Ocelot Robot's second album 'Etheldo' 
Released Sept 26, 2013

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Etheldo

Back To Buffalo

Every once-in-a-while
She gets this look in her eye
Like she’s got something dirty on her mind
She grabs up some clothes
Then where she goes surely god only knows

When she finally comes back
It’s like she’s on the attack
And she’s all done up her eyes painted black
We flirt like we’ve never met
Then jet off to bed and we’re set

You never know who she’s gonna be
Some lonely face you’ve never seen
You won’t find any better lover
When she goes undercover

I don’t know when it began
but I made it part of the plan
To let her come and go and come again
She found what it takes
Ain’t no mistake when she lets off the brakes

Anything that you believe is real
She can show you how good it can feel
But you gotta be sure that you got the right girl 
'Cause that’s the last thing she’ll reveal

You never know what you’re gonna get
Some lonely face you haven’t met
You won’t find any better lover
When she goes undercover


Undercover

Right about the time the streetlight came on
parked on the lawn threw away the keys

1987 fender’s busted, engine rusted
Tires down on their knees

Getting stared down by a blank wall
Another nightfall falling down around me

Lately it’s all the same old story

Gotta get away
So sick of standing still
Leaving here to say
Gonna find another thrill
To blow me away
Trade in a memory
For everything that you’ll never be

Everybody's hot in California 
I gotta warn ya you're never gonna want to leave

‘Cause all the stars got a scar to show you
After a drink or two, tucked up their sleeve

Everybody’s not what everybody says
Get into my bed and outta my dreams

Lately it’s all the same old story

Gotta get away
So sick of standing still
Leaving here to say
Gonna find another thrill
To blow me away
Trade in a memory
for everything that you’ll never be

You’ll never be the enemy, 
It never meant that much to me
Here is now and then is how
The first and last have come to pass

Getting stared down, by a blank wall
Another nightfall falling down around me

Gotta get away
So sick of standing still
Leaving here to say
Gonna find another thrill
To blow me away
Trade in a memory
For everything that you’ll never be


Lately

You'd be wrong a million times
But still you couldn't make it right
A perfect failure

I've been down a thousand roads
Not one of them was paved in gold
It burns into a blur

The look on your face says it all
Let’s get out of this place get you home and get you off

Laid you down in a dream
I woke up somewhere between
A broken success and a perfect failure
Laid you down in a dream
Caught somewhere between
A broken success and a perfect failure

All dressed up to drown our lives
In sophisticated alibis
Wait for your turn

You're a little mystery
Wrapped up in catastrophe
When will you learn

The look on your face says it all
Let’s get out of this place get you home and get you off

Laid you down in a dream
I woke up somewhere between
A broken success and a perfect failure
Laid you down in a dream
Caught somewhere between
A broken success and a perfect failure

Take whatever you need
Take anything from me
Would that make you believe
You're anything but perfect
But all i can see
Is a failure
You fail so perfectly

Laid you down in a dream
I woke up somewhere between
A broken success and a perfect failure
Laid you down in a dream
Caught somewhere between
A broken success and a perfect failure

Perfect Failure

Every time you look me up
Come through town and call my bluff
I fall in line can’t get enough
I need it one more time

Everytime we raise that glass
I drop my guard, clean up my act
Though I know that it won't last
I need it one more time

There’s nothing I won’t do
To spin your lies until they’re true

It’s easy to forget that you’re so
Easy to fall into
And how easily 
You make the truth so hard to believe
It’s easy to forgive
‘Cause you’re so easy on the lips
And the easier it gets
It gets so hard to believe

Every last word that you said
Is everywhere inside my head
And on the floor beside your bed
But it’s keeping me alive

Nothing ever pleases me
Quite like this catastrophe
But I can't change, I'll never leave
Ya it's keeping me alive

There’s nothing I won’t do
So baby here’s to being used

It’s easy to forget that you’re so
Easy to fall into
And how easily 
You make the truth so hard to believe
It’s easy to forgive
‘Cause you’re so easy on the lips
And the easier it gets
It gets so hard to believe


Hard To Believe

It doesn't matter doesn't matter what I really feel I think I think I know what’s best
It’s more important more important that I take the fall than give my own thoughts a rest
The agony that you don't see is the easy life thats killing me
I am only one piece of what you need

It’s already gone,
but you’re holding on 
Gotta Let go

All that matters if it matters when I try to feel Is I feel like it's all worth the mess
It's not important not important to do anything if anyone but you is impressed
The agony that I can see is it's the easy life thats killing me
I am only one piece of what you need

It’s the same old told-you-so I already know
Just another selfish lover loving out of control
You can't bury your blame without digging a hole
Take your demons and your virtues and line them up in a row

Told You So

A song we wrote for Mindy Kaling over at the Mindy Project

Perfect Failure

ocelotrobot

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