Attica! Lyrics

Teenage Wasteland

(Lyrics: Lisa Walker / Music: Walker, Wussy)

Do you remember the moment
You finally did something about it
When the kick of the drum
Lined up with the beat of your heart
Stuck in the corn maze
With only a transistor radio
Making paths with the soundwaves
And echoes in old Baba O

Yeah we heard you, Pete
Real loud and clear on the last one
And we were pulling for you
A thousand times a day
And it don’t take much
To sound like a sleeping prophet
When your misery sounds
So much like ours so far away

Do you remember the night
You finally heard something about it
When the kick of the drum
Went off like artillery fire
And if you’re wondering man
Well yeah I would say that it got to us
The shrapnel flew right through the screen
From the Comedy Hour

Yeah we heard you, Keith
Real loud and clear on the last one
I must have listened to you
A thousand times a day
And for one short breath
It sounds like the world is ending
Exploding in space
And beginning again so far away

Rainbows and Butterflies

(Words: Chuck Cleaver / Music: Cleaver, Wussy)

I’m gonna love you until the cattle come home
I wanna send you into another time zone
I’m gonna want you until the end of my days
I wanna lift you
To where the stars shine
On your path and mine
True
Tried
Rainbows and butterflies

I’m gonna suck you until the poison comes out
I wanna sway you if you’re ever in doubt
I’m gonna kill you with goodness and light
I wanna send you
To where the stars shine
On your path and mine
True
Tried
Rainbows and butterflies

Bug

(Words: Lisa Walker, Chuck Cleaver / Music: Cleaver, Walker, Wussy)

Intuition, it’s what you call it
You set it up, cut the rope and walk away
I’m left with just my buddy sin
I’ve got a mind to let you in
And sell my soul to keep another day

You’re the drink, you’re the drug
You’re the bug that’s alive inside of me

The nighthawks sing outside the window
And I feel you watching me with different eyes
We’re living in the shadows – you’re taking to the skies
But you’re miles away from home
Miles away from home

You’re the drink you’re the drug
You’re the bug that’s alive inside of me

Intuition, you never miss it
It fills your empty veins with every beat
Long division
Taking it piece by piece by piece
Another grave beneath your feet

You’re the drink you’re the drug
You’re the bug that’s alive inside of me

North Sea Girls

(Words: Lisa Walker / Music: Walker, Wussy)

Today we gather werewolves
And storm the castle doors
Stop along the chalky beach
For ice cream on the shore

Hair done up, makeup on
They dive in to the water
North sea girls
They go forth like it's summertime

We drive to the very edge
Until there's nothing more
Than watching all the swimmers
Shed their coats along the shore

Hair done up, makeup on
They dive in to the water
North sea girls
They go forth like it's summertime
Catch a wave to Calais
It's the newest sensation
Just go in, just go in like it's summertime

Acetylene

(Words: Chuck Cleaver / Music: Cleaver, Wussy)

This is not a home
This is an apartment
Surrounded by the things
Accumulated here
This is not a dream
This is disappointment
Pop a cork alone
To toast another year

Baby, we could burn so free
If only you would turn
Your acetylene on me

Sorta like a cell
Kinda like a prison
Spend a lot of time
In solitary there
Pamphlet on the door
Declaring He Is Risen
Too far out to know
Too far gone to care

But baby, we could burn so free
If only you would turn
Your acetylene on me

To the Lightning

(Words: Chuck Cleaver, Lisa Walker / Music: Cleaver, Walker, Wussy)

Enemies at eight in the morning
Hands on our hearts
Dynamite behind our eyelids
This is where the ruin starts
To the lightning we pray

Monica says come along
But hey, I don’t think I’ll be there

Thunderstorm, Indian summer
Late afternoon
Cats and dogs against the window
Disappearing way too soon
To the lightning we pray

Salvation is near
Job’s Daughters meet here
Monica says come along
But hey, I don’t think I’ll be there

