Moxy Fruvous - Thornhill Lyrics
Thornhill
Lyrics
1. Half As Much (2:17)
2. Sad Girl (4:05)
3. You Can't Be Too Careful (3:23)
4. I Will Hold On (4:24)
5. Earthquakes (4:34)
6. When She Talks (3:15)
7. Splatter Splatter (2:59)
8. Independence Day (4:40)
9. Downsizing (6:53)
10. Hate Letter (5:02)
11. If Only You Knew (2:48)
12. My Poor Generation (3:56)
(Mike w/ Murray)
Bell tower
(Jian)
at the station
(Mike)
is ringin' the morning out.
(Jian)
imprisoned by
(All)
the situation.
(Mike)
Would be every bit as sour
(All)
if I miss you half as much.
Miss you half as much.
(Mike w/ Murray)
The man at the track
sent all the passengers back
and said the 3:29 wouldn't come.
(Jian)
No locomotion just ?devotion?.
(Mike w/ Murray)
I folded the map into the book on my lap
and wondered if I would feel half as numb
(All)
if I miss you half as much.
Miss you half as much.
(All, w/ lads in the background banging on walls, pianos, etc...)
In a year or two
we'll see this distance and this heartache through.
I never realized
that I would need the joys and secrets of your eyes
that much.
(guitar solo)
(Mike & Murray)
Bells chime
(Jian & Dave)
in the hallway.
(Mike & Murray)
You better believe that I
(Jian & Dave)
be only loving you for
(All)
always.
(Mike & Murray)
'Cause there'll never be a time
(All)
I could love you half as much.
Love you half as much.
Love you half as much.
(Jian on lead)
Sad girl,
taking every cue from every ad, girl.
Hopelessness is easy when it's a fad, girl.
And being good is only when you're a bad girl.
Woah...
(Jian, w/ others singing "ahhhh")
Sad girl,
maybe you've got every reason in this mad world.
(Jian, doubled with himself)
Sad girl,
showing there is nothing you want to be.
Rejecting anyone who loves you truly.
("ooooh" in the background)
And holding that expression like it's a duty.
Woah...
(Jian, w/ others singing "ahhhh")
Sad girl,
what is it that makes you such a beauty?
(All)
Once in a while, to hold your head high
would leave you a sell out.
Resigned to ask why, devoted to die,
When everything that you've been told,
by any person that you hold,
when any happiness and love will
give you every reason to lie.
(Jian)
Woah-ooo-woah-uh-oah
(Jian, doubled with himself)
Sad girl,
taking every cue from every ad, girl.
Depression is romantic when it's a fad, girl.
("ooooh" in the background)
And being good is only when you're a bad girl.
Woah...
(Jian, w/ others singing "ahhhh")
Sad girl,
uh, Maybe you've got every reason in this mad world.
(Jian)
Maybe,
(Jian, w/ others singing "ahhhh")
Sad girl,
uh, Maybe you've got every reason in this
(Jian) (Dave & Murray)
uh, man's world. Sad, sad, girl...
Woah...sad girl. Sad, sad, girl...
(Jian) (Dave & Murray) (Mike)
Woah...sad girl...sad world Sad, sad, girl... sad, sad. sad, sad.
(Jian) (Dave & Murray) (Mike)
Woah...sad girl...oh-oh-oh Sad, sad, girl... sad, sad. sad, sad.
(Jian) (Dave & Murray) (Mike)
oh, sad world...sad world Sad, sad, girl... sad, sad. sad, sad.
(Jian) (Dave & Murray) (Mike)
Woah...sad girl... Sad, sad, sad, sad.
you've got every reason... girl... sad, sad.
(Jian) (Dave & Murray) (Mike)
you've got every reason... Sad, sad, sad, sad.
you've got every reason in this girl... sad, sad.
(Jian) (Dave & Murray) (Mike)
mad world....oh-oh-oh Sad, sad, girl... sad, sad. sad, sad.
(Jian) (Dave & Murray) (Mike)
Woah...sad girl... Sad, sad, girl... sad, sad. sad, sad.
(Dave & Murray) (Mike)
Sad, sad, girl... sad, sad. sad, sad.
(repeats and fades out)
(clip of guys talking, w/ Earthquakes playing the background)
"Hey...hey..."
(other greetings)
(Mike speaking)
Great to see ya!
All right...
(Dave speaking)
Hey...great to see ya...woo!
(Murray speaking)
Hey...
(Mike speaking)
Have you ever been south of Steeles?
(Murray giggles)
(Mike speaking)
South of Steeles avenue?
