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But, Alice
04:02
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I can paint the walls now
A new scrapbook for a brand new dream
Scratch in the margins
A 9-month collage of you and me
But Alice, listen
A rooftop is no place for a queen
We don’t know if help is coming
Can’t tell sirens from the screams
And it’s only the test of our kind
Someone who loves you less would put you,
Bring you into the light, that
I know I’m cheating you
Mother Earth rumbles
And she gratefully spits back the sea
But from your shelter
You won’t see all mankind in retreat
So Alice, be strong
Contented to live on in my heart
So soon until I know you
So soon you must depart
And it’s only the best of my life
The moments when everything’s okay
Can’t compare to the ones
That take your breath away
Alice, alibi, it’s airtight
And they’re piling on your birthright
More charred earth to break through
Behind so many moons
You patiently loom
To fly down and light up rooms like you do
With my brother’s sharp wit
Charisma, delight
My mother’s laugh
This damned world’s cries
And it’s only the rest of this plight
I’ll close out leaving nothing behind
In the rearview
A glimmer in a would-be father’s eyes
But Alice, you’ve seen through it all
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3. |
Little Versailles
05:01
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“lay down
bear nothing here, no
ease your breath
there is no fear, no fear”
She said, but I still froze
Full of terribly far thoughts
Excuses, hiding places
Only came forth when our eyes met
It was a dead end trail
Colliding words, no avail
A mind stuck routine
Justifying what’s been
Spitting out first thoughts
‘Cause silence pulled us taut
But it still spoke for us
It spoke louder than trust
It was a dead weight of air
Clouding banded stares
Lost in translation
Or maybe not enough patience
Something new broke forth
And demanded its course
Screaming what could be
All pleas stayed with me
There wasn’t much to say
That would make you see it my way
Feeble eyes don’t say much to jaded ears
What’s left for us to be?
A question floating endlessly
To which our words seem to have no say
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4. |
Damage Years
02:30
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The cries for help were quickly drowned out
By the floodgates opened in your brain
The life support we once enforced
Crumpled by the old boy’s mainframe
The lipstick stain on the bathroom floor
Cried out a cadence of S.O.S
And S.O.L’s, invitations to dwell
In the trough of an adolescent cell
You find your use
You find your purpose in the meaning
What they’ll turn you into
They slaughtered the cashcow after she
Started bleating Greek tragedies
Made her station known, her cover was blown
The suitors gone, finds herself alone
You find your light
You find it here, you find it there
To enshrine and indict
You find your light
And all this is nothing but the running down of
the trauma you were made for
As you’re weaned off by the wrinkles of time
You’ll wake up and shake off the metaphor
And on that day you know there won’t
Be enough paper bags to carry
The crushing weight of a broken-in smile
Sunken to the ordinary
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5. |
38461538461
04:01
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6. |
Drink to Me
02:58
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7. |
Hot Like Pyrex
04:41
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and so the days kept walking by
sticks start to run
you unclean flower bed
look what I’ve done
Come on do you feel it now?
Don’t tell me you can’t feel it swinging
What’s written in those palms of yours
Don’t you know what the days are bringing?
Come on do you feel it now?
What’s rattling in between your temples
We aren’t alone in here
No seeing clear
Come chase me in a field
Batter me with your dice
Too soon, sounds of
“life will have its way”
But not here, not now
Come on do you feel it now?
Don’t tell me you can’t feel it swinging
What’s written in those palms of yours
Don’t you know what the days are bringing?
Come on do you feel it now?
That little thing beyond you
growing beneath your feet
a last day to meet
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8. |
Bette Davis Eyes
05:26
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9. |
Bad Song
02:20
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10. |
In Partibus
00:42
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In the morning
When I rise
Give this crater-faced boy a sign
Are you there, God?
Yeah, am I?
Am I another prototype in
Your germline?
The king’s steeds and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Kip back together again
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11. |
Trenchcoat Warfare
02:47
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She knew that her boy had a hand in
Making a mess of everything
The moment I emerged reeking like
A long three-day weekend spent inside the womb.
As if I didn’t hear her say
“Dear, talk to him -
His teen angst is clogging all the drains…”
How great, and how wonderful you are
Born for this earth, made from the stars
You’ll burn bright until it ashes itself
Upon your innocence
It’s not that they hate you kid.
No, nothing personal.
Things might even soon get better, but
You never really know
Disaffection calling
Glory days are stalling, you
Waiving the banner of all others
Mothers, do you know where your failsons are tonight?
<<Silent weapons wage their war undetected. There’s no middle class to harvest paranoia. Latch key kids had their routine - Marilyn Manson and D&D. Neighborhood watch is on the scene. Don’t go to school tomorrow.
Or the next day. Or again, ever.
Don’t go to school tomorrow>>
Babe, hold me, look at him go
Watch him turn into a ghost
Grow older and take it out on those
That he wants to fuck the most
A fast-pass to find out:
it’s a cold world after all.
When he’s finished up we’ll cover his legs
with a funeral shawl.
Mothers, do you know where your failsons are tonight?
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12. |
Ark
03:30
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13. |
Bollo
04:46
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14. |
Circa 1937
07:22
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