Sainthood

  1. Arrow
  2. Dont’ Rush
  3. Hell
  4. On Directing
  5. Red Belt
  6. The Cure
  7. Northshore
  8. Night Watch
  9. Alligator
  10. Paperback Head
  11. The Ocean
  12. Sentimental Tune
  13. Someday
Sainthood
Released: October.27.2009
Compact Disc (1) Sire / Warner – B002OHOECC (USA/Canada/UK)
Released: November.23.2009
Vinyl (2) Sire / Warner – B002STRAH2 (USA/Canada/UK)



1. Arrow
Sainthood

Would you take a straight and narrow critical look at me
Would you tell me tough love style, put judicial weight on me
If you’re thinking anything, if you’re thinking endlessly
I feel the breeze, feel feathers of an arrow
Out in my yard, feathers of an arrow
I take my aim, do you feel me coming close
Take my aim, so you feel me coming close
Would you take a calm and tender terminal kind of care
Would you touch me, cling and wage an intimate fight for me



2. Don’t Rush
Sainthood

Don’t block bad idea you’ve been so good I hear don’t rush
Don’t move bad idea you’ve been so still I’m here for you don’t rush
One way or another
I’ll find my way to cover
I sing to find my other
Sing to find my
One way my lovely other
They find restless cover
You sing to another
Sing to find your
Don’t leave bad idea you’ve been so far so long don’t rush
Don’t run bad idea you move so fast I need to rush
One way or another
I’ll find my way to cover
I sing to find my other
Sing to find my
One way my lovely other
They find restless cover
You sing to another
Sing to find your
One way or another
I’ll find my way to cover
I’d love to find my other
Love to find you
One way my lovely other
They’ll find restless cover
You’ve loved so many others
One way to erase bad ideas well
I won’t see you once you arrive
One way to escape bad ideas well
I won’t cry to you not that you would mind



3. Hell
Sainthood

No I’m not ready for a big bad step in their direction
No I’m not ready for downtown trash avoid collection
Four blocks run and hide don’t walk alone at night
Cityscape city change before they die
Four blocks I should mention in a song
If I want to get along with change who
Doesn’t want to change this
I know you feel it too these words get over used
When we get up and over it and over them
Up and over it and over them
I know you feel it too it all seems so untrue
When you get up and over it and over them
Oh oh hell no
No we’re not ready for a fair distribution just a terminal solution for
No we’re not ready for hell hell no for hell hell no
Four days wide awake why slide along and say
Girls afraid girl will change just move away
Four days that I mention in a song move along
Get ahead get her hand and bring her with you
Four ways to remove all the bad that we do
From the heart and the soul of the cities sad and cold
Four ways to collect what we say and what we save
To discard and discover a brand new way



4. On Directing
Sainthood

You’re directing me
Your eyes focus like a microscope
Get the cuts you need
Eyes focus like a microscope
Go steady with me
I know it turns you off when I
I get talking like a teen

You’re directing me
You’re dressed up I lose my grip my focus
Make those eyes at me
I lose my grip I lose my focus



5. Red Belt
Sainthood

When you think nothing could be further from the truth
When you’re sure nothing could be further from
the cold hard truth
I kneel to condition all the feelings that I feel
Slow it down you have a tendency to rush back into your past
Slow it down, you transfer all your weight and disappear
You kneel to condition all the feelings that you feel
I’ve got a red belt around my mind
My hands tied up around these words
I wish you’d call but I know that you’re out tonight
My ears fill with the sound of you kneeling
My ears fill with the sound of descent
My ears fill with the sound of you arching
Slow it down you have a tendency to rush back into your past
Slow it down you transfer all your weight and disappear
Kneel to condition all the feelings that you feel



6. The Cure
Sainthood

Begging like you might take order in your own hands
I stare seems like I don’t care drop a chance in your hands then
I know that bad’s got to fix itself correct over time
And I know cause I’ve got the cure
I’ve got a cure for your crimes
All I dreamed up, all that seemed like luck seems silly to you now
All I said to you, all I did for you seems so silly to me now
Screaming like no one might call the cops
and arrest you this time
Standing back against my buildings back door
you’re hoping for a ride
I know the world’s been mean to you I’ve got a cure hold tight
I know the world’s not fair to you I’ve got a cure for its crimes
Oh oh when you say it
So so slowly to me
Oh oh well I keep going
Oh no I ran while knowing
No no I know you need it
So so I need it too
And oh oh I must keep going
So you must too
I’ve got a cure I’ve got the cure for you



