Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Waiting
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 2003-2005
- Theme: jamming while waiting
- Length: 71:17
- Tracks: 13
- Lyrics: 11
- MP3s: 13 play all locally
- Rating: ***½ [3.5] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
Notes
I recorded these guitar and vocal improvs between 2003 and 2005 while waiting for Giovanna to come home. If she had been more punctual, these songs would never have happened. So instead of complaining, we should be thankful for her tardiness!
I used a dictaphone instead of a 4-track, so the sound quality is lousy. As is my guitar playing and singing, but you're probably used to that by now.
Songs
Waiting Intro
- Waiting track 1
- recorded: 2003-12-26
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:09
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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This spoken intro kicks off the album with the main theme: waiting for Giovanna. It might sound like I am complaining (because I kinda am), but the obvious irony is that if weren't waiting, I wouldn't be creating music.
So, this album is dedicated to Giovanna and her chronic tardiness!!!
Lyrics to "Waiting Intro":
all right this is a test on the 26th of december 2003 um waiting, as i always am, for giovanna who's now 42 minutes late
(c) 2003 Trex
Wasting Wait
- Waiting track 2
- recorded: 2003-12-26
- location: Bellingham
- length: 8:21
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Familiar theme, familiar music. Some bits are catchy, some are funny. Not too bad.
Lyrics to "Wasting Wait":
why is it that i'm always left alone why is it that i'm always waiting at home why is it that i'm always left alone why is it that i'm always waiting in my home in my home with my toys, with my toys, with my toys with my toys, with my toys does this happen to the boys all the boys, all the boys, all the boys all the boys, all the boys, all the boys do we have to wait for the closing of time, uh do we have to learn to play the guitar in time what happens is she coming right now will i be upset at the interruption what happens if she interrupts me god i stink i oughta always screwing up alone this is pathetic this is paul-thetic i've got a camera in my pocket it's sitting there unused there's only about 2 hours of daylight left today and they're going unused and they're going unused this is a waste to stand here in the hallway it's a waste to bang on the guitar it's a waste to wait it's a waste to wait it's a waste to wait for the car i thought i saw a shadow could that be her no, just my hope my hope, my hope, my hope, my hope, my hope my hope is that she'll be home soon what a waste what a waste what a waste to stand here banging on the guitar wasting tape wasting time wasting energy wasting it for a waiting car oh that was dumb but what can you expect when the frustration levels increase and increase i've got a camera in my pocket gotta be careful i don't rock it to death with my gui-- oh god, i hate i hate it when people sing like that when they rap when they rap and they break lines and they have to end sentences oh god this song isn't going anywhere i'm wasting tape this song isn't going anywhere we're wasting the day away wasting, wasting, wasting, wasting wasting, wasting, wasting not gonna do anything with this stupid studid song i'm not gonna make anything with these minutes growing long i'm not gonna do anything with this effort i am giving i'm not gonna do anything i'm not gonna do anything i cannot do anything i cannot do anything the windows are opening and people are wondering what is that howling coming from 201 it's a boy with his guitar and a heavy heavy dose of frustration no need a heavy heavy dose of frustration no need to feign aggravation no need to pretend aggravation i play the notes over and over 'cause i haven't touched a guitar in so long i am the one ??? wonder after all after all, after all after all this what will i have with these minutes that i put on the tape with my oops there goes my fingers there goes my time there goes my life oops there goes my fetus there goes my energy there goes my time oops i said time twice already is that so important to me? oops i guess it is because why would i devote 2 instances of the same word to, to i forget what they're called i think they're called stanzas oh god this is annoying i will try to sing something repetiive and semi-melodic because that's the only way to stomach this repetiviveness in any, any a yes i said "a" to rhyme with another word that started with a i mean ended oh god this is hard, this is hard, this hard i haven't done this in over a year i haven't done this in over a year where is the car where is the car why am i standing here where is the car she's gonna be an hour late an hour late she doesn't ever seem to keep track of her time she's a time, time, time disaster, disaster, disaster it's hard to find a rhyme and it's hard to do much at this time and i will try to rhyme i will try to make this musical, musical not just auto-biographical blaa blaa blaa blaa blaa blaa the magic word is screw up oh that's her car i gotta go now time to end this tune up
(c) 2003 Trex
Not Much of a Wait
- Waiting track 3
- recorded: 2003-12-31
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:56
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Neat guitar sound, different chords. It kinda gets interesting, but then abruptly ends.
