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roosevelt
02:52
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roosevelt he loved routines/he went out once in trendy jeans/he opened up his drunken heart/pretending he was seventeen/roosevelt he loved to tease/he threw a party from his knees/he took a fall to spare the queen/in sunday shoes and swollen feet/he went down to the beaches where he’d surfed/he climbed upon some rocks but lost his nerve/the sun was hazy hot low in the sky/he yawned and cleared his head and wondered why/roosevelt he prayed for peace/and quoted lines from movie scenes/remembered girls he used to please/a certain time when rock was king/he woke up on some bench in hollywood/he sun was hazy hot low in the sky/he yawned and cleared his head and wondered why/all the pretty days turned into nights
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a life electric
02:58
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freezer burn in a heart of darkness/twist and turn in our dizzy tumble/sleep disturbed and over served/who is going to see you now/oh me oh my it’s a tragic sign/pouring out your sleepless words/in a voice that is hardly heard/bridges burned over chasms/lessons learned soon forgotten/frayed nerves a life electric/who turned the lights down lately/now the worlds all dim and hazy/tongue-tied and silver-lined/snow blind and hollow eyed
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citadel
02:50
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theres a city that’s emptied of all but the shadows/there are children on side streets alone in the doorways/high above are blue cameras, but not down on ninth street/is that graffiti a painting/you ought to know better than that/she’s never been to london/she’s there where the fire was/trying to clear off the table, where her mother would fold clothes/theres a coming attraction from back in the nineties/until they ask you your name, hide in the walls/until they force you to sing, don’t say a thing/until the last disciple drowns your citadel/believe the nameless can be: invisible, untraceable, intractable, invisible/the camera shy,a bag of bones,the empty suit,the fool’s gold/you ought to know better than that (you know there’s no name for heaven)
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flying blind
03:22
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the sky looks tired, he’ll confide/he can’t breathe right, but he won’t mind/this guy he’s tired and he won’t try/the flowers and wine make him high/I won’t fly blind/deep into the canyons and the mines/the time it flies, he’ll confide/it can’t be hard to live things twice/I won’t fly blind (the sun may shine)/up into the ether where we hide/such a simple thing flying blind/I know flying blind
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nearsighted andy
04:56
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clean for a day or a night/under ridiculous rain/pros work the corner for change/young girls with cornrows and shades/nothing in your blurry eyes/absence seizures folding time/something in you flashes red/this is not an argument/clean for a day or a night/over the songs in our fights/drove through the ice and the rain/down south where nothing was changed/mister lady tucks you in/close your eyes and count to ten/while you sleep they never call/meld the metals into wands/you’re disengaged and you can’t see straight and your fucked up teeth and you’re left alone/andy you’re incomplete and your songs are weak why don’t you rest your feet, left alone/read your story in random rhymes/systematically untold/lay down here and lose your mind/spill your secrets to the wall/andy’s alone and we’re so cold/why am I so lost/andy’s alone and we’re so old/why are we so lost
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one london ontario night
04:31
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onesome drive, when she was mine/frozen night and warm city light/one london ontario night/asunder, ice-shuttered and blind/pulled under but not out of sight/coldest lives are lost in time/we erased our dreams and kissed in our sleep/I’ll never see you again, one london ontario night
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andromeda
03:10
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on a saturday of old news, a restless nation in ruin/outside the doorways asleep in the windows ,you know they know/at our lady of the yawn, she plays the psalms you never loved/return to dreams all knotted up/to silver seas andromeda/give up your calling/sit up you’re falling/never far from our lost andromeda/outside the windows asleep in the doorways, you know they know
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the traffic in her room
02:23
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the traffic in room/all these friends unnamed/in a sentimental haze, she smiles behind a veil/I wonder what this all costs/her four am bars/dives we hid away, to live our chemical days/her magical songs/ones that fill the silence when she’s gone/fall in love in the dark/never was I sure where we was/disappear the way we do/los angeles I know/no way to make it home/los angeles I know, we will never make home (I’ve been so lost)/los angeles I know, why’d we ever let it go (I’ve been so low)
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a pocketful of bliss
02:02
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can it take me higher than I’ve been before/can it take me lower than the floor/can it take me over and show me what I want/I thought I’d be much farther than the door/you think I gotta run/I ain’t gotta run/there’s nowhere I’ve gotta be/you think it’s happiness,a pocketful of bliss, but really it’s a gun ready to go off/can it tip me over, I’m tired of the view/can I do it solo, so I can fail myself
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put it together
02:31
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broken things and stolen chairs/cigarettes and ashtray hair/folded songs high on the shelf/burn them soon to prove a point/broken things and sleeping bags/the window shades are ruined sheets/once you left you were the best/anyone could love you next/let’s put it all back together/it’s better later than never/sundown to sunrise I can’t close my my eyes
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never coming back
03:16
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I’m never coming back/all the pictures and the scars/and kissing under stars/all the backwards company/I’m never coming back/the rain is here to stay/once I had my plans/but then I sold them cheap/all of us have stars in our eyes (faded lights)/far away nights we can’t find (falling stars)/all of us will slide losing time (pictures of nowhere)/all the love we made will unwind/I’m never coming back/that place is choked with weeds/all our broken poetry/as meaningless as dreams/the sea the sun and the rain if I could see you again
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undertow
03:55
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a way to the start/the maps and the charts/aliens and stars are painted on your walls/I see you, but that’s not enough for me/I need you, but that’s not enough for me you pretty thing/the oceans we were near/storms shook the chandelier/the telescopes on mars are pointed at your house/let’s all pretend we’re gone/throw blankets on the ground/look up instead of down/that’s where we all belong/ignore the undertow
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