Words

How to live on nothing

CATT

touch me sleep and make me sleepy
relieve me of your curse
you are the thing that fills me completely
take me ghost and make me ghostly
pull me from this world
you are the thing that touches me closely
make me glow but take it slowly
release me from my fur
you are the woman floating below me
take me ghost and make me ghostly
pull me from this world
you are the thing that touches me closely

Very Famous

If you trade me for another better looking lover
and you bring the beauty over
just to watch me suffer
I guess I thought we both fit so perfectly together
and you would never go away
{you wont be here when I'm famous
you wont be here at all
you wont be here}
If you trade me for another
less deserving lover
but the kid is an impostor
but he won you over
I guess you think you both look so beautiful together
but you could use a little color
and you light up like a diamond
and now you're right beside him
I'll never take you back
{and you wont be here when I'm famous
you wont be here at all
and you wont be here when I'm famous
you wont be here}
the best of the beasts
bowed his head and got down on his knees
a girl like you is just what he needs
someone new to bow to..
that stair goes nowhere
a girl like you is just what he needs
with his body on
that stair goes nowhere

The Tigers

I drink to keep the tiger away
I sail my boat across the bay
I do what I can to get through the day
I drink to keep the tigers away
my new car is gold and gray
she always smiles
I always pay
I feel like hell but I look okay
I drink to keep the tigers away
{the tunnel at the end of the light
the tunnel at the end of the light}
I float above the bar like a Manta ray
I always hoped I'd end up this way
I love the music but I hate the pay
I drink to keep the tigers away
my only girl is a bird of prey
I think she works for the C.I.A
get me another beer, I think I'll stay
I drink to keep the tigers away
{the tunnel at the end of the light
the tunnel at the end of the light}

Happiness And Joy

this could turn me into a fascist
a forest, a fountain
a suicide
guess you always wished that you could be famous
a fashion, a shaman, a suicide
a suicide
place behind a faceless mind
a place behind a faceless mind
a suicide
I see sunshine
I got seasons
I've done evils
I got reasons
no more fun for for me I prophesied
no more fun for for me I prophesied
this could turn me into a fascist
a flower, a locust
a suicide
and you've always been faking
with the low lights
and the laughter
the suicide
the suicide
the place behind a faceless mind
the place behind a faceless mind
a suicide
I see sunshine
I got seasons
I've done evils
I got reasons
I'm not see-though
I can see you
no more fun for for me I prophesied
no more fun for for me I prophesied

To A Girl With One Wing Gone

she got tired of her face
so she sacrificed it
on a broken plate
what a sacrifice
straight is the gate
to where the boys used to wait
they formed a line in the rain
just to celebrate
the girl with one wing and one wing gone
the girl with one wing gone
the girl with one wing and one wing gone
shot through the eyes
from the bones to the sky's
while were young and while were bright
while were whitened in the light
its a bomb its a sigh
while were bright
while were bright
while we are
I never get tired of your face
I just gently place it
on a broken plate
thats my sacrifice
to a girl with one wing and one wing gone
a girl with one wing gone
the girl with one wing and one wing gone
the girl with one wing gone

Mt. Balthazar

It doesn't cost you anything to see
the rich die beautifully
for always
they die more beautifully
always
and just like
{you want too much, you have enough
you have enough, you want to much
you want too much, you have enough
...of everything}
they're gonna name a mountain after me
you all can come and see
me, for always
for always
{you want too much, you have enough
you have enough, you want to much
you want too much, you have enough
...of everything}

My Diamond Brain

you can't break my diamond brain
or make me want to learn
I want out of this violence
I want that girl to feel sorry
and sleep alone
half undressed in the silence
no pressure
pure, pure pleasure
no pressure
pure, pure pleasure
she had one hoof on the table
and one hoof on the bed
you are the diamond I carry inside my head
and this is the way that I want it to end..

