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Time Keeps Ticking Away
01:37
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From out of nowhere our eyes meet
We've both left it too late to cross over the street
Cos this time our hearts skip a different beat
I say it's so good to see you, I lie through my teeth
You say it's been too long, but I know the score
The truth in your eyes says you wish it was more
We say we'll do lunch but we both know we're lying
I try to find the time but my time keeps ticking away
Where does the time go
When does it end
Who could begin to describe
A time when we could be more than just friends
Please could you let me know
When you and I could pretend to act normal again
It's the same old story
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They took it all!
They took my money
They took it all!
They took my car
They took it all!
They took my dignity and left me at the minibar
Try something new!
Go write your novel
Try something new!
Go have a fling
Try something new!
So what you waiting for, the world is yours, you can do anything
Why can't I just be me
Instead I gotta be
The sort of guy that wouldn't go just falling for
A set of silver hips
Loose lips sink ships
If that's what it's all about, count me out
This isn't gonna go the way you planned
If you don't give a damn
About becoming immaterial
So come on kid
Leave the old man suffering to the old
I had a dream!
I was somebody
I had a dream!
It went away
I had a dream!
I couldn't leave it, there was so much I forgot to say
Say something else!
Please change the subject
Say something else!
Cos this is hell
Say something else!
Being surrounded by teenagers taking photos of themselves
The 20th century
Got up and had to leave
You'll find me in the corner contemplating
Where the nearest exit is to me
Cos I'd rather be at home watching TV
This isn't gonna go the way you planned
If you don't give a damn
About becoming immaterial
So on your feet son
Cos 'poor me' is not a good look for you
You're never gonna get the old you back
Sitting round in your pants
On your own eating cereal
So come on kid
Leave the old man suffering to the old
I know I'm not unremarkable
Maybe you'll see my potential
Or you might wait a lifetime to find a millionaire
So give me one good reason why I should leave the house at all
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I'm sick of listening to you if I'm honest
It isn't too late to back down
My friend your poor attempts at wisdom are moronic
You don't know what you are talking about
I know you want to seem intelligent
But to me you are an embarrassment
The disappointment your poor mother felt
I only wish that you could comprehend
Peace signs
Nazca lines
If you can't bear to understand
I'll close my eyes
Is it really so strange?
I'm reading you loud and clear that
You don't want to change
I doubt you would feel less insecure
If everything stayed the same
So let boys be girls and girls be boys
And either listen or shut your face
Cos I don't wanna know your name
So pipe down
Because you're boring me senseless
Is this the point at which you say I should be honoured
By your unique disposition
You seem to think your opinion's wanted
But I think you've misjudged your audience
I know you love to play the idiot
So quit pretending you're so innocent
And let's not mention your belligerence
Is it so hard for you to comprehend
Springtime
Daily grind
If I love you and you hate me
I'll wave bye bye
Is it really so strange?
I'm reading you loud and clear that
You're not going to change
I know you don't think you're ignorant
But actually you come across so profane
So why don't you eat yours and I'll eat mine
And either listen or shut your face
Cos I don't wanna know your name
Why won't you ever listen
To anything except your own opinion
Manners maketh man as someone said
A pity you missed that lesson
I'm not here to work on your delivery
Surely it should be fucking obvious
So pipe down
Because you're boring me senseless
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Is it true we're through
Or is there anything else that I could do
To convince you to stay
Well maybe some truths are best left not to say
So we kiss with the lights on
Avoid conversation
Can't talk to you without you ruining my day
Why must our battle be a public display
Wild accusations
The games we play
They go nowhere
She came back from yesterday
To laugh at our disarray
We argue and fight
So why waste all night
Pretending that one of us might change
She'll come back to haunt me
Harbinger of misery
She's waiting in line
And biding her time
To sweep our remains in the bin of history
And if we let her, she might give
Enough rope to hang ourselves with
She'll kick back the chair
And then laugh as we swing
And so I concede
Say I wouldl happily extend the olive leaf
But if you want me dead
If war's what you want then a war's what you'll get
So I fear for our children
And pray we don't use them
As weapons with which to cause each other pain
I listen to them, you just push them away
And if we're complacent
She'll catch her break
Cos she waits for mistakes
She came back from yesterday
To laugh at our disarray
We argue and fight
So why waste all night
Pretending that one of us might change
That's when she'll claim victory
Our downfall her legacy
She's waiting in line
And biding her time
To sweep our remains in the bin of history
And when the world sees the mess we're in
She'll bury us both
Thrust a flagpole in
And dance on our graves
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You say you want to take a break
I try and hide the disappointment from my face
Cos it's not my place to try and state my case
It's your decision, yeah it wasn't mine to make
So I try and give you space and not think why you're not replying
