Cows on Hourglass Pond (and 10") Lyrics


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transcribed all of the lyrics for the lyricalcollective. please let me know if there are any inaccuracies and i'll edit this post :)

What's the Goodside?
Spoiler: show
I just step on the one

Feeding the bubble
Extending out in human space
Always touching everyone

Flying in a bubble
Seeing things through greens and panes
That's my shield, that's my design

I just step on the one

Feeding the bubble
Extending out in human space
Always touching everyone

Flying in a bubble
Seeing things through greens and panes
That's my shield, that's my design

Me and the bubble
Started as liquid, formed a core
Reacted to the wind blow

If I am a bubble
My moisture keeps me very good
Until I don't need it anymore

We're getting old now
Better keep it healthy
We're getting old now
Babies off the milking

Me and the bubble
Started as liquid, formed a core
Reacted to the wind blow

We're getting old now
Babies off the milking

Do you wanna graze here
At the aging hearts gone to this
It'll take some getting used to
But the aging heart's still warm in bliss
Woke up to a new song
Yesterday’s still rule
Digital distortion
Kissed her in my room

How's it going?
What's the goodside?
How's it going?
What's the goodside?

Are you catching all your sunsets
Drawing on your walls
Living in the moment
Drinking with the cows

How's it going?
What's the goodside?
How's it going?
What's the goodside?

I just step on the one

What is
Is
Is
Is

I can't even find it on a map
Eyes on Eyes
Spoiler: show
Woke up to a world of eyes
I do remember but wasn’t sure what I was looking into

Is it far?

Eyes on eyes, I thought you taught me
Don’t get caught, too tied to eyes
Eyes that frequently do cross me
Wake me up, I want your time
I can’t sleep, I gotta see them
I can see all kinds of eyes
Of all the eyes I could have seen
Oh, yours came beaming
I can’t look back
Now I’m changed in you

Now I’ve seen eyes look like rubies
I’ve watched them do their crimson crying
I’ve seen eyes so soft and soothing
Take me for a pleasure ride
Why’d you have to do that to me?
Make me forget all those eyes
Eyes that saw me like a movie
You removed me
I can’t look back at

Eyes that came from the good old days
They left me now
Though they saw me like a child
They’re floating now
While my days are burry-eyed
I saw your face
It hooked me up to a better world
I have seen it in your eyes, I do
And I’m changed in you

Eyes, eyes

Now eyes I should have never seen
Rise up from your daily dying
Give me comfort, let me leave
Cause some day your eyes might change my eye
One more look, just one more peep
Do you remember that sweet time when
I saw you see me in your eyes
I saw you see me in your eyes
I saw you see me in your eyes
I saw you see me in your eyes

Eyes that came from the good old days
They left me now
Though they saw me like a child
They’re floating now
While my days are burry-eyed
I saw your face
It hooked me up to a better world
I had seen it in your eyes, I do
And I’m changed in you
Eyes eyes eyes
Eyes eyes eyes
Eyes eyes eyes
Eyes eyes eyes
Nostalgia in Lemonade
Spoiler: show
A sweetheart drinking lemonade
In absence of the shade
It tingles spines like parrot pines
A sweat line on parade
On a blanket made with patches that describe the Zodiac
With a Norman Rockwell smile and some flowery summer flats
In a court where rubber balls bounce high above the baseball hats
I am running from my nose

My only lemonade

I’m driving in a snowy race
Your sunny dates are chased
Your couple wears some twisted straws
There’s gonna be some spills
And the ice that you chase after is the last thing in the glass
And the ritual of longing for a thing that doesn’t last
Now I’m losing all my focus
When my soul goes in the grass
I’ve worn too many clothes