In Limited Light

the only thing that sells is the way you ring the bells
and you always ring the bells right
I only focus on what's wrong
in the middle of the night
I only focus on what's wrong
focus on what's right
in limited light
I'm really something beautiful
the only thing that sells is the way you ring the bells
and you always ring the bells right
in limited light
I'm really something beautiful
I only focus on what's wrong
in the middle of the night
I only focus on what's wrong
focus on what's right
the only thing that sells is the way you ring the bells
you always ring the bells right

Wings

everybody out there is afraid
why else they look away
everyone sees wings in everything
everybody always tries to cheat
if not just following
everyone sees wings in everything
don't pretend to be so pure
we are not so sure, we are not so sure
we all learn how to fake
cover us
goodbye is a universal theme
and just like in a dream
everyone sees wings in everything
we all pretend to be so pure
we are not so sure, we are not so sure
we all learned how to fake
cover us

Communicate

I guess I could use another drink
I'm not quite blind
then take me out
we'll go out and make love in the street
behind the first wall we can find
and communicate
and communicate
I do make friends easily
I put them to work like machines for me
they're always home and always free
why think twice?
enjoy yourself
destroy your health
and communicate
I put my love through my hands and through my arms
so when I touch you, you know how I feel
I put my hand on your knee
why think twice?
enjoy yourself
destroy your health
we communicate

Santiago

the face the good face
the rat race
I want to touch everyone
the waves the waves
the dark place
the still graves
it's like I can fly when I swim
the chase the chase the bright face
the warm place
for that I'd forgive anything
the waves the graves
the dark place
the stingrays
I want to touch everyone

Dots And Hearts

you could be a leader but your always alone
you've been so in darkness its awful
I can hardly stomach what you can't leave alone
turn them all on
they cant say no
control them any way you want
if you think they'll follow
you could be a leader but your always alone
cluster of eyes and dots and hearts
it's almost gone
I can hardly stomach what you can't leave alone
turn on the charm
they don't want you but I want you
cluster of eyes and dots and hearts
they cant say no
control them any way you want
if you think they'll follow
turn on the charm
they don't want you but I want you

Infinity Face

maybe we are infinite with time to waste
I am so in love with your infinity face
all this time to waste
with your infinity face
won't someone please employ us
or give when we hold out our hands
gravity cant destroy us
but living in poverty can
it's not enough, I'm sorry
we are soulless
we are soulless
maybe we are infinite with time to waste
I am so in love with your infinity face
I want someone to hold me and clap when I come through the door
but I'm so sick an tired of waiting
that I don't even care anymore
we get faded............
water through the holes you see with
hunger from the head
and poverty like rain around me
everybody begs

TVB LP / TVB 3EP

Other lyrics from the Red Spider EP and Sweet Receiver EP below.

I get faded

I get faded oh no no no You pushed your wings through me but I don't feel it I get faded One day i woke up with someone i could face and kissed her in her favorite place A little sigh and a smile on her face {I get faded} They're all over me everywhere I go Its just like we are both made out of snow If I just had your eyes I'd put them in a row around my room little balls of liquid and light I want them in a row around my room {I get faded} They're all over me everywhere we go Its just like we are both made out of snow {I get faded} I want you in a row around my room

Paradise

I prepare to meet the islands The salt slab I was waiting for the masterful The saviors to double back across the beautiful with sabers {Darling, I'm in paradise with my parasite} There was lightning and snow the morning you left We put our hands on our window we held our hands we held our breath {Darling, I'm in paradise with my parasite}

Tone Clusters

For people like me I'm not on stage but your music, I don't think you know what it does It's as if you try to illuminate the smallest little pieces of our love {Close your eyes I want you to remember me this way I want you to remember the place I want you to visualize you're saving grace} For people like me I'm all alone but your music it helps me to wait It's as if you stand up for us all as a diminishing signal of our faith A diminishing signal of our faith {Close your eyes I want you to remember me this way I want you to remember the place I want you to visualize you're saving grace} your arms in my heart is better than your heart in my arms your arms in my heart is better than your heart in my arms {I want you to remember me this way I want you to remember the place I want you to visualize you're saving grace} It's alright, you don't have to worry anymore you don't have to worry anymore

Sweetheart

Sweetheart you should know the more you give the less you own It makes the heart beat slow {under the light you're beautiful What more could I ask from you? Under the light you're beautiful What more could I ask from you} and in the night when we are slow we're satisfied with what we know Sweetheart you should know the more you love the less you owe It makes the sweetheart grow {under the light you're beautiful What more could I ask from you} and in the night when we are slow we're satisfied with what we know

Troy Von Balthazar

(lyrics translated in French)

Took Some $$

Took some money from you, I crossed the line. I come home from working all fucked up on wine, and I pause on the piano like a real man. Courage mon amour, in this blood red world. Sometimes when you're sleeping you look just like a little girl, I'll furnish you with money like a real man. One day I'll make money like a real man. Took some money from you, told you it was mine. Let's just stay home this evening and get all fucked up on wine. And I'll pause on the piano like a real man. I pause on the piano like a real man.

