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The Year Now
05:06
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In the morning I don’t wake up
If I leave it’s with my eyes shut
Honey I’m impatient as fuck
Love too many no one enough
I will always be the age of the current year
Something washed up on the seashore
Did we ever figure out what it was for
I let myself in the back door
I let myself out
I am letting it all go now
Maybe someday I’ll be wiser than I am now
When I die I hope you’ll be there if you care
I will never be more to my motorcycle man than his
Winding roads
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2. |
Try
04:23
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With the futile scrape
Of the match
The gas in tin
Doesn’t catch
With the rain all set
In the wood
The flame won’t do
As it should
Still try
Try to keep the body warm
Try
Try to save face until he's gone
Sent my two weeks in
Condolences
But I’ve had enough
Taking shit
The contract read
Like an empty hearse
Said you better forget
Your own worth
Still try
Try selling me my own remorse
Try
Try beating a dead horse
I asked you twice
Meant nothing then
To understand
The state I'm in
From karmic trees
Fall kismet leaves
When you see me
Where will I be?
Still try
Try to keep the body warm
Try to save face until he's gone
Try to sell me my own remorse
Try beating a dead horse or
Try your luck
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3. |
Lily
03:09
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I am in your room and I can not sleep
There are voices in my head saying you don’t love me
I’m staring at the photographs of people on your wall
It hurts because I know I’ll never know them at all
Something in you doesn’t seem at painful as me
It is almost as though I've betrayed my body
I’d like to think she liked though I know she did not
Thinking ‘bout our body parts tied up in knots
Lilies in my right hand
I kill them with my left
I give you what I am
You leave me what’s left
Killer on the inside
I’ll be what you want
So call me as I am babe
Your vessel to get off
Had a dream last night I didn’t understand
I was hiding from the monsters and you were one of them
I am little, I’m a kid, things aren’t very hard
I’m hunting for the fairies in my backyard
Serpent my right hand
Tight around my neck
I give you what I am
You leave me what’s left
Killer on the inside
I’ll be what you want
So call me as I am babe
A vessel to get off
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4. |
Fields
03:27
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Letters I have not yet sent
Add another to the pile
Notice their unnoticement
Make a moment last a while
In that moment, I pose a question
Will they bury me when I’m dead
With a question mark engraved
Onto the monument
To think, to will
To drink, to spill
Are to deny
A life fulfilled
To prod the ghost of days I know
I had only been so clever
Notice then a same descent
Start to put the pieces together
From that moment, into the next one
I’m at my own funeral mass
And at the service with open casket
Play pin the tail on the ass
To think, to will
To drink, to spill
Are to deny
A life's supply
To pine the wilt
Despite the guilt
Are to deny
The fields a rainy sky
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Nearly
03:26
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There is only space enough for clowns inside this car
Only that I wear my own disguise
She creaks and complains when we hit the brakes
This car is in disrepair but we'll survive
There is barely time enough in my whole life
Bid goodbye the thawing lakes of ice
There out on the porch we breathe into the rain
Watch it rise into a foggy light
So we carve a slope onto the snowy grade
Make it down a magic carpet ride
Fall into the rocky steep I nearly die
Laugh like it’s a joke for me to be alive
There is barely time enough in my short life
To incite a change upon my mind
Carpeting reality the umpire
Moons will come up ere the suns to rise
Once again I find myself awake inside a dream
Two of us and me, myself and I
Four on the floor, one in the door, a light
Out of purgatory darkly shines
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6. |
Oliver
05:13
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I don’t wanna love you
Tell me what I shouldn’t do
We didn’t not talk a day all summer
I think about it more than I’ll admit
What is it to play this game
And do you ever feel ashamed
The way I do, it's hard for you to see
That I don’t mean as much to you as you do to me
When the sky runs out of blue
Will I still remember you
The way I did when I was 18
And will you still, you still remember, still remember me
Oliver, Oliver
Oliver, Oliver
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7. |
Hunger
03:29
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I’m living in someone’s eyes
Pretending to call them mine
Long lover of things that die
Leave hunger, hold behind
Crawl inside of me
Crawl
Clear voices baiting man
Some were lovers, some were friends
Come suffer, I will mend
Eat your suffer
Come, I’ll be what you need
Come
Empty pages of what I need
Just to lie down at your feet
Love you crazy in spite of me
Ever feeding from your tree
Stay and don’t you leave
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8. |
Hard Love
06:05
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Then the light starts showing
In the back of my eyes
All this time I could have known it
You and I
We would love for the last time
But a tide bound to the shore
In the nakedness of morning
I am forced to reconcile
The need to see you fondly
For a time
Should I find a way to name
Sun turned green throughout a day
All the people that once knew me
They knew somebody else
I am seeping through the fabric
From the wound
Of the troubles that I wear
Underneath I will be there
Press a flower ‘tween two pages
In a book of token lies
All I know is what is left to be forgotten
Tucked in the margins
On the side
After all, a flower dies
You’re a hard love to let go of
Then the light starts showing
In the back of my eyes
All this time I could have known it
You and I
We would love for the last time
After all, a flower dies
You’re a hard love to let go of
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9. |
I Have a Light
01:32
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I have a light
Soon it grows
Bigger
Know it’s not much
It’s sitting
An offering
Share what it knows
If you let it
Take it if you like
Feed it if you will
My light is small
But it grows bigger
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