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Normal American Kids
02:47
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I remind myself of myself long ago / before I could drive, before I could vote / All of the time, holding a grudge / before I knew people could die just because / Shot from a sling, head full of buzz / I knew what I liked was not very much / High at the time, tied to the grid / Always afraid of those normal American kids • Oh all of my spirit leaked like a cut / I knew what I needed would never be enough / I was too high to change my bid / always afraid to be a normal American kid • Always hated normal American • Empty summer days / Lightning crazed and cracked like an egg / High behind the garden shed / Painting myself as a normal American kid • I always hated it • High as high as high can loom / Under the sheets in my bedroom / I was as high as high can get / Always afraid of the normal American kids • Oh bongs and jams and carpeted vans / Hate everything I don’t understand / High times tightening the lid / Had to get away from those normal American kids / Always hated those normal American kids / Always hated those normal American kids
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If I Ever Was a Child
02:55
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I never been alone, long enough to know, if I ever was a child / I was tied up like a boat, unbuttoned like a coat / Set free for a while • Well I jumped to jolt my clumsy blood / While my white, green eyes / Cry like a window pane / Can my cold heart change even out of spite? • I slump behind my brain / A haunted stain never fades / I hunt for the kind of pain I can take / And I cry like a window pane / Can my cold heart change over night / So I won’t ever want to touch your heart too much / or hold you too tight • I slump behind my brain / A haunted stain will never fade / I hunt for the kind of pain I can take • I never was alone long enough to know if I ever was a child
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Cry All Day
04:16
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I know that I’m unknowing / I’m never totally right / I’m going to walk away slowly / Instead I bid you good night / Another good bye, I’m going to cry / Cry cry cry cry all day • Whatever you’re withholding / I never said it was good / If I could sell it by the dozen / I’d never dare but you would / I know that you would, I’m aware that you could / Cry cry cry cry all day / Cry all night • I had a hole in my heart, I had a “company” me / Kept me whole-y from rolling / Someone into something like me / Something like me, you don’t want to be / I cry cry cry cry all day / I cry all night / I cry all day • And I cry cry cry cry all day / Cry all night / at the open mic / I sing and I stall / I fall on the knife • However there’s another / Another future to fight / I never took it so seriously / oh it was serious all right / Watch them all fight, but you can’t fight it / And I’ll cry, cry all day / Cry all night / Cry all day / Cry all night / all day • And now the hounds are calling / I see the world I find / I’m sick of your affliction but you’re just a smart ass and blind • Out of the light / Now be kind / Cry cry cry cry all day / all night / into the light / into the light / into the light
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Common Sense
03:24
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When you’re in some bad light / In the climbing flood / And you kneel before them / It’s common sense / It’s practical / Lay low / One moment I beg / I bolt / On a thousand legs / What you can’t say swallow / at the moment I’m bored / Buried more and more and more and more • I slam my finger in the door of love / God damn the judging / Stranger judge • All I want, all that I want • A burning bush or / A button to push / A chance encounter / with common sense / common sense
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Nope
03:02
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Oh I can’t say what qualifies as pain / So transfixed by the wavering flame / Mortal kings of each grade and grain erased / Oh I’m blessed • The slant may rain knows my door / Tambourines my floor in four / Laughs and shakes my folded face where Jesus mowed my lawn • Fame has legs, blazing chrome / Amputate but it’s never quite gone / Rakes in clover shown like snakes shine over rate my crime • Why kill a man when you can drive him crazy / Why make it end when my amusement always depends on the joke / Won’t you lend me my punchline • As a favor, can you be entertained so that / day I can savor whatever remains / Of hurricanes too rattled to romance massive plates of circumstances
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Someone to Lose
03:20
