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Natty Bo
02:40
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The doctor said the dream is dead
the yoga waif went home and read
the ax man wrote a note that said
for a limited time only
i don’t know why the FBI
is up inside my service provider
UFOS, church clothes, juice fast, dance slow
I am a witch lighting a fire
I am a witch lighting a fire
I am a witch lighting a fire
lighting a fire
Natty Bo’s the beer
look into the mirror
answer me my dear
tell me that your near
no one ever told me
you’d be so faraway
from here
Slumlord this is summer
summer this is thunder
get naked in the sacred lake
stay awake and take a number
that actress told me don’t go
you already know that horror show
don’t make me say I told you so
don’t make me say I told you so
Natty Bo’s the beer
look into the mirror
answer me my dear
tell me that your near
no one ever told me
you’d be so faraway
from here
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Cult Leader
03:29
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I don’t carry in my pocket a piece of paper with my name and number printed on it
maybe I should or maybe it’s good we don’t need to fall in love
right this minute we’re just talking
I woke up early in the morning the sun was shining in the sky on the town that i was born in
back before these vigilantes told the cops that Jesus died and left them California
It’s been so long since I’ve been home even though three years ago
a lawyer called and said you’ve got one of your own
what good is some one’s shelter if one shelters there alone
All the way up from Laguna through Santa Cruz to Petaluma
I imagined all my friends and I could run away
but they don’t feel you trick or treater when your costume is cult leader
your wide eyed brides all vandalized my cemetery stones
I know there’s places we can’t go I never asked to be followed
as if this crazy message was the love we’ve never shown
what good is some one’s shelter if one shelters there alone
I don’t carry in my pocket a piece of paper with my name and number printed on it
maybe I should or maybe it’s good we don’t need to fall in love
right this minute we’re just talking
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Zombie Killer
03:29
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Turn off your TV if you want to kill the zombies
Take off both your shoes and go find the nearest beach
Open both your eyes and look out for your mother
Tell her with your face you don't know how good you look
She might answer back I'm afraid that you don't see me
I'm everything you are and I'm always changing form
I'm a frozen solid lake in the deadly cold of winter
I'm an old and tired tree to a summer thunderstorm
If only everyone could be at peace with whoever you might be
We'd never need to believe or be seen by anyone at all
I saw a teenage girl who was bewitched by commercials
if you don't get what you want then abandon all self worth
She grew up to be old and went to see a therapist
It's amazing what today some people do for work
Turn off your TV if you want to kill the zombies
Take off both your shoes and go find the nearest beach
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I Don't Need Occult
01:29
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I don’t need a cult
Not a leader of a cult
I’m a difficult adult
I’m occult
I woke up on a dirt floor
Like I did the day before
Faraway from Baltimore
In World War I they made guns
Faster than anyone ever had before
for a war
Go on tomb raiders raise a flag and shoot your neighbors
Get your name in space age papers take a wife and tip your waiter
the catholic church was an empire at first until the course of greed reversed
and the word of god got cursed
Repeat first verse
I don’t need a cult
Not a leader of a cult
I’m a difficult adult
I’m occult (3x)
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La Escondida
03:12
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There is no glass inside your windows
There is no pavement on your streets
and in your eyes I see the look of something wild
I see it every time we meet
You play your music loud I read by the light of a candle
It isn’t easy not to stare
You told me baby take the weight of the world off your shoulders
I want to take you everywhere
I’m playing here right now just waiting for your message
I’d be surprised if it ever arrives
Go ahead take your shot skull face I still wake up every morning
And can’t believe that I’m alive
If you want to find me I’ll be all alone out in the open
Let the people talk I do not care
I’ve seen the bright lights but no one ever told me
I want to take you everywhere
Dream on
That crazy reason that you breath on
Can’t even see you’re out of reach sun
I keep on preaching like a beach bum
Even though you’re far away
Away
My grandfather’s dead but he looks like the police captain
Standing in the moonlight as he waves
