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see the forest for the trees
less is more is what you need
it’s not them but you and me
oceanside above the sea
doesn’t matter if it’s full
or ice-blue eyes are covered wool
close them now fall into me
and I will touch you into sleep
it’s not all lost
it’s not impossible
it’s just hard and then it’s not
and what it costs
is what you’d pay in full
it will hurt until it won’t
I’ve always loved you, always will
feet up on the window sill
with all the hours in my ears
I heard forever drawing near
you had cold feet and had cold feet
daydream of a time machine
the Fremont door was never closed
I waited there to be exposed
it’s not all lost
it’s not impossible
it’s just hard and then it’s not
and what it costs
is what you’d pay in full
it will hurt until it won’t
you'll keep stalling ‘til you don’t
think you sink but you can float
they were never at your throat
if it’s really what you need
it will come eventually
there’s no way then it will pass
see you or through the glass
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Paladin
05:30
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where are you going when you walk away
you’re not alone and then it’s my delay
what if we’re running out of time today
break it every night just to let you know
take it every night just to let you go
my ears are burning with the things you say
you’re not a cousin to the easy way
I’d put a penny on it any day
cracking a window just to get to you
if it's in jeopardy then that makes two
it’s getting colder, what’s a squirrel to do?
break it every night just to let you know
take it every night just to let you go
turn it to the right
but it sounds the same
aching every night, calling out your name
I'm tired of running on my frozen feet
you left a hole right in my favorite sheet
too late to sour when it tastes so sweet
I always believed I just can’t breathe
until you show up and you fill me again
please don’t let me go cause I just know
I’m headed down so far I might not make it back
too fearful to fall, so this is all
this dizzying moment to lay it all down
why won’t you be mine?
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all the thumbs couldn’t hold the sailor down
cape disappointment is a lovely place to drown
if you’re happy and you know it
go to bed and let me be
or are you big enough to forgive the way you fell in me?
you were building up when I was breaking down
you were sketching out and I was skipping town
spinning out in five dimensions
sleepy mumbling through the night
to stop the wondering if something’s going to save me now
all right, all wrong wrong wrong
so right so long long long long
all right, all wrong wrong wrong
I never have known this
there’s nowhere to run
this is the only one
this is the thing
that everyone is going on about
you’ll never be, I can’t even see
when you said you’d wait did you know I’m always late?
like a tied-up timpanist in the song that’s dragging me
all right, all wrong wrong wrong
so right so long long long long
all right, all wrong wrong wrong
in the streetlight we answered every question right
all the thumbs couldn't hold the sailor down
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Daily Double
04:26
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something strange is going on tonight
heed the sign of trouble
and put out the light
cause nothing could bring nothing good tonight
free the daily double
and ask yourself who’s on tonight
and so I hide
my feet so cold
while you’re on fire
just across a patient bridge again
but I’m too wrong to try
to take you in
again again again
continue me
something strange is going on tonight
you’ve lost your taste for kneeling
and I’m not so bright
I haunt the bed you drink all the red tonight
and fly into the ceiling
to black me out
so long, tonight
and there I lie
behind the line
while you’re on fire
just across a patient bridge again
but I’m too wrong to try
to take you in
again again again
continue me
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too much tonic
in your cloud
I fell before
superchronic
disallowed
on the thirteenth floor
can you throw it
without consequence
to break down the door
does it shimmer
so picturesque
when I put my soul in yours?
I’ve never been a gunner and
I might be a Sunday runner but
I’m running circles all over you
and the lake that lies between us
when we fight for the light that we’ve never seen
it won’t mean nothing when we get through
oh no, not again
caught me fumbling at the gate
all the pebbles in my hand
can't wake the dead
‘cause it's so damn late
I’ve never been a gunner and
I might be a Sunday runner but
I’m running circles all over you
and the lake that lies between us
when we fight for the light that we’ve never seen
it won’t mean nothing when we get through
all I want is all I want is
everything is all you got
I’ll drown a Sunday runner for you
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I ran to a dozen bridges
to double down on anemia
and a lustrousness by proxy
swimming in polluted blood
I ran to a holy basement
bricked in with legal pads
persistent efflorescence
until the girl went girl went mad
(made bed)
I ran to a smoke-stained daylight
and an unmanned wheelchair
I swore I smelled a widow
in a game of solitaire
I ran to a sinking island
and a cold box with a killer view
(made bed)
oh when we were green
in idiot love
the seas were mean
I got so lost
talking against time
your home for wayward girls was always mine
I ran to save the savior
stiff peaks, a sugar haze
a dustbowl apparition
abandoning the maze
I ran into myself
I ran in two
I ran into ourself
I ran in two
I ran into your arms
green mean time
swear you’ll let me in
(fight to fight fighting)
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7. |
Focus Puller
05:37
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I
I was a girl
I was a strong girl
always on fire
I didn’t believe
there was a place
I could be home
once
you played me a song
about a space heater
and I understood
that you meant a girl
but I wasn’t a girl
with an apt metaphor
and every time I go to Newport, I lose my mind
every time I land in New York, I’m losing time
and every time I leave LA I say, beats me
I
wanted to be real
so I went on an Odyssey
gods and monsters devoured me
because all they could see
is they wanted a mother
or maybe a whore
and I was always too scared to look
but I knew I’d find you
since before I knew
that I couldn’t take this place
and you
you always believed
before you were broken
before I had a name
before you thought you were alone
focus puller, have I got a job for you
focus puller, there’s a shadow coming through
focus puller, where’d you leave that ingenue
was she crashing through the set?
was she spilling in her shoe?
focus puller, tell me what I gotta do
focus puller, is my motivation true?
focus puller, see my lips are turning blue
every time I lose the plot
then I’m calling after you
beats me
beats me
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8. |
Tied Island
04:01
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here she here she comes again
she hits me back hits me back again
on her by her side it seems
a modest bluff isn't what it means
Rosehilla, Manzanita’s tide
we’ll swim off Dockton’s shore
now that the island’s tied
zeroes ones, days of the dead
12:01 to get inside her head
remember me? had to get it down
on our knees on wet auspicious ground
Rosehilla, Quartermaster’s tide
seven acres overgrowing now the fleets have died
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you were smirking in a suit
and shining in your boots
with a face that I couldn’t remember
I was sinking in the booth
and tapping on my tooth
with a menthol that nobody wanted
lights out, no doubt
I’m losing you
in time, you're mine,
I’ll get to you
I was waiting on your porch
extinguishing a torch
for a friend that I kept playing up to
you were breathless in the bins
the needles and the pins
planted in my dismantled apartment
lights out, no doubt
I’m losing you
in time, you're mine
I’ll get to you
expert packer
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10. |
Three Stars
04:19
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don’t let the divers get you down
once again once again
don’t let the divers try to take you under now
because where they’re going, you can’t breathe
don’t let the break pull you away
reach for me reach for me
there is always more than what was taken
and you are stronger
than it will ever be
don’t lay it heavy on your heart
leave it be leave it be
again and nothing is forever
and you are mine
and we are we
away we’re going
away away away
and oh how I was sinking on down down down down
all alone
until I found you
and oh have I been wondering how how how
I breathed so long
before there were you
and I had to be broken wide enough
to make the room
for you to come in
and I oh how I have loved you
longer than there have been stars
before and after
and again again again
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Corvair Portland, Oregon
Scorpio weirdo power duo serving up lush guitar pop w/ sharp incisors. New album out now: "A promising set of hook-filled indie pop"- KEXP
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