(Jian speaking)
well...
(fade out)
(All)
You can't be too careful.
You can't agonize over it.
You can't be too careful.
Make your mind up and go for it.
(Dave)
You say you wanna make some changes,
maybe quit and get an education.
Maybe you'd like Louisiana,
you could maybe manage a plantation.
There's always teaching English in Tokyo,
or maybe you'd be better off here.
Come a little bit closer.
(Dave & Jian)
I wanna put a little word,
put a little word in your ear.
(All)
You can't be too careful.
You can't agonize over it.
You can't be too careful.
Make your mind up and go for it.
(guitar and harmonica section)
(Dave) (Mike & Murray)
Now, now you wanna go skiing in Aspen,
but you're ashamed of your equipment. you're ashamed of
And you're dyin' for a fairy tale romance, it all...
but you're not that good at commitment.
When you feel like Woody Allen for the dialogue,
but you prefer Tarantino's vision.
Holding up the ticket line
(Dave & Jian)
is not the time,
not the time to make this decision.
(All)
You can't be too careful.
You can't agonize over it.
You can't be too careful.
Make your mind up and go for it.
(Jian says "can't")
You can't be too careful.
You can't agonize over it.
(Dave exclaims "Please don't")
You can't be too careful.
Make your mind up and go for it.
(guitar and harmonica outro)
(Jian on lead)
I'll hold you if you feel you'll fall
I'll hold your hand if you just need a friend
I'll hold the line so you can call
I'll hold the feelings you don't want to end
(Jian and Dave)
You know that it's true
When I hold you
(Jian, Dave & Mike)
There'll be no secrets
I believe it
(Jian and Dave)
I'll hold your tears if you must cry
I'll hold your breath if that won't make you blue
I'll hold the truth if you must lie
and I'll hold off choice till you know what to do
(Jian and Dave)
You know that it's true
When I hold you
There are no secrets
(Jian, Dave & Mike)
I believe it
(Jian, w/ others singing "hold on", slowly)
So I will hold on
(All)
And if that's not what you're used to
Then I may refuse to
(Jian w/ others singing "hold off", slowly)
Hold off
(All)
well, maybe that's not what you're used to
(Jian)
How can I refuse you?
(Jian and Dave)
I'll hold the train till you get on
I'll hold the mirror so you can fix your hair
I'll hold the pain till it is gone
and I'll hold my ground when people stop and stare
(Jian and Dave)
You know that it's true
When I've held you
(Jian, Dave & Mike)
There are no secrets
You must believe it
(Jian)
I'll hold the beating of my heart
I'll hold my breath if you will tell me to
(Jian and Dave)
I'll hold the hope that we won't part
and I'll hold off death so I can live with you
(Jian and Dave)
You knew it was true
When I held you
(Jian, Dave & Mike)
There were no secrets
I believed it
(Jian, w/ others singing "hold on", slowly)
So I will hold on
(All)
And if that's not what you're used to
Then I may refuse to
(Jian w/ others singing "hold off", slowly)
Hold off
(All)
well, maybe that's not what you're used to
How can I refuse you?
(Jian, w/ others singing "hold on", slowly)
So I will hold on
(All)
And if that's not what you're used to
Then I may refuse to
(Jian w/ others singing "hold off", slowly)
Hold off
(All)
well, maybe that's not what you're used to
(Jian)
How can I refuse you?
(acoustic guitar outro)
(random guitar noodling)
(Jian speaking)
I'm gonna go and see where we're at...
(Murray says something non-understandable)
yeah...???
(can hear studio workers in the background,
even after the song begins)
(Dave, w/ Jian)
1...2...3...uhh...ehh...uhhh...ssss
(instrumental intro, Murray says something like "oh baby" or "ready")
(Dave)
He doesn't care if you're punctual
no reward for an early bird.
(Jian)
Ho!
(Mike whistles like a bird)
(Dave)
And he don't care if you're dysfunctional,
we've only recently heard that word.
And the infamous nictotine user.
I think he doesn't really care about that.
(Murray)
No.
(Dave)
The butcher, the baker, the boozer.
It doesn't matter if you're skinny or fat.
(All)
But, look at the clouds, look at the earthquakes.
Look at the moon that the light of the sun makes.
Look at the wind...
(Dave)
Woo! How it's loose and free...
(All)
Look at these tiny things botherin' me.
(Dave)
I've been watching for seven straight hours
(others, in the background)
there hasn't been a damn thing on!
(Dave)
And there hasn't been a damn thing on.
And I feel like I'm losin' my powers.
(Mike)
uhh-huh-ho...
