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I'm spinning in squares not circles
Because of the stairs like hurdles
Keep me from falling too quickly
To the ground
I'm down on my luck and my wet bar
Feeling so stuck in this whole art
It's messing me up because it's messy
I'm licking my cuts and putting on dressings
If you keep me around I promise to let you down
If you keep me around there won't be others to worry about
If you keep me around I just might be safe and sound
If you keep me around
Guided by fear and instinct
Looking for cover and a stiff drink
I need to feel different somehow
I can't adjust to this right now
If you keep me around I promise to let you down
If you keep me around there won't be others to worry about
If you keep me around I just might be safe and sound
If you keep me around
And it's not like we have anything to do
And it's not like I need anyone else but you
There's a touch of forgiveness in everything
And it hits with a quickness of sharp pain
But it gets better to bliss
I know because I've already done this
If you keep me around I promise to let you down
If you keep me around there won't be others to worry about
If you keep me around I just might be safe and sound
If you keep me around I just might be safe and sound
If you keep me around
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Build Me Break Me
03:33
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Saw the front door slam through my rear view
In sky-blue
And it broke me down
And I have to tell my friends I don't care
And you're there
And it broke me down
And it broke me down
But you should build me up
Not break me down, baby.
I got no records to keep
No home and nowhere to sleep
You gave me one chance it was the first one the last one, baby
I got no records to keep
A lot on my plate and nothing to eat
You gave me one chance it was the first one the last one baby
(repeat)
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A desperate man a drunk
Stares at a pail of water
Tries to see his face
as it looked long ago
But he can't hold it steady
And the water starts to ripple
He's drunk again sleeping by the well
Drunk again
The old man probably saw it coming
The things his body told him, he could have changed his fate
The old man saw it coming
But he was too afraid to move out of the way
Too afraid
A couple drove the backroads going separate ways
She was headed west, he was headed home
Searching for himself, while she had found her freedom
They learned by being together they were better off alone
They learned by being together, they were better off alone
And I saw it coming
The little things she told me
I could have changed my fate
I saw it coming
But I was too afraid to live, too afraid to die.
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4. |
Waiting (feat. Brady Jo)
03:37
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No more redemption
I'm stuck in my ways
Take it or leave it
Don't ask me to stay
Too many times now
I've knocked at your door
Pressing for answers
Looking for more
Waiting for the bottom to fall out again
Holding on to nothing with both hands
I'm not certain I'll see you my friend
When I'm waiting for the bottom to fall out again
No one can tell us
It's our price to pay
Consider some closure
or ask me to stay
Too many times now
You knocked at my door
Crushing my senses
Asking for more
Waiting for the bottom to fall out again
Holding on to nothing with both hands
I'm not certain I'll see you my friend
When I'm waiting for the bottom to fall out again
There were times I looked the other way
Now it seems we've grown out of grace
Who can say we were wrong?
