1. |
Untitled Track
03:47
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I dreamt of a failing ship
Spinning in circles
Only to meet your parents
And you disappeared
And I don't know if I'd like to figure that one out
But I was happy to wake up in your arms
You told me that you loved me
After your show
But you were drunk
Stumbling in the road
And I said I love you too
Is it too soon to say?
I'll say it anyway
Found out recently that
your gut feeling
doesn't need reasoning
or logic
or rational answers
You are to feel it
And so I feel it
with you
I feel it
I feel it with you
Is it too soon to say?
I'll say it anyway
I love you too
I love you too
I love you
I love you
I love you too
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2. |
Paying Rent
03:17
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I run away at the first sings of safe
what a boring life
I'd rather drink and not have to think and hate myself tomorrow
It's a simple transaction of living can I escape for a little while
don't you know that it's no fun to live life lite
If I was to love you, well I'd be dead
Keep lights off and I'll hide under my own bed
If I had to, I'd run the world
and I'd make everyone smile
we'd all go to therapy
and we could get real high
But for now I guess I'll live like this
I'll exist just to pay rent
and I'll spend my money on things that allow me to forget
and now I've grown older
I don't like the way
I don't like the way it's heading
Here in late stage capitalism
Don't take yourself too seriously
it's not easy being older
You see the damage this world has done
and I could keep lying
and I'll lie some more
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3. |
handjob at the park
01:48
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Love feels like a sunny day
And it feels like eatin cherries in the spring
And it's a cold beer after mowing the lawn
And it's fresh laundry when it's warm
I don't feel that
With you
All I feel is
A strange tension
Like pulling a rope
That's endless,
floating around endlessly, in the sea
I want to be
Happy
And darling
You're not right for me
Darling, you're not right for me
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4. |
Your Own Protector
03:02
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Lay your head down, you can close your eyes
I'll make sure no one's around so you can try
I know life is hard, and you just got your start
Learning how to live
Well I got news for you,
You're a kid
Pass the ball around,
Make sure you don't make a sound,
Mother's sleeping on the couch
You don't know how hard it is to stay, this way
Oh you precious mind, why don't give it a try?
Make believe, oh please please please believe
You know it's hard when you go
You'll never know
Til the things you've known have you turned you to stone
That's when you know
Life is over
I'll carry you to the water,
I'll carry you to the ocean
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5. |
Man With a Last Name
04:21
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Don't look at me with those you know I'll bite
Cuz when the sun goes down it just feels like you and I
I'll touch your arm cuz you're funny (meow)
But I want you inside of me (meow)
Cuz you're busy working, come see me after 3
Oh I know it's a shame
Oh I know it's a shame
I'm in love with a man who shares his last name
5 years and some days since we went to New Orleans
I shoved you against the wall in the French Quarters
Red lipstick smeared across your face, you weren't too happy
In the car ride back home you said you love me
What the fuck does that mean
Oh I know it's wrong to want you this bad
Oh I know it's wrong to want you this bad
I'll bite and I'll kick and I'll scream
Like a child who wants their candy
You were everything to me
Even at 20
I know it's wrong to love you
I know it's wrong to love you
I"m in love with a man who shares his last name
I'm in love with a man who shares his last name
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6. |
Mary Teresa
05:13
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You are everything I hate
Tiring and boring
Let your body rot in the couch your husband bought
Who died 40 years ago
And I can't help but imagine what it would have been
To not live under your spell, to not live in your hell
But I, I forgive you
I know that you have pain
and I forgive you, you have pain
And don't you know that we know you're not perfect?
You'll never be what you always thought you'd be
Living in your shell, living in your shell
You can't seem to leave
But you're only trying to protective yourself from the pain that was brought upon you
But you cursed my name, everyone that came from you
And I will try, I'll try to break the spell
And I will try, I'll try to break the spell
I hope you have the courage to change in the next life
I hope you nothing but peace and love and acceptance brought into your eyes
Oh
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7. |
Self Care
04:08
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One sunny morning, that's all it takes
When you go outside the depression will just wash away
That's what they say
Go on a walk and drink some water
"Honey, why don't you smell the roses?"
You sound like a mother, who never cared for its kid
I don't want answers
I just want to say this is how I'm feeling
And soon it'll go away
I see the dogs on their walks
My friend wants to pet them
And it's funny because it never crossed my mind
I'm too busy in my head
It seems so simple
Living life the way we do
We're surrounded by cellphones
and ads and
plastic surgery trends
somebodies getting in trouble
I know I'll check the news
this is what it is all the time
how can I turn it off
it wasn't supposed to be this hard
it won't
it won't supposed to be this hard
it won't
it won't supposed to be this hard
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Libby Janes Austin, Texas
Diary entries with closed eyes and an out of tune guitar.
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