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Some time last year we thought we’d go that way
But there’s a man with a pocket knife
Oh, convincing, it's just too late
There are people in theaters
Promised the silver screen
Don’t you misbehave there
Where you’re surrounded by light
There’s a man with a pocket knife
There’s always something somewhere
But I
Don’t think of
This
Other thing
That you do
No,
I don’t
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This mess that hangs loosely from my shoulders
It’s a civil war of our memories’ decisions to mean different meanings, yeah
I contort
But is this some kind of romancing
That I haven’t seen before
Before…
Before…
I think I’ll lay down here
At risk of warmth and comfort
Resign and turn myself in
Or make another effort?
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Parking Lot Polemics
04:02
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Something’s happened
I’m not where I’ve been before
It sees me sitting
Forceless spine curving towards
An open passage
Of shapeable light
Forming stories
Which enjoy being told
To formless people
Who don’t seek guidance anymore
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Diamond Cutter
02:29
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Step outside
Just for a minute, friend
Hear me out—it’s been tough
And here’s what I’ve got down
She says “stop—
I can see you like a diamond cutter
You’re rough around the edges
Unorganized
With running thoughts
There are three steps to solve this…”
(1)
I need to know how to say it—
If I can’t…
I’ll take a diagnosis I’ll only half understand
I want to speak your language
(2)
I’ll think of pop song singers
Oh, they live to sing about it
They will even dance for me!
They make maps of our problems
(3)
Once I have taste
I’ll make my friends
Among like-minded company
I won’t stand out
(Stand out)
(I’ll be solved!)
I’ll be solved!
I won’t stand out
I’ll be solved!
Ooooooooooo solved…
I won’t stand out
I won’t stand out…
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The Sense of Humor
03:29
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Point me in the right direction
Take a sip, take a hit
But
There’s
Something
Else…
A quick history of me in one thing
Trynna get a story made out of me
I could actually use that
All my efforts end in purchasing
Another hat, another part of me
I could actually use that
We were talking in code—still
About opening up
This is how nothing happens
This is how nothing happens
We tell the truth, yeah?
(Nothing happens)
What I don’t mind is
A little bit of story-telling
Telling things as they are
Is quietly staring
At the same scene unable
To express relation
About opening up
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Stories stop
It’s not mysterious
John is on his way home
He passes his old school
But there’s no magic as he’d expected
There’re just bricks and windows
A lawn too easy to see across
The traffic, the traffic
The traffic and the firefighters
It’s not mysterious
There’s not a story here
There’s not a story here
(Where do I go?)
The traffic
The traffic and the firefighters…
Firefighters
(Where do I go?)
(It’s a sign)
(You’re do or die)
(Where do I go?)
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Your soul mate is wrapped up in too much description
But you want a friend?
With with whom you’d stand against the world?
That kind of person…
Who would philosophize your disgrace
But it doesn’t really work like that
No it doesn’t really work like that
Let’s be cool
And think of one another, now
Let’s be civilized
And reflect on our own positions
(It’s not impossible)
It’s not impossible
It’s not impossible
It’s not impossible
You’ve been tangled in your words some time
(Your disgrace)
You’ve been tangled in your words some time
Working on my english—
Working on my… english
You’ve been tangled in your words sometime
(Your disgrace)
(It’s not impossible)
Here, I’m alone
With everything all of the time
(It’s not impossible)
You’ve been tangled in your words
some time
(It’s not impossible)
Here, I’m alone
(ahhhh)
With everything all of the time
I, think of pop song singers
I, think of pop song singers
(It’s not impossible)
You’ve been tangled in your words some time
Here, I’m alone
But I am just a damaged good
(Impossible)
If I am just a damaged good,
You’ve been tangled
You’ve been tangled in your words some time, now
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We’re not there yet
But we’re dancing in the living room
Picking our future like a rug
We’re being careful, but decisive
We’re being people that we are not
This feels optimistic
While I’m sitting in the corner
Pulling hangnails
How could we have missed it?
Rigged doors with school alarms
They don’t stop ringing ’til we call ourselves in…
I might be lying in a fantasy
With the most beautiful woman!
Together, we dress humbly
To prove our comfort with cool
Come with me!
Won’t we go out tonight?
This place we’ve built together—
I could die here
Which is to say that really love it!
That I really love it!
That I really love it!
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Stories I have written
Feelings not yet had
You see,
I had a plan for this…
Washing machine windows
Works in progress
To be a pop song singer
And be unknown
Tell me I’m not good enough
Tell me this could could work
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With Feeling
01:42
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I don’t know
How to make this
What’s the recipe?
For contentment
What’s your number?
What’s your number?
…Your name?
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Holiday!
04:03
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It’s so easy to say you’re sorry
But it won’t go away
(No, no, no, ah!)
I don’t wanna hear what you have to say
I don’t, I don’t
There’s a dream I have—
Where you go somewhere
So far away
I stay right here
For a holiday
Like I’m sixteen
Spring break at home
I’m all right
You’ve the really good friends that don’t know you
Don’t you get too proud
What am I singing about?
It’s just a melody!
IT DOESN’T MEAN A THING!
It’s here to make the song better!
I’m not even thinking about where it goes
Now I am!
Yes, it’s spring, it’s spring in
TEN DAYS!
The clocks, speed them up…
The clocks, speed them up!
There’s a dream I have—
Where you go somewhere
So far away
I stay right here
For a holiday
Like I’m sixteen
Spring break at home
I’m all right
I find it easy
To think of other ways this could have turned out
But coded messages and polite displays
It’s too much, it’s just too much to— stop now
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