Skulls

I wonder if right
Before I should die 
I’ll lie back and see a look in your eyes
That look in your eyes
Like blackbirds in flight
Aiming for something on which to alight

& how, looking at you
Nocturnal & blue
I’d tell any lonely soul what I knew
But just what I knew
(Be brave, be true)
That blackbirds don’t aim to make ledges feel used

But use them, they must!
Of course it’s not just -
But I learned long ago that tears don’t wash off rust 
You just get more rust
(All lust ends up dust)
And all blackbirds know is fly on and no fuss

Blackbirds (Instrumental)

Unravel instrumental (Björk cover)

They all say "stay away from him," but i can't help myself

I Will Die His

All Broken Hearts

A little taste of the demo for “No 1 Crush”

I’m so tired lately 
Dusk and dawn they chase me
Little imps that bite my heels, limp limping now, i come to rest

& I been seein lately
No one gonna save me
But saving someone oh! it’s overrated 
Bent beneath old debts

No 1 Crush

Oh, “To bed,” he said 
(I almost got that shit tattooed on me)
At night we’d fight, he flew so high, he didn’t care
So my skin stayed bare 

(But he said)

“Oh if you’re gonna leave me then get out
But you knew I’d follow, I said I’d follow you
Oh, kid you knew by now
My baby I’m crazy, you made me crazy for you”

Oh...
Oh...

I got tired living in his bed
(Guess he got tired living around me, he chased death instead)
Sometimes I’d hear my songs for him
Tattooed in my head 
I said “go on, get out, or I’m leaving” 

(And he said)

“Oh if you’re gonna leave me then get out
But you knew I’d follow, I said I’d follow you
Oh, kid you knew by now
My baby I’m crazy, you made me crazy for you”

Oh and he said...

“Oh, if you’re gonna leave me then get out
But I said I’d follow, I said I’d follow you
Oh, kid you gotta know by now
My baby I’m crazy, you knew im crazy for you”

Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Oh....

Crazy 4 U (live rehearsal track)

EVERY DAMN NIGHT

Sun goes down you come up
Strike a match and light me up
Lock the door bang like guns
Chase a doom that’s yet to come

Dont exist in these streets
We live in these dirty sheets
Howl so loud just as well
Ceilings need them busted bells

Every damn night i screw a ghost
It’s all right, im fine, cause nothin shows
Every damn night i screw a ghost
It’s all right, im fine, because no one knows

Bruises fade beautifully 
Scratches don’t last long on me
Wake up gold, skin shinin
He dont notice anything... you 

Every damn night i screw a ghost
It’s all right im fine cause nothin shows
Every damn night i screw a ghost
It’s all right im fine because no one knows

If only the Devil would stop handing me his number
If only my man smelled enough to stop and wonder
If only the Devil would stop handing out my number
If only my man knew how thin i spread out under...

Every damn night i screw a ghost
It’s all right im fine cause nothin shows
Every damn night i screw a ghost
It’s all right im fine because no one knows
Every damn night
Every damn night
Every damn night
Every damn night i screw a ghost

Every Damn Night (live rehearsal track)

Don’t go darlin 
Come fall right back down next to me 

Don’t go darlin 
I’m’a be that boy you keep 

You go 
I keep 
Your hands on me 
High, low
Dream-thing
Just keep those hands on me

Don’t go darlin
Don’t you forget those words I said 

Don’t go darlin
In your arms all hurt falls dead 

You go 
I keep 
Your hands on me 
High, low
Dream-thing
Just keep those hands on me

Don’t go darlin 
I finally get this noise called Spring

I finally get what my heart was screaming

You go 
I keep 
Your hands on me 
High, low
Dream-thing
Just keep those hands on me

Hands (live rehearsal track)

I ain’t never been one to marry my bed
But I bet I’ll be the one to climb in his head 
Don’t wanna hear about it, Daddy!
Ima just do what you said not to instead 

Gonna put on his leather, gonna get skintight 
Gonna reap what I sow from his seed tonight
Don’t wanna hear about it, daddy!
Everybody already knows how I go, you’re right 

And I don’t care 
In the dark, you ain’t there 
I don’t care
Cause I get hot when he stares 
Hot when he stares

You say Hell’s hot too, well I’ll be goddammed 
You say I used to be so sweet, what a god damn drag
Don’t wanna hear about it, Daddy!
Oh cause that son of a bitch melts in my hands 

And I don’t care 
In the dark, you ain’t there 
I don’t care
Cause I get hot when he stares 
Hot when he stares

