Praise the Lord!

Praise The Lord!
A Folk Album
All Lyrics and Music by Patrick Ripoll

Tracklist:
1. Praise the Lord
2. What's Wrong With Me?
3. Generation
4. Senior Year
5. An Open Letter
6. Take Me
7. I'm Going Home
8. Wilderness
9. The Day I First Knew I Would Love You
10. Second Place
11. Wafting
12. Beasts Under My Bed
13. Down Down Down
14. Waking
15. George Roy Hill
16. Carolina
17. You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
18. Another Open Letter
19. Rest

Special Thanks to: Jacek Kolacz, Erin Vogel, RetroLowFi.com, James Eric, Luke Morris,
Steven Ray Morris, Morgan Orion Reisman, Kendra Senrick, Stephen Holliger, Deb Bennet,
Arianna Soto, Margarita Mankus, Matt Maloney, Toby Foster, Joseph Still, Tinyfolk,
John Darnielle, and Cory Dorsch.

1. Praise the Lord

Praise the Lord
Praise Him
Praise the Lord
for all He did
Praise the Lord for the Oceans
and praise the Lord for the kids
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
You praise the Lord
and then you go back to work
Praise the Lord

2. What's Wrong With Me?

I ran over a rabbit
it was already dead
and I had a bad dream last night
I think I'll keep in my head
for a while
for a while
til I know what it means

I was lost in Chicago
with a killer after me
and my friend just took her own life
despite my cries and pleas
It was hard
to tell myself
it was only a dream

Now a rash covers my body
from the pills that I take
and I don't eat too often
so my stomach always aches
and I beat myself up
over the smallest of mistakes
My god
My god
What's wrong with me?

My temperment it rises
but then it always falls
and I scream at the top of my lungs
hear it echo off the walls
So small
so small
so full of doubt

Attention deficiet
but I live in excess
I wonder if my life
was always such a mess
and why
it took so long
for me to figure out

Now my foot is always twitching
and my hands always shake
And my mouth is always bitching
cuz I can't stay awake
and the ground beneath me crumbles
from a 6.8 earthquake
my god
my god
what's wrong with me?

3. Generation

I don't belong to any generation
I sing songs, that's all my motivation
Am I just wasting, wasting, wasting my time?

Can't relate to these DIY scenes
cutesy songs, I don't know what they mean
put the ukulele down son, you don't have shit to say about life

Sorry, I just
had to get it off my chest
Nothing personal, really
I wish you twee sumbitches the best

Don't lump me in with your brother just cuz he's my age
Cuz that's all we share, there's nothing else on the same page
I don't feel the same as him and he don't feel like me

We aren't friends just cuz we both make music in our basements
Cuz I ain't no friend with no wannabe Kimya Dawson replacement
The Moldy Peaches died years ago, why can't you just let their bodies be?

My jealousy is
a beast with pointy teeth
in all honesty, I wish I could be a little more like you
and litte bit less like me

I don't belong to any generation
I sing songs, that's all my motivation
Am I just wasting, just wasting, wasting my time?

4. Senior Year

We stood before the world and shouted
"To hell with you, we'll go it alone"
The king and queen of apathy
a dusty couch becomes a throne

And I
knew it wasn't worth the fuss
and you
were sitting in the back of the bus
and we
wouldn't let it get the best of us
We'd laugh
as it all turned to dust

We had sex in your bedroom until
we heard the sound of the garage door
and we'd scramble to find our clothes
amidst the trash and apple cores

And you'd
ask me if I was hungry
and I'd
say 'yeah, I think I can eat'
and we'd
head out in your SUV
and see
what was still open
at quarter to three
ennui, ennui
ennui, ennui

5. An Open Letter

6. Take Me

As the new year rang in
all my friends left their homes
to return to their
universities

As the snow melted off
the roofs of their cars
and the tops of the
sycamore trees

I wanted to scream
"Please take me!
Take me with you, please take me!"

As the novelty wore off
of having someone
around who can
always make you cum

You said "Hey Patrick
This just isn't working out
and I think that our
relationship's done

I wanted to cry
"I hope you die!"
but I was too shy to
tell that kind of lie

As the days grew longer
the nights grew shorter
my parents grew tired
of wiping my ass

Life's fairly lame and
it will never change
I was shoveling their snow now I'm
cutting their grass

I want to scream
Please take me
Take me anywhere but here, please please

7. Going Home

I know that I was born to die
the great salvation in the sky
and I don't plan to stay here long

Rise up, yonder Christians
way up yonder, ho!
Bless thy heart
for I don't plan to stay here long

