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No Sweat
03:35
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Books are falling off the shelf in the dead of night
And I don’t know why
I can’t get my head around
The unseen push, the secret slide
To the cold hard ground
No sweat, I’m gonna pick ‘em up
As the shadows reach me across the floor
Move among the unread words
Spilled out from pages ripped and torn
And it’s over It’s over
It’s over now
I keep waking up from dreams
But I don’t know how long they’ll let me
Half gone in a limbo
Pounding heart, but fast asleep extremities
Shaking out
Dig your fingernails into my hand
Before the walls come down
Picking up the pages scattered
Keep me off the cold hard ground
Til it’s over It’s over
It’s over now
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2. |
Still Life
04:06
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I've heard the chorus is gospel and verses the blues
But all that I'm hearing lately, I wish to refuse
Fragments spin out of order like some bullshit novel
Some days are good, every morning is awful
I lay there for hours awaiting relief
But it never comes before the sun through the leaves
So I walk to the park where I know I can see
That new purple light coming and let it envelop me
Envelop me
I keep falling in a hole, covered with leaves
Tripping on the same trap I just can't seem to beat
I'll say I'm gonna change and I'll start picking up my things
But I'm just lying to myself, I can't get out of bed on Sundays
I don't think there's any accidents
Even if I'm choking on it, I have no defense
No matter what I do and no matter what I think
There's nothing in the world for me or that I want to be
I want to be
I could try to paint a picture, like a basket of fruit
But this still life is trembling and I am following suit
All the noises surrounding this blanket I'm under
Was it the wind, or was it rolling thunder?
Oh, what if you met me for the first time today?
Would you bother with acquaintance? Would I seem ok?
How will you remember me when all's said and done?
Have you ever seen me at my best? Oh, has anyone?
Has anyone?
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3. |
Dumb Luck Easy Fear
03:40
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Cold to the touch
Asking for too much now
These days, these days
Down for the count
Pocketing steep amounts
Always, always
Bound to disorder and shaped in the night
Once it’s the new year, resolved and polite
It’s been a long time coming
A little part of this tune I’ve been humming
Slowly, slowly
A thicker coat in the wintertime
A little something to keep my mind from
Blowing, blowing
Bound to disorder and shaped in the night
Once it’s the new year, resolved and polite
Someday, someday
I’m up and out of the crater
An unreliable narrator
I’ll reappear, reappear
Artificial and paranoid
iphone pictures of polaroids
Just to make it clear, to prove we were here
Bound to disorder and shaped in the night
Once it’s the new year, resolved and polite
Someday, someday
A bruise, a scratch, a blackened match
A crystal glass tipped over
A spill, a fall, a feigned resolve
A stain the shape of a clover
Dumb luck
Easy fear
Year after year
Someday, someday
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4. |
Swan Dive
03:03
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Whatever promise you were thinking of
When we were strangers, it wasn’t enough
Looking out for a sign of life
Jumping in with an inelegant swan dive
I can’t speak it in a modern tongue
Electricity and degeneration
Flipping switches for days and days
But you’re bioluminescent always
I can’t dance, but I’ll take you out
I like walking the streets as much as hitting the town
So come with me
If you take me in, I could learn the ropes
We could tie them up and hope some things are real
Hope that some things are real
When our leaves start turning brown
Never falling we’re just spinning around and around
Staying dizzy til the end of the clocks
Frame us up in a shadowbox
One day if you’re feeling kind
Point out the peace sign skyline
In the alley of a tornado
We say goodbye and we say hello
I can’t dance, but I’ll take you out
I like walking the streets as much as hitting the town
So come with me
If you take me in, I could learn the ropes
We could tie them up and hope some things are real
Hope that some things are real
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5. |
Am I In Your Head?
03:58
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I've been looking out lately, irregular fit
With an open container, sidewalk-bound and moonlit
I hope that I see you again later on
Box of wine angling until it's gone
And it dwindles down
Am I in your head?
I've been losing it lately, politely unseen
Scared of the dark in blacked out windows hiding
From everything I wish would pull me in closer
Shrinking along with the aperture
But who am I to talk?
What am I to you?
Do you feel it too?
Am I in your head?
Am I in your head?
Glowing in the dark
Behind your eyes
Locked out of memory
Where am I hiding?
I'm out of my head
The self in the bathroom mirror gets farther away
Two hands palm to palm, never touching
The vertigo shot never stopping
As the condensation clears
Am I really here?
When I leave the room that's the end of me
Scatter into ether, along with old memory
If you can see me then that's all you need to know
I don't want to be in anyone's mind but my own
I don't like it there
I can't call it home
Who am I to you?
