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I’m simultaneously disturbed and serene
Simultaneously unnerved and relieved
Shackin up in the middle of a dream
Sprawled on a cul-de-sac, squinting up at a Rorschach sky
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
The clocks are doing the moon-walk, the astronauts are unfazed
Big mouths are doing their small talk and atheists are pray, pray, praying
Children singing life is but a dream
Sun-drunk on the cul-de-sac, waiting for the sky to speak
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Row, row, row your boat gently through the clouds
Merrily does not depend on the happening
Life is but a roundabout
Row, row, row your boat gently through the clouds
Merrily does not depend on the happening
Life is but a round, is but a round, is but a roundabout
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the-
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
Are we finally off the hook, tell me are we off the hook?
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You ripped your shirt to tie my bouquet
You took a seat and put your weight down
It’s fine I’m tired anyway
When I can’t pick a side I lay down
Broken off car door
Could have been a real eye sore
You took out your camera
I said let’s break it off now we’re
Sitting on the sidewalk kissing
Hand over your heart
You’re such a good trooper
Flowers on my front stoop, they were
Still blooming, blooming
One rubber band holds all my letters
If I could let them dry, maybe I’d feel better
I’ll probably feel I will probably feel
I will probably feel better
I’ll probably feel I will probably feel
I will probably feel better
Broken off car door
Could have been a real eye sore
You took out your camera
I said let’s break it off now we’re
Sitting on the sidewalk kissing
Hand over your heart
You’re such a good trooper
Flowers on my front stoop, they were
Broken off car door
Could have been a real eye sore
You took out your camera
I said let’s break it off now we’re
Sitting on the sidewalk kissing
Hand over your heart
You’re such a good trooper
Flowers on my front stoop, they were
Still blooming, blooming…
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Dancing on dying grass
To the steady sounds of the highway
Swaying left and right, out of time
On an empty construction site
Sweeping up broken glass
Buying flowers at the hardware store
Cleaning everything up nice, settling
On an empty construction site
I don’t know what is best for you and me
Can two sticky pendulums be happy?
Singing songs with the sun
Then we'll drink the moon under the table
Staggering around in the dark night
On an empty construction site
I don’t know why it’s so hard for you and me
Can two sticky pendulums be happy?
Out on the periphery
They are calling out our names
Pigeons are circling
The time already came
Out on the periphery
They are calling out our names
Pigeons are circling
The time already came
I don’t know what is best for you and me
Can two sticky pendulums be happy?
I don’t know what is best for you and me
Can two sticky pendulums be happy?
I don’t know why it’s so hard for you and me
Can two sticky pendulums be happy
Be happy, be happy?
I knocked down the flowers
While you weren’t watching
Spinning around and around
As the crane is lowering
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4. |
Trust The Sun
04:35
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Did you need me to be steady
after I turned into wind?
Did you need me to be solid
after I turned to liquid?
I'm a fake fraudulent reporter, trying
to decode changes in the weather, pleading
for summer, keeping on my sweater, making
predictions without ever going outside
Promised a little rain, brought in a hurricane
Year after year, can't let it go
Why did you disappear after the air was clear
Year after year, I still don't know
how to trust the sun
how to trust the sun
Sick and tired of believing
all of it is my fault
Laying under a willow, weeping
stroking her hair softly
An image inverted in the water
I will jump in, disappearing altogether
I'm naked, shivering all over
Should I feel whole now, feel whole now?
An image inverted in the water
Should I feel whole now, feel whole now
I'm naked, shivering all over
Should I feel whole now, feel whole now?
Promised a little rain, brought in a hurricane
Year after year, can't let it go
Why did you disappear after the air was clear
Year after year, I still don't know
how to trust the sun
how to trust the sun
how to trust the sun, sun sun
how to trust the sun, sun, sun...
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5. |
Shimmy Up, Melt Down
03:52
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Lay here with me
We are cradled, we are new
Cupped hands in the sink
Running water as we move
Phantom feeling
On my flesh where you drew
If you allow me
I’ll sink into you
Am I a deep sea dreamer or a floating celestial body?
Shimmy up melt down
I don’t know what’s up with gravity right now
Melt down shimmy up
-side down and I just can’t get enough
Stars in New Mexico
I am falling for the road
Cycling through the moons
In my dollar dancing shoes
Lightning in my bones
I don’t know where I’m going
Am I a deep sea dreamer or a floating celestial body?