Enemies at eight in the morning
Hands on our hearts
Dynamite behind our eyelids
This is where the ruin starts
To the lightning we pray

Salvation is near
Job’s Daughters meet here
Monica says come along
But hey, I don’t think I’ll be there

Bide your time
And when the time arises
Rise and shine and let me go

Halloween

(Words: Lisa Walker / Music: Walker, Wussy)

We’re lost in the town
Wiping fog out of our eyes
A Wednesday morning coming down
You’re last out the door
Trying to piece together
All the shit you saw the night before

When it was just like Halloween
Everyone was dressed up
And drinking in the street
Such a night I’d never seen
Like something you’d remember from a dream

It reminds me of when
I was 14 at the fair
Declaring things I’d never been
Well you always said
It was just like Sugar Mountain
But I didn’t know it then

And it felt like Halloween
Everyone was waving
As the car pulled out to leave
And that old song came back to me
Like something you’d remember from a dream

But I don’t dream anymore
Smoked too much the night before

And it was just like Halloween
Everyone was dressed up
And drinking in the street
That old song came right back to me
Like something you’d remember from a dream

Gene I Dream

(Words: Chuck Cleaver / Music: Cleaver, Wussy)

There’s a house up on the lake
Where her laughter and her lies combined
And claimed your soul to take
And there’s a lamp without a shade
In the parlor where she pinned you down
And history was made

Gene, I dream that life outside of here
Is so much more amazing
Than either one of us could ever imagine

There’s a clearing in the woods
Where you took the shot
Accused of not delivering the goods
And there’s the ring you pawned away
You can feel the branches snapping off
Remembering that day

Gene, I dream that life outside of here
Is so much more amazing
Than either one of us could ever imagine

There’s the blood and there’s the prints
From where she laid you out
And played you out and left the evidence
There’s a place away from town
Along the lonely stretch of highway
Where your Pontiac broke down

Gene, I dream that life outside of here
Is so much more amazing
Than either one of us could ever imagine

Attica!

(Words: Lisa Walker / Music: Walker, Wussy)

It’s all been done before
Miss you a ton, for sure
No one will lay a hand
I’ll make you understand
Attica, baby
Attica!
Attica, baby
Call it love

How can I ever sway
Your heart on this dog day
Too poor to take the pill
I’ll name you in my will
Attica, baby
Attica!
Attica, baby
Call it love

It’s all been done to death
I’ll give you my last breath
I can’t admit defeat
I’m standing in the street
Yelling
Attica, baby
Attica!
Attica, baby
Call it love

Home

(Words: Chuck Cleaver / Music: Cleaver, Wussy

I don’t believe I’ve seen
A darker sky
The storm is bearing down
On my friend and I

Looking out across the frozen lake
Heading into parts unknown
I will offer up my soul to take
If I don’t find you and bring you home

Don’t pull the curtain down
It’s not the end
We’re coming up the rise
Me and my friend

Looking out across the frozen lake
Heading into parts unknown
I will offer up my soul to take
If I don’t find you and bring you home

Beautiful

(Words: Chuck Cleaver / Music: Cleaver, Wussy)

The fire chief believes
It started in the leaves
And spread across the yard and up the arbor
A cigarette alone
Burned us out of house and home
Abandoned on the sidewalks
Where the sirens and the pirates picked our bones

I’m not the monster that I once was
Twenty years ago
I was more beautiful than I am today

Our everyday attire
We lost it in the fire
Now we’re sifting through the cinders and the ashes
Searching for a sign
The remains of yours and mine
Suspecting all along
We may have saved it if we’d only taken time

I’m not the monster that I once was
Twenty years ago
I was more beautiful than I am today

If the bruises and the scars
Reflect the people that we are
I guess that you could say that we’re beyond it
The fire’s flickered out
But the damage and the doubt
Make me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind the couch

I’m not the monster that I once was
Twenty years ago
I was more beautiful than I am today

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