Clairo - Sling Album Lyrics

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Bambi

Ooh
Ooh

I'm stepping inside a universe
Designed against my own beliefs
They're toying with me and tapping their feet
The work's laid out, cut out to the seams

It's not that I crave
Any more company
I'd like to say, say a few things
Clearing your throat while I count to three
Keep hold of my hand
We both know I can leave

Ooh
Ooh

I don't like to cry, before I know why
But honestly, I might
You pick a new fight, wiping tears from the night
Blue ribbon ties while emotions are high

I told all my friends
They were glad to see
Sat in a circle, in front of my Claud's tapestry
In a dorm less than three
Minutes to drive
We both can always

Take it or leave it
The moments here
And you should believe it
Know that you should

I pull until I'm left with the burns
Blisters and the dirt left in-between my fingers
Rushing so I can beat the line
But what if all I want is conversation and time?
I move so I don't have to think twice
I drift and float through counties with my one sided climb

Once, I oughta make a choice to move forward
I'll take, I'll take a picture for your locker

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Amoeba

Between the gaps I was swimming laps
Got close to some epiphany
I'll convince a friend to join deep ends
Have your toes touch the lack of cement

We'll gather to one corner of the woods
Echo chambers inside a neighborhood
And centerfold, humility shown
You're not as good as what your mama's sewn

Aren't you glad that you reside
In a hell and in disguise?
Nobody yet everything
A pool to shed your memory

Could you say you even tried?
You haven't called your family twice
I can hope tonight goes differently
But I show up to the party just to leave

Between the gaps, keep it under wraps
How I got to some epiphany
I'll convince myself when it turns to twelve
The photos keep the sentiment

Gather to one corner of the woods
Echo chambers inside a neighborhood
And centerfold, humility shown
You're not as good as what your mama's sewn

Aren't you glad that you reside
In a hell and in disguise?
Nobody yet everything
A pool to shed your memory

Could you say you even tried?
You haven't called your family twice
I can hope tonight goes differently
But I show up to the party just to leave

Pulling back I tried to find
The point of wasting precious time
I sip and toast to normalcy
A fool's way into jealousy

I mock and imitate goodbyes
When I know that I can't deny
That I'll be here forever while
I show up to the party just to leave

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Partridge

Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

You move in your ways without a law
And I'll force you to feel the weight I'm standing on
But the perfect harmony is lost
As I watch you fall awake and ask, "What's wrong?
Did I really miss all the work you've done?"
(All the work I've done)

Calling someone else is only harder
I'll explain myself again
Take the chance on someone's daughter
She makes me feel like I'm the best

The only time I see you smile
Is after hours or the finish line
But bring yourself to the edge
Of the cliff
And look upon
The animals who awake before us at dawn
(All the work they've done)

Comfortable, unmotivated always
Seeking other stories other memories
I'm sorry I have to hold you longer than you expected
It's only temporary

I'll let you walk and make your own discovery
That one of these days, I know that you might come back to me

Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

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Zinnias

See me standing on the corner of Comstock
And Waverly in a daze
Where I saw my brother speak for the first time
Since he graduated in the Spring
Got a cold piece of information to bring to you
Said, "Sorry but I can't stay here while we wait for June"
I miss the southern Cosmos and the Zinnias
Oh, the Zinnias
It comes to me in a dream, in the dead heat and the suffocating
Wet grip that's got a hold on my mama
It's Marietta's kiss

Quietly, I'm tempted
Sure sounds nice to settle down for a while
Let the real estate show itself to me
I could wake up with a baby in a sling
Just a couple doors down from Abigail
My sister, her man, and her ring

Quietly, I'm tempted
Sure sounds nice to settle down for a while
Let the real estate show itself to me
I could wake up with a baby in a sling
Just a couple doors down from Abigail
My sister, her man, and her ring

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Blouse

Here we are, quiet at your kitchen table
With courtesy to little pet peeves
Napkins on laps strands pulled back
I hang the scarf and my mom's anorak

Why do I tell you how I feel?
When you're just lookin' down my blouse
It's something I wouldn't say out loud
If touch could make them hear, then touch me now
If touch could make them hear, then touch me now

Talkin' to some who laugh and others scorned
I guess humor could help me after all
It's funny now I'm just useless and a whore
But I get a co-sign from your favorite one-man show

Why do I tell you how I feel?
When you're too busy looking down my blouse
It's something I wouldn't say out loud
If touch could make them hear, then touch me now
If touch could make them hear, then touch me now
If touch could make them hear, then touch me now

Oh
Mm
Mm
Mm
Mm

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Wade

Holding out all my fears and faults
Those that conquer me
Started the second pack
Before the first ones finishing

I like to bridge the gap between
A break and long lost lovers
Only to get me by until I decide
I've had enough

