Music

Morphine And Cupcakes

2011

TRACK LISTING

• Kindness

  Is it the same moon?
  Watching over you
  I shed another skin
  Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
  But I didn’t

  Far reaching stars
  Blinded in the grass
  By pickup lines and gin
  Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
  But I didn’t

  If you walk in the rain
  You might just get wet
  If you lose something
  In time you’ll forget
  You’ll forget

  Something to be said for bravery
  Instead of just following your feet
  You sway and you bend
  Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
  But I didn’t

  State of disrepair
  We laid in night after night
  Knives could cut the air
  Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
  But I didn’t

  The town may be changed
  But you can’t change the well
  Looking for a substitute
  In this hell that we create
  Histrionic bells

  So I bow down
  Down and out
  Pack my bags to Zen
  Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
  But I didn’t

• Nashville

  I’ve been waiting, waiting for so long
  So long for something to give
  Tapping my fingers on the table
  And trying to find the will to live

  I’m a long way from the gutter
  But it’s still on my mind
  Sometimes your heart just settles on things
  When beauty is hard to define

  Maybe Nashville is where it’s at
  Need a boy in a cowboy hat
  Knows how to sing with blood on his hands
  When I’m down he don’t turn his back
  I’ve been to California, I’ve been to New York
  But I’m thinking Nashville’s where it’s at
  Gonna find me a Dave Rawlings like Gillian did
  And when he plays he’s gonna play cool as a cat

  Spring comes around again and again
  And the birds don’t seem to pay this price
  Still smoking cigarettes, lookin out at the Chelsea Hotel
  Cut my wrists not once but twice

  You’re the only war I believed in fightin for
  But your battle was so hard to win
  You don’t believe in playin fair
  You have her at home, me in the wings

  I’m your sin, I’m your prayer
  You buckle your pants, and you kiss my hair
  I’d make you tea if you cared
  But you believe the press, you think your rare

  Maybe Nashville is where it’s at
  Need a boy in a cowboy hat
  Knows how to sing with blood on his hands
  When I’m down he don’t turn his back
  I’ve been to California, I’ve been to New York
  But I’m thinking Nashville’s where it’s at
  Gonna find me a Dave Rawlings like Gillian did
  And when he plays he’s gonna play cool as a cat

• Crying When It Hurts

  It’s a one way street and
  You say you’re alright
  You got it down this time
  Your workin nights and he’s
  Cleaned his act up
  Playin pedal steel for a band

  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  And you know its gonna hurt

  You know he loves you
  It’s the way he calls your name
  The way he holds your hand
  It’s the blue of his eyes
  And the red of his fight
  Way he flickers and burns on stage

  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  And you know its gonna hurt

  Gold leaves fall and you
  Tie your hair up
  Fill the tank with gas
  And the roses help
  And you wear your lipstick
  Go see the medicine man

  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  Don’t come cryin when it hurts
  And you know its gonna hurt

  And it’s just for Monday
  And we’ll sleep on Tuesday
  It’ll be easier by then
  And they call you reckless
  And you call it bad nerves
  Careless generations

• Gate Opener

  What are you the gate opener
  Key bearer or what?
  With your drama, your discourse
  Talking up the nothing that you got
  Man, you can keep him for you
  You deserve each other, baby I’m through

  Glory days, your trials
  An all your clippings
  Genius on your arm
  Man, who you think your kidding?
  But you can keep him for you
  You deserve each other, baby I’m through

  Conductor of his harem
  All his girls
  With your feuds, ya weak fists
  The sick web that you curl
  Man I don’t want to know about it
  Tell it to each other if you can stand it

  There you are every time
  I come back to town
  Nothings changed, look!
  You’re still around
  Tryin to save your own face
  Crawlin into him, like a moth to the flame

  Cry on my shoulder
  And say you’re gonna save him
  But you’re his only problem
  He needs to lose you as a limb
  But he can keep you for his
  Been going on for so long now, what is just is

• The Young And The Dead

  Time is on your side
  And I’m on the other
  You say she comes from a bad home
  Yeah don’t we all know that one?
  But if you gotta go, than babe you gotta go
  Let me lay here, take your arrows and your bows

  Spend your time picking cotton
  Singing bout girls not forgotten
  But I’m not a line in a song
  Yeah I’m not something for you to do wrong
  So if you’re looking for a thrill, there’s the lights on the hill
  Babe I got nothing left to spill

  Tonight the lights are blue
  I lay between St Vincent’s and you
  You’re all curls and crooked teeth
  Yeah and she lays beneath
  What you forgot to mention, say, “Babe I got good intentions”
  And I’m a sucker for a look alike

  So take your greyhound bus
  With the downtrodden tunes you strum
  Yeah baby it’s alright
  Yeah I’ve walked many a line
  You’re just another dead end
  Another throw on a sharp bend
  And the dead can keep me company tonight

