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Countries & Kings
01:19
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The story starts this way
Up in the whirl and sway
I ambled through the rise and fall
Of countries and their kings
To tell you that my hope is feigned
I forced a nervous smile
I lied when my turn came
I suffered through the hollering
Of anthem singers as they sang
And when they were done
I was changed
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Hatred & Grief
07:38
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Discombobulation, steer clear of me
I am already the one who wails
With hatred and grief
And fumbles in darkness for something to say
My sweet and sober days have wasted away
All of them curdled, twilit and gray
A vague, sinister notion
Burns like a bellyache through the night
Flickering in troubled sleep
Making star-shaped holes
In American flags and in me
And I’m down on the curb
Thinking not enough’s false
And not enough’s free
Me with the watered down blood
Me with the lids tugging lead
Me in a moment of doubt
Fearing the heart and the head
Are also at war
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In the garden when I spied you through the vines
And every beast was still
And every longing unaccounted for,
My hope was bottomless
How fast I would return
To that wicked hole
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4. |
Laughter Storage
01:49
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You left your laughing
Behind the cushions
Of this old, beat up couch
And in the light bulbs
And VCR wires
It makes me serious
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5. |
Hatred And Here We Go
00:59
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dm - guitar
md - drums
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Motored
03:30
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When you motored
And the potholes filled with August rain,
I was black as swamp water in the dead of night
California was just another myth
That sizzled on the lips of liars, fakes and idiots
When you hollered
And the words made bitter news,
Purple settled in a brand new aching bruise
North Carolina was just another noun
That made a sweet new sound
But meant something dangerous
When you motored
And my gullet filled with smoke,
Doubt rattled in me all the long way home
Massachusetts, softened by the squall
That washed over us all,
Was just a dark slick in the road
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7. |
Untitled #2
02:26
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Stab at your discontent sweetly
Try on the perfect head
Collapse the unbearable bulges
Where character is kept
And I will still love you
If you cave in or flake out
You’re sweet as clementine
There’s no contour quite severe enough
To quell my urges
Smell me want you
Smell me desperately
And I will pass through your gates
Like faint perfume
Make new scars for me
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8. |
Hatred And Whatever
01:57
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