DaTBoiDaN
08/31/09, 12:56 PM
This thread is to help figure out and discuss the lyrics on Brand New's "Daisy".
Here's what I have so far.
(?) indicates a line I am not clear on.
VICES
We need vices, we need vices
Where's all my hope and my marriage license
(Where is my head)
Well, those days are dead (forgive me)
Well, those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices (?)
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped…
(?)
The dog in the manger
Where is my strength in my mind (?)
(We sing a sad song) (?)
That forest burns
(?)
That forest burns
(?)
That forest burns
(?)
We need ten years (?) so we can return
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped…
We need vices, we need vices
We have been meaning to practice our disguises
Cause those days are dead (forgive me)
Cause those days are dead (forgive me)
Cause those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and (?)
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped…
BED
My head is lead
I don't ever want to go to bed
Your hair is on fire
You snuff the blaze, turn to vapor, then you float away
We got into a bad fight
Later on the bed…
My eyes are lungs
I'm a prophet and I speak in tongues
I know how you'll die
Your sister groans so you serve her to the holy thrones
To me, she's just a dead spy
Later on the bed…
Lie to all your friends
I don't know what you feel like
Ambushed on the road, stole your gold
You’re a rose/rouge (?) and you're laughing now
Everything that I own
Starts to pile up like bones
Like the walls of a prison
Later on the bed…
I don't ever want to go to bed
You stay up for the fight
The champ goes down like a clown in the second round
I wish we'd had a better goodbye
Lie to all your friends
Later on the bed
AT THE BOTTOM
Wait, I watched you throw out your bouquet
Now I think about you every day and I'm alone now in my bed
And there’s a lake and at the bottom you'll find all my friends
They don't swim cause they're all dead
We never are what we intend… or invent
Cause I make little lives
And then I pull them apart
I think something dark's living down in my heart
And if I wanted to die before I got old
I should've started some years ago digging that hole
Well I'll carry this box to the proper place
And we’ll lower it down, I'll let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
Well, I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
A deer that a hunter shot in the heart
Some dogs that got hit by cars
All came to spill their guts
And we spoke about the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
And which songs we had loved the most
And we all turned to dirt and dust
Some men die under the mountain just looking for gold
Some die looking for a hand to hold…
Well I'll carry this box to the proper place
And we’ll lower it down, I'll let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
Well, I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
(?)
Now I'm drowning in the flood I made
Well, explain myself to me on the other side
I'll watch from heaven when I die
Well I'll carry this box to the proper place
And we’ll lower it down, I'll let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
Well, I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
GASOLINE
So you tried to put a fire out, but you used gasoline
And when the congregation gathered around
You're screaming "it wasn't me"
So there’s a sickness that is going around, but no one's got a vaccine
I think you drowned in holy water
I think it's time we all come clean
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
When the army had to hold the line you were nowhere near the front
Before the kids could tell the dog goodbye, well, you were loading up your gun
I want to know why there’s a great divide
I want to know what I've become
You think that no one else is lonesome?
You think that you're the only one?
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
We all try to break away
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
We all try to break away
YOU STOLE
Last night they said the fire had spread and we said our prayers
And now the flames are burning me in my bed, but I just don't care
We all go to sleep in the same place and in the morning hope that we're all the same
Just sit around like broke down cars in the lot waiting for repairs
There you go
There it goes
Well I wish that I was as good as you
Caring and trusted
And I wish that my condition was new
But I'm old and rusted
So we just hurry up, only to wait
Add to the list of all the places we hate
And I pretend like I've got something to say
But I've got nothing…
Now I know that you stole
Yeah, you stole from the cradles they were rocked in you took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole
Yeah, you stole
So, if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So lets end this tonight
Yeah, you stole
Yeah, you stole
From the cradles they were rocked in you took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole
Yeah, you stole
So, if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So lets end this tonight
BE GONE
SINK
I don't want to let you go, but it hurts my hands to hold the rope
Don't be such an easy mark
(?)
And all the candles on the cake
All set fire to the gate
Turn the cannons towards the boat
Men were drowning in the moat (?)
It was the end of all the rower’s hope (?)
