AIN’T IT NICE (EP)

Track Listing (lyrics released as tracks released)
1) Stockpiled Guns & TV Dinners
2) Candy Bars & Men
3) Everybody Loves You (feat Laura Stevenson)
4) Anybody Else
5) Hollywood
6) The Road

Stockpiled Guns & TV Dinners
another day
watching the clock
preach to the flock, stockpiled
guns and tv dinners
and i thought i’d call you up
(it’s been a bit)
i almost got my wish
it really wasn’t quite like this
i should have been specific
next time i’ll be specific
say, “i wanna know
when you can bring it home to me
i’m begging you, baby, please”
you want to know
if you can count on me
honey, i wish i knew
how to leave
there but for the grace of god
goes every girl i’ve ever loved
dancing in the summer sun
all saint john’s wort and opium
but i try not to judge, between
canned goods and water jugs
security’s a commodity
that we’re all buying up
i want to know
when you can bring it home to me
i’m begging you, baby, please
you want to know if you can
up and count on me
honey, i wish
i knew how to leave
the desert is a nice escape
you want to know
if you can always count on me
i wish i knew how
to leave

Candy Bars & Men
an endless string of motel lobby
family waiting rooms
where everybody’s restless
wanting’s gone by afternoon
and I’ll admit, I’ve walked those halls
now and again go out for nourishment
find candy bars and men

ain’t it nice, ain’t it nice, to rest your head
ain’t it nice to pretend

park the beds outside the doors
and keep your eyes on them
a threadbare mattress shows
discretion like nobody can
and just this once,
boy, I don’t mind
being your secret
never liked sugar much
but now and then I need it

ain’t it nice to rest your head
ain’t it nice to pretend

a dwindling relic trying
to give ‘em hell on her way out
one day the nationals will
elbow their way into town
and like a traveling band
I think I’ve paid my dues
running from state to state
but all I found was you

oh,
ain’t it nice to rest
ain’t it nice to rest your head
ain’t it nice to pretend instead