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1. |
No Cars
01:20
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+++ NO CARS +++
i’ve got some dollars for the dealer
who’s taking care of me
faces of genocidal monsters
across the currency
they all were talkers
yeah, i’ve known some talkers
had to pry them from the side of me
i’ve gotten to know the feel
of your passenger seat
and the nod of my head inching back slowly
he cruises the blocks around the park
trunk full of drugs
like an ice cream truck
for lost and luckless with a chemical tooth
hear the music
we come running up
when i walk home through a dead downtown
boarded up
it’s like staring down the halls of a sunken ship
every day i walk past a different person
holding up the same sign
outside a car wash in the dead of winter
and no cars go by
no cars go
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2. |
Good Bad Look
01:20
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+++GOOD BAD LOOK+++
stood out by the railroad tracks
watched freights come and go
and thought about the next pay check
it’s already spent
and so i go gamble with my soul
until it’s not worth anything anymore
i take one look at the people ‘round me
and it makes me want to leave
and they take one good bad look at me
as we pour out
and mix into the streets
what happened to me?
there’s no escape
you just lose yourself
and you can’t trust anyone anymore
and you don't trust anyone anymore
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3. |
B Us
02:14
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+++B US+++
half alive and half asleep
half a half
and i still feel myself dividing
i see a light crawl through your phone
so i’ll keep talking to myself
i see a light crawl through your phone
and leave
losing conscience losing sleep
losing patience
i keep losing parts of me
i see a new light in the distance
from your housing sub-division
you leave the lights on when you’re gone
a step inside and you are lost
we used to be us
i see a light on but you’re gone
and i just can’t keep talking to myself
but you know
we used to be us
too
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4. |
Never Off
02:58
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+++NEVER OFF+++
not sure i wanted to know
but as it sinks in
i want to care and so i don’t
but i’m never off
never off
a sketch i’ve retraced
when i pull it up
it looks nothing like what’s underneath
with your backs turned it’s no wonder
you can’t see around you
you can’t see yourself
constant contradictions
you move
with no direction
we sleep
but we’re never off
never off
reptile
all instinct
corporate
payed not to think
half of a brain
fear distillate
a child with a gun
raised not to love
board up yourself
wingless in flight
abort your mind
it was a thought
you took it too far
now it’s not a thought
it’s just what you are
today i hope you hate your guts
as you pace through the floor
and it won’t matter
and you won’t know the words
or what they mean
they’re lies
they spread them all
never off
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5. |
In The Blood
02:14
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+++IN THE BLOOD+++
you’re not a saint
not sure what you believe
go tie another one on
no one knows
so nothing is wrong
and you don’t want to stay
but you’re not getting away
from here
you told me to go to hell
but i’m already dead
and i’m already fucking stuck here
with you splitting rent
on a grave that we deface
with our bodies and our names
we put our money down
but they don’t let us play
we watch it get shuffled
it’s in the blood
atom bombs
stolen suns
you had enough
we had it all
and now it’s nothing
i just want to wake up and be new
it’s in the blood
atom bombs
i just want to wake up
it’s in the blood
atom bombs
smells like sewage
had enough
i just want to wake up and be new
you’re not yourself
you fear what you’ll become
you’re not a saint
you fear what you believe
i don’t want to wake up and be you
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6. |
Block
02:51
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+++BLOCK+++
i’ve been around the ones
they always talk
it’s fucking numbing their skulls
and then around the block
they always watch us on by
through the windows
so let’s make a pact
next time i catch you in the act
of something dull
we’re gonna go out of town
and spend everything
we owe them back here
cause i’ve been drinking way too much
and we’ve been doing fucking nothing
the park’s a couple blocks from here
but the bar’s closer to home
i’ve got stories for collection plates
we pass for more attention
its on
oh it’s so on
and if we talk
we talk of better days
and pray they’ll come back to us
hey i saw all the signs
i saw all the signs, man
it’s like you were bleeding out
in front of us
and i’ve got stories uncollected
secrets shoulder the attention
i sold all the places that i called home
and i’ve got stories for your collection
it’s been so long
so long i’ve kept them
it’s been so long
so long since i gave a damn about it
and if we talk
we talk of better days
and pray they’ll come catching up
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7. |
Invaders
02:10
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+++INVADERS+++
i found company
tower of centipedes
i don't want to know
why i see parts of them
in me
where are you coming from
how did you find me
i don't want to know
precious oxygen
just how much is left?
