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  1. 2009.03.21 Snails - The Format
  2. 2009.03.21 Dog Problems - The Format
  3. 2009.03.21 Dead End - The Format
  4. 2009.03.21 Matches, I'm Actual - The Format
  5. 2009.03.21 Oceans - The Format
  6. 2009.03.21 She Doesn't Get It - The Format
  7. 2009.03.21 The First Single - The Format
  8. 2009.03.20 Career Day - The Format
  9. 2009.03.20 Tune Out - The Format
  10. 2009.03.20 Give it Up - The Format
  11. 2009.03.20 Tie The Rope - The Format
  12. 2009.03.20 On Your Porch - The Format
  13. 2009.03.20 I'm Ready, I am - The Format

Snails - The Format

기분좋은 2009. 3. 21. 21:57
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Dog Problems (2006)
Nico take it slow
Show me that you care
And love's not just a flare on my sleeve
Sleep well, I pray that cardboard boxes,
Set the perfect stage.
'Cause wood grain makes all man made things seem so out of date
Life is not a play, it's what we
Make of the people we love.

Snails see the benefits
The beauty in every inch
Oh why, why, why, why, oh, why
Are you quick to kiss?
She bites at blades and leaves
God damn you shrubbery
Well I’m sick of vanity plays
Should we move to the UK?
'Cause life here in the states has escaped
All the people above us.
What we make of those people we love

(Chorus)
Snails see the benefits
The beauty in every inch
Oh why, why, why, why, why
Are you quick to kiss?
Baby, maybe I spoke too soon
I’ll touch you once you make the first move
Snails see the benefits
The beauty in every inch

I watch her as she runs
My mother jumps the gun
She puts her in her arms
That is just like my mom
Never lets go, never lets me grow old
I wanna pay her back
But love is nothing you can tax
My family’s not rich by any means
But I feel we won the lottery, that day
The rock swallowed the girl
And I cried as cameras caught my eyes
My tears turned into butterflies
They fly away as caskets close
A new day comes you’ll wake unfolding
Smile when you feel the sunlight
You feel the sunlight
You feel the sunlight

(Chorus)
Snails see the benefits
The beauty in every inch
So why, why, why, why, why
Are you quick to kiss?
Baby, maybe I spoke too soon
I’ll touch you once you make the first move
Snails see the benefits
The beauty in every inch, oh
Snails see the benefits
The beauty in every inch


미국 애리조나에서 Sam Means 와 Nate Ruess 에 의해 2001년에 결성된 인디 정글팝 밴드.
팝과 얼터너티브를 섞어놓은 음악스타일로 알려져있다.
데뷔앨범 Interventions + Lullabies (2003) 은 미국내에서 8만 카피 이상을 판매했다.
두번째 앨범인 Dog Problems (2006) 의 앨범명은 항상 그들이 함께할 시간을 빼앗아간
애완견에 대한 Nate 와 당시 그의 여자친구의 생각에서 나온것이라고 한다.
"The First Single" 과 "Wait, Wait, Wait" 은 인기있던 MTV 쇼 Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County 에 사용되었고, "The Compromise" 곡은 게임 The Sims2 에 삽입되었다.
밴드는 2008년에 해체되었고, Ruess 는 Anathallo 의 Andrew Dost 와 Steel Train 의 Jack Antonoff 와 함께 Fun 이란 밴드로 활동중이다.

"Snails" Live at the Mayan Theatre in LA. As part of their live DVD


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Dog Problems - The Format

기분좋은 2009. 3. 21. 21:46
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Dog Problems (2006)

Don't you dare speak for someone you don't know.
They'll feel it in the back of their throat.
We know I can't construct a poem
Cause words like girls get bored and run
C'est la vie, I say "I've got so many better things"
I've got nothing, you should see me,
I smoke myself to sleep.

And blame postmodern things I can't relate,
Like summer camp and coastal states.
Like alcohol and coffee beans.
Dance floors and magazines.
I think its safe to say I've only got myself to blame
But boys in swooping haircuts are bringing me down,
Taking pictures of themselves.

And so I walk the web in search of love,
But always seem to end up stuck.
I'm finding flaws in everyone.
I've reached the point where all I want,
Is to sleep around in hopes that I will catch back up.
We are parallel lines we’re running in circles,
We're never meant to cross.

I'm at a loss, you were my tangerine,
My pussycat, my trampoline.
Now alls I get are wincing cheeks,
And dog problems, I signed a lease.
Thinking my heart belonged at 93rd and park.
Instead I broke a girl’s heart,
And flew back to Phoenix to finish the year as it started.

