LUDO “In Space” LYRICS

The moon is old, all dusty craters
Fear and panic orbit Mars
Saturn’s dark-side rings are just plain beautiful.
Back on Earth, you’re waking up soon
stretching in the morning light.
No celestial body could compare to you.
And even though I’d always dreamed of going to the stars…

[Chorus]
In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere.
This place is terrible and endless
counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can’t wait for gravity to bring you close to me.

All I got’s this little window
never lets me see too much
I bet the leaves are changing there again.
From solar winds to zero-Kelvin
I’m hurting and pressurized -
if only I could get a breath of you.
And even though I’d always dreamed of going to the stars…

[Chorus]
In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere.
This place is terrible and endless
counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can’t wait for gravity to bring you close to me.

I hope this message finds you and you won’t feel so alone
even if I never make it home…

In space (the tiles are burning, all the time we had)
all I think about is you and me (goes rushing past my window view.)
and atmosphere.
In space (through the flames, I keep a steady hand)
your picture’s all I look at, my place (my eyes are clear, my aim is true.)
is with you below, watching leaves change in the yard
dreaming of the stars.
I can’t wait for gravity to bring me home.

LUDO “Scream, Scream, Scream” LYRICS

A man is many things. Let’s count them all tonight
You’re letting go of strings, replacing them with light.
But they want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There’s nothing catchy ’bout the life of a saint
but I’ve got this song in my head
’cause it’s breaking me down to tears…

[Chorus]
If I scream, scream, scream
about a good man’s life
would you ever stop and listen?
Would you open up your eyes?
Would you scream with me?
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning, you will see…

Photos keep you close with increments of light.
The quiet wooden posts, the county’s cold tonight.
But they want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There’s nothing catchy ’bout the life of a saint
but I’ve got this song in my head
’cause it’s breaking me down to tears…

[Chorus]
If I scream, scream, scream
about a good man’s life
would you ever stop and listen?
Would you open up your eyes?
Would you scream with me?
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning, you will see…

I’d rip my eyes out for you.
You’re screaming at the cold.
I pull you close - you’re asking why
it’s so cold tonight. I don’t know why…

[Chorus]
If I scream, scream, scream
about a good man’s life
would you ever stop and listen?
Would you open up your eyes?
Would you scream with me?
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning, you will see…

Would it make you cry?
Would you finally see that
all your lives are moments?
All your words and closeness
keep you here and human
whispering tonight…
And so we scream (all your lives are moments)
the sadness sweetly for him (all your words and closeness)
while the stand and stare (keep you here and human)
Do you think they’ll ever care?
I don’t care. I don’t care.

LUDO “The Horror Of Our Love” LYRICS

I’m a killer, cold and wrathful
Silent sleeper, I’ve been inside your bedroom
I’ve murdered half the town
left you love notes on their headstones
I’ll fill the graveyards until I have you.
Moonlight walking, I smell your softness
carnivorous and lusting to track you down among the pines.
I want you stuffed into my mouth
hold you down and tear you open, live inside you -
love, I’d never hurt you.
But I’ll grind against your bones until our marrows mix
I will eat you slowly…

[Chorus]
Oh, the horror of our love
never so much blood pulled through my veins.
Oh, the horror of out love… never so much blood

I wake in terror, blackbirds screaming
dark cathedrals spilling midnight on the altars
I’m your servant, my immortal
pale and perfect, such unholy heaving -
the statues close their eyes, the room is changing
break my skin and drain me.
Ancient language, speak through fingers
the awful edges where you end and I begin
inside your mouth I cannot see -
there’s catastrophe in everything I’m touching
as I sweat I crush you.
And I hold your beating chambers until they beat no more
you die like angels sing…

[Chorus]
Oh, the horror of our love
never so much blood pulled through my veins.
Oh, the horror of out love… never so much blood

You’re a ghost love, nightgown flowing
your body blue and walking along the continental shelf
you are a dream among the sharks
beautiful and terrifying, lit and restless
we dance in dark suspension.
And you bury me in the ocean floor beneath you
where they’ll never hear us scream…

[Chorus]
Oh, the horror of our love
never so much blood pulled through my veins.
Oh, the horror of out love… never so much blood

LUDO “Go-Getter Greg” LYRICS

Hi!
You must be new, I least I guess you’re new to me.
Saw you unpacking your car so I said to myself,
“Maybe I should help her out,” since we’re neighbors now
and all the other people here are elderly and probably a little stand-offish and I’ve got
nothing to do (and whatnot).
By the way, I live in 207, my name is Greg
- wherever are my manners!?
Let me get that heavy box!