Do you feel it too?
Am I in your head?
If I'm in your head
Please let me out
From behind your eyes
Lock me out of memory
And I'll stay hiding
I'm out of my head
Don't you forget about me
You know all there is to know
Please don't forget about me
I don't want to be known
Don't you forget about me
You know all there is to know
Please don't forget about me
I don't want to know
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6. |
No Grace
01:28
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When you need
What you’ll never know
Wide eyed
In the mirror alone
Waking up to what you’ll never replace
No grace
All the love
And death we can’t unsee
The in-betweens
And similarities
We are high and dry and lonesome in a barren place
No grace
No grace
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7. |
In A Crowded Room (in D)
03:45
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It’s gold and gray on a Saturday
You can smell the fire burning across the way
Catch me here before I disappear
We can’t push it off, what’s coming
When the sun goes down and your head is sore
In a crowded room with no open door
Who can catch your eye when you’re looking away?
Who can feel you moving when there’s nothing to say?
When you’re crying til you’re laughing
Ha ha ha
What I came to be, we’ve seen already
The rocks are piling up to cover me
I could’ve lied on the flip side
But I welcome in what’s coming
When the sun goes down and your head is sore
In a crowded room with no open door
Who can catch your eye when you’re looking away?
Who can feel you moving when there’s nothing to say?
When you’re crying til you’re laughing
When the smoke clears and you breathe in
Oh my god
When the smoke clears
When the smoke clears
And you breathe in
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8. |
Grass Bracelet
03:28
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When we were alone we could have rushed into the skids
You made me a bracelet out of grass like we were kids
Left the sadness indoors, tried to keep what we’d begun
I screwed up my eyes in the direction of the sun
And it can beat, and it can burn, and it can hurt, you know, I can feel it
And when the grass gets pulled apart, and it will, I’ll still feel it
It’s here and it goes and it’s here and it goes
It’s here and it goes and it’s here and it goes
It never stays
Early morning brainbuzz, man I thought that I was dead
Take me to the exit, pull apart these tangled threads
They can keep me up nights, and I can try, but they still stay here
And I can thrash and submerge, and I will, but you still stay here
It’s here and it goes and it’s here and it goes
It’s here and it goes and it’s here and it goes
It never stays
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9. |
Copperhead
04:02
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I’ve had heroes walk ahead, but they’re not like me
I’ve heard encouraging words put together so sweetly
I listen up, I take it in
I turn around and take another on the chin
And I stayed in bed
Until the night returned
Then I sang of love
As if I never learned
As if I never learned
I’ve given all kinds of tips I should’ve taken instead
Quick strike, like a copperhead
I blend in, try to smile wide
Busting out of my skin, hidden on the roadside
And I cooled right down
When the night returned
Then I sang of love
As if I never learned
As if I never learned
And I gave my best
When the night returned
And I sang of love
As if I never learned
And I still keep my blood
Where it can’t be shown
And I sing of love, I spill it out
As if I’ll ever know
As if I’ll ever know
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Keep an eye on the time
I scribble hastily
Thought I could chase the highlights
I’ve been speed-reading poetry
Breathe in the dust
Some kind of midwestern malaise
If you walk in circles enough
You end up kicking rocks for days
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
Underneath the in-your-face, the tide, the undertow
You’ve always had a friend, you know?
You know
Every place that I go
There I am again
Jameson bottle green with envy
Convinced that it’s the end
I noticed you in a dream
No way you could’ve known
No balance keeping me from dangerously
Swaying at this broken basement microphone
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
I’m over me, I’m not pretending
Underneath the in-your-face, the tide, the undertow
You’ve always had a friend, you know?
You know
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11. |
Good Morning
04:56
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I wrote my name on a beam in the ceiling
I left it exposed when I left, like it’s healing
It seemed to be over like everything does
When you oversell closure the outcome is obvious
Nothing to gain, I felt dumb and abandoned
No evidence there but I imagined it handed
I’ve seen the tumbling from the lead dominoes Waiting in line like we’ve always been predisposed
I want to be back in the passenger seat
With the windows down gliding over hazy concrete
I want to hear what you sound like again
At the top of your lungs singing, eyes ahead and ready to begin
I will play, I will sing, and I’ll scream out because
We are young and they haven’t found anything wrong with us yet
We are young and they haven’t found anything wrong with us yet
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Uh Oh Omaha, Nebraska
ROCK AND ROLL FROM OMAHA, NE
Members:
Joe Champion - Guitar, Vocals
Mari Crisler - Guitar, Vocals
Erik Trent - Bass
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