1. |
Quickly
02:18
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the quick brown fox got lazy
holed up inside of her den
nesting in what she had been
suitcases still packed
from the marathons she ran
and some polyester slacks
one in every color with the tags intact
a lucky dog tracked her home
and farmers wife wanted fur
but there's no fur to be got
that fox was already caught
the trap was triggered long
before she'd knew she'd gone
the wrong way, now it's on
it's never coming off
and now that dog waits outside
it goes through her trash at night
to catch a scent of that fur
that fur that's gone and had gone
quickly
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2. |
12/2001
01:41
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second story window
ground covered in fresh snow
there's been no salt, there's been no plow
you gotta get out right now
tie the laces on your boots
the attic smell got in your snowsuit
it smells like old, it smells like home
that's how i know i gotta go
my skin is thicker than yours was then
you didn't see the ice or anything
you never wanna go back inside
your eyes are just too wide
there's a hill and i'm fine
there's a hill and i'm -
second story window
ground covered in mud though
it hasn't snowed in fourteen years so
that's how I know I gotta go
tie the laces on your boots
you see the scar from where we broke you?
and now i don't want any windows
that's how I know that I can go
my skin is thicker than yours was then
you didn't see the ice or anything
you never wanna go back inside
my eyes are just as wide as your eyes were
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3. |
Speech Development
01:38
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my very first word was mama
what else could i say?
but if you would ask her
then she'll say i haven't paid
all i owe cuz she gave me breath
but i didn't choose this debt:
mouth for words and hair to comb
eating all her house and home
mouth for words and hair to comb
hands to write and feet to roam
away from her
away from her
did she know these things she lent
would let me breathe alone?
when she calls up to collect
just tell her i'm not home
tell her that
I love you darling mama,
but i'm gone
cuz now i've learned six new words:
it's time that i move on
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4. |
Piece of Work
01:15
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doubt truth to be a liar
oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt
and then resolve itself into a dew
oh god, oh god how did it come to this?
it cannot come to good
it cannot come to good
it cannot come to good
oh what a piece of work
you're such a piece of work
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5. |
Here I Am
03:08
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i am here but i
am not here i am
without you even though i'm
with you all the time
you are here but i
am not here i am
somewhere else even though i
am right here beside
it's not a drink
not pharmacology
that gets me up so high
it's something tight
a rope into the sky
and you sleep while i climb
i am up here i
cannot see you now
gone are the bed and the sheets
gone is the time
and the words don't rhyme
but they are scanning
so they spill out of my mouth
while you are tongue-tied
is it the way
we smell the blood on him?
in his beard on his coat?
i know he knows
he's got us by the throat
though you try to deny
it's not the drink
is what i wanna think
i speak into his eyes
he sees us now
he saw it all along
i run to you hide
wasn't there i was
never there i was
always without you
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6. |
Not Never
01:32
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'melia earhardt's got a plane and icarus got wings
peter pan's got wicked drugs if only you believe
keeps you going all the night
second star to the right
off this roof i know i'll fly if only i can try
certainly the charm in trying lies in the fact very little
certainly the charm in dying lies in the fact very little is lost
'melia earhardt's got a plane and icarus got wings
peter pan's got wicked drugs if only you believe
keeps you going all the night
second star to the right
off this roof i know i'll fly if only i can try
so if you see me in the lobby
don't be worried when i say
while we are riding up,
"can you hit number eight?"
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7. |
Etendue
02:58
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i'm always blue
without yellow. I don't know what to do.
Not like I'm never engaged;
rainbow's a pretty big place.
Besides, it seems
there's always green
in between us anyway.
But you told me
where we could meet
in a painting far away:
"Somewhere there's a tree, and it's got purple leaves."
I'll know it when I see.
I only get to be with you
when everyone else is around -
and then the sun goes down.
Reflected everywhere,
my loneliness: the sky.
I am the ocean wide;
you are never there.
You are too far away.
On different wavelengths,
yellow absorbs me.
Maybe I've seen the tree before.
Maybe it's green and nothing more.
The prism isn't on our side:
I'm infrared; you're ultraviolet.
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8. |
You Would
02:28
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all the things you said you'd do
all the places you've moved
doesn't matter what might be outside
if you stay in your bedroom
i know just what you do all day
do you want your life to be
different than it was five years ago?
even though it's without me
i'm bored
let's go
i'm gonna go
you could
go to
if you
wanted to
if you wanted to
if you wanted to
oh if you wanted to
and it's not that i don't think that you can
in fact i think you could
it's just that i'm disappointed
because you said you would
but it's not that i think you ever will
in fact i know you won't
it's just that i'm disappointed
because you said you would
you would
you said you would
you said you would
you said you would
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9. |
2 4 10
01:42
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there's a world big and wide
at my fingertips and i wanna go
but my friends
they'll only go outside
to the liquor store on ninth
only place you can find
two for ten wine
charge on the card
call me a ride
and i'll see you at the door
come on inside
there's a couch, it is blue
and it's calling out to you:
take a seat, have a smoke
that's the problem with this place
yeah, it's always been this way
like a channel programmed in
like
two for ten wine
charge on the card
call me a ride
and i'll see you at the door
come on inside
oh this place hangin' on
to this thing already gone
no one sees it but me
hangin' out down the street
same old thing we did last week
thank god for cable tv
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10. |
Lungfish
02:41
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metal hook
don't get caught
don't get nervous
suck it up
or suck it in
no not your gut, but
the diaphragm moving stuff
fish have gills but they forget
what surrounds them every second
they don't laugh and they don't cough
they'll boo you off
underwater he's got short term memory
but he's not the one who's forgetting the punch line
so take a deep breath
forget what he said
besides, he already did
do not stop breathing
do not stop breathing
do not
take your lucky smoke
so that you don't choke
and then you do, oh
you must be joking
you're a silly boy
floundering up there
did you forget what i said?
do not stop breathing
don't stop believing
do not
metal hook
don't get caught
don't get nervous
don't fuck it up
so suck it in
no not your gut, but
the diaphragm moving stuff
don't fuck it up.
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