1. |
Alarms
04:04
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Anne stares up at me lying on her cold kitchen floor
She says “I’m so sorry” I lie and say “It’s alright”
We haven’t gone to school today, she’s been too anxious to get ready
I try to get her up once again, but she shakes me off, and I get mad.
I say “fine, you can waste your day, you can waste your life, but you won’t waste mine.
If you don’t stand up, then I’m gonna leave and you can just fucking waste away”
Tears well up in her eyes, and as I try to take it back, she starts to cry.
I want to reach out and console her, but I just stare and ask her,
“Why do we antagonize each other?”
she says “I don’t know.”
Anne starts clutching my arm, and begging me not to go.
As her nails dig in, she says I’m being a selfish dick
I want to defend myself, I want to hit her, call her a piece of shit,
but instead I just crumple, and dream that I don’t exist.
and she says “Why do we antagonize each other?”
I say “I don’t know.”
The night that we finally broke up, we walked through a mall, and sat on a bench.
I made a joke about slow dive and she said “that’s not funny.”
She’d had a bad day, and I said “what else is new?”
She slumped down and looked away, and I asked for the last time.
“Why do we antagonize each other?”
she says “I don’t know.”
“Why do we antagonize each other?
Why can’t we let each other go?”
and then my building's fire alarm went off
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2. |
Burning (Fractals)
04:00
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Your breath sounds like you’re laughing
As you fall asleep
Your head pressed to my shoulder,
I’m not happy, this isn’t me.
I slip out from under you,
and try to find the door,
Your arms wrap around me,
you ask for just a little more.
Don’t, stop, don’t, keep me here.
And you say
Stay here with me, everyday will be like the first
We can move to a mountain, or a place with moss.
We’ll be children again, we can fuck, we can dance, I’ve finally
figured it out.
Just please, please, please, don’t leave.
Don’t stop don’t keep me here.
Don’t, stop, don’t leave me here.
The fractal indentations
of your hair on my skin
the path of least resistance,
where lightning has burned in.
I wake up in a bed on fire,
my body’s grown old and weak
I try to tell you that I love you,
but I can no longer speak.
Don’t stop don’t keep/leave me here
Stop don’t stop leave/keep me here
And as everything burned
you finally learned
How much I needed to leave
and as much as you yearned
I finally learned
That I needed to be free
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3. |
A Desert Death
04:12
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I will drown here in the sand
Sink silently below the land
Ambeer and blood stain my clothes
Curled fingers which broke my nose
I am hunted by wolves and swans
When I am dead, they’ll sing this song
They will find me, naked and burned
Melted down to the bones that never learned
My intestacy has left you a slave
Look for the answers in my loose grave
Tear me limb from limb, eat my flesh raw
Fly back home and forget what you lost
Bury me in snakes, cut off their tails
Bury me where I stand, before I am frail
I am hunted by wolves and swans
When I am dead, they’ll sing this song
Spittle and piss stain my clothes
Broken fingers, a broken nose
I will drown here in the sand
Sink silently below the land
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4. |
(song)
03:19
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ahhhhhhhhh
ah ah ah
ahhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhh/ohhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhh.ohhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhh/ohhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhh/ohhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh/ohhh ohhh ohhh
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh/ahhhhhhhhhh
oh oh oh
ahhhhhhhhhhoh
ahhhhhhhhhhoh
ahhhhhhhhhhoh
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ahhhhoh
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh/ah ah ah ah
ahhhhhhhhhhh
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah hoo ah ah ah ah ah
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5. |
Horse Eyes
02:14
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lyrics written by Viola Baker
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6. |
Night With No Stars
02:52
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I fumble there, in a night
with no stars, holding you in my
mind and my arms, and wishing
you were there to hold me back.
I forget if my eyes are open or closed,
I forget why I’m making myself so miserable
but then I remember you’ll be back soon,
and when you open the door
I’ll have these photos of you.
These memories, exposed just right.
There in the darkness, here in the night.
oooooooooooh ooh ooh ooh
oo oo oo oooh
ahhhhhhhhhhhh
da da da da
ba da ba ba
pah
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7. |
Introlude
01:05
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8. |
Love at First Sight
03:39
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I see her across
the hall and know
(by her hair and earrings)
she will save me.
she doesn’t,
and soon we’re drowning
together and I tell her
to swim for shore but
she loves me too
much. I love her but I
am still me and that is
incurable.
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9. |
Spiders
04:36
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is it a defense or an attack?
is it a home or a trap?
how can you leave, and then come back?
only to find all that you lack
spiderwebs surround my bed
spiders are in my head
I can't remember if I'm dead
but I know, I'm not gone yet
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