Digital Booklet - Aim and Ignite [Deluxe Video Version]

5/24/2018 Digital Booklet - Aim and Ignite [Deluxe Video Version]

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1.BE CALM2.BENSON HEDGES3.ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS4.I WANNA BE THE ONE5.AT LEAST IM NOT AS SAD (AS I USED TO BE)6.LIGHT A ROMAN CANDLE WITH ME7.WALKING THE DOG8.BARLIGHTS9.THE GAMBLER

10.TAKE YOUR TIME (COMING HOME)11.STITCH ME UP12.WALKING THE DOG II13.TAKE YOUR TIME (ACOUSTIC)14.WALKING THE DOG (RAC MIX)15.ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS (RAC MIX)

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As I walk through the streets of my new city

my back feeling much better, I suppose

Ive reclaimed the use of my imagination

for better or for worse, Ive yet to know

but I always knew youd be the one to understand me,

I guess thats why it took so long to get things right.Suddenly Im lost

On my street

On my block

Oh why, Oh why

Oh why havent you been there for me?

Cant you see, Im losing my mind this time?

This time its for real, I can see

The tops of trees are turning red

The beggars near bodegas grin at me

I think they want something

I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe

and be calm.

Be calm.

I know you feel like you are breaking down.

I know that it gets so hard sometimes.

Be calm.

Im scared that everyone is out to get me.

These days before you speak to me you pause.

I always see you looking out your window.

After all, you lost your band, you left your mom.

Now every single crack, every penny that I pass,

says I should either leave or pick it up

But with every single buck Ive made

Im saddled with bad luck that came

the moment I was baptized

or when I found out one day I m gonna dieif only I could find my people or my place in life

and when they come acarolin

so loud, so bright, the theremin

will lead us to a chorus

where well all rejoice and sing a song that goes:

Oh be calm.

Be calm.

I know you feel like you are breaking down.

I know that it gets so hard sometimes,

Be calm.

Take it from me, Ive been there a thousand times.

You hate your pulse because it thinks youre still alive

and everythings wrong

It just gets so hard sometimes

Be calm.

I dont remember much that night,

Just walking, thinking fondly of you

Thinking how the worst is yet to come

When from that street corner came a song

And I cant remember the man,

The panhandler or his melody.

The words exchanged had far exceeded any change Id

given thee.

BE CALM

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2Holy ghosts,

When do you come out to play?

Cause if the Lord is gonna find me,

Hed better start looking today.

Last week my baby hit the slopes.

I spent the weekend setting traps in the road.

I should have been cutting out my eyelids,

youll never guess what baby did when she got home.

Na na na na

Now at least the birds are singing to me,

but what theyre trying to say,

I dont know.

(youre beautiful)

I think they come from the cold

(for all your big mistakes)

I think they come from the cold

(you stayed the same)

to the city that dont snow.

So I drove until we both broke down.I was stranded in a border town

believing the motel TV would bring me to safety,

but between MTV and Mr. OReilly

Ive come to find, that I cant be defined

so I turned it off, now convinced I would cross

Took one last look at the gold

as it shattered on a mountaintop.

Now I believe the sun, its like a symphony.

But what its trying to play,

I dont know.

(youre beautiful)

I think its come for the cold.


I think its come for the cold.

(you stayed the same)

To the city that dont snow.

Cmon, Holy ghosts

When do you come out to play?

Cause if the Lord is gonna find me,

Hed better start looking today.

So I can rise with the river

We all float before we sink

So pray for satellites,

Pray for courtesy

and pray that it can climb mountains to me!

I say goodbye to the canyon.

I will set sail to the streets

where I dont care to be forgiven

I want to be forgotten.

I dont care to be forgiven

When Lord I only want to be forgotten!

Now I receive a call from my family

and what they started to say

brought me home.

(youre beautiful)

They think Im beautiful


They think Im beautiful

(Youre beautiful)

for all my big mistakes.

BENSONHEDGES

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3So I call your name, cross my fingers

uncross the others, hesitate.

I dont think straight with nothing to prove.

