band name

band name: "the houseplants"

and on the fancy web page for the band, there will be a "live chat room" feature titled: "talk to the houseplants"

song title

"hall of mirrors"

including the lyrics like- "banished for eternity to the fitting room labyrinth" or "i've learned to live on stray buttons, security tag ink, and little bent pins- but the hangars always win" or something

song title / lyrics

"danny takes his gloves off"

if only you had been awake for my presentation,
i dusted off a book on desperation,
you snore like brittle bones, and so unkind,
you cannot see the orange for the rind

song titles

“Chicken of Delight”
“Meet me in Hell’s Boiler Room”
“Sagebrush Knapsack”

“Stuck in Reverse”
“Rub your Nuts on the Sun’s Butts”
“I Love Mauve”

"but then there were free cookies"
"a moment of silence for magenta"
"the song of hydrogen" (for harlow shapley)

song titles

"so what if i control you?"
"this is about pizza"
"why won't you share the sun?"

song title / lyrics

"reasoning with a giant clam"

you cannot reason with a giant clam,
because it cannot see or hear you,
and giant clams are generally unreasonable,
but also because it lacks the capacity for higher brain functions,
and lastly because there are no such things as giant clams.

song title / lyrics

"solace and wine"

solace indeed.
solace, i need.
solace and wine...

song title / concept

"sittin' next to jesus"

a song about how jesus keeps sitting next to you on the bus. this makes you uncomfortable. your stop is like 2 or three before his. no matter where you sit- in back, in front, next to someone, alone, even standing- a spot always opens up next to you by the time he boards. so there he is again. you don't say anything, you're trying to avoid talking to him or making eye contact. in an attempt to negate the uncomfortable silence, you will look at your cell phone and think about calling to check your voicemail - but you're not getting any reception. you stare out at traffic and try not to pay attention to him, but you see the reflection of his stigmata in the window.

song titles

"the you i knew"
"slay her pretty neck if she chuckles at my chin-ups"

song titles

"birds in every tree"
"(your) dusty orders"
"the halo above the rim"
"granny's release"