Limited Edition lyric booklet from "Do What You Must Do"
FLASHPAPR - "FLASHPAPR"
PANTHER'S PAW
We don't stand a chance
No we don't
No we don't
The way that strangers stand
No we don't
No we don't
We don't have a plan
No we don't
No we don't
To hold a stranger's hand
We don't understand
No we don't
No we don't
Where your intentions go
No we don't
No we don't
Shake a panther's paw
FREE RIDES ON THE BUS
Free rides on the bus
Another chance for us to advance
Free rides on the five
In the summertime
Your hand in my hand
Free rides on the four
Back and forth, south and north and everywhere
Sunshine, candy bars, hidden stars
And all of our friends are there
Free rides on the bus
Another chance for us
Listen to the spinning wheels
You can't sell the way it feels to be in love
Fall asleep in my arms
Dream above the car alarms and siren songs
Sweetheart, alphabet
Don't forget how lucky we really are
And you are my best friend
You are the most beautiful thing I keep inside my heart
LEAVE THE PLACE
I waited all winter with you
Crumpled in the bed in the corners of your white room
Photographs held up the walls
With the years that were here well before me
Dancing under the ceiling fan
Holding on
Darling, I know you just want to stop
Waiting to hear how long before leaving
SKIPPED
We skipped to smoke songs in a soon-shed skin
And sang so loud that no one heard us sing
In the aftermath of things that fold in half
Repeatedly perforate but never break
Will we stay up all night long
And talk about what's wrong
Push wishes through our always haunted hearts
Or try to not give up on our ideas of love
Our best guesses so far
Under shards of talk
In the parking lots
Static, never listening
But as loud as hope
As an antidote
Silence always singing
LET US SLEEP
Let us sleep just far enough away
From every angry sound the city makes
And hold our dreams just close enough to stay awake
Through empty streets
In silent broken light
Let's make friends with the night and with the dark
And sleep like snow that falls in silver bands
Waking holding hands
And catching sparks
BETWEEN LIGHTNING
You never had any reason to think
You'd see the day you'd have to jump every fence
That you with your own hands put up
As if by reflex, the whole city leaps out of it's skin
Snow melts like rumors at the first fleeting signs of another spring
Permanence locks in the time it takes to change a story
In the breaths between lightning