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we'll never fix me and my guitar
but okay let's keep trying
it seems to keep the brain occupied
well at least at my end
we'll never fix this old complication
but my heart feels like and overcrowded train station
whenever they mention your name
and i'm just fine playing that game
and while others climb the mountaintops i crawl the wall up
and while others put up a tent at the summit i enjoy the view from the ceiling for a while and then plummet
this runs on love and duct tape
we'll never find the mystical fountain of youth
and so this car will eventually break down
but as long as there's still a chance of drivin it to your door
i'll wrap some duct tape around
we'll never fix any old thing
but we can wrap some love around the part that stings
and put it over there in the bookshelf
until i am old thing myself
and while others climb the mountaintops i crawl the wall up
and while others put up a tent at the summit i enjoy the view from the ceiling for a while and then plummet
this runs on love and duct tape
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Peachy
03:11
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oh a brand new morning has begun
the sun was smiling at me, i was fake smiling at the sun
everything seemed to be completely in tune
expect for me and my bad mood - they told me
theres no reason to complain
but then i found the problem
the problem was my brain
the day was almost over, it went down fine, and pretty sober
but i was in a steady decline
they gave me a gin tonic
and said your mopeyness is chronic - they asked me
whats your reason to complain
i wasnt sure but then i found the problem
the problem was my brain
cause its not easy to feel peachy
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Pizza Pants
02:15
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it's been a messy ride
since i've been on this earth
but i measure my age
not by the distance from my birth
but by the urgency
and the frequency
that i go out
to the pharmacy
there's no way im gonna win this
so i put on my pizza pants, trading onions for opinions
and in those straight edge days
when i had the food poisoning blues
my own mortality
became an uncomfortable truth
couldn't hold in any of the fries
or the mayonnaise
ready to hug the toilet bowl
till the end of days
there's no way im gonna win this
so i keep on my pizza pants, trading onions for opinions
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phil jackson said to me
through a netflix documentary
handle the goddamn pressure
and i was thinking eventually
i just would come to be
the man to pull it off
if i'd spend some years
fightin and weightliftin
with zero prep
some ambition
once i felt smaller than life
with the world on top of me
atomic war, i brought a knife
tried to be an animal
tried to be a gentleman
and enemies became old pals
after we spent those years
fightin and weightliftin
with zero prep
some ambition
i know phil wasnt talking to me
but to the bulls of chigaco
only difference: there are no trophies in my room
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5. |
Tijuana Bible
03:03
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ever since the dawn of mankind
there are two things that never stopped to puzzle man's mind
the one thing is religion with one god slaying the next
but i like it more peaceful, some call it love, some call it sex
do you see my tjiuana bible right there on the nightstand?
just by sleight of hand i follow the commandments
the ones that are viable
so sorry jesus i don't mean to be rude
but i prefer my holy figures to be badly drawn and nude
the image of your corpse is just not doin' it for me
oh my religion is a blast, a blastforyou and blasphemy
do you see my tjiuana bible, right there on the nightstand?
just by sleight of hand i follow the commandments
the ones that are viable
let's say we strand on a lonely island or the
apocalypse comes i'd be the first one to wager
that you'd rip up your holy book, turn it into firewood
lie down with me and enjoy an eight pager
do you see my tjiuana bible, right there in you hands?
do you now understand? oh what good is it banned?
i'll make a convert out of you, i'll make a pervert out of you, yet
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Punchable Face
02:47
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tied to seize the day
got a seizure
tried to recall the good days
turns out i got amnesia
do i look like i've got a punchable face?
i'm seriously asking, do i have that kind of gaze?
because it seems to me i've got a punchable face
and my punchability seems to transcend time and space
the fistfights and the kung fu chops
are not what i've in mind
i'm talking about the mighty blows
of the supernatural kind
do i look like i've got a punchable face?
i'm seriously asking, do i have that kind of gaze?
because it seems to me i've got a punchable face
and my punchability seems to transcend time and space
some of these punches go straight
for my wallet and i'm sure
whoever punches there
is aiming pretty solid, my aim's poor
and my actual face is pretty lucky
that it's all just a metaphore
do i look like i've got a punchable face?
i'm seriously asking, do i have that kind of gaze?
because it seems to me i've got a punchable face
and my punchability seems to transcend time and space
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you have cars and you have condos, bank accounts and firms
you measure your pleasure with the money that you earn
you've got the greatest assetts, well we've the greatest assfat,
you assheads
we have people everywhere
you've the good bodys here, the arrogant nose job faces
but never in a million years i would want to trade places
carry on with your bribes, with your lies, carry on with your false pride
till we unite
we have people everywhere
yes i did buy the cheap shit again without know how and precision
but i learned to live with my oh so uninformed decisions
this is what you're up against, this is how we frolic
a parade of happy alcoholics
we have people everywhere
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god-fearin americans burnin beatles LPs
it's really hard to see the difference to the evil nazis
just double check your thinking and youll be okay
unless you are a cop, a soldier or the KKK
and i'm just sittin here on the beach, and here they come
wave after wave, wave after wave, and they all weigh a ton
wave after wave, wave after wave, of xenophobic bullshit rolling in
there ain't no surfin under a brown sky
killing all the fun it used to be to be a person
killing all the fun it used to be to be on this earth and
i dig my feet into the dry brown sand
this is a thing i'll never understand
and i'm just sittin here on the beach, and here they come
wave after wave, wave after wave, and they all weigh a ton
wave after wave, wave after wave, of xenophobic bullshit rolling in
there ain't no surfin under a brown sky
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Dirty Bastard
03:33
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was looking for identity and any kind of sign
waited till one fateful night for the planets to align
went to the fortune teller's trailer, lit by moonshine
she looked at me with fiery eyes and opened up my mind,
and she said
you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard
and i said i know that
i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard
and she said, yeah you are
you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard
and i said i'm aware that
i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard
unsatisfied i waited for an astrologically insignificant day
sought out someone less of a rock n roll cliché
to examine my brain with technology
i was plugged into the machine, a flock of doctors studied me
and they said
you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard
and i said i know that
i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard
and they said, yeah you are
you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard, you're a dirty bastard
and i said i'm aware that
i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard, i'm a dirty bastard
now everytime someone asks me to lend a helping hand
i hand them this medical document and i say sorry i just won't.
