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Complement
03:05
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You should take it as a compliment
The way I say you made me crazy
You should take it as a compliment my love
Got me questioning my common sense
Don’t know what I said but what I meant was
You should take me as a complement my love
Late up in the evening, summer grind
I got bills to pay but you’re on my mind
So I tried to write a little song about how I feel
Fucking crazy
Cuz ever since you left there hasn’t
Been someone to save me from
This mess I guess I’m not the only one
But now I’m singing baby
You should take it as a compliment
The way I say you made me crazy
You should take it as a compliment my love
Got me questioning my common sense
Don’t know what I said but what I meant was
You should take me as a complement my love
And I’m hardly above falling in love with anyone
Strangers on the subway, figments in the Sun
But forget about a consolation
Forget about what I said
I’m awaiting our consultation baby
And the love that lies ahead
But in the meantime people change
And that love we shared it seems so strange
So I tried to put it into words to save that time
Damn amazing
Cuz no one else knows me so well
And I can share my thoughts like show and tell
Saying just another night in a lonesome hell
And I’ll be half past crazy
You should take it as a compliment
The way I say you made me crazy
You should take it as a compliment my love
Got me questioning my common sense
Don’t know what I said but what I meant was
You should take me as a complement my love
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Velvet Queen
03:53
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Is it hopeless to believe in
What has proved to be deceiving
Once before
When there’s nothing more
Drowned in shallow water
All the lessons that he taught her
Turned to stone
A crumbling home
You’re drifting away on an endless sea
Of unknowing insecurity unfree
So won’t you trade the tears upon your sleeve
For a game of make believe
And you can be
My sweetest dream
My soul’s serene
My Velvet Queen
My Velvet Queen
As timid as a kitten’s paws
Which turn from time to time to claws
You bend
And retract again
But if you can’t escape the feeling
Well then just embrace the evening
Cut the lights
You’re so uptight
The cold wind meets your breathing
Closing eyes untouched by reason, evenly
And as I fade into the atmosphere
To find that you’re still here
I can see
My sweetest dream
My soul’s serene
My Velvet Queen
My Velvet Queen
Through the cobwebs of your corridors
The moldy floors and bolted doors
You’ll see
There’s a light upon the coupon key
That shines for you and me
And I can be
Your sweetest dream
Your soul’s serene
Your Velvet Queen
Your Velvet Queen
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The Comeback Ladies
03:30
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Oh it’s the comeback ladies
Who come back crazy
With their hair down raving
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me wanna ride
Well he’s staying out late
And she’s staying up waiting
Cuz he leaves his baby hanging on read
Oh his wildest dreams
Are these childish schemes
Tryna fake it ‘til he makes it to bed
But she knows for certain
The coco and the bourbon
Smell means hell he’s up to something today
So she steals his tongue
So he can’t play dumb
And says ‘baby you know you’re gonna pay’
Oh it’s the comeback ladies
Who come back crazy
With their hair down raving
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me feel alive
And it’s the comeback ladies
Who come back crazy
With their fists up blazing
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me wanna ride
He’s saying chill Greta chill
Nah this ain’t Kill Bill
You should begin to do some thinking instead
But she ain’t even blinking
Cuz the thing about thinking
Is that thought you know will fuck with your head
Oh it’s the comeback ladies
Who come back crazy
With their hair down raving
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me wanna ride
And it’s the comeback ladies
Who come back crazy
With your slashed Mercedes
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me wanna ride
And the ladies been out talking today
As Judy by the moonlight is walking away
And her man’s got nothing to say
So dazed, so maybe next time he should stay
And it’s the comeback ladies
Who come back crazy
With their hair down raving
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me wanna ride
And it’s the comeback ladies
Who come back crazy
Saying look what you made me
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me wanna ride
Oh it’s the comeback ladies
Driving me crazy
It’s the comeback ladies
Baby, makes me wanna ride
Makes me wanna ride
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4. |
The Last Goodbye
04:26
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I hate the way I say
I’m better on my own
Meanwhile I’m still practicing
The smiles I’ve never known
And you were like a remedy
To save me from the dead
’Til you played me like a melody
Stuck inside my head
I’ve been trying to get over you
But I have been misled
By all those things you said
Skies falling, I’m calling
Promising a lie
Worlds of plastic collapsing
Right before my eyes
I’ve nothing left to say
Still trying to deny
What seems outlandish - how can this
Be the last goodbye?
