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1. |
Beginner's Guide
04:26
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I was at the bookstore again
Trying to make friends
When I heard the new stacks
Of magazines were in
I ran to the counter
to confirm they were real
finally the beginners guide
'how to meet people'
it takes no time at all
it takes forever at a fast crawl
it might fall in your lap
you'll just have to adapt
to how you feel inside
with our beginners guides
I could feel someone watching
who wanted the worst
i'd give you a name
if it weren't for this curse
you said i'm haunted again
i said i'm spooky at most
still i devoured every issue
of 'how to free ghosts'
i can't stand the parades
or the holiday lights
i'd say i like the sun
but i'm in love with the night
i hate the shiny people
cuz i'm jealous of em
i couldn't make it 50 pages
into 'how to have fun'
now i'm educated
on the topics most in vogue
i can love you in 100 tongues
while i drive us off the road
so fear no ghost my friend my love
i've even learned to be happy
so won't the sweet skies lift us up
(act 2)
i went back to that bookstore
man next door said it'd just been sold
and for a good price in the year of our lord
what year's that i asked the disappearing door
why it's a brand new day in 1884
the clerk looks at me, smiling at the floor
don't you know they don't print those things anymore?
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2. |
In a Straight Line
04:39
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Can you tell me how you got here
And hung on me like glue
And when it was if you don’t mind
If it was even you
There used to be a garden
You used to grow so fast
Then the sunflowers started marching
For the last time anything went
In a straight line
You woke up on the wrong side of paradise
And asked where next
Sorry there’s no ‘where’ from here
I mean no disrespect
Stasis baby it can’t be helped
Something’s coming and then something else
It’s not your fault and it’s not mine
Something falling through the sky
In a straight line
So how did you get here
What did you do
When you hung on my doorframe
Covered in glue
It happened I guess it happens all the time
I just know it didnt happen
In a straight line
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3. |
whatever dreams
02:36
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4. |
No Wonder the Sun
01:49
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she was a public figure skater
in a world filled with rain
youre smoking it upside down
answering nothing in the form of a question
why are these guys always named mark
when i learned to hate the truth
it is not a healthy game
look what the sausages made of you
and i got to be the link in every last chain
no wonder the sun only comes out like once a year where im from
every talk show a bar to promote the good old days
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you are the best at what i do
so i guess i’ll be seeing you
i’ve got red. red in my hand
blood on my mind
graveman dig the land
dug up for reasons we’ve tried for seasons but cannot understand
the suns no fun anymore
you changed after the war
the moon is down thats one
and i heard you get three
its all gone oh so deep
and now the wind just screams
i’ll regress that’s what i do
childhood tests and equine glue
i go dead. dead in the hand
shaking when i wake up
inventing reasons for the space we need to take up
the sun dont smile at you
and it sure dont smile at me
did you bring your gun
did you know that theres just one
way to find the killer
whos asleep so stitch my eyes cuz i got no hands left to cry with
cuz theres no one left to die with
no bag in the hand the screaming wind
with the camera built in
see the icicles drop in and
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6. |
Alice, Collected
07:48
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my name is alice
i guess you met me
down in the cinema
or up on the street
i used to dance
they said i was good
i never believed em
guess that i should
i married a man
of course i did
my drunk of a father
echoing in my head
you used to hit me
you know that you did
your tears would come flooding
you looked like a kid
and i never knew why
you used to cry
i guess i know now
that those tears were mine
and sure you hit me
but so i did too
but you never had nightmares
in blackeye and bruise
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i used to love you
how can that ever have happened babe
there must have been something
i just cant recall it these days
i wonder where you are
probably dead
or probably not golden son that god swore to protect
-
(on evenings like this)
i can still smell the days
the sweat of the summer and stage
i called you baby
you called me alice
and i guess we both thought we were saved
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we never got the papers
we just kinda left
i broke into the old place
and it smelled like death
got branded a vandal
did a few days
said don’t treat me special
but that’s just cuz i ain’t
now im real sorry if this story dont add up
but a hard drag of time can really fuck you up
i can recall everything but it’s like changing channels
a looping puzzle with trap doors n sliding panels
so this is on the record
yes sir i shot him
i was going for the eye
that gun looked good, musta been the light
and no he didn’t die
he just limped back home
in his noose of a zebra print necktie
i can’t tell you the reason
and the place escapes my mind
i can’t tell you when but i’ll swear on this bible
my name is alice and there’s blood in my pen
-
(on mornings like this)
i hold my coffee with a fist
look at my window and just want to jump through
they call me alice
what do they call you?
