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Sometime Last Year
01:47
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I see fire in the bones of the building
and I feel at home in a way that I don't like
Waking dreams fill my mind while I'm riding
Now I'm scared of my friends who are watching in the night
I crash into the sign outside the store that has the craft beer
I flash the man a thumb to say that everything is cool
As I'm checking out, he tells me what he really thinks about women
So I grab a book of matches, later leave one by the school
Okay, I'm advising you to change your answering machine
Anyway
Childlike wonder?
A child might wonder where the protagonist is
where it's hidden like a peppermint
I want a mint now
So much want and never getting,
and that's how things get burned down
and other things get broken
how cats die
and flowers die
and love dies
and it's all stuffed inside the corpse of something, or someone
burnt to anonymity
It's ugly in a really sad way you can't talk about
and scary in a weird way that makes you think about something else
but it was still good to feel the sort of eruption of emotions, I guess, after a while
Or maybe it was adrenaline
Either one of them are held close
Only for a second
How have you been?
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2. |
Spade-Toothed Whale
02:05
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Hello!
had the
had the time, the time of individual distinction
Oh yeah
It's good for when you're a genius
But when you're not
I know that you went with an astronaut
because you know what happens to our mother
Oh yeah
But it's better to plan for the future
But it's better to plan
But it's better to plan for the now
For the present, for the past, for everything,
For it's good, for everything is good
But when it's not good, you go to the doctor
and when the doctor doesn't know what to do, they tell you
"I'll look into it, okay?"
The robot dog will stop and frisk
The robot dog just stopped and frisked
and the statistics look really bad
I'm staring at that puppy
trying to get really mad
Oh, everything once rigid has been flaccid for a decade
Clicking, clicking, to no avail
You can try again in your next life
As a spade-toothed whale
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3. |
VOLT 430
03:16
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Writhing, arms restrained
No choice but to endure it
Needle in the vein in my elbow
Each moment passing
Counted with my heartbeat
I hear talk of some medication
WRIST
FIRE
KILL
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
SOUR
OAT
HARVEST
HARDER
FIRES
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
BARN
KILL
HUNT
BURN
FIRE
SMOKE
ASH
DUSK
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
URN
DUST
BREATHE
COUGH
SMOKE
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
EYES
STAGE
CAST
YOLK
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
BACK
RIVER
HOTEL
HARVEST
POURING
TRACK
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
CURVE
SHELL
TONGUE
JOWLS
CARVE
ACHE
SPLIT
TAKE
FERMENT
SNAP
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
SNAPPING
COLDER
HARDER
UGLY
FESTER
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
STIFF
ACHE
GREEK
PILL
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
COUNT
FELT
AMOUNT
TENDER
PORCH
PILLOW
URN
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
WICK
GLASS
SHARD
NOTE
BUTTER
BEACH TOWN
FEATHER
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
THROAT
BURN
EYES
STING
HEART
FULL
ACHE
CRASH
KILL
(I'm Johnny Groove!)
STIFF
SALT
WET
TALL
WET
JOIN
FIRE
BLOCK
GUARD
WARM
CRY
DRAGON
MEASURE
CRY
FIELD
FORCE
GLASS
SUN
HAVE
TAKE
BLOOD
CHARGE
VOLT
And when the floor starts dancing too
You'd better get the fuck out of here!
You'd better leave this fucking town!
You'd better leave with your god damned tail between your fucking legs!
Your family runs
Your family's running
The bottled wine
The box of coffee
A little dog
A buried hatchet
The cancer calls
Who's gonna catch it?
The hierarchy
No room, emotion
Dawn-time screams
Loving in motion
The painted sand
Those fucked-up crabshells
The resin sweet, clinging to my fingers
Don't wish away
Your fucking sickness
Don't ever waste
Your fucking sickness
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4. |
Cool Flat Stove
03:00
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Cool flat stove, I leave it on
Fire burn char melt skin down to only bone
Flame cut down house, built for my only home
Find term now to include me with a biting tone
See video of me suffer on your screen and phone
Decide from GoFundMe bio you'll throw me a bone
But I never saw the money or the Tok-Tok man again :(
Walk, and knees aching, through the cold, alone
Even if I had a diamond
I would still show up
To the block party
Imagine walking into the bank
Evil as shit
You were a rich man (You were!)
Now you've got the sacred stains on your pants (You do!)
Don't get caught in the chain
'Cause it'll tear you in half
Eat a good dinner, today and tomorrow
Be responsible and act moderately
(That means you too!)
(I'm sorry to hear you're struggling as a property manager!)
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Copper Pond
01:47
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Out on the pavement, back on the streets
Empty the cafés into the heat
Sniffing out the spirits born between two legs
and two more legs, oh yes
Even the smooth-brained and buck-toothed
are all partnered up to
the bad smells and grease-coated husks holding the truth
Fire up your mirrors, now give the performance of a lifetime
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salsberry Richmond, Virginia
singer songwriter from richmond va
huge fan of Sibby and Crimp-Riley
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