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The Fullerenes Talk Serious About Luv

by The Fullerenes

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1.
Diane 03:16
Diane Quit looking at me you're making me nervous Diane You'd better believe you got my attention I've been lying awake all night Thinking of anything that I could say When I run into you As I seem to do At the worst of times I was wrong Completely Terrified As if I could make this into a worse situation I fall over myself I violate grammar If I made it all up How can I make it up to you? Diane Quit looking at me you're making me nervous Diane Taught me a few things about emasculation You look at me and then you turn around People bored in class find ways To pass time And I was getting by By making eyes And then yours found mine And I thought for second My heart had stopped completely I found out later you used to be a Goth And you were not surprised to find I was all grunge But I really fell in love when you told me about the time That you got locked in the hallway In a towel On the telephone Diane Quit looking at me you're making me nervous Diane Will you be sitting with me when the thrill of alienation is gone? You look at me and then you turn around (Growing Pains-esque internal monologue!) What do you want from me? I said I was sorry... I guess I should have found something nicer to say instead of just repeating all the things you said to me I've been lying awake all night Thinking of anything that I could say When I run into you As I seem to do At the worst of times Like my whole life lately It's been so long Give me one more chance To prove you wrong I would say the same thing if everyone was looking and I wasn't just talking to the telephone dialtone You're freaking me out I'm shaking like a paintstir You're staring me down (She had a smile that made me fail all of my classes) Quit looking at me you're making me nervous Diane Quit looking at me you're making me nervous Diane Quit looking at me you're making me nervous Diane I did what I could and I got no redemption
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I said I was sorry Hanging out lunchtime pranks get carried away I meant what I said The part about your walk Not the part about your deadbeat dog Conflicts abound go eye to eye She’s four foot nine and I’m six foot five Greedy for attention we step up strap on Bobby Pep brings the Bantam. Don't know why you'd ever hang out with me Don't know why you've never done your own thing Contemplating while I sit by the sink Torn by apathy and what the world thinks Don't know why you'd ever hang out with me Don't know why you've never done your own thing Double meanings hand in hand with double standards Circles of friends Buy 'em in bulk Get a great deal on friendship Paste eaters as children They were Culturally enlightened By 4 minute microwave karma You thought I said I was lonely Did I ever really say that? I don’t think I ever said that Mistaken identity That curly haired miss has taken my identity Don't know why you'd ever hang out with me Don't know why you've never done your own thing Contemplating while I sit by the sink Torn by apathy and what the world thinks Don't know why you'd ever hang out with me Don't know why you've never done your own thing Double meanings hand in hand with double standards Rockin’ and a-dancin’ away Summer well spent preparin’ for the end of the world. Do the whiteboy Ladies do the hop Do the slapdance, girl You’d better not stop stop Stop my flow Just be cool Give it away, give it away, give it away now. Bring it back Just in time Step out back Shoot ‘em up Make way for the next rhyme Droppin’ beats baby Cleanin’ up the dance floor Ghetto booties movin' You don’t need no freakin’ tootsie roll To get this lame train movin’ You don’t need no kung-fu grip off the fresh tip Of my Aunt Matilda’s lip Homegrown verses back the sounds Running when we hit the ground All around Can’t be found Anyone we will not astound. Doing damage to your feet With the beat we repeat, Hand in hand With your feet Shot up from the funky beat Don’t know why you’d ever hang out with me Don’t know why you’d ever hang out with me
3.
Lowercase 02:39
The words on the screen say "I Like You" Well, Thank God, and bottoms up… What the Hell is that supposed to mean? Your words w/o eyes… it turns out they didn’t mean anything. Pound this out at the Obligatory Safe Lunch, we're taking pains to keep that lunch completely safe. You ask about class, I ask about chemistry. Story of my life girl, undone, put down again. "Curses, Homonyms!" "You don’t know what I mean, it’s time we got it straight. I never said that at all. Get it straight." I have this picture in my head of Webster working in his lab, devising ways to confuse, all the way to eve of the 21st Century. Say what you mean. Tell me, yes or no. "No," you really can, or "No," you really won’t? "You don’t know what I mean, it’s time we got it straight. I never said that at all. Get it straight." Coffee with me spelled "c-o-double’f’-e-e" with him it’s boldface "C-O-F-F-E-E," (if you know what I mean). It’s always lowercase with me. "You don’t know what I mean, it’s time we got it straight. I never said that at all. Get it straight."
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if you want to fight on a train fight on top
5.
Gentleman 03:33
