Told Slant - Going By lyrics


1. I Don't

I used to look at you
Like a fireplace in a living room
I was the tired face lying next to you
How are you?

Now I have different words when I talk to you
And different faces to look at you
Some are tidal waves, some are
"How are you, I miss you"

But I don't wanna think about it at all
(I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't)
I don't wanna think about it at all
(I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't)
I don't, ohh oh ohhh
I don't, ohh oh ohhh
I don't, ohh oh ohhh
I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, oh

I used to think of death as staying the same
But I used to look at you without feeling this way
Your mom's phone call felt like a get well card
I think it's my fault

I don't wanna think about it at all
(I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't)
I don't wanna think about it at all
(I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't)



2. Green Nail Polish

I woke up and I smelled like you
You woke up and I could tell that you weren't happy
So I walked to the tele

I don't wanna make my bed for anyone
I don't wanna spread my legs for anyone
I like to make my breakfast alone
Walk myself alone, and then back to the porch

But you liked my green nail polish
And I liked your sharp black ---
It wasn't love, but I don't know what to call it

Oh oh oh ohhh oh oh ohhh oh oh ohhh oh ohh oh
Oh oh oh ohhh oh oh ohhh oh oh ohhh oh ohh oh

You can kiss me just so you can read my texts every five minutes
And reread all the ones you sent to make sure that you meant them
You can kiss me just to miss me later
You can kiss me just so you feel better



3. Tall Cans Hold Hands

With your sunglasses on and your feet in the creek
I would not go around here if you were not here with me
And I'm assembled this way in the space here, don't take
There's no legible south I can evoke when you go away

Life was not bad with tall cans and hold hands
You're my best friend and I need you, do you know that?

With your overalls on and your feet in the creek
An assemblage of moments of when you wanted me
And I evoked you today, with my feet in the creek
As if you'd feel something shake you, as if you'd think of me
And say

Life was not bad with tall cans and hold hands
You're my best friend and I need you, do you know that?



4. High Dirge

Wet my face in the bathroom
Try and shave off the heat that you speak onto me if I have to
I can shriek at a pitch more dissonant
Sometimes I have to

Like when I left your apartment
In my shorts and knee high socks
Wet faced, red eyed, and hair tied
Riled up as a beehive

It's a long life, I can't get it right

You can't be whole
When you look inside you'll find more of your problems
And I need you around
Like the ground needs a figure just to be something at all

It's a long life, I can't get it right
It's a long life, I can't get it right
It's a long life, I can't get it right
It's a long life, I can't get it right

It's a long life, it will waste you in return
It's a long life, it will waste you in return
It's a long life, it will waste you in return
It's a long life, it will waste you in return

I like your house
Trees bend and tire swing in your backyard
Your mom went out
To smoke and I could tell that you would read about her

It's a long life, it's hard to get it right

I dirge for each "I don't have the time for you"
And I dirge for the way that I am going by
And I dirge for each 2 o' clock just waking up
Oh long life, how is it that you go by



5. Eggs in a Basket

The love is gone if you have to ask it
There will be no sap tapped from a casket
There will be no hands held through the last of it
No hands clasped and --- --- on mattresses

The love is gone like eggs in a basket
Reading old text threads, covering the date with my thumb
Pretending that you just wrote

"I love you, when are you coming home?"



6. Low Hymnal

When the dirge is done
And my body is still my body
Well not the illegible one

Why don't you comfort me?
I know my heart is a window in the dark to you

Why don't you comfort me, oh
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

When the loom is gone
I wanna shriek at a pitch so dissonant
All the raptors will fall

Why don't you comfort me?
Why don't you comfort me?
Why don't you comfort me?

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

You can battering ram this life
Felix, you can bettering ram this life
You can battering ram this life
Did you know that you can battering ram this life

You can battering ram this life
Felix, you can bettering ram this life
You can battering ram this life
Did you know that you can battering ram this life

You can battering ram this life
Felix, you can bettering ram this life
You can battering ram this life
Did you know that you can battering ram this life



7. Tsunami

I am not a tsunami, so don't look at me that way
I wanna be a good sky on a bad day

And today was a bad day
I want someone to grab my face
Tuck my hair behind my ears
And say

Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful
(Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful)
Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful
(Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful)

And I don't know how to talk to you
Without a can in my hands, oh oh ohh
And without a can in your hands, oh oh ohh
And with all these people around, oh oh ohh
And when we're by ourselves, oh oh ohhh
Oh oh ohhh, oh oh ohhh, oh oh ohhh
Oh oh ohhh

Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful
(Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful)
Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful
(Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful)

Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful
(Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful)
Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful
(Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful)



8. Delicate

The interstate trees and parking lot weeds divide the concrete
What divides us is between you and me
And I can't stay here cause I will not grow like parking lot weeds
What divides us is what fucks me up

I, I I, I'm so delicate when you're around
I, I I, I'm so delicate when you're around

You can freeze me right here on the passenger side unless you want me to drive
Oh, raindrops collide on the passenger side, I watch them go by
I also go by
What divides us
I also go by
What divides us

I, I I, I'm so delicate when you're around
I, I I, I'm so delicate when you're around

I wanna battering ram this life
When I go by
Where do I go by
When you go
By



9. Sweater

Talking used to pass the time
And smoking used to pass the time
But talking became a waste of time
And smoking became a waste of time
And my life became a pantomime
Of my life when I liked to be alive

You got a new sweater
But I didn't know til I saw it in a picture
My life stayed the same
But you wouldn't know cause I never take pictures
And I don't understand why you're living there
And I don't understand your sweater

Ohhhhhh, ohhhhhh, ohhhhhh, ohhhhhh

I wanna move to the woods by the side of the highway
Where I can watch the deer spent their last living minutes

But I, I I I, stopped wearing my bomber jacket
When I, I I I, realized that I was little
And I, I I I, stopped wearing my navy peacoat
When I, I I I, realized my thoughts were ugly
And I, I I I, don't understand your sweater
And I, I I I, don't understand why you're living there



10. Wappingers Creek

Big hearted me
Floating by you on ice skates
Vodka mixed in pink lemonade
So much love without higher stake

Wappingers Creek
Looking for turtles in the murk by the fallen tree
Water makes waves on my ankles
I wanna thank you for assembling me

Oh, Wappingers Creek
Where my sister threw --- off the ---
And I threw rose petals after them
We got dinner after that, and went to bed



11. Cannon Balls

Ash filled mountain top gunshots
Sound like cannon balls, cannon balls, sinking boats

And ohhh, I was sinking so
I was thinking about whether I'd rather go
Like the animals, animals, shot below
Or my family, family, slow, slow slow

And it got hot so suddenly
We were cannonballs into our swimming holes
With our socks and our shoes on the rocks
I was thinking oh,

Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful

So why are we treating eachother like animals