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The Crowd' Train Takes the Form

by Jersey Water

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So we’ll make do with what we got An old photo of Peter in the back of a pickup truck Got the signs, the tambourines, the rowdy lovers in the street Who wish the rain on their cheeks were tears Cause it’s true love, honey If there were curtains they’d be blowing in the wind Cause it’s true love, honey If there was a window there’d be a place for us to sing Well, if all’s not right then why’s it feel so good To watch you, babe, while you undress The sun’s gone to the other side of the sky It’s not coming back for anything Not even to describe your face once more It’s so sad So as often as lightning As comforting as cars can be when they’re your only soft goodnight And I understand the ways the mean guitars are played By the hardcore kids all right Cause the world don’t know what’s right for us Said it’s tearing at your skin The world don’t know what’s right It never knew you like I did It’s a fine place to go when you’re not going to bed And it’s all in our heads anyway So we count our loves and we count our hates You’re in the mirror now, so in debt Stroking your fate once more It's so sad I walked to the lake and back I’m trying not to let it show It’s a path that can take me from where I am To where I wanna go
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I wrote a song called “The Traveling Song” I played it for my teacher She said it was a ripoff A song she used to know A song she loved in high school Back when she was with Ainsley And she could make the flowers bloom with her Chopin nocturnes She played on her mom’s black baby grand at night Play it one more time, she said I miss her laugh the most
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The night that inspired your thesis Was the night the church caught fire And I should have told you my secrets Unlocked the tabernacle Let you taste my wine Burn, burn the missalettes The whole town smelled of incense The night that inspired your thesis Was the night before I had to leave for camp And if this is what it means to die on Fire Island Let us stay hungry and naked in your parents' bed Dawn, Dawn, don’t leave me here In this daytime I can’t face myself Over hills and the nighttime good The smoke made its way into my window Still all I could smell was you, babe The night that inspired your thesis Was the night after the circus packed up its things and left You and I stood there in the field in pieces Paper plates, wet ticket stubs no good Gone, gone, the circus’ gone By then it was on its way up to Freehold Over hills and the nighttime good The sound of a train came through my window Still I can hear the acrobats singing their travel songs
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We stopped telling time We couldn’t stand to hear ourselves counting up to twelve By the time you arrived We started making noise We couldn’t stand to see ourselves sitting here so bored We’re not just singing for the Lord This song’s for the ladybug we found on the ground Ladybug ladybug Ladybug ladybug We used to walk through the park We used to walk through most any place we wanted We even slept on the roof when the rain let up We’d wake up on the beach The wind would blow us off the roof But we would land on our feet And we’d praise the Lord And the ladybug we found on the ground Ladybug ladybug Ladybug ladybug Don’t let them disintegrate me Let the whitewater arms of the bells ring
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Autopilot 02:26
The girl with cherries in her hair Feathered hats hung on her wall And songs I’d often sleep near When I’m feeling sad or alone Seventy-eight Don’t you see the delicate light that hit you Seventy-nine Everything, all the time I couldn’t wait for your limbs to bend Hey, I’m a wreck-it-all Hey, hey, hey, I’m on the floor of your brother’s room Please, don’t leave so completely All I got is a voice I can hardly feel That sings songs so contrived and constructed About my sad, old heart that refuses to heal Seventy-eight Don’t you know the colors we’ll see when we’re loving Seventy-nine Haven’t felt this alive since I was a boy Hey, I’m a wreck-it-all Hey, hey, hey, I’m on the floor of your brother’s room Hey, I’m a wreck-it-all Hey, hey, hey, I’m on the floor of all of your rooms, babe
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We’re getting married Our country’s just a mirror of us all It’s not perfect but very good Still I can’t stand my reflection They’ll conduct their annual staff meetings Entarte kunst Due to the lack of adequate worship This love is ours anymore What would I say if all of my words were spoken? What would I do if all of my muscles were working? This love is ours anymore I’m getting married Just like my mother did And my mother’s mother.
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So arise, arise Wrestling the Russells leaves me bright Your shoes are tracking mud in all directions Keep 'em coming A year and a half spent studying the broken and defeated You’re humming all your songs Don’t be ashamed to sing the words We need them But still you're singing mmmmm So goodnight, goodnight From the tops of trees and one day we’ll be sure again That we got every window open And every window open Every window open So goodnight, goodnight Our record has been played and twice turned over Calling out your name into this notebook’s empty pages Still you're singing mmmmm Shaken from the wheels and I want nothing to be nearer Shaken from the wheels and I want nothing
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If you come back later friend The fables will all rewrite themselves And our arms won’t be as vacant as the downtown is You’ll give all my goodbyes back And I’ll give you your I love you’s And you can give them to anyone you choose You and I met at the Dregs in December You had tassels and forests and clementines You cued the smiles and exited the guilt A folly I felt all my life Hold on to your skull, you said But that’s all I had to offer The smallest room ever rented out Summer, then came autumn And all I can say is, La la la la la la la Cause singing never let you down like I did
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I play that old piano with the damper pedal busted That gestured to me not to worry so But I can’t remember pieces I knew before It’s all right They sold my piano They took it away yesterday And left me with this space in the living room I’ve never seen something so beautiful be so gone Tea and sympathy Can I rest my troubles here? Shiny, all shiny Don’t tie your fortunes to the power structure tonight Under stadium lights shining through my window Thy kingdom un-comfort Wild are bees in the summer "Dawn, I love you" was written on the overpass Before she washed away all onto the cars Speeding down 35 I still know who you are It’s all right Later that morning I filled up the living room With a wild love and all my leviathans Have you ever known someone so beautiful could be so wrong? Now coke and sympathy We all rest our troubles here On the jetties that are overflowing Where every line comes with its own avalanche I miss you already Your Caroline’s my Miss Roma-Scott I’d scale these city walls if there were city walls I’d jump this curb and I’d be shiny, all shiny But there was shit in the gutter of our honeymoon Why did we bother? Cause wild are bees in the summer

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Album cover layout inspired by Felt's Absolute Classic Masterpieces.

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released July 29, 2003

All songs by Ryan Doyle except where noted.

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