w/ Shapes and Sizes

March 12th - Burlington, VT (5th Element)
March 13th - Portland, ME (Space)
March 14th - Kittery, ME (Buoy Gallery)

w/Takka Takka

March 15th - New York, NY (Cakeshop)
March 16th - Philadelphia, PA (Kung Fu Necktie)
March 17th - Athens, GA (Caledonia Lounge)
March 19th, 20th, 21st - Austin, TX (SXSW)
March 22nd - Dallas, TX (Mountain House)
March 24th - Bloomington, IN (Rachel's Cafet)
March 25th - Chicago, IL (Av-Aerie)
March 26th - Normal, IL
March 27th - Pontiac, MI (AC Rich)
March 28th - Toronto (Lee's Palace)
March 29th - Montreal, QC (Il Motore)

w/ Thao with the Get Down Stay Down

April 17th - Washington, CD (Black Cat)
April 18th - Durham, NC (Duke Coffee House)
April 19th - Mt. Pleasant, SC (Village Tavern)
April 20th - Atlanta, GA (EARL)
April 21st - Tallahassee, FL (Club Down Under Florida State)
April 23rd - Austin, TX (The Parish)
April 24th - Ft. Worth, TX (Lola's)
April 25th - Lubbock, TX (The Foundation)
April 26th - Santa Fe, NM (The Sub - College of Santa Fe)
April 28th - San Diego, CA (The Loft, UCSD)
April 29th - Los Angeles, CA (The Hotel Cafe)
April 30th - San Francisco, CA (Independent)
May 1st - Portland, OR (Mississippi Studios)
May 2nd - Seattle, WA (Chop Suey)
May 4th - Boise, ID (Neurolux)
May 5th - Salt Lake City, UT (Kilby court)
May 6th - Denver, CO (Hi Dive)
May 9th - Chicago, IL (Empty Bottle)
May 10th - Cleveland, OH (Beachland Tavern)
May 12th - Northampton, MA (Iron Horse)
May 14th - New York, NY (Bowery Ballroom)
May 15th - Philadelphia, PA (First Unitarian Church)
May 16th - Norfolk, VA (The Boot)

Deadwood

dead dead wood
on the ground
dead dead wood
crackling sound

when i come to your house at night
i stumble through your bedroom door
blind and laughing i fall on your bed
and bite your leg but i want more

but your body falls short every time
because you panic yourself over the edge
you've never loved a woman before
and i can feel it in your touch so dead

dead dead wood
on the ground
you know that i could
burn this all down

tiny little flames
jump and lick your face
how did we get here?
get the fuck out they're burning this place

when i come to your house at night
your window shows me things you do
and it's hard lying here looking up at the sky
because i know you're underneath it too

but if i pedal hard enough
i think i think i can outrun this thing
if i pedal hard enough
i'll make it to another place

where i look for numb inside those arms
and smash down old walls with this pain
grab my head and push it hard
soon you'll be dead wood again

dead dead wood

frog in your throat
he's got your tongue
black black smoke
fills you up yum

Desolation

Clap clap one two
Clap clap three four
Tell me who the ef you love more

Clap clap five six seven eight nine ten
I will have you back again

I got a man
He goes by the name of Jesus Christ
Don't you think you can love me better?

Desolation

Clap clap one two three four five six
Picking up a jelly bean with thirty thousand chopsticks

I got a man
He goes by the name of God Almighty
Don't you think you can love me better?

Desolation

Desolation

Clap clap one two clap clap three four
I showed you mine, you show me yours

Clap clap one two three four and five
I'm so alive.

Desolation

The Lot

last night on my bike i went for a long long ride
i went to the edge of the island so so wide
at the edge the ground runs out and it all turns to black
when you hit the dark st. laurence there's no more turning back

except to say sha na na na na

i found an empty one hundred blocks wide
i found a great big scar in the city's side
i turn into fingers and i poke myself inside
the city feels pain and let's out a great big cry
and inside it was poison, the ground there was poison, nothing had grown for years
except one tree growing leaves like it's shedding tears

i saw a great big factory that burned bright in the sky
on guard was a chimney fire spewing serpent one thousand hands high
my little heart was pounding, my whole heart was pounding, i was terrified
but i was finally alone in the city so wide

au revoir montreal

Claymation

Heard it coming miles away
Yeah we do it just for pay
It took us 73 days
Made a creature out of clay

Long of tooth and cold as ice
Claws so sharp they slice the price
Eyes of ginger tears of lime
Legs so fast that they bend time

