A couple finds a safe place to raise their son and take up jobs at the SuperMax prison in their backyard. 

SuperMax

11 Sweater

01 Magic Dollar Shoppe

01 Revolutionaries

09 Weather Undergroung Goodbye

01 Good Morning Torturers!

08 Onomanakanamana

07 Observatory

From the iBook by The Size Queens featuring songs from "To The Country" with original, accompanying writings by Joy Williams; J. Robert Lennon; Maria Bustillos; Brian Evenson; Lynne Tillman; Rick Moody; Rae Bryant; Jim Shepard; Melanie Rae Thon; and Paul Kingsnorth. All songs by Adam Klein and Michael Mullen. iBook concept by Chuck Mobley and Adam Klein. Design by Chuck Mobley. 

Country Back

05 Shine Your Light

STANDING AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRWELL
Standing at the top of the stairwell
Laughing with my friends, laughing with my friends
Standing at the top of the stairwell
Laughing never ends, even when it should

All of you with all of me
We’ll hang together
Or we’ll disappear
Whenever we please

You’re still standing there on broken heels
You’ve been tossed out of those automobiles
Carrying a cracked compact mirror
And some stolen Maybelline
Who’s gonna believe you’re a woman?
Anyone who needs to
Anybody desperate at the end of the night
We collected what we earned
Forgot what we learned
And we all met up at the top

Standing at the top of the stairwell
Laughing ourselves to death
Falling down and crawling our way back up
Laughing at hell
But feeling like we just got over on everyone
We could have stolen the streetlights
We could have shattered the city and worn it on our fingers
The city feels like plunder
We got over
Until we got under

Standing at the top of the stairwell
Laughing with my friends
And it feels right to need everyone every night
Feels like that attention isn’t even worth the mention
I like that picture you took of me with my front tooth out
And I’m still smiling
Underneath the 222
That’s a bar that we went to
When we couldn’t pay the rent
When the money was all spent
We always thought we had what we needed
But we didn’t

Standing at the top of the stairwell
I can still you hear laughing
I remember you wore a suitcase on your head
Some soft floppy thing
You dragged yourself to my door
And kept your finger on the ringer
And then two years later
You were dying alone
I remember what you were
That joke that you made
And then two years later

Standing on the top of the stairwell
I don’t even have the key
But hell don’t worry about me
Nobody takes out the trash or mops these floors
No one’s here any more
The roof’s been pried off
The building’s condemned
The doors are all sprayed
With our old drag names
But I remember you Jane
And Rhona
But things have changed
You don’t get over when you get older

You don’t get over when you get older
You don’t get over when you get older
You don’t get over when you get older
You don’t get over when you get older
You don’t get older
You don’t get older
You don’t get older

All of you with all of me
We’ll hang together 
Or we’ll disappear
Whenever we please

Adam Klein: Vocals
Michael Mullen: Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals
Mike Carnahan: Bass
Nicole Brodsky: Guitar
Tim Mooney: Drums, Guitar, Tambourine


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