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Carine, Come Clean
04:19
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"Carine, Come Clean"
I walked, you ran
escaping down the sand
The waves must have drowned out your laughter
And you took my hand
and torched all my best laid plans
But I’m not the one needs looking after
CHORUS
oh CARINE, COME CLEAN
you don’t have that much to hide
CARRINE, COME CLEAN
I’ll still be by your side
if you’re smiling free
happy just like me,
you don’t need to see
me proven wrong
she says, “you and I’ve just stuck around too long”
The days grew cold
We spoke in secret code
With all out plots growing thicker
And you took my hand
and pulled me onto the sand
but my head kept spinning quicker
CHORUS
What happened to the time
spent scouring traffic signs
in desperate hopes to find
some shortcut home now?
Carine says, “let me steer,
The one way out of here
Is through that sad, thin veneer
That we’re not alone now”
No no no!
CHORUS 2x
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“Palisades, 1989 (for Paul)"
Let's go out to the PALISADES
and contemplate plans we've made
Before we die - or our youth starts to fade
Let's go out in our fathers' German cars
My Versatel and your brand new credit card
The night is young and this city's ours
Somehow the bills will all get paid
$5 for a pack of Cartiers
And espresso at some Sunset café
Spend days in endless record bins
At night, clubs never let us in
To our eternal shame
Let's go out to the Newport pier
And see what dreams we see from there
Before they drown or vanish into air
Let's go out to a matinée
And read the French dialogue all day
And tell ourselves, "man, they'll be filming us someday"
'Til then we'll draw up master plans
Lard up our riders with demands
And quote poets we pretend to understand
Passed out, I watch you while you sleep
And curse the company you keep
But you don't have to tell me that you love me.
I know you do (3x), I know you well
Let's go out to the PALISADES
and contemplate plans we've made
Before we die - or our youth starts to fade
Let's go out in our fathers' German cars
My Versatel and your brand new credit card
The night is young and this city's ours
Somehow the bills will all get paid
Somehow the reckoning gets delayed
As long as smokes are bought and cocktails get made
free gas to drive the streets alone
and curse the comfort of our homes
But you don't have to tell me that you love me.
I know you do (3x), I know you well
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3. |
Genevieve Knows
03:22
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“Genevieve Knows”
She’s like, ‘yeah,
Someone oughta follow me and write stuff down’
I’m like, ‘yeah
Every time you speak it’s like a brand new sound’
but anyone can see
I need her more than she needs me
Genevieve takes the morning train
To get to work by nine and back again
She says it seems like no one acts their age
And that it feels like life’s not lived it’s waged
But GENEVIEVE KNOWS my love for her grows
Each day - as long as she calls my name
She goes down-
town to be the empress of her tiny scene
I go down
swinging at the sycophants around my queen
But let them all pretend
she's gonna wake up next to them
Genevieve takes the morning train
To get to work by nine and back again
She says it seems like no one acts their age
And that it feels like life’s not lived it’s waged
But GENEVIEVE KNOWS my love for her grows
Whether she stays or whether I go insane
As long as she calls my name
Hey Jen, say when are you gonna let us all come up for air?
Jen says, “depends on the weather and if whether I’m awake enough to care”
and every night’s a blur
but still I go to bat for her
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4. |
Air Enough to Breathe
04:27
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"Air Enough to Breathe"
I woke up cuddling empty space
kissing impressions of your face
But you’d disappeared without a trace
The night before I trailed your car
From bar to club and club to bar
But I always take these things too far
‘Cause you’re in town for a minute
and the whole place burns down
and you drag me down in it
Never seen, not a sound
You leave too late
but I’m just grateful
that you’re leaving me
AIR ENOUGH TO BREATHE
the afterclub I don’t recall
emerging from a grafittied stall
they saw you pin me to the wall
and I stayed to the bitter end
too gone to see the bitter friend
who’ll never speak to me again
‘Cause you’re in town for a minute
And the whole place burns down
And you drag me down in it
Never seen, not a sound
You leave me tapped
but I’m just happy
that you’ve deigned to leave
air enough to breathe
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5. |
Girl From Galway
03:20
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“Girl from Galway”
A night’s bar crawl away
On an Irish pub floor I'll lay
GIRL FROM GALWAY came on a tourist visa
And decided to stay
She was new so fresh so foreign
And me so tired right-wing and boring
With her I found myself ignoring
My self control
Now Guinness is Good for You
Posters litter the walls of our loo
GIRL FROM GALWAY came to know me better
than I could ever do
Six months in I'm not sure I'm staying
She says, But now I find myself saying
New words, like naff and craic and wanker
Why I never took the time to thank her
I'll never know
[1st prog]
I'll never know
But I could turn you in so easily
and nobody would know!
And you could never come back,
it would be so easy.
Not so easy is forgetting you
or letting you go
I told her love was flawed
And how we could have
Shared a Catholic God
But GIRL FROM GALWAY came and went faster than my
junior year abroad
Six months on I don't feel much better
Though somewhat sobered up and whether
She moves back home or across the street
She still moving on, moving on…away from me
ba ba ba ba ba
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“Don’t Let Your Dreams Get in the Way”
And I sprung into action
To duck your reaction
When I thought you should settle here
And I said, "I’m sorry,"
And you said, you scar me
And never even let the wound heal
Let it heal
But baby please fall asleep
Don’t let your dreams get in the way
Don’t let your dreams make you go waste a perfect day
Don’t let your dreams get in the way
I kiss you and try now
But you should know by now
That we can’t get high now
enough
And I said, I’m sorry
You ended the party
And never even let clean up
Let me clean up
But baby please fall asleep
Don’t let your dreams get in the way
Don’t let your dreams make you go waste a perfect day
But baby please fall asleep
Don’t let the ghosts lead you astray
Don’t let the ghosts we made and fed take you away
Don’t let your dreams get in the way
Hey let’s never us get this far again
Let’s be happy we’ve got time to spare and spend
Time to never betray your closest friend
Hey let’s never think we deserve some more
Let’s be grateful we’ve got stuff to be grateful for
Give it time you won’t dream those dreams no more
But baby please fall asleep
Don’t let your dreams get in the way
Don’t let your dreams make you go waste a perfect day
But baby please fall asleep
Don’t let the ghosts lead you astray
Don’t let the ghosts we made and fed take you away
Don’t let your dreams get in the way
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Port Streets Newport Beach, California
Port Streets makes a joyful, catchy, melancholic mix of Britpop and Indie pop, reflecting a SoCal beach upbringing and an
ongoing obsession with 90s and 00s Britpop and indie rock.
They are releasing new music every 4 weeks throughout 2022.
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