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Jack Johnson - 'Brushfire Fairytales'
All lyrics written by and surely copyright of Jack Johnson
Transcribed by Jai Mitchell, please e-mail any and all corrections and comments.
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INAUDIBLE MELODIES
Brushfire fairytales
Itsy bitsy diamond wells
Big fat hurricanes
Yellow bellied given names
Well shortcuts can slow you down
And in the end we're bound
To rebound off of we
Well dust off your thinking caps
Solar powered plastic plants
Pretty pictures of things we ate
We are only what we hate
But in the long run we have found
Silent films are full of sound
Inaudibly free
Slow down everyone
You're moving too fast
Frames can't catch you when
You're moving like that
Inaudible melodies
Of narrational strategies
Unobtrusive tones
Help to notice nothing but the zone
Of visual relevancy
Frame-lines tell me what to see
Chopping like an axe
So maybe Eisenstein should just relax
Slow down everyone
You're moving too fast
Frames can't catch you when
You're moving like that
Well Plato's cave is full of freaks
Demanding refunds for the things they've
seen
I wish they could believe
In all the things that never made the screen
And just slow down everyone
You're moving too fast
Frames can't catch you when
You're moving like that
Slow down everyone
You're moving too fast
Frames can't catch you when
You're moving like that
Move into…
MIDDLE MAN
Well he's not necessarily trying to say that he minds it
But someone
plays evil tricks on that kid
Well he's not necessarily trying to say god can't
be trusted
But someone plays evil tricks on that kid
As certain situations scream for deviation
But somehow we always get stuck in
the middle
Of this and that and then he should try less
Every time he's rejected then he
loses affection
But don't we all, don't we just got to give a little time
Maybe give a friend
a call instead of making him confused
What a terrible thing for you to do
What an awful thing for you to say
What a terrible thing for you to relay
Well I know some people's they got a little less than nothing
Never still find
some to spare
And other people got more than they could use
But they don't share
And some people got problems man
They got awful complications
Other people got perfect situations
With no provocation
But don't we all, don't we just got to give a little time
Maybe give a friend
a call instead of making him confused
What a terrible thing for you to do
What an awful thing for you to say
What a terrible thing for you
Confused
What a terrible thing for you to do
What an awful thing for you to say
What a terrible thing for you to relay
Somehow we always get stuck in the middle (repeated)
(overdubbed with)
Confused, what an awful thing for you to do
Confused, what an awful thing for
you to say-ee
POSTERS
Looking at himself but wishing he was someone else
Because the posters
on the wall they don't look alike him at all
So he ties it up he puts it in, he pulls it back and gives a grin
Laughing
at himself because he knows he ain't loved at all
He gets his courage from the can,
It makes him feel like a man
Because he's loving all the ladies
But the ladies don't love him at all
Cause when he's not drunk
He's only stuck on himself
And then he has the nerve
To say he needs a decent girl
Looking at herself but wishing she was someone else
Because the body of the
dolly don't a-look like hers at all
So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up but gives a grin
Laughing
at herself because she knows she ain't that at all
Caught up in the trends
You know the truth began to bend
And the next thing you man
There just ain't no truth left at all
Cause when the pretty girl walks
She walks so proud
And when the pretty girl laughs
Oh man, she laughs so loud
And if it ain't this then its that
As a matter of fact
She hasn't had a day to relax
Since she has lost her ability to think clearly
Well I'm an energetic apathetic version of another person
Check out my outsides
there ain't nothing in here
Well I'm a superficial systematic music, colour, vision addict
Check out my
outsides there ain't nothing in
Here comes another one, just like the other
Looking at himself but wishing he
was someone else
Because the posters on the wall they don't a look alike a him
He ties it up he
puts it in, he pulls it back and gives a grin
Laughing at himself because he knows
he ain't loved at all
He knows he ain't loved at all
SEXI PLEXI
Sexy sexy made up of plexi disaster
Pushing, pulling conservative
rolling
Unlike plastic, easier to see through
Just like glass with no ring
Softer and sadder you sing
Sexy sexy do your thing
Learn to be shy and then you can sting
Plexi, plexi bend don't shatter
