Lyrics
Restraining bolt
1.Little
Pink Stars
2. Simple Sincerity
3. Failing And Leaving
4. Dear Aunt Arctica
5. Sugar Free
6. Today's Bargain
7. The You In Me
8. Still I Wait
9. A Promise
10. Apparition Of Purity
11. My Guitar
12. Bedtime
Little Pink Stars
Barefoot in the sand,
wishing God would lend a hand.
Wave after wave comes crashing down,
washing away a little more ground.
Seems to me that's how all things are.
Giving and taking little pink stars.
I want the world to know that you're
mine,
I want to touch you.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to feel you from the inside.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to touch you.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to touch you.
Walking along with the ocean at my
heels,
loving the way the water feels.
Up in the sky something catches my eye,
as bright as a star in the northern sky.
Seems to me that's how all things are,
giving and taking little pink stars.
I want the world to know that you're
mine,
I want to touch you.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to feel you from the inside.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to touch you.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to touch you.
Seems to me that's how all things are.
Giving and taking little pink stars.
I want the world to know that you're
mine,
I want to touch you.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to feel you from the inside.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to touch you.
I want the world to know that you're mine,
I want to touch you.
I want to touch you.
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller,
inspired by the poem "Little Pink Stars" by James Patterson.
You oughtta know the clothes hang on
the wire,
and you oughtta know your body sets my soul on fire.
But I'm still the same,
I just want to fly, fly.
You still play your game,
and watch my hope die, cause it's dying, yeah.
Take my simplicity.
Take your sincerity.
Take my simplicity away from me.
You oughtta see your antics don't work
anymore,
and you oughtta be more concious towards what you look for.
But I'm still the same, I just want to fly, fly.
You still play your game,
and watch my hope die, cause it's dying, yeah.
Take my simplicity.
Take your sincerity.
Take my simplicity away from me.
Take my simplicity.
Take your sincerity.
Take my simplicity away from me.
Lyrics by Ben Kweller
Music by John Kent and Ben Kweller
Failing & Leaving
School's not working today.
Failing in every way.
My girlfriend's not here with me,
the principal just sent me to the office today,
and now I'm gonna run away.
I'll run and hide, but that never works.
And I can't decide what is worse: failing or leaving?
Failing or leaving.
Leaving...
Failing or leaving?
Failing or leaving.
Leaving, leaving, leaving.
Failing and leaving.
School's not working today.
My math teacher is gay.
And in the oven a turkey pot pie,
and now I will say goodbye to my house today.
Oh man I'm going to run away.
I'll run and hide, but that never works.
And I can't decide what is worse: failing or leaving?
Failing or leaving.
Leaving.
Failing and leaving.
Failing and leaving.
Leaving, leaving, leaving.
Failing and leaving.
I'll run and hide, but that never
works.
And I can't decide what is worse: failing or leaving?
Failing or leaving.
Leaving.
Failing and leaving.
Failing and leaving,.
Leaving, leaving.
I'm leaving.
Failing and leaving.
Leaving right now.
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
Dear Aunt Arctica
Little baby trying to sleep,
one hundred secrets I couldn't keep,
the whole world's waitin' for their dance with satan,
the KKK is in town.
The Ku Klux Klan is in town.
Our village is kinda numb,
we're so glad you could come,
and if we search we could pray in a church.
But all the churches have burned down.
The Ku Klux Klan burned them down!
And ask me why I won't be there when
you say goodbye,
if you lie,
I won't be there till you say goodbye,
and that's why I'm talking to you.
Dear Aunt Arctica
Dear Aunt Arctica
Dear Aunt Arctica
What am I gonna do?
Joint compound VCR,
meditate the porno star,
Montana's there for me
when I turn on my tv,
Aunt Arctica, don't cry no more.
What are you crying for?
Something that I need to add,
her body is just a fad,
her bleached blond hair
and her silky underwear,
she's got a boyfriend I'm sure.
But how come she can't have one more?
Ask me why I won't be there when you
say goodbye,
if you lie,
I won't be there when you say goodbye, yeah!
And that's why I'm talking to you.
Dear Aunt Arctica
Dear Aunt Arctica
Dear Aunt Arctica
What am I gonna do?
Dear Aunt Arctica
Dear Aunt Arctica.
Dear Aunt Arctica.
What am I gonna.
Dear Aunt Arctica.
Dear Aunt Arctica.
Dear Aunt Arctica.
What am I gonna do?????
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
Sugar Free
I wanna be...sugar free.
I wanna be...sugar free.
I wanna be...sugar free.
I wanna be...sugar free.
I wanna be...sugar free
and I don't care if you despise me.
I wanna see...some energy
that you never ever gave to me.
I know what I need
I know what I'm gonna do
I know that I'm gonna need
you very soon.
I wanna be...sugar free
and I don't care if you despise me, no.
I wanna be...swimming in the sea
but you keep on trying to drown me.
I know what I need.
I know what I'm gonna do
I know that I'm gonna need you very soon.
Ever since yesterday...I sensed a break away
There is no sense for my stay.
And take just one step on earth,
and you'll see all the merth that has gotten to me.
Hey, I pretend to be strong when we don't get along,
but why are you my enemy? Enemy?
I wanna be...sugar free.
I wanna be...sugar free.
I wanna be...sugar free.
I wanna be...sugar free.
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
Today's Bargain
I was robbing a store.
