Hi Crime

This City is a Sewer

There's always a fog that comes between
People I meet and what we each seek in me
No home to find, I gotta get away, but
This city is a sewer

Pace on, stepping back and forth sideways
Diagonal movement towards a breakaway
What I want is a clean escape
What I got is an ocean on every side of me

Drown in four walls
Held together like a paperclip bent out of shape
Over your head, not out the door
Find a world that's ready for your own

Absorb all the sunlight in a day
Breathe in
Exhale, watch the heat escape
And follow

Drown in four walls
Held together like a paperclip bent out of shape
Over your head, not out the door
Find a world that's ready for your own

Defeat got inside our heads this time
So step out, take a walk to laugh about
Forgetting what's in the atmosphere
Weathering the storm and all that's headed near

Drown in four walls
Held together like a paperclip bent out of shape
Over your head, not out the door
Find a world that's ready for your own

Drown in four walls
Held together like a paperclip bent out of shape
Over your head, not out the door
Find a world that's ready for your own

Tightrope

Is it enough now that we've got it all
The boho chic or 70's apartment
Is it enough now that I'm bossin' up
Not afraid to get dirty, just fear it won't add up
Is it enough now that we got it all
Perfectly poised yeah, plastic and poison
We tightrope walk on line

All that I want is someone to tell me
It all adds up in the end, but it's not true
And who are we kidding
The gatekeepers are grim reapers
Wearing headphones in a booth

I'd empty my cup so I could see yours full
But when feelings arise you're sick and I hide
It all feels cyclical
Don't wanna wake up and realize we're dead
That we dwindled away
The breaths that we take on escapism

All that I want is someone to tell me
It all adds up in the end, but it's not true
And who are we kidding
The gatekeepers are grim reapers
Wearing headphones in a booth

Is it enough now that we've spent it all
On desperate attempts to be loved by our friends
And buy some strangers' drinks
Is it enough now that we've got it all
Perfectly poised yeah, plastic and poison
We tightrope walk on line
Ready and steady resilience in my blood
But under the surface I'm going under
Wanna scream at the top of my
Scream at the top of my
Scream at the top of my lungs
My lungs

All that I want is someone to tell me
It all adds up in the end, but it's not true
And who are we kidding
The gatekeepers are grim reapers
Wearing headphones in a booth
Is it enough that we've got it all

World’s Fair

I met my love in 1904
On the street of the fair
They got the car and they got the money
I got the dirt in my hair
Oh, and you got nothing to lose
You're at the top of your game
Please don't be bothered by the holes in my shoes darling
I'm sure we all look the same-but I

Hope you don't mind me asking a favor
Tell me your name, 'cause you're beautiful, wonderful
I would like to meet you at the top of the wheel

Think I saw Geronimo
In a tent down by the park
And from the canals, we saw the lights
Make sure it never got dark
20 million other people
On the ground below
Keep on talking on and on ya know
You're really making me

Hope you don't mind me asking a favor
Tell me your name, 'cause you're beautiful, wonderful
I would like to meet you at the top of the wheel

Hope you don't mind me asking a favor
Tell me your name, 'cause you're beautiful, wonderful
I would like to meet you at the top of the wheel

Barefoot Pretender

While I was born he was delivered
And had a rough start all things considered
Yuki and me used to be friends
Now he's alone
Barefoot pretender

And through the mist and the moss he would wander
In search of a key his grandma was given
After the war by uncle Enzo
Fifty years later it's Yuki's memento

Somebody tell him what's happening to the
Old ways and changing positions of the sun

Footprints he left in the creek bed below
Wash away in the rain after the snow
I cannot see the door anymore
The sunshine so strange, scorching the earth

Somebody tell him what's happening to the
Old ways and changing positions of
Somebody tell him what's happening to the
Old ways and changing positions of the sun

Somebody tell him what's happening to the
Old ways and changing positions of
Somebody tell him what's happening to the
Old ways and changing positions of
Somebody tell him what's happening to the sun

Narrative

There's another way I'm going
Doesn't have to mean I need fixing up
I don't need the nine to five or
Frenchie bulldog baby bind for life