we can't share it all
i don't want to go
invaders
you’re in me
but you're vacant.
you fuck up
all my things
won't pay for rent
i don't want to know
why you waste your time
i don't want to go on
living like this
in the empty apartment
where i’m vacant
and i leave nothing to remember
i just go living inside my head
no,
how did i get here?
where did i come from?
how did i get here?
where did you come from?
how did you get here?
what did you come for?
you won't go
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8. |
Nettle Leaves
03:09
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+++NETTLE LEAVES+++
keep walking off on the nettle leaves
the trail is a scar
and that's history
are you in for a little of the action?
are you sentenced for a life
or to death with a little of their cash in
your pockets just to spend your time
on the earth
is it a face or mask?
i know it's dumb but it's the things
that were always worth asking
at the time don't your tongue
to breathe on the air
go another once around
time goes by so
fast
and i've gotten nowhere
gone
it freaks me out sometimes
there are days where i'm barely alive
just wanna get through tonight
let's go another once around
are you in for a little adventure
or do you just not know where to run?
oh, i think i caught a signal
so i've been following the smoke
on the fire
i'm afraid
i'm afraid everyone must know
i'm afraid everything makes sense
so when it's time
it's time to go
with no crown to fit your head
and no cross to bear
so i guess it's all fair
i got my ear to the wall
i can hear them saying
the innocent don't need to pray
so hey, back off me!
no superstitions
your weapons are lies
hey, back off me
it's not your life
you say, back off me
it's all a lie
hey back off me
let's go another once around
back off me
back off it
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9. |
Seer
01:42
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+++SEER+++
i need a seer to see though all
of these godless wonders
saw me bare as a boy
saw me dressed as a soldier
she was sewing dolls
like her mama taught her to do
i was bored as heaven
i was scared as hell
and i had a vision but i’d never tell
you once, you twice
cause i know you see it too
yeah i know you’ve seen it
you preach to the walls
now that the choir’s gone
when’s the last time you saw me?
i was drinking alone
had a dream in my head
i was trying to smoke it out
now it just lies dead in my skull
and it builds up,
as it builds dust,
and it builds
she feels out of touch
now that her daughter’s older
she sent all her things
to her mom’s side of nowhere
i’m bored as heaven
i’m scared as hell for you
i know you are too
does your mother read you my letters
and tell you i can’t make you better
always saw you staring off
and always wanted to get lost
wherever you’re lost
now is never, we’re lost
the pills say don’t sleep, don’t eat
you’ll live for the next ten days at least
then the pills say don’t read, don’t write, don’t think
and you’ll live forever
just like me.
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10. |
Spirit Mountain Liquor
01:39
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+++SPIRIT MOUNTAIN LIQUOR+++
left a mess
hit the road
felt like an animal
outgrowing a cage
left unknown
left unopened
left alone
somebody up above must love fucking with us
just bodies no beliefs
too far to turn another way
watched a crack grow through the window
as the trees pulled from the dirt
i’m alone
is something greater out there
when nobody answers me?
it poured from the sky
over spirit mountain liquor
as we drove our bodies through the dirt
when the storm left we were safe
but man i’m still left with nothing
and nobody answered me when i called
to say
“be safe, get home alive in one piece.”
no shelter
felt untethered
left out there with no reception
we transform
like the sky over spirit mountain liquor
as we turn our bodies into dirt
we bought a thirty pack
and drank
hell won’t take us back
today
no not today
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11. |
Halloween
04:09
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+++ HALLOWEEN+++
as i come undone
i still don’t know what to learn from it
thought i saw a soul
i still don’t know what it wants from me
when we parked your car
and scraped for drugs in the cupholders
i heard the static between your words
i still don’t know what they want from me
now
find your own way out
underneath the sun
i’m burning up, i’m burning out
and i heard a call
i still don’t know where it’s coming from
wherever we are
we try to see it another way
and it comes back around
i still don’t know what they want from me
now
you said "find your own way out"
(wait for me)
i was so afraid
and i miss it now
whatever we are…
lost transmissions
(we can’t stay this way)
two minds
one body
two minds
in my body now
i tried to think of all the things
that i could see before i die
i see both of me in the driver seat
sharing the breaths left in my life
as they disappear
with so much left unfinished
i didn’t see a soul
all i see are ghosts
now
you said "find your own way out"
the sun and moon
are just static to the stars
you and i
and static in the car
we are just static to the stars
you and i
and static in the car
we can't stay this way
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