1. |
Atrocities
03:22
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It’s late, too late for me to be awake, but my vaca state stays steady
And though I hate to related to a convoluted place in this case it’s Californ-i-a
‘Cause they know how to glimmer in the lime light
But I’m told they’re all alike
Oh oh ohh
Garish, golden hot, no molten
Sought by those who love atrocious things
Namely me
Cheapened by religious bigots
Twins and triplet bought in quantity
A shining star of irresponsibility
Ohhh what a lovely plight
Such a selfish sight to see, debauchery
All packaged up and priced
Nice to own the rights you see, speaking monetarily
They sell the biggest, bestest, most salacious
bloated in a corpse of tasteless scenes
And families
Hitting every target marketing departments’ got this lock and key
And everybody’s tryin’ to Wieden Kennedy
It’s a dog and pony tryptic
The tease and trite and taunt
Repetitious if you missed it
Something’s always on so
Succumb to incomes, the wisdom of sums
Yes what money makes
Has no mistake
And regulates
Our human nature
Ohhh what a lovely plight
Such a selfish sight to see, debauchery
All packaged up and priced
Nice to own the rights you see, speaking monetarily
Pirate it or press your buttons
Piously corrupt
Makes the perfect
Prerecorded
Plaster cast
And well exported
Old deported-
-ly important
Press in plague proportion
Incapaci-
-tated pasts
Explained from one presumption
But l'm prolly old
Just pissin' prose
So pardon me
I'm sleep
De-
-praved
‘Cause it’s late
Too late
For me to be awake
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2. |
Mind Bells
03:05
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I bash my head against the concrete ‘cause it’s as soft as anything that’s held my mind incessantly this week.
I wring my hands until they’re flaking. They’re dry. They’re cracked. They’re suffering just like my lips when opening to speak.
I gnaw my fingers down to nubs and beg for the infection ‘cause bleeding’s not enough; I need the pus.
I consider such disgust a daily affirmation that everything I love will soon corrupt.
(Chorus)
Mind mind
Ego away
Id you can stay if you’re kind, fine
Mind mind
Maybe you’ll break or
I’ll change you in time
I haven’t medicated lately ‘cause side effects are usually excuses for my faculties to leak,
But when I took the drugs they gave me, they made me high and seizury which I can be illegally I think.
Now talking’s just a crutch and pills are for addiction, but either way it sucks to give it up, but I’ve already said too much.
I’ll stick with my conviction that everything I love was nothing that I wanted to discuss
(Chorus)(x2)
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3. |
I Is O Are
05:09
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I come from a family of singers and songers that linger a little bit longer than anyone else
My bones, made of choruses, from every orifice flow all the stories, they’re always about myself
I’s complicated at best
I’s a mess
I’s a tragedy all on it’s own
I’ve been wheeling and dealing for rest
I digress
But I never quite leaves me alone
I makes me go Van Gogh
Go Poe
(Chorus)
I is superstition, religion, ambition, compulsion, compulsion, compulsion
The center of suspension, invention, and questioning
I won’t be played or made for a fool
My teeth are gnashed smooth.
Go on, look for nooks and crannies, betcha you won’t find too many, no
And my heart beats ooo too cool.
Sure, I’ve had love aplenty, but it’s all so arbitrary ‘cause
I’s too marvelous for words, but hideous in turn to me
And internally I curse its grasp
All hips and tits and casualties
But for all we’ve sown well makes me go D’Onofrio
Go Poe
(Chorus)x2
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4. |
Sassyfrass
02:40
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Perhaps my way of thinking is confused or indirect, I’ve been accused of things I never thought to try
They taint my name and cellophane the punctuational remains; their explanation point obtuse and dry
It’s hard to understand me when I kick and when I scream, but you’re mistake if you think it leaves me spent
After taking all my anger, all my sorrowed suffering, you left my blissful blubbering to pay the rent
But it can’t
Argue all you want you know it can’t
(Chorus)
So, I’ll be in ambiguous places
Where the tortoise loses the race
Where the blankets cover the space heaters
Every athlete throws every game
Rugged boys have feminine names
Pools of salt and buckets of shame to spare
If you need me (I’m there)
If ever I have fought a fight that failed in my wake, I’ll be the first to claim mistakes and say I’m wrong
But lately I’ve been braving fates I rarely undertake to reinstate the hate that keeps me hangin’ on
Now, I know that you still love me when I kick and when I scream, but you’re mistaken if you think I love you back
After harboring my illness, after spreading my disease, it’s such a pity you can’t reason out the facts
And relax
Take a pill and chill out and relax
(Chorus)
So, treat me rough and inhumane
‘Cause what good is love when restrained
Call me cold; call me unjust; call me just insane
But how could I have warned you
