Electra 2000 Lyrics
Key: (accentuated) / [alt interpretation] / incidental / non-lyrical / ± uncertain / indiscernible | Note ▾
Regarding HUM Lyrics
Matt, quite wisely, has persistently demurred away from lyrical scrutiny over the years, passionately encouraging - as with all good art - personal interpretation over any specific and intentional meaning, on his or HUM's behalf. Of course there is meaning. Gobs. Oceans. Macrocosms. However, pulling it down out of the more nonlinear, energetic aether, and into dualistic, deterministic, and materialistic reality changes things, appreciably. There's something about the transcendent magic suffusing a greater poetic & musical vehicle that is then lost, crumbling in the cloying grasp towards, and diminished, leaden results from an act of petrifying transcription.
Nevertheless, I get it - sometimes you just want to cut the foreplay, one hemisphere wanting to know just what the heck is being expressed and conveyed, so you can just get on with the rockin'. Well, here we are. That said, please don't get hung up on particulars of the interpretations here, or out there in the digital realms, which are often Frankensteined together with rather hackneyed scissoring & gluing, in some gawd-awful game of Internet telephone.
I've always hoped this would serve more as a touchstone or launching point in honorary spirit, if not as a humble guide, to see if anything jives with what gets lit up inside your folds when the roiled waves come crashing in.
Iron Clad Lou
now he's alive, while he sees he knows
he don't need a word from this fucking tease
he just needs some space and a lot of trees
a place to sleep, a place to breathe
•
cruising out of third and strapped to the mountain side
reaching for the sun, it tells him something's right
come into my mind where I can't feel you
the cat is in my head and I'm fucking wide awake
•
image in the sky tells me I'm not alive
smashing suns, and you smashing out his brains
come into my mind where I can't feel you
the cat is in my head and I'm fucking wide awake
•
I win
I win
I win
•
it sure gets lonely at the top
it sure feels weird, you're falling out
it sure gets lonely at the top
•
I win
I win
Pinch and Roll
so you think I've come alive
got my head out on the outside
yeah, I've worn you like a brick
yeah, now I'm sick
I move in time, I hear your face
it's all over the place
and everything I sing and do
fuck you
•
I hear you've got a brand new beau
I hear he's lovely (white as snow)
he moves in time, he moves real nice
I swear to God that's my advice
it really makes the world unstick, yeah
Mama taught me how to dance and pray
and I said okay
then, you made me feel like I was dead
maybe it's just in my head
•
if I could live I'd be the one
I would live and toll on
yeah, I would never kiss your ass
I don't know where it's at
the complete derelicts in my life ±
I'm being, really nice
I've gone blind, I'm losing teeth
I can't believe you're a dirty old man who pisses on himself
punching at a clock, screaming at the world I've healed
yeah I've healed
yeah I've healed
yeah, healed
yeah
yeah
yeah
Shovel
I failed in life
I failed in love
I fail to see the humor in any of this, yeah
maybe more than you can know [maybe Mom and you can know]
an afterthought [and after God]
I'm gonna go
•
I failed in life
I failed in love
I fail to see, why I should be any good at this, yeah
but I do shit [my life is shit], and I'm in charge
and you look upset, I'm living large, yeah
•
I know that you stand by him, so roam ±
feel this one so close to a scream
that's my own
and love you like no other, yeah
in time I'll use some space
to wrap myself in my love
and feel my face
•
and cry, yeah
yeah, God help me cry
yeah, it comes on like a dream
scene to which I haven't seen; there you are
fuck yeah
yeah
yeah, there you are
•
a little two-stepping, shaking ±
I dance alone
feel this one's so close to a swing
that's my own
and love you like no other, yeah
in time I'll use some space
to wrap myself in my love
and feel my face
Pewter
let's see how my day goes
let's see how my day goes
•
she walks across on moonbeams
she walks across on moonbeams
let's see how my day goes
let's see how my day...