I dont wanna say Im leaving

so Ill stay until the weekend.

And you can take all your things;

the boxes and rings

and get going.

Cause Ive been waiting for...

All the pretty girls on a saturday night.

Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.

Will you break and take all the worlds from my

mouth?

I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.

So I call you out

Just to feel a little bit better about myself

And I do, baby I do.Til their lips start to move,

and their friends wanna talk music

I say Ive never heard the tune!

But I have, I just hate the band

cause they remind me of you.

Every single night ends up the same,

I dont say much at all, but I bring up your name.

(Over and over and over)

I think its striking me out.

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night

Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.

Will you break and take all the words from my

mouth?


But not you,

you still wear boots and your hair is too long

and then this one doesnt want to admit shes fallen

in love

Oh cmon, oh cmon, whats a boy to do

When all the pretty girls cant measure to you.

I dont understand your reasons

Please just stay over the weekend

You cant take all those things

They define you and me

everything weve become,

Youre all that I need

Please dont make me face my generation alone.

All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.

Will you break and take all the words from my

mouth?


But not you,

I feel your faith is destroying the world

and then this one doesnt want to admit

the 80s is over and done

Oh cmon, whats a boy to do,

when all the pretty girls cant measure to you

ALL THEPRETTY GIRLS

Were you named for the river that surrounds

all my biggest mistakes?

Or the way that I made it out?

All the muscles in my mouth

never smiled or said profound things

Until the day she handed you to me.

For all the steps youll take

and all youll overcome

I wanna be the one to put it in a song.

Take every single tear

for all the world to hear.


Cigarettes are raining hard

on the upper east side.

She brings me a cake,

we celebrate

I have arrived.

And I know that its been sang before,but youre my human holiday.

I put my hands to the table and dare say...

the love of my life?

And your brother with his best friend

share the name of an inebriate

that couldnt bring me down!

For everything youve lost,

and all youve overcome


Take every single tear

for all the world to hear

I wanna be the one to put it in a song

and make it last forever.

Clever comes from truth.

When truth begets the past

it sends a call up to the moon

and the moon can see the beauty that

surrounds

Your heart as it pounds.

It starts the beat

Inspiring me

Until I make a sound.

4I WANNABE THE ONE

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Light a roman candle with me.

Just a roman candle, you can wear your sandals

and Ill pour you just one cup of tea.

Then you can go and rest

you havent seen my best, so...

Just spend an evening with me.

Just a lazy evening, then you could be leaving

or we could stay and talk until three.

I will think its magic and Ill hope youll agree, so...


Just a roman candle.

Just a perfect apple.

If we were honest and both wrote a sonnet together

a sandwich with everything on it,

at least we would know that the sparks didnt glow

but we owe it to ourselves to try,

so we aim and ignite!

So often I call and I plead with you:Give me a chance!

Its not often that I understand

the ins and the outs of whats wrong and whats right.

So dont think of tomorrow tonight.

Oh, I know, it goes on, it gets old

But for now were young, we smell good, were alone...

LIGHT AROMANCANDLE

You look for a legend,

Im looking for common ground.

Your heart isnt breaking,

and mine isnt making a sound.

Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old

Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old...


Just a roman candle,

Just a perfect apple.

Have you ever wondered

about our old nu-metal friends

and what became of them?

Turns out I saw them, a couple of days ago.

They were laughing, and drinking, and smoking, and singing

Come on can you count all the notches in your belt?

Id rather not, lets just say Im starving myself.

Baby put your name down on a piece of paper.

I dont want no savior, baby, I just wanna have a good time.

At least Im not as sad as I used to be.

They said Hey Nate!

Yeah, its been awhile,

So are you gonna stay?

Ha! I began to smile, and I said:

You should have seen me, a couple of years ago,

I was laughing, and drinking, and smoking, and singing.

Come on can you count all the loves that didnt last?

Its such a gas when you bring up the past.

Baby put your name down on a piece of paper.

I dont want no savior, baby, I just wanna get it on!

At least Im not as sad as I used to be.

