God, Make Up Your Mind lyrics - Cold War Kids

Backseat of your family station wagon, listening Nina Simone
One Hundred years of solitude and only 12 years old

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine

Your mom is calling out, ”Look at the Grand Canyon”
Camilla couldn't care less
Gaze into the hole
Your stomach feels the emptiness of death

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine, like everyone else

From New York to New Orleans, played alphabet
Kansas to Boise, won the battleship
Memorized the capitals, crossword puzzles
Drew a picture of a cat laying dead in the street
Daydream about my real dad back in California

Elephant in your brain, reminding you you've got to make a choice
Wraps his arms around you slow
Cause you tense up like an armadillo

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine, like everyone else

Why ain't my teacher on a street sign?
He's done so much more than politicians, dead musicians
You wanna help someone you gotta be a no one
That's what I figured out the cat in the street meant

You gotta make up your mind
Make up your mind
Make up your mind

Rubidoux lyrics - Cold War Kids

So let's go deadbolt your shed door
Cram your paper money snug closer than before
Chandeliers are falling in graveyard rows
And your eyes are shifting dials like AM radios

Snowed over river melted more last night
Still the same to shovel windshields of spidered ice
Yes, yes mother I mean to be baptized
Seeds that make the high ground grow and multiply

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Bourbon and a pistol in the dash out of sight
What did you expect? Romantic Isle of Wight?
Just empty desert light

Few feet float above these Persian throw rugs
And tuck themselves in percussion as succession was
Tonight as single simple folk played themselves slow
Just like talking city blues down in the hallway low

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Bourbon and a pistol in the dash out of sight
What did you expect? Romantic Isle of Wight?
Just empty desert light

I suggest that you respect the deal
And keep your nose out of business of
Priests and holy men, the life you have chosen
Is filled with dirty fingernails
And lost and founds and cancelled appointments

10 more avenues time to choose
And there's rain that'll fall down in five
There's 50 doors to choose from and there's many more
Many more inside inside inside
And the nighttime's going to come
The nighttime's going to come

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Bourbon and a pistol in the dash out of sight
What did you expect? Romantic Isle of Wight?
Just empty desert light

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Just empty desert light
Just empty desert light
Just empty desert light

EP: "Mulberry Street" (2005)

The Soloist In The Living Room lyrics - Cold War Kids

Center stage, mixed reviews
Haven't slept in forever
Practicing flawless moves
Talking back to the mirror

Back and to the left
Bounce back
Memorizing lines
Stutters in his speech

Maybe
Lose that nervous twitch
Waiting for this chance
To prove the talk is wrong

Center stage, mixed reviews
Haven't slept in forever
Practicing flawless moves
Talking back to the mirror

Back and to the left
Bounce back
Memorizing lines
Stutter in your speech

Maybe
Lose that nervous twitch
Waiting for this chance
To prove the talk is wrong

Heavy Boots lyrics - Cold War Kids

Heavy boots for crying out loud
Heavy boots are caught up in the crowd
You hear the news we haven't got a chance
Heavy boots we're crawling on our hands

Smokestacks burning up my bills
New York cuts and Hamptons on stilts
Turnstile the radio boys
Seasick yards are popping floorboards

Crooked nights dreams I can't speak
Overpass raining underneath
Great sales the pretty fine lines
On the road to where the trees touch from both sides

Smokestacks burning up my bills
New York cuts and Hamptons on stilts
Turnstile the radio boys
Seasick yards are popping floorboards

Choked nights dreams I can't speak
Overpasses raining underneath
Great sales the pretty fine lines
On the road to where the trees touch from both sides

Heavy boots for crying out loud
Heavy boots are caught up in the crowd
You hear the news we haven't got a chance
Heavy boots crawling on our hands

Feel the weight feel the weight
Find the clues recreate
Feel the weiight feel the weight
Find the clues recreate

Feel the weight feel the weight
Find the clues and recreate
Feel the weiight feel the weight
Find the clues

La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la

Heavy boots are caught up in the crowd

Quiet, Please! lyrics - Cold War Kids

Quiet, please!
we'll soon begin
whisper if you need
to tell a friend a joke

quiet, please!
and listen up
feel free to grab the hand
of the person on your right

quiet, please!
save your applause
ushers shut your doors
as the curtain drops

did you read my mind?
did you miss your cue?
her knees are fallin' down
her fingers point to you
and flashin' words
like crashin' cars
you can't go home tonight
you can't go home tonight

the park is big
the reverend said
you'll find yourself when you lose
the stones you've been fed
quiet, please!

did you read my mind?
did you miss your cue?
her knees are fallin' down
her finger points to you
the park is big
the reverend said
you'll find yourself when you lose
the stones you've been fed
quiet, please!

The Wedding lyrics - Cold War Kids

I got dragged
Into this wedding with my friend Maurice
Hoping to dance and drink some fine champagne
Still get out early enough to drive your car
Out to the ocean
But the clouds were lost
And all the songs were sweet

Starry eyed
I'm sentimental and I get sucked in
To any union
Promising away
Like it's so easy to know how you'll be
Come anniversary

Oh, I can keep a promise
No, I can't keep a secret

She's in bloom
Her lips and shoulders dressing up this room
Dancing like the wedding's ended and.. ?