8. The Day I First Knew I Would Love You

The day that I knew that I would
love you
was a day like any other
I woke up, made a bowl of
rice crispies
said good morning to my mother
It was a saturday, thanksgiving break
so I knew you'd have the day off
I drove to your house, picked you up
we began to talk bout
anything and everything
tv shows and Bruce Springsteen
you said you had to go Christmas shopping
well, me too
yeah, me too

First we drove to the antique store
I made a joke about death
you got your mom a kewpie doll
that I didn't know she collects
and for your pa, we went to the mall
to buy him a polo shirt
I got my mom a hat, like she used to have
before she left hers at church
And for each other we got dvds
Punch-Drunk Love and Love Actually
and they were buy one get one free
we split the savings 50/50

Isn't it funny how you never see these things coming?
Isn't it funny how it always seems to hit the ground running?
Ain't it funny how something so big comes from nothing?
Isn't it funny how you never see these kind of things coming?

The day that I first knew I would love you
was a day like any other

9. Second Place

I love getting my hopes up
I love chasing after you
I love trying to find the romantic subtext
in everything you say and do
I love offering help anyway I can
washing your car, mowing the lawn
You're the master of ambiguity
I love the way you lead me on

Can anybody here drive me home
I'd had too much to drink
I apologize to the groom and bride
for puking in the sink

I love accidentally saying too much
when you ask me how I like your hair
I love our platonic cuddling sessions
that will never ever go anywhere
Isn't it great how you have this toy
a back-up plan you keep on your shelf
I love our long talks 'bout relationships
To help you while your dating someone else

Can anybody drive me home?
I've had too much to drink
I apologize to the groom and bride
for puking in the sink

And this will go on for a couple months
til I try to offend you just to push you away
then repeat the whole thing all over again
with anyone else who'll give me the time of day
I snap at the attention like a hungry dog
for a scrap of food from the dinner plate
Oh right!

My mind's a torture chamber of such great heights
it'd make the Inquisition jealous
It's amazing how quickly you get used to rain
after years of being an umbrella
I do this to everyone that I meet
Destroying friendships with introspection
I suppose I've been at it for a year or so
I've really built up quite a collection
Yes I've really built up qute a collection
Take a look through my phone book
and see my collection

Can anybody drive me home?
I've had too much to drink
I apologize the groom and bride
for vomiting in the sink

10. Wafting
[Instrumental]

11. Beasts Under My Bed

When I was small mommy said
there are no beasts under the bed
and all my nightmares are in my head
but when I woke, mommy was dead and gone
dead and gone
dead and gone

Later at the wake I was not concerned
Because I was fairly certain that the body wasn't her
Cuz mommy was warm but the body was cold
the body looked tired, the body looked old and worn
old and worn
old and worn

When we got back, there was no dinner ready in the kitchen
The television was turned off because there was no one to listen
And my old brother, he started to cry
My father held him said "these things take some time to heal"
time to heal
time to heal

12. Down Down Down

Don't tell me you know what you want
No one ever stays for too long
you'll think you can fix me
you'll think we are happy
the same ticks you don't mind now
later you'll be attacking
always

I'll always be alone
I'm staring at the phone
Cause I wonder just
what it will take for you to call me
I want you to love me
even when I'm falling
down, down, down

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop
I want you to know this is not your fault
it's just one of those things that
you really can't control
My brain is fucked, the pain
is taking it's toll
no control

Don't tell me you know what you want
No one ever stays for too long
you'll think you can fix me
you'll think we are happy
the same ticks you don't mind now
later you'll be attacking
always, always, always, always

13. Waking

Watching your father
run out your front door
after your sister
Waiting for morning
the window feels warm
from the sun
You walk downstairs
neither father nor sister there
empty table
bowl of frosted flakes
birds storm the feeder
what a waste of a Saturday

14. George Roy Hill

[Instrumental]

15. Carolina

I'm going to
Carolina
I'm telling you
you gotta be free

16. You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

If I gotta see you without touching your face
I don't think I wanna see you at all
it figures the first time I sleep in your bed
I'd be facing away with my face to the wall
and your the same sweet person you've always been
and me, I've grown bitter and unkind
and your the same angel I fell in love with
Oh I wish I could hate you, God knows that I've tried

But I'm a manic-depressive
and passive-aggressive
a son of bitch
whose obsessive-compulsive
from beyond the grave
I deliver this message
You'll miss me when I'm gone

17. Another Open Letter

[Spoken Word]

18. Rest

I don't find this amusing anymore
What am I doing here? What am I looking for?
I'm the same boy I was at 17
'Cept then I would sleep. Back then I had dreams
I'll give up all ambition that I ever had
Go work at the post office, doesn't really sound too bad
I don't know if there's a God, if this is all a test
I just want a break for a while, I just need to get some rest

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