They said:

We would have seen you two years ago,

had you stuck around, or come out to a show.

But you was taken over by Rock N Roll...

while we were laughing, and drinking, and smoking, and sing-

ing...

So I left.

That is it.

Thats my life.

Nothing is sacred.

I dont keep friends, I keep acquainted.

Im not a prophet, but Im here to profit.

Thats all.

Im gone.

Thats my life.

Nothing is sacred.

I dont fall in love, I just fake it.

I dont fall in love,

I dont fall in love.

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AT LEAST IM NOT AS SAD (AS I USED TO BE) 6

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Walking alone cause the night is dead.

Crossed my mind when I crossed the bridge.

How you lost your mind,

and your wrist got bruised,

and you wanted better love

when it was sleeping in your bedroom.

Hold on,

Stay on my side,

Dont go.

If you could see me

Whoever I am.

Its not like the movies,

but its not all skin and bones.

So come on love

(come on, come one, come all and go)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

I will not let you go.

Now Im walking alone cause the night is dead.

My feet dont glide like they did back then,

when I would call you up so we could shoot the moon.

These days Im left to howl in tune.

Hearts do break

and I must admit

I found a verse and a chorus

so I might have been faking it.

Think I might have only cried just once.

After all the shows,

after the boys of summer had gone

amid all the confusion

and friends Ive been losing

I always thought from the start

Id be the one moving on.

I guess Ill never know

Where all the boys of summer will go

but Ill miss what we made

and the days were not wasted.

There are some things I may never know.

How you lost your mind,

and your wrist got bruisedand you wanted better love

well its sleeping in your bedroom.

Hold on,

Stay on my side,

Dont go.

WALKINGTHE DOG7

Never in all of my life

Have I seen eyes as empty as these streets of my city

on a Saturday night,

all the green of your eyes says Go, leave it all behind.

But I dont need to be reminded a change is gonna come.

I can feel it on the tip of your tongue.

And I feel alive.

We met up once wed settled the sun

Between the heat and the work week

The fear is we could use some sleep

but sleep to a superfluous man means better use for beds

and Ill bet Im coming home alone tonight.

I dont need to be reminded that this is how it was.

I moved on, I passed a billboard down my block

that asks if Ive had enough, and aloud I say ive had too

much,

when the truth is, Im j ust getting started.

Now all the barlights are blinking in time

to Mexican music, its taunting the pavement

and I feel alive.

One of us sings, and one of us drinks,

and one of us has nothing at all.

So he calls us all sheep

Im the Little Bo Peep of the bunch.

(I take their tales and Im ready to go)

Then he swears hes gotta take this call

Man, I get scared hes gonna leave us too soon.

We were the get rich quick kids,

We never got it right

So we settled for the center of town

Where all the rich white kids is out looking for a fight

got the blond one staring me down.

and I really wanna take a swing

I cant help but remember James Dean

See we are part of the few who agree

that hey, he lived life fast

but he died.

he died

he died.

Me, Im gonna live forever.

Now all the barlights are blinking in time

to Mexican music, its taunting the pavement

and for the first time

in a long time

I feel alive.

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Slow down,

weve got time left to be lazy

All the kids have bloomed from babies into

flowers in our eyes.

Weve got 50 good years left

to spend out in the gardenI dont care to beg your pardon,

We should live until we die

We were barely 18

when wed crossed collective hearts.

It was cold,

but it got warm when youd barely crossed my eye.

and then you turned, put out your hand,

and you asked me to dance.

I knew nothing of romance,

but it was love at second sight.

I swear when I grow up, I wont just buy you a rose.

I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.

Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields

I will not leave, I will not leave til its our time.

So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave

your side.

It was the winter of 86,

and all the fields had frozen over.

So we moved to Arizona to save our only son

and now hes turning to a man,

although he thinks just like his mother,

he believes were all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.

And even though she moved away,

we always get calls from our daughter.

She has eyes just like her fathers

they are blue when skies are grey.

And just like him, she never stops,

Never takes the day for granted,works for everything thats handed to her,

Never once complains.

