Mates of State
Our Constant Concern

Hoarding it for Home

Never seen you run so fast
Never seen you turn in the middle of your laugh

Never once settle down
Everyone settle down

Kori:
Where's my arm?
In this coat of arms it is a black arm
And where's my prize?
This little prize, it is a clear prize

Jason:
I'm watching as the arms lay down
And measuring your prize
And hoarding it for home

Never once settle down
Everyone settle down

Kori:
And when I stand here alone
I know speaking comes easy to you but I choke
And when I stand here alone, I know this
I know that since I'm leaving so soon
I owe what I know

Jason:
And yes of course, I told you I felt it
Like the top of the tower and changing the guard
Delta it first and adjust it right later
I would like to extend a conclusion
And yes of course, I told you I felt it
As long as the flasks, they're staged and they're brimmed
State just the facts, and the status you're after
It's just the medicine and our time alone

Is that the same charm from way back when?

Kori:
As you make space on the floor
I form words that fit right next to yours 'cause I know

Jason:
And oh, of course, now I surely felt it
As the top of the tower, it feigns and it swells
Give up the back and excpect all that's coming
It's just the medicine and our time alone

That's the same charm from way back when

And when I stand here alone
Whatever it takes, I will supply you
Thank God, these times are gone and behind us
I know

Boom



Ten Years Later

I'm trying to be someone else
Save one for the ending and
Push one o'er the ledge then step back
Someone who won't just forget shit like that

I'm trying to be someone else
Stave off all the moods and
Forget it 'cause the next one's close range
Someone who offers intentionless doubt

If words bred friends then you're the one who could
You're never around
Without small leads, you're about as good as done
You're never around

I'm trying to be someone else
Save one for the ending and
Push one o'er the ledge then step back
Trying to keep all the baggage intact

If words bred friends then you're the one who could
You're never around
Without small leads, you're about as good as done
You're never around

I do nothing to provoke you and
I just hope that you still notice me
We're no longer than a ten-year-old
I just know that you'll still notice me

If words bred friends then you're the one who could
You're never around



Über Legitimate

Home's all right
I believe, I believe you have your instinct to expect that I'll change
The decision is yours, trust yourself
Oh, to keep with this ease history
The decision is yours, trust yourself
We'll take it as it comes
You carry me on

What if the sun is right?
You can't change that source in a day
What if desire is truth?
You can't change that source in a day
What have we sought to learn?
What more could you ask for?
What about service fares?
You can't change that source in a day
What if that star was right?
What else could you ask for?

Hold this night
I can see, I can see how it poured once before
The decision is yours, trust yourself
The thoughts form on call

What if the sun is right?
You can't change that source in a day
What if desire is truth?
You can't change that source in a day
What have we sought to learn?
What more could you ask for?
What about service fares?
You can't change that source in a day
What if that star was right?

Could you tell me what it means to plan?
Have you chosen me to be your jointed hands?

Put in your stakes and be glad
That this is something static and solemnly invincible
I've waited for you
Ascending a stage at a time, admiring all the way
As we push and pull and take and give
You waited for me

I trust into the order of things this once, this once
Love to be you
I could be you
I stand

C'mon everybody and show how to stand
C'mon everybody and prove what a stand
C'mon everybody and show how to stand
C'mon everybody and stand



Girls Singing

Why does the rhythm get me every time?
It wouldn't if the girls all got along
And maybe I imagined that just like I imagine you

Where is the mirror? Get me to its face
So primitive and yet we all get it wrong
And what a very modern prince
Just like I imagine I know you

Oh my, my
Look what you've become It's the same for all of you
And then it catches up
And you notice what you're made of

Oh my, my Look what you've become
It's the same for all of you
And then it catches up
And you notice what you're made of

Why does the rhythm get us every time?
So primitive and yet we all get it wrong
And what a very modern piece
Always I imagine it in tune



I Know and I Said Forget It

The symptom seems run down
It gives me hope the same
Except it brings me guts and the symptoms all run down

And when it stops I'm around
It gives me hope the same
Except it brings me guts and the symptoms all run down

