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Why Trains Crash

by The Pretty Flowers

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1.
Clean up your image All things equal and all things free I stapled myself to a crooked sea My hand got swatted away I couldn’t make it out I’m gonna drive around until I hammer it out Now that everything has changed It’s just like everything’s the same Now that everything has changed It’s just like everything’s the same Like a sky piece of a puzzle You’ve bent to fit You cheat a little bit And then you cheat a little bit Hands were built for battle Tongues were made to spit Onto the cream of a canvas On top a mountain of debt Nothing’s ever settled Nothing’s ever fixed Nothing’s ever counted Cuz nothing’s ever missed
2.
When your fire was electrical And lies felt like the truth You burned just like the sun at night And you were in your youth The summer made relationships That time could never fade The rules were like the beach at night Lost under a haze I can spit a lot of nothing You’re bound to find something Hidden in the words I say When I’m next to you Making off with an old love letter Sunlight’s got a light that’s better For spitting out out cassette tape dreams On the kitchen floor Life is just a spectacle You brag about to your friends Figure out your use sometimes When you step outside of trends Run on like a paragraph That needs to be cut up Stuck inside my head at night Never waking up I can spit a lot of nothing You’re bound to find something Hidden in the words I say When you’re next to me Making off with an old love letter Sunlight’s got a light that’s better For spitting out out cassette tape dreams On the kitchen floor
3.
Some girls always try To make it hard to leave Lace your boots up boy, You can’t resole your soul Think about the past so much Nostalgia was your favorite crutch To use to get around, To cut in front of line To make the feeling stick To burn your buildings down Those threads of memories I pull to get to you Though little steps I took Can’t trace them back again How can you feel regret For things that haven’t happened yet? Some girls always try To make you see yourself Think about the past so much Nostalgia was your favorite crutch To use to get around, To cut in front of line To make the feeling stick To burn your fucking buildings down
4.
Tracking time with coffee cups Conversations resolute You’re picking up the pieces When you’re trying not to get cute Trying not to get cute You know you really, really chip my paint There’s only so many Mistakes that you can make Before you drop the crate Drop the crate I can see your wires, the part of you you’re making up I can see your wires, the part of you you’re making up I could be your passenger I could navigate the bends The forks, the dirty floors Cleaning up the mess Cleaning up the mess What I have, I’ve given up I’ve been driving around some parking lots Just trying to kick up dust Trying to kick up dust I can see your wires, the part of you you’re making up I can see your wires, the part of you you’re making up You know you really, chip my paint There’s only so many Mistakes that you can make Before you drop the crate Drop the crate
5.
My Alchemist 04:06
Tell me everything you know I’ve got a lot of time, I don’t wanna go Distracted by all those horrible sounds Coming from the radio You’ve got a couple friends, they’re not your crew They’re all practice punch with no follow-through The ocean got you so confused You thought you could turn it around But there was nothing to do You put yourself in the opposite shoe If it’s all the same to you, it’s nothing I’d rather do It was clear as mud to me, floating like a tarp on top of the sea Now there’s nowhere to go to stop the sound of the radio The ocean got you so confused You thought you could turn it around But there was nothing to do You put yourself in the opposite shoe The ocean got you so confused The ocean got you so confused (so confused) That there was nothing to do You put yourself in the opposite shoe
6.
Shadows move in the afternoon We’re the only ones awake dreaming You’ve got a right to use incremental moves From the faucet to the drain Now that baby’s got a gun And I’m staring at the record Now that baby’s got a gun And I can see it spinning I’d like to see what you’re tracing back to me I’ll be poor on your time, and I’ll be rich on mine From the faucet to the drain Now that baby’s got a gun And I’m staring at the record Now that baby’s got a gun And I can see it spinning Don’t you find it strange When the life you lead can rearrange? And don’t you find it strange When your temple of gunpowder is blowing away?
7.
