Make Me Dinner EP
March 2008
Make Me Dinner is a boutique of Missing Briefcase outtakes, demos and a couple extra pouches of potpourri to fill it out. It is also Alex's first digital-only release, so there are no wasted Scotsmen use in the making of this one!
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Track Listing
(click titles for lyrics)
1. Soldier Down
2. Waiting While Sleeping
3. Palm Trees
4. Just Like That
5. Surgeon 2008
6. Choke
7. Eternal Return (demo)
8. I'm In The Way
Liner notes
Recorded at the Ectoplasmic Studio in Portland, OR.
Alyssa Perkins sings on Waiting While Sleeping.
Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Alex Arrowsmith.
Cover design by Alex and Alyssa.
Soldier Down was recorded February 20, 2008.
Waiting While Sleeping was recorded July 2007 and February 2008.
Palm Trees was recorded March 2, 2008.
Just Like That was recorded February 2007.
Surgeon 2008 was recorded January 24, 2008.
Choke was recorded March 2007.
Eternal Return (demo) was recorded October 12, 2006.
I'm In The Way was recorded December 18, 2006.
All songs written by Alex Arrowsmith
Publishing by Alex Arrowsmith Music Publishing (ASCAP).
Copyright 2008 Ectoplasmic Records. EPCD20.
Soldier Down
I won't die too soon
Wanna be in my platoon?
Soldier down
I wanna know the score
And form opinions on war
Soldier down
I can talk like I'm there
Talking trench warfare
Soldier down
I can't find the cure
But I can sloganeer
Soldier down
I heard the seven-inch
At a red block party down in the ditch
And I remember it must have been great
To fight and hallucinate
Hey
I know bit by bit by bit
What it's like out there in the jungle shit
Soldier down
Man I can taste it through and through
Just like it do
Watching Gulf War One and Two
Soldier down
I heard the seven-inch
At a red block party down in the ditch
I don't remember what you said you did with your body
In another time dimension
In the barracks, a wave of dementia
And I remember it must have been great
To fight and hallucinate
Hey
Soldier down
Waiting While Sleeping
I was waiting while sleeping
Waiting for reinforcements
I was waiting while sleeping
Waiting for you
Never come
Cuz I was waiting while sleeping
It's all over my head and feet
I was waiting while sleeping
Waiting for the crashing sound
The sound, all the sound
Doesn't reach my mind while I'm grooming your hound
I was waiting while peeping
Looking out for number one
I was waiting while peeping
Through the walls you never see through
I was waiting while leaving
I thought for sure you'd surrender
I was waiting while leaving
Waiting for the dizzy spell
The spell, all the spell
Don't make me sick while I'm dreaming of hell
Because it's all over for me
It's all over for you
It's like everybody's feeling cheap
Stealing my threads and shearing my sheep
I was waiting while sleeping
(Snoring while waking)
Waiting for reinforcements
I was waiting while sleeping
(Tossing while turning)
Waiting for you
Never come
Cuz I was waiting while sleeping
(Hibernate loudly)
It's all over my head and feet
I was waiting while sleeping
Waiting for the crashing sound
The sound, all the sound
Doesn't reach my mind while I'm grooming your hound
Palm Trees
The palm trees rose to the city sky
And no one would change 'cept you and me
But the sky was blue and green from the evergreen
Up to the sky we climb
The palm trees came down when I moved away
They didn't come with me but they didn't stay
I hope some crocodile likes it in the Everglades
Because things last forever in the Everglades
Florida's over there but Maine's still here
With nothing in my heart but palm trees
Just Like That
Just like that I've gone away
Just like that I've turned away
Just like that and what's that
Drop of the hat
I fold my hand cuz I can
And I think you know
Just like that
But that's not any way to act
"You leave me here cold and warm
'Cause I loved you so
But you're gone just like that"
Bring me home
I feel cold
Bring me home
There must be snowmen outside
In or out
But that's not any way to act
You might have something left to share
I might have something left to share
Just like that
Surgeon 2008
I forgot to wash my hands after performing an appendectomy
I think I forgot to wash my hands before carving some crazy turkey
If cleanliness is loneliness then loneliness is surgical
Well I think I crapped in the beans at the Taco Shack (not sure)
I forgot to wash my hands after performing a French Horn solo
I think I forgot to play my horn after hanging with Zoot Horn Rolo
I may not be a model for sanitation in the 90s
Although my ancestors came up with SimCity 2000
I replaced an inflamed appendix with a Taco Shack taco
I thought he might like a little gift so I threw a taco party
If thoughtfulness is gratefulness, then gratefulness is surgical
But I'm standing on the shoulders of my rich-ass ancestors
So next time I hope you think twice before helping yourself to a taco
Because even a bean burrito may be the end of you
Oh that burrito will be the end of you
Don't help yourself to a taco
[ad lib]
Choke
Blue face
Communicating my choking face
Blue face
You make your own world with your pearly whites
Deal or no deal
Wake up to a game of Candyland
Mm mm mm mm mm mm
Tidal waves
Drain all me and I'll give you three
Tidal waves
Arabian nights in Iraqi trees
Deal or no deal
I'm the red man in the crowd
I'm the red man in the crowd
Choke
Blue sky
Lying face down in cobalt skies
Blue sky
Distant wailing of old blues guys
Deal or no deal
Hands and knees up in my face
Hands and knees all up in my face
Choke
Eternal Return (demo)
I've been strung up by my neck once or twice before
Such a world that's left me once or twice before
And I've been in love with you before
And seen my love working over time and time again
And seen my love working over time again
Because I've been love with you before
All this talk of walls is making me cynical
Falling in love with you is as easy as it sounds
Because I've been in love with you before
And seen my love working over time and time again
And seen my love working over time again
Because I've been love with you before
I'm In The Way
I'm keeping an eye on the perimeter south
Stuffed up in the attic
My ears all full of static
And any little sound has my belly on the ground
Nervous
Because every now and then I get an unexpected guest
A walking babblin' brook
A human by the book
And any second now, she's bound to show up talking loud
Talking of...
Just what I'm undeserving of
I'm in the way of love
And I watch the breeze clean the ashtray on the porch
In control of my glands
Hatching evil plans:
"I'm sorry, mopping up the floor takes lots and lots of snores"
Thinking of...
The engineer sneers
I keep messing up the bridge
I'm getting in the way of love
I may not be good
For her suburban majesty
I got in the way of love
I got in the way of love