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I was looking up at the willow trees
Man, it's my kind of night
I heard you asking for some xannie bars
I said, "Girl what are you doing with your life?"
I had cocaine confidence and bloodshot eyes
I hadn't eaten in a couple of days
What am I doing with my life?
A crowd of people on a dust covered rock
Were singing songs about the truth
All I could feel was sick and tired
Of everybody in the room
Well it's easy sometimes, child
To forget the things you love
Feelings that can bring you down
Or raise you high above
If I never see your face again
Or tell you how my day was
If I never get another kiss
If I forget what your name was
Earth keeps inching slowly
Round its circumference
And I'm over it
Though I may have lost it just once
Or twice
I don't like the ice
But baby I don't mind the snow
Just let it flow
Just let it go
Still a hundred miles to go
But just take it slow
Just let it go
I felt a dose of hormones
Burst in and go
Now I'm alone
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2. |
Bird on the Lightpost
03:34
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I said your hair is a highlight
On the audience's paper
Wish it was now
Instead of later
Running into the daylight
But I'm not ready for tomorrow
Are you feeling alright?
Yes I thought so
Right there opening your window
I can see you pointing to a bird
Up on the lightpost
Isn't it a shame how there's no way
To feel it all?
Cop cars are pulling in my driveway
Red blue light waves
Said "I ain't your man"
Well you're damn right you're not
I better leave now
So I don't end up staying
Because you truly don't know
What you're saying
Must be pretty in love
To get married so young
You've been in my dreams
You've been in my REM, hon
This time it's a little different
When I took a look
You were not where I expected
I make all these walls inside my head
And you walk right through
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3. |
The Hand
03:28
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Is everything alright
With my eyes, and my ears, and my skull?
Because at first it was pain
But now I feel nothing at all
Your hands are shaking
All of the time
There's no explaining
Just what it's like
Graveyard cold fingers
Gripping your spine
Some evil waiting
To salvage your mind
Your heart is racing
Daylight is fading
I know you're on fire
But it seems to be raining
Must be a time when
You were laughing and learning
But you can't remember when
I've never been higher
Than I am right now
There's pieces of bone
Falling out of my mouth
Smoke rings are curling
You wait till the morning
Vision is double
Your throat is burning
Remember when
All that life you were holding
Slipped right through your hands?
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4. |
Feelin' Pretty Bent
03:34
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I been eating little pieces
And I'm feeling pretty bent
But if I can make you smile
I'll consider it time well spent
What a beautiful mess that is
Lying there on the carpet
And what a wonderful problem you have
I can't believe you almost lost it
Lately I think maybe
Love is just something you give
Whenever you can
Did you hear what I said?
Because I won't say it again
Not ever
I saw her in the parking lot
When we were both too young to drive
A funny thing how fate seems like
It's real from time to time
And I said, "She's pretty hot, but
I don't know her name"
A few years later
Had her locked up in a cage
And baby you can't get away
So when the walls start caving in
Just think of it as some
New decorations
Just because your patience runs thin
Don't mean you're getting any
Closer to the ending
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At the end of the world
What kind of song's gonna comfort you?
When you couldn't say that love will save us
Nothing we can do
If we were all gonna die at the same time
What would be the tune
To bring peace of mind to me and you?
I say sing about what you've learned
And how you're wiser than you were
Sing about the people
You're so glad you knew
Sing about how much you grew
The crucial feeling of not knowing what to do
Because I feel sad and I feel happy too
And I'm sitting in the courtyard
While the rain picks up the pace
I can't help thinking of your face
And when the sky is turning purple
And starts raining acid
You will probably also turn purple
From inhaling all the CO2
And I'll be doing my best
To sing through my burning flesh
Singing about everyone we knew
About how much we grew
And I hope you'll be singing too
Like there's nothing you'd rather do
Than die singing your favorite tune
All your brothers and sisters next to you
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6. |
Jonathon's Endorsement
05:43
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Reckless
Such endangerment
Bloodless
Drained out every bit
Her knife
Dripping wet
I licked off
All the pain
It cut my tongue off
Leave one of the fuckers alive
So he can tell the others
What we did here tonight
You can struggle, you can try
Sooner, later you will change
Or you will die
Do you think that there's another side
Different from the one you're on?
I won't do you no more harm
No more hexes, curses, spells, or charms
I will treat you like my own
Every place you go becomes your home
Never have another little crush on a stone
Splintered little pieces of bone
Where am I in your master plan?
I was alive, I was undead
Well you don't seem to understand
The devil's children roam across this land
And you raise your kids in a haunted house
The jungle screams that tribal sound, singin
I can take this
I can take this all night
If you felt it in your heart then I guess
That makes it alright
I can't believe we're having this conversation
In your mind must be so many frustrations
Because I've got mine
But it's like a difficult equation
Must be an error in my computation
All in time
Are you alive or are you just breathing?
Who am I to see the distinction?
Who are you?
Mistake
Know I made it
So close
Almost tasted it
Looks like
War is over
Who won?
What did they win?
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7. |
Wild Eye's Interlude
01:59
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8. |
Pebble in the Sand
03:48
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Background to the back of the alley
Mama said I don't need no money
It's kinda hard when you're poor and you're hungry
And life's a joke, but it isn't really funny
Another pebble in the sand
How much of what you're saying is true
When people try and talk to you?
Is your favorite thing to do
Sitting in your point of view?
Reading the evening news?
Believing what they tell you?
Strung out on my love of the devil
White pearls on the wings of an angel
Too late but too awake
And this feeling's getting pretty strange
I can feel it in my bones
What could it be?
What I see?
Blinded by the morning star
I woke up in a stolen car
It's been fun, but all my money's gone
Another pebble in the sand
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9. |
Smile in Your Soul
04:17
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Tell me this ain't
Some psychotic obsession
Tell me it's just normal infatuation
Is love really supposed to hurt
As badly as this does?
No one knows the answer to these questions
I met a girl who looks
Just like a fountain
She talked with me
For hours on end
She spoke to me in whispers
In a velvet, picturesque style
Which danced before me
Just like pirouettes
She said, "My baby wandered out
To California
In search of someone
That he used to know
His eyes were jungle water
And his smile was my soul
And he still ain't found
What he was looking for"
Tell me I can
Somehow fill this gaping
Cavity where
My core used to be
Won't you tell me that it's nothing
But an ordinary case
Routine observations from
A point in space
Time and money
Gather and then vanish
People change
And never really plan it
We're all refugees in desert scenes
That wasteland flaming sun
They got rubber bullets
And candy coated guns
Well if you think
Someone out there will save you
I don't wanna
Tell you that ain't true
But patience dies
And feelings lie
There are no exceptions
You might be sprinting
In the wrong direction
So if you fall into
The trap of hoping
Don't put someone's
Smile in your soul
She said, "He still ain't found
What he was looking for"
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10. |
French Fry in E Minor
05:01
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Nature doesn't have a tempo
And that should horrify you
There is no protection
From the things you know you do
And when all the food's been poisoned
Will we eat the oil rigs instead?
When dollar bills are worthless
Who is gonna pay your rent?
It won't be me
It was bloody cold this morning
It was piercing to my bones
Nature had me in a stranglehold
And when she grabs you
You will never know
Nature doesn't have a tempo
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The Rift Bowling Green, Kentucky
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Kai, Colton, Spencer, Yan
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