Alejandro Escovedo

Sometimes I come home,
I don't expect too much
The lights are off now
It's only two

How I wish my breath
It didn't hurt so much
Then you'd be up babe
It's only two

Why don't you sleep?
You look as though you need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
Now they mean nothing to me

Well all my friends they laughed,
They laughed at all my jokes
I got one more story,
It's only two

How I wish my tough
Could erase the past
They you'd be up babe
It's only two

Why don't you drink
You look as though you need one
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me,
No, they mean nothing to me

If these were different times
Then you'd be up,
And we'd trade stories
It's only two

Why don't we pretend?
I's all we have between us
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me, now
Why don't you sleep?
You look as though we need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me,
Now they mean nothing to me

Line up your little bottles
In a tight little row
Then try to sip some courage
Through a rusted straw
You're convinced she wants you,
And you will have your way,
Then why did you ignore her?
While the Diva sat upon your knee

You're not a man, you're just a fool
The odds are good
You ain't got what it takes

You're wrapped in so much pain
And we should pity that
Why don't you write her a poem,
Or better yet a song or two
I'm sure she'll be quite taken
Paint a monument upon her back
That you can see as she walks away
An impression that you can't forget

An unexpected visit means more to you than her
The years have played some cruel tricks it seems
She's not reacting like you thought she would
Oh wasted, wasted, wasted
You're acting like a fool
The floor belongs to you, it's yours
That's an image that she can't forget

Dear Head on the wall

Look until you're too simple

And the softness of knowing hurts

And the softness of knowing hurts



Dear Head on the wall

Afraid to mention the deaths

That I can't stuff into my mouth

That I can't stuff into my mouth

All the longing that is

A pity pretty pin

A pity pretty pin

And the sadness will come

When there is no one



Dear Head on the wall

Forget what we already know

Hang a picture of your heart

Bandaged in surgeon's bowl

Opened up to it all

A pity pretty pin

A pity pretty pin

The interview where you spoke
To the bleach in the stone
You should have brought some tea
Outside where the light
Coats us in marzipan
In pools of breast milk
I had to bury my daughter today
And I can't think about it too much
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe

I am down to the beach
Smoke condensed from telling stories
Strolling through the neighborhood
Clanking steel and discolored
Because you made a truce of rubber
Because you made a truce of rubber
Because you made a truce of rubber
Because you made a truce of rubber
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe

Abiding in the unborn is symmetry
And that one is always the refugee
Abiding in the unborn is symmetry
And that one is always the refugee
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe
You see a buck from the sky
Trample a wandering doe

I believe all that you've written
I believe all that you know
Has somehow been mistaken
For the truth inside this show
We weren't looking for love
We weren't looking for love

Two strangers make a fire
Wrap themselves in heat
And feed off their desire
As they watch the desert sleep
They weren't looking for love
They weren't looking for love
One true love
One true love
One true love

They say the party's over
The sacrifice complete
I'm feeling so much older
Since we drank up all the heat
We weren't looking for love
We weren't looking for love
One true love
One true love
One true love
One true love

I'd climb a ladder just to see you
I have no eyes but I can feel
Two snakes entwine so I can be you
This ladder climbs from me to you

La Bufadora will explode soon
In liquid splendor sculptured trees
Amongst the oaks the shapes are shifting
A shift to meld you into me

Let's sleep away the pain we suffer
The medicine is in our dreams
Fly away like Caracaras
This ladder climbs from me to you

If you could see you
The way that I see you
The way I perceive you
No, I never came to deceive you
Or sit high above you
Or lock doors behind you
But only to love you
Inside the refrain

But I just might break this time

Mothers and fathers
They don't have all the answers
Can't see past the chain link
They laid on the line
So break another picture
Yeah, or better yet sit there
Inside the stillness
Yeah, this time

But I just might break this time
Yeah this time

Whoever told you
There'd be no danger
Nothing to fear here
Yeah in this house of pain
So speak to me softly
Yeah and tell me you love me
And we'll join together
Inside the refrain

But I just might break this time
Yeah I just might break this time
I just might break this time
Oh this time
Yeah this time
This time

As your last breath hung forever
Were you dancin' behind the beat?
Hold her close now
Don't let her go now
Take her with you where you sleep
Whisper tell her
What it feels like
To be empty, to be free
Where you sleep now
Where you sleep now
Where you sleep

There's no reason
To deny her
All the promises we have made
So take her with you
For she loves you
And her life is hidden in the wait
Where she sleeps now
Where she sleeps now
Where she sleeps

I died a little today

I put up a fight

A carved a simple hello

You can hold to the light

So no one will know

We died a little today



Gonna learn how to give

Not to simply get by

Or to barely hang on

For the sake of goodbye

Baby maybe you'll know

We died a little today

We died a little today

We died a little



It's a strange way we live

To have been her before

And leave nothing behind

As we move towards the door

No, there's no one to blame

We died a little today

We died a little today

We died a little

Here she comes
All she sees she keeps
No one gonna take it away
Her eyes are young and old
The kind that ancients sold
To celebrate a victory
The trail she leaves
Is dark, doubt and dread
And all the mouths she's ever fed
Round, round, round like the world she turns
It's a playback stuck inside your head

Yeah, I see you for the first time
And baby I just wanna leave
Yeah, I know you it's the last time
I'm all messed up
I got nothing to take your place

