1. |
Simplicity
01:26
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it's a crisp summer day
and the wind is speaking
i need you home
you weren't meant to be present
and i am living unfamiliar dreams
i can smell the coffee
all these road signs
can't tell me where to go
it's a neverending picture show
all these road signs
at times i'm lost and brought low
'cause i don't know what i don't know
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2. |
Year End
03:30
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please, please, please
when the mud of the Youghiogheny settles here
i want a house with two gardens
one for the past and one for the present
i know i'll never grow a future
i know i'll never see the truth
i know so very much is buried in the graveyard of my country's youth
please, please, please
if you can hear me
i built so many chambers in my mansion
in supplication to the ransom
coming due upon my father's loot
ghosts haunt this house
spirit dances, spirit revives,
and memory always lies
i must tell a lie
living dead
won't let me get on by
most of the time
most every place
everything's burned
there's too much space
most of the time
i need help
most of the time i can't help myself
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3. |
Flatout
03:32
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where's the riot?
oh, where's the riot?
we're waiting for the riot
where's the riot?
oh, where's the riot?
if we don't get the riot, we won't ask again.
we don't get the riot,
we won't ask again
we don't get the riot,
we won't ask again
we don't get the riot,
we won't ask again
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4. |
Flagstaff
04:09
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i know what the sand smells like
i see wires criss cross the desert sky
in the lost silhouette of me
in the past when i didn't know that i was free
free, free, free, free, free
what is freedom?
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5. |
The Dismal Science
04:27
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there is no easier way to lie
than with a metaphor
you can change the whole damn world
into something safely ignored
like progress and reversal
each and every quantity of truth a dismissal
but things may be so dismal
such assumptions are in truth so so abysmal
so keep your models out of my mind
don't think your plots and plans so sublime
just keep your models out of my mind
don't think your "civilization" will treat you in kind
but things may be so dismal
such assumptions are in truth so so abysmal
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6. |
Messianic
02:50
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casting back
the castanets
remember december last year?
it never snowed
we hiked in frigid cold
up on butler's hill to the coffee shop here
it's all the same--
sometimes it goes away
but something new will come from bitter tears
melodies always come to me in dreams
and i forget them in the morning
and i'm sure that they're great
but dreams are tissue
they're weightless 'cause you're not awake
it seems so bad
it seems so dark
but what is seemed is not what is art
and things we love
must sometimes die
and we may not see them some other time
and it's okay
we'll be alright
be messianic into the night
melodies always come to me in dreams
and i forget them in the morning
and i'm sure that they're great
but dreams are tissue
they're weightless 'cause you're not awake
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7. |
Equilibrium
04:28
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well wishers on the downsize
we don't think you fit here anymore
let's see all your upsides and downsides
looks to be we'll be showing you the paint job on the door
well i don't care anymore
maybe i'm flying to a better sky
than the one i found myself in
can barely saddle all my baggage
left a lot on the mogollon rim
see too much as political
when i should see the personal
some diversion from self-destruction
maybe i want revenge for something
keep your thoughts to yourself
put the molotov back on the shelf
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i walked into the vampire castle
i took a look around
i took the things i liked
and i made my way back out
can you hear that sound
i gave them the run-around
dead contempt and animosity
sometimes seems this world was made for me
blood in the water, it's time to feed
class unconscious 'cause you have to pay not to be
i'll make you read your ally's misdeeds
if i can't find one i'll simply deceive
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9. |
Slow Rolling
03:23
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when reason took the train
nothing left was all the same
can't believe the snow went to rain
last time i trust satisfaction
well, will everyone just know?
it's all a part of the show
the engine is cold but we're ready to go
if we gotta roll we'll roll slow
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look at my friends
getting lost again
stealing crumbs from god's teeth
no hope and no doubts
look at my friends
just burning down
where they live the boards creak
they ain't ever getting out
look at my friends
the other side of chance
if they had opportunity
they wouldn't bother with me
look at me alone
never going home
they see right through me
always knew the whole story
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11. |
Global Suicide Pact
02:20
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burn bright twice as fast as cider
or is it cinder don't know the quaver
flicker in the dark make us into leather
it's LED strip light weather
earth so hot can't share my thoughts
i fear it's all to be lost
abstract lexicon buried in my mind
can't help but picture as stock tickers
come up for air make sicker and sicker
dying to satisfy a colony,
global civil war is agony
even hegel died eventually
suicide ambitiously
suicide ambitiously
suicide ambitiously
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Ultraconformist Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hi! I'm Morgan. I make songs with guitar and computer.
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