Once your broken shape wont matter
Your breaking your mind
By killing the time it gives you
Cause you cant blame the time
Cause its only in your mind
Quickly quickly grow and then you'll know
It is such and awkward show to see
And everyone you wanted to know
And everyone you wanted to meet
Have all gone away
Oh they've all gone away
And then you're
Breaking your mind
By killing the time it gives you
Cause you cant blame the time
Cause its only in your mind
You're breaking your mind
FLAKE
I know she said it's alright
But you can make it up next time
I know she knows it's not right
There ain't no use in lying
Maybe she thinks I know something
Maybe maybe she thinks its fine
Maybe she knows something I don't
I'm so, I'm so tired, I'm so tired of trying
It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don't tell me you might just let it go
And often times we're lazy
It seems to stand in my way
Cause no one no not no one
Likes to be let down
I know she loves the sunrise
No longer sees it with her sleeping eyes
And I know that when she said she's gonna
try
Well it might not work because of other ties and
I know she usually has some other
ties
And I wouldn't want to break 'em, nah, I wouldn't want to break 'em
Maybe she'll
help me to untie this but
Until then well, I'm gonna have to lie to you
It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don't tell me you might just let it go
And often times we're lazy
It seems to stand in my way
Cause no one no not no one
Likes to be let down
It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don't tell me you might just let it go
(Ben Solo's)
The harder that you try baby, the further you'll fall
Even with all your money
in the whole wide world
Please please please don't pass me
Please please please don't pass me
Please please please don't pass me by
Everything you know about me now baby you gonna have to change
You goin to
call it by a brand new name
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me down
Just like your tree down by the water baby I shall not move
Even after all
your silly things you do-oo
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me
Please please please don't drag me down
BUBBLETOES
It's as simple as something that nobody knows
That her eyes are
as big as her bubbly toes
On the feet of the queen of the hearts of the cards
And her feet are all covered
with tarboles and scars
It's as common as something that nobody knows
That her beauty will follow wherever
she goes
Up the hill in the back of her house in the wood
She'll love me forever, I know
she could
I remember when you and me
Mm how we used to be just good friends
Wouldn't give me none
But all I wanted was some
She's got a whole lot of reasons
She cant think of a single one
That can justify leaving
He got none but he thinks he got so many problems
And he got, too much time to
waste
His dreams are like commercials
But her dreams are picture perfect and
Our dreams are so related but they're often
underestimated
It's as simple as something that nobody knows
That her eyes are as big as her
bubbly toes
On the feet of the queen of the hearts of the cards
And her feet are infested
with tarboles and
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da la
Well I was eating lunch at the DLG
When this little girl came and she sat next
to me
Never seen nobody move the way she did
Well she did and she does and she'll do
it again
When you move like a jellyfish
Rhythm don't mean nothing
You go with the flow
You don't stop
Move like a jellyfish
Rhythm is nothing
You go with the flow
You don't stop... Mm
It's as common as something that nobody knows
That her beauty will follow wherever
she goes
Up the hill in the back of her house in the wood
She'll love me forever, I know
she
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da da
If you would only listen
You might just realise what you're missing
You're missing me
If you would only listen
You might just realise what
you're missing
You're missing me
It's as simple as something that nobody knows
That her eyes are as big as her
bubbly toes
On the feet of the queen of the hearts of the cards
And her feet are infested
with tarboles and
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da
La da da da da da
La da da da da da da da
FORTUNATE FOOLS
She's got it all figured out
She knows what everything's about
And when anybody doubts her,
Or sings songs without her
Well she's just so mmmmmmmmm
She knows the world is just her stage
And so she'll never misbehave
She gives thanks for what they gave her
Man, they practically made her
Into a mmmmmmm
She's the one that stumbles when she talks about
The seven foreign films that
she's just done
Such a fortunate fool
