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Gumball Dave
02:36
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GUMBALL DAVE
Pass the straw, you know I’m gonna need it, not the plastic that I want it’s the trouble in my breathing. Puzzled task can’t even close a door, losing all my teeth from trying to kiss the floor.
Grease the trap, put the fire in the oven, brain on the back burner got a new one coming.
Sterile splash, you can’t stop it now riding this ship to all goes down
Casino car, crushed shells in my clam chowder
Casino car, either way either one won’t get too far
Dave says it, we see it, got no proof but we all believe it
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WALK BETWEEN THE DROPS
I'll invent this treadmill towards the sun
Just to get the rest of this workday done
But before this horrid week is through
I think I'll crack my cranium in two
So I now I've seen im past the future. Past the future, I don't know know why it moves so slow.
So then I ended up back where I hate the most
Sandwiched in between the Son and Holy Ghost
Is there anywhere that you'd recommend
So that I may become
Past the future past the future
I don't know why it moves so slow
And staying down the highway 40 feet from me
Appeared the oldest light that you could ever see
And in the moments where I felt I was the tops
I earned the hubris to walk between the drops
And when I thought this nightmare was almost done
I woke up on my treadmill towards the sun
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Sour Apple Jam
01:41
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SOUR APPLE JAM
Stale counter banter gets the frosting and the flour drinking weekends til the company coops
Side of sour apple, cooing cat will start to grapple chasing ghosts or is it shadows and light
Hardwood or the tile, screaming parent, screaming child, cards flying like it’s World War 2
Hold me even tighter like a pair of rusty pliers in an attic never needing a use
It’s all biscuits and bread, no meat in this stew...
Tailored to the tipping, honest tongue will catch the licking sneaking gossip into candy stoned truth
Cornered in a casket with a top hat and a rabbit hope you’re hopping right off of the roof
It’s all biscuits and bread, no meat in this stew...
Border like a collie stretching towards the woods of holly script popping like a new balloon.
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Concrete Curing
02:09
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CONCRETE CURING
Stuff me full of cotton balls and
Mount me to your bedroom wall
Like a wolverine crawling cross the ceiling
I am not the first to stay
And I won't be the last to say that it won't mean anything unless you bleed a little
Hurt me in a decent way
I'm crawling in your trebuchet
Like a total goon sailing cross the moonroof
Cut me down and tape me back
I'm suffering a heart attack
When you say it won't mean anything at all unless you bleed a little
Have a nice trip, enjoy the fall unless you've seen little
I've got a promised land somewhere beneath the sand
Milk and honey though you cannot breathe unless you've been a
Submarine
Like a submarine
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SQUARE METAL NAILS
Square metal nails raining down on my grave
Still not the weather that’s upsetting me today
A thought, a fragrance that I thought had gone away
Not exactly clever poetry just trying to relate
Share my secrets trying to blend in, common themes like love were trying to stay close to.
It’s an anger that I’m fighting or a hunger that I’m chasing, wrap my arms around the death that is embracing.
Fearless the notion that you could know, if and how you’ll gasp when your lover drops the wardrobe.
All could be a ruse
I’m screaming in my head and even then
my hands are shaking hammer on the night stand
Falling forward seems unlikely so unfitting so unlike me
The path behind is a comfort I’m residing
Cradle my ego, color me blind, cast me in feathers and force me to fly
Feed me a new life, a brand new design, sew me right next to the next fool in line
All could be a ruse
Square metal nails
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Airport (Cellular Lot)
02:23
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AIRPORT (CELLULAR LOT)
Its always early, I never know if I'm awake
I check my phone screen, looks like I burned another day
Look in the mirror, scratching that dumb look off my face
Oh my mistake
I didn't mean to be awake
Oh my mistake
Oh good, he's breathing, thought for a second I was dead
But the only thought in my head is
I'm getting sleepy, I guess its time to head to bed.
