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someone please tell me how to give up gracefully on a dream
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the dog
03:08
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i am the one that you had to bring home
(no one's ever ready for kids)
i kicked the garbage cans over last night
rub my nose in what I just did
he throws parades for the hay that she makes
and she draws curtains to clouds
i'm just the dog that you're leaving at home
so I scratch and bark for the pound
when you go
you put me inside of a cage
though it's small
keeping it clean feels so great
you come home
and i'll give you a kiss anyways
but my claws get a little bit longer each day
I am the one that you had to bring home
(no one's ever ready for kids)
I'm gonna fill your apartment with piss
rub your nose in what you just did
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what is it you want? is it an explanation for regret?
what is it you need? is it an invitation to forget?
tripped in like a bullet tearing open everyone inside your photographs
spoken over everything but never wants to be outside a laugh
ought, but never fought for something someone else could do instead
fraught with "can't be taught," and then you're playing victim in your head
take my hand and pull it i don't ever want to be inside your photographs
hope you find a way to sort your jigsaw puzzle pieces cut in half
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carpetland
04:12
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will you meet me
downtown tonight
where we're going
we won't have to stand in any lines
i know that you're moderately commited
to you work life it's monday through friday 9-5
i know that you have to get up early tomorrow
but there's a show tonight
meet me in the basement of carpetland
maybe you're right maybe i'm wrong
will you meet me downtown tonight
where we're going
you might make a friend tonight
i know that you prefer top 40 music to unknowns and locals and rock shows and diy
i wish you'd burn down your office and ego cause theres a show tonight
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internet cowboy
04:59
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You used to sing
every single note
you'd let imagination
sow it's wild oats
Now you've got an out
Your memorizing facts
Seeing other boys behind my back
You used to laugh
at every single joke
you'd fall in love with strangers
stepping out for smokes
now you've got an out
from doing it alone
driven by devices
and i've got to make it known
i don't want to be an internet cowboy
i just want to see us look outside today
every lull in conversation lifted
just a click away
and now we don't have anything to say
you always said
"everything is fine"
but now the saddest movie
doesn't make you cry
now you're getting bored
i see it in your eyes
graduating to a new design
you saw the gray
potential of a dream
but now there's nothing if it
isn't on a screen
and i hope i don't succumb
to heart resides in thumbs
and head is constant downward til
the neck is getting numb
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i'm planting a tree
04:11
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i'm going away and i'm leaving today
and i'm planting a tree
the possessions are packed. they're my present and past.
they're my actions and deeds.
seems like i'm going a long way from home.
feels like repeating the places i've known.
i am going away and i'm leaving today
and i'm planting a tree.
the belongings at last are my present and past
and my actions and deeds.
seems like i'm going a long way from home.
feels like repeating the places i've known.
somehow in growing you've been here before,
breathing a moment and walking out a door.
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the bardo
02:31
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hey you
i thought your heart was bigger
thank you
for giving me the strength to pull the trigger
we are
a JC Penny portait on quaaludes
me though
a growing mask glued to reruns
we just stopped
making sense
we were born two different instruments
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mr. hands in pockets
02:32
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nonapeptides
stuck inside a can that you can't open
don't even try
cause you know it's full of bad emotions
mr. hands in pockets
lost my best side
17 amino acid orchid
can't dance but tries
buy something or get out of the store, kid
mr. hands in pockets
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ninety-nine mosquitos
01:44
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99 mosquitos
hanging out in casinos
asked to drain the swamp
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when we shake hands
02:49
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i dont want
what you want
and we'll never agree
please ease your grip when we shake hands
honesty
getting lost at the
end of our street
please leave me alone and
let me sleep
i found you out
but maybe eye
should have kept my damned eyes
closed a little longer
without a doubt
i dont know why
you always kept me on my toes
and now ill wonder
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if i were a pistol
02:31
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brooms
sweeping up balloons
landing on the moon half empty but welcoming
soon
sings it out of tune
safe but not assumed the drinks will be bottomless
don't need a reason to need all this sound
scratched on my skin by the surface of ground
if i were a pistol that shot in the sky
would that be a reason to keep me around
soon
smoking on the moon
choking on the fumes an ashtray for gravity
rooms
filled up by balloons
safe and not assumed ill do what you asked of me
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halo rings the moon
02:49
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where go the nights
that we fight
not to sleep
for a better taste of morning
that keeps coming back
where go the rights
while we left
lost the keys
and the power they were storing
they're not coming back
comfort or truth
either way
it was fun
some say the moon's just a hole
to the sun
numb in my hands
but the light
of a halo
rings the moon
but it's delicate
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knowing
02:52
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I can't help wondering about you.
When you're away, I notice.
Do you too?
I can't stop dreaming about you,
but running away is easier
than knowing what to do.
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Nick Randall Buffalo, New York
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