(Dave, w/ Jian in the background saying "hey, hey, hey...")
All my get up and go has all gone
(Dave) (others in the background)
And I lied to my local panhandler I told a big fat lie to the pan-man
Said I couldn't have the change
Start off straight but I get to meander
I got the aim but I don't have the range
(others)
woah...
(All, w/ voices in the background even louder)
Look at the clouds, yeees, look at the earthquakes.
Look at the moon that the light of the sun makes.
Uh, Look at the wind...
(Dave) (others)
How it's loose and free... fa-du-da-du-da, fa-du-da-du-da
(All)
Look at these tiny things botherin' me.
(voices in background still audible, random scat solos follow)
(Dave, w/ others, do scat trumpet-like singing)
(Dave)
Woooooahhhhh.........
(All)
Well, the future looks like distant thunder.
(Dave)
Well, because
(All)
I'm never sure that I'll get paid.
And I'm pissed that I'm not gettin' younger.
Gettin' pretty, gettin' love, gettin' laid.
And on the talk show, cat fight, playoff,
well, everybody gives 'em a hand.
And the radio sounds like a payoff,
I just don't understand.
(All, w/ voices in the background even louder)
Look at the clouds, look at the earthquakes (shhhhh...)
Look at the moon that the light of the sun makes.
(Dave)
Hey!
(All)
Uh, Look at the wind...
(Dave) (others)
Wooo!, how it's loose and free... fa-du-da-du-da, fa-du-da-du-da
(All)
Look at these tiny things botherin' me.
Look at these tiny things botherin' me.
(Jian on lead)
When she talks I listen.
It's something significant because I don't often.
Words passed on a boat
I'll remember every note.
When she talks
When she talks.
(Jian w/ Dave)
When she smiles it's lovely.
She handles the boys when the drinking gets ugly.
(Jian) (rest)
I'll never understand Ahhhhh....
How she's always in command. Always in command
(Jian)
When she talks
(All)
When she talks
(Jian)
I listen.
A man should not be blamed
For wanting to make her mine.
(All)
But you can't define the girl
She's her
(Jian)
and I would never try.
(short guitar solo)
(Jian)
When it's time I know she won't stay with me.
How could just one man ever make her happy?
(Jian) (rest)
My vision of the sea Ahhhh....
My lasting memory Lasting memory
(All)
When she talks
When she talks
(Jian)
I listen.
(guitar intro)
(Mike on lead, speaking through distortion)
Kids in their PJs
Big bowl of nachos
Another perfect day in Rhodedendron Park.
The sun is shining
Now dad's reclining
Roll down the blinds to watch a movie in the dark.
(Mike speaking w/ himself distorted)
Some buxom ladies
A lambourghini
Shadowy motives in a shadowy land.
Some idle chatter
then Splatter splatter
Cue soundtrack music from the up-and-coming band.
(Mike) (Jian w/ others)
This is the best I've ever seen. This is...just a movie. She's just a teen...
I want to see it
(All)
Again and again and again.
(Mike speaking)
She's babysitting and doing homework.
A sudden phone call from the senior quarterback.
She loves attention, she craves attention
He's got a present for her from her daddy's shack
(Mike speaking w/ himself distorted)
She getting cozy
The window rattles
A few allusions to last summer's episode.
The windows shatter
then Splatter splatter
What could be more perfect than to see her head explode?
(Mike) (Jian w/ others)
This is the best This is...just a movie
I've ever seen She's just a teen
(Mike)
I want to see it
(All)
Again and again and again
(Guitar solo)
(Jian & Dave)
Ahhhhh Ahhhhhh Ahhhhh
She's just a teen
(Mike)
I want to see it
(All)
Again and again and again
(key change)
(Mike speaking w/ himself distorted)
We came from monkeys, we once were hunted
Perhaps we recognize that hunted human face
Maybe the suburbs are just far too antiseptic
Kids need some splatter splatter messing up the place.
(Mike) (Jian w/ others)
This is the best This is...just a movie
I've ever seen She's just a teen
(Mike)
I want to see it
(All)
Again and again and again and again
Again and again and again
(Mike) (Jian w/ others)
This is the best This is...just a movie
I've ever seen She's just a teen
(Mike)
I want to see it
(All)
Again and again and again
Again and again and again
Again and again and again
(Murray on lead)
The streamers were red and gold.
And all of the stores stayed closed.
And everybody couldn't wait
For the fireworks display.
The city had a hot dog stand
and lovers walked hand in hand.
And me standing there alone
Except for the clowns I suppose.
(All)
And the people came around on Independence Day
And the children let go their balloons and flew away.
