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Operator Drill
02:53
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I left a note in your room
so you’d know where I was
I didn’t leave for nothing
but I had to go because
it’s dry season in a rainy wave
and that’s useless for days
it’s a sunny day in my mind
and that warrants a greater shine
skyline straight and still
operator drill
dying on your robot hill
peachy complexion skin quill
I’m finally free from the alien nation
leaving my clothes at Penn Station
sunny seas await
the future tenses great
I wrote a note with your blood
so you’d remember where you were
when I left it
so you’d not forget it
I’m not coming back for your sorrowed pity
there’s new blood in the sister city
it’s 1987 and the option’s limitless
the future’s great
I feel better
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Old White Lie
02:28
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you’re the one I’m dreaming of
sentimental force compelled
pulling out of a station cloud
it’s hard not to tell you
I’ve missed you longer than I could say
all the broken memories held
verbalize the truth and change the past
what’s a little white lie between old friends
even if the lie is that we ever were
moving forward cannot change the meaning
allowing past tensions to occur
art only has value when you suffer to make it
sentimental force compelled
looking back I imagine I was happier
age brings larger pictures to the gallery
they’re hanging up your life in frames
admitting you lose to pointless daydream games
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International Cross
02:30
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border set division
miles part the ocean
seas of endless waves
seize for endless graves
empathy’s a wonderful thing to gain
thump thump thump in your brain
perspective is an awful thing to lose
the greener it grows, the harder to retain
as we get much older
as the winter’s colder
peel back every folder
why do they cling to their rigid order?
make every decision
with airtight precision
with the right incision
maintain the illusion
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Loving Pocket
02:39
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I found love in your pocket
seems like you want to stop it
I’m just waiting to start it
you just hope I can drop it
mercy scars on clean parade
periscopic lies for days
tears collapsed along the way
I want to hear you say
good morning
it’s time to get out of bed
you slept hard
come see the sun instead
heavy hearts bring lighter rain
I can’t see myself in the mirror
who’s this appirition
and what did it do to her?
I found love in your pocket
seems like you want to stop it
I’m just waiting to start it
you just hope I can drop it
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Paint My Memory
03:25
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a shake up, you’re a grown up
everything is yours
books of scrap, when I was happy
to know you liked me too
so foreign, like you’re above and I’m below
thought too bad, that’s too sad
now it’s coming true
best of luck to you
years down the drain
you won’t find love in the sewer main
riding down the water slide
I don’t know how to hide
black paint I bought to
bring out the artist in you
paint my memory
lie back in heaven’s lawn chairs
throw baggage over stairs
loving fallacy
that’s what it was to me
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No More Carpet Rides
01:51
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we found you on the roof last night
wearing your bedsheets like a shawl
so the wind could cut every limb you still had on
head to toe in a crystal bind
armband tied around your eyes
pointed toward the blood red sky
it’s a miracle you’re not gone
you were right
you could fly
now it’s time
to get you inside
no more carpet rides
we heard you from a garden shed
made peace with the thorny bed
and they laid to rest a crown
your mind and head
effigy of a greener age
of a northern light for a center stage
and you threw it all in a handsome rage
for all to witness
you were right
you could fly
now it’s time
to get you inside
to see is blind
to hear the light
to know you’re safe
to say good night
no more garden rites
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Draw A Straighter Line
02:57
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you saw it on the monitor
they scored, we have to drink again
the rituals are set in stone
and of this rock we must defend
straight down to the bitter end
people just don’t matter anymore
living cares away
hopped up all the time
short term couldn’t find the cure
took a million days
to draw a straighter line
in light of chaos bring in more
the bus is filling up with drunks
the vanguard uprooting the core
not to be confused with the punks
upper class blowing chunks
what does it matter if they fly
what does it matter if they cry
what does it matter if they try
what does it matter if they die
it doesn’t matter if they try
it doesn’t matter if they die
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They Call For You
02:27
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couldn’t break into the room they called your heart
so I took to tearing it apart
short sighted, never changing
walls fall, re-arranging
crumble, watch the bed spread
joyride, line them all dead
your head’s the new attraction
in a rival faction
barriers to keep my scent away
jars of headline
borrowed your time
down the deadline
buried in your shoes
they call for you
made a faulty blueprint
fell through every crack
prone to take a pause, start looking back
it’s not as if you ran away, I ran from you
but here I cry asking what there was to do
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Taking Back What's Mine
02:58
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last year we made our peace and put you to sleep
you stayed there for weeks
til the future looked bleak
one night I woke up shocked with visions of you
what else could I do?
I needed you
people say I’ve lost my mind
but it’s like you were here all this time
don’t have to act like anything’s changed
because everything stayed the same
people say I’m going mad
but I don’t see what’s truly bad
about taking back what I had
taking back what’s mine
some days I wonder if you’re getting cold
if you’ll grow old
meant for the hole
I put it all aside because you’re still here
it all feels clear
it all feels right
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in April, hills began to form
the mountains gave away
plans for the biggest day
the seconds counted down to first
a sentence for a hearse
to get them where it hurts
here stands the May Queen
fire in heart
beheaded start
here stands the May Queen
floral stance
ancient dance
they set up for a sunny daze
they dolled you for a while
and it looked glorious
you danced around the pole for hours
gilded with silver flowers
you were victorious
god bless the May Queen
fire in heart
beheaded start
god bless the May Queen
floral stance
ancient dance
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Lies We Tell Ourselves
03:14
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you don’t know how lucky you are
bright and early morning star
you don’t know how lucky you are
make it up you’ll go quite far
it’s like the first time you arrived
you caught yourself on lucky strides
it’s like the first time you arrived
you faced the day with your sunlight
you don’t know how lucky you are
9 am, wash run, clothes dry
you don’t know how lucky you are
like a star in empty sky
it’s like the first time you arrived
the days were shorter but we made the most each time
feels like the first time we’re alive
time means nothing to you and I
I’ll never know how you always get it right
lies we tell ourselves to keep us up at night
I’m amazed all day if I don’t know your side
stretching the truth but never a lie
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Album count: 49.
Release count: 137.
Song count: 1447.
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