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Pretend Again

by The Acid Rains

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1.
Bunker Food 00:53
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ive been eating bunker food its nuts and mostly fruit im not trying to fast im just trying to last you can take whatever you can carry whenever you fly past omnivorous fly by nighter i know youre trying to go last
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In Walked a Shadow 03:33
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In walked a shadow no face to its name smoke dancing backwards in circles of shame these are just clothes that i must have bought they hang off the skeleton bones dont talk children we sing to the shadow tonight because we’re nowhere and nothing’s alright what if he ran into one of his friends he cant imagine and i can’t pretend apologies later “i had a bad day” i grew out of the pavement what do you want me to say ch. i might go outside i might see a bear the problem here being i dont think i’d care how many switchblades how many sharp teeth i dont have it in me to fight or to breathe bite me or love me just please do not stare dont ask where i live i’ve never been there Out of another stretch of nowhere busts another bright light
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Delirious! 01:43
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im delirious want you here they taped up downtown saying 'no more fear running around' this is my town now but you can help out sharpen your hands i'll do what i can about it until i can't when i'm out on the street i feel like a disease streetlight calling me i can't read i can't read your electricity this is my town on its way to me things that you should never think start making sense to you now we'll do what we can about it until we can't delirious you think i'm serious about it now
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Angels Run 02:19
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Angels tuck me in Angels blow me out Of this highway Angels have the gun Angels fuckin run Yeah angels fuck & run Are you itchy among equals? Are you trying to run the zero? Gas giants come up empty Giants meekly stepping Up to the plate gently Over time and stasis This game feels very long With no-one left playing You can still hear them saying With prolix dripping free Of mouths completely empty And emptiness just breeds The dream of running backward Cameras that can't see Angels slashing sculptures and losing all their teeth Angels slashing sculptures that look like you and me
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To No One: Nevermind 03:56
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How did their bones get so clean In this rag and big top society No-one ask my werewolf brother Answering in teeth Glimmering fish in a rust-coloured pond Past the two cent tombstone vagabond Splash around and you know all their names Coming now to take your eyes away Coming around to take your eyes away Let me wake you up on endless drives You lie by the fire and steal the light The lamplight discontent and candle shine To no-one: nevermind God damn that smells good So when can we eat? How did you catch him Father did he scream? To raise our nearly dead To steal our frosty breath Slicker fish in open sea Conjuring the ways in which you might be me So pull a card and tell us all our names Coming now to take our eyes away Coming around to take our eyes away When the clowns finally cut the act and cry Please ask me directly how I died Pull the lever in my spine To no-one: nevermind
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The Sudden Death of Meaning 03:54
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You all must think of me as some untouchable beauty queen It must seem like I live my life so clean By the way I’d say Hollywood agrees They cgi’d out my beard It was just last year I’ve taken lately to wearing belts and staples Lapels come down from a no-name place in Naples a barbwire scarf and hat cigarette eyepatch from scared little scarecrows does it match who knows? i was thinking though Maybe this life is too long by half What if the sitcom people just don’t mean it when they laugh But it’s alright in the half-light while the half-life lasts And meaning dies at last Intent on carving up my own lingua franca Tables ready sir honey please n can i get a thankya egomaniacal frankensteinesque? you know it goes right through me half of what you said cmon get deaf i was thinking though jeff... maybe its too long but maybe its two wrongs after all but one question —what if i dont mean it when i laugh anymore but you know it’s alright and we’ll laugh real laughs when meaning dies at last
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Pain Wants a Paycheque 02:25
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pain wants a paycheque why haven't i paid yet time slips away but you don't times this the rain lays it on pretty thick and it makes me sick your walls of ice look so nice a shame we have to go and break what is inside just a workplace hazard for your attempts to hide times like this the rain lays it on pretty thick and it makes me sick and i slip away sometimes but you don't pain wants a paycheque well haven't i paid yet
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Chemical Jesus 02:47
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I’ve done everything You just haven’t seen it yet Wait til I get this cross wet and put my robes on And resurrect God Don’t think he wants to be here Don’t think he wants to see us like this Blowing it before we begin And blowing just like the wind Charity platter formaldehyde form a line is there anything you could possibly still have to hide your pearls made me pass out dead the signs of mercury are poisoned with lead chemical jesus cmon and receive us chemical jesus we need you to believe us this time it’s true yeah and the wolves were too
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The Person Proof 02:39
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every time i try to write you wrong the pen will not hold on im slipping down an inkwell a million percent proof for the person proof i got enough arms no i cant spare one i need them to fly i need them to wave goodbye every time i try to get you out you say the chain is hardly felt thought we'd stretched it taut enough given you longer than long enough here's my person proof i'm even wearing shoes i'll brandish a tie banish the answer of 'why?' let me in i don't care if we win anymore i don't care if they serve us just desserts do not deserve us formulating purpose in the hand this land was never our let me see your person proof man promise this wont hurt you every time i try to write you wrong the pen will not hold on
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Lockboxes 03:41
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Take out your headphones and the whole world disappears Or get out and walk with somebody else’s tears but self pity lives with looseleaf with corners you folded back so many times and you find it hidden maybe a lifetime later afraid to see what written (by someone) on the other side so give it up we owe as much to these lockboxes staring at us if you don’t wanna be so scared anymore send it down, to the wind and to the shore Put up your day job Ask them for ransom Or get to work Some might call you handsome or honey like you look like money like youve made it cheese grater fingers the way your face looks like a chainsaw ch send it down to the wind and to the shore i’ll pick it up if find it even though it isn’t mine i’ve got one just like it maybe you’ll see it sometime
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Without the Bear 04:14
