1. |
A Formal Dedication
02:11
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A formal dedication
To those who sleep at night
and wake up in the world
thinking that it's alright
Who trade in the protection
Of whatever they believe
Think every songs about them
In every single key
Yea a formal dedication
To those who coming down
From the high of being saviors
Without a single sound
You had justified it
Every single thing
You always had the mic man
Now it’s time to sing
I pray all the time...
Im not looking for an answer
To greet me every day
To shield me from my problems
Until I meet the grave
I will make this dedication
But nothing’s guaranteed
Dying only scares me
When I try to ride for free
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2. |
Andy
03:04
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Andy get in the car
you keep on fighting and you might go blind with pain
and never get very far
into the mountains where we'll lose ourselves for days
Well I know you’re a friend
We’re spilling soda
And laughin at the rain
Yea I like to pretend
I close my eyes and the words fall off my face
Laughing and breathing and thinking and sweating
Andy get in the car
The sun is shinin I think we both have changed
Took a shot to the heart
And now the soda is pumping through my veins
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3. |
We Charge Genocide
02:48
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I don't believe it
and you can eat shit
Ex Confederates
Now white police
Murder delegates
In new Orleans
The KKK
Is ex CSA
is the judge the clerk
It's in the DNA
The thread gets pulled
The facts unwind
from then to now
You could draw a line
tales of woe
And so much more
rewriting books
Before I was born
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4. |
Adults Can Talk, Too
01:47
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She said I wasn't good enough
the way I took the coffee in my cream
I'm broken up
way too much to go and cause a scene
what do you know about it?
cause when we talk we only dance around it
Got on the train
into the life I lived alone
Won't call your name
Won't find me on your fucking phone
what do you know about it?
cause when we talk we only dance around it
You never ask,
you never ask
I never tell
It's just as well
You made it known
Who you are and who you want to be
The covers blown
I saw things I never want to see
what do you know about it?
cause when we talk we only dance around it!
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5. |
Oh Jesus
02:52
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they say there was
a hidden chord
I don't know that anymore
well I roamed
on the plains
til I forgot your name
jesus
you put me through
all the shitty things
that you like to do
oh jesus
you put me through
all the shitty things that you like to do
And the tears
that we will cry
won't bring it back to life
I might be old
I might be lost
But bitch I think you thought
Jesus...
sinners do
what sinners will
I swallowed all those pills
I was sick
you were gone
(you fooled me all along)
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6. |
It's Not Fair
01:22
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I write the history that will be lost
A million memories that time forgot
disappointments that go on and on
Count your blessings before the bomb goes off
It's not fair
I'll bury racists with their losing cause
I'll sing at fascists till my head comes off
Keeping reading literature that makes me soft
and write a million of these pointless songs
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7. |
The Problem
02:18
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I say some, you don’t agree
So now you’ve got to punish me
Many things you could believe
That don’t bring folks catastrophe
And I see
The problem ends with me
I entertain the ignorant
Who say I ain’t no citizen
I understand the government
I know you ain’t no part of it
In the time you have lost
I have read and I have thought
In the time you have lost
I stayed awake
Save the same old song and dance
Choke yourself with your own hand
Scared and small without a plan
Thirsting for an audience
You can’t live for free inside my head
So keen to sleep inside my bed
To take my blues and make them red
So I take that key from you instead
In the time...
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8. |
Permission To Feel
03:36
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It's so damn much
the drama of this life
I'm losing my touch
I think I've come to mind
These things I want
Are never my idea
The chase goes on
Until they disappear
on the way
Who Has chosen
the masters that I please
I’m open
In my masculinity
Can you feel me?
I’m Feeling all the feels
Grown like ivy
In purple, pink and teal
On the way
am I helpless?
or just too scared to change
maybe selfish, making hype from pain
a stranger
to love and hope and my care
I can't hurt
if I say it isn't there
what have I learned
from making these mistakes
the time burned
and losing what it takes
it all ends
and you'll never notice why
so try this
to live like you're alive
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9. |
Can't Believe My Luck
02:33
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In the parking lot where I lost the fight
where you and I drank all night
you left your friends, I lost mine
what can I say
Can't believe my luck
when I met you
of all the girls
I could run into
ten years have gone and that's a lot
We made the plan, then we forgot
You might have changed and maybe not
well it's been bad
can't believe our luck
how I left you (how we split in two)
and all the things
I didn't do
The other day, it's like a dream
Your grocery bag split at the seam
Me and you and cans of beans
Is how I found you
Of all the girls
To run into
Can't believe my luck
Can this be true
Of all the girls
Yea I met you
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10. |
[Citation Needed]
02:34
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I was lonely
how you found me
I was floating
so you drowned me
It's pathetic
I'll admit it
I got excuses
just forget. I. called.
I'm an idiot
for believin it
I'm an idiot
for believin, for believin it
I had the impulse
but it was too cold
that's how you took it
Like an insult
You're in your feelings
oh come on really?
I might be stupid
a little filthy yea...
I'm an idiot
cause I wanted it
I'm an idiot
cause I wanted, cause I wanted it
you feeling righteous
I learned a lesson
about unkindness
about my blessings
hey lets forget it
Find the exit
hanging with you
I think I hear my song
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11