Take what we need to move on
Waiting for the bottom to fall out again
Holding on to nothing with both hands
I'm not certain I'll see you my friend
When I'm waiting for the bottom to fall out again
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Nearly lost my head in Boston
Talking to her late at night
We never met in person
Now I’m trying to set that right
For two years I’ve planned to make this happen
But I’ve looked for it all my life
This kind of love don’t come easy
8000 miles and then a fight
But I’m going anyway
My bags are packed
I’m sitting on this runway
Now there’s no turning back
Your daddy said no
He left no doubt
But we got two weeks in the Philippines to figure it out
Waiting in Narita I pulled out her picture
I swore I wouldn’t get this way
Never met her but I miss her
I’ll make manila by the break of day
Because I’m going anyway
I am almost there
There won’t be any honeymoon but I don’t really care
I’ll always wonder
And have my doubts
And I got two weeks in the Philippines to figure it out
And this boy from Oklahoma don’t measure up
Too grizzled and grown to make the grade
I could call it a rescue but it don’t matter much
I’m too old for dreams that keep me awake
I’m too old for dreams that keep me awake
No one greet me at the station
Party of one at the hotel bar
Same old feelings different location
Alone and strange and badly scarred
But I went anyway,
I felt it all
I’m two flights away from being home
And one step from a fall
I looked for an answer
It wasn’t all I found
And I had two weeks in the Philippines to figure it out
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Ashtray (feat. Ben Shaw)
03:26
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Filling my ashtray baby
Got lungs like the road
Can't see anymore
Smell perfume as it comes in the door
Wasted youth on religion
Kept my young body to myself
Fun was every man's living
Trading tender touches for hell
Save me from this devil baby
I need a body to hold
The trees hold the air
The ground holds the cold
And I'm getting old
I was a piece of work it was a piece of me
So a rich man could build a factory
I could have loved if I'd but seen
How alone I could be
Save me from this devil baby
I need a body to hold
The trees hold the air
The ground holds the cold
and I'm and getting old
no no no no
I'm getting old
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I'm sending you subatomic messages
I'm hoping and praying you receive
I'm getting high of the weeds you grow in my mind
I'm just relaxing
Baby I'm chilling
I'm getting high off the weeds you grow in my mind
I'm sending you subatomic messages
From the banks of the Rio Dulce
I'm getting tall on the weeds you grow in my mind
Sipping on the fruit of the vine
I'm getting tall on the weeds you grow in my mind
I'm sending you subatomic messages
from this side of the Great Divide
I'm getting tall on the weeds you grow in my mind
swimming sweet streams on a mountainside
I'm getting tall on the weeds you grown in my mind
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Living the life of my convictions
Searching for answers making the grade
We were lovers with different intentions
We couldn't fit in the boxes we made
I didn't wake up to smell the coffee
I didn't hear you get out of bed
I looked around for a warning
But you were gone before you left
It was later there was another
Chaotic liaison at best
Going separate ways bound together
Until we ran out of gas
At the end of my rope I keep tying knots
Spinning my own web
I didn't know that letting go would take so long
A change of scenery, a new direction
Trying to make up those wasted years
Now I'm claiming progress not perfection
Working through my doubts and fears
I didn't wake up to smell the coffee
I didn't hear you get out of bed
I looked around for a warning
You were gone before you left
I looked around, there were warnings
and you were gone before you left
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Drive this one over this cliff
In my brand new bag
You'd say I'd gone, Lord I'd say you quit
How come you're the only one, I could ever have?
You can tell everybody in town
That your man why he done left with her
but as for you and me, woman, how do you see it?
I just don't think I'll ever see you again
You're the one who said it'd never end
You didn't even think it nice to ask me
And I know you were't so proud, so damn proud
When I baffled both our good eyes with our shiny white gold wedding rings
And you can tell everybody in town
That your man, he done left with her
But as for you and me, woman how do you see it?
I just don't think I'll ever see you again
And do you think it's right
that living with you has taught me to be immune
to a thousand types of pain not yet discovered by man
So I'll just sit here earning my living
With these grease stains on my fingers
and finally some comfort in my hands
And you can tell everybody in town
That your man why he done left with her
but as for you and me, woman, how do you see it?
I just don't think I'll ever see you again
Drive this one over the cliff, in my brand new bag
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I can't stand what's going on
I wish we all could get along
Despite what we each think we each do wrong
No I can't stand what's going on
What lies ahead
Will we all prosper will we wind up dead
Will I find the redemption I crave in my head no no I can't see what lies ahead
I can't stand what's going on
I wish we all could get along
despite what we each think we each do wrong
no I can't stand what's going on
Why won't you look me in the eye
And say with your mouth all that you write
If I were to say, all on my mind
That wouldn't be polite
No, That wouldn't be polite
I can't live by a truth anymore
They change all the time, there's got to be more
Half of them lies you buy at the store
no no I can't live by a truth anymore
I can't die by a truth anymore
I can't stand what's going on
I wish we all could get along
despite what we each think we each do wrong
No, I can't stand what's going on.
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The Kintners Wichita Falls, Texas
The Kintners craft songs that are an intimate fusion of personal experiences and evocative melodies. As indie artists, their storytelling prowess turns each composition into a heartfelt expression, making their music a unique and resonant experience.
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