Lyrics to "Not Much of a Wait":
ok today is december 31st and i am waiting again giovanna is 1 hour and 1 minute late and here we go and i am here and waiting again yes i am here and i'm waiting again i'm always waiting i'm always waiting i'm always waiting for you and i'm waiting ok she's home wow not much of a song but it was a long wait
(c) 2003 Trex
Waiting Bass
- Waiting track 4
- recorded: 2004-01-??
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:24
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar
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Mellow bass pattern that doesn't go anywhere.
It was recorded sometime between 2004-01-01 and 2004-01-27.
Waiting Chords
- Waiting track 5
- recorded: 2004-01-??
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:54
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar
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Cool chords. I really like this! Of course, I couldn't sustain it for long.
It was recorded sometime between 2004-01-01 and 2004-01-27, probably on the same day as "Waiting Bass".
Yet Another Wait
- Waiting track 6
- recorded: 2004-0?-??
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:29
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Messing around. Pretty horrible.
This was recorded sometime between 2004-01-27 and 2004-12-31. The words in "Hear That Months" imply that this was recorded in the earlier part of the year.
Lyrics to "Yet Another Wait":
yet another song about waiting yet another stupid preset yet another song inside you might be complaining oh i still can't play worth bleep
(c) 2004 Trex
Trivia
- Waiting track 7
- recorded: 2004-0?-??
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:55
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Weird chords, horrible distortion, but interesting words. I think I was critiquing someone who was acting snobby.
This was recorded sometime between 2004-01-27 and 2004-12-31, probably on the same day as "Yet Another Wait".
Lyrics to "Trivia":
why must i try to play something that i can play why must i try, can't you say no let's just go away just go away just go away bury your head in your books give us dirty looks bury you head in your books and you give us dirty looks 'cause you're a snob 'cause you're a snob but tell me how you come to believe you're any better than the mob the mob are people that are surrounding themselves with cobwebs and trivia and all that stuff you know what i'm talking about but the point is you don't know because it's all it's all limited knowledge, limited knowledge and they use that trivia to alienate others at least inside it gives them a sense of power feed their egos everyone does trivia, trivia, trivia, trivia trivia, trivia, trivia so if you play bad chords they sound awful so you just call it ecclectic if you sing bad notes you just call it really creative and i say it's demonstrative of a failure to arrive at something communicatable in other words we are sobs they're just trivia, trivia, trivia, trivia trivia, trivia, travia, travia it's just trivia of travia
(c) 2004 Trex
Hear That Months
- Waiting track 8
- recorded: 2004-12-31
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:12
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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This introduces another waiting-themed song. It's interesting that I recorded Trex on Giovanna's birthday two years in a row!
Lyrics to "Hear That Months":
today is giovanna's birthday 2004 it's december 31st 2004 i'm playing in the dark i haven't touched the guitar in months hear that? months ok here we go
(c) 2004 Trex
It Seems
- Waiting track 9
- recorded: 2004-12-31
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:33
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Familiar chords, but semi-witty lyrics.
A couple minutes into it, I choked on my gum. I edited out that part (because it was awful), but kept my silly comments about choking. As a result, there's a sonic discontinuity near the end. Sorry about that!