That I could not conform to
The love that you swore to obtain
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5. |
Gentlemæn
02:58
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Skittish, elusive, it’s a fact
They hide their trail so well it makes them hard to track, but
Look for signs that I should know
For I have hurt at least 3 or so
It doesn’t mean they were never here
They just have a tendency to disappear
The door’s always open, I made it warm for you
And I’ve even drawn the curtains despite the beautiful view
So tell me I’m pretty, I’m all the things you like
Charming and witty and I’ll smile to be polite, but
Gentlemen, you know it’s all for show
I need in me an animal
It doesn’t mean I don’t want you near
Your company is trite, but it’s so sincere
The door’s always open, I made it warm for you
And I’ve even drawn the curtains despite the beautiful view
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6. |
My Argument
04:32
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My age is a factor is folly
My fears are retracting once more
The numb of a cum is exactly what I’m tasking for
So I’ll go for a ride in your cadi
Your grubby hands mauling my skull
It’s just what we’re left with and sadly it’s intentional
You ask why I run this way
But not where I’m going
And you’re sure that I’m playing safe
With no way of knowing
You turn for a double take
And I seem to be glowing
I’ll return after several days
Though I’m no longer showing
Seduction, a past-time, a hobby
That’s been soothing the sores of my soul
How can one that’s behaving so badly be so wonderful
Well there’s cracks in the sides of my story
That’ll burst if you search for the core
No, I’ll never be settled or sorry, but I’ll give you more
And you ask why I run this way
But not where I’m headed
And you wish you knew what to say
Oh, but it’s all so upsetting
While you preach of a better place
I bawk ‘neath the bedding
Well, who’s asking you anyways
I’ll talk when I’m, when I’m ready
For my shoulders are colder than normal
My back is embracing the fall
My argument’s over and over I guess that’s all
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7. |
Dangaqueous
02:21
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On the banks
Of the river
Lived a young
Orphan maid
She had swore
To her mother
They’d rejoin
One Day
So she let the waves overtake her
She let them wash her away
Oh the banks
Of the river
Oh that young
Orphan maid
Now, there’s a camp
On the shoreline
It’s a fam-
-Ily of five
The don’t va-
-Cation often
But the stars had aligned
Oh they want to play in the ocean
While ignoring the rip tide warning sign
Oh the camp
On the shoreline
Oh that family of fi-ei-ei-ei-ive
There’s a ship in the water
It was downed by the rain
All the sea-lively creatures
Saw to seamen’s decay
But the hull holds a secret
That remains to this day
Oh the ship in the water
And the treasures contained
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8. |
What You Don't Say
03:07
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I’m living the life of a lion
I’m living the life of a queen
When I come on distressed
I offer my breast
Within hours I’m dying to leave
I married the mouth of the mountain
And buried it deep in the sea
So hunters, come gather
Come plunder my blabber
Just to find that my mind is a tease
(Chorus)
For who entertains entertainers
And who gets busy pulling the weeds
Well, my cup, runneth over
I’ve created a monster
That’s tragically easy to please
I’m hinting at nothing
I’m blatantly bluffing
I’m skirting the issues around
I’m playing with fire
Inside your desire
And casually burning it down
You’re practically begging for
Answers in metaphors
You couldn’t make on your own
So, I’ll keep on pretending
That I’ve read the ending
So you can feel partially whole
(Chorus)
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9. |
In Significance
03:59
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Revel in the evolution sitting at your doorstep
Waiting to be opened
Addressed from everywhere
Life and death in increments emerge from ‘neath the wrapping
Releasing and retrapping
The beasts behind your stare
As a child I learned to file my talents into grouping
For challenges and musings
Depending on the need
But my constructs have been abruptly damaged through the ages
And something very strange has surfaced recently
That I ain’t the common folk
I ain’t a soldier
I ain’t that rum and coke that kept you from your sober
I ain’t a debutant
I ain’t a sucker
I ain’t a dime a dozen, a motherfuckers motherfucker
I smoke my cigarettes with vigor
Make a sinner of a singer
Sell my salary for calories to control what I can
‘Cause it’s been overdue and far too long
Since flaws have given pause to man
It’s the same most everyday you walk upon the water
The magma and the lava
Insisting that you’re fine
Breathing air that’s always there you calculate your value
Based on those around you
And rules that you’ve contrived
But I set to redirect
I set to tossel
I set to intersect your demons with the gospel
I set to disconnect
From set corrections
I set to interject your sermon of perfection
While I gurgitate my innards
I would urge you to consider
