burnside project "burnside project - remastered"
lyrics

1) Telling
You open up your mind for me, I can't see through it, it's open up I see.
You follow me into the dark, and I just blew it - you were only there for me...
You gotta pay attention, I'm telling you. La La La...

2) Apathy
And if you believe that, than I've got some land to sell you and the deed to a bridge that's just outside of Omaha. My name is on a plaque and it's also on this invoice. I'll take checks and cash for my white noise.
And if you see that then you must be wearing bifocals becuase I'm up in a crow's nest and I can hardly make out yesterday much less the fly speck you just noticed on this old world map of Australia. A mile case of pneumonia.
And if I get stuck on a word, a phrase, syllable, I've run out of luck. And my excuses are deplorable - you can't hold it against, it's merely in my nature to behave like a human when you are so superior.
And if you believe that try to remember that death runs in the family and if you go upstairs fast enough you might outrun the consequence.
The only window open is the one he just jumped out of, the drapes are blowing inward dangerously close to potted plants. And my hands are stained with association while this nation mourns the passing of a noble prince. Conspiracy theory will rear it's head, the good, the bad, the smug. The cable channel and the website solely devoted.
Try to remember, try to decipher, why we're here - and could you clue me in?

3) On The Issues
Keep it back, keep it way back in your mind behind the cerebellum stacked in a box next to lots of faded photographs. Keep it back, keep it way back in your mind but just ahead of memories of high school and your alcoholic mother embarrassing you in front of all your friends, in front of all the cute varsity football players in letterman's jackets.
The wind whispers your name everytime I say it. I'm not crazy just a little misunderstood so take it back, take it back, take it back! I know you didn't mean it when you said that my clothes were too small or that I'm too big to fit into designer label boxer briefs, the kind worn by Marky Mark. And all the traffic's slowing, horns are honking, cars are waiting and everybody's sweating over life's little sweet tarts.
Sweet and sour, man of the hour. A quick delivery of all of your dreams.
Life's little lemons are bittersweet - they better be complete, completely bitter - I'm feeling bitter...aren't you?

4) Cleveland
Now, we're circling the earth.
Keep it real, keep it clean. Keep all the gears and the cogs in the machine. And keep it free.

Now, through a grainy slide projector that's flicking frame-by-frame we see images in black and white of summer rain and olive green convoys and their sharp metal tactics, radios are filled with transmissions of static, the diving board stretches from the shallow to the deep end, classicism runs rampant in the city of Cleveland. To find a reason means you've got to justify your worth, divert the seasons together...now we're circling the earth.

One sides up while the other falls down, reminiscent of the day when the plant closed down - it really shook up this town.

Well he took me by the wrist to this large expands of industry on the southside of town and tried to explain to me that someday, somehow this will all be mine you're a prince and not a pauper, like a king in medeivel times. Now 30 years later due to advances in nepotism, I'm there with my own and now I've got to explain to him that someday, this will all be yours boy.

5) Drainage
The neon light reads “Aikido”, the 39th Street Rodeo, Salmon sweatshop with Deniro Posters up on the wall. The corner store sells a mango, under the flicking of a street lamp. The Spanish fly does the tango, measured up in volts and amps. No MSG on this food cart, the downtown streets are paved with cancer. Arugula and a spreadsheet formula, in a high class double-decker apartment high rise, crushing the dreams of a homeless cigar, yeah, I’m a poet but I never made it far…


6) Hybrid (Instrumental)

7) Wait
I walk along the grass it smells fresh cut, I see silhouettes that dance, silhouettes of stuff. You always answer me with a clue before I realize it’s you. You’re already there, you’re already there, I’m only halfway there…. Wait up .. I’ll be there just as soon as I can….

8) Sing With Me
I wander and I travel a lot, Crossing rivers and crossing streets at the crosswalk. You see, I’m a good boy and I’m better than you. Valleys and highways, I’ve seen them all, I travel a lot like I said and then people that I meet along the way, I ask them to sing with me, So we all join hands around the campfire, With sparklers and lightning bugs and we sing “La, La, La, La, La, LA LA!”
You’re too intuitive and you’re too into this, I see you are the kind I used to look out for when someone looked out for me. La, La, La, La, La, LA LA!

9) Anywhere
Anywhere that I can go to travel to in proper tone is only what I’m striving for now. Pick a pocket, ball-n-socket, watching live the launching rocket. But then I change my mind for the last time. I change my mood when I get the urge to screw it up. Come on I’ll show you, let’s take a ride, just jump inside – come on, I’ll show you! And then I change my mind, Come on I’ll show you. Let’s take a ride, just jump inside, Come on I’ll show you, Let’s take a ride!

10) Blowfish
Even though we’ve gone as far as it goes I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. Up and down, reaching high and low Swim like a jelly Fish like a blow…..

11) Steven
(words by Steve Swartz)