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Conversations that we've never had
I hear them now repeating in my head
As silent buildings in silent cities look down
Was it deforestation? Was it acid rain?
Was it an alien invasion that left me alone again?
It doesn't matter. It probably doesn't matter now.
I'm looking for the doorway in this city that will let me out.
I found a rifle in an empty hotel.
I shot my dinner: medium well.
In every dimension after every lover it's the same.
Well don't they know it's the end of the world again?
Don't know how I got to be
So important
Open myself up to love but
I don't force it
And each time I meet someone it's
Unfortunate for
Everyone who lives in that world
I reach the doorway on the seventh day
I haul out the refuse that gets in the way
I hold my breath wondering
What is in store
What lovers will await me on the
Other side of that door?
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If you don't love me anymore
You can just pack your things and leave
You say you're gone, well there's the door
And I'm the last one who will grieve
I might cry alone
All by myself
But you won't know
No you won't see
And it that leaves you dissatisfied
Well don't come back for sympathy
If you don't love me anymore
There is no reason to explain
All those words you try to use
They do nothing for the pain
So take your electronic records
And all your fancy clothes
Take your packages of postcards
And your wristbands from old shows
But don't come lurking around my backdoor
Your don't live here anymore
If you don't love me anymore
I guess there's nothing left to say
I don't want to start a war
The media made me this way
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(A Woody Guthrie type has to live underground because monsters have taken over the world. The only one brave enough to fight them is the woman he loves.)
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When we first met, I was terrified
And the terror grows each day
Your secret heart, it was classified
Like a list of people murdered by the state
Now it's hard to look you in the eye
We fell in love, or whatever
And that love or whatever grew with each breath
And that affection or whatever
Will grow until you leave me or my death (whichever comes first)
It's hard to look you in the eye
People like to discuss
What is or what isn't meant to be
Well I was or wasn't meant for you
And, baby, you where or weren't meant for me
And I'll stop persevering
I'll stop loving and stop fearing that you'll stay
But I can't quite find the courage
To look at you and say what I should say
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Vampire
03:35
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I could wait a thousand years
But you're never gonna love me back
Try to kiss away your fears
But you're never gonna love me back
I've broken others' hearts before
So I know how it feels
I've seen it from the other side
But it still seems so surreal
I could become a vampire
But you're never gonna love me back
Watch the rise and fall of empires
But you're never gonna love me back
I could make honest amends
Stop sleeping with my friends
Or just try to pretend
But you're never gonna love me back again
The ego is unbearable
When it feels something end
And I'll become insufferable
To anyone I let in.
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(Side Porch)
02:32
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Quark Lepton Columbia, South Carolina
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TC Costello is a world-travelling troubadour, combining folk, world, and punk influences. This album is maybe his most psychedelic and has my favorite production of all of his stuff.
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Everything Marcum does is great. This one has a special place for me because it was exactly what I needed in 2020, during SC's brief lockdown. The vibe is chill, a little melancholy, a little funny.
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