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Eighteen Bucks
01:29
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Don McLean, he paints the Midwest like some place you'd want to be
You were a fucked up kid in the checkout line for ephedra & lithium batteries
Spread out far below a sprawling, great, Midwestern sky
the obit's written and it waits to break the story when you die.
Say goodbye, New England mother.
Is eighteen bucks enough to pay to watch somebody suffer?
I hope you die, you motherfucker.
It just goes in one ear, in one ear and out the other.
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Lake
02:05
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How did all my nightmares learn my name
and undo all the lies we told to save me
How did my whole life reduce down to a list of fears
and awful ways I've kept them all at cane's length
Don't be deceived by your pity
You'll only give me credit that's undue
on the notion I was justified in secrets that I hid
and awful things I did
but never told you
How did all my nightmares follow me home
and disappear before I knew they'd followed
Youth that was a fountain made a lake where I stepped in
and held so still that I sank through tomorrow
Don't be seduced by your sympathy
You'll only give me credit that's undue
on the notion I was more than just a poison in your life
a universe collapsing in the rear view
How did all my nightmares learn my name
and undo all the lies we told to save me
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3. |
Horse
03:42
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Look at that horse too long
And it's going to damage your eyes
I played this song to an empty room once
When the horse was a trick of the light.
Ashley says,
"Honey, don't go to that place
Where the kids and I, too, cannot follow you
You go and you hide there for days."
But that place is all there is now
And I'm there pulling them in
I used our future to make a collateral payment
to finance my sins.
I want to ride on that horse
and bleed out on its terrible mane
in a gaping black hole, where nobody knows
I can drink my last hours away
I want to ride on that horse
and be loved by its terrible rage
in a gaping black hole that swallows my soul
I'll sleep through my last hours awake.
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4. |
One Half
02:43
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You woke up from a nightmare.
When you dreamed that you were melting, it was just the vomit in your hair.
And if the stains on your shirt were there,
then either nobody noticed or they were not enough invested to care.
One heart,
One brain,
One half
tells the other it can end the pain.
Two cars
changing lanes
I take the medicine
but the sickness won't go away.
You party like a movie star.
But now you never get to sleep without that tape inside the VCR.
Talking to dead loved ones in the car,
but it's not just 'cause you miss them
you say you wish you could be where they are.
Two hearts,
Two brains,
One half tells the other it will be okay.
Two clouds
Full of rain
I took the medicine, but I'm getting sicker, anyway.
Two hearts,
Two brains,
One half tells the other it can end the pain.
Two cars
changing lanes
I take the medicine, but I'm getting sicker, anyway.
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5. |
Amethyst
02:36
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Amethyst
Ocean and abyss
I sailed across on promises to you
That I would get us free and take us to a brand new place,
But it's not true.
Every year,
The fix is always near
If I say it enough times, I'll think it's true
That this will be the year I'm going to change
I never do.
Now an end
To everything pretend
Where we will be with God and never die
And all the other fantasies we swallowed when we bought this pack of lies
Amethyst
I should have told you this
All those lucky choices that I made
Was just me getting careless because
I was too heartbroke to be afraid.
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Every day is a repetition
The same old failures and rejections from
a time I used to think a light would come
But there's no light in anyone
All my doubt and disappointment
now take up so much space inside
that happy has become another synonym for "drunk"
and home is just a place for me to hide
I've been thinking about the endgame
A hole that we once called "the sun"
where light goes in and never comes back out again
but you won't even know it's gone
'cause there's no light in anyone
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Who gave us permission
to let ourselves back in
through a door that closed behind us
on a life we abandoned
And who gave us the idea
that we ever could survive
is it the next best thing to life eternal
to not know you can die
Does it wear you out
to ask yourself
which one you hate more
the dream you could have had
or the lie you settled for
There was a light between us
many years ago
we were kids who held a music box
and dropped it on the floor
And the pieces all went scattering
to a million different ends
We will never see the light
never hear that song again
Does it hurt too much
to see the face
of the girl you were before
the dream you used to have
and the lie you settled for
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8. |
Keepsake
03:07
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I had a list of the promises I broke
you said we'd bury
when the ground between us thawed
All along the way, only promises I made
when I was angry
were the ones I held fast on
We chased after a treasure
at the bottom of a lake where we will drown
so we could hold onto the damage like a keepsake we brought home
and just preserve it until time to pass it down
How can we turn around?
I had a list of the secrets I kept
and the lies we told
to keep our heads above
an empty place within, where the saints all fell to sin
was it worth the nightmares,
only to be loved
We stepped out into nothing
but I never thought the wings would really fly
or that we'd fight over the misery like some trophy we both won
and never speak 'til it was time to say "goodbye"
Why can't we get it right?
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Oliver Priddy Johnston City, Illinois
This is just a page I use for recordings I have made. Some of them are my projects, while some of them are recordings I made for friends and local artists. Enjoy.
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