Song Collection

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Car Seat Headrest — Making a Door Less Open (2020)

1. Car Seat Headrest — Weightlifters (2020)

Duration: 00:05:40
Preview:

Back when I had time to dream
I dreamed of ordinary faces
Frozen unexpressed emotions
Trapped inside the wax museum
And what my mind had been curating
Scandalized my sense of station
Face burned red then I woke up feeling like shit
When I saw my ordinary face
I should start lifting weights...

Put your heart on the target
They expect you to scream
Music blasts through the market
It’s the sound of the machines
Of quarters crushed into pennies
Of one thought turned into many
My resistance is crushed
I’m just here to buy some tangerines
And maybe grapes without seeds

Cause I believe
That thoughts can change my body
It’s all on me
If thoughts can change your body
I believe
Thoughts can change my body
It dawned on me
Your body can change your mind

And maybe if I keep my mouth shut
God will answer all my prayers
let my secret visions sprawl
declassified and mine to share
then I’d put my arms around you
And say “Thank God that I found you
“I kept my mouth shut 
and hoped that this would happen to me…”

I see the patterns in things
I never knew this was a part of me
A wolf sings in the choir
I feel the tension
I’m afraid it will break
I should start lifting weights

Cause I believe
That thoughts can change my body
It’s all on me
If thoughts can change your body
I believe
Thoughts can change my body
It dawned on me
Your body can change your mind

2. Car Seat Headrest — Can't Cool Me Down (2020)

Duration: 00:05:09
Preview:

Schizophrenia dreaming
I got a real bad feeling 
With a taste like lemon
Having trouble breathing

Getting high on nothing
Taking credit for nothing
Inside my head is an empty head
Introducing friends to friends

There is a hole in the ceiling
Everything but me and it has got no feeling
Smoke is pouring out the bed
I crawl like an animal to you
It’s a time of need and I need you to help me
Please
(I crawl I crawl an animal to you)

Cool water on my brow can’t cool me down

Vivid visions
it’s been so long since I
Heard your voice and felt you feeling for me
Camille Raquin at the mortuary 
I like Chopin won’t you sing me to sleep
No don’t Daniel you think you see a light but
There is nothing in a flame but fire
Is it satisfaction is it only
Practice for the real thing 
snap out of the drug trip screaming

HEY! We’re not supposed to be here
(we’re not supposed to be here)
Hey! We’re not supposed to be here!
(we’re not supposed to be here)
My blood is dirty water drain it bleed it wash it down the drain
The devil in the other, somebody else’s mistake
I am dripping with sweat, my hands
I can’t hold anything in my hands
I’ve only made one mistake in my life
I’ve only made one mistake, I’m going 

Cool water on my brow can’t cool me down

3. Car Seat Headrest — Deadlines (Hostile) (2020)

Duration: 00:04:21
Preview:

I never see the threat too soon
The blood on the bandage, the ghost in the room
I got a canvas as white as the moon
But when I see it at night it’s a sickening blue

I was thinking people never change
But there’s a new taste of dread that I cannot explain
And the thoughts that make up my life
Get reflected in others from time to time

Now I’ve got another question
and if we run out of time can we make an exception?
I’ve got a piece that needs completion
& I want to hear more from you, here’s what I’d like to do

Oh temptation
I could be a part of you
Oh completion
Come in closer, let the candle burn right through
(If you can’t get what you’re after any other way)

Am I on your mind?
Is it what you like?
Covered under your sleeve sometimes
Am I on your mind?
Is it what you like?
I’m alright, I was really in a state last night

I won’t speak I don’t know what to say
I can see in your prayers it’s the same things we pay for
got a currency that you accept
So if you want to exchange we can try to connect

Give me the number to your room and leave the door on the latch
There are tigers in the jungle there’s a knife in the mattress
I don’t think we broke the glass
But hell if I know
I never learned to dance
What the hell do I know?

