1. |
Preface For Static
01:40
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2. |
JUNAE
02:48
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well i
was driving down the coast
with a handgun full of ghosts, singing
its better off this way,
its better off this way
and I said boy,
you got any rooms?
i need a place to groom
but he just stayed on there
sitting in his chair
and handed me a broom
said clean it up this way,
clean it up this way
and it was then that i unlearned the way
that my dad taught me to play
when i’m sitting in a room
with a guitar and a broom
singing, i just got myself at heart
i just got myself at heart
and it was then
i met my god in june
he said i got a tune
that even you can play
even you can play
and now I’m home
with nothing but my bones
and that look in your in eye
with a little sin aside
with a little sin aside
we might make it through this year
cause i don’t got no faith no more
i don’t got no faith no more
and i finally got myself and heart
i finally got myself at heart
i finally got my self
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3. |
MAYE
04:07
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you roll another cigarette
just for that feeling of regret you get
and then we go walking
past the houses, to the orchard
but all of the fruit, all the fruit are out of reach again
good thing we weren’t hungry
good thing we weren’t hungry, anyway
then once we’re home again
wherever it is, we keep time while we sing
one, two, three, one, two three, onetwothree
and we’re not wasting away,
we’re not mincing our speech
and the record doesn’t skip
if we fucking blare all the parts that play
i don’t talk like this anymore
i don’t talk like this anymore
i don’t talk
like this, anymore
i keep thinking of the time
i kept gnawing at the rind
of a meal that you made for me
and all of that time in the grass
you yelled to people as they passed
saying: come, have a drink with me
come be inside outside of me
well I don’t talk like this anymore
well I don’t talk like this anymore
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4. |
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A Dream Journal Entry
is that your final answer?
i do want to work on something new
so what you do, is suppress
and even on metaphysical level, it prevents you from experiencing
because the wound is an opportunity for growth
you’re not able to learn what that disease has to tell
its an opportunity to learn
its all a motivation for our ability to lead a happy and creative life
to lead a happy and creative life
to lead a happy and creative life
and then I do want to work on something new.
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5. |
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met a girl from the southern fifty states
but i’m unwanted in every fucking one
for putting holy water
on the kettle now
is that explicit enough?
is that explicit enough?
fell in love with a big black bag
full of candle sticks
just want to set them all on fire
just want to set them all on fire
don’t you think it ever crossed my mind
that i was already dead?
that i’d confused my heavy eyes
for a hole in my head?
just want to buy a car and drive
don’t need a place to sleep tonight
just wanna drive til i don’t know where i’m going
then i might find something real
then i might find something real
don’t you think it ever crossed my mind
that i was already dead?
that i’d confused my heavy eyes
for a hole in my head?
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6. |
Simple
05:10
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Wouldn’t a good god
leave with me with nothing
but a few shirts and a pair of trousers?
Let me stand screaming and wet staring skywards
through a clump of dirt.
Wouldn’t a good god
let me be close to the ones that I love
I think its simple enough
yeah it simple enough
Searching deeply for the child that is left
after hours of looking your hair is a mess
tie it up behind you
finally it is what is seems
I bet you wish there was a fire
or else some kind of heat
and think it was simple enough
simple enough
you know you can still love
if you can still love in your dreams
Wouldn’t a good god
leave me with nothing
but a few thick socks
a few songs, and a good pair of shoes
i think its simple enough
its simple enough
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baby, i bet you like my melody
sure you can sing around me
but you can’t write poetry
baby, you got a heart of gold now
and a stomach full of wristwatches
and a mind too
and a mind too,
a mind to sell it all now
to a chorus of screen-watching
punks and pornwatchers
honey, your body’s selling water
and even though its getting hotter
i put out buckets for the rain
someone, someone’s trading youth for you now
someone’s trading you for you now
for those flecks of green in your eyes
and I’m gone, gone
gone, gone, gone
honey, you wish you were a planet
or else just a little famous
just looking at the stars won’t do
lately, you’ve been calling on me steady
and staying up too late
drinking homemade tonic and red wine
baby, you’re trading youth for you now
you’re trading you for you now
and you’re wasting your damn time
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“what did you do today? you’re lucky.”
too thin and alone
for such terrible times
Who told her friends from home
she was an artist now
who took the time to undress
like the whole world was watching whenever she was alone
whenever she was alone
and so she’d strip before
a white sheet on the floor
with her windows open wide
with her windows open wide
then cafefully and using two fingers spread
vibrant stretches of paint
“would you like to be my friend? What? I’d like that! Talk to you later, bye bye!)
then carefully tending the runs of color
with the dry edge of a thumbnail
or the bridge of her nose
the bridge of her nose
and so she worked in this way
letting herself rediscover
those parts where the paint
had dried
like a new skin
like a new skin
until she folded herself in the sheet and slept
“please, time off. it’s time off because
i thought you were gonnna do your prayers.
i’ll do time off.
bye bye.”
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