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It's In the Way
04:15
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if my cicatrix could sing
of the dying of the day
of the day
inner milky stars
outer breaches blips on the chart
my little scar with broken guitar might say
“peel me like a little bark
past the dermis to the heart of the pain
i’m only in the way, it’s O.K.”
my my hey hey
when all I know just fades
artifacts remain
it’s in the way it’s in the way
it’s what you hate
it’s in the way
get out of the way
hidden keloid scars outer breaches
rust on the cart
i went walking in the street
where the river meets downtown
i went peeling layers of bark
past the dermis to the heart of the spark
it’s a geography quiz
do you remember where you live?
where you lay
my my, hey hey
when all we know just fades
artifacts remain
it’s in the way
it’s in the way
it’s what you hate
it’s in the way
get out of the way
where the river meets josephine
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2. |
Consensus Chalice
03:13
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“consensus chalice”
get in the van put on your seat belt
someone’s gonna have to drive
but who are all these strangers in here tonight?
then a german with eyes wet with tears starts to drive
a coup d’etat, teutonic smile
your hands your hips your plunged neckline
watch your back oh watch your back
take a sip and nod off
consensus chalice
consensus eludes us
consensus chalice
you held you passed you stayed
you voted you chose you caved
the road grows ugly
it’s a fact that a faction cecedes
not standing but really leaning hard
on a miserichord
beauty is fleeting but you are perfect
pass the glass for the 13th time
JFK at the free throw line
watch your back o’ watch your back
a fleeting feeling, flimsy trust
consensus chalice
consensus chalice
you held you passed you stayed
you voted you chose you caved
consensus chalice
consensus chalice
you sense this malice
you feel this sky these clouds are unstable
and whatever joy or charm they had
has been replaced with a coup
with a coup
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3. |
Superior
04:55
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you fall
in two minutes you’ll loosen your grip on the will to live
but think of your kids think
think of your wife as you swim for your life
but it’s so cold
it’s so deep
oh oh oh
superior
the beach is an open suitcase
the sky is a golden watch
you fall in you’re sinking deep going down
losing ground
but she’s so cold
as she sings
oh oh oh
fallin’
oh oh oh
superior
mermen yawn they fiddle with their cellphones
they swim up to someone
winding, now finding new watery clothes
where silence is simply a condition of lake-soaked clothes
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4. |
Destiny
03:07
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destiny is not what it seems
destiny is fickle
destiny is not what it seems
destiny is fickle
alright if it feels alright
if it feels alright it still could splinter
this diamond is semi-perfect
but this girl is much closer to god
your destiny begins with a kiss
consequences just pick one
alright if it feels alright
if it feels alright it still could splinter
miralcles are miracles
miracles are irreversible
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5. |
I Am a Tiger
02:57
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if not there oh where does it fit?
stare into blue eyes that flow
from me to you to something newer
lips your hips that shake this room
i am a lion
i am a tiger
je t’aime complet
je suis un petit tigre
with eyes that know
your bath or floor
bed or miserichord
or hands that shake like milk
i am a lion
i am a tiger
everything just changes in a second
everything just changes in a second
picnic! hey! lightning! hey!
picnic! hey! lightning! hey!
waiting, what are we waiting for?
je t’aime
je t’aime
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6. |
Always Alcohol
03:48
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i need to print some letterhead
that says in advance of my bad behavior
my actions towards you reflect in no way my feelings towards you
you that i love
i need you here by me
not wrecked hurt tossed aside
pushed away by me oh god
please stay this night won’t be as
darkening as those that crack
the ugly nights that break our hearts
of course it was my fault!
always alcohol oh
of course it was my fault
always alcohol oh
just waiting for that bomb to fall
so I apply myself all night
as eyes grow red everything fades to black
i coulda written you a note
i shoulda written you a note
written you a song too
if there’s a song here
pick up truck jail country song
wails across bad TV bad idea now it’s too late
i need you here by me
not wrecked hurt tossed aside
pushed away by me, oh god
of course it was my fault
always alcohol oh
just waiting for that shoe to drop
always alcohol
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7. |
Betta No Betta
04:25
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can we talk here? i think i need your ear
but if we’re talking low i don’t wanna whisper you know
more like peel off my shirt and show you where it hurts
but if we’re talking down i got a deep sea trench i found
staring into outerspace
like some kinda broken doll
with the pull strings cut i just mutter
“what happened to us?”
what’s happening to us?
oh i think I know
bah-bah
please help me
if you can move me i’m long overdue
wake me shake me
pull my body from this tomb oh
walkin’ down the street with my head slung low
there’s advantage to this stooped vantage you can sweep
up the trash the shit sometimes a treasure trove
picking up a broken doll pull the string watch him sing
a song called “I’m the moon in the teardrop sky”
i’m the wayward son in a mother's eye
i don’t wanna disappear tonight no
but oh here i go
bah-bah
please don't leave me
if you can move me I need to feel you
wake me please shake me
pull my body from this watery womb oh
i’m betta
i’m better since you found me
betta
so much betta
thank you
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Consolidation
02:00
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what does this mean to you?
why does it have to be this way?
how are we both supposed to get by?
consolidation
how are we both supposed to get by?
how are we both supposed to live?
and now it's time to say goodbye
consolidation
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9. |
Kite
03:43
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all day my kite flew up in the sky
tightly pulling its wire from my
chaffed hand to my broken heart
my slowly sinking kite
you whisper that the weight of the soul
is the weight of a mouse
i wait for more
but i’m so at a loss
my hand pulled up to the sky
but before this kite
comes crashing down into the trees
come here and feel
the weight of grief
stand in front of me
and feel the pull and take the strain
all day my kite flew up in the sky
all day my kite
my kite
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10. |
The Butcher
02:39
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insert a knife tracing the spine it's hard to picture but she's a butcher
it's a delicate form, albeit foreign, of the execution of an execution
you're better off without her kind
i find this operation happens time and again
as the weapon approaches the fin
it's the end
a routine performed with merciless grace by a butcher with the accoutrement
what little she hides the rest is denied by the butcher unable to contend her nature
it's a design forged over time and procedure
a myriad of cadavers lie in her mourning wake
and the more she traipse around your dorsal wing it's the end
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11. |
Madrid, Oh No
04:31
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i’ve seen this white graveyard sunlight
on a spanish beach on a girl’s bare thigh
i fell for it hoping i’d get in
i’ve sent forth armies north
i’ve clung to pictures of you
please please hurry
we’d better go
whispering hurry
but your eyes just say oh no
me in madrid
oh no no no
that picture is empty of what hit her
what did i leave out?
what is better unsaid?
something bad is about to happen
that’s the way it just goes that way
the train’s departing
perdido
so broken hearted
madrid oh no oh no
me in madrid
oh no no no
madrid oh no
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12. |
Underground
04:04
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underground so alone
it makes sense to throw dirt on the hurt
but you know it won’t go
plastic phone sits so serene
it makes sense to change a kiss for a hiss
but you know it won’t ring
you’ve got to take easy man
but she won’t let you be
those changes have all come
she won’t let you be
but you know
don’t you know man
underground so damn cold
a flower cannot grow if you mow it too close to the ground
a chamber full burns so damn sweet
when i think of the shot burning hot
it rattles my seams
you’ve got to take easy man
but she won’t let you be
a golden age is gone
she won’t let you be
but you know
but you know man
“it’s your face that i see
and morning’s praise of you is a ghost’s phrase
of the choice filtered thru
the roots of the effacing grass”*
i knew it was you
*W.H. Auden
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