And I still wear that last goodbye
Like layman’s wear the cross
Cuz the memories could never be
A crutch for what I lost
So I revel in the revelry
A devil in disguise
When it’s quarter past eleven
And I’m levelling the tides
With a new one in the covers
And I’m using them to hide
From the hurt I keep inside
Skies falling, I’m calling
Promising a lie
Worlds of plastic collapsing
Right before my eyes
I’ve nothing left to say
Still trying to deny
What seems outlandish - how can this
Be the last goodbye?
So sorry if I made things weird
I was trying to be polite
Pardon me, it’s hard enough
Just trying to be alright
Skies falling, I’m calling
Promising a lie
Worlds of plastic collapsing
Right before my eyes
I’ve nothing left to say
Still trying to deny
What seems outlandish - how can this
Be the last goodbye?
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Oh welcome to today you know tomorrow can wait
I’ve been counting on a prayer to get me out of my fate
There ain’t no lady let me love her before saying I’m strange
I tell ‘em I ain’t to blame, I’m a victim of change
But mean old mister wishes history was happening today
He ain’t seen the sun since he scared it away
And Mother Nature might take her things and hit a hotel
She’s taking the kids so better say your farewell
Oh wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I got a half a cup of sanity to get through the day
Oh wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I’m just a waiting on the world to take me away
Oh I was chasing an angel when she led me to you
And I’ve been kind of disappointed but I guess that you’ll do
Cuz you know beggars can’t be choosers I’ve been losing a lot
And who am I refusing my love, she’s all that I got
So I guess here’s looking at you kid if you know where that’s from
And if you don’t I won’t be saving you for a sum
Cuz life is too short and important to be wasting my time
On a love that’s even just a little short of sublime
So wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I’ve got a half a cup of sanity to get through the day
Oh wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I’m just a waiting on the world to take me away
Oh when the saints come marching on the fourth of July
And there’s no country, God, or lover on whom you can rely
It’s easy to accept them, hard to deny
So baby take me by the hand cuz hell we might as well try
And if you offer me the world I’ll be taking the road
Though I appreciate the gesture I just want what I’m owed
Cuz there’s no reason to believe in all the grieving and pain
When every picture perfect paradise is painted in vain
And even you can see that lunacy has taken its toll
So goodbye to the asylum, it’s perma-parole
Where you can leave me dreaming peacefully alone with myself
And when consciousness kicks in I’ll be with everyone else
Oh wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I got a half a cup of sanity to get through the day
Oh wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I’m just a waiting on the world to take me away
Oh wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I got a half a cup of vanity to get through the day
Oh wa-oh, oh wa-eh
I said a woo hoo hoo come and take me away
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It’s four in the morning my darling
Headlights reflect in the snow
Christmas will be here by morning
And I’ve still got miles to go
I couldn’t afford any presents
And I don’t got time for a show
But hold on tight to my promise
And promise to never let go
I’ve been miles and miles away chasing
The life of a millionaire
And winter in the city never looked so pretty
But it’s hard when your heart isn’t there
There’s nowhere I can run my baby
Nowhere left to hide
I’ve opened up myself for you
My gift is my whole life
So hold onto those memories
And hold onto my eyes
And if you’ll be there waiting for me
I’ll be right outside
It’s six in the morning my darling
The Sun is beginning to rise
I hope you don’t mind my calling
I’m still chasing that look in your eyes
Winter in the city never looked so pretty
But it’s hard when your heart isn’t there
Just the late memories that the air won’t freeze
And for the rest of it I never cared
There’s nowhere I can run my baby
Nowhere left to hide
I’ve opened up myself for you
My gift is my whole life
So hold onto those memories
And hold onto my eyes
And if you’ll be there waiting for me
I’ll be right outside
The negative space I’ve been trying to trace
Falls apart in the crisp bitter air
So just wait by the window as the winter winds blow
And by morning my heart will be there
There’s nowhere I can run my baby
Nowhere left to hide
I’ve opened up myself for you
My gift is my whole life
So hold onto those memories
And hold onto my eyes
And if you’ll be there waiting for me
I’ll be right outside
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David Jane Toronto, Ontario
David Jane is a singer-songwriter from Toronto, Canada.
David has and continues to indulge
himself in music, film, writing and all forms of cultural expression, channelling influences as varied as classic hollywood, hip-hop, philosophy, rock, literature, anime, theory, visual arts and modern pop into the attempted comprehension of his own life and the world around him, fuelling his art.
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