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on your way
03:22
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Are you back on your way
To where you went
With your hood on straight
But the fenders bent
I couldn’t sell you a line
That’d make you change your ways
I learned in time it was never my place
But is it cool there in the shade
Is it cool if I’m a little late
Did you have a good time
Did the money spend
Did you backburn the script
Like an ex girlfriend
The women and children
preserved where they lay
Suspended in time
Hand to hand, face to face
Is it cool if I’m Pompeii
Is it cool if I’m a little...
Lately I’ve been
Sleeping on telephone wires
Crazy hanging
I should get higher
Craving satiate me
An exploding child
The bar tender’s lazy but
I like his style
You’re spinning your words just like russian Roulette
These are the things you said you wouldn’t forget
You’ve finished the novel before the ink was set
But I’m feeling good right now
Is it cool if I am okay
Is it cool if I’m a little late
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never too far
04:54
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I was a tree watching child
Lay me down ‘neath those leaves
The thoughts in my head running wild
Even crazier when I dream
River’s water to wash of the dirt
Floating float on my friend
Take away the cares of this world
Or at least give me a sign that they will end
I was lost in my own head
Walking this path of narrow faces
Looking for any reason I could run to
Looking for any reason I
would not forget
Kiss the day as it passes by
Slip drip through your hands
Waste my time with nothing but nothing
Can fulfill all of my demands
Painted sidewalk street lights
Never stray too far from home
I’ll build a sandcastle to the sky
So afraid of the Unknown
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3. |
little black dots
04:22
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He falls too easy oh
You don’t want to stay here
The signs are far too dirty for me to read in this light
Do it just to please me, oh
But you don’t want to stay here
She’s far too lonely to be with anybody tonight
Little black dots around my head
I’d love to leave this place but I’ll just stay instead
Little Black Dots in front of my eyes
Seems to me if you feel this way then it should come by surprise
Can’t get much for a dollar, can’t make much make sense
He’s sitting paying just to play pretend
She called it sleazy, he said it’s been spent
Last call last warning to make a friend
Little Black Dots, cold side of the bed
Restless sleep in tangled sheets, letters that must have been misread
Little Black Dots, good ol’ college tries
Make-up and shoes, slow bad news, bitter coffee before sunrise
He falls too easy oh
You don’t want to stay here
The signs are far too dirty for me to read in this light
Do it just to please me, oh
But you don’t want to stay here
She’s far too lonely to be with anybody tonight
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4. |
buckshot
05:03
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First time I was baptized it was in public with picture frames
The second time was in the city playing rhythms with no name
And songs about vampires and wondering where to land
I was tucked in by women the drummer in a rock and roll band
Too much of the bad juice too much coffee too late
Some misdirection or maybe I can’t see straight
A shirt for a whiskey and a game of catch behind the bar
Pull up you’re too low everyone get back in the car
For the full stop
Like a buckshot
In the parking lot of
Whatever game I was playing
It’s a small crime for a
Bottle of wine
You’re not drunk you’re just fine
Anyway like I was saying
We’re all awful glad that you came
We’ve been looking for someone to blame
It’s been a long time
You’ve been away from here
It’s been such a long time
You’ve been away from here
I took all the places that you told me to go
Drew my own atlas sealed it with a compass rose
When the moon wasn’t spinning and the sun followed me around
80 days in that damn balloon and still couldn’t escape the ground
Came to a full stop
Like a buckshot
In the parking lot of
Wherever it was I was staying
It’s the big time like a
Bottle of wine
You’re not wrong you’re just lying
But anyway like I was saying
We’re all awful glad that you came
We’ve been looking for someone to blame
It’s been a long time
You’ve been away from here
It’s been such a long time
You’ve been away from here
Running from fires it was all we could do not to cave
There’s a road that goes for miles through mountains cracked and Repaved
With a name, no one can spell but I say
Do you remember when you were afraid
of dying old
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5. |
crazy
03:58
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What I see what’s in sight oh what’s the wait
What I want is candlelight for two
Build it up spread it ‘round in disarray
Pilled on what’s lie and what the truth
But if I go crazy Baby it’s all for you
If I go crazy maybe it’s cause it’s all I could do
Go ahead and frame me nail me into place
Go ahead and frame me now
hang me on the wall for days
It’s a crime spending time not figuring out
I want to know what I don’t know
Keeps me up at night, it’s a restless doubt
Arrest the crowd I’m the star of the show
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6. |
lullaby
04:30
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Bloodshot eyes
Faded and red
There spoke a word
I shouldn’t have said
Silk tree lines
In silhouette
I’d take them back
Trade it and forget
I wish I was a bird
So then i could fly
But then I’d be someone
I despise
Slow slurred words
Running my head
I birthed a song
But it came out dead
To your ears
Threw it on the ground
I pick it up and
I carry it around
And i wish i was a bird
Soaring the skies
But then I’d be someone I despise
Wasting our time
Just to ignore
All the things we’ve done
Wondering what they’re for
But who will hear
The songbirds cries
Flying alone, the love bird sighs
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I called you last night to let you know that I’m still alive
But you forgot to pick up the phone
I got the machine, I must not have dialed right
Hey baby, are you still all alone?
I hear your coarse words now again and still
They were drilled deep within my brain
Tell me is this exactly how you thought you’d feel
Hey baby, are you still glad that you came?
I couldn’t throw out the gifts that you gave
Without sorting through shit I should have saved
Mix tapes, things I ignored but had to
be true
I got rid of your number today
I kept it in my head so I smoked it away
In clouds of billowing shades of green and blue
You’re Always Gonna Be You
Dude, you’re always gonna be you.
I had another dream about you again last night
But a sea turtle ate you but it’s okay
He offered me one but I declined a bit
Hey baby when did you turn so grey
The paint is new but I recognize these walls
I’ve been here before but it’s not the same
So I won’t repeat that which I could never recall
Hey baby I shouldn’t remember your name
So I got a little hazy last week
Coursing culled theories, it’s all sounding greek
Mistaken names and dates I swore that you knew
I shouldn’t have left but I couldn’t have stayed
Can’t tell what to draw from or what to erase
Confabulated goodbyes like look at how much we all grew
You’re always gonna be you,
Dude, you’re always gonna be you.
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8. |
fair warning
02:47
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Lovely, don’t let me down today
Love me, say you’ll never go away
Without a fair warning
Without a fair warning
When the sun won’t come out and I can’t find a friend
When I’m lost in the means and I can’t see the end
When we wake up and everything’s alright
Won’t you hold me tight
When I’m empty and I’m feeling over sold
When I’ve lost my way and my inventory’s old
When I’m holding you as we fall into the night
Won’t you say you’ll fight
I will fight
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