I know
I won’t always need you like this
I swear I’m not always falling to bits
But in the hallway the moment hits
And the setup clicks like a safety
Yeah you could hear a pin
Drop
Feel it
I feel it
You feel it...

Am I on your mind?
Is it what you like?
I was really in a state tonight
Am I on your mind?
Is it what you like?
I’m alright, put me up your sleeve sometime
Sometime
Other time
No time

Oh temptation
I could take a piece from you
Oh completion
Let it burn let the candle burn right through

4. Car Seat Headrest — Hollywood (2020)

Duration: 00:03:22
Preview:

I’m 
Sick of violence
Sick of money
Sick of drinking
Sick of drugs
Sick of fucking 
Sick of staring at the ads on the bus
Hollywood makes me want to puke
Hollywood makes me want to puke

You’ve got a face that you think
Will last as long as the Sphinx
But the poster’s painted over in a week if it stinks
So let the people decide
On a metro ride
Because everyone’s an artist but no one has the time yeah

Everywhere I go I’m oppressed by these energies 
Like it yes I love it I hear music in my head
Was that a gun?
Uhhh gamelan drum?
Are my earbuds on the fritz? There’s a hiss on the bus and it goes round

Hollywood makes me wanna puke

Faces form faces
Phrases come in phases
Take me to the palace
Make me think I’m famous
Okay hop inside (come see my movie)
hop inside (come see my movie)
hop inside (come see my movie)
hop inside (come see my movie)

You can’t disengage with one single aspect
Watching from the sidelines
Supervising lines
Why don’t you take what you can get
No disruptions on the set
You’re gonna wind up back home
Where the fear splits in two like Moses
Into Mansons and Monroeses
Logic and hypnosis
good and evil
Only people
They don’t talk about the
12 year olds on pills waking up in beds of big producers
“I can make you famous I can make you something 
don’t go back to Oklahoma what’s in Oklahoma?
You know this is not for public consumption 
you know nothing this is nothing that’s our slogan 
if you’re suffering if you’re hungry for something it’s nothing 
don’t you watch the news or read the movies? You do? Me too”

5. Car Seat Headrest — Hymn (Remix) (2020)

Duration: 00:02:48
Preview:

I feel it in my heart

If I give this up will I be saved?
Will my life be spared?
What will take its place?
What will take its place?

6. Car Seat Headrest — Martin (2020)

Duration: 00:03:27
Preview:

Justin
I will find you
In the winter
I will find you
When the world is asleep inside
I will wake my eyes to starlight
I will find you
I will

Justin
Light is falling
In the morning
Someone’s calling
I will find strength in your power
I’ll stop running like a coward 
I will find you
I will

Just when I think I’m gone
You change the track I’m on 
Just when I think I’m done
You burn me up before the dawn

Justin
There’s no answer
In the end I know 
There is no answer
& when I’m high on things that bug me
The morning news and instant coffee
I’ll forget and forget
And remember and forget
I will never forget
The way you made me feel


(I turn the page
Each pen mark leaves a trace
Stars turn in place
I still can see your face)

7. Car Seat Headrest — Deadlines (Thoughtful) (2020)

Duration: 00:05:51
Preview:

I am not awake
I am not asleep
I am not so shallow
I am not that deep

Do you wanna dance?
Someone shut the door
On the losing side
Of some sort of war

He said I’d like to do this for a living
But I don’t know how
Wild, uncommercial
Sleeping on a leash

There was a predestined set of symbols ticking into place
A prom queen crowned in the background
Stepping out of frame
a pair of hands took me to your face
your eyes
Held me

Oh, compassion
Is transforming me into

No reflection
Swearing all I see is you
Oh, compassion
Is transforming me into

8. Car Seat Headrest — What's With You Lately (2020)

Duration: 00:01:34
Preview:

(never heard back from you)

He looks like you but he’s not
& he’s in your seat
He’s copying your style
But he doesn’t know the first thing
You know a couple of the guys were thinking about moving away
Because there’s less and less here that seems like it’s a reason to stay

You’re not the only one who’s angry
You shut the door they call you crazy
You always said “they’ll never break me”
What’s with you lately?

