This Boy Is Exhausted - The Wrens

4 Lock me in
Tied to work
Splitting rock
Cutting diamonds
100 days
With no pay
Not anymore
Cause I'm caught
I can't type
I can't temp
I'm way past college
No ways out
No back doors
Not anymore

But then once a while
We'll play a show
Then it makes it worthwhile
Our sights set low
As Jerry squares off the set here we go
But... this boy is exausted

Eight hours long
A single song
Come to this
Triple guessing
Double down
A.V.P.'s faith is one single long
Cause I can't write
What I know
It's not worth writing
I can't tell
A hit from hell one sing-along
But then Greg plugs in
A treble checking that says we might win
Hell's Henry pearls
The woven strap wins the Galloway girls
But...
But then Kev jumps in
And hits the floor as the stick hits the rim
I guess we're done
Cause every win on this record's hard won
But...

Boys, You Won't - The Wrens

boys you won't remember
from the minute
you walked into the room
every letter started brokenhearted
and ended way too soon

lived through underrated
getting jaded
to wind up with no one
hiding in new places getting wasted
singing "i guess we're done"

i don't want you to wonder why
i don't want you to wonder why
won't do any good
you don't know what you got into
until you know when it's all gone, gone...

i don't feel the need to try and explain
excuses sounding insane
you're gonna find, you're gonna find
i've been knocked down
but i've stood up
down off of the ground
but i've stood up
lost without a sound
but i've stood up
to faced another round
but i've stood up
you want me, you want me...

i don't know what you got on me
even in just you wait and see

i dont feel the need to try and explain
excuses sounding insane
you're going to find
you're going to find
i'm feeling down
but i've stood up
down off of the ground
but i've stood up
lost without a sound
but i've stood up
to face another round
but i've stood up
you want me, you want me

Happy - The Wrens

you're the one I want
you're a chance to take
you're a heartbreak
and swore you'd never leave again
you're the only one
that i ever trusted
or who ever cared at all
is this how it's going to be?
is this how you wanted me
broken down again
it's almost over now
is this why you wanted me
to watch as you walk away
you kept on killing me
you don't even want to touch me
you don't even want to touch me
i was wrong
i've wasted on
can't figure out
what happened to us
i won't count
on you anymore
i'll be alright
don't worry about me
aren't you happy now
got what you want
i wanted you
but i'm over that now
i'm over it
i'm so sick of you
what we went through
your lies to me
won't win again
so don't kid yourself
it's better this way
it's all back to me

Everyone Choose Sides - The Wrens

...13 grand
a year in the meadowlands
bored and rural-poor, lord, at 35, right?
I'm the best 17 year old ever

worked these sands
I won't go back again
quitter quitter one boy bitter - rough luck
man to man hand to hand fight 40
we're losing sand!
a wrens' ditch battle plan
record after record black and deckered tack! tack!
definition: hell and high water
fatty come a courtin' lord the money!
everyone choose sides
the whole to-do of what to do for money
everyone choose sides
poorer or not this year and hell's the difference
everyone sell lies

everyone choose sides

let's talk plans
and luck said, 'double damned'
were you give women worth winning or what?
a wasted share of shots at high-tide heaven'
greener grasses fade from where you wind up
everyone choose sides
I'm back! I'm back! So sing to raise the blind up
I've walked away from more than you imagine and I sleep just fine
we fought and brought up more - the shovels high up
on the 10-ton line