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Nordoshan
03:33
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I was excited for her to leave before she even arrived
It’s just this sort of over-planning that allows me to survive
At worst, she’s just “best in theory”
The kind of ghost who just follows dogs around.
Why don’t you yet remind me of the youth that’s behind me
And fading fast, you have too much class. There’s too much “you”
I like those who remind of how I followed so blindly whatever’s down the stairs
If anything’s even there and if there was even a “you”
What I brought up was not even in the scene
They made it look just like I was lying
I got so angry I couldn’t see, I woke up and was already driving
Looks like I lost much more than hours
I’m on a boat that I’d rather not talk about
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Hanger 21
04:03
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All I see is progress and new buildings
Move blankly straight forward until the bell rings
Signifying either someone is right or
Someone walked again, too deep into that night
Pigeons act drunk around the fountain
Make no headway, their steps just keep on mounting
What exactly am I supposed to do
With all this information that has nothing to do with you?
Do you think that your distant history
Is why your feet are always in such misery
You can’t walk off what you likely can’t even seem
There’s no accounting for taste, it’s true
But nothing good can come of or from this dude
Somewhere you’re still too young for people so crude
Tubes and wires run deep into the distance
Which becomes important to understand this instance
Where the narrative ran amok
When we didn’t account for his near super-human luck
In all the dust that’s blown out of the smokestack
We lost our footings and lost him at the last trap
Now how are we ever supposed to show
That he is the reason these buildings continue to grow.
Something better than us, barely catches a bus
And I’m supposed to be impressed?
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The New You
02:24
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You know, your stupid horse jokes aren’t amusing
You’re making the whole thing more confusing.
So this “New You” is a lot like the “Old You”
Except now you don’t use staples to hold together your shoes
I don’t know how much more I can take
Taking your woes on the road was a big mistake
Even if you come back here kinda stronger
Even if this path takes you a little longer
So the “New You” is a lot like the “Old You”
Neither of you could hold onto your booze
We all know you’re so good at words
I don’t know how you’ll top what you said to Earl
But the lack of ice in your glass should be a warning
I doubt you’ll be able to see me come the morning
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Magnifying Shame
03:11
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I hope you know better than to try and be obscene
Cause you fit in there about as well as a thumb in a magazine
But the mission was coming together
Yeah, we almost knew what to do
But then it came: all the newspapers described it all the same way
It was a mission to the sun, that had another name: Magnifying Shame
There was a darkness all around him, like he always had to sneeze
“Here I’ll show you where the car is” he said to the sea
Everything was glowing red which probably didn’t mean a thing.
You’d be better served to treat you with more respect
You’ve seen horrors overlap and often intersect
But don’t you try to blame this on all this terrifying sameness
That you described, it was buzzing all around high
You expect a lot from folks who don’t even exist: Terrifying Twists
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Casual Complaining
02:57
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“If I wasn’t afraid of curtains before, well I am now”
You told him in the theater, much too loud
I started to get that “nearby” feeling again
When I heard about the damage to ceiling and your friend
“Let’s pretend the episode just ends there”
There wasn’t enough time left in her for fanfare
Now go out and have an active night, they need you out there
There’s scary things in all the windows, pretend you don’t care
“Let’s pretend the episode just ends there”
There wasn’t enough time left in her for fanfare
He vomited skyward and it disappeared mid-air
Someone go and figure out how to get him cab fare
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Infoshed
02:51
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Until you’ve got another way to make it on the news
One that doesn’t require footwear
Then I’ll just sit here like a log, or however they say it
Let’s just hope the signal is good there
Now why would I care about any other moment
Now let’s throw it back to Peter for Sports
If this doesn’t get us arrested by morning
Then I truly don’t know what will
He was suffering, oh how he was suffering
He made a horrible scene
When he threw up on the caddy, we knew that he was batty
But had no idea just how obscene
He’s on a phone, in a robe made of foam
I know where I’ll hide if they even try to find us
I’m sure the Anchor has a “Wine Vault”
We’ll just have to look in the cellar and the rooftop
And if I’m wrong, it was the wine’s fault
Now how could I lie about any other movement
Let’s throw it back to Peter for Sports
If this doesn’t get us killed within the hour
Then I truly don’t know what will
He was suffering, oh how he was suffering
He stood there perfectly still.
So they hid the money from him and pretended to be invisible.
Which was a thrill to be relieved of the con
They didn’t need all along
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Astricin
02:44
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So you thought you were bending space and time
And manipulating motion
You said you were “more there to the left”
And pointed to the ocean
Your census proves itself, you’re both wonderful people
All that pity and prestige coming from one, singular gene pool
Oh, but over the horizon, there’s boats that are as strange as you and me
Like us, they had to find direction when they couldn’t find the sea
And you know how that goes
We made it harder than it needed to be
Instead of going through the motions
It felt just like a year adrift at sea
As we just practice locomotion
She was so beautiful that her watch kept crashing
It was always noon or midnight, she was always in fashion
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The Mayonnaise
02:47
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No, I mean the kind…the Mayonnaise
Open it up to your fan base
An ocean, so far away
Will lead you home, via the bay
Everything I need, I make up before you even get here
You’ll bring this back to me and you,
Like lately you’ve been tending to
You talk like you were always on the news
As if these stupid onions wouldn’t have grown out on their own
As if we need another excuse to get you on a phone
You know what your teeth do, they dominate
They numbly follow your tongue, right off the plate
And Carol as our tagalong is making zero sense
I thought he could have hypnotized me in the present tense
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Bellevue Rare Coins
03:58
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So then we started a band that had zero fans
Seems that was kind of the point
And you came down, from College Row
With the flu and wearing some guy’s weird shoes
And you were at your best when put to the test and
You’ll snooze, you’ll lose and you did.
Down by the foundry, we invaded each other’s personal boundaries
And let the record show, what the papers already know
You were robbed of your shadow, out on the patio
While your dog just sat there
There’s kinds of light in the hallway that helps in a small way
Which is better than none
I brought it up on the dance floor, the one place you abhor
Even more than me.
Some Christians march against their laundry
Our town’s in a quandary, we’ve got problems like these
With cavities filled in the porch, when your son used a torch
On a bunch of snails.
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Outloud Follies
02:43
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You only had the tools to deal with half of this, out loud
And everyone is well aware of how you feel about crowds
We know you’ll never feel that you’re for this world
And everybody over there is always comparing you to “this girl”
Carol was a nightmare when he drank cheap beer
He’d work himself up to think that he was a seer
I only have the time to deal with half of this, right now
Unless you have another way to make it back from town
Horace liked everyone to know that he was loaded
He filled his house with rare cats and cash until it exploded
But don’t expect to hear about it on tonight’s news
They’re too busy getting kale and spinach confused
There are words coming out that you don’t recognize right now
You’re now further away from home then you thought you’d allow
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