Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace
Hot Black Silk
there will be trouble with me
there will be trouble more than these
and i warned you
ten times of these things
there ain’t nothin’ short of wisdom(x2)
in your hot black silk
and there won’t be more
than one of me
is the only thing i can ever promise you
and i make enough lovin’
for three of me
there ain’t nothin short of wisdom(x2)
in your hot black silk
Capt. Badass
departure and worry
still shakes me
resistance failed(x2)
and friendship failed(x2)
as lovers we did not fail(x2)
brown eyes your pulse is getting hotter
brown eyes your pulse is getting quicker
quote Captain Badass,
” I am setting you heart on fire
so when you leave me
i will burn on in your soul”.
you won’t have to think twice
if it’s love you will know
we get no second chance in this life(x2)
so a hot pulse is alright
so a quick pulse is alright
so a hot kiss is alright
so a long kiss is alright
so a long night is alright
and all night is alright
there ain’t no contest
against the final day
we’ll rise above us either way
we’re either greeted
by life or its reverse
then each day greeted
by fortune or its reverse
will you stand up for your one chance
will you stand up for love
we get no second chance in this life(x2)
you won’t have to think twice if its love
you will know
Love and Work
there are gaps between the light
and the dark roads we are on
no gaps between what’s right
and the need that we have
somewhere under 6am
there is the room and
the events in this room
there is the dark
and these events in the dark
there is love and work and lovers work(x3)
love and work
and it took all of my strength
to ignore the need to stay
and it took all of my strength
to leave you either way
and we are constellations
in our own way
and there are these
three degrees of merit to us
there is love and work and lovers work(x3)
love and work
Come Back to Your Man
Coaxingly closing to dangerous eyes
they hang their lighted
she feels the effort of h-a-n-d’s
she feels the effort of e-y-e’s
she feels the effort of l-i-e’s
fumble across her
there are demands on spirit and flesh
and i’ve made the effort to survive them
now come back to your man(x4)
Love Leaves Its Abuser
you must have heard
that voice loud and plain
through all the thunder i surrounded you in
and i once had cause
and i once had strength
but i have been selfish
to say the least
i owned up to this
though leaving is a curious way
for you to love me
so my life and my whole waiting guilt
i enclose late with my dues to you
love leaves its abuser(x4)
Champion
she with all her reasons
hardly spoke two words
let what’s left of this relation
find its way to swiftest decay
let us rest in the decisions of this hour
champion(x2)
there are no claims on you
Red Head
the broken times
self-confidence must be
it’s obviously
selfish to preserve
and selfish to pursue
i guess it’s the proper way
to go on to loving
begin with nothing(x3)
and so here’s the state
that love’s left me in
in the estate of the redhead
and what does she mean
she don’t need the proof
of my failures
or all the nights when
i earned my failure
and i suppose
i’ve not been rejected
and i suppose
we’ve not been a failure
and i suppose that we’re proof of it
How To Be Perfect Men
suppose my life has its plan
i choose to have women write my plan
and i have my reasons
they’ll write that list
of all that i should be
and perfect men would never be
jealous or desperate
my ghost and i in our grave will lie
and we’ll read that plan
on how to be perfect man
if anyone succeeds you
this will be her song to know that
i will get it wrong(x2)
be mine
’till you’re reminded of something better
be mine
until it comes along
be mine
’till you’re reminded of something better
until it comes along
Goodnight Lover
you mistrusted what will bleed
what will not die will not leave
the heart was first in that line
though it was under those conditions
we were free(x3)
under those conditions
of pain that would not leave
you were all i ever trusted
you’re self made(x3)
you made it on hard work and risk
hard work(x3)
how will i live on without you
without your customs
of working and thinking action through
these days are obvious to you, budgetive
how selflish for time to conclude
what would be the day
for leaving to work it’s charm on you
and i can tell by that look
you were thinking the same thing to
if this can’t last just what can last(x2)
then it’s lights out after this kiss(X2)
then time can’t torment us(x2)
this will have to serve(x2)
goodnight lover(x2)
wherever you are(x3)