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Mutt

by Cory Branan

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1.
The Corner 04:24
Down on the corner of what I want And what I tend to get Day-drinking and dreaming of you I Let the ashtray smoke my last cigarette Once i had a casual acquaintance With my impending doom Years ago she promised me "Someday soon" But how I've moved from room to room Chorus: Ain't been transcendin Much of nothin I've been down in it I ain't free Weren't no experiment These seven years they went Like a life Outta me Clownin on the corner of almost gone and Maybe not just yet There's still a little left to pawn and the bone's aren't set The cast is slack, the plaster's wet Steppin up the escalator Hell I am outta here Out past the predetermined terminals of tears The wings are warm, the runway's clear Chorus Maybe all the world's a hollow recreation My desperate brethren A hallowed blue hallucination we play to win Put your right foot out, put your right foot in But it's a useful little illusion It'll lose you for a song In the beautiful confusion you've been Down and counting on Chorus Down on the corner of what I want And what I tend to get Day-drinking and dreaming of you I Let the ashtray smoke my last cigarette
2.
She warned him once about her luck Put out a match with a tear She said I'm bored to death and born to… Look, you want way the hell away from here? He said You don't look that tough to me He leaned and lit her cigarette How about you wait to see just what you regret Till we get what we get They say it makes you stronger First you gotta survive What didn't kill you Make you wish you died What didn't kill you Make you wish you died She struggled to read his knuckle tattoos Beneath the ring and the scar But the left said LOVE and the right read TRUE She said Please say you got a car It's parked out back, it's pointed out of state It's a recent acquisition we should probably ditch the plates It won't get me far enough to ever lose track But yeah, it's plenty car enough for never coming back They say it makes you stronger First you gotta survive What didn't kill you Make you wish you died What didn't kill you Make you wish you died Yellow duffel in the seat back yonder It's a bunch of pretty junk I bought her Yours if you want Either to you or the flames To me it's the same She said No thanks man my baggage is packed The name on my ankle, the knife in my back But I know a place on our way out of town That's as good as burned down It's as good as burned down They say it makes you stronger First you gotta survive What didn't kill you Make you wish you died What didn't kill you Make you wish you died You call that a scar? A bruise? A tear? Pillow marks. Souvenirs
3.
Bad Man 03:54
You say you heard the talk About where I've been But while I walked that walk There and back again I don't remember ever seeing None of them around So let me be the first To curse my name into the ground Chorus: They say i'm a bad man, and they're right I'm a bad man Baby I think a bad man would do you good So you broke your heart For some lonely broken men But it didn't break your heart It only broke it in It takes one to notice when Someone takes time for noticing The subtle shift of shape and shade That made them call a spade a spade and say Chorus Let them walk the well lit Suburbs of their hearts You ain't afraid of no alleyway When you are the thing in the dark So slip off what you don't want ripped off It's all in my way Put my mouth over those stupid things You're taught you ought to say The sun will rise Like God's good eye Soon everyone will know we were never cool It'll be all over the entire middle school I mean, you know, the scene And when they say I'm a bad man You can say I bet he makes a better bad man Than you do good It's not love that you have for me It's not love- who said it had to be It's not love that I have for you But it'll have to do
4.
Moon against the window, moonlight on the lawn Street so bright with the streetlights on What do they think the night is for? Darken my door Stars against the window, starlight on the lawn Street so bright when them stars come on What do they think the night is for? Darken my door All that light let's lonely shine so clear Tonight my head's a chandelier We will toast your past Just as overcast as mine A crush of hearts For the dark red wine City in the window, search light on the lawn Street so bright when the search is on What do they think the night is for? Darken my door I know to never advertise a hurt Tonight my eyes are fireworks Wear your heavy braids Made of Shadow, Shade, and Vine Let em' down Make the darkness shine Sunrise through the window, sunlight on the lawn Your face so bright in the breaking dawn Must be what the light is for Open the door
5.
