Comfortable Fools
Released: 2009
Format: LP
Album Tracks
| 1 | Wind Me Down | 4:46 |
| 2 | Wake Up | 4:00 |
| 3 | Top n' Tails | 3:26 |
| 4 | Gossip & Gunplay | 3:05 |
| 5 | Gossip & Gunplay Ext. | 2:35 |
| 6 | Oh Why Me? Oh... | 2:48 |
| 7 | Cornerstone | 4:05 |
| 8 | Rock Bottom Blue | 6:14 |
| 9 | The Common Sense | 4:13 |
| 10 | Honor Echoes | 4:21 |
| 11 | Away She Goes | 4:20 |
| 12 | Comfortable Fools | 2:59 |
Lyrics
1. Wind Me Down
Go on and pass me over
I fear I've nothing left to show you
Just a leaf fallen from late october
All that color has let me down
On this ground is where you'll find me
All my bolder days so far behind me
May that wind, she whip and wind me
Wind me down, wind me down
Wind me down, woman, wind me down...
Go on and pass me over
I fear I've nothing left to show you
Just a leaf fallen from late october
All that color has let me down
In that cloud is were you'll find me
All these fragile days so far behind me
With the sky to stand beside me
Til you come, I'll smile down
Wind me down, woman, wind me down...
When everthing that I wanted has come and gone true
Except for the woman who stood by me through and through
I pray that I've grace enough not to hold onto
The buzz of it all, but rather the words I leave you
Wind me down...
Go on and pass me over
I fear I've nothing left to show you
Just a leaf fallen from late october
All that color has let me down
Wind me down and let me go with open arms...
I pray you know I'll smile down until you follow
my woman, look up, I smile down
2. Wake Up
Wake up, roll out, with no doubt, that this is your day
Shower up, shave clean, in that rising steam you seem to find some grace
Son look up, grin proud, cause you can feel that shroad running down the drain
Come what may, just show your face and son you save a brand new day
Come what may, just share your grace and son you save this old man's faith
I've been chewed up, spit out, broken down longer than I'd claim
I let life live me and I can feel it son you're headed my way
So tighten up and stand tall, feel it all, let it fall away
Come what may, show your face, son you save a brand new day
Come what may, share your grace and son you save this old man's faith
Son I can hear them now, "Bottoms up, we got a man down. No, no, we wont allow this one to slip away."
So fella listen up and demons simmer down. Even but a bit of doubt makes for an easy sway.
Feel it all and let it go. Pay it mind, but never soul.
Feel it all and let it go. Pay it mind, but never soul.
Come what may, just show your face and son you save a brand new day
Come what may, just share your grace and son you save this old man's faith
Wake up, roll out, with no doubt, that this is your day
3. Top n' Tails
So won't you just sit tight and hope along
Just because it ain't clear yet, don't mean it ain't stunning
Slow those frames and see
The kind of now you lead
Yea wave goodbye with me to those byegones
Conquer fear & feast, paint the town indeed
Just setting free those byegones
Just because it ain't here yet, don't mean it ain't coming
So won't you just sit tight and hope along
Just because it ain't clear yet, don't mean it ain't stunning
The kind of now you lead
Yea wave goodbye with me to those byegones
Conquer fear & feast, paint the town indeed
Just setting free those byegones
Answers in your feet just march on
Right & ready be, cuz opportunity
It's at the door you seek and it knocks on
In truth, I've been deep in your shoes more than enough to tell it to you straight all those good things can come
Just because it ain't here yet, don't mean it ain't coming
So won't you just sit tight and hope along
Just because it ain't clear yet, don't mean it ain't stunning
4. Gossip & Gunplay
We got gossip and gunplay, so gather around
Come one and come all now, join in a public breakdown
We got gossip and gunplay, so pull up a chair
Let's watch the fortunate fall and revel in their disrepair
We built you up... We'll drag you down.
There's something sorely wrong with a state of mind
that glare at young women lying broken, battered and blind
just a' shining the limelight dead between her eyes
and waiting for the next morning's "Daily Demise"
Call it a crime were it something with a tear to be be shed
sure she's feeling the pain, but we aint seeing it yet
never running from her eyes in the frames of the press
so its ok to gather 'round cause its all in her head
We got gossip and gunplay, so gather around
Come one and come all now, join in a public breakdown
We got gossip and gunplay, so pull up a chair
Let's watch the fortunate fall and revel in their disrepair
We built you up... We'll drag you down.
Think of that same young girl growing up in your sight
as she grew to lay her claim you'd be filling with pride
then the rug it come from under and the seeker she hides
in another or a needle in a haystack of lies
And so the public comes together bearing down on your girl
never to lend a helping hand, just a pointing finger
still waters running deep aren't given to stir
but even the sea breaks her tide from weight of the earth
We got gossip and gunplay, so gather around
Come one and come all now, join in a public breakdown
We got gossip and gunplay, so pull up a chair
Let's watch the fortunate fall and revel in their disrepair
5. Gossip & Gunplay Ext.
We built you up... We'll drag you down.
But its u who ya bears the blame never to dare between the lines,
just eaten what they feeding like ur starving in yo mind,
not a touch of grace at all yet u seeming so divine,
passing judgement like the God above, yet down here riding pine
Tell me what wrong with ya mongers just waiting on fame to fall,
then a filling in and piling on and loosing no sleep at all,
maybe a different kinda lynchen but ya still the same ol' mob,
let that gossip in your head fuel the gunplay at your heart
We got gossip & gunplay.
6. Oh Why Me? Oh...
Yo she can save you from the life you lead, indeed your heading down
bound and gagging back the crap your head's been feeding to your mouth
just a house on steady ground without a view on any side
and an attic full of letters asking why me oh why?
oh why me? oh...
Yo lower those shades and check her smile it'll tell you all ya needs to know
when its gone, you're in the wrong, so get you right and bear that soul
but when it's true, you stay you, take note and use it as a model
cause though you're in the dark, your sparks are brilliant like your sorrow
oh why me? oh...
Yo this girl's been handed down surely to save you from yourself
you may say 'me belly full' but me know it's underwhelmed
she's your home with the eastern view that shows the sun can also rise
and a skylight up the stairs to prove even the moon can shed some light
oh why me? oh...
Yo open your arms and let her in and whichever room she goes
allow the walls to talk and tell her all she needs to know
let her stir you as you stew, so she can sooth your tempered mind
you got the makings for the music my brotha so why not rock sublime?
oh why me? oh...
7. Cornerstone
I been simmering down for a while now
but settle down? love, that aint quite me
let them go on and chase their namesake
while each night I take you home with me
I'll be your cornerstone, they never gonna break me
I'll take the best they give just like my mama raised me
I'll turn my cheek, but keep you right behind me safely
and whisper of tomorrow, til' we can see it plainly... c'mon
You are my means to the end
I been simmering down for a while now
I come round slow, yea, but certainly
let them go on and chase their namesake
while each night I take you home with me
I'll be your cornerstone, they never gonna break me
I'll take the best they give just like my mama raised me
I'll turn my cheek, but keep you right behind me safely
and whisper of tomorrow, til' we can see it plainly... c'mon
You are my means to the end
Something so sweet, it makes me wanna barter
a bachelor's levity for the shoulders of a father
So sir i ask you for the good hand of your daughter
I'll be her cornerstone if you'll allow the honor
Something so sweet it makes me wanna barter
my bacherlor's levity for the shoulders of your father
So girl I ask you, will you meet me at the alter?
I'll be your cornerstone if you'll allow the honor
My Megan Leigh, will you marry me?
I've been simmering down for a while now
today i stand steadfast and free
let them go on and chase their namesake
while each night I take you home with me
I'll be your cornerstone, they never gonna break me
I'll take the best they give just like my mama raised me
I'll turn my cheek, but keep you right behind me safely
and whisper of tomorrow, til' we can see it plainly... c'mon
You are my means to the end
8. Rock Bottom Blue
I've been knocked down and out again and I'm drowning in my tears
I know my word won't mean much to you what with me stretching it all these years
but I'm begging from the bottom of the ocean blue here"
And she said, "Hold me here mother dear and don't let the sunlight ever find me here"
Oh child, come now, lay down, let it out
And she said, "I beg you mother dear don't make me grown on toward that world of theirs "
Oh child, calm down, your safe now, so let it out
We've lent you ours, now you too, bend your ear
know we refuse to tell you just what you wanna hear
you claim the world against you like the salt of every tear
yet never bear a bead of sweat upon that brow you're bowing there
Sometimes the road must come to you
Sometimes it don't, so you pay your dues
Sometimes ya need that rock bottom blue
Otherwise your just given to play that fool
You've got the goods, now come of age
You've got the goods, now come of age
We've lent you ours, now you too bend your ear
and know we refuse to tell you just what u wanna hear
you claim the world against with the salt of every tear
yet never bear a bead of sweat upon that brow you're bowing there
Sometimes your beauty seems aloof
Sometimes it don't so you skip on through
Sometimes you need that rock bottom truth
Otherwise you're just given to play that fool
You've got the goods, now come of age
You've got the goods, now come of age
We wont take "no"
She said "I'm down, I finally found the earth
You're right about that truth Ma, it sure does hurt
Today I leave my whine, and I take your word
And as this last tear falls, so goes your little girl"
9. The Common Sense
The storm will come and go and always come again
So long as sons they fight in forefather's defense
The tales they've handed down become the common sense
And so we come and go, forever on the mend...