My only lemonade
My only lemonade
My only lemonade
My only lemonade
Lemonade
Lemonade
Lemonade
Saturdays (Again)
Spoiler: show
Completeness dripping on a cake
The red the white the blue the opaque
Smoking off into a nothing
Some sweet reply's moving up out of the oven
The sense of a wonderful day
Sights will be exploding
What moves might try to fold out into an open
A brush and a nick and a push and a lick and
Things that I am hoping for you
And some do try to get a little superstitious
There's lots of cracks in many days
Also many wishes
But I don't know why they picked on Saturdays
Should be just like all the days
But I do know why I was never quite pushin for Mondays
Cause they remind me of those Saturdays
My how time flies, said my younger cousin
My how time flies, said my younger cousin
I turned to break through a southern pond
With the dragonflies he would buzz on
I turned to break through a southern pond
With the dragonflies he would buzz on
But I don't know why they picked on Saturdays
Should be just like all the days
But I do know why I was never quite pushin for Mondays
Cause they remind me of those Saturdays
Completeness
Saturday
Completeness
K.C. Yours
Spoiler: show
Where were the dogs
Where were the dogs
Where were

That was the year I slept with the robot
The snow out back was the worst we’d seen yet
KC exploded, but that was suspected
The noise on the screen was caused by KC
Us and KC
Every night at dinner
And I just laughed at the entertainment
24/7
Do you have troubles?
KC’s yours
And KC’s coming home

How can you feel
Time without roads
In a new place to be
Time without roads

Another lime or lemon
Cut with the finest ease
And you’re on the road downtown

Then there used to be roads
Machine don’t break my heart
Just swallow the wine that’s living
If only we’d get back by breathing
Afraid to get lost in the dark

Up in the reaches
In space they say it’s quiet
I’ll never know though
KC is a robot
What is important
KC stayed warm outside while we froze to the bone

How can it feel
Time without roads
In a new place to be
Time without roads

Down in the grime they did it
Fixed for your kind of needs
You get your needs unwound

It’s the lone ranger, the lone ranger’s finally here to stop it, the lone ranger’s here to save the day, it’s the lone ranger, the lone ranger’s coming

KC’s coming, can’t you hear it like the crying wind?
Up there, even the airplanes are turning in
Flipped over like a train of consorts
Dropped off at the robot bus stop

KC’s coming, can’t you hear it like the crying wind?
Up there, even the airplanes are turning in
Flipped over like a train of consorts
Dropped off at the robot bus stop

It'll blow you down
Fire in the air
Higher in the air
Is there land down there?

It'll blow you down
Flyer in the air
Higher in the air
Is there land down there?

KC’s coming, can’t you hear it like the crying wind?
Up there, even the airplanes are turning in
Flipped over like a train of consorts
Dropped off at the robot bus stop

KC’s coming, can’t you hear it like the crying wind?
Up there, even the airplanes are turning in
Flipped over like a train of consorts
Dropped off at the robot bus stop

It'll blow you down
Higher in the air
Liar in the air
Is there land down there?

It'll blow you down
Higher in the air
Liar in the air
Is there land down there?

KC KC KC KC

KC’s coming, can’t you hear it like the crying wind?
Up there, even the airplanes are turning in
Flipped over like a train of consorts
Dropped off at the robot bus stop
Our Little Chapter
Spoiler: show
A friend, you have many names
I want to call you
I speak ‘em each day
A friend
I can’t say till when
The bond picks a start
And I ponder the end

A friend can give and can suck
We’ll wander and wonder
Make distance in love
A friend reminds me to sweat
For stepping on a pexus
Brightly lit land

And you call me friend
And our heads begin to think about life
Without you and me
Our little chapter
Our little chapter

A friend can’t start again
Our teeth holding onto our ears and our limbs
A friend gets misunderstood
Is high with the kindness that breaks with the rude
A friend climbed on a wire
To relight my torch when I had lost the fire
A friend gets lost in the night
When hearts go a-poking
And love picks a fight

And then you call me friend
And our heads begin to think about life
Without you and me
Our little chapter
Our little chapter
And then you call me friend
And our heads begin to think about life
Without you and me
Our little chapter
Our little chapter
Our little chapter
Our little chapter
My mind keeps sipping
From the things we’ve collected
My mind keeps sipping
From the things we’ve collected
My mind keeps expanding (If i could stop my mind)
From the things we’ve collected (from getting thirstier)
My mind keeps expanding (If I could stop my mind)
The things we'll find
Taken Boy
Spoiler: show
Dolly
The dog that lives in the woods makes me jealous
If I could be running like she by the cold stream
Then I wouldn't be sitting with drinks at your table
Mentioning words understood

