Fillet Show / Singles Lyrics
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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.
Spacefuck
cruising down
the stratosphere
we found a friend
who understands
so lower your stares
and slither down
I've been tired
and this could be fun
this could be fun
•
back inside
and keeping near
the blank, fake trees
and they don't breathe
but neither do you
so let's go inside
and find a room
and get real weird
and get real weird
•
and I could feel
you slipping away
and I could know
that you were away
I could know
my arms and legs
but I've been wired ±
are you leaving now?
are you leaving now?
Formaldehyde
mud pie, in my eyes
you don't see what I saw ±
but there's fibers
in my blood
so what now?
there's a fire in my life
there's a fire in my life
a fire in my life
a fire in my life
•
sun-streaks in my brain
so what now?
blue strain ±
your PT ±
off my brand ±
here unto the out ±
feel insane
there's a fire in my life
there's a fire in my life
a fire in my life
a fire in my life
•
mud pie in my eyes
the old sea, rock salt ±
but there's fibers
in my blood
so what now?
there's a fire in my life
a fire in my life
a fire in my life
a fire in my life
a fire in my life
Detassler
I can shoot you out of
my crazy head
and I should shoot you out of
my lazy head
it feels like I fell with the one before you
and know [now] I'd be for her ±
it's so familiar now
and I was doing so well
•
tell me about the times and things
you're gonna do
I'll believe whatever you say about
and I'll be with you
it feels like I fell with the one before you
I know I'd be for her ±
it's so familiar now
and I was doing so well
you know
you know
you know your thoughts are strong
you know when they leave the tongue / he's wondering if your tongue most people loose should never have when ±
it seems to meet the stars yawning ±
your most abundant notions
you know, you know, when I phone ±
Staring at the Sun
staring at the sun
and I dreamed the deceiver
was smoking her smile
and smiling her smoke
I wish everyone
would dream what I saw
slithered wings
as he's killing my mom ±
•
staring at the sun
and I dreamed of a missile
imploding my eyes
and poisoning my soul
I wish everyone
would dream what I saw
choosing to fight
when it's hotter than the sun
•
staring at the sun
and it's four separate colors
powering my senses
and poisoning my soul
staring at the sun
and I dreamed of a future
it burnt like a fever
crimson and cool ±
Hortense
it's over now, it's time we tried
walk away from the blue vinyl eyes
inside, here she comes
and she screams
take me along
•
in all the way
•
I wonder now
I wonder how you
get a drug being alone ±
here I lie, all fucked up
and you're not...it's not the way she seemed ±
•
in all the way
•
almost over now, haven't tried
walk away from the blue vinyl eyes
just like your head, you hear them scream
while you string me along
•
in all the way
•
hey now, hey now
you soaked your britches now
you're so lubricious now
you're sewn in stitches now
ever so freely now
you're on your way
so extremely
the things I say...what? what?
