1. |
Artificial Desert
03:22
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i needed the real thing
but i was constructing
in the artificial
desert
all the statues to nothing
hoping that one day
they'd turn into something
and walk out of
the digital sand
to be real women,
children and men
or songs
or theories
or anything
except
what I'd created them as
its normal to wait
until its too late
but you've got a
time and a place and a date
and so i do too
all of us do
right at the
start
there's an X
to mark
the spot
you're tending to
i don't think i need
to relax
i need to repent
for the sin
of letting this through my hands
i don't think i need
to relax
i need to repent
for the sin
of spacing this in my head
a joke becomes lame
once its explained
that's why meaning
is always opaque
is always in change
in flux and untamed
in short: i'm unsure
and a little ashamed
to say
that I've been reading
fairytales
to stay awake
i don't think i need
to relax
i need to repent
for the sin
of letting this through my hands
i don't think i need
to relax
i need to repent
for the sin
of spacing this in my head
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2. |
Paper Accepted
03:33
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nothing compared
and I would do anything
short of slaughter
to be back there
tragedy, tragedy
thank god you weren't there
at the core the thing
was simple
but complications live everywhere
the paper
was it worth
all the heartache and work?
No? I didn't think so
and if I ever return
I swear I'll have earned:
your eyes
your hands
you're everything I can't
I know I'm not
but can you say I am?
tragedy, tragedy
thank god you weren't there
at the core the thing
was simple
but complications live everywhere
the paper
was it worth
all the heartache and work?
No? I didn't think so
deep I know
I got what's coming
but I won't
bow down
or kowtow
bow down
or kowtow
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3. |
I Got Weird
01:09
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there's a time for love
there's a time for hate
there's a time
for getting along
with everybody
but there's also a time
for haste
there's a time for taste
there's a time
for wishing the whole human race
would just
go bust
cue the long lost
teenage bloodlust
i swallowed
in college
"here's the truth"
said the sun
to my shadow
"it's not my fault
that you're all
cold and dark now"
oh i don't think
you know
what you think you know
oh i don't think
you know
what you think you know
i think you've lost control
i think
you should go home
I think you need to:
grow
like a cancer
cities
and antlers
spread like a virus
droop
like my eyelids
tweak like my
brother
puke like the other
merge and collapse
and attack one another
that's the rub
give it up
give it everything
spread
so thin
that they can't see anything
that's what's up
bring it up
make it awkward
power up
and erupt
then I got weird
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4. |
Megalodon
02:52
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have you ever
looked to the future
and thought that you
would be exactly the same?
i can tell you
without lying
that you will need
be accustomed to change
to survive in a climate
lacking in hope
to thrive in your time
when you're unsure and alone
to stand in the jaws
of a Megalodon
with your back to the wall
and your heart in a stall
there's something
i need to tell you
but i'm not sure how
it's being going
on since
the summer
but i'm only
realizing now
to survive in a climate
lacking in hope
to thrive in your time
when you're unsure and alone
to stand in the jaws
of a Megalodon
with your back to the wall
and your heart in a stall
you might not
get to watch
everybody you love
growing up
you give and get
so be content
with everything that you've got
it's a hell of a lot
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5. |
Now (Lo' and Behold)
04:16
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cleaning
rarifying
ratifying
and my mind is
elsewhere
shipping
storing
poring
over bits
that live
with no real mooring
endless
cavalcades
of endless
rage of endless
dreams of
learning
I believe
I believe
if I knew
what i know now
I would find
a way out somehow
(lo and behold)
back to swamps
and carnivores
roar across
a ravaged earth
then they're pulled
into the ground
(down)
millions of years
that turn
flesh and bone
into oil
suddenly
they hear a sound
if I knew
what i know now
I would find
a way out somehow
(lo and behold)
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6. |
Das Moonkey
03:50
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if i knew that i was right
would you stop wearing me down?
if I thought that I was perfect
would I float above ground?
ah
the questions
the answers you're never gonna
get
aha like a fresh
matriculate
you'll be squeezed
like a medieval tourniquet
like I was
all day
but I got my way
if you knew that you were wrong
would you stop wearing me down
if you thought that you were perfect
would you float above ground?
i would lead you
to the back
and push you onto the ground
i would skin you like a cat
and wear you all around town
i would laugh
like a maniac
to stay
i got my way
i would go down
on a knee
i would wait and plead
i would stay for you
breathe or heave
for you
eat, excrete
for you
if it pleased
your needs
if it pleased
your needs
i would
its true
i would
you know it, too
yes you do
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7. |
Wright
01:03
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hey, i've been waiting for you all this time, waiting for you after night
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8. |
Happy Hit
04:12
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every job
you wanted was too hard
for you to get
cause you were overly complex
and waiting for
someone to walk through
the door and say
here's the way
never guess again
peace lives here
with your family and friends
everything you tried
to materialize
died
while you were looking outside
waiting for someone to walk
through the door and lie:
it's all right
you'll never guess again
peace lives here
with your family and friends
here's the way
never guess again
peace lives here
with your family and friends
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