St. Vincent - St. Vincent Album Lyrics

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Rattlesnake

Follow the power lines back from the road
No one around so I take off my clothes
Am I the only one in the only world?
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Woah oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

I see the snake holes dotted in the sand
As if Seurat painted the Rio Grande
Am I the only one in the only world?
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh, woah oh, oh oh
Woah oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Woah oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

Sweatin', sweatin'
No wind whipping behind me
Sweatin' sweatin'
No one will ever find me

The only sound out here is my own breath
And my feet stuttering to make a path
Am I the only one in the only world?

Is that the wind finally picking up?
Is that a rattle sounding from the brush?
I'm not the only one in the only world
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Woah oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Woah oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

Runnin', runnin'
Runnin' rattle behind me
Runnin', runnin'
No one will ever find me
Runnin', runnin'
Runnin' rattle behind me
Runnin', runnin'
No one will ever find me
Sweatin', sweatin'
Sweatin' rattle behind me
Runnin', runnin'
No one will ever find me
Sweatin', sweatin'
Sweatin' rattle behind me
Runnin', runnin'
No one will ever find me

 

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Birth In Reverse

Oh, what an ordinary day
Take out the garbage, masturbate
I'm still holding for the laugh
The dogs will bark so let them bark
The birds will cry I'll let them cry
Here's my report from the edge

Like a birth in reverse
What I saw through the blinds
You could say that I'm saying phenomenal lies
On the cosmic eternity party line
Was a birth in reverse in America

This tune will haunt me through the war
Laugh all you want but I want more
Cause what I'm swearing, I've never sworn before

Like a birth in reverse
What I saw through the blinds
You could say that I'm saying phenomenal lies
On the cosmic eternity party line
Like a birth in reverse in America

Like a birth in reverse
What I saw through the blinds
You could say that I'm saying phenomenal lies
On the cosmic eternity party line
Was a birth in reverse in America

 

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Prince Johnny

Prince Johnny, you're kind but you're not simple
By now I think I know the difference
You wanna be a son of someone

Remember the time we went and snorted
That piece of the Berlin Wall that you'd extorted
And we had such a laugh of it
Prostrate on my carpet

You traced the Andes with your index
And bragged when and where and who
And who you gonna bed next
All with sons of someone's
All with sons of someone's

Saw you pray to all
To make you a real boy
Saw you pray to all
To make you a real boy

Prince Johnny, you're kind but do be careful
By now I know just when to stand clear
When all your friends and acolytes
Holding court in bathroom stalls

Where you pray to all
To make you a real boy
Saw you pray to all
To make you a real boy

But honey don't mistake my affection
For another spit and penny-style redemption
Cause we're all sons of someone's
We're all sons of someone's
I wanna mean more than I mean to you
I wanna mean more than I meant to him

So I pray to all
To make me a real girl
So I pray to all
To make me a real girl
So I pray to all
All
All
All

 

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Huey Newton

Feelings flash cards
Fake knife, real ketchup
Cardboard cutthroats
Cowboys of information
Pleasure dot loathing dot Huey dot Newton
Oh, it was a lonely, lonely winter

F*ckless porn sharks
Toothless but got a big bark
Live children, blind psychics
Turned online assassins
So Hale-Bopp, Hail Mary, hail Hagia Sophia
Oh it was a lonely, lonely winter

Entombed in the shrine of zeros and ones
You know, you know
With fatherless features, you motherless creatures, you know
In perpetual night, oh it's terribly frightening
You know, you know
You got the pop and the hiss in the city of misfits, you know
Safe safe and safest, faith for the faithless
Dim dim and dimmer, sucker for sinners

I'm entombed in the shrine of zeros and ones
You know, you know
With fatherless features, you motherless creatures, you know
In perpetual night, oh it's terribly frightening
You know, you know
You got the pop and the hiss in the city of misfits
Safe safe and safest, faith for the faithless

 

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Digital Witness

Get back, to your seat
Get back, gnashing teeth
Ooh, I want all of your mind

People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah
People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah

Digital witnesses, what's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, if you can't see me
What's the point of doing anything?
This is no time for confessing

I want all of your mind

People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah
People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah

Digital witnesses, what's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, if you can't see me
Watch me jump right off the London Bridge
This is no time for confessing

People turn the TV on and throw it out the window, yeah
Get back to your stare
I care, but I don't care
Oh oh, I, I want all of your mind
Give me all of your mind
I want all of your mind
Give me all of it

Digital witnesses, what's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, if you can't see me
What's the point of doing anything?
What's the point of even sleeping?
So I stopped sleeping, yeah I stopped sleeping
Won't somebody sell me back to me?

