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Remind You Of
04:10
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you sit motionless in the dark
and you sweat
and you sweat
and you sweat
you did everything right from the start
but still you sweat
and you sweat
and you sweat
this is what you've worked for
this is what you've worked for
you pushed everything else to the side
you're all in
you're all in
you're all in
(this is what you've worked for)
scare yourself every day and night
you're all in
you're all in
you're all in
this is what you've worked for
this is what you've worked for
wealth is leisure and leisure is wealth
wealth is leisure and leisure is wealth
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passerby
passer
a forgotten stove
charred to bone
we'll contend
the fault was in the start
fenced off
divisions in the yard
lost dogs
of a pregnant world
rough-housing
glasses break
glass
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3. |
Be Right Back
04:16
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when you lost the plots to the plays
every character forgot their name
scenery was used to fill the space
the plot holes left when you ran away
your outlines
they sublime
our shared years
disappear
every seven years (seven years)
we'll congregate to
lend our ears to
the potentate (without your company)
they'll declare a date (declare a date)
to decorate our
homes with holly
for the holiday (without your company)
your outlines
they sublime
our shared years
disappear
your outlines
your outlines
your outlines
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4. |
Was I the Perceived
03:29
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pressing a flower
beneath the covers
before I rip them apart
offer all condolences again
it's a sorry state you’ll find me in
the heat of your body's
the heat of the earth
regardless of the depth
my brain is full of liquid I have steeped
in myths that keep me walking half asleep
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5. |
Glue Living Glue
02:37
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i don't want
to be your friend
i don't want
to be my friend
i don't want
to be someone
i'm not
when we're surrounded
we'll smoke our last cigarette
half in the rain yeah
half in the rain
when we surrender
we'll smoke our last cigarette
half in the rain yeah
half in the rain
hole in the wind knows
i love my last cigarette
hole in the wind
hole in the wind
we'll smoke our last cigarette
half in the rain
we'll smoke our last cigarette
half in the rain
lacing up my corset
hanging up my portrait
let it go, don't force it
turn your back on origins
familiar to foreign
heat between my toes
and shower in the morning
you look out of focus
daffodils and roses
feeling every moment
place between my knowing
house is feeling roomy
feeling like psychosis
i've been put on notice
how am i to know this?
nice of you to notice
violence on my doorstep
evening gown with roses
icebergs on the surface
i can hear you going
look at us, we're snowed in
turning to an orange
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6. |
New Philosophy
04:46
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hey old friend
let's compare our symmetry
morningless
sharing new philosophy
heavy bags
under your eyes since the seventh grade
now you've tasted
every budget wine
and you,
you haven't done everything
and you,
you haven't done anything
litter makes for
effective advertising
the truest poets
never sign their work
you're aging out of culture
don't forget your canvas bags
and you,
you haven't found everything
and you,
you haven't found anything
you call them souvenirs
a life you say well-lived
but you’re buried underneath
ooo you dream of something to prove
and to remember anything
you've received
highly special training
you can make a weapon
from an empty can
you've amassed a nice collection
of eyelashes and fingernails
and you
you don't believe everything
and you
you don't believe anything
you call them souvenirs
a life you say well lived
but you’re buried underneath
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7. |
Friday 1214
04:38
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hello let's forget about today
follow me into the rain
we'll need forty years to say
"damn well that was weird"
i'm thinking this might be the place
to sign the line and not erase
all the life we've put in place
all the work we've done
waiting for the next someone
waiting for the next someone
waiting for the next someone
waiting for the next one
i'm thinking this might be the place
to settle down and start the race
to our own personal hell
our personal hell
heaven looks the same from far away
fata morgana we create
before it evaporates
into another treasure
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who's the author of the lines around your eyes?
did they win a pulitzer prize?
or die unknown?
avid readers will note the subtleties,
the flow, and mysteries
written in ruts of your skin (of your skin)
who wrote the lines
who wrote the lines around your eyes?
who wrote the lines
who wrote the lines around your eyes?
future scientists will find your bones and read
an osteobiography
recorded in density
every clue they'll correlate
how you slept, what you ate
every injury inflicted on your frame
who wrote the lines
who wrote the lines around your eyes?
who wrote the lines
who wrote the lines around your eyes?
you will resurrect in a documentary
(with you) holding hands with lucy
with computer model imagery
and in their efforts to get you canonized
they'll recreate your guise
but miss the subtle
form and grace -
the gentle patchwork lines around your eyes
who wrote the lines
who wrote the lines around your eyes?
who wrote the lines
who wrote the lines around your eyes?
hard to decide
how much to attribute to time
hard to decide
how much to attribute to time
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9. |
It's Okay
03:39
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you’ve worn this face
for quite some time
it’s suspect
the way it smiles
never really knew
what was on your mind
yet lately
i can’t help but try
cause you keep repeating
“it’s okay”
it's okay
is it alright to feel this safe
with someone
you'll never know
i wish my past was a room
i’d be there
instead of here with you
while you keep repeating
“it’s okay”
when it ends you’ll still say
“it’s okay”
at the end they always say
“it’s okay”
won't you keep repeating
“it’s okay”?
waited all day to hear you say
“it’s okay”
won't you say to me
“it’s okay”?
can't you say it to me
“it’s okay”?
if you decide not to stay
...
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10. |
First Trauma
04:43
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none the wiser
you were too young to tire
none the wiser
to what grainy photographs conceal
quiet nights,
save for fights
note to never
end up like this
just look the other way and say
"i came out all right"
do pretty views
make you come unglued?
or do they hang
like paintings above a motel headboard–
mass produced
and made to be ignored
try to mix it up
find yourself right back in the place you left
making choices makes you
but all roads still lead to the same end
do pretty views
make you come unglued?
or do they hang
like paintings above a motel headboard–
mass produced
and made to be ignored
try to mix it up
find yourself right back in the place you left
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11. |
Damn This Is Real Bad
04:06
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