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The Threat of Joy

by Days Off

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1.
Carefree 02:49
Hello nothing Nothing in my head Goodbye to nothing Nothing gets me sad Someone said something, but Im so carefree I get weird stares but I got no cares Your thing, I got nothing against it I just know good things come to the indifferent Im so carefree Folks got grudges But Im above it I pass some kids as theyre out at play Riding from work on the CTA They look happy and so carefree They got nothing on me I pass the park, all the Sunday pairs And this sound you know it fills the air Spirits from beyond singing right on Think youre cool and so with it Acting bored, getting noticed, But your heart, it seeks advantage doesnt it?
2.
I can see you looking at me I cant hear what anybodys saying to me Dont let me fall apart Nobodys in charge here I was fine I got a hold I had remote control Now its getting so I think its starting again Animal Management I got nothing I got nothing the wind wont approve, singing I love you to the stars Come on you could be my type Were both white and shy The world the way it is Lets get indiscriminate I got nothing I got nothing the wind wont approve, singing I love you to the stars ELECTRIC BLUES You can express yourself Keep the kids up late at night You can steal our songs But youll never ever get em right Its like electric blues Its the sound of nothing Electric blues And small hands clapping Emotion is not the enemy, but the wolf cries that bury its meaning Were birds of a feather Thats why we got to stay together Your emotions and you Change from minute to minute This is heart baby Can you dig it? A single shrill note, sustained and sustained Well unless youre blind, turn it fucking down
3.
You can express yourself Keep the kids up late at night You can steal our songs But youll never ever get em right Its like electric blues Its the sound of nothing Electric blues And small hands clapping Emotion is not the enemy, but the wolf cries that bury its meaning Were birds of a feather Thats why we got to stay together Your emotions and you Change from minute to minute This is heart baby Can you dig it? A single shrill note, sustained and sustained Well unless youre blind, turn it fucking down
4.
I heard from a friend of a friend just the other day I already knew youd leave Pack all your shit up in the trunk and Leave the bass right next to you On the seat New things We all need em Is your heart in it? Is your mind all made up? Hello Where you been? Looking out on that Midway Sunset Ash into the cold with the window cracked way out on 80s end If you find something wild or peace and quiet Its the same haul to the ending Hello Where you been? Looking out on that Midway Sunset We all strain our eyes for what comes next But you left your light on That Midway Sunset If youre living rad as daylight comes I know Ill see you at ten in the morning Out to Midway with 2 coffee cups Ill come and pick you up Im so down on 59th Keeping busy, doing fine Time wont wait for misery So I guess Ill feel it when I see That Midway Sunset
5.
The sun is up, people are smiling Aint that a thing This is a wide room There are wide doors swinging in it Worries replaced with a smile on my face and a positive feeling These strangers all around, they are family Everything you said is just a matter of fact But I had to learn it for myself The rookie is tight Name of the game is adaptation Explosive emotion Words cant explain Name of the game is adaptation Excited, but I didnt know it was a game You know how to get up, how to rise, and how to begin So many cannot make that transition Sometimes it seems like, sex, love, and fun- its all work But its a matter of time, and practice makes perfect Everything you said is just a matter of fact And I heard it But I had to learn it for myself The rookie is tight
6.
The wind is walking All out of bad ideas Chalk scrapes the old house Insults as inert as the wind I didnt know about the shape youre in Something got underneath your skin Some old pain rattling round Gotta get up and work it out Shake your skeleton Understand the real me Try to love me for me Come on get underneath Its as easy as it seems The way it starts is the way it ends Trauma come just when you begin, Talk with a lisp and walk with a limp Shake your skeleton
7.
Staying Here 04:55
Long time whats going on? I dont know, nothing at all No ones cool, no ones kind everyones so closed minded Dont have to try to hear the sound Of those old places closing down Shut down the spots we hated And something worse took their place But its all right you can stay here Were not going anywhere Its all right stayin here Down to the park on Friday night Some kid smoking in the lamplight Learning lines to some punk song Somebody had their bass on them If we were anywhere else Im not sure wed recognize ourselves But if you were born three years to either side There was someone to find you Over the wall to somewhere new I know I because I was there too May you stay yourself when you hear about somebody else So gone you just cant even imagine So close you can reach out and grab it Answers there in your past But you mumble when anybody asks Look back on something gone Its like, what was it at all? Its hard not to laugh or start to bawl When you say, I remember it all So many people afraid of whats coming so many people ashamed of where theyre from If youre mad I suggest you lose it Some other people They didnt have music
8.
I said Id be there Whenever you needed me When it went down I was nowhere to be found Im so sad about The way it all turned out Give em some line while We roll on in time Im all burned out on emotion As sad as that notion is I cant keep on running Well I tried to say how can anybody change? Meet in some messed up place To see how long its been Tell me whats so natural about it To lose someone like this I stay up nights but I dont need Christ To tell me to ease up on the line Shit is heavy all the time Go nowhere without you Cause I think so much about it I cant keep on running (x3)
9.
People shuffling in a positive motion In this line its eye for an eye You need someone Just like I do Chance or fate I met you today Your narrowed eyes are only on me Other guys they can fill out a form You come on like a nuclear bomb Thats just the way you are How do I reconcile myself with another? Is it wrong to not know how? Why is it so hard to see yourself? Why do we feel so blind? And womenwhy do they party all the time? Youre tough, shes tough So tough that youre wrong every minute Search my wallet and I break out in sweat Just trying to keep up I guess Is it fear if I hang out back? Why when we love have we got to possess? Why is it so hard to see ourselves? Why do we feel so blind? And womenwhy do they party all the time? I cant forget that summer, That too-early summer Love in the hundreds, 99, its oh no
10.
No Fires 04:06
On the one hand, some big box on the other, old ethnic pride, future as stupid and sad as the past How are we supposed to begin to decide? Buying, razing, building nothing On the outside, looking in that empty aisle No air, no spark, no fires See smoke in photographs, In the past No air, no spark, no fires The ramp curves back to the city Theres no house in the wild And no part of us deep in the concrete We knew as a child. And when theyre done? What then? Same old thing man Well, tear it down again

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released June 1, 2009

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