Unite and stand on severed land
Women hold your man as the sea she grasps at sands
We've no clue what we're doin, do we? We've no sense how this ends?
So why fight for our father's beginnings, when we're in the middle sharing each and every breath?
Unite and stand on father's land
Welcome fellow man without thought on where you stand
We've no clue what we're doin, do we? We've no sense how this ends?
So why fight for our father's beginnings, when we're in the middle sharing each and every breath?
The storm will come and go and always come again
So long as sons they fight in forefather's defense
The tales they've handed down become the common sense
And so we come and go, forever on the mend...
We've no clue what we're doin, do we? We've no sense how this ends?
So why fight for our father's beginnings, when we're in the middle sharing each and every breath?
Unite and stand on a common land
Hold your brother man, the storm may come again
We've no clue what we're doin, do we? We've no sense how this ends?
So why fight for our father's beginnings, when we're in the middle sharing each and every breath?
Slow your roll, and respect where I'm coming from
You're truly a fool, if you can't offer that in the least
Either way I'm gonna bow before your God
With mine beside me on bended knee...
With my God beside me on bended knee.
10. Honor Echoes
He set out straight from that lawn
with his grandpa laid to rest he held tight to that song
played on 21 guns and countless beating hearts
the women wailed and men trembled, but the boy'd never stood so strong
He enlisted right outta school
papa proud to see his son grow from the family root
but mom feared the worst, though she never spoke this true
and so they said goodbye that autumn afternoon
His company conquered the shore
the proud son set a stern foot to the jungle floor
the men marched an hour, til the mist came round to pour
and natives layin in wait, they let their bullets soar
21 guns ring
and that boy was listening
oh how that sound
echoes now
He awoke a week since he fell
the blunt end of a rifle had opened the back of his skull
bound in a cage, stripped and starved- time stood still
they had held him seven some odd years and never broke his will
21 guns ring
and that boy was listening
oh how that sound
carries him now
When at last his countrymen battered down the gates
their gunfire rang out, til all but one of the enemy remained
the native turned to give the world his final act of rage
he shot the bearded soldier dead inside his cage
... those seven long years he'd dreamt of the pride on his fathers face
in his mothers tears, and throughout the crowd that gathered that day
he 'd peer down upon them, right through heaven's gates
as the rifles rang out, and the honor echoed at his grave...
we lay him down
11. Away She Goes
Everything changed the day he gazed upon her cunning
Come hither smile, it set his ego off a' gunning
With dance and wine and idle time, she kept him coming
And so it was the king he fell for Annie Boleyn
She "the most happy" gripped his ego and devoured
the limits of his life of faith and given honor
Katherine forced from all her privilege and power
while Anne she raises up while all around her cower
And away she goes to hold her own.
Same ol', same ol'... tripping ego.
-She know that Ego- it won't take no
-So she go and grab on - and won't let go
-But she know that Ego - it must hold more
-So she rock and she roll right up upon that throne
With the crown to justify whatever they deemed treason
Anne and Henry sought a path of steady ego feeding
and heads they rolled along, they rolled along with reason
though this she would regret, when Anne came round beseeching
She fed him fable although he was slow to notice
and w/ still no son, he set to redefine his conscious
while she kissed his lips, he conjured up her coffin
and set to rise above all that Anne had cost him
And away he go to hold his own.
Same ol', same ol'... tripping ego.
-He know that Ego- can take no more
-So he go and turn on - his queen 'come whore
-He know that Ego - it must move on
-And so on, he boast "her head will roll"
... So Henry he let loose that ego she'd taunted
and Annie she falls from all that grace that she wanted
For cheating and treason, to the Tower she marches
While Henry he turns coat and the masses applaud it...
-He know that Ego- can take no more
-So he go and turn on - his queen 'come whore
-He know that Ego - it must move on
-And so on, he boast "her head will roll"
Her head will roll.
And Annie she rolls on, just not how she wanted
That Annie she rolls on, just not how she wanted
That Annie she rolls on, just not how she wanted
That Annie she rolls on, just not how she wanted
12. Comfortable Fools
So we toke away the break down, never gonna be found
among all the clouds we gather round
May the silver line be here and now and every time the spark it sounds
among all the clouds we gather round
Uncomfortable fools we are... Comfortable fools we are.
So we booze away the break down, never gonna be found
among all the friends we gather round
May the nevermind be here and now and right up til we passing out
among all the friends we gather round
So we work away the break down, never gonna be found
among all the worry weighing down
May the ties that bind be here and now and never let us think alound
among all the worry weighing down
among all the clouds we gather round
