Dregs
Unreleased (Goldfly era) guster.net Tablature
Lyrics
Ryan Miller
Music
Guster

 Live Sessionography
Adam Gardner guitar, vocals
Ryan Miller guitar, vocals
Brian Rosenworcel percussion

Notes: Written around 1996. Brian recounted that "it's a song whose energy would not translate easily to tape." In every recording I've heard, the chorus "Oh, do you..." is incredibly hard to understand, but they're always saying the same thing. Help would be appreciated.
Live Version
Crushed on the boundaries
Stained on the inside
This will be the time
Swallow the memories
Stained on the edges
This will be my crime

If I could discover the feeling anew
I would be surprised
Another mistaken arrangement pursued
This moment suits me fine

Oh do you keep at
This again
Or do you reset
Or (more total)

I can't conquer the dregs that want me down
Break me open and drink to wash it down
Only to reach
Only to find
Only to push myself away
Never to know
Never to stay
Never to take or want a thing
I am set up
Don't belong here
Spoiled myself again

I always wanted
Never to own it
This will be the time
Into the sameness
Feeling no substance
Can't be free of this

Oh do you keep at
This again
Oh do you reach that
Or more total

I can't conquer the dregs that want me down
Break me open and drink to wash it down
Only to reach
Only to find
Only to push myself away
Never to know
Never to stay
Never to take or want a thing
I am set up
Don't belong here
Spoiled myself again

Oh do you keep back
To your skin
Oh do you reach that
Or more total

I can't conquer the dregs that want me down
Break me open and drink to wash it down
Only to reach
Only to find
Only to push myself away
Never to know
Never to stay
Never to take or want a thing
I am set up
Don't belong here
Spoiled myself again


Thanks to the always trusty legendary conguero Brian Rosenworcel for clarifying the songwriting credits.