Starflyer 59 - The Fashion Focus (1998)

Wow, Starflyer went soft for this one! Totally different from their old stuff. It's all keyboards and acoustic guitars and lounge stuff, aside from a few songs, mostly "Too Much Fun". It's all still really good though. Jason Martin is an amazing songwriter.

"I Drive a Lot"

And if you need it a lot
Talking just to waste my day
I drive a lot
I drive a lot

Think of things I'd be
With time to kill and just had lots of money
Time to kill and just had lots of money

When I'm all worked up
I think of friends of mine, now
35

And if you need it a lot
I'm talking just to hear myself
I drive a lot
I drive a lot

Think of things I'd be
With time to kill and just had lots of money
Time to kill and just had lots of money

When I'm all worked up
I think of friends of mine, now
35

Time to kill and just had lots of money

"We're the Ordinary"

We're ordinary people
Close, but not the worse
But I think you know

We're all the lonely people
Alone, but not at first
But I think you know

The older living people
Been through even worse
But I think you know

Just like the older people
Alone, but not at first
But I think you know

Sometimes we don't have a life
Sometimes we don't have a life
Sometimes we don't have a life
Sometimes we don't have a life

But I think you know

We're ordinary people
Close, but not the worse
But I think you know

We're all the lonely people
Alone, but not at first
But I think you know

Sometimes we don't have a life
Sometimes we don't have a life
Sometimes we don't have a life
Sometimes we don't have a life

"Sundown"

(This is a sundown)

Your bet is lost
You're fading slow
Sundown, the dark
Has laid you low

A rite to save your own
The blackness fiend will take you on

Sundown

Your slipping heart
A gray shadow
Sundown, the dark
Has laid you low

A rite to save your own
A rite to save your soul
A rite to save your own
The blackness fiend will take you on

Sundown

"Fell in Love at 22"

Fell in love at 22
With a girl that's close to you
Find a job and find love
No more long days running wild

With a girl and family too
Playing card games in the room

This is our life
Our old times
This is our life
Our old times

Now that John is 42
With a family like you
With a job that led him down
Don't you know I led him around?

This is our life
Our old times
This is our life
Our old times

"A Holiday Song (Happy Holidays)"

You know what day it is?
The day we fell in love
Long and sad goodbyes
So sad you couldn't stay

You don't have to go
Spend the holidays
You don't have to go
Spend the holidays

You know what time it is?
It's time to fall in love
Sad, sad to see you go
Stay a long, long time

You don't have to go
Spend the holidays
You don't have to go
Spend the holidays

(Happy Holidays.)

"All the Time"

We don't make the world go around
And we don't know much about
Life and little things

We don't make it happen
We don't make it happen
All the time

Love a world that's not your own
And pretty soon, we'll go home
Find some real love

That'll make us happy
That'll make us happy
All the time

All the time

"The Birthrite"

Some might
Some might sell out on the birthright
Never shy
And you never shot a bird right

But you're taking on the worst shine
You're taking on the worst shine
With hairiness you never had

Some might
Sell out on the wrong side
In the corner of his eye
"He never shot a bird right"

But you're taking on the worst shine
You're taking on the worst shine
With hairiness you never had

"Card Games and Old Friends"

Say goodbye
It's no life
We've never realized

Where we've been
Sad ends
We never realized

Card games and old friends
And always no sad ends
Card games and old friends
You mess it up

You mess it up

No surprise
Different lives
Express the world on time

Sad ends
To bad ends
We never realized

Card games and old friends
And always no sad ends
Card games and old friends
You mess it up

You mess it up

"Shut Your Mouth"

After all
You really stink it up
And the lies that you tell
I really think that you know

Left your girl and you left your family too
Things that you're never sure about
Just know that there's one thing I'll get through

You've got it all worked out
I wish you'd shut your mouth

After all
You really like just to never tell
We really think that you'll burn in Hell
I really think that you know

Left your girl and you left your family too
Things that you're never sure about
Just know that there's one thing I'll get through

You've got it all worked out
I wish you'd shut your mouth

You've got it all worked out
I wish you'd shut your mouth

"The Fashion Focus"

So what?
So I think you know
That you
Were the first to go

Through lonely towns with one way streets
Met the ones I'd love to meet
By driving cars, deliveries
You're the one who played the keys

It's odd
How you always notice when the world
Gets you down

I find it odd
How you always notice when the world
Gets you down

So what?
So I think you know
That you
Were the first to go

Through lonely towns with one way streets
Met the ones I'd love to meet
By driving cars, deliveries
You're the one who played the keys

It's odd
How you always notice when the world
Gets you down

I find it odd
How you always notice when the world
Gets you down

It's odd

"Too Much Fun"

Big girls like telling boys
That always shove
"Fact is, it's nothing more
Than too much fun

And they'll fade out
They'll fade out
They'll fade out"

Big boys like dead end girls
That always shove
Fact is, it's nothing more
Than too much fun

And they'll fade out
They'll fade out
They'll fade out

"Days of Lamech"

These could be days
Like Lamech
Methuselah

Boys after girls
And the girls
After the boys

So excited
So excited
So excited
But you wrote it down

So excited
So excited
So excited
But you wrote it down

But you wrote it down

One at the farms
Or in the hills
Or wedding days

So excited
So excited
So excited
But you wrote it down

So excited
So excited
So excited
But you wrote it down

But you wrote it down