1. |
Rainy Day
03:23
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Waking on a rainy day
With no one there to save ya
From all your secret cravings
You worked so hard at saving
Saving for a rainy day
I think you're going down
Started on a rainy day
In Southern California
The world had nothing for ya
But a market on the corner
Open on a rainy day
That's where you're going now
Pick up the mega score
Go home and lock the door
America
Will take care of ya
When what you're fighting for
Just don't feel real no more
Some are still standing
Some are still swinging
Years upon years upon years
After leaving
Big empty mansions
Lining the ocean
Big empty winds
Come and blow them wide open
I'll never know you now
Waiting on a rainy day
Patient on a rainy day
Hanging on a rainy day
Fading on a rainy day
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2. |
Life Is Sweet
04:01
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I'm saying the birds singing
Are fighting, they're just bitching
That them and the horns honking
Are one and the same
And you were a fool dreaming
And lying when you're listening
And seeing the world glistening
And feeling okay
Are you not the living definition of despair
Is your only purpose not to see there's nothing there
And love is a sad movie
It's gone, it was that moving
Hilarious how you just
Stand up and walk out
And me and your poor mother
Will ask if you need comfort
While knowing there ain't nothing
You'd want from us now
Are you not the living definition of despair
Take a stab at happiness and give yourself a scare
Is your only purpose not to see there's nothing there
No one cares
No one
I had a good time
Relatively speaking life is sweet
There ain't nothing
You can argue bout
With animals or trees
I miss the people
But I know that my grass is pretty green
And I'm closer now to living without
Hating everything
I wasn't the one writing
The furious hand guiding
The prison that's inside of me
Opening wide
An addict, a proud loser
A magnet for abusers
Who's had it with bad news
Or just don't wanna die
Don't look back it's all right
Face the future one time
Don't walk backwards through life
Don't look back it's all right
Face the future one time
Don't look back it's all right
I had a good time
Relatively speaking life is sweet
There ain't nothing
You can argue bout
With animals or trees
I miss the people
But I know that my grass is pretty green
And I'm closer now to living without
Loving anything
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3. |
Aliens R Us
04:31
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Up all night long
And the deeper that I dig
The more I'm convinced
I was visited as a kid
By extra terrestrials
And they didnt even try
Being sly
Tic tacs skim the ocean
Jets see them all the time
I met another skeptic
At the conference
Suffered through his nonsense
He shat on all my dreams
He told me I'd been lied to
So what did I do
I held him in my armpit
I put his ass to sleep
Nice to know ya
Paranoia
Dark and scary
Ordinary
Up for a week
While the sheep are fast asleep
And I got adderall and weed
For all the documents to read
And knowing what I now know
I gotta say goodbye normal life
And take the epic journey
that's there waiting out for me
I met another skeptic
And he left his
Continental breakfast
Sitting all alone
I put a little something
In his muffin
See him in the dungeon
Find out what he knows
He said it's human nature
To fall down on the saber
He said the stars aren't speaking up
Cause aliens are just like us
It's why they never come and see us
It's why there's nothing they can teach us
Man that's just unacceptable
The truth is unacceptable to me
The future's unacceptable
My own damn life is unacceptable to me
I know
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4. |
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It might start with a DM
From a random acquaintance
Doesn't everybody like
When someone says something nice like
You're my new favorite person or
Is it weird if we're best friends or
A platonic I love you
Coming a little bit too soon
It's the first stage of a cycle
That you'll miss if you're not mindful
First they tell you you're so pretty
Then you're doing all their bidding
But don't be scared of a narcissist
Telling you that you're marvelous
Cause you got what they are missing
You got what they weren't given
You got a heart that's full of love
Lifts you back up no matter what
They're not evil, but they're ruthless
And they'll curse and call you useless
When you won't go up to bat
For that jerk at work named Matt
They're not evil, but they're heartless
And you'll feel just like a carcass
With your body being fed on
By your boyfriend in the darkness
But don't be scared of a narcissist
Telling you you should not exist
Cause you got what they are missing
You got what they weren't given
You got a heart that's full of love
Lifts you back up no matter what
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5. |
Pot of Beans
02:31
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I smell sorrow
And crashing dreams
When I lift the lid on
This pot of beans
It's bittersweet
And all I'm eating
Seventeen
X Y Z
Kill fuck marry
Live laugh leave
I dreamt an engine
Rising from the sea
The size of Hawaii
And every human being
Running out into the street
Where are we going
Cause I still wanna fight
I have anger
I can't set aside
Gonna spend it all tonight
On some asshole
Who thinks that it's his birthright
To bring pistols into knife fights
Breathing hatred into bloodlines
Tryna steal all of the sunshine
I smell sorrow
Mama what's for dinner
I cant get much thinner
Mama what's for dinner
I can't get much
I smell sorrow
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You're amazing
It's your Friday night
