Wharfless
June 2005
Following the finely-polished Albatross Project, Alex decided to haul the singer-songwriter songs out of the closet once again and record the best album of your entire life. The sentiment is filled to the pie crust with style and rawness, and even real, actual drums recorded with one microphone! The yield is a collection of Alex's strongest songs to date, including "New Times And Fire Road," "Bail" and "The Daylight." It is similar to a cleansing summer rain when you do not have any plans for a barbecue. However, you must be warned – Wharfless may make you want to have a barbecue.
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Track Listing
(click titles for lyrics)
1. New Times and Fire Road
2. Wharfless
3. Bail
4. The Daylight
5. Not For Good
6. What You've Done to Me
7. Hold On To The Wolves
8. Millions Murdered
9. When I Died
10. Need Someone
11. Tried and True
12. Haggle
13. What Daze
New Times and Fire Road
Now I know it's not that weird
Got hit by you, my blood got smeared
I killed myself and now you know
If you play it cool, you're a dead man
I've got a set of real faces
Yours is one I always forget
And when I see you, it's like the first time
Oh you're beautiful!
I never listen to his advice
I want you to know, you're not my vice
Cat on the wall
And then explode
A dusty sign for fire road
There's nothing here but fear and doubt
And you don't know what good can break the silence
I tried it out, and here you stand to tell the tale
For my sake
And they can say to fill our spaces
But holes can be our saving graces
I went without, and I'm within
I can see the air around you now
I never listen to his advice
I want you to know, you're not my vice
Cat on the wall
You never showed
A dusty sign for fire road
New times from later on
Through the eye to fire road
New times from later on
A dusty sign for fire road
A mound of dirt
You never showed
A dusty sign for fire road
Wharfless
I'm wharfless
Nowhere to go
I'm wharfless
No one to run to
No shining lighthouse
No family waiting
No dock to dock on
No blown kisses
I'm wharfless
I'm lost at sea
I'm wharfless
No good company
No sturdy anchor
No long pier
No hand to hold on
No homecoming
So to the whirlpool, swallow me up
So to the shark tribe, swallow me alive
So to the torpedo, fire away
So to the albatross, take my bribe
I'm wharfless
I'm lost in me
I'm wharfless
My wits have left me
No last clearing
No reward
No plank to walk on
No resting
So to the whirlpool, swallow me up
So to the shark tribe, swallow me alive
So to the torpedo, fire away
So to the admiral, take my life
Bail
We hear the talk of all of it ending now
I hear it's coming 'bout ten months from tomorrow
Where will she go to?
Where will she find a place to fight the end?
If she wanted to
Don't you bail on me
Don't you bail on me
Don't you make me have to fall for you
Don't you bail on me
Don't you bail on me
I'm not going to get away from you
So many people, so many chances
What's one more gone if there's always another?
"People come and go,
Love does ride a wave," she says
But we know she has her own reasons
Don't you bail on me
Don't you bail on me
Don't you make me have to fall for you
"That's not a reason!
That's an excuse to take the long way!" I say
And she only looks at me for another day
I can't keep prying like this
Don't you bail on me
Don't you bail on me
Don't you make me have to fall for you
Don't you bail on me
Don't you bail on me
I'm not going to get away from you
I know she's in her head too much
If you come to me, I can rebuild you
Feel the silver breeze
And know you can't leave so soon
So the end comes like a thunderclap
The summer storm is in the air around her
By now she's certain that she's leaving me to live
The way she couldn't when she always saw the ending
Don't you bail on me
The Daylight
Curse the rain and curse the shadows
As through the holes we see the daylight
Coming down and pounding the pavement
I saw a stork flying over New York
The world's shaking on its path tonight
And through the holes we see the daylight
Let winter come for it's time to sleep
Before the big bang we took the long leap
What man made this Mt. St. Helens?
What man made this cosmic impact?
What god made this sunken shipwreck?
What devil made this something to remember?
Kiss her face and make her gasp
There's something stirring out of her grasp
Be moral bender of legal tender
And through the holes we see the daylight
Curse the blade and curse the darkness
With blood we lost the last of the daylight
Making sense is making amends
For the longest time I've lost the daylight
What man made this wildfire?
What man made this rain come down?
What God made this ticking time bomb?
What devil made this something to remember?
Shining on through clouds of gold
Somehow we still sleep through the daylight
Through the daylight
That's just the world and what it needs
That's just the man making sure it bleeds
That's just how life ends, always from above
That's just how it goes without the daylight
Not For Good
She doesn't get many thoughts from me
But she doesn't have a face
I hear she fought in a secret war
With an even more secret force
In my mind I'm not so good
But I just put up my hood
Do you like me wearing glasses?
Do you like me making passes?
But I know it's not for good
The horror I felt never went away
I tell myself it's business
She's the girl who shines, the girl to shun
Doesn't that make you want to run?
Doesn't that make them crazy?
I don't give a damn about Jesus and the lamb
And every contract is a scam
Hanging by a thread is the walking dead
Damn, this girl is a ghost and she's yellow
But I know it's in my head
And I just tore down my shed
Do you like me sporting a shield?