I block the sunlight out

Oh impossible, oh improbable, oh impractical, I block the sunlight out. Oh incredible, oh our body's full, oh improbable, I block the sunlight out. I block the sunlight out. Oh invisible, oh our hands are full, oh impossible, I block the sunlight out. Oh impressionable, oh I'm almost full, oh impossible, I block the sunlight out. I block the sunlight out. Someone out there somewhere else is eating something sweet; they all seem so beautiful, we are incomplete.

Magnified

The world is so big that we can't find each other. Soon it will be too late we won't be young together. I want everything perfectly aligned in my life. I want everything magnified. I hold you like a butterfly and squeeze with all my might. You make me want to multiply, the warm exploding light. Danger, danger, there you go. I thought that you know I wanted everything perfectly aligned in my life; I want everything magnified. I want everything magnified.

Dogs

Bad people happen to things like me. I broke across the room in waves and drown you in your dress. Bad people happen to things like me. Dogs appear and disappear. It's push, push but we don't kiss. Everything I say to you is code for something else. Why do you make love like this? I can see the subtlety, the rising sea, suddenly. It's push, push but we don't kiss. Everything I say to you is code for something else. Sleep master, sleep. Erase something, erase something, erase something sweet. Bad people happen to things like me. Bad people happen to things like me. I broke across the room in waves and drown you in your dress. Bad people happen to things like me.

Bad Controller

With big brown eyes like broken fruit, I look into you; I look into you. With big brown eyes like broken fruit I look into you, I look into you. Through big brown eyes like broken fruit everything's renewed, everything's renewed. Then you became surreal, a tiny girl, a vegetable, a chilly wind, an easy kill, and no one else would ever have to know, we should not deny ourselves. With big brown eyes like broken fruit, I look into you, I look into you. With big brown eyes like broken fruit everything's renewed, everything's renewed. Then you became surreal, a tiny girl, a vegetable, a chilly wind, an easy kill, and no one else would ever have to know, we should deny ourselves.

Real Strong Love

Hold your tongue out enemy let's break-in the carpet, let's break-in the bed. We can find out finally the world of the body is all in the head. Your anatomy real strong loving, exploding under me, real strong. We just want it constantly. The flush of the body, the purr of the cat. I can taste the quality; I tell you sincerely I'm thankful for that. Your anatomy real strong loving, exploding under me, real strong love. Your anatomy real strong loving, exploding under me real strong. We don't come so close; we come so much. We don't come so close; we come so much. We don't come so close; we come so much. Real strong loving. Your anatomy real strong loving, exploding under me real strong. We could use up all our love when nobody else is home.

Numbers

I reached down to touch your fin, and see how faithful you have been. And even if you're innocent, we're numbers. We're numbers. Some of us are even brave, wondering who Jesus saved when they lay us in our graves, we're numbers. We're numbers. We're numbers.

Perfect

I know we're fading, we're already gone. I'm tired of starving I tell you that something is wrong. But your hair fell down in front your face, like rain, like rain, like rain. But your hair fell down in front your face, like rain, like rain, like rain. Oh it's perfect. You always told me my music was just like a dream so open your jacket and show me, let's see what you mean. But your hair fell down in front your face, like rain, like rain, like rain. But your hair fell down in front you're face, like rain, like rain, like rain. Oh it's perfect...

Old Black Joe

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay. Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away. Gone from this earth to a better land I know. I hear their gentle voices calling old black Joe. I'm coming, I'm coming but my head is bending low. I hear their gentle voices calling old black Joe.

You, When You're Drunk

Once when you were younger, you could make things move. Now that you're older, you're resting. You used to have a special touch that covered over all of us. Now we only see you when you're drunk. Oh fuck it put your guitar away and go upstairs to rest, tomorrow we will see you if you want. Once when you were younger, you could make things move. Now that you're older you're resting. Your music does impressive things and holds you quiet with its wings (tired, tired, it's over, it's over). Your music does impressive things and holds me quiet with its wings (tired, tired, it's over).

