maybe i can’t ever get it right
12/8/2023
OSCAR
V1
My eyes are open you don’t see
Your time in monetary
I could crush your spine
between my teeth
You’re too trusting
and too sweet
C1
Cards on the floor
I thought you would bring some more
Adjacent friend what
If I played pretend
V2
Everybody’s
moving no one’s doing
How they’re supposed to
How are you?
C1+2
Cards on the floor
I thought you would bring some more
Adjacent friend what
If I played pretend
Dancing around
You’re so disappointing
Right out the door
Black leather in my hand
~ Inst break ~
(quiet v2)
Everybody’s
moving no one’s doing
How they’re supposed to
How are you?
C2+C3
Dancing around
You’re so disappointing
Right out the door
Black leather in my hand
You turn around
Right before I get the chance
Returned again
I’m so disappointing
GUS
V1:
my best friend called to say
he’s late from self delays
on the drive he asked her name
the free ride lie to save
C2:
face
No alarms
Shut the phone
Eyes on the road
Safe from
The outside
The window
For the widow
Who got a ride
V2:
So Oscar’s just for me
Voice cracked on melody
While singing honor’s song
And sang the bridge too long
C2:
Stepped
The wrong way
Face on the floor
Said “settle down”
Rushed out the door
I tried my best
To ignore the rest
Gathered my things
Fingers release
PERRY
V1
I Shoulda told Oscar I felt too uptight
To go and hear his show tonight
Since all these strangers came to town
And stay in the only inn around
Pre chorus:
down keep it down
Down keep it down
Keep the noise down
Down, down
Down keep it down
Please keep it down
Down, down
Please keep it Down
Chorus:
Just walk away, take a break, and turn the tv on
There’s nothing much to do with the news unless they’re losing nuclear bombs
Just tell the time and tell me what I’m missing bout this place
Oh what a shame they gave the name of that guy, wait, what was his face?
V2
Bill Adams, aged 27
Sent away to hell or heaven
Cuz With three shots it ain’t that far
But he Left his body in his car
Prechorus extended verse:
And now the cops are out in search for
the culprits and the poor dog they think they took, Lord
Pre chorus:
down keep it down
Down keep it down
Shut the fuck up
Keep the noise down
Down down
Down
Chorus:
Just walk away, take a break, and turn the tv off
There’s nothing much to do with news when masochists can never get enough
Just tell the time and tell me what I’m missing in this place
Oh what a shame it’s plain, old Laura just got up and walked herself away
JASON
V1
Guuurl we got the guy who did it
Aw he was begging for a minute
Fell for that old routine, oh please mister
Please, won’t you give a ride to me
Chorus
Red, can’t seem to wash it out of my
head, deep dream, will haunt me til I’m
Dead, I did my time, ya know I’m really trying to make up for the pain and change my
fight, But maybe I can’t ever get it right
~Inst break~
Guuurl, I know ya wanna hear it
See the scale of punishment
Yea he was gargling blood
But no one could know if that’s worth what he’s done
Yea you should feel pleased
Still, I need to come clean
Oh, I’m ashamed to admit it
But what if he wasn’t the one that really did it?
Chorus:
Red, can’t seem to wash it out of my
head, deep dream, will haunt me til I’m
Dead, I did my time, ya know I’m really trying to make up for the pain and change my
fight, But maybe I can’t ever get it right
maybe I can’t ever get it right
LAURA
V1:
paws out the door, at least for what I heard
“hey Joan” come clean, breaking on TV
the cycle - “come clean , if you did these things”
foot shuffle out the door, so misheard descriptor
disgruntled and shaking, I heard his key rings
back on the street, I wonder if they’d come clean
C1:
no one showed to Oscar’s failure
of a show, his cheap
entertainment, Joan stays close
as Gus walks away, eyes closed
V2:
back’s turned to me, I’d do the same thing
if I could see, through his disbelief
scratching at the door, so I lift the window
not taking a peak, he don’t believe me
yelling at me, but I see nothing
“your pipes are rusty, it’s metal i’m smelling”
C2:
closed it down, should’ve known better
but that didn’t sound right
Bill’s more quiet, that’s for sure
then where did Joan go?
JOAN
Please miss, can you make my voice out?
I can’t seem to talk to
Anyone now
My Bill, was taken away on
Unfounded charges, and
he’ll never return
Chorus
Before I knew, we took a ride
She looked too old, her scary blue
Eyes darted back, no empathy
So I yelled from the back, both glared at me
V2
Dog days, seem to be over
I have no shelter,
to cover my head
All just, cuz Bill liked the stories
And brutal transgressions
That Gus used to tell
Chorus:
The she monster yelled, Bill won’t come clean
On overpass, idolatry
Bill’s eyes are closed, hid in the backseat
I curl in to, please take me back
MILDRED
Every night I used to dream the exact same thing
kinda nice but again a little boring
Simple Schizoid, nightmare fantasy
Truly horrible sleep but then it seems
I could do anything
My eyes burned with a fire but
My body’s gone cold
Vision cuts thru the crowd cuz
I’d sold em my soul
Fly straight thru my life
With just one pure fo-
Cus it’s enough
And it’s awesome
Every day once awake I used to curse my fate
Bitter doom of a mood was my forte
Chasing dreams by all means was just an escape
But now it seems I’ve achieved em
(And that’s my, aw…)
And that’s my mistake
The reason justice is blind
Is cuz she wants to be free
From all the facts and the rats
and the ugly
Can’t tell where the hell I’m
supposed to be
Without the ignorance
Of knowing what I dream
Now I get perfect sleep
The reason justice is blind
Is cuz she wants to be free
From all the facts, and rats,
and all the ugly
Can’t tell where the hell I’m
supposed to be
Without the ignorance
Of knowing what I dream