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The Offer
03:29
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“The Offer”
Beautiful morning to get paid
or let you down
Do I refuse the offer
Responsibility is crowding me
Do I refuse the offer
I don’t recognize the men outside our house
Do I refuse the neighbor
When your anger tangles with your empathy
You’re beautiful eternally
Beautiful night to get wasted in the heat
Do I refuse the offer
It’s I’ve done for 20 million weeks
Do refuse the offer
Pariah was wasteful
Pariah was right
I want a reward for what I did last night
Do I deserve an offer
When your anger tangles with your empathy
You’re beautiful eternally
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Events
03:16
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“Events”
How can you handle what you know is not worth missing
The predator strangles those without a chance to listen
All thoughts exist
Just like a drainage ditch
To let the dying know their dead
Unstoppable coffee stain
Inevitable greater pain
Whatever disaster awaits
Might as well be on it’s way
“Cause all events exist
Just like a drainage ditch
To let the dying know their dead
Is there a window for everyone?
Hey, that’s your final thought
Invisible power tools
Undo all the invisible youth
Whatever was once now is
Collected in invisible screws
All the parts exist
In every piece of bliss
That knows the dying that’s in you
Is there a window in everyone?
Hey that’s your final thought
There is no immortal voice
There is no heroic chain
There is no immortal choice
The cancer is just what came
And every dying wish
Is a defiant bitch
To let the devil know your name
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“Our Debt Is Sealed, True Love Knows Fear”
I see you wander through the rings of your skull
We’ll find the kingdom in the labyrinth, love
On paper all this dreaming and ambition
goes in circles ’til you’re undone
But you wanted me to know
That it’s laced with something good because
Our debt is sealed, true love knows fear
Relating dreaming and collecting a mess
Why bother bleeding what you’ve already bled
Simple, entertaining
with the complicated leanings of a pop song
But you wanted me to know
that it's laced with something good because
Our debt is sealed, true love knows fear
I want a stranger who can play peek-a-boo
I want a baby and I want it with you
I’m hoping that I’m soaking up
all of your compassion like a black sponge
Our debt is sealed, true love knows fear
But you wanted me to know
that it's laced with something good
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“Whatever’s Left, I Guess, Must Come”
Well, none of these symptoms suit me
And none of these strangers call
Have you had such little to live through
That is took so little to fall
For what were you waiting to happen
For whom were you waiting to save
There’s a way to rule without a kingdom
There’s a way to go without a grave
There’s a way to blame without a finger
Pointed at the thoughts that you’ve betrayed
For what were your waiting to happen,
For whom were you waiting to save
Collect your scabs and fall down easy
There’s too little too late to own
You’ve priced yourself out of your misery
Whatever’s left, I guess, must come
For what were you waiting to happen,
For whom were you waiting to save
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5. |
German Bar
03:22
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6. |
The Fence
06:09
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“The Fence”
Why don’t you tell me what the purpose is
When you’re walking with your back to it,
through the garbage ’til you hit the fence
All pleasures and passion
Everything beeps for you
Over prepared, insecure
What was it that this flesh was for
And from the right angle
Anything speaks to you
Be sure to make the chorus loud
Hard-stop the song and hear the crowd
Why don’t you tell me what the purpose is
When you’re walking with your back to it
And before you know you’re climbing it
I’m still learning how to need
What you fed to me
Like a dog who has the bite
without the teeth
Now if I could be your joy or hopelessness
I’d take a rock and hit to moon
And let the evening bleed for you
You claw and your tangle with the other half
The mirror only multiples
The perversity you wish to hide
Give it up, pour it out
There is no witness here
All associated are happier
Assisting other customers
Why don’t you tell me what the purpose is
When all associates are currently
Assisting other apathies
You gave birth to a thief
On November 19th
Like a dog who has the bite
without the teeth
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7. |
Bury Deep
04:03
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“Bury Deep”
I see:
The night is bringing down the sun
And I taste salt
Like I’m sucking where a bee stung
A man wakes up with a throat of sand
To choke away a life he says he can’t stand
Now every window that I look through
Moves so fast that I can’t seem to reach you
I will forget every sin that I regret
I’ll bury deep every lover true or cheap
It’s worth the pain
Sweet life it will remain
Now the streets become all stale again
I’ll smile cold
And let darkness steal an old friend
I’ll taste your love when I get home
And your lips will know enough
To speak what I know
Now everybody that I look through
Moves so slow that I can’t seem to touch you
I will forget every sin that I regret
I’ll bury deep every lover true or cheap
It’s worth the pain
Sweet life it will remain
What a nameless place we’ve known
Where strangers lift the moon
I will forget every sin that I regret
I’ll bury deep every lover true or cheap
It’s worth the pain
Sweet life it will remain
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8. |
Daily Growing
02:52
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“Daily Growing”
I am hanging in the balance
Like a hammer on a hook
Heavy, but in power
With a presidential look
What is a second coming
without suffering again
Without suffering again
You want to be yourself
You want to be yourself
But all you can see is
Everybody waiting just to be
If you want to wander the planet alone
You may find that I’m your kind
Well if coffee is available
I think i’ll take a cup
And if you need a hand
I think I can adjust
My attitude is changing
Daily growing up and down
Daily growing up and down
You want to be yourself
You want to be yourself
But all you can see is
Everybody waiting just to be
If you want to wander the planet alone
You may find that I’m your kind
Creative and endearing
And we get to share a bed
According to a study
I should love myself
My attitude is changing
Daily growing up for you
Daily growing up for you
You want to be yourself
You want to be yourself
But all you can see
is everybody waiting,
everybody trying
and everybody living just to be
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9. |
Pesos (In Traffic)
03:41
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“Pesos (In Traffic)"
I’m waiting on you
But I’m cool without food
In pesos or dollars
I’d pay for your release
She came into my life
Then we learned to like wine
We shared that, we’ll share this
Now I sit in traffic
Now I sit in traffic
I’m still in traffic
I text you where I’m at
Then we meet and we kiss
Then I know I have it
Yeah I know i have it
If future is female
I’ll know where to find it
When day bends to dinner
That I will make for her
If that takes my power
I can’t live without her
But I never had it
Like the cars in traffic
Like the cars in traffic
We breathe in the morning
And think of a baby
She’ll vote and she’ll love me
She’ll purchase and live free
This timing in crisis
The system is savage
I find it unlikely
I’ll return the empties
I’ll return the empties
Are values so fluid
Or have we been ruined
You’d tell me, I trust you
You’d tell me, I trust you
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10. |
Smart Enough to Bleed
05:14
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“Smart Enough to Bleed”
In your restless little world
There’s a coffin for your dreams
You can taste the grief that’s on your tongue
And you spit it through your teeth
You can take the pill and hope for ecstasy
When you’d rather be anyone you see
Your fire is with me
You’re the power, I’m the glory
I will walk you to your grave
I will promise to lay next to you
But you were born to be betrayed
We can make our love in chains and slavery
When you’re far from you expected you to be
Your fire is with me
I’ve been looking for the future
In the landscape of the past
But the sea is rising quickly now
And I’m losing my grip fast
You can raise your arms and hope that it’s a dream
When you’re far from where you expected you to be
Your fire is with me
There was a time I told you stories
All about the “Honest Man”
I sang you all his promises
And I sang about your Dad
Love knows what i envision us to be
If you bite it hard, then it’s
smart enough to bleed
Your fire is with me
Will you ever light any candles of your own?
Will you ever sit and finish that old song?
Will you ever raise the money that you wish could build a home?
You don’t know
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