1. |
Carry It Along
02:41
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It’s a triumph
Releasing your grip
Finally arriving into the fray
It’s like I have a new map for the city
You develop
Into a city
Health is money
And health is fading
You carry your generation along
With you unintentionally
You people the headlines
You demolish the factories
You close antiquated
Mom and Pop shops
I’ve been sopped up
Reduced to agendas
Perpetual anticipation
I am full of food
But also of everything
I am disastrously
Protean
Carry it along
With you
Plea for expansion
For singularity
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2. |
Ronald Reagan
02:18
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Drinking
Reading
About Reagan
Ronald Reagan
War
On the poor
Well, my tiny little life
Has been forever misinformed
Email my notoriously
Right-leaning cousin in the country to read
Charlie, read, Charlie, read
What’s become of your country
Driving
Honking
Zipping down the highway
Caffeinated
And on the radio
Public radio
The expression
Of incarceration
Email my notoriously
Right-leaning cousin in the country to read
Charlie, read, Charlie, read
What’s become of your country
Well, I’m so full of bile and hate
My life is ending rapidly
Charlie, see, charlie, see
What’s become of me
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3. |
The Mandate
02:55
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It takes a cake
That takes the cake
Separate parts of the world that
You can name
Enemy of the state
Participate
In the great games of
War you’re born into
I’m finally gone
I’m finally on to
Something I can taste and know
The pistols are drawn
Only here to draw the
Fury of your logic home
That little snake
That ingrate
propagating violations
Enemy of the state
Of the mandate
The changing of the guards
And the oceans
Let the crowd decide
Let yourself give in
Let yourself mix in
Oh, let the troops collide
Let history begin
Again and again
I’ll find it
I know I wrote this down
Somewhere I’ll find it
I’ll find it
I know I wrote this down
Somewhere I’ll find it
I’ll find it
I’m finally gone
I’m finally on to
Something I can taste and know
The pistols are drawn
Only here to draw the fury of your
Logic home
It takes a cake that takes the cake
History begins again
Enemy of the state of the mandate
Changing of the guards and the oceans
It takes a cake that takes the cake
History begins again
Enemy of the state of the mandate
Changing of the guards and the oceans
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4. |
Fully Realized
05:45
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The woman herself
The very her of herself
Stood by the banister
The story-ender
I’ve been away
I’ve been in another country
The whole time I was there
I was decidedly away
Red, yellow, orange
Freezing to the bone
You’ve cured me
Of social anxiety
I didn’t think that was in the
Cards for me
Just the other day
I was the storyteller in my way
Arriving at conclusions that shatter
At my touch
Blue, purple, teal
Sweating through my clothes
I found my own archetype
I developed my own archetype
A virus rolling around in my head
Green, gray, brown
Waking up on the ground
Green, gray, brown
Waking up on the ground
I found my own archetype
I developed my own archetype
A virus rolling around in my head
I found my own archetype
I developed my own archetype
A virus rolling around in my head
I found this disease
Growing out
Of things I said
The woman herself
Materialized
The woman herself
Fully realized
I wanna chart out my life
It’s fully realized
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5. |
Curtain Falling
04:12
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What will you do with your boy
Now he’s changed his order forever
Listen to my traveling heartbeat
There’s nothing more to me that clever
Feel the curtain falling
Follow it down
Hear the curtain calling
Feel the curtain falling
Follow it down
Hear the curtain calling
Feel the curtain falling
Follow it down
Are you leaving me
Don’t leave me
But if you leave me, keep in touch
I’ll still want
To tell you so much
I’m building up my fantasy world
And you’re all there, you’re all there
I’ve always wanted to tell you all so much
And to ask you all
What will you do with your boy
Now he’s changed his order forever
Listen to my traveling heartbeat
There’s nothing more to me that clever
Be the ruin of me, be the ruin of me
You and I were meant for each other
You and I would tear each other’s lives apart
All my little schemes
Coming undone at the seams
I’m prepared for the wreck
To be drawn into a tailspin
Only ever talk to the tyrant god
He gives me easy promotion
It’s an easy devotion
Silence, silence
Driving in silence
Till my mind is clear of violence
I may be free of you
But I’ll never be free
Of your silence
Silence, silence
Driving in silence
Till my mind is clear of violence
I may be free of you
But I’ll never be free
Of your silence
Feel the curtain falling
Hear the curtain calling
Feel the curtain falling, falling
What will you do with your boy
Now he’s changed his order forever
Listen to my traveling heartbeat
There’s nothing more to me that clever
I run down the foggy hillside
I’m tumbling over
The treasure of treasures
I’m not alone
There are many of us
Searching for the pleasure of pleasures
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6. |
Tracking The Guy Down
03:44
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See my life in the sticks
See notes I wrote in reverse
Thirteen years to the day
See my frozen friend
Time-frozen
Tied to his illness
See his friends and his kin
How can I justify the melting
A Christian camp in the sticks
Lying about drugs and my suffering
But suffering the dubious claim
See my friend break down
Grown men
See grown men, they cry out
How can I skirt around my reasoning
I remember when I gave up the ghost
And the brick and the mortar
And then hopelessly I unveiled this
Head-strong
It’s strong as ever
Infidelity
The worship of reality
While my tall friend lay in the sticks
And he said God had come to him
Said God had surrounded him
Had captured him
Had seized him
In a crowded jail cell
Whoa
And he flew into space
He flew into space
His mind was blown into space
Frozen and of the space
Frozen and of the space
Calling people
I’m writing down names
I’m trying to track the guy down
While he waits in his own paradise
While he waits in mysterious paradise
While he waits in chaotic paradise
While he waits in apparent paradise
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7. |
Ugly Garden (Reprise)
02:58
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The last call
Bell sounded
Like the ship was sinking
Sinking
If you saw the shrug of my shoulder
You’d know what i was thinking
You’re not in love with the man he’s become
You’re in love with his situation
And I find myself
Awarding the both of you
My highest congratulations
But then that
That’s a lie
It was a perfect nightmare
That I put myself through last night
It was an ugly garden
That I stole your heart in
But only recently
Are you beginning to notice this
The dinner bell went off
Like the war was starting
Like the war was just getting started
And I find myself
Writing in a notebook
I’ve been a peaceful man
Ever since we parted
But then that
That’s a lie
Oh, I find myself
In an ugly garden
Other people, when they find me, they find me
In an ugly garden
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8. |
Loitering
04:09
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Life loiters on
My nights in plainclothes
Put a tail on the rat
My nights working pro bono
The dream informs
The dream informs reason
My fracture
My fractured calculated reasoning
And life loiters on
And we put a tail on the rat
We follow him home
I’ll follow him everywhere
Put a tail on the rat, tail on the rat
Follow him everywhere
Life loiters on
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An indie rock band from West Philadelphia.
New album out this fall with Whatever’s Clever.
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