[Chorus]
I’m a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I’m just searching for that someone to be firing it
I’ve narrowed down the field and I’m takin’ a glance
and I’d say you’ve got a pretty good chance…
to be my girlfriend.

What’s up!?
Didn’t mean to sneak up on you there
- I looked downstairs and saw you leaving, so whassup!?
I haven’t seen you at the pool since the barbeque
not that I’ve been checking -
Here’s the deal: I’ve got this thing for work this weekend and I was
wondering if you don’t have anything going on that maybe -
Okay, hey that’s cool, you’re busy,
but we should hit up Jose O’Flanagan’s for Jell-o-Shot “you-call-it’s” -
Okay not the week but Monday…
You could come over tonight, I’ll be watching cop dramas
smokin’ fatty fatties.

[Chorus]
I’m a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I’m just searching for that someone to be firing it
I’ve narrowed down the field and I’m takin’ a glance
and I’d say you’ve got a pretty good chance…
to be my girlfriend.

I’ve given it some thought…
and I really think that you could use a guy like me in you life
looking after you, a man to take you home, a hand for you to hold, and I’d never…
leave you alone!

[Chorus]
I’m a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I’m just searching for that someone to be firing it
I’ve narrowed down the field and I’m takin’ a glance
and I’d say you’ve got a pretty good chance…
to be my girlfriend.

I’m a go-getter guy, I’m a go-getter guy
I’ve narrowed down the field and I’m takin’ a glance
and I’d say you’ve got a pretty good chance…
(and I’d say you’ve got a pretty good chance…)
chance… chance…
to be my girlfriend.

LUDO “Streetlights” LYRICS

When the streetlights come on
the pooling night is leveed aside
and pressed in twilight ‘gainst out two rooms.
I’ll see you tonight.
The pavement is aching, cicadas are crying,
the wine-colored air breathing thoughts through your hair
breezing to me, leading me there…

[Chorus]
I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood comes in floods and in waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid of what you’ll say.

And I find you, twilit beyond all the cars.
In driveways the sleep but streetlights will keep watch over me.
They flicker like stars.
And now the secrets carefully kept inside, run the streets red
our chemicals spread, washing us through, making you mine…

[Chorus]
I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood comes in floods and in waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid of what you’ll say.

Now there are no words, only the glow in our wires.
And so we will be, you turn slow to me
Our lips set the sun (I’ll never leave you…)
the hills are on fire… oh…

[Chorus]
I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood comes in floods and in waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid of what you’ll say.

LUDO “Such As It Ends” LYRICS

I’ve been losing sleep for days.
You’ve been searching through the deserts and the caves.
Your postcards hit me in the waves
sadly stinging me with songs of yesterday.

[Chorus]
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn’t bend
closes the doors you used to listen through.
(But it goes on…) Love, such as it ends
into the flames, we’ll start again
and in the end I’ll be with you.

You’ve been burning up for days
trying to gather all the figures in the clay.
You know they can’t all be saved.
Leave the weak ones, find a modicum of shade.

[Chorus]
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn’t bend
closes the doors you used to listen through.
(But it goes on…) Love, such as it ends
into the flames, we’ll start again
and in the end I’ll be with you.

I’ve been vacant for so long, but you were there.
You look so tired. Now just please,
love let me take it on my shoulders
and we might make it home.
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn’t bend…

[Chorus]
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn’t bend
closes the doors you used to listen through.
(But it goes on…) Love, such as it ends
into the flames, we’ll start again
and in the end I’ll be with you.

Love, such as it ends… Love, such as it ends…
and in the end, I’ll be with you.

LUDO “Lake Pontchartrain” LYRICS

I’ll tell it like it happened, it was Darius and Noland and me
just a few po’ boys trying to get up out of Missouri.
Took 55 Louisiana, stopped by the highway to eat
They both had crawfish, strictly chicken for me
Back out under thunderheads, the radio was Southern soul.
They interrupted Clarence Carter with a strange-ass local show.
They were sayin’:

[Chorus]
“Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
That’s where you will get to see everything the water can be.”

