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Piano Song
03:19
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I wonder if I’ll ever get my chance to kill him
To knock his lights out, dress him up, then hide him somewhere
I know he’s there he keeps his door wide open
And he won’t go away
Mother he’s called but we don’t know his name
He asks me to come but I can’t stay
I wonder if anyone ever does
They move our pictures around in their veins
Part of the poet stays in em’ that way
I wonder if anyone ever dies
I know that you’re right and I’m writing as if I were thinner
As if I could squeeze out all my feelings out in a day
I’ll drag you down to places you never thought possible
All my fossils all keep us warm at night
But if you ask me why I don’t fight I bet that I couldn’t give you an answer
I challenge anyone to tell me his true name
I’d call off the wind if I could hear anything above a whisper
But I can’t
Mother he’s called but we don’t know his name
He calls me to come but I can’t stay
I wonder if anyone ever does
They move our pictures around in their veins
Part of the poet stays in em’ that way
I wonder if anyone ever dies
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I Am Always Watching
03:59
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I am always watching
I am always taking down
The beat of your footsteps
The cold of the room when you’re not around
Forever reciting
A prayer I made out of words left out to rot
Let them stay unbroken
Let them be the one thing I’ve still got
To hold to you
You drape each room
In black and blue
And silence too
What do I know? Rhetorical? Fuck no
I am really asking you to unmask me
What do I know? Rhetorical? Fuck no
I am really asking you to unmask me
Earn another halo
Take your things and go
Dig in blood red soil
Wearing chains to keep me in toil
I don’t need it yet
To hold to you
You drape each room
In black and blue
And silence too
(the cold in the room when you’re not around)
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I threw myself through tumbleweeds
In a rush of color, through a rush of leaves
As sun came up, saw ocean blue
I thought of no one except for you
To leave it all, to cease to fight
Nothing is wrong and no one’s right
Spout that shit up, see what it buys
In your eyes
My crumpled legs and dewdrop eyes
Made easy the art of staying in disguise
But in your broken speech and easy grace
Was the only beauty in this place
We read the books
We made the time
We broke apart upon their line
And now every second is mine
But I’m
Caught on the backside of my whale
And I can’t ask when or where
And I can’t ask anyone
If I’ll find you there
(ooooOooOooOooOOOoooOoooOoooOooOOOAAHHH)
But I’m
Caught on the backside of my whale
And I can’t ask when or where
And I can’t ask anyone
If I’ll find you there
Come, let water overtake yourself
Come join me and the broken shells
Neath sky and sea I swear
I’ll find you there love
I’ll find you there
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4. |
End of Days
02:26
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I’m sorry in advance for everything that I’ve written
I just haven’t felt at home in here, it’s the darkest place I’ve been
Like skeletons the rooms and dens we learned to love with time
Are vacant now since it’s run out and I’m still stuck inside
Despite the locks on doors I’m safe with rope around my throat,
A stomach full of pills that I washed down with bleach and coke
Before I’m gone the Earth’s burned down and the pockets have all grown
Someone remind these bastards that grass doesn’t grow on stone O!
I really wanna see you, I guess we didn’t get that far
I fear come January we’re all gonna take this to heart
I really wanna see you, I guess we didn’t get that far
I've always half believed in life under another star
We’re not the same, we owe you nothing
It’s the end of days
They’ll pay the price
I really want to see you, I guess we didn't get that far
I fear come January we’re all gonna take this to heart
I really want to see you I guess we didn't get that far
I've always half believed in life under another star
I really want to see you I didn't think it'd be so hard
I've had good things and all good things are had with care
I really wanna see you I didn't think it'd be so hard
I got beside myself and they all disappeared
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We lined up our angle
Took years of course
Stuck around to watch things die
Stuck around to feel remorse
Not that any of us were chomping at the bit
It is easy to be strong when you don’t have to commit
When the day finally came you were there on the bow
Said, “I can’t believe we’re just ditching our ground.
There are some things I just thought constant, like the moon, even you, to a certain extent.”
