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Fight Songs

by M/S Ride

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1.
Cooky 03:40
I was wrong, you were right, you can spell it how you like Common sense be damned, full speed ahead Conventions never were your thing Type those pretty thoughts into the night Talking hard I used “proscribe,” you called me out You know I love to argue, babe I don’t take prisoners but I’ll fight you fair Maybe I’m the lunatic you’re looking for I don’t need to win, don’t ever walk away from an honest debate Hey, it doesn’t matter, doesn’t mean a thing When did we stop having fun in here? My heart, I’m yours And your sketchy spelling doesn’t change a thing about us Trust me when I tell you She doesn’t know your name, I didn’t tell her who was Talking like a cookbook from the fifties I just said you were a friend Anonymous as ever at my job, slacking off Can we sharpen wits without it being hurtful? God, I hope so Kid, I need to feel we’re cool with repartee Holding back holds us apart So are you coming out tonight? I want to sing, run my hands through your hair Your taste is like a tide that’s sweeping over me When did this become a fight worth fighting? Love, I’m yours And your quiet, casting eyes don’t change a thing about us Cowboys, Beastie Boys, crazy boys All have a better claim with you than I can make my case for Love, the dictionary has defeated me We lost the battle, let’s win the war I wuz rong U wer rite Fuckin u kan spel it how u lyke ‘Cause I don’t need to win, don’t ever walk away From an honest debate Babe, it doesn’t matter, doesn’t mean a thing When did we stop having fun in here? My heart, I’m yours And your quiet, casting eyes don’t change a thing about us Trust me when I tell you My heart, I’m yours And your sketchy spelling doesn’t change a thing about us
2.
Trouble, all the hours blown Aside Because I know I’ll feel, when I See you for the last time Tonight we believe The weight of every single line I don’t want to say another word Tonight All the years we spent believing That you heard Was I wrong, wrong? Break it down, I find it takes more than a Fight to turn around Yeah, you know I think The worst possibilities In dreams, I pretend Have a chance at anything Trouble, all the hours blown Aside Taking all the strength we know Yeah, it shows I know I’ll feel, when I See you for the last time Tonight I believe The weight of everything Someone told me love was just a Game we play Nights we wasted fighting over Little things I try To let you in somehow Tonight there is hope To win at something real They’re gone, gone Tell myself there’s nothing gained by getting Wrapped into a bind Yeah I know Somehow Some way Got me wrapped into a bind Yeah I know Trouble All the hours blown Aside Taking All the strength we know Yeah it shows It shows To be received And say goodbye to past lives Remain to see The death of setting suns I know I’ll feel, when I See you for the last time Tonight we believe The weight of every line The weight of every line
3.
Write a thousand words to find the three with feeling And you said you wanted more Could you be the person who you hoped was in you? When the message comes? Tidal waves are rolling higher every week here We see the change Kid, we cannot keep on doing what we’re doing We have to escape All the time that I would spend to find a reason When you had enough, yeah Becoming heroes couldn’t reach the love we needed Like a hurricane extended by the climate The pressure’s worse I don’t need to know exactly how you see it Well, I see it in myself Coming closer, chasing down the days Breaking over the shore All the time that I would spend to find a reason When you had enough, yeah Becoming heroes couldn’t reach the love we needed All the time that I would spend to learn your heart Becoming heroes couldn’t reach the love we needed Tell myself to breathe, you tell yourself to breathe… All the time that I would spend to find a reason When you had enough, yeah Becoming heroes couldn’t reach the love we needed All the time that I would spend to learn your heart Write a thousand words to find the three with feeling All the time that I would spend to find a reason, a reason
4.
Lost f Drew 04:34
An invitation found me there In the mail, yesterday Pile’s been piling up a while I’ll admit, missed the date I don’t want to fake this! Someone make me scream real loud Wake me to my friends and loves Claim me back from the crowd When you’re lost, lost, lost What’s in my eyes that you can’t find what you’re after? Yeah we talk, talk, talk But I can’t calm with words the anxious voice of your darkest heart Jackets gather in the hills On the banks, by the sand Bells for Mo and beers for us But I’m at home, road be damned Ask me where my head is Do you think I’m getting old? Grant me breath enough to speak Give me spark, give me soul When you’re lost… Given I’m near fifty, could I still look like love to you? Rock your answer steady, static in the signal’s tune
5.
“Autumn Walker” played in the car Driving for the change, change of heart January, February Like four hundred days in a row April and May, grinding away I don’t want to hurt any more Dreams, returning worse than before Love, where are you? A day’s just a day
6.
