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Hayes

by Signe Tollefsen

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1.
Everything’s on top of everything Just so you know where I’ll be I’m lost and I’m losing you on this train If only I knew where it was taking me 185 mph, that’s how fast I’m running From the chance I blew My carriage is singing to empty seats I say: “I know, honey, I am lonely too” Thoughts spoken, hearts broken, here’s to me May I hold my peace on the journey ahead For over the years I’ve not been prepared for the road Just like my mother said
2.
Baby, I am a drunk orchestra swinging from major to minor Only the lonely can take me there a bottle of booze and a shiner I’m not a lady tonight come now, baby, you know you wanna get smoked I gotta man who can make a fire I gotta man who is free I gotta man who can throw a ball I gotta man who can see I’m not gonna call him but I will call him my lover on stage One round for toys and nursery rhymes another for my long lost friend three cheers hurray for my father a hero until the end Oh my god, is what I never said Is he here, is what I never asked I want to leave, is what I didn’t say How much more Your flowers have wilted, my finger’s healed the sheets have been washed and are drying the milk has been drunk and the coffee’s cold I wonder when she will stop crying
3.
Speak To Me 04:19
I can never tell what time it is The sun has yet to set Your blond hair turns golden in the midnight sun And we have only just met Midsummer night, the air is cooling down And your arms carry me down to the lake The water revives our naked bodies We got hours until the world awakes And I want you to speak to me That’s all you gotta do to get me is Speak to me My body’s like the river when you Speak to me You can do anything you want to, just Speak to me I know some of the words you say But I pretend not to understand You saying where you wanna touch me and How you wanna kiss me in the sand The language you speak, it drives me crazy And I’m putty in your hands all night long My heart beats to your heartbeat Until midsummernight turns into midsummermorn
4.
Since I’m leaving Here’s everything I know It’s everything you’ll need For you picture show I’ve given you Two happy ends One’s where they die Two’s where they say let’s be friends And I am not the only one I am not the only one Who thinks of leaving I am not the only one I’m not I’m not the only one I keep my knife sharp ‘cause all this nakedness Is the polaroid Of your bare breasts My dirty nails The product of Dirty martini nights Two dozen hours of love And it is time for an obsession It is time for an obsession So feed me big time It is time to be obsessed It is time It’s time to be obsessed He saw me naked I was swinging my hips Reaching for the dawn With my fingertips And I was not the only one I was not the only one Who was talking dirty I was not the only one I was not I was the only one
5.
Daddy 04:39
Can you tell this is my first time here Can you tell that i’m a liar That I don’t have the time ‘cause you don’t have the time I don’t want to drive so i’m hiding out While I let her do all the grieving And i’m trying to forget I’m trying to forget That you spend all of your days alone All your days alone Just you and your time One day after another day You just sit and wait I know you sit and you wait You’re a man of fewer words than i So there’s no knowing if you like it When I don’t talk And you don’t talk
6.
I can only guess The mess we’re in You’re gonna get us out Without your bottles of gin Don’t know where to begin Who you tryin’ to impress Where you been Where you been I won’t get on my knees Please don’t make me go Take your guns to town Crown someone else’s ho I ain’t here for you show I’m here for what no one sees Like where you been Where you been Got whiskey on my hands And blood in my eyes Now you’re knocking on my door Your suitcase on the street Guitar in your hand Grand glory at your feet Big people to meet So what you come here for And where you been Where you been The words that you’ve been lying Denying your duty The kids don’t know your name Blame that on your roots, see I am left with my beauty And I am dying, baby, dying Where you been
7.
Make me a man who falls into pieces when I blow him away for wanting to stay Make me a man who cleans up the mess when I fall for his words the ones I misheard Make me a woman who kisses me first without a game on her mind the stumbling kind Make me a woman who calls me up first to say she misses me so how could she let me go Make me a woman for she’s stronger than a man and can take on a girl who loves me for my curls with whom I’ll take on the world With whom I will take on the eyes of the crowds we’ll be warriors for love, meet the eyes of our makers with whom I’ll be home with whom I’ll be home Make me a day on which I’ll accept that I am who I am woman nor man Make me a weekend when I’ll lick the salt off your lips at the beach one sucker each Make me a summer that is warm enough to throw myself into the sea take you and flee the sea, you and me Make me a lover who kisses me first without a game on his mind the stumbling kind
8.
Homecoming 03:35
I kept waking up, wondering where the hell I was but I kept finding myself in my own bed I was dreaming all night about beds in other places different cities, different streets, different oceans I flew in last night on my magical carpet I returned from a land far, far away where they eat dolls on sticks and music’s for sale and where they have nothing. nothing, nothing to say And as I am smoking my last cigarette of the morning and I pout my very first glass of wine I have to peel you off the ceiling on my own I’m having a hard home-coming party baby, it’s so quiet here I can still smell the ocean on my dress and I am keeping it for the cold, lonely nights ‘Cause now I have nowhere to go, no one to meet in the morning and I wonder where the hell I should go I have to go I have to go I have to go The ride was a trip so don’t ask me no questions for my lips feel as though they’ve never been kissed and I am kissing goodbye the eye of a beholder and now I’m going to bed for all has been said all has been said
9.
Here in a borrowed house with a borrowed door in a borrowed street I watch my borrowed neighbours from a borrowed room with a borrowed view Outside the clock is ticking there's a man with a gun and a cord of wood But I'm dancing under streetlights and wanting me a piece of sisterhood Where did it go where did I land Everything's worth giving chances like shot romances and forgotten dances I'm making borrowed noises giving her my borrowed piece of mind I’m borrowing her time counting down the hours, tick tock ticking away She's giving me her fingers whistling along to my every word I'm giving her my freedom knowing she will fly like a broken bird Where did it go where did we land Everything's worth giving chances shot romances and forgotten dances I'm leaving my home number they can call me if they want to, but I’ll be gone my footprints and my shadows, will be there to show where I don’t belong I’m borrowing a line from a second-hand poem and a worn-out boot and some experience from a well-used life in a used-up suit
10.
Here Is What 03:43
I want to make love to you So that the caravan will shake And couples walking by will look and tut But secretly think “oooh, I wish we still did that” I am on my hands and knees Hiding from the smoke police While Roger sings about bricks in the wall “what wall” you ask I say “you’ve got to be kidding me” Here is what we’ll do today Here is what we’ll do today Now that everything has failed And everyone has bailed on me We’ll do what I say What I say I gotta be young, stay young or die young Which is a great prospect and I just can’t wait Meanwhile I gotta work hard, have children, Buy a house, worry about the future And protest against the rules What are we gonna do We should be older now We gotta make it work And I will show you how Show you now So really, All I wanna do is make love to you So that our rusty caravan will shake And couples walking by will look and Tuttuttut But secretly think “oooh, man, I wish we still did that I wish we still did that I wish we still did that”
11.
Scared 02:15
I’d like to call you when I get scared Even though I know that’s not fair When I tell you tonight That I don’t love you anymore You will call my name But you’ll say it in vain ‘cause it won’t change a thing You will call me names And I will let you blame me For everything Ooo baby I will still be there for you Ooo baby Call me when you get scared

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released August 24, 2011

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