“Baby this body ain’t nothing but a hearse, expect nothing from no one, except maybe the worst.”
“Don’t like that, I know things will be alright…”
Even if we die
They’ll throw our bodies towards the light
And every night
When they’re looking at the stars
When they’re wondering where we are
We will laugh and throw our heads back like
Cannons firing off, but we won’t make a sound
No one will be watching and when everything is drowned
Out in the black, we will take off our masks, I will fill all your cracks, you will fill all my cracks
When flesh is stripped from bone
Everyone is hung out by their ears with their atoms exposed
Do you think it will shake the foundations of our makers to see a subtle lining of hate?
No, they will look at what you gave
Turning circles over in your head won’t take your fear away
I’m just trying instead to focus your attention on burying
A hope in place of grief
A storm looms over me
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6. |
Maria
04:12
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Moriah in the year 3048
‘Neath the shadows of palisades
Comes the flood
I can see
Dead angels with dirty wings
Hung to dry from every ceiling
I don’t care
Should I care
Maria in the rain in the dead of night
‘Neath the gaze of Eckleberg’s eyes
Couldn’t see
Anything til I lost my faith
In my mother, the glorious state
One by one, the scales fell from my eyes
Sunday comes and you’re left cold
You wonder why your tails been pulled
Why there’s no strings playing for you in the dark
I can feel your inhibition
Try to shut your mouth, just listen
(But) not to me, to know one else
Don’t lose yourself, don’t lose your trust in people
Maria, I see you in the rain
Moriah, it’s bigger everyday
Maria, I see you in the rain
Maria take my pain away
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7. |
January
05:32
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I bet you’re waiting for the world to end
For blood mountains and torrents of chaos
To come in the form of your stomachs distended shape
Spewing forth all the things you wanted to say but never did
Since you were a kid
Since they turned your eyelids outside in
And put a number on your skin
Hide like a rat, down soggy alleys
Hide cigarettes in your sleeves, smoke them in valleys
That you carve from the depths of your hate, do not listen to those who would have you equate this with weakness, although in the end they’ll be right
If you sleep you will do so alone tonight
And you will do so in covers cut from bare skin wreathed in
Sweat at the thought of never getting to leave its body
(leave its body)
You will burn and you will break
Form but not enough to shake
Off the tethers/shadows/shapes
Etched into your restless face
With a ring your carved from clay
Baring nothing but your name
Let your anger fall away
Endless, nameless, til the
Day Destroyer rears his head and shines a light on our long dead hands
Two hands reaching, two hands buried in soil (open and unfurled)
If your body gives way slowly, shed yourself, shout, “you don’t know me!”
You’d call me by anything but my name (the song will bend and change)
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You took your car out
I’d had enough so I called it a bluff and I cussed you out
It was my last shout, the one that I had been holding back since you’d checked out
But I made it about me
I had to flout the
Reasons to doubt your feelings about
The things that you said had sent you away
I think about you everyday
And my anger, it was frightening
Had I known I’d have tightened
My restraints and bound them tight to yours
Sewn myself in places that are torn
You took your car out
You’d had enough so you drove real rough, blew your tires out
It was your last shout, the one that you had been holding back since your world gave out
But had you heard these words I doubt they would have meant anything to anyone other than me
Goddamm the herd-kind-of mentality that makes it OK to just throw it all away
Just cus they murdered expectations that you have doesn’t mean that they owe you anything
And it’s absurd, but when we’re young we think that what we need’s no less than what we all deserve
But you made up your mind
Some things just decay with time
And I mistook the line between “I’m OK, I’m fine”
And “forever you’re mine”
Why’d you go out that night
Had you told me to try, had you told me to try
I would
Carry it all off your back so you can rest your shoulders
Carry it all so we'd all we find out your heart is sick
Carry it all off the backs of all these broken people
Carry it all so we'd all find out that loves exists
(You took your car out
I'd had enough so I called it a bluff and I cussed you out
It was my last shout
The one that I had been holding back since you checked out)
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9. |
