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Haiku
02:36
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On the sidewalk, early October I saw the living savior
He called out your name, you didn't listen, you were staring at a screen
I went speechless, couldn't breathe, the words were stuck behind my teeth as I thought about it all . . .
Like how will they know me, I start to wonder
My face is a picture made up of numbers
I cry algorithms, updates
And sigh in sunset splendor
Before sacred nights of beating and breaking
Tossed by the wind my confidence shaking
I cry algorithms, updates
And sigh in sunset splendor
Streaming live
Floating above the planets looking everywhere at once
Take a long, deep breath and spiral toward the sun
I'm going somewhere we're nobody's ever heard
Where I'll be free and never have to hurt
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Wharves at Dawn
02:53
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I'm stepping in this shadow of myself everyday
Never coming out, living more as someone else by your hand
His mind don't belong to him
His body's somewhere else
Sinking in my sorrow, should've learned how to swim
Even in my pure religion, all my perfect vision can't save me from within
His mind don't belong to him
His body's somewhere else
I've been replaced in conversations, they all sound the same
My voice has been commandeered, but it still answers to my name
His mind don't belong to him
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Chérie
02:31
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Cherie you're the one I love, Cherie I can't speak anymore
When you start to dance
You move so fast that I can hardly keep control
Cherie you're the one I love, Cherie I can't feel anything
But sweet love for you
You keep grabbing my heart and making all my dreams come true
Cherie move on faster
Cherie move on faster, go
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Always Wanted You
03:54
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Amazing sky, amazing girl
Prayer by prayer I'm still unheard
Longing for fume of sighs
Going mad in the dead of the night
Look at the mirror, there's a different mirror
And its moving in you
I'll walk through it
Said that "I'll walk through it"
Said "I always seem to"
Because I've always wanted
Always wanted you
Amazing one I can't forget
Shined like a beacon to a boy in debt
Longing for fume of sighs
Going mad in the dead of the night
Beneath the stone is a beating blood
And a cross that's lost to change your mind
My heart's deceived by a lie it seems
It took so long notice
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Pillbug
03:18
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This is the story of a man on the couch and a woman in the kitchen who is worry about a certain moment and the color of their hair while the man sips his venom in a bamboo chair
This is the story of a photo album gone and pictures of a wedding that God remembered wrong. A certain downfall of a certain old brother, limp frames on the couch asking "do they love each other?"
This is what you waited for I hope you're happy now
This is what you waited for I hope you're happy now so
Shut up, Shut up, Shut up.
This is the story of a kid in a castle. People think he's spoiled but in reality it's Hell. He pops every night to forget the warring kingdoms now guess what's left - an empty pillbug shell
I called up a buddy who said he'd call me back, but no one ever answered and the sky turned black, but its cool
I said to a titan, "pretend to know me please." He locked me in a box, a solemn quarantine
We got nothing but time to spend
And moments that burst and then
We grow shallow at the end
I've grown shallow at the end
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Texas
00:35
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The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas
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Perfume Ghosts
02:24
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Saturday afternoon
I asked myself, "Do you love her so?"
And then a small voice in my head keeps saying
"Could she say the same for you?'
Did I fly too close to the sun?
Is the blind leading the blind?
Is your Cherie not sweet at all?
Please help me, what should I do?
I walk up the street looking face down
She lives in my head, I smell her perfume all around
But boy, sever the beast that does you no good!
I myself am too far but I'd do the same if I could
It was beautiful for a moment
But beloved we must forget it
Choose the worst side of me, the one we can't control
The nails beneath my sleep, the whole in my world
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Blue Room
03:40
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I should've thought ahead and known we'd end on a bad note
When I saw the cafe burning and a black cat in the weeds
Well I rushed over to pet it to subdue the anger inside
But between then and now the love has died
You gave me nothing
So nothing's what you'll get in return
When will you wise up and learn?
The places we went flash in memory
The look on your face when you gazed at me
I break my back to ensure to thee
You'll get nothing back
At least not from me
Like the canvas of "Blue Room" that's worn and thrown away
Our frame reveals a portrait that is smiling in vain
Now when you walk past me, I say "she never meant nothing to me"
And I'm bad, bitter, and blue but now I'm free
You gave me nothing
So nothing's what you'll get in return
When will you wise up and learn?
The places we went flash in memory
The look on your face when you gazed at me
I was just a beast that leapt in the air
And tried to be someone
Who loves and cares
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I remember the peace of our former days
Birthed us in light and killed in the haze
How I wished I could return to us
In the arms of a greater love
The wine in your glass was pure as the earth
Then gluttons bought bottles at the corner store at a dimes worth
So lay with me still beneath a great ocean
Where faces don't change and time knows no motion
How I wished I could return to us
In the arms of a greater love
How I wished I could return to us
It's so much more than you could ever know
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Smoke Signals Fade
04:37
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Smoke signals fade and dirty up the atmosphere
It's time to up and leave, I just can't believe you here
I've heard so many lies while your eyes are glistening
You say you're "sick of the truth," well I'm sick of listening
All my stares have changed their direction
I don't plan on being hurt again
All my stares have changed their direction
I'm not the same as I was then
Smoke signals fade and so does all the innocence
And the ready heart I gave and all of the time I spent
So stab me once again and this time don't deny it
Say it will get better - no way in Hell I'll buy it
Well if you see me on my way
Just note that the right time is near
And if you see me on my way
Please note that I don't look back in fear
Because I've never need anyone that's here
This is the last song I write for you
This is the last time I cry for you
This is the last time I put it on the line for you
I'm sick of sacrificing all for this
Being charged with crimes I didn't commit
This is the last song I write for you
This is the last time I cry for you
This the last song
This the last song I write
All my stares have changed their direction
I don't plan on being hurt again
All my stares have changed their direction
I'm not the same as I was then
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Magic Rivers Milwaukee, Wisconsin
post-bohemian pop
music from a gang of hobgoblin samurai poets
Benny Koziol
Phillip Adrian
Kevin Linn
Joey Mitchell
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