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Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean lyrics



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01. Lansing

(Instrumental)

02. Bone Rage

When she counted all the pieces, they didn't add up
Thimble breaks the abacus into thin strata
Oversharp cynical
Out of date ephemeral

If you got a bone to pick with time, we got a score to settle too

You let your fears cover your eyes

Scrapbook portraits of all traitors saved for the redux
Squeeze out tears to sleep the kindness 'til it's bitter
Bone-dry hubris
Naimono Nedalrus

If you got a bone to pick with time, we got a score to settle too
You let your fear cover your eyes, we watch you turn into a fool

You know you do
You let your fear cover your eyes

03. Give Us The Gold

Aim, aim it at the wall
Cover up your flaws
Cover, cower with me
Late, too late to call
Climb inside your faults
Point your finger with me

Hey, let me down
Let me scrounge around
In the filth of downtown
Oh, stay, I wanna bring you home and take
Little pieces of your stake
In what you live for
Point your finger
Cover, cower

Give us the gold
Get us to go
Give us the go
Give it, give, give-a, give-a, give-a, give-a, give-a, give-a
Give us the gold
Give us the go
Give us the gold

With a safe
Too safe to follow
Got a harness around my hand
It's only beating right now
Hate
I feel it dripping out my tongue
And heavy words got me undone
And I bleed forlorn

Oh, hey, let me down
Let me scrounge around
In the filth of downtown

Give us the gold
Get us to go
Give us the go
Give it, give, give-a, give-a, give-a, give-a, give-a, give-a
Give us the gold
Give us the go
Get us the gold

Nails breaking out the shell
Got twisty ties up in my hair like
Killed roadkill for myself
Ate fat and sickness for my life
I'm too thirsty, out of sauce
I'll dry up like a rainforest
In 2050, I'll be fine
Got diamond perfume on my mind

Give us the, give us the, give us the, give us the
Give us the, give us the, give us the, give us the
Give us the, give us the, give us the, give us the
Give us the, give us the, give us the, give us the

Give us the, give us the, give us the
Give us the, give us the, give us the, give us the
Give us the, give us the, give us the, give us the
Give us the, give us the, give us the, give us the

04. Hold Me In

I cannot miss
I cannot miss it
I cannot miss it all
If nothing
If nothing happens
If nothing happens

I'll fall free and hold my breath
Hold it to say
Hold me in, I'm perfect that way
But hardly safe
What you say, boy, goddamn
Goddamn
Goddamn

Low ceiling
Delicate pieces
Insulation
Feathering off

Hold my breath
Hold it to say
Hold me in, I'm perfect that way
But hardly safe
What you say, boy, goddamn
Goddamn
Goddamn

Taken off track
I'm loving back
Swing between my ears
Shiny on fire with the wind whip
Whipping my tears back

Taken off track
I'm loving back
Swing between my ears
Shiny on fire with the wind whip
Whipping my hair back

Hold my breath
Hold it to say
Hold me in, I'm perfect that way
But hardly safe
What you say, boy
What you say, boy, goddamn
Hold it to say
Hold me in, I'm perfect
I'm perfect
I'm perfect that way

05. Egg Replacer

On my weight
Do the "k"
Ask me one
Chemed essay
Still no prey
Know to hey
Eye the way
Stay the same

Her, the ire, your wordsaw
Un-sad for I know you
Doughnut sec, the truce, the
Burden lay your way at the

Ox, go her, limb dutchess
Lightning frayed her faces
We'd just wanna be left by
Too gone, ask to admit it

Calm my whit
To the king
As me one
Camp to say
Justin too play
Neil too hey
I, their way
Stay the same

So ear be-all the wurst-uh
Don't settle for Yule, no high
Ease dropped wind you warned shore
Self, scarce shit list lion

Dyeing at the el are
The member born babies?
Is this intake the old Waze?
Have enough good old days?

06. Cradle Of Rocks

When you lay you down the night starts to spin
For fear of missing out
The dead heat of words and prose and scenes
You just can't let it go
Edges of your eyes strobing in the weak
Night running out
You're never too young to rest
So won't you take it slow?