She's just too good to be true
She's such a fortunate fool
She's just so mmmmmmmmmm
She's got it all figured out
She knows what everything's about
And when anybody doubts her
Or sings songs about her
She's just so mmmmmmm
She's the one that stumbles when she talks about
So maybe we shouldn't talk
about
Such a fortunate fool
She's just too good to be true
She's such a fortunate fool
She's just so mmmmmmmmmm
THE NEWS
A billion people died on the news tonight
But not so many cried
at the devil sight
Well mama said
It's just make believe
You can't believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
Who's the one to decide that it would be alright
To put the music behind the
news tonight
Well mama said
You can't believe everything you hear
The diegetic world is so unclear
So baby close your ears
On the news tonight
On the news tonight
The unobtrusive tones on the news tonight
And mama said
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die
At least
they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes
Mama said
It's just make believe
You cant believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight
DRINK THE WATER
Drink the water drink it down
This time I know I'm bound
To spit it back up
I didn't want this
Salty substitute, just not going to do
I need some air, if I'm going to live
through
This experience reminds me of a clock
That just won't tick
I want to wake up
From this concussion
But my dreams just not done
I'm late again,
It's just one of those bad days
Look outside and
Be careful what you ride
You just might find
That you're out of time
To swim ashore
If I drift long enough
I'll be home
He's got delusions between his ears
Man it takes up too much space
And all that tension between his gear man
He'll never ever leave this place
He's got stones instead of bones
And everybody knows
Ah, man that can make you real real slow
And if heaven was below
He'd know just where to go
Dive in the ocean
And he'd sink like a stone
And he'd say
It's time to swim ashore
If I drift long enough
I'll be home
Hold on if you can
You're gonna sink faster
Than you can imagine so
Hold on if you can
You're gonna sink faster
Than you can imagine so
It's just time to swim ashore
If I drift long enough
I'll be home
MUDFOOTBALL
Saturday morning and it's time to go
One of these could be the
days but who could'a known
Loadin' in the back of a pick-up truck
Ridin' with the boys and pushing their
luck
Singin' songs loud on the way to the game
Wishing all the things could still
be the same
China's homeruns over the backstop
Ke kua on the barb and soda pop
We used to laugh a lot
But only because we thought
That everything good always would remain
Nothing gonna change there's no need
to complain
Sunday morning and this time they're going
Been raining all night so everybody
knows
Over to the field for tackle football
Big hits, big hats, yeah give me the ball
Rain is pouring, touchdown scoring
Keep on rolling, never boring
Karma, karma, karma chameleon
We're talking kinda funny from helium
We used to laugh a lot
But only because we thought
That everything good always would remain
Nothing gonna change there's no need
to complain
Monday morning and this time they're going
Wet trunks and schoolbooks and sand
on my toes
Do anything you can to dodge the bus-stop blues
They're driving a padidle with
a burnt-out fuse
My best friend Kenny wants to go with you
So meet him by the sugar mill after
school
My best friend Kimmy wants to go with you
Meet her by the sugar mill after school
We used to laugh a lot
But only because we thought
That everything good always would remain
We used to laugh a lot
But only because we thought
That everything good always would
Everything good always would remain
F-STOP BLUES
Hermit crabs and cawry shells
Crush beneath his feet as comes towards
you
He's waving at you
Lift him up to see what you can see
He begins his focusing
He's aiming at you
And now he has cutaways from memories
And close-ups of anything that
He has seen or even dreamed
And now hes finished focusing
He's imagining lightning
Striking sea segments
Some way from here
Look who's laughing now that you wasted
How many years and you've barely even
tasted
Anything remotely close to
Everything you've boasted about
Look who's crying now
Driftwood floats, after years of erosion
Incoming tide touches roots to expose
them,
Quicksand steals my shoe,
Clouds bring the f-stop blues
Look who's laughing now that you wasted
How many years and you've barely even
tasted
Anything remotely close to
Everything you've boasted about
Look who's crying now
LOSING HOPE
I got a faulty parachute
I got a stranger's friend
An exciting change in
My butchers blend
A symbol on the ceiling
With the flick of a switch