I was taken by a taken girl
By a taken girl, I mean a taken world
Will it always be what we think it should be?
Will reality stay a mystery?
But it's taken
Oh my aching boy
It's my dream of choice
It's awakening me
But it never was
Only was in dreams
All its pretty things are taken

Downers
That's something she doesn't see fitting in her life
But then, how could you, after you heard all the stories?
And then someone says "people can see all dimensions"
And he runs off, kissing the trees

And I'm taken by a taken girl
By a taken girl, I mean a taken world
Will it always be what we think it should be?
Will realities stay a mystery?
But she's taken
Oh my aching boy
She's my dream of choice
She's awakening me
But it never was
Only was in dreams
All her pretty things
To be taken boy
Remember Mayan
Spoiler: show
Remember Mayan
Future is being right now
Angels can’t pull ‘em down
Makes snow cows
Made in the drifting clouds

Remember Mayan
Antique of the jungle and summer man
Knife of obsidian
Rain on sand and holding your head in your hands

I can see them smiling
What a thing to be called king
What a thing to be called king

Now I feel like I’m wearing a kitty
Asleep by the fire
Let ‘em know I’ll follow with you
Let ‘em know I’ll follow with you
We’ll meet in the rafters
We’ll meet in the rafters

Remember Mayan
Future is being right now
Angels can’t tell ‘em down
Make snow cows
Made in the drifting clouds

Remember Mayan
Antique of the jungle and summer man
Knife of obsidian
Rain on sand and holding your head in your hands

I can see them smiling
What a thing to be called king
What a thing to be called king
What a thing to be called king
What a thing to be called king
What a thing to be called king
What a thing to be called king

That happens when I sleep too long
Rewind it cause you can’t have a first time
That happens when I sleep too long
You rewind it cause you can’t have a first time

I’ll dream of your portrait
Asleep by the fire
I’ll dream of your portrait
Asleep by the fire
I’ll dream of your portrait
Asleep by the fire
HORS_
Spoiler: show
Horse you left yourself at the beginning
That's the place they said that we would fall
Now HORSE is just game out there for winning
Horses in a field sweeping the moss
She ran out, she thought she heard them whinny
I don't think I'd jump a horse, nuh-uh
Some just see four-legged foals for petting
Horses in a stall chewing on straw
Our modern tweekers, they don't need their horses
Some horses for an apple they will part
Cause we ascended from the time of horses
I wondered if the horses miss their job
I am horse story
I am a whole story
I am horse story
I am an old story
Tipped in Hugs
Spoiler: show
I’m helpless on the breeze
But I shouldn’t mind
Losing the time’s answer
I can be quite revealing
Some lose to a friend
Some little sprints of time
It’s not just what I find
But how all the lines change during time’s trends
The time is worth repeating
I’m tapping in time
Wrote a song
Wrote it good, friend

These days I don’t waste time
Time to change right on time
These days I don’t change the time
But I embrace, I embrace, man
These days I can take the time
Some spend their time online
Till they can’t even make the time
To live a life, live a lifetime
Live a life, live a lifetime

Who rose
And wants peace of mind
But can’t unlock this plan
No key
For the solid hand
Hid in pockets
And tipped in hugs

Our time was in the trees
Chasing the sun
The sun is a time-tracer
Erasing all the teeth
Till I’m with Eden
But you can’t go back in time
Those people moving by
You ask how they are
They say they wish they had more time
I walked across the city
And I could find a drink
But time only knows why

But these days I don’t waste time
Time to change right on time
These days I don’t change the time
But I embrace, I embrace, man
These days I can take the time
Some spend their time online
Till they can’t even make the time
To live a life, live a lifetime
Live a life, live a lifetime

Who rose
And wants peace of mind
But can’t unlock this plan
No key
For the solid hand
Hid in pockets
And tipped in hugs