I go 
Go hot 
Hot when he stares 
I go 
Go hot 
Hot when he stares 
I go 
Go hot 
Hot when he stares 
I go
Go hot 
Hot when he stares

And I don’t care 
In the dark, you ain’t there 
I don’t care
Cause I get hot when he stares 
Hot when he stares

Hot when he stares 
I get hot when he stares 
I get hot when he stares

Hot (live rehearsal track)

Oh I came seeking sparks
In my dirty clothes 
Close to an ocean 
Close to your ocean 

Not knowing how dark or deep oceans go
I came a-wantin’, wantin’, wanting to go

Ten thousand miles higher 
Than your heart would go
(This I know)
I knew you from before 

“Teach him to swim,” they all say, “before he drowns...”
They just tread water under me as I plummet back down 
Can’t say how high we got 
I floated
I sank
& he kickstarts my heart, oh

Teach me to swim 
Teach me to swim 
Teach me to live, oh
Teach me to live 

Always like this 
From the very start 
Down in the city, 
I’d go to your city 

I’d start to go then you’d sew waxen-gold 
Wings to my shoulders, so cold, they took such strong hold... 

Oh they’d carry me back to San Francisco-
Then melt when you told - oh I know you told them! - to keep me close... 

Oh and I had so many things to show you 
And I had hoped you had things to show me too
Do you think you’ll ever leave that small room?
Get out, stand up, fly close to the sun, with someone trying to say
That he could love you...?

“Well, teach him to swim,” they all say, “before he drowns...”
They just tread water under me as I plummet back down, oh
Can’t say how high we got 
I floated
I sank
& he kickstarts my heart, oh

Teach me to swim 
Teach me to swim 
Teach me to live, oh
Teach me to live
Teach me to swim 
Teach me to swim 
Teach me to live, oh
Teach me to live

Icarus (live rehearsal track)

Now I'm hearin lately baby I could die young 
But if I gotta go that way darlin I guess I wanna go in love

If rivers ran backward
I'd run fast, I'd run far

Been awhile since I clutched Heaven oh I could've flown free
But oh his hands, they held Hell - so I let him burn me 

A fever was my fall 
But a fever gets us all 

One day we'll just be skulls
We'll be the reason they tell stories 
They'll know when they touch our bones 

I been thinking lately baby I'd cross a world to find you 
Cause you say you been wandering, wanting to see where it is I run to

Do shadows spell love...?
Do shadows spell us...?!

One day we'll just be skulls
We'll be the reason they tell stories 
They'll know when they touch our bones

Trains called
You came
I called your name in wonder...!
Trains called
You came 
Won't be 
Told I 
That I’m something wrong, oh I feel all right 
In your arms boy, I don't fear death, don't fear night -

One day we'll just be skulls
We'll be the reason they tell stories 
They'll know when they touch our bones
All we're gonna be is skulls, my darling 
We'll be the reason they tell stories 
They'll know when they touch our bones 

One day we'll just be skulls
One day we'll just be skulls 
One day we'll just be skulls

Skulls (live rehearsal track)

Come back to me
Pull your shirt of me
Wanna smell like we
Always smell when we e e e

Where Are You Going

I’VE SEEN THINGS
Slummin in a neon wilderness 
I dream awake, can’t get no rest 
From you 
What those hands do 

Had men like you before 
Still I cross the street to your door
And I 
I hope you eat me alive 

Come take me now
Come to me

But if it was your dream
To clip a virgins wings
Honey I’ve seen things
I’ve seen things

And it’s a world made for dogs that bite
And i’m nothin but bones, i’m starved, you’re right
But I’m out
Where are you tonight?...

Come take me home
Come to me 

But if it was your dream
To clip a virgins wings
Honey I’ve seen things
I’ve seen ...

Seen women bent over in pain 
Sailors open their mouths for the rain 
Sated by nothin save for when god weeps
These men out here tryin to take me down 
With sex and with needles, with punches and howls
So what? It shows, oh I don’t care 
Come to me now 

Come take me down 

But if it was your dream
To clip a virgins wings
Honey I’ve seen things
I’ve seen things 
And I know what it’s like to be 
A hostage when he holds me 
Baby I’ve seen things
I’ve seen things 

I’ve seen things 
I’ve seen things 

Come to me now
Come lay me down

I’ve Seen Things

EDDIE PROBLEM is the project started by Sacramento-native Edward Nelson.

As of now the tracks posted will be primarily live takes of rehearsals or demos.

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