My father is dead but I can see Ruben and his son together
Looking so handsome and so grave
And as for you girl I know you have so many choices
If you ever choose to make a pair
I’m far from home I know it’s bold of me to tell you
I want to take you everywhere
I want to take you everywhere
I want to take you everywhere
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i try not to pay much attention
to what other people all say
whenever you get what you want
with a trick you just give it away
all that you see is a number
nearer or farther from to one
the longer i spend to compare them
the more that I feel like I’m dumb
as the gleam in the eye of a blindfolded child
who gets paid by the inch while she looks like five miles
that I’d walk through with no shoes
across property lines til the end of time
do I look like i do what I’m supposed to do
i’m the ghost of a dude in business suit
on a hook in the dark at the end of a line
that I broke from a ghoul in a high priced room
with a baseball bat and a mop and a broom
in a boat on a lake in the light of the moon
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You can’t go back again to that river where the children swim
that house where we were living then is just a picture on the wall
now the one you love is dead and you’re sleeping in some stranger’s bed
that’s twice the price of medicine that no one needs at all
It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all
It doesn’t matter much at all at all when leaves begin to fall
Who called this rabbi to the wake to teach
My sister told him you can’t speak to me
You may as well just be an oil sheik
Playing baseball against a Jesus freak
We went outside to watch the winter moon
Our savior rode we did not have to ask him to
He cursed the hearse for showing up to soon
and he smelled like alcohol
It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all
It doesn’t matter much at all at all when leaves begin to fall
You can’t keep my love You told me not to leave my love
Until I followed where your feet went on an endless summer evening
I knew I’d never find myself alone
Now I can hear cicadas sing of everything that summer brings
that I can dream next early spring will find you right back next to me
but if we never get that close it doesn’t mean that life’s an empty hope
trapped inside that haunted, holy ghost
We poured out of that old motor boat
It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all
It doesn’t matter much at all at all when leaves begin to fall
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No One Else
02:28
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No one else can do it for you
You’re the only one who can
There’s no one left to try and stop you
You’re the only one who can
Let go of your dumb ambition
Let your sad reflection pass
Reactions are all what we’re missing
Go blind forget them
The dead the living
Goodbye forgive them
The dead the living
The only one you’ll ever know
The only one you’ll ever know
The only one you’ll ever know
The only one you’ll ever know
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Muhammad Ali
02:07
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I’m too old for heroes
I’m too dead for ghosts
and though God doesn’t exist
I’m sure if she did
she’s probably just laughing at you bro
Go on howl little preacher
tell everyone you know
of the love so profound
So precious and proud
that it clowns this whole Mexican coast
there’s no words to describe her
Nobody can see
the holy grail of your heart
alone in the dark
by the grave of your broken beliefs
the grandstands are empty
You’re fighting for free
but there’s no quit in you son
and there’s nowhere to run
until the day that you wind up like me
Muhammad Ali / Muhammad Ali (6x)
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Pearl Street
02:52
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Woke up in the morning and stretched out on the deck
The right side of my ribcage ached from the rest of last night’s wreck
I was rendered over confident from San Clemente rides
I was deadly dark and lonely watching ladies passing by
Laguna Beach is Disneyfied my father said before he died
That charming voice inside your head sure sounds like suicide
Alice came to visit me we smoked in the hot sun
and talked about her marriages you know you’re not the only one
to strike out far away from home and give your family up
Sometimes I take a beating and still can’t get enough
Down the stairs to Pearl Street Beach to drown the dying light
That charming voice inside your head sure sounds like suicide
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Chuck Berry
03:32
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Chuck Berry is a dead and buried and his songs are in outer space
but if he was here right now I know just what he would say
The sun is shining down, the fruit is juicy and ripe
But it’s too late in this town if it touches the ground
You’ve got to climb up and take a bite