All the logic in the positive, the morose, and the mad
‘Cause it’s been overdue and far too long
Since flaws have given pause to man
I get sicker
While you get safer
I set the tone
But you’re the echo
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10. |
Fulcrum
03:55
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I don’t get your illicit affair with splitting the hair of the dog ‘til it’s bare
And I don’t believe in the meaning of fair, it seems so terribly easy to tear
And repair
Into your own definition
But compared
Mine’s pure devastation
‘Cause ‘X’ is the weapon for every herd, but balance
That’s the powerful word
I don’t know if either is worse, be blessed or be cursed where the chest is concerned
But I’ve heard of girls whose surgeries earned them the bruise of the battered, the broken, the burned
What a shame
She had such potential
Now who’s to blame
The mother or the Motrin
‘Cause ‘X’ is the cure-all for every herd, but balance
Baby, that’s the powerful word
I don’t care if you’re fiscally sore, if your clothes have been worn by so many before
If the money you hold’s from a high interest loan that you won’t pay in full ‘til your kids are adults
Those dimes
They shine by the dozen
But your smile
Is one in a million
‘Cause ‘X’ is the dollar for every herd, but balance
Baby, that’s the powerful word
Yeah
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11. |
Hugbutter
04:17
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Embracing
Sends my heart a-flutter
Racing
Into scenes I’ve never been before, that’s for sure
Engaging
In your arms is quite disgracing
Too the boys who had to come before, that’s for sure
With your pursed lips beggin’ for a kiss kiss makes me feel a swoon comin’ on
Better catch me ‘cause I’m feelin’ lightly headed and the room’s spinnin’ ’round
(Chorus)
I never knew x3
That I could be so girly
You really threw x3
Me for a loop
I thought I’d do just what i do, but then you sent me whirlin’
I thought you were too good to be really true
You should have told me told me baby honey
Now baby
I’ve been needin’ you to
Save me
From the men who barrel down my door, that’s for sure
See ‘cause safety
Dwells within your arms
And lately
I’ve been feelin’ like I need su’more, that’s for sure
With your smooth touch givin’ me a head rush and leavin’ me in a weightless state
Boy you’re much too much, a sick and cruel injustice and it’s more than I can take
(Chorus)
Should I pretend that it doesn’t matter that you love me better than another lover would?
Could I pretend that my head’s in the game?
(Chorus)x2
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12. |
Free Bird
03:37
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Someone wrote a quote I heard of a quiet bird in remote parts of the world
His song is the longest song for it never starts, he just strings you right along
Men travel overseas
They topple ancient trees
They risk unknown disease
Just to render what they’ll never see
It’s said that with plumage spread it looks brown and red and it’s legs are aubrigine
But then others say it’s skinny with hints of tinny around its beak and feet
I’ve heard outrageous tales
Of monsters, spooks and whales
Of love and happiness
Without a shred of evidence
Hold on what’s that sound
Pooled pasts, run afoul
But it takes one to know one well
And I can tell that you’ve been apprehensive
Acting out your own defenses
How absurd
To catch a bird
Half-hardened and mostly bartered away, your heart is decaying rapidly
Here’s hopin’ your eyes take focus, you finally notice you’re in good company
I don’t know if you need
To push or just recede
To understand the breed
Of vibrant, silent, free aves
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13. |
Her Death
04:04
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I went to the movies
A multi-feature show
A reincarnate fest
She was every options’ plot
She
The cunt I can’t forgot
She
The cast, the caustic banshee
I sat alone distracted
i brought my knitting, ‘cause I knew I’d have the time
She was man and woman
crime and column
Sage and Bedlam
She was easy to predict
Though I stayed for ages
Lightly glancing at the stage
The part I always watched was
The part I always watched was her death
I went to a movie
A gaian fantasy
A bit too close to home
She was raised on death and pus
She
Much luckier in love
She
And pondering a family
I sat and stared beside me
I squinted harder just to grip the fading scenes
She planned games to play
Things to make
And names
‘Til the doctor entered left
Though I begged; though I pleaded
But she finally found the one
The only part I watched was
The only part I watched was her death
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Grey for Days Portland, Oregon
Grey for Days lyrically gurgitates emotion while flirting with the rules of music and performance. Composed of 6 members, Grey have a sound that has been compared to everything from Adele to Dresden Dolls. With layers foggy brass, voluptuous keys, alchemic rhythms, smoove bass, and smoky vocals, their music refracts thoughtful chaos. Their captivated audiences can’t help, but to be seduced. ... more
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