Here are the lyrics to our first album, "Terrible Things Happen" and, as an added bonus, the first single, "Fire Engines".

1. Friends of the Heroes

Because baby's gone and the train
won't come back until I've cleaned up my act and my style.
The country is clean and with sheer irreverence
I'll take penance I do it so well and the way
that the friends of the heroes can tell.
I do it so good. So good. In high eve snow
I'll call the show. I'm calling the fives and the zero
and one and the six and the one seventeen
and I know, yeah I know, that I'll get the machine.
I do it so good. I do it so good. Oh yeah.
In the high eve snow I'll call the show.

2. California

I've had a bit too much tonight,
but I think I'll ride my bike alright.
I rode to where the lights collide
and I fell asleep where peaks divide.
I dream I'm happy. And I think I'm happy.
I read it in a magazine. They said it's all for free.
Stop your daydreaming about such silly little things.
Is California mine?
I guess I get around alright
and I have a bit of fun at night and I think I'm happy.
And I dream I'm happy. I read it a magazine.
They said it's all for free. Stop your daydreaming.
Is California mine?

3. Holiday Gone Well

Woke up this morning and I turned to my right.
Woke up this morning and I turned to my right.
Oh my goodness how the stars are so bright.
Oh my goodness how the stars are so bright.
I never noticed them, no. I never noticed before.
I fell in love again.
You're a holiday gone well. You're a holiday gone too well.
Oh my darling went away.
You won't believe what just happened to me.
You won't believe what just happened to me.
I fell in love again.
Oh my goodness how the stars are so bright.
Oh my goodness how the stars are so bright.
You're a holiday gone well. You're a holiday gone too well.
My darling went away.

4. Alicia's song

I've had too much wine for agreement.
I'll take time to sit on the pavement.
In this sun-baked agreement
and I just saw your paintings.
I'm not in a state to make statements.
I'm just in amazement.
Alright and stuck in the past with no photographs.
Alright, no don't turn around. No don't turn around.
Lines that bind the colors that I see.
Calling shapes of rapid topography.
It's your sensibility and who's in your diary.
Alleys all escape in graffiti. It's just there to please me.
Alicia, do you dream in stripes and cadmium lights?
Alicia, do you know Elin? You do her head in.
Alicia, do you dream in stripes and cadmium lights?
Alicia, do you know Elin? You've done her head in.

5. I've Been Mistreated

You must think by now that I'm obsessed with you.
Friends they say that you don't think the way I do.
I was so mistreated by the way you moved.
I'd ask you just what you thought too,
but if I stand that close to you...Oh.
I don't want to be the girl that's driving you home.
Just to see you in and turn and go back alone.
I don't think it's fair. Just say you don't care.
And I'll take you there and go nowhere.
I've built it up too big. I'm dreaming nervously.
(thought you were so hip to dance with him)
Just a kiss or two just out of sympathy.
(thought you were so hip to dance with him)
I was so mistreated when you danced with me.
I'd ask you just what you thought too,
but if I stand that close to you...oh.
I don't want to be the girl that's driving you home.
Just to see you in and turn and go back alone.
I don't think it's fair. Just say you don't care.
And I'll take you there and go nowhere.

Mary's Song

I was darkened by the sin.
A wasted hour closing innon a lovely day
when I got up before the freeway.
I got up and set my clock.
The river up the street
and down the block got faster and
I wished that I got the nerve to
ask her what she thought.
About why Portland skies are grey.
Why'd you want to see it every day
when you know there's kids starving
in England/Alaska for the sun.
By the way, can I come?
I swear I won't be a burden.
Eight o'clock came cruel today.
Can we just lie here instead of leaving?
You and me and Kye had tea there in the kitchen
and I was cold.
I got up and got my coat,
kissed you three times and winged it home
with a smile wider than my arms
could stretch in E minor. Don't go.
I could know you better I know.
And the photo booth memory's a ghost.
Japanese stickers, a toast,
to how I could kiss you every mile of the west coast.
So Julie can I have a whiskey
because she got in a car and she never came home.
Hello all my friends, can I have a whiskey
because I won't drive far anyway.
Not since I have to go home that way,
by the scene of the getaway...
Hey, Hey, Hey.
Geography and biology
just basically don't mesh for me...

7. Why Baby Why

Why, baby why do you never seem to try anymore?
If I could stand then I'd walk away.
Stick around with nothing good to say.
I've been told it won't go down that way.
Why, baby why do you never see me try anymore.
Another day and I'd be out the door.
But not today because now I'm on the floor.
You never asked but I still gave you more.

