We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Generation Retrograde

from WiSDOMTEETH by The Washingtons

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

lyrics

There’s a wasteland no picture, just words on a page
That teachers would tempt, from going insane
We gave back the ol’ gift of formidable pain
You wanted something different, you wanted me to change for you

While the speakers told of love, and how it could be made
No one told the dancers, the floor wasn’t safe.
The bar, he said nothing but his boot kicked us out
To the corner where T.S. sits, laughing about the youth.

Leave me out stranded, beaten just for good.
On these long island streets, I’d never seen before
The end of a story, that’s really just a joke
Cuz I spit back my teeth, underneath your own feet
Just for you.

I almost choked on that damn mint
With my head down counting one’s and two
She must believe in sin
Ever since I jumped down that hole with you.
It could be the different shapes of glass

That makes us pretend with what we have
Until there’s a past to flick away like ash
A new smoke seems worth the drag.

credits

from WiSDOMTEETH, released April 25, 2013

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Washingtons Providence, Rhode Island

Call me Washington. I was born right around the time Jelly Roll Morton, one of the greatest New Orleans pianists, died. All the men in my family have been piano players. My grandfather was a monster . The doctors and patients of Anchora Mental Institution gave their favorite patient a standing ovation for entertaining them. "I think we're dreaming. That's what we're doing - dreaming. ... more

contact / help

Contact The Washingtons

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like The Washingtons, you may also like: