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Razors And Bombs
04:43
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You used to keep a razor under your tongue
Cut opponents so quickly they’d never feel it done
Until the red rushed over hands clenched in pain
Until light left their eyes and thoughts left their brain
But that was when your razor loved fools
It chased to slice them open and undo rules
It raced to teach lessons outside of schools
it ranked pain among its most effective tools
Razors and bombs, my baby
Razors and bombs for everyone
Cut you down and blow you up
Put more poison in my loving cup
Razors and bombs, my baby
Razors and bombs for everyone
You used to keep a bomb inside your chest
Surprise everyone with what’s beneath your vest
Until its pressure blast no longer asked permission
Until its smoke and ash demanded our submission
But that was when your bomb loved fools
It chased to slice them open and undo rules
It raced to teach lessons outside of schools
it ranked pain among its most effective tools
Razors and bombs, my baby
Razors and bombs for everyone
Cut you down and blow you up
Put more poison in my loving cup
Razors and bombs, my baby
Razors and bombs for everyone
But now you say you know a better way to live
And now you’d like to think of an alternative
To taking lives away and somehow maybe give
A little something for the pain if not a sedative
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2. |
Karaoke Nights
05:46
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Never made it out as much as we’d've liked
And it never was everybody's cup of tea
But often as we’d go, one thing was for sure
It was everybody's songs that set us free
Like the woman at the bar with the tattoos
and the scar and country repertoire and amazing rack
Like the man perched on the stool full of alcohol
and cool thinking it’s the old school he can bring back
They film the moments like they don’t give a damn,
They do it for the vine for snapchat or Instagram
One time for harmony vocals until they might go round the bend
Remember all karaoke nights must come to an end
Never have to come here long to say goodbye
Scenes like this seem almost too good to be true
We pass through without stopping to wonder why
Goes double for memorials and mortgage holders too
Like karaoke jockeys watching couples tonsil hockey
trying to flirt with disasters or hotties they hope to capture
Like blessed bartenders who may not prevent a bender
but call cabs to keep drunks from driving into the hereafter
So come on, belt out beautiful ballads from the songbook
Grab a microphone and give a melody a long loving look
Don’t bore us with the choruses and don’t forget the hooks
We came to listen when we could’ve curled up with a book
And live in the moment like it ain’t some throwback jam
Let presence in the present be a gift for friends and fam
Cheer them all until last call with every little bit of love you can lend
Remember all karaoke nights must come to an end
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3. |
One Day
04:11
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These are the new bots
They come when we yell
One day they will offer us
some instant of help
We live the choices
The everlasting year
Pardon myself but
you never asked, my dear
These are hallucinations
They dazzle and amaze
One day they’ll make us
Reconsider our days
We were raised up
into the beautiful kickin'
Swing over, rip or sing
Honey, it’s us I’m pickin'
These are moments locked up
Material like us, and then not
Nobody’s going to remember
All the love that we’ve forgot
We seek sensations
underneath the none
One day don’t rain on us
Without a little bit of sun
We decline caskets
Our ashes are for burning
One day they’ll dance again
if the earth just keeps turning
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4. |
Monochrome
03:29
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Time used to be a thing I lived in stints
A prison sentence, a workday spent in shifts
And then I met you, our tongues as fresh as mints
And then I said why bother, let's enjoy these gifts
Two weeks, I still see in monochrome
And now I hope I never find my way home
Space used to be this empty vacuum
Plotted points connected by random walks
Now you constantly explode, joyfully take up room
Now your connection's the only thing that talks
Three weeks, you still see in monochrome
And now you hope you never find your way home
Our world's anew in white and black
We see everything that we used to lack
Now that it's all open just a crack
Fill it all with feeling so we can't go back
Color can't be kept outside forever
In time it's going to creep in at the corners
There's gonna be a bond we refuse to sever
A little heat we will keep to make us warmer
Seven weeks, we still see in monochrome
And now we hope we never find our way home
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5. |
Hurry Down Lightning
04:33
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When clouds swallow the sky
and lights dim down to gray
and everyone’s about to cry
because nothing's left to say
Then I’m gonna breathe deeply
and shrug off the people’s panic
since just 'cause it’s going cheaply
ain’t reason enough to get manic
When lightning finally lands
I'll rumble thunder like a song
I won't refuse its fiery demands
I'll just ask what took you so long
Hurry down lightning
After the earth’s done splitting
and swallowing up stray features
and everyone’s not underground
has reverted to lesser creatures
