Granata, by Granata

Granata

by Granata

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1.	All My Friends Are Chefs 02:38	lyrics	buy track
only living in cheap rooms sink into a deep doom, i should fall asleep soon as of now i’m not a twelve stepper sauteing onions garlic cubanelles and bell peppers life isn’t fair but it could turn into a festival turning my demons into something that’s digestible get my life together roast a chicken post up in the kitchen, save the bones for a stock i’m so efficient nothing like red sauce on a sunday some find themselves when they get lost in the gun spray some people may be not loyal, i’m watching the pots boil and pickling peppers while i’m making hot oil when i was young spaghetti came out my nose because of my clef palate but that’s the way it goes i don’t see the issue now i make stock from salmon heads, use it for the fish stew hook x 2 all my friends are chefs and they do it til they’re godamn deaths cooking til there’s no food left they don’t give a F’s, they don’t they don’t give a F’s dicing an onion after a long day i know i do it right, there’s no wrong way okay i’m getting too niche now why is everybody saying capiche now? alright, y’all might smell me stewing something slow on a fall night like oxtail, short ribs or beef shank cooking food that i know gonna make her queef stank okay chief, it’s hard to display grief all that was left in my bowl.. bones and a bay leaf i like it all, hatian, dominican, spanish and a italian far from a stallion more like a scallion my girl cook salad, she know i won’t i do what i do and don’t what i don’t i’m trying to eat more well rounded, but when i found out parsley doesn’t count as a green i was dumbfounded hook x 2 all my friends are chefs and they do it til they’re godamn deaths cooking til there’s no food left they don’t give a F’s, they don’t they don’t give a F’s
2.	Lexapro 02:16	lyrics	buy track
i got drunk all by myself again i can’t help myself so why am i trying to help my friends i don’t have house plants just a bunch of green bottles lost my last lady, i’m in between models life it gonna get better soon maybe i’ll be dead at noon find me at a greasy spoon, jukebox playing cheesy tunes late night, howling at a measly moon hook x 2 why’d you put me on Lexapro all i needed was a flight down to mexico it’s cool you put me on Lexapro just don’t put me in the exit row i miss it when you moan, lemme hear i put in a flower in a empty beer bottle, i like the contrast love comes quick then it’s gone fast make sure you catch in the moment i was focused on the journey i forgot where my home went i want a big balloon full of helium, lift me through the roof of this shit saloon hook x 2 why’d you put me on Lexapro all i needed was a flight down to mexico it’s cool you put me on Lexapro just don’t put me in the exit row
3.	When I Lived in Florida 02:51	lyrics	buy track
hook when I lived in florida when I lived in Florida i did dumb shit but i could always find someone to drink run with early in the mornings but there’s more to Florida than beaches and oranges i found deep soul in the swampness if you talk down on the south than you’re pompous a rusty beach cruiser was my accomplice rent was 300 dollars after a long night of working as a valet i’d sit at the counter, 24 hour cuban cafe ropa vieja por favor if you still hungry you can order more this country loves to go to war with war chill lets go bar hoppin door to door my favorite part about Florida a game of pool was a quarter hook when I lived in florida when i lived in Florida i ate alligator and buffalo shrimp, i walked with a limp drank beer literally all the time smoked cigs in a bar, said a prayer every time i had to get in a car i’m lucky i made it out alive, i’m serious i met the devil, got delirious partying hard, valeting cars off bayshore boulevard i learned how to shoot pool in Florida that’s where I got my chops i’m not lying i went swimming in the swamps buck seventy five for a natty lite draft 2 dollars for beef jerky in a bag my skin turned into leather, i’ll admit I wasn’t cut out for the weather humid as fuck, i started to rust 6 years in Florida was enough hook when I lived in florida
4.	Sunday Sauce 03:00	lyrics	buy track
