1. |
Seance
00:58
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[flagpole in the wind]
[children laughing]
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2. |
Ipso Facto
05:12
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I like it up
But you wear it down
It’s just friends from work
But you’re in a gown
You say I make shit up
When word gets around
But best not wait up
Ya know, I might get out
and it might do me good
And it might get me back
Wish that you would
We might mix it up
Invite her around
And make hateful love
Like the day that I gave you a key
I liked act 1
Like a four letter word with a C
War had begun
And it read like a scene
When a 2 was a dream
And I long for the lonely act 3
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3. |
Siren
03:10
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By request
I come over
I can only stay once, I can only stay once
I regress
In the coma
That the lonely sea wants, that the lonely sea wants
I’m obsessed
By a woman
In the stormy grey night, in the stormy grey night
I’m adrift
In the color
Of her lovely green eyes, of her lovely green eyes
I don’t guess
I’m in trouble
I can only stay twice, I can only stay twice
I don’t get
Why it’s always
Something everyone likes,
something everyone hides
I resist
For a moment
But the longing stays tight, but the longing stays tight
I’m undressed
I’m in love
And I can’t always say why, I've been shown this great sight
O o o
My unrest
In the rubble
on the stoney grey ice, on the stoney grey ice
I'm amidst
Many others
Strewn along this gravesite, strewn along this gravesite
I accept
I'm in trouble
I can only stay once, I can only stay once
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4. |
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A box, a car, a devil, a phone, and a knife
To lead him away, unknown
So he has but one belated last try
to advance the meaning of his whole life
An 8, a 6, a 7, a 4, and a 9
are laying inside the drawer
so you have about a minute to find
what elaborate meaning they left behind
I can hold it down
Maybe spread a rumor to make sure I'm awake
I can see the out
Cipher all the sounds
Hidden in a room in a great tomb in a lake
underneath the ground
A bait, a switch,
11 or more at a time retreating and must make shore
So your half a map will lead you there fine
But alas, you're bleeding and left behind
I can hold it down
Maybe spread a rumor to make sure I'm awake
I can see the out
Hyperbolic doubt
Filling a balloon at a rate
Soon it'll break
I can see it now
Cipher all the sounds
Hidden in a room in a great tomb in a lake
underneath the ground
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5. |
Non Sequitur
04:22
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The man approaches me slyly
As if evading someone
Reveals a hidden black talisman
He lifts his focus behind me
His face as pale as the sun
With haste, a fear in his eyes and runs
with his suitcase flung
and his blue cape on
and as good as gone
I guess if you say so
You never made a good father
You never made a good son
You never stayed in one place too long
They should've weighted your priors
They should've taken your gun
There's no escaping your firing squad
with his suitcase flung
and his blue cape on
and as good as gone
I guess if you say so
If you pull off the exigent
elusively aloof again
Few hear out the master plan
and fewer see it to the end
See to it the aftermath
is soon to be the newer path
Assume that they will all follow you
in maybe a year or two
they can feel our follow through
The man approaches me slyly
As if evading someone
Reveals a hidden black talisman
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6. |
Tickinburr
03:34
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I begin
makin' a kind of scene
I make some times
when I've had too much
when I don't bend
something inside of me will break sometimes
then I'm out of touch
lo and behold
nobody's gonna save her
nobody's gonna take her off the tracks
and I have before but I
don't wanna save this girl tonight
don't wanna take her in and vitalize
no one
no one is ever polite
I'll pretend
I've seen a lot of these but lately I've been
lovin' how she talks
and I'll resent
her subnormality is innate somehow
in her absent walk
lo and behold
nobody's gonna save her
nobody's gonna take her off her back
in a halfway house strung out
don't wanna hasten her delight
don't wanna have to take her vital signs
no one
no one is ever is ever polite
and I said no one
no one has ever been right
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7. |
Unanimous
03:33
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Let's act
like there's not a knife inside my back
from the rafters there's no rope
holding up the lies inside my throat
alabaster eyes rolled back
mimic hindsight that I might lack
when it comes to where things broke
in the fallout when I last spoke
just to spite you
I'll take it alone from here
awake and alone from hearing about
it's what you handed us
just not as glamourous
Satan alone appears