You think that I nearly lost you

When the doctors tried to take you away.

But like the night you took my hand beside the fire

30 years ago to this day

You swore youd be here til we decide that its our time

Well its not time, youve never quit in all your life.

So just take my hand,

you know that Ill never leave your side.

Youre the love of my life, you know that Ill never leave

your side.

You come home from work and you kiss me on the eye

You curse the dogs and say that I should never feed them

what is ours

So we move out to the garden, look at everything weve

grown

and the kids are coming home

Ill set the table

You can make the fire.

THE GAMBLER

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10Take your time coming home.

Hear the wheels as they roll.

Let your lungs fill up with smoke.

Forgive everyone.

She is here and now she is gone

We had plans, we cant help but make love.

Its a beautiful thing when you love somebody,

and I love somebody.

Yeah I love somebody.

Take your time coming home.

Hear the wheels as they roll.

Let your lungs fill up with smoke.

Forgive everyone.

I dont think Id been misled,

it was a rocknroll band,

Im still standing,


See, of everyone who called,Very few said We believe in you.

The overwhelming choice said

Im just a boy inside a voice

and if thats true, is it true, if its true,

then what the fuck have I been doing the last six

years?

How did I end up here?

How did I find love and conquer all of my fears?

See, I made it out.

Out from under the sun.

And the truth is that I feel better because Ive

forgiven everyone.

Now Im not scared

of a sound

or the states

or the stages.

Im not scared.

Ive got friends,

took my call,

came courageous.

Now I feel like I am home.

One more thing, I keep having this dream

where Im standing on a mountain

Looking out, on the street

I can hear kids in l ow-income housing singing

Were through with causing a scene

I dont know what it means

But I too, Im through with causing a scene.

She is here and now I think shes ready to go.

For every love thats lost I heard a new one comes.

So come on with me, sing along with me,

Let the wind catch your feet.

If you love somebody,

youd better let them know.


TAKE YOUR TIME(COMING HOME)

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JASON THOR: Trombone on 4, 6, 8DOUBLE G: Saxophones on 5, 8LARA WICKES: Oboe on 4PHIL PARLAPIANO: Accordion on 1MIKE WHITSON: Viola on 5, 6, 9INA WHITSON: Violin on 5, 6, 9TIMOTHY LOO: Cello on 5, 6, 9VANESSA FREEBAIRN-SMITH: Cello on 1, 2, 4, 6NEEL HAMMOND: Violin and Viola on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9

JOHN OREILLY: Drums on all except 7, 9STEVEN MCDONALD: Bass on all except 2, 9ROGER JOSEPH MANNING, JR.: Caliope on 1CHRISTOPHER BAUTISTA: Trumpet on 1, 8CONNIE CORN: Vocals on 2, 8, 10KAREN MILLS: Vocals on 2, 8, 10IDA RELHM: Vocals on 2, 8, 10ANNA WARONKER: Vocals on 1, 5RACHEL ANTONOFF: Vocals on 1, 4, 5STEVE MCDONALD: Vocals on 4, 10

ROGER JOSEPH MANNING, JR.: Arrangements on 1, 4, 8, 9ANDREW DOST: Arrangements on 2, 3, 5, 6, 9

NATE RUESS: Arrangements on 2,3

fun. is:

JACK ANTONOFF

ANDREW DOST

NATE RUESS

All songs by fun.

Special thanks to the Antonoff family,

the Dost family, the Ruess family, and

one Rob Kroehler.

Walking The Dog (RAC Mix)

All The Pretty Girls (RAC Mix)

Remixed by Andr Allen Anjos

at RAC (Remix Artist Collective).

2010 Nettwerk [email protected] / www.nettwerk.com

All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized reproduction,

copying and rental of this recording is prohibited by law.

Produced, engineered, and mixed bySteven McDonald except track 11mixed by Mark Trombino.

Tracks 1 to 10 / 12 to 15 masteredby Brad Vance at Red Mastering.Track 11 mastered by Greg Reely.

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