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
All I wants some earth and sea
Would only grow the things I need
But first I must find my way back
(?) laid out on this track
In youth I had an even keel
Now I'm not sure what is real
It's taken me this long to learn
That every day is (?) and once they're gone they don't return
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going let you
(?) the fire, snuck into your bedroom
Now I fall asleep until I get you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and bony, exposed for a phony
But we heed the last words that he penned
He's a disgrace, a traitor, do not wait 'til later
I don't think that you've got to pretend
I see God in birds and Satan in long words
But I know what you need in a friend
So now when I leave you I hope I won't see you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and bony, exposed for a phony
But we heed the last words that he penned
He's a disgrace, a traitor, do not wait 'til later
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I’m coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
(?) the fire, snuck into your bedroom
Now I fall asleep until I get you
BOUGHT A BRIDE
Trees will make a forest
Trees will make a boat
(?)
Words you'll have to know
If everyone's a structure
Where their own savior sits
Then I'm a little red house
But no one's living in it
Cars are little blood cells
We are oxygen
City is the airways
Suburbs, appendages
She was feeling lonely
Tired of the hive
Rented out a family
He bought a bride
Bought a bride, Bought a bride, bought a bride
Little cities names are (?) on the maps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
(?)
(?)
Down in Jersey lumber
Stealing prosthetic limbs
Should've been a soldier
I could've fought and died
There’s no revolution
So I bought a bride
Bought a bride, bought a bride, bought a bride
Coming down the aisle, all the horns play “Taps”
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
Somehow I always knew when everything was unsaid
Go and buy a hammer, never sing again
DAISY
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a river that has all dried up
I'm an ocean nothing floats on
I'm a sky that nothing wants to fly in
I'm a sun that doesn't burn hot
I'm a moon that never shows its face
I'm a mouth that doesn't smile
I'm a word that no one ever wants to say
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a fugitive that has no legs to run
I'm a preacher with no pulpit spewing a sermon that goes on…
(And on and on and on and on and on and on)
Well, if we take all the things and unbury the facts
And we pray that they turn to seeds to roots and they crack (?)
It’d be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
What if the sky opened up and started pouring rain?
Like he knew it was time to start things over again
It'd be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
Well, if we take all these things and unbury the facts
And we pray that turn to seeds to roots and they crack (?)
I’d be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
What if the sky opened up and started pouring rain?
Like he knew it was time to start things over again
It'd be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
IN A JAR
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your mouth
Stones in your ears, stones in your mind
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
We live in a jar and the lids the sky
You're hoping for a savior on your cross outside
Stars are just a million little fireflies
The sun is just a hole, it is the light outside
(?)
Maybe I should rest, but on the seventh day
I've created nothing and I'm wide awake
So can I turn my key to your electric high (?)
The rooster crowed twice and you can't sleep at night
There are too many saviors on my cross again
I know I'm never going be a perfect man
Everyone's an oyster with a grain of sand
I love you most in song (?), but now it has to end
(?)
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
I would run a million miles if you were first prize
(?)
NORO
Little light, lead us through the night
And if we die, burn down the forest
(?) carry us
Distances we don't care to walk
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
Why doesn't anyone I know sleep?
Are they all just scared of their dreams?
When they lay their heads down at night what are they haunted by?
Why won't anyone just close their eyes?
Couldn't hurt them to rest for a while
Do they need their friends to be alone or their lover to be a friend? (?)
Because I'm on my way down
(Well, I try, God knows that I try)
I'm on my way out
(One time… two time… three time, again)
Sitting duck, running out of luck
And our car is stuck on the train crossing
How am I ever going to know peace?
How will I ever see the light through the trees?
I want to burn down everything we've begun
I want to kill it and eat my young
Because I'm on my way out
(Well, I try, God knows that I try)
I'm on my way out
(One time… two time… three time… again)
I'm on my way out
(Well, I try, God knows that I try)
I'm on my way out
(One time… two time… three time… again)
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
Here's what I have so far.
(?) indicates a line I am not clear on.
VICES
We need vices, we need vices
Where's all my hope and my marriage license
(Where is my head)
Well, those days are dead (forgive me)
Well, those days are dead (forgive me)
Those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices (?)