You've been waiting
You want city lights
Not some fragile-hearted man
Hating life just cause he can
All I know is it's summer
Summer summer
And I
Can't let a damn thing go
Can't let a damn thing go
I might just hurt myself
Or worse, somebody else
If I can't let a damn thing go
A familiar story
I'm obnoxious
So I got to go
I'm not toxic
But I'm hot and cold
Can't be easy loving me
Talking shit's just how I speak
All I know is it's summer
Summer summer
And I
Can't let a damn thing go
Can't let a damn thing go
I might just hurt myself
Or worse, somebody else
If I can't let a damn thing go
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7. |
Morgana
03:24
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I'm the fruit picker
Dripping red
I'm the leaf snatcher
Snatch and shred
But for you, baby blue
I'll let go
As you grow
See you slo-mo explode
Give you less water
More light
Make your roots stronger
Save your life
Grabbing you when the house catches fire
Loving you like I'm out of my mind
My million
Leaf clover
We just get closer, closer
I'm going nowhere staying home
I couldn't do that on my own
There's a will
There's a way
There's a what the hell
This is not a universe in which I kill myself
I'm the dirt digger
I get down
But my heart's bigger
Than my town
And if you, baby blue
Stick around
We can live till your lips kiss the ground
There's a will
There's a way
There's a what the hell
This is not a universe in which I kill myself
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8. |
Wild West
02:39
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The sky is
Turning
Not crashing down
It's changing
Colors
See now it wears a frown
And ain't nobody out here
Really
Gonna try their best
And will you stick around
For the return
Of the wild west
It's coming
The future
It don't look like fun
Until then
Computer
I wanna be someone
And ain't nobody out here
Really
Gonna try their best
And who would stick around
For a return
Of the wild west
They can't catch the killer
They can't catch the killer
They can't catch the killer
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9. |
Safe for Church
04:25
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Doesn't everyone reach
Desperation and seek
Something they can believe
You were lost on your way
Needed somewhere to stay
You just picked the first place
Oh no
There was a lesson
You could have learned if you could think
Half as well as you feel pain
And everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody's cursed
Something in your heart
It wasn't safe for work
It was safe for church
Must be why that's where they park the hearse
Get on out of your mind
You're just wasting your time
Tossing turning all night
Later on in your life
You'll forget what it's like
Hate yourself wanna die
All right
There was a lesson
You could have learned if you could think
Half as well as you feel pain
And everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody's cursed
Something in your heart
It wasn't safe for work
It was safe for church
Must be why that's where they park the hearse
How come you got your
Fuck this job face on
On your day off
And everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody's cursed
Something in your heart
It wasn't safe for work
It was safe for church
Must be why that's where they park the hearse
How come you got your
Fuck this job face on
On your day off
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10. |
I'm Just a Lover Now
03:46
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Turn the key and toss my phone
I know the way to go
Time goes by but Nevermind
Is still on the radio
Done this drive
All my life
The main thing doesn't change
Are we not cattle now
Oh capital
On rockstar energy
Maybe but can you hear me sing
I'm just a lover now
Don't give a fuck about
What's in the bank or
What's my name
I'm just a lover now
Shut the fucking city down
That way you can see
The sky turn blue
I'm just a lover now
Don't give a fuck about
Success in the last ditch left
I'm just a lover now
That's how it's turning out
Final form
Who I grew up to be
Falling through your garden's gates
I'm headlong into you
Lost all sense of time and space
To petals, drops of dew
You reverse this
mortal's curse its
Purpose gets renewed
Mmm
The world outside can bleed all night and preach the golden rule
As it dies but can you hear me sing?
I'm just a lover now
Don't give a fuck about
What's in the bank or
What's my name
I'm just a lover now
Shut the fucking city down
That way you can see
The sky turn blue
I'm just a lover now
Don't give a fuck about
Success in the last ditch left
Im just a lover now
That's how it's turning out
Final form
Who I grew up to be
Are we gaming the system
Do it once, never work again
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11. |
Silver Saucepan
03:14
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I hold in my hand
A silver saucepan
Been looking for one this size
Been meaning to try
To start my days right
With Quakers not Marlboro Lights
But the kitchen's compiled
From people's free piles
The pots are defiled
By grease
And cooking for one
Is losing its fun
I'm starved for some company
And this here pot, it ain't half bad
I take that back, it's beautiful
Seems like silver, tarnished shine
This thing is from another time
And the years can go poof
When all that you do
Is work and stay home at night
And it's hard to eat well
And nurture yourself
When nobody's looking right
And you did not ask
To hear my whole past
You can just ring me up
But let it be said
I'll never regret
Spending this seven bucks
Cause this here pot, it aint half bad
I take that back, it's beautiful
Seen some shit but clean inside
This thing is gonna do just fine
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