 

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I Prefer Your Love

I, I prefer your love
To Jesus

Little baby on your knees
Cause the world has got you down

Name-tagged tourists, sick at the sight of them
Tight-walking the sidewalk in spite of them
As my headache moves from east to west
Mother, won't you open your arms and
Forgive me of all these bad thoughts
I'm blinded to the faces in the fog

But all the good in me is because of you
It's true

I, I prefer your love
To Jesus
I, I prefer your love
To Jesus

Little baby on your knees
Cause the world has got you down

King-sized country wearing your worries out
Headless heroes heaped by the pylons
As a careless sun sets on the West
Sure as mother licking her finger to
Wipe the blush and smudge from my cheek and
Wonder what will become of your little one

But all the good in me is because of you
It's true

I, I prefer your love
To Jesus
I, I prefer your love
To Jesus

Little baby on your knees
Cause the world has got you down

 

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Regret

Morning pry the windows open
Let in what's so terrifying
Summer is as faded as a lone cicada call
Memories so bright I gotta squint just to recall
Regret the words I've bitten
More than the ones I ever said

Who's the one animal
All by yourself, all of us
All of us
All of us

Who's the one animal
All by yourself, all of us
Who's the one animal
All by yourself, all of us

I'm afraid of heaven because I can't stand the heights
I'm afraid of you because I can't be left behind

Oh well, there's a red moon rising
The door slammed and it felt like a cannonball

Who's the one animal
All by yourself, all of us
Who's the one animal
All by yourself, all of us
All of us
All of us

 

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Bring Me Your Loves

Bring me your loves
All your loves, your loves
I wanna love them too, you know [x4]

I thought you were like a dog
I thought you were like a dog
But you made a pet of me

Bring me your loves
All your loves, your loves
I wanna love them too, you know [x4]

I, I took you off your leash
I, I took you off your leash
But I can't, no I can't make you heel
Bring me your loves
Bring me your loves

We both have our rabid hearts
Feral from the very start

Bring me your loves
All your loves, your loves
I wanna love them too, you know [x4]

 

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Psychopath

Running down the highway like a psychopath
All the flames and fury honey at my back
Wanna make a bet whether I make it back cause
I'm on the edge of a heart attack

You said "Honey quit your worrying
Distance is exactly like a blowing wind
Putting out the embers and the tiny flames and
Keeping the big ones burning."

So I am standing in the sand where we said
"It's the best day of my life" and meant all of it

Keep me in your soft sights
When all of the rest have moved on
And I'll keep you in my soft sights
When all of the crowd has gone home

Keep me in your soft sights
When all of the rest have moved on
And I'll keep you in my soft sights
When all of the crowd has gone home

 

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Every Tear Disappears

Oh, a smile is more than showing teeth
Oh, it's not the potion, it's the magic that I seek

Every tear disappears
Every tear disappears

Oh, the more that I struggle the deeper in the pit
If I can show a hand then I can show a fist

Call the twenty-first century, tell her give us a break

Every tear disappears
Every tear disappears

Oh and what about the pain?
Don't ask me how, I just know that it fades
Every tear disappeared
Every eye is a seer

Yeah I live on wire
Yeah I been born twice
[x5]

 

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Severed Crossed Fingers

When your calling ain't calling back to you
I'll be side-stage mouthing lines for you
Humiliated by age, terrified of youth
I got hope but my hope isn't helping you

Spitting our guts from their gears
Draining our spleen over years
Found my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there

Wake up puddle-eyed, sleeping in the suit
The truth is ugly, well, I feel ugly too
We'll be heroes on every bar stool when
Seeing double beats not seeing one of you

Spitting our guts from their gears
Draining our spleen over years
Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there

Well you stole the heart right out my chest
Changed the words that I know best
Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there

Holding on and on and on... enough enough enough

Spitting our guts from their gears
Draining our spleen over years
Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there

Well you stole the heart right out my chest
Changed the words that I know best
Find my severed crossed fingers in the rubble there