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Baby Blue
05:04
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The sound of a scraping of glass
Makes you feel that you’re part of a chemistry set
It’s a bilk of the breath
On the nape of your neck
You’re a wreck!
Such an ethereal way to be mad
Only one so lucky can mourn what’s un-had
And it ain’t hard to tell
You been drinking the rail
God, you’re so frail!
How magnificent to share in a lack
You should’ve known that my boy would take after his old man
And he got gone
As soon as he had
The chance
If only it was so easy
To wipe off a sin
As it is for a life
That fits on the head of a pin
Frightly watching sacred light that streams across the table
Metal cold and serrated help you un-motherable
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2. |
Calvin & Albert
04:24
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Calvin and Albert
Went down to their neighbor’s house
When something very strange occurred
They didn’t know how to explain it.
Some guy in a car
Had shot a guy on the sidewalk
And their whole little town
Seemed pretty shook up about it.
So they played some videogames
With their friend Chris and his girlfriend
And as they passed their time away
They noticed they hadn’t spoken
Until finally someone had said
And this and also that
And some more stuff happened before they were dead
I don’t think that it’s anybody’s business
What I do with my free time
I don’t think it’s any of your business
What I wanna do with mine
At a party in October
This drunk girl came up to me
She asked me if I had seen
Becca sometime recently.
I told her, “You must be confused,
I don’t know who the fuck Becca, is
but you could check out that
pile of leaves out in the back”
So I continued to drink
Until I made myself sick of it
And the next day when I saw my face
I had a black eye from I don’t know when
I must have fallen once or twice
On the way home it was very dark
It was the middle of the night
Chorus
It ain’t like nothin’ terrible ain’t happened before today
Always something terrible come to make you regret whatever you say
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3. |
The Boat-Maker
03:54
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Carryin me back from the shore again –
Every damn time my ship goes down!
How’m I s’posed to get all the way to Spain?
One on the sea is worth ten aground
Livin on a cliff above a loneliness
You’re just one step from the rocks and reeds.
When the wind blows it’ll whisper this:
Every dyin thing must go with me.
Maybe when the rent’s all paid we’ll live again
I’ll give it up to ya like an offering
It’s an offering! Won’t ya take it from me?
Just a crown between a king and a fool.
It’s right to give praise where it’s due.
I’ll drown trying to drink up to you
Over in the hills is a ringin bell
Carryin the song of the human age.
Everything I own I built myself,
Everything that’s broke I broke today.
Lyin’ in the dust is a dusty man –
Image in the flesh of some good advice.
Offer him a hand and he’ll pull ya in.
Anything that can’t be blood is ice.
Chorus
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4. |
Give Me Bread
05:10
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Give me bread, give me bread
Or give me something else instead
Give me bread, give me bread
Or lay a crown upon my head
I’m a dead man in a coffin
I don’t come around that often
But won’t you lay a kiss upon my cheek?
Give me bread, give me bread
Or give me something else instead
Of that, I’m a cat
And I live inside a magic witch’s hat
Won’t you come and tip me over?
Give me bread, give me bread
Or tell me where the dark path led
When you went down in the moonlight
You gave me such a good fright
Not to know if you would come back home
Give me bread, give me bread
Or tell me what the devil said
When he gave you all your power
Deep in the midnight hour
Silky ghosts around your little face
Give me bread, give me bread
Or show me that my blood’s still red
Not black, like the spell that you cast
Oh I’m certain that the last
Thing I’ll ever do is love you.
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5. |
Blood Bank
05:13
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6. |
Losing a Friend
07:12
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There’s a bone in my head
And it spins every time that I think of you
But know, when you’re dead
I will still raise up a drink to you
You’re spending time in your bed
You ain’t been the same since you got back from Japan
You’re insane off of your meds
Somehow you think you’re better like that
Well, you do not want to know where the sad sound is coming from
I’m sitting by your room playing these songs so you can listen to them
Oh! Can’t you see what you’ve done to me?
Man, I’m not who I used to be
But even still, I am bound to you
And so, If you ever came back to me,
I would welcome you openly
Isn’t that what a friend should do?
I don’t want to lose a friend
I don’t want to lose a friend
I don’t want to lose a friend
We didn’t know how easy it would end
We grew up in my woods
Away from men, we could play as gods
When we crossed the top of the ridge
There was light on the hill and we saw it was good!
But you left me for two years in the time when I needed you most
And when you said the word I came running back like I’d seen a ghost
Oh! After all that I’ve done for you
You are foolish to stab me through
Can’t you see that you’re bound to me?
So, when I’m falling, you’re falling too
But I am honored to fall with you
Isn’t that how a friend should be?
(Chorus)
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In my life I find
Doubt is ever present
Like the cathedral bell
That in the town when it rings
It seems that the sound is pleasant
But it means someone’s hell
I didn’t leave, I
Didn’t leave, I
Didn’t leave, I lied
I didnt sleep, I
Don’t sleep, I
Didn’t sleep, I die
I don’t mean to
Be like this, I
Just can’t try
Even Christ had to lie in his grave
Got tired fast, got his ass bailed out in just three days
Like him, I am searching for escape
The search for permanence was a big, big mistake
I wish that God had made me
Just to be your lover
But he ain’t a lovin’ guy
Instead he made me just
to grow in age and pass away
Aint that some unkind?
I don’t want to
Mislead you
Its hard to have you see
That I can’t keep you
You can’t keep me
All this keepin is a dream
How can I have you when
I cannot hold you?
There is no permanent thing
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The Max Julius Newark, Delaware
The Max Julius sound like your favorite band, but better.
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