Patty Lee - Les Savy Fav

Patty Lee, turn the lights on, please.
There's something I don't understand.
Patty Lee, turn the lights on please.
This party's gotten out of hand.--

Those were the last words her suitor spoke before he croaked.
In seven seconds he'd be dead, tied to the headboard of Pattie Lee's bed.

Pattie Lee sloughed her skin and showed what was within.
It's hard to describe. She moved like smoke and sounded like ice.

We used to be Gods, now we're so plain.
It took ten million years just to say my real name.
Back before Babylon, shit was cool.
Now we've all got our saddles on, and trot to school.

If I may wax poetic, I think the facts are plain,
I am the moon ascendant and I'm not soon to wane.
See my shadow, twice the mountain or stretched across the desert plain.
Shouting sun flares up like fountains. Shouting planets down like rain

Reprobates Resume - Les Savy Fav

Blessed be the doctor
Blessed be the nurse.
Blessed be the coachman
who put me in the hearse.
Blessed be the blessings and
blessed be the curse.

Rattled from the sediment
old bones around the settlement.
Tell who passed out the medicine
the dose was much too strong.

He goes to bed bereft and berated
and rests his head in the hands of
the over rated.

Sweating bullets in the faculty lounge,
sensing treason they're not waiting around;
On the first bus out of the town
they're playing movies that they've already seen.

The jewelry advances as the gums recede,
the devil goes out dancing on the angels preceived needs,
Please go easy on me.

Cheap sex with a dicount broker-
Cop's walkie-talkie squawks breaker-breaker.
"We got to take her down to the station
she says that that broker broke her off."
Read the text at the ticker tape parade-
The subtext is that someone's getting paid off.
Check the checks at the ticker tape parade-
pay stubs of the people who've been laid off.

Insurance can't cover what the world exposed-
Open nerves.
Touching toes to stretch,
the A.C. made us retch.

Can you conceive of
working for the
emperor's new clothes?
Please go easy on me.

We'll Make A Lover Of You - Les Savy Fav

They say, “Once you’ve found love and it’s rarer than gold.
You stake your claim- it’s so hard to hold.”
I say, “We’ve struck a vein and it’s wide as a road!”

Have we got love enough to go around?
Why don’t you get a piece and pass it down?
Even 100,000,000 years from now
the love we make will still be putting out.

We filled up our pockets till they would explode
and called the whole world here so they could behold
the light of our love beats the dark and the cold.

Have we got love enough to go around?
Why don’t you get a piece and pass it down?
Even 100,000,000 years from now
the love we make will still be putting out.

I get the best of you, you get the best of me.
You know I come to you across the broadest sea.
For just a speck of you I’d trade the whole of me.
I wish each peck from you would last eternity.
I wish each peck from you would last eternity.
I wish each peck from you would last eternity.
I wish each peck from you would last eternity.

Where the skin's thin and where the skin gathers.
When you’re moving in and see it’s all that matters.
Records left skipping, clothing all scattered,
A kiss in the kitchen, The dishes all shattered.

We'll make a lover of you.

The Sweat Descends - Les Savy Fav

The sweat descends
The sweat scents
One cock sure fox in a house of hens
My mouth will water where the sweat descends

The sweat descends sweet decadence,
lets hope this party never ends
A shiv in the ribs,
Some smoke in the hive,
You live how you live I'll die how i die

Wake me up when we get to heaven,
Let me sleep if we go to hell.
Blame my mouth if the house is burning,
Check my tongue if you still cant tell

The sweat descends,
My psyche bends,
I'll never be the same again.
This soul is twisted but the skin will mend.
My tight young skin covers up a sick palimpsest.

Wake me up when we get to heaven,
Let me sleep if we go to hell.
Blame my mouth if the house is burning,
Touch my tongue if you still cant tell

Make your mark on a darkened dance floor.
Slip across the present tense,
Press up against the skin you care for,
Meet me where the sweat descends