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Baptismal
04:33
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Rickety raggedy lost boy beating off laughing at his face in a spoon
Same lame gamers in your sister’s basement breaking ties with the animal world.
An unspoken curse but the pain is real
Your brother and his girlfriend behind the wheel
Shatter proof glass on the passenger side covered in red and the moons blue light
On the curb with a blanket and your blood shot eyes
Now you’re stepping in the river into waist high water let the current take it all away
Radiant graceless clear and empty see the cheerleaders up on the rail
The beautiful sage of the anti-gods applies color to a press on nail
The lights flash blue and red all night your cousin laid out under ghostly white
Empty bottle on the backseat floor filled with dreams from a forgotten shore
And your heart left open like a bedroom door
But now you’re stepping to the shoulder and the wind grows colder let the current take it all away
Seas rise soft and silent countries shed their garments love lies very deeper deeper deepest can you find me?
In the southern branch of the energy center that resides within my throat
Theres a string bean lost by grinning sideways drowning in his coat
A blood filled skull and a curved knife held by his mother daughter lover wife
Seen in a dream that’s half a life
That shatters as he wakes and he shakes his head
He knows star crossed lovers always wake up dead
But he feels the cold world just spinning instead
Now you’re stepping in the river into waist high water let the current take it all away
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Old house on a running hill ramshackle yard to run in
She was sent by her mother’s ghost while her father searched for tears
Downstairs on the dressers edge late at night a face appears
Thin eyed like a reptile tongue you are my own little death
Every night to be amazed
We recognize the devils face in the one you love
Down the daylight basement stairs through the hills the shadow
At the back the wall is bare the portrait of a child so fair
We repeat the age old rhyme ouija ouija tell me will I live before I die?
Downshift on the razor’s edge silent hearts will make you shiver
All the voices in our head dark trees run to the river
Praise god if you know the score smoke-screen to guard the basement door
Down here in bardo’s light in the cycles days and years
Every night to be amazed
We recognize the devils face
We repeat the age old rhyme ouija ouija tell me will I live before I die?
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Don't Let Me Run
03:11
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Hold me baby don’t you let me run
This midsummer rain makes my head
Feel like a loaded gun.
See the hunter coming through those trees
His boots leave only hieroglyphs
His dogs are made of fallen leaves.
Turn the engine over headlights shine
We’re racing down this darkness
In a tunnel made of roots and twine.
Dreaming, dreaming I’ve been bleeding all night
See my lover at the screen door
Moving softly in the kitchen light
But she won’t see me.
Hold me baby don’t you let me run
Now, now
Hold me baby don’t you let me run
Don’t me deep like I’m the only one.
Hit the vaporizer straight to the dome
Take a hit of holy smokes
But all I feel is more alone.
God the light it hurts the sun goes pale.
My head is spinning like a top
My soul is like a wishing well.
Hold me baby don’t you let me run
Hold me deeper deeper deep
Like I’m the only one.
Hold me baby don’t you let me run
Hold me deeper deeper deep
Like I’m the only one.
Hold me baby don’t you let me run.
Deeper deeper let the radio just play.
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Trying so hard to believe there’s more to this life
Than what you see, think magically
In the night time drive way waiting for the man
To break you into a million shattered parts
But every human heart throws a shadow on this wall.
Climb to the top of the tower that sits on the
Outskirts of the town.
He climbed right up behind you didn’t he
And then he climbed back down to the ground
A wrathful deity, lit a cigarette beneath a tree
And then he cast his shadow long
On the house where you were young
On a street in a town that’s gone.
Struck by a meteor sitting at a stoplight
Fingers on the key, eventually
You gotta face facts, he ain’t coming back
So think magically, a million shattered parts
But every human heart throws a shadow on this wall.
On this wall.
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I’ve loved you so hard I can’t tell where it hurts
I broke my wrist just trying to take off your shirt
Your parties bore me but the music just slays
I figure the afterlife might be the same way
Okay let’s break into the masonic temple tonight
You brought some blotters yeah let’s start things off right
Is there anything in this whole world that’s worth putting up a fight
Yeah no
Your grandma died and left her mercedes benz
You say these curves at night might be how it ends
You say if there’s a god he’s thin as a rail
No getting hungry moving slow as a snail
Oh well
Okay let’s break into the masonic temple tonight
You brought some blotters yeah let’s start things off right
Is there anything in this whole world that’s worth putting up a fight
Yeah no
I’ve loved you so long I can’t tell where it hurts
I ain’t ashamed to say I’ve tried on your skirts
If you’re the main course does that make me dessert?
Oh god let’s break into the masonic temple tonight
You brought some blotters yeah let’s start things off right
Is there anything in this whole world that’s worth putting up a fight
Yeah no
This life is comedy and horror combined
like popping cheap pills and a quart of boxed wine
Stop all this talking i’ll go fix you a drink
Let’s do the world a favor and let’s all go extinct
Okay, let’s do the world a favor yeah let’s all go extinct
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Requiem
03:33
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I like the way you roll honey
You’re made of solid gold
I like the way you roll honey
You’re made of solid gold.