Voice in my heart tells a story “One foot in front of the other, now you’re all alone” Oh-whoah “Sinking is easy” the siren sings “Walk off the edge with a wave, I’ll take you home” Oh-whoah So you want to know this one thing I can’t stand to tell you how All the music in my mind is Building like a silent sound On the verge of going nowhere Let me find another route Where it wouldn’t be so hard to love Whisper of wings on my shoulder Charming the wind, tears of anger, and I’m lost Oh-whoah Won’t let you reach through the blackest rain Taking my time with the words you can never see Oh-whoah So you want to know this one thing… Into my head, I am dead as I fly toward the ground Fantasy’s sweet but it keeps me from being around, around Hey, tell me what am I doing here? Hiding the worst from your touch, your touch? So you want to know this one thing…
7.
Come here, heart You would be dressed for the occasion No use to pretend we’re something different than we are I’m not the fight you may have wanted Fewer rings our second year, and more of cooking in But I can hope that we could be the fight you will have chosen It’s not a win or losing thing, if you’ll do me the honor Love, I see How you ache to hear the standards It had to be you loving those old lines, as if a million others Never fell for them Never fell for them When I can make the words my own, you’ll be the first to hear them And everything you care to know has been between us Since I saw you, love On the steps in May
8.
Doo doot doo… Wrap yourself up, tumble down the stairs Hey sleepyhead, your coffee’s ready Like a normal week we’ve shared each other’s bed, But it doesn’t look like you’ve been resting When you sit, love, and you stare When I’m itching to get up and move around, read or play How do we meet this moment? Without a recipe or film, and when we feel exhausted? Doo doot doo… What’s it take to change my house into a home? Is a book enough, need to leave a pair of shoes? …I didn’t mean it like that! Kid, you know I’m struggling here, throw me something! Yeah, I know I hide on the net when I could entertain But the question’s how to save a space for two to tangle In spite of the claims we recognize Love could be our rhythm, our religion, our fighting words Separate, ever reuniting, blessed tonight in Math and Mango Name and try to name again what keeps us going on Something in the way she moves Here’s to Thursday and champagne at ten a.m. Sleepy heads and sexy boots
9.
Esté wants to leave right now Says her friend will be in town Esté needs a ride to Lake Cloud Wasted all the time she had to spend alone Bottles and her brushes on the kitchen floor Saving some defiance for the scene at home Esté wants to leave right now Says she knows a party house Esté isn’t making a sound I’ve been tied up inside the alcohol Waiting for someone to overcome it all Faces turn silent while I walk it off Esté wants to leave right now Says she’s sick of hanging out Esté’s got to get to her crowd Motoring, cascading light I need to learn Miles melt misanthropy for once Esté wants to leave right now Says she’ll take your number down Esté isn’t waiting around
10.
The greatest by far Down on Deloney Street The greatest by far, yeah she was… Outside Xenophan better straighten your eyes Put a punch in your step You’re only human They see right through you She talks, pulling back reactionist lies And colonist crimes Saying “There’s blood on your hands” Blood on my hands The greatest by far… Destroyed – Pieces that will never fit – Broken in I’m better for her, better for her We walk, cross each other constantly But I never speak There’s so many words Too many words
11.
I wanted to fill an emptiness Waited so long Opening up the heart of us And laying it out Maybe this one, maybe this one, maybe this one… Took a few years to go for it Getting it right Yeah, I just survive the days Until you arrive to stay Saying it once, you realize How wild it sounds Taking its time, taking its time, taking its time… Where is a line? Is there a moment when you walk away? I want to give in, want to be great I want you to shine But I just survive the days…
12.
You don’t know me like you think When money’s short When jobs are drying up, I can do anything Look the other way, keep breathing I will come back for Miles some day Back with meds bought Compromised and doubled down Things I’ve done, lines that I have crossed People left to bleed out Running, crying, stealing, lying I will come back for Miles some day… She lies in the sun Keeping her time ‘til I’m done I will come back for Miles some day… She lies, and I’m done
13.
Don’t get me wrong if I keep to my own Doesn’t mean we’re not… And “missing” is weird to me, what can I say? It’s not like I can change But every Bonnie that I chance Catches a glimpse that makes me miss a breath and doesn’t have a name Leaves a wake Looks like you’re having a hell of a time With the hedge and the car I’ll get to Douglas as soon as I can Hope the air isn’t rough Like the times when the grief got overwhelming I get scared I’ll be on my own There are moments that you shine through the nothing And the light is enough to hold

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Purchasing "Fight Songs" gives you two bonus tracks: "Speed Lab" featuring Tim, and "Fight Song (naked - guide take 7)."

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released November 1, 2022

for CA

Cory Kibler - hyperfollow.com/VRandG
Drew Rudebusch - darksatellites.bandcamp.com
Scott Morris - mrfuriousrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-for-voice
Rob Spectre - brooklynhacker.com
Aaron Traffas - aarontraffasband.com
Nate Holt - linktr.ee/asteralesmusic
Tim Gillespie - www.facebook.com/tjgillespie

Recorded by Howie in the laundry room, Jan 2020 - Sept 2022.

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