Infantree

 

 

 

Meet The Gang

by Donald Fisher

Meet the gang…too bad for you it’s judgment day…you probably shouldn’t walk

away…’cos then the kids come out to play.

Meet the gang…that person with the funny name…oh things won’t ever be the

same…and for you it’s as if nothing’s changed.

I wont hide…even though I wish I could step outside…pretend that everything’s

all…right alright…pretend that everything’s alright.

Oh for you it’s oh so easy, for me what was I thinking, oh lord this ship is sinking so

fast…And nobody’s even talking but all the eyes are squawking at me, this room is

spinning so bad.

Why try?...It’s easy if you smile.

I offer you these friends for making but surely you’re mistaken that this was more

than shaking their hands…And like a puppet on a string, oh they’ll probably make

you sing, oh they’re probably gonna make you do a dance.

Why try?...It’s easy if you smile.

To and Fro:

by Alex Vojdani

If things didn't have to go the way they did I hope you know.

That I woulda tried not to lie about my folks.

And I hope you find some way to cope, yea.

Things didn't have to go the way they did I shoulda known.

You'd let the knots tie us up on their own.

Unrequited love withdrawn, again.

Well I bought this car in Boston.

Wondered what it costed.

Bought a car in Boston and she wondered what it cost him

asked me if I came here often so I popped her cherry blossom.

Searching through the city for a job or something pretty.

I miss my women and my money. Now I'm thinking what a pity.

And I'm hoping that you're gonna get to where you got to go to so bad.

And the hard times don't mean I'm giving up.

Hoping that you're gonna get to where you gotta go to so bad.

The hard times don't mean I'm giving up.

And the hard times don't mean I give at all.

When should we get tired alone, yea?

Or make ourselves at home, again.

Things could be better, I guess.

Things could have been worse again. AGAIN!!!!

Speak Up

by Donald Fisher

You can see me on a  movie screen except I don't mix well with a social scene

and when I see you and all the things you do and all the words you know wish I even had a clue

Speak Up

Nobody's ever listening to you

Talk Up

Somebody's bound to listen to you

You're running circles all around me 

While I sit in your shadow waiting for some company 

Someday you'll teach me the proper way to sing 

and how to hold my own and tell the world just what I think

Speak Up!

Nobody's ever listening to you

Talk Up!

Somebody's bound to listen to you

You're not the black sheep

You're the needle in the hay

What a lonely tale you're weaving

So just be yourself

be yourself

I think of all the lime light just waiting for these eyes 

instead I sit here thinking 'bout how hard I never tried

It wont be long till all the honey's dry and the sands of time have washed away my dreams in life

Rubbed Raw

by Alex Vojdani

If I didn't cause a commotion

would it help you throw a fit?

you give me cause for emotion 

can you tell me how to live?

I'm gonna rub you raw.  

I don't wanna set it in motion every time I gotta give

Were I to test your devotion 

It would be defective

and if I'm showing emotion 

It wouldn't be effective 

this is an ideo-motion   

made of shit we misgive

But I keep drinking the potion 

even look aggressive 

if you would give me a notion

or start to look admissive

I want to rub you raw, I'm gonna rub you.

Don't mean to hold it against you but you make it hard 

to understand your emotions

or where they end or start

over and over again

When things are getting hard you still want me you could be honest to god but you won't be 

happy with things when we don't speak

It's cause I'm scared of the world you think I'm joking

It's a fiery kind of fear when the coldest coasts are clear

acoustic radiation never disappears.

 Hypo 

by Matt Kronish

How strange, nothing's wrong with me

But I’m making things worse by thinking they were

So bad when I feel this way

Ask me what do I feel? Now what did I say?

See signs so they see-saw my

Mind enough to worry, but not sick enough to die

Lord knows I’m a lonely man, so low

Lord knows I’m a worried man, and it shows

Crowd in close so we can plainly see

The person causing my pain is mainly me

Won’t talk, won’t sit wouldn’t help me if I could

The fire in my heart is burning slow like wood

So be consumed but still be left alive

I know that’s gonna pass soon and I’ll be sick enough to die

Crack Upon the Ground

by Donald Fisher

Sitting on a bench so stiff, a crack beneath my feet,

Journeys across a path to walk, a path made of concrete.

Destiny plays a wondrous game should these feet ever greet

To know a crack upon the ground could make a match so sweet.

Dodge and twist through cluttered ground, find someone else to meet,

Ending upon a pair of shoes inside a pair of feet.

What's in store should I ignore and look the other way?

Nothing more, the same old boring each and every day.

Mourning Glory

by Alex Vojdani

Where you going?

I don't know but I don't want be here no longer no more

Got me thinking 

I could leave here forever if only they knew my struggle

I'm done knowing

And done thinking and living and breathing I'm going I'm gone

except I'm chicken 

I'm to scared what if there aint no heaven no hell I need warmth

I don't get worried if morning didn't come I wouldn't miss the sun

Now it's limbo

Cuz its already gotten this far and I'm carving a cut

you can't live forever 

if you did it'd be hard cuz you can't forget all the people

and friendly faces

But the same goes for dying

if you stick around you never know 

what's the story Mourning Glory don't fly it ain't safe in the sky for us crows

I don't get worried if morning didn't come I woudn't miss the sun

Slaughter House

by Matt Kronish

My friend says she knows a man who wants her to go with him

And I’m so glad I could see her, just to tell me she’s leaving

And her friends say they know the man who makes me look rife with sin

And I’m so mad I could see her just the way that she has been

In and out, slaughter house, send your doubts into the sea

The knife says she knows a can who makes her look right for tin

If I want to I can see her, and she knows what’s happening

I made another bad mistake, and it takes I told you so and just throws it out the window

In and out, slaughter house, send your doubts into the sea

Got your doubts, got my slaughter house but I said, “Ain’t no better money,”

Take my time it ain’t no sweat of mine, so I say “Some day you’ll think its funny,”

I can’t hang around I’m goin’ west and down (at the ground), straight to the heart of the sea

Got your doubts about my slaughter house, and I thought you were a smarter hussy

I guess it makes her feel real good, I guess that makes me feel O.K.

