1. |
empty the governed
00:37
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we designed the phone
not to encourage anyone
to look inward
empty the governed of expectation
the years fly by without you and some day i will doubt you ever were around
the memories are fading i just have to keep waiting
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2. |
church day
01:23
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water to sky hair to lips,
i get it now! after all of this
it never rains like this anymore
should i put deodorant on or my blazer with the condom in the pocket & i wear my ring
i’m in the pew, you’re in the aisle as god taps on the mic and says
“is this thing on?”
i told that jerk to HOLD MY CALLS!
i love you a lot but everyone else on this planet is a idiot
i love you a lot but everyone else on this planet is a idiot
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3. |
same same same same
01:14
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if you are what you stand up for
it can’t help me understand more
me me me me me me me me me me me me
‘cause the trees let the leaves fall
and they don’t move at all
and i’m the same
lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame
i won’t always be able to hear what you say
i’ve gotta leave anyway
oh god i’ll be away
away away away away
sometimes i just wanna be called by name
i wanna know if you met me today you would love me the same
same same same same same
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4. |
losing days
01:54
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i’m losing days so fast i shake my head ’til it explodes
it is strange to know that only a few weeks ago
i was looking through chair legs, a kid at an adults party
we smiled at each other across an invisible boundary
i find love in the decisions
i dip into my stomach like i’m at a bat mitzvah making a wax hand
the walls between the worlds grew thin
and I felt everything
i’m not mother earth i
require blue light. i
strew garbage. i write
grocery lists, make appointments.
i’m stunted in my growth. i hate to hear the truth.
my skin is filled with dust. i smear creams on my
fine lines. i swear it’s not my
time!
adam and eve are trying weed
in quarantine with fancy cheese
it’s not like i’m giving up just
that i never tried to begin with
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5. |
great scraps
01:36
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Oh great scraps of new york, call me up
Ribbons, letters tie your knots around my legs
Pistachio shells and shells of eggs
Single rides, coffee lids, signs of life
Lost shoes, mittens, waving in the wind
All the love in the world is getting in touch with me
Reaching across unrelenting car horns
I kiss the feet of traffic lights
The yellow is my sun, it tells us to speed up and slow down
We sail a sea of scratch-offs drained of hope
We spread salt on the snow
Make it like a soft pretzel
i’m new york my dog wears shoes
What are you? What are you?
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6. |
a soft dog
01:44
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a soft dog fuzzes out
like the river cold spikes up
how a good song brings out in you
what you could never say but still doesn’t give you the words to
of course i let the wind whip the tears out of me
or maybe it is a dream
you’ve been over it for quite some time
it’s news to me that you’re not mine
but i don’t care ‘cause deep inside
i always knew but had to try
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7. |
ouch
00:53
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Ouch, as usual
I'm here unheld
It's not weird I felt alone all along
In the fog, in your songs
So now I feel real in touch right here
You don’t know or care
Like before it's not even strange
I feel happy I feel full my life is completely in control
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8. |
leaf doctor
02:07
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sex is cool but have you heard of:
if i hadn’t discovered it i could have been
a leaf doctor?
i’ve got eyes for day but I just waste ‘em on darting around
and the only thing I've found is i’d rather be at home
i busted some capillaries over you
i even lost a friend or two
oh lexie
you don’t even know the best me
oh lexie
i wanna give you the best me
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9. |
devil's glass
01:46
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oh the sentence he said it got stuck in my head
and i think that i let it define me for years
now i’m filled up with lies and they’re making me cry
when i lie down flat they fall to one side
well i’m taking a stance against the devil’s glass
where i don’t look in it but i want to exist
oh devil’s glass, oh waterpark
it’s everything, it’s vivian
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10. |
feminine panic
01:53
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i watch your step
you see me cry
you send it back
i wonder why am i
just not tough enough
watch me closely, no lessons
nothing learned no forgetting
maybe
if i were a kid
and that fear, that panic which swells
in ladies’ stomachs and fills powder rooms with sweat
which leads us back to powder rooms
and then to dinner which we cannot taste through the panic
so you can either needle point your life away
or you can throw the hair dryer in the bath tub
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11. |
self as body
00:47
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everyday i break into this place
and i break everything that i face
am i sick or is life just this lame
eat and shit, let it all drip and ache
walk on in and fuck everything up
should i be allowed near anyone?
and i’m not even sure about this body
where it lies when i’m not in it
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12. |
shit i tried
00:47
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i tried meditating
i tried annotating
i tried hypnotizing
i tried vaporizing
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13. |
parts left
02:09
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i’m home take off my watch
its easier to wash my hands without it
i’m sad that you don’t believe in love
thought if anything could change that it was us
smoke it to the filter, throw away the key
give it all away or give it all to me
the difference between justice and revenge
is there's no justice in the end
in a smaller town than you tonight
i wanna lose my cool with you
i wanna fight
i got plastered with a prophet when i thought i was straight
your glow gone rotten through and now i’m gay
part of me so intensely yours
parts left are meant to be mine sometimes
losing them seems not to matter
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14. |
twister
01:48
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just because i say it well it
doesn’t make it so doesn’t make it so
make it like a song erase the
wondering and woe wondering and woe
where are you now? where are you now?
where are you now? where are you now?
elbow like a pillow but you’ll
never understand, thought you were my friend
face it in the stairway, stare it right in the face
every single day, never get away
you come out as often as the stars do, its hard to
follow the blue rain that hits my windows, so do you
where are you now? where are you now?
where are you now? where are you now?
feelings are feelings boo follow your twister before it follows you
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15. |
tv sudoku
01:11
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Waste the whole summer away
Sitting at a cafe
Drinking some iced coffee
I never write anything
Everyones asking me
I say I’ve been busy
I play sudoku
I never told you
That’s all I ever do
waste the whole weekend away
Trying to watch tv
I say I am busy
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16. |
limb
01:44
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you’re the one who knows
my favorite place
you can feel what’s on my face
i like what i see in the mirror it’s me
you like it too, you can feel the truth
i’ll see you in two weeks
i’ll kiss your pink cheeks
at a museum or library we could get so solitary
in the beauty do you like to be so alone with me?
winters gonna be long
i can feel it as i write this one
we could be so warm if you would just come home
it’s a lie that if you stay in you can’t go out on a limb
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17. |
i do 1
01:11
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i don’t wanna love anyone who isn’t you
but also i’m just afraid to
with everything to prove
i ungracefully move
when did i become this latest version?
still just as pubescent (as ever)
loneliness as incessant (as ever)
ronnie won’t you give me a present (ever?)
just say i dooooo
just say i do
i do too
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18. |
throwaway
00:54
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theres nothing wrong with it
i’m just throwing it out
nothing there to try to fix
you would just let me down
i was just being fake
when i said i hope you’re good
didn’t tell you how i am
didn’t think you would
you want monogamy
just to control me
it’s not about love
you hardly know me
you
me
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19. |
heed the call
01:05
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water and a sweater vest
i am doing my best
will it always be like this?
all i can do is heed the call
when you put it out with power
you know i’ll follow
i just wanna feel normal
i’m not the same as i was before
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20. |
god, man
01:08
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God, man
She’s always doing experiments on me
but I’m a scrap next to her real art I think
she made the sky, coffee, pain, equilibrium
Really nice curves on that lake that she did
Really sweet warmth beside me when you come back to bed
All the time I’m looking around
A real artist makes you feel sometimes like She made it all for you
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21. |
sky magnet
02:09
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my heart aches at every throb
renovate my brain while it’s dreaming
Vision was painting with clay
an enormous cafeteria tray
what a way to examine how you felt
to converse is the inverse of it
slow train i’ll never take again
to sing harmonies with someone who’s not even my friend
but i’ll always call it as it is
though it gets harder to see it
you never know what they’re feeling
the urge to hit snooze on everything
my heart aches at every throb
some sky magnet has me in its pull, unearths me
i’m just trying to stand on my feet
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22. |
abigail
00:40
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i’m just trying to know what i wanna die surrounded by
of all the books i’m halfway through i could build a staircase up to you
half a memory is tugging at me
abigail i want you to be alive with me
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23. |
furnace
01:02
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i feel something for ya
it’s hard to ignore ya
i’m winning around ya
i’m lucky i found ya
you’re making me late
all ‘cause i hate to say goodbye
i tuck myself into your eyelids and skin too
i’m comfy within you
you think i’m a furnace
but isn’t it worth it to sweat all night to be close?
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Frankie Cosmos New York, New York
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