i am allice collected
filed away in an office somewhere
now i’ve given you my story
collected, corrected complete
did you laugh at the right points, cry til it hurt
don’t give that blank stare
i am alice collected
never perfected that model’s been lost
fired every last bridge
all that’s left is to tally the cost
i used to follow you
no, and you never knew that i knew
the things that you did
and i went to the father to ask
forgiveness for all of your sins
i played forgiveness for all your own sins
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now i can barely see through the haze
i called you baby
you called me alice
and i guess we both dug our own graves
...and i guess we just found our new names
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7. |
seeing faces
01:23
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American dreams, plural
An Innocent Abroad for a generation I’m not sure exists
—
seeing faces in randomly-generated linoleum
readin crime stories
do serial killers take requests
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the king of validation has woken up again
you run because hiding
is too much work
the kettle shakes but nothing’s in it
love is dying by the minute
there’s nowhere for the smoke to go
the radiator needs to know
and you go
up
and you want
off
[we can't allow that]
and you go
in
and want out
but you
can’t get out
can’t get-it-out
every morning we’re somewhere else
fly up north and sink down south
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9. |
Everything You Thought
00:59
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10. |
Can't Remember Why
02:19
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11. |
Copy Pasted
03:50
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i woke up bitter today
all you people in the way
how can i explain
when all i can see is you
copy pasted
how can i explain
through all this sound
i wrote it down
how can i hear you
how can i see you now
you are beautiful
you are everyone
you are all the same
i jotted this down before the show
cuz i knew you wouldn't
and if i'm wrong then sing it out
i'm copy pasted
but if i'm not i've got these inkblots
numb to sound
and i think your show ends now
i was gonna say it before you came
but i'd like to do a rain dance on your parade
like a heckler counting his change
we all end up this way in a grave paid off on the stage trail off with very little left to say
and i put needles in my ears
the future can take the sound
and i gouged out my eyes
so they can breathe
at last at peace silence and me and
so i'm wondering how
i woke up bitter today
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12. |
Crooked Painting 2
03:04
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i cut me shaving
razorburn so bad it looks like a moustache
a crooked painting
i dont really look like that
tilt me back
shes leaving
lipstick traces on all the pavments
my patience isnt even trying
i know why you wear those glasses
to all your nighttime classes
dont wanna learn too much
about yourself
leave a little for the
obituaries to figure out
what was i saying
im a crooked painting
i dont wanna look like that
tilt me back
and if youre ever anywhere we’ll meet up soon
and dontcha feel bad for the beat up moon
we’re always boxing about
dontcha feel something for the worn out tune sung by someone time realized it could do without
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13. |
OK the Poet
01:45
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OK the Poet
that was his name
he wasn’t so bad
so I’m sure he was framed
he went DOWN TOWN
he never was found
he found the sewers of boston
or el dorado somehow
OK the Poet just wasn’t enough
head in the inkwell and then throw up
the right-minded people wouldn’t touch his stuff
decades later and w e ‘ r e in l o v e
stanzas filled with white-out
scanners blowing CEOs
to a T the oral speaker
describing all my clothes
respect him
dissect him
love him for his work
he was a shit-eating jerk
he’s buried down town…
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14. |
Remain Blameless
02:27
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Crawl into bed
find your last safe place
erase anyone who needs to be erased
we have a list of names
and would love to help you remain
blameless in a changeless time
our tools are stainless
and this won't hurt at all
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15. |
Up the Gold Needle
03:08
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when it won’t wind for you
when it unwinds the truth
seeking to dissect
the life of nothing you’d expect
athena’s up in the clouds again
we don’t know where to point and spin
this won’t hurt you
up the gold needle
when time won’t lie for you
we snap back like rubberbands
i saw you die in a dream
i thought you could use a hand
this is where we stand
swimming, a defective globe of sand
is there a second hand
give me a minute just, give me a minute man
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16. |
Best Bad Day
02:12
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the catcher is wild
that’s an out of bounder
you must light a match and run away
and come again and again to play
they paid for it all
electric bill aerosol
the feelings of a free trip consume us all
it’s utilities to breathe
you will have everything you want
there is no need to need
you will be everything you’re not
the feelings
of a free trip
scenting something rotten
poking it with a stick
can you tel me what the feeling is?