Stop acting so precious there’s no good time to decide
Stop acting so precious Go on make a life
My taxi driver ever since I arrived here tells me boy you got to be a man
Tonight I told him that I’ve fallen in love w/ the lady from the produce stand
He said hijo vultures are circling You might as well tell her tonight
You can wait if you like but if the money’s not right
You better show up and show them the knife
Stop acting so precious there’s no good time to decide
Stop acting so precious Go on make a life
She has a tattooed sleeve that’s easy to read and an Indian ring in her nose
that she took off and put in your pocket then you went and lost it now everybody knows
she said you’re like an old man you know how i know that I can see your will is strong
but every will gets broken You might not believe that you’ll never catch me
but you’ll never do it til you die in your sleep
Chuck Berry is a dead and buried and his songs are in outer space
but if he was here right now I know just what he would say
The sun is shining down, the fruit is juicy and ripe
But it’s too late in this town if it touches the ground
You’ve got to climb up and take a bite
Stop acting so precious there’s no good time to decide
Stop acting so precious Go on make a life
Go on make a life
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Black Buick
04:13
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I know it’s dumb but I’ll never admit it that movie made me cry
I don’t know if you’re still listening but I’ll try and tell you why
you and I’ve both been to prison and I suppose we both broke the law
but the only time I’ve ever been sorry I never did get caught
We sat outside in the frozen old forest like outlaws often do
without one word I heard your story and now I know that it’s true
I shivered and said we’re young and reckless and then one day we’re not
You said when I am cold and breathless somewhere the sun is hot
It’s foolish to seek out recognition for any of the work that you do
When i was young I didn’t believe you now I know it’s true
One summer night you were supposed to be working as the moon was rising high
Our friends and i were at Oregon Ridge drinking staring at the sky
We heard the sound of a roaring engine we got scared and prepared to escape
but the ride that arrived bore us no evil and the driver was hiding his face
with a crazy skull mask that made us all laugh and everyone asked how you knew
I know it’s dumb but i’ll never admit it and now you know it’s true
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I Miss My Dad
01:38
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I miss my dad
I miss my dad
you’re the very best friend
I ever did have
Why’d you have to go like that
I miss my home
I miss my home
I don’t know where else to go
but once you’re gone you can never come back
I miss my girl
I miss my girl
She left me alone and treated me bad
but you’ve never seen a girl like that
I swore that I wouldn’t be defeated I’m not retreating
as sure as I will die
But now that I a am so alone in desperation
I can’t remember why
I miss my friends
I miss my friends
they say one day we’ll be together again
I guess it’s true but I never know when
I drink too much
I drink too much
I spent my life digging holes to fill
Now all I do is just fill them back up
I swore that I wouldn’t be defeated I’m not retreating
as sure as I will die
But now that I a am so alone in desperation
I can’t remember why
I miss my dad
I miss my dad
you’re the very best friend
I ever did have
Why’d you have to go like that
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Goodbye Josefina
02:46
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Good bye Josefina I'll probably never see you again
I'm on the road to Norway now and I don't know where it ends
Your father was a writer, I wonder if you write like him
If it's anything like what I see in my mind I'd read it over and over again
You asked me what was the matter, I didn't know what to say
You looked me in the eye, I looked the other way
Tal vez, pero, no sabes lo que se
Josefina that was yesterday today is today
Josefina you're so patient, when I mix up this and that
Even though I'm not latino, I bet you I can make it back
No desea nada, que usted no desea dar
Si necessito apprendir, quero que ensenas
For years I was so serious, I told everyone I hated cake
I arrive on time, you are always late
I don't know who you think I am, I can't believe I'm on a date
with a girl who bought a donut, and told me that it tasted great
Good bye Josefina, I'll probably never see you again
You lose a lot more often than you're ever going to win
I learned that from the ghost, who saw his ship come in
And threw his baby in the ocean just to teach him how to swim
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The Light Switches San Francisco, California
1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.
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