Fourteen Years Of Excellence is the fourth EP released by the band Manchester Orchestra, available on April 18, 2009 at select indie record stores as an exclusive release for Record Store Day. The limited edition EP came free with a purchase of Mean Everything To Nothing.
Tracks:
01. Anne Louise
02. It’s Ok With Me
03. Do You Really Like Being Alone
04. Shake It Out (Alternate Version)
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Release Date: 04/18/09
Format: CD (w/ purchase of METN), Digital(think Indie)
Anna Louise
This leathers called a seat belt Anne Louise
Your head out of the window in the coolest summer breeze
And in the air were all the things you claimed we need
They seemed to be worth less than once I did believe
And I swear to god that I’ll avenge your dead
With the best lawyers of auto-politics
And I’ll spend whatever money’s to be spend
To try and revive your broken body again
And the penny-pitching funeral was shit
Your body in a plastic frame that I threw flowers in
And I hope to god that you’ll remember me in heaven
God I hope you don’t remember that in heaven
God I hope that they’ll allow me into heaven
Look what I’ve become
Look what I’ve become
It’s OK With Me
I am a man that does not have a way.
millions of oceans can show me, you say.
we still run around like there’s no better way,
and i don’t stay.
so last night when you threw the glass on the wall,
you realized the end would be following.
you don’t say what you mean when you need me to go.
so just know…
out on the highway in the desert unknown.
i’ll find a way to get back to you, though.
i still run around like i don’t have a home
cause even when i’m around, i’ve got no place to go.
and i know i’m not what you need,
but it’s okay–yeah it’s okay with me.
so how can i tell you i need you to stay?
i’ve done it before, it don’t mean anything.
and i still wait around to see if they’ll let me go
through heaven’s doors, alone.
and i know i’m not what you need,
but it’s okay–yeah it’s okay with me.
yeah i realize it is settling,
but it’s okay–yeah it’s okay with me.
i’m not who i’ve led you to believe,
but it’s okay–yeah it’s okay with me.
yeah i realize it is settling,
but it’s okay–yeah it’s okay with me.
because you’re the thing that makes settling,
so i’m okay with me, if you’re okay with me.
cause i know you’re not what i need,
but you’re okay with me, yeah you’re okay with me.
yeah you’re okay with me
From Birmingham and back again for you
In the end they say we’ll see the truth
What a shocking beauty we can both abuse
So I folded my hands into a bird
The shadows made you laugh
They made you sunburned
And I stitched my faith into your shirt
To make sure nobody but me was getting hurt
And you love being cast as the fool
In a movie no one ever pays to sit through
Just calm down it will be over soon
And god I wonder what it is I’d do without you
Do you really like being alone?
Do you really like being alone?
La di da da da da
And the lord made me confront my past
We asked each other to explain the mess
I believed with enough good I’d mend
But any good I had was always simply tempered
And I tried hard to sing like they did
With my arms raised in the air I was praising
You said that when we died it would send
But maybe even Jesus knew that I was faking
Do you really like being alone
Goddamn of course you don’t
Do you really like being alone
Do you really like being alone
Wouldn’t blame you if you went back home
And got an actual job
And you kissed your wife and your two daughters
Like I wished I could
And I think that we’d be free
Oh my god I think you finally feel free
I don’t really like being alone
God of course I don’t
I don’t really like being alone
I don’t really like being alone
I think I might just go back home
And get an actual job
Stop selling my soul to the devil
He buys so much merch from us
And I think he’d set us free
Yeah I think he’d cut the chains
And set you and me free
Do you really like being alone?
Cause I don’t really like being alone
Do you really like being alone?
I think I might just go back home
And get an actual job
And tell both my redneck neighbors
To bring their dogs inside
And I could get some sleep
Cause I think all I need
Is a decent night sleep
God, I need another round, another round
I could have felt it now.
I felt the Lord in my father’s house.
Well, I could see, I could see you were standing
you were seventeen I made it clean
I could see you when you knew you’d love
I felt the Lord in my mother’s eyes.
it’s right…
Cause I’m not going to lose if you’re funerals not anymore
are you tired of being alone, are you tired of being alone?
Sweat it out, sweat it out
God, you got to shake it out, shake it out
I knew it now more than I ever have
I knew it now more than I ever have
I could see that you could see
I was standing I was finally free
make it clean I am the living ghost of what you need
I am everything eternally, but can’t speak.
Cause I’m not going to lose if you’re funerals not anymore
are you tired of being alone, are you tired of being alone?
So, make it now, make it now
God, I need to build it up, tear it down
I found another way you know how
I felt something in something house
if you could be anything what do you think you’d trade for me?
you make it clean. I am the living ghost of everything you needed in a hypocrisy
just speak
because I’m fooling around with the devil and it’s out
I’m tired of being alone, yeah I’m tired of being alone
I felt the Lord begin to peal off all my skin
and I felt the wave within reveal the bigger mess that you can’t fix.
Well, I’ll get down on my knees just show me everything.
I swear I need a home… I swear you’ll never know… you’ll never know