you act more slimly now ±
Kind of Night
kind of night
I can see
hold my thoughts
in that flat space
see the loading ramp ±
remove my question from the store ±
•
kind of night
I can see
hold my thoughts
in that flat space
see the loading ramp ±
remove my question from the store ±
kind of night...in science field ±
blocking rings fill the air
infiltrates your closing thoughts
kills your eyes with clouds of night
•
kind of night
I can see
hold my thoughts
in that flat space
see the loading ramp ±
remove my question from the store ±
kind of night
I can feel
a force field line infiltrate ±
feel this spiky floor
bones and marrow twist around
twist around
twist around
twist around (I can see it twist around)
twist around
twist around
twist around
twist around (I can see it twist around)
twist around
twist around
twist around
twist around (I can see it twist around)
twist around
twist around
twist around
twist around (I can see it twist around)
twist around
Lip Saga
don't try to slip this one by me
that would not be so cool
put back these words and untie me
you make me feel like a fool
you make me feel like a fool
you help put us together
before the colors were gray
now that we're not together
nothin's okay
nothin's okay
•
I saw the skin get broken ±
it got clouded by flies
and so I stand by the road still
staring into its eyes
I'm staring into its eyes
I never said this was better
than anything that I had
I never heard you say never
and now I wish that I had
but now I wish that I had
•
without your love, without your care
shooting blanks into the air
withholding thoughts while I just stare
to make me ask because that's not fair
•
pinned you off me, your path or mine? ±
walking in circles with you all the time
that's not how it's supposed to be
I guess there's more than you or me
•
and you're not following me down
you're not holding the rain fields back ±
you're not moving towards what's right
you're not keeping me in sight
I Like It
I like it when you spread your wings
and you cover up the walls and everything
stealing [steely] dinosaurs and kangaroos
I like it when you change the way you move ±
•
I like it in the car and without my mind
and I wish that I could be there all the time
climb without my shoes and digging through the trees
I like the way you look and the way I see
•
I like it when you spread your wings
and you cover up the walls and everything
stealing [steely] dinosaurs and kangaroos
I like it when you change the way you... ±
•
(if we talk right now)
(I've gone inside out) ±
(if we talk right now) ±
(I can [can't] hear you out)
Pocket
I reach in my pockets
while you were piloting rockets now ±
two dirty right-handed gloves
I sit [sleep] by the bedside
with a nasty dream in my eye
I'd hate to wake you now
•
the pile of my pants
is lying crumpled by the mattress
it's pushing arms-length now
I reach in my pocket
for the bed, tried not to rock it
I'd hate to wake you now
•
(quietly spoken phrases x4)
•
yeah, the pile of myself
is lying crumpled by the mattress
just push it arms-length away
I'm sorry about the planet
did she mean to rock it? ±
it's just to cover it up
•
half asleep in the arms of you
and I know the end is on us bearing down
yeah, you are the one that I cannot own
and I feel this as another way to die
(yeah, I do)
•
I'm [and] half alive in the arms of you
and I know the end is on us bearing down
yeah, you are the one that I cannot own
and I feel this as a lonely way to die
yeah, die
yeah, die
yeah, I do
Hello Kitty
I'm still awake ±
here she comes again
I've got a broken mind
for you to mend
I'm the one, yeah
and I squirm at night outside your bedroom
my eyes have got a naked mind
and you don't
•
I'm stupid
and I'm ugly
I'm weak
and I'm poor
•
I'm the one, fuck yeah
and I squirm at night outside your bedroom
my eyes have got a naked mind
and you don't
•
wide awake
and I feel
and you know to weigh what's on my mind
and I feel [fail]
•
yeah, you know what's on my mind
and you don't know how I feel
I believe in everything that's real
I'm the one, fuck yeah and I squirm at night outside your mind
and I believe... ±
Roar, I'm a Tiger
first in mind and last as the things to do ±
I came crawling across the steamship looking for you ±
I'd like to feel your fair hand in seventeen wings [weeks] ±
and I'd like to beat myself all over the race ±
•
a man shouldn't have to go so far to great lengths ±
it's covering me up with blanks now and that's all I ask
I'd like to take a second and adjust the feel of your controls
and I'd like some help deciding on what we know
...down ±
•
I'm in the mood to take care of some of your time
but I'm in the mood to let you know that I'll be maligned ±
I'd like to be your friend and seventeen wings [in seventeen weeks] ±
and I'd like to kill myself all over your sheets
...feel weird ±
•
(quietly spoken phrase)
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
but I don't like it
I don't like what you said
•
yeah, I was flying everywhere away from you
I don't think you can understand what I'm going through
•
you showed me your sundress last Sunday
it's yellow, red, black and white, and gray
you showed me your sundress last Sunday
but I don't like it
I don't like what you said
•
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
Time is Melting
all time is melting, oh watch you wait
no sense in running, not since you're away
all rules are tested, all in another way
no chance in falling, not 'till yesterday
•
all time is melting, time has meaning now
oh I am melting, I have meaning now
all time is melting, time has meaning now
oh I am melting, I have meaning now
•
all time is melting, time has meaning now
I am melting, I have meaning now
all time is melting, time has meaning now
oh I am melting
oh I am melting
