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Moonlight Girls

by High on Stress

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1.
I'm leaving your apartment but I want to go in reverse things have gone from bad to worse She speaks to Jesus every night while I try to get things right while I try to make me right And you wonder what is wrong with me tell me cuz I'd like to know tired of everyone I used to be I'm tired and over you tired and over you...my love You're a freight train with understated makeup with our overstated break-up You send me back to go And October has grown so long and tired all the words that you've inspired have run out of weight
2.
She's got the eyeliner blues and dead heroes with black tattoos Only women bleed What the hell does that mean? I don't know Must be something they say Screw the details of feeling sorry for yourself you can't beat it you're the last to know and the last to let things go The radio is playing the Ashtray Heart Highway wires all tied in nots You missed the summer of rock n' roll And all the people that you used to know She's got a Keith Richards poster on her bedroom wall Makes her feel so warm, so invincible Coffee shops and beat up cars rainy nights and the sweethearts of the teenage scars no one writes letters anymore they just fade away and leave this place behind
3.
Cash Machine 02:26
Moonlight Girls make their weather while the jukebox plays lets spend the night together U.S.A. talent equals pretty turn off the tv, the shit is killing me It's a cash machine advance don't it make you want to dance survival left to chance Where's it go when the money's gone try to figure out where the hell I want wrong Half is spent before I pay the rent Half is spent before the money's sent don't it make your blue eyes red? Moonlight Girls go home in fancy cars after all night parties drinking at the hip hop bars I go home, Studio 24 Jack of hearts sleeping on the floor
4.
Gold Star 04:49
Sometimes you have to let go to find out what you're looking for with your car crash romances and a year in review what's happening to you Now I'm falling in love with the idea idea being in love and it all goes back to you What's on the menu for a broken heart? Gold Star for the meaning of life and I can't believe the things that are happening to me Gold Star for the meaning of life Work and taxes loads and loads of faxes rock n' roll dreamer of dreams loyalty fades and sympathy gleams traffic lights detect it you come to expect it the dark comedy of love and life year in review
5.
I call home at midnight every morning from deep inside the Harris County jail Answer back and echo and a warning You've got a lot of nerve boy You've got a lot of gall You've got a lot of time to have it all Twenty one year's old and look at me crying Mama don't bring my little boy here today Sick of all of my shit and he's sick of me lying Call you every morning boy can't you hear me scream Am I just an echo in your dreams? Deep inside me I know everyone wants to feel a little like me Bury my soul on the side of the road and set my conscience clean These consequences are catching on fast like a water to a stream We've got a lot of time to have it all Alcohol can make you feel uneasy Never been all that you wanted her to be Have you ever watched a man stop breathing Than you ain't never been high boy You ain't never been stoned Until you suddenly find yourself alone
6.
Sleeping in the backs of cars wonder where we go when we say too much do you think we're ever gonna work it out you really don't have much to give I'll remember that as long as I live do you think we're ever gonna work it out do you think we're ever gonna see it through and I'll be alright just for tonight and you'll be high high as a kite just for tonight Telephone says I'm alone telling me another bird has flown do you think we're ever gonna work it out Crying in the backs of cars Sleeping in the skyway between the bars do you think we're ever gonna work it out do you think we're ever gonna see it through When dreams lose out to memories one of these days you'll see things my way and love, love took a year from me one of these days we'll see it again
7.
Minot 03:02
I've got no love for my hometown 500 miles isn't far enough to run You're so carefree you can't judge me delusions make me feel so nice can you still breathe? I don't need your lessons to learn throw in the towel before I get burned This is an ode to cover bands bad punk rock and a town I can't stand Standards I can't relate I don't believe in that anymore I guess I'll sit it out Feeling sick Feeling well The same thing that kept me high Brought me down
8.
Take a picture and let it go in the folds of your wallet that let you know that what you've had has been replaced all the lives that you have led some expanded and some are dead but it feels so good to like yourself again It's hard enough to break (more than I can take) it's hard enough to break (more than I can take) It's hard enough to break You better give it away Here it comes again don't you see it It's the attitude you take with me So give me a new address and get me away from your mess A pill to make you function An attitude adjustment A smile from your replacement That is all you need
9.
Baby wears low rise jeans Lives in a high rise in midtown cold kisses in the corn fields tonight And they take you for a ride Down the avenues and alleyways and dead ends Motor cars run out of gas Lightrail runs out of tracks It's times like these I get weak in the knees and my stomach hurts like hell I guess I should learn to live with this burn and start moving on myself You're just like a cloud Baby likes to keep in touch With my memories and answering machine I lost my confidence To past acquaintances and broken down old taxi cabs You're just like a cloud You come and go And you rain
10.
1995 03:30
She comes to me like broken glass Heart half empty, fading fast She's got "Girls Can Tell" on her stereo Spinning round and round to "Chicago at Night" She knows what I'm after and she's gone, before the sun She's on the telephone Whispering sweet nothings Feel like an asshole I'm probably right There's no connection Karma sets in Tossed to the side like 1995 Never told me it would be like this It all started with a kiss Got me into this She comes to me like broken glass Heart half empty, fading fast
11.
I won't let you break Your voice makes me shake I'm gonna give you away I'm in charge, up to my neck in your debt Keep away from me Keep away from me I've got a postcard that says breathe Breaking the patterns where nothing really matters ain't that easy to break Habits are built, sweet cherry guilt is gonna take you away darling breathe darling When you go to sleep Miss Amphetamine Miss Amphetamine
12.
Guess you're finally gone no more nothing's wrong I guess I was naive to think we'd have a family someday. Can't say I didn't see it coming Doesn't make it hurt any less Shadows on the wall "Clocks" in the air Can't hear nothing Now that you're gone Get up and read the news and shake away these dusty blues from you I guess there's nothing I can say but lay here and stay awake Thinking of you She says I still love you Just not the way that you want me to She says she still cares But how am I supposed to feel When you've said that all along

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High on Stress is:
Nick Leet - vocals, guitar, organ
Mark Devaraj - drums, percussion, guitar
Jon Tranberry - bass, organ, backing vocals, guitar
Ben "Country" Baker - vocals, guitar, organ, lap steel, harmonica

Special Guests:
Mike Brady - banjo
Jim Anglo - guitar
Elliot Hilton - piano
Rev. Matt Marohl - pedal steel

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released July 15, 2005

Layout by Ben "Country" Baker
Produced by High on Stress
Engineered by Jon Tranberry
Recorded at OBT Studio in Champlin, MN
Cover Photo by Scott Schoeberl

All songs by Nick Leet except "You Have Conversations with Jesus (Leet/Baker), "Eyeliner Blues" (Leet/Devaraj), "Gold Star" and "Minot" (Leet/Tranberry), "My Former Life on the Cutting Room Floor" (Leet/Wagoner) and "Harris County" (Baker)

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