8. Long Division

9's down to the bricks. I saw algebra in your eyes.
Geometry between the lies.
I saw my image of you fade in exponential waves of grey.
I'll go. I know I should have figured it. Don't give me degrees.
I've been at the seaport all day long.
Just me and my paint box abstracting numbers in the sun.
Good-bye in long division.
I saw my image of you fade in exponential waves of grey.
I saw my favorite number two get crushed
divided in squares. I'll go.
I know I should have figured it. Don't give me degrees.
I've been at the seaport all day long.
Just me and my paint box astracting numbers in the sun.
Good-bye. A long division.

9. London Madrid

I took a picture of a fountain.
Walked away instead of counting
all the hours I had left before I had to go.
Walking wanton a desperate city and the subway's cold
and filthy but the homeless men are not aggressive.
But I'm still afraid of them because I can't understand the cold
and the language that he speaks is not as foreign as the way
I treat him. Thousands of miles in one direction
just to toy with my affection.
Emotional wayside will, I'm ill and I want to go.
I slept on the streets of London.
Thought I had a friend in London.
Until the bright lights woke me up and I'm still here.
But I'm not afraid of him because I can understand the cold. And the language that he speaks is
not as foreign as the way he treats me.
Oh, and I want to go home.

10. Cocksure Whistler

Showers shimmy like the rain's bombast.
And the cocksure whistlers up the autumn mast.
Blows the leaves on by with a lazy breath.
A puckered wisdom and violence of a season.
Showers icy but the streets are chalk.
Like the cocksure whistler's on a winter walk.
Calls the snow like father with a frozen gait.
He'll sell your joys for a fireplace.
For the season.

Army Street

I Never met a group of kids quite like you.
You've done all the drugs that I won't be taking.
In that red, red room that so becomes you.
I became a waste of liquor and of conversation.
Because I drank whiskey and I got pulled over just
because I was uncomfortable enough to leave.
So will you please pick me up off Army Street
because I simply can't walk on these knees?
And I could go back to your house and sleep tonight.
So I can stay longer and I can get to know your friends
and I might still have my car in the end.
I could stay longer and I could get to know your friends.
And I might still have my car when the night ends.
I drank whiskey and I got pulled over
because I was uncomfortable enough to leave.

12. Falling Buildings

I've been thinking too long that my sense is gone.
I can't stand it any much more.
I just want to meet that son, but there's just that one
that's my fun go-between.
I know that my life is mine when the sun resigns
and the last thing I want is sleep.
I know that my life is mine when the sun resigns
and the last thing I want...I see a building falling down.
It had to happen this way.
I've been thinking for too long that my sense is gone.
I can't stand it any much more.
I've got no bones with your sticks and stones.
I feel all 9's down to the bricks.
I've got no bones with your sticks and stones.
I feel all 9's down to the...I see a building falling down.
It had to happen this way. Hey, hey, hey.

13. Jaime's Song

Should have known this kid would get a bit lonely.
The drinking's good and most of what a friend should be.
Shady signs and steins they call to me.
Airplanes are falling from the sky for me.
Letters from a friend, flattened coke or gin. I can never win.
All I want has been taken up in front of me.
You get what you pay for and not what you wait for.
And I can afford all the time alone
and I can see your pennies free but I won't be had by bribery.
I could have stopped to see if everything's alright.
Falling stars and airplanes, they light the night.
To the sky we've taken, you and I.
The window's closed, but I have all the world despite
letters from a friend, flattened coke or gin.
You can always be what you want to be.
Anything in front of me.
You get who you play for and not who you wait for.
And I've been just waiting here all alone
and I don't like the scenery anymore.
Planes stopped falling down.
They're gone and I'm alone.

14. My Boyfriend (Could Be a Spanish Man)

My boyfriend could be a Spanish man.
Lost and lonely, mother told me "girl you'll find no gain
in simple men. American. Take a holiday in Spain
and you'll never be the same."
If it's alright with you, my boyfriend could be a Spanish man.
If it's alright with you I'd like to.
So I did, went to Madrid. All cheers to what I found.
La Via Lactia in the Malazana, Maravillas, Down.
And Julian took us 'round.
If it's alright with you, my boyfriend could be a Spanish man.
If it's alright with you I'd like to.
He pegged his trousers on a Friday afternoon.
He rides and English built machine that he can't fix,
but he keeps it pretty clean.
If it's alright with you, my boyfriend could be a Spanish man.
If it's alright with you I'd la la la la like to.

Fire Engines

From the start and over again.
Miles and miles all sorted on engines.
Rising wasted by the bends.
Red red red red fire engines.
I'll see you all at home. See you all at home.
A whistle and a wail at the start.
We had a good going at it right off!
Red red red blue blue and we're blind.
The fire engines rushed in a line.
Never came to find an answer.
Never questioned what they saw.
Down down down down, over and over.
The fire engine's a red red rover. Come over.
I've got things to tell you of
how my legs just aren't straight anymore.
I'll see you all at home.