i woke up to that dreaded long text can’t believe i’m referring to as my ex now my mind is a mess, wine for the stress lately life been a bad game of chess i just wanted you and I to share the same success feels like we came and went i miss you makin salad with the vinaigrette cookin all those meals together in your little kitchenette it was peaceful, life is a cycle i was acting like a psyco when i should have been your easel i need a forest trees won’t let me down please, look how pathetic i sound i was excited to meet your moms and get to know the woman you came from we both know i’d be a good dad but it feels pointless whenever i look back hook x 2 i miss the way you go aww digging in my back with your claws every sunday we made sauce so it’s on to the items, what should i do with those? the garbage doesn’t seem right, i suppose they could go in a drawer with all the other shit i don’t want to see anymore the cast iron in the storage unit the chef hat with Granata that you got embroidered on it i keep trying to hold love with my hands even though i know that i can’t we were different ages, make different wages but we held each others hands while we were in different cages i’m surprised i haven’t cried yet i’m just not ready to look inside yet i’m not sure if i’m writing this to get you back because to be honest, i think i’m too hurt for that this world’s too dark to let our flame go god made you because we all need an rainbow hook x 2 i miss the way you go aww digging in my back with your claws every sunday we made sauce
5.	Family 02:47	lyrics	buy track
i got free tickets to the shit show i dodged a bullet, aunt was a skitzo my moms moms was crazy, i didn’t help at all snot nose kid i was self involved my grandfather aggie he was a bookie he had to find new ways to hide loot, lookie lookie in the walls, had bets in his home, because his home was a gamblin hall all you heard was bets and calls and long slow drags of cigarette menthols aggie had a faded mermaid tattoo on his tan skin when he wiggled his veins he said look she’s dancing he died of skin cancer my other grandfather tony was a farmer why you think i’m such a charmer only one’s heart was hard as armor both italian, avid chicken parmers hook x 2 this the way i am this the way i am 2020 got me in my feelings with my fam my mom drove across the country when she was fifteen i guess it was a different scene we went on a road trip, me and my mom it ended up being the bomb we saw the grand canyon, shed some tears ate some chicken wings, drank some beers said when she dies she wants her ashes spread here toss em in the air … over the canyon my dad doesn’t only sing the blues, he’s got real pain you can only feel sitting on pews he came home one day his first wife and his kid was gone but he wouldn’t have met martha, that’s my moms and they made my sister and i my sister’s been through so much shit and i cry and i try to tell her she should write a book, why? i think it would do her and a lot of people good hook x 2 this the way i am this the way i am 2020 got me in my feelings with my fam
6.	Doll House and a Doberman 03:09	lyrics	buy track
i’m still sad i lost my girl i think about you every time i give the sauce a swirl you were the last one to toss my curls i woulda traveled across the world and met you halfway we had the prettiest of times in a dirty little cafe love always ends up in a ash tray you’re still an angel nobody did anything painful i still feel you in my heart, brain, skull soul, toes, fingers and ankles you say you don’t deserve me but i wanna live slow take the curvies it’s out of my hands i shot my shot i told you i love you like a lot a lot hook x 2 they ask me how october’s been if i’m being honest, soberin i don’t want a white picket fence and a golden lab i want a doll house and a doberman my days been filled with darkness extracting every ounce of life out of a chicken carcass not only for the nutrition, i’m more than a musician i’m a lonely man feeling blue, fishin at the pond, is there anything beyond? we can be an uncle and an aunt you is what i want not codependent, just confidants lets move to a fricken farm based our lives around each other and chicken parm locking arms for no one to see only for you and me let’s grow a garden together you turn yarn into a sweater after dinner, decaf and canoli lets put the bottle down i love the way you hold me they asked my friends how my october been if i’m bein honest, kinda sobering white picket fence and gold retriever i want a doll house and a doberman hook x 2 they ask me how october’s been if i’m being honest, soberin i don’t want a white picket fence and a golden lab i want a doll house and a doberman
7.	Eat More Greens 03:14	lyrics	buy track
i don’t have a business card all i got is this swiss chard what does it mean to buy a home in escrow? who knows so let’s grow some romanesco my bike doesn’t have a key fab but i’m not bitter like broccoli rabe i’m trying to do less and eat more romaine i’m getting my existential on never throw out your fennel fronds if the night before you decided to eat ass in the morning do a shot of wheat grass and if you’re starting to look a little vintage this one’s easy, eat some spinach and if you want to keep looking like a beluga duh dude get yourself some arugula hook x 4 i’m trying to eat more greens when i need to make my mental muscles shout hustle out to the farm for some brussels sprouts i love meat do i think that we should slaughter less i guess, yes my lilli pad’s a water cress how come all of my friends are smart and broke maybe we didn’t eat enough artichokes i’m taking a seat in my soul’s lobby having a salad of granny smith apples and kohlrabi if you lost your phone and had to get a new number cleanse your palate with a cucumber if your business is making no sales, oh well get your self some lacinato kale did someone steal your favorite dildo or cock toy? here have some bok choy you’re on the sidewalk and car soaked you? open up your boca fill it with okra hook x 4 i’m trying to eat more greens
