Playlist Harvey Danger

harvey danger - what you live by

Meet me up on ninety-nine
Beneath the Marco Polo sign
I'll be the one with a box of wine
And a hundred dollar car

We could talk about the lives we've led
And count the reasons we're not dead
Or maybe we could talk instead
About the ways in which we are

Always nothing or too much to say
Only so many sides of the record to play
And the song that got stuck in my head
Said you die by what you live by
You will die by what you live by
You will die by what you live by
Every time...

Like carnivores to carnal pleasures
So will we to desperate measures
Melting into stagnate puddles
Beat down by the sun

I went to schoolââ?¬â?I didn't stay
Spoke right up when I had nothing good to say
And I said it to anyone who would listen

Lay me down in the bed that I made
Starved for sleep by the shrill serenade
Singing over and over:
You die by what you live by
You will die by what you live by
You will die by what you live by
Every time...

You die by what you live by
You will die by what you live by
You will die by what you live by
Every time...

harvey danger - you miss the point completely i get the point exac

One awkward conversation can ruin my whole day
In the company of strangers with some vulgar shit to say.
Cocktail hour social like an obsolete machine
Spitting anecdotes and boring jokes from someone else's spleen.

And I always seem to miss the point completely (and here I am again).

Culture barren trainwreck and it's hard to look away
But I'm yawning like a kid in a carpet store.
Refusing to be interesting is a funny way to go
But I guess you know your business
you're the one who makes the windstorm blow.

And I always say I miss the point completely
(and here I am again, here I am again).
And I always wish you'd behave more discreetly;
it's kind of puzzling, but you're falling into place (it's what you do best).

You're a popular opinion,
You're an easy thing to foster,
You're an ostentatious tourist,
You're a predictable posture,
You are a record left on the dashboard,
You're a nasty little hang.

You miss the point completely
I get the point exactly
You miss the point completely
I get the point exactly
No you miss the point completely
No I get the point exactly
No you miss the point completely
No you miss the point-a!

harvey danger - why i m lonely

St. Leonard touched a philistine
a sacred tongue, a perfect rhyme
But even he was "not much nourished by modern love."

So i told her that everything she does is divine
and she replied with a blank expression (an object lesson in making me feel benign)
Then whispered, "independence and indifference are the wings which allow the heart to fly."

Feelings i?ve had too often, still no plan in place to soften the inevitable blow (the rituals we know).
And with the right revolting piety of tone,
the word "freedom" can make you want to lock yourself in a deep dark dungeon.

But I know everybody follows pleasure, everybody gets somewhere.
I swear, I wish I could be less aware...
now it?s absolutely clear to me that solitude is not the same as singularity,
but that?s not why i?m lonely.

harvey danger - cream and bastards rise

You're doing everything your people said to
I'd hate to be the one to break it to you
It's only sad cause it's true
They misled you, when they bred you

Somebody said some things they had no right to
Some of it stuck, and you were known as someone who
Could simply not follow through if they had to
But you have to, don't you?

You don't have to be a genius, but it helps to (It helps to)
Fools and charlatans they may get wise
But only cream and bastards rise
Yeah you can see it in their eyes

You follow good advices to the letter
You know your friend, he's doing so much better than you
Are ever likely to do, he'll eclipse you
But he will not miss you

You don't have to be a genius, but it helps to (It helps to)
All the also-rans are real nice guys
But only cream and bastards rise

People who could buy and sell you
Sharing a joke that they will never tell you
You think you're dailed in, someone has to win
And you know what that means, well then someone's got to lose
It's probably you, it's probably you.

It's not a race, it's not a competition
And if it were, you'd be in no position to
Get them to listen to you
If you had to (Not even if your life depended on it)

You don't have to be a genius, but it helps to (It helps to)
Some are aliens, the rest are spies
But only cream and bastards rise
Yeah you can see it in their eyes

Ah hahahahaha!
Ah hahahahahaha!
Ah hahahahahaha
Ah hahaha!

harvey danger - meetings with remarkable men

I had a lovely brunch with Jesus Christ. He said, "two wordsabout inanity: fundamental christianity." the food was very nice.but then He had to go and die for my sins and stick my ass withthe check. "show me a hero and i?ll write you a tragedy," (gonear an open window and that?ll be the end of me). i bowed beforethe avatar. he said, "the problem?s clear to me: you never gotover morrissey." i said "well, right you are!" "it?s so muchharder to be underfed than under-understood," he said. i went tosee KIP WINGER! he said, "in my day we knew how to party; bandstoday, c?mon, not hardly." he had a back-up singer (doo doo doodoo). he said, "the metal scene is a disgrace, but i ain?t got nodog in that race!" don?t despair, your mother loves you. don?t beproud because she has to. don?t despair, your mother loves you.don?t be proud, she gotta.

harvey danger - wine women and song

Wine, women and song: I tried them all
it did not take me long to figure I'd unlock the door to happiness
I figured wrong (with a capital R)
All the baggage I brought wouldn't fit in a mid-size car
That's why I'm walking on eggshells down the via dolorosa
(hasn't gotten me any closer so far)

Shacked up with a poet--no, it wasn't my department
Now I study the poetry of the studio apartment
Changing the catbox, baking the bread...
I shoulda been paying the bills instead of paying homage to an image
drawn from somebody else's head

Song, women, and wine:
You can't fool all the people all the time
But if you're trying, if you're looking, if you're lucky
You can always fool a few and feel fine
is the line between shame and dread:
One grips the lungs, one brains the head
But either one can crush you
Anyone can crush you

Once I dated an actor, she was working on a play;
by opening night we had nothing left to say to each other
It hit the wall, it was not resilient
She said that she was hungrier than I was brilliant
and who the hell was I to disagree?

