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Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in… Read Full Bio ↴Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals).
Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintain a strong cult following. Additionally, the band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record.
Formation and Early History: 1984–1985
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, a husband/wife duo, formed the band in 1984. They chose the name "Yo La Tengo" (Spanish for "I've got it!") in an effort to avoid any connotations in English. The name came from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" instead. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words "¡Yo la tengo! as a way to avoid outfield collisions. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the heck is a Yellow Tango?".
They placed an advertisement to recruit other musicians who shared their love for bands such as The Soft Boys, Mission of Burma, and Arthur Lee's Love. The group's debut recording was a 7" single entitled "The River of Water" backed with a cover of Arthur Lee's "A House Is Not a Motel" released in late 1985 with Dave Schramm on lead guitar and Dave Rick on bass. After recording "Private Doberman" for inclusion on a Coyote Records compilation entitled Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood, Rick left the band and was replaced by Mike Lewis, the founding bass player of Boston garage-punk bands DMZ and Lyres, who was also a member of Brooklyn garage rock band The A-Bones throughout his tenure.
Early Releases: 1986–1989
In 1986, Yo La Tengo released their first LP, Ride the Tiger on Coyote Records. Produced by former Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley who also took over bass duties on three songs, the album "marked Yo La Tengo as a band with real potential" according to reviewer Mark Deming. Kaplan was credited as "naive guitar" on the sleeve, and in the liner notes for the 1993 reissue of the album on City Slang Records, went so far as to say "Dave's guitar playing is inarguably the best thing about the record."
Schramm and Lewis left the band after the album's release, with Kaplan subsequently taking on the role of lead guitar and Stephan Wichnewski joining to play bass. The group's next album New Wave Hot Dogs (1987) sold poorly, but in the words of Mark Deming, "was a quantum leap over the sound of their debut."
The release of President Yo La Tengo in 1989 did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics including Robert Christgau who praised the "mysterioso guitar hook" in the first song. Produced by Gene Holder of The dB's, the album was the band's last release on Coyote. Despite the positive reception of the album, sales were still poor and Wichnewski left the band not long after. Hubley and Kaplan carried on as a duo and began playing two-electric-guitar shows. Kaplan, though typically a pragmatist, started carrying a bug trapped in amber in his pocket for luck.
Bar/None and Alias Records: 1990–1992
Yo La Tengo reunited with Dave Schramm in 1990 to record Fakebook, an album of mostly acoustic tunes, including covers of Cat Stevens, Gene Clark, The Kinks, Daniel Johnston, among others, with five original songs by the band themselves. Again produced by Gene Holder, the album's folk sound was a change of pace for the band. Years later, Kaplan recalled that the album was "just me and Georgia looking for an excuse to record with Dave Schramm and Al Greller" who played guitar and double bass on the album, respectively.
In 1991, with Dave Schramm in tow, Yo La Tengo collaborated with Daniel Johnston on the song "Speeding Motorcycle" which was released as a single. The band also released a 7" single on Bar/None Records with the song "Walking Away from You" backed with a cover of Beat Happening's "Cast a Shadow." Gene Holder produced the single and played the bass. The That Is Yo La Tengo EP released later that year included some tracks that would end up on the group's next LP.
After the release of That Is Yo La Tengo, James McNew began playing bass with the band, forming the trio that continues to make up the band today. According to McNew,
“I originally signed on as a fill-in for a short US tour, and a 4-week summer tour of Europe with Eleventh Dream Day. One night after a show in Munster, I was to look after our box of merchandise while Ira and Georgia went gallovanting through the town, meeting their policemen. Needless to say, during our soundcheck in Hamburg the next day, it suddenly dawned on me that I had left the box filled with copies of this EP back at the club in Munster. Oh man, was I in trouble... Sure... blame it on the rookie.”
