1. |
Lowly Heights
03:25
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I hear the beckon
I hear the call
And at night while they're obscured by no light
I see them fall
They're the tits of angels while they're in the sun
But in the dark I see tooth of a shark
And the wart's on the devil's cunt
I hate a mountain
Put an elevator in it
Fill it fullin' up with glass
Nothing falls when it's eighty percent halls
And you've reconciled manners with mass
In another meeting
42nd floor
Will you gentlemen excuse me for a second
There's a jet engine at my door
I hate a building
Can't escape from the sight
Can't escape the sound
Waiting for the day when I can rest my legs
As they lower me into the ground
Goodnight.
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2. |
Convincing the Chrysalis
03:05
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Come back with some lines on your faces
And that doubt that loosens skin
That look that says you're scared of tomorrow
It fits right in here
Cough up all the questions that gag you
Isolate the fear from the thought
Guaranteed you'll sound like an asshole
But no one is listening
Grand mistakes
You're gonna sing this fucking song forever
Shield breaks
You're gonna sing this fucking song forever
Will in vain
You're gonna sing this fucking song forever
Chaos reigns
You're gonna sing it like all the rest
Until you wonder if you've ever been blessed
No one can help you hit all the notes
They're too busy prying their songs out of their throats
Limbo of future nostalgia
Romanticism's just prior restraint
Don't cry because you won't be returning
You don't exist here
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3. |
Philip Roth
02:30
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Finally found my calling
Just in time to call it off
Now it's just an echo, a sigh
Spent the summer dreaming
Then a falling leaf woke me up
Now I'm wondering what the date is, the time
I don't want to know how good enough became nothing
I don't want to see this distortion reflecting
No one wants to go chasing something that don't want to stay
How else do you pull something meaningful from the fray
Full examination
The blood work of a life
The temperature I'm taking ain't mine
Personal inflation
Currency in freefall
The dollars have been shrunken to dimes
I don't want to know how good enough became nothing
I don't want to see this distortion reflecting
No one wants to go chasing something that don't want to stay
How else do you pull something meaningful from the fray
Half an expectation
Where'd the other half go
Half an expectation
The other half won't grow
Half an expectation
Where'd the other half go
Have no expectations
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4. |
So Does Syphilis
05:49
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An infant's first thought is to wail
No matter the shock or the scale
The day will come when he discerns
Between what recedes and what returns
But some babies they must protest
Reject the world and reach for the breast
All those babies keep the world awake
What each one needs is a good hard shake
Would the world still grow and evolve
Free of the damned and the absolved
If you're so sure about being Christ
I've got some wood and three spikes
I don't know why you get so upset
No cause should leave you with no effect
Oblivion's got you in a cold, cold sweat
But you ain't seen nothing yet
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5. |
A Thought
03:33
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Middle of winter, middle of night
As always kept up by
Your light, your heat
Middle of summer, freezing season
Blind and stumbling through a cave
Exit this way all deservers
But I think I'll stay awhile
Maybe get lucky this time and not get out
I thought, I thought
Life could only get so bad
Pomegranate in my hand
At some fruit stand in Calcutta
Work with some guy, one good eye
Starts to ooze a little as this girl walks by
I said, "Hey Juju, what's up, man?
I've never seen you leak before."
He said, "My friend, there's one bad thing
about a good eye.
It still cries. It still cries. It still cries."
Yeah, heard you the first time, Japinder.
I thought, I thought
Life could only get so bad
They say it's better to lose at love
Than to never find it at all
I've got no problem with the view
I just hate the forty story fall
Oh so gracious as you walk away
"I learned so much from you!"
Yeah, next time just go to school. And drop out.
I thought, I thought
Life could only get so bad
I used to think
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