Calexico

[fox69]

"Bullets & Rocks"

"Bullets & Rocks"


The days are growing short
Patience wearing thin
Blackouts and broken trust
Leading to exodus
The future’s built on bullets and rocks
They’ll search, they’ll save
They’ll find it one day
There’s work to do
And mouths to feed
Why can’t you see
This plaintiff plea
The future’s starved
The families disappear
To the dark cover of night
No fear, no harm was meant
The smuggler joked
And down they went
The devil’s highway
Disguised as a cloud of dust and smoke
Narcos and feds
Are all intertwined
You can leave your valuables here
With me he smiled
A future’s promised to you
Wrapped in their words without truth
Echoes in a labyrinth of solitude
Security built a lie, a wall
Wrapped round and around fortitude
Bullets and rocks
A future’s promised to you

 

[fox69]

"Burn That Broken Bed"

"Burn That Broken Bed"


How do you bust the clouds?
Grass on your back been hanging in the air
I wanna scope you out
I wanna touch your mouth when you're up there

When are you coming back?
Bird on a branch will come back home to sing
When are you coming back?
Bringing it back and singing what you bring

How do you bust the clouds?
Head on the ground and feeling what you've seen
I wanna scope you out
I wanna be your eyes and show you me

When are you coming back?
When are you gonna burn that broken bed?
When are you coming back?
I wanna see you drifting overhead

 

[fox69]

"Casey's Last Ride"

"Casey's Last Ride"


Casey joins the hollow sound
Of silent people walking down
The stairway to the subway
In the shadows down below
Following their footsteps
Through the neon-darkened corridor
Silent desperation
Never speaking to a soul
The poison air he is breathing
Has the dirty smell of dye
Cause it's never seen the sunshine
And it's never felt the rain
But casey minds the arrows
And ignores the fatal echoes
Of the clickin' of the turnstiles
And the rattle of his chains
Oh, she said,
Casey, it's been so long
Since I seen you
Here, she said
Just a kiss to make a body smile
See, she said
I put on new stockings just to please you
Lord, she said
Casey can you only stay a while?
Casey leaves the underground
And stops inside the golden crown
For something wet to wipe away
The chill that's on his bone
Seeing his reflection
In the lives of all the lonely men
Who reach for anything they can
To keep from going home
Standing in the corner
Casey drinks his pint of bitter
Never glancing in the mirror
At the people passing by
And he stumbles as he's leaving
And he wonders if the reason
Is the beer that's in his belly
Or the tear that's in his eye
Oh, she said
I suppose you seldom think about me
Now, she said
Now that you've a family of your own
Still, she said
It's so blessed good to feel your body
Lord, she said
Casey, it's a shame to be alone

 

[fox69]

"Chanel No. 5"

"Chanel No. 5"


All the sweet mouth really wanted
just fell from her grip
the worst hell you can drag your soul through
is trying to make all the lies stick
you might as well not make an effort
lots of bills lying around unpaid
still i guess some things seem better than
lying in a bed an old child made
she's got her walkman on
she's got chanel number five
look at her walk
she's holding her head upright
wants to show she's got some pride
to the headlights
all over town people looking for
their little piece of goodnight
maybe it's finally time
to turn away from the light
all her sweet mouth really wanted
was lost in her smile
and her soul just lost the taste that makes
any good lie worthwhile
i know i never asked you to read their minds
so why did you have to go ahead and do it anyway
you think maybe someday if you're good
they'll let you disappear from the scene
but nothing can hide a beating
she's got her walkman on
she's got chanel number five
look at her walk
she's holding her head upright
wants to show she's got some pride
to the headlights
doesn't she look good

 

[fox69]

"Clothes Of Sand"
(originally by Nick Drake)

"Clothes Of Sand"
(originally by Nick Drake)



Who has dressed you in strange clothes of sand
Who has taken you far from my land
Who has said that my sayings were wrong
And who will say that I stayed much too long?
Clothes of sand have covered your face
Given you meaning but taken my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me

Does it now seem worth all the colour of skies
To see the earth through painted eyes
To look through panes of shaded glass
See the stains of winter's grass
Can you now return to from where you came
Try to burn your changing name
Or with silver spoons and coloured light
Will you worship moons in winter's night
Clothes of sand have covered your face
Given you meaning but taken my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me

 

[fox69]

"Contention City"

"Contention City"


Through miles of waste to cross upstream
Risking all dreams for what the surface brings
Free like the flow that pours from your hand
Claiming its own, New River

 

[fox69]

"Convict Pool"

"Convict Pool"


In the land of salvation
Is where you find this masterpiece
Of a right-wing kidney punch
Escape convict pool
Escape
Executions are nearly flawless
So riding forever
In the deep
Or taking it into the shallow
Is not a problem
Escape convict pool
Escape
Convict pool
Escape
Check the underwriter killers
For video surveillance
Of the convict pool
In the warden son's
Private collection
Escape convict pool
Escape
Social fool
We evade
I forget to mention
That the coping of this baby's like butter
So stand up and grind far
Escape convict pool
Escape
Parental fools
We evade
Tony and George
Avoid the nipple
Protusion on the wall
With a backside hurricane
Over the death box
We fall
And escape
Convict pool
Escape
Social tool
Evade
Courtroom duel

 

[fox69]

"Corona"

"Corona"


The people will survive
in their environment
the dirt, scarcity, and emptiness
of our south
the injustices of our greed
the practices we merit
the dirt, scarcity and emptiness
of our south
there on the beach
I could see it in her eyes
I only had a corona
five cents deposit

 

[fox69]

"Crooked Road And The Briar"

"Crooked Road And The Briar"


Down the crooked road a ways
A child's shadow hiding in the briar
Tending to a twisted heart that's bent and broken
Wounded and abandoned left amongst the rotted root to rot

Moon, crimson moon
Rose marie's walking down the crooked road a ways
All aglow, her fair white skin
Portrait of beauty, angel to many
Hears the hush crying from the briar
Reaches in her hand to see what's the matter
And is dragged through the darkness
Beneath the lonely cypress
The town's beloved daughter
Carried to her death in the turbid waters
And set afloat downstream

Whole town erupts, bursts into flame
Parties go a-searching down the crooked road a ways
Find old rufus there drunk and asleep
Fishing by the water must have killed our beloved daughter
Can't hold back these waves of anger
Tie a rope around his neck
See if he still hollers
Another innocent soul hangs over the briar

 

[fox69]

"Cruel"

"Cruel"


Cruel, cruel grounds
Leak truths never found
Torturous ways
Whisper from the grave
A slow spun song of distortion
Bitter, bitter mouth
Spitin' out seeds of doubt
Rituals seek root
Razed before they're told
Stories break like branches in the cold
Seasons trial finds man's mistakes fair game
Careless hand
Lay and law of the land
Falls by the side
Silenced sentient cries
All within the lines of divine right
Better bury the tracks in an unclosed case
Weeds of discontent choke a broken ghost landscape
Cruel, heartless reign
Chasing short term gains
Right down to the warning signs
Birds refuse to fly
No longer trust the sky
Drifting out beyond the signals
Even the horizon is gone
Weather flees underground
Future's left to wallow in fortune's waste