debating his own inferior self
we're polyamorous
it's not unanimous
think back
once upon a time when I might laugh
as I made my half-ass jokes
you'd just grin and roll your eyes
won't last
it's the kind of thing that I might ask
that you tell my restless ghost
rather than politely lie like most
it's unlike you
I'll take it alone from here
awake and alone from hearing about
it's what you handed us
just not as glamourous
Satan alone appears
debating his own inferior self
we're polyamorous
it's not unanimous
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8. |
Parasomnia
03:38
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and you'll haunt an empty house
coz you know there's nowhere else to be
you've already been through hell
and above us
only lost belief
and you know it all too well
so well
you arose and chose, in part, to stay
but a part will always dwell
somewhere open
hopeless
on display
sell me out
sail me out to sea
coz I'd rather go to bed than sleep
kill me now
sail me out to sea
coz I'd rather go to bed than sleep
all day long
when you sold your soul you won the day
coz you're only dying once
had you known this only yesterday
on the clock it's always twelve
oh well
and the lonely slowly runs away
sell me out
sail me out to sea
coz I'd rather go to bed than sleep
kill me now
sail me out to sea
coz I'd rather go to bed than sleep
go to bed
then sleep
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9. |
Croatoan
03:24
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pseudo shaman
we made out of straw men
exquisite pleasure
beyond any measure
we made a promise
to keep it anonymous
this bad behavior
will fall out of favor
and we may not be officially right
coz we may not have initially tried
and we may not have the history right
an insane amount of hearsay
pseudo saunas
serrated piranhas
black water rapture
release for recapture
post metaphorical
take on an oracle
Chilean trilobite
baked in a pie you might try to not like
and we may not be officially right
coz we may not have initially tried
and we may not have the history right
but it made a lot of sense to me
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10. |
Likewise
03:58
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If you’re gonna make it take that long
We don't have a way to wait that long
This is kinda strange and may be wrong
But we don’t have a way to save them all
rumors of a raid back home faded
If you’re gonna run and hide again
Then your gonna be found
If you’re gonna wait that long, save it
If you wanna rule the sky again
Thank god you told me
If your gonna break it take it off
It’s another way to shake it off
We can elevate the stakes and fall
Re-evaluate your take then call
If you gotta play back home play it
If you’re gonna run and hide again
Then your gonna be found
If you’re gonna wait that long, save it
If you wanna rule the sky again
Thank god you told me
Say what you want
I can value that I may get what I want
I can tell you
It’s insane what I want you for
So now, to explain what I want…
Say what you want
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11. |
Trapezoid
06:44
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I don’t know why it’s taken so long, so long
Let a whole lotta thinking on life, go wrong
Nobody’s even there
Na na na na na
Oh well, oh well
With the world overtaking your heart, your heart
And a hindsight is breaking your mind apart
Nobody even cares
Na na na na na
Oh well, oh well
Let the state of the art surround you
That way you never hear
anything else around you
We never have to share
Anything else about you
And never have to hear anyone else out
I don’t know why I wanna hold on, hold on
But the old algorithm I liked is gone
Nobody’s even there
Na na na na na
Oh well, oh well
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12. |
Solstice
03:54
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Meet Dolores
she's a florist
and a Taurus
once a hostess
summer solstice
through osmosis
roses dry and break on their own
tire streak on the road
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13. |
Downtime
02:47
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Just say that we’re in love
We’ve waited long enough
We don’t need him around
But six feet in the ground
In this grave that we made for him
Where he can’t mess with you again
On the day that he’s found
we’ll be far enough away
They’ll never see us again
His days are numbered now
He won’t know when or how
And where we lay his head
We’ll paint his favorite red
In this grave that we made for him
Where he can’t make you stay with him
It’s to say loud n clear you’ve had quite enough
And you won’t see him again
In this grave that we threw him in
Where he can’t mess with you again
On the day that he’s down we’ll be high in love
They’ll never see us again
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Anchor Thieves Nashville, Tennessee
Anchor Thieves is an alternative rock band from Nashville, Tennessee.
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