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Forty Days and Forty Nights with the Bon Mots

by The Bon Mots

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1.
Walk to California Give me one good reason Why I shouldn't be getting my suntan on Well seasoned but you better believe it I'm not done having my fun Up all night to prove it What's the point if you're not going to use it I'm not tired not sleepy If you ever wake up come down and see me Yeah we'll get high I'm not standing in your line Le Raconteur, le boulevardier The extra savoir faire - what can I say Dead soon so I dress well now For that long holiday in the clouds Not like I didn't warn ya Might just walk to California Can you tell that my nerves are shot You know I don't go to sleep So I'm not getting up First generation lazy There's a lot that rhymes I'm going with crazy It's not like I didn't warn ya Said I might just walk to California First generation lazy flag That I live under, it's calling to me Fruit's in the blender mail's returned to sender Baby that's how I got free Not like I didn't warn ya Might just walk to California
2.
As you lie in the soft light of the street and the new night I could stare for a lifetime And I have deep in my mind As we wait for the sunrise I get lost deep in your eyes If I wake you'd be nowhere around But a lost memory found And the years that separate past and present Fade away And this is where I want to stay Looking back on to these times This could all be in my mind Or a dream all about my favorite girl And the old times If you're here then I am here and If it's memory I am there And you must be there too As you lie in the soft light Of the street and the new night I could stare for a lifetime And I have deep in my mind
3.
On Her Telephone There's a lovely girl Waiting on a sign At the traffic light Think she's had enough Rolls her window up Trying hard just to keep it inside Seems like a stupid game How the lights never change Colors all look the same Waited far too long Rolls her window down Thinks it's time to quit this town Through the long fell length of the light Baby's all alone Like a fool that can never decide She's on her telephone Baby's all alone All the things he said That she can't recall But she can feel it all When she thinks on it Doesn't make much sense There's a lot left to forget Isn't it a pity? Isn't it pretty to think so? Through the long fell length of the light Baby's all alone Like a fool that can never decide She's on her telephone Baby's all alone
4.
Spring is here I see it through my window It's washing round my door Spilling cross the floor And you remain unmoved And ask if there's a punch line to this joke Tell when to laugh I'll tell you when to laugh dear Don't be trite You can give in now or fix the fight dear Either way it's the same you say Love is blind or there's a reason you've been hard to find dear Either way it's the same you say All is lost unless we take the high road And use what we have left Before they take the rest And we remain unmoved Providing them with punchlines for their jokes And waiting for the laugh But no one really dances here Don't be droll You can give in now or gain control dear Either way it's the same you say Just as the southern front crashes headlong into the northern clipper We'll drown with open mouths gazing up at the sky in awe and cursing the rain Don't be coy You can give in now or make some noise dear Either way it's the same you say Love is blind or there's a reason you've been hard to find dear Either way it's the same you say
5.
Breathing Backwards There's a spray of flowers Done up in black and white This bouquet of hours Well it means much less now than it might Giving trash can orders In an alley with a broken light I can't see very clearly but I can feel my way All right Hiding in plain sight Breathing backwards Spitting out facts that you think I don't know Took you a long time baby Just to tell me so Got the keys to disaster Little bit faster than you wanted to go Took me a long time baby But it's time to blow In the desert of the real With all my wrong desire Standing by the ruins of a dream Where everything's on fire Is it wicked not to care That everything's a lie? I can't think too clearly But I can feel my way All right Hiding in plain sight Breathing backwards Spitting out facts that you think I don't know Took you a long time baby Just to tell me so Got the keys to disaster Little bit faster than you wanted to go Took me a long time baby But it's time to blow
6.
Summer breeze blows from the lake to the shore in the nighttime Refreshes the air for the common kind And as the city wake from its hour of sleep You find yourself walking home down the same street An hour before you were indiscreet And you paid in full when you bought your time And they rode for free What will you do for fun With the festival girls who've come along And wait by the door of your flat in the cool dewy morn Time ain't cheap And you could make a killing selling yours to the white man Keeping it cool every way you can And as you're waking up in the afternoon light You take mimosas by the pool with a cat fight To be so desired is a rare delight This is a dream that just cam true But who's dreaming about you? What will you do for fun With the festival girls who've come and gone And nobody's willing to wait for your love to come down? And everybody's eager to please the man who can please himself Because you've done it first doesn't mean that it's not original When some dude in a much cooler shirt does it better than you So much better than you Arthritic knees mentholated lips and a month in a deep freeze It's hard not to over-think in times like these But things are looking up I think the pagans were right I think we're finally breaking even with daylight And maybe get out of my house tonight Who you'd like to find who you hope to see Who you really want to be
