Music+Video

Live at Mercury Lounge via The Music Street Team:

Team Genius at the Secret Garden from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo:

Take Me Home, from our self-titled album:

Directed by Iyabo Boyd

Also from this album: While We’re Asleep:


Directed by Iyabo Boyd

Older videos: I’m Just An Idiot, the single from our first EP, “Hooray”:

Lyrics from our self-titled debut:

Take Me Home

Won’t you take me home think I’ve had enough

And I’m too tired to be acting tough

And I think I’ll sleep for a couple of years

And wait until our youth clears

And it’s too hard to be out all night

And it’s too hard to be always right

And it’s no use to follow a plan

You know I’ll just change it again

Take me home home home… (x2)

Won’t you take me down here all alone

Somewhere where we we won’t be known

And I think that‘s all I really want to be

Me with you and you with me

Take me home home home… (x4)

Surely the Sun Will Explode

Late last night in the darkened street

You were searching, searching for a theme

And all the ones you’ve loved they’ve all felt the same

And it seems that there’s no one no one to blame

And every time you feel the early morning light

You question your strength to fight

And so you’ve resolved to staring at the sun

Surely someday soon it’ll explode

And then all that’s left will be

A million lonely silhouettes upon the sea

And so dear friend I must inform you now

That there’s no use for privacy

Because we’ve all resolved to staring at the sun

Surely someday soon it’ll explode

And then all that’s left will be

Identical silhouettes upon the sea

Sing Song

Well let’s all sing What should we sing

We’ll sing a song What kind of song

The kind of song when you sing sing sing along

And let’s be loud We will be loud

And form a crowd We’ll form a crowd

And speak the speech we used to think could never never be allowed

And let’s stand up We will stand up

With open eyes With open eyes

And we’ll never never never never never never be sorry

And take take hands as it falls down

And lock your eyes without a sound

And sing and sing and sing and sing again again and sing

We are the end we are the end we are the end we are the end

And we are not we are not we are not sorry

Well lets all sing Well lets all sing

And show our teeth And show our teeth

And we’ll come come come up from upon our knees

And where we are Where we are

We’re everywhere We’re everywhere

We’re everywhere and we are aware

And take take hands as it falls down

And lock your eyes without a sound

And sing and sing and sing and sing again again and sing

We are the end we are the end we are the end we are the end

And we are not we are not we are not sorry

Run Gun Sun

Run rabbit run

Chase, chase the sun

Ears will ring and tongues will sing

Hold you tone, sing sing what’s shown

There was no plan, they lied again

And now here they come

Beat the drum no one speak

The night is young

Chase the gun into the sun

Run tonight run

You’re not done

Heart, heart collapse

Cause you bleed the past

Ears will ring and tongues will sing

Hold you tone, sing sing what’s shown

There was no plan, they lied again

And now here they come

Beat the drum no one speak

The night is young

Chase the gun into the sun

Run tonight run

You’re not done

ABC

Throw up your hands, give up your best laid plans

And slow you pace see your place

If you can, you’ll see

That the runners never really got the point

Have a sit and a thought and realize for all you’ve fought

And cried and died what have you got

That would not be

If maybe you’d done nothing at all

They showed the way from A to B

Said it was the way to C

But fact always depends on belief

There is relief from what you have come to be

So wake up and give up and walk away from the road

They sold to you when you were just a youth

And stand on your toes

And take your first look around

Stand in place and make, make your case

Your view, your you and what is true

But keep in mind

The danger of speaking absolute

They showed the way from A to B

Said it was the way to C

But fact always depends on belief

There is relief from what you have come to be

Twenty some years and it ends, it ends up here

Look around to see who’s standing near

And say glad to see

Glad to see I’m not alone

But before too long it’s been, it’s been too long

Wondering if we’re, if we’re that strong

To drop it all

and just shine shoes

The Wise Ones All Give Up

Down the city street I hear a heart beat
And what I give is returned

Someone stumbles in gets up and starts again
Says hey what have I earned
Out past the sun I hear a drum
And I hear a distant laugh
Out at empire’s end another begins again
And you lay in your bed

That’s why no one ever keeps up

That’s why the wise ones all give up

So take the fruit from the tree take it in your teeth
Take it for all it’s worth
And when my sober nose starts to smell a rose
It makes me light in the head
And when the wind clangs the chimes a sorrow beats in time
And it makes me smile
And you ask what I’ve learned I say it may seem absurd
But there’s nothing on file

That’s why no one ever keeps up

That’s why the wise ones all give up

And if the riots start somewhere out in the dark
Don’t wake me till daylight
Cause in these city walls the fever don’t run it crawls
And the mayor says stay right
And so I find a pub full of warm red blood
And I straighten my spine

And in the summer heat my heart finds a beat
And I tell you I’m fine

That’s why no one ever keeps up

That’s why the wise ones all give up

Meanderings and Musings

All that’s been is now and will again

All that’s been sung has always just begun

All of us have lived we never left we drift

And all those you meet you’ve already seen

So why do we sing and our ears they ring

And why do we cry hate, love and lie

Still we will war still we’ll take more

Still we will love and still we will touch

Still we create and still we debate

Still we believe in the hand of fate

Still we believe in the hand of fate

Time keeps us sane and gives us a frame

Cause we all need a reason to live in our season

And since we don’t know why we should all live the lie

Ignorance is bliss. Close your eyes when you kiss

Speak Softly

The stars we see up in the sky

They burned out long ago

But here’s to wishing you shine your light

Even if it’s just for a while

And though I’m well aware of our time

I’m gonna steal a bit and call it mine

And I may be faded but I’m not that far

And I feel it now it begins to fade

I wonder if I am what I claim

So let’s speak softly with desperate hearts

And try not to sleep through our dreams

Don’t you know that love can kill us all

The more I step the more I fall

So I’ve decided to wait right here

Take What You Can’t Make

I used to wear a halo

I know it was just for show

Oh the things that time must show

I could not maintain that glow

I wonder if now I’m too late

I wonder if I tempt fate

I smile as the day begins to fade

Calmly wash it away

We have scars

We have grace (x3)

And here we are

Though I may have lost some shine

I’ve got piece of mind

And when It’s you and yours at stake

Take what you can’t make

We have scars

We have grace (x3)

And here we are

While We’re Asleep

A thousand lovers at dawn

Wonder why they carry on

With their hearts on fire

They’ll all conspire to lead

While we’re asleep

Maybe they’ll decide to believe

In their shaking knees

And their hearts on their sleeves

Can’t you see it in their eyes like nothing ever dies (x2)

They don’t ask why no they don’t ask why

And maybe they’ll take our hands

And put us in their plans

And for all us sinners

In our freezing winters, they’ll pray

And tonight when we go to sleep

Maybe we’ll be able to dream

And we’ll rise at dawn

With the strength to carry on

Can’t you see it in their eyes like nothing ever dies (x2)

They don’t ask why no they don’t ask why