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Until Now
01:28
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22 empty bottles in my room, 22 reasons why you should leave me alone. I'm so lost as to the reason of your reverie, i need a break from your 21st century.
A broken record of hateful words
connecting with you is an exercise in the absurd
Your fashion can be charming in an instant,
it's your empathy that's nonexistent
But you just about figured me out
and I just about figured you out
your sad eyes, I couldn't live without
I never had any doubt that you were the one for me until now.
you're shit at communication.
and have a codependency with your internet nation
Talk to me without an LCD
I need that space in front of me to breathe.
But you just about figured me out
and I just about figured you out
sad eyes, i couldn't live without
I never had any doubt that,
you just about figured me out
and I just about figured you out
sad eyes I couldn't live without
I never had any doubt that you were the one for me until now.
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Conversation
01:49
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Finally caught you, you said
after locking your bike to mine when you went to class
so I would have to wait for you
and deliver that tired cliche this too shall pass
your eyes looking sad and embarrassed
but I promise, your fears are just like mine
I think about the same things you do all the time.
wouldn't have left you even if I knew your combination
and to share is catharsis for shattered minds
so now you're locking you bike to mine
but I wonder why the ball and chain?
I know some people have filters over their ears
distractions and rolling eyes
have officially been institutionalized
but I can't think of a single time
when you only had you and I only had I,
conversations like these weren't meant to be forced
that would defeat the purpose.
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Photosynthesize
01:50
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the other day, I let my recklessness get to my head. it troubles me. that's where it stayed. And it invited all it's friends. now it worries me, that we could find comfort in this intense heat, and grow roots beneath our feet (beneath our feet) if we begin to photosynthesize, if we believe all their lies. if we begin to photosynthesize, all our bad cells will multiply.
I met a girl who knew the language of the mosquitos- they buzzed secrets in her ears and she believed all their lies. Then she signed a lease on one of this town's most perverse developments. I've been to that place. What will it be in a hundred years? If we begin to photosynthesize, if we believe all their lies, we'll think there's nothing wrong with knocking down homes to build a fucking parking garage.
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4. |
Crazy Chief
02:36
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worked on the gulf bay
packed seafood all day
rode home to drinks and swamp scum
spare time at the art museum
it never was quite like fiction
a perfect pretty picture
southern gothic literature
no typical romantic fixture
my neighbor malcolm
always caused me problems
drove a truck with confederate livery
ignorance, become my enemy
he told me stories
of dogfights and posturing,
he spat globs of dip at my feet
said things I'd never repeat
two stray dogs were my only friends
with clouds of fleas and indigence
and he killed both of them
for his fighting pits
to practice on
completely lost my head
grabbed the shotgun from under my bed
it was the dead of night
grass and fog lit up by moonlight
I agonized from my loss
to the sky I pumped grieving shots
ima shoot you full of rocks
you fucking redneck peacock
he took his pistol from a holster
then got down on one knee
pointed it right at me
three shots he fired
my whole world went silent
but not as dead as he desired,
for he missed all of them
saw that it was me
and called out,
YUR CRAZY CHIEF
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5. |
Mixing the vices
02:29
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notebook papers on my walls,
the things you've said, I write down all
the more I don't want them any more
the more they cover my floor
you had an idea for a song
you thought it all went wrong.
as much as you hate your own rhetoric
i find it so poetic
can you write me one that stoops to my level?
or maybe it'll bring me up to yours.
accepted drugs you're taking
are imposing themselves on your self worth
I'm convinced we're all off target,
ever found yourself unable to finish your day's work?
well you're OK, you're just in a bad spot
that pathetic chemical is something that you're not
so write me more words
even if it takes all day
i'll put them to music
so it can make my heart sick
i want to be drawn in to it
like a portrait
just don't doctor it
It will be so worth it
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