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Welcome To The Sad Cafe
03:24
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You can find me at The Sad Cafe
facedown in the bolognese
I'm deep in my head over something I said
I can't control myself, I need help
Easy for those who can cry
what am I like when I'm not what I'm like?
I'm alive in a time where my mind isn't mine
and I can't feel right
Trying to read but I can't sit still
a divide in my mind I can't see how I feel
I'm alive in a time where my mind isn't mine
but it still feels real
Meet me again at The Sad Cafe
facedown in the bolognese
I'm deep in my head over something I said
I can't control myself, I need help
Meet me again at The Sad Cafe
something easy at the end of the day
when your life is tough, and you've seen enough
to know that it won't change
Watching a show that I've already seen
writing to someone who's writing to me
junkies and punks and bricklayers creep
while taxpayers sleep
The hope of you still in my mind
can I just replace the face in my mind?
I don't like the odds of being a guy
who just feels fine
Meet me again at The Sad Cafe
facedown in the hollandaise
deep in my head over something I said
I can't control myself, I need help
Meet me again at The Sad Cafe
something easy at the end of the day
when your life is tough, and you've seen enough
to know that it won't change
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2. |
Is That What You Are
02:41
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You were inconsolable
felt like I was missing a piece of the puzzle
felt like I was seeing double
it never meant this much before
it never hurt this much before
You're a stoplight turning amber
you're a misspoke quote you're someone's oldest joke
you're an unsatisfying answer
you're a badly burnt out star
is that what you are?
Is that what you are?
You were uncontrollable
oh, you were getting something for nothing
for a while at least, the skin off of your teeth
it never meant this much before
it never hurt this much before
You're a stoplight turning amber
a misquoted verse you've not bothered to learn
you're an unsatisfying answer
to why are we together
you're positioning the spotlight on your star
is that what you are?
Is that what you are?
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3. |
Ain't It Funny
02:49
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Ain't it funny how these things turn out
first you cannot live without me
when I say I love you, you still doubt me
fast-forward eighteen months, it's all worked out
unravelled like a sweater, you said you want to
but do you really even want to stay together?
First you said your parents didn't like me
well, now they like me fine
but you really only like me half the time
You review me like a book you'd like to write
but in the end you didn't write
and only read and didn't like
Ain't it funny how we fall in love
first you're hanging on each word that someone says
then you wish that they were dead
It's so funny how things fall apart
I used to count your every breath,
now we're sleeping back to back don't tell me
I know well enough there's nothing left
First you said your parents didn't like me
well, now they like me fine
but you really only like me half the time
You review me like a book you'd like to write
but in the end you didn't write
and only read and didn't like
It's so funny
the gap that's come between us
was brought on by closeness felt
an irrational reaction of the self
isn't it strange
there's no other way to do this in such a modern age
we couple and uncouple in a prehistoric way
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4. |
Sitting In Your Section
01:10
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I'll be sitting in your section
with a vision in my mind
pretending we're together and I'm a different sort of guy
who drives an orange charger and picks you up at night
and rides round with the top down throwing empty smirnoff ice
but I'm not that guy, I can't be him
you wouldn't like me for the person that I am
I can't connect to other people
I can't let myself be loved
it's hard enough to order breakfast
without throwing up, but I'm growing up
I am sitting in your section,
hiding my erection with a coat
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5. |
We're Breaking Up
03:31
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I think I saw your twin on Sunday
in the back row of the cinema
I spun around to look at her
You were on my mind that Monday
A cheque came in your name
should I just throw it away?
We're breaking up
Did you honestly
Mean every word that you promised to me
unsustainably
In your head it doesn't seem far-fetched to me
did you, probably
did you wanna be
if this was done in earnest
with your whole heart, well it's not working
Oh yeah it's rotten
it's rotten like an apple with an alcoholic fizz
it's rotten like the end of all of this
I deleted all your photos
off my phone again today
but they're all saved...
we're breaking up
Same restaurants, same bars
same cafes and still we share a car
we're breaking up
Did you honestly
Mean every word that you promised to me
unsustainably
In your head it doesn't seem far-fetched to me
did you, probably
did you wanna be
if this was done in earnest
with your whole heart, well it's not working
Oh yeah it's rotten
it's rotten like an apple with an alcoholic fizz
it's rotten like the end of all of this
How do I take an axe and swing it
into the neck of constant nagging feelings
not good enough, not tried enough, it's hard
it can't just work for one person and sickly limp along
goodbye to my pride, it's dead and gone
Oh yeah it's rotten
it's rotten like an apple with an alcoholic fizz
rotten like the end of all of this
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6. |
Scotland
04:29
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Let's delete our Facebook accounts and walk into the sea
I've lived in Vancouver too long
and I think that it's finally getting to me
You moved to Berlin for a year
and you made like five new friends
I want some of that glow to myself
hey I'm already getting heated just thinking of them
that guy that you were dating was pretty whack
you nearly gave him the keys to the range
when I said that I didn't like college kids
he asked if that's a class or a cultural thing
Would you want to move with me to Scotland?