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offrail captain is onto me at last im on shore leave they sure are leaving fast they gave him the blank stare then they gave him the plank stare go oh overboard with your boat pulled by your horses on your coat of arms "despair" they won't care and we wouldn't dare oh no that won't do what with you being you you're not going anywhere without the bear lady of love luck roulette wheel got me everything i ever wanted to steal at the time she seemed reasonable if a bit unreadable and i went overboard... don't be scared when they don't care cuz they're scared that you don't don't be scared when they don't cuz they're scared that you won't oh no not without the maypole bear
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Hayride Fires 02:17
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Why Do We Bury Them? 00:57
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gimme at least 9 feet throw me some scraps to eat take me out for a walk sometimes gimme a long long leash gimme at least 9 feet why do we bury them why do we carry them just let the carrion eat i think we're scaring them can't we just let them breathe? why do we bury them? why do they leave?
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Outfit Your Death 04:30
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too young to think to steal a drink but performing cigarette tricks if you’re old enough to wonder why you’re old enough to die put on the blue black and wait for red we are working all day on the outfit of your death 10 years too dumb to know what could ever caused her to say no but chips all in to smash your face skateboard hoops and radio waves i’m up all night with my ears a-bleed just lost another frequency ive got enough nothing to do with skateboard hoops and radio waves has it all been such a kaleidoscopic waste insane men (gone further insane) bleeding the sour grapes losing the sour taste viewing the power tapes screaming the quiet game walking at walls looking for you - waiting, wont do it until you do ch put on the bruise and wait for it a lot to be proud of and it only gets louder we’ve been working your whole life- for this
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An Abduction of Manners 01:42
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big bat manager do something about the door keep eyes on the lockpick the windows are lying on the floor we need more nails and wood and help do you think this cross is gonna build itself? lower me lower me no slower i was only saying might be nice to get some shine before our hair is greying and you're only laying around big fat panda bear sell me a turnstile keep an ear to the ceiling UFOs go single file lower me lower me no slower i was only dying might be nice to get outside i heard the sun is trying for once the sun is trying
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Bulletproof Best 02:58
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Still Life in Bulletproof #2 I can only catch the melody when i’m hatching half-asleep the buzzards come for skulls the buzzing voices visit me or something like thatx2 and they ask but i won’t come whatever dreams whatever, dreams are dumb when it’s march i run or something like thatx2 all my dreams are so obscene drive into the party prom king queendom yeah dreams are dumb except that one important one theyre all dancing theyre all blessed theyre all naked bones and text and so i feel so overdressed wearing my bulletproof best or something like that the internet is trying to kill you did you get my thought? did they cash in the gas and burn it away? my dreams are trying to kill you did i tell you that (sometimes) i guess i just forget get me in my tent tonight wearing my bulletproof best
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Mirror Crackt 02:15
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Attack the mirror
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Bitter Fruits 03:26
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It ended like you'd think it might "I don't know, I can't decide" I can't see you in that light anymore I can't run my ship that tight anymore If I can't face you I'll face the floor Just for good measure sometimes the door Get your knives on They're almost gone away Get your hunting boots Tonight we look for better fruits than these It started like you'd think it might I dunno, freeze frame nights and playfights A thousand megatons of wine Acutely aware of the time... of my life It ended like you'd think it might "I dunno I can't decide" I can't see you in that light anymore I can't run my ship that tight anymore
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Pretending Retention 02:28
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My grasps of history never was that great So when I saw you at the gates I just had to ask How did you get here so fast? I was born, but... In the office flat hospital main drag You take a left and you take two rights And you take a look at your life My grip on you which was never all that tight So when I saw you at the lights I had to pretend Pretend to begin again My grip on the sciences Is known to slip just a little bit I'm on a ride I don't know if I want off And your last breath wasn't that soft My grasp of history it still ain't that great So when I saw you at the gates I just had to ask How the fuck did you get here so fast?
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Miss You As If 02:03
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All this heartbreak is wasted on the poets who just won't bleed Unescapable greed to keep it inside when those who need it are still alive And you're behind me even when I'm tongue-tied Barely alive enough to sing Sing you a song as I shiver along As I shiver You walk about You're all they talk about (in whispers) "what's with her" in whispers "ever since" and they leave the rest unsaid behind me even when I'm tongue-tied, barely alive enough To sing you a song of home As I shiver along As I shiver Your name taints my lips and the top of my mouth where have I been? I used to hang out, I used to hang I got no questions Certainly no answers I can begin Dialing again Operator's either asleep or jerking off Yeah I miss you as if you were gone
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Italowestern 01:27
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i like those italian westerns navajo joe death rides a horse duck, you sucker! bullet for the general face to face hanging for django mercenary vengeance and an onion blondie! i'm getting old up here won't you shoot me down blondie! i'm a simple man won't you shoot me down
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Let the Outside be the Inside 02:31
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he said it's a shame the way you treat that guitar like you're trying to tear it apart trying to tear it apart i said i have never loved anything that wasn't somewhat scarred don't you dare sparkle bright let the outside be the inside, alright she said it's a shame the way you treat that car i was coughing smoke all the way up and down the boulevard don't you ever wash that thing? soak it in the sink? soak it in the sink don't you ever wash that i said ain't that what the rain's for? ain't that what the stains are for? to remind let let the outside be the inside just for tonight the stars are crosseyed my cards are misaligned tomorrow i'll see outside but tonight the chains don't mind just for tonight witness redesign let the outside, alright because the outside is the inside

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released December 15, 2020

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