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You're bathing in the latest dread.
Nine-hundred words on the promised end.
Your anger and the figureheads
selling survival kits on the internet
Trading up discomfort for certainty.
Coming undone.
I don't know if I'm more scared to find out you know
or to find out you don't know
who you are serving.
Do you know who you serve?
I try to empathize with your red eyes reading in blue light.
False flag. Panic it's Pizza Gate.
it's just another day in your deep state.
Trading up discomfort for certainty.
Coming undone.
I don't know if I'm more scared to find out you know
or to find out you don't know
who you are serving.
Do you know who you serve?
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2. |
Where You Live
02:13
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I found the road you live on. Down there at the end. You were hiding again. You're a pretty bad liar and maybe I'm a pretty bad friend.
I drove home to be alone.
I knew you were fighting something, but when it comes to your family, we need you here. We need you being an asshole. We need you drinking your beer.
I drove home to be alone.
I need you here but I don't want to remind you. I don't want to find you lying there.
I drove home home to be alone.
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3. |
Sad at Home
02:51
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It's easier to be sad at home.
It's just easier to be sad alone.
I am not alone.
I'm here between unkept boundaries
and the anger he has in store for me.
I am not alone.
I'm leaning into you.
And in all honesty, I like this feeling.
Maybe there's meaning in my anxiety.
I'm leaning into you.
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4. |
Strangers / Family
03:08
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I might hide right beside you, just out of your view.
And you might never see me alive.
And I might lie to be liked.
I might die to be nice.
Let's laugh, and throw sand, and swim down into what we doubt,
but don't tell the others where we've been.
When we smile we hide our teeth.
We treat strangers like family.
Strangers like family.
When we smile we hide our teeth.
And you might never see me alive.
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5. |
Gun Act
02:50
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Old Man Cavalier—he's got two arms around you now.
And I don't like the way he's smiling.
I don't like the way he's smiling.
Unhinged Idiot—he's wrapped his wrath around you now.
An instrument to vent his spleen.
A sympathetic death machine.
And I like the way you shine.
And I like your three-dot sight.
And I like the way you fire.
And I like the way you're mine.
So I will hide you loaded gun and I will give you to my son.
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6. |
High Time
03:20
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Gimme pity in this parking lot.
Sit with me in yellow light.
I wouldn't be here if I wasn't lost.
You've got a funny way of talking.
Are you ready for the high time?
Are you ready to arrive?
One more night, just let it slide.
Tell your sisters it's alright.
I wouldn't worry if you wouldn't cry.
I've got a funny way of walking away.
Are you ready for the high time?
Are you ready to arrive?
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7. |
Grownup
03:26
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When you took me,
when you took me,
no one told me how different it would be.
It would be the last time.
And we talked about how wrinkled your newspapers were,
and we talked about how smart you must be.
And your brother there, well, he had the most curious smile.
We all have that smile once in awhile.
Once in awhile we might smile in our sleep.
I don't remember the lines on your face.
You picked me up on the side of the street.
We're sitting here but I'm still sitting there.
No one did tell me how different it would be.
No one did tell me how different it would be.
When you took me.
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