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How to Spell Your Name
05:17
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language, the human language, it ain’t easy
to learn to love
procrastination, procrastination, that makes nothing
it isn’t something you can rush
your education, your education is everything that
you find out for yourself
don’t be frightened, i see you’re frightened,
but you will find it
soon enough— on highest shelf
you are not your enemy
this is not an elegy
you will fill the vacancy
you’ll just have to wait and see
how to spell your name
imagination, imagination, imagination is the one thing
no one can crush
yes, they’re trying, they’re always trying,
they’re gonna keep trying, but please believe me
your power is much too much
remember all your destinies
practice your telepathy
with the office of your agency
from taller windows, you will see
how to spell your name
you can spell your name
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Tune Spinner
03:12
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there once was a man from the mouth of the moon
he was a tune spinner
his work, picks, fingertips, all so very hard
the tune spinner
and all the men can’t bear to watch
as all the ladies turn to lakes,
don’t dip-- unless you’re an olympic swimmer
or the tune spinner
proposing a toast to the corners and the walls
hey hey the tune spinner
i heard it in a dream, “everything is improv
when you’re a tune spinner”
underlines hold the key
but all the doors have been unlocked, so
reach out (reach out!)—and grab ahold of the nearest glimmer
and be a tune spinner
you’re a tune spinner, let’s hear a tune
hey hey tune spinner, how about a tune
if you’re a truth spinner, let’s hear the truth
let’s hear it
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Park and Ride
01:54
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up before the sun,
run the daily race just for a spot
fall down the concrete stairs,
pay my fare, i’m prepared to rot
slave to your routine
go through life unseen
another child of the park & ride
city magnets pull me in,
close my eyes and i’m above the clouds
there’s that businessman
talking on his phone so fucking loud
preaching to the choir
someday we’ll conspire
meet me down at the park & ride
up before the sun,
run the daily race just for a spot
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Speedtrap Eyes
02:30
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you look at me with speedtrap eyes
i’m pickin up a radar smile
i don’t know how, but you know why
you threaten me with robot lies
i asked you once, you told me twice
“you are alive, so hang on tight”
to speedtrap eyes
i notice things in hindsight
an orange cat in the headlights
i’ll pick you up before you die
this time
i’ll look into your speedtrap eyes
no matter what i hope to find
i’ll search for pigs, i’ll read the signs
i’ll read the signs
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That's Not All She Wrote
04:01
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she can be stifled, and she can be stalled
but she always hears you when you call
a dreamer, a driver, a teacher by day
sometimes the mornin’ gets in her way
oh, but that’s not all she wrote
we get to live forever now
there is a pen that sometimes hits the paper
some call it god but to each its own creator
where it comes from, no one knows
oh, that’s not all she wrote
sometimes it seems she ain’t comin back
and everything worthy is in the past
never another winner like him
she knows very well whose shoes she’s in
oh, but that’s not all she wrote
we got to live together now
there was a man who looked up to the woman
who looked up to the heavens, who looked down at the dead
now where they’ve gone to, no one knows
oh, but that’s not all she wrote
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Randomly Saturn
07:07
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oh, just a wandering star on a lonely residential street
oh, wouldn’t it be smart to start a colony?
the rings around your eyes say you tried supporting life,
but possibly, it just ain’t meant to be
oh, i was only a child, pretending to inhale
oh, i called your name, mistaken for a vapor trail
dear precious galaxy, how can i make you see
i come in peace?
i don’t mean no hostility
i’m a remedy for any leftover lethargy
if you have any questions,
please don’t hesitate to reach out to them
randomly saturn appears in the sky
a lightyear, a lantern, a blink of an eye
randomly saturn, directing your sight
no logical pattern, just a ship in the night
i’m due for supernova, she’s gone to screw another
source of heat, she gotta have all the energy
oh, do i drive a fancy car in all your stellar fantasies?
oh, we’ve come so far for opposing gravities
headfirst into the void, when you hurl an asteroid
and rescue me from an easy eternity
randomly saturn appears in the sky
a lightyear, a lantern, a blink of an eye
randomly saturn, directing your sight
no logical pattern, just a ship in the night
randomly saturn was built in a day
the maker is nameless, they like it that way
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There is a Park
03:41
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i chose to grow old
i chose to do what i was told
i can’t be alone
but i can be restless
i choose to be cold
i have no proof of blinding light
living underneath a cloud
the sun is gonna burn out loud
could this be the thing you warned me about?
am i too late to save you? too late to save me?
i thought i knew what i was talkin about
i was foolin myself all along
could this be the thing you warned me about?
you were the one
i was not the perfect son
now what have i done?
what are you thinking about?
there’s no way to know
i can’t see through the blinding dark
across the street, there is a park
i’m not allowed to go out loud
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All Tomorrow's Riots
05:42
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she would be a damn good lawyer,
if she gave a damn for the law
he would be a damn good soldier,
if you could show him what he saw
lesser of two evils season,
the time has come for you to choose
welcome back to waking moments,
play the game and always lose
this time, i feel it, do you feel it too?
seems all tomorrow’s riots are coming true
today
who knows who has who surrounded,
there’s no other way to look
hazy nights revising idols,
rewriting the holy books
broken glass and stolen heirlooms,
sirens are the new theme song
something even i can dance to,
knowing that you can’t be wrong
this time, you sing lead, and i’ll sing along
all tomorrow’s riots, millions strong
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Loss of China
03:36
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what am i gonna do, now that i know
all those things about you?
what am i supposed to say, when people ask
how i’ve been without you?
that i’ve been fine?
but i’ve been hurt
i’m in transition
i wanna subvert
i want to listen for the birds
swallowing you, swallowing you
what do we tell the kids about the way
things were when we were young?
how can we tell the kids where to go
or who to be when we are gone?
or about the trash
and propaganda
and being cold
and the loss of china
and where to search for what we’re told
follows the truth, follows the truth, follows
where did you go?
why can’t i see?
what do you want?
who do i heed?
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10. |
So Magic
07:33
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the lonely nights i floated on
a river bed of rusty nails
conserving breath and biding time
a narcissist that you insisted
on assisting from both sides,
i’m, powerful, i’m powerless
extend a hand for another man who’s lost his faith
in the ground beneath him, oh
i don’t feel, i don’t feel so
i don’t feel so magic
i don’t feel so magic anymore
the winter wasted tending fires
that went out long ago, she knows
the summer spent on cheap denial
and cheaper wine we drank alone
to try to put some edge back on
now she speaks in monotone
it ain’t so bad, you never cared for music anyway
it’s alright, i don’t either
what about the quality
you confessed that i possessed?
how much wronger could you be?
i’m no different from the rest
and i swear that from now on
i am your marionette
i’ve been living here so long
am i a millionaire yet?
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Vincent Blackshadow Brooklyn, New York
Honest rock since 1997.
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