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California Static
02:58
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Who are you naked
What’s at the core
Locked in abasement
Under the floor
When the old feeling
Fills you up
Crushed below patterns
Is entertainment
Worth living for
Watch your arrangement
Set as it pours
One day you will wake underwater and feel
Your face streaming out to the sea
When the old feeling
Fills you up
Crushed below patterns
Are you more than habits
California static
Holding back
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2. |
Boston
03:25
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I remember
Back in Boston
How the light quivered from your mouth
And you hoped on my behalf
For something pure
Something tame
And you’re dancing as you’re walking
Started talking to the homeless man
And I know that there is something
That I can’t make you understand
I can’t drag you here
I wait beneath the moon
The wolves are coming soon
Let’s save the afternoon
Don’t follow me to the moon
We’re laughing
Distracted
I feel light when I kiss your mouth
And I float on your surface
As the sea turns black
And you look like someone’s sister
In that wolf shirt we loved so much
And I wish that I’d never learned
What it means to be tame
In our primes we’re still ugly
Elites resigned to the suffering mass
Alone in every moment
Humanized by the offspring
You wake me up from my stress-dream of
The haunting, endless moments
Killing time on the subway
The night you said that you loved me and
The soul of every moment
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3. |
Less
01:54
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I feel so much less in the moment
Analyze the bones
A realist would curb less corrosive
Now I’m growing fault
Hunted down by the eyeline
Penetrating to vapor
With gears turning frozen in motion
Amplifying doubt
And breath blowing out of proportion
Acidic and frothed
Someday I’ll see the molehill
And no longer be a mole
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4. |
Silo
02:08
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Building ice
Awfully quiet
Films seem nice
Studio light
You love your dog
And though you’re small
You know he needs you
Wistful all
Skin too small
You love your dog
And when you’re not awake
You feel alive
And though you’re small
The ocean bleeds through
I kissed her
Hallelujah!
Hope for some change
As long as it will never hurt
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5. |
Greek
04:40
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Listen
You’re not like them
Their consonance drains
Hidden in the hissing
In the severance pay
You anguished shell
You’re going to hell
Your candlelight is gone
Dark hollow
Listen
You’re not like them
You’d never cave
Hidden in the fissures
‘fore the mirror stage
You frightened mouse
You’re breathing loud
The men of action howl
Dark hollow
Hello awful, you look good
When no one stops you though they could
We’re hideous, we’re down below
Deleted from your vapid codes
You’re just on a streak
You’re so complete
You’re so unique
You’re so you
I’m just out of time
I’ll never find
Your smirking pride
You’re smirking
Half of me still envies you
You’re recognized
We recognize you
So have fun
You fucking tyrants
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6. |
Cologne
04:43
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We sat in her car
Dark and apart
You never told me
How you felt
She answers slowly
And I don’t
And then it set in
The walls closing in
There was no mystery to exploit
Just distance piercing
Through the void
Never let you mess with you
The sober truth progresses you
Well this introspection smells like cheap cologne
And that falseness is degrading to my soul
While the hospital’s a stranger and I’m young
It’s a tragedy to Narcissus this love
Where reflections turn investments
And the sentences obsessive
Desperate search for some transcendence
From this pensive less-than nest-building
We sat in her car
Dark and apart
You think you know me
Well I don’t
The grips control me
But they won’t
I’ll never give in
It’s about to begin
Surrender wholly
To one hope
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7. |
Combination
03:54
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Sense, fleeting
Crystallized then powdered
Fed to life screaming
Grasping outward
Best insights
Floating in the ether
Ironized neatly
Wrapped in plastic
And there’s a combination only I can parse and twine
It’s mine
Evil one
Saw the slanting of the castle looming over all the peasants at work
I stole away from the convention with the omnipresent God surveillance
Something awful started rising to my throat, coughing up the lifeblood
Invisibility meant everything to me, felt the sin on my skin
There’s a combination only I can gloss in time
It’s mine
Easy, hun
Don’t look back
Just lie