The band recorded May I Sing with Me in Boston with Holder producing and Lou Giordano engineering. The album was released on Alias Records in 1992. Two of the album's eleven songs ("Swing for Life" and "Five-Cornered Drone") were carried over from the That Is Yo La Tengo EP and feature Holder on bass. The Upside-Down EP was released on CD in support of the album, rounding out the band's releases on Alias.
Early Matador period: 1993–2000
In 1993, Yo La Tengo began their partnership with Matador Records, releasing a 7" and CD5 of the song "Shaker" which the band recorded with John Siket in New Jersey. The following LP, 1993's Painful was also the beginning of the band's fruitful creative partnership with producer Roger Moutenot, who has produced all of their subsequent albums. Painful is the first Yo La Tengo to feature James McNew on every song; Rob Sheffield, writing for Rolling Stone remarked that McNew "became an essential part of the sound on Painful, the 1993 album that kept every promise Yo La Tengo ever made and blew their previous highlights away." Critical reaction was quite positive, with reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine calling it "a subtly addicting album." Robert Christgau also praised the group once again, writing in his review that Yo La Tengo is "always friendly. This is not the forbidding experimentation of an aspiring vanguard. This is the fooling around of folks who like to go out on Saturday night and make some noise--and then go home humming it." The band released Electr-O-Pura in 1995 to similar acclaim. For the first time, all songs were credited to the band as a whole rather than individual members; this became the norm for all future releases.
The band's 1997 LP I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One synthesized the group's eclectic combination of folk, punk rock, shoegazing, long instrumental noise-jams, and electronic music into a sprawling, multi-faceted style. Critical reaction was extremely positive; Pitchfork Media awarded the album a 9.7 out of 10 and reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was "arguably Yo La Tengo's finest and most coherent album to date." Kaplan recalled a turning point in the band's musical progression:
“I think after Electr–O-Pura we’ve had a direction of trying not to worry too hard about what the next album is going to sound like. Everything we’ve ever played on we just do whatever seems right at the moment, we just write a bunch of songs, and then go one baby step at the time and just do what seems right.”
With their critical reputation higher than ever before, the band toured extensively and their fan base continued to grow. In 1998, they collaborated with Jad Fair and released the album Strange But True to mixed reviews. The band entered the studio again in late 1999 to record their ninth LP. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out was released in February 2000 to a warm reception.
Continued Acclaim and Soundtrack Work: 2001–Present
In 2001, Yo La Tengo recorded an instrumental score for eight short undersea documentaries by Jean Painlevé, entitled The Sounds of the Sounds of Science. The program debuted at the San Francisco Film Festival and has been performed live approximately twelve times. The band also released an EP with covers of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" in late 2002.
The band's tenth LP, Summer Sun, was released in 2003. Although the album received generally favorable reviews, some critics found the album's quiet atmosphere "underwhelming." Others criticized the band for a perceived lack of invention. When asked about the album's quiet nature, Kaplan stated,
“We made a decision at the last second just to leave the loud songs off. We were looking at the material we recorded and just trying to put out the best record that we could. At a certain point, we just thought it seemed right to put out the quiet ones. I've been aware that there's been some surprise about that and people saying it's even quieter than the last record, which has sort of taken me by surprise."
Yo La Tengo collaborated with Yoko Ono on the 2003 charity album Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch in support of the Harvey Milk High School. The band put together their first "best of" compilation entitled Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 which was released in 2005. They composed scores for four more films: 2005's Junebug and Game 6, and 2006's Shortbus and Old Joy. Their scores for these four films were collected on the 2008 compilation They Shoot, We Score.
Their eleventh LP, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, was released in 2006 to universal acclaim. Informed by their soundtrack work, the arrangements included more strings and horns than any of the band's previous albums. Kaplan told an interviewer: "I think we gained an element of comfort with using that kind of instrumentation, and it became something we could draw on for our other songs." In addition, the album was book-ended with two guitar jams lasting over ten minutes each.