  Say you’re up for the challenge
  But there’s a gutless undercurrent
  Night plays like a violin,
  You wear me like a ribbon
  I’m gonna be sad to see you go
  I’m not as tough as I’d like to show
  Baby you can go yeah you can go

• Sorry

  I was the one, you said I treated you bad
  Said you couldn’t be with someone so sad
  And every time you came to me
  Every time you tried to call a truce
  I had both hands up, wasn’t putting them down

  I can put on a brave face for the masses
  Tears are like a storm cloud, threatens then it passes
  Everyone had something to say
  Everyone and their two cents
  Look at all of them, shooting off in the backroom

  Could I say sorry
  Would you hear me out?
  I got gypsy eyes
  But a vicious, a vicious heart

  Everyone wants their own little piece of you
  I just wanted you to take me in the afternoon
  Do whatever you wanted
  Sail me like a wave
  Just don’t go, always walkin with your back turned

  Sarcasm has got me through before
  Dry muttering will probably get me there again
  I just want you to know
  You’re the one I never forgot
  But it looks like, she’s feeding you well

  Could I say sorry
  Would you hear me out?
  I got gypsy eyes
  But a vicious, a vicious heart

  So go back, they will all take you
  Seek your applause among those who will not cut you loose
  Those who need a flamethrower
  A celebrity mascot
  They will all render you right

  I would’ve said sorry
  But I didn’t know where to find you
  You know you, yeh you
  You could’ve said sorry too

• Free Man

  You say you wanna be a freeman
  Well baby that’s good for you
  Its something else for me now
  Never felt the need to rise above

  I will go it alone
  Head out on my own
  Lean against this wall
  Smoke my cigarettes
  Like they do in the movies
  Like they do in the movies

  So I meet you at the Laundromat
  Where we watch the same things go round and round
  Read yesterdays newspapers
  Make peace with what we’ve left behind

  I will go it alone
  Head out on my own
  Lean against this wall
  Smoke my cigarettes
  Like they do in the movies
  Like they do in the movies

  You never were a sure bet
  Always one line ahead
  A win on you never good to gauge on
  My tear streaked vegas

  You say you wanna be a freeman
  Get them shackles off your back
  Freedom aint all its cracked up to be
  Baby I coulda told you that

  I will go it alone
  Head out on my own
  Lean against this wall
  Smoke my cigarettes
  Like they do in the movies
  Like they do in the movies

• Glory and Gunpowder

  She was two steps into a habit
  She’d been there before
  He had one foot in Mexico
  And the other out the door
  They were both lookin for someone to even the score
  When they met that glory an gunpowder cleaned the floor

  He was used to movin round
  Payin cash for girls
  She never knew the difference
  Between morning and a loaded gun
  They were both lookin for an accomplice on the run
  If you mix that glory with a little gunpowder man you could shoot the sun

  He’d been married once
  Now he was just playin his cards
  He said no fallin in love
  She said Mister, I’m good at that
  He was lookin for a lover, lookin for a friend
  She said you be glory, I got the powder, shot him the best smile she had

  He’s hard to pin down
  Got that fire, got that charm
  She spends her days givin up
  And starting again
  She was lookin for a sailor, lookin to be saved
  Mix that glory with a little gunpowder, got yourself a real nice taste

  The Dragon and the Snake
  And all their Gemini talk
  Its all spoons of Mercury
  And nights of vicious words
  He says baby, come over here, let me hear you sing
  She says Glory, Hallelujah, ya shot right through me

• Billy
• Hallelujah

  Can’t tell if you really love me
  Or if you’re just passing through town
  You can take anything you want
  Pack it up or set it down

  You don’t have to love me
  Don’t have to do what you say
  I don’t need no flowers
  No promises in the hay

  But if I die tomorrow
  Stamp your bare feet on the ground
  Ask the trees to hold me
  Lay me down, lay me down

  Sing hallelujah
  Hallelujah,
  Hallelujah
  Are we gonna make it through?

  You don’t have to love me
  Just be with me through the night
  When morning shows her ravaged face
  I’ll try to be alright

  But if I die tomorrow
  Stamp your bare feet on the ground
  Ask the trees to hold me
  Lay me down. Lay me down

  And sing hallelujah
  Hallelujah,
  Hallelujah
  Am I gonna make it through?

• Morphine And Cupcakes

  Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
  Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
  Its only powder, its only sugar
  Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert

  Find the ground to dig your hole if that’s what serves you
  Find the ground to dig your hole if that’s what serves you
  Its only the sunrise, its only the dawn of a new day
  Find the ground to dig you hole if that’s what serves you

  Tell me the reasons that your right if that’s what makes you happy
  Tell me the reasons that your right if that’s what makes you happy
  You’re a heavy load, but ill take the blame
  Tell me the reasons that your right if that’s what makes you happy

  Take the car and drive all night if that’s your idea of freedom
  Take the car and drive all night if that’s your idea of freedom
  Its only a red light, its only a white line
  Take the car and drive all night if that’s your idea of freedom

  Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
  Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
  Its only powder, its only sugar
  Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert