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Tim Gilbertson Lyrics

Palisades - 2010

Chipped Teeth Lyrics

She blew sweet words over chipped teeth, and killed what little left in me. The feat recalls of finer days the sidewalk cracks weren't here to see. I roll back, eyes down, stretch my arms out on this black earth. Shut ins and cast outs gave their best to me. You never were much more than freaks. Tooth rot from cures and gasoline. You pulled them from your gums in vain. With blood and hope, you wretched creeps. I roll back, eyes down, stretch my tongue out, lick my fat lips. Shut ins and cast outs lost their teeth to me. But as long as I'm here with my heart pressed against a wall, with a vantage and a subtle ear, it'd be hard not to comprehend at all.

Second Opinions Lyrics

Oh baby I got a cure for this malaise. This house is made of salt and this heaven's worse than rain. Oh baby I go through every fucking phase. With every hand on every heart on every fucking page. It's a long shot they'll say, when you're waist deep in the same chase. But the air's black and the sky's grey, when you're face down on the pavement. When we all go broke, when we all toss stones to the bay. Watch us all come home. It's all love in this city. It's all love and second opinions.

Return to Sender Lyrics

Evening came to me, and I'd never felt so strange. They're basing books on me. They're Wasting their time. Plead 'Please don't ever take responsibility.' Because there's nothing left at stake,
and I guess that worries me. I am just a slave, I am just a leaf. They spread me out on hearts in the backs of magazines. Why? For what am I this thorn? This glowing deity? They hang on every word that were kindly knit for me. Now they call me deep, because faith is not so bad. It makes you feel so weak, and it don't get better. I left, I made my way to peace. I spent the better part, when I gave them my two weeks,
returning letters. I spent all my life as a neat white line on the pavement. But all I'd like out of all those nights is just one back.

Sinners Lyrics

I broke it off between me and this city. I broke it off, now these car seats are freezing. It's hard enough making these livings, down in the valley with the rest of these sinners. When the warm fall gets cold enough to snow, when the hands outstretched on the streets I know, make a face like shit shouldn't get this low. When the warm fall gets cold enough to snow. I broke it off between me and these feelings. I broke it off, but these car seats are freezing. Gas price is up, so is standard of living. They're burning the sinners and heating my building.

You're Out There Lyrics

Through this telescope, unfrightened eyes, unbending hope. Because the best of them are smoke, and I don't look down. It's not a place I go anymore. They lie, they change, they cope, they contradict, they call it growth. But on this moonless slope, the cold and I, aghast and choked, because you're out there.

Beauty Queens Lyrics

Lines wave like beauty queens in the sun. Bent through the nothingness in my lungs. I'm not sure this life is much more than sun. Pushed through the beauty queens in my gums. But I know I'm just fixed. There's a way these folks look surprised. But I'm so hell-bent right by the way this light hits my eyes. If there's none inside, well I guess I can feign surprise. Sleep tight, peer through blinds. Gaining salt with my poor advice.

Last Ditch Attempts Lyrics

Hostage takers note: these lakes will rise, and we're the only ones that float. Boardrooms trick these folk, but I close my eyes and I walk right through their smoke. We hit the ceiling, they blamed the rafters once again. They'll hoist them higher, in a ditch attempt. Staunch the fire, parade them for their just intent. They'll call us liars for our best dissent. Every lover knows we'll never speak if we never find our throats. Make our presence known. They'll leave their seats as we throw our hapless stones. I shut my eyelids the hardest. If I ever prayed, I'd pray for silence and an end today. Nobody would answer, no one will give you what you crave. There's no more God, kids, I'm afraid to say.

Holga 120s Lyrics

I can't see what you see in me. Those plastic eyes expose so deep every fucking time my baby leaks. I left my keys on the driver's seat. If you're cool to drive, that's cool with me. This air's so dry, my skin's so sweet. But when I hear the click of the shutter I swear it saves my life, and again I believe. I can't breathe, and I can't speak, engulfed in white near two leagues deep, every fucking time the silver leaches. I'm trying hard to go. They're throwing all their cigarettes at me, but I don't smoke. I'm trying hard to go...

Losing Sleep Lyrics

Under sodium glow, they came that night. Every nicely patched road, every cursive sign made of neon spoke, hummed of great delights. The locals throw stones, so we stayed inside where the holy eyes broke every cursed spine like a busted smoke. Wave your arms, signal to the heavens that you're not. Midnight sky, skate around the fact you're really dark. When the waves meet plains, I can't help but feel that it's a start. Refresh, renew. I carry, lumber heavy hearts. For the first time they know, and for at first they're fine,
or so it seems. But I know how they feel inside when they sink like stones. I find a lot of change but I lose a lot of sleep. It's the same things they ask of me every goddamn time. It's funny how that time, it never changed the way we speak. I still drawl like I drag my feet on the bathroom tiles.

Saviours Lyrics

The saviour next door keeps me up all night saving lives all the time. But if I swore to change my sordid life, is there one I could find with a life to save, with an end to break off at times If I caved, I think I'd find that I'm not that strong. My palms cry tears in handles, pressed in line on the bus all the time. But if my gaze could hold a civil line, is there one I could find with a life to change, with a hand to shake? But that's not right. Face to face, I think I'd find I'm not that strong. They're making faces like they want to show their friends. I'll show them. They're blaming curses on the groundwater again. I'll show them. Now when I stare, the eyes stare back at mine in defense, all the time. Just because their clothes look just like mine, why feel shame? They're all right. With no life to save, with no clothes to change, and that's just fine. But it's this that pays, and it's for this I know I'm not that strong.