I'm the same when I'm unexposed
But I know it's not for good
I think I've said all I need to say
Yet I keep the window down
I think I've said all I need to say
Yet I keep the window down
But I know it's not for good
And I just put up my hood
Do you like me wearing glasses?
Do you like me making passes?
But you know it's not for good
What You've Done to Me
Beautiful colors
Keeping me up late at knight
Mystical colors
Keeping me away from your flight
Brutal colors
Splattered blood on a canary
Primary colors
The tones I see in your eyes
And you know what you have done to me
You know what you've done to me
Shades of grey
Keeping me on my toes
Shades of blasphemy
Keeping me knocking on the cross
Shades of sanity
So I can live out of order
Shades of your mind
So you can keep me on a line
And you know what you have done to me
You know what you've done to me
You know what you've done to me
You know what you've done to me
And I know what I've done to you
You know what you've done
You've made a mess of a decent girl
And I know what they've done
Fallen in love with the prodigal son
Yes, you know what you've done
Hoo-hoo!
You know what you've done to me
And I know what I've done to her
Hold On To The Wolves
I held on to you
I held on to the wolves
We ride the wave to the end
And do it again
There's a wolf at my back door
There's a wolf at my trap door
And I held on to you so long
So trapped in my face
Don't you follow me
Don't you follow me
Don't you follow me outside
This morning I woke up outside the sky
For the first time
For the first time
I heard no howl
I found a place that we can go
Lay us down where grasses grow
But we know things ain't this real
It ain't this believable
Are you the wolf that rings my doorbell?
Are you the wolf that spills my blood?
Run at dawn and make me scream
Crawl though my window while you make me dream
Don't you follow me
Don't you follow me
Don't you follow me inside
This morning I woke up beside your light
For the last time
For the last time
I heard your howl
I had you in my grasp
But got worn raw from the rasp
And beat down thin from her wrath
And healed again
There are wolf tracks on the path
I found wolf tracks and I laughed
Grew teeth and brandished a knife
Which brought about death and strife
I'll kill the wolf at last
And I'll say this now to you
I'm coming home
Millions Murdered
Millions murdered for a kiss
And nothing gained at all from this
I won't make you do anything
Not even if you wanted to
Millions saved for a song
Run the good run
Shine the good sun
I don't make up anything
This song came to me in my sleep
Keep your eyes peeled
For how everyone feels
Millions murdered for a reason
Run the good run
Shine the good sun
Kill the animals and then
Kill the lions in the den
Kill the weather man and then
Kill the clown and kill the fool
Kill elitists there and then
Kill the teacher's teaching pen
Kill the hungry and then
Kill the proud, kill the proud
Millions murdered for a kiss
Another name scratched off the list
I won't make you do everything
I'll make it easy on you
Millions saved for a laugh
Millions murdered
Millions murdered for a kiss
And nothing gained at all from this
Kill the proud, kill the proud
When I Died
There were monks singing when I died
Everyone was there when I arrived
In the afterlife
And that's a relief
Because I died to dream
It's my time if it's my time
May the car wreck
May I become sick
And I'm not done
But it's no fun to breathe
I don't need to do what I want to do
Because if I die, I got no ties
And I'm not afraid
Need Someone
She's being killed by something I cannot explain
I think it might be better if I close the garage door
But why oh why should you bother?
You don't need me to be calm anymore
And make yourself second guess it
The horror falls away when you need someone
On the ground now
On the ground now
On the ground
She's being hounded by a dog that does not bite
I think it might be better if I put it down anyway
Tried and True
You're the one
And I'm thinking of breaking through
Think about progress
The things I know I'll never do
It's tried and true
I keep forgetting
The magic fades with the passing days
The shit comes down in a heavy way
And you're there at least in a thought
Yes! It's tried and true
You don't deny
The worst thing about our lives
There's always pain
There's always a bear trap on the floor
It's tried and true
You say it's true
That's there's a better view
And I agree as you put your hand in the fire
You're the one, I've said it before
I'll find a way
Yes you are tried and true
Find a way
The worst things always turn out fine
And maybe someday you'll see it was the reason why
Tried and true
Don't be like that
There's always someone thinking of you
You may not know it
But you don't need to after all
It's why you live when there's no reason to
It's for the two
It's tried and true
Haggle
I'm standing here until you do so
I'm crouching here while you lay low
I'm not moving, I'm waiting up for you
I won't bargain, no I won't haggle
No distractions
Lost my tunnel vision
No constant action
Just my meditation on you
On you
No pretense
Lost my raw intentions
No discouragement
Just my loving look on you
On you
No landslide
Lost my reservation
No act of passion
Just my idle waiting on you
On you
What Daze
Get busy living or get busy dying
Take a long walk at the airport
Or die in your bathroom, sick and placid
Rewrite all the years gone black
Because you were wrong about all the things
You're told you have to live for
I don't wanna be young
That's goddamn right!
There's another, always another
But you don't have another life
So look in the mirror before the poison
Hits the heart and you fall dead
And don't you worry about being wrong
Look at where your path has lead you
It's painful to be young
That's goddamn right!