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in your mind
you are a boy of the notches
it's fine
'cause it never reaches your eyes
forever you catch it in time
there is no cap on your time
pour vos amants
pour vos amants
pour vos amants inaccessibles
I've changed civilisations
inside civilisations
I've tried to map their estates
I've left milk and shortbread and carrots on a plate
pour vos amants
pour vos amants
pour vos amants inaccessibles
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what if it's this? what if it's these?
what if I'm one of the ones too old and too damaged
to hear the frequency whistled in the night by the trees?
and what's mine? what in this room is mine?
what if it's just me
and my patchy emulation?
every night in this town a bouffant gets buzzed away
every night in this town a face and a heel negotiate an urgent trade
every night the Shepard Tone Sharks play the Pachelbel Panthers at home
it's a fucking rout
and I can't bear to watch
I hope we both sleep well
for the next five hours
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Stranger Than Death
03:50
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hit the lights like rain
and rise from the lights like steam
I'm an intrusive thought
I've been extinguished before
rotating objects in my mind
but the frisson is gone
I'm so touched, you really thought
you'd fold the car tonight
there's a hassle at my core
it's been extinguished before
press me up against the wall
and trace the shapes on me
there's something else and it's stranger than death
there's something else and it's stranger than death
there's something coming and it's stranger than death
there's something coming and it's stranger than death
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The Night Rains True
03:09
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the gingham dress, the steel-capped boots
the snakes, the leches and the brutes
the moderate marks of unusual youth
the legal high inside your tooth
the doubts about which side you're on
the signal to the vagabonds
the signal to a year that's gone
the poets of the octagon
he swept a triangle with a curve
the sweetest sound you've ever heard
and now you'll seize what you deserve
I so adore your choice of words
the last authorial argument
the trees where all the fire went
the injuries, retirements
and trades from '68 to '82
they underestimated you
surveilled, investigated you
and now we're thrilled you made it through
my god, if only it were true
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I know the soul by its presence in others
I could turn out alright like my brothers
I float an inch above the land above the land
I bury cheap gifts in the sand
evil on tin is such a sweet, familiar sound
this party's unforgivable, sure, I'll stick around
I know the soul by its presence in others
I know the soul by its presence in all others
I know the soul by its presence in others
I know the soul by its presence in others
I sleep six and I fail to receive what I'm sent
I decline everything I am sent
I know the stage resuscitations
I know the civil escapes
I know the density and I know the shape
of the soul by its presence in others
I know the soul by its presence in all others
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Jolie-Laide in Lace
00:56
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I was a jolie-laide in lace
you brought me back to your place
to take the edge off a phase you were enduring
the story of my life
just doesn't sit right
with the scenes before my eyes
Star Street's in strife
it needs a set of lights
and so do I
I was a jolie-laide in lace
you brought me back to your place
to take the edge off a craze you were enduring
I was a jolie-laide in lace
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8. |
Hooks In Texas
05:12
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I was a fire ant in Marshall
and I never marched in the parade
I just gave a presentation
on how hydramethylnon is made
I was criticised
and I can see why
but in time you'll know I was right
well there used to be a beach here
but it's all one wave now
you'll get hotter in your thirties
and you'll never guess how
just fling your body backwards
into the last neon sign
I see sweethearts thrive in divisive times
I see rage at tidy endings
I see hooks in Texas ascending
hooks in Texas ascending
I see sweethearts thrive in divisive times
I see wild new ways of pretending
I see hooks in Texas ascending
hooks in Texas ascending
hooks in Texas ascending
I see apocalyptic scores
I see apocalyptic scores
I see a halfway back against the wall
and then halfway back
and then half again, half again, half again culture war
are you really gonna settle for a 45-degree rise?
do you still wanna be straight on the day your next hero dies?
or will you fling your body backwards
into the last neon sign?
I see sweethearts thrive in divisive times
I see rage at tidy endings
I see hooks in Texas ascending
I see the hooks in Texas ascending
I see sweethearts thrive in divisive times
I see wild new ways of pretending
I see hooks in Texas ascending
hooks in Texas ascending
hooks in Texas ascending
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Evening, Sunshine
00:43
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Hard Femme in Argyle
02:05
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forgive me in the daily ways
colour-code my tragic days
I can move or I can freeze
they don't have anything else for birds like me
and I remember everything you told me
back when you were oversharing
and it's all happening to me now
it's all happening to me now
the gears grind, the layers chafe
the laces slip, the boots loosen their grip
and I float away
and I float away
and I float away (you'll see me again)
and I float away
they're trimming hedges in the shape of my head
they're naming bridges after shit I said
if I tell you how to follow me, they'll change the rules
put boulders in your path and rewrite the incantations
still remember everything you told me
back when you were oversharing
and it's all happening to me now
it's all happening to me now
the gears grind, the layers chafe
the laces slip, the boots loosen their grip
and I float away
and I float away
the gears grind, the layers chafe
the laces slip, the boots loosen their grip
and I float away
and I float away (you'll see me again)
and I float away
and I float away
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Half Moon
03:24
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walk lines for luck
walk lines for practice
I've got to be diamond and gold
to reveal anything
if I'm open, and I'm open
I could die
my life
it's no better for being sliced
for living every part of it twice
and I should know better than to say I'm alright
I get sliced
I've played every dead character twice
gimme all your worst advice
your worst advice
my life
it's no better for being sliced
for living every part of it twice
and I shoulda known better than to say I was alright
I get nice
I've weathered every comparison twice
gimme all your worst advice
your worst advice
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Playfair
00:47
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Co-Op
02:47
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I held your joint while you were driving
and I made a show to no-one
of holding it unnaturally
I'm making plans to live forever
and I'm cultivating habits
worthy of a dizzy eulogy
been waiting for the sun and now it primes its sting
reserved reporters, we can tell each other anything
when you recollect minutiae
your waters seem so still
lately I've been crying almost nightly
I wandered lonely as a pinball
but is this not the present?
and is another bounce not more than likely?
on a cliff above the ocean
sculpting boulders for a splash I had in mind
forgive me if my imitation's straight
I can't triangulate
it's you, it's only you
these unassuming synonyms
especially of a woman or her behaviour
but I've seen you learn to break your bread with beauty
so your modelling days continue
and your code can still compose me
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tried to tell my story hanging from a ceiling fan
tried to tell my story through the fists of a better man
now I'm back behind the eyes again
lived in the Parisian sewer and sang there undisturbed
lived inside the factory and got paid by the word
but it all rolled out much the same
I never once tried to hide it
I took a long weekend and I magnified it
I made no attempt to fight it
I took a shot in the arm and I amplified it
you walk along beside me and we make the same mistakes
but angels fly above you with replacements
for every part you break
is that how you stay so calm?
knowing that you're never gonna lose an arm?
is that how you sleep at night?
knowing that you're never gonna lose your sight?
I never once tried to hide it
I took a couple of weeks and I magnified it
I made no attempt to fight it
I took a kick in the shin and I amplified it
now I'm back behind the eyes again
now I'm back behind the eyes again
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15. |
Data Decay
04:12
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Permanent Thief
02:05
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I stole with my eyes
I stole for myself
and then I stole it right back onto the shelf
I never wanted to be
a permanent thief
no
I stole with my eyes
I stole for myself
and then I stole it right back onto the shelf
I never wanted to be
a permanent thief
no
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