In 2006, the band released Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics, a compilation of their live impromptu cover-song performances on the New Jersey freeform radio station, WFMU. As part of the station's annual fundraising marathon, listeners who call in to pledge money to the station may request a favorite which the band will then perform on the spot. In late 2007, the band began performing acoustically for "The Freewheelin' Yo La Tengo" tour. Audiences were encouraged to request songs and ask questions which, Kaplan stated, the band tried to answer "in a strategic manner so that the answers to the questions will lead to the next song."
In March 2008, Yo La Tengo performed under the alias "Condo Fucks" at Brooklyn's Magnetic Field. As Condo Fucks, the band released an album of cover songs, Fuckbook, on Matador in March, 2009. On June 4, Matador announced a new Yo La Tengo album called Popular Songs. Yo La Tengo is also contributing to a tribute album for New Zealand rock and roll musician Chris Knox who suffered a stroke in June 2009. All proceeds from the album will go towards Knox's recovery.
Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintain a strong cult following. Additionally, the band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record.
Formation and Early History: 1984–1985
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, a husband/wife duo, formed the band in 1984. They chose the name "Yo La Tengo" (Spanish for "I've got it!") in an effort to avoid any connotations in English. The name came from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!" instead. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words "¡Yo la tengo! as a way to avoid outfield collisions. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the heck is a Yellow Tango?".
They placed an advertisement to recruit other musicians who shared their love for bands such as The Soft Boys, Mission of Burma, and Arthur Lee's Love. The group's debut recording was a 7" single entitled "The River of Water" backed with a cover of Arthur Lee's "A House Is Not a Motel" released in late 1985 with Dave Schramm on lead guitar and Dave Rick on bass. After recording "Private Doberman" for inclusion on a Coyote Records compilation entitled Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood, Rick left the band and was replaced by Mike Lewis, the founding bass player of Boston garage-punk bands DMZ and Lyres, who was also a member of Brooklyn garage rock band The A-Bones throughout his tenure.
Early Releases: 1986–1989
In 1986, Yo La Tengo released their first LP, Ride the Tiger on Coyote Records. Produced by former Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley who also took over bass duties on three songs, the album "marked Yo La Tengo as a band with real potential" according to reviewer Mark Deming. Kaplan was credited as "naive guitar" on the sleeve, and in the liner notes for the 1993 reissue of the album on City Slang Records, went so far as to say "Dave's guitar playing is inarguably the best thing about the record."
Schramm and Lewis left the band after the album's release, with Kaplan subsequently taking on the role of lead guitar and Stephan Wichnewski joining to play bass. The group's next album New Wave Hot Dogs (1987) sold poorly, but in the words of Mark Deming, "was a quantum leap over the sound of their debut."
The release of President Yo La Tengo in 1989 did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics including Robert Christgau who praised the "mysterioso guitar hook" in the first song. Produced by Gene Holder of The dB's, the album was the band's last release on Coyote. Despite the positive reception of the album, sales were still poor and Wichnewski left the band not long after. Hubley and Kaplan carried on as a duo and began playing two-electric-guitar shows. Kaplan, though typically a pragmatist, started carrying a bug trapped in amber in his pocket for luck.
Bar/None and Alias Records: 1990–1992
Yo La Tengo reunited with Dave Schramm in 1990 to record Fakebook, an album of mostly acoustic tunes, including covers of Cat Stevens, Gene Clark, The Kinks, Daniel Johnston, among others, with five original songs by the band themselves. Again produced by Gene Holder, the album's folk sound was a change of pace for the band. Years later, Kaplan recalled that the album was "just me and Georgia looking for an excuse to record with Dave Schramm and Al Greller" who played guitar and double bass on the album, respectively.
In 1991, with Dave Schramm in tow, Yo La Tengo collaborated with Daniel Johnston on the song "Speeding Motorcycle" which was released as a single. The band also released a 7" single on Bar/None Records with the song "Walking Away from You" backed with a cover of Beat Happening's "Cast a Shadow." Gene Holder produced the single and played the bass. The That Is Yo La Tengo EP released later that year included some tracks that would end up on the group's next LP.
