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A Man Alive

Record Details

Artist
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Release
2016

1. Astonished Man

Decades to decide I need decision
Decades to decide I will never be satisfied
With how I have been living
I must find and capture an astonished man
Hold him til he knows he is forgiven

You don’t look for me
But I will look for you
Without a wish to see
Anybody new
You don’t look for me
How I will look for you
Without a wish to see
Anybody new

I wake
So worried, worried
Yet I won’t
Hurry, hurry
What is the wait
The wait of a lonely man
I wake
So worried, worried
Yet I won’t
Hurry, hurry
I still sleep
As only the careless can

How far gone, how far flown, how far flung could I be
When all along
You have belonged to me
How far gone, how far flown, how far flung could I be
When all along
You have belonged to me
Decades to decide I need decision

2. Slash/Burn

A little slash
A little burn
A little never-to-return

And then

I break the back of the old days
I wake from sleep to watch you stay
Look at my posture
How I sway
But I am an arrow to you babe

In my youth I grew used to the truth didn’t I
That they moved like they could lose a love like mine

And then

I’ve spent my life saving by design
Do you figure you could use a love like mine

A little slash
A little burn
A little never-to-return
I break the back of the old days
I wake from sleep to watch you stay
Look at my posture
How I sway
But I am an arrow to you babe

3. The Evening

I love you til I die
How else will you decide
How hard you’re gonna try
One more, one more
God save how you believe
In your one true enemy
Don’t know if I would need
One more
One more

I brought my baby to bed
Oh child
Broke her to pieces instead
It was a mean while
How should I
Why should I

There is no clean sin
With half a skeleton
So soon to let you in
On the end of the gentleman

Send me into the sea
So l meet my family
All swinging arms and feet
Where could the bottom be?

All this time
A man alive
Look how I have grown
Look how I leave home

4. Departure

Here is a memory
Learn to save it
We are not born for departure
But we do learn to take it

You’re so early in the morning
I’m so late in the night
We waste the same day
Like no one dies

Fight for me in the modern day
Half of all my blood in vain

No no I do not recall
No no one cared to remind me
Yes at last I seek the seeker
Do you dare deny me

My love won’t stay
Enough
Send it all away
Leave me here in disbelief again

5. Nobody Dies

Not to say
I wasn’t grieving in the evening
Not to say I want another
Just like the others
I send all of it
I take all of it
And then you send it all back to me

We act like
Nobody dies
You act like nobody dies
I act like nobody dies
We act like nobody dies

What to say
Who could bother with a father
What to say
You made a cruel kid
Come look what you did

I take all of it
I send all of it
Then you send it all
Oh my life
Won’t you come for me
I’ve got love to give
Too scared to leave

6. Guts

I quit the count
Til we meet again
Does not matter now
How it mattered then
If the breeze leaves with the ones you love
You go out and catch them
The way our lazy arms stay
Few can fathom

I’ve got the guts
I don’t need my blood
If the breeze leaves
With the ones I love
I got the guts I don’t need my blood

You know I’m so easy to find
You won’t come get your girl

I want peace
Enough for two

How it fell upon me
A lifetime of sleep
Cut my breath
And my memory
I have a family
Will they pardon me
Taught to be loyal
Never shown loyalty

I’ve got the guts
I don’t need my blood
What do you decide
For me

7. Fool Forever

See my city in the city lights
Scratch the belly of the underside
Oh mighty man of war
How we tether together
I know you will make a fool of me forever
See my city in the city lights
Scratch the belly of the underside
To be scarce!
Is to be king!
If I can believe in you
I can believe in anything

Oh no.
But I loved you the most

Where do my favorites go
Fear gets so furious though
How could I still be surprised
Oh mighty man of war
How we tether together
I know you will make a fool of me forever

Oh no.
But I loved you the most
This is how the goods get stolen
No science, just devotion

8. Millionaire

Shatter what you will not carry
Smash what you won’t bear
Oh daddy I broke in a million pieces
That makes you a millionaire

A man gone missing has no fortune
Shame, too hot to keep
You, you’ve been thieving
Taking leave as you please

Spring and coil
For cover now
Though the wind does whip us over
It’s still summer somehow

Well I’ve been betrayed before
No more

I must insist

9. Meticulous Bird

I don’t know who’s getting any
I don’t know who’s giving
What a pity such a pretty city bears no children
I don’t see them on the runway
They bus them in on Sundays
The visitors are meeting to decide if you can come stay

Why Deny

I chase a stone cold thief
With a regular grab
I find the scene of the crime
I take my body back

I resent the invention
Listen listen pay attention
I know the science of the fiction of conviction of the henchmen
I am here for the masterminds!
They told us that you sold us
Oh my oh my oh my god we didn’t know you’d get ferocious
Oh my oh my oh my god you didn’t know I get ferocious!

Why Deny

Grow my hair so long to wrap around you
You’ve been starving for air ever since I found you
You had a dalliance with valiance
A violence to vow against
Not what I dream not what I dreamt
Not what I mean not how I meant

We ate like birds
Seeds and things
Hunting only for seasoning
I planned on no problems to punctuate my stay
Now I perch above you
Meticulous bird of prey

Why Deny

I find the scene of the crime
I take my body back
Grow my hair so long to wrap around you
You’ve been starving for air ever since I found you

10. Give Me Peace

I’m so much older now
Give me peace, give me peace
Floated up, over and out
So you can sleep
And I can see
I bet if you could you would do it
A lifetime of love to prove
But I would never hold you to it
Everyone has the right to move

We fell down to the equator
Caught breath
Wondered aloud
What happens to us later
What happens to us now

What if I need my one enemy?

I wait and ask after you
I stay as still as statue

I know you built a model home
As close as you can come to be
I can’t go the way you’ve gone
They’re different from us
And they wait for me

I know if you could you would do it

11. Hand to God

We creep so deep in disguise
The private lives of private eyes
My baby, you know she loved the life
And I tried so hard to do right

We should weep
To be free
Do you still
See god in me
What kind of man am I
To take the fear to you
Take a miracle
To keep me near to you

Show you the metal I am made of
Show you exactly what you’ve been afraid of
My hands to god to save her
How do I save
I’ve so much to pay for

First you start with the greed
Then you take all of me
Hand to god

Belief in relief
Nothing to stay for
Won’t ask you to survive me one day more
My hands to god to save her
How do I save
I’ve so much to pay for
How do we save
We’ve so much to pay for

12. Endless Love

Carve it on out of me
I got an endless love no one can starve
I got an endless love
I don’t want it
Carve it on out of me

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down