Excuse Seventeen s/t lyrics

These lyrics are mostly from the insert that comes with the LP version, but I had to make a few guesses in spots, and some things I really just had no clue on.

 

Vanishing Act

she was the type of girl who when kidnapped they said, they said, she would return the next day, she would be returned. but then, they were wrong and that, that girl is gone and she is missing from here but she isn't missing it here at all.

disappear, i'm out of here (2x)

(and i'm waiting here for you to take my place. i think i've found the words to end self hate)

missing persons oh, eyes are blue. have you seen this girl, or did she, did she vanish right in front of you? vanish right in front of you?

i want that car to take me away. i want that light in the sky to suck me in. i don't want to have to stay here anymore; i just want someone to take me away, abduct me.

disappear, i'm out of here (2x)

(i don't feel anything! i don't think you know this shame! i think i wanna die! everything seems the same!)

missing in action, oh, eyes are brown. you haven't seen this girl, cuz she, cuz she is no longer around. no longer around.

disappear, i'm out of here (2x)

(i didn't sleep last night. it hurts to close my eyes. it's no use anymore. i'll never sleep again)

i'm out of this.

 

Two Faced

how should i know? which way i'll go, oh, which role i'll play? predator or prey? i have my eyes so open to who can kill me. i forget. i forget, i kill too, i kill too, i kill you.

how should i know? which way i'll go, oh oh oh, which role i'll play? predator or prey?

snake is aware of owl in the tree. it doesn't notice the mouse in it's mouth. mousy mouth. i swallow you whole, so i don't have to know if i hurt you, if i killed you, if i opressed you.

how should i know? which way i'll go, oh oh oh, which role i'll play? predator or prey?

 

Cut and Dry

hers wasn't a case of mistaken identity. it was more like a case of a fucked up country. but it's not that cut and dry to me. and the last thing that was needed was my fucked up white girl sympathy.

hush, hush is what they say. we'll make the incisions our way. we can't make you cry, but we'll do everything to try.

hers wasn't a case, hers wasn't a case and the only way they could get to her strength was skin deep.

cut & dry (3x).

hers wasn't a case of mistaken identity. it was more like a case of a fucked up country. but it's not, it will never be that cut and dry to me. and there's no way i can say sh-? now... i'm sorry.

hush, hush is what they say. we'll always get our way. we never made you cry, so we just made you die.

 

Hope You Feel Bad

forgot to eat today, going to starve everyone away. i starve you out of me cuz you are still a part of me. i'm hungry now, and i don't know what to do. it still feels the same, i'm still part of your fucked up game, i eat i eat, i starve i starve it never goes away. (swallow? shallow?)

don't feel so cute today. not sure what cute feels like, anyway.

this is about me not you, but i still hope you feel bad. everything's so cute it makes me wanna fuckin puke. i'm starving now and i dont know what to do. we're fucked up is that cute? we're all fucked up is that cute? we're fucked up is that cute? and it never goes away. (shallow? swallow?)

don't wanna think about you today. i guess i hope this will make it go away for good.

this is about me not you, but i hope it makes you feel bad.

and while they stuffed themselves she swore, she'd swallow air. (2x). found it hard to breathe. i'm so afraid you'll swallow me. i'm not a part of you. i can't be your disease (love?) i can try, i can try, i can try...

 

Despise

i don't wanna go and i just wanna stay and i don't wanna go to yr dumb party. i just wanna do what i want to and i just wanna stay the fuck away from you so just fuck off today! (2x)

in this one way, i know what is true. i know i could hurt you. if you think of hurting me like i could hurt you, this is what this girl will do.

(no idea what carrie sings during the above part).

i will pull the leash tighter, and i will hang the noose higher, and i will call your bluff, liar, and i will burn a bigger fire.

in this one way, i know what is true. i know i love to hate you. if you think this is a love song, you would be wrong. this is more like, my hate song.

(i dont wanna go to stores for makeup. i dont wanna be a social victim. i don't wanna play spin the bottle. i dont wanna be a...?)

i will pull the leash tighter, and i will hang the noose higher, and i will call your bluff, liar, and i will burn a bigger fire.

i don't wanna go and i just wanna stay and i don't wanna go to yr dumb party. i just wanna do what i want to and i just wanna stay the fuck away from you so just fuck off today! (2x)

 

Carson

fire bomb in blue-green eyes. the ability to terrorize. one life, one threat to all lies. extinguish the fire too big to survive.

don't touch the hottest part of the match, blow it out instead. don't look into blue/green eyes rule them out instead.

they can't put a restraining order on a heart. the blue aorta is where it all starts. too scared to touch the hottest part. they can't put a restraining order on a heart.

fire surrounding the house of lies created by the force, the refusal not to fight the power that went unrecognized, unrealized.. when discovered, they extinguished the fire...

don't touch the hottest part of the match, blow it out instead. don't look into blue/green eyes rule them out instead.

they can't put a restraining order on a heart. the blue aorta is where it all starts. too scared to touch the hottest part. they can't put a restraining order on a heart.

