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Inkblots
02:15
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Throw this one away and do it in the day
Make it extra light and get out of my sight
Oh what do you think you're doing?
Has it entered your philosophy?
What the timebomb knowest
Where are two women dreamin of me?
I'm dulling your pencils every chance that I get
Inkblots mean I decide
So flip flop on all the issues, swing it both ways
I get so crazy someone should pay me, say
Where do you think you are going?
For whom is this 4th of July?
Either one size fits all
Or they're planning on doing a recall of me
Rent will be due on the first of the month
And earlier if you're complaining
Because to argue breeds ennui
The collapse is behind me
I did it extra, extra lightly
Throw this one away and do it in the day
and make it all extra light now get out of my sight
What do you think you're doing?
But has it entered your philosophy?
What the timebomb knowest
Where are two women dreamin of me?
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2. |
Extremities
02:07
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Encore give me grief
A country-fashion thing
We love to hate him to speak
Speaking of which I'm leaving
Nosferatu Tiny Tim
Where did I go wrong
Extremities all start to freeze
I'm happy to run it right into the ground
This is the number I shamefully dial for a good time
Mortal, it's my fault
Decaying into salt
Now you shall hear the extremity
Of a malcontent
Mennonites survey the land
Find no lot for me
Wedding band don't choke my hand
I kept it going, it put a disease on my nerves
To be mounted is all that a hunter deserves
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Tusk
02:12
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Stay in motion, you ugly person
You deserve a lover like you
You've been biting your style but you don't know how
You do whatever ain't true
Now my mind's made up,
Yea my mind's made up,
I might not give a tusk if you die
So stay in motion, you hideous person
Don't you dare sew a new button on
Just stay in motion, says Amber Coffman
Take the dope that you're pushing along
You're all wrong
So my mind's made up
Yea my mind's made up
I might not give a tusk if you die
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Tenderly
02:39
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I'll take that as a no from you to me
I'll take that as a no and look elsewhere for a key
Hope you know that the absence has to be
Undertaken tenderly
Strike a match to the torches on the porch that no one needs
Because it's bad if you buy something and it don't make you a smoke screen
Hope the glow wraps you roundly like a fleece
That was woven tenderly
Hard boiled egg, inexplicable
Hard boiled egg with the shell stuck on
Love and affection and money to spend
Crab imitation and peas in a can
I'll take that as a no from you to me
I'll take the L, take the thin ice if it's risking everything
I'll let you go while the canyon belches wind
Flee the headwind tenderly
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5. |
Skeletons
02:33
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Now that I know where the skeleton hides
I'll never shut up, I'll seek to terrify
Like a schoolyard creep.
And now that I know where the skeletons are
I'll never focus on washing the car
Let the hood sprout weeds.
Morbid pessimism
Lovers' partings, bonds unloved
Labyrinthine flux
A thousand shapes of blood
Now that I know how my femur was cast
I'll not take care of it, let the bone rust,
let it just implode
And now that I know where the skeletons hide
I'll not come up with mellifluous lies
To delay your grief
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6. |
I Wish I Knew
01:57
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I did everything to try to make you stop
But you would not stop and you would not shrug it off
I wish I knew, I wish I knew how to quit you.
I did massive damage to my voice and wept
Cause an image of you killed me while I slept
I wish I knew, I wish I knew how to quit you.
I moved far away and I pay for all my things
But I still can't pick the padlock on my dreams
So I wish I knew, I wish I knew how to quit you.
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7. |
Love is Cruel
01:38
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Love is cruel
And I'm leaving
Too soon
It's my car now
But you're driving
And I'm riding
With you
We were just fighting
Nothing's changing
I don't imitate
Martin Luther
Or my mother
Or my lover
I don't have one
& if I had one
We would break up
Get behind me
Captive demon
Jackie Lemmon
Play gin rummy
Dontcha call me
Love is cruel
And I'm starting
Too soon
Genuinely
Sorta finally
Does she like me?
Hell you're driving
Love is cruel
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8. |
Acupuncture
02:03
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Alright Sam you can stick me
Where I need, come and search me
I'll lay down, my meridians unbound
I can touch, I can target
But I can't fret, I'm off the market
In the end, guess this is all the love I gave
Right on red, hiding out in
The museum after it closes
So the man will never know I like Cezanne
So dear Sam won't you stick me
Anything that might could heal me
I'm not sad, and I haven't shaved my head
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9. |
Bone Setter
02:39
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He still bothers you but he lives in your basement
He proactively scares you so you won't desert him
He's the low note that plays under every chord
And gives that easy non-partisan gloom
To every room that you live in
He might be someone's father, like a frog in your throat
He's planting a red pony in the front lawn
He's the bone setter standing under every tree
Whose instruments are made out of reeds
Whose reasons are reasons against me
He still bothers you now he lives in your throat
He proactively dates you so you won't regain sight
And he's the low note you sing when your voice is shot
That makes you sound old
That makes you sound like you've been coddled
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