1. |
Aching Beautiful
02:30
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Pot of tea
And dog-eared Leaf
Under foot
Little sound
Impatiently
In groups of three
Aching beautiful now
By the window
Stand and watch the clouds
Hope a car comes down
Who would be getting out
What would they be saying to you
Washed in red lamp light
Watch them fade away
In the tire’s wake
Tail light’s gone
Draw the curtains now
Now
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2. |
Practice Stress
04:24
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How many of you
Want to party hardy
Have a seat at the bar
Until some tables open up
Well until then
You can
Check out our menu
You can call it a preview
Of all the mishegoss to come
In this interminable summer
How do you get there
You wanna be out in the hall
Out you stickers on the wall
Stick it to your principal
How do you get there
You can’t get out without a pass
You carry water for the trapped
A sip for every ballot cast
How do you get there
Your skin was alabaster
You hands were telecasted
You mind was oh so plastered now
You never once considered
Just how you’d babysittered
Up down the block
Around the world
Up with the dress rehearsal
The blue green infomercials
Go ’til you hear your parents stir
Make it excruciating
With pitfalls like the real thing
Around the world
Around the world
It feels so wrong
To wait so long
The whistle calls
And it’s over the top
How medieval
The serfs and the peasants
You call Mr. Sellack
He’ll only help you if you craw
I’m sorry to tell you
But your account is overdrawn
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3. |
Half Steps
02:39
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Couldn’t be more candid
Couldn’t be more clear
I’ll race you to the end of the driveway
And watch you disappear
All your friends were watching
The bishop brought me beer
He had me mated by the end of the hour
So it was like you were never here
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4. |
Does Not Matter
03:53
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Scrolling past my liquor store
All those barred and buzzerred doors
Where my high school went to work
Hear my high school’s so much worse somehow
Behind a pay wall come and see
And check that assiduity
Gaze until your eye’s content
While your jacking up our rent again
This town loves me no more
Was it even a town at all
Well I don’t know
But it does not matter
Nothing matters here
At a Wawa
Eat my lunch
A swimming pool the parking lot
Cause there’s nowhere else to go
And the tears have got to flow somewhere
A dead pixel on your screen
A bit naive but ever green
And I’m hiding in your trees
And I’ll hobnob with your leaves
This town loves me no more
Was it ever a town at all
Well I don’t know
But it does not matter
Cause nothing matters here
Don’t love me now
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5. |
Goodbye Flamingo
03:56
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Well there they go
Goodbye flamingo
I’ll be here
’Til next year
Just swimming round and round
A silly girl
Hurling Triscuits around
For the squirrels
What a world
If they see me limping hope
I swear I’ll
Hiss and beak their nose
It’s what they’re angling for
But still I’d like to get back to the Maritimes
And PEI
But visa vie a V-less me can only fly
So high
In peru
There’s not that much to do
Honk at cliffs
And dive-bomb granite ships
Can’t complain
The Nessy of Champlain
He’s a friend
The GOAT
My Champion
Same timezone
But still I miss my home
Cannot lie
I’d do it every time
Not to deface
Take a shit on the place
Of my brith
It’s a gem
I will go there again
When I croak
But not a moment sooner
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6. |
Florida Peaches
03:05
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Hang out on a corner waiting
Hang dog on a corner wasting time
Barely lift a finger
Hoping something will arrive
Mimosas with Florida peaches
Stemware is sweating in this heat
Got a splitting headache
From their ashtray potpourri
But where will we go
What will we do
When we see them again
My friends
Each night is another broadcast
Each morning they sharpen up that line
Can’t even think about it
Man, it’s messing up my mind
Thought I’d marry a statistician
Never thought I’d be a statistic
Don’t know how I feel
Haven’t reached that chapter yet
But where will we go
What will we do
When we see them again
My friends
Open up the cask
And watch me fly around this maypole
Party’s over when you wake up
Can you do it
Can you hang on
Cause we all need a little more time
Just to hang out
But where will we go
What will we do
If we see them again
When we see them again
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7. |
Sark Jumper
03:35
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Hey Siri
Everything’s weird
This apocalyptic bingo
Has me running out of chips
All kizzy since WMD’s
And I feel the decline
Brand new summer
Looks the same
Feels the same
Retire my number
Fly it high
The league wide
What an honor
We both know long ago
We jumped the shark
How low we set that bar
In the back of a car
In a Walgreen’s parking lot
Boadiseas
On your teeth
Whips in my throat
Don’t need a chariot
To kill that trope
We both learned how to Devine
Pain from art
But how low
That bathtub ring of
Cutty Sark
Have another
Roll credits
On again off for good
Call Ripley’s
And wake up the neighborhood
No refunds
No buyer’s remorse
And those teeth look just fine
Streams of coffee
Cigarette Everest
With so much laundry
Can’t believe that I’ve seen the last one
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8. |
There Was a Storm
04:14
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Tell me
Every
Thing
My darling
Lo
And it was a dark one
And there was a storm
And the sky was all black
Hung like sackcloth
Baby no
A road sign
Decoded
A windshield
Exploded
Could not be wetter
From your cowboy catcher
Settled down
By a voice you do not know
Come around to
Alright
You will be
Alright
Count back
From ten
Nine eight
Seven
Nurse
Hand me the thing
No, the other thing
This won’t do at all
Is there anyone we should call
Is there anyone
My future
A suture’s will
The mirror
A stranger still
I wish I knew you
But I deja vu you
Count down
From ten
Nine eight
Seven
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9. |
Jan Mayen
04:52
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When you’re on your own
It is hard to know
What is brain
And what is stone
Cause it feels like I’ve always been
Where the sun keeps circling
Keep it down down now
Cause I think someone’s listening
Who left these handprints on the door
And I know I’ve
Seen that cloud before
Reminds me of
Absolutely nothing
That face in the window
A reflection
When you’re on your own
It is hard to know
What is brain
And what is snow
So you sit in your yard
And you watch the world a tumble
Through the void in your yard
And you watch the world a tumble
I don’t know
It’s the longest I’ve ever been
Held by fingers so bonny thin
Simmer down down now
And the sun just keeps circling
Won’t go down now
And I swear something’s listening
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10. |
Whale Tale
04:08
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Hot chaperone
Stretched out bandeau
Your bedpost becomes a guiro now
Hear Vicky’s tale
Such arcane whales
Even the pod see’s there’s no threat here, Keith
We’re normalizing everything
And every feeling
So let them go
Chap stick parade
Cold sores okay
Tuck in your chinos to your socks, Josh
And you’re too uptight
With your moralizing
Bedroom trends
Your reddit becomes a 4chan
Cast all your hangups
Into the sea
They’ve got some shit now that you will not believe
Your head and neck hurts
From trying to peep on
The things that people do
To fill their baleen
So grab your toothpick
You deserve a lot, Dale
Deserve the docks, Dale
Tuck in your morals to those thots, Chris
And you’re too uptight
With your moralizing
Even the pod sees that there’s no threat here
We’re normalizing everything
And every feeling
So let them go
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11. |
Creme de Breath
01:30
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Gather up your sheets in the corner
Finish with a yawn
Bathtub
Toaster
Tooth brush
On your
Pair of cords
Another fad
Too bad
See the light of the
High ball crystal
Rainbows on the wall
And you know
Birds know
How the
Morning chorus goes
And see your breath
De menthe
Never watered your hot house orchid
Forgot to lock the door
Reminder from the dentist on the board
You did your best
They were
Impressed
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12. |
County College
04:05
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I never laid it on the line
Never gambled the farm
I always tried to bide my time
Now got nothing at all
Lives of leisure
Never toil
Never sweat
Run children
From the hyperreal
And eat those bread crumbs for lunch
Seven hundred years ago
How the stakes seems so low
Paul Robeson never looked so tall
I Thought one day I’d jump off
County college
Never study
Never sweat
Already raddled by the rush
Oh, how I languished
On my own with someone else
Oh, lack the language
To describe it for myself
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