Shimmy up melt down
I don’t know what’s up with gravity right now
Melt down shimmy up
-side down and I just can’t get enough
Cycling through the moons in my dollar dancing shoes
If you allow me to I will sink with you
(4x)
Shimmy up melt down
I don’t know what’s up with gravity right now
Melt down shimmy up
-side down, oh
Shimmy up melt down
I don’t know what’s up with gravity right now
Melt down shimmy up
-side down and I just can’t get enough
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Drop the Stone
05:00
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Can you feel the season of Demeter
Grieving for her daughter
Losses carried through the winter snow
I’m gearing up to be alone
I wanna know how you’re doing
Let me back in
I wanna know how you’re feeling
Ease this suffering
I’ve been trying to get clean
But I’m craving company
Need me or get away
A moth longing for a hot flame
Swimming through the frozen water
Taunted by a fire far away
A siren choir singing
Drop the stone
I know this bird has flown
I wanna know how you’re doing
Let me back in
I wanna know how you’re feeling
Ease this suffering
I’ve been trying to get clean
But I’m craving company
Need me or get away
A moth longing for a hot…
Memories are pretty mermaids
Tender ‘til the morning light fades
Memories are pretty mermaids
Tender ‘til the morning light changes
I held you close to my heart
Look at me when you pour my tea
I held you close to my heart
Look at me, look at me
I held you close to my heart
Look at me when you pour my tea
I held you close to my heart
Look at me, look at me
I wanna know how you’re doing
Let me back in
I wanna know how you’re feeling
Ease this suffering
I’ve been trying to get clean
But I’m craving company
Need me or get away
A moth brandishing a hot flame
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7. |
At the Edge of It
04:33
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Walking around old halls
I don’t recognize anything at all
Faces were clear, pictures vivid
I don’t want anyone to see me like this
Where is my memory?
She seems to flow right through
Just like a river
Into the mouth of the sea
Sometimes I sit at the edge of it
Try to reach my hand in
Oh but I’m scared
I never jumped off a swing
Did I ever love anything?
If I swirl my finger around
Will it come back, come back to me
Where is my memory?
She seems to flow right through
Just like a river
Into the mouth of the sea
Where is my memory?
She seems to flow right through
Just like a river
Into the mouth of the sea
Sea…..
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8. |
For Winslow
03:11
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I’m sorry I never finished your birthday present
I got stuck in my head
I didn’t know how to measure up to what you got me
So I got nothing instead
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my head
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my head
I’m sorry I got pissed at you when we played ping-pong
I got stuck in my pride
I guess that’s why I never held your hand at the cafe
You let all my shit slide
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my pride
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my pride
I miss you, gonna say it outright
‘Stead of through abstractions and poetic lines
I miss, I miss, I miss you
I’m sorry I let us both believe that I might choose you
I got stuck in my heart
And I’m sorry I wrapped my arms around you so tight
Though I knew from the start
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my heart
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my heart
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my heart
I’m always stuck in my, always stuck in my, I’m always stuck in my heart
I’m sorry I keep writing all these songs about you
Shoulda told you straight
Now I guess it’s too late
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AHFTKC
03:34
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How ‘bout you meet me at the Motel 6
I wanna smell the smell of strangers on the linen
Flippin through the late night TV
There’s a pool next to the parking lot
Can I use your toothpaste, I forgot mine
I heard in the lobby that a D movie was shot here
Shit, it’s 8:55
Should we late scramble to the scrambled eggs
Bleary-eyed
High on memory in the muscles
You look so pastiche
With your Lipton tea
Infomercial TV
Where the hell are we?
I feel kinda like I’m photoshopped
Or a UFO landing somewhere
I forgot your charger in the room
Ask Harold for the key card, Harold for the key card
How ‘bout we dress up like the Shining twins
I wanna play pretend and hitch a ride out of this skin
Just for a moment
Memory in the muscles, memory in the muscles
I’m addicted to the almost there
The rushy flood on the way to somewhere
With no real rush to get there
Memory in the muscles, memory in the muscles
I’m so sick of going nowhere
Memory in the muscles, memory in the muscles
You look so alive
Fingers wrapped ‘round mine
Howling at the neon lights
Howling at the neon lights
Howling at the neon lights
Howling at the neon lights
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10. |
Chrysalis
03:57
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A butterfly landed inches from my face
On the rail of the stoop
That feeling when a dream is on the tip of your tongue
For so long
Loitering lovers
Loitering lovers
Loitering lovers
My eyes twitched when I said loneliness
Yours were so blue
That feeling when love is on the tip of your tongue
For so, so long, oh
Loitering lovers
Loitering lovers
Aren’t we tired of waiting
In the chryalis?
In the chrysalis
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11. |
When You Carried Me
05:23
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If I were an astronaut
Floating past the places I forgot
I can’t see them no more
Ya know life on earth is such a bore
Little houses on the shore
When you carried me
When you carried me home
Draped over your shoulder like the sun fading fast
When you carried me
When you carried me home
Sun over the water, the light we knew would always guide us
If I were a lonely whale
Rising up with each exhale
No one’s ever seen me
But they’re all listening
When the time comes to sleep
Will I float or sink
When you carried me
When you carried me home
Draped over your shoulder like the sun fading fast
When you carried me
When you carried me home
Sun over the water, the light we knew would always guide us, ah
Can I revolve around the moon (can I revolve around the moon)
Can I revolve around the stars if I choose to?
At the bottom of the sea (at the bottom of the sea)
Can I still feel the sun holding me?
Can I still feel the sun holding me?
When you carried me, when you carried me home
When you carried me, when you carried me home
Will you carry me, will you carry me home
Sun over the water, the light we knew would always guide us
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