AMERICANACHRONISM LYRICS

1. Good Life

We’ve got a cabinet full of clowns

With panhandle hair cuts

You’ll believe it when you see it for yourself

There’s a lady in the lounge 

Wearing technicolor makeup

Mixing drinks to make you think

You’re someone else
 

You want that good life 

We’ve got a shortcut

So come inside and have a look

You want that good life

We’ve got the hookup

So come inside, come inside

And get that good, good life

 

There’s an eagle in the attic

With a semi-automatic

There’s a couple getting frisky in the hall

A television in the kitchen

That’ll feed your children static

When you’re lonely there’s a number you can call
 

You want that good life 

We’ve got a shortcut

So come inside and have a look

You want that good life

We’ve got the hookup

So come inside, come inside

And get that good, good life


 Folks 

Pay no attention

To those  crooks 

Behind the curtain

They will tell you your future 

Is lovely and  certain

They will sell you a dream 

For a dollar-ninety-nine

Then make you repay it

Or call it a crime

Folks

We are losing a war 

With the enemy within us

The greed that we feed

I will devour and kill us

But step on up

Come on up

Step on up

And come inside

You’ve got 

Everything to lose

And there is 

Nothing you can hide

 

You want that good life 

We’ve got a shortcut

So come inside and have a look

You want that good life

We’ve got the hookup

So come inside, come inside

And get that good, good life

 

2. Worth the Wait

There’s a tunnel 

Burrowed underneath

This white faced wasteland

There’s a woman in that ancient tree

The one that history

Keeps reminding me

To think upon again 

There’s a blossom 

Tumbling on the wind

And a watchman at the gate

He’s busy polishing his gun again

A gift the devil sent

With a note that told him

War is worth the wait

War is worth the wait

War is worth the wait

 

There was a dark cloud

Over Chilltown

All the horses were asleep

I didn’t startled when the shot rang out

But I heard someone shout

“My kingdom, my kingdom for a peach”

There were vultures circling overhead

Shadow crosses on the moon

There wasn’t time enough to mourn the dead

So we chose instead

To leave a note that read

"Were here and gone too soon"

Here and gone too soon

Here and gone to soon
 

It doesn’t matter how you color things

It doesn’t matter what you say

There is a truth with no alternative

So don’t pretend to live

As if it’s yours to give

And take away
 

There’s a blossom buried underneath 

This concrete wasteland

My heart is broken but before I leave

I’ll write a note that reads

"Be patient please, love is worth the wait"

Love is worth the wait

Love is worth the wait

Love is worth the wait

 

3. Screechin’ Wheels

That train is comin' back

Oh them screechin’ wheels

They’ll have our children

Picking thistle

From the killing fields

The sky is blurry black

And up on Jackson Hill

A soldier

Wipes his bloody nose

With hundred dollar bills
 

Oh, That train is comin’ back

That train is comin' back
 

That train is chewin track

It’s comin at full tilt

They’ll have us buried

In the basement

Of the house we build

We gotta push em back

We’re gonna take their tongues

We’ll hear em squeal

Under the heels

Of our forgotten sons

 

Oh, That train is comin’ back

That train is comin' back

 

4. The Long Con

We built this house around trap doors

In case of betrayal or nuclear war

We built this house around busted beams

Pragmatic romantics with troubling dreams

Now there’s nothing, nothing worth hiding for anymore

No there’s nothing, nothing worth worrying for anymore

 

Drink  with me as with me as the world ends

Laugh with me as the sun dies

Walk with me in the last remaining light

Drink with me as the world

Sleep with me as the moon falls

Into the endless night


I made a boat out of collar bones

And you carved a harbor from cinnamon stone

We charted course for the end of days

A plan for disaster and dancing on graves


Now there’s nothing, nothing worth drowning for anymore

No there’s nothing, nothing worth worrying for anymore


Drink  with me as with me as the world ends

Laugh with me as the sun dies

Walk with me in the last remaining light

Drink with me as the world

Sleep with me as the moon falls

Into the endless night


We made a fable from broken things

First person poems and second hand rings

We made a case for the long con

Cause when you travel together you’ve never been gone

 

Now there’s nothing, nothing worth running for anymore

No there’s nothing, nothing worth worrying for anymore

 

Drink  with me as with me as the world ends

Laugh with me as the sun dies

Walk with me in the last remaining light

Drink with me as the world

Sleep with me as the moon falls

Into the endless night

 

5. Pistols & Paces

Wave your pistol, take your paces 

Dream of darling, distant places 

Pray for lovers gone and grieving 

Beg for something worth believing 

 

We slaughtered the horses 

We're sellin' the farm 

You're blackmailing gods 

And I'm sounding alarms 

So you're off to the races 

I'm on to your ruse 

You've nothing to wear 

And my love I've got nothing to lose 

 

Lace your days with puns and poison 

Build a chapel to rejoice in 

 

We slaughtered the horses 

We're sellin' the farm 

You're blackmailing gods 

and I'm sounding alarms 

So you're off to the races 

I'm on to your ruse 

You've nothing to wear 

And I've nothing to lose 

My only mistake 

Was believing in love 

It's a crime that I'm often 

Convict-able of 

So you're off to the races 

I'm on to your ruse 

You've nothing to wear 

And my love I've got nothing to 

 

Twenty paces smoking barrel 

Trigger finger happy hour love 

Twenty paces smoking barrel 

Trigger finger happy hour love 

 

We slaughtered the horses 

We're sellin' the farm 

You're blackmailing gods 

And I'm sounding alarms 

So you're off to the races 

I'm on to your ruse 

You've nothing to wear 

and I've nothing to lose 

My only mistake 

Was believing in love 

It's a crime that I'm often 

Convict-able of 

So you're off to the races 

I'm on to your ruse 

You've nothing to wear 

And my love I've got nothing to lose

 

5.God Forbids

Grandpa fought in Germany

 Daddy was as a spy

Mother made a home for me

And taught me not to lie

My brothers and my sisters

Became Christians and had kids

I been out here doing 

All the things that God forbids


I thought about the army

When the towers tumbled down

I tried to be a husband

And I died in Chinatown

They say there’s calm for everyone

I’m pretty sure there is

I’ll find it while I’m doing

All the things that God forbids


I’ve never heard a promise

That I honestly believed

So I haven’t found a lover

That I couldn’t learn to leave

But I’m trying not to worry

And I’m easy to forgive

So I’ll be out here doing

All the things that God forbids

 

I’m late for every party

But I’m grateful for my friends

Cause I know they’ll spread my ashes

On the ocean when it ends

So sing with me in revelry 

For how a heathen lives

And I’ll be out here doing

All the things that god forbids

I’ve been out here doing

All the things that god forbids

I’ll find it while I’m doing

All the things that god forbids


 












 

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