this time
is the last time
i take acid at the airport
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19. |
Crying Jags
02:56
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21. |
21 Days
05:10
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21 days til I’m off this stuff
21 days til you can never get enough
[21 days til the good life is good enough]
[if we don’t sway
21 days]
21 days til a nasty surprise
21 days til you try me on for size
21 days til the world is at war
21 days til I don’t love you no more
[21 days we don’t talk
21 days]
21 days til my big vanishing act
21 days til I suddenly come back
21 days
is it enough for you to be reborn
21 days
you can’t say you weren’t warned
21 days til the winter’s done
21 days til a new frost comes
[and we freeze
for 21 days]
21 days til life changes before your eyes
21 days if my memory serves me right
21 days and the world is at peace
21 days til the flying of the geese
[and we wait
for 21 days]
21 days til our plan starts to crack
21 days til I suddenly decide I want you back
21 days staring into the sun
21 days of people shouting hey I think we won
21 days for us to collectively decide that we’re right
21 days to make it through the night
21 days is war beginning and small battles being won
21 days til 21 days turns into 21 guns
21 days we watch and we wait
21 days til they close heaven’s gate
21 days
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22. |
Do You Feel Vandalized?
03:51
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QUESTION:
brain damblasted that's fantastic silhouette
run the numbers see which face generates
the hate state baby you dictate
i face the other way
theres no other way hey hey
always careful not to learn too much
when youre numb in the church on the run
these empty rooms get a little dispiriting
i guess i couldnt say
theres no other way
a rune peppered room flamed with magnetic fields
chasing the pound sign can you circle a straight line
i bet you kneel dya feel vandalized
like it’s a bad deal? and you realize
always be careful not to peer too close
when vanity attacks see the cracks when you turn our back
turn and run
decide to stay
just one more day
could make the difference
too much fun
is in the way
so one more night
shooting at streetlights
shying away
your town isf a streetfight
what can you say?
is it helpful advice to let you know twice
youre facing the wrong way and ask
ever so nice
do you feel vandalized?
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23. |
Like I Do
02:24
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why is everybody so nice to me
what did i do to you
why s everybody so polite to me
you don't know me like i do
like i do
when did this town turn into a death march
when did i start believing the bad news
why are your eyes now shooting sparks
cuz everybody lives to gamble to lose like i do
like i do
you could move like a cosmic jet
like i do
and wonder how nobody's caught you yet
like i do
hibernate your life away
pop up like a stray
hey hi it's me today
i will stay with you
like i do
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24. |
Scarecrow Motherfucker
01:26
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shattered souls of older crabs
i’m not surprised you skipped the dance
grabbed a bullet
that’s romance
scarecrow motherfucker
scarecrow motherfucker
deep inside your hiding
is a place you could call home
it’s livewires and full of fires
and ‘leave me the hell alone’ you
scarecrow motherfucker
scarecrow motherfucker
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25. |
In Between/New Knives 1
05:19
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26. |
Biting the Corners
03:27
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27. |
No Sleeping
04:21
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28. |
Bones
02:04
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30. |
Searching for June
02:04
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The Acid Rains Edmonton, Alberta
i write songs, play guitar and sing
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