Yeah my new found hero
And the enemy's ditching
Well somebodies something was left in a room
And now that its gone well of
course we assume
Somebody else needed something so bad
They took everything somebody had
Losing hope is easy
When your only friend is gone
And every time you look around
Well, it all, it all just seems to change
The mark was left
Man it's never the same
Next time that you shoot
Make sure that you aim
Open windows with passing cars
A brand new night
With the same old stars
Losing hope is easy
When your only friend is gone
And every time you look around
Well, it all, it all just seems to change
Feed the fool
A piece of the pie
Make a fool of his system
Make a fool of his mind
Give him bottles of lies
And maybe he'll find
His place in heaven
Cause he might just die
Losing hope is easy
When your only friend is gone
And every time you look around
Well, it all, it all just seems to change
But hanging on is easy
When you've got a friend to call
When nothings making sense at all
You're not the only one that's afraid of change
IT'S ALL UNDERSTOOD
Everyone laughed at her joke
As if they'd never even heard it before
And maybe they were truly amused
But every word that she spoke was a bore
And maybe it's because they had seen
The previews on the TV screen
Well this part is good and that's well understood
So you should laugh if you
know what I mean
But it's all relative
Even if you don't understand
Well it's all understood
Especially when you don't understand
And it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe
Everyone knows what went down
Because the news was spread all over town
And fact is only what you believe
And fact and fiction work as a team
It's almost always fiction in the end
That content begins to bend
When context is never the same
And it's all relative
Even if we don't understand
And it's all understood
Especially when we don't understand
And it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe
I was reading a book
Or maybe it was a magazine
Suggestions on where to place faith
Suggestions on what to believe
But I read somewhere
That you've got to beware
You can't believe anything you read
But the good book is good
And it's all understood
So don't even question
If you know what I mean
But it's all relative
Even if you don't understand
Well it's all understood
Especially when you don't understand
And it's all just because
Even if we don't understand
Then lets all just believe
But there you go once again
You missed the point and then you point
Your fingers at me
And say that I said not to believe
But there you go once again
You missed the point and then you point
Your fingers at me
And say that I said not to believe
I believe
But there you go once again
You missed the point and then you point
Your fingers at me
And say that I said not to believe
I believe
I guess
I guess it's all relative
OTHER SONGS
RODEO_CLOWNS | SYMBOL IN MY DRIVEWAY | TRACK_1 | POOR_TAYLOR | TRACK_10 | DUST_MY_BROOM | BACK_TO_ALBUM_SONGS
RODEO CLOWNS
Sweeping the floors, open up the doors yeah
Turn on the lights, get
ready for the night
Nobody's romancing cause it's too early for dancing
But here comes the music
Bright lights flashing, to cover up your lack of soul
many people, so many
problems, so many reasons to buy
Another round, drink it down, just another night on the town
With the big man, money man, better than the other man
He got the plan with
the million-dollar give a damn
When nobody understand, he'll become a smaller
man
The bright lights keep flashing and the women keep dancing
With the clowns yeah,
yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah, yeah
Rodeo clowns yeah, yeah, yeah
They pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah, yeah
The disco ball's spinning, all the music and the women
And the shots of tequila
man they'll say that they need ya
What they really need, is just a little room
to breathe
A teeny-bopping disco queen she barely understands
Her dreams are belly-button
rings and other kinds of things
Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange
is the change has occurred
And now she's just a part of the herd yeah, yeah, yeah
Man I thought you had
heard yeah, yeah, yeah
The change has occurred yeah, yeah, yeah
You're just a part of the herd yeah,
yeah, yeah
Lights out shut down, late night, wet ground
You walk by, look at him but he
can't look at you yeah
You might feel pity but he only feels the ground
You understand moods but he only
knows let down
By the corner there's another one,
Reaching out a hand coming from a broken man
well,
You try to live but he's done tryin'
Not dead but definitely dying
With the rest of the clowns yeah, yeah
The rest of the clowns yeah, yeah
(whistle)
