1. |
Cahooting The Multiverse
04:43
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Fleeced on a lark
Walked around the subdivision after dark
All the blank spots left a mark
You were macabre
With Weegee prints pinned up in your car
You had a psyche class by the quad
Staring at the smoky steam
Swirl around the bathroom light
You said that there’s a nursery
Where all the stars came to life
Childhood fantasies
About dying bravely
Working out all the daydreams
Didn’t know it was a muscle that would atrophy
It’s not what you do, it’s what you do without
It’s not how hard you tried, it’s what you’re all about
When you go it’s a tragedy
A quiet moment by the maple tree
It’s orange light through the canopy
It’s dewy grass in the morning
It’s breaking up on the re-entry
40 miles above the sea
Burned to crisp in ecstasy
When I go it’s probably nothing
It’s chasing joy of discovery
The frothy piss on the city street
Stealing sweet from Sugaree
Where the teachers smoke behind the cedar trees
Arms up in a V
Laughing at the sun like a Malick scene
Melt together like snow in a pool
Dreaming dreams so sweet they’re cruel
Vacuum the desert sand for eternity
Nothing unforgiving like Sunday morning
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2. |
Hold My Hand
05:01
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Moonless night like a dreamless sleep
I was lost like a ring of keys
But you were there like light in the morning
You brought the birds back with a song in my tree
Wherever I go when I go down
Will you be there when I come around again?
To hold my hand
Hold my hand
When it’s late at night and I don’t understand
Everything that’s happened to me
And my rotten mind is quietly tense
Like a deer underneath the apple tree
Just lay right here with me
Because I love you so much, my friend
Wherever we go when we go for good
Do you think we really meet again like we hoped we would?
Just hold my hand
Hold my hand
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3. |
Hell Is Cold
02:38
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I used to hear evil voices
Laughing my name just out of sight
I thought my place was haunted
Or leaking gas at night
I was more romantic then
The avenue was wide as a glen
Now everything I’ve lost
I visit from my bed
And the voices carry on
They echo in my head
If you were ever wrong
You are wrong for good
Flushing coke with a neti pot
I deeply understood:
I know I’ll be free when I die
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4. |
ILYSM
06:19
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I was home alone
Just me and the moon
But I could hear the piano in the other room
I love you so much
Later that night
Asleep in my bed
All the sheets were pulled off me
I had to lift my head
You were sitting there
Just staring at me
I reached out my hand to touch you
And it went right through
I love you so much
You left when I fell asleep but I woke up
And I watched you from my window as you walked across the field
You disappeared under a Catalpa tree
And you moved just like smoke from wet wood
With dandelion seeds falling all around you just like summer snow
I love you so much
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5. |
St. Beater Camry
05:14
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The sky was pink and blown with sand
By the stacked up shipping containers where the cruise ships land
She was down in the palm tree land
In the water where it all slipped through her hands
The tables they did turn though
And sent her crawling home
Life had other plans than her own
It’s a long way down
When your feet have never touched the ground
90 down 95
With the heat on, the windows down and her hair blown around
Foxglove stems on the dash
Sold everything for a little cash
So just run away
You can make it if you leave now
Drive all the way through the night
It was a bullshit hand
Just let it all burn down
Cigarettes from the bar
Gum in the ashtray mason jar
Wishes queued for a shooting star
From the hotel parking lot in her car
So just run away
Live to see another day
Drive all the way through the night
It’s a long way home
When you’ve always been on your own
Just run away
You can make it if you leave now
Drive all the way through the night
It was a bullshit hand
Just let it all burn down
Just run away
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Made my way through the field
And the grass was cold beneath my feet
Full moon hung low like a sheet
And the miracle was there in front of me
I was blissful in a free fall
I was floating perfectly
I didn’t want to come down
Wasn’t ready to leave
You are 10 feet tall
Hovering above my car
You are Jesus and Dracula
You are around my neck like a scapular
You came down, down to me
You came and changed it all
I was blissful in a free fall
I was floating perfectly
I didn’t want to come down
I wasn’t ready to leave
My angel in a free fall
My miracle, my miracle
I was begging please don’t leave
I love you so much
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7. |
War On Terror
05:20
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Hospital bracelet
And a thin gold chain
Swimming out to sea
But it’s hard to explain
Not hard to understand
By quitting thinking
And swimming away from land
Sleep with a white noise machine
Because this house is too noisy at night
This pressure’s gonna get me
It’s gonna get me this time
Fall in Virginia
When I was a kid
Was haunted in a good way
It made my heart ache
Did you have that feeling too?
When you were running and fighting
Technically, you died when the shell hit
You were brought back to life by a medic in the basement
That was Sarajevo
It wasn’t that long ago
Stay in the ocean because it’s just me
And the big moon rowing across the sky
Time is always moving to the right
And measured in things like tumor markers
Don’t you let me sleep in
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8. |
Simple Glyphs
04:04
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Hanging out with locals
Q’s just like Bourdain
Bought the drugs right through the chain link fence
Found a new kind of blowhole
Instantaneous brain death
Just like turning off a tv set
A barrel of culls can still make a good batch
But just like a bored kid picking at scabs
It’s useless as a vacuum in the desert
This hallway is getting narrower
This hallway is getting narrower and narrower and narrower
I’m not supposed to be here
I’m just showing up every day like Cal Ripken, Jr.
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9. |
See You Better Now
03:58
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When you were young you traced with a sharpie
The WWF logo in the corner of your tv
Making whole worlds
From the misheard words
Of all the songs you loved
But never bothered to learn
I see you
See you better now
The tall grass in the wind
Waves like water
The waxy blades on the dune
Sound like laughter
I’m standing in the surf
Just watching this bird
Gliding through the barrel
Of a wave that could kill her
Now I see you
See you better now
I feel you
In the golden hour sky
Yeah I feel you
In the starry night
Now I see you
See you better now
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10. |
Sucking On The Birdshot
06:32
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No good sleeping in the bed I make
Rare birds mated for life
True love, singing: “Fuck the world”
Come back down
You passed away
In an old folk’s home
You were alone when my mom said bye on the phone
You were a lone wolf
out in the Rockies
Way out there
Way up high
You slowed down
Come back down
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Great big dead elm
With golden oysters blooming like hell
The kids get the saint
While I get the drunk
The universe is offensive and filled with junk
Casco Bay is just behind the tall grass
We slept on the beach
Until the tide drove us back
The bon vivant with cancer had a lot to say
That from the pram to the pine box
There’s a whole lot of weight
And we all try
To keep our loved ones calm
When they’re a dog that heard thunder
Shaking in a crate
So let me live
Just don’t let me live here alone with this miserable guy
Great big dead elm
Standing up broken, a barkless shell
Now is not for the faint of heart
They’ll put you on a shelf
If you can’t just shut the fuck and be alone with yourself
But with the joy of discovery comes a feeling that you can’t beat
You can still be sweet, you can still be sweet
And with the favor that was curried, will the ketchup be unmarried?
I was a dead elm but I don’t know now
I wanna live here
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12. |
ICLYM
05:18
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Outrunning the blues so now I’m never bored
I left the keys in the driver side door
And there’s nobody home but I heard a fork drop in the sink
But this place is totally, completely empty
So I just need to act like the person I want to be
Because your thinking creates your reality
I used to feel everything intensely
And I still do sometimes but honestly it’s only when the mood strikes me
It’s strange to move on and still miss things
Like the view of the moon from my room
And the sight of you walking away up the avenue
And everything I thought was important but isn’t anymore after the year I went through
I couldn’t love you more
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