Would you mind, it's over
And, could you call the others
Keeping it steadily now in the mind won't sway
The startling absence of motive it won't cause sway
Say, look what is mine, look what is mine to own
Royal space halves and has it not, oh no

Try, try, try

Who's gonna start the wave?
Who will start the wave?
I will start the wave

Try, try, try

You make it up
There is no sound for you
And watch your view
There is a place for you
You've used it up
There is no sound for you
You make it up



Quit Doin' It

Humble lady

Now that medicine's my art
Medicine is art
It toughens up default

Humble lady

Now that medicine's my art
Medicine is art
It toughens up default

Different characters the same
Some just do it with poise
I could do it again
I could do it with poise
Numbers, figures and lines
All the misty-eyed cards

About now I wish to stop
The lusterd to wash it off

Different characters the same
Some just do it with poise
I could do it again
I could do it with poise
Numbers, figures and lines
All the misty-eyed cards

About now you scrape the tops
Just shake it, it's all you got

Let us in and who belongs to his mother?
The robe fits tight
My hands were wide with spots unworn
And no, no, no

Let us in, remain until you notice how
The robe fits tight
You shouldn't have gone so far from here
And no more medicine in me

Different characters the same
Some just do it with poise
I could do it again
I could do it with poise
Numbers, figures and lines
All the misty-eyed cards



A Duel Will Settle This

Turn it up
Give me one time
I didn't think twice
It's fair that you know
It's alright that I doubt

I'd rather not say
I'm so duly impressed
I'd rather not say

Turn it up
Decisions for the whole
A reading and response
Parables that act out
I'm so duly impressed
Those books are thrown out
I doubt it

I'd rather not say
We're heading for digress
I'd rather not say

It's not because of luck
And if you say it again it adds to luck
Getting me to suggest this
I'll take it on the wrist
Gathering and existing

Bury your words
They're better unsaid
It's nice that you'll wait
I'm so duly impressed
So soft that you don't

It's not because of luck
And if you say it again it adds to luck
Getting me to suggest this
I'll take it on the wrist
Gathering and existing

You make the difference who comes out alive
You like to turn it around

Could I bet on it?
Who do you know that's better than that?
I'd like to take a look around so butt out, butt out

Could I bet on it?
I'll try it like this and wait it all out
I'd like to try my own true hand so butt out, butt out

You make the difference who comes out alive
You like to turn it around

Could I bet on it?
Who do you know that's better than that?
I'd like to take a look around so butt out, butt out

Could I bet on it?
I'll try it like this and wait it all out
I'd like to try my own true hand so butt out, butt out



Clean Out

Clean out your eyes
I never meant to be your disguise
So clean out your eyes
Covering is all just the same
Cover it, it's all just the same

You crucify every word that I say
Over and over
I couldn't hear a single word that was said
A stolid jest takes its times on the best
Crucify every word that I say

I could tell that you would never like it more
If I told you what you want
I can tell you what you want

I could tell that you would never like it more
If I told you what you want
I can tell you what you want

All words are lost

So clean out your eyes
I never meant to be your disguise
I only meant to widen your eyes



Halves and Have-Nots

I know you're not playing around
But I know you will

But what do you say
When things just won't got your way?
Cut around and surround us

I know you're not playing around
But I know you will

Half-tired and now I know your sorrow
Half-wiser and now I know you're right

We separate sometimes, everyone starts it off
Half tired and now I know your sorrow
Never stay alone

You run up, you run up and you want some
Ride on the way down

Prepare it and half-truth ends tomorrow
Half tired and now I know you're right

We separate sometimes, everyone starts it off
Prepare it and half-truth ends tomorrow
Never stay alone

You run up, you run up and you want some
Ride on the way down

It's one up, it's one up
It's the latest version of its kind

We will laugh, we will laugh
Of how our nerves caught and held us down

You run up, you run up and you want some
Ride on the way down

I know you're not playing around



As Night As Now

Ahhh

Kori:
I'm so damn tired, can't hear myself
In all these hours, I'll heal myself

Jason:
Who walks beside you?
Who will surprise you now?

Move or decide it

I'm so damn tired, can't hear myself
In all these hours, I'll heal myself

Move or decide it

Let us sing out
Forgetting all