imperial mammoth - all the good things
Can we stay here
In a still dream
Where the fan blows
Soft and cool on everything
All the sharp pains
Of a new day
They don't seem so
Hard to take when I'm around
All the good things about you
All the good things about you
I get sick with
Keeping up sometimes
I get sad too
But never once when I'm around
All the good things about you
All the good things about you
They will offer
Poison apples
They can't make us
Choke on them
Can we stay here
In a still dream
Let the white noise
Calm and blanket everything
All the good things about you
All the good things about you
All the good things about you
All the good things about you
imperial mammoth - el dorado
We drive all morning
We caravan
Out past the last homes
The golden land
We place our pallets
Where satellites fall
And build a fire
Across the desert sky
I just want to celebrate tonight
I just want to celebrate tonight
We paint our faces
With silver dust
Shoot roman candles
Up at the stars
We pass a bottle
And somebody hums
Like every movie
Before the killer comes
I just want to celebrate tonight
I just want to celebrate tonightevery thought
Like layers in the rock
Makes their own distinctive line
I don't have that kind of time
I just want to celebrate tonight
I just want to lose myself tonight
I just want to stir my bones tonight
I just want to celebrate tonight
And in the morning
The red-tail hawk flies
We find our highway
With smokey eyes
imperial mammoth - eyes
Sure as you walk
I'll be waiting patiently
In the window above the street
Clear to the park
Where you circle as routine
Every afternoon I know just where you'll be
Year after year
As the vines grow ever north
No suspicion at all
That you're mine to see with
Eyes that hold you up on solid ground
Eyes that know you better than you know yourself
But I'm not ready yet
I can't tell you yet
And when the rain
Washes over this city
All the sidewalks are calm but for your feet
Folds in the sheets
Like a secret we both keep
All the coldness of your air blows in to me
Shame upon shame
Every night ends the same
No suspicion at all
That you're mine to keep with
Eyes that hold you up on solid ground
Eyes that know you better than you know yourself
Eyes that understand the hope you need
Eyes that long to view you constantly
But I'm not ready yet
I'm not ready yet
Eyes that lift you up above the ground
Eyes that never know when to look down
Eyes that see the best of the world passing by
imperial mammoth - left behind
I'd climb up your stairwell
If you were still home
The people who moved in
Brought such horrible, tacky things
I try not to think how
They covered the holes
That we left behind
Is it too tough
To say that our time
Didn't matter enough
You needed to change
But you shut me out
I'd fly to your bedroom
But I wouldn't belong
I'm just tired of talking
Through all these pixels and glitches
Like some sad possession
You keep tagging along
Left behind
It's all too much
To see you don't need
My personal touch
And if you still care
You'd cut me off
Left behind
It's all too much
To know that these miles
Are distance enough
And if you still care
You'd cut me off
Cut me off
You'd cut me off
You'd cut me off
imperial mammoth - new dark age
New Dark Age
Wind swept through August
Caught a malaise
Killed off the hours
With pills and champagne
Oh but I laze through the days
Just the same
To store my strength
For courage in this new dark age
Stared down the freezer
And cleared out my phone
Wheeled through the aisles
And brought nothing home
Oh I could call you
If you were alone
Restore my faith
To struggle through this new dark age
Stay in my thoughts all you want
Make shadows that menace the walls
I don't even care anymore
Lost my star
Made one new
On this shore
This will do
imperial mammoth - requiem on water
Slow, we paddle through the lake
Straight to the very center of the darkest water
Where we can embrace the shadows on the surface
The eyes that look up lifeless from our twins below
And though your arms and legs are under
Love will be the echo in your ears when all is lost and plundered
My love will be there still
True, it's chilling to behold
Up close we stumble backwards laughing in our boat
Till the image sinks away to someplace far but certain
A land of mere suspension where someday we must go
And though your arms and legs are under
Love will be the echo in your ears when all is lost and plundered
My love will be there still
Though your arms and legs are under
Love will be the echo in your ears when all is lost and plundered
My love will be there still
imperial mammoth - you wake me up
I wanna stare back in your eyes
'Til the fire dies and all that's left is this
I was living all in my mind
You're the only that shows me what I miss
You know we've got the best thing going
You know we've got the best thing going on
You know we've got the best thing going
You know we've got the best thing going on
You wake me up, you wake me up
You wake me up
I never want to sleep again
You wake me up, you wake me up
You wake me up
I never want to sleep again
I wanna swing back to the place
Where the fossils chase and all the stars go dim
I was trained for the human race
You're the only one I want to run it with
And when the sun shines off your face
At 6 am I wanna start again
You know we've got the best thing going
You know we've got the best thing going on
You know we've got the best thing going
You know we've got the best thing going on
You wake me up, you wake me up
You wake me up
I never want to sleep again
You wake me up, you wake me up
You wake me up
I never want to sleep again