"Carine, Come Clean"  
   
I walked, you ran  
escaping down the sand  
The waves must have drowned out your laughter  
And you took my hand  
and torched all my best laid plans  
But I’m not the one needs looking after  
   
CHORUS  
oh CARINE, COME CLEAN  
you don’t have that much to hide  
CARRINE, COME CLEAN  
I’ll still be by your side  
if you’re smiling free  
happy just like me,  
you don’t need to see  
me proven wrong  
she says, “you and I’ve just stuck around too long”  
   
The days grew cold  
We spoke in secret code  
With all out plots growing thicker  
And you took my hand  
and pulled me onto the sand  
but my head kept spinning quicker  
   
CHORUS  
   
What happened to the time  
spent scouring traffic signs  
in desperate hopes to find  
some shortcut home now?  
Carine says, “let me steer,  
The one way out of here  
Is through that sad, thin veneer  
That we’re not alone now”  
No no no!  
   
CHORUS 2x  

   
“Palisades, 1989 (for Paul)”  
   
Let's go out to the PALISADES  
and contemplate plans we've made  
Before we die - or our youth starts to fade  
Let's go out in our fathers' German cars  
My Versatel and your brand new credit card  
The night is young and this city's ours  
Somehow the bills will all get paid  
$5 for a pack of Cartiers  
And espresso at some Sunset café  
Spend days in endless record bins  
At night, clubs never let us in  
To our eternal shame  
   
Let's go out to the Newport pier  
And see what dreams we see from there  
Before they drown or vanish into air  
Let's go out to a matinée  
And read the French dialogue all day  
And tell ourselves, "man, they'll be filming us someday"  
'Til then we'll draw up master plans  
Lard up our riders with demands  
And quote poets we pretend to understand  
Passed out, I watch you while you sleep  
And curse the company you keep  
But you don't have to tell me that you love me.  
I know you do (3x), I know you well  
   
Let's go out to the PALISADES  
and contemplate plans we've made  
Before we die - or our youth starts to fade  
Let's go out in our fathers' German cars  
My Versatel and your brand new credit card  
The night is young and this city's ours  
Somehow the bills will all get paid  
Somehow the reckoning gets delayed  
As long as smokes are bought and cocktails get made  
free gas to drive the streets alone  
and curse the comfort of our homes  
But you don't have to tell me that you love me.  
I know you do (3x), I know you well  
   

   
“Genevieve Knows”  

She’s like, ‘yeah,  
Someone oughta follow me and write stuff down’  
I’m like, ‘yeah  
Every time you speak it’s like a brand new sound’  
but anyone can see  
I need her more than she needs me  

CH  
Genevieve takes the morning train  
To get to work by nine and back again  
She says it seems like no one acts their age  
And that it feels like life’s not lived it’s waged  
But GENEVIEVE KNOWS my love for her grows  
Each day - as long as she calls my name  

V2  
She goes down-  
town to be the empress of her tiny scene  
I go down  
swinging at the sycophants around my queen  
But let them all pretend  
she's gonna wake up next to them  

CH2  
Genevieve takes the morning train  
To get to work by nine and back again  
She says it seems like no one acts their age  
And that it feels like life’s not lived it’s waged  
But GENEVIEVE KNOWS my love for her grows  
Whether she stays or whether I go insane  
As long as she calls my name  

BRIDGE  
Hey Jen, say when are you gonna let us all come up for air?  
Jen says, “depends on the weather and if whether I’m awake enough to care”  

and every night’s a blur  
but still I go to bat for her 

   
"Air Enough to Breathe"  
   
I woke up cuddling empty space  
kissing impressions of your face  
But you’d disappeared without a trace  
The night before I trailed your car  
From bar to club and club to bar  
But I always take these things too far  
   
Chorus  
‘Cause you’re in town for a minute  
and the whole place burns down  
and you drag me down in it  
Never seen, not a sound  
You leave too late  
but I’m just grateful  
that you’re leaving me  
AIR ENOUGH TO BREATHE  
    
the afterclub I don’t recall  
emerging from a grafitti’d stall  
they saw you pin me to the wall  
and I stayed to the bitter end  
too gone to see the bitter friend  
who’ll never speak to me again  
   
CH2  
‘Cause you’re in town for a minute  
And the whole place burns down  
And you drag me down in it  
Never seen, not a sound  
You leave me tapped  
but I’m just happy  
that you’ve deigned to leave  
air enough to breathe  
   
   

   
“Girl from Galway”  
   
A night’s bar crawl away  
On an Irish pub floor I'll lay  
GIRL FROM GALWAY came on a tourist visa  
And decided to stay  
She was new so fresh so foreign  
And me so tired right-wing and boring  
With her I found myself ignoring  
My self control  
   
VERSE  
Now Guinness is Good for You  
Posters litter the walls of our loo  
GIRL FROM GALWAY came to know me better  
And I could ever do  
[2nd prog]  
Six months in I'm not sure I'm staying  
She says, But now I find myself saying  
New words, like naff and craic and wanker  
Why I never took the time to thank her  
I'll never know  
[1st prog]  
I'll never know  
   
BRIDGE  
But I could turn you in so easily  
and nobody would know!  
And you could never come back,  
it would be so easy.  
Not so easy is forgetting you  
or letting you go  
   
VERSE  
I told her love was flawed  
And how we could have  
Shared a Catholic God  
But GIRL FROM GALWAY came and went faster than my  
junior year abroad  
Six months on I don't feel much better  
Though somewhat sobered up and whether  
She moves back home or across the street  
She still moving on, moving on…away from me  
ba ba ba ba ba