1. |
It Has Eyes and a Mouth
04:51
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come to in the passenger seat on I-95,
an edm song fills the cavity of the drive
street candy in my throat feels just like cardiac arrest
I flinch and shiver every plainclothes that we pass
screen memory of wandering in the dark, some mullet boy carving swastikas in the bark.
he ran away from me back to his car,
his crimes eternal from the hogweed scars
my silent space, the dirges pace
drowning out the formality of patriotic devotion to collecting wartime baby teeth
alabaster light pierces my red eyes of defeat,
I should've known the mystic woman always loved me
hold your stare at a red light, there’s no rush to go
let me play messiah to your quivering soul
slow dance to Elvis in my room
we’ll start the day when we’re through
it’s a linear demise the altar to my bedside
Cry little boy for the cherry in her lies
the remedy burns a hole in her eyes
I’m the warm light in the panicked night
I’m the honey dipped knife that pricks at your doubt
keep me a secret and I'll keep you safe
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2. |
Winona
02:03
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Hold your breath
As they call the crime
They laughed at you
For cutting your hair
Fidget in your cuffs
For an oath you can’t bear
Alone in my room
Write a letter to you
Winona say the word and I will take the fall for you
I wrote you I wrote you
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3. |
Rock n Roll Music
02:29
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my girl loves Jesus and stealing from the mall
no rhyme or reason she doesn't care at all
we will be the ones who kill rock n roll
we'll be the ones who kill rock n roll
material madness shakes the world around
my girl can't have it, she'll never let me down
put on bowie dancing in the hot tub
when the days over I wait for my love
we will be the ones who kill rock n roll
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4. |
Golden Child (Curl Up)
03:37
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I still live in that room
Listening to krill with you
Spanish wine in the streets
A prayer calls humility
It’s an eternal temporary
The pain of sanctuary
The beauty in our
shared memories
Whose betrayal was first reaped
In my dreams im still 18 haven’t touched the stuff my body’s clean
Put on Springsteen every night, forgiveness sits on my knife
Curl Up, I'm the Golden Child
Curl Up, I'm the River run Wild
Was it really that fun
Trying it out so young
Do you ever think there's more to you and me
Curl Up, I'm the Golden Child
Curl Up, I'm the River run Wild
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a sick pale morning
greets me by the bar
the beautiful people
how unaware they are
this heart is breaking down
every day another dream
is laid to rest
beauty runs away from me
the dragon tamer called me
the sinking gut burned me
the dragon tamer loves me
I haven’t been sleeping much
in the pretty pretty country
they’re scared of the new king
I’m scared of what I can’t see
desecrate the mayor
a lizard man lusting
won’t you please tell me
how fear can be so lovely
this hand is
your hand
this hand is
my hand
the people
they love me
they conquer
my dreams
the dragon tamer called me
the sinking gut burned me
the dragon tamer loves me
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6. |
Forever
02:35
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I
will wait forever
for you
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7. |
Heartbreaker
03:30
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Help me father I’ve cut all the corners on my way to enlightenment
Heart breaker settles up the score with the dealer from the north shore
Hand on my throat narcan out on hope
Roll snake eyes to see who squeals
Cowardly behind the Venetian blinds
Every thought you taste can’t be real
Stitch on the lipstick for eternity
Skip faith for the surgery
stand up the doubts like a matryoshka doll
on my way to the clergy
antagonize aphrodite’s sighs
I’ll smile when it feels good to me
and I can count on one finger who started this fire, it always begins
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8. |
Carroll
04:10
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took the knife out to the bay
to visit Carrolls old place
finally match the stories with his old face
whatever happened to the old karmann ghia
purchased with his mothers wartime paranoia
It’s in my blood
it's in my blood
Did you tell your brother about finding love behind closed doors
just say that it's razor burn and they won’t ask anymore
and it starts just how it ends, coked out on the olive garden
a birthday ruined I’m spilling my guts and he’s spilling the ashes
it's in my blood
it's in my blood
Drink away all of my doubts in your porno picture house
I still lie to everyone and you claim my father as your son
It's in my blood
It's in my blood
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9. |
Promise We'll Dance
04:44
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It’s a sensible request
mother nature give it a rest
how many lessons can be learned
before the anger starts to burn?
the coward overtakes
the pet names separate
it grows weaker when
the church bells beg for faith
they promise peace
in the caucus lights
they bomb for peace
on our wedding night
they fill the courts
with sundowned elders
painted cerise
surviving their sons and daughters
we all cry back home
on our comfort couch throne
our etsy additions
harmonize the moans
body and soul
are bought and sold
we’re enticed to carve out
our own centerfold
some say it’s just a floating rock
as if it’s never been said before
from the hanging gardens to the Hudson Yards
i’m a slut for the change history endures
they sell us peace
but what’s the price?
my heart you keep
“isn’t this nice”
some tantric belief
we watch it grow
we plead insanity
in the celestial throes
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10. |
Judah
04:06
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dreaming nothing but the name I wear for a spy
dope sick in Dolores petrified of cultures cry’s
however you feel, don’t take it with you
negatives of a median, astral blue
Rita’s eyes behind the disguise, desecrate the guitar tone
a flame goes out, we’ll learn to call each other our home
head under water
head under water
if you love war
we'll love me forever
said you were born out on the wrong side
dying just to have fun
don’t let that shit bring you down
we’re tough the next go around
my feet get heavy in Judah
the hills roll heavy
You'll bring me back I can’t relax
there’s an ocean for you and me
the radio’s on
and they’re playing my song
way back In 19 95
the windows are down
take in all the sounds
of the contusion colored sky
Heavy Water brings a tear to your eye
Headache brings me down
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11. |
My Bird, My Love
04:30
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bellisimo ucello
I follow where you go
scorch the saccharine skies
Im over the dramatics of “what if we both die”
so we both die
Besame mucho
look at the dust
covering the lust
of the old American west
gone forever in the twitter war
small dick heretics
there’s no elections anymore
fly
to me
my little bird
If this is it
won’t you give me
One last hollywood kiss
look at the side of the bombs over head, next to the painting of a gibson girl getting head
a dagger in the heart of every trust fund taboo screaming vote blue no matter who
the pills fixed my brain but they killed the urge
of undressing one another with simple dirty words
euthanize the market its all just a crock
keep each other warm before our savings rot
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