Knock something loose in a vacuum
Your favorite tune degraded to used tissue
Concrete collisions warping vision till the residue becomes insulting
I gave them all I had in trust
They were nice enough to conceal disgust
Piercing right into my eyes
Phony saviors stripping clothes from lepers
Will you remember moments of me
After I censor
Every crime scene
Dead season
Birds already fleeing
No divine hours
Bells chime off-key
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8. |
Departing
03:16
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In a ghost town
I've found my calling
From the background
Pack sound
Departing
I've been meaning
To tell you that I'm lost
Like an idea corrected till it's gone
Renovations
Plate shifts
Free falling
It's difficult
To erase what you've started
Keel fetal
In the backseat departing
First the nightmare caresses then it fades
Spikes the bloodstream but never takes a shape
In a crashed car
Glass shards
Departing
Still I know
It's naive adolescence
Till I'm old
And my fears turn fluorescent
What if those animals that you hunted
Weren't soulless or boneless or bloodless
Cynical and emotionally stunted
In the cold
Every road leads to nothing
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9. |
Glow
03:42
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Raison d’être
My new horizons wavered
I don’t want be American detachment
I don’t want to be the voiceless dreaming
Pressure diamonds
Flares in the night
Make me nervous
Press through the wall
Feelings from old sins
Lives ago
Healing sun
Old friend
Glow
As the fashion grows and accelerates
Pulse for another name
Pulse through another vein
Who’s convincing who?
If I’m gonna be around then I gotta grow
Up from the center sphere
Up through the mesosphere
To the open blue
Is it worth it
Highs building lows
When the perfect milestone erodes
Blessings from
Cold lips
Eyes closed
Messy love
Frozen hope
You’ve done nothing wrong
Go to sleep
Some relief will come tomorrow
Those malicious visions
Will ring hollow
Don’t go underground
I promise
You’ll never drown
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10. |
Carps in the Mud
04:43
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Ambiance of smoldering fire
Blistering whole shattered
Infinite controlled inside
Stilted house capsized
There’s no above
We’ve been orphaned here
Left to survive in an open field
We’re making this up
Oblivious, immersed in pride
Scripting bad actors
Innocent or undefined
The wretched thought ladder
And we know there’s love
But we’re afraid of them
We’ve seen enough, we’re not interested
Hearts beatin' up
Carps in the mud
We find we’re closer
You smile
Explosions
Always intersubjective
There’s no ego protection
And when the sun sets
Heaven seems like you
Emptiness an attitude
Watching the sparks climb
Faces glow unveiled
Countenance kindred, scared
And when the smoke lifts
Language melts mid-air
Real wolves surround the camp
Both passions are blinding
Dark hollow eclipse
Invented innocence
And the river overflows
It’s been so long
Please wake up
I miss your smile
We’ve been up since half past 5
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11. |
Bonfire
02:24
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Go on believing that
You deserve better
But if you don’t become a life form
You die
Every dissident
Sexualizing hurt
If we don’t become a life form
We die
Stake the vampires
Love’s not predatory
Don’t eclipse the light you saw
Build the bonfire
Burn the sanctuary
This is a spiritual call to arms
Fuck you idiots
Ruling hateful cells
I’ve internalized your credo
And it’s wrong
Every Olympian
Who ever side-eyed Dad
He loves like Christ’s kid brother
Could you
Stake the vampires
Love’s not predatory
Don’t eclipse the light you saw
Build the bonfire
Burn the sanctuary
This is a spiritual call to arms
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12. |
Outside
03:00
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Outside
Hear the insects breeding
Gas spheres ignite
Past an endless ceiling
What’s the pull when you’re post-everything?
Earthling wounded
The sun emerged from a fog
No more pollution
Your voice is soothing
Alive and lucid
Your fiery movements
Shared illusions
The soil loosens
The sky illumines
The quiet mood-shifts
Worthless ruminations
You must have been God
Wildfire
Hellfire
Feel my insides wringing
I walked outside
Past the dead end feeling
What’s the pull when you’re post-everything?
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13. |
Which One
09:22
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Hansel invited me
Cool as a winter breeze
As I forget my scene
And overcome my dreams
Which one
I’m in your hands
Which one
I’ll understand
In time
Circling out
Phantom inside of me
Author of all I mean
Which one
I’ll understand
Which one
I’m in your hands
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