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped…
(?)
The dog in the manger
Where is my strength in my mind (?)
(We sing a sad song) (?)
That forest burns
(?)
That forest burns
(?)
That forest burns
(?)
We need ten years (?) so we can return
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped…
We need vices, we need vices
We have been meaning to practice our disguises
Cause those days are dead (forgive me)
Cause those days are dead (forgive me)
Cause those days are dead (forgive me)
We need vices and (?)
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
She said goodbye to the ground
And jumped…
BED
My head is lead
I don't ever want to go to bed
Your hair is on fire
You snuff the blaze, turn to vapor, then you float away
We got into a bad fight
Later on the bed…
My eyes are lungs
I'm a prophet and I speak in tongues
I know how you'll die
Your sister groans so you serve her to the holy thrones
To me, she's just a dead spy
Later on the bed…
Lie to all your friends
I don't know what you feel like
Ambushed on the road, stole your gold
You’re a rose/rouge (?) and you're laughing now
Everything that I own
Starts to pile up like bones
Like the walls of a prison
Later on the bed…
I don't ever want to go to bed
You stay up for the fight
The champ goes down like a clown in the second round
I wish we'd had a better goodbye
Lie to all your friends
Later on the bed
AT THE BOTTOM
Wait, I watched you throw out your bouquet
Now I think about you every day and I'm alone now in my bed
And there’s a lake and at the bottom you'll find all my friends
They don't swim cause they're all dead
We never are what we intend… or invent
Cause I make little lives
And then I pull them apart
I think something dark's living down in my heart
And if I wanted to die before I got old
I should've started some years ago digging that hole
Well I'll carry this box to the proper place
And we’ll lower it down, I'll let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
Well, I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
A deer that a hunter shot in the heart
Some dogs that got hit by cars
All came to spill their guts
And we spoke about the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
And which songs we had loved the most
And we all turned to dirt and dust
Some men die under the mountain just looking for gold
Some die looking for a hand to hold…
Well I'll carry this box to the proper place
And we’ll lower it down, I'll let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
Well, I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
(?)
Now I'm drowning in the flood I made
Well, explain myself to me on the other side
I'll watch from heaven when I die
Well I'll carry this box to the proper place
And we’ll lower it down, I'll let you fade away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
Well, I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate
If I thought it would help you get away
I hope that you would do this for me
(I hope that you would do this for me)
GASOLINE
So you tried to put a fire out, but you used gasoline
And when the congregation gathered around
You're screaming "it wasn't me"
So there’s a sickness that is going around, but no one's got a vaccine
I think you drowned in holy water
I think it's time we all come clean
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost
It feels like I'm trying to hold smoke
When the army had to hold the line you were nowhere near the front
Before the kids could tell the dog goodbye, well, you were loading up your gun
I want to know why there’s a great divide
I want to know what I've become
You think that no one else is lonesome?
You think that you're the only one?
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
We all try to break away
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
It feels like I'm jumping towards a train
We all try to break away
YOU STOLE
Last night they said the fire had spread and we said our prayers
And now the flames are burning me in my bed, but I just don't care
We all go to sleep in the same place and in the morning hope that we're all the same
Just sit around like broke down cars in the lot waiting for repairs
There you go
There it goes
Well I wish that I was as good as you
Caring and trusted
And I wish that my condition was new
But I'm old and rusted
So we just hurry up, only to wait
Add to the list of all the places we hate
And I pretend like I've got something to say
But I've got nothing…
Now I know that you stole
Yeah, you stole from the cradles they were rocked in you took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole
Yeah, you stole
So, if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So lets end this tonight
Yeah, you stole
Yeah, you stole
From the cradles they were rocked in you took the first words that they spoke
Yeah, you stole
Yeah, you stole
So, if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So lets end this tonight
BE GONE
SINK
I don't want to let you go, but it hurts my hands to hold the rope
Don't be such an easy mark
(?)
And all the candles on the cake
All set fire to the gate
Turn the cannons towards the boat
Men were drowning in the moat (?)
It was the end of all the rower’s hope (?)
