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intro
01:54
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have you ever caught your thumb between a socket and a plug
and got yourself a nice little buzz
I pulled a couple hundred volts from one hand to the other
that's how you know I'm bad bad luck
bad, bad luck
and maybe I'm just bad all around
bad, bad luck
baby, you just gotta hold me down
everything that could go wrong already did
I've been advertising Murphy's Law since I was a kid
you had to have heard how little I give a fuck
sorry baby, I'm just bad bad luck
bad, bad luck
but I'll make it worth your while
yeah, I'm bad, bad luck
but giving up just ain't my style
I'm not saying I've never been to blame for my sins
the devil and god know what I get myself in
but there's something to be said about my history
even when I'm doing pretty good, it's all bad luck for me
bad, bad luck
black cats cross my path and I pet em
bad, bad luck
if I get used to hell, what good's heaven?
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2. |
revisionist history
04:28
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not a single soul comes through the front door
they already saw me drinking on the back porch
"I like the view but not the visibility
I'd like to see everybody,
but I don't want anyone seeing me"
this whole thing might look better on somebody else
someone with far less garbage left to say for themselves
cuz I know when I'm wrong and I know that I'm rotten
but I know when I'm right and I haven't forgotten
I never do
"you look like you've been lying in bed
but you don't look like you've been getting to sleep"
well, half the time I feel half dead
and half my body's humming with electricity
and baby, it hurts to hear it's all in your head
when your head's the only place you can't leave
this whole thing could've been avoided with a hard conversation
it still never would've been easy
but damn it, I gave you the invitation
and I know when I'm wrong, but I was right this time
it doesn't mean that I sleep any better at night
well baby, how about you?
rolling up my sleeves, I've got digging to do
excavating the version of me before you
dusting gently the dirt from my palms and my knees
I look up, smell decay on the tail of the breeze
and I take it all in, the old version that shows
just because something's planted doesn't mean it grows
just because it's buried doesn't mean that it's gold
just because it's planted doesn't mean it grows
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3. |
venus
03:18
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can I darken your doorway
come inside and stay the night
can I paint you in a gold frame
and take my time to really get you right
goddamn, you're a work of art
that I can't find the words to describe
so I stand slack-jawed in the gallery
with my arms useless by my side
can I sit in your sunbeams
and get burned a little every time
can I walk into your daydreams
you already know you live in mine
I'm always wishing I was back in the desert
and it's never really winter where you are
baby, I think I'll be after you forever
I just want it to be me keeping you warm
let me stand in your light until the sun goes down
because I think I'd rather go blind than never see you around
your arrow's in too deep, it's never coming out
even if you never meant it, does it really matter now?
asked me why and all I could say
is "baby, you never forgot my birthday"
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4. |
murder me first
03:31
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bad at casual, good at being sweet
bad at boundaries, good at going deep
baby, I'm only trying to sweep you off your feet
I'm only thinking about you even when I sleep
babe, do you wanna spend the rest of our lives
trying to untangle each other?
cuz I'm a bad fucking liar
but I'm a good fucking lover
I'm bad at halfway, good at all in
bad with jumping to conclusions, good with evidence
bad at ever letting anybody win
at least I'm good at being punished for my sins
babe, do you wanna be worshipped?
do you wanna be saved?
and do you wanna get buried
in the same damn grave?
I'm good at talking tough
I'm bad at slowing down
I swear I'm gonna fall in love
if it kills me somehow
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5. |
copper state
03:36
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I should be stoned in Arizona
instead of drunk in Tennessee
yeah, I guess it doesn't always have to be
a motherfucking masterpiece
baby, who's your daddy?
you know that I'm your man
smile at you crooked
til my heart breaks in your hands
if you want passion,
well, I got it darlin'
to an annoying degree
so if you don't wanna fall in love,
don't bat your lovely eyes at me
well, baby, who's your daddy?
you know that I'm your man
smile at you crooked
til my heart breaks in your hands
damn, I've spent my whole life trying to look like
the kind of girl I wanna take to bed
yeah, I spent my whole life trying to get it right
the version of myself in my head
who's your daddy?
you know that I'm your man
smile at you crooked
til my heart breaks in your hands
baby, I'm unsteady
and I don't think you understand
I'm in love already
and it never really goes to plan
baby, who's your daddy?
you know that I'm your man
smile at you crooked
while my heart breaks in your hands
baby, I'm unsteady
and I don't think you understand
that I'm in love already
and it never really goes to plan
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6. |
king of nowhere
04:10
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all hail the king of nowhere,
all my dreams are nightmares
baby, nothing's really sacred
and I don't know how to fake it
what a hell of a heartbreak !
