Cousin to Cousin is a Rilo Kiley song, sung by Jenny Lewis.
The song was recorded by the band on May 2, 1998 at Sandbox Recording Studio, and appeared on a demo CD called Sandbox Sessions 5/2/98.
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The band played this song live during a performance in Hawaii in the summer of 1999.
| Rilo Kiley songs | |
|---|---|
| Rilo Kiley / The Initial Friend EP | Frug • Papillon • Always • 85 • Glendora • Teenage Lovesong • Sword • Asshole • Gravity • Steve • Keep It Together • Troubadours • The Annoying Noise of Death • Ginger |
| Take Offs and Landings | Go Ahead • Science vs. Romance • Wires and Waves • Pictures of Success • August • Bulletproof • Plane Crash in C • Variations on a Theme (Science vs. Romance) • Small Figures in a Vast Expanse • Don't Deconstruct • We'll Never Sleep (God Knows We'll Try) • Rest of My Life • Variations on a Theme (Plane Crash in C) • Salute MY Shorts! |
| The Execution of All Things | The Good That Won't Come Out • Paint's Peeling • The Execution of All Things • So Long • And That's How I Choose to Remember It • Capturing Moods • A Better Son/Daughter • Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight That Surrounds You • My Slumbering Heart • Three Hopeful Thoughts • With Arms Outstretched • Spectacular Views |
| More Adventurous | It's a Hit • Does He Love • Portions for Foxes • Ripchord • I Never • The Absence of God • Accidntel Deth • More Adventurous • Love and War 11/11/46 • A Man/Me/Then Jim • It Just Is |
| Under the Blacklight | Silver Lining • Close Call • The Moneymaker • Breakin' Up • Under the Blacklight • Dreamworld • Dejalo • 15 • Smoke Detector • The Angels Hung Around • Give a Little Love |
| Rkives | Let Me Back In • It'll Get You There • Runnin' Around • All the Drugs • Bury, Bury, Bury Another • Well, You Left • Draggin' Around • I Remember You • A Town Called Luckey |
| Non-album songs | Eggs • Cousin to Cousin • Dead Cat • 13 • After Hours • Somebody Else's Clothes • Big Break • Quickmart • Pull Me in Tighter • Are You Sad? • Commoner |
- NOTE: Since no official lyric publication of this song exists, the following lyrics may contain errors.
Cousin to cousin and hand to hand
Pulled his piece from out the can
Took him off to show the cliff
Sailed him off and made his riff
As he lie there, seconds wait
Flippin’ through his only fate
Face that showed itself before
Was the cousin who wasn’t a cousin no more
La-da-da-da-dye da-da-da-dye da-da-da-dye dye dye
Dye-dye da-da-da-dye da-dye-dye-dye
Da-dye da-dye dye-dye dye-dye
Purging the soul one drop at a time
Sippin’ on vintage T-bird wine
Pull the cat from out the grave
Strung it up and watched it sway
As he stand without a twitch
Pondering the depth of that genius ditch
I am a person to no people at all
Said the voice of a man who was just three feet tall
La-da-da-da-dye da-da-da-dye da-da-da-dye dye dye
Dye-dye da-da-da-dye da-dye-dye-dye
Da-dye da-dye da-dye dye-dye
Felon to felon and man to man
Desert’s crude has dried again
Took a dime for a next request
Lit a match, he did his best
As you watch his dream oil burn
Tension took a different turn
Boss’s daughter passin’ by
Into the flames went the sweet Lorelei
La-da-da-da-dye da-da-da-dye da-da-da-dye dye dye
Dye-dye da-da-da-dye da-dye-dye-dye
Da-dye da-dye dye-dye da-dye
That’s what my daddy does
That’s what my daddy does
But what about me?
When it brings those heads over tea
That’s what my daddy does
That’s what my daddy does
But what about me?
What about me?
What about me?
Cousin to cousin and hand to hand
Hoe the tragic desert sand
Packed their looms and did set sail