Another night closes your hard little rose And re-opens the sparkling wound They'll pick up your sin on the sticky-sweet wind They'll itch and they'll quicken and sick your sweet skin And they're next to nothing, face to face, In daylight, one by one But that's not how they're coming That's not the way they come There, there little heartbreaker It's only one night alone Just keep away from the windows Stay way away from the phone And whatever you do- Don't do it tonight A heart is a horrid cocoon There, there little heartbreaker It'll be all over soon Pray that that's rain tapping at that black window The sudden percussion of blood in your wrist won't quit Calling the thing, recalling its kiss To nail you to the night like this These birds have circled ever since The center of you fingerprints You made your bed of flesh and bone You set the clock in stone There, there little heartbreaker Just remember- no windows, no doors And no mirrors, no mirrors, no mirrors Mirrors know mirrors know more Whatever you do- don't do it tonight A heart is a horrid cocoon There, there little heartbreaker It'll be all over soon
6.
The Snowman 03:39
It's always beautiful weather on one side of the window Somewhere warm I could watch from- picture the wind blow In here nothing could melt me- I swear I never felt these bones become snow Now I carry that weather wherever I go I walk on the water I answer to no man I am the snowman Your memory's dead now- leave the sheets in the bedroom Stop walking through walls dear, lie back down in that red room No matter how long your hair and your fingernails grow Your memory's dead now, believe me, i'd know I broke all the roses I cut off my own hand I am the snowman Out on the hillside the sun rises hissing You won't find the bodies- everything's missing The shadows we swallow spill into the hollow below And we carry this weather wherever we go We are the ghost We don't even believe in We are the snowmen But there was a time when...
7.
It was undeniably summer I was certifiably cool In my acid washed jacket and my stone washed jeans I rose out of the kiddie pool You were a walking want ad you had Summer on your side Our front yards faced each other From across the Great Divide The sunbeams cracked like jumper cables I was cranking up the Mellencamp You were dancing barefoot on a picnic table and Dammit girl truly goddammit girl truly goddammit girl truly goddamn I still remember every word you said Like I always said I would When you walked on the waterbed Stood right there in my head for good You kept some honeysuckle In that special dresser drawer Now every spring both knees buckle Both knees buckle and I hit the floor I hit the floor every spring At just the hint of a scent of a thought of that thing I still remember every word you said Like I always said I would When you walked on the waterbed Stood right there in my head for good The easy way we used to play When there was no such thing as yesterday We threw our two hearts high The first half felt like flying I still remember every word you said Like I always said I would When you walked on the waterbed Stood right there in my head for good
8.
Karen's Song 03:27
It was undeniably summer I was certifiably cool In my acid washed jacket and my stone washed jeans I rose out of the kiddie pool You were a walking want ad you had Summer on your side Our front yards faced each other From across the Great Divide The sunbeams cracked like jumper cables I was cranking up the Mellencamp You were dancing barefoot on a picnic table and Dammit girl truly goddammit girl truly goddammit girl truly goddamn I still remember every word you said Like I always said I would When you walked on the waterbed Stood right there in my head for good You kept some honeysuckle In that special dresser drawer Now every spring both knees buckle Both knees buckle and I hit the floor I hit the floor every spring At just the hint of a scent of a thought of that thing I still remember every word you said Like I always said I would When you walked on the waterbed Stood right there in my head for good The easy way we used to play When there was no such thing as yesterday We threw our two hearts high The first half felt like flying I still remember every word you said Like I always said I would When you walked on the waterbed Stood right there in my head for good
9.
The Freefall 04:12
The moon was low enough to put your drinks on So we ponied up and got our drink on I was fucked up as my haircut She was waisting good perfume It was useless as the truth is In these ruthless little rooms Truth be told all that we saw Was something to hold Through the freefall I inhaled the tangled perfume of her summer hair Strands of motel shampoo, Parliaments, and pear To be honest, I felt nothing And said nothing to be fair I've been drinking with those three chord girls Everybody knows exactly how they go I was shaving by moonlight She was feeling for her dress We were talking about something Dull blades make a fucking mess My eyes turned to face hers Like mirrors facing mirrors Truth be told, all that we saw Was something to hold through the freefall
10.
Jericho 03:57