Who rose
And wants peace of mind
But can’t unlock this plan
No key
For the solid hand
Hid in pockets
And tipped in hugs
Dog Says Goodbye
Spoiler: show
I took my dog out
To the loud fun falls
At the falls
He’d find laughter
And would run
At the falls
But his collar did tighten
When he ran to the car
Said the sound
Is an earful
And to think we
Drove it too far
And I think you’ve lost all your feeling
I can’t win
Mind is implying
Just an archer
They will float again
In time
My dog sat me down
In a cold eating hall
Where the men
Stuff their faces
And the chatter
Fights the walls
His teeth did bite down
And he stared into me
He said the proper love
Is not these places
But instead
My company
Man I think I lost all your feeling
Why can’t we go
Cause I had no belongings
And I'd rather
Be alone
Forever
Last edited by dud on Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:29 am, edited 18 times in total.
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nice!
one i'm quite sure of is the one line in 'goodside': "started as liquid, formed a core" it's clearer on some of the boots but I don't think it's been changed....the line after I always assumed was "window" but that doesn't really make sense....probably "wind blow"

also, i could swear there used to be a direct link to the lyric wiki from somewhere on here, I had to google to get to it....might be good if we could get a stickied post in this sub just with a link and some info about editing or something, since it's hosted on ca
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^agreed!

thanks for the goodside contribution, edited above post :)
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On KC yours... pretty sure it’s “cut with the finest ease”.
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I think the line in HORS_ is "I've wondered if the horses miss their job"
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nice, agree w both, thanks! edited
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yesss time to listen to the album n read along finally

here's what i think:

WHATS THE GOODSIDE

Babies are [for ?????] --> for milking
[grace it] --> graze here
[Didja ?????] --> Digital distortion?
Drying on your walls --> Drawing on your walls
Dreaming with the cows --> Drinking with the cows

REMEMBER MAYAN
Life of obsidian --> knife of obsidian
Rain comes and --> Rain on sand


as a side note i miss the old ono lemonade lyrics. the new ones are good but the tour vers conveyed a totally different setting that i really loved.
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"we're getting old now, babies off the milking" for sure :) :) :)
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perfect! goodside is complete now thanks to both of yall
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On KC yours I’m hearing “it’ll blow you down” and “is there land down there”
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im hearing “I am a whole story” in HORS_ instead of “horse story”
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yall are correct! edited
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fuji wrote:
as a side note i miss the old ono lemonade lyrics. the new ones are good but the tour vers conveyed a totally different setting that i really loved.

agreed, i love the new lyrics, especially the latter half of the second verse, but i miss the kind of whimsical fairy tale vibe that the original lyrics had
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maybe "i heard an old story"?
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i def hear 'i am' rather than i heard but i think it is 'old story!'
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after seeing him live on saturday, i think the "i just step on the one" in goodside may actually be:

"i just dip in the wand" or "i just slip in the wand"

?? perhaps ??

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For "Nostalgia in Lemonade", I hear him sometimes saying "my only remedy" and sometimes "my only lemonade". I was hearing "remedy" when I saw it played live, for what it's worth.

Digging into that lyric a bit, nostalgia can be thought of as a remedy for dealing with a present that is unsatisfactory, like a sun that's too hot without a shade to better appreciate the warmth. Like lemonade though, it's both sweet and sour, in that it brings some comfort but recalling the past doesn't have the same luster when the past was the present. It's a lemon-aid. It helps but it also stings.

*edit, nevermind, I don't think it's remedy anymore >.<
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Also, I suspect it's "tingles spines like berried pines", referring to something like juniper berries.
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Nice, thanks for this

Also - In Tipped in Hugs, I hear it as:
Dipped in pockets, and tipped in hugs

-but could just be my ears
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My impression of Saturdays (Again):

This song describes a family gathering on Saturday. There's cake candle pegs "smoking up in a nothing". Scents of sweets out the oven. Getting pushed in a lake. Acting silly, making moves that "fold out in the open". A pond with dragon flies that buzzes on.

Avey wonders why we divide our days into Monday, Tuesday, ..., Saturday. With Saturdays, there's a "completeness" that should be there for "all the days". Mondays are never "magical" because they're contrasted by the idyllic Saturdays, and time seems to fly because Saturdays are a short moment in the week.

"There's cracks in many days, oh so many wishes" - you can imagine making a wish for Saturdays being all the days when blowing out the candles. The pond with the dragon fly buzzing is always there, but Saturdays are more like the candles burning into nothing.

The lyrics remind me of Who Wellses in My Hoff from Pullhair Rubeye.
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