After the release of That Is Yo La Tengo, James McNew began playing bass with the band, forming the trio that continues to make up the band today. According to McNew,
“I originally signed on as a fill-in for a short US tour, and a 4-week summer tour of Europe with Eleventh Dream Day. One night after a show in Munster, I was to look after our box of merchandise while Ira and Georgia went gallovanting through the town, meeting their policemen. Needless to say, during our soundcheck in Hamburg the next day, it suddenly dawned on me that I had left the box filled with copies of this EP back at the club in Munster. Oh man, was I in trouble... Sure... blame it on the rookie.”
The band recorded May I Sing with Me in Boston with Holder producing and Lou Giordano engineering. The album was released on Alias Records in 1992. Two of the album's eleven songs ("Swing for Life" and "Five-Cornered Drone") were carried over from the That Is Yo La Tengo EP and feature Holder on bass. The Upside-Down EP was released on CD in support of the album, rounding out the band's releases on Alias.
Early Matador period: 1993–2000
In 1993, Yo La Tengo began their partnership with Matador Records, releasing a 7" and CD5 of the song "Shaker" which the band recorded with John Siket in New Jersey. The following LP, 1993's Painful was also the beginning of the band's fruitful creative partnership with producer Roger Moutenot, who has produced all of their subsequent albums. Painful is the first Yo La Tengo to feature James McNew on every song; Rob Sheffield, writing for Rolling Stone remarked that McNew "became an essential part of the sound on Painful, the 1993 album that kept every promise Yo La Tengo ever made and blew their previous highlights away." Critical reaction was quite positive, with reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine calling it "a subtly addicting album." Robert Christgau also praised the group once again, writing in his review that Yo La Tengo is "always friendly. This is not the forbidding experimentation of an aspiring vanguard. This is the fooling around of folks who like to go out on Saturday night and make some noise--and then go home humming it." The band released Electr-O-Pura in 1995 to similar acclaim. For the first time, all songs were credited to the band as a whole rather than individual members; this became the norm for all future releases.
The band's 1997 LP I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One synthesized the group's eclectic combination of folk, punk rock, shoegazing, long instrumental noise-jams, and electronic music into a sprawling, multi-faceted style. Critical reaction was extremely positive; Pitchfork Media awarded the album a 9.7 out of 10 and reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was "arguably Yo La Tengo's finest and most coherent album to date." Kaplan recalled a turning point in the band's musical progression:
“I think after Electr–O-Pura we’ve had a direction of trying not to worry too hard about what the next album is going to sound like. Everything we’ve ever played on we just do whatever seems right at the moment, we just write a bunch of songs, and then go one baby step at the time and just do what seems right.”
With their critical reputation higher than ever before, the band toured extensively and their fan base continued to grow. In 1998, they collaborated with Jad Fair and released the album Strange But True to mixed reviews. The band entered the studio again in late 1999 to record their ninth LP. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out was released in February 2000 to a warm reception.
Continued Acclaim and Soundtrack Work: 2001–Present
In 2001, Yo La Tengo recorded an instrumental score for eight short undersea documentaries by Jean Painlevé, entitled The Sounds of the Sounds of Science. The program debuted at the San Francisco Film Festival and has been performed live approximately twelve times. The band also released an EP with covers of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" in late 2002.
The band's tenth LP, Summer Sun, was released in 2003. Although the album received generally favorable reviews, some critics found the album's quiet atmosphere "underwhelming." Others criticized the band for a perceived lack of invention. When asked about the album's quiet nature, Kaplan stated,
“We made a decision at the last second just to leave the loud songs off. We were looking at the material we recorded and just trying to put out the best record that we could. At a certain point, we just thought it seemed right to put out the quiet ones. I've been aware that there's been some surprise about that and people saying it's even quieter than the last record, which has sort of taken me by surprise."
