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Greyhound Green
06:13
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She's got Man Ray eyes
I saw it in the 7th grade
And even then, I knew I could never really run away
In a stained-glass hall
The sun is just another face
As far as first impressions go, it's still pretty vague
This heart makes your skin look greyhound green, they say
Ash Wednesday was a washout, but by Easter It'll be okay
Studies show when the lights are low
It's symptomatic of the brain of the times
This brand new ordinary hits like another plague
Someone is waiting for me at the other end of the hall
and I'm ready to go
So let's go - to your terrarium dreams
To the polyhouse stones, to your father's old boat
To your country club moat, all sunglasses and oak
What a life of style we could keep up for awhile
Before the snow stains black
And it's all downtown guns and panic attacks
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2. |
I'm Heading Out
02:47
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Who would jump for yesterday?
There's a couple of costumes left unclaimed
Poisoned alone, I get around
Aligned with the cockroach, I'm heading out
All through advent, all through lent
Whatever I said wasn't what I meant
The fridge is full today so take a pull
I can see your soul when you make that sound
And you can sit there with your head split open
And see who hangs around, I'm heading out
Keep me occupied,
These are modern times
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3. |
Death Melt Downtown
02:29
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Already over winter before the first snowfall
You'll have plenty of time to burn maybe in no time at all
They give you no foundation, discourage you from trying
As soon as you get on your feet, clothesline you from behind
Got a death melt premonition, got a death melt downtown
Accidental prophecies that follow you around
Spend a lifetime waiting up for another glimpse of God
Around the block for hours but you never get the nod
Something deep down tells me this train will never run
Gonna run away, gonna run away, leave it rotting in the sun
Got a death melt premonition, try to shake it off
Electric lights are buzzing, bound to zap you like a moth
Got a death melt premonition, got a death melt downtown
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Enraptured
03:44
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Air conditioner's busted, feel like I owe it my life
Got no car to get rusted, nothing to do with my time
You oughta see my contraption, can I get a reaction?
It'll leave you enraptured, out of your mind
Ferrets follow me home, Sargeant Majors leave me alone
So don't open the blinds - a chain of fans and a cooler of ice
I was in a field, left that world asleep at the wheel
Can you believe that contraption, call it a call to action
It may leave you enraptured, but it won't make you mine
Silent ways, candle lights, chicken stock, jasmine rice
$20 in the tank, go down the corner, give yourself a break
Little house on top of the hill, no nails to scratch my will
Call it fresh, call it fine, a month or so and it will all be on ice
It's an accumulation of a hefty, hefty pride
And it's a four-minute heart that I've ordered on the side
Can I get a reaction, call it a call to action
It'll leave you enraptured - it'll leave you blind
It'll leave you enraptured
Spellbound and fractured
A slow burning disease
It's gonna make you freeze
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I Was in a Field
04:22
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You took a break, and all you really know now
Is that you need to stay out a little longer
You took a break, and all you really know now
Is that you can't go back to wherever you were before
I was in a field
I left that world behind
Now I remember
You flew over my head
I must have tuned into your station at a different time
Now I remember
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6. |
How Soon
04:42
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How far north do you gotta go
Into the forests of silent snow
Without a map, without a road
You've got to carry on, the feeling lingers long
But how soon can you forget about me?
Past the boulders of the west
Hollywood and all the rest
Every face is marked for death
You don't need to check the time, you remember all your lines
But how soon can you forget about me?
Statues rust, you can taste it in the water
Fire in the gutter, we trust
Maybe the most that I could do is call you up
But I can't let you be a prisoner of ghosts
There are things I could've said
Sensible, still left for dead
It returns, time and time again
Though for never very long, I don't want to lead you on
So how soon can you forget about me?
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Running Hazel
02:46
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Carlene
02:02
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Carlene, I'll catch you on the 25
7th Street to 9th is such a time to be alive
Suppose my life is fine, things have stabilized all right
Say the word, Carlene, I'll leave it all behind
Carlene, matching fingernails and boots today
I'll ride a little further than I have to every day
I was gonna beat the rain, now I'll play it where it lays
But I'm off before it gets too far away - still you remain
I've got a sinking feeling, I know the way my head is reeling
All that I'm accustomed to I'd sacrifice
I'd work more than I'm worth for you, forget about the earth for you
Carlene, I do believe I'd let you wreck my life
Carlene, I hardly know your name
But I'd dress up just like Jesus if you let me play your game
And you can listen to the sound of it all just crashing down
Isn't that the guy I saw the other day?
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Blue Footsteps
03:46
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Blue Footsteps fire me through blue love
United, abandoned under waterfalls
It's more magnetic than the saddest song you'll ever know
It's more pathetic than the saddest song you've ever known
I'm not looking for tomorrow, I have no reason to stay
For the prayers you throw around, the snow will not melt today
It's more magnetic than the saddest song you'll ever know
It's more pathetic than the saddest song you've ever known
It falls faster than the leaves on a tree
Look so concerned, but it don't bother me
You feel the snowflakes caress you thinking that it could've been me
Like vines creeping in, crawling up on the side of the house
Pushing between the bricks cracking up and crying so loud
I've got leftover debris from the failed bourgeoisie
Now it's all up to me, yeah it's all up to me
I see the snowflakes caress you thinking that it could've been me
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