it never took you too long to see the faults of others why did it take you so long with me kept me confused kept me hanging around made me your bitch your ever-obedient hound evil breeds you and your friends tear me apart with no offer for amends people told me 'get out while you can' now i'm surrounded i'm surrounded you never told me anything about a plan for masterful destruction of your enslaved gentleman plan in motion now before me headed out the door behind me people screaming 'there is nowhere to run' leaving me stranded among your empty promises of something better than friendship but we all know now you're as psycho as they come game of chess winner takes all twisted twister co-ed naked volleyball let's play that game where we stop on the road you push me out and i walk the last 8 miles home tie me up and leave me all night drive me wild with the lead chips that you dropped in my sprite relive the last days you were normal in the 80s the 1980s
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Glamour 03:53
this song goes out to all the good smelling girls with the cool sounding names do you even know how very attractive you and your friends have been to me you girls all travel in packs and intimidate while you attract with dead on reckoning you size up the room assign levels of utility and i'm not gonna make any points with you i'm never going to be a prize in your game but a guy's gotta hope just the same a bed of strings a half time frame rate don't you know all the prettiest girls sit together and i sit two rows back so i can see better oh you might know my name but you don't know who i am and you laugh at my jokes but you don't understand i'm shy around girls and try as i can i can't separate you from your glamour this song goes out to the girls with the walks rehearsed you walk on by, my conversation stops and i get myself an eyeful some sights are flintstone pills and some go down easier still parties with bad ratios we instinctively know which of us has potential which of us has a chance of going home with you and which is best for conversation if you're looking for fat free affection why are you always sticking with confections who among us would not like to be brandon walsh and have his furrowed brow and perfect curls who among us would not like to live on spelling television and have such delectable choices this song goes out to the lovely ladies with the cute asthmatic voices there ain't a place that i can go there ain't a place anywhere in the world that's free from beautiful girls god save me from beautiful girls
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Grace 04:47
a lot of things are said without a sound as times go by those are the things that count after conversations run together run into doubts you can tell a lot from someone's eyes mine are calling you you can't hear them at all when the time to speak comes i always run where i should crawl girl i am not so brave to you that is not so strange you and i are alike in many ways if you're alone i am alone after all you've shown me all i know about grace i learned from you now that's all i will ever know but when you were so close i knew i wasn't alone in being confused there's a reason why you don't see me around anymore i feel like i'm invisible to you or maybe there's a hole in me you can look straight through and that's how you can stand this close to me and not see
8.
no but thanks for asking she is not my girlfriend am i being clear is there any doubt it would not be smart to say that out loud no but thanks for asking she is not my girlfriend if that's in your head you should get it out if she got tied down how would she get around? tired of being alone she said to me what could i do but shrug and walk as we walked from the 18th party we'd attended together guess what i mean (it might sound lame) but what i'm looking for is best expressed by a typical archtypical halfwit postpunk lovesong no but thanks for asking she is not my girlfriend i am not out but i'm not at home she's not with me but she's not alone no but thanks for asking she is not my girlfriend tell the boys at fountain square for me: you can't always get what you want one of us has lost his mind and since i am not a he it must be you she said to me and at the time i didn't feel like i deserved that tired of being alone well what about me i said or rather what about meat or do you like meat or what i was trying to say was how about those red wings no but thanks for asking she is not my girlfriend if that's in your head you should get it out if she got tied down how would she get around? no but thanks for asking she is not my girlfriend for about 5 weeks she's thought something's wrong but i've been in love for almost twice that long
9.
Superpowers 03:31
never been audited always been credited always has perfect change always gets straight a's already a winner ed mcmahaon has her number older school than hammer he never could hurt her 5 time jeopardy champion beat ben stein out with an 8 out of 10 the jedi newsletter the special report yoda's saying that this child has the force she's got superpowers the likes of which you've never seen she can vaporize her enemies with a twitch a cold stare or a sneeze maybe you've seen her around town wearing a black patent leather cape fashion comes first she always said ordinarily people live their lives in desperation always the recipient of a sorry... try again on this planet one girl thrives she's got superpowers and we're all so jealous of her great scott the news reporters exclaim as she saves another kitten from a night in the rain laws of quantum physics slowly bend to her will advanced mechanics thermodynamics easier still once played the lotto she won when she walks down the avenues she passes by baltic but boardwalk's hers meter maids in hot pursuit two shiny new quarters float up to the top of her purse she makes 47-second minute rice she mixes her kool aid right in the glass always picking the unlocked door always knows what day they pick up the trash