Yo La Tengo collaborated with Yoko Ono on the 2003 charity album Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch in support of the Harvey Milk High School. The band put together their first "best of" compilation entitled Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 which was released in 2005. They composed scores for four more films: 2005's Junebug and Game 6, and 2006's Shortbus and Old Joy. Their scores for these four films were collected on the 2008 compilation They Shoot, We Score.
Their eleventh LP, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, was released in 2006 to universal acclaim. Informed by their soundtrack work, the arrangements included more strings and horns than any of the band's previous albums. Kaplan told an interviewer: "I think we gained an element of comfort with using that kind of instrumentation, and it became something we could draw on for our other songs." In addition, the album was book-ended with two guitar jams lasting over ten minutes each.
In 2006, the band released Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics, a compilation of their live impromptu cover-song performances on the New Jersey freeform radio station, WFMU. As part of the station's annual fundraising marathon, listeners who call in to pledge money to the station may request a favorite which the band will then perform on the spot. In late 2007, the band began performing acoustically for "The Freewheelin' Yo La Tengo" tour. Audiences were encouraged to request songs and ask questions which, Kaplan stated, the band tried to answer "in a strategic manner so that the answers to the questions will lead to the next song."
In March 2008, Yo La Tengo performed under the alias "Condo Fucks" at Brooklyn's Magnetic Field. As Condo Fucks, the band released an album of cover songs, Fuckbook, on Matador in March, 2009. On June 4, Matador announced a new Yo La Tengo album called Popular Songs. Yo La Tengo is also contributing to a tribute album for New Zealand rock and roll musician Chris Knox who suffered a stroke in June 2009. All proceeds from the album will go towards Knox's recovery.
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Yo La Tengo Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Yo La Tengo:
(Straight Down to the) Bitter End People say that once you dyed your hair You started showing…
01 Big day coming Let's be undecided, let's take our time And sooner or later,…
02 From a motel 6 You shouldn't hide but you always do Cause even when you're…
03 Double dare I, I should know You shouldn't have to tell me Sometimes it'…
05 Nowhere near Do you know how I feel How I feel about you Do…
06 Sudden organ Will you stare, will you stare as the final curtain…
07 A worrying thing Will you ever say what I fear you're dying to…
08 I was the fool beside you for too long I was the fool beside you I was the fool beside…
09 The whole of the law Well, I used to have the notion I could swim…
10 Big day coming Let's be undecided, let's take our time And sooner or later,…
14-Little Honda I'm gonna wake you up early cause I'm gonna take…
3 Blocks from Groove Street On the verge of somewhere he wanted to be Thought he'd…
86-Second Blowout See myself as a bug on the table Find a way,…
A House Is Not a Motel At my house Ive got no shackles You can come and…
A Shy Dog Sitting at home inside yourself Thinking it's cool to be so…
A Worrying Thing Will you ever say what I fear you're dying to…
Above the Sound What if we're too black & blue To spot our latest…
Acera or the Witches Instru…
All Your Secrets All of the thoughts we thought would stay unsaid Have made…
Almost True When I see you sad and so blue I always fear…
Always Something Well, it's raining outside At least it's gotta be somewher…
Alyda Came the day you made your mind to put you…
Andalucia Andalucia, When can I see you? And it's snowing out again Fa…
Apology Letter I was wrong I knew right away, but I played it…
Aselestine Aselestine The TV's on I see your face You look the same The…
Ashes I put spots on a bird of paradise, snake eyes…
Ashes on the Ground We were burning with desire Until our love was set on…
Attack On Love 'There is a group of young Chinese who love music…
Automatic Doom Is there an automatic doom that's waiting for you? Can there…
Autumn Sweater When I heard the knock on the door I couldn't catch…
Autumn Sweater (Tortoise Remix When I heard the knock on the door I couldn't…