She was looking over my shoulder Out of the window at the moon As I watched her there in the silver Napkin dispenser to my right Her left, my right There was no one at the jukebox When suddenly it turned on And suddenly there's Motown And the trumpets blow, towards Jericho, they go- "No one knows how no one feels, I wonder why I bother" But tonight the sky caught flower It was damn near absurd A wash of wasp and bob-white, Moth and mockingbird In the blinding hind-sight Of the long-dead starlight stood the Unconnected dots of history The patron saints of Luck and Mystery The unnerving coincidence of reoccurring fingerprints A white rose in an onion and an ocean in the oxygen Muhammad, Kali, Buddha, baby Jesus and the gang The whole slipshod she-bang Under this perfect awning my pretty girl is yawning "No one knows how no one feels I wonder why I bother" She says "Look- the sky is perfectly clear- Just there-", Where, there? "No, right here" And when I finally feel I've found it Each star points to the five around it And on and on and off and on and on She was looking over my shoulder Out of the window at the moon
11.
Hold Me Down 05:22
I chase a never-ending picture with a disappearing pen She said I see the angel with a synthesizer in her hand What's that supposed to be beside her? Is that supposed to be a man? Look, I did the best I can Chorus: Hold me down, hold me still Love me like you always will Kiss me like you've solved it It starts raining on the ocean every time you send your best It feels like someone forcing open an umbrella in my chest There really ain't no use to talk anymore It's raining on the ocean It's raining on the shore Chorus A lovely explosion- Unfolds its tiny wings In a tiny box on a giant screen T.V. Above the busy bar I clutch my coat and Clench my hardened heart to know that I was younger yesterday than I ever guessed before Climbing out of hell on a ponytail to kicked in your back door and then I slept under our statue, the one in Mercy Park That I said looks just like you- even more so when it's dark Still you refused to yield Your useless sword and shield I woke up in the garden, I woke up in the sun I woke up like a bullet wakes up from a gun Too late to turn around All hammered down and done I'm done, I'm done, goddamn i'm through Evangaline i'll never mean another dream of you just Hold me down the cast will come Hold me still off the sky Love me like rest and ride You always will the world awhile
12.
Lily 05:30
We were just a phase of flowers The happy days, the happy hours When the rain streamed down The fatal windows And her eyes seemed far away Up close When all the things you meant to mean And all the awful in between Gets tired Well, Lilly, I guess the best trick Is to see the magic Once you've seen the wires My pulse held still for her to pass And my heart beat again At last Now the roof is sitting on the floor Her past is fitting in a drawer Where all the lonely papers play Like we were only made of make-believe And fire Well, Lilly, I guess the best trick Is to see the magic Once you've seen the wires Against the grain Of a breeze Carves my girl in dark perfume Her doors open all The night skies make room My doors are facing The night skies just racing In bloom Go on home, your little tin With what's left of a heart Like the bark Of a ghost Of a dog That's still chasing his car Cause I'm south and of now South enough to rest The birds are singin' Sweet and meaningless Well, Lilly, I guess the best trick Is to see the magic Once you've seen the wires
13.
She wondered once about her luck Put out her match with a tear She said I'm bored to death and born to, Look, you want way the hell away from here? He said you don't look that tough to me Leaned and lit a cigarette How 'bout you wait and see just what you regret Until we get what we get They say it makes you stonger But first you gotta survive What didn't kill you will make you wish you died What didn't kill you will make you wish you died She struggled to read his knuckle tattoos Beneath the ring and the scar But the left said love and the right read true She said please say you got a car It's parked out back It's pointed out of state It's a recent acquisition we should probably ditch the plates And it won't get you far enough to ever lose track But yeah it's plenty car enough for never coming back They say it makes it stronger But first you gotta survive What didn't kill you will make you wish you died What didn't kill you will make you wish you died Yellow duffel in the seat back yonder Bunch of pretty junk I bought her It's yours if you want I believe in the flame But to me it's the same She said no thanks man my baggage is packed This name on my ankle with this knife in my back I know a place on the way out of town It's as good as burned down It's as good as burned down They say it makes it stonger But first you gotta survive What didn't kill you will make you wish you died What didn't kill you will make you wish you died You call that a scar A bruise, a tear Pillowmarks Souvenirs

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released May 22, 2012

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Cory Branan Nashville, Tennessee

Throughout his decade-and-a-half-long career, Cory Branan has been too punk for country, too country for punk, too Memphis for Nashville, and probably a little too Cory Branan for anyone’s damn good.

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