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lyrics to "the head sits upside down on the top of the head

“on my window” (sanden)
watching drops of rainy beauty
the effacing grass growing thru us
on my window the smallest lizard
eats a fruit fly against the glass
warm against the sunny glass
ooh even when seeing the chaos under a stone
and watching the earthen frenzy
dizzy and whirling apart
you left me flat floored and feeble
i felt so entirely unstable
your scent was everywhere
ooh even when feeling this world cracking apart
i wanna touch the mountain
crumbling down around us
if we break apart
my heart will it shatter what does it matter?
when i need you
i need you so bad
watching those looks of twilight
my hands shaking for that glass
on my window the smallest lifeform
eats another smaller lifeform
what was left in streaks against the glass
ooh even when seeing this world cracking apart
i wanna touch the mountain crumbling down around us
ooh even when feeling the chaos under a stone
i wanna touch the mountain
crumbling down around us
“cure for the cure” (sanden)

it turns so vague when we veer off the path
into the ditch obscure
i saw you pushing your cart
i won’t say now what i wish
to get over the cure
there’s a front seat and a back seat
and a window in between for a reason
i’m sick with fear i fear the cure i
sabrina, get over the cure
don’t come closer
don’t confuse “us” with “love”
no cancer in retreat a fishhook in a plainly open eye
your heaving heart
there’s no stray bullet no friendly fire
give me the shot!
there’s a front seat and a back seat
and a window in between sabrina
as 10,000 extras reset their alarms
it’s needed get over the cure
don’t fall backwards
don’t overdose on us
just give me the cure
gimme the cure for the cure
just give me the shot
“for dear life” (reyes)
in the deepest vacuum
of outer space there's nothing
to bang your fist on
bury your head in
or to kick with all your might
but you gotta let go
or else just hold on for dear life
for dear life
from the crest of everest
to the mariana trench there's nothing
to keep it's promise
to give you the slightest
glimmer of a hope
but you gotta let go
or else just hold on for dear life
for dear life
on the lunar surface
to the amber on my shelf there's something
to fall in love with
to beat your brains out
or to fear with all your might
but you gotta let go
or else just hold on for dear life
for dear life
for dear life
for dear life
“sleep with me” (sanden/odie)
where you gonna sleep if you don’t sleep with me?
oh darlin’ please
come-a come c’mon live with me
sleep with me
“never enough” (odie)
how does it feel to be within
not ever bother looking out
oblivious to suffering
and all of the babies shouting?
you have everything that you really need
never wanting yet it's never enough.
controlling all the factors
not only yours but hers and mine
you're ego-scrupulous and irreverent
and when you go to bed you feel fine?
coz you have everything still you only feed
on the needy yet it's never enough
“mom’s love” (sanden)
like god’s love but it’s really
your ma thinking
her son among the others
is worth dancing ‘cross the water
drowning in the city blocks
the children the elderly
five feet and rising
a submarine’s ejection
a divine reflection of love
falling in love
mom’s love
this ugly creature would be crushed
but for ma, oh lila
no wonder i’m wonderful
you came dancing ‘cross the water
bodies floating heavenward
white faces upturned
ten feet and rising
this aching world don’t need no god
no church no holy fraud
it needs love human love!
the one love that’s real
really real
mom’s love
“blackwater” (reyes)
in the sky of the river's eye
i saw a man about getting high
one or two, he knew what to do
blackwater is drowing me
blackwater is coming for me
blackwater the company you keep
will sink you fast will sink you deep
the velvet crush of the needle's end
i want to taste it before it begins
cruel light of the ferry lights
everything's gonna be alright i said yeah
i said yeah
blackwater is drowning me
blackwater is coming for me
blackwater - the company you keep
will sink you fast will sink you deep
ooh
“wolves (with the minds of men” (sanden)
up above it’s dusty blue in the sky
bananas are growing even in england tonight
gemany streaks through the sky
the softest strike hits my open eye
i wanna say “yeah!”
far away there’s a yellow tribe
and centuries of ceramics
stringed boxes and changing screens
if this mushroom is worth its weight
it’ll light up the sky
i wanna say “yeah!”
up above the upper edge
ten miles high of fire
# Comment(s), 26 Sep 08
lyrics to "living again" ep

