1. |
native alien
02:54
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the secret dread
fills your head
a cloud of lead
it soaks your blue jeans sticky
to your tired legs
out in the cold in the old country
the leafless trees in winter
can offer you no shelter
nothing will top the days you smelt her hair
it's the secret dread that fills your head:
that everything will turn out just like she said
alright, lets do this
i knew this
if i threw this true love away
i'd go through this
but i'm attracted to newness
if i blew this bliss it was for the sake of adventurousness
that snake never mentions this bit
ask eve about it
i'm like her in the garden
i see the apple
and i start to harden
free people have heart and hearken
i gave up the whole hamburger for the gherkin
what's lurkin' round the corner?
the devil beckons
another game of poker
oh sure
the deck is stacked
but i've got aces up my sleeve for a counter attack
cos if i'm brave enough to leave
i'm brave enough to come back
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2. |
asymmetry
02:38
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I
are we really friends?
or is this happening again?
we're bluffing when we're suffering this fucking sin:
asymmetry
are we really friends?
are you still stuck on him,
like i'm stuck on you,
and she's stuck on me
and the chain of pain goes on endlessly...
am I just too thin?
not your idea of a man?
it's like a voodoo doll of me full of pins made
the mood you were in
when you met me
how to make amends?
every message that you send
sets me wondering again
what are my chances out of ten?
what's yet to be?
II
and now you want to try
and even after all i've cried
i feel something in me died
when i looked in the mirror of you
and could not see me
i look up at
the sky cookin' up blue and white
i don't wanna fight
i'm feelin' it's not right
we met in the river
we will never ever
get to the sea
you know it's not that i
it's not that i don't wanna know
i don't care if this "friendship" blows
but you're just too slow
i fell in love with you
in seven seconds
four years ago
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3. |
1999
02:02
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listenin' to smashing pumpkins
with my arms around you
hey, you know what?
i can do a mean kurt cobain too!
i like the same music as you
some people like to smile
and play football
i like to cry for a while
i don't like sports at all
i don't know why they force us all!
but i like you warts-an'-all
i believe in equality
and i'm interested in you bodily
i'm something of an oddity
and i don't care what you thought of me
and apart from autonomy
i don't care what i grow up to be
things were so simple
in the days of pimples
you liked my dimples
i liked your nipples
we used to laugh about farts
now my heart is crippled
listenin' to smashing pumpkins
with my arms around you
hey, you know what?
i can do a mean kurt cobain too!
i like the same music as you
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4. |
born to disappear
02:50
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if you're so pure
that you don't need me to know
if you're so cured
that you don't need me to show
my face around here
well i don't care
my white beard and my long ears
were born to disappear
they were born to disappear
(i think of you)
i wanna love you
but i dont wanna lose myself in you
(and your body)
i wanna love you but i dont
wanna lose
myself in
you
i know you're hurt
because i couldn't stay
but baby
everything must go away
in fact
there's nothing truer i could say
(i think of you)
i wanna love you
but i don't wanna lose myself in you
(and your body)
(and how it must have felt)
i wanna love you but
i dont
wanna lose myself in you
(like a stupid toy)
(and how i later felt)
(like a stupid toy)
if you're so sure
that you don't want me to go
if i'm so lured
that i hunt, haunt you and hold
hold on to this moaning moment me
which will be gone momentarily
then life is an excuse for stupidity
i wanna love you but i don't wanna lose myself
in you and your body
i wanna love you but i don't wanna lose myself in you
(i think of you)
i wanna love you but i don't wanna lose myself in you
(and your body )
(and how it must have felt)
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5. |
the news
01:13
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pressed close
like a book dried rose petal
under the cozy nook vent of her sweet breath nose
your weekend clothes in a mess
with those of the latest guest
to pose against your lonely chest
and only after you’ve confessed
she’ll show you why you like her best
you pull your scrappy stories close around
it forms a nest of words
and resting here doesn’t seem absurd
unlike your former quest
the world of tests you put yourself through
and you always knew
there comes a time to ask
will this one be the last?
and can you accept imperfection and faults?
you scan the vaults of your quick past
so slippery and so vast
all you gave and gathered
roles played, shite blathered
close shaves and tight-ladders
those slaves with nice masters
you prayed to know every answer
to all the questions
you asked her
you unmasked her
now you wish you’d done it faster
or slower
now you know her
you should show her
what you’ve got
what it is
and what it’s not
pressed close
like dry rose petals in a closed book of poetry
i know it’s you
you know it’s me
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7. |
you like me
02:57
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you love me
you wanna hug me
you always text me
you wanna have sex with me!
you like me
you notice when i come into a room
you think things that i say are true
you respect my opinion
about things that you should do
and you smell me too
you care what happened to me today
you want me to stay
you listen to things that i say
you don't want me to go away
ha ha you're a fool
you're a fool
and i don't mean to sound cruel...
but...
ah no i'm only messin'
i like you too!
you like me
"I like you!"
"I like you too!"
"no, I mean I, like, 'like you' like you"
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9. |
stupider like a fox
04:26
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poxy orthodoxy locks me in the stocks,
see I haven’t got the moxy to outfox the box
wanna think stupider like a fox
have my brain blank
like the inside
of stones and rocks
stop all the clocks
when somebody talks their
voice stops
outside my ears
my minds walls are sheer
but it’s waters are clear though it’s landlocked
why should I want what you talked about?
why should I want to pull it out of this world?
Aw fuck…
Can you hear me?
I wanna be a numbskull, null, void, on darkness buoyed, a night voyage to the starless lake of no noise no girls no boys no tools no toys no schools or decoys no rules no ploys no fuels for war no jewels no less no more no virgin no whore no after no before no roof no floor just things as they are at their imperfectly perfect core
Walk a mile in my shoes
Then smell your socks!
When you can smile and lose
Tell the robots
This leopard never changed his spots
Still like to lick ‘em when the Serengeti gets hot
Still deranged, caught the brain mange
Still like to blabber
like someone took a hammer to a strange angel
My name’s Daniel
Did you believe?
Did you believe that when you and your dreams would finally meet and form one stream…
Did you believe?
Did you believe?
Be impervious
Don’t be nervous
Be like a picture of the surface of Jupiter
Be stupider like a fox
Your den is warm
Giant storms reduce to tiny dots
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10. |
go see the salamander
06:51
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11. |
solo slumber party
13:33
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12. |
나무늘보 (namuneulbo/sloth)
02:30
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