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Where you gonna go in your winter coat / I wonder what you’re hiding cause it’s not too cold / It’s already too late / Somebody’s gonna get you • And if I hold you to tight, someone else won’t get to • Ohhhh wouldn’t you know it, I keep it rolling / Considering no one punching a path / Facing the blast and the moon and the math / But you still never know where your soul is attached / Oh, wouldn’t you know it, ah wouldn’t you know it • I’m so confused / I can’t move / I can’t even try / I hope you find / Someone to lose, someday • Now where you gonna go like a cobra coiled / Sweating in a sweater, you’ve got too much style / But you’re never alone, someday they’re gonna get you • I hope you find / Someone to lose, someday / I hope you find / I hope you find / Someone to lose, someday
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Happiness
03:00
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My mother says I’m great / And it always makes me sad / I don’t think she’s being nice / I really think she believes that / So now I bend my days around the people, other people obey / Whoah / So sad it’s nothing, happiness depends on who you blame • I gather things can change / So maybe she’s asleep in her grave / She gave her body to science / So I’m not sure what’s in her place / Maybe roses or Tanqueray™ • So sad it’s nothing, happiness depends on who you blame • I know the dead still listen / She sings a part of every refrain / Under the weight of the living pointing a finger with no eyes to aim whoah • So sad it’s nothing, it’s absolutely nothing / So sad it’s nothing, it’s absolutely nothing / So sad it’s nothing, happiness depends on who you blame
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Quarters
02:50
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The tavern where you worked / was cold and dark as a cavern / You kept quarters in your shirt but I never could just have them / You always made me sweep / around every fly and floozie / Under booths and bums asleep / waking up they’d ask you “who’s he?” / Behind a glass without a glance / “my daughter’s boy,” you would say / While I stood there in a trance / listening to the jukebox play
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Locator
02:18
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Locator sees me swaying through the catacombs / Locator hears me whispering in my home / Even when the waves are falling, beating me into diamonds / Even when the wheels are whining / Even when the wheels are whining, something in the sky can find me / I x8, hide x8 / Here below x4 / Oh no, Locator it is I • Even when I run I’m crawling / Even through the walls and blinds and / Even when the wheels are whining x3 / something in the sky can find me / I x8, hide x8 / Here below x4 / I love Locator everywhere I go / I tell Locator everything it wants to know
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Shrug and Destroy
02:52
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Some long for the past, others dream of at last / Days continue, multiply multitudes / I wonder who destroys when no one is left, rejoice / All our statues, lullabies and rented rooms / Distances no one will go for instances no one can know / I say good night, leave the room unsatisfied / like a child, I lie / Almost alone, not quite • Crowded avenues / Homeless in tennis shoes / Sometimes I wish to set free the things that still matter to me • Days continue like a knife might intrude / I wonder who destroys / when nothing is left, rejoice.
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Have you seen any mention / It’s been quiet in detention all week / Is that so? • I saw the winter party person candidate, give a sermon / Shook his fist, like this. / Is that so? • And everyone sat as blank as a cake and in love / like a stupid lump of clay / Is that so? • I know a good armageddon might have made my day, that day / Is that so? / We aren’t the world / We aren’t the children / But you’re my safety girl • And you know we could go spend ourselves like money / Let’s pretend we’re hundred dollar bills / Is that so? • And complain everyday there’s a spider in my soup / Tired of my opinion, like everybody else / Is that so? • We aren’t the world / We aren’t the children / But you’re my safety girl • Like so / Is that so? • We aren’t the world / We aren’t the children / But you’re my safety girl
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Just Say Goodbye
02:45
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Sometimes when I’m fading / I fight to stay awake / Here I lie, come and take me • I’ll go / I will go so far / Just to say goodbye • My my in my opinion / I try, I huff and I puff • Why am I in my skin again / Well, I don’t know / How it works so I / Just say goodbye • Sometimes I see sorry faces / I don’t think I qualify / Be kind as the nights embrace us / Oh, oh, we tried so hard / Oh, as if I have answers / Oh, we tried so hard / Just say goodbye
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