Small as you are
Lost in thought
Dreaming of love
Cradle of rocks

You don't even know the dices that you'll roll
The dips in the road
White-knuckle your bones to stay your course
You just can't let it go
If you're quick to hate and if you're slow to love
Well, that's your hitch to tow
You're never too old to change
So don't you prove me wrong

Small as you are
Lost in thought
Dreaming of love
Cradle of rocks

Pebbles dream upstream to grow into boulders
Holding up mountains and cairns rolling forward
Pebbles dream upstream to grow into boulders
Holding up mountains and cairns rolling forward

07. Lovell

(Instrumental)

08. lovemenot

Ladies and gentlemen
Boys and girls

You love me or you love me not (Here's hoping)
You love me and will be my box (To live in)
We'll stand together, cast one great shadow
We'll put our heads together, make plants grow

You love me
Love me not

You love me or you love me not (You're showing)
You'd rather squirrel away my heart (Than know it)
We'll stand together, not standing on another
Blowing kisses at the others, throwing flowers in the furnace

You love me
Love me not
You love me
Love me not

You love me or you love me not
You love me or you love me not
You love me or you love me not
You love me or you love me not

09. Bird Song

Looking for myself in the birdshit on my car
Rorschach holds a mirror from their wings to my heart
In the motel sign, ballerina and a moth
Many voltage light, many missed and soon forgot

I keep it open
I let the birds in
I set their song free
Though it doesn't make sense to me

Holy greyhound bus hums the frequency of love
Little feathers float on my pillow and my comb
I feel it when you go, like you are my voodoo doll
I'm glorious, I'm glowing in the sign above it all

So I keep it open
I let the birds in
I set their song free
Though it doesn't make sense to me

I keep it open
I let the birds in
I set their song free
Though it doesn't make sense to me

10. Catch Light

Everyone knows my elbows should be nowhere near yours
Watch as I slip my way into the room

I'm sorry I had something on my mind
I'm sorry I do not speak unless I

Move through me a while
Like I haven't ever been before
Spin me more, make me unfold
I wanna catch light

Step on my lines as I smile, pretend I don't got 'em
You could light me on fire, oh, I'm just happy to be here

I'm sorry I had something on my mind
I'm sorry I do not speak unless I'm sure I'm right, ah!

Move through me a while
Like I haven't ever been before
Spin me more, make me unfold
I wanna catch light

Move through me a while
Like I haven't ever been before
Spin me more, make me unfold
I wanna catch light

Ah
Ah
Ah-ooh

Move through me a while
(Poppy seed muffin, poppy seed, whoa)
Oh, move through me a while
Like I haven't ever been before
Ah, spin me more, make me unfold
I wanna catch light
I wanna catch light
I wanna catch light
I wanna catch light
I wanna catch light

11. Garbage Shark

Unhand me now
Unhand me now
Phasing light posts swinging on
Can you imagine us on it?
Never was a wanderer
I've loved, I'll love again
I'll love again

Hand in hand for now
We're flying without a wheel
We're unbuckling my waist belt
Unhand me now

Diesel star burning bright through your sky
Pull me out of the trunk and your mind

Diesel star burning bright through your sky
Pull me out of the trunk and your mind
Wave of glass, coral gash, metal brine
Garbage shark, minnow blood, take your time

12. Golden Hour

All the love in the world is not enough
For you have a head start
Somewhere in the sparkle of your eye
There's a memory I can't leave behind

In a car, on a train
No shade, I criss-cross every
Voicemail I can't delete
I'm saving up for square one as a
New adult, fresh alone
Heart flies half-mast

And I rush to face the love that shapes me
The way you nod, the way you talk
The silly stuff, the "had to be there" and the
Nagging sense of what we lost
The emboss wears down

And I rush to face the love that shapes me
Golden hour let the tears run free

We love to give
We love to lose
We love to live
We love to die
We sacrifice what we remind

We love to give
We love to lose
We love to live
We love to die
We sacrifice what we remind
The love
All the love in the world is not enough

13. It Happens

Good boys are a lot of fun
They vote and clean up when they're done
Fast summer on tank top lane
I met a dreamer on roller skates
Pet back and pinched his cheeks
I laughed with him for seven weeks
When wonder had its way
He cut me off, I said okay

(It happens)

Tall girls seemed out of reach
But I met one who didn't look down on me
She had so much to say
I read each word and washed away
I wake up in that tub
With dreams of hot nights when I was young
There's nothing like the first
But I'm no better or no worse

(It happens)

And I got there by going there
Please don't rush me
I got there by going there
Please don't rush me

'Cause I got there by going there
Please don't rush me
I got there by going there
Please don't rush me
I'm never running again