Avalon or Someone Very Similar Avalon, how did these things happen? Avalon, tell me all you…
Barnaby Hardly Working For the moment slipped right through him Combed his hair, co…
Be Thankful For What You Got Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac Gangster white…
Beach Party Tonight I want to go back To the time that I was…
Beanbag Chair I have spent my life trying to understand Just how my…
Before We Run Hold it in your arms Be still, be there I’ll hold you…
Big Day Coming Let's be undecided, let's take our time And sooner or later,…
Big Sky Big sky looked down on, all the people looking up…
Bitter End People say that once you dyed your hair You started showing…
Black Flowers You can take what you can get I forgive but I…
Blue Line Swinger You, you won't talk about what we see when the…
By the Time It Gets Dark Baby, every cloud has a silver lining Baby, every dog really…
By Two Wander along together By the edge of the river Hush little…
By Two's Wander along together By the edge of the river Hush little b…
Can It seems falling down Far away, lost at sea For the one…
cant forget It seems falling down Far away, lost at sea For the one…
Can’t Forget seems like falling down or away lost at sea or the one…
Cast a Shadow The sandman´s given me a special gift, a sleepy-dream memory…
Center of Gravity In crowded bars, at subway cars Whenever you are next to…
Cherry Chapstick Someone else's date In someone else's door There's a girl wi…
Clunk Waited just a little bit too long Stopped mattering why…
Cornelia and Jane I hear the whispering Just out of you Still I know what's…
Crispy Duck Time waits for reason but there's no reason Things just go w…
Damage Not much Friday night, pinball, Lower East Side Walked out o…
Decora I see you crawling across the floor Never see you standing…
Deeper Into Movies I may have been gazing out too late at night I…
Demons When she sleeps she shuts out the eyesights of you…
Detouring America With Horns You know the way to my enemies You keep your eyes…
Did I tell You Did I tell you of the dark lonely road I was…
Don You and me Were at some goldfish pond And I I was tagging…
Don't Have To Be So You and me Were at some goldfish pond And I I was tagging…
Don't Have to Be So Sad You and me Were at some goldfish pond And I I was tagging…
Don't Say a Word Don't say a word I am only sleeping I haven't the nerve…
Double Dare I, I should know You shouldn't have to tell me Sometimes it'…
Dreaming Dreaming, dreaming, Here I am dreaming again. Dreaming, drea…
Dreams Now here you go again, you say, you want your…
Drug Test You may have left your mistake with breakfast Watching the …
Emulsified Well oh yeah, do you know how to be emulsified…
Enough Things we did I'm thinking Aren't sure how and when we…
Everyday I want summer's sad songs behind me I want a laugh…
Fallout I won't tell you how it's gonna be I don't have…
False Alarm Oh no, I think I'm falling for a false alarm Like…
Farmer I could come from miles away Ain't got (ain't got, ain't…
five cornered drone Time waits for reason but there's no reason Things just go w…
Five-Cornered Drone Time waits for reason but there's no reason Things just go…
Flying Lesson Eyes go places that you can't see It's not that…
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken Eyes go places that you can't see It's not that easy…
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) Eyes go places that you can't see It's not that easy…
Fog Over Frisco It's gonna be a bumpy night she said Or something or…
For Shame of Doing Wrong It seems like a lifetime since I saw you Lover, lover,…
For You Too I am just some guy barely polite The civil tongue and…
Forever Nights are getting slower Days are flying by Hold me forever…
Fourth Time Around When she said, "Don't waste your words, they're just lies" …
Friday I'm In Love I don't care if Monday's blue Tuesday's grey and Wednesday t…
From a Motel 6 You shouldn't hide but you always do Cause even when you're…
From Black to Blue Several times over several days I wasn't blind, but I acted…
Gentle Hour It's such a pleasure to touch your skin To touch your…
Griselda Come won't you walk with me Griselda, wearing the dress that…
Hanky Panky Nohow If the satcheting of gentlemen Gives you grievance now and t…
Here Comes My Baby In the midnight moonlight I'll, be walkin' a long and…