 

Tim Gilbertson - 2007

Palm Trees & Postcards Lyrics

Lips are splitting for malcontents because life was shitty, but money well spent. It's just another phase or means to an end. Life made you the person you are singing songs about palm trees and postcards. Well, maybe it all wasn't that hard. Maybe someday when you're sleeping all alone, or you're sitting looking back or talking on the phone. It's less than ideal, the things that you have to show. Hold your hands like they're guns and fire them into the walls. I might wait for a friend, or I'll just give into the cold. Write those lines on your hands and then press them down to your sides. They won't take what you're giving and they won't take you alive.

Hot Damn! Lyrics

Hot damn! You actually sleep at night, while I sit here thinking about you. Sit down and ask me a question, and I'll ask a question of you. No one has their own problems because they push them on everyone else. Accept them because nobody feels it. No one feels it around here. I'm just tired of this place, of this town, of the faces I see every day. Welcome in strangers as they walk by your house and you say: "I'm not alone anymore." Designed to what is profitable at that time, at that place. No matter what the idea was, as long as there's the masses' praise. Keep to yourself, confined in your ideals and ways. The outside is nothing but trouble, so don't listen to what others say.

Analogue Lyrics

When you wake up life seems warm enough to please us. We're not listening as the sun bakes all our days. It's lovely, in the sense that we're not complaining anymore. Slowing down, swiftly into this shit's embrace. Standing stagnant, helplessly set into our ways. We're breaking down and analysing all the days.

Get Going Lyrics

Get going, get gone. What they're showing isn't wrong enough for us. Get away. We'll blow a kiss into the nights that we have slain, the slanted afternoons, the mornings left so vain. And they'll leans upon us like we'll break their news. Like it'll break them loose, and free them from their lawsuits. Watch them sleep on their words. Waves goodbye never struck us as absurd. Take it easy. Shit's overrated anyway.

Bike Ride Lyrics

We'll make up what we love, and try to sound sincere, and then laugh at what we've become. Our lives all come undone, and drop like city air. But I'll miss you metric tonnes. Gonna ride home on the wings of an angel. No one's looking about, but you're only strong as your weaknesses. Looking for your faults, and they look up too. They thought that you could hate, but they were wrong so you'll just step on through. Just roll on.

Wasting Air Lyrics

We laughed like we'd defeated love. Like the start of life was breaking up, but not tonight. You smile like you aim to please, but you'd smile just to get some sleep. And that's all right. They're wasting all the air you need, just from talking about the air they breathe. And that's fine. To the lines and sons of days impaired, if you wake me up when we get there that'd be fine. That'd be all right. We're going nowhere. You don't ask for much, well I don't give much neither. They're breaking up there. Well we don't have the time, and we won't spare none either. You're lauging when the money's gone, and you laugh at what you waste it on, but that's fine. To the lines and sons of days impaired, if you wake me up when we get there that'd be fine. That'd be all right.

Long Walk Lyrics

One last long walk home. Low light's red, and young at heart. Car is gone, no ride away. With case in one hand you walk. On and on you go. For what stops, who knows? Stupid life, the thoughts through your head. Seems the whole world is gone. For the sun and Earth is all that hasn't failed you yet. It's one less step in the direction you feel that you want to go. One by one they're falling down. As the sun sets low and you're getting tired. You wish that you could stop, but the cool of dark won't slow you now. I'm calling all your actors, I'm calling all your friends. I made up all the answers. I'll make it up to them.

Sick to the Stomach Lyrics

It's getting late tonight, as the hour hand moves by. It's come to cutting off our losses while our friends are still alive. Teeth chatter in the cold and wake the neighbours. We broke bottles on the statues of their saviours. Come back, you'll see the ones. The lives we spent on signalling those prarie guns. Blame it all on stolen fun. Sick to the stomach, it digests your summer love. When the second comes, you'll be thankful you've got lust. There's no answers to your questions, there's no logic in your trust. When they wake up there'll be pockets full of blindness. With a belly full of gin, he says, not kindness. Come back, you'll see the ones. The lines we spent on scraping up the last of love. Blame it all on grace and tact. No lasting impressions, they've got no bones left intact. Sick to the stomach, I think your conscience has met its match.

Kissin' Cousins Lyrics

Sitting down like kissin' cousins, because you lit the gasoline flood. I can bend opinions, I can break beliefs. The kissin' cousins and the loveless lovers aren't making a sound. And as they're walking and as they're talking they're watching us get down. So hark, the herald angels sing below us as we speak. They'll lift our hearts and break our backs for the lonliness they seek. But they seek mouths, and they're searching high and low for the ghosts. They wait for us to decompose. More mouths means more volume, or so it seems. They've figured that out. Maybe if you shut yours, maybe then you'll see. They value their values. The cars, the furniture in their houses. Their stocks and bonds and RRSPs. Your apathy has got the best of me.

Counting Stars Lyrics

We were counting stars along the road, and making comments like we stole the others' way. But in turn they shoved us back, and we subsided like we should have anyway. These broken backs and petty scars make us cover up and lie in bed all day. As the light shines though the sheets, she might consider that she really should've stayed. As the sun comes up, the lines won't make her stay. Things work out that way here all the time. In a while, we'll laugh expensive taste. We'll ride in cars all day the rest of our lives. All our lives we're all just lies.

All Our Guns Lyrics

It's all talk, time is wasted. Desperation's faceless. Up crying all right, last resorts feel nice. It was hailing insults all night. Lying Heather, fell tarred and feathered. Heavier than all your guns, and all my guns put together. They laughed aside from me. They'll storm in while we sleep. They'll grab a heart from me, but I'll laugh the hardest, see. All love doesn't mean much when the heads don't talk trust.

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