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Magnolia
05:39
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It could've been here
Anywhere
It could've been here
Anywhere
Anywhere
It could've been here
Anywhere
Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
(Magnolia)
It could've been here
It could've been here
Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
It could've been
Anywhere, anywhere
The magnolia gesticulates
Delicate in the wind
(It could've been here)
Magdalene, with a painter's hand
Brushes back the night
Exposing the beauty within
(It could've been here, anywhere)
You're a planet spinning down some nowhere highway
(Anywhere, anywhere)
Could've been anywhere
(Anywhere)
What a tragedy, to be a moon among stars
To be a magnolia listless in the wind
I, too, had dreams
Destinations
The rubber factory down the street is improving its cyber security
I, too, had dreams
Magdalene in crisis
Magdalene in crisis cries "Woe!"
The months they are minutes now
And I suppose sometimes to go on one must forget
The magnolia
(Magnolia)
The magnolia
(Magnolia)
I, too, had dreams
Destinations
It could've been here
Anywhere
(Destinations)
It could've been here
It could've been here
Anywhere
Anywhere
Magnolia
It could've been here
Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, anywhere
It could've been anywhere, anywhere
I, too, had dreams
I, too, had dreams
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2. |
Jack
04:25
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Shadows like rats, they scurry 'cross the wall
Avarice winter lead to summer and fall
What's it like to become nothing at all in the middle of it all?
Go sip some rat blood
Check on baby in the bath
Time crawling on your skin
Time will bite you in the ass
Got a manic-panic slip n slide mind
Heart beat true but unkind
Singing "Jack, Jack
Don't look back"
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Time crawling on your skin
Time will bite you in the ass
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Don't look back
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Don't look back
St. Peter, he was crucified like a frown
He did the cool get-down
Sip your vino and you laugh at the clown
Crucified like a frown
I feel it too it nags at you when you got nowhere to go
You're one more thing that throws a shadow
You're one more tiny, plastic, cosmic echo
Become a shadow
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Nothing at all
In the middle of it all
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Slip n slide mind
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
So unkind
Don't look back
Don't look back
Don't look back
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Don't look back
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Don't look back
(Jack, Jack, don't look back)
Don't look back
Don't look back
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3. |
Flower of Tomorrow
05:16
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Knelt down by the River Bombay
With a rotten thirst, I drank, I drank all day
Drank so damn much I was spirited away
Laid some flowers by your grave
They say it’s been 10 years, it feels like 10 days
10 long days since you were spirited away
Hide my face, hide my sorrow
Flower in the flowerbed of tomorrow
I returned to the River Bombay
Drank so damn much got an electrical headache
I drank and drank and drank til I felt no shame
Here today, gone tomorrow
Flower, flower, flower of sorrow
Here come the rain, here it come to wash me away
No more flower, no more tomorrow
Here come the rain
Here come the rain
Here come the rain
Here today, gone tomorrow
No more pain, no more shame, no more sorrow
Here come the rain, here come the rain
Here it come to take me away
I drank and drank and drank and drank
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4. |
Won't Be Long
03:38
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Glory days
Glory days
I’ve had my taste
Spit out now swim out where the horizon hugs the sea
Death, but a memory
And Penny say, Penny say
“You got to think more deeply”
I know
Peace may not come soon
It won’t be long now
Hard on the land
Where is the sea
I’ve been searching and searching for thee
The blind Jesus freak has seen his King
He may not come soon
But it won’t be long
It won’t be long now
Maybe, maybe I’ll move out to the bush
Ensconced where the wilderness meets the edge of my body
Become Hayden Carruth, become one with the the moss incarnate
That eats life
That eats wounds
That eats wounds
That eats wounds and grows anew
It won’t be long now
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5. |
State Trooper
05:17
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New Jersey Turnpike
riding on a wet night
'Neath the refinery's glow
out where the great black rivers flow
License, registration, I ain't got none
But I got a clear conscience
'bout the things that I done
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
Please don't stop me, please don't stop me
Maybe you’ve got a kid, maybe you’ve got a pretty wife
Only thing that I got been bothering me my whole life
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
Please don't stop me, please don't you stop me now
In the wee wee hours
your mind get hazy
Radio relay tower
lead me to my baby
The radio's jammed up with talk show station
It's just talk, talk, talk, talk, 'til you lose your patience
Mister state trooper
(don’t stop me)
please don't stop me
(don’t stop me)
Please don't stop me,
(don’t stop me)
Please don't stop me,
Don't stop me now
Hey, somebody out there, listen to my last prayer
Hi ho silver-o, deliver me from nowhere
Deliver me from nowhere
Deliver me from nowhere
Deliver me from nowhere
Mister state trooper
(don’t stop me)
please don't stop me
(don’t stop me)
Please don't stop me,
(don’t stop me)
Please don't stop me,
(don’t stop me)
Don't stop me now
Don't stop me now
Don't stop me now
Don't stop me now, now
(don’t stop me now)
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6. |
Laughing at the Future
03:34
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Follow the stars ‘til you feel the groove
See the wind in what it moves
The tumbling pasture, the rolling hay field sea
You shot the bird with your BB gun
Dead sparrow in the mouth of a dog
Creates memories from destruction
Hell, it was all destruction
Laughing at the future
Laughing at the future
Laughing at the future
Laughing at the future
It is all destruction
It is equal to living in a tragic land
To live in a tragic time
Regard now the sloping, mountainous rocks
And the river that batters its way over the stones
Regard now the birds that came like dirty water in waves
One after another
Hark! The joyous light of the world
Hark! The bitter darkness in this world
Cancel culture killed the sex revolution
Clothed in strength and dignity she is laughing now
At the future
It is all destruction
(Laughing at the future)
It is equal to living in a tragic land
To live in a tragic time
Regard now the birds that came like dirty water in waves
Flowing above the rocks
Flowing over the sky
One after another
Washing the mountains bare
Destruction, destruction
Destruction
Where are your values?
