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Bartender
05:05
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One second, I know that man
Lying beyond the point of breaking
I’ve seen the light, it bend and shiver
I’ve seen the light, break through in slivers
Serving up fate in a shot glass or two
And their eyes all on fire
All that hot sweet desire
Wrapping the maidens in garlands of the pen
I saw each and every one of them then
Hope’s false beacons, I do not believe in
But there is something when I breathe in
Is it enough when all is silent?
Is it enough, my heart goes silent
Making a case for all my regret
My sinister, sacred regret
I dance with you down the halls
Handsome as ever, my everlasting lover
I will climb with you, for with you
I never doubt I am alive
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2. |
Saint Groupie
05:01
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see you for what you really are
behind every drink, every bar
but all the profound meaning
is lost somewhere, looking
into vacant eyes
undressed and yearning
go quit your day job
i’ll take care of everything
go quit your day job, daddy,
and we’ll go see the country (daddy)
go quit your day job daddy,
i believe in my singing
go quit your day job, daddy,
and we’ll go see the country
i want you, i want you, i want you
i want you
i tried to fight it but it was inside this whole time,
this limerick, this visitor,
this loneliness burning,
this yearning,
i can’t control the yearning
so i’m, i’m, i’m undressed and yearning
i’m, i’m, i’m, undressed and yearning
i heard you were crying and bleeding from your fingertips
and beating your head in the fear of some strange apocalypse
but i’ll be right here,
i will soak up all of your tears,
and i’ll end all this pain right here,
what you’ve prophecized has yet to swallow me
the skin on the hotel floor,
it’s not the same no not yet not anymore,
but it’s beating its head
what you’ve prophecized has yet to come for me
because you’re the boy playing the girl, playing the poet, playing the prophet, playing the saint,
you don’t know it but you’re the dealer
and the cards that you’ve dealt have placed me further and further and further away from the light,
and the light leaves sometimes (x4)
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3. |
Swimming Pool Eternity
04:37
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time is a wreckless being, catastrophic and wild
i suckle on the diamond pockmarks in your eyes
your skin lets off a soft light, lilac and lily white
beneath where you see out, don’t forget who you are
don’t forget who you are (x4)
swimming pool eternity
the night skin embarrassed by the soft light
of our warming bodies
pedaling legs in the ripples
you holding me, you holding me dear
do you think that a place could disappear?
do you think there’s a world for us here?
you don’t see the work my womanhood demands of me
you don’t know the hours of my sweatpools
you don’t know what happens after night falls
you don’t see how my heart hurts
(x2)
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4. |
Blue Part Four
04:23
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cover me in blue
i need more nights spent inside of you
and i’ve never clung to anyone like that before
and i don’t have my words but when i do
i’ll be sure to thank you
and i don’t have my words but when i do
i’ll say i love you too
i’m sorry, i love you too
and i can feel my heart breaking
i can feel my soul shaking
and i’ve never clung to anyone like that before
and i don’t have my words but when i do
i’ll be sure to thank you
and i don’t have my words but when i do
i’ll say i love you too
i’m sorry, i love you too
and you still loved me when my hair was wet and when my face was bare and when my clothes were off
(x2)
and i don’t have my words but when i do
i’ll be sure to thank you
and i don’t have my words but when i do
i’ll say i love you too
i’m sorry, i love you too
(x2)
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5. |
Window
05:09
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i’ve been looking for you
in every lover i ever knew
there’s some things you just can’t do
there’s some worlds unopen to you
and i can’t force you to love me like you used to
i can’t force you to love me like you used to
kiss me through the window of time
you know i can’t stand the look in your eyes
kiss me through the window of time
you know i can’t stand the look in your eyes
(x2)
my limbs are all heavy my back’s on the floor
i can’t see the world through your eyes anymore
i’ve been looking for you
in every swimming pool i’ve dived into
you know you control my moods
turn the black into the blue
and i can’t force you to love me like you used to
i can’t force you to love me like you used to
kiss me through the window of time
you know i can’t stand the look in your eyes
kiss me through the window of time
you know i can’t stand the look in your eyes
(x2)
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6. |
Darkness Visible
01:43
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the deep green and the pool walls dyed dark chlorine blue
what i was searching for in every sloped corner of the darkness visible i never knew
gunning down texpress racing toward oblivion
how many beautiful girls write songs
how many beautiful girls scrape their toes in their pursuits infinitesimal
who are you?
