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While You Wait

Night Drive

Taken from the LP: "Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Think" - Released on March 23rd Worldwide


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Pedestrian At Best Available on 7" 16th March 2015 (pre-order link to Rough Trade)

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Clip by Charlie Ford @ http://www.charliefofo.com

PEDESTRIAN AT BEST was written by Courtney Barnett

I love you I hate you 
I’m on the fence it all depends 
whether I’m up I’m down 
I’m on the mend 
transcending all reality. 
I like you despise you admire you 
what are we gonna do 
when everything all falls through? 
I must confess I’ve made a mess 
of what should be a small success 
but I digress 
at least I’ve tried my very best I guess. 
This that the other 
why even bother, 
it won’t be with me on my death bed, 
but I’ll still be in your head.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

My internal monologue 
is saturated analogue, 
It’s scratched and drifting, 
I’ve become attached to the idea 
it’s all a shifting dream bitter sweet philosophy, 
I’ve got no idea how I even got here. 
I’m resentful 
I’m having an existential time crisis, 
what bliss, daylight savings won’t fix this mess. 
Underworked and oversexed 
I must express my disinterest, 
the rats are back inside my head 
what would Freud have said?

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

I wanna wash out my head with turpentine and cyanide,
I dislike this internal diatribe 
when I try to catch your eye 
I hate seeing you crying in the kitchen 
I don’t know why it affects me like this when you’re not even mine to consider.
Erroneous.
Harmonious.
I’m hardly sanctimonious.
Dirty clothes, I suppose, 
we all outgrow ourselves.
I’m a fake, 
I’m a phoney, 
I’m awake, 
I’m alone, 
I’m homely, 
I’m a Scorpio.

Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you. 
Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you. 
Give me all your money and I’ll make some origami, honey. 
I think you’re a joke but I don’t find you very funny.

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Pedestrian At Best

Judging others
Gets me nowhere
Judging others
Gets me nowhere

Judging you
Is not fair
Judging you
Is not fair

And so I must

Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief

Challenge, Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief

Judge thy self
Judge thy action
Judge thy heart
Create satisfaction

Handle with care
Forgive yourself
Handle with care
Forgive yourself

Forgive your heart
Forgive others
Forgive your heart
Forgive others

And so I must

Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief
Challenge, Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief
Challenge

Judge thy self
Judge thy actions
Judge my heart
Create satisfaction

And so I must

Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief
Challenge, Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief

Challenge
Judge thy self
Judge thy actions
Judge thy heart
Create satisfaction

Handle with care
Forgive yourself
Handle with care
Forgive yourself

Forgive your heart
Forgive, for give others
Forgive your heart
Forgive others

And so I must

Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief
Challenge, Challenge
Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief
Challenge, Challenge

Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief
Challenge, Challenge

Negative Thoughts
And save myself
From grief
Challenge, Challenge

Challenge Negative Thoughts

Strange Torpedo

Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)

Routines

Sun's Out

Everybody Works

Baybee

Somersault

Saint Ivy

Soft Sounds from Another Planet

Road Head

Sleeping With The Lights On

Sidelines

Mother of My Children

Soft Stud

Free Company

Get Well Soon

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