8.	Drawbridge 03:16	lyrics	buy track
hook x 2 we found love and threw it in the garbage now we standing on separate sides of the drawbridge we went from bar hopping to splitting tall boys from the deli i got rid of my bad habits i’m being healthy but baby i miss you boatloads i get teary eyed when i scroll past your photos holidays hitting different now that i’m alone i keep looking at my phone hoping that your name pops remember when we was living in that same box we made it though quarantine in a studio apartment and you still chuckled every time i farted we learned about each other even more so soup with the orzo, holding on to dear life hugging your torso waking up next to each other side by side i can’t see without my glasses but you know i tried we loved, i know we never lied i can’t tell you how many times i cried hook x 2 we found love and threw it in the garbage now we stranded on separate sides of the drawbridge i make you laugh, showed you life isn’t a graph you taught me always order wine by the carafe you got me a necklace, i got you a bracelet you took time for yourself you taught me how to be patient you showed me i got talent, you don’t want to see me waste it if you insist of making chicken breast you gotta baste it we cooked so many meals together it’ll be forever thankful everything we’ve tasted you will be the high i’m always chasing i don’t know if anything else will ever be this amazing what will i miss mostly? nestling up on he couch getting cozy i knew i found my wife when you were down to backpack on a spirit flight to puerto rico, local fisherman sold us ceviche i think about you each day hook x 2 we found love and threw it in the garbage now we standing on separate sides of the drawbridge
9.	Dude on a Dead Log 02:36	lyrics	buy track
i keep it simple i got rid of it all just a happy go lucky kid with a ball voodoo’s a doo-doo excuse for what you did to the doll y’all just middle of mall, i got the grit and the gall flagon of ale got me waggin my tale happier than a pig in shit and a dragon in hell stay in my room coming up with nonsense change your perspective maybe you need a long lens or maybe you need a fish eye maybe you need ham and swiss on english rye why do i always write better on an empty stomach? i’m rummaging through the rummage, time to bring in the trumpets get a little drunker i’m the dumbest olive oil, roasted peppers in the hummus rum is really fun to drink up in the summers everyday i ask myself how did i become this? hook x 2 dude on a dead log floating in the creek dude on a dead log feeling like a freak so it’s back to the wikipedia raps i deleted my social media apps and i haven’t smoked a cig in five months because you’re only alive once i don’t do vicodin or the valiums my favorite vegetables are alliums onions and leeks, the dungeon was bleek but now i’m soaking up sun at the creek cracking a light beer, nobody fights fair i just want to die with a head full of white hair finding a routine in the randomness trying to forget what throwing a temper tantrum is i was a jerk to my health so now i’m trying to work on myself god is a woman and the devil’s a man all i can say is hopefully you understand hook x 2 dude on a dead log floating in the creek dude on a dead log feeling like a freak
10.	Laundromat 01:24	lyrics	buy track
how am i gonna feel today shit i hope it’s fine so filthy i wash my hands turn soap to swine maybe if you have one of those dystopian minds open the blinds but shit i know it’s hard to accept that sunlight when your thought’s a thunderstorm and your mind is a gun fight but it’s done right shit i’m not a therapist life get’s harder as you get older shit we used to be babies being pushed in strollers and fought over who got the clear purple nintendo controller now we wear the weight of the world, it’s a boulder you can’t swim with this pool shark i run the table like bullies run school yards sometimes it feels like there’s no hope why? cause i am stuck inside of a snow globe bridge x 2 let my mind wander at the laundromat
11.	Leaves on Lawns 02:30	lyrics	buy track
when i feel like life is long rake some leaves and mow some lawns when i don’t feel strong rake some leaves and mow some lawns when i miss new york rake some leaves and mow some lawns when i eat too much pork rake some leaves and mow some lawns hook x 4 raking leaves and mowing lawns when i wish i wasn’t here rake some leaves and mow some lawns when i drink too much beer rake some leaves and mow some lawns when i wish that she was near rake some leaves and mow some lawns now that everything is clear rake some leaves and mow some lawns hook x 4 raking leaves and mowing lawns