Most of the time
I can feel them on me
The eyes from the stranger's window
It's dark and it's lonely
But it's nothing to me
At least somebody's home

Decades are wasting
On your name
You'll grasp the concept of life
When you give up the point of trying
If you don't do the things that you do
They'll just happen to you

Pulling out all my weight
And do my part and you'll say
"Oh I'm so glad you're here with us today
You probably thought you would be gone"
And until there's another way
I just have to face
That there's no real place
To go, and I really could be alone

I'd promise you now, that if I had known
I wouldn't be standing here
There's memories to be made
And water that's to wade
I used it all up drying tears

Of course I don't regret
The moments where I wept
And yearned for what I've got now
It's only time
It won't age like wine
But it's mine, and I'll take the blow

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Harbor

Okay, I'm finished now
And I kept my faith for long enough
And I hope I'm old and fairly sober
If I'm let down

Maybe you keep me around
For the constant affirmations
While I scrounge for understanding
And fall out

I'll let you win and I'll let you tie
The ribbon to my hair
Just so that we could come back to this if we really cared
The morning gates stay open
If you had a thought that I'd be there
(Oh, I'd be there)

Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh

Know we could use a break
Because I can't feel my feet
I carried you all the way upstairs
So you can sleep and I can think

Stand guard
When I am near
Clinging on to everything you fear
Keeping me close
While you hold me out and say
I don't love you that way

Harbor myself away from everyone else
I'm half awake and intimate
Eyes closed and I'll commit
What I wish I had with you
I'll pretend until it's true
I don't love you that way

Swallow the pill, it's only fair that I hear
Know myself better than I have in years
I don't know why I have to defend what I feel
I try

Stand your guard
When I am near
Loathe me until
You're reminded of the deal
One of us knows
When you hold me out and say
You don't love me that way

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Just For Today

Honestly, I didn't think I'd end up here
This time
Or anywhere at all
I'm distant just enough to never fall behind

Picturing the saddest scene
Of wearing bed sheets
And two pats on the back "it just takes time"
It's getting late
Since when did taking time take all my life?

Mommy, I'm afraid I've been talking to
The hotline again
It's stirring, but the ripples always seek out the ones
Who carry me, mmh

I blocked out the month
Of February for support, mmh
At least I have this year
I won't be worrying anyone on tour, mmh
As we speak I'm here to meet devils for tea
Peering 'round the corner of my life
I throw my drink into the faces of my demise

(Hold on Jo')
At thirty your honey's gonna ask you
"What the hell is wrong with me?"
(Jonie, get off)
(Ok)

At thirty your honey's gonna ask you
"What the hell is wrong with me?"
And finally, an answer from your throat
Comes crawling and you can proceed

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Joanie

[Instrumental]

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Reaper

It's nice to hear your voice again
I pushed you so far down and I let you sink through the drain
There's a claw on my shoulder
And she's saying the obvious
"You know eventually you're gonna have to be a provider, too"

She's coming closer, I can feel her breathe
I keep forgetting that I'll have a family
If I listen in, with my hands cupped and on my knees
I can hear the single obnoxious sigh of relief

I'm born to be somebody then somebody comes from me
I'll tell you 'bout the Rabbit Moon and when to keep walking
I'll spare you pain, I can feel my shame come through that door
I can't f*ck it up if it's not there at all

I'm born to be somebody then somebody comes from me
I'll show you where I did swim team and drive to Dunwoody
I'll spare you pain, I can feel my shame creep through that floor
I can't f*ck it up if it's not there at all
I can't f*ck it up if it's not there at all

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Little Changes

I see the fog as a clean slate
There's room for us
There's room for anything

The usual urge I'd see clear
A flower for you and the dogs are near

But white light comes from nothing at all
For the first time it feels
Good
Good to fall between
The ones I love and the ones that faded
He loved me good enough to calm me down
But tried to trick me into little changes

I see the end before it begins
No use to work, no use in anything
A crack in the sky
The heaven's hand
A cloud just for you and a place to land

But white noise comes from nothing at all
And finally I feel
Good
Good to fall between
The ones I love and the ones that faded
He loved me good enough to calm me down
But tried to trick me into little changes

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Management

Mom, would you give me a ring?
One for the ride and one for the magazines?
She's only twenty-two

A flash to the upbringing
Of the child, the canine
What will become mine
Once I decide to leave?

Seek to take and give it all away
Once you know it's only a maze
There could be more days like today

Complain to the management
About my lack of self respect
Fast forward to when I have friends
And men who don't interject
Harping over old regrets
Hating how I let it get
To me

Only for a short while
I'm bound to lose my head
And just when I start to think it's ended
Another demand commences
I'm doing it for my future self
The one who needs more attention
I'll forget to forgive and hold it all in
I'm old with some resentment

Oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh
Oh
Oh-oh
Oh, oh