I was trying to remember what I thought last night Sure I had some good ideas, but they disappear so quickly You saw the cars outside just drive on by When it was you and she and eternity You said, “I couldn’t think less about that girl.” But she was a planet and that was the world you inhabited When your house was empty and you hated it You bored yourself to death with stupid videos You made mistakes with me, but now you’re serious How can you be serious? I got a letter from you postmarked Sitting Duck, CA You said that everything is wrong and nothing turned out right for you So you stay in at night, you don’t let anyone see you You get sad sometimes when you see her at the farmacia You said, “I couldn’t think less about that girl.” But she was a planet and that was the world you inhabited When your house was empty and you hated it You bored yourself to death with stupid videos You made mistakes with me, but now you’re serious How can you be serious?
8.
You know it’s never like you plan We’re never in demand I never was a prince We’re live from a black hole In the backyard of your mind Where you were young and weak You tried to stare just like a freak show You dug yourself a foxhole Baby, please don’t go We are lost, but we lose slow As much as you want to quit We are filtering the grit I know it’s hard to take a stand Crush the label, kill the man Find a uniform that fits And filter out the grit Baby, please don’t go We are lost, but we lose slow As much as you want to quit We’re filtering the grit
9.
You forfeit your memories Now you can’t remember it You can’t remember shit You can’t illicit sympathy for sickness When what you’re coughing up is gold Now the kids are in their uniforms They’re waiting to be told That you’ll be young forever It’s the others who get old It was a surprise I suppose Is on the mouth too on the nose? Move into the city where three feet is a yard Climb up to the roof to see if we can’t Corner the stars Move into the city where three feet is a yard Climb up to the roof to see if we can Corner the stars
10.
New Century 03:25
In an attempt to make you less like you It was the front of your head they drilled into And they relieved some pressure And they released some bubbles They couldn’t ease your pain They couldn’t stop your troubles In the new century you weren’t next to me You were somewhere off I couldn’t find you then I was thinking about you It was quite an experience I was thinking about you It was so sincerely different then In an attempt to make you less like you It was a little room you were thrown into And they relieved some pressure And they released some bubbles They couldn’t ease your pain, no They couldn’t stop your troubles But I was thinking about you It was quite an experience I was thinking about you It was so sincerely different then
11.
It started happening so fast You mixed the present with the past And what was left it wouldn’t last So you left it Now I barely lean into The things I know I want to do It’s not the same as it used to be Everything fits so differently I wanna go to your house To see how you’re living You’re letting them down Like it was summer session Go to your house To see how you’re living You’re letting them down Like it was summer session The idiots were there to hold us back That’s what they do, it’s what they live for There was a ring at the door, a knock and then an entry When I got through being a son of a bitch I turned it off quick I turned it off like a lightswitch I wanna go to your house To see how you’re living You’re letting them down Like it was summer session What did you conjure? What did you drink? What do you mean when you say That you mean what you speak? Go to your house To see how you’re living You’re letting them down Like it was summer session
12.
Deceptionist 04:36
Do you feel like they changed the rules on you Just when you thought you were getting a grip? And you thought you were fucking important You were just a blip And the windows may have rattled The speakers may have fuzzed And you know that something’s burning, But you don’t know what it is Overreactor, deceptionist High elevations, thin air mints Runt of the litter, you were born at the back of the bar You’re inviting people over and you’ve quarantined the yard So you’d better start moving in the middle of the night Cuz when the sun it comes up, baby You can try and make it right Armageddon, dude, makes it hard to move Armageddon, dude, is creeping up on you Armageddon, dude, makes it hard to move Armageddon, dude, is creeping up on you

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released June 22, 2018

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The Pretty Flowers Los Angeles, California

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Noah Green, Sam Tiger, Jake Gideon, Sean Johnson

A Company Sleeve, the new full-length LP from The Pretty Flowers is out now on Double Helix Records.

Why Trains Crash LP and Golden Beat Sessions cassette are available on Dirt Cult Records. GBS CDs available from the band on bandcamp
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