•
you trust your heart to know what's real
but I've already spoken the words: mine
the sun, the moons, and the plans we make
not to be
not take, for taking
it's all mine
•
she walks across on moonbeams
she walks across on moonbeams
•
you trust your heart to know what's real
but I've already spoken the words: mine
the sun, the moons, the plans we've made
it's all been for the taking
it's all mine
Scraper
(anguished scream x2)
•
I will make you stronger, yes
I'm a gentle man, down waves ±
and tiny arms, and a tiny voice
that never said things quite right
and here's a funny place to be now
things always come my way
the sky is not so green as it seems
as it seems
•
two, made a life of background noise
and the boys just killing time
and this one fails to tell it all
my life, it's slowed down to a crawl
•
my love songs suck, yours make me cry
the world beneath you wonders why
your wings never touch the ground
no matter how soft they seem
•
(...you mustn't...so calm...most of the time...) ±
(...say hi to your folks and be nice to...) ±
(...and never, never stop thinking of...) ±
•
my love songs suck, yours make me cry
the world beneath you wonders why
I know I did, I know I do
can't you say I miss you too?
protect [just shut] your eyes and love me too
shut your eyes and love me too
shut your eyes, love me too
shut your eyes, love me too
Firehead
she comes down with her hair on fire while I sleep
and I feel wider than, higher than you know
•
she walks down with her wings on fire
if I could stand her I would lower down
my buckets of love and rain
that feel me out [fill me up] with your simple touch
the words from my Mom, I missed you so much
I have aside, everything you do
•
feel me out with your simple touch
the words from my Mom, I missed you so much
I have aside everything you do
•
Mom I'm just a boy
Mom I'm just a boy
Mom I'm just a boy
Mom I'm just a boy
Mom I'm just a boy
Mom I'm just a boy
Mom I'm just a boy
Sundress
(spoken word background)
•
flowers flying everywhere
dragon spruce, is screaming in your hair
•
you showed me your sundress last Sunday
it's yellow, red, black and white, and gray
you showed me your sundress last Sunday
no I don't like it, I don't like what you said
•
if I was flying everywhere, away from you
I don't think you could understand what I'm going through
•
you showed me your sundress last Sunday
it's yellow, red, black and white, and gray
yeah, you showed me your sundress last Sunday
yeah, I don't like it, I don't like what you said
•
in your arms you bring me down
no words in my head that can be found
yeah, she's all I want
there are no arms to bring me down
no words in my head that can be found
yeah, she's all I want
there are no arms to bring me down
no words in my head that can be found
•
that's it
Double Dip
breathe through the top straw
and I'll hold you between breaths
and lean into my lungs
and cry when it hurts too much
•
water's high, the water's high
I know my love
the water's high, the water's high
I know my love
•
breathe through the top straw
and I'll hold you between breaths
and lean into my lungs
and cry when it hurts too much
•
the water's high, the water's high
I know my love
the water's high, the water's high
I know my love
•
stand, deliver all, yeah
and all the love you give while I stand on your blue shoulders
and scream into my lungs
yeah, but first, but first
know what you've done [now, why'd you die?]
what you've done [why'd you die?]
what you've done [why'd you die?]
Winder
it's a lonely, twisted world spinning sickly on its side
I'm fried, and I can't sleep
no, I haven't enjoyed the ride
•
I'm just a white guy from the future
I'm completely out of touch
I know that you're tired
but I never loved so much
Diffuse
Bonus Track
she lays her dead head
back on my wet head
sleeping through sound
I'll wake her when we're through
the sun brown girl can see
the way my heart is in the know
she rides a simple wave
•
(...'till the sun catches you there...my hand...) ±
•
over and over and over again
the water leans towards me
it cleans my hands and head
so please don't fill the hours
of empty words and thoughts that fail
to tell me what I've seen
•
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait
and I wait on you
•
so please don't bring my gun inside
heart is in the know
and she rides a simple wave