Lyrics to "It Seems":
it seems like i'm always waiting it seems like i'm always never doing it seems like i'm always lazy, too lazy for me it seems like i'm always failing it seems like i'm always wailing it seems like i'm always sucking life away from me but the reality what is the reality what is the reality it seems like i'm always dying it seems like i'm always lonely it seems like i'm always upset at me it seems like i'm always losing it seems like i'm always boo-hooing it seems like i'm always less than i want to me but what is the reality tell me could it possibly be that's seeming to choke and die and fail and lose is all it takes to succeed in this world because if you think that you're always failing maybe you'll try a little bit hard if you think that you're always lazy maybe you'll get up a little bit earlier if you think that you're always unhappy maybe you will treat yourself to something good, something good maybe you will tell yourself to count your blessings maybe you will tell yourself to count your blessings don't you like when i sing like this i have swallowed my gum just now i almost choked on gummy gummy i feel like i am such a everyone say it travis is a dummy dummy dummy
(c) 2004 Trex
Auto Eye Moon
- Waiting track 10
- recorded: 2004-12-31
- location: Bellingham
- length: 20:58
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This epic, trippy jam is based on a single chord. Wow. I'm amazed that I had the stamina for it.
Lyrically, it's all over the place. Much of the latter part is talking about the song itself.
This song has no relation to the Tripecac song "Ottomoon". The similarity in the titles is purely coincidental.
Lyrics to "Auto Eye Moon":
same day same hour 5 minutes later same guy same seller ok that's not very funny same travis same guitar same lack of musicianship same styles same faces in the mirror same lack of cool ok come on now 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 days until january 7th and what happens on january 7th actually just 8 days until january 8th and on january 8th that's when i practice my math get out my math books and practice my math my remedial math ok enough if you don't have anything to say say why do you say it anyway way if you don't have anything to play play god i cannot count today day but this is pressure oh it is pressure at least i'm doing something instead of just sitting instead of just waiting instead of just being this is not just being i better not just lapse into a solo because this is not a good a medium it's a little cheesy dictaphone it's lying on the floor sounds almost as bad as my phone oh that's great that's great that's great it sounds like i need to practice my guitar that's great this is great really great this won't take me very far into pride-inducing memories pride-inducing creation pride-inducing anything this is just a a tangent a footnote whatever you wanna call it it's not anyting to keep but we all know me i will keep it and probably digitize it and probably write a paragraph about it and here's what i'll write: ok i could not count that day so what did i do i just wang it ok that's not quite a paragraph this is the part i edit out when i go ??? deviate ??? rhythm that's when i edit it out doesn't matter how witty i am doesn't matter how trivial i am all songs are ??? the same they get their own xml travis what stop being a geek i can't stop being a nerd you do it first stop being a twirp i don't know what you mean by twirp do twirps play guitar do they play guitar like this or do twirps play the violin going wooo.. that sounds asian i would say that chinese but that actually might be japanese ok just shut and sing travis [scat] [fake japanese] translated that says: i am travis, i'm very smart ??? of a life of possibilities ??? ??? goes the rhythm the groove ??? goes the groove ??? goes the groove bad move travis bad move the candles are lit i had to stop them out with spit they had melted the wick was becoming part of the cake we call it cake, it's more like bread pink pink bread this groove is dead this groove is dead i'm gonna have a blister on my head from hearing myself make sounds like this make sounds like this this is just a ??? exercise that means no wit no chorus inside i just bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang i'm tired of waiting i'm tired of waiting but i'll keep on playing until she gets home i'm tired of standing i'm tired of singing i'm getting a blister on my thumb 'cause she's not home she's not home and i'm at home i'm all alone singing to a dictaphone ??? my thumb bone [scat] what do you do when a song gets tired what do you do, do you quit do you say you're fired do you say song go away put your head in the sand and pretend it will just disappear or do you act like a man do you say song, come here, show me thumb gimme a punch and i'll punch you back song hey, gimme your stuff gimme my stuff back you stupid song oh do you get belligerant at the song do you pound it till it dies or till your fingers bleed or till you ears get distorted or till you voice goes hoarse well if your voice gets hoarse then i have some advice for you and that is switch to another language [fake japanese] my finger just had an allergic reaction to this chord warning: if you