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THE THREAT OF JOY
RELEASE COMING SOON!!! recorded the fall 2007
Songs:
- Carefree (download mp3)
- Animal Management
- Electric Blues
- Midway Sunset (download mp3)
- Rookie Is Tight
- Shake Your Skeleton (download mp3)
- Staying Here
- Can't Keep Running
- Women, Why Do They Party All The Time?
- No Fires
JAMMING IN THE SCENE
Debut song EP on Make or Break Records, released 2006.
Songs:
- Idling (download mp3)
- Shithater
- Old Country
- Elserwhere Beers
- Somebody, Someone (download mp3)
Lyrics
IDLING | OLD COUNTRY | SHITHATER | SOMEBODY, SOMEONE | I CAN'T KEEP RUNNING | WOMEN - WHY DO THEY PARTY ALL THE TIME? | MIDWAY SUNSET | NO FIRES | ELECTRIC BLUES | ANIMAL MANAGEMENT
IDLING
Where's that springtime turnaround
Where's that summer explosion
I feel that autumn breeze
My face is red my hands are cold
Where we gonna be tonight
And how do we get there?
I feel so good about it
Come from a town south of here
Come from outside of the city
Come from a place with a phone and a bank
And some other shit baby
Where we gonna be tonight
And how do we get there?
I feel so good about it
idling (x3)
Roll out on the Ryan
Stop to pick up Adam Saint
I could've bought a bicycle
With the money I put in the tank
Packed into a family van
Parked outside the party
Got the Minutemen playing so loud
Serious fun is coming
Packed into a family van
Parked outside the party
Come on man this is the scene
And they don't know it
OLD COUNTRY
We're 20 miles from all old haunts
When getting better is all we wanted
You were born in smoke and dust
And I was born to cover it up
Something was calling I was
Shut down
Were we wasted?
Shut down
Listen close
You can hear em laughing in harmony
At the sound of those old violent nights
At the sound of those old civil rights
But it's home
It's been so long
Who remembers what changed?
Little picture decades are all that remain
History speaks
But no one's talking
How alone were we born to walk?
I can't remember
SHITHATER
Monday
On a train headed down down down
To the center of the earth
Till 5 maybe 6, I wanna do something that I'll regret
Regret (x3)
Tuesday
We were out at the bar last night
Saw a band that made us want to practice
A little less sleep's nothing I'll regret
Regret (x3)
Everyone meets in the conference room
No one's gonna get done soon
This aint no trading post
This is downtown man but I didn't know
Isn't it hard enough without trying to be something you can't be?
Well this isn't your ordinary fucked up no good bad idea
Winday
This could be its own reward
This could be a fucking mess
Well I'm comfortable learning lessons
Regret (x3)
I feel like I wanna sigh
I've lost all my mirth
About a year and what was it worth?
No sight of old highways
No thoughts of good old days
I think it was Turner who said
A clean slate is a kind of redemption
When something is gone, baby, you can't hang back and keep it on file
Memory comes in handy in certain places once in a while
Standing on the edge
Jamming in the scene
Polling all your friends
This ain't no kind of end
SOMEBODY, SOMEONE
Weekend baby
Well I've had one of these before
The band's all right
It was a good show man
I got this feeling it's like
Death is imminent
And I aint got no family line
See that scene?
Hear that sound?
That's what you get for hanging around
Don't run away
I just wanna talk
About any old thing to
Somebody, Someone
Somebody, Someone
Some death vibe creeping in to this local bar
Snatch the words right out of my mouth, make me think too hard
I don't dance
But I got up and turned it out
I wanna drink
I wanna drink from someone's mouth
I CAN'T KEEP RUNNING
I said I'd be there
Whenever you needed me
When it went down
I was nowhere to be found
I'm so sad about
The way it all turned out
Give em some line while
We roll on in time
I'm all burned out on emotion
As sad as that notion is
I can't keep on running (X3)
Well I tried to say how can anybody change?
Meet in some messed up place
To see how long its been
Tell me what's so natural about it
To lose someone like this
I stay up nights but
I don't need Christ
To tell me to ease up on the line
Shit is heavy all the time
Go nowhere without you
Cause I think so much about it
I can't keep on running (x3)
WOMEN - WHY DO THEY PARTY ALL THE TIME?
People shuffling in a positive motion
In this line its eye for an eye
You need someone
Just like I do
Chance or fate
I met you today
Your narrowed eyes are only on me
Other guys they can fill out a form
You come on like a nuclear bomb
That's just the way you are
How do I reconcile myself with another?
Is it wrong to not know how?
Why is it so hard to see yourself?
Why do we feel so blind?
And women'why do they party all the time?
You're tough, she's tough
So tough that you're wrong every minute
Search my wallet and I break out in sweat
Just trying to keep up I guess
Is it fear if I hang out back?
Why when we love have we got to possess?
Why is it so hard to see ourselves?
Why do we feel so blind?
And women'why do they party all the time?
MIDWAY SUNSET
I heard from a friend of a friend but I
Already knew you'd leave
Pack all your stuff up in the trunk and
Set the bass right next to you
On the seat
New things
We all need em
Is your heart in this?
Is your mind all made up?
Hello
Where you been?
Looking out on some
Midway Sunset
We all strain our eyes
for what comes next
You left your lights on
That Midway Sunset
Ash into the cold
With the window cracked
way out on 80's end
Whether you find something wild or peace and quiet
It's the same haul to the ending
If you're living rad as daylight comes
I know I'll see you at ten in the morning
Out to Midway with 2 coffee cups
I'll come and pick you up
I'm so down on 59th
Keeping busy, doing fine
Time won't wait for misery
So I guess I'll feel it when I see
NO FIRES
On the one hand, a big box
on the other some old ethnic pride,
future as stupid and sad as the past
How are we supposed to begin to decide?
Buying, razing, building nothing
From the outside, looking in
that empty aisle
No air, no spark, no fires
Grab smokes in photographs,
sometime prior
No air, no spark, no fires
The ramp curves back to the city
There's no house in the wild
And there's no part of us deep in the concrete
We knew as a child.
And what when they leave once more?
When the families outgrow their rooms?
Generations erased, neighbors displaced
Well, tear it down again
ELECTRIC BLUES
You can express yourself
Keep the kids up late at night
You can steal our songs
But you'll never ever get em right
It's like electric blues
It's the sound of nothing
Electric blues
small hands clapping
Emotion is not the enemy
But the wolf cries that bury its meaning
We're birds of a feather
That's why we got to stay together
It's like electric blues
It's the sound of nothing
Electric blues
small hands clapping
Your feelings and you
Change from minute to minute
This is heart baby
Can you dig it?
A shrill complaint, sustained and sustained
Well unless you're blind,
turn it fucking down
ANIMAL MANAGEMENT
I can see you looking at me
I can't hear what anybody's saying to me
Don't let me fall apart
Nobody's in charge here
I was fine I got a hold
I had remote control
Now it's getting so
I think it's starting again
Animal Management x3
I got nothing
nothing that the wind won't approve, singing 'I love you' to the stars
Come on you know you're my type
We're both white and shy
The world the way it is
Let's get indiscriminate
I got nothing
nothing that the wind won't approve, singing I Love You to the stars