7.
Sirens 03:56
Sirens In the shallows Taking water Throwing it back You want to follow Sea is waving Sirens wailing Rip the tide Your canvas failing The horizon keeps rising Up on the rocks Capsizing Tied to the masthead Hearing everything she said Under tow and dread Sinking feeling Sky is screaming Oceans of black Your crew is reeling The horizon keeps rising Up on the rock Capsizing This is the song That you can't hear this is the song That only you can hear Hear it
8.
Last Time 03:30
And for the last time There is no last time There is no last time And all we've been through It's surprising what we do Disregarding all we knew And if it feels right Then it's alright Yes it's alright And yeah it burns clean With the heat of kerosene And a damage left unseen And what finally makes it fair You don't care And I"m wondering if this is All there is And misunderstood or wrong I've never felt so good So come on Just make it easy baby And give in To this thing we've made Called love
9.
Feels So Rong Lit a candle just for us Turned around and I blew it up Before you ripped me limb from limb Got an answer to everything Still can't get the bird to sing A love song Feels so rong Must be rong It's been going on Too long It's not too bad Not gonna get to know ya Things we might've had Not the Casanova Not so sad But I'm really not coming over Things we might've had But we'll throw it over With the castanets and the Cuban heel Still can't get the girl to feel All that much at all Almost criminal How you shake that thing Nature's candy, you're bringing It all down You thought I wanted you To worship me I just want what used to be When you loved me Trace a line with my jail fingers BIrds start singing The day is breaking So steal home Feels so rong Must be rong It's been going on Too long
10.
I can see you are a genuine man leisure With chess and Go, Goethe and Rousseau Alone and reverent of the time that makes a man You can learn a lot from one man's pleasure Liqueurs and Proust brandy and the truth About the causes of the twilight of the class You are not the things you know You are behavior that you show And fortunes aren't built on regret Rather on the blood and sweat Which doesn't even have to be your own Your aristocratic instincts are your measure Your season fall your syndrome Stendahl In awe of all this beauty that you'll never own I can see you are a genuine man of leisure For all we know we'll forgive Rousseau Alone and reverent in the time that makes a man
11.
Snow 04:03
Snow Heard a story from your father About the times that went before Passed down from their fathers Never saw it, so you can't be sure Before the world was underwater When the sea still touched the shore Before the curse was upon us A hundred years before you were born Doesn't snow here anymore Solid sheet of rain outside your door Fields of white lying under Black sky lit by a thousand stars Choked out by the clouds Coughed up from a million cars Planting cedars on the mountain Digging holes, hiding in the ground Sowing salt in the forest Sitting silent while the rain comes down In the land Of nobody knows how it happened That's how it happened We're in the land Of sticking our heads into the sand That's how it happened Purple berries in your pocket Drifting through uncharted hours Before the world was underwater Wehe the sea still touched the shore Doesn't snow here anymore Solid sheet of rain outside your door
12.
The skies return to A deceptive reasoning A blue mistake That only June can make And it always gets me It just seems so plausible I'm a captive willing To change what I perceive So I can believe This is not fleeting And it's always ending And it always starts again And a falling seed Bears witness to its end And leaves portend That which is fleeting As these borrowed days go by I'm just trying to Be here now In this time With you And it always gets me It just seems so plausible I'm a captive willing To change what I perceive So I can believe This is not fleeting
13.
Lily 03:33
Lily oh Lily Forgive me I"m really Not usually so far above Lily oh Lily Forgive me I'm silly in love Everything I recall Started in sterile halls Just a bit later than planned Despite all the crying I swear I'm not lying Your coming out party was grand Slightly hypnotic Though monosyllabic Your words are what I'm dreaming of Lily oh Lily Forgive me I'm silly in love And she's fine at night With the twinkling stars And the glow-worms Afire Lily oh Lily Forgive me I"m really Not usually so far above Lily oh Lily Forgive me I'm silly in love

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released November 5, 2007

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The Bon Mots Chicago, Illinois

SPIN: Bon Mots are one of the most promising new bands out there. A-

JIM DEROGATIS: Jangly psychedelic/power-pop draws on Byrds and Zombies but rises to the top of this always-overcrowded genre by virtue of strong songwriting, swirling production.

AMPLIFIER: Understated irony frequently underscores bittersweet melodies.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: Bon Mots just may be Chicago's best-kept secret.
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