1. |
No Metric
03:17
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No measurement, no slow descent
No accidents to intercept
No shooting stars, no chalking up
No explanation's good enough
No tarot cards, no crystal ball
No stars aligned, no jesus christ
No law repeals, no walmart deals
There is no time
The clock's hands are up and its shoulders shrug
So here we are, right where we were
Where we will be
For all eternity
It's the year of the trial-sized dove bar
To begin again is to end the last time you began
To begin is to end
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2. |
Seen/Need
03:07
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All of my thoughts are going bad
and all of my time is spent in
between what I've seen and what I need
there's a fox around the yard
with my god around its neck
a clever thought
i'll kill it the first chance I get
what i've seen is what i need
there's a fox around the yard
with my god around its neck
a clever thought
so i guess it's not a test
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3. |
Empty Theatre
03:11
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kill the stage lights, pull the curtains back
you will see there are no actors
and the sound the pulley makes
and its echo are in unison with intention
all those memories you had never happened but you keep them here 'cause
something's feeding off their luster
and nothing seems to ever disappear here
while we're here
i'm a grateful contradiction, you never seemed to have reservations
all presence and jest
i never aim to be consistent, just more aware
i hope you understand i keep you with me everywhere I go
but something's feeding off this luster
and nothing seems to ever disappear here
while we're here
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4. |
Underneath the World
02:49
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plastered to the stall
with her name under your cuff
trying hard to keep me
from seeing you cry
i was dragged out
the sink ran and the lock clicked loud
time was charity
made eyes at a white trash queen
i never told her why i sought her out:
to clear my conscience
i just needed
a new taste in my mouth
i got what i wanted
stumbling in new-old-friend glow
a few blocks to a vacant home
i caught my reflection in the bathroom mirror as the cabinet closed
soon as we got what we had come here for
looked again i saw yours
underneath the world
where the river sings and curls
with nothing but your silence
i saw you for the first time
i'll never let you do this alone again
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5. |
Extra Hands
03:30
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my extra hands belong to a hungry ghost
that needle mouth can't pass nothin' but it still grows
i find if i don't talk, then i don't feel so lost
but it's folding maps in my stomach and trying to walk through walls
i strive for balance as if i just learned to walk
and i listen closely as the sun sets on the porch
i hear if i don't stop, then i will fall off
and she sees the bird inside the knots in the floor boards
is it wrong to think all the symbolic things were put there for you to see by something you can't be?
jealous entropy
arrested by reward
nostalgic for the present while entranced
with the
comfort of being in awe of
so if it falls apart, well then it falls apart
but you must accept or you'll forget and do it all again
yes you must take the veil
and hope the kickback fails
to catch your soul as you
find your open door
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6. |
Dynamo / Our Book
03:46
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one week, now my dynamo is a highway hotel moon
scarlet letters phase in full bloom
we're turning the same page now
we're turning the same page and i can't wait for you
i could take you all the way, or i could leave you just the same
with no room on fire, it's just perpetual motion
one week, and the search for seizure yields no apathy
scarlet letters phase out the muse
we're turning the same page now
we're turning the same page and i can't wait for you
you see so clearly so tell me, where's your acceptance?
you see so clearly so tell me, what's the exception?
we're turning the same page now
we're turning the same page and i can't wait for you
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7. |
Spine
04:56
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oh, i know
that i must
decide if i
want to stay
but i'm thinking
if i must ask
well then
i should leave before my heart forgets
again
oh, i know
that i must
decide if i
trust myself
and what i felt
because if i can't tell
i'll try for form and never find my spine
oh, you say
that everything
just has its place
and i agree
inherently
but i disappear
in public regularly
it's not me
this whole thing
we share death
for a holiday
vomit in our sleep
how our hollow ways
stuck to the pan
while we were waiting
around for the plan
we know the lock's been picked
but we never got it fixed
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8. |
High Point
03:02
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walk to the water, lay intentions face down
and hope for rain, or at least a change
now walk to the car and keep your doe eyed face down
and hopefully he returns again
high point
i've got a friend who says i'm way too obvious
i hate the veil and the taste of bait
and i've got a suitcase where i keep the highlights
of the past five years
and i think the day's come to throw it off
high point
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9. |
On the Lam
03:27
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still on the lam, her soft whisper is
indication that the season's shift
may bring about the end of the war
it's still too early to talk
start in the spring and end in the fall
your shoes reflect your bad posture
they're worn in a way that suggests they'll hold up
so long as you correct your faults
you always seem to end up right where you were
it all seems so different, you wonder how long it's really been
something has happened, you are where you are
nothing will be how it was
patience is taut, your luck is on high
neither factor is showing signs
of where their values want to reside
for now you just exist
tomorrow you'll be a figment
in the periphery
of a passersby
who's watched the spring of your life unwind
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