Of All the Good Things
05:19
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Make numbers out of clay. leave them where they lay
Give them something to say
They wanna know some more, who is keeping score
What I’m asking for
There was nothing I could do to ever keep away from you
To ever keep the words that I said true
I am not a lowly part, I am the whole, the end, the start
And every word I say’s a world in bloom
Face tragedy in spaces, call it by its name
With no ill will or bad taste
But twist existence with a smile, in gracious self denial
And you’ll wither every vine
There was nothing I could do to drive myself towards further truth
To ever keep the words that I say true
Cut my strings my bleeding heart lies open to the crows, their art
Drives letters into me, I am a wound
But my hate, and my lies, will take shape
Everyone loves a devil, I can give you several
My hate, and my lies, will make change
Everyone loves the devil, for his grace, for his meddle
Lay them down in rows at my feet
And we’ll meet
And who is keeping score, and who is asking for more
From every open door, a sun a moon, what a chore
There was nothing I could do to ever keep away from you
To ever keep the words that I said true
I am not a lowly part, I am the whole, the end, the start
And every word I say’s a world in bloom
But my hate, and my lies, will take shape
Everyone loves a devil, I can give you several
My hate, and my lies, will make change
Everyone loves the devil, for his grace, for his meddle
I called your name (I heard it all)
Where was your voice when I sculpted the
World to match your face my love?
(You lost me from the start my dear. The world is not
Yours to own, its songs are played on immovable stone)
Oh, if only I had known…
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10. |
Avian
04:19
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Mother told me forget what they said
And father’s wise words “Be you instead.”
Being the one who feels drifted apart
From the burden of those whose morals depart
Playing the odd role in which I’m defined
I’ll search for their chapter, the same as mine
I’ll light up the sun, while you catch the stars
When the heavens clear up, we can meet by Mars
It’s funny to think, with a world so small, I don’t even know who you are
A catalyst sings to a reaction inside
That draws your heart closer to mine
Like the mystic hand, that guides this song
It binds us to who we really are
And how we sound
A melody shrieks upon the frets we used to know
Our hearts cried out and our stomachs shown
The lullaby screams of which the forms we are suppose to keep
It's all we ever know It's all we ever seek
All I ever dream is to be their everything
And I’ll be their anything in rhyme
But every fucking time I fall down and feign death inside
And cry out to a god to which the skies reply
Little bird you’ll fly away, your cage door fades today
Realm the skies and meet your flock
Find the one who will own your heart
And make it sing.
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11. |
By the Lake
06:00
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I’m reading letters in my father’s hand
The lines are broke, syntax be damned
I crawl and squirm with every line
At all the things that I am not
And everyone’s gone far away
Desires went but bodies stayed
We’d talk for hours in linen sheets
Anticipating every sea
Will you meet me in the water in Alameda
Hold your breath watch things grow shorter in Alameda
Blotting our candles out in dirty water
Keeping our brooms in time, we didn’t think they’d
Whittle away at our hours spent by the lake, we break
Ourselves in two to move with how we’re told to
Now jessie’s basement’s quiet and her mildew’s
Piling up as our boat sits dry by the lake, we wait
I’m writing letters in my father’s hand
I don’t expect you to understand
Is it in me to push away?
Will we remember our own names?
Will you meet me in the water in Alameda
Hold your breath watch things grow shorter in Alameda
Kids in the movies meet and drift away but
Our undercover hearts don’t make us able to
Turn on a dime and forget our time in the light
Call me out, call me in, call me something in my home tongue
I need it, the warmth and fire
Slick my blood, from Europe, on the floor
I don’t need it, or it me, we’ll find a way to
Go back to the lake and throw ourselves from the land
We’ll meet underwater, no sons and no daughters
Call me Al, call me fire, drive your body past the limbless trees
Blotting our candles out in dirty water
Keeping our brooms in time, we didn’t think they’d
Widdle away at our hours spent by the lake, we break
Ourselves in two to move with how we’re told to
Now jessie’s basement’s quiet and her mildew’s
Piling up as our boat sits dry by the lake, we wait
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