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
All I wants some earth and sea
Would only grow the things I need
But first I must find my way back
(?) laid out on this track
In youth I had an even keel
Now I'm not sure what is real
It's taken me this long to learn
That every day is (?) and once they're gone they don't return
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going let you
(?) the fire, snuck into your bedroom
Now I fall asleep until I get you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and bony, exposed for a phony
But we heed the last words that he penned
He's a disgrace, a traitor, do not wait 'til later
I don't think that you've got to pretend
I see God in birds and Satan in long words
But I know what you need in a friend
So now when I leave you I hope I won't see you
How darkly the dark hand met his end
He was withered and bony, exposed for a phony
But we heed the last words that he penned
He's a disgrace, a traitor, do not wait 'til later
If you call then I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I'm coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
I'm coming to get you
If you call then I'm coming out
If you call then I’m coming to get you
You want to sink, so I'm going to let you
(?) the fire, snuck into your bedroom
Now I fall asleep until I get you
BOUGHT A BRIDE
Trees will make a forest
Trees will make a boat
(?)
Words you'll have to know
If everyone's a structure
Where their own savior sits
Then I'm a little red house
But no one's living in it
Cars are little blood cells
We are oxygen
City is the airways
Suburbs, appendages
She was feeling lonely
Tired of the hive
Rented out a family
He bought a bride
Bought a bride, Bought a bride, bought a bride
Little cities names are (?) on the maps
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
(?)
(?)
Down in Jersey lumber
Stealing prosthetic limbs
Should've been a soldier
I could've fought and died
There’s no revolution
So I bought a bride
Bought a bride, bought a bride, bought a bride
Coming down the aisle, all the horns play “Taps”
They tied her up and laid her on the train tracks
Somehow I always knew when everything was unsaid
Go and buy a hammer, never sing again
DAISY
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a river that has all dried up
I'm an ocean nothing floats on
I'm a sky that nothing wants to fly in
I'm a sun that doesn't burn hot
I'm a moon that never shows its face
I'm a mouth that doesn't smile
I'm a word that no one ever wants to say
I'm a mountain that has been moved
I'm a fugitive that has no legs to run
I'm a preacher with no pulpit spewing a sermon that goes on…
(And on and on and on and on and on and on)
Well, if we take all the things and unbury the facts
And we pray that they turn to seeds to roots and they crack (?)
It’d be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
What if the sky opened up and started pouring rain?
Like he knew it was time to start things over again
It'd be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
Well, if we take all these things and unbury the facts
And we pray that turn to seeds to roots and they crack (?)
I’d be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
What if the sky opened up and started pouring rain?
Like he knew it was time to start things over again
It'd be alright, it's alright
It'd be easier that way
IN A JAR
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your mouth
Stones in your ears, stones in your mind
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
We live in a jar and the lids the sky
You're hoping for a savior on your cross outside
Stars are just a million little fireflies
The sun is just a hole, it is the light outside
(?)
Maybe I should rest, but on the seventh day
I've created nothing and I'm wide awake
So can I turn my key to your electric high (?)
The rooster crowed twice and you can't sleep at night
There are too many saviors on my cross again
I know I'm never going be a perfect man
Everyone's an oyster with a grain of sand
I love you most in song (?), but now it has to end
(?)
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes
I would run a million miles if you were first prize
(?)
NORO
Little light, lead us through the night
And if we die, burn down the forest
(?) carry us
Distances we don't care to walk
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
Why doesn't anyone I know sleep?
Are they all just scared of their dreams?
When they lay their heads down at night what are they haunted by?
Why won't anyone just close their eyes?
Couldn't hurt them to rest for a while
Do they need their friends to be alone or their lover to be a friend? (?)
Because I'm on my way down
(Well, I try, God knows that I try)
I'm on my way out
(One time… two time… three time, again)
Sitting duck, running out of luck
And our car is stuck on the train crossing
How am I ever going to know peace?
How will I ever see the light through the trees?
I want to burn down everything we've begun
I want to kill it and eat my young
Because I'm on my way out
(Well, I try, God knows that I try)
I'm on my way out
(One time… two time… three time… again)
I'm on my way out
(Well, I try, God knows that I try)
I'm on my way out
(One time… two time… three time… again)
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell
I'm on my way to hell