Smoke Tricks Lyrics

Bitter Birdies

You said you need some new blood and that i missed the mark 

Your’e going through some changes looking for a spark

I take you to the airport i watch you fly away

You’ll celebrate a little, cuz maybe i’m to blame

No more chasin all of that odd love

No more wait and see how it plays

Bitter birdies set us in motion

Carried you so far away, carried you so far away

Yeah you got my letters, wrote me back a line

‘Gone to Catalonia, drinking all the wine’

Stuck here in Chicago, meet me in Madrid

We’ll wait until the headaches remind us what we did, did…

No more chasin all of that odd love

No more wait and see how it plays

Bitter birdies set us in motion

Carried you so far away, carried you so far away

Maybe that we’ll end up in Cleveland, oo but that’s a cruel price to pay

Bitter birdies set us in motion

Who knows what you keep in your brain….who knows what you keep in your brain.

Good bad habits

Humble braggarts up in my feeds they all want my attention who could believe

Them bitches burn so bright?  And all on my side

God can ya feel it turning you on don’t they wreck my intentions getting them wrong

And still they burn so bright, tell me it’s time.

Swimming in uncertainties, doesn’t matter where it’s headed

Man i miss the planet earth right?  Who could believe we’d be better off this way?

The diversion division’s picking my brains don’t they wreck my attention, so insane

And still they burn so bright and all on our side

Idle, while bored so plug into pages, @lilyrad12 is spitting her rages I me my, killing some time

Swimming in uncertainties, doesn’t matter where it’s headed

Man i miss the planet earth right?  Who could believe we’d be better off this way?

Real Sublime

I won’t stop ringing the bell babe even if it’s just a one star shining on

Might be my ravenous hunger ever wanting the wildest wonder

All the sayings and hatings that I swore

We’ll trash them, throw them on the fire

Turn it into a national pastime 

Tell only stories that seed the real sublime

I want a brand new eye, built on a bluff that can see forever

I want an unchained heart that never ever beats for anyone but you

Getting sick of these in between times, keep wearing a sweater that fits too tight

Still believe in a log in the sock drawer still stuck at the center of it all

Maybe when the wave comes a crashing maybe then we’ll see beyond the knives

I won’t stop ringing the bell babe, maybe then we’ll be pleasantly surprised

I want a big fat brain, filled up with apples and future visions

I want a unchecked heart that never ever creeps for anyone but, never ever creeps for anyone but you

I want to trade these arms for wings that fly over misty mountains

I want the fastest car so i can drive just like the bandit

I wanna write the songs that make the young girls scream forever

I wanna selfless love that never ever creeps for anyone but never ever creeps for anyone but you….but you

A Longing

I was dreaming when I wrote this, tho my eyes were open wide.

Without a doubt the world is inside out.  Man I just want to feel alive

Tried a bunch of ways to bring it

Flaming wax and whips of doom 

Never remembered the safe words

Sung upside down and slowly passing out

Man I just want to feel alive

Each day I wake up believing, could it be something I’m missing

Something I’m not even seeing a way, a light….

Want to hold onto what’s real, hidden I want to reveal it so….good.  So so so good

I was dreaming when I wrote this, tho my eyes were open wide.

Never remembered the safe words

Hung upside down and slowly passing out

Man I just want to Lordy I need to God I just want to feel alive

Man I just want to see the light.

Only This Once

Wait for the golden hour

Meet by the ally door

It’s only this once

Oh aint it thrilling now 

Don’t make a sound

Past your double door

This and never more

Hold your breath now

Don’t make a sound

Down in the spiders hole

Arm in arm we will go

Sleep in your lousy paradise

Feel alive for a little while

Feel alone the rest of the time

It’s only this once

Run Red Lights

Theres something in my blood, and maybe i’m the only one

Who’d run red lights to get to you, run red lights….

So don’t leave me in the dust, cuz i forgot that you’re the only one.

It’s just because i’m dumb.

But I’d run red lights to get to you 

Run red lights

Some happy ending’s keeping us sane, no no keeping score now now now

Early in the morning, hits the same way

run red lights to get to you, run red lights, carry it through

run red lights to get to you, run red lights, carry it through

Pulling at the strings that could be untied

Just to see how far they’d unwind

But hardly ever out up in the sunshine

Thinking that i don’t belong in my mind

Maybe i don’t belong in my mind

Thinking that i don’t belong in my mind

Maybe i don’t belong in my mind

Could be i don’t belong in my mind

Maybe i don’t belong in my mind

Thinking i don’t belong in my mind

Overwhelming Odds

Don’t crack up just yet, let it stir you around

The odds are all laid out, god i’m bored with them

They carry vultures only through the bottles

So emphatic, over and over, did I mention overwhelming odds?

And don’t let mothers down, no not never break

And rage your body running out of landing space

Don’t get bored of all the wayward broken hearted

So emphatic over and over did I mention overwhelming odds?

did I mention overwhelming odds?

If wild naked rabid psychos rub up against your world

Who but a fool would answer too?

God i’m such a punk, an overheated lout

I never paint it straight, never pump the brakes

So don’t crack up just yet, let it stir your heart

The odds are all laid out, mm i’m bored with them

They carry vultures only through the bottles

So emphatic, over and over, did i mention overwhelming odds?

Did I mention overwhelming odds?

Ride

Can we pull this over?  Or are we too set in our ways?

don’t want for nothin’ just an eye in the hurricane space.

Oo just wanna serve here.  Ah but those sons a bitches burn bright.

I might need to miss ya.  You’re getting too good at seeing my signs.

Oh, it’s not a stage.  Pulled by the wilder the wilder ways.

Ride, ride here by my side.  Here by my side.

Oh the river so wide, the river so wide.

Oh, tell me somethin.  Is this a waste of our time.

Tame talons hold us down in the river so wide

Oo just wanna serve here.  Ah but those hollow trinkets burn bright.

No counterfeit kisses will kick up the pink butterflies.

No, don’t act our age.  Toss off the fraudy feelings, and kiss her.  Remember.  Fall into an empty space.

Ride, ride here by my side.  Oo the river so wide, the river so wide.  Ahhhhh.