Rainbow

I like your eyes they see me twice, they reflect me perfectly. Everyone surrounding you is gray into their bones. All around us everyone is closed. So when I see some light it's like a bright rainbow. I like your eyes they see me twice, they reflect me perfectly. Little girls on windowsills, they know how the pressure kills. I like your eyes they see me twice. Even when the color comes and breaks against your chest. Finally when you think you have control. You're just like the rest of us you're colorless. I like your eyes they see me twice.

Cover Us

Before it's all over I'd love to sleep with you and criticize your art. The pigeons applaud you, a ghost of a woman. I opened you up hard and covered you to the eyes. Keeping you safe. You're so right. You're so light. It's all bright. A forest of fingers with everything burning and all the windows closed. We're folded together, let go of our bodies and find out where this goes. Then while you were sleeping, with feathers bent backwards you spread out like a bird and all of the others, they circle above us, waiting for the word. Cover us to the eyes keeping us safe. You're so right. You're so light. It's all bright. You're so right. You're so light. It's all bright.

Playground

You're so right, a body's like a playground. I feel so evil, I feel so evil. You're so right, a body's like a playground. You're so right, I thought I'd never break down. I feel so evil, I feel so evil. It's all right a house with three children, a house with two children, a house with no children. I don't have children or a house. I feel so evil. I feel so evil.

Heroic Little Sisters

We begot like horses. Put your arms around us. We still have voices. Promise me you won't forget. The government don't own us yet. The government don't own us yet. We're so lucky. Push your wings into me. We fuck like horses. Shouldn't we always be free. The government don't own us yet. Heroic little sisters, cannot not be broken.

Sweet Receiver EP

Enemies

They want all our energy, they've become the enemy. The voice is soft, it's not enough. You've become impressionable, when you're impressed you're so becoming... become. {I'm predicting everyone in streams, but you expected your worst enemy} You're so smooth you're without seams, I finally know what that means but it's not enough to fracture us. You've become expandable when you expand you're so delicious... delicious. {I'm predicting everyone in streams, but you expected your worst enemy - I'm predicting everyone in streams, but you expected your worst enemy} I keep all your energy and store it up inside of me, it's nice and soft, it's just enough. You've become impressionable... You're nice and soft, you're just enough.

One Last Happiness

You move so beautifully, my best memory. I can see you like to photograph... One last happiness, one last happiness. You were built with a natural gait, in itself it's cause to celebrate, rigth now I can hardly wait. I can see you like to photograph... One last happiness, one last happiness {I miss you in a truly illegal way, wouldn't you guess... One flew away} You move so beautifully, I wish that you could stay with me. Just imagine the possibillities, I was hoping we could try... One last happiness, one last happiness {I miss you in a truly illegal way. Wouldn't you guess I was too late. Wouldn't you guess one flew away} I miss you in a truly illegal way... One flew away.

Sweet Receiver

Darling I don't hear anything, I hope you can understand. Forgiveness from the people who loved you then... They want to carry you soul away, they want to carry your soul away. {My sweet receiver} Before we leave try to understand, use your memory to picture all of them. Forgiveness from the people who loved you then... I want to carry your soul away, I want to carry your soul away. {My sweet receiver}

Red Spider EP

You Could Ice Skate to This

Don't just stand there give me your hand and make it all go away, make it all go away oh baby. You sincerely glow despite me. We stand out at the tip of our lives and suddenly we are gone, suddenly we are gone... suddenly. You sincerely glow despite me. Don't just stand there give me your hand and make it all go away. You could ice skate to this just to spite me.

I Want You to Want Me

Sweetheart don't you want me to help you, help you home? It's cold tonight you're all alone. My car is warm I could take you home, it's too far to walk get in. Meeting you there am beautiful what more could I ask from you? Meeting you there am beautiful what more could I ask from you, something soaring and beautiful, what more could I ask from you? It's late tonight the moon is cold it penetrates our very clothes it's too far to walk get in... Sweetheart don't you want me to want you just like that old Cheap Trick song?

Red Spider

The lights inside have broken through, what a life. I like your style and where your ankles meet, for you I'm always, always free, always. The sky outside is perfect too, what a light always blue, always.

words by Troy Von Balthazar