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Downtown
04:12
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when I get downtown, it astounds
what a dreadful crowd
I always sleep alone, that's not the plan
It's not the plan I had
I want to live life half asleep
to feel the consciousness drained from me
and to become withdrawn habitually
but not forgotten
I live my life as one, among the crowd
no matter who's around
I only love myself
because we're proud, we never speak aloud
I want to live life half asleep
to feel the consciousness drained from me
and to become withdrawn habitually
but not forgotten, asleep
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2. |
Cougar
04:00
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I can't get this out of my mind, I think about it all the time
she's so loving and so kind to me
but I would have someone watch you
to make sure that you have half a mind to do what's right
it's not that I don't want to
you're something that I'm leaving behind
when you wash the water away
I had something I wanted to say
that you are not alone
you are not alone
everyone's alone
now that everyone's touched you
six bottles left to wish you well
it was thrown, arching so gracefully
breaking the glass, shattered inwardly
when you wash the water away
I had something I wanted to say
that you are not alone
you are not alone
everyone's alone
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3. |
Prince William
02:42
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she's standing next to me
but I'll never agree to be
until I'm caught up
undressing carefully
trying not to make
anyone angry
so encompassing
all around me
it's all encompassing
it consumes me
It started out so playfully
but now she's got cold feet
all the messages I leave
ain't that shit
the only thing that I believe
the only thing that matters to me
that's to fuck
so encompassing
all around me
it's all encompassing
it consumes me
she's standing next to me
I'll never agree
until I'm caught up
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4. |
Your Secret Trust Fund
03:42
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your secret trust fund
accruing interest everyday
you've got a bloody secret
your anarchist bank account's dragging you down
when you make appearances
you always wear your beggars crown
but I've got a guilty conscience
that's why I moved way the fuck across town
very far from my home
I don't think you'll be here by tomorrow
got to get my money right to follow you
everything you said it now rings hollow
at least you got your money right?
you've got important meetings
all of the deadlines have been set in stone
you must secure the trust fund
and everything else you rightfully own
and to protect from lawsuits
and the moral conundrum has grown
how you float around here
gallivanting with poor people's ghosts
I don't think you'll be here by tomorrow
got to get my money right to follow you
everything you said it now rings hollow
at least you got your money right?
your money's right.
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wait, right there tied up in knots, it's my bag of cocaine
it's been stepped on in life, and hidden away
I need to show up for work
to kill the pain
to be a debutante
married away
now I embody an all seeing eye
I crawl to the past
now I give my ancestors signs
I'm coming down fast
now I embody an all seeing eye
I come to your house
now all momentum is gone
I can't get it back
I am burning everything that I own
I am cutting the flesh away
my nights always end up this way, digging bones out of graves
wait, right there below the sound
and out in the rain
I am disadvantaged in life
I selfishly stray
now I embody an all seeing eye
I crawl to the past
now all momentum is gone
I can't get it back
I am burning everything that I own
I am cutting the flesh away
my nights always end up this way, digging bones out of graves
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6. |
Deer Boy
03:55
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it could be that there is no hell
looming out there, waiting for you
you can't listen to everything they say
I'm sure now that you'll make it through
give me only one life to waste
and to align myself with the snake
show me only one path to take
and to align myself with the snake
to tell a child of the gallows
to say you'll be infinitely swallowed
to burn in fire and brimstone
you believe what you want
I am old now it still stays with me
my constant companion of grief
nothing can unwind the web you weave
I never relax completely
to tell a child of the gallows
to say you'll be infinitely swallowed
to burn in fire and brimstone
you believe what you want
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