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To Adam
05:22
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Out the door
You will run
Hunt the source
As the smoke to find its spark
Ethanol
Your tiny part
Pheromones
Poking holes into the dark
All I can say is don't go selling your coat
Your math and your TV ways, your pride in all the things you know
When time knocks on your back door and reveals the deserts of its stores
That day you'll finally hear the most beautiful of chords
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The Desert
03:12
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I walked out into the middle of the street
Moms, pajamaed sons, car alarms and raised regard
For getting back into the sheets
Said, "stop your wandering
Down paths of the lesser!
You're not an island
And this here's the desert."
Once I belonged here
Sail down the blacktop river
But the wind can only carry you as fast as the wind can carry anything
Better buy a better motor
And praise the gods
For this place our houses landed on
And love your pups like they're
Those saints you've been waiting on
To St. Peter's golden face
His eyes all wet with grace
To St. Peter's golden face
To St. Peter's golden face, I'll say...
Once I belonged here!
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Vole will burrow down when night brings out the wretched things
Hurried, girdled house will not deter her wakening
When the fox next comes around, he'll come to taste a feeble skin
But if she could fell this house, maybe she'd take the both of them
When vole gets on in years this all gets summarized as "co-dependence"
Hound's night on the town, sporting for some dull and inattentive game
Father left the house 'cause mother's meat's a drag upon his murder rate
If it's all just about the chase, how can he be a loving man?
Like foundlings with sugarcane, he'll gnaw upon whatever fits into his mouth
And never once think twice about that rotting smell he calls depression
Put your good pearls on
Sing your silver song
And let the dawn come not
And let the war come now
Come sit inside, in the walls built to hide
Come sit inside, and the walls built so high
Come sit inside, don't go out in the night
Come sit inside, and the walls built so high
And bide our time
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Orange Mayonnaise
02:00
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My uncle wakes up, 5:30 AM
Pours some coffee and thinks of high-school-Susie, so he gets erect
Gets online and screams at all the look-a-likes
That he'd like to rip in half
But his buddy says that he has a plan
Burn your neighbors
Burn your neighbors
Burn your neighbors if you want to see her again
Our daddies were all rapists, but showed some respect
So now every morning I wake up to pay my kid's rent
And I'm a wreck since she disappeared
But the ransom note just came in through the TV set
And here's what it said:
Burn your neighbors
Burn your neighbors
Burn your neighbors if you want to see her again
Orange mayonnaise
Orange mayonnaise
Orange mayonnaise
My president
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'Cross the road, I lost my way
My toes through dirt and desert hay
And it blows over this place
And a storm is coming in...
'Neath my soles the houses peak
As ground-cover, now covering
And it blows over this place
And a storm is coming in...
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Remus
07:47
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It's cold for the weekend, worst it's been in years
As Gloria stole a forty, some pity for her wear
'Cause warmth for her family is just so much to bear
A garden of gains for a supper of salt
So why does it feel like she's taking the fault?
'Cause that's how it comes off
Some corporate means for ambiguous ends
Just pray you win at it
They once thought that fate served Romulus
Your daddy's pal saved you and now you're a saint
Beneficent patron of low tax rates
(Just for those who have faith)
"Now, I'm a family man, but what Gloria did...!
Shouldn't have had all those godless kids
Now teach them 'for-sak-en'"
My, my, what large teeth our mother has!
We'll be kept safe
Mother, keep us safe
And that clock keeps ticking
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Vera
03:10
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Tiktaalik
04:04
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As fruits, once loosed, upon the ground decay
(Oh, decay!)
I'll fine-dine on rinds as a buffett
And all this talk and lies: "we're all broken"
But you know who I am, you know what I want
All us stinking flesh of the ocean
Couldn't give a damn to swim a cross
Catch a silly sky dear, catch it to find the day
Oh the day, what a day, and a day is...
All this talk and lies: "we're all broken"
Let's get out of it, let's go to the town
Where all us stinking flesh have made an ocean
And you know what I do for you
For you...
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9. |
Bluebird Ways
05:44
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Bluebird belting out blue hymns
Turn your megaphone downwind from me
Your bluebird ways
Go away, you bluebird ways
Bluebird flashing some feather fair
Take off all of your gaudy glare
Throw away your bluebird ways
Throw away in bluebird waves
Blue boy has telephones and ideas
Tells us how no one ever hears
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Fear of God and I don't know where we stand
River-willow your house is turning sand
And lo, green snake is creeping
Oh, blue flow, going
Dry, dry!
Fear of laws and we must fight off these men
Vera, love, come let's take cause by the hand
And no blue bloods will stop our way
Blow up the whole goddamned train
Bright, bright!
You are my new meaning
You, now, are everything
Your eyes tend to rise up
But your mind wants a boxed floor
As your eyes seek horizons
Your hands start the next war
And you don't belong here
I don't belong here...
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11. |
On Wandering
04:49
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Adria
05:49
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I fell down south twelve crows
Threw away my coat
Tired of fighting the cold
Found myself a hill above the flood
Saw you tending an oak
Just you and your garden hose
And yeah, I suppose I could grab a pail
Adria don't bow to any old men in the clouds
And that's why we're in love
Promised her I'd keep kicking up dirt
Like a pissed off pachyderm
Stampin' till I'm heard
And all the sweet birds can just squawk along
I see you stepping in time
We'll keep this whole damn Earth in line
America, I called, they said you weren't at home
Something bout filming a show starring some disco John Wayne
But if we could turn back time, I think I'd trade in all these lines
Just for one thing that could bloom
So you can keep your teams and your ratings, too
I'll keep right here by the fire
Even if it burns me in stride
And I'll drink my whiskey the day that I die
I'll take my whiskey to fly
And I won't be led on
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