have sensitivity to this chord do not listen to this song for more than 3 minutes it will cause harmful mental degradation and whatever you do do not listen past the 5th minute even if you have not had a prior allergic reaction to this chord this will triggr hypersensitivity followed by auto eye moon reject auto eye moon auto eye moon, auto eye moon the samurai of the music auto eye moon, come out only when there's only a high moon is this music or is this stand up comedy is this music or is it just a mess is this music or is it a parody is this travis at his best some people say you're very funny you're witty how do you think of that how do you think so fast how do you think like that, travis how do you think so fast they repeat themselves you see they waste their time repeating them say and all i do is say to them one thing i say it's called time management ??? time management i manage my time i'm an expert at that i trim away from the fat from my life i do not indulge if it costs me my future pride so i when i find myself turning down a dead-end path like this one i i find myself trying to convince myself that it's not such a dead one that this is not a waste of time that this is not a waste of tape that this is not a waste of life so some people might give up right now some people might quit some people might try and vary the song a little bit some people might just set the guitar down take a break but i am not some people and i think they make mistakes who says this song is bad who says it doesn't work who says this is a waste who says this is stupid i am not sure if it is so mad the key is the effort that goes into it the key is the time and the patience the key is the little bit that ??? it the key is the vibration ??? get me to the ??? don't ??? the travis ??? ok i'm tired now can i put the guitar down i'm tired of singing ??? my necks when she gets back but the parking lot is dark there's no sign of her car so i remain in the hallway waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting... i guess i was hoping that repeating the same words several times could cause her to suddenly appear but moving like a pack mule through life doesn't always work moving like a tractor through life doesn't always work moving on your treadmill through life doesn't always work moving like travis through life doesn't always work so who is the ??? one the travis with the guitar or the travis with the watch who is counting more in this world the travis who plays or the travis who works who is gonna win the struggle the travis who plays or the travis who works who is gonna have the guitar the travis who's playing or the travis who is putting it away so he can work so he can do something other than bang this simple chord so that he can get a sense of having done something constructive for this time instead of banging on the same chord same chord, same chord, same chord ??? time ??? time but that is not the name of this song i said i would call it "auto eye moon" how can we spell "auto eye moon" is it "a u t o i m m u n e" or is it something else i don't know i don't know i don't know i am i am very tired right now my ??? hurting right now ok i see white she is here and i won i did what i would say and that is to play until she comes back
(c) 2004 Trex
Sock Hop
- Waiting track 11
- recorded: 2005-06-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:25
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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I was tired. And slightly tipsy. And negative about being forced to hang around kids and their parents.
Fortunately, the chorus is pretty catchy.
Lyrics to "Sock Hop":
today is the 10th of june 2005 i haven't touched the guitar in months i just went to a sock hop where it was really hot and loud and i had about a glass and a half plus plus plus of wine that half wine ended up being about 3 glasses no, i haven't really had that much but it is a friday heh heh heh ... there's something about fridays which ??? no matter what happens on friday what never happens on fridays and i cannot play and i cannot play anymore because i haven't played the guitar in so long let's try to make everything interesting after this i'm going to the sock hop, it's so hot i'm going to the sock hop, it's so loud i'm going to the sock hop, i hate it i gotta escape i'm going to the sock hop, it's so noisy ba ba ba ba ba ba ba 2 3 i'm going to the sock hop and it's so hot going to the sock hop and it's so noisy gotta leave gotta get home i'm going to sock hop, it's so bad going to sock hop, it makes me mad how the people just stuff their faces america's filled with pigs and white trash prigs going to the sock hop, it's lcd going to the sock hop, it's not for me so i head back home going to the sock hop, i can't play guitar going to the sock hop, i play like a retard but i try anyway 'cause i am travis and people at the sock hop are not i came back from the sock hop and i'm so bored saw a little kitty walking by the road said hey hey little kitty going to the sock hop, never again going to the sock hop is for stupid men who can play guitar 'cause guitar is a stupid instrument it's retarded and guitarists are stupid guitar is lowest denominominator or at least that's how i feel when i've had 