You said I would change my mind
So I waited all this time to feel different

There's another place I'm heading
You don't get it but you're trying to
Staying up late and staring at the ceiling
Talking 'bout my feelings
Aliens and what comes next is anybody's guess
I don't need the long commute or
Power suit, suburban heated floors
I wanna spend my time
Being stupid with my sister
Petting all the cute cats
Showering my house plants

You said I would change my mind
So I waited all this time to feel different
Yeah you said I would change my mind
So I waited all this time to feel different

I'm not buying what they're selling
A shitty narrative for someone else
It wasn't written, was afraid to know it
Now I see what I want

You said I would change my mind
So I waited all this time to feel different
Yeah you said I would change my mind
So I waited all this time to feel different
Yeah you said I would change my mind
So I waited all this time to feel different

There's another dream, a vision
So keep the hazers running, flood the lights

Venom

I let my mind run wild with it
Confirmation bias is a bitch
And you spent the night again
And I lay there in silence
Wishing I was more than your friend

It's been a while since I let somebody in

Feels like a nightmare I choose to stay in
It's my decision but I keep holding on to you
Like I'm a sucker for your silver linings
Life is a hallway
I keep screaming down hearing loneliness
Echo right back as she makes her rounds

I'm bitter that my venom won't break skin
I cant sink my fangs in
Guess it's a different kind of unrequited love
Cause my ribs never ached this much

And I never had this strong a feeling
That I can't shake

Feels like a nightmare I choose to stay in
It's my decision but I keep holding on to you
Like I'm a sucker for your silver linings
Life is a hallway
I keep screaming down hearing loneliness
Echo right back as she makes her rounds

And do you really live in oblivion
The hardest part is knowing what it could have been
Somehow I'm supposed to write it off as fine
But I'm reaching out for a real friend this time

Tougher than I seem so now
I think I found my peace without
Doesn't seem so scary now
I think I found my peace without
I think I found my peace without
I think I found my peace without

Song for Matisse

Servin’ Up the Dinner

So we ran past a cottage in the middle of the dark
There was no one home but the porch light on
I carried my shoes while the earth held my feet
Tried to keep up but I was laughing too hard

And we're lining our pockets with a new routine
Ditch the phones that we own for a moment of peace
Baby blue van with spotty radio
Hit a 7-11 while the engine runs

Where do we go when it don't make sense
We hit the road and we don't look back
Gear in the hatch and our feet on the dash
Windows are rolled, palms catching the wind
Summer in somewhere, we're on the move

Moonlight shining, midnight driving, all night long
On the California coast just making the most
Watching the fires burning on the beach
Get a little bit dimmer as we drift away

Where do we go when it don't make sense
We hit the road and we don't look back
Gear in the hatch and our feet on the dash
Windows are rolled, palms catching the wind
Summer in somewhere, we're on the move

I won't be sending you another postcard
Cause I've busy taking my time
The sun that's rising tomorrow
Is my second sun rising today
Fall asleep in the back seat after hour 32
Just for a minute
Cuz I'll be woken up by a bumpy off-highway road

Where do we go when it don't make sense
We hit the road and we don't look back
Gear in the hatch and our feet on the dash
Windows are rolled, palms catching the wind
Summer in somewhere, we're on the move
Summer in somewhere, we're on the move
Summer in somewhere, we're on the move
Summer in somewhere, we're on the move

I wish that I was back in my bedroom
Wanted to have some time by myself
My body is lazy but I dance real crazy
Inside the apartment when my day is done
Going to movies and making me smoothies
Is how I unwind when I'm losing my head
Blend a banana with milk, ice, and mango
Then flip on the TV to watch anime

Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner
POW POW POW
Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner
POW POW POW
Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner
POW POW POW
Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner

Swimming in soup cans
Not fighting with demons
Each Monday to Sunday wherever I go
Well it's no wonder I run from the thunder
No time for a minute to be with myself
I wish that I could just stay in my bedroom
My fuzzy slippers will defeat anything
PJ's are calling so my head is falling
Deep into the cushion, surrender myself

Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner
POW POW POW
Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner
POW POW POW
Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner
POW POW POW
Servin' up the dinner, servin' up the dinner
Servin' up the dinner

Stupid Feelings