Where did I leave mine?
One after another
One after another
One after another
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7. |
Surface Tension
02:31
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Surface tension
Fifth dimension
Surface tension
Here in the kitchen
It goes like this
What’s it called when the water domes over your cup?
And you’ve had enough?
Oh yeah, that’s called surface tension
I got surface tension
Fifth dimension
Surface tension here in the kitchen
Question after question
No answer, nothin’!
Function function, I’m doing nothin’
I’m down to the drop, I got surface tension
Fifth dimension
Surface tension here in the kitchen
I’m down to the drop
I’m down to the drop
(I’m down to the drop)
What would you do now that you’re through?
What should I do now that I’m through?
I’m down to the drop
Surface tension
Extension extension
Here in the kitchen
I’m down to the drop
I’m down to the drop
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8. |
Bon Vivant
03:32
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The night swam out of the deep moving dark
An icy, shifting dark dropped in on the day
And what a day it was, the cloud poured down as rain
Wearing yesterday’s clothes, we washed our eyes in the twilight
Tomorrow you will rise, begin again
Tomorrow you will fly, kiss the wind
You’re sweating fear, sweating fire, sweating pain
Sweating fear, sweating fire, sweating pain
Bon vivant
It’s good living
Bon vivant
It’s good living
Bon vivant
It’s hard livin’ out here
Hard livin’
Licked clean, pushed from the nest
Only the sky below
A quality of fear no man should know
I been here before, I’ve seen it before, so it goes
I been here before in a dream, in a dancing dream
You’re sweating fear, sweating fire, sweating pain
Sweating fear, sweating fire, sweating pain
Bon vivant
It’s good living
Bon vivant
It’s good living
Bon vivant
It’s hard livin’ out here
Bon vivant
It’s good living
Bon vivant
It’s good living
Bon vivant
It’s hard living out here
It’s hard living out here
Hard living out here
It’s hard living out here
Hard living out here
Yeah, it’s hard, hard
Bon vivant
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Caravaggio
04:13
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Sunlight rockets off the road
The sky sends itself to you
In the rain mirror an empty city
Adrift in the past
The future undulates, crashes against you
The future undulates, crashes against you
Against itself
You’re one of many names, one of many things
Time translates the field
The cattle graze beneath the rays
In the sky an empty city ruminating on color
Adrift in the past, adrift in the city unto itself
This is me, this is my city, the future undulates
The future undulates, crashes against you
One of many names, one of many things
Casting shadows, I know
I know, I know
One of many names, one of many things
Casting shadows, I know
I know, I know
Caravaggio
In the grass a beetle, in the night a star
(Caravaggio, Caravaggio)
In the grass a beetle, in the night a star
(Caravaggio, Caravaggio)
Better keep going, you’ve come so far
(Caravaggio, Caravaggio)
You’re one of many names, one of many things
(Caravaggio, Caravaggio)
Casting shadows
(Caravaggio, Caravaggio)
You’re one of many names, one of many things
(Caravaggio, Caravaggio)
Crashing into itself
You’re one of many names, one of many names
(Caravaggio, Caravaggio)
Caravaggio
I know, I know
I know, I know
I know, I know
You’re one with it all
The sky, the sunlight on the road
The cattle graze beneath the rays
You’re one with it all
The sky, the future undulates
One of many names
One of many things
Yeah, sunlight rockets off the road, casting shadows
One of many names, one of many names
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10. |
Carnage of the Rose
04:58
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The stone gathers moss
The geometry of car-cast shadows on the highway run headlong
into a palatial light
Into your screaming loneliness
The persistence of loss
Have you come for me?
Have you come for me?
Could you comfort me?
Could you comfort me?
Could you comfort me?
Down on your knees
‘Neath an angry yellow sky
lower and lower still
nothing more than a shadow, a thing
Between the tires and the rain
Have you come for me?
Could you comfort me?
The beauty, the thorn
It shows the carnage of the rose
Here I am
A sorrowful flower
With a beautiful way
(Beautiful way)
(Beautiful way)
(Beautiful way)
(Beautiful way)
(Beautiful way)
Here I am
(Here I am)
This is me
(Here I am)
A city unto itself
This is me
(Here I am)
A sorrowful flower
With a tragic way
Beautiful face
(Beautiful way)
The carnage of the rose
(Beautiful way)
(Beautiful way)
How to go on?
How to be?
(Beautiful way)
Collapse into the air
Let the highway fall behind
Like a distant memory
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Synthy/dancey alt/post-punk, or
"Casual goth for the hopeful" from Des Moines + Cedar Falls, IA
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