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sunday and the dryers are all out of order needed something to do with all of those quarters crossed the street and went to pinball pete's heard they had two tetris machines this girl trades me four quraters for 10 dimes then she starts clearing four lines at a time she's got the hands and the eyes i'm gonna make her mine though i've never been very good at video games couldn't kill ganon couldn't beat the mother brain and of course she's a tough act to follow 800,000 points and she only spent a dollar low as i get she's always lower and i'm trying to last, not playing to score i'm feeling like a square but i'll give it a whirl you can laugh all you want but i'm really in love with tetris girl tetris girl i know you've been played but how do i get in the game tetris girl i had a lot of lines but something always seems to get in the way i saw her again just the other night she knew who i was without looking up the girl and i who will never hook up she won't even be polite she said i want some visine i want some visine i'll give you my love if you give me some visine i'd love to play like this all night but i know that things won't stack up right we have these short conversations i might die just waiting for a long one she's got the hands and she's got the moves she swears that i've got nothing to prove but i must have hit select i've got no idea what happens next and if you check the high schore screen one through four reads a c i number five says i heart u and that's mine
11.
i guess i must not have enough hardship in my life i'll call you up for my daily fix of mixed signals i wouldn't feel right if not for this question mark over my head over my head thought bubbles stand out from backgrounds we don't check on backgrounds i give up i'm just hanging out in the grey areas blurry lines fuzzy definitions here's the deal first one who grows up comes back clues the other one in and says i was right all along you were completely wrong i wanted us as a two headed monster you should have known by now gimme time to put my face on come on the whole town is out and every time we're out on the town i end up wanting to pull off your face hearing john williams tunes as we face the crowd i step in as surrogate boyfriend once again it's me vs the sharkmen i'm tired of playing this game hey we've already wasted too much wind this game is playing me and you're saying as of lately i guess i have been bitter hey babe know what that sounds familiar coat hanger archway sheep herder tapdance ender hairpin turn drinking fountain thought bubble over my head bewildered seen in profile in cross section a passerby might remark on how i bear a close resemblance to a certain punctuation i guess i must not have enough hardship in my life can you fix me up with a question mark grey areas blurry lines fuzzy definitions i'll say it to you you'll say it to me we'll say it together on three: i was right
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18 Weeks 05:24
i hereby negate our twin burdens of history shared and grievances owed i've got too many taped up pictures of you and too many acid etched markings on my telephone i don't regret being a little unfair or unkind in my portrait of you so don't go calling asking me if i still care i think you know for awhile my nails took a beating i went to movies by myself almost every day our friends are a newsletter about your life i didn't subscribe but i keep getting it anyway i know we were in deep but don't get the wrong idea about my scrapbooks and albums the pictures that i keep i keep there less for reminiscing than to see if they will fade after 18 weeks i know i wasn't wrong there's this other guy and he' worse than i expected after 18 weeks i see you forgetting me there's this other guy even sooner than projected it really sucks to be right all the time this song is the song that i'm writing for you i'll try to find the right words try to find something that hurts we'll see how much damage i can do what can i say what can i do sometimes it just suits me to be cruel when you know him as well as you know me you won't love him either when he knows you as well as i do he won't love you either after 18 weeks you knock me out with a volley of words and you make your escape after 18 weeks i'm just another guy and he's the one that's perfect in every way i hereby negate our twin burdens of history shared and grievances owed but you know you've got a lot of nerve pulling yourself together when i'm still alone
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Pity Sex 03:11
there's something irresistable about a pretty girl with a shitty car we're only now feeling the effects of reagan's policies hey girl be camilla to my gonzo i bet you didn't know that helen keller was a socialist hey you hated congo wow i hated congo i too thought the monkeys looked robotic do you think that i could get your number pity sex it was pity sex you remind me of the girl that married andy kauffman on taxi i mean it and i mean it as a compliment you know what my sister's boyfriend's coworker once knew this guy who knew the guy who drums for verve pipe hey you didn't really play mousetrap wow i didn't really play moustrap i just set it up and set it off so i could watch it catch the little guy can i call you sometime pity sex it was pity sex i couldn't help but notice that you walked in alone it would be my pleasure to walk you home could a girl like you have pity on a guy like me?

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The Fullerenes were:
Ryan Arnholt
Steve Bekkala
Clint Hoagland
Kevin Krzyzanski
Bob Peplinski
Craig Peters

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released September 1, 1998

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