9. Car Seat Headrest — Life Worth Missing (2020)

Duration: 00:04:53
Preview:

As if on cue
They lit a firework
The sky reeled back
And I ran fast
To get to you

I think you knew
Before the war began
What loving to run to something
Can do to a man

Fall over the edge
Learn to live while falling
Every life
Is a path worth following
When you put it in words
It’s comfortingly bland
There’s so little left
To understand 

When we’re strung up hanging
From the knots we've allowed
we call up our angels
To cut us down
“If you could be proud
Of anything you’ve done
What would it be?”
Then they disappear
And we are up in the clouds

I feel the tension shock
Right through my body
I am wide awake
shake a laugh from me

I thought one day
I thought I’d find a hole
In my own backyard 
I’d never seen before
Follow it down 
underneath that fence
I come back up on the other side
Live another life

Break down the door and it’s yours for the taking
I held it back til you stopped asking 
My eyes are blurred the clock is ticking
I’m coming up short in a life worth nothing

I hear women in my head 
with ordinary names
That ring like magic
Through some malfunction in my brain
Your hands were warm
Though you came in from the cold
I took one and held it
And suddenly start to shake
shake...

I feel it break I feel the waves of anger pain and sorrow
Breaking over me
The flags are raised, we part with no goodbyes and no tomorrows
This is destiny
Memories of the best regrets I played my song in every single rest
Every note
Of the symphony
Mend the fence with the best of grace it’s
Pleasantries to the bottom of the page
I’m sorry

10. Car Seat Headrest — There Must Be More Than Blood (2020)

Duration: 00:07:33
Preview:

I saw you, I saw you, saw you…

On the magazine cover with your
Blue white eyes
Read it from cover to cover
Looking for you
These are not my people here
I think you know that
Nervous like a wild dog
Waiting for the attack

I was living in the delta
Wasting most of my time
You know if I could close the blinds right
I could sleep all through the night
But I’ve seen the tides are rising
Where once there was a shore
I can still remember houses
Stripped to the floor

There must be more than blood
That holds us together
There must be more than wind
That takes us away
There must be more than tears
When they pull back the curtain
Of this much I am certain

When you’re down for a while trying to get dried out
You feel the time pass by but you don’t look around
When you’re out for a while trying to get dried out
You feel the time pass by but you keep your head down

You were playing your music but you got drowned out
You go back to the old house but you’ve been locked out
And it wasn’t for love that you went back home
It was the guilt in your throat like you swallowed a bone
They had all of your life to get it right
They had all of that time just to change their minds
& you’re grateful for the bus it’s a place to sit down
like a spider in the winter trying not to be found
No use trying to heal when you’re getting stepped on
No use selling your soul when you’re getting passed on

How could they treat you like a forgotten card?
“Dear Dad” “I’m sorry” “Thank you very much”
What difference does it make when they throw you away?
Will anyone ever hear what you had to say?

I was flying on a red-eye
My hand dropped to the aisle
I could see myself clearly for the first time in a while
There was nothing but lines, nothing but outlines
My gut sank like a stone
But I heard another voice say
We all walk alone

There must be more than blood
That holds us together
There must be more than wind
That takes us away
There must be more than tears
When they pull back the curtain
There must be more than fear

11. Car Seat Headrest — Famous (2020)

Duration: 00:02:44
Preview:

Matter
Please let this matter

No one can see this
Or know that I need it
Nowhere to turn 

I need a break
I need a life that’s right
I need to wait
(I would spend any amount of money to get away from here)

I’m tired of coming home sick
Someone will care about this
Please let somebody care about this

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Change your mind
Night to night
Change your mind
Change my mind
Did you