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Shamble
03:03
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I've been told that's the way that it goes when you're dead to feeling. Holy shit, someone needs to kick my ass to get back that feeling. I've been down. Not enough, but I know. Still I try to take this love of mine. To take this, once in a lifetime. On the desert plane of love, you lost your mind forever. Breathe out. Nothing.
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Pastoral
02:16
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You say I'm a shapeshifter. Out of touch. But you're afraid I'll change my mind, like I did last time, and follow my heart. All those days are gone, right before your eyes. Brave until you're not. How long can we do this? Should I hope you'll let me down? Go it alone, but you're too scared to be on your own. Just fucking say so.
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Pop Song
02:02
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You love this: taking shit from other people all day. Just breathing in. Lay down your little head and submit to your loneliness now, alright forever. You know it's not so bad. On the precipice of crying and laughter. Oh god, I just lost my job. And in this heart of rot, your loneliness is an echo chasing after this fear. I'm destined to try.
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URDoM
02:30
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If you've been bad at everything, you better try tonguing at the pain. Every night, these thoughts erase your mind and you'll never know if your heart is swinging from a chain. It hangs and the loneliness you've got to show them anyways, because you're do-M.
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Reflector Mage
02:32
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I lay there like a stranger. I never want to know or to be known. I am nothing. I wanna live life on my own jealousy. I'm trying to hurt you, but sometimes I don't know how. So how could a person ever be so mean? It's just a reflection, reflecting and staring back. On my own is all I know.
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Dysfunction
03:49
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Sometimes I'm a lover of all my dysfunction. I will index all the sharp spots and run my finger through. I'll tie the blades in little knots. Again they irritate me and I adore them still.
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Majesty
02:23
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You came like a bolt from the blue in dreams I dreamed only of you. There's something in her eyes: love like you always know now. Under her painted heart, there's a love to mend your broken body to. Stay by her side when the world's turned to dust. Listen to her yearning. Beneath those painted eyes, all alone, like her royal majesty. You'll be her light when the world's turned too dark. Listen to her yearning.
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Hey, don't lose that longing. Lift up your head, yeah, there is life all around, can't you see? I'd like to take you by the hand, especially when you know that's not how it goes, and that you can't take back what you have never had. Adored, my love, now that you're gone to sleep. Adorned, effortlessly. Took a lifetime to know that you're looking for a thrill. Tied down for a lullaby.
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It's not a love song. Not yet. Don't be defined by these chains when you realize shame: that you're enamored with pain. Just take some time to realize you could be happy. You could be anything. Washing away your lipstick and blush, that drugstore mascara. You're falling in love with someone just 'cause you're tired of innocence. All your days: lonesome, effortless. It was always going to be like you wanted it to somehow. Don't be defined by these chains when you realize pain: that you're enamored with shame.
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Husk
05:07
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You are the husk of a pony today. Ethereal in the window out this dimension. If I could find you with these words, I'd talk. Outside of my mind’s four metal walls. I know it can't get better, all of this time living in the hollow of you. You are just an empty husk. I've been lost. Forever chasing what I'm not. Forever. Were you in this life to know? Were you in this life void of all character? If I could find you with these words, I'd talk. Outside of my mind's four metal walls.
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Hotel
03:55
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I guess I'm no good to anyone right now. I try to give a love, but I'm never found. I only had a weakness that anyone who cared could see. Now, waiting around is never enough. I'll take a drive past the dead trees, said I'd visit now and then. I never said I loved you. Not enough, anyways. You're singing carols to yourself.
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No Guitar
01:05
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Curling Berkeley, California
jojo // bernie // kynwyn
tokyo // berkeley // portland
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