1. |
Beast About
03:12
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Are you tired of wandering
Aren’t you sick of wondering
If the stretched out stones
Along the road lead to homes
Or graves or nowhere at all
Let’s go riding
Lets get higher
Tie one on and burn a tire
Drag you back to wake me up
And stand around the beat up gas pump
I’m gonna beast about
And shuffle all my feathers
Crack this skull like dried out leather
I’m gonna beast about
I’m gonna feel you out
Right and rosy
Dead in your mouth
What a world in which we live
Where time rolls by as do our sins
If I was alive enough to see your face
You’d be awake enough to scream and run
(and I’ll only tell you one time)
Life is running on me
The needle dancing on E
I don’t want to be the one to tell the other one
Found the broken glass on the rainy street
I don’t want to be the one to take that phone call
Rise and shine my love
The sun’s retired for us
It’s light enough under this pale blue new moon
Life is running on me
Death is over my knee
Can we make it feel the way we did when we were young and free
I’m going to beast about
’Til I’m exhausted thoroughly
Turn your hands
Palm up
Face down
Eyes up
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2. |
Eating Emeralds
03:45
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Used to bag up the work now I’m bagging up the lavender
Under my feet the cold crunch of November
Dried out leaves on a red brick street
Before I came I said I wasn’t here for anything
Head on hell-on hello I’m gone
Pour another it’s enough for
You and I on demon time
Devil-may-care
I still believe
Fastened to the thing of which we swore we’d never speak
All I can think about is when I’m gonna die
Every second ticking out the corner of my eye
Singing every song I thought I’d lost to old age
Brown Bambi eyes and a tiny ribcage
A single gold hand fingers pointing down
Motioning me to the holy ground
Pleasure and virtue
Pleased to meet you
Feathery
Emphatically
Stole a smile right out of me
What would you wear to my funeral
What kind of things would your body do
Would you let out the tears
Or would you hold them inside
Is that the lipstick on the glass
I pointed out to you that night
Daintily
Silently
Slide across the snow
I want to keep you warm
I know you always get so cold
And though you shineth like moon
On a night sky’s sheets
Fluorescent in the dark
Swallow my tongue and then repeat
If I could help it I would help myself
Littering glitter on either side of my mouth
If I could help you I would give myself
But you kissing my forehead in the shape of a crown
Was it everything that you wanted see
Did it keep you awake as it surely did me
Did I drive too slow before I started to speed
For a jar of your blood I’d bring a man to his knees
Used to bag up the work now I’m bagging up the lavender
I used to dream about that exact shade of green
Swallowing your emeralds
Listen to me breathe
Feeling gold backs on the back of my teeth
Used to bag up the work
Now I’m back for more chains
More power more glory
So precious your pain
I used to close my eyes to try and help me see
Now I’m wide awake at midnight
In the emerald’s reach
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3. |
Too Pure
04:50
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Mess around feel around
Run aground on your own
Trip the wire
Drag the line
Let it into your home
Tend the fire
Feed the liar
Send the troops
To the roof
Let em loose
Like the truth
When you’re naked outside
If you wanna be a fighter
Gotta train like a dog
If you wanna be a dog
You gotta bark you gotta crawl
If you wanna live forever
All you gotta do is sing
If you wanna sing a song
You’d better sing it just for me
If you say that you’re an angel
You had better flash your wings
Gonna be around tomorrow
We’ll have to wait around and see
If you want to know your place
Check the ground beneath your feet
Does it shake
Does it tremble
Is there a problem I can’t see
Watch for everything
Wishful referencing
Pocket-sized comb for a globe-sized grief
Watch for anything
Moving along the trees
We need a quiet thief
Follow me
Follow me
Pulse is unchanged
Nearly every day
Recording every step
In my fading memory
Horses don’t stop they keep goin’
You can lose your life
But it’s gonna keep goin’
Heart is getting weaker
Nearly every day
Accidentally deleting
The things I’m trying to keep
Baby, horses don’t stop they keep goin’
I’m gonna lose my life
But I’m gonna keep goin’
Driven by the steam
Of a virtuous mood
I release all my energies
Out into the world
From my mouth to your ear
To your fingertips and back to here
Everybody knows what I mean when I wink
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4. |
The Master
03:40
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So we lit lamps
A dancing masquerade
The superior light
For flakes of falling wet snow
On our faces and in our hair
The coldest story ever told
The warmest smile you ever wore
It’s not love unless you choke
On every word I ever spoke
Reach out your arms and let it bend
Around the headrest and then
Let it land atop my attic
Full of pomade and prayers
Eccentric as I am
Unconsciously aware
Like a Lord I will watch from above
My capacity for living
Counting flowers on the rug
Let me cultivate an itch
Strip the walls and paint your face
A torment we both despise
You dropped your hands
I dropped my eyes
I was never truly meant for this
What a wretched busyness
I’d rather die a hundred times
Add eight more (to no surprise!)