We could live at the edge of a loch
We'd have to quit our jobs, kill our parents
or maybe nothing like that at all
We don't have to stay in love forever
oh, we don't have to be in love at all
I'm happy long as we're together
and when we're not I hope my memory's gone
memory's gone
You're different and that's why I like you
you want to be a writer as well
It's embarrassing the first time you say it
but if you say it a lot then I'll say it myself
I know it seems like I'm carrying baggage
I'm just looking for what love don't do
I don't want cheating or lying or fighting or crying
but I don't want to die alone do you want that too
When there's a popular song, and it feels
like you're the only two people who know
I just want to love you baby,
always thinking of you baby
Would you want to move with me to Scotland?
We could live at the edge of a loch
We'd have to quit our jobs, kill our parents
or maybe nothing like that at all
We don't have to stay in love forever
oh, we don't have to be in love at all
I'm happy long as we're together
and when we're not I hope my memory's gone
memory's gone
Would you want to live with me in Woodlands
in an ancient flat above a shop
in the morning we commute downstairs
clutching cups of tea just to warm up
We don't have to stay in love forever
oh, we don't have to be in love at all
I'm happy long as we're together
and when we're not I hope my memory's gone
memory's gone
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7. |
A Way To Be
02:45
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You wrote to the sound of the click from the fan
as it turns around, oscillates now
in the room that you rent where it never cools down
you wrote it all down, accelerates now
You pull your new smiling face
from a cigarette ad, and also the hat
you walk to the metro and just hang around
with a book in your hand, no one's questioning that
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
You show yourself to your parents and you will be tested
You show yourself to the world and you'll be arrested
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
You cried when you danced in the club
and it's dark enough now, that no one can tell
you lean in for a neck-nibble, you reach around
and wipe snot from your nose on a burberry coat
How do you dutifully reconcile
your past to you now, impossible now
You walk to the overpass on your way home
hear the distance between, yourself and the road
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
You show yourself to your parents and you will be tested
You show yourself to the world and you'll be arrested
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
You know how to be, you're just looking for a way to be
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8. |
Back
02:49
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9. |
There's Someone
03:23
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I know you're thinking about
your mother's short life
nothing that we planned
panned out right
I know you're feeling down
but you will come round
I know you're paying still
for just wanting what's real
Wait, there's someone that loves you babe
there's someone just waiting for their baby
in a pram to push you home
to pick you up when you think you fucked it all
I know you're dreaming about
getting on out
The things that you think may feel wrong
your friends might hold you down
is it too late to tell you now
we could help each other out
I know you're paying still
for just saying how you feel
Wait, there's someone that loves you babe
there's someone just waiting for their baby
in a pram to push you home
to pick you up when you think you fucked it all
Wait, there's someone that loves you babe
there's someone just waiting for their baby
in a pram to push you home
to pick you up when you think you fucked it all
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10. |
In My Town
04:14
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In my town, there's nothing new now
gangs of kids, all grown up now
in their place, kids somehow exist without gangs
the carpark is empty, the high school is not
I walk down the planks of the pier to the spot
We were there at sixteen and pretending to jump
I was actually going to and not come back up
and swim out past the breakers and into the fog
and not really care if I came back at all
There's a part of me still pinned in place by your hand
so thank you for caring enough to be mad
I never thought, I'd remember
it was stupid, to promise each other
in that place, to always not be far away
a drive is a weekend, a phone call is not
I walk down the planks of the pier to the spot
We were there at sixteen and pretending to jump
I was actually going to and not come back up
and swim out past the breakers and into the fog
and not really care if I came back at all
In my town, there's nothing new now
friends my age, don't go out now
in their place, reared up and pushing away
there's a purposeless line that we drunkenly walk
slipping and forcing our feet to the spot
We were there at sixteen and pretending to jump
what if we had and just not come back up
and drift out past the breakers and into the fog
would anyone care if we came back at all
Part of me still feels you pressed to my mouth
thank you for showing me what life is about
in my town, in my town
in my town, in my town
in my town, nothing new now
in my town, nothing new now
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Tim The Mute Vancouver, British Columbia
some of the songs are happy and some of the songs are sad
photos by raunie mae baker
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