Noticed

      (Chiles/ St. Pierre)

and i just wanna be noticed by you...

 

Cubicle

    (St. Pierre)

5:00 p.m.

shut the computer down.

time to go home
and lay these old bones down.

my eyes are sore.

my hands are sore.

don’t think i can do this anymore.

but wait! i get paid real good,

and isn’t that all that matters anyway.

 

ooh i got a job to do.

but i don’t do it well.

so hard to think with all of these other fella’s giving me hell

 

so why do i work here if it makes me feel this way?

wishing every hour was 5 p.m. friday.

 

6:00

get home.

i call my girl up on the phone.

why she believes in me i’ll never know.

i tell her i need something new.

she says, “baby, you know just what to do”

God only knows what i’d be without you.

 

8:00

buzz beep

ripped from my lucid dreaming sleep.

i wake in a room and a world that’s dark and cold.

i shower and drive to a place i hate.

the cube is the trap

and the money’s the bait.

God only knows what i’d be without you

 

My Only Handle

    (St. Pierre)

i was wasting time down by the bay

waiting for my baby

my best friend pulled up to tell me the news

he looked scared, shaking in his shoes

he said, “your baby’s dead. her house blew up”

my first reaction was dude shut up

i looked up to the sky and i saw the smoke

and said, “damn, this ain't no joke”

 

well my baby’s gone

i can’t go on

i lost my only handle now i can’t hold on.

keep my feet on the ground

all my hope is unfound

not sure i really wanna live

without you around.

 

three days pass

a handles length in the dirt

i wanna puke when other girls start to flirt

the scent of your head still lingers on in my bed

not sure i really wanna live

with you being dead.

 

and it feels like i never will move on

and it feels like you’ll never want me to

 

8 months pass

i haven’t cried in awhile

sometimes i’ll go outside

sometimes i’ll smile

sometimes i’ll see something and think of you

sometimes i’ll laugh at the things we’d do

 

but i think it’s time to move on

deep down inside i know you’d want me too.

 

milli vanilli

 

Slinky

    (Chiles/ St. Pierre)

how come every time i look at you

everybody warns me about the things you can do?

i pay no mind cuz i’m none to bright.

i try not to listen.

i don’t take advice.

everyone must be really mean to say “you’re not nice”

 

our eyes meet from afar.

you smile and wave.

and unto you my heart became a slave.

everyday in your name i’ll shower and shave.

your name is grace.

how sweet the sound.

do you have the time to help this wretch get saved?

 

cuz everyone can tell i think your swell.

i just can’t hide.

and it won’t be easy growing old knowing i never tried.

and on the day that we find our love ain't true.

we’ll simply say good bye, and all alone i’ll cry over you.

 

Adrienne

    (St. Pierre)

last night at the smoke shop i met a girl named Adrienne.

she’s not like anyone i know.

i hope she’s not canadian.

 

adrienne

 

black skirt.

green apron.

adrienne please let me into your life.

you’re such a flirt.

my heart’s aching.

adrienne how would you be as a wife?

 

last night at the smoke shop with you

last night at the smoke shop with...

 

adrienne...oooh

 

Artificial

    (St. Pierre)

go to a party and i ask you out

2 weeks go by and i forget what it was all about

it was only artificial

and then i think of thoughts in my head,

trying to remember a couple of things you said.

i tend to be forgetful

 

happy out of my skull

but now i’m doing swell

and i don’t feel artificial

 

everyone’s got their thing

mine is wandering

i’m wondering why i’m here

so many patterns

i just can’t choose

so much to live for and still so much to lose

i hope it’s worth it

 

happy out of my head

glad that i’m not dead

 

try not to be so bad

try not to lose my head too

and if it all goes wrong

i still have you

 

goto a party and i ask you out

2 weeks go by and i forget what it was all about

it was only artificial

 

Forget You Not

    (St. Pierre)

girl, i love you

but there was a time i tried to leave you

 

to think i’d try to live my life

oh without you

and you watched as i fell apart

knowing soon i’d be back for your heart

 

secrets inside

i tried to hide.

but you, like God, have ways of knowing

 

took me by the chin

told me of my sin

i slumped down and stayed there for a month

 

how could i

live a lie

going on without you

freshly hurt with open arms

a victim of my girlish charms.

 

and the stars get jealous

as they see me admire the twinkle in your eyes

are you the one who’s been calling me all my little life?

guiding me like that which a shepherd does

bringing me in to where i belong.

 

 

so glad you agreed

to give me another another chance

so glad you smell good

glad you smile when you dance

you stayed true

through the good times and the strife

so glad you said yes

when i asked you to be my wife.

 

i’ll never try

to live that lie

cuz all is naught without you

a birdie from the future said to me

it’s you and i eternally

 

i love you.

 

Lullaby

    (Brahm/did he write the words too? probably not)

 

Twang Type Thang

    (St. Pierre)

 

 

 

 

 

all lyrics (with the exception of Lullaby) by Scott St. Pierre

lyrics reprinted with my own permission.

 

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