superfallingstars

These are the songs on "Swimming Across the Sound"

Gravity Girl (sung by mike, written by jj)

Well she likes the weather warm
So she leaves her engine running
While she lays out in her yard to get her
Daily hour of sunning
She thinks that if you're black then you like rap
And she never eats her words 'cause she says they taste like crap

Chorus: She spends most of her time fighting gravity
She wants to make love to the air
She's never brushed her teeth never had a cavity
It seems that she don't really care
But underneath that sleek veneer
She doesn't really like it here
And unknown forces keep her bound to this world
And I'm so glad 'cause she's my gravity girl

Well she's a little new wave and a little bit punky
A flatulent freak and a sugar-free junkie
She snacks upon amphetamines all day
And she say she'll never sleep until her dreams go away
(I hope they go away 'cause)

She spends most of her time fighting gravity
She wants to make love to the air
She grits her teeth in the face of every tragedy
It seems like she don't really care
She'd rather float up into space than
Stay in this godawful place
But unknown forces keep her bound to this world
And I'm so glad 'cause she's my gravity...

I overreact to her ovary act and
How her friends change every day
They might all be on Midol but I like 'em anyway
I do believe her menstrual cycle has too many gears
'Cause it's a matter of minutes before her laughter turns to tears

She spends most of her time fighting gravity
She wants to make love to the air
She bares her teeth whenever she gets mad at me
It seems like she might really care
She wants to kiss the stratosphere she
Doesn't really like it here
But unknown forces keep her bound to this world
And I'm so glad 'cause she's my gravity girl

And now she's sleeping through her dreams
So pretty my gravity girl

The Fall (sung by mike, written by mike)

Passing judgement as the dried up leaves are falling
I've gotta leave this place the open air is calling
There's nothing between us 'cept the darkness of the sea
so i'll drive to Silver Sands to meet with Harmony
but she didn't show
and it's too late now fortunately
so here i'll sit and wait as the world passes before me
While still evaluating ambiguous goals,
Harmony, she somehow lost control

Another Bridgeport summer, it's half wasted already
The bottle's open and we're cookin' up spaghetti
Play RBI Baseball and stay on the porch 'till 3
then go skipping stones down at St. Mary's by the Sea
and we'll get real stoned

but it's too late now fortunately
so here i'll sit and wait as the world passes before me
Aesthetic pleasures too difficult to convey
another summer somehow slipped away

And there's a fine line between freedom and security
and everything else that lies between
With time we're more polluted
twisted and convoluted
with no hope of recovery

Looking for trouble, playing underneath the covers,
ignoring the questions whose answers i'll soon discover,
I'm blasting the oldies on my Honda radio
and singing along to all the songs i do not know
bop bah dah dah dah

But it's too late now fortunately
so here i'll sit and wait as the world passes before me
pathetic measures too difficult to convey...
A summary of some erratic play, thrown away
Another summer somehow slipped away
hey hey hey
Another summer somehow slipped away

Goin' Nowhere (sung by jj, written by jj)

You say I wouldn't walk a thousand miles for you
You tell me that I don't have what it takes
Well I would walk a hundred-thousand miles for you but I
Would have to take a lot of little breaks

The words I say they might just maybe alter you
You're in my prayers and I don't even pray
Two wrongs don't make you righteous but I think you disagree
You listen but don't hear a word I say

(chorus)
Goin' nowhere
I go there with you
Treading water every day
To nowhere
I go there with you

When we get there
We will see what we have always seen
When we get there
We will be what we have always been
(You don't know how far I'd go to get nowhere at all)

(repeat chori) (that's plural for choruses, you know)

It's Over (sung by mike, written by mike)

We've got a situation
We must avoid stagnation
We've grown so used to what we've got

We're somewhat compatible but
we've grown irratable and
the time has come like it or not

You're the greatest think i've ever had
the luck to turn away
and i just wanted you to know before
it's over

The spark from when we started
seems to have been discarded
if it's there it's invisible

And don't you ever doubt it
I hate to live without it
but face it we're miserable

Disenchantment is the unfortunate by-product
of resurfacing the face of our plateau
You're the greatest thing I've ever had the luck to come my way
that I've felt inclined to let go
Now you know
and now
it's over

Not Really Sure (sung by mike, written by jj)

I'm sure not sure what goes on within your mind but
I'm sure not your boyfriend but I know you're mine and

(chorus)
I'm not really sure what you mean
No I'm really not sure-I wanna know

Don't say all those words until you know what they mean
Don't say that I'm mean until you mean what you say

(chorus)

And I don't understand myself
So how can I understand anyone else?
And I don't even know myself
So how am I supposed to know someone else?

Repeat chorus (until bored)

La Playasong (sung by mike, written by mike)

Hey, come here and see
There's a distant city on the horizon and
what, what could it be?
I think it's Europe or maybe Greenland but
how, how do you think
it would be to live across the ocean and
what, what will we drink
everyone keeps talking about their iced tea so

(chorus)
Let's go to the other side
we'll get swept away by the tide
we'll go where we will not be found
we'll swim our way across the sound and
we won't stop until we've reached long island...
it's waiting for you

It's the 4th of July
and a distant party betrays their secrecy
I'm wondering why
in a haze of bug spray i pace the night away
i'm out of the race
hypnotized by a roman candle, right to
another place
where the land it flows with milk and honey, so

(chorus)

How, how will it be
what will things be like when we get older and
what if possibly
we might find outselves across the ocean and
what, what will we do?
iImean what the hell could we be doing when
I, I say to you
to look right back across the ocean, well
(chorus)

Even Though (sung by jj, written by jj)

I love you even though you're broken (and you're lame)
I love you though you have not spoken (of the same)
I love you though you keep me guessing (all the time)
I love you though you are depressing (now that...)

I'm not messed up anymore (attached or attacked)
It's something that I can't ignore (wretched and wracked)
And I missed having you around 'cause (moth to the lame)
Up 'til now I've been so down (more of the same)
Despite the things that I've endured (eyes on the prize)
You know I'll just come back for more (wouldn't be wise)
And even if it's time to go (loss is your gain)
I know I'll love you even though (pleasure and pain)

I love you even though you're selfish (and you lie)
I love you even though you're helpless (so am I)
I love you even though you're hiding (everything)
I love you though you're not confiding (anything)

Anything that people can't discern and (it's your defense)
Anything I thought I'd learned (it's your default)
Things which people misperceive that (I found you out)
I have learned not to believe (damaged in doubt)
Parts of you that people hate that (it's all an act)
I just think are really great (confidence lacked)
Parts of you you never show (look how we've fared)
I know I love them even though (sacred and scared)

I love you even though you're lame
I love you though you are insane
I love you though you're insecure
I love you though you are unsure
I love you even though you're strange
I love you though you are deranged
I love you though you are disturbed
I love you though you hate my words

Better Off (sung by mike, written by mike)

Hello, ma'am - I need to see you tonight
'cause I've had the most terrible day at work
and I surrender when I see your insight (you're in sight)
I've got to see you ma'am
Don't you know that you're the only thing I've got
I've got to see you ma'am

Funny you should say that, sir
'cause without you I'm having fun
I've got a list of things to lose and you are number one
I really liked the time we've spent but now we're at the end
I think that we'd be better off as friends

Puh-lease, ma'am
This comes at a horrible time
Because I've gotta go to work in four hours now
And I can't call in
I don't know how I'm going to make it ma'am
This is going to take much more than I have got
And I can't fake it ma'am

Sorry all about that, sir
but you're comin' to me too late
The things you dislike I now like
And the things you like I now hate
I don't regret a thing we've done
But now we've reached the end
I think that we'd be better off as friends

When people used to look at us
They'd think we were so in love
But we were just playing
I guess as all the time went by
I started to believe
What they were saying
And now I'm paying

Good-bye, ma'am
Though I can't believe that it's true
And I don't know how to act
when I see you passing in the street
thanks to the confusion you've created, ma'am
What am I to do
now that you've left me here
all warped and jaded ma'am?

I don't know what to tell you, sir
but without you I'm havin' fun
I've got a list of things to lose and you are number one
I really liked the time we've spent but now we're at the end
I think that we'd be better off as friends

Time To Go (sung by jj, written by jj)

Whatever's pleasant you make nice
When I doubt you make me think twice
You take my hurt and make it pain
You turn my fortune into gain

You take
But make
No difference at
All your autumn turned to was your fall
That's all

You turn my stare into a glance
Don't give a shit or take a chance
When I feel pleasure you feel pain
Whatever I lose is yours to gain

And you
Don't do
A single thing for
Me and you were never meant to be
You see

It's time to go

Please Please Please (Let Me Get What I Want) - Morrissey / Marr (sung by jj)

(you all probably know the words to this song already..plus we are not supposed to reprint them)