Come in out of the cold and
Forget all the things they sold you
I like the way you roll
You’re made of solid gold
So let’s shine a light
Shine a light through the dark day.
I like the way you roll honey
You’re made of solid gold.
Rolling down through the cold
Empty spaces of the cosmos so let’s
Shine a light
Shine a light through the dark day.
I like the way you move oh now
Everything’s green and blue
And there’s no place left to go oh no
This is the only show.
You’re never gonna lose your soul
Even if the reaper shows his face
Then life will start anew
Yeah cause that’s just the way you move
So let’s shine a light
Shine a light through the dark day.
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Holy Smokes Future Jokes
04:58
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Holy Smokes, these future Jokes
You called me on my land line just to blow some smoke
And tell me that our whole life feels like a hoax
Just like the lunar landing and those talking goats
Surprise surprise surprise
Can’t you see it shining in my eyes
Surprise surprise surprise
We’re all so learned and so civilized my baby
Holy smokes these future jokes
Eight billion people spinning just like bicycle spokes
The cinematic scope of the apocalypse
When it all goes to hell there won’t be nothing left
But chips and dips in mini-marts
But what’s the shelf life of a broken heart
Surprise surprise surprise
Can’t you see it shining in my eyes
Surprise surprise surprise
We’re all so learned and so civilized my baby
Holy smokes these future jokes
Found your number on a scrap of paper in my coats
The earth has been around for several billion years
And all us humans think we’re special but
We’re nothing but the unshed tears
Of a distant star, never knowing just who we are.
Surprise surprise surprise
Can’t you see it shining in my eyes
Surprise surprise surprise
Our masochism goes so undisguised
Surprise surprise surprise
We’re all so learned and so civilized my baby
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Sons and Unwed Mothers
03:16
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I lost my lover deep inside this valley
I was searching when I thought I heard her call
But the echoes in the canyon so much like my lover’s voice
Were the high white cries of eagles spinning careless in the wind.
I lost my lover in an old house off the freeway
We’d stopped to take some rustic photographs.
I walked the halls and empty rooms but all I heard was rain
So I made my way up to the cemetery on the hill.
The wild goose runs circles round the wishing well
Till dawn.
All the sons and unwed mothers make their way down
Thru the fog.
Does the howling of these dire wolves wake the dead
Or just the dogs?
I lost my lover in the shadows of this city.
We were waiting for our rideshare in the rain.
She kissed me twice and snapped her fingers
And suddenly I stood at the edge of every world
I’d ever conjured in my mind.
The wild goose runs circles round the wishing well
Till dawn.
All the sons and unwed mothers make their way down
Thru the fog.
Does the howling of these dire wolves wake the dead
Or just the dogs?
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Dead Billie Jean
03:46
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Dead Billie Jean, in the shotglass lies a quarter
And a tear for every year in the houses of the holy handed
Bride to be, technology.
Born on the fourth of july, no question who the mother was
But the father’s on the lamb, playing spoons and grand piano
In a family band, prosthetic hand.
I was six feet under playing bones with Brian Jones
And Jim, cause there’s a right way and a wrong way
Here to die. And there ain’t no reason why.
Dead Billie Jean, what have you seen
In the twilight’s dawn?
So Dead Billie Jean, she paid her tab
And drove out through the Indiana dawn
Never knowing something’s wrong, never recognize
In the great bird’s eye.
I was smoking dope with Lincoln
In a Chrysler on the hill
In the no man’s land where spirits seem to go
Cause it’s all in who you know.
Honest Abe he cracked his window just a skosh
To breath, said it’s time that we both leave,
You and me and Billie Jean
Cause we’re just sliding through the ether in a dream
And nothing’s what it seems to be to me.
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Hazy Morning
03:59
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Hazy morning
Jogging my head
Remember what you said
That God is either dead or maybe coming
Right up behind me.
Hazy morning
We were driving that line
Feeling so fine
Never so blind as the day I let you
Leave the fold.
So if you’re ready to roll with us again
There’s a bright white light at the tunnel’s end.
It was back in 1998, the shots rang out
And the old world passed away.
Hazy morning
It’s a filthy kind of lie
Let the voices tell you why
Like a knuckle in your eye try to hold on
To the razor’s edge
Hazy Morning
We took her to the van
Parked behind the grandstand
Brown grass growing
And the blood was flowing like a backwards rain.
So if you’re ready to roll with us again
There’s a bright white light at the tunnel’s end.
It was back in 1998, the shots rang out
And the old world passed away.
Hazy morning
Whatever gets it done
There’s a hand for every gun
The voices coming hard and fast
A trench coat tailored for the witching hour.
Hazy morning
Now I’m left without a place
A country or a face
No way to replace this religion
Of my childhood haunt.
So if you’re ready to roll with us again
There’s a bright white light at the tunnel’s end.
It was back in 1993, the guitar’s were slaying
And the old world passed away.
So if you’re ready won’t you roll with us. With us.
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