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(oh) maria
02:58
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“the past is another country”, I hear you say
cos you think you got away
well, wait till you find yourself back there
and the future was just a holiday
you will never get away
from the history
from the mystery you will never be free
you will never be free
you will never never never never be free
oh maria
I want to keep you in my house
I will burn you in my fireplace
So I will always have you here
Oh maria
I would
swallow my head
just to see my heart
maria used to party like a boom boom bomb
she would leave ya all gone
she was so strong
man, it’s wrong
and no-one else is allowed sing maria’s song
she used to party on a whole new level
she would leave you so dishevelled that the police turned up twice
oh man, she was so nice!
She used to lick me
Trick me
Give me the slip
But when we really clicked was when she’d tease me with her lips
A couple of guys died every time she shook her hips
“You’ve got to prune the tree”
that’s what she said to me
learn to say no
no I’m holdin’ onto my energy
“You’ve got to prune the tree of possibility,
learn to say no!”
and now what’s left in me
from when we were free?
Can you get back to that place?
Can you remember that taste?
Oh maria
I want to keep you in my house
I will burn you in my fireplace
So I will always have you here
Oh maria
I would
Swallow my head
Just to see my heart
Just like you said
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2. |
two white sweet potatoes
03:28
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back when your chest was two white sweet potatoes
reaching round like the sleaze i am
always muted
i rubbed up against you like a dog till i pumped amnesia
staring up your crooked nose
you didn’t know about me but you were not moving
i didn’t know about me but apparently
i was
and after a pause the causes dissolved but is there anything left?
sea cleft further than my canyon chin
and the colours of your changing hair and your skin like nothing else i was ever near
hair there and everyweird
the purple grey small magic unbullyable nut aura you beefed around you
see how all i remember is what i saw and what i craved
maybe
you saved something more from then with your dancing pencil
see how all i remember is what i sow
and you planted a black turnip of doubt in my blue shirted work walk
and you asked me to destroy it but i never could
you don’t destroy a thing like that
your body a beerbubble
and your garden grows fruity noises
and now all i do is practice concentrating
try not to cling to how you sing try not to feel that
spinal spasm when you sing me unsprung
stringslut
and the little cower
expecting you’ll cut me
maybe it was fear before
now it’s less, an evolutionary mess, your guess i can’t even admit
to your new face
I could never answer you
From behind my clean masking by subtraction
All that’s left of then is my love of music
It’s all just too heavy
Shattered in the cold light of the tear jerking beer inflection
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3. |
no
02:35
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There’s a unique position in my heart
Where you sit
I will admit I forget sometimes how you earned it
But I’ll never forget the night when
we sang every song we’d ever heard in our lives
then we went outside to lay down on the hard ground
yellow city clouds raced through the purple sky
on a wind so far away it made no sound
through a gap between the buildings I can only liken to the one between us
or the one between your legs I never filled
though I’d have killed to
especially on the night when
we sang every song we’d ever heard in our lives
no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no
no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no no no no yeah yeah yeah yeah
I’ll never forget the night when
we sang every song we’d ever heard in our lives
but we never went home that night
after we’d sung every song we’d ever heard in our lives
cos we just had to see the sea at dawn
you looked like a sleep-deprived lesbian
in that random carpark
when you put your glasses on
at six in the morning after the night when
we sang every song we’d ever heard in our lives
no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no
no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no no no no yeah yeah yeah yeah
I’ll never forget the night when
we sang every song we’d ever heard in our lives
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