Then I’ll laugh long and heartily
Tap into reserves of calm and bliss
since the world’s ending everyday
don’t make it my local apocalypse
When lightning finally lands
I'll rumble thunder like a song
I won't refuse its fiery demands
I'll just ask what took you so long
Hurry down lightning
Honey, tie your blindfold real tight
on that last dark and stormy night
I’ll hand you a long shiny metal rod
if you'll hold it high above your bod
When lightning finally lands
I'll rumble thunder like a song
I won't refuse its fiery demands
I'll just ask what took you so long
Hurry down lightning
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6. |
Never Saw It Coming
03:35
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It was just a feeling I had
Something unshakeable and true
It said to keep an eye on you
Who would've known it'd be right
But I never saw it coming
Before whatever kill dem stunning
I'd die for a memento mori
But I'd rather see the end of the story
The local news of the day
It used to be these words we wrote
Now a melody of lowered notes
Quickly sinking out of sight
But I never saw it coming
Before whatever kill dem stunning
I'd die for a memento mori
But I'd rather see the end of the story
Once a nothing like me was drawn
To a cartoon dream of an industry
Some day soon it will all be gone
I should learn to let it motivate me
But I never saw it coming
Before whatever kill dem stunning
I'd die for a memento mori
But I'd rather see the end of the story
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7. |
Don't Do That To Me
04:30
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I got a memory and it works just fine
I got a heart and it knows how to pine
You saw me write this by the exit sign
You got feelings that don't make 'em mine
I know how bad they treat you
I know just how bad it can be
So while I'm trying to love you
Maybe don’t be bad to me
Maybe don't do that to me
I got clothes to hide my nakedness
Sweetness to offset bitter in my mess
I may not be to your liking or your taste
It don’t make my loving yours to waste
I know how bad they treat you
I know just how bad it can be
So while I'm trying to love you
Maybe don’t be bad to me
Maybe don't do that to me
Differences draw you unto me
Fill my crimson with your clover
Differences help us plainly see
Not just what’s done but also over
I know how bad they treat you
I know just how bad it can be
So while I'm trying to love you
Maybe don’t be bad to me
Maybe don't do that to me
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8. |
The Discipline
04:25
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Gimme a rented thunderstorm
High above Overdrive Avenue
Gimme fisticuffs with my
gentleman nemesis too
Gimme a spotlight shot
Of my loneliness on tape
Gimme medicine whispers
And footprints without brakes
I come for the words
If the words don't come to me
I wait at the light all night
After the light turns green
Even if they never show up
Until who don’t know when
Waiting on words to come,
Honey, that’s the discipline
Gimme grey, it knows my avenue
Hides behind every closed eyelid
Gimme half for the hound downtown
Contract the other half out for bid
Gimme some instant of help
To linger the everlasting year
Gimme hopeless seas and free
Cinema wives from all their fear
Gimme any artificial rockin'
I'll pour it clean over the side
Gimme these unfinished bells
And shameless Oklahoma pride
Gimme ways to reconsider our days
As I cannot become my church
Gimme heaven with the dudes
For every pretty pony on a perch
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9. |
Conqueror Like The Dusk
04:23
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Someone who pauses out on the horizon
Someone whose majesty is not surprising
Someone powered by oncoming glloom
Who really knows how to enter a room
She wants a conqueror like the dusk
That slips the skin leaving only husk
Evaporates into air leaving only musk
Common as a troubadour on the busk
Someone with unparalleled health
Someone with hitpoints for recovery and stealth
Someone who will take the wheel and steer
Someone who you’d never want to have a beer
He wants a conqueror like the dusk
That slips the skin leaving only husk
Evaporates into air leaving only musk
Common as a troubadour on the busk
By now he and she cannot have missed
Someone like who they seek don’t exist
By now he and she must be reconciled
All candidates fall short by a country mile
We want a conqueror like the dusk
That slips the skin leaving only husk
Evaporates into air leaving only musk
Common as a troubadour on the busk
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10. |
Lower Than Everlasting
04:20
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Here we live in the lower than everlasting
Until we rise through grace of other love
Until we die in the flesh or others’ memory
We can make something more of ourselves
Super graves and fancy rockets
We crawl from one into the ether
Auto-saves and power sockets
Upon the heath we see the heather
Here we live in the lower than everlasting
Until we rise through grace of other love
Until we die in the flesh or others’ memory
We can make something more of ourselves
Volumes from an infinite library
We can check them out or check them in
Turn them up so it’s not scary
Hide our fear with a shiny grin
Here we live in the lower than everlasting
Until we rise through grace of other love
Until we die in the flesh or others’ memory
We can make something more of ourselves
