Evil Urges

My Morning Jacket Jun 10, 2008 ATO Records, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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1 Evil Urges
What is what?
Man they got us so scared.
Thinkin’ we so evil way down under there.

Ooh! I made a nasty decision!
To love whoever I want,
Just do whatever I can.

The things they say are evil urges baby, they be -
Part of the human way.
It ain’t evil if it ain’t hurtin’ anybody.
Evil urges baby, they be -
Part of the human way.
It ain’t evil if it ain’t hurtin’ anybody.

If it’s all the same,
We’re tired of waiting, come on then,
And dedicate your love,
To any woman or man.
No racial boundary lines,
No social subdivisions -
If you want it – you can!

I’m not saying, I’m not saying,
That I want it “someday”.
I’m not saying, I’m not saying,
That I want it “somehow…”
Ooh! I’m ready for it now!

The things they say are evil urges baby, they’re a 
Part of human way.
It ain’t evil if it ain’t hurtin’ anybody…
Evil urges maybe good and bad - 
It’s all the same?
It ain’t evil baby if it ain’t hurtin’ anybody, anybody.
05:11
2 Touch Me I'm Going to Scream, Pt. 1
Touch me I'm going to scream if you don't
Inside I know we have the feeling that you won't, oh
I know it sounds confusing, but it makes a lot of sense
Row a boat across the ocean, dig a hole under the fence

Touch me I'm going to scream if you don't
Inside I know we have the feeling that you won't, oh
I can tell by the way you smile, I'm smiling too
I see myself in you
I can tell by the sounds you make when you are pleased
You see yourself in me

Touch me I'm going to scream if you don't
Inside I know we have the feeling that you won't
How many nights can a soul so full of life remain untouched
How can a soul make the most of what is whole and what is here, oh

I need a human right by my side, untied, untied
I need a human right by my side, untied, untied
I need a human right by my side, untied, untied
03:49
3 Highly Suspicious
Wastin’ time home alone dotting your “i’s”.
peanut butter pudding surprise!
ain’t nobody care what’s going on in your mind-
but they got they eye on your prize…
I’m highly suspicius of you.

now daddy’s got you home alone – solving your crimes.
peanut butter pudding surprise!
ain’t no jokin’, smokin’, strokin’, tapping your line-
peanut butter pudding surprise!

I’m highly suspicious of you.

wasting all your time on drama, could be solving real crime
waste away your mind too…

I’m highly suspicious of you.
I’m highly suspicious.  Highly suspicious of you.
03:04
4 I'm Amazed
Wastin’ time home alone dotting your “i’s”.
peanut butter pudding surprise!
ain’t nobody care what’s going on in your mind-
but they got they eye on your prize…
I’m highly suspicius of you.

now daddy’s got you home alone – solving your crimes.
peanut butter pudding surprise!
ain’t no jokin’, smokin’, strokin’, tapping your line-
peanut butter pudding surprise!

I’m highly suspicious of you.

wasting all your time on drama, could be solving real crime
waste away your mind too…

I’m highly suspicious of you.
I’m highly suspicious.  Highly suspicious of you.
04:33
5 Thank You Too!
Really didn’t’ think i was gonna make it. 
Really didn’t think i was gonna make it this way. 
Put on my robot face. hide my emotions way far away from me. 
Oh! you really saw my naked heart. 
You really brought out the “naked” part. 
I don’t know what you were doing- 
I know i just want to thank you for thinking of me. 
I want to take you. for all that you are. 
Although our worlds seem far apart. 
I want to see you- thru all that you do 
I want to thank you. 
it was strange and it was soothing, and you could even say amusing- 
The way it came to me. 
You’d devised a simple plan, that would change the fate of man, 
You’d thought of everything. 
Oh! you really saw my naked heart. 
You really brought out the “naked” part. 
I don’t know what you were doing- 
I know i just want to thank you for thinking of me. 
I want to take you. for all that you are. 
Although our worlds seem far apart. 
I want to see you- thru all that you do
04:26
6 Sec Walkin
Left leg, right leg
One leg at a time
I keep on walkin'
I keep on walkin'

Red light, green light
First light I see tonight
I am walking
Yeah, I am walkin'

Fever, breathe in your own cool, blue air
Look for eyes that hypnotize and sparkle (sparkle)
Look for eyes that hypnotize and sparkle everywhere
Brother, brother, don't you care?
Brother, brother, don't you care?

Left leg, right leg
One leg at a time
I keep on walkin' (walkin')
I keep on walkin' (walkin')

Red light, green light
First light I see tonight
I am walkin' (walkin')
Ooh, yeah I am walkin' (walkin')

Fever, breathe in your own cool, blue air
Demon eyes, demon eyes are watchin' (watchin')
Demon eyes, demon eyes are watching everywhere
Brother, brother, don't you care?
Brother, brother, don't you care?
03:35
7 Two Halves
Remember when you were seventeen
You's goin' crazy, you know what I mean
It wasn't that long ago
In the grand scheme of things
It wasn't that long ago
You think you're so much smarter now

Twenty one everything stays in place
Forty one some things start to fade
Well, when you're so young (so young), you wanna be older (so young)
And when you're older, you want the body you have now

I believe in a perfect world
You rule your own universe
The only gun you'll ever need will be in your brain
The only gun you'll need is in your hands

You want this now you want that
Can't have it all you should enjoy what you have
But I know what you want (what you want)
Well I know what you want (what you want)
Well I know what you want, you want the better of two halves

Well I know what you want (what you want)
Well I know what you want (what you want)
Well I know what you want, you want the better of two halves
02:33
8 Librarian
Walk across the courtyard towards the library
I can hear the insects buzz and the leaves 'neath my feet
Ramble up the stairwell into the hall of books
Since we got the interweb these hardly get used