“living again” (reyes)
we’re walking in the sun
we’ve only just begun
to know just what it’s like
to make each other feel so right
to give yourself
a chance to help
feels like living again
i feel like living again
i tell myself to try
to simply memorize
the moment before it’s past
because miracles they never last
it all gets real
when you start to feel
like living again
i feel like living again
“innocence, in a sense” (odie)
it's been fun
can we just leave it at that?
the time has come
for this idle and wanton deport is coquettish
it's been done and far more sweeter than that
so keep it on and when you're older much older we'll try
don't you remember tomorrow's been here for so long
it's no longer awake?
"black day and stormy nights, no love and no hope in sight" for days on end
persevere and rise on up with the sun
vacillate and hear the sound of an empty reply
light that is on its way in unpronounceable years in light years
brings death in a figurative sense
to start all over is to start or roll over in a sense
time wasted on negativeness is long winded tales of innocence
in essence
“modulating from montana” (sanden)
modulating from montana
i can’t hear you too good
you’re talking while you’re fading out
the western states are leading the lost ones
oh my julie
i won’t let you fade out
oh sweet julie
i won’t let you fade out
like the hippies now all gone
you’d lay your hat for a home
travelin’ whisperin’
you’ve got two fingers there for a comb
oh my julie
i won’t let you fade out
oh sweet julie
i won’t let you fade out
antenna strung my fingers rung
this electric net poised for a catch
head phones on tubes are warm
but your signal falls below the noise
oh my julie
i won’t let you fade out
oh sweet julie
i won’t let you fade out

“in love” (sanden)
watch the girl blowin’ candles out
presents swirl that’s what she’s about
keep it secret it’s a no-no
something real she wanted it to grow
the feeling of falling the pull from below
it’s dangerous in love
in love
i can’t think about anything i want to
the look of her eyes
has weakened me it’s wrecked me
i’m sick so sick
do what you will: pink, red, and blue
believe me I want you to
the devil finds her emergency
feeling cruel pulling apart
you whisper to me, “well i don’t know my heart”
it’s poisonous in love
in love
i can’t think about anything i want to
the look in her eyes
has weakened me it’s wrecked me
i’m sick so sick
in love in love
when you’re sick you feel so low
oh in love in love
so you whisper, “closer closer”
you come so far
feel the devil beat inside your heart
but she’s not in love
no certainly not in love
“frost heaves” (sanden)
don’t go
it’s cold outside it’s suicide
twenty below
when i need you here i need you near me
frost heaves on the road it means we flipped
hanging down from our belts
oh no
well I think we’re here my wife my dear
oh shit
i lost control back in the ditch
frost heaves on the road it leaves us lost
not to us you say but then we’re tossed like a toy in the snow
glaciers pushing
icy lies from a heated past
i say it’s only a bump in the road
darlin’ it’s a slippery slope
i’m downslidin’
please i’m getting old i’m getting older
oh no
the drifts are piled the metaphor gets meaner
cut the rope we’re plunging down
it gets deeper
frost heaves on the road it leaves us lost
not to us you say but then we’re tossed like a toy in the snow
“all the sundays” (reyes)
it feels like all the sundays in the world
if feels like all the sundays in the world
when you're gone
that dreaded sunday feeling's
coming on
the whole weight of the world
keeps pressing down
it feels like all the sundays in the world
it feels like all the sundays in the world
when you're gone
there's clouds to keep the sun from shining bright
not a soul to tell my troubles to tonight
and all you have to do is smile
and every living thing will bask
in the sun of your eyes
it feels like all the sundays in the world
it feels like all the sundays in the world
when you're gone
# Comment(s), 3 Apr 08
thanks brent/music town

brent we thank you and music town for hosting a very fun in store performance. it was quite cozy, and clearly buttercup has some of the nicest fans around.
# Comment(s), 3 Feb 08
Erik Sanden on the Pixies' Doolittle

Erik talks about one of his most influential albums, the Pixies Doolitle on KUT's On the Record audio blog. To most the Pixies might seem far removed from Buttercup's music, but Erik explains why this band has influenced him and his songwriting. He disects the album a bit, and explains how he was stuck listening to it (and only it) for a fortnight and then some. Check it out, and what some other musicians pick as their most influential records.
# Comment(s), 28 Jan 08
New Video!!

Hey check out our new video for "Sun in the Sky" from the "Captains of Industry" EP. This was shot by Michele Monseau back in September 2007. Hope you like it. You may notice that Odie eats off the floor and that Joe is walking blindfolded.
Love,
the Cup
# Comment(s), 28 Jan 08

Thanks for checking in,
the Cup

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gRacKle News 2008

lyrics to "the head sits upside down on the top of the head

lyrics to "living again" ep

thanks brent/music town

Erik Sanden on the Pixies' Doolittle

New Video!!