And we will make them all

Staple research on the walls
Make a ton of long phone calls
Read the words on bathroom stalls
Someday we will find them all

And we will find them all some day
And we will make them all some day

American

What I dream for you
Is not what you dream for you
I guess we have different points of view
That is why I'm leaving you

Army boots stuck in glue
You think you think you never do
You stink you stink like a poo
And that is why I'm leaving you

I slip open my wrist
I break down your jaw
I shove fist inside
You drink down my blood
Now do you know what I am made of
Now will you know what I have came from

I slit down your chest
I plunge fist inside
I grab out your heart
A thump, a thump
Now do you know what I am made of
Now will you know what I have came from
Now do you know
Now you will know

I'm an American
I want to rip off your head just to see your guts
I'm an American
Now you will know
I'm an American I want to rip you to shreds just to see if you love me
Now you will know
I'm an American

I felt your buzz in my tushy
When I sat where it was cushy
You made my heart all mushy
But when I touched you, you were squishy

You reminded me of a guy from my past
An instant crush I knew would last
A greasy-footed crackhead who lived to fuck fast
Want to hoist my flag right up your mast

Longlegs

You don't want to be here anymore baby I can tell
And I don't care
You can run around all around the nine circles of hell
You can go there (to hell that is...)

You can run away child you can run away
You can run away child you can run away
I won't hold you back

You can run away child you can run away
You can run away child you can run away
Just don't look back

Because when you do
I won't be there
I won't wait
I won't for you for you for you

I could always tell that you were a runner child
You've got the long legs, such long legs
I could always tell that you'd run a four minute mile
If you got a break if you ever got a break

It was always there
In your eyes
Right from the start
And I always knew, it came as no surprise
That this is how we part

But I'm just glad
That I never let
My guard down to you

Water, water
Hold it in your hands
Careful now it'll slip through when it turns into sand
Stand there broken idiot lonely man
Well I'm just glad that we spent a little time
Don't worry about me I'll be just fine
Really, really I don't mind

No no no no no no no I don't mind
No no no no, no no no no I don't mind at all

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Agua

I've got a paper bag for all the questions that you ask me.
I've read a thousand books trying to find what you once showed me.

Hiding under rocks is only fun until you become thirsty. Agua.
Cancel plans of research you won't get away until six thirty. Agua.
Hanging by your feet from branches only hides you when you're dirty. Agua.

In your eyes, in your eyes, why so sad.
Alibi, alibi, wish I had.
That's enough, that's enough, pencil lead.

Write it down quickly.

I've got a paper......

A hundred feet up in the canopy your mind is on the ground. Agua.
Swinging vine to vine the images are FROM the great lianas. Agua.
Gonna make it, gonna make it, gonna make it......

In your eyes......

Champion

Oh when I was just a boy
I heard the ocean sing
Looked around and no one else
Acted like they'd heard a thing

Oh when I was just a boy
I heard the ocean moan
Roared around my ears like sand
On a scratchy gramophone

Wind seemed to make out words that she said
Sister thought that I was weak in the head
Call and response til my chest had turned red

Could this be love?
That call to me

But Now I am champion
Now I am winning the war around me
And now I am prettiest girl
Now you are wondering why you never do to want me
So why can't I get laid
Why can't I get laid
The bands around my head are tightening and squeezing

I am not my own hero

You'll make a stencil out of me
You'll make a stencil out of me

Call me oh call me
Call me oh call me
Wake up and call me

Golden

Sing a song we all know
Sing it cause we already know
Sing it low cause the insects already have their eyes on my bones

If I ever leave you
I walk backwards in time just to meet you
Memories kill with maggots and mayflies
Don't go

Just how orphaned are you
Just how sorry can we feel for you
Just how much will you do to reach the golden fields?

Just how desperate are you
Just how deep will their talents scar you
Just how far will you go to reach the golden fields?

I never took you for a foe
But will I follow where you go?

Oh the golden fields
Where nothing is real
It just fell into our laps

Like downy puppy dogs
Licking off our thumbs
And it feels like sandpaper on dried up gum

Oh the golden fields
Where you are unreal
And underneath your skin
Are the earthworms and the grubs
That you kept so concealed
I am cashless now
I am cashless now

I never took you for a foe
But will I won't follow where you go

Oh the golden fields
Where nothing was real
Oh the golden fields
Where nothing is real
Oh the golden fields
Where nothing is real
Oh the golden fields
Where nothing is real