Duck into the men's room, combing through my hair
When God gave us mirrors he had no idea
Looking for a lesson in the periodicals
There I spy you listening to the AM radio

Karen of the Carpenters, singing in the rain
Another lovely victim of the mirror's evil way
It's not like you're not trying, with a pencil in your hair
To defy the beauty the good Lord put in there

Simple little bookworm, buried underneath
Is the sexiest librarian
Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me

So I watch you through the bookcase, imagining a scene
You and I had dinner, spending time, then you sleep
And what then would I say to you, lying there in bed
These words with a kiss I would plant in your head

What is it inside our heads that makes us do the opposite
Makes us do the opposite of what's right for us
'Cause everything'd be great and everything'd be good
If everybody gave like everybody could

Sweetest little bookworm, hidden underneath
Is the sexiest librarian
Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me
Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me

Simple little beauty, heaven in your breath
Simplest of pleasures, the world at its best
04:16
9 Look At You
Look at you:
Such a fine citizen!
Look at you:
Such a glowing example of peace and glory. glory. glory.
of peace and glory. glory. glory.
Let me follow you.

We believe in your power. To lead without fear.
Not above, in some tower. But here -
Right down here - … with us. In this world.

Look at you: everywhere at once.
Look at you: such a glowing example of peace and glory. glory. glory.
of peace and glory. glory. glory.
let me…let me follow…let me…let me follow you.
03:27
10 Aluminum Park
You can care if you wanna
You can care if you don't
But c'mon it's a big big world now
You gotta get what you want

Got no lack of frustration
Got no lack of disease
But c'mon it's a big, big world now
You gotta like what you see, and I do

Well you can ride, ride, ride on down to the aluminum park
Well you can ride, ride, ride on down with your head in the dark
Well, it's a little bit important to me, you get a whole lot of what you need
So you can ride, ride, ride on down to the aluminum park

Ride!

You can care if you wanna
You can care if you don't
But c'mon it's a big big world now
You've gotta get what you want

Got no lack of frustration
Got no lack of disease
C'mon it's a big, big world now
You gotta like what you see, and I do

Well you can ride, ride, ride on down to the aluminum park
Well you can ride, ride, ride on down with your head in the dark
Oh, it's a little bit important to me, you get a whole lot of what you need
So you can ride, ride, ride on down to the aluminum park
Yeah, you can ride, ride, ride on down to the aluminum park
Well, you can ride on down, hey

Ride!
03:56
11 Remnants
Remnants of the empire
Artifacts of love
Will I meet the designer
What will he dream up?

Remnants of the empire
Gravity awake
What's held down to the ground
Next round goes into space

Raising up the empire
Innocence and faith
What will hold you up
And what will stand in your way, way?

Then I saw a new Heaven
Formed in the bleeding light of dusk
All souls, all faiths
Always we were one

Raise a bayonet in the dark
For all the human race
Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out
You can go my same way

Taking out the empire
Watching from afar
It's not too late, never too late
To make our new fate

Then I saw a new Heaven
Formed in the bleeding light of dusk
Then I saw a new Heaven
Formed in the bleeding light of dusk
All souls, all faiths
Always we were one, ow!
03:01
12 Smokin from Shootin
Have you had enough excitement now? more than you ever did? 
You never wanted to be treated like a woman... 
You maintained you was just a kid. 
Well at least you were of age my dear- these days kids they grow so fast... 
You never wanted to be committed to the present 
You too busy be livin in the past... 
Who then was your savior? who then was your friend? 
Who is now committed to the present? is it someone that exists? 
What is life in god? a perfect vision of the self? 
I always thought we was a dealing with one thing, 
Now we are dealing with something else.... 
Do you see my smokin’ guns? 
They’re smokin’ from shootin’. smokin’ from shootin’ 
Smokin’ from shooting at nothing dear... 
Do you live your life on the run? 
Losing out on lovin... 
Asking for nothing... 
Running from something that isn’t there. 
Who makes my decisions? who reads all your thoughts? 
What makes us how we are? 
Faith can’t prove what science won’t resolve. 
Kumbaya my lord, c’mon row your boat ashore.. 
The river’s long. it is cold. it chills the body but not the soul. 
Do you see my smokin’ guns? 
They’re smokin’ from shootin’. smokin’ from shootin’ 
Smokin’ from shooting at nothing dear... 
Do you live your life on the run? 
Losing out on lovin... 
Asking for nothing... 
Running from something that isn’t there. 
Distance-coming or going? c’mon. 
What are you waiting for? 
Distance-growing or closing in on? 
Anyway?
05:04
13 Touch Me I'm Going to Scream, Pt. 2
If you touch me
Well I just think I'll scream
'Cause it's been so long
Since someone challenged me

Made me think
'Bout the way things are
Made me think
About the way that you may be

I believe in
Love, my
Mmm...my love, mmm...my love
I don't even know why

Oh, this feeling is wonderful
Don't you ever turn it off
Oh, this feeling is wonderful
Don't you ever turn it off

Feeling
High on life
Human beings
Heart beats

I can see it
By the way you smile
I'm smilin' too
I see myself in you

I am with this
When I am wise
mmm...my love, mmm...my love
Yeah, I don't even know why

Oh, this feeling is wonderful
Don't you ever turn it off
Ahh, this feeling is wonderful
Don't you ever turn it off

Ahh, oh yeah
Hooh, ahh, oh
Ooh, ooh, ahh

Ooh
Ooh, oh, oh
Ooh
Ooh, oh, oh
Ooh
Ooh, oh, oh
08:12
14 Good Intentions 00:04