Can you hear me?
Are you listening?
This is the sound of my heart aching.
And I hope it's entertaining,
Cause for me it’s a bitch.
Was it worth it?
When you slept with him?
Did you get it all out of your system?

I am a man
Holding it all
I couldn’t breath
Coming across
I didn’t know
I couldn’t give up

B is for believing you'd always be here for me.
E is for everything, even when we see it though.
C, c is for seeing through you, you are a fake, which brings me to
A because, because, you always run away.

I never finish phrases, I misspell.
Open arms are prison cells.
When I said, "I hate what I've become"
I lied, I hated who I was.
So when you start to wonder 'bout the pain in my throat,
Then don't you ever, no never, ever, speak for someone you don't know.


"Dog Problems" M/V
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Dead End - The Format

신나는 2009. 3. 21. 21:41
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Dog Problems (2006)
Hold on, there's a hole in my heart
Everyone can see right through me
It goes all the way to the waves
Where my love she tried to wash it away

See we break for the summers
so she can find lovers

She treats them like a bottle of wine
They make you dinner
and sing you to sleep
but by the morning find the bottle is empty

'Cause she never gives it the time
Every bottle she finds
They don't compare
to the ones she left behind
There is never a note
So she waits for me to come back home

I'm looking for a dead end song
You wish that smoke
could change its color
I love it when you talk so much
and act like nothing went wrong
I'm looking for a dead end song
while we sit and find flaws in everyone
I want to keep you by my side
Holding off tidal waves

"Mint car" is keeping us warm
She lays crossed upon the bed
We are puzzles making shapes
with our hands
I take my finger, turn it into a pen

Then I run my hand down your spine
You guess I wrote something profound
Something like:
"Our love will last 'til we die"
I say, "you're good at this game"
But what I really wrote is
"How I've yet to be saved"

I'm looking for a dead end song
You wish that smoke
could change its color
I love it when you talk so much
and act like nothing went wrong
I'm looking for a dead end song
while we sit and find flaws in everyone
I want to keep you by my side
Holding off tidal waves


"Dead End" M/V
 
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Matches, I'm Actual - The Format

기분좋은 2009. 3. 21. 21:34
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Dog Problems (2006)

Ashes to ashes
Some dust on the dash
I've got my cigarettes
but I can't find the fire
that's calming me down

I was just out on a night with my friends
You are still out on a night
with your friends

and you don't seem to tired
when I'm not around

I'm under the tunnel
I'm holding my breath

I searched every pocket
that hung in the closet
'til I found some matches
in a brown leather jacket
One I swore I've never worn
but it once kept you warm

Do you remember
we made love on the floor
and you still haven't called
So I'll wait 'til they're closing the bars

I made a wish
but the match never lit

Can we take the next hour and talk about me?
Talk about me, oh we'll talk about me
Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me

Can we please take this hour and talk about me?
And my hatred for corporate magazines
You know they don't speak to me
The irony is they won't speak with me

I placed you on a window sill
Cut notches up and down the door
My surprise I woke up one morning
In bed in your place lay a note

It read, "Baby, Your love, it just ain't good enough.
I found sunlight 6 hours away.
You watered me down 'til I drifted abound
Somewhere far from your shade."

Now I shadow my former self
Once whole and now only a chest full of holes
red wax, it paints me unclear
When the big hand strikes 12, I disappear

And the angels are fake and they'll lie to your face
Anything to keep you away
You watered me down 'til I drifted abound


It's time I accept the fact that you on your back
It has buried the past
Can we please take this hour and talk about me?
Talk about me, oh we'll talk about me
Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me

Can we please take this hour and talk about me?
And my hatred for corporate magazines
You know they don't speak to me
The irony is they won't speak with me


"Matches, I'm Actual" Live (featuring Anathallo)


"Matches, I'm Actual" Live From the DVD Live at the Mayan Theater
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Oceans - The Format

신나는 2009. 3. 21. 21:23
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Dog Problems (2006)
you’ve got flaws
that you wont admit
yet you tell me its a sin
that I don’t believe in God...
you traded in your cross
for a chance to dance with stars
now nothing is sacred

ooo

I’ve given thought to leaving
ooo
f-f-f-for some time
ooo
if only I could read a map
my moat is new Mexico
so its you I wrote

