Be Safe

Song Be Safe
Artist The Cribs
Album Payola (Anthology Edition)

Lyrics

[00:06.25]
[00:11.68] One of those ******* awful black days when nothing is pleasing
[00:15.73] And everything that happens is an excuse for anger
[00:18.52] An outlet for emotions stockpiled
[00:21.42] An arsenal , an armor
[00:23.97] These are the days when I hate the world
[00:26.39] Hate the rich,hate the happy, hate the complacent
[00:30.70] The tv watchers, beer drinkers, the satisfied ones
[00:34.56] Because I know I can be all those little hateful things
[00:37.69] And then I hate myself for realizing that
[00:41.23] There is no preventative, directive, or safe approach for living
[00:44.84] We each know our own faith
[00:47.02] We know from our youth how to be treated
[00:48.88] And how we'll be received and how we shall end
[00:51.56] These things don't change
[00:53.30] You can change your clothes, change your hairstyle
[00:55.79] Your friends, cities, continents
[00:57.96] But sooner or later your old self will always catch up
[01:01.20] Always it waits in the wings
[01:02.35] (my need is slow but don't stick
[01:04.14] like //// //// //// ////
[01:05.67] like the rain on the wind*******eld)
[01:07.26] One of those rainy day car rides
[01:09.57] My head imploded
[01:11.07] The a*******osphere in this car a mirror of my skull
[01:14.05] Wet, damp, windows dripping and misted with cold
[01:18.78] Walls of gray
[01:20.46] Nothing good on the radio
[01:22.08] Not a thought in my head
[01:23.45]
[01:23.94] I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that you'll wish you were dead
[01:34.96] Let's take life and slow it down incredibly slow (I know a place we can go)
[01:37.81] Frame by frame (when you'll fall in )
[01:39.39] Like two minutes that take ten years to live out (love so hard that)
[01:42.75] Yeah, let's do that (you'll wish you were dead)
[01:45.21]
[01:47.26] Telephone poles like praying mantis against the sky
[01:50.43] Metal arms outstretched
[01:52.36] So much land traveled, so little sense made of it
[01:55.85] It doesn't mean a thing all this land laying out behind us
[01:58.96] I'd like to take off into these woods and get good and lost for a while
[02:03.06] I'm disgusted with petty concerns - parking tickets, breakfast specials
[02:07.74] Does someone just have to carry this weight?
[02:13.78] Abstract topography
[02:16.20] Methane covenant
[02:18.32] Linear gospel
[02:20.06] Ashville saleslady
[02:21.80] Stagian emmisary
[02:23.54] Torturous lice
[02:25.49] Mad Elizabeth
[02:32.38] (keep a better peoples)
[02:39.67] The light within me *******nes like a diamond mine
[02:42.60] Like an unarmed walrus
[02:44.09] Like a dead man face down on the highway
[02:46.58] Like a snake eating its own tail
[02:48.82] A steam turbine
[02:50.25] Frog pond
[02:51.30] Too-full closet burst open in disarray
[02:54.48] Soap bubbles in the sun
[02:56.09] Hospital deathbed
[02:57.40] Red convertible
[02:58.40] Shopping list
[02:59.21] Blow job
[03:00.26] Death's head
[03:01.07] Devils dancing
[03:02.19] Bleached white buildings
[03:03.48] Memory movements
[03:04.97] The movie unpeeling, unreeling, about to begin
[03:11.55]
[03:14.23] I've seen your hallway
[03:16.47] You're a dark hallway
[03:18.02] I hear your stairs creak
[03:19.95] I can fix my mind on your yes and your no
[03:23.81] I'll feel your face today in the sparkling c*******
[03:27.29] All red, yellow, blue-green brilliance and silver Dutch reflection
[03:31.77] Racing thoughts
[03:33.08] Racing thoughts all too real
[03:34.76] You're moving so fast now I can't hold your image
[03:37.55] This image I have of your face by the window
[03:40.23] Me standing beside you
[03:41.60] Arm on your shoulder
[03:42.90] A catalog of images, fla*******ng glimpses
[03:45.14] Then dawn again
[03:46.76] Untethered to this post you've sunk in me
[03:49.06] Every clear afternoon now I'll think of you up in the air
[03:52.30] Twisting your heel and your knees up around me
[03:54.91] My face in your hair
[03:56.65] You scream so well
[03:58.08] Your smile so loud
[03:59.89] Still rings in my ears
[04:01.57]
[04:03.95] I know a place we can go when you'll fall in love so hard that you'll wish you were dead
[04:14.71] Inhibition
[04:15.64] Distant tied-up longing
[04:17.51] Clean my teeth
[04:19.93] Stay the course
[04:21.64] Hold the wheel
[04:23.04] Steer on to freedom
[04:25.22] Open all the boxes
[04:27.46] Open all the boxes
[04:29.45] Open all the boxes
[04:32.13] Open all the boxes
[04:35.86]
[04:37.29] Times ******* mid-day
[04:39.19] Newspaper buildings
[04:40.49] News headlines going around
[04:42.11] We watch as they go and hope for some good ones
[04:44.66] Those tree shadows from the park
[04:46.40] That you're all whispering
[04:47.83] //// //// meanings around six pm
[04:49.95] Shadows across the cobblestones
[04:52.38] Girl in front of bathroom mirror
[04:54.24] She's slow and careful
[04:55.42] Paints her face green, mask-like
[04:58.69] Like Matisse
[04:59.31] Portrait with Green Stripe
[05:00.80] Long shot through apar*******ent window
[05:03.60] A monologue on top but no girl in shot
[05:05.90]
[05:07.15] The light within me *******nes like a diamond mine
[05:09.89] Like an unarmed walrus
[05:11.69] Like a dead man face down on the highway
[05:14.49] Like a snake eating its own tail
[05:16.67] A steam turbine
[05:18.17] Frog pond
[05:19.36] Too-full closet burst open in disarray
[05:21.72] Soap bubbles in the sun
[05:22.97] Hospital deathbed
[05:24.02] Red convertible
[05:24.89] Shopping list
[05:25.52] Blow job
[05:26.20] Death's head
[05:28.19] Devils dancing
[05:29.37] Bleached white buildings
[05:30.62] Memory movements
[05:31.98] The movie unreeling, about to begin
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