The rain was comin’ down, the wind was howlin’ outside of Slidell
It was the kinda night that makes you think the whole world’s goin’ to hell
We got off on an exit ’cause we couldn’t read the map so great
Near the Choctaw Motel, we parked to deliberate
when out of the bayou came a man like the lake had a tounge.
He was right up on the glass, all yellow-eyed, black teeth, bangin’ on the windshield
screamin’ like a demon at the top of his lungs:

[Chorus]
“Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
Free for you and all your friends, crawfish ’til the bitter end.
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Wade to where the shallows break
That’s where you will get to see everything the water can be.”

I was drivin’ outta there as fast as a Camry could
but the interstate was flooded and I had to take the road through the woods.
Bad move in retrospect, the road disappeared in the rain
and I stood on the break when I saw the sign:
“Lake Pontchartrain…”
Darius was yelling that he saw somebody out in the swells.
He jumped out runnin’ and Noland was goin’ as well.
“Come back!” Why the hell would they leave the car?
And that’s when I heard it - make no mistake -
the voices were calling them from under the lake:

“Come down to Lake Pontchartrain…
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain…
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain…
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain…”

The crawfish were screaming, the waves danced in time
My friends went in deeper, the water, it climbed
I watched in terror, the lake opened wide
and horribly roaring, it pulled them inside.
That’s how it happened, why would I lie?
There were no bodies, I’ve got none to hide.
I’m just a boy, lost his friends in the rain
Any more questions, just go and ask Lake Pontchartrain.

LUDO “Topeka” LYRICS

I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.

I taste blood everytime I think of summer
If that’s true, I’m in for quite a treat
’cause I’m beggin’ for the sun in a mid-Missouri winter
waitin’ desperately to get outta town.
No, you can’t keep a good man down.

You’ve been known to obsess over the future
Do you think you’ll get away from the past?
As you stone yourself just to make it through ’til midnight
consider what you might have found.
You think you’ve got a good thing now.

I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future
so you know what keeps me hangin’ around.
No, you can’t keep a good man down.

From here on, you can count on all things going
the way they must’ve from the start.
(All you feel, all you feel…)
All you feel is the current flowing through you
and seizing your infected heart.

I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.
I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future
saint has a past, every sinner has a future
saint has a past, every sinner has a future
saint has a past, every sinner has a future
sinner has a future.

LUDO “Please” LYRICS

Sun falls slowly on our lonely
goodbye bedroom, you’re my only.
My last night home is first-night nervous
Take me over, remember all this ’til then…

[Chorus]
Please save this for me
I’ll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
my love will burn and my heart will stay.
My heart will stay.

It’s gone cold now, we’ll sleep somehow
I’ll be gone by first light, last chance, hold tight until then…

[Chorus]
Please save this for me
I’ll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
my love will burn and my heart will stay.
My heart will stay.

I lie awake and memorize your face
as you sleep next to me.
The falling moon is calling me as I leave.
Sunrise slowly, the road looms lonely
but I will not fail…

[Chorus 2x]
Please save this for me
I’ll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
my love will burn and my heart will stay.
My heart will stay.

My heart will stay.

LUDO “Drunken Lament” LYRICS

“Self-loathing is quaint,”
you told me, showing restraint.
Now you’re gone and I’m lost,
In the swells I am tossed -
bobbing and choking and losing the fight in the fog.
You said, “Forever…” Tell me, why can’t you stay?

[Chorus]
I’d ride in your pocket all day,
but I just don’t fit.
Say the word and I’ll change.
I’m throwin’ a party tonight.
I drink more than a sailor on shore.
Pour the rum in my eyes, tell me lies.

Oh, oh-oh-oh, Oh, oh-oh-oh
Drunk since Saturday,
without you, without restraint.
It still stings where you stung.
Water swings in my lungs.
I’m starving for words that would ration my sadness away.
Tell me, “Forever…”
Tell me you’ll come back to stay.

[Chorus]
I’d ride in your pocket all day,
but I just don’t fit.
Say the word and I’ll change.
I’m throwin’ a party tonight.
I drink more than a sailor on shore.
Pour the rum in my eyes, tell me lies.

You were the mermaid for me
’til one day you found your feet
leaving me in this god-awful bottle
a model of heartache and grief.

[Chorus]
I’d ride in your pocket all day,
but I just don’t fit.
Say the word and I’ll change.
I’m throwin’ a party tonight.
I drink more than a sailor on shore.
Pour the rum in my eyes, tell me lies.