And I know it's inappropriate to message all the time
So I bite my tongue and do my best to get you off my mind
But how am I supposed to rest when I can fucking tell you've been online
Oh what the fuck is wrong with me
Cos I can't help myself
Cos you keep
Playing with me
Hide and seek
Do these precious tricks turn you on
It's breaking me
What do you see that I don't see
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6. |
You And Me
02:40
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You and me
Maybe in another life we'd be capable of being civil
Why don't we agree to disagree some more
It's becoming a bore
How we don't get along
You and me
We weren't so much Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio and Tybalt
Why don't we call a truce and not start a war
What we fought to save
In a puff of smoke was gone
Like it amounted to nothing
You and me
Even with the best intentions we'd always be nothing but trouble
It was our destiny to drown in the flood
In rivers of blood
We shed together
You and me
I'm not saying I was innocent but you weren't blameless of nothing
Why are you so intent to even the score
Please don't be raw
That I wrote this song
I hope some day you'll be happy
I know you don't feel the same
It's like you don't even know me
But I remember your name
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I've wasted all your money and your time
I might just have to face the fact that I'm
Not gonna be what you want me to
I'll never be what you want me to
You said I tried my best and that's enough
Why can't you just accept the fact that
Nothing turns out like you want it to
Nothing turns out like you want it to
And you can tell me your secrets honey
Don't be scared
I'm a real disappointment baby
I don't care
I'm a failure of my time
The house and the garage
It isn't mine
And I make no excuses
I'm a nimrod's son
Won't you please share the wealth with me
Cos I want some
I'm a mess of me and you
Not gonna lie
You may as well get used to it
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8. |
Down On The Inside
04:19
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Fresh out of ideas
(We keep our thoughts on hold)
I'm clean out of inspiration
(Maybe the blood runs cold)
Strictly for those who were born in spring
Was the summer of our discontent
It's the same deal
(Why should I waste my time)
The thing you're too scared to mention
(Because the pain is mine)
What were you expecting me to become
I'm a poor excuse for a nimrod's son
So what
I've got
Not much to show for my life's work
I just accept that nothing turns out like you want it to
(Every night)
You see I'm down on the inside
I know that you can't help your pride
But deep down inside
I know you feel like your luck's all out
So pull up a chair take a glass
And say here's to the past
It's just like a daydream
(Drifting with no control)
Except one you can't wake up from
(Please make the music stop)
Trying to catch a break in life is a mystery
Yes a mystery, but
The cocaine and drinking
(And all the sleepless nights)
Go well with my medication
(It's like and endless fight)
A strict regime of abuse to myself
Does a world of good for my mental health
And if I find myself
Struggling with issues of self worth
I tell myself
"If life gives you lemons
Make a lemon sandwich
And chow down"
Because I'm down on the inside
I know that you can't help your pride
But deep down inside
I know you feel like your luck's all out
So pull up a chair take a glass
And say here's to the past
I'm afraid that's the best I've got
I'm not going to get any better
It's okay, I just learned to fail with dignity and pride
With dignity and pride
I'm down on the inside
I know that you can't help your pride
But deep down inside
I know you feel like your luck's all out
So pull up a chair take a glass
And say here's to the past
Cos I'm down on the inside
I know that you can't help your pride
But deep down inside
I know you feel like your luck's all out
So pull up a chair take a glass
And say here's to the past
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A flicker still she burns
Pretending we haven't come to the point of no return
And dimmer is the flame
That shines behind your eyes saying you don't feel the same
And I've no-one left to blame
Well it's nice to dream but the sleeper must awake
In another world
I'd look at you and you wouldn't turn away
In another world
I might have faith that I'd be the lucky one
In another world
Clocking in and clocking out
Are you unsatisfied with the way your life turned out
Wearing the same suit every day
Wouldn't you like to get a million miles away
To a modest fantasy
Where it's more than just a dream to feel ok
In another world
I'd lose control and throw my clothes away
In another world
I'd tell you exactly where you could stuff your job
In another world
I might be underworked and overpaid
In another world
You'd underpromise and overdeliver
In another world
I dwell in darkness when you went away
In another world
Maybe I'm missing you after you were gone
In another world
I wouldn't blame myself for everything
In another world
I could forgive myself and I might move on
In another world
I wouldn't regret the things I didn't say
In another world
I could have held your hand as we walked along
In another world
The sands of time would not just fall away
In another world
I'd have the chance to put right what once went wrong
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Google it.
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Gary Yay Brighton, UK
80s-pop obsessed punk idiot desperately trying to figure out life in general.
FFO: Descendents, early Weezer, Lemonheads, Husker Du, Replacements, Lifetime, Jawbreaker, Guided By Voices, Jimmy Eat World.
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