every day i learn something now
but it is still a sketch swimming at the bottom of the swimming pool
wish god hadn’t moved your pawn so far away from me so soon
wish there wasn’t an eternity of tomorrows without you
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i am in the age of the tired
leave my skin hanging in the laundry room
stuck on you i feel insistent blue
like a bad tattoo
you’re my bad tattoo
if all out loud i crouched and pondered
never to find a single clue
would it be too much for you?
would it be too much for you?
i wish i could come take you up in my arms
shelter you from the storm
and then i could write and fill in all the blanks
and then i could save your heart
before, before, before you fall apart
before, before, before you fall apart
all of the graces of a yellow traffic light
do i have the time to ride into the night
and are you still there, hanging in there,
waiting for your breakthrough?
i know just how the world weighs on you
and even from afar, i insist to continue
to love you, write to you,
hold onto my piece of you
i wish i could come take you up in my arms
shelter you from the storm
and then i could write and fill in all the blanks
and then i could save your heart
before, before, before you fall apart
before, before, before you fall apart
you know my hair like bible
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8. |
The New Psalms
04:25
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i know your hands are weak
i know your hands are tired
and you have lost all sense of time
and by matter of happenstance - no, fate,
you find yourself displaced by your mortal suspense
makes sense, you’ve got the constitution of an ox
i know your hands are weak
and your hands are your bible
and you are currently draped in circles
penned in place to punish your prior life
deep sigh, god makes no mistakes
and i’m writing the new psalms to worship your mortal glory
i know that someday eventually
each and every one of us fades into obscurity
i just hope that somewhere i said something to somebody who carries it sacred within their heart
i just hope that somewhere i said something to somebody who carries it with deep meaning
i just hope that somewhere i said something to somebody who carries it sacred within their heart
i don’t want to be alone
it seems everyone out there has got someone to call their own
while i’ve been busy telling every man i’ve ever fucked i’m a thousand years older than them
and they’ve got no idea you’ve got no idea what kind of world i’m livin in
and they’ve got no idea you’ve got no idea youve got no idea
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9. |
Burnout
05:57
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burning the candle through the night
running the well til it pumps dry
i don’t know the women who’ve done this before
but i’ve been writing to save my life
i don’t know when i’ll lose track of the times
i don’t know what the future looks like
it’s what i want, it’s what i need
blurring the lines of ethereality
you’ve got the world on your mind
when you’re sick the light avoids your eyes
the shades of pink and grey sway together
to a song about the rain
i’m sorry for the words i write on pain
i’m sorry for expressing all my shame
all the hounds howling on top of the hills
and the highways that i’ve sped down
leading me here
your shadow scales the wall and i trace it
bound here, bound here, bound here
every story of sacrifice leads to an exchange
and a measurable mark on the protagonists’ face
promise me ethel, you’ll never change, not a thing
promise me ethel you’ll never change
at the end of the day as i approach the gate
my toes sinking into the lilac moonsand
will you tell me that they were all listening?
all i want is to be understood
when i’m carrying this heart around so heavy
do you see me for all that i could be?
do you see me for all that i am?
ethel take down your hair if you can
in the numbered two food crate containing euchrid euchrow
i will collect all the metallic parts to shield your woes
and the village people never understand
the woman carving marble into man
love i just need a moment to rest my head
i’ll sacrifice the day to my nightstand instead
scale the shadows of my leaning repose
save the worry for tomorrow’s girl
love i just need a moment to rest my head
i’ll sacrifice the day to my nightstand instead
scale the shadows of my leaning repose
save the worry for tomorrow’s girl
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