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THE SOFT ROOM
01:46
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I left you in the softest room and the question is:
did I think it through?
When I say I'm gonna go to town, I really go to town
That's what I said
When I say I grind my knuckles down, I really grind 'em down
That's what I said
If that's what I said, then that's what I said
I left you in the softest room:
1) if I had been untrue it's the hardest room
2) with the curtains strewn, they were powder blue
3) with my attitude, it was hurting you
4) with my attitude
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ACCOMPLICE
01:41
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Peeled off all the skin around my fingernails
I did it because you asked me to
I drive until the car runs out of gasoline
I did it because you asked me to
I wanted to be more than anyone to you
Ah-leu-cha, Coup d'état
Glass is every which way, I am barefoot
I walk ahead, nothing else to do
Spinning doors apologize for vacancy
I did it because you asked me to
I wanted to believe that saying less is good
Ah-leu-cha, Coup d'état
Fa Cé-La, Coup d'état
Coup de grâce, État profond
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UNDER THE GUN
02:50
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There's a desk with a chair red-seated
There's a crane on the corner yellow
You never ask anything from anyone
At least that's what you say when you're under the gun
There's a man with a hate deep-seated
That man's disposition shallow
He never asks anything from anyone
At least that's what he says when he's under the gun
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SON
04:01
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Took a picture of the sea, it was calm instead of me
Took a picture of the sea, it was some romantic scene
And I should have told your son about The Giving Tree
Took a trip for groceries, I bought no expensive things
Took a trip for groceries, I bought no essential things
And I should have told your son about university
And the green electric smell
How can anybody tell where the lightning strikes?
Where the lightning strikes is the path to fast oblivion
Where the lightning strikes
Took a look inside of me, never liked what I had seen
Took a look inside of me
And I should have told your son about symmetry.
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TIME UNRIVALED
02:57
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Do you ever look back to where you've been walking from?
Do you think about:
the distance traveled, time unraveled,
time unrivaled by any other day?
Do you ever look back to wasted days alone?
Do you think about:
the dusty corners, your friend forlorners,
competing cultures as if anyone was right?
I always look back to where I've been walking from.
I like to think about:
the distance traveled, time unraveled,
time unrivaled by any other day.
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DOZER
02:14
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Bad shopping list in a clenched fist
I’m in the midst of a cracked existence
Tell you off with a stubborn cough
Our arms aloft, eyes fade a little bit
The coffee on the front porch cold
Sputtering mutterings gets old
No one deserves to be told:
“You’re gonna be a lonely one”
Dozed off again, I’m pissed off again
I’m pissed off again, no more talking
I’ve had enough, runneth the cup
I’m getting up, I’m shaking off my antlers
Slam my fist against a dirty wall
Free men out in the hall
No one deserves to be told:
You’re gonna be a lonely one”
What have I used?
What have I done?
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7. |
IDEALS
03:09
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Step up to the same ideals
The same ideals a brother had
Put a sticker on the back of your amp
Makes you feel like you belong to a camp
Step up to the same ideals
Knock ‘em down, stomp ‘em with your heel
Put a pin on the front of a jacket
Let them attack it; you feel stupid
How you ever gonna learn that way?
You ain’t ever gonna learn that way
How you ever gonna learn that way when you’re waking up drunk nearly every day?
Step up to the same ideals
The same ideals a brother had
Put a sticker on the back of your guitar
You tried so hard not to fail
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You are the worst person I know
It’s hard to let that feeling go
The shape of things has me on my knees
I didn’t even feel at home
Sometimes I get to thinking
I am the worst person I know
It’s hard to let my opinion go
The shape of things has me on my knees
I never even felt at home
Sometimes I get to thinking
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LEVITATOR
02:30
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I hear the sound of your ankles cracking
While you’re overhead
I hear the sound of your camera clicking
While you’re overhead
You’re not fooling anyone,
Levitator
Seeing tops of other people’s heads: intoxicating
Being over their heads is exhilarating
Your feet are bleeding lies,
Levitator
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BAD LINES
01:59
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Grew up in a very small town
It was half a pack
Grew up in a very small town
He never got in
Threw up on his own night gown
He was never sworn in
He grew up in a very small town
Then he bought a trench coat
Then he bought a rifle
Bad lines on his forehead
He wants people dead
Bad lines on his forehead
He drinks a six pack
People talking in the back of his head:
“Kill the people dead”
Bad lines on his forehead
Then he finds his trench coat
Then he finds his rifle
Bad lines
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PAINT
01:52
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Greedy people don’t do much with their mouths
They make silly little arrogant bullshit sounds
It’s witty repartee and I will not be swayed
My garden is a citizen
The whole garden’s been a citizen
For ten whole thousand years and I will not have fear
Brother would lay in the grass
Paint the sky his own colors ‘til it all went black
Some days we are born ancient
Some days we are born anew
In infantile years I will not have fear
Brother would lay in the grass
Paint the sky his own colors ‘til it all went black
There ain’t no exit
Tell me how you feel
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12. |
OBLIVION
03:55
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Voicemails from John Gburek, a scammer, and Eddy Lezama.
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13. |
CAPTAIN
07:55
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When all was quiet on the western front:
I was picking out apples, tripping on country
What did you say?
You were sweeping up the ashes, cleaning up scenery
What did you say?
Had a can-do attitude:
I was looking for something, it was probably nothing
It ain’t ever enough when they put it on some paper
I was pulling up my socks so they’d cover up my ankles
What did I say?
Back to basics
Back to the town I love
I love you
Storm came over the mountaintop:
My symphonic left captain playing all the hits yeah
It ain’t ever enough when you put it on paper
I was talkin’ to myself like a babbling speed head
What could I say?
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DEEP STATE Athens, Georgia
OBLIVION MUSIC
taylor chmura
christian deroeck
michael gonzalez
brandon page
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