Elegance in Negligence
1. ELEGIAC presupposing there's a god would you raise his grace in the backyard extended instigation weighs the gates to unto us do hibernate here is a list of people who cried for jamaican foot abrasions soccer related without medication tear down a poster and set it on fire then as well you're blacklight courageous 2. BITTER HALF if love is the blues my better half come home to me as the moon to the tide i’ll open wild if you come home to me you left when you held a breath cheated the blues to death now i wait on wasted breaths i don’t know why my life is at sea carried far from me by the moon’s bitter tide i know that you wanted more but this is hell nothing more i know that you couldn't stay the blues just carried you away you're the better half of it but you don't know the half of it 3. SUNDAY MUSIC we should have got together on a monday night while everybody else was on a caffeine high passing out in the lap of the upper west side placing hand on ass in the slim slow slide a grand in diluted options no degrees the while away the hours across the peeping street i kept you in mind periphery monopolized smoking your way back inside a subtle indulgence occurring happenstance with no real permanence sunday isn't holy so let's just walk away won't get to falling out of a promless dress tonight none too convincing i'm done with all this mincing intent won't get to falling out of your fucking shirt tonight 4. AS WE SLEPT THROUGH THE WAR when you came to the casualties had emptied into our bed there was a fire when you came to the casualties had empathy for done and said before there was a storm there was a calm moment put the house to sleep and torch the sheets but we slept through it all we danced around circumstance as we danced around you we'll find elegance in negligence within the week as we slept on our ageing wrists they were ready to bloom i'm thirsty for answers of which i have none suburban kings we conquered i've drank all the poisons another woman's lips speaking the names of all a fool can put down there was a fire the acquainted ghosts we conjure then there was a flood we slept through the whole damn war before we finally woke up another woman's lips another woman's lips speaking the names of all the acquainted kings we conquered there was a fire another woman's lips then there was a storm another woman's lips there was a calm moment as we slept through the war 5. THE SOBER CHOIR i was going to sink the fleet until you brought me to my knees oh honey please let me sleep on it we three vied for your affection in light of every other guy now i'm only the victor who didn't move abroad or die across your flesh of guilt & wills just a fever for a sick week off your cutting block to the gallows for the laughing stock he's an actor out in belfast down on george street well according to the script honey surprise me sunday come lift me up & i’m alone well according to the script still capture of a car ride honey baby that's alright all conversational dialogue portrayed in voiceover he's a fakist chatting fences in his boardroom annotated by the drips to sink beneath the sea of drink of lost maps in all directions 6. AMY GRANT'S TOMB some men dream of hollow schemes then they dream of walking away i pray against the night & dream against the morning i don’t mind waiting here for a long time i don’t mind at all some angels bind their captives across a dirty floor my angel laughs because she’s found what she’s been looking for i don’t mind waiting here for a long time if i can’t fall asleep beneath your sleepy company i won’t fall asleep at all if i can’t fall asleep between lovers & enemies i won’t fall asleep at all have you seen your mother baby she does the most amazing parlor tricks available for rental commercial blinding and rates unfixed if i can’t fall asleep beneath your sleepy company i won’t fall asleep at all if i can’t fall asleep between lovers & enemies i won’t fall asleep at all 7. SHOTGUN FUNERAL baby when do i get to take my place in the armies of her majesty among the lines across your face i miss the nights that held us tight and the days that drew me in i spent my fortunes long before my eyes met your face baby where did you think that this was heading when we spent the whole night talking about funerals and weddings the stars have made it hard for us to believe a word i'm saying i said my vows long before i ever had your blessing 8. GHOSTS OF TWO long nights i betrayed my teachers the ghosts of our longing have left us behind i warned you across the ocean under the knife of our little life i speak till my mouth hurts and your eyes are wild i sing when my teeth ache and that's all the time i warned you but you wouldn't listen the ghosts of our love are not hanging around we're more than sick patients across an ocean still stitching the past for an explanation you were so right when you said i had no right to confess you were so right when you said i fucked it up and left it a mess you were so right 9. TANNIS ROOT DOWN demons in your locket find a hole i'll take eye socket there's an upshot to this racket goddamnit i forgot it william castle in the sand melts into your pocket couple assholes finance and so why would you kick the habit this is no dream this is really happening down stroking their penance whitened blues to soothe red menace average quarantine elbow tetanus 'gainst ivan drago and vengeance robert evans has a plan to corner the beef market couple ingénues advance why scam the willing public this is no dream 10. WHERE THE $$ SPENDS workin' false pfizer windfall blues behind a faux armoire to cure the sick and lame i know which way the money goes i know which way the body folds i know every where you’re taking me i know how things will always be all right all rise i know which bed is safe to tame i know which lie could bring the end i know where the money spends i know every thought that’s in your head i know we've withdrawn time balanced and best spent i know we've near tapped out the will to bend the bed behind a halloween mask under a different name with a fake passport misdirecting from whence you came
all songs written by david berkovits & scott homiak additional personnel: valentina meytina vince miezejewski thomas shelley alisha westerman mixed & mastered by james dellatacoma artwork by thomas shelley