7. Northshore
Sainthood

Don’t bend don’t bleed don’t beg don’t scream
don’t whine don’t fight don’t tell me
Don’t feel don’t tear don’t kiss don’t care
don’t touch don’t want me
Something’s so sick about this
My misery’s so addictive
I’m halfway there
Watching Northshore from the floor
Singing to you over my shoulder
Don’t run don’t hide don’t hurt don’t lie
don’t breathe don’t try don’t find me
Don’t cringe don’t clench don’t look
don’t flinch don’t know don’t go don’t leave me
Don’t sing don’t talk don’t yell don’t laugh
don’t think don’t speak don’t save me
Don’t stare don’t glare don’t heal
don’t mend don’t take don’t send don’t love me



8. Night Watch
Sainthood

I’ve got grounds for divorce
It’s in my blood this divorce
I separate everybody
I need distance from your body
Oh I deserve this anguish on my house
So get away
You cannot follow me
I get away
You cannot follow me
I’ve got grounds for recourse
Your lungs fill with discourse
You separate from my body
You need consistence from somebody
Oh I deserve this anguish on my house



9. Alligator
Sainthood

Sensitive it’s true
Alligator tears cried over you
Run around on me
I’d sooner die without
Run around on me
Die without
Relentless yes it’s true
My motor mouth runs over you
No hissy fits mind my manners
Won’t make a scene over you
Rattled yes, it’s true
Alligator tears spilled over you



10. Paperback Head
Sainthood

You have to become what you fancy
Paperback head, you get carried away
Stitch up your spine to keep the suitors away
Must draw your own aid
Must sift your affairs
Must frame up a material girl
Wild fires, you must remit
Can’t stand the smoke
Pull the sheets down low
Rope up your mind
Keep the suitors in line
I gasp, like sugar and spice
Who better than you?



11. The Ocean
Sainthood

When you wake what is it that you think of most
When your bed is empty do you really sleep alone
If I imagine you body next to another
All around me new love and it makes me sad
All around me feel assured that you’ll be back
If I imagine you body next to another
Stop crying to the ocean stop crying over me
Stop worrying over nothing stop worrying over me
So it’s been so long since you said
Well I know what I want and what
I want is right here with you
On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing
On the drive back there tears spilling over something
When I imagine you body next to another
In the door and you’re there and you’re sorry for the fright
In the door can I hear you saying you don’t want to fight
When I imagine you body next to another
In a flash it’s back to you just brought attention to the mess
In a flash you’re on top begging me to understand
If I imagine you body next to another
You drop in for a minute and I’m sorry that I didn’t
Drop in sooner just to see you and see what
you’ve been doin’
If I imagine you body next to another



12. Sentimental Tune
Sainthood

You in a simple gray coat in a simple white room

Oh now you know you know it now
And so now you know you know it now
You hate the tenderhearted torch song
You catch a flame to my sentiment my sentimental tune
Hard-hearted don’t worry I’m ready for a fight
Unnerved the nerve you’re nervous
Nervous that I’m right
Now with your cause and affection on my mind
I won’t yield throw caution into the blaze
Watch, with a bit of friction I’ll be under your clothes
With a bit of focus I’ll be under your skin



13. Someday
Sainthood

They yell speak up I fill these pages like
I fill those spaces with my lies
They yell step down a crowd’s not worth this and love’s not worthless
you’ve got to step up stranger

Might paint something I might want to hang here someday
Might write something I might want to say to you some day
Might do something I’d be proud of someday
Mark my words I might be something someday

They yell right on a class act president you are my boss
I am confident in your eyes
They yell move up don’t stand back here
and wait like an animal
At a farmers gate am I food or am I free
So speak up this is your last chance my friend
Roll the windows down and take me in
Reach out say what you’re really about
Are you coming here or not are you coming out

I don’t want to know that you don’t want me
I don’t want to know what you do without me
I don’t want to know what I’ll be without you
I don’t wanna know