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sounds, boring

by sad bone institute

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you say Saturday could be crazy: there'll be popcorn & board games we'll break out monopoly so i get to your place & we set up i'm the Rothschild of Blue & you're in love with the Electric Company i'm rounding Vine Street headed past Trafalgar Square inching towards Mayfair pretty soon you're losing quite badly you're bleeding cash from the shoe i'm not sure about your strategy you mortgage Fenchurch at Whitehall sell the EC at Oxford smile at me attractively i keep rounding Vine Street head down past Trafalgar Square inching towards Mayfair when you land on a hotel at Euston i do a dance with my hat i sense impending victory but you introduce a new house rule you say "personal items now count as valid currency" i'm a little puzzled when you lose your shirt at Leicester Square but you don't seem to care you say, "i'll tell you a little secret: i've only got one piece to spare & i'm inching towards Mayfair"
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all caught up in blankets & pillowcases. you hide yourself in winter coats & negligees. but i saw you once without the mask, you wore no makeup. tears rolled down cheekbones. & time moves along. calling me up just to say you've turned to stone, then you're gone. think you thought it'd last forever. all caught up in powertools & coarse sandpaper. said we'd build a better life from 2 x 4's. but it's all bent nails & flaking plywood & useless tables. & the puddles you tracked home. & time moves along. calling me up just to say you're in oregon on the beach. thinking you might find a little peace. all caught up in the scent of you, i wish i wasn't. i'll meet you down at the high school in the old wood shop. where the air still smells of cigarettes & accidents & sawdust & acetone.
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at night there are wolves i hear them howling from the canyon souls in the walls hear the bats in the halls fear is gonna blow this house down nights like this i wouldn't wish on anyone cause no one believes in fairy tales but fairy tales believe in you jesus h goldilocks i see a light under the juniper tree three bears with a spoon riding with the man in the moon but this ain't no children's tale no it ain't gonna end well nights like this i wouldn't wish on anyone cause no one believes in fairy tales but fairy tales believe in you girls without hands cinderella at the dance duel to the death with the wicked witch from the west & in the east the sun is rising nights like this i wouldn't wish on anyone cause no one believes in fairy tales but fairy tales believe in you & they know where you live it's true, fairy tales believe in you
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sunk cost 02:23
admit that i was scared i couldn't empty out my head of the fragile things you always said would suffocate me now i'm down below the lake where the algae & the catfish snake between the shellfish & the rocks that wrap around me a room made of sea nurtures me grow gills & sleep on a water bed & the moon may shine down but i wouldn't know i'm living too far down below near the bottom of the sea there's an old man waiting around for me with a glass of rum & a tv that's all i care for i will stay inside my room on a ship that sank 300 years before you knew that i was here i am its captain & you're the first mate of nothing nothing gained, nothing lost a calculated sunk cost but sometimes at dusk when the sun goes down i feel you walking along the beach try to think of a way to reach you make my way to the surface i'll break for the surface of the sea
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bayou song 02:14
when my car wouldn't start, we left it out by the bayou hitch-hiked 40 miles to the nearest gasoline station found a cheap motel where we could spend the night talking about your fear of highways and trips out on the ocean while the battery lay spent out in the great wide open you slept so close to me that you touched me for the first time & that's how i found out about the scar from your ex-boyfriend & the way that you shake when you're trying hard not to open brushed away that insight, so that i wouldn't be left haunted by the ghost of the bayou that looked over my shoulder while i did what i had to do to put you back in order in the morning i confessed, broke right down beside you that i'd left the lights on just so i could get inside you
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get out your kaleidoscope, let's pay a visit to the park. i'll meet you by the barbecue grill. we'll find the hydrants in the dark, unscrew them & start a river. pretend we had a raft. you can be captain, that's fine, i'll man the mast. when we were sailing, i watched time slip away; you drew the lines with your compass & i was ready to obey. fractal patterns charted a course to bombay, or anywhere the winds could take us. we were ready to take on anything. fearless us, mighty pirates now, streaming down this snowy river way. "set a course for booty!" i yelled as we turned into a sad cliche. i had your laugh in my head while i was charting the attack. "they've got guns & bayonets, so watch your back." when we were sailing, i watched time slip away; you drew the lines with your compass & i was ready to obey. fractal patterns turning our ship every way. didn't know which way home was & it was getting kind of late. so you got out your kaleidoscope & rotated to a new degree. we spotted two park rangers in a golf cart heading out to sea. i nearly jumped overboard. "run them through! make em walk the plank!" but they blew apart the galley & we sank.

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some songs written at various times over the past 10 years. they aren't very good. you will probably be disappointed.

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released November 19, 2009

all songs poorly written, badly instrumented, and painfully sung by tal yarkoni.

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