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1. |
| 3:41 | ||||
purse your lips until they’re white
drag me kicking into night didn’t I want to be free or do I want to be right only you can deprogram only you can understand only you can take the blade and cut [the gag] from my mouth the dusty book on your endtable taught you how to make a lethal fragmentary detonator from common household thoughts you put a fistful of salt [in my eyes] this is what it was like my thoughts my eyes my face my skin my heart my bones are slowly becoming computerized |
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2. |
| 4:28 | ||||
it’s a story about
a street named "Decision?? lays open the skin with its painful incision erasure it’s time to rest erase your complicated mess a sharp dressed narcotic that drips dark red keeps you smiling when you say it’s ok it’s breaking me with breathtaking ease erasure rub me out erase your panic anxiety truth be told I never liked her around but she kept coming around between us I can hear you pioneer you whisper near you fire and virtue got to keep a light burning all day whatever happened to old-fashioned face value straight talking went out with June brides and fashion queens it’s a story about a street named "Decision?? lays open the skin with its painful incision your words are guns and they are loaded |
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3. |
| 3:43 | ||||
blue water
runs deep blue water brings sleep in the valley sleep comes easy in the valley there is no fear of sharks and since the battle's end the river flows red with blood the shark has swam upstream the shark bites everyone and no one seems to notice this gaping wound at my side the shark bites deep and red the shark bites until you're dead voices carry and I hear you watershed standing room curtain call pull it down I don't want to have to need you where are you now? |
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4. |
| 5:14 | ||||
he is the monolith
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5. |
| 3:17 | ||||
my life is diagonal lines
a satellite leaving earth behind to outer space without any tether I see the sun but I'm getting frostbite drifting past the empty vast and my head is getting light gravity keeps pulling me downward radio radio radio give my best regards in this world of broken dreams and broken voices keep singing to be free it's all behind my eyes to find a way to get away from my own demise my truth in an age of question you can tell my father the very least I tried it's been a long long trip now coming from the other side well I hope he liked ita| |
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6. |
| 5:47 | ||||
We are born
from one institution into another falling asleep listening to the poetry of steel and we are chained arm to arm pulling each other down the irony of quitting time can you really stop? inhale deeply because it's your last breath so enjoy what's left and we are chained arm to arm pulling each other seasons change from green to red seasons change inside my head |