1. |
Spell
02:49
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For a decade or a day
I thought I was an island
Under a spell lost at sea
I didn’t understand
The size of continents
Or what we meant when we said “we
Cannot walk across the Earth
With only boots and good words
Can’t archipela-
Get away from the sun that will rise
On this particular her eyes
In mine” that’s what we say
~
O what it takes to break this spell
Is being here and doing well
Where’s a cure to all these ails?
For “I am ghosting me myself”?
Can we topple monuments?
The house and lawn, white picket fence
To a dying type of way
They’re drinking powdered lemonade
They’re drinking powdered lemonade
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2. |
To Night
03:38
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How do you
Make it through the day
With no itch to run away?
Where’s a balm
That can quell this tide
In my gut screaming to hide?
To wash it off
Would be a miracle
But those don’t come this way at all
So you’re stuck
With this crawling skin
And the world seems broken in
~
Oh baby, how did we
Make it this far
Replacing stars for satellites?
Can you find a way
Navigating without
Someone by your side?
Maybe we could be
A forsaken mess
Of indolence and wine
Honey, who am I kidding?
Talk is cheap
When every song ends in tonight
When every song ends in tonight
When every song ends in tonight
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3. |
The Distance
03:11
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The distance between
What I say and I mean
Is a canyon four billion years old
To reach out would be
Like throwing an empty
Bag of chips into the fold
Its insides, a mirror
Facing itself
And landing on cars like cooked fish
Its Pleistocene memories
Locked away as we watch
From different sides of the bridge
~
Well I almost knew
Your answer before
You told me of the end
And I’d write you a letter
But I’m all out of ink
And it kills me
To make sense
~
This charm of a child
Does once in a while
Happen to say something wise
Beyond his ears
Way past his fears
Of growing up to wear suit and tie
“If you try” he just yawns
“To be there belong
To another that’s all that you can
Do and you listen and still it goes wrong
Oh a plan is only a plan”
~
Well I almost knew
Your answer before
You told me of the end
Well I’d write you a letter
But I’m all out of ink
And it kills me to make sense
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4. |
The Dogs
04:23
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A dog built a house and locked the doors
Made a painting tried to sell it online
But since he was just a dog he couldn’t ship’t
Click with his tiny canine paws
Then one day he heard a knock at the flap
It was another dog with a contract
He said sign here and your paintings will be
In our fancy downtown gallery
He signed, ate kibble and baba ganoush
Well-past expired, but at least it’s food
Years past, the money never made its way
He howled quietly and bayed at the moon
~HOWL~
If you believe him once you might just be ok
But once it’s twice you might be lead astray
If you believe him once you might just be ok
But once it’s twice you might be lead astray
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5. |
The Lobby
03:21
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A Holiday Inn
Outside of Yellowstone
May not be the best
Place to break
My heart
Is an office
Of boredom
Slacking-off and on its way to go
Back in the day
Called Yester
On the phone
She said “the work ran out
The building collapsed”
So we took to the road
To see geysers
And statues of big dinos
~
O the hotspot
Its password
Was “magma”
But somehow
The continental
Breakfast was still cold
O the hotspot
Its password
Was “magma”
But somehow
The continental
Breakfast was still cold
Cold
Cold
Cold
C
o
l
d
In the lobby the lobby in the lobby in the lobby
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6. |
DING DING
01:48
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I’ve never had the patience
To plant a bulb in spring
I bought a plot of land
But it went fallow like a ding
Ding ding bicycle
Why have I done that?
Written these dumb lyrics?
I never wear a hat
~
Well I try to be
Diligent and smart
But my brain gets in the way
I cannot keep my heart
From not keeping time
Thinking in these rhymes
These rhymes
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7. |
Slapstick on the Radio
01:56
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8. |
Working
03:33
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Working on the North Side
Baby just went down
Daddy’s standing in a bread line
Mama wears no crown
Driving Lyft on the weekends
Enough time to clean the car
Then it’s back to the parking lot hopscotch
That’s where we are
~
I’ve returned
A couple pounds off worse
I’m unheard
But you could say I’ve learned
I’ve returned
A couple pounds off worse
I’m unheard
But you could say I’ve learned
~
Retail, farms and factories
Cleaning house and in dirty restaurants
Done it all with loose teeth
From dawn to dawn
City’s got a new bus line
The 2 is still a scam
It gets you where you’re going
But I’m going where I am
~
I’ve returned
A couple pounds off worse
I’m unheard
But you could say I’ve learned
I’ve returned
A couple pounds off worse
I’m unheard
But you could say I’ve learned
~
Baby’s clothes in a glad bag
Who pulls the strings in a glad-hand world?
Gotta make it on empty across town
Gotta fill out a form for the girl
And it’s raining and its pouring
The only way baby speaks is in drum
And she says “it’s washing away
From where we’re from”
~
I’ve returned
A couple pounds off worse
I’m unheard
But you could say I’ve learned
Oh, I’ve returned
A couple pounds off worse
I’m unheard
But you could say I’ve learned
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9. |
Daylight
03:08
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When daylight’s on your side again
Your lavender will grow
You’re on the night-shift gardening
Buttercups of joe
Who keep you waking Eastwards
To see that Flash of Green
Sun on the lam but out there
Moon lonesome as can be
~
And I know
It’s obvious we’re dreaming
I can’t see
Where’s the harm in that, ok?
I believe
I’m honestly just tired
Of being
So afraid
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10. |
To Know
03:03
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(Hello?)
I want to know who you were before the war
‘For the virus took its course
Before the oceans’ rise
And that wayward look in our eyes
I want to know you before the war
I want to know all the places you have been
All the sights that you have seen
All the times you stopped
To take a picture of your ice cream
I want to know the places you’ve been
I want to know all the people you have loved
And to hug them like my kin
The strangers and the friends
I will tell them all that’s happened
I want to know the people you’ve loved
I want to know what was in your heart back then
All the books and songs and poems
The movies and the times
That you danced barefoot alone
I want to know your heart back then
~
Cuz I believe that even though we can’t go back in time
We could talk and pretend like now is then
If we tried
Cuz I believe that even though we can’t go back in time
We could talk and pretend like now is then
If we tried
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