(Murray)
Then the wind swung around to the east
And the rain came down in sheets.
I saw trees bending to the ground
And people running all around.
(Murray and Dave)
I stuck my hand into my coat
Felt the letter that you wrote.
I said "This is Independence Day.
I wonder how I'll celebrate?"
(All)
And the people came around on Independence Day
And the children let go their balloons and flew away.
Red and gold (red and gold...) bleed down to black.
Once it's gone (once it's gone), it won't come back.
(guitar and keyboard solo)
(All)
And the people came around on Independence Day
And the children let go their balloons and flew away.
(Murray, w/ others)
Geneveive, I do believe I can't go on this way
(All)
Now I know what freedom is on Independence Day.
(Murray)
Oh...oah...
Oh, oah-oh-oh...
(Jian on lead)
Color balloons, an appreciative handshake,
if that counts as severance then don't waste your breath.
We gave our times to a company planning our death.
Well, it's a new challenge my family hasn't yet met.
I've sat at this desk and tried to be honest,
22 years with these men on the line.
Record?s? set profits, then how's this a sign of the times?
(Jian & Mike)
I won't tell my wife, I will work it out,
things will be fine.
(Jian)
It's the message we
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
send.
(Jian)
Our relevance
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
pays.
(Jian)
It's not the end...
of these working man's days.
(Jian)
Make up your mind and make me a statistic.
Make a production machine ?had it debt?
Cast the man out, too, now, making a living regret.
(Jian & Mike)
Well, some build their fortunes on others who
build what they get.
(Jian)
It's the message we
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
send.
(Jian)
Our relevance
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
pays.
(Jian)
It's not the end...
of these working man's days.
(All)
I picture myself
with all of your freedom to choose.
yeah...
Do you picture yourself?
with all of your wealth you can use.
(Jian)
Step into my shoes...
bastard.
(guitar and keyboard solo)
(Jian)
Don't hold your breath,
but don't hold out your hand.
Hold your head up and be brave to a man.
Some day they'll lose something worse
and then they'll understand.
(Jian & Mike)
For now we just pick up our things
and find work where we can.
(Jian)
It's the message we
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
send.
(Jian)
Our relevance
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
pays.
(Jian)
It's not the end...
of these working man's days. (ahhhh...)
(Jian)
It's the message we
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
send.
(Jian)
Our relevance
(Jian, Mike & Dave)
pays.
(Jian)
It's not the end...
of these working man's days.
(outro)
(bird chirping sounds)
(drums fade in)
(bird chirping sounds)
(Dave)
Bu-dup-bup-um-bwhy-yaye-yaye.....
woah...
woah...
(others singing "probably won't miss you" repeated in a
swing style through most of the song)
(Mike in background)
No...
(Dave)
There was a perfume on the breeze,
the moon, the trees...
(others singing "voo-da-dup")
(Dave w/ others singing "voo-ba-dup" at various times)
In a great northern open...
When our love was goin' on, and on
We made a home for two worlds, two strings
(others)
Weee-ahhh-oooh
(Dave)
Now I'm pacing, always
(All)
bumping into all the same things
(Mike scats lightly in the background)
(bird chirping sounds)
(Dave w/ others joining in on certain words)
Sometimes you gotta wonder what is going on
(others)
I won't miss you
(Dave)
When it's finally final
(Mike)
Our love is final
(Dave)
You come home and your stuff's out on the lawn
(Dave w/ others singing "ahhhh")
I don't think that I will miss you
(Mike)
I don't think that I will miss you
(All) (Jian trailing off)
I probably won't keep in touch
Cuz I don't love you that much that much...
(Dave primarily singing in the background)
Totally rockin, totally loose
Totally decent, totally spruce (?screwsed?)
Goin' to Murray's, goin' to Mike's
Goin' to Jian's, ridin' on bikes
(bird chirping sounds periodically)
(Dave in background)
Covered as smokey, ???
Workin' ?royal orchard?, Workin' Laura Lee??
(Mike laughing)
(Dave in background)
Totally wicked, totally cool
Mister Paul Murray totally rules
Totally Sony, totally great
(Mike)
once in a while, to hold your head high [Sad Girl lyric]
(Dave in background)
???, he's on the bass totally jammin', totally lax
totally headcheck, total max tax, total Joe Lewey?, totally Styx
(Mike)
city had a hot rock band [modified Independence Day lyric]
(Dave in background)
totally Lola, total ?that chips?, totally rockin,
totally loose
(Dave)
If I love you half as much [Half as Much lyric]
(Mike)
big fat lie to the pan-man [Earthquakes lyric]
(Dave in background)
Totally decent, totally ?spruce?
