhere/ water vapor grips your ankles/ legs unshaven like a cactus/ we could let our lives untangle but it's going to take some practice/ backs against that dying lighthouse/ singing songs about each other/ looking down the barrel of another unforgiving summer/ i can't seem to get off that fence/ remembering the heads and the hearts you bent/ paying for a change that we underwent/ hoping for a moment that i'll never get/ and i know, and i know we're never gonna leave and come back alone/ hello grand haven/ drowning in the white-hot spotlights of our dead-end conversations/ always just an inch behind the peace of mind that i've been chasing/ worn out from the beer we smuggled/ hoping for some kind of breakthrough/ listening to your rebuttal to the promises i made you here or anywhere

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Grand Haven

Worn out from pulling weeds
Out from the cracks inside her skull
She's an important freak
She's tired of moving out
Every four months to somewhere worse
She takes another bite from the boy of the week

Joann

Your mouth is boarded up
Her body kinder and cleaner
Than you had ever imagined
The room is filling up
With high school heroes and thugs
You're not a fan but Joann is
Behind her perfumed skin
Pulls back one more mournful grin
Welcomes all the half-dead men and lukewarm gin
That help her redefine regret
And she ran from that house with a kiss on her neck
Smelled like an angel when you found her crying on the steps
Who would have guessed
Your heads on fire 'cause you're the only one left for Joann

Joann

Making the most of the violence
And the silence
And the streetlights crying on your car
And the fact that you're not drunk yet
And the one to one talk that you know you'll have on the way back to
your apartment
And the fact that you bought that movie she says she loves
And the drugs somebody gave her that make her think nobody cares
about her but you
Oh, poor Joann

Young fear lives in the air
The hormones float in your lungs
But her song's already been sung
And in the morning when she leaves to slam some sham with a
grand am
You watch the time you spent deflate
And pray to god that you could hate Joann

Joann

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Joann

Rewind, 1998
Played in the basement while your parents drank
February throwing light away
Upstairs I turned down the lamp
Played your CD's in your room and watched you and your sister dance
Second hand smoke coming down my throat and back up as I laugh

Back before we didn't take advice
Back before our spirits weren't so tender
You think I wouldn't remember

King and Queen
Feet in the grass heads in a back yard dream
The memory is wiped off clean

What I know for sure is that time turns all luck around and around
And it wore your parents out
Spent that night crying with your face in the couch
You gave those high school nights away like everybody does
To the people that you thought you wanted
And you wonder how your hollow heart got so haunted

King and Queen
Of places where we'd never want to be
The money spent at seventeen and on me
The memory is wiped off clean

Alcohol dried up your mother
Give that thought sunlight and water
Makes you wonder why you even bother
Watching TV getting high
Telling me how hard you tried
Making memories of barely getting by we are the

King and Queen
The ones who no one ever got to see
Just sitting 'round a rotted dream
Lean on me
The simple life can be so mean
The memory is wiped off clean

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King and Queen

Popping the veins in my neck I surrendered
Back to you
I think about it I mostly remember
Black and blue
Built up a life inside my head but took a look on the outside
And relived that sin
Since I'm too tired to listen in

You are a fist full or Ritalin taking my virginity
I vomit
I am the timid but upgraded version of me
I promise
The Sunday aftermath is begging me to fade out and slip by
inside a coward's skin

Yeah, you were naked
Just like you planned it
I know you hadn't planned on burning me out
But I just take it
I french inhale it
Breathe out a story of you bringing me down

Being alone is the meaning of freedom
Believe me
I only love those unable to see me in the end

The spirit of October took me over, hardened my inside
And that won't change again

Yeah, you were naked
Just like you planned it
I know you hadn't planned on burning me out
But I just take it
I french inhale it
Breathe out a story of you bringing me down

If I could find my own way out
I would have done it by now

I would have
Quit growing up
Just like you planned it
I know you hadn't planned on burning me out
But I just take it
I french inhale it
Breathe out a story of you bringing me down

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Popping Veins

if you're after him with no place left to hide/ come in, don't stop to wonder why/ such a lonely view but beautiful from here tonight/ come in, don't stop to wonder why/ i'm waking up and driving home with your head against my lap/ i never thought that you would know about my fingers on your back/ but if presented with his touch would you give me up/ well i know/ i'm pouring something beautiful down the front of your red dress/ i've got a boy for you to kill and a man for you to try/ i can feel it in your breath/ you'd have never guessed but i know/ if i left the porchlight on would you come undone/ well i know/ welcome back/ i knew that i had enough here waiting for you to make you crack/ are you listening/ body glistening/ i finally found you out/ nothing hurts, nothing happens when you've got your hands on/ the people you can still let go of after all that you've done/ i'm waking up and driving home with your head against my lap/ feels great to know that you'll always be coming back/ after everything is gone/ and you think you're done fooling everyone that i know

Come In

Decades are what happens when three kids who grew up on punk, ska, and metal discover the smooth music of the 70’s and 80’s, and the alternative radio rock of the 90’s. Band members Matthew Waterman, Damon Depew, and Isaac Sprague were all the lead singers, songwriters, and guitarists of their former bands - a metal band, a ska band, and a prog rock band, respectively. Though the band still embrace their roots, it was their mutual interest in the great pop songwriters and lyricists of the last 5 decades that formed Decades. While on one of their frequent tours, the band are likely to be caught unapologetically jamming Phil Collins, Fleetwood Mac, or Steely Dan with the windows down, or singing their guts out to Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Eat World, or The Gin Blossoms. And obviously, Rush (Rush are the best band ever). Decades don’t see their love of mainstream pop as being antithetical to their underground credibility, rather they combine these influences to craft smart but catchy pop tunes with punk/rock sensibility. Fast and loud enough to get your blood pumping, yet with an ear for melody and harmony that even jaded indie kids can dig, Decades are currently working hard to share their sound with new audiences across the country.

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