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Maybe
01:39
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Return
03:39
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To accept, to escape
It’s got me running in circles
All my fears, interfere
With my plans
I see how one becomes an animal
By being fed down to sharks and wolves
Why does the boy refuse to sing?
Hunger pains this morning
So who you gonna turn to
Now?
It’s got you scared and so afraid
And now, frozen in place
Petrified to make a mistake
He’s a man he’s a fraud he’s a mess of chemicals
They fed him down to the sharks and wolves
A feeling felt yesterday
Doesn’t matter anyway
Who you gonna turn to now
Hat in your hand
Said who gonna turn to now?
Who?
I, Return to you
Return to you
I know that all will be
Forgiven
Never Return
Oh when, when will you learn?
Never return again
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3. |
Blue & Gold
05:10
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Said the drought would last for days
I’ve been thirsty for years
Crying for the marmalade
With seventeen tears
Why does my mouth feel so coarse and dry?
From nodding back and forth
I can see that the passions are running high
I’m tired of praying
Desperate and deranged
You say I look different but
Sound the same
Babbling nonsense
With white iodine
In self defense
I struck from behind, well
She’s got eyes in the back of her head
She could see I was terrified
My hair stood on end
On the nape of my neck
What is whispered, what is said
Vultures pick at the carcasses instead
Take it easy and take it slow
Maybe this time she will let me go
I hold dear to tired ways
Till temptation leads me astray
Carry on
Lay down
Patience
Paralyzed
I’m done for
The trails gone cold
Vultures pick at the carcasses instead of
Gold
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4. |
Something Shakes
04:15
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Brilliant colors
Yellow orange and red
Disappear when
The sun gets bored and goes to bed
Something Shakes
And we fall down
Nothing stays
Still
Hush now, listen
Ill only tell you this but once
Though this, is better now
Its as good as its gonna get
Something Shakes
And we fall down
Oh nothing stays
still
Nothing changes, if nothing does
Nothing changes, if nothing dies
Stand tall, before you forget
How, to move at all
Something Shakes
And we fall down
Nothing
Stays
We fall down
When Something Shakes
Oh Nothing
Changes
Nothing ever changes
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Pater Familias
04:58
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To express, To attract
To impress, To impact
Speaking, in twisted tongues
Arguing now, with one another
Do not seek the Treasure
Oh, dear lord
I’m stuck with them now just because
All of my sins and transgressions
Have all been warshed away
We serve, no man
And we have no name
To express, To attract
To impress, To impact
Our dreams have R-U-N-N-O-F-T
Silence, Father is Furious
Damn, we’re in a tight spot
Do we have a bargain, or not?
Odyssey, for brothers, three
Oh dear lord
They’re stuck with me now just because
These soggy sad sons of bitches
Are somehow bona-fide
We are men
Of constant sorrow
To express, to attract
To escape
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O.S.I.T.C
05:21
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Too Rich for my Blood
Can’t cover the cover charge
Two criminals still at large
Oh but I still feel cuffed
Even if we make parole
I’d like it if you danced, you seem
So sick and cold
Got us scared and running
Oh shit it’s the Cops
No we never saw you coming
Turn it down or off
It’s the best that I can do
Gone, one by one
Hunted down
Under the ground
Black and blue, (and white)
Booked and read my rights
Hush, sit tight
Don’t open the door
You’ve got a lot of nerve
So if you need me
I’ll be here sitting in the
Back of the car
Let’s keep it weird
But keep it down
Oh you got us scared and running
Oh Shit it’s the Cops
No we never had a chance seeing you coming
Turn it down or off
It’s the best that I can do
Listen it’s nothing personal
I wish I could let you go
I still think you should dance
Your s-oh shit it’s the cops
Hey man, we should do this more often
They will try and keep us silent
Do your worse but I think that
Justice will be
Served
I plead, the Fifth
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7. |
Flamboyance of Flamingos
05:24
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Francis frolicked in the flatlands
Fascinated, he focused on some faraway figments
Were these faded figures friend or foe?
Finally, with full force, the freakish forms took flight
The familiar feeling of fear flashed over Francis, and he froze
For festinating into the foreground was a furious flock of flamingos
Francis feebly forged through the forest
What fetid fortune to fumble upon these feral fellows
Their fuchsia feathers flapping them further forward
Following him faster and faster
The falcated fowl fell upon him in a frenzy
Out flanked and filled with fright
Francis fled from a fleet of fifteen thousand flamingos
Francis was found forsaken in a field
Failing to fend off the ferocious fiends
His fingers and femur fractured; his flesh flayed from foot to forehead
Fatally flattened from a flamboyance of flamingos
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8. |
Perhaps
04:19
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Lost
Nowhere
To turn to
Dread neglected
So it spreads
Like poison
Like poison
Hesitate
To move
Weakness
Weaker than all your friends
Lows, it come and goes
but you never seem to notice
And when every step
Feels like the wrong one
Oh its got you running in circles
To express
To except
To explain
She led us to the water
She watched on as we drowned
She said isn’t this what you wanted?
I know I know
It was but
Now
I don’t
So here we are, bruised and depleted
I’ve come too far, to be defeated
She says it will hurt, so I will start over
Maybe it’s worse, perhaps it gets better
Perhaps it gets better
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9. |
Acceptance
06:58
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I had a friend, five years my elder
He sat me down, and said, why do we bother?
Its all in vain, and I’m getting older
But that was before I knew any better
I saw Satan standing on the median
With his velvet suit and cane in hand
I saw Adam standing with him there
Weeping with beautiful Evelyn
All of them, sit on my shoulders
Bicker and, whisper in my ear
It’s been so long, it’s hard to remember
But I had a friend, who I loved like a brother
He disappeared, like footprints in sand
Now I am left, a shell of a man
I saw Satan standing on the median
Smiling ear to ear with devilish grin
I saw Adam standing with him there
Flags me down naked and asks for directions
Dust in his eyes
Bruised cracked ribs
Desire then demise
Give and grow up cut your losses
They remain, to sit on my shoulders
Bickering and scream into my ears
Unprepared for what they had to explain
Damned if you do, doomed if you don’t
Never return again
We wait, too long
Now the light is gone
Cursing in the dark
We’re right where we belong
Wasted on wasting time
To express, to explain, to escape
To adapt, to attempt, to accept
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10. |
Keep Walking Gary
06:23
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This is driving me mad
It’s like you threw the whole damn town in the trash
Caught the runt who fooled me once, shaking in his boots
So we, hold him upside down until he talks
Pull my hair, pull my leg
Hey man
You may
Never see
Me again
Barely survived, hardly survived, never survive round here
Take pride you’re on your own
Hits here, hits home
Patron of the arts
Draw your dagger
Rest assured, real mature
Coward
Hand to the face, back to the bricks
Knee to the chest, knee to the chin
Piss on my cans
Grit of kings, skin of teeth, flies will feast
Judas will get just desserts
You ate from my bread, you sipped from my wine
You knew it was stale, you knew it was mine
You ate from my bread, you sipped from my wine
You sat at my table, and took what was mine
Brother, sucker, can you spare a dime?
Peace distilled peace disturbed hundred-dollar bills
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