Janus, hold the gate
I do not trust his double face
Never took you for a coward
Always read you as slave
I left civilization
For barbarism
I took the key from his right hand
And put it in my teeth and felt around
In the dark for the door
Until I felt the frame enter my hand
Hot from the heat of what lay behind
Like a Lord I will watch from above
My capacity for living
Counting flowers on the rug
Let me cultivate an itch
Strip the walls and paint your face
A torment we both despise
You dropped your hands
I dropped my eyes
I was never truly meant for this
What a wretched busyness
I’d rather die a hundred times
Add eight more (to no surprise!)
Janus, hold the gate
I do not trust his double face
Never took you for a coward
Always read you as slave
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5. |
Germanicus
04:19
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Wickedness can do so well
Full of hope and heart in swell
I know everything about you
Promised that I’d never tell
Righteousness beside the well
Cast her down into the swell
I know about your secret place
I’ve seen the fields turn into hell
Meaningless!
Meaningless!
All your words are treasonous!
Ride inside the storm dare I?
Break a man for less than this
Meaningless!
Meaningless!
Ever seen me get as mean as this?
Just get dressed
Just get dressed
Hide before I change my mind
Ten to one I tore them down
Overthrown in blood and bone
Ten to one I make you mine
Over time you’ll change your mind
I got this
You hold this
Give me one more gentle kiss
What I mean is this:
You’re meaningless
You are my Caligula
I’m never getting rid of ya
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6. |
Jinx!
04:26
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Made myself and made somebody
Made myself into a mountainous view
Snow-capped and held back
By the morning haze and last night's flames
Made myself and made you too
I can tape your mouth
And tap my fingers on the top of your neck
To the nape of your neck
Trying to remember why I wished this in the first place
Dance like cinnamon in the wind
Shine like cellophane in the light
Held up to the windowpane drawing in tight
Until I cannot see
And you cannot breathe
The room flooded white, yellow,
And a fetching shade of pale pink
Like a shell on a white sand beach
Or blood on your teeth
We think the same things at the same time
There was no echo in the room it was said in unison
We think the same things at the same time
Jinx!
And now you owe me a Coke
And you have to stay quiet 'til my debt is satisfied
Yeah I loved her, but not enough to change my number
Cat's Cradle
I'm unable to see this night to its logical end
Dressed for fire
Pulled in a circle
Hands held, impenetrable
Dance like cinnamon on a flame
Shine like cellophane around a body
What's inside a girl?
Please love, do tell me
If you cannot speak
Is it my curse
Or the jinx?
You owe me a little more than I think you think
We think the same things at the same time
There was no echo in the room it was said in unison
We think the same things at the same time
Jinx!
And now you owe me a Coke
And you have to stay quiet 'til my debt is satisfied
Yeah I loved her, but not enough to change my number
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7. |
The Master
04:08
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So we lit lamps
A dancing masquerade
The superior light
For flakes of falling wet snow
On our faces and in our hair
The coldest story ever told
The warmest smile you ever wore
It’s not love unless you choke
On every word I ever spoke
Reach out your arms and let it bend
Around the headrest and then
Let it land atop my attic
Full of pomade and prayers
Eccentric as I am
Unconsciously aware
Like a Lord I will watch from above
My capacity for living
Counting flowers on the rug
Let me cultivate an itch
Strip the walls and paint your face
A torment we both despise
You dropped your hands
I dropped my eyes
I was never truly meant for this
What a wretched busyness
I’d rather die a hundred times
Add eight more (to no surprise!)