I fell in love with a whore.
We fell onto the floor
in the store I was robbing.
So I put that gun to her head
She said "baby, let's go to bed
Son, you're gonna go blind
if you keep fucking me with your mind".
Today's bargain...today's bargain
Today's bargain...today's bargain.
The store clerk,
she wanted in.
She said "hey I am your friend"
I said no, no it's gonna depend
if you give me all your money.
So I put that gun to her head.
She said "baby, let's go to bed
Son, you're gonna go blind
if you keep fucking me with your mind".
Today's bargain...today's bargain
Today's bargain...today's bargain.
She said "son, don't look at the
sun"
She said "son, don't look at the sun...you might go blind".
So I put that gun to her head
She said "baby, let's go to bed
Son, you're gonna go blind
if you keep fucking me with your mind".
Today's bargain...today's bargain
Today's bargain...today's bargain.
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
The You In Me
I like to play D and D
and watch the Spanish channel on tv
be a nobody...like me.
Enroll yourself in B.S.A.
and build a plastic model airplane
be a nobody...with me.
With you and me,
claustraphobic energy, astronomical intimacy.
That's the you in me.
I sit around and worry about my girl
when I know she's gonna be just fine
be a nobody...like me.
With you and me,
claustraphobic energy, astronomical intimacy.
That's the you in me.
You can make no money, honey,
if you sit at home and read that Oscar Wilde
so I'm gonna grow up and in my way,
I'm gonna stop acting so much like a child.
With you and me,
claustrophobic energy, astronomical intimacy.
You and me,
claustrophobic energy, astronomical intimacy.
You and me,
claustrophobic energy...astronomical intimacy.
That's the you in me.
That's the you in me.
That's the you in me.
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
Still I Wait
Butterfly sparing,
I'll let you fly away.
The dust that will be another oak tree,
breathing an oak tree...
Still I wait for the world to turn
around.
Still I wait for the dancers.
Still I wait for the world to turn around.
I gotta wait for the answers to come around.
Children playing aloft a boat of
secrets,
public never knew the fate of the picture.
the purple pictures.
Still I wait for the world to turn
around.
Still I wait for the dancers.
Still I wait for the world to turn around.
Still I wait for the answers.
Still I wait... I gotta wait...
Still I wait for the world to turn
around.
Still I wait for the dancers.
Still I wait for the world to turn around.
I gotta wait for the answers to come around.
Still I wait for the world to turn
around.
Still I wait for the answers.
Still I wait for the world to turn around.
Still I wait for the answers to come around.
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
A Promise
Incarnation of the poltergeist in my
head
evaluation of the open mind, inside of your head.
Can you fly and wonder why you can't touch the ground?
Can you cry and wonder why you can't make a sound?
Cause I promise myself, that I won't
lie anymore.
Cause I did it to myself, but what did I do it for?
And now I'm burning out, somehow
I'm burning out, I can't come down
and now I'm burning out, somehow.
Hesitation of the state I'm in, it was
my friend.
Hey, up at the station watching your life end is, not pretend.
Can you fly and wonder why you can't touch the ground?
Can you cry and wonder why you can't make a sound?
Cause I promise myself, that I won't
lie anymore.
Cause I did it to myself, but what did I do it for?
And now. I'm burning out, somehow
and now... I'm burning out, I can't come down
and now... I'm burning out, somehow...
somehow...
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
Apparition of Purity
She lives in Ether.
flies to me at night time
makes everything better,
she's got everything together,
she's mine.
She stares in holy trance
and she really likes to fly
gives me angelical glance,
then we start to dance
purple sky.
She is the angel that one day will save
me.
Apparition of purity.
She stares in holy trance,
and she really likes to fly
gives me angelical glance,
then we start to dance
the purple sky.
She is the angel that one day will save
me.
Apparition of purity.
I miss her so.
I will never, ever let go.
I will never, ever let go.
Apparition of purity, purity, purity,
purity,
purity, purity, purity...
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
My Guitar
You say you know it's gonna be better
when we're dead.
I believe you, cause sometimes, I wanna be dead too.
The trees seem greener, and I seem meaner when you're happy,
that's because I'm unhappy..
When will I see you again?
When will I touch you again?
I love my guitar, and she loves me.
I love my guitar, and she won't break up with me.
I love my guitar, and she loves me.
I love my guitar.
I sense tenseness, and out of
strangeness
I will stay if you remember the Alamo.
Bless this silence, I haven't heard from you in days.
You say you'll call, and I fall into you.
When will I see you again?
When will I touch you again?
I love my guitar, and she loves me.
I love my guitar, and she won't break up with me.
I love my guitar, and she loves me.
I love my guitar.
When will I see you again?
When will I touch you again?
I love my guitar, and she loves me.
I love my guitar, cause she won't break up.
I love my guitar, and she loves me.
I love my guitar!
My guitar.
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
Bedtime
I think it's past our bedtime... let's
go to sleep now, yeah.
I think it's past our bedtime... let's go to sleep.
I think it's past our bedtime... let's go to sleep now, yeah.
I think it's past our bedtime... let's go to sleep.
I don't understand the question.
I don't understand the question.
We crush a flower in heaven, violet
envy.
We'll waste an hour in heaven, and go to sleep.
My inside is out, and you're winning.
Her children will not know beginning.
I don't understand the question.
I don't understand the question.
the question...
Lyrics and music by Ben Kweller
