your crooked son is coming home
1. "crank resolutions" / meursault
i broke down on new year's day
i mixed my drinks and i lost my way
i walked past the houses of every friend i've ever known
if only i had known
2. "sorrow" / the national
sorrow's my body on the waves
sorrow's a girl inside my cake
i live in a city sorrow built
it's in my honey, it's in my milk
3. "swim until you can't see land" / frightened rabbit
drop to my knees now, do i wade? do i dive?
the sea has seen my like before, though it's my first and perhaps last time
let's call me a baptist, call this a drowning of the past
she is there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back
4. "are you hurting the one you love?" / florence + the machine
are you hurting the one you love?
bite your tongue 'til it tastes like blood
are you hurting the one you love?
so many glasses on the tabletop
5. "demons" / the national
do not know what's wrong with me
sours in the cup
when i walk into a room
i do not light it up
6. "terrified" / among savages
it has been such a long, long time
i've been asleep, trying to sleep away my life
'cause i'm terrified, and i'm ruined by this mess
'cause i needed you more than i needed to be blessed
so cut me free, let it last and let it burn
'cause i'll start acting like a man when i get what i've earned
7. "ocean of night" / editors
love is a feeling buried with me in the yard
gaze at the skyline under an ocean of stars
this is your slow dance and this is your chance to transform
lost to a moment, the moment you confront the storm
8. "blank maps" / cold specks
when the night comes, who will you be?
even the dead can be astoundingly alive
i am, i am; i am, i am
a goddamn believer
9. "hudson" / vampire weekend
over and over again, all these neverending visions
over and over again, like a prize exchanging hands
the lines are drawn, the map is such a drag
all you who change your stripes can wrap me in the flag
10. "song for martin kippenberger" / meursault
your crooked son is coming home
and the pain you're cradling is leaving for good
(please don't send me homeward,
please don't send me home)