Pretty ponies abide in a brood
Here in heaven with the dudes
Nights hold steady for our pity
Bleed into each other in the city
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11. |
Tennessee Begins Here
04:20
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Exposure all over the neighborhoods
Word came crawling out of our pasts
No point bringing a saviour to our wake
Light fuses, lie back and watch the blasts
You: Oklahoma shameless on a Mississippi highway
I: fun California preparing my 1-2-3 Ohio fade and steer
Bastard the harbor half out of Bethlehem Louisiana
Put the pedal to the floor until Tennessee begins here
Detroit, my apocalypse neighborhood
Preach it down, you would pick how to collapse
You’re a Compton eyes makin’ champion
Soft and shattered, you tattoo it off with a gasp
You: Oklahoma shameless on a Mississippi highway
I: fun California preparing my 1-2-3 Ohio fade and steer
Bastard the harbor half out of Bethlehem Louisiana
Put the pedal to the floor until Tennessee begins here
Like an Osaka
that eats your Russia
I cannot become
my church you say
Can’t swear sober
on a familiar gangsta
Can’t save what won’t
stay steady to pray
You: Oklahoma shameless on a Mississippi highway
I: fun California preparing my 1-2-3 Ohio fade and steer
Bastard the harbor half out of Bethlehem Louisiana
Put the pedal to the floor until Tennessee begins here
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12. |
Each Other
04:58
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Behind every man or woman
Stands a target
Behind every family member
Lies a fuse
We aim arrows at each other
In some bargain
Try to win arguments we were
Born to lose
You wouldn't think we had time
To push buttons
Given how often we install them
Every day
Throw these hands at each other
Or catch them
Try to make something out of all
We cannot say
We're born in dust and headed back
All the time
But stars that don't wait to die before
They shine
They never see what travels farther
Light or heat
Glo up for a while, then out the door
Rinse and repeat
Shine really bright upon each other
That's kinda neat
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13. |
Happy On Top Of Happy
03:57
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I remember how you used to be sad
It was like you were covered in ice
Beauty was a thing you held and had
But we could tell you didn't feel nice
You shone in the light shivered in the chill
You wondered if someday you'd ever feel
Time came to the rescue and so did pills
Feelings flowed until you thought you'd reel
Here comes happy on top of happy
Here comes joy upon joy
So much sentiment it's sappy
You play with it like it's a toy
Here comes memory on memory
You've bid goodbye with a smile
Here comes happy on top of happy
Hope it will stay for a while
I remember how we touched a lot
Out of innocence and needing a hand
One came and one went, but we got
That we weren't alone, if not quite a band
I taught how you should follow passion
That more mattered than looks and money
You taught me to love those who got me
And fuck all others, now look at us honey!
Here comes happy on top of happy
Here comes joy upon joy
So much sentiment it's sappy
We play with it like it's a toy
Here comes memory on memory
We've bid goodbye with a smile
Here comes happy on top of happy
Hope it will stay for a while
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14. |
Uncanny
03:56
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Anyone who says you can’t
step in the same river twice
never tried to be nice to you
never tried to love you better
than anyone else who fell short
than anyone you saw through to
encompass this longing ocean
and set waves in perpetual motiion
It’s just uncanny
how you undo me
how you step to me
see right through me
It’s just uncanny
Undress me madly
as if there’s no plan B
in this zero gravity
Anyone who says you can't
rewind a sun you just saw set
never knew you could stop time
never was yours as you were mine
should’ve allowed for all your talents
should’ve prepared to be off-balance
unless you knew of the hidden camera
understand how to unplan the glamour
It’s just uncanny
how you undo me
how you step to me
see right through me
It’s just uncanny
Undress me madly
as if there’s no plan B
in this zero gravity
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15. |
Denver
04:39
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Mile high with a half moon overhead
Breathless in this yawning empty chill
If eerie silence doesn’t mean I’m dead
Maybe headaches riding sidesaddle will
Some cities are fictions
Some memories are too
So how I remember Denver
doesn’t make it any less true
Time drains sunlight out of the sky
Weather shades colors black and white
If turbulence made it hard to fly
Gravity's guarantee freed me from fright
Some street grids are riddles
Solvable if you salvage their clues
So how I recover from Denver
depends on the depth of the bruise
Some cities are nice dreams
Some dreams have city limits
So if I never return to Denver
It doesn't mean I'll never get to visit
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Saint and Kings San Pablo, California
I’m a singer-songwriter using guitars and keyboards to craft distinctive dispatches from intimate interiors, vast exteriors and all points in between. Drawing on years of pop, soul, indie, folk and dance-music fandom, I try to turn observations and narratives into succinct sonic snapshots. ... more
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