Didn't you used to be someone who meant something to me?

Wine, women, and song:
I tried them all it did not take me long
to figure I'd unlocked the door to happiness
I figured wrong.

harvey danger - authenticity

I have a stinger; I am a honeybee.
I am a razor; please cut your wrists with me.
You?re supercommon; you flaunt your pedigree.
You?re clear as water...

I?m already spinning in my grave.

I am the subject of your documentary.
You have a question? I am the third degree.
I am authentic; I?m authenticity (i?m no such thing-a)...

I?m already spinning in my grave.
La la la la.
I'm already spinning in my grave.
I?m already spitting on your grave.

harvey danger - flagpole sitta

I had visions, I was in them
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
The rottenness and evil in me

Fingertips have memories
Mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty
I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
(but no one ever does)

I'm not sick but I'm not well
And I'm so hot cause I'm in hell

Been around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding
The cretins cloning and feeding
And I don't even own a tv

Put me in the hospital for nerves
And then they had to commit me
You told them all I was crazy
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, god dam_ you

I'm not sick but I'm not well
And I'm so hot cause i'm in hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live so well

I wanna publish zines
And rage against the machines
I wanna pierce my tongue
It doesn't hurt, it feels fine
The trivial sublime
I'd like to turn off time
And kill my mind
You kill my mind

Paranoia paranoia
Everybody's coming to get me
Just say you never met me
I'm runnin' underground with the moles
Digging holes

Hear the voices in my head
I swear to god it sounds like they're snoring
But if you're bored then you're boring
The agony and the irony, they're killing me

I'm not sick but I'm not well
And I'm so hot cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick but I'm not well

harvey danger - terminal annex

Here's something beautiful
Now smash it to bits
Save your little wheelchair empowerment films
Save your swoons, i'm spoken for
It isn't pretty to think so
But i can't feign interest now

Dreaming of the fistfight i never got into
Thinking of the mean shit i wish i'd said to you
Such a fancy lady, call her secretina
She didn't get all the good stuff
But she looked like you

Like a zero drowning in a sea of higher numbers
Everything you say to me is dumb,
(at least it's stupid)

Twenty heavy hammers smashing down
Here's a doorstep you can never darken
You complain about an overflowing cup.
Don't forget that i'm the one who filled that fucker up

Like a zero drowning in a sea of higher numbers
I remain as ever intrigued but no more astounded
Like a zero drowning in a sea of higher numbers
I think that i like you better when you just ignore me

So i sit and notice shadows growing
I think of how the clocks are slowing
Hoping hope's eternal flowing springs will do their thing and save me from myself

Like a zero drowning in a sea of higher numbers
I remain as ever intrigued but no more astounded
Like a zero drowning in a sea of higher numbers
You want ego? i will show you ego
I'm jealous now

harvey danger - sometimes you have to work on christmas

A studio apartment in a dull part of Seattle
A strand of light suspended by a thumbtack in the drywall
The restaurants are closed
So are the record shops, the banks, and bars, and Bartel drugs,
and so?s the half price bookstore
But the movies are always open
And I always have to open
A repertory movie house
Well life is not so wonderful
For 15 soggy patrons who have no better place to be
Not to mention me
I?m working for a holiday wage
My family is two time zones away,
I?m supposed to call them
My vodka and snow is melting
The alcohol isn?t helping
Sometimes you have to work on Christmas, sometimes
You have to work on Christmas, sometimes
You gotta work on Christmas,
I doubt I?ll miss this
There?s an artificial tree blinking in the lobby,
Sitting on the coffee table, yea
Strangers and spare changers stand in line like poor relations
At some kind of sad reunion
And I?m selling the tickets
They come in out of the weather
For Christmas alone together
Sometimes you have to work on Christmas, sometimes
You have to work on Christmas, sometimes
You have to work on Christmas,
I doubt I?ll miss this next year
Sometimes you have to work on Christmas, sometimes
You gotta work on Christmas, sometimes
You have to work on Christmas,
I doubt I?ll miss this at all