Here to Fall There will be some happy endings There'll be dreams that don…
Here You Are We are out of words We're out of time Believe the worst Whi…
House Fall Down I met a tugboat captain The stories he could tell…
How Much I Darling, there is something I must tell you, you must…
How Some Jellyfish Are Born Instru…
How to Make a Baby Elephant Float I like to hold hands when we walk I'm not averse…
i can't hide When we're alone here Just me and you Why did you tell…
I Feel Like Going Home He calls me to the ocean Takes me wandering through the…
I Should Have Known Better i got in a tussle with a stranger on the train his…
I Threw It All Away I once held her in my arms She said she would…
I Wanna Be Your Lover Well, the rainman comes with his magic wand And the judge…
I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long I was the fool beside you I was the fool beside…
I'll Be Around When I stare into space I'm looking for you And I can…
I'm on My Way Sun shines through the window There's nothing I could do I t…
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Did you hear that lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue t…
I'm Your Puppet Pull the string and I'll wink at you I'm your puppet I'll…
i’ll be around When I stare into space I'm looking for you And I can…
If It I hear the things you say I read your mind and…
If It's True I hear the things you say I read your mind and…
Ill be around When I stare into space I'm looking for you And I can…
Is That Enough Things we did I'm thinking Aren't sure how and when we…
It I've been outsmarted Everybody's pawn I'm the one that's eas…
It's Alright I don't care about your ways of love and life and…
It's Christmas Time Baby, every cloud has a silver lining Baby, every dog really…
I’ll Be Around When I stare into space I'm looking for you And I can…
Last Days of Disco Saw you at a party You asked me to dance Said music…
Let We proudly welcome Tony Orlando The state fair marquee reads…
Let's Be Still Let's be still, be still for awhile, there's no place…
Let's Compromise Well, I can compromise, so can you, let's compromise Think…
Let's Do It Wrong I've been outsmarted Everybody's pawn I'm the one that's eas…
Let's Save Tony Orlando's Hous We proudly welcome Tony Orlando The state fair marquee reads…
Let’s Be Still Let′s be still, be still for awhile There's no place I…
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House We proudly welcome Tony Orlando The state fair marquee reads…
Lewis The beer was talking and it seemed a little bored Suggested…
Little Eyes Took a walk alone last night Slept inside your head It was…
Little Honda I'm gonna wake you up early cause I'm gonna take…
love 'There is a group of young Chinese who love music…
Lust For Life Oh, true rider, fasten me I saw a mystery, mystery…
Madeline Madeline, hair in your eyes With the voice as soft as…
Magnet I'm like a magnet You're like a piece of wood…
Miles Away Ease your mind Bide your time Hold those thoughts for now B…
Moby Octopad Locked in a kiss, outsiders cease to exist We'll shut it…
Moonrock Mambo Like a thumb in a rubber glove Or a moonrock in…
More Stars Than Are in Heaven Never read Proust Seems a little too long Never used the ham…
mr tough Hey Mr. Tough Don't you think we've suffered enough? Why d…
Mr. Tough Hey Mr. Tough Don't you think we've suffered enough? Why don…
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss See you walking sometimes, circumstances start to happen aft…
My Heart Got something to say, sit down on the bed Something that…
My Heart's Not In It Since you left me I've been out with other guys But…
My Heart's Reflection Got something to say, sit down on the bed Something that…
My Little Corner of the World Come along with me To my little corner of the world Dream…
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jess
why pretend that you join my side
it won’t be such a thrill
to see you
I’m not impressed
that more or less
everyone’s just dying to meet you
doo doo doo doo
erasing you
doo doo doo doo
I’m done chasing you
asking ??
??
are you so sure of what you’re doing
how many ways
can you read your own gaze
before you get tired of you
doo doo doo doo
erasing you
doo doo doo doo
I’m done chasing you
doo doo doo doo
erasing you
doo doo doo doo
I’m done chasing you
doo doo doo doo
erasing you
doo doo doo doo
I’m done chasing you
doo doo doo
doo doo doo
doo doo doo
doo doo doo.....