Janus, hold the gate
I do not trust his double face
Never took you for a coward
Always read you as slave
I left civilization
For barbarism
I took the key from his right hand
And put it in my teeth and felt around
In the dark for the door
Until I felt the frame enter my hand
Hot from the heat of what lay behind
Like a Lord I will watch from above
My capacity for living
Counting flowers on the rug
Let me cultivate an itch
Strip the walls and paint your face
A torment we both despise
You dropped your hands
I dropped my eyes
I was never truly meant for this
What a wretched busyness
I’d rather die a hundred times
Add eight more (to no surprise!)
Janus, hold the gate
I do not trust his double face
Never took you for a coward
Always read you as slave
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8. |
Hysterectomy
03:19
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Thou cannot covet
What thou cannot catch
Not the least of which
Is beyond thine grasp
To the willow’d cover
In the shade below
Ten times the effort
For half the show
WAIT!
Dry the paint before you bring it inside
HEY!
Let me see what all the fuss is about
FATE!
I could test it half a million times
SAME!
Just as it was and as it has been
Don’t spare me
Share a pillow with me
a “refrain” means something else
Unless you want to sing
On the contrary
Mark this down as an unrelated corollary
He’s directing me
He’s directing me
Make your move
Old spirits that hustle me
He’d directing me
She’s reflecting me
Mirror mirror on the wall
Count me down to zero now
Right to heaven
Right to me
Write out the name
If you truly believe
Pleased to meet thee
Please receive me
Feast on the clipped wings
Priest of dreaming
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9. |
Purple Lips
04:17
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He reminds me of a laughter
That has left me going down
And my heart is falling silently
Into the driving evening sound
Sometimes we must keep from bringing
Certain thoughts up to the light
And a matter of the winning
In a case of two words lies
I have been looking out for him
From over this broken bridge
The safest place it seems to be
To ever reach his purple lips
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10. |
Threshold Angel
04:25
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She asked me if I’d done this before
I didn’t say a word
Shifted the truck into 4x4
Closed one eye and followed the fog line
Heaven!
Heaven!
Can I get in?
If I do it’s gonna be by the teeth of my skin
I need your price of admission
Who is the prince of admonishment
If I should ne’er return
Please settle my accounts
If I hold your hand
Would you lead me down
Shall we walk down the block
Fingers interlocked
There’s a blade by the bed
For suspicious minds
I fell asleep on the sectional
And dreamt about Mexico
Keep your eyes locked into mine
Only you know how I feel tonight
Threshold Angel
Watch me burn
Light this match
It’ll be alright
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11. |
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The wire cut quick
Into the sleeve of my shirt
A rag wiped me down
But it felt like a nail
All the softness and slickness of Chinese silk
The mantel had a mouth
And it started to speak
I locked up my shoulders
And backed up the loveseat
Decide what to do
Or it’s decided for you
Dancing alone in the window
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12. |
In Gaul † (Bonus Track)
05:26
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When I was a boy I was never afraid
I felt the breath of death
In every step that I’d take
It was the path the glory
Bloody and true
It was the road that led me right back to you
There’s no coming home this time
When I was a soldier it was hotter than hell
My teeth turned into iron and my heart did as well
It was the to path the glory
Bloody and true
I killed them all and believe that I’ll kill you too
There’s no coming home this time
Would you rather speak
Or would you rather hear
Would you rather sleep
Until early next year
I don’t blame you babe
I’m feeling the same way
Got me feeling strange
Got me feeling strange
Would you rather live
Under the mouth of gun
I’m triggered up and I’m tired
I’m getting sick of the sun
So let the darkness spill
I know you wanted it to
I wanna be alone
Along the Rubicon
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