I started sending you a note
on how I hope that you’re happy
I hear you’re somewhere in the sand
and how I wish I was an ocean
maybe then, id get to see you again

now all my friends
they break and they bend
they take shape and they tend
to get better with time
and I say:
"who am I to work so much less to get more
you all deserve what I am walking towards
if you want, you should move away"

ooo
this has become a weakness
ooo
the golden state wins again
ooo
maybe its time I settle
say its blue, at least that’s a plus
plus, I miss you so much

why am I scared of people in a room?
why cant they see a good time are the people close to you?
why don’t I just give in, have a drink and shake some hands?
oh ay oh
oh ay oh
why am I scarred from what she did to me?
why cant I trust anyone, no, not even me
why don’t I just give in, have a drink and shake some hands?
oh ah oh
oh ah oh

ooo
I’ve given thought to leavin’
ooo
f-f-f-for some time
ooo
maybe its time I put a profile up of who I want to be
fool everyone, I can start over clean
I can hide behind a big blue screen
or you can return to me
(return to me)


"Oceans" Live
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She Doesn't Get It - The Format

신나는 2009. 3. 21. 21:13
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Dog Problems (2006)
All the girls pose the same for pictures
All the boys got the same girls hair.
Well I am bored cause I feel much older,
Look at me as if I got a reason to stare.
But you talk so loud, that it calms me down.

You're crying, "let's make a toast!"

She says she's leavin on a Sunday,
Oh, that leaves me one more night.
Can I take you home?
I know it's wrong, but I know your type.

She says she's leavin on a Sunday,
I don't care, I need to know where to turn.
I tried it once, it never caught on,
I was the only one who got burned.

I've read every word you've said,
From a poster of a cat.
Four books look across your sofa,
I thought your coffee table was more clever than that.
It gets worse once we get to her room she stops and she sings "doot do do do do do do do"
I claim "New Religion's" my song,
She doesn't get it,
It's all before she was born.

And you lock your door,
Like I've been here before.
I feel like I've seen a ghost.

She says she's leavin on a Sunday,
Oh, that leaves me one more night.
Can I take you home?
I know it's wrong, but I know your type.

She says she's leavin on a Sunday,
I don't care I need to know where to turn.
I tried it once it never caught on,
I was the only one who got burned.
I was the only one who got burned.

Suddenly between sheets and eyelids, I am reminded why I don't do this.
I fall in love far too quickly,
I never want her to forget me.
When you're gone,
Will you call?
Will you write?

She says she's leavin on a Sunday,
Oh, that leaves me one more night.
Can I take you home?
I know it's wrong, but I know your type.

She says she's leavin on a Sunday,
Oh, that leaves me one more night.
Can I take you home?
I know it's wrong, but I know your type.

She says she's leavin on a Sunday,
I don't care I need to know where to turn.
I tried it once it never caught on,
I was the only one who got burned.
I was the only one who got burned.
I was the only one who got burned.
I was the only one who got burned.


"She Doesn't Get It" M/V
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The First Single - The Format

신나는 2009. 3. 21. 21:08
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Interventions + Lullabies (2003)
I can't stand to think about
A heart so big it hurts like hell
Oh my God I gave my best
But for three whole years to end like this

Well do you want to fall apart
I can't stop if you cant start
Do you want to fall apart
I could if you can try to fix what I've undone
Cause I hate what I've become

You know me,
Oh you think you do you, you just dont seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be
Something I can't define so let's
Cause a scene
Clap our hands and stomp our feet or something
Yeah something
I've just got to get myself over me

I could stand to do without
All the people I have left behind
Whats the point in going around
When it's a straight line baby, a straight line down

So lets make a list of who we need
And its not much, if anything
Lets make a list of who we need
And we'll throw it away cause we dont need anyone
No we dont need anyone

You know me,
Oh you think you do you, you just dont seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be
Something I can't define so let's
Cause a scene
Clap our hands and stomp our feet or something
Yeah something
I've just got to get myself over me
And I hate what I've become...

You know the night life is just not for me
Cause all you really need are a few good friends
I don't want to go out and be on my own
You know they started something I can't stand

You leave for the city, well count me out
'Cause all this time is wasted on
Well, everything I've done

You know me,
Oh you think you do you, you just dont seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be
Something I can't define so let's
Cause a scene
Clap our hands and stomp our feet or something
Yeah something
I've just got to get myself over me
You know me,
Oh you think you do you, you just dont seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be something I can't define
So let's cause a scene
Clap our hands and stomp our feet or something
Yeah something
I've just got to get myself over me, yeh, over me, yeh, over me
"The First Single" Live at The Living Room, Providence, RI
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Career Day - The Format

기분좋은 2009. 3. 20. 01:17
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Interventions + Lullabies (2003)
Today's been a career day
Futures made and fortunes lost
As I'm standing in the lobby
Waiting for the elevator to take me away
Up to 9 or 10 or maybe 11
The sound of sirens fading as she whispers in my ear
She's saying
"It's too late to wish success,
So get undressed and please just come to bed.
'Cause I'm the last real thing you've got.
You're cursed by all ambitious thoughts.
Is that all you've got?"