There's a past she keeps
In a depression jar
She opens like a secret cave
Who she was before
And what her life's become
Is built upon the love she craves
I'm going down down down
There's nothing here
And baby you can't
Hold me up
I'm going down down down
Even deeper still
'Cause this world has gotten so fucked up

Yeah, I see you for the first time
And baby I just wanna leave
Yeah, I know you it's the last time
I'm all messed up
I got nothing to take your place
Yeah take your place

Yeah, I see you for the first time
And baby I just wanna leave
Yeah, I know you it's the last time
I'm all messed up
I got nothing to take your place
Yeah take your place
Yeah take your place
Yeah take your place

Some people say the world's a strange and evil place
And all the shadows fall across your face
Because the world's a strange and evil place
Then others say because the sun shines every day
That we should live life come what may
Because the sun shines every day

But I gotta say
That I just can't put you down
And all the girls think I'm insane
You know I can't put you down
And my dad can't recall my name
But I just can't put you down
And my friends won't call back at all
But I just can't put you down

Some people say
If you feed a dog a bloody bone
He's your best friend for your life
If you feed a dog a bloody bone
Patch up your dreams
With all the gold that falls at your feet
Stick your finger in a dike
All the gold falls at your feet

And I want to say
You know I just can't put you down
And all the women think that I'm insane
You know I just can't put you down
And my Mom won't call back at all
You know I just can't put you down
I rub my wounds with alcohol
You know I just can't put you down
I just can't put you down
There ain't a pill that'll cure that pain
But I just can't put you down

Some people say
That money can buy anything
All the drugs to cure the pain
Money can buy anything
Then some people want
All the sin and pleasure in this world
They don't care about the price
They pay for all the sin and pleasure in this world

But I've gotta say
You know I just can't put you down
I don't care how far I fall
You know I just can't put you down
And I don't care if they call back at all
I just can't put you down
All the women can forget my name
You know I just can't put you down
You know I just can't put you down
You know I just can't put you down
You know I just can't put you down

Sometimes my friend she knocks
Sometimes she just crashes in
She'll tell a joke or two then she waits
Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry I don't hear a thing
Sometimes she just gets bored and leaves

Hey you, won't you come and sit with me
I never promised anything, I just need for you
To slip away with me

I try to read between the lines, she won't say a thing
I climb the walls for a better view
I turn my head and call her name, she won't look my way
I climb the walls for a better view

Hey you, won't you come and drink with me
I haven't broken anything
I just need for you
To slip away with me

Sometimes my friend she knocks
Sometimes she just stumbles in
She'll tell a joke or two then she waits
Sometimes we laugh sometimes we try we don't feel a thing
I climb the walls for a better view

Hey you, won't you come hold on to me
It's not the answer to anything I just need for you
To slip away with me

I'm glad you didn't stick
To my fingers like a tremble
A wasted fortune spent
On things we never felt inside
I count the footsteps
That take me away from you
Because I stayed too long
Inside this crooked frame

I'm glad you didn't spend the night like you had promised
I'd have to stretch the truth to say that I was sorry
And now I laugh out loud at things that aren't that funny
Because I stayed too long inside this crooked frame

I could burn my clothes and I would be alright
I could burn the photographs and be alright
I could burn the postcards, I would be alright
I could smile for the first time without thinking of you

I'm glad you didn't stick to my fingers like honey
I'd have to stretch the truth to say that you were pretty
And now I laugh out loud at things that aren't quite funny
Because I stayed too long inside your crooked frame

Sometimes I come home,
I don't expect too much
The lights are off now
It's only two

How I wish my breath
It didn't hurt so much
Then you'd be up babe
It's only two

Why don't you sleep?
You look as though you need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
Now they mean nothing to me

Well all my friends they laughed,
They laughed at all my jokes
I got one more story,
It's only two

How I wish my tough
Could erase the past
They you'd be up babe
It's only two

Why don't you drink
You look as though you need one
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me,
No, they mean nothing to me

If these were different times
Then you'd be up,
And we'd trade stories
It's only two

Why don't we pretend?
I's all we have between us
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me, now
Why don't you sleep?
You look as though we need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me,
Now they mean nothing to me

When I turn twenty-one I'm gonna make a change
Turn my back on what I was
And make you proud of what I'm not

If it's my life why tear it down
And make me feel this way
I do my best with what I've got
Why do you tear it down?

Mama's not talkin' now
Dad, he's fallen off the track
Sister's on a rampage
And brother, he's planning his silent attack

My family's up and moved away
They couldn't stand the heat
Why build a house just to burn it down
Another love-torn mystery

You take a nickel and a spoon
And a crooked lover's tune
Might not add up to much
Just a nickel and a spoon

Have another drink on me
I've been empty since Arizona
I turned my back on me
And I faced the face of who I thought I was

One kiss just led to another
One kiss just fades into love

Blow another smoke ring for me
I've been straight so straight since Arizona
You say I've lost my way
But it's all a dream
Since Arizona

One kiss just led to another
One kiss just fades into lover
Arizona

Have another drink on me
I've been empty since Arizona
I turned my back on me
And I faced the face of who I thought I was

One kiss just led to another
One kiss just fades into love

In Arizona
In Arizona
In Arizona