But if I acted like I should, I guess that feeling would go away

But I won’t be selfish; she ain’t the type that you hold out on

She’ll make a cloud so dark I’m bringing an umbrella, in the pines I’ll shiver all night long

Cloud of Sound:

by Alex Vojdani

Hey, I dont know where we went wrong

 about the things that make us feel happy and proud.

With all our hoping, we're still so far away.

 I forgot what I wanted to say.

 Do you feel safe babe? When I'm around

 to talk or sing or keep you from learning to doubt.

What am I really lucky to find?

Staring in the mirror is so bad that it made made you wish you were blind.

And when you walk outside it's unfamiliar.

Take me to the land that time forgot.

 Passed the freeways, trucks, and all the cars.

 There are stars like ours, there are stars.

Take me to a place that time forgave.

Homeward bound on the cloud of sound

and you still can't catch one wave. There are stars.

When you were young remember being taught

 to keep the dreams the others all forgot?

Sometimes these dreams seem to cost alot.

 But when the entertainer comes

you know you wont be thinking of the war or more

 of what they've got in store for the poor, or for you

In Line

by Matt Kronish

Since you told me your holy message, it’s the only message now

But they all told me how divine the rest is, “Not mine” I said out loud

Suppose I say it but I underplay it or I overstep this time

I get this feeling and I just can’t shake it ‘til I break and get in line

Do you wanna swap hearts? Do you wanna hold hands?

Cuz it’s tearing me apart when I know you got other plans

Impatient moments when I waited hours, those ill-fated hours were 

Some of the best ones I ever had so don’t feel bad if they weren’t 

That way for you but now you beg a second, I just want two seconds time

To tell you that a soul ain’t yours to beckon, if you’re mistaken reckon mine 

Water

by Alex Vojdani and Matt Kronish

I know where there's water

I know how to find

take me where the water lies

I don't want no fight

when all the sound you are hearing is mixing orchestrating sounds 'bout the way that you feel 

will you toy with the dream 'til its tired and tethered or just admit to yourself you know none of its real

you should have known the way it goes 

you didn't want to tell them that you don't know

not satisfied you're in you win 

you didn't want to tell them that you're involved 

in their artificial...

water's ebb and flow, it's just moving so slow

it can't expect itself to correct itself from turning the bend

but the doctors all know 

it just does it for show

it lost it's place in their artificial...

Everywhere you go is the same.

Everyone you know is the same

Everyone you meet is the same

In the game that we play.

Cover me now honey

I don't want no more

I'll be coming round 

knocking on your door 

Don't leave me.

If she could

by Donald Fisher

If she could be my savior

I would fall today

a pain that lasts forever, I won't feel a thing

if she could be my pillow

I would fall asleep

and there'd be no tomorrow 

cuz I'm stuck counting sheep

if she could

do those things

then I would

feel so complete 

If she could

be my only light 

I would see for miles

and nothing would be out of sight

except for when she smiles 

if she could

do those things

then I would

feel so complete 

If I could

make her mine

no feeling lonely if you could only know that

No more wasting all my time

you are my painting I'll be here waiting 'til you're dry

Is she could be my alibi

I'd settle the dispute

even when I'm telling lies 

You'd think I told the truth

If she could be my vision

I'll tell you what she'd see,

The girl that I've been wishing would someday notice me.

No One's Home

by Alex Vojdani

If I were to make you a proposition

Would you accept?

only under one condition

tell me the things that you can't tell no one

Thoughts that you've kept close to your chest

How long can you disguise how you feel with a song?

All day long, until you feel there's nothing wrong here!

Until the truth starts pouring.

Just like a storm

My thoughts, I'm torn

I guess I'm just nobody

I guess we're wrong to feel we belong

If I'm made of rubber than you're made of glue 

all your words bounce off of me and they get stuck back on you

Him he's growing the greenest of grass in the land

Head in the sand, hand over hand

I will rebuild 'til I have what you have

I'll be just like you when I steal your dreams right out from under you again

It seams the grass is greener 

just down the road

Someone's house no one's home

I guess there's just nobody

I guess we're wrong to feel we belong

"Work Horse"

by Alex Vojdani

My how you've grown.

So high, your such an adult.

And you'll be there, right?

When i need you most, you'll be a ghost.

Well lets be fair.

Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.

Yours, workhorse.

I'm blind. 

Blind, deaf, and dumb.

I can't hear you.

Cry. Cry. Cry.

I wont foresee this fight.

Fight for what's yours, or it wont be there.

Yours wont be there.

Start to see everyone you know, someone you only thought you knew.

When you start to see the ones you really think you know become the ones you truly only thought you knew.

Start to see everyone you know, you think you know?

Someone you only thought you knew, I thought you knew...

Give it up. Give it up. Give it up.

Give it all to me, yea.

I don't want it.

I just needed time to breathe and see things clearly.

Mine is yours and yours completed...

Mine is yours and yours completed...

MINE.