As for you, you spin a story like a
Spider spins a web.
See that's a metaphor,
No wait, a simile.
I'm still learning but I think I'm getting better.
Oh, if I'm not tortured how are you ever going to relate.
I've been condemned by those I love
Wishing me the worst as I try my best.
But she's the last real thing I've got.
I'm cursed by all abitious thoughts.

Is that all you've got?

Love, close your eyes.
And cover your ears.
For the end is near,
But the beginning is here.

In with the outro,
And out with the old.
In with the outro,
And out with the old.
In with the outro,
And out with the old.

I'm gonna tie all the loose ends I once pulled

In with the outro,
And out with the old.

Preparing for faliure from what we've been told

In with the outro,
And out with the old.

With nothing to offer so nothings been sold

In with the outro,
And out with the old.

Forgive me and give me one more chance to fold

In with the outro,
And out with the old.

There's nothing to lose when there's nothing to hold

In with the outro,
And out with the old.

...We'll be together in the morning


"Career Day" Live at UCI on 9/26/07
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Tune Out - The Format

신나는 2009. 3. 20. 01:07
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Interventions + Lullabies (2003)
it's your bed
so please choose a side
I’ll take the one closest to the door
and you start to speak
the words that try to justify
do far more wrong then anything you do
so grab the coat, the keys
the tension speaks but we're singing it

I'll tap the brake while you crack the window
the smell of smoke is making my lungs explode
the 51 is backed up and too slow
let’s tune out by turning on the radio

and this town is dead
we’ve been caught in these sheets way too long
let’s just see who’s up on this screen
no one i know is more depressing than me
or should i say the two of us cause after all we're all we’ve got
and tension speaks but we're singing it


I'll tap the brake while you crack the window
the smell of smoke is making my lungs explode
the 51 is backed up and too slow
let’s tune out by turning on the radio

and oh my love you’re all I need
backed behind a frequency
they played this song an hour ago
but let's tune out
lets tune out by turning on the radio

haven’t we heard this song
about a thousand times before
oh well after awhile it all sounds the same
i guess its better then silence and better than shame

I'll tap the brake while you crack the window
the smell of smoke is making my lungs explode
the 51 is backed up and too slow
let’s tune out by turning on the radio

I'll tap the brake while you crack the window
the smell of smoke is making my lungs explode
the 51 is backed up and too slow
let’s tune out by turning on the radio

and oh my love you’re all I need
backed behind a frequency
they played this song an hour ago
but lets tune out
let’s tune out
let’s tune out by turning on the radio
"Tune Out" Live at the Beaumont Club in Kansas City, MO 5/8/07
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Give it Up - The Format

기분좋은 2009. 3. 20. 00:59
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Interventions + Lullabies (2003)

Well I made my way back down to the valley
Right on past 83rd street
That's where we once belonged
But I’m gone
I swear I’m long gone

So give it up, throw your hats in the air
And change is as you ladies say
"We'll get out of here"
Something tells me that you’re too scared to go

So the stairs that you could climb
Are the ones you’ve left behind
And your eyes light up when we talk about the past
God, I miss those songs we used to sing
Talking like getting away would be the greatest thing
Well me, I got out,
And you, you kept singing to me
Like that's really going to set this free

So give it up, throw your hats in the air
And change just as they land
You’re saying, "We'll get out of here"
Something tells me that you’re too scared to go

Like a ghost
You’ve been haunting all these dusty old roads and old homes
The ones we swore we'd never go, oh oh

As for Joe
Oh I’ve seen him around
Then there’s Adam
He’s afraid to go out
I don’t blame him, I just wanted to go out to eat

Then there’s Mark
God damn, I wish him the best
We were kids back then, as if we could progress
Sometimes I, I just can’t sleep
Thinking of everything we could have been

So give it up, throw your hats in the air
And change just as they land
You’re saying, "We'll get out of here"
Something tells me that you’re too scared to go

So give it up, throw your hats in the air
And change just as they land
You’re saying, "We'll get out of here"
Something tells me that you’re too scared to go
"give it up" Live @ Chain reaction
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Tie The Rope - The Format

신나는 2009. 3. 20. 00:47
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Sean McCall

Interventions And Lullabies (2003)

I'm in envy of addicts
You're obsessed with stars
Dont, dont you sound
So excited youre showing me your vanity
Whisper it once, just a little bit
C'mon whisper it twice,
I cant stand to see the spotlight shine one more night
Its killing me to see you


(chorus)
Just tie the rope
Oh and kick the chair
Just leave me hanging there,
Gasping for air
Yeah dont mind me three feet from the ceiling

You'd rather watch me drown,
Then see your hands get wet
You took the plot from stage to screen and turned it to
Epic scene
So whisper it once, tell me again
C'mon whisper it twice,
I cant stand to see my whole life flash before my eyes
When im with you theres
No point in breathing
No point in breathing

(chorus)

And I think I know (whoah oh oh)
Why you never get to close
Its cause youre too scared to
When im with you theres no point in breathing

So so you run away for no apparent reason
Cause you and I are changing with the seasons
You give me an answer as to why youre leaving
The tables full but nobodys been dealing
So fold your hand, cmon and fold your hand

(chorus)

And I think I know (whoah oh oh)
Why you never get to close
Its cause youre too scared to
When im with you theres
No point in breathing
(When I'm with you)
No point in breathing
(when I'm with you)
No point in breathing

"Tie The Rope" M/V

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On Your Porch - The Format

기분좋은 2009. 3. 20. 00:41
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Sean McCall

Interventions And Lullabies (2003)

i was
the smoke sank into my skin
so i came inside to be with you
and we talked all night,
about everything we could imagine
cause come the morning i'll be gone
and as our eyes start to close,
i turn to you and i let you know,
that i love you


well my dad was sick
and my mom she cared for him
her love it nursed him back to life
and me i ran,
i couldnt even look at him,
for fear i'd have to say goodbye
and as i start to leave
he grabs me by the shoulder and he tells me,

whats left to lose,
you've done enough
and if you fail well then you fail,
but not to us
cause these last three years,
i know they've been hard
but now it's time to get out of the desert and into the sun
even if it's alone

so now here i sit,
in a hotel off of sunset
my thoughts bounce off of sam's guitar
and thats the way it's been,
ever since we were kids but now,
now we've got something to prove

and i,
i can see their eyes
but tell me something,
can they see mine?

cause whats left to lose,
i've done enough
and if i fail, well then i fail, but i gave it a shot
and these last three years,
i know they've been hard
but now its time to get out of the desert and into the sun
even if it's alone

even if it's alone

i was on your porch last night,
the smoke it sank into my skin


"On Your Porch" Live

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I'm Ready, I am - The Format

신나는 2009. 3. 20. 00:33
Sam Means
Nate Ruess
Mike Schey
Don Raymond
Marko Buzard
Sean McCall

Interventions And Lullabies (2003)

I’m nicotine
I’m coming clean
I fooled the crowd
when I made it sound like I was more than ready

strike up the band
deprive my sleep
cause there’s no love like apathy
the bell that tolls rings loud enough
that it should have woke us up


I’m trying to find truth
in words, in rhymes, in notes
in all the things I wish I’d wrote
cause I feel like I’ve been losing you

I read your last entry
over-privileged kids keep crying
the need to fit in gets harder
when living life from a screen

old classmates please drop all your pens
don’t write a word cause I won't reply
and I’m not bitter, no it's just I’ve passed that point in my life

I’m trying to find truth
in words, in rhymes, in notes
in all the things I wish I'd wrote
cause I feel like I’ve been losing you
each night it ends too soon
you don’t hold me like you used to
and your eyes look like they’ve seen too much 'cause
it's always some excuse
too tired, too obtuse
you look so far, removed
this time I fear I’m losing you for good

I'mm nicotine... I'm a cash machine
I'm the color green
and you should've seen the looks I just received
I need a reason to let go
an intervention, or a lullaby
something to cure me, please believe me--

I’m trying to find truth
in words, in rhymes, in notes
in all the things I wish I'd wrote
cause I feel like I’ve been losing you
each night it ends too soon
you don’t hold me like you used to
and your eyes look like they’ve seen too much but
it's always some excuse
too tired, too obtuse
you look so far removed
this time I fear I’m just not getting through


"I'm Ready, I am" Live

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