I've got time
I've been around and I've got time
But it's a crime to sit and wonder
And oh, it's a crime, oh

If you knew, oh
If you knew, oh

I am in love with everyone here
I am in love with everyone here
No, I'm not in love with anyone dear
I'm not in love

She's in bloom
Her lips and shoulders dressing up this room
Dancing like the wedding's ended and.. ?

But I've got time
I've been around and I've got time
And it's a crime to sit and wonder
And God, it's a crime

I can keep a promise
No, I can't keep a secret
Oh, I can keep a promise
No, I can't keep a...

Na, na, na, na, no
No, no, no
No

In Harmony In Silver lyrics - Cold War Kids

Jeff knocks at 1128
waits at the stairs
me and Marcus scurry down
got his ass on the rail
bright shocks our eyss
we stumble adaze
we'll save all our stories
for the tea and the shade

I know I didn't write you
but then there was no desire to
I see a sea of faces
I wish I had

Thomas's wrists on his chins
kelly green shirt
smirkin' 'cause he don't
got a nickle to pitch
steamin' plates
they for reach
we politely withhold
can't put out a fork
til Marcus has thanked the Lord

we laugh about our friends
from gradeschool
working for their fathers and
Marcus tells me Rose is doing great

and we know we sleep so long on borrowed grants and dimes from Miles
and you know that package of yours makes me proud and bittersweet with time

and we know we sleep so long on borrowed grants and dimes from Miles
and you know that package of yours makes me proud and bittersweet with time

Don't Let Your Love Grow Away (From Me) lyrics - Cold War Kids

So to speak
breathing deep
face and hands
chilly sweat
phone to ear
eyes to mirror
wall to wall
connection's clear

saw you Sunday
torn in two
my demons took up
the whole church pew
sleep walked up receieved
the bread and wine
begging Jesus to cleanse my mind
begging Jesus to cleanse my heart
begging Jesus to cleanse my soul

don't let your love grow away from me
don't let your love grow away from me
shocked to find
all my words
won't save me this time
no I won't quiet down
and you'd think by now
I bow out gracefully
goodbye to the show

don't let your love grow away from me
don't let your love grow away from me
I could rip
I could tear
our memories' seams
I could fold
show my hands
as naked as thieves
but I stare at this bridge
the cracks underneath

don't let your love grow away from me
don't let your love grow away from me
shocked to find
all my words
won't save me this time
no I won't quiet down
and you'd think by now
I bow out gracefully
and goodbye to the show

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Electioneering lyrics - Cold War Kids

I will stop, I will stop at nothing
Say the right things when electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote

When I go forwards, you go backwards
Somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet

Riot shields, voodoo economics
It's just business, cattle prods, and the IMF
I trust I can rely on your vote

When I go forwards, you go backwards
Somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet

Expensive Tastes lyrics - Cold War Kids

Strings attached, fake eye lashes
Broke apart the piggie bank for petty cash
Sensitive sister blush, and don't stare
Watch the children squabblin' in the square

Tip my hat, low windows
Once I saw you naked, there was nothing to show
Piano plays, sonata tempo
Of all the girls of in our class she's the most refined

I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up
Maybe pipe dream, but come easter we could pack up
I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up
Maybe pipe dream, but come easter we could pack up

I like to show up at your door step
Wearing the winter tie my neighbour tied,
And meet your family, compliment cookin'
Drink the beer your uncles are brewin'

Flat-out refused to take that job
Just because i'm poor don't mean I can't be a snob
Strawberry hair, fair freckled skin
Waiting like a creep outside catillian

Shy expression, shawl on her shoulders
Bought this house with money that your grandfather stole
Much too young, save the imagination
Ruined an elegant girl's reputation

I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up
Maybe pipe dream, but come easter we could pack up

Woah, woah
Woah, oh
Woah, oh
Woah, oh

And when they ask me my occupation
I'm a prayin man working on my patience
I got no preference, politic party
Parents take away my car keys

Mass lets out, rollin' smokes for trades
drink my weight coffee at the penny arcade
rows of shoes, shelves of jewerly
Mama's dying her hair in the vanity

Daddy's watch too tight, try silver spoon for size
Harder than a needle through a camel's eye
Folks gather around the table, find a place
Boys that girl don't have expensive tastes

Well Well Well lyrics - Cold War Kids

(originally by John Lennon)

Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
I took my loved one out to dinner
So we could get a bite to eat
And even though we both had been much thinner
She looked so beautiful I could eat her
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well

I took my loved one to a big field
So we could watch the English sky
We both were nervous feeling guilty
And neither one of us knew just why
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well

Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
We sat and talked of revolution
And how the hell we could get things done
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well

I took my loved one to a big field
So we could catch the English sky
We both were nervous feeling guilty
And neither one of us knew just why
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well