1.5 plus .5 plus .5 plus .5 glass of wine getting drunk at the sock hop, giovanna's the bartender drunk at the sock hop, i don't know what rhymes with bartender i still don't know that is a verse is disposable this is a song that's disposablebleblebleble my arm is getting tired ok you can kill that verse that last verse you do not need to keep it in the song travis if you keep it in the song that means you just -- i don't know i can't bang on the guitar i have to actually strum now and my thumb is less dexterous than my wrist for masculine reasons take whatever is this the tempo i had before i feel like i'm patting a dog on the head going to the sock hop, never again going to the sock hop is for stupid men who drink budweiser going to the sock hop and it's so hot going to the sock hop, i though i said i'd never go again but now it's 2008 and i find myself going again for cataloguing reasons it's not really 2008 it's, today is june the 10th 2005 do not write 2008 for this tape i don't know what to sing about the sock hop don't know what to sing about the stupid sock hop stupid stupid
(c) 2005 Trex
Yesterway
- Electric Picks track 6
- Waiting track 12
- recorded: 2005-06-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 14:25
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Cool lyrical improv, all based on a slip of the tongue. The guitar is pretty cool too. The first few minutes are the best; after that, it sometimes feels like it's going on too long. Overall, I like this one.
Lyrics to "Yesterway":
today is june the 10th 2005 same day as yesterday i mean same day as the last song this is the same day as yesterday this is the same day as yesterday this is the same day as yesterday and i play it is the same way as yesterway it's the same way as yesterway i do it the same way as yesterday and i do it this way again i don't ??? anything this way never ??? anything this way i'm the same person this way again 'cause it's yesterway i do it the yesterway gotta have my yesterway to me it's the besterway some people might say that i never change some people might say that i'm always the same and some people might say that i'm slightly deranged 'cause i don't try to imitate 'cause i don't try to sing into the ??? it do it the way i want, which is yesterway in the army it'd be called the yessirway my tradition is called yesterway because it works that way for me for me for me for me i do it the yesterway playing the chords the same way don't practice anymore and the chords begin to bore but i still do it the yesterway yes i still do it the yesterway i know i'm being a pesterway but i don't know how to break this routine so i keep on doing it the yesterway keep playing the same 2 chords over and over again keep doing the same routine day after day keep singing about the westerway keep singing about the westerway keep talking about my westerway that's all i can see: the westerway and i keep improvising the same old way quality control doesn't enter the field today a little bit of editing doesn't happen this way no collaboration today 'cause i'm doing it travis' besterway the besterway it's my only way and i have 3.5 glasses of wine today 'cause that's my yesterway too i like to slurp a little, what's it called it's called the riesling and here i'm jangling the guitar momentum is not getting me very far inertia is the name of my car i think i'm going to have to stop playing because my neck hurts i watched the bird doing the yesterway speculating how it would be some other way yes my fingers bleed at the westerway and my thumbs get their callouses this way i get my callouses this way i do it my abilities this way i know it's so indulgent but that's ok 'cause yesterday i finished a song that i feel is ok it's not as bad as this one anyway its singing is much improved it has a speculative mood it's a good enough song and i have good enoug routines to carry one i have a good enough pattern it doesn't make me sadden it's called the yesterway it's the repeating things again it's what turns boys into men or at least turns them in their own own selves that was really dumb not every lyric can be a winner but only ??? are sinners i keep playing no matter how bad i sound because i feel internally proud eternally proud and it's all because of yesterway for me it's the only way gotta repeat and repeat and repeat it again eventually i'll get ??? something and the name of this routine is yesterway it is my besterway it's the only way that i know how to work and play it is the travis way it's called the yesterway [scat] so that's yesterday and it's called my yesterway it is the only way i know ??? to play repeat rerinse relather reshampoo your hair i say hair because it doesn't sound like hay and if you wash your hair 10 times a day then it will begin to feel like hay so i'm not that compulsive i'm not as bad as i could be is that consolation to me that i'm not soft like jodie that i'm not soft like jodie
(c) 2005 Trex
Late Again
- Waiting track 13
- recorded: 2005-06-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 13:36
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This starts off self-conscious and harsh, a horrible way to followup a cool song. But then it gets a decent beat going, and it doesn't suck as much.
