The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek records.
Started as a solo project of Cursive Cursive (band) 's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life quickly grew to become its own established group. The original intent of The Good Life was to provide Tim Kasher with a vehicle to perform songs that did not fit stylistically in with his long-running band Cursive. Kasher fronts the group and plays the part of the singer/songwriter. The... [read more] - Empty Bed
I hate it when you say you need me.You don't need me.I hate even worse that I need you.It kills me.When I was young I loved to be by myself, all alone.Now that I'm older Im scared of myself, all alone.So lay with me,...
- I Am An Island
mostly i sleep it offit's easier in the morningto shrug off the evening'sdrunken pathetic pleas'cause the night's tragic ramblingis the next day's apologiesso if you can sit tight'till the sun hits the blindswe can...
- Black Out
-----------------------Black Out (Track 01)-----------------------you try too hardfor the perfect beginningyou're so let downwhen the beauty starts fadingonce beaming with confidencenow brooding with doubtpack those...
- Some Bullshit Escape
Called in sick for worksaid the fevers getting worseThere's a lot of that going aroundI packed a duffle bagWith some clothes from the atticIt's getting colder in the eveningI hocked my pocket watchAnd a couple old...
- Drinking With The Girls
You thought you had it madeLike the songs would write themselvesBut your words ran out of inkAnd your fingers lost the chordsYou lay around so boredAnd you hit the bar at twoAnd you waste your time on girlsThey know...
- The Beaten Path
Yesterday came and went and I wasn't presentThe weeks were laid out like pavementWork and drink and sleep, repeatUpon the beaten pathI kept on my blinders...don't need any old remindersNo face. No Name. No memories.If...
- Early Out The Gate
What you're looking for is never what you findNothing ever seems to turn out rightStill running around still searchingall these long indifferent streetsFor your lover our some coverto protect you from the heatThat you...
- Don't Make Love So Hard
You said you're a wreck, you get so upsetYou said that you'd ruin everythingthe first chance you getBut your chances come day after dayas I drunkenly slander your nameIs it posible you've become fondof the lushes...
- After O'Rourke's, 2:10 A.M.
I hate it when you say you need me.You don't need me.I hate even worse that I need you.It kills me.When I was young I loved to be by myself, all alone.Now that I'm older Im scared of myself, all alone.So lay with me,...
- The New Denial
i can't do this anymore:stay in, black out, hit the floor.i've forgotten what i'm hiding frombut mama called and cried to me,"baby, your anniversary was last tuesday."that's right...okay, i guess it slipped my...
- O' Rourke's, 1:20 A.M.
It's different when you're lonely,the whole world's in love.Holding hands between bar stools,and you're holding your tounge.Hold on - you're so ***ed up...so fickle.Isn't this what you want?So simple, so single.But...
- Off The Beaten Path
Well I'm trying to be patientBut the wheels keep turning roundBut it's a treadmill and I just dragging my feetI'm so tired of everythingDefeated by routineBy words that don't mean anything to meAt least not anymore...
- You're Not You
You're trying to remember why you cut all your hair. Were you trying to be someone you weren't? You don't hang around the old haunts anymore, no, all the of those bridges are burned. He doesn't like to share you, he...
- Needy
You never fell for me, You fell for how it feltYou felt for being held, So, who's gonna fill inNow my arms refuse to bend?Who's gonna fill in?And who's gonna fill the days with me, With Canadian Club and old movies?We...
- Two Years This Month
It's been two years this month since the last time we spokeAnd it's starting to seem that the only thing everlasting Is this vow of silenceWell, I guess that's the vow that we took but not at first. At first I was...
- Notes In His Pockets
Drunk at the bar at last, last call my baby's home on her night off, So I'm involved in a serious talk with a girl I had known growing up. So we buy a six; decide to split she has a downtown apartment. She opens the...
- Inmates
When you said you loved me, did you really love me or did the words just spill out like drool on my pillow. 'Cause I was *** when you said those words, but I felt covered in your whispered worship. And as you passed...
- Under A Honeymoon
You look at me like you've been savedFrom another one that got away. So I'm your latest cup of teaTo keep your cold hands company, And I will warm you. I will calm you Until those watersAre ready to be sailed...
- A New Friend
A Valentine's Day party, I didn't think you'd show. You don't like making entrances alone; you've got a new friend, likes to go to movies, like to drink red wine. Sounds familiar, better hold on tight, a film school...
- Album Of The Year
The first time that I met her I was throwing up in the ladies' room stall She asked me if I needed anything, I said "I think I spilled my drink" and that's how it started, or so I'd like to believe. She took me to her...
- Lovers Need Lawyers
I swear to speak the whole truth, nothing but the truth, oh, so help me God, I wasn't cheating on you. Yeah I've got a spotty record, but I've been renewed. If you can't believe me, then what's to believe? Once you...
- Night And Day
I know a girl with cuts on her legs. I think that she hates the way she was made, but we never spoke of why they were there, I just squeezed them and kissed them 'til we both felt a bit better. And now I've returned...
- October Leaves
I stumbled in at three a.m., but you didn't want to, I tried again at half past ten, you still want to, Your hips have this way of saying no way; an impenetrable barricade. Something I said? Something I did? What's...
- The Competition
he met this girl from renowhose life was a competition.she looked just like a china dollwith porcelain skin she knew he'd let her win.so he fell for her,as if he fell from his mother into the arms of a lover.and he...
- A Golden Exit
i can see the chill in the air between us.i can feel a winter coming we're frozen in our stares.and we know there's a world outsideof these insults and injuriesmaybe we're just too, afraid to be one.the autumn sets a...
- A Dim Entrance
send me to bed.my head's drowning out the thick and blurry soundsof horses on the highway.the days are running downand i'm drowning out this overwhelming sad.send me to bed, and tamp out the lamp.in the dark the...
- Twenety-Two
"bon voyage" was something that i once saidand eventually regretted.well, itт€™s come up again...and i wonder ifthe same mistakes i used to makecould be remade.cause "i've been through this before"well...
- Your Birthday Present
tell me, dear,is there anything you'd like to hear?one last song before we disappear?some broken hearted balladbuilt for two.by the way, it seems my notebooks have been misplacedthose scribbled poetries of...
- What We Fall For When We're Already Down
i'll try to describe the way that it felt totell my own mother her son is a failure.his heart is too cold to love anyone but himself.it's like stabbing an icicle straight through your chest.your whole body shivers as...
- Waiting On Wild Horses
when the horses come to drag me away,i won't fuss and fight i won't plead or beg.and wherever they dump me i'll lay my head.i'll sleep it off..i'll sleep aloneuntil the longing burrows a holestraight through my...
- The Moon Red Handed
tell me, dear,is there anything you'd like to hear?one last song before we disappear?some broken hearted balladbuilt for two.by the way, it seems my notebooks have been misplacedthose scribbled poetries of...
- An Acquaintance Strikes A Chord
he broke his old guitar.he couldn't make it sing.the strings had grown so wornthey made his fingers bleed.soon after the event he made an acquaintancewhose fingers bled as well,forming scabs that never heal.would you...
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