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YOU'LL BECOME THE BOG WRAITH
on the air we float
we're moving on the rocks
sunday's coming down
i wish that i could hear
yr only going back where i stand
instead, my love, my holy friend
its not that way
we're breaking glasses still
and dancing out alone
your wedding dress i will
not hold your hand
we're all different now
but all the things we have
is never going down
oh no, dont go back home
i stand and i am over you again
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Borderline Psycho Child
03:29
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BORDERLINE PSYCHO CHILD
as i stay swimming
in your light pools abound
i saw your face
come out of the ground
as i stay in
my black lungs come out
i cant inhale the smoke
that comes out of your mouth
as i now know
that we're only supposed
to hear the sounds of your ghost
when we're asleep
dont know that i go
you dont pray to god, i know
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Lonely Strangers
03:22
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LONEY STRANGERS
half the time i stay in
my life blows all in
thats alright, babe, you know
i've drunk myself numb
but that doesnt meant you arent the one
that i can lay my head against when im dead
as time goes on
we'll stay only on
i'll be there, coming on, no bad
thats too bad
when life goes harder than i was born to expect
i will crash my car into the river bed
when all that I have borrowed has come to take it back
thats alright, i'll crash my car into the cliff
the bile rolls my tongue
i'm vile, the only one
its so hard to be undone
oh no its alright
you know we cannot sleep at night
the guilt keeps me up screaming at myself when you're gone
when the borns on your hands
turn to scars i'd understand
dont take this far
i'll never know, oh no
oh no
oh no
oh no
oh no
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A Delay of Thoughts
01:43
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excerpt taken from HEBEPHRENIC SCHIZOPHRENIA | 1951 Psychiatric Interview:
"I got that job, you heard? summer market, you admiring, ey?"
"I cant hear you Joe can you speak a little louder?"
"Hey?"
"You got that job?"
"Yeah, I look for a job somewhere I dunno"
"Look."
"Yes sir, whats up boss?"
"See this?"
"That boy? Sweet abs."
"Will you hold it? Look at it? That's you"
"Thats me, in Sanatarium?"
"That's you, eh?"
"Yeah that's me. Oh yeah, in Dorchester? Is that not Dorchester?"
"No..."
"Oh yeah yeah...."
"Why are you sitting in that way?"
"I dunno"
"Why are you sitting that way?"
"Or is the boy sick?"
"Were you sick then?"
"He's not sick, he's, uh, heart attack. He has blood pressure, see, the eyes, his nose, sick. He's a young boy. He was always into sailing, he was always in a quarter. He's a lot better now."
"He's what?"
"Does everything in the city. He has money, see? For this...he does everything in a sense. Went the show, then beer. He's a man."
"This boy goes to shows? He drinks beer?"
"Smoke cigarettes, smoke a pipe...has everything."
"Well, and you?"
"Or this man? Who's facing. That's the boy eh? That is the boy. Yeah, apparently, so many years, born in the States. Downtown, the sea...that's him."
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Yr Mirror Moon
02:52
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YR MIRROR MOON
your flame almost died
before we saw it fall from the inside
oh, mirror moon
i long to see you
waiting on the porch to come inside
we'lll all become our own sweet coffins
in crashed windows i'll lose my head
and throw into the deepest ocean
and drift away on my raft bed
when antlers spurred from the ground
and birds nested softly all around
oh lava lake
what does it take
to sing a praise of air, unbound
we'll throw our hands into the river
and kiss the fish as we drift off
and flaming heads will roll to shorelines
and limbs of trees will hand gifts off
when night comes falling from the sky
and endless leaves fall to the ground
i'll laugh and sing and plead and cry
just for to stay around
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The Window
02:05
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THE WINDOW
can we stay in?
i'm watching out the window one more night
can all my snow
melt off of my feet into the night?
i have no goals
i have no sense of myself
i have no hope
of wasting my time with this
can I grow old
grow old with the sun in your eye
i know half the time we never say goodbye
i have no hope
of growing old this year
i woke up in the same bedroom
I fear my own
cant we grow old
i have a ramshackle head
dont know
can everyone sleep in my bed
dont grow cold
dont grow cold
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Ishmael, Ishmael
03:16
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ISHMAEL, ISHMAEL
ishmael, ishmael,
yr world is coming down
the plants have all died
and the fields are turning brown
yr daughter sleeps
with his head in the clouds
yr daughter no longer
can speak very loud
and yr son takes all
of his clothes from the floor
can you hear that train
wont roll anymore?
ishmael, ishmael,
your world is fading away
to the place where only sinners go
and liars pray
to that little voice in your head
thats always dreaming
for you to inject some false
sense of meaning
your ship has crashed upon the shore
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Wet Cassette Tapes
02:33
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WET CASSETTE TAPES
after all, I guess, we're going back over
but thats alright, i guess, we're not out lifting over
the walls come down
i know you're not around
i stand in the ground, i know
i can see your coffin softly swaying the wind
and all the nooses let loose back to sing of all our sin
its not as innocent as you'd like it to be
i dont know what i have to prove, you dont prove it to me
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A Lapse in Judgment
03:12
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