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naomi y
02:47
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diamonds shatter at your will
but your heart breaks against the glass
clench your teeth to cage a misery
live like a fire in the dark, live like an effigy
why naomi?
why naomi why?
endlessly days carry on
you begin and end them all alone
secret wounds breathing deep
never allowed to come apart, never allowed anything
why naomi?
why naomi why?
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little more time
02:59
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my grandfather worked every day of his life
and his only vacation was a few days to die
and he made a little money, but money can't buy
a little more time
cancer turned him into ashes before i said goodbye
just "i love you"s at christmas and i hit the road awhile
and i made a little money, but money can't buy
a little more time
rich folks live their whole lives smiling all the while
in their final moments they will beg not to die
money can buy you happiness
money can ease your loneliness
money will heal you when you're sick, but money can't buy
a little more time
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ain't going nowhere
02:56
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i breathed in the water and i prayed just like you told me
yet i am still broken and my dogs they are still hungry
why did you tell me there was an answer for my mysteries?
they ain't going nowhere
with nothing to offer, i become an offering
unmade to suffer, and made up to be suffering
why did you tell me there was an answer for my mysteries?
they ain't going nowhere
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sports bar
02:44
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i got drunk in the sports bar
in here nobody knows me
a double vodka and tonic
looks like a glass of ice water
bury me in the sports bar
haven't you heard that i'm crazy?
haven't you heard i quit drinking?
haven't you heard i'll be dead soon?
bury me in the sports bar
i want to be mourned by TVs
i just wanted to feel lucky
i've said goodbye to the good times
these days drag by like a lifetime
bury me in the sports bar
haven't you heard that i'm crazy?
haven't you heard i quit drinking?
haven't you heard i'll be dead soon?
bury me in the sports bar
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purple mountain
02:10
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red white and blue blood and guts
line the altar of the son of man and i
line my head with sadness and set off
for distant lands, and leave behind my body
as a rotted offering to be reborn in time
i am speaking through the valium
to a purple mountain caving in around me
and my friends but everyone is laughing
tearing holes into the dark to pull an angel through
against it's will to be reborn in time
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never know why
02:53
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i was going under, thinking about my mother
having visions of her as a child
trying to love her mother through a vodka bottle
and in this vision we were reconciled
it's a long way to the meaning of a life
i know we'll get there together, on the other side
of all this pain we feel, and never know why
my mothers strong and i am
my mother's child
i wish the love was stronger, between me and my father
i have visions of him as a child
trying to love his father, through a heart's confusion
and in this vision we are reconciled
and it's a long way to the meaning of a life
i know we'll get there together, on the other side
of all this pain we feel, and never know why
my fathers strong and i am
my father's child
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living with a gun up to my head
when i listen to my wounds and
my maniacal regrets
i feel like river phoenix
if i go down to see your band
i feel my life in how you play your
agonies and ecstasies
we are like river phoenix
if you still like to get fucked up
i can be your helping hand
fall into the sleep of death
and dream of river phoenix
if you still live across the way
we can make amends sometime
with soul removal on our minds
and love like river phoenix
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first love
02:14
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my first love mends my final days
like a porch light left on
after everyone's gone
will wait til you're home as long as it can
my first love mends my final days
i am shored up in pain
like a wrist tied in chains
like a back made to break i understand
my first love mends my final days
i remember that kiss
the decay in your spit
dreams too suffocated by my own hand
my first love mends my final days
every childhood will end
and i know when mine did
i tore through my own skin
only to see it mend
only to see it mend
only to see it mend
only to see it mend
only to see it mend
only to see it mend.
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mathew lee cothran Asheville, North Carolina
mathew lee cothran is a songwriter who lives in asheville, nc. he made music under the name coma cinema, and also elvis depressedly.
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