1. |
50/50
03:53
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Ease up when you get
just too tired of it
don't live too long
forth even if slouched
you're ideal enough
mate with yourself
and what lies between and around
How bout here or
there it sure feels
fifty-fifty
people walking
talking music
comes out of our
ears into the
speakers waves lap
onto beach and
beach laps onto
wave and we almost
didn't notice
Everyone's allowed
to flicker in and out
some bulbs are made
just for that
our perfect round heads
voices of saints speak
in code waves beeps
Wednesday traffic
just looks more like
Sunday church pre-
cession plucking
back the kiddos
pushing past the
exits we all
seem not knowing
which one's mine or
yours or theirs and
pray not to feel
s
light discomfort
or unfairness
eternal spring break
summer October-
fest March Madness
living's more like
dying dreaming's
vacation waves lap
onto beach and
beach laps onto
wave and waves lap
onto beach and
beach laps onto
wave and
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2. |
Holesome
04:17
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This new invention
the gift of forgetting
not just entertainment
not quite onanism
coming home from a long day
whoring around
fall into the
World's Most Comfortable Chair™
counting holes in me
it's so holesome
'cause I know
and I know
if I feel ready,
I'm mistaken
maybe, maybe not
Something slips out
the west window where the light comes in
and with it my doubts, my attempts
at being everybody and everyone.
If it hurts it's working
gorgeous, lonesome,
but I know
already know
If I feel finished, I'm misguided
maybe, maybe not
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3. |
Brazilian Vaudevillian
03:34
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One night I was dreaming
the sums of my parts
two little men
appeared in my room at
three a.m., proceeded
to remove me
from my comfort
and my pain
my family and friends
looked more like a film
humans more inhumane
I'm working real hard to
undo all we ought to
I'm tired of being here
This world's gonna eat me
hold me breastfeed me
seventy degrees
least of my worries
sunny and easy
I feel too tired
You probably need sleep then
really why but really though
A million ten billion
trillion sextillion
bagillion gazillion
reptilian pavilion times
Million ten billion
trillion sextillion
bagillion gazillion times.
Bonfires of gathered atheists
weather balloons in the dusk sky
clouds in the gradient
a neighbor's rocket test flight
soldier ant mines
woven under Stonehenge.
Grab someone warm
gather round the void
the eclipse is about to begin
all love ends in divorce,
heads rolling down the steps.
I'm working real hard to
undo all we ought to
I'm tired of being here.
This world's gonna eat me
hold me breastfeed me
seventy degrees
least of my worries
sunny and easy
I feel too tired
You probably need sleep then
really why but really though
A million ten billion
trillion sextillion
bagillion gazillion
reptilian pavilion times
Million ten billion
trillion sextillion
bagillion gazillion times
Dorian Lydian
Mesopotamian
Hydrogen Cadmium
the New Millenium
High-definition
super cognition
the future is positive
delete all the negatives
A billion ten billion
trillion sextillion
bagillion gazillion
reptilian pavilion times
Million ten billion
trillion sextillion
Brazilian vaudevillian times
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4. |
Maximize Pleasure
04:25
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is the world gonna end
am I losing all my friends
is it too soon to give up
is it too late to begin
am I ever gonna change
or will I stay the same
always maximizing pleasure
minimizing pain
will I grow up to be sad
under some heavy hand
waking with regret
for potential that I had
Hello all my grandmas
Hello all my grandads
loving letters signed from
Mussolini's great-grandson
feel myself turning green
every time I turn the page
younger every day
more senile with age
am I walking in a trap
a power trip or nap
inches close to home
on my meditation app
is this anxiety
self-fulfilling prophecy
is it forward thinking
or reverse psychology
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5. |
Up Down
02:49
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Notice all the houses
we eat and sleep
and make babies in
Notice the bright
entertaining bubble letters:
up, down, up, down, up, down, up
Kiss me, we're all prisoner's baby
It's all coming back, it's
all coming back now
Love me, make a caricature of me
When our number's called
it doesn't mean done
The best and worst
has yet to come:
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6. |
Drawing a Blank
03:43
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A warning sign
planets aligned
three days behind
I left the lights on
the speakers on
the smart people just went on
all night long
about TV shows and art
what is and what is not
And the streets all flood with joy
the music and noise
someone draws a crowd
drawing a blank
Poison is the choice
these are empty cups
trophies for your plastic case
a pink border around your
vanity plate
Someone show me a sign
tell me what these are
is it better to be real
or look the part
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7. |
B12
04:25
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Happy hour
try-me button
rope and switch
whatever the opposite of
a wonderful time is
not for them not for you but for me
not for them but for me
Give whatever got whatever
bought and sold
eating vitamin B12 and bread
around the spots of mold
someone I once knew
dancing naked in the mirror
I am not a piece of garbage
I'll tattoo that in reverse on
my neck and face and arms
not for them not for you but for me
not for you but for me
Daddy's chopping trees
cursing the sky
and my momma's manic baking
till it's safe to go outside
just to warm the dusty plate
empty room
quite the holiday or two
We don't dream these days
we think out loud
it hasn't rained in twenty years
our clothes are made of
grasshoppers now
someone I
someone I once knew
someone I once knew
The bees are white and
all the sky's red as a sore
the World Record Oldest Tree
is not the oldest anymore
don't regret not getting your degree
wouldn't do much anything
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8. |
It's Alive
03:59
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If you want to leave me
I promise I won't get angry
You don't have to believe it
Just let me be a little naive
I'm out on a limb
Not out of my mind
Give it some time
I could never show you
Just how much I owe you
It's bigger than my ego
I'll learn to love it or
Learn to let it go
You're out of my league
I'm not out of luck
I have just enough
You'll be temperamental
I'll be control freak
Why all of this together?
Why does anyone do anything ever?
Behold our little experiment
It's alive
And every time
Every time Is the first
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9. |
Sunsets
04:12
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How am I so old
Days run through my hands
Do I ever talk too much of
Unanswered thoughts and prayers
Who is it up to
Why do I delight in you
Beautiful day, horrible mall
We're cleaning the lake, donate to cause
Once wore a hat
That
looked a lot like
A greater-than sign
Fireworks every night
However many sunsets you want
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10. |
Ted Bundy Summer
08:26
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Wait, lift this weight
Pull the blanket
Remove your jacket
Guess I liked it
'Cause you liked it
They say it's good
That's why I take it
It isn't working
Zen in pill form
Message only sending out to
No one
No one knows you
Come home
Dressed as someone else
Loud and always on
Are we happy?
Or are we just lazy?
The TV keeps me up
Can't sleep with it off
They're laughing with, not at you
Hard decisions
, soft tap water
Lots filled up with vacant pop songs
Lonely
Lonely, not alone
Alright
?
We are not alright!
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