and I don't wanna forget the way it felt, babe
your pulse hitting my jaw like a toothache
I still wanna be the one making your legs shake
I'm the best at losing
it just comes so naturally to me
so bet against me, baby
bet against me, it's always the right move
still wish that you would get drunk and text me
so I could tell you how much I wish you were next to me
I'm batting a thousand with the same mistakes
like they're the only ones I know how to make
heavy is the head, darlin; hollow is the heart
bleeding on the page and confusing it for art
holding court for nobody, polishing my crown
is it still good to be the king when there's no one left in town?
heavy is the head, darlin; empty as the heart
when we've wasted all the days, but the sky is full of stars
you're gonna lose your patience, I'm gonna lose my charm
and I'll be holed up in my castle with nobody in my arms
I'm the king of nowhere
of acting like I don't care
and if nothing's really sacred
I don't know if I can take it
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made myself an easy target
I can take a pretty hard hit
but you don't leave a thing like you found it
and I'm still fucking thinking about it
baby, I love you but I think you're evil
I like the way you roll your eyes at me
yeah baby I love you, I just think you're evil
but you taste so fucking sweet
and you know the first glance in my general direction
gets my goddamn undivided attention
the first one to show me affection
come on, take me out like a lethal injection
baby, I love you but I think you're evil
you're a barrel to my head
with your finger on the trigger
baby I love you, I just think you're evil
cuz I'm drunk and still drinking, baby
girl, you're the liquor
fuck hungry, baby I'm starving
doing my best to try to make it look charming
I'll take the good with the bad, baby
nothing's ever worth getting mad to me
baby, I love you but I think you're evil
yeah, I guess I get why all my friends do too
baby, I love you, I just think you're evil
if you're on trial for my murder, I'm defending you
baby I love you but I think you're evil
looks like I'm falling on my sword again
just because I got bored again
I think you're evil, baby
yeah baby, I love you
I just think you're evil
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8. |
xxxo
02:41
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I don't wanna need you, darlin'
just wanna want you so bad it hurts
I want crushing, all-consuming love
but I wanna want you first
I wanna get swallowed whole
by the depths of my feelings
I want my blood on your hands
I wanna keep on bleeding
I need my lips on your thigh
like yesterday, babe
I relive it on the drive home
it's on repeat in my brain
I hope you think of me like a fever dream
like you're sure it shook you
but you don't remember anything
I wanna be the one you always wonder about
you know that I'm around, you never see me out
heart's a little haunted
but it's yours if you want
heart's a little haunted
but it's yours if you want it
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9. |
fortune's fool
03:26
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she thought that I was out with someone else
but she still smiled when she saw me at the bar
guess she decided she would find out for herself
and she wants to take me home, so now I'm stumbling to her car
her hair is still all tangled up
in the chain on my necklace
she wouldn't let me take it off
she likes the way it hits my chest
flipped through the pages of her sketchbook
she said she wants to draw me naked on her floor
and then she said she's gonna fuck me to my own songs
and that just made me like her even more
she told me the way I use my mouth is dangerous
yeah, but then she told me not to get too cocky about it
and when she dropped me off at the motel in the morning
I told her "yeah baby, you know I'll call when I'm in town again"
bruises that look just like your lips and carpet burns on both my knees
jesus christ I'm getting high, high on every memory
yeah baby, you know I'll call when I'm in town again
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10. |
optimistic nihilism
06:18
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you wanna get me in hotter water
than I’m already in?
I'm like a moth to your flame, a lamb to your slaughter
push your nails in my skin
I think the whole world is headed to hell
so we might as well
baby, we might as well
you’re trying to get me in double the trouble
for half of the cost
and it’s a struggle to be subtle
I'm lightheaded from the blood I lost
I think we might die any minute
so yeah, I’m in it
fuck yeah, I’m in it
I think the whole world is headed to hell
so we might as well
baby, we might as well
yeah, you know I don’t believe in much
but if there’s a god, I feel her in yr touch
and I think we might die any minute
so fuck yeah, I’m in it
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I've been looking for a way out since I got here
but I don't know where I'm going when I leave
inviting tragedy in like it's a dear old friend
and I could really use the company
I don't want it if it's sacred
yeah, I'm way more into the profane
I'll cross your eyes and stop your heart, darlin'
yeah, baby, take my name in vain
but don't say you love me if you're leaving
yeah, I'll know when you come back again
and I ain't even gonna believe it
til I'm back underneath your skin
feels like I'm outside of my body
lying next to yours
I'm on my knees, I'm at your altar
guess what I'm praying for
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