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Into The Dark!
04:47
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it’s the season of
blacktops not blackboards
of high tops and bike rides
of ice pops and low tides
it’s the season of
nights spent on rooftops
cold beer and flip flops
birdsong and hopscotch
and july marches in on the heels of three score elephants with skeleton keys and diamond rings, the lips of god and wild things
and july marches in on the heels of three score elephants all clad in white with shining wings the lips of man split wide to sing:
songs about himself
songs about himself
all the names of the ones he knows
well they melted: sugar in the sea
and when the eye of the lord is past
well the world will just be that much more sweet
eyes are the windows to the soul (we know, we know, we’ve all been told)
existence is proved by thought alone (we know we know, but still we will not go into the dark)
there’s naught to fear in the unknown (oh no, oh no, we will not go into the dark!)
all the names of the ones you know
they will melt just like sugar in the sea
and when your days on the earth are grass
well the soil will just be that much more sweet
I’m afraid of the sound of rain
I’m afraid of the way you say my name
and everything else that has an end
why don’t I feel what I oughta feel, we are unknowable
far as stars from the arms of those who hold us close
and all the nights we didn’t light with a love that was not love at all
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Whisper In A Hallway
02:31
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that’s a 20 cent answer to a million dollar question
the lasting legacy of the internet generation
everybody’s in love with a whisper in a hallway
everybody’s in love…
five years of leaves on the ground and the truth is coming out
we coulda kissed em but we cursed em instead, and swelled to burst they gave head to some other guy
everybody’s in love with a whisper in a hallway
everybody’s in love with a whisper in a hallway
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Once Only, Once Again
03:06
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stay, stay awake
we don’t have to eat
we don’t have to say
words that rhyme with love
all the secret sweet
things we’re dreaming of
move down my chest
as the lightning cuts
down the past
sweet summer rain
in your white bedroom
our bodies sing
(note: I changed my mind after recording this and the lines “all the secret sweet/things we’re dreaming of” have been replaced with “it’s so beautiful/and so meaningless”)
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4. |
Year One
02:01
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I was still standing
on a northern corner.
Moonlit winter clouds the color of the desperation of wolves.
Proof
of Your existence? There is nothing
but.
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5. |
Sorry Skin
02:46
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once you pulled the trigger I only got sicker
I been tumbling down through rows of crooked teeth
thought I could sleep it away, so i slept in every bed in town
I been throwing rocks at boarded up windows
everybody’s saying that the winter’s closing in
I’m trying hard to hate you but my body won’t submit
every night i tear apart your soft and sorry skin
and fall upon your body as the snowfall locks us in
to the tiniest circles
and the cruelest words pour out in little silver rings
only fools submerge them
turn your house upside down it’ll never be the same
it’ll never be the same
everybody’s saying that the winter’s closing in
I’m trying hard to hate you but we’re siblings now in sin
every night i sink into your lost and holy skin
and awake entangled over-warm and abandoned
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The boys all blew away, left me freezing on the corner outside the bar
just like a movie where I posed for no one in my black hat, overcoat against the red brick, it made a stunning composition, The Boy With The Tears In Just One Eye, and which way was home again?
I stayed there speechless as the birds all fell quietly politely from the sky
in the backseat of my eye I thought I saw a page turn and a year burn and
the trees drop their leaves and bow to the tearing of the fabric of my life
the greatest gift, to know the kindest soil
the silver trees, that grow alone
it’s ashes all, and daughter’s love
insatiable, blurred by sweet sun
we do go on, words like ants tow our
saving grace, a little time bomb
inside of us, everything we could
ever want
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7. |
Great American Novel
03:58
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we were living off of
stolen bagels from the
university
cafeteria
we were living in the
empty margins of the
great american novel
we were the twisted sheep
the brain’s unconscious speech
the hearts that are not on the map
our rooms were cloudy with the
instruments of music instruments of light
the race, the race, the race we run
dear exploding beauty
I wish I saw more of you
we were living off of
wit and instinct like a good coyote should
in place, in place, in place of sun
dead men we count upon
are failing hearts and straw
our father’s shades are drawn
we all go out alone
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8. |
Big White Lie
01:25
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i pulled my lips apart
there were no words inside
instead a flowing white sheet
before my mothers eyes
this world devours lies
but it won’t devour mine
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When We Have Arrived
02:10
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the kindly white whisp
folds us inside of it
before those teary eyes
ohhhhh we glide
through the glass divide
between the booths and sky
we smoothly promenade
simple as lemonade
and when we touch the ground
in far off fields and towns
we know we have arrived
devoid of all desire
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I’ve been ungrateful don’t I know it to be true
I’ve been ungrateful to the symptoms of the flu
oh fire I am sorry
oh water I am sorry
I have grown beyond the son you held aloft
and I am leaving but I promise I’m not lost
I’ve been ungrateful don’t I wish it weren’t so
I’ve been ungrateful to the paint on my front door
oh cinderblock i love you so much
oh spiderweb i love you so much
I am a bridge that ties cathedrals into knots
and every place I go is new blood for the clot
I am so grateful for the friends I have got
I’m in good hands
I’m in good hands
I’m in good hands
I am so tired of this city and its dues
no matter what I wear the wind just cuts right through
i hear people screaming murder in the night
there has to be another way besides just fight or flight
but in the hour of my dissipating hope
when every christmas light’s an arrow through my throat
a hundred arms reach out from all across the globe
I’m in good hands
I’m in good hands
I’m in good hands
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11. |
Holidaze
01:51
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I remember the holidays
shelves of whisky and chardonnay
and I drank til yesterday
I don’t remember the holidays
stumblin home singin to the trees
all the pretty girls on their knees
shadows spin black spider legs
fresh snow skin tense tight wet
i don’t remember the holidays
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12. |
Hotel Shower
07:29
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standing in a hotel shower
awake at some ungodly hour
the site of some ungodly act
the beast with one too many backs
my blood was red against the tile
far away horses went wild
threw a girl upon her back
saved her from a heart attack
to tell the truth I only slipped
gave blood i didn’t mean to give
almost dying can save your life
almost living can make you
realize
the garbage trucks know yr name
they breathe yr breath you are the same
other people fill you up
with things they couldn’t learn to love
on the floor of this icy room
(hell is white I never knew)
i watch my body point to you
the only north my compass knew
and I wonder clean at last
how you know that you’re so sad
how you know so much is wrong
why you will not trust a song
dear skies of blue and grey
get the hell out of my way
dear pretty girls who pray
i will hurt you
go away
dear staying in bed all day
i don’t love you, go away
dear girls who drink all day
you will hurt me,
please stay
dear birds in tampa bay
how do you make it through your day
dear suicides and strays
i think i love you anyway
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