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Mimeograph
00:49
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Every Night
04:05
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Every night, I crept from the bed where my lover lay
And took out all my checkbooks and wrote void on every page
And slid into the night like an eel glides into the void beneath the sea
Every night, I creep from the bed
And cut up all my credit cards and cut off my hair
And burn all my passports and forget my own name
And leave for some place where they’ve all done the same
Every night I burn down my house
Flames circle the suburbs, they devour the town
And cover my exit, and help me escape
It’s what they all might do if they were awake
Every night I put on my dress
And go into the city without my face
Where nobody knows me, or know himself
And puts up his image on a forgotten shelf
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Being Alone
03:29
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I’m gonna do everything for myself
Keep everything for myself
Oh it’s hard, hard being alone
I’m gonna steal everything for myself
And only believe in myself
You can’t trust this world to leave you alone
One of these days, I’ll get it right
And show the whole world that it’s wrong
I’m gonna figure it out tonight
Bring secret equation to light
You know it’s hard, hard being alone
(And to know that you’re right)
And I try to be smart
But being smart makes you an asshole
And if you follow your heart
You’re heart will betray you, then what?
And one of these days, I’ll get it right
And show the who world that’s wrong
I’m gonna be strong for myself
And only long for myself
You know it’s hard, hard being alone
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Magic Hour
02:57
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Well enjoy this while it lasts,
Being the beautiful people, no future or or past
And every day is painless to digest
And it’s good to never get old
And to laugh at other people shuffling off to the grave
In this simulation where nothing matters at all
As long as you buy the right things
And do the right things
And think the right things
Nothing can touch you at all
And who wants to worry themselves
About nuclear missiles or God knows what else
About melting ice or civil wars next week?
And who wants to feel alone?
I want golden sunset when magic hour comes
And to live in an ad for vacations or cars or beer
As long as you drink the right things
Swallow the right things and hate the right things
Nothing can hurt you again
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Bars in Daytime
04:37
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Bars in the daytime
That’s what it feels like to be low
To be low
In the dark, it’s romantic
That’s what it feels like to be in love
To be in love
Well I tried to be in love with the night
But the stars were holes and the moon is a lemon rind
Leaves in the fire
That’s what it feels like to be alive
To be alive
But I know you’re not around anymore
Drunk on Sunday morning
That’s what it feels like to be alone
To be alone
But I know I’m not alone anymore
Cause your spirit still scratches at my door
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Pictures of Hands
03:09
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Sometimes you’re there
Sometimes you aren’t there
Sometimes I feel you
Sometimes it’s just air
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The Double
04:49
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As a child, I was bitten in the yard by a dead bat
And its dead ghost will haunt me all of my days
And now I’ve grown tired of fighting my own image
But I can see the works of his hands all over town
Well I can see you might say I’m making excuses
Hiding all my misdeeds behind a curtain of words
But this shadow is as real as I am, perhaps more real
And he can take all of the blame for whatever you’ve heard
Well it’s hard killing somebody
Who wears your own face and a different name
But now that you’re real and I am not real
Maybe you can do all the work and I’ll keep the
name
Well the mirror tells lies I only half believe
And truths that I’m slow to understand
And in the dark of the night I follow a shadow
Down the fluorescent-lighted highway that leads to my home
Well it’s hard killing somebody
Who wears your own face and a different name
But now that I find it’s him or it’s me
I can do what I have to do and not feel ashamed
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Silent Eyes
03:44
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Silent eyes, what do you see?
Your makers left you all alone; what do you see?
In there absence what do you see?
Is this existence or a dream— what do you see?!
Across the desert, you can record
Full range of movement, shade & warmth,
But nothing stirs
Unmoving arm, what do you wait for?
If you never reach or bend or grasp
What are you for?!
Across the ages, did you record
A silent world where nothing moves,
No grain disturbed
Silent eyes, what is this place?
Does perception give you life?
Why were you made?!
Put in place by grasping hands
Does there corruption spread to you,
And can you sin?
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Everyone Gets Eaten!
02:22
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On a normal day, clouds open up
And you can see it coming down
And nothing in the world will be the same
Wave goodbye to everyone
That you’ve met along the way
And be replaced by something with your name
Black cat on your doorstep
Black car in your house
Change is bad, every time
You should avoid it if you can
Try not to die
Or give up on your friends
Reflection in your doorway
Reflection in your house
Everyone gets eaten in the end
On a normal day, clouds open up
And you can see it coming down
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The Gulf
02:11
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Hot winds from the Gulf, they reminded me of you
So I tried to escape into the sea
I know it's not that often that I think beyond my feet
Or where today they might be taking me
Don't tell me that you love me unless you'll look at me that way
Don't tell me that you need me, because the weight of need's too much
But if you tell me that you want me, well, that would be okay
Some words have to have meanings these days
Half-watching television from motel lobby chair
Drinking bitter coffee to pass the time
Wondering if anyone listens to themselves
I wish love or truth would blacken out my mind
There are no truths, there are no lies
There is no world, there is no time
There is nothing that will help you sleep tonight
Or keep the stranger at the door satisfied
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(see the 2016 release, The Cosmic Flophouse)
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Pterodactyl
03:51
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Bottle rockets in the night, on the fourth of July
Are as meaningless to me as your whispered goodbye
Or your disappointed sigh
Antique porcelain I break, its pieces white and pink
It will cut both my feet
Hiding deep in the rug
Bottle rockets in the night, bottle rockets in the night
How I long for an equation
That could predict their flight
And I never wanna die
And I don’t want you do die
Whiskey river took your mind, or sometimes it was wine
And sometimes it was cancer
Pterodactyl up on high
Bottle rockets in the sky
I assume there’ll be some answer
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Quark Lepton Columbia, South Carolina
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