Mates of State
All Day EP

Goods (All In Your Head)

This is the story with the fantastic lies
Or some facts to help us minimalize
As for this shelter I can plainly deny
But you can't kill time without injuring us

And we'll count up all the goods now

This is the girl with such fantastic eyes
Such brute creation to but lay up beside
Should cut our nails and wash up our feet
And enjoy the tedium that's yet been untried by me

And we'll count up all the goods now
There are more than you ever thought you'd own

Lift up your fingers and let's untie the string
Let's knot them all to see what this monster brings
'Cause it's real soothing with its tail in its knees
'Cause you can cry once without harrowing thus

And we'll count up all the goods now
Don't you know that they've come to be your host?

Didn't mean to skank your art
Should've never hung around us (dear)
Didn't want your money, oh baby now

When it lasted all day, we would blast it all day
We would bring it on and on

It's all in your head



Along For the Ride

The boxes piled high
No order, no mind
I'll save the work for you
'Cause I'll be busy sorting through
The merrier designs I make inside

And on the hollowest pages
The pen dissolves without the bait
I'll save the work for you
'Cause I'll be busy sorting through
The merrier designs I make inside

Don't try to be a model
Don't want to waste more space
Oh, look at our models
Oh, the blasted space

Tune in me tonight
Turn down all the lights
I'm just along for the ride

The moving pictures we see
The colored cities or the sea
Go and taste them one by one
Until that time, you can't be done
Know your station you just can't direct

Let's plant a white one just for you
And chart the growth until the move
I'll save the work for you
'Cause I'll be busy sorting through
The merrier designs I make inside

Don't try to be a model
Don't want to waste more space
Oh, look at our models
Oh, the blasted space

Tune in me tonight
Turn down all the lights
I'm just along for the ride

Go and taste them one by one
Until that time, you can't be done
Know your station you just can't direct

Don't try to be a model
Don't want to waste more space
Oh, look at our models
Oh, the blasted space

Tune in me tonight
Turn down all the lights
I'm just along for the ride



Drop and Anchor

It's the way I see it, and oh what a point of view
It's the line that calms us all, like a bell on fire
It's the line that calms us all, and how we love the call
Aim the sound at me

The small wall, the long haul up
Where candor always leads the conversation
The center of cities, it is divided
But it has no imperfection

It's the wall that holds us there
I'm thinking I can fly now
It's the wall that holds us there
As the city draws us down
I hear Mexico

Above all, are we out for contact?
Oh, can't I

And I could be an anchor
Drop me in the bay and watch me hold you steady

It's the way I see it and oh what a point of view

And I could be an anchor
Drop me in the bay and watch me hold you steady

Hold you
It's the way I see it



Starman
(Written by David Bowie)

Didn’t know what time it was the lights were low
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin’ down some rock ’n’ roll
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren’t no DJ that was hazy cosmic jive

There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile

And he told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

I had to phone someone so I picked on you
Hey, that’s far out so you heard him too
Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window I can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Don’t tell your poppa or he’ll get us locked up in fright

There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile

And he told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie