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Our One Day Lives
03:49
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scratch me, bleed me,
my heart is weak from pumping,
but i'm all alive, mouth full of lies to live by.
the air holes gasp, incased in glass,
and you are something, apart from time,
the partner i've envisioned,
only my only day.
to my everything girl,
take this shakin' hand
tonight lie dead as darkness,
to escape this jar at last, my firefly romance.
just stay near me,
these wilted leaves will hide us,
from the second hand,
that it's certain path will wander.
the moments slip, the bell jar tips,
and our world pours like water,
to the night our quiet light surrenders.
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2. |
Last Night Lovers
03:26
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if i go a wanderin' out, lost and lonely,
without a lover in this town,
not a soul to hold me now,
and dress me down, down on you,
our east ave temptings,
the get-drunk-endings.
we are last night lovers.
if i go talkin' out loud, i swear just 'hello'
if i said it out loud, would you have me now?
and turn me up, up all night.
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3. |
Vanishing Point
03:06
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treat us like the only two, at the vanishing point of the room.
the orphan asleep to my west,has firework burns on her neck,
and i'm holding matches, i'm holding matches.
awake me for i'm falling snow,
make this frozen raindrop your new home,
as your hair sets fire to the sky,
lighting our way through the night, and on 'til the morning
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4. |
Love It When You Call
03:02
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i was still hung-over from last night's drowning sorrows,
when you called,
out drinkin' with simon, trying to leave these days behind us,
when you called.
and i love it when you call.
arch enemies crawling out of queens, and you called.
i hear you're in gazebos once again, and yea you called.
and i love it when you call.
look behind you,
let the setting sun remind you that i'm gone.
i wonder how you ever thought that we were anything at all.
what would i do margie,
without you there to hurt me with your calls?
but these purple teeth,
drunk from wine are smiling when you call,
yea even after all that,
and they love it when you call.
you're such a pretty day,
crushed up pills in lemonade and calls.
don't kiss me this and that,
save your lips for gentlemen that call,
oh i can hear em callin' right now.
and they love it when you call.
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5. |
To Talk Like
05:20
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you're poison! poison! the mirror's man,
to be chosen, frozen, born again.
the sprout, the seed, can't start clean like me.
to spring from dirty memories,
to make love like broken machines,
but mend me. hold me 'til i'm warm,
like your slender legs across the skin,
this slowly over-thinking means:
"it's a backwards life, it's a first night"
for the finding stranger coming home,
give me your past, give me your voice,
to memorize, to talk like.
and we'll talk like this...
" i followed you to the rooftop,
singing songs that brave men sing
but i don't' sing anymore."
in a gilded frame, left unfulfilled,
hung crooked by the window sill,
it's canvas torn, it's warning pours and spills,
the scars from here to june 16th,
the needle and the thread beneath,
where the naked, shaking, aimless orphan lies,
a poet, his prose numb from drink,
composed as an apology,
to the plaintive maiden, lacing up her gown.
collapse ribcage! these weighted breaths,
the weary winds at the window ledge,
where you kiss the bird,
who's breaking his own wings.
and the bird said...
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6. |
Exclamation!
03:36
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the exclamation written on my hand,
i am perched upon a van in a smoke-filled hallway,
the intoxication we held between our hands,
wrapped in brown paper bags, on an east bound L train.
the exclamation seeps into my skin,
blood cells dancin’ round the ink, and it seems i've fallen,
to find salvation cast into the reeds,
where the land and water meet, with a star-cross'd darlin'.
but darlin' the night is getting on,
you best be gettin' home.
you've got rivers left to cross, history to write,
years left to go, i know, i know!
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7. |
Melanie Wonderful
04:11
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branches speak their secrets slowly down,
from the canopy the mystery dissolves,
but leaves don't forget the rain,
when it's the first they've ever tasted,
here with me melanie wonderful,
to face the sun with disregard, for it's shining is forever,
here with me melanie wonderful.
the cadence blazing purple in our eyes,
watch the forest take the ocean by surprise.
though the valley's mate still aches with vacancy,
and the city has claimed a daughter of the sea.
now the salt’s upon my roots,
her waves wrapped around my fingers,
here with me melanie wonderful.
erase the last two lines, as we descend into the shallows,
here with me melanie wonderful.
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8. |
Treasure Map Mistress
02:34
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i paint you all pastel and hang you like a kite,
stay up talking to you every single night,
and i'd set you free, if i wanted you to leave.
i'm much too dizzy now to follow you to bed,
but I'd take your holding hand my treasure map mistress,
you hold the key...but you're the prisoner to me.
and I want everything that you're trying to hide.
tell your secrets to the only one you like.
i stumble home and bring a new girl to my bed.
you're hanging over us with eyes all closed and red,
but i hope you see, her hands all over me.
i take my medicine and let it carry me.
it's not that comforting but maybe it's what i need,
i need your face...to kiss and stay up late.
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9. |
The Snowflake Life
03:15
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10. |
Skillman
02:38
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i'm tracing red to indigo tonight.
you're my favorite rainbow in the sky.
you let go before the year had counted out,
but held my hand until the ground.
so i'm taking all this baggage off your hands,
saying all my good-byes to skillman.
locked your ribcage back up,
but left my heart inside,
just hold it so close for one more night.
when the year turns to five,
i promise i'll let go.
just keep one smile for the road.
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11. |
Kittery
05:26
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i'm still counting the hours,
watching the headlights,
listening for the door.
i'm still writing down phrases,
filling up notebooks,
with songs you won't hear.
we're still in that room.
i'm still the sort to say sorry,
but my room is too close, to be leaving your bed.
there's still thirty three reasons,
six dead in the basement,
...but i'm not like them.
we're still in that room.
it's still, at the playground at midnight.
your ghost sits to the right of a cigarette's glow.
where i'm still playing the victim,
humming just to hum, some song about 'home'.
and i know that this house will fall down in june,
and you'll be, you'll be carrying away,
take the lace from the windows,
the light from the moon,
but take your time baby...it's our last day.
just sit still. let me lift off that brown dress,
your teal plastic bracelets.
no it won't hurt a bit.
you still, you still make me nervous,
i'm drunk, but observant, i think you're enjoying it.
we're still in that room.
in the still, the darkness of rundel,
sit the whispers, the don't tells,
on a love seat long gone,
but i did, i loved you kittery,
in philadelphia, at york beach,
even if it was wrong.
we're still in that room.
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