harvey danger - wrecking ball

Tear down the bearing wall
put up a picture window
something to look through
at the bastard colors
burnt sienna
put down the wrecking ball
who has a friend, who needs one?
i've got a way to get to work in almost any city
doesn't matter where
take a needle, i won't be there
privileges forsaken there
liberties i've taken take me nowhere
put down the wrecking ball
don't let a childhood linger
they'll take the world apart and break my baby brother's finger
so he can't shake my hand
guard the dead against my legacy
and lack the wound no more
run from nowhere, nowhere follows you
burn down the house
make sure the family is inside
nothing more to tether you
also no one there to catch you crying
nothing but my famous pillow
and my father's rocking chair
(get a sliver when you sit there)
every mess i make i make a run from nowhere
nowhere follows you

harvey danger - happiness writes white

Ariella, 7:30 I don't want to get up yet
Listen to the morning music cursing the alarm you set
As you know I've never been a praying man
I don't need a God to make me feel alright
But if you wonder why I never wrote you a song
it's because happiness writes white

I tried to put it into words, but the words just sound like mistakes
I tried to find a set of chords, but you know how long that takes me
I can't trust my fingers, I can't trust my tongue
The work is too important and we're no longer young after all
When I consider what you put up with I'm amazed you still have skin
When I consider what you mean to me... it's everything
It's everything

Ariella, 11:30 I don't want to go to sleep
turn the TV off already curse the hours we have to keep
as you know I've never been a confident man
I've been in the tall grass all my life
Until you came along now there's one less thing wrong
even though happiness writes white

I know happiness writes white
I know happiness writes white
I know happiness writes white
I know happiness writes white
I know hapinesss writes white

(are you sleeping?)

harvey danger - incommunicado

I wish the words would fail me just for once
(Just once)
Keep in incommunicado
(You don't say a word)
Look for the present tense
And come to my senses
(Come pick me up)
Just like a despera-a-ado
(A-a-ado)

I talked for twenty minutes
By the time the party ended you'd forgotten
I'm still thinking about it
Five years later

You spoke an unfamiliar dialect
(Comme ca?)
Two and a half months over
(Over)
Next think I knew someone had called for the check
(Check please)
And you were gone before I turned it over

I dreamed we were alone all night
In a house made out of beds
And nothing happened

I think about it every time I see you
That's when I try to remember
There were never any terms we could agree to

Now can I please have a moment of your time?
(Can I please have a moment of your time?)
For I have the strength to change my mind
(Read my mind)

harvey danger - pity and fear

Remember Pericles?
He democratized the city with his mind.
A little wisdom never hurt anyone...
Tell that to Socrates!
Telling the citizens what they needed to hear
(But still, they fed him hemlock.)
Now, the Greeks don?t speak my language.
I don?t get the relevance.
I am the reverence, I have no reverence.
Show me no deference; I?ll do the same for you.
La la la la
Did you ever know you?re my tragic hero?
You be the pity, I?ll be the fear,
And every subscriber will know what a truly
Great man you are.
In the conference room he said to me, quote,
?Avoid your generation?s proclivity for irony and negativity
Held so commonly - don?t let me down, son.
There was a car, the wheels came off it,
And I know that nobody never made a profit.
Center your gravity, boy,
I?m counting on you to be my protégé.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Cast it off with the rest, flip,
Your footsteps are filling up
Every time you turn around,
You can see the idols and you?ll be knocking ?em down,
One, two, three, four, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!?
Did you ever know you?re my tragic hero?
You be the pity, I?ll be the fear,
And every advertiser will know
What a truly great man you truly are.
Some with it politics like Andorra.
Some take it on like a mantle.
Some can?t hold a candle.
Some touch, some damn it.
But now I can?t!
Such a tragic hero.
You?re my tragic hero.
Such a tragic hero, ohh,
He?s my tragic hero.

harvey danger - little round mirrors

All alone
On the floor
Next to your twin-bed box-spring and mattress
The door
Is ajar
From afar
You can hear bands practicing

And When they dream they all
Dream of somebody like you
Somebody who takes what they make
Twice as seriously as they could ever hope to do
And when you dream
You dream of a day...

When you find something you could love half as much
As you love all your little round mirrors
See yourself reflected in one, theres a hole in the middle
You can't seem to fill

Bring them home
Watch them go
All you know is you hope they'll hurry back
And you cry
Then you lie your frail body down
Like a penny on a railroad track
And even if they stay in touch
The past stays in the past
But every time
You crash a little bit harder than the last
And every time you crash don't you

Wanna find something you could love
Half as much as you love all your little round mirrors
See yourself reflected in one
There's a hole in the middle you can't seem to fill

A shooting star is
A little piece of
Cosmic debree desperately wanting to fall to earth
It doesn't get too far
It's not a real star
It's hardly even worth footnotes in your memoir
Shoulder to shoulder
Up on our tip-toes
Chewing our fingers
And craning our necks
Just to see
Quite the collection
Divide by section
It's just a surrogate connection leaving you all alone

On the floor next to your twin-bed box-spring and mattress
The door
Still ajar
There you are and now you're coming to stay until

You can find someone who will love you as much
As you love all your little round mirrors
Murdering your time in cold blood
There's a whole in the middle you can't seem to fill