(something i can't figure out - 2x)

 

Code Red

i have a shameful something i want to share with you. i cut myself cuz that is the only way i can feel...

emergency room, here we come. all cut up again. pocket knife right through the head. 'accidents will happen', that's what she said. weird...

couldn't get off to school well, they said 'she must be weird'. couldn't seem to tie my shoes(?), well, these things take time so we'll all just wait.

this hid a part of me that's about homocidal control. i cut myself cuz that is the only way i can deal...

playing games in the other room. words come right through the wall. dizziness takes it all away. i can't hear anything you say. weird...

couldn't get out of bed today (weird) they said 'oh well she's dead', too soon to tell. i know. have to wait, i'm sick of waiting...

security blankets, babydoll hatchets. security blankets, wrapped all around us.

 

We're the Seniors (and we rule the school)

destroy realities with no remorse. getting good at slamming doors. we're the seniors and we rule the school. we're the seniors and we rule your school. we're the seniors and we rule the school. we're the seniors and we rule your school.

stake a claim (you can't be anything), lose a friend (unless we say you are), it's time to fess up and make this end (you can't be anything unless we say you are).

recognizing hearts too coarse. getting good at slamming doors. we're the seniors and we rule the school. we're the seniors and we rule your school. we're the seniors and we rule the school. we're the seniors and we rule your school.

all those words you say are mine. yeah, style like yours is one of a kind. believe in me me me and i i i's you should be enough you think, but i i i don't think they'll go away if you prove it belongs to you.

all those words you say are mine. yeah, style like yours is one of a kind. believe in me me me and i i i's you should be enough you think, but i i i don't think they'll go away. ownership doesn't become you.

no remorse. getting good at slamming doors.

 

Imaginary Friend

imaginary friend is what you are to me. this is my world. not a make believe or pretend. imaginary friend is what i am to you. i am not your frankenstein, your creation.

you don't know what to do then say "i need you" say "i need you" this is not a wound that can be healed with a bandage or a kiss. i've been this way long before we ever met. so you can't take credit for my pain.

you don't make me crazy, and you don't contribute to my anxiety. you didn't rub off on me one bit, you wanted her, it makes me crazy. (i'm going to blow my mind and then i'll call you next week. i don't want to hear about your defect. i'm going to blow my mind and then i'll call you next week. i don't want to hear that i'm your defect).

you don't make me crazy, and you don't contribute to my anxiety. you didn't rub off on me one bit, you wanted her, it makes me crazy. (i'm going to blow my mind and then i'll call you next week. i don't want to hear about your defect. i'm going to blow my mind and then i'll call you next week. i don't want to hear that i'm your defect).

imaginary friend what are we doing? this is our world, not of make believe or pretend. imaginary friend what is crazy anyway? i say we put our safety blankets to their end.

 

Groundhog's Day

i'm not feeling very interesting but i know i am true. i trust what i do. i know groundhog's day is not very revolutionary but people who always are (revolutionary) scare me. so deal with this. here and now. cuz i am digging through this shit and i am going to get out.

this groundhog is digging it's way out of its hole and it's full of reality and it's cold. 6 weeks of winter and it's all dependent on one fucking rodent.

this is the season of, of wait and see and i'm, wait waiting, for what's important to me and, this is the season of, of wait and see and i'm wait, waiting take take from me and, this is the season of, of wait, wait and see, and i'm waiting for you to give up on me.

i have to dig through (this shit of) youyouyou and mememe to, get to what's important too big to see. the shit is clearing but i still can't see my shadow. maybe next groundhog's day... i know, i know, i know...

 

Break and Enter

leave me for dead i was saying as you left that abandoned building that one abandoned building that people walk by unnoticed every day. but no archeologist wil break and enter to see, break and enter to see, cuz that old rubbish isn't worth noticing.

do you recognize this shit? bound and tied to a town you wish didn't exist.

leave me for dead (don't think you can!) leave me for dead (leave me for dead!)

crack the whip, crack the case, don't let it slip, don't speak out of place. don't let it get to you, does this break through? the walls break down the barriers, talk to everyone that hates you...

broke in, took things never meant to take. not easy to let go of the things you hate.

 

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