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The Mere
02:17
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I'm the architect
of my disconnect
I'm the fingers in your hair
I'm that final round
as the night shuts down
I'll only turn you in your sleep
As she turns back to me
I'm the dream that ends
with the morning spent
wondering "what's wrong with me?"
The handsome mayor
falls from favor
with the paper
no one reads
We're mediocrity
We're mediocrity
We're mediocrity
We're turning into me
We're turning into me
How could it come to be?
I'll tell all
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Nobody knows
Nobody knows you
I take
lovers over my bent and brittle knee
I break
whatever you call that -- your sympahy
I make
the hollow pride concede
yeah, I make the hollow mind conceive
there's a simple question we could ask
But nobody knows to
Nobody knows you
You are the half-truth
on my arm, desire-proof
Ready to tell the world that all is well?
You're creaking the words like rusty oil wells
They'll take what you don't want to sell
And you'll take the years they owe in hell
nobody knows you
Nobody chose to
You are the half-truth
Like a scar I smile through
oh, we're stuck in a damn loop
Oh we're stuck
just continue
forward
forward
forward
forward
forward
forward
forward
forward
forward
forward
Forward
Forward
Forward
Forward
Forward
Forward
Yes
Forward
Forward
Forward
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3. |
Keep It Real
00:45
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so take a moment
the moment
Revealed
and keep it real
keep it real
Keep it
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Breakfast at Midnight
02:35
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Firefighters know
Firefighters notice things
sleeping for the bell to ring
It's ill-begotten fame
It's not his real name
I'm some kind of game
I care because I can't
I can't because I care
will he ever
will he ever nod off?
will he ever
will he ever resolve?
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Clownishness
02:47
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I couldn't work it out
I couldn't work it out
Standing before it
I tried to implore it
but I had a sudden doubt
half-thinking roundabout
whimpering from a shout
oh, what's that quotation on civilization?
It's something I care about
trying to down it out
Trying to drown it out
disintegration and remasculation
bilious in the mouth
I have it where I want it
I have the means to flaunt it
I ask politely
I do not want to fright thee
we pussies ask politely
we do not want to, frankly
Work it out
work it out
work it out
Work it out
Work it out
Work it out
purge it out
purge it out
We're playing out
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6. |
Thinking in Tongues
02:06
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One thinks what one will
sure do love you all the time
at least eat what you've killed
I'm consumed by my desire
I know I want you
I can feel the fire
dying
every night
The moment of
still I love it half the time
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Seconds to be your lover
decades to be your friend
I made a poem of her
Wind over sand
I didn't write this ending
I simply understand
Entropy's never-ending
The sea chews the land
If this is liberation
I can't be free
My life in just one moment of pure release
Ampersand, ampersand and endlessly shifting speech
everything poisonous is locked in our reach
If this is liberation
I can't be free
Bonfire leer
Fire up an effigy
I tremble nearer
I love you
I love you still
A castle
a man of silt
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The mind is weak
The body creaks
The body seeks haven
If you can't think
It's best to sing
If you can't sing, shut up
fatehandler
There's an excellence inside you
small wonder
Let a second guess divide you
Shut up
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Inedia (Naked Girl)
02:43
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Suddenly hungry
pours a drink
asks not what she needs
Half empty
never the words
never the words
Naked girl
grows in reverse
into a birth
Naked girl
Sever, sever
It's your only lever
Better leave her first
Fuck her first.
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