Totally decent, totally ?spruce?
Totally decent, totally ?spruce?
(Dave w/ others joining in on certain words)
There was a perfume on the breeze
The moon, the trees
(Dave w/ others singing "voo-ba-dup" at various times)
Now there's shit in the trumpet
For all the bloodletting, we've still got the same disease
(Jian)
I still got the same disease
(Dave w/ others singing "ahhh")
Satan in satin slippers
(Dave w/ others) (Jian in background)
Christ on a crooked crutch
Cuz I don't love you that much I don't love you that much,
don't love you that much
(Mike)
I don't...
(Dave w/ others singing "probably won't miss you" over and over)
No I don't love (Dave: love) you that much
(Dave)
No I don't love you that much
(Dave)
Yeah, I don't love you that much.....
(bird sounds and drums fade out)
(guys practicing and discussing Earthquakes)
(All)
yeah...look at the clouds...
(Mike speaking)
I love this one
(All)
look at the earthquakes
(Jian speaking) (others)
Wow...it's...an oldie! yeah...yeah...
(All)
Look at the moon that the light of the sun makes.
(Jian speaking)
You could use either a banjo or dobro
(All) (Mike)
Look at the leaves la, loo, loo, la, sumina, la, la, la...
(All) (Mike) (Murray)
Loose and free doo bop loose and...
(All)
Look at these tiny things botherin' me.
(Jian or Murray speaking)
?broke a note?
(Mike on lead)
The mist of the morning in this strange town,
lifted slowly with the sun,
refracted the rays in a thousand ways,
a new day just begun.
And it crowded against my window sill,
still sweet with the morning dew.
If only you knew,
how much I think of you.
Into the van and down the road,
along the highway fast.
With this band I ride through the countryside,
the seasons slidin' past.
(Mike, w/ others singing "ahhhh")
I spy a humble homestead there,
with a garden and a river view.
(Mike w/ Jian)
If only you knew,
how much I think of you.
(Mike)
By a stream of running water,
I heard you laugh.
I closed my eyes for an hour and a half,
(Mike w/ Jian)
and tried to make you appear.
I swear in the beauty of the setting sun,
(Mike)
you were here.
(Mike)
An old troubador on the street that night,
(Mike w/ himself)
plays for our passin' change.
(Mike)
On a fiddle in g, a melody,
mysterious and strange.
(Mike, w/ others singing "ahhhh")
He learned on a green distant mountain top,
a wedding waltz,
so sweet and true.
(Mike w/ Jian)
If only you knew,
how much I think of you.
(All)
If only you knew,
(Mike)
how much I think of you.
(guitar outro)
(Mike speaking)
Dave, are you below the safe low limit on that last one?
(Jian speaking)
That was great for me.
(piano noodling, sounding like Sad Girl)
(drum machine noodling, w/ Mike, Murray & Jian discussing studio issues)
(Mike speaking)
A lot of...
(Murray speaking)
It's better than the actual...
(Mike speaking)
Second key...oh, that sounds like stereo to me...
(Jian speaking)
You're just gonna have to watch every ?transfer?...
(Murray speaking)
I know...but I don't want...
(Jian speaking)
Well, you...
(guitar strumming, song begins)
(Dave on lead)
My poor generation,
we're on for the ride,
an ocean of choices,
pulled out on the tide.
(Dave & Jian)
We're handed a beach ball,
(All)
and told to pick a side.
(Dave)
Drowned in information.
(All)
My poor generation.
(Dave & Jian)
My poor generation
don't know what it means,
(All)
the shock of the mountain
compared to magazines.
(Dave, w/ Jian & Mike)
Is it timeless and holy,
or just a hill of beans?
(Dave & Mike)
Lost in Union Station.
(All)
My poor generation.
(Dave, w/ others singing "ahhhh")
Maybe we're just looking in a fun house
mirror and lovin' our reflection.
Maybe corporate raiders got too greedy in the 80's
(Dave, w/ others singing "ooooh")
and bought up all the direction.
(All)
Wooo..ooo...ooo...ooo...ooo.
(guitar solo)
(Dave)
My poor generation
airborn with nothin' to land on.
Baffled by bullshit,
grounded with nothin' to stand on.
(Dave & Mike)
Poor little fat cats,
(Dave)
nothin' anyone planned on.
Unique in all creation.
(All)
My poor generation.
(Dave)
Woah...
(All)
My poor generation.
(Dave)
Woah......
(All)
My poor generation.
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