Thursday, May 24, 2007

teenage anthem for the drunken boat

i'm working on lots of demos and new songs here at home. we're also working on the ep at phil's studio and should have our next single out in the next couple weeks. this is a demo for a song i wrote this week called "teenage anthem for the drunken boat." hope you like it.

beat radio - teenage anthem for the drunken boat (demo)

these are the lyrics:

i made you a mix tape
okay it's not a tape at all
but it's full of sad songs
that make summer feel like fall
the reason i'm calling
the thing that i'm trying to say
maybe i should come over
the truth is i'm on my way
the truth is i'm on my way

when i was another
i knew you a little while
now all of your lovers
are waitng for you to smile
your sons and your daughters
are torturing you with words
reliving the past
believing in reverb
the priest of the future
and the pastor of present tense
are out in the alley
destroying the evidence
we harbored a fugitive
the essence of wasted youth
all caught up in fishnets
you smoke on the roof
we navigate freely
the arc of the starbright evening
the classic rock station
says "don't stop believing."
"it's more than a feeling."

the priest dressed in crimson
the pastor in white
they are never wrong
they are never right
when i was another
i knew you a little while
now all of your lovers
are waiting for you to smile
i made you a mix tape
okay it's not a tape at all
but it's full of sad songs
that make summer feel like fall
i remember the moment
the bullet returned
back into the gun
i was looking for something
that can't be encoded
in zeroes and ones.

4 comments:

Mishabelle said...

I absolutely adore this one. ♥

Anna said...

is that Kafka??
ive seen that pic before and i cant remember where.. driving me crazy...

brian said...

hey! it's actually arthur rimbaud. he wrote a poem called the drunken boat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud

best,
bri

Anonymous said...

drunken boat, indeed.