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Defaced
01:08
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everything you love will die one day
every drop of color will turn to gray
everybody else will fade away
everything you love will be defaced
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enter a man's life with an iron finish
perfection is the key to his door
no shadows in the hallway
no secrets on the floor
complete package already there
eyes legs arms torso hair
no need to find time to care if it's fair
you're already there
enter a man's life with an iron finish
blank by blank without skipping a beat
eternally halfway to the finish line
gotta move fast or you'll run out of time
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Why Christians Get Sick
01:53
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it's not the headache that gets me
but the slow drip you bleed
acrobatic entitled
fulfillment out of greed
model skeletal body
charted to display fact
common spots mislabeled
to see how you'd react
wiretapped your logging
see how much you spend
overlooking your lodging
to plan where you descend
it's all pointless at the end of the day
I just wanted to hear you admit
you're not worth shit
every second written down
nothing of value
empty seeded avenue
asking why Christians get sick
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3AM Comet
01:54
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much like a comet I'm fast and approaching
up far too late for momentum to curl
nothing can hold me from fucking this up
faking my strength in a collapsing world
push me around and I'll still stand firm
even when odds are against my return
better to sleep and recover my form
all helpful warnings I choose to ignore
eyelids grow heavy in weight of my actions
refusing to tell myself I'm too depressed
if I play god I'll see sunrise tonight
exploring emotions I'd wished to repress
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Breaking Cycle
02:36
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two hands march in orbit
two hands march inside
two hands watch for cover
til they won't hide
two hand observations
the sky's not blue today
two hands wait for sunrise
over mid-day
two hands hold the horizon
waiting for the save
two hands mark their trappings
the spot of their last days
two hands march in orbit
to plan their last escape
a child of god in yearning
when all the prayers break
two hands cocked and loaded
stare death in the face
wins the losing race
breaking cycle
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Electric Crawl
03:56
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we arrived at the bovine shit bingo
smashed to smithereens
the kind you only hear about in dreams
picked the plot and waited for rot
to rain on our parade
dirty deeds on watered seeds
for burning letter grades
I feel electrified
dazzling in the septic light
we could dance alone if we had the sight
it's so emulsifying
become one in the hazy night
we could crawl back home if we had the might
caught you in the lighthouse with the flag down
means as much to me as the beacon to the ships
jumped upstairs to bypass any ascent
ask you to repent
for the flag down
it's so emulsifying
become one in the hazy night
we could crawl back home if we had the might
I feel electrified
dazzling in the septic light
we could dance alone if we had electric sight
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2019 To Dust
03:39
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seen alone
bides his time
raise a glass
for his kind
empty rollercoaster
head rolls for one
he takes initiative
hands off the gun
onto the knife
into the night
sleeps in the light
works without
shadows on the run
it takes a long stream of blood
to get him going
under
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Mounted Snake
03:55
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morning mirror
you're not yourself
you'd take it out on anyone else
you let it bleed more
and the more you take
like a shadow on the wall you're a mounted snake
and the papers arrive
in skyscraper face you find your name on display
you find it hard to stay engaged
with the news at 9
so you deliver at 8
that's a lot of blood up there
when it drips down you'd almost think it was rain
like a thundercloud in the sewer main
but instead of underground it's your attic
the bodies collect like a swarm of bees
and they add to the shrine of your disease
at night you assume they're saying please
but you're too busy joining them
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I Don't Love New York
00:47
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I don't know where I am besides New York
I don't know where to go besides New York
I don't know why I'm here besides New York
I don't know who is here besides New York
I don't know why I care about New York
I don't know what it is about New York
I don't know where to learn about New York
I don't know who said I should try New York
I fucking hate New York
I don't really think I like this place
everything is blown up in my place
advertising treated like high art
residential housing falling apart
tear gas owners own museums
culture dies in mausoleums
MTA blows their money on cops
but look at all the gift shops
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Night Glass
02:33
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made up ringer up to
made the ruler oh you
make the right move it's you
made of clay the glass moves
it's all you
flying carpet riders
dirty blonde desires
melt the wrench til it hits you
made of days the night moves
night glass through you
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seems to be you lost the right of way
gave up heat to dry this miserable winter day
legend says you left us for the rain
up into cloud mythology
silver statues even anarchists won't break
upstand the downsit for the goddess sake
bad situations only good times make
inspired all who wished to improve to take
all your warmest shortcuts
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Choose Your Own Death
01:09
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out on the run from the law that entraps me
saw waters that ran from the pipes down south
made out with the road like an unholy woman
they let you choose your own death out here
firmly attached to the land before me
perfect from god I assumed it would be
fell asleep on the ice I was sure was water
they let you choose your own death out here
I don't want to die just yet
I don't ever want to forget
but I guess I shot my agency in the foot
the moment I ran
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Held To A Brighter Light
02:05
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full view of the car window
trees blends into lines unrecognizable
the passenger seat feels smaller every day
the sky's blue closer to gray
as the daybreak turns to night
dusk and dawn in sight
discoveries made after sundown
dots not connected but left unphased
the window seat feels larger every day
looking down on the world with nothing to say
a battle I'm not ready to fight
held to a brighter light
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Watt Spiel
00:46
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it seems to me another form of torture
a violence to silence this decree
a nation in a world of California
like arrogance if it been blessed disease
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Antialias
05:26
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watch the ants crawl across the monitor
you think you’ve seen it all
when boredom slides from the ceiling
and the cracks fall into holes
it’s like a drip feed of human avoidance
you hide what they can’t know
in fear and violence, aim for ambivalence
and any complexity you wouldn’t dare show
keep all your cards to your chest
elaborate on the nice parts and hide the rest
everything that isn’t perfect behind
ANTIALIAS
shopping it around to acquaintance investors
there’s a train track with my name on it
tied to it every time I said
I don’t need help, I haven’t hit rock bottom yet
a story that repeats itself
a broken record ripped the right way
my receiver’s not picking anything up
it’s time to lie a little more
fishing for sympathy
tie it up for mercy rule score
seeking validation for my worst mistakes
declaring it safe when I walk into the rakes
a feedback loop I’ll never turn down
IT’S EXTRANEOUS
and so it rings like tinnitus
ad infinitum
it never ends
it never fucking ends
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