Blind Hips in Motion

core
grab
basilica
succinct
your new man
last kiss
maria
emotional grind
sigh bye sigh
come on
go full circle
i'm only 4

© 1994 thousand roses songs ltd.

Core

think like you haven't ever
try to remember the days
when we would talk till the light
before morning

your summer neck is burned
with salt and sand
i lost my fingers
trying to find your old hands

in time maybe we'll discover
we could've been closer to the core

think like you haven't ever
try to remember we're dead
now i'm watching you
from far away instead

think like you haven't ever
try to remember we're alive
i haven't slept for three nights
and i see things now

aren't you gonna break my fall

Grab

love makes you grab make you want
what you now is not yours
love makes you cold makes you calm
makes you kill like it's nothing
love makes you blank makes you drift
where you know you shouldn't go
love makes you chew makes you choke
makes you choose what's not your choice
love makes you steal makes you take
makes you honest when you're so fake
loves makes you spit makes you explode
where you know you should be the one
love makes you hurt makes you break
where you know you should be whole

Basilica

basilica arms wrapped around me
how will i ever lose this pain this sadness
all this madness
blood on my blade and sweat on my skin
guilt ridden wish for new innocence
if you want lucid ancient hungry precious fading
look in my eye
i dream i am a circle
lost in a cloud
i dream i am quiet
lost in the loud
waiting for ever i'm caught up in never
i lost my sixth sense that found you
now you feel weird now you're freaked out
by all the holding tempting
no more kisses we both want it
cracked shell light under the door
you are the aura seeping into my sinking airless
suspicious heart
basilica arms strapped around you
why don't you ever lose this pain this sadness
all this
basilica

Succinct

we were just eleven
the dream was so insane
i think you were doing the wheelbarrow race
with jimmy page
field day was so fine
right as i was flying
every blade of grass
was dreaming of greening
to catch me

wait for the wheels to come alive
now they're turning to you
in the light before you blink
mitch, he's so kitch, he's so cute
we should kiss him just once
it's all so succinct

i'm reading all the good books
before they're bad movies
even on my deathbed
i'll still be laughing at you

wait for the wheels to come alive
now they're turning to you
in the light before you blink
amanda, she's so random, she's so ambient
she's so eno
it's all so succinct

Your New Man

drifted off, no pomp or grandeur
light years away off my
tortilla factory calendar
she woke up screaming
said we couldn't understand
she hoped for a boy
but all she found was a man

so she sang me a waltz called
blind hips in motion
she learned from a cross eyed fiddle player in
I nova scotia

that skinny white dress i bought for you
never cools your anger
when you turn out the light
you're my favorite stranger

your new man is tearing you apart
no more wild upheaval of the heart

drifted off took my conscience
kept it in a brown paper bag
like one of her sack lunches
she woke up screaming
said we couldn't understand
she hoped for a boy
but all she found was a man

Last Kiss

her mommy was dirty
and she wouldn't get up
from the kitchen floor
you used to dance together
you were just a baby
trying to catch up
no one can hurt you now
make it slow
make it sweet
this is our last kiss
half anger
half relief
this is our last kiss

Maria

maria isaura
open up your blind eyes

since you've been asleep
we washed your purple veil
called father daniel
asked the undertaker for an extra day

i wish i knew your secret hiding place
where you keep all your energy
you whispered the word so long ago
but it slipped from my memory

well, i don't know
no long goodbye
until you show your secret hiding place
where you keep all your energy
you whispered the word so long ago
but it slipped from my memory
i've been looking since at least
a million words ago trying to find the perfect one
it's hidden like a key from a criminal
in a cell
and it never gets
to the tip of my tongue

maria isaura
open your blind eyes

emotional grind

while clinging to a dream
i can hear you scream
emotional grind
wasted on the world

fly floating on a whim
all we do is swim
to the emotional tide

honestly my love
you're my only bliss
in this emotional time

lie to lie
truth to truth
we're moving like we used to
in a snake charm slithering

sigh bye sigh

sigh bye sigh
you do it

she was on his shirt now
reaching up to touch him
reaching up to bless him
reaching up to heaven

the world's lost without her
she only talks to innocent children
it's true she's here again
i used to be in her legion

fatima and medjugorie
every girl is born with your name
every boy is in love with you
we're all waiting for your apparition

come on

waiting for the forty
i saw my life pass before me
jumped on to the north one
i remembered you at the brownstone
sundown i'll meet you
where the drag splits in two

this life is about pull of love
this love is about fear of life
this heart is about the taste of you
this you is about the fear of love
come on

someone's playing a trick
we were the only ones left
on the big if
i missed my lucky thirteen
gotta get back down south

go full circle

in the left
flowers from bangladesh
in the right
half dying cigarettes
tongue burned on coffee
three days and she's watching
violets shrink
i won't look you in the eye
i promise
navigate
every lover in your fleet
had enough of fear
who are we
shame ourselves watching
violets shrink
i won't look you in the eye it's my favorite way to die
i promise
so don't say no don't say yes
before you say another word
why don't you let me guess
this decade goes out to you
the fifth and final mystery
at night i make my rounds after you
i go full circle
like a rosary
but i'm gone
because i never went away
but i'm here because you never asked me to stay
tongue burnt from cursing your name
now all poison in the world tastes the same
i won't look you in the eye
i promise

I'm Only Four

instrumental

Fairgrounds

Fairgrounds is the name of the extra music at the end of the CD.

words & music by Davíd garza. copyright1994 thousand roses songs ltd.