01. mindset

I believe it's just a mindset
Opposite the dark
Not a camera or phonogragh
And nothing on our tongues
A bullet in the underground
And a target overhead
Parallel emergencies
Evacuate the times

Counting all the lights
Reflected once or twice
Below the waves

I believe it's just a mindset
When the mirror takes a knife
It couldn't wait to turn around
And split itself in two
The origin of civil man
Is missing but a shoe
It kicked itself into the air
To try and taste the sun

Counting all the lights
Reflected once or twice
Below the waves

I believe it's just a mindset...

02. sore

Dropped the blue ball, dented tide
Dug deeper down a beggar's bite
Blamed the blocks that dammed us in
And bought the road to bed

Listen not the lightning strike
That stones alone at the stroke of night
Tended time we might lead by
To steal land and lead

Imagine us matching gems
And making wages seem to dream
Giant chambers saving chimes
And marching through the gates

03. set

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04. bop

Doin' the bop-bop
A-doin' the bop-bop
A-doin' the bop bah-dah
Bah-dah bop

05. encourage him

Rattle off and count it down
The count's asleep without the sound
I gave to him, a dying man one day
Shake the children from the air
That wave your hair that stands on end
Electrified inside your stormy head

Scatter when you come for me
And play your cards so I'll fold like that
Restrain yourself, you roll too fast
Don't hold the rope, you're tumbling down

Insects hide inside the walls
That weaken all the wealthy ways
Which crumble to a lighter shade of beige
Not that I'm against this change
But that explained it best like this
Don't let them die to prey inside your mind

Scatter when you come for me
And play your cards so I'll fold like that
Restrain yourself, you roll too fast
Don't hold the rope, you're tumbling down

06. american, l

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07. branch out branch

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08. ampersand

Drove my car for twenty years as far as it could go
Drove around in circles through all familiar roads
Until one day i saw a sign that pointed to the sea
Never saw the water, heard that people love the beach
As soon as i set out
The engine died on me

Although i was miles away from reaching the shore
I did not want to turn around and drag myself home
I hitched a ride on eighteen wheels with a man i didn't know
We sang along to country songs from forty years ago
And then the sun went down
And he said i had to leave

Years had passed until i laid my eyes upon the sea
Nothing looked so beautiful which stood in front of me
I could not help but laugh and dance so i ripped off all my clothes
Ran to the water (that's right!) headfirst in i dove
I never learned to swim
And so the tide swept me away

09. thirteen

With the drop of a hair
We are turning over pages
That we're reading at a speed
Blotting blanks within the lines
If we try to slow it down
It would slay our friends and neighbors
So we choose to miss
The details
That could show us
What's behind

Where's the questions in the hands
Of our brothers and our sisters?
Doesn't anybody wonder
Why they chose to lay in here?
Who's the tiller of the land?
Who's the beggar in the sand?
Who's the man
Who thinks he's born
To play the leader
Of the pack?

There's a bottle and a kiss
And the golden silent ringing
In the bells that need some
Tuning every half an hour's spell
If there's one thing in my soul
Well, it's the shrinking of a hole
So if you here it
Come and dance
With all the glasses
We can fill

10. waterbury shuffle

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11. early dismissal

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12. intuition

Shut my lips and ears
While sipping at your breast
Felt the cold outside the door
Hold me tighter still
I have years before I grow
To be the man in him
If you'll let me just pretend
Then lift me past your head

I see seven shadows
When I'm walking by myself

You lied when you said
That there's no beasts below my bed
Why did you not tell me that
We all turn into them?
Some of them are starving
While the others just don't care
Some will eat your babies if you
Lock them in a safe

I see seven shadows
When I'm walking by myself

13. american, o

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14. what do i do?

What do i do with the love that you gave me?
Should i keep it from reach on a shelf up high
And hide the steps so no one can touch?
Should i go out to my neighbor's back yard
When it's one it the morning and bury it deep
Behind the bushes so no one can see?

What do i do with the love that you gave me?
Should i pass it around all the footsteps in town
And follow it through nightlife distress?
Should i send it all round the world
On a two-person jet with a pilot who knows
Of all the places i'll never get to go?

Outlines that i used to see
Slowly fade as the dark days die
I'll tunnel through this one man view
And never, never, never know where it goes

What do i do with the love that you gave me?
Should i lock it up tight in it's own little room
And let it stir in silence for a spell?
Should i put it to work making dinner
While i write down the things that it couldn't do right
Like tell me "i need you tonight"?
Tell me
"I need you tonight"
Tell me
I need you
Tonight

15. necklace

I heard them call a name
That sounded just like mine
But I walked righ by
Without batting an eye
Didn't want to get burned
Like I did last time

Thoughts exude the words
Around your lips
I assumed were written
Just for me
When I look too long
To see if it's true
The man behind my back
Breaks through

And I'm sick of these games
The darlings dare to play
They say it's rock and roll
Right down to its soul
But if you want to rebel
Why'd your mama do it too?

Do you keep a tally
Of your score
With the beads you wear
Around your neck?
Are they of those
Who come and go
Or those who could not
Get inside?

I don't need you
To wear me around
I don't need you
To wear me down
I don't need you
In this glossy town
I don't need you
In this glossy hollow town

16. bantam

Last time we met
We were caught
In between
The babble in the bubble
And the rhythm
Evergreen
I thought i heard
The symphony of violence
At night
But all you heard was
Buzzing
Cause the batteries had died

So we had
To play the game
With our
Glasses to the wheel
Drove through
All the narrow roads
To find him buying
Steel
Some of us
Had caught
The man we thought was
Gone for good
And some of us
Had buried him
In twenty feet of wood

Brought me to a house
Where everybody
Played along
I wish it wasn't
Difficult
For me to sing
This song

17. fifteen months

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18. look around you

This is not the place I used to go
Where kids and colors shouted out
The bricks and stones still walk about
But I can't seem to find my bed
Look around you, I found their smiles
Where there is nothing left to say
Look around you, the mountains disappear
Illusions glide across the sky

This is not the face I used to know
That whispered in his mother's ear
I used to see him wearing werewolves' masks
But now all I see are veils
Look around you, all my peers have flown
To mysterious lands
Look around you, they could not grab a hold
I did not think they wanted to

This is not the space I used to roam
Before I set across the line
The steel wall that seemed to keep us in
It was shorter than I thought
Look around you, the church bells sing aloud
They're crying for a little care
Look around you, it's time we go
Let's come back another day

19. american, n

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