because you see...
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10. |
School Times
02:03
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well my overall mental situation
all my social phobias as a whole
probably have a whole lot to do with physical education
specifically the climbing pole
because school times are hard times
when you're chubby
in case you can't already tell
from how i describe this personal hell
i never could climb up that damn pole
but they made me try and try again surrounded by bully assholes
because school times are hard times
when you're chubby
it's not the failure per se that's gonna haunt you,
it's that everyone is watching
but in the very end you learned the most that day
gonna murder you a sports teacher someday
because school times are hard times
when you're chubby
now it's the present, these days are long gone
and i'm still unable to train or workout
when there's other people around
teachers, educators, are you proud?
because school times are hard times
when you're chubby
school times go by, school times go by,
even when you're chubby
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Kebab In My Hand
03:15
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some things i have learned
some things i'll never understand
standing at the seaside at nighttime
with a kebab in my hand
walking in the wrong direction
walking towards a wrong attraction
which upon thorough reflection
is all according to expectation
how did i behave before
the jokes are gone, there's so much more
that i just don't remember
this brain has been dismembered
some things i have learned
some things i'll never understand
standing at the seaside at nighttime
with a kebab in my hand
finally you said to me
everything is rotten
and i've forgotten how
to be around people
how did i behave before
the jokes are gone, there's so much more
that i just dont remember
this brain has been dismembered
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Naked Splits
03:05
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at first i didn't like her and she didn't like me
because of a goddamn comment that i couldn't let be
but then she did naked splits on the wet concrete
back in innsbruck
and i couldn't help but respect her insanity
for when someone does naked splits on the wet concrete
back in innsbruck
it'll be one of the wildest sights that youll ever see
it was rainin down hard
she split her legs apart
the city was dipped into a sweet night
completing the piece of art
and i had learned a valuable lesson
that is still pretty hard to beat:
you never really know a person
until they undress in the street
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i'm the vampire that forgot the time
and so a simple thing like the first sunlight
all of a sudden can be
the very end of me
ain't it typical
a cross is just a geometric shape
made of two intersecting stakes
but hold it in my face and i'll go ape
and berzerk and not in a good way
garlic, man, even more embarassing
actually tastes pretty great in anything
but for some reason, i guess well that's just me
i have this ridiculously massive allergy
now as far as i understand really a lot of
people have a problem with the holy water
it is known to make the spirits move at first
i just shrivel into the couch, after my worst
behaviour
man i'm just tryin' to pave your
way into the mortal world
master. dracul. not cool. not cool.
i'm just a big ol bundle of weaknesses
man you don't know how frustrating that is
by far overshadowing my monstrous superpowers
if you need me i'll be hidin out in my coffin for the next hour or so
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The Great Uncertainty
03:24
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and i'm aware that you think i'm a slob
took all my filthy habits, turned them into a job
holding on to this cup of coffee for now might keep me safe
but every favorite cup will break someday
ain't it fun when things get worse
or just as bad as they can be
where can we meet up to rehearse
the great uncertainty
and i've been dodgin people, partys, events
domestic violence next door has gotten more intense
and i've been dodgin my moral code and responsibilities
domestic violence sounds better with chords underneath
ain't it fun when things get worse
or just as bad as they can be
where can we meet up to rehearse
the great uncertainty
and you must be aware that every relationship
is just a fuckin countdown for somebody to quit
or to die, or to get a pet
i don't know much but i guess that there is nothing wrong with that
ain't it okay when things stay okay
fuck the great uncertainty
ain't it okay when things stay okay
fuck the great uncertainty
i try to deal with the medical facts printed on the sleeves
of all of your cigarette packs, in these times of peace
they sent out the attack telephone command
do you copy, black elephant band?
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they say the antidote is in the poison
and if that is really true then i should look a little closer
but this here bottle appears see-through to me
so won't you hand me another to check out scientifically
they say the antidote is in the poison
and if that is really true then i should look a little closer
so won't you hand me a bottle to check out scientifically
to quench my evergrowing curiosity
they say the antidote is in the poison
and if that is really true then i should look a little closer
and quench my evergrowing curiosity
in this particular field of research
they say the antidote is in the poison
and if that is really true then i should look a little closer
because this particular field of research
affects me personally whenever i am thirsty
they say the antidote is in the poison
and if that is really true then i should look a little closer
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