SYMBOL IN MY DRIVEWAY
I got a symbol in my day
I got a hundred million-dollar friends
I got you a brand new weapon
Let's see how destructive we can be
I got a brand new set of stencils
I been connecting all the dots
I got my plans in a zip-locked bag
Let's see how productive we can be
I got a lightbulb full of anger
I can switch it on and off
Situations they can be so bright
I can't believe how pathetic we can be
I got a brand new set of blueprints
I'm gonna build somebody else
Might cost a little more than money
But what's man without his wealth
I got a phospherescent secret
Don't you tell nobody else
next thing you know
the whole world will be talking
about all the clues they got
they just ain't no use
they got fooled
WHOSE TO SAY
Who's to say, he's not the gifted one
Well I forgot, he's not the
teachers son
No he's just the reason for her to say
That she needs a substance in her today
Well who's to say he's not going to see the sun
Well I forgot he's not the
gifted one
No he's just a, another version of his dad
He'll learn to love things that he
never
All he ever does is walk alone
Man he can only walk so far before
All he ever does is look inside
He don't need nowhere to hide
I know she is all that he ever loved at 17
Too bad to her he was a passing
thing only temporary,
Until she finds someone with everything
Cause she's what we might call a sugar-queen
See her whole scene consists of diamond
rings
But that's okay, probably better anyway
Cause now that he's free she might finally
see that
All he ever does is walk alone
Man he can only walk so far before
All he ever does is look inside
He don't need nowhere to hide
POOR TAYLOR
Taylor was a good girl, never one to be late
Complain, express ideas in her
brain
Working on the night shift passing out the tickets
You're going to have to pay
her if you want to park here
Well mummy's little dancer is quite a little secret
She's working on the streets
now, never gonna keep it
It's quite an imposition and now she's only wishing
That she would have listened
to the words they said
Poor Taylor
She just wanders around unaffected by the winter winds, yeah
She
pretends that she's somewhere else
So far and clear, two-thousand miles from here
Peter Patrick pitter patters on the window
But Sunny Silhouette won't let him
in
Poor old Pete's a got a nothing cause he's been falling
And somehow Taylor knows
just where he's been
He thinks that singin' on Sunday is gonna save his soul
Now that Saturday's
gone
And sometimes he thinks that he's on his way
But I can see, that his brake-lights
are on
He just wanders around unaffected by the winter winds, yeah
He pretends that he's somewhere else
So far and clear, two-thousand miles from here
Such a tough enchilada, filled up with nada
Giving what she gotta give to get a dollar bill
Used to be a limber chicken
now she's finger lickin' to the man
with the money in his pocket, flying in his rocket
only stopping by on his way to a better world
If Taylor finds a better world
Then
Taylor's gonna run away
FALL LINE
And by the way you know the hope will make you strange
Make you blink, make you
blank, make you sink
It will make you afraid of change and often blame
The box with the view of the
world and the ones who fill the frame
I turn it up, but then I turn it off because I can't stand when they start
to talk about the
Hurting the killing the shoes that we're filling the damage
and ruin and the things that we're doing
Got to, we got to stop, we got to turn
it all off, we got to rewind and start it up again
Because it fell across the fall line
Ain't there nothing sacred anymore
Na, na, na…
Somebody saw him jump, but nobody saw him slip
I guess he lost a lot of hope
and then he lost his grip
But now he's lying in the freeway in the middle of this
mess
Guess we lost another one, just like the other one
Album Version (On And On)
optomisitc hypocrite that didn't have the nerve to quit
the things that kept him wanting more
until he finally reached the coreOriginal Demo Version
Energetic apathetic version of another person
Check out his outsides, there ain't nothing in there
He fell across the fall line
Ain't there nothing sacred anymore
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
DUST MY BROOM (written by Robert Johnson)
Woke up
this morning, believe I'll dust my broom
Woke up this morning, believe I'll dust
my broom
Got to leave this town, my friends can have my room
Woke up this morning, stones in my pathway
Woke up this morning, stones in
my pathway
Got to leave this town real soon cause I got this devil on my pathway
He coming
real soon
I got rambling, rambling on my mind
I got rambling, rambling on my mind
Got to leave this town real soon cause
I got rambling on my mind