jia harlow

Evergreen

When I was young, we planted trees,
held our sails across the breeze,
promised all apologies...

what went wrong?

A Trojan horse behind the guard;
hoisted by our own petard;
back to earth, we're falling hard...

what went wrong.

I can't calm down, you're gonna kill us all
(the writing's on the wall)
but I won't say "No."
in pieces I will go...

politely.

Before you start another war,
ask yourself, "Who am I fighting for?"

Do you know, my girl?

And, if you're looking for a soul,
you won't find it down the rabbit hole.

No, you won't, my girl.

I show you graphics, maps, and charts
could you feel it in your heart,
or would you be the aggravation
slowly pulling me apart?
Places we should never be,
things that we should never do.
Say that we're better when we're together,
I think not,
I walk alone.

Said you loved me from the start;
why do you wanna tear my world apart?

Are you not my girl?

Said I loved you from the start;
come on, now, don't tear the world apart.

Are you not my girl?

Let me in from the cold,
I promise I'll do what I'm told,
I'll be all you ever need,
or whatever suits me.

Let all my cattle roam,
eat you out of house and home and
it's not impossible; it's inevitable.
I'm taking you down.

'Cause, after all, I'm just a man;
there's only so much I can do,
but I'll do what the hell I want,
living in these little shoes.

All the places you won't see,
all the things you'll never do;
a flood unstoppable,
it's inevitable,
let everyone drown.

Locks(tep) of Love

They've seen much more
hate
than any old man should ever have to see.
They're not 3.

You found my hideaway,
and you're making it
hard to sit
up in the same tree.

I shared my life with you,
but I won't see it through.

Get on and ride away,
before the idiot,
don't-give-a-shits,
cycle history.

Hey, pacifist... where you going with that lock in your hand?

I'm not a hypocrite
don't want any of this
too many problems of my own
and if I get one wish:
don't want my little fish
swimming against the current year

hold your breath (keep it down)
hold your breath (keep it down)
it's life-or-death (you don't want to be found)
it's life-or-death (you don't want to be found)

Sorry, kids, momma's not coming home.
She meant well, but oh, what can you do?

it's the wrong track, we're on the wrong track
Don't say it matters, when we don't.
it's the wrong track, we're on the wrong track
Don't say we'll matter, when clearly we won't.

Pick yourself up,
brush the dust off,
hold your head high,
don't say goodbye,
just gum the keyhole;
you don't need these people.

Wipe the blood off,
light a fire up,
burn a bridge down
as you leave town;
you don't need these people,
these people,
at all.

Belcher

a better future's coming;
I'd better get out of the way
up by your bootstraps, buddy,
til you can pay to play

over the rainbow, we'll climb;
gonna make it any day,
the storm will break and
we will feel those Sunny Ways

hey, politician,
what's your superposition?
all that foreign money's listening, honey;
give it something to believe

forever tragic
that I don't believe in magic
while I'm
I'm moving mountains,
keep your hands off my family tree-eau

Oh baby, let's go
down that yellow brick road
I'll help you
Lean In
to the dog and pony show,
commit yourself to the lie,
until we whither and die.
a bread and circus and a dog and pony show

I don't dance in the dark,
I know what's going on here:
you're all Christy Clark.
Well, it's a Great Leap Forward, I know
off the cliff, we go...

Oh baby, let's go
turn the lights down low,
Step Up and Lean In
to the dog and pony show
I'll take your medicine dry,
and watch the monkeys fly,
the burning question is:
WHY?

It's progressive, I know
kick the chair, let's go

Do you live with your parents?
How do you live with yourself?

Falling apart, falling apart
"too big to fail" are we?
I'm falling apart, falling apart
a past participle hangs in front of me.
Falling apart, falling apart,
I don't matter, 'cause I'm not new, anymore;
broken heart, old, rusty parts.

It puts the lotion, but it
just.
gets.
hosed.
again.

We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of...