It ends up being another marathon jam. My hands were blistered and bleeding by the time I was done, and my voice was completely shot.
Lyrics to "Late Again":
unless i get lucky there's not gonna be anything worth preserving listen, folks there is nothing that i can possibly play that would interest you this is a waste of tape a waste of tape, you hear? you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again ??? you're late again you're late again you're late again what do i do when you are late ??? i stand around and play the guitar what should i do what you are late what should i do, what should i do 'cause you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again what should i do on guitar what should i do on guitar you're late again you're late again you're late again guitar is too much for me handle i cannot play it anymore especially when i am drinking looking out the window and listening to the door but you're late again you're late again you're late again what should i do when you're late again you're late again you're late again and what should i do when you're late i know i cannot play guitar i can't play it, even play the piano i know i cannot strum very far my knuckled bleed, my blisters hurt but i can get the callouses get callouses get callouses 'cause i keep playing guitar 'cause you're late again you're late again until you come home i'll keep playing guitar i've got callouses you're late again got callouses why won't you come home my fingers hurt but you're late again i can't play anymore my fingers hurt but you're late again my voice is dead my voice is going dead this is called the bridge that was the bridge i gotta go back to what i'm doing 1 2 3 you're late again you're late again you're late again can you hear my feet stomping on the carpet can the neighbors downstairs hear them too why can i do please tell me when you're late what can i do, can't concentrade when you're late again you're late again you're late again confuses me when you're late again you're late again you're late again i should be used to it my callouses are building slowly if you're late enough soon i will be a guitar expert i maybe shouldn't have said that because if i say that you'll always be late again you're late again you're late again ??? you're late again late again late again you know my fingers bleed when you're late again late again you're again and my voice dies when you're late again you're late again you're late again there's a faucet dripping somewhere my voice is just about dead i don't know how i'll talk to you when you come home to bed i guess i'll have to improvise as my voice get weaker and weaker my thumbs will have dripping blisters pussing and internal fevers all because you're tardy you know what that means i've gotta play the chorus again you're late again you're late again you're late again look what you're doing to me you're late again you're late again you're late again you're killing me you're late again you're late again you're late again my ears hurt and you're late again you're late again there's not much spice left in me but you're not home yet so i cannot give up all i can do is try to pace myself it's the marathon of love i take this opportunity inspecting my bloody knuckles it reminds me of i guess i'm supposed to say uncles but i don't have any uncles that i think about very frequently all i think about frequently is what is right front of me and if i want to be right in front of me isn't here then that means she's late again she's late again she's late again it's hard on me she's late again she's late again she's late again i'm making so much noise that the neighbors must wonder what the heck is going on over there my knuckles are deteriorating they are literally bleeding bleeding, you hear and all because because you're not here that's right 1 2 1 2 3 you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again you're supposed to be my friend but you're late again you're supposed to be my friend you're late again you're not supposed to be your man you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again you're late again i thought you were my friend but you're late again you're late again you're late again and i thought i ??? you're late again you're late again you're late again and ??? you're late again you're late again you're late again my voice is ??? the tap continues to drip in the bathroom the parking lot continues to be vacant it's vacant, you hear my fingers continue to be perforated my voice continues to be dessicated my head is so dehydrated my ears are traumatized, traumatized ??? now you're gonna be inside in less than 2 minutes i played until you came home even though you were late
(c) 2005 Trex