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Telephone
03:56
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Lyrics:
Staying at the Carlyle Hotel, drinking Prairie Fire’s all summer long
Watching Space Jam all the time, living off Razzles and ice cream
There are ex-babysitters who’ve daydreamed about having you maimed
Your mother’s in LA, trying to remember your name
Running a room tab longer than the Second Geneva Convention
Trying to call up everyone you knew from lacrosse summer camp and
Pygmalion
There are knights after your hand, slowly pining away
The bellboy would kill a man, just to hear you say his name
I’d call your telephone but you’ve always been a million lightyears away
With Raleigh in the Amazon, looking for lost cities in the rain
In your dream Napoleon said, no one comes back from going on a leave
You took the next flight out of Nuevo León, still couldn’t wrap your head
around turning seventeen
The lions at the city zoo, are wondering if you’re going to stop by
Your mother’s putting on rouge, remembering you as a child
And you’re thinking, have I been jittering around like a kite
Or am I like a starling that just doesn’t know what a murmuration looks like?
I’d call your telephone but you’ve always been a million lightyears away
With Raleigh in the Amazon, looking for lost cities in the rain
In your dream Napoleon said, no one comes back from going on a leave
You took the next flight out of Nuevo León, still couldn’t wrap your head
around turning seventeen
You were at Gettysburg and Diamond Beach,
At the premiere of Cymbeline
You were a Russian royal, a Barrymore
Now you’re just a girl, alone in New York
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2. |
Vienna in the Rain
03:01
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3. |
Boy Scout
03:15
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4. |
The Movers
03:40
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I Want To Be Your Friend
03:04
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Look at that double bill on the marquee
I wish I hadn’t made all these plans
You can keep Duke Kahanamoku
And the white sand beach
I’m supposed to be packing I know
Combing my hair, throwing out wine
I can’t stop dreaming about
Blowing chances and wasting time
I’m supposed to be running out the door
It’s all I can do not to wish for
Vanishing cabs and canceled flights
Waikiki beach can wait, a few more nights
I wish you’d call me at some ungodly hour, to ask me to help you write your novel
I want to be your friend, not only when I’m all you got, when other people are around, not just when they’re not
Are we living in the only universe where I’m bored out of my mind in a lawn chair?
I should know better than to tell anyone anything
It only makes you lonely
You got burned once when they took your story about two gay army vets
Cast a couple of jokers, played it broad for laughs
I’m supposed to be running out the door
It’s all I can do not to wish for
Vanishing cabs and canceled flights
Waikiki beach can wait, a few more nights
I wish you’d call me at some ungodly hour, to ask me to help you write your novel
I want to be your friend, not only when I’m all you got, when other people are around, not just when they’re not
Are we living in the only universe where I’m bored out of my mind in a lawn chair?
I should know better than to tell anyone anything
It only makes you lonely
High school friends, moms and dads, old baseball and country stars
You know you can’t go your whole life thinking everyone’s going to one day let you down
I wish you’d call me at some ungodly hour, to ask me to help you write your novel
I want to be your friend, not only when I’m all you got, when other people are around, not just when they’re not
Are we living in the only universe where I’m bored out of my mind in a lawn chair?
I should know better than to tell anyone anything
It only makes you lonely
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6. |
Your House
03:02
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7. |
Cape Canaveral
03:56
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8. |
The Afternoons
05:31
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Snowstar Records Utrecht, Netherlands
Snowstar Records is a Dutch indie-label since 2003.
Artists: I am Oak / broeder Dieleman
/ Remy van Kesteren / De Toegift / Donna Blue / Luka / Cape Sleep / Kim Janssen / Beachdog / Jack Poels / Ella van der Woude / Lian Ray / Herrek / Town of Saints / LUIK / Bart van der Lee / The Secret Love Parade / The Subhuman / Lost Bear / Ian Fisher / The Fire Harvest
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