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Currents

by Safeword

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1.
She left home the same year as me Land-locked girls from towns by the sea She didn’t know she was brilliant and pretty Now she’s on leave with a terminal disease People lose jobs and parents lose babies And I’m fixated on missing jewelry I believe, I believe, I believe but This feels like a lottery Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me I heard a story when I was a kid The plot always worked but the facts never did A bunch of teenagers took their beers and guitars To a cabin on an island in the middle of lake Charles One of them left an old tube amp plugged in The generator sparked and a fire started burning Everybody woke up and swam for their lives In the currents of unravelling lies Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me Ooh, I’m racking up a debt to society Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me I am afraid! Look at all the plans I've made One day it's a party, the next it's disaster I can't swim any faster Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me Ooh, I’m racking up a debt to society Ooh, Too much good, now the bad will find me
2.
Dirty fingernails Finger dollar bills Build your red hotels If you don’t somebody will Thrusting out your chin But it still looks weak And your silver spoon rattles In your mouth when you speak And you don’t know What it’s like to wonder If the currents at your feet Could drag you under You make them seek, but you don’t hide Because you need to be admired Every crumb you cast behind you Is another way to find you And when they come, torches in hand You might finally understand By the teeth marks on your glove They do not owe you their love Dirty fingernails Skimming from the top Choking on your teeth When the camera’s off A self-made boy With a Tonka truck Knocking down the walls So the stocks shoot up And you don’t know What it’s like to wonder If the currents at your feet Could drag you under You make them seek, but you don’t hide Because you need to be admired Every crumb you cast behind you Is another way to find you And when they come, torches in hand You might finally understand By the teethmarks on your glove They do not owe you their love We do not owe you our love
3.
Sunday Plans 03:00
It was a Sunday plan and those never stand Some things don’t stick where they land I went out to clear the snow on the steps And recite my regrets We went to a hotel in the city Watched TV and wallowed in self-pity But our misery is always relative There is no one I’d rather be miserable with I’m still making plans on a Sunday I let the chips fall wherever they may Everything else is going to hell anyway You said who needs a real job, I said not me I will gamble on income security There will always be work to do When the people are far between and few So a guy got his face rearranged in the park We just won’t walk home in the dark And when we feel like doing something good We can pick up the trash in the neighbourhood I’m still making plans on a Sunday I let the chips fall wherever they may Everything else is going to hell anyway I’m still making plans on a Sunday I let the chips fall wherever they may Everything else is going to hell anyway
4.
Don't Think 03:38
Picture yourself on a beach in the sun In a body that means nothing to anyone Hands so smooth that the sand slips right through You can't hold on even if you wanted to Every petty thought on a paper airplane A military airshow but nobody came A military breathing exercise in your bed But an army couldn't empty out your head Don't think, don't think If you think about swimming you'll sink And if you think about living, you'll die All you have to do is close your eyes Not falling in love, not chasing the light Just the gears and the grind of your boring old life Still you sweat in your sheets just like Springsteen said It's a freight train running through the middle of your head Don't think, don't think If you think about swimming you'll sink And if you think about living, you'll die All you have to do is close your eyes Don't think, don't think It's the easiest fucking thing Like goddamn! Wasn't I born sleeping? When did it get so hard to do? Can't go back if I wanted to
5.
Let me take the weight I can’t stand to watch you dragging it around Don’t underestimate How emptiness can weigh you down I don’t care what you did I don’t plan to haunt you with things you regret He don’t send you money for your kid It’s too bad he don’t want you, but it’s time to forget Tripping in your tracks You’re moving backwards Spinning on the attack You’re stuck in reverse You shouldn’t have to work to live Sell your time and body for the right to just not die That’s some advice for me to give From the porch swing of my leisurely life Tripping in your tracks You’re moving backwards Spinning on the attack You’re stuck in reverse If I were you I would bite and I would hiss and I would claw And I would howl until my throat was raw But I’ll never be like you And that’s why, that’s why, that’s why
6.
Sway 02:55
No strings, no telephone rings No balance owing, unless we’re talking money And you got none, honey No loans, no leans – only clean clean clean clean breaks No trace, no ghosts In the door frame They can’t stay, so don’t ask When the bedrock is an hourglass It seems like everybody else is growing wings Spreading out, seeing things I wish I could stay But if I move at all, I’m gonna sway, I’m gonna No lights in the rearview No looking at pictures of you, no keys jangling No limbs tangling Oh, hometown frozen in time Children for the rest of their lives Sharks stop moving They sink to the bottom Can’t stay, so don’t ask When the bedrock is an hourglass It seems like everybody else is growing wings Spreading out, seeing things I wish I could stay But if I move at all, I’m gonna sway It seems like everybody else is living a fantasy They got front-row tickets to everything It’s like they’re living this way to spite me I wish I could stay And if I move at all, I’m gonna sway Every city looks the same
7.
The first time I saw fireflies Walking down North Carolina Wiping jetlag from my eyes Failed American disguise Mary, Mary made of stone Daylight comes, the fireflies go History through a firehose In the shade that Mary throws And then it happened You read my mind And then it happened Wouldn’t be the last time Year that you were graduating Your roommates were dealing something Moving truck in the pouring rain To your parents’ basement again College town in public housing Felt I could do anything Every bud light you were slinging You were saving for a ring And then it happened You read my mind And then it happened Wouldn’t be the last time Yeah I guess If I’m being honest My mind’s an ink blot test You saw what you wanted And then it happened You read my mind And then it happened Wouldn’t be the last time
8.
Wild 02:56
On that first night Bathed in incandescent light The future stretched out infinite So bright they had to shield their eyes Administrative man Cleaving land from land from land In a hundred metre squares Tell yourself there was nothing there You gave the streets new names To simplify your game The desire lines are gone Who’s the wild one? Moth wings under glass Cleaving class from class from class The symmetry is relentless The self-satisfying sameness You see my life from the sky Totalizing inhuman eye You only see in one dimension Every hope is a transgression You gave the streets new names To simplify your game The desire lines are gone Who’s the wild one? There are roots underground Trees talk to each other when no human is around You have no one; you’re all alone Who is the wild one? You gave the streets new names To simplify your game The desire lines are gone Who’s the wild one?
9.
It’s okay I never really liked you anyway There was something about The shape of your mouth The way you burned in the sun I faked That’s not the move I really meant to make It’s not like before I won’t scratch on your door I’ll find another one If you don’t like it Meet me at the start and we can rewrite it If you don’t like it Meet me at the start and we can rewrite it I’m just fine I get second chances all the time And I did my best Committee was impressed I’ll be moving on I was tired Too predictable to be inspired I’m happier now As the structure comes down I like to be on fire If you don’t like it Meet me at the start and we can rewrite it If you don’t like it Meet me at the start and we can rewrite it If you don’t like it Meet me at the start and we can rewrite it If you don’t like it Meet me at the start and we can rewrite it
10.
I’ve had some time to think it over And I just don’t want to get any older I’ll sign on the dotted line You can have my brain when I lose my mind And the eyes that see my shadow getting shorter I – how hard I used to try! I am almost halfway through I don’t care like I used to Here comes the shoulder, van's flipping over Now you don't get to get any older Twenty-one, forever young I believed those breaths pumping through your lungs Sometimes things happen out of order I – how hard I used to try! I am almost halfway back to you And I don’t care like I used to I better throw my weight around Before I go back underground I know I should help Before I’m food for something else I – how hard I used to try I am almost halfway through And I don’t care like I used to

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released May 28, 2022

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