Last Person - Jenny Owen Youngs

Well you’re sitting on a barstool
Keeping motionless as you can be
Thinking maybe, if you’re lucky
Life is like T-Rex and stillness will sweep you away
To where it’s safe.

‘Cause you’re feeling
Like you’re the last person
Left on the planet tonight
And you’re scanning, the horizon
Seeking out signs of life
And you pray that you’re wrong
But you’re right, so hold on tight.

‘Cause all that stares back at you
Are bloodless zombie eyes
Why don’t you come home with me tonight
Aright, alright.

Not trying to make you think
This is some kind of great big deal
I just know exactly how you feel
I could be the thing you reach for
In the middle of the night
Let me be the one who treats you right
Let me be the one who treats you right.

Now I know you’ve never seen me
There’s no reason for you to pay mind
But I’m asking, very nicely
And all it takes is one step
To start leaving the dead behind
And try out walking life.

I mean what’s the worst thing
(What’s the worst thing)
That could happen
We find out that we don’t quite fit
But on the flip side
(On the flip side)
We could be just right
And sure there’s the chance
That we’ll both end up broken and split
But that’s my kind of risk.

So quit worrying where they’ll fall
If you should roll the dice
Why don’t you come home with me tonight
Alright, alright.

Not trying to make you think
This is some kind of great big deal
I just know exactly how you feel
I could be the thing you reach for
In the middle of the night
Let me be the one who treats you right
Let me be the one who treats you right
Let me be the one who treats you right.

(I went through and checked these myself, twice. So if they’re wrong I need a hearing test. :P)

Bricks - Jenny Owen Youngs

Theres bricks in the yard
Falling where they flew,
I’m sure mom and dad
Wont give a sitch for one or two.
Building no hagards that travel left to rest.
Building is better but breaking is easy and i dont know which to trust.
I think there must be something wrong with me.
Like the path that goes unwatched among the very finest edge,
My eyes are all wide and my stomach decends.

And i’ll do whatver you say,
I’ll say whatever you want
If you just put that away
If you just perish that thought.
Why can’t we be a normal family?

And i’ll count my footsteps across the garden stones,
The faintest love glides six above cement and rust and bones.
And i’ll gather my eggshells softly i guess till i have enough to fill up the nest you’re on.
I’ll draw up the blue prints but i’ll never use them.
Now i’ve only ever offered you myself and you always say it’s not enough.
Pray for your paralysis while i’m coating for your touch.

And i’ll do whatver you say
I will say whatever you want
If you just put that away
If you just perish that thought

Oh you talk about violence like it doesnt exsist
Like a fire is a womb,
And a womb is a fist.
And i’ll bend withforthee
When your tongue comes unglued
But ill seize up inside
If your mouth says it’s true.

Don’t you wanna be a normal family?
A normal family.

I’m a steel wall
I don’t want to see anything at all.
I’m a steel wall
I don’t need to feel anything at all.
I don’t want to see anything, and i don’t need to feel anything,
And i don’t want to know anything at all