Oh my mistake
I didn't mean to be awake
Oh my mistake
Another sunset
Another sunrise again
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VOLCANIC SCENIC OVERLOOK(Exit 13)
Exit 13 is just here up ahead
Parking overflowing with the caskets of the dead
Deadly little dreamer, sacrificial shit
Ironed out the details with a little blood and spit
Open the doorway and watch the world explode
People prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed for volcano
Gasping Saints gathered round the cross praying praying praying praying pray to make it stop
Give them the gold back x4
Now the hells cape becomes a scenic overlook
The children and the cameras recording everything it took
Give them the gold back x4
Volcano!
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Straw Dawn
02:17
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STRAW DAWN
He gave his heart to the army
lost his mind to the war
meet me at the edge of the world he said
it’s not too late to be what you might have been
she fell in love with the madness
incorruptible to the core
I know you bought your ticket she said
Forever knowing the score
Three cheers for a straw dawn
A clever game with a lonely pawn
He sold his soul to the system
Charlatan emotions run ashore
Warships on enemy seas
Dreaming of the edge of the world he says,
Three cheers for a straw dawn
A clever game with a lonely pawn
Three cheers for a straw dawn
A clever game with a lonely pawn
Three cheers for a straw dawn
A clever game with a lonely pawn
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Ruby City
02:41
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RUBY CITY
Suppose its a kick in the teeth when
Your whole life dovetailed towards the weekend
A schedule full of holes I suppose thats how it goes
Well I guess, well who knows
Ive held on for the first couple months though
The season changed and it left me in escrow
Not to be alarmed but I think the alarms are sounding out now
getting loud
If theres really someone up there breathing
Maybe craft up some better believing
3 bedrooms in a good neighborhood but its all underground
well look at me now, look at us now
Locked in the tower
Cover those rubies with your eyes, i'm alright
You lit your ship on fire
In the middle of the Nile
Locked in the basement
Cover your eyes with a tall drink of sunlight
You let your mouth keep running
In the middle of the night
3 days 3 weeks 3 months 3 years
I let my time keep running out
I let my days keep spilling out
I let my time get away
I let my time run away
I keep my time on hemmoraging out as the past gets away and imn
I let myself get-
Locked in the tower
Cover those rubies with your eyes, i'm alright
You lit your ship on fire
In the middle of the Nile
Locked in the basement
Cover your eyes with a tall drink of sunlight
You let your mouth keep running
In the middle of the night
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Low Flying Jets
02:44
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LOW FLYING JETS
I never expected to find myself in the middle of this field of dead things
But sometimes you just don’t wind up at the destination you set out for
A little extra time to rest your eyes would be nice
A little extra time to have a nice dream
To place your cutaneous membrane in direct contact with soft packed snow
As low flying jets pass above you silhouetted by the full moon’s glow
A little extra time to rest your eyes would be nice
A little extra time to have a nice dream
A mother knows what’s best so I’ll tell you this
A little extra care makes all the difference
Whatever you say, mom
I know, I know
Whatever you say, mom
Can I watch TV now
I’ll do whatever you say
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WYNTYRBYRN (ATLANTIS LANDED)
Look at the sea, gaze in wonder.
No longer deceived, I'm a part of this whole world.
I went to extend my hand and got pulled on in.
Gills on my neck breathing salty water.
Under the sea, Atlantis shining bright.
I still couldn't see to make it out that night.
So, I swam and pulled with rope in my teeth.
Atlantis landed in the ocean breeze.
Mermaids grew human legs, siren's sang.
And Poseidon came to shake my hand, it was lovely.
Above the sea, filled with new ideals.
The citizen's freed to settle on crowded land.
And I still believe what I did was wrong.
But now they can see how to fuck our fucked up world.
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Sprung Spring
01:33
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SPRUNG SPRING
I need to see February through before my brain destroys me
What a day for staying in
Junebugs sticking to the window
Sky is burning no one is home
What a waste of carnations
Sprung is springing birds are singing
Only covers, so annoying
Several days of medicine
After all I love the fall but
Spring has sprung
I missed your call
I need a ride for later on
I promised you I'd find a job where
I won't leave for several seasons
Contemplating honest reasons
Waiting to the other shoe
To fall or spring
Oh I'm staying in
Try again some other season
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Indie basement post pop rock n roll
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