1. |
Concentrate
03:42
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At one time so it would seem
That the best of our difference
Are the rest of our permissions
How could there be anything else
When you look at the problem
It seems so obvious
Though sometimes I feel as hopeless as anyone else
I pretend I’m doing fine
From any old office or any old bar
You will see the crowd get on the bus
Two times drink from concentrate
So you call from the lobby
I will meet you at the Goodwill
You could be any anyone else
But you’re not and that means everything
You’re not and that means everything
The engine light’s on
And I’m sliding on the road
But it makes no difference
There’s so many people and so many lies
And I’m proud to be with them every time
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2. |
Pretty Pictures
03:26
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Green is just a color like a lot of people
Always too few names for just a lot of hues
Cerulean, marigold, lapis lazuli
Watercolored borrowed stains lost it seems to me
If rain could be a canvas I would sell my coat
Collect the left eyes of the people I admire
Wire up my right brain and wear them as a crown
Lie when people ask me what my sensors do detect
I don't look for pretty pictures (look for pretty pictures)
I try not to think of them (try not to think of them)
I don't look for pretty picutres
I just hope that they are there
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3. |
Sketching
04:14
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4. |
The Edgy and Painless
04:21
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Whoever thought this way before
At last my aching bones can rest
11 times I've made before
Relax and succumb to distress
Admit to myself my egress
Each I day I wake and then I dress
Forever oscillating through time
Posers write and read their pain
So we huddle by the door
Scratch our skin and nothing more
all we have we we cannot take
So guess who's leading that mistake
The phone line mids rise up and burn
You never stop I wait my turn
To oblivion to the end
Anyone could be a friend
Anything could make amends
That's how we will return
Play with fire and get burned
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5. |
I Wanna Be Your Mixer
04:05
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I wanna be your mixer
so you can push my fader
I said see you later
In the hot water
Where it'll get hotter
I think I'll have another
So when you wear your Sutter
we can sculpt each other
Oh my stars oh my lights I wanna eat you like a pair of sneakers served on ice
I wanna be your doggy
So you can walk me
Yeah we're eating green leaves
and singing Greensleeves
I wanna be your diplomat so you can wear me like a hat
Oh my stars oh my lights I wanna treat you like a dog who don't know no right
I wanna be your demon heart
That you eat after dark
I wanna be your black box
So you can hear my after thoughts
I wanna be your napkin ring
So I can wrap you up in
I wanna be your doorbell
So when you push me I can yell
Oh my stars oh my lights I wanna dress you like a .. .. .. night
Oh oh oh oooh ohh ohh ooooh ooOO oohh OO oohh OO(oooeoo)hh ohh ahhh (oooee) ahh (oooo) oh oh (oooh)
I wanna be your mixer
so you can push my fader
I said see you later
In the hot water
Oh my stars oh my lights I do do do do do do do do ...
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6. |
Janey and the Watertower
04:15
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Janey says she'd rather we got off the rock
I asked her when she'd always planned to be on top
Janey says there ain't any kind of goodbye
I sit in my car and hear the radio as the cars go by
Janey says it's cold can I get off the phone
and I admit I better go on get home
Janey said to send me her favorite song
Once again I find myself tied in a knot
Janey said you only sell the stuff you bought
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7. |
Family
03:28
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Oh take it outside
gonna feel alright
gonna take it home
If you love something keep on climbing
don’t hold on now
let it go
Oh is this ever gonna be
the most insignificant things’ll kill you
Oh I just wanna be
kneeling by the stream where we first whispered
Make a mistake and see who is still there
Ice cooled on bridge and freezing in my hair
And I feel light
light like a snake
I feel bright lake a lake
You’re gonna be the last thing that I see
confessing in between our peaceful rapture
Lie deep in manifest
my deep regrets
alone
We won't be alibis
stupid lullabies
alone
Words soft and round
out of your mouth
Oh bring yourself in
just to check out
when you're at home
Oh take it outside
gonna feel alright
gonna take it home
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8. |
Sun's Coming Up
04:11
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9. |
Tonight
02:10
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I've got a big moment I think that I'm lonely I wish you would tell me just what that means
You said you'd be home then you're out on your own and I hope you're ok is there something you need
I'm here making movements that move through the moments hoping that I look natural you tell if I don't
Treat our conversation as if we don't know the point of it
Lie a little about my interests so that I look like I'm right for you
It's easy
Now I'm stuck in a nightmare I'll admit that I am scared are you thinking too much bout me I know I'm thinking too much about you
Is this all just cliche? Are we really real bout anything
But for us it's okay, who would wanna be so punk anyway? (yes I)
I'm having a moment I hope that you'll hold out keep the posers at bay
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10. |
Endings
04:40
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So I say to my defense, that all good things must end
So many thoughts so little time
I can't find a reason for my rhyme
And they say it gets easier
Things just seem to start to blur
Am I the only one who wants to?
All met and matched my places latched
Your sights are set so place your bets
And it doesn't make anymore sense
Then it did when I began
I've just got more questions that answers
I don't like it (x2)
I don't care (x2)
oh oh oh ooh oh isn't that the way it goes?
You can say it to your friends, how I want it to begin
All of the times I can't define
It makes more sense behind your eyes
A thousand chances shall depart
As I wait to hit my mark
Even though it seems like you don't really need to
Forget the worst it's your own curse
Replay the best days starting first
But it's just not so simple in fact
Do you even remember the past
and if you do do you really want to
I still I still can't believe it
I still I just can't believe it
I don't know (x2)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
It's indiscriminate at best
Despite the powers we posses
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11. |
Loop 82
04:20
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you
got it all wrong
id do anything for love
why
don't we wake up on time
the sun comes up and we go down
there's so many people running round this town
walk around the block
stop in parking lots
I can't go home
release my hand stop making plans
there's nothing i would rather do than stay
talk is cheap
come and buy it for me
drink up
drink up your cup
oh please oh please
finish me
call me on the phone
we hang out at the
park
so it's come to this
think i always saw it differently
scrape the ice off my car id ask your help
if i was going very far
but i'm not
but i'm not
but i'm not
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