1. |
For the Grace
00:38
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there but for the grace of god i go
'cause sure as shit
I wasn't doing it
by the books or by the notes
and I think it's time I told you
what it is you need to know:
I'm not home
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2. |
Acid Breath
03:23
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acid head
i wanted
to bury you
just like a bone
but every time
i have you
alone
you go
don't know
where though
acid breath
i hope that
you're
safe from yourself
and the law
and i want
you to know that
i'd save
you from everyone
countdown
back from ten
take a deep breath
then count again
change
is the only
constant
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3. |
Smart
02:40
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if you will
it then
you're never get
it
so you gotta be cool
if you want it
then you'd better
pretend
like it's the last
thing you'd like for you
if you need
it then you'll see it
in your dreams
and then you'll know that
it's true:
that getting what you want
is the worst
thing
that can happen to you
i woke up in
a panic
scratching at my
hands
with my feet
i wondered
where you
were
before i threw up
in a bucket
and laughed myself
back to sleep
you're dead
i'm still alive
i love your memory
in my mind
i love the songs
you left
and the articles
you kept
unfinished
but everything you
wanted i got
its dust
and stupidand
everything
i'm doing
is a pale
imitation
of what you couldn't
all the countless
hours that I
spent on self-improvement:
it was a front
for you
to tell I'm smart
and now
my chest is puffy
at a cherished
institution
where i'm paid to
do science and art
cause life is a war
i got what i want
life is a war
tell me I'm smart
life is a war
i got what i want
life is a war
tell me I'm smart
i got what i want
tell me i'm smart
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4. |
Beast
03:01
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hiking
the moutains
with the beast
on a leash
in my hand
hoping to be
a way better man
than i am
just like
that
i guess i'm
down
let
the words come
tumbling out
bomb it tonight
on paper
then right
off your couch
do you know
what i'm talking about?
stuck to the
belly
of a big
slick and
old smooth sea
rock
living off a
dirt
and other
unpleasant
runoff
just like
that
I guess i'm out
let your mood
come plummeting down
yeah
bomb it tonight
in person
then write
off your couch
do you know
what i'm talking about?
you've gotta know your heart
you've gotta know
if you should stop before you start
you've gotta know what
nobody knows
but you
that truth isn't truth
without two
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5. |
Bensonhurts
02:42
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you were four
when you fled
to the mountains
with your dad
when you hid with the goats
and the pecking chickens
you were twenty
when they said
no girls go
back
to the kitchen where you slept
you were
forty when graphite
rained down
from Pripyat
and the counters
chirped
like birds around your head
don't you wish
you were somewhere else instead?
you were
fifty years old
when you upped
and fled
to the blue jean capital:
hollywood and burger king
ninety
when we took you
from brooklyn
where you'd lived ever
since
then
you don't to run
you don't have to
flee
you'll be taken
care of
and guided gently
to the place
where the beard
says the prayers
you never learned
as a little girl
where across the pew
sits your husband
jet black hair
and twenty two
where behind him sits
your clan
before
they were ash in poland
and the book
from the front
glows
lightly
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6. |
Akira T.
03:14
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Akira T
is fine
he's only lost
some time
it doesn't really worry
him the way it worries you
it doesnt really have to
he sits
and draws
and naps
to
songs
on the radio
akira
saw a fight
on his walk
last night
swinging
for their lives
he didn't know it
then
but the seed
was planted
in his jet black
hair he ran home
and started to scribble
a story about love
a story about hate
a story about everything
there were dragons
on planets
with foreign
commandments
and fighters
tranforming
to apes
when they're angry
and pieces
of gum that
blow up the sun
and children
stronger
and faster than gods
and deep in his
heart
akira just knew
this
was the story
he'd been born
to tell you
and he wrote the
thing up
and shipped it abroad
and twenty years
later I read it in awe
now I'm doing fine
I've only lost some time
it doesn't really worry me
the way it worries you
it doesn't really have to
I sit and sing and nap to
songs off the radio
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7. |
Melting Beach
03:21
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shake your head
i wanna know
where you think
and where you go
water wings
a galaxy
rises up
in front of me
someone standing
just off the shoreline
would have seen dad
with black hair
and long lean legs
drawing with a stick
in the sand
asking the little one at his feet
if he understands
it's so nice
think i'm gonna go in
someone standing
just off the shoreline
would have seen
the ring
the grin
the great
question
drawing with
a stick
in the sand
will you marry me?
if not I totally understand
you're the womb
i wanna know
a billion
years come and go
recently
you gave your pup
to the land
and now he's stuck
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8. |
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flower opened up
from my migraine
you appear
and try
to touch it
dig your nails
flex and moan
misery is
wet and
clear and warm
big sigh
collapse
lay flat
on our backs
deep glance
and touch hands
puddles where
your eyes went
sun falls
wake up
kitchen floor
cheek is cold
on the tile
little nile
of my blood
head cut up
baby i was unstuck
and it felt like months
can't tell you
all I saw
can't tell
what i want
big sigh
collapse
lay flat
on our back
deep glance
and touch hands
puddles where
your eyes went
big sigh
collapse
lay flat
on our backs
deep glance
and touch hands
puddles where
your eyes went
the snake eats its tail
you know the end is the start
and life is a sliver
of light between two darks (x)
big sigh
collapse
lay flat
on your back
deep glance
and touch hands
puddles where
your eyes went
there was dust mote
light beam
sweat bead
dry heat
gyrate
to our
failing
heart beats
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9. |
Tunnel Out
04:01
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if you believe
in stories
then
everything
will be
boring
all the earth
out loud:
"i want to tunnel out"
if you believe
you're more
than
human
you'll
be forever
disappointed
hahaha
all the earth
out loud:
"i want to tunnel out"
everything the sun
has touched
has turned ashes
fog and dust
and you me and
everyone
are no exception
no exception
I saw a red leaf
on the ground when
winter came and rolled
around
i picked up
i prayed a lot
i picked it
and prayed
to what?
for nothing in particular
to nothing in particular
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10. |
Alien Growth
03:26
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an alien growth
a shadow at home
a picture of perfect
only when you're alone
and all that blooms
is a cancer of kind
even flowers
consume air
and sunshine
echolocate
your song in a fog
i hear your siren
loud and long
i'd send one back
i don't know how
you'll have to find
me through another route
eyes that dart
like flies on a bulb
muscles that twitch
atop your skull
divide by zero
given to a machine
you will churn eternally
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11. |
Get Down (And Lick)
04:06
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you better hope
that this isn't heaven
cause then it only gets worse
by definition
we're burning through
our twenties
like a machine gun
turret burns through
the ammunition
and if we just persist
maybe we'd get a hit
but then we'd remember
we used to never wanna
give a shit
about anything
you didn't have a
thing with me
you wanted everyone to see
you are righteous
well alright then
you better learn
to love the stench
of rotting flesh
and teenaged angst
you better learn
to love the
rats that race
around this
great metropolis
you better learn
to puke on command
you better learn
to love the man
you better learn that
to memorize is not
the same as
to understand(okay)
you didn't have a
thing with me
you wanted everyone to see
that you are righteous
well alright then
you didn't have a bone
to pick
an axe to grind
a game to win
you just
wanted all your
friends
to get down
and lick
till your
feet are clean
(tonight
the sun was dusky
i haven't seen it before
end of days
we'll end together
tonight
the sun was dusky
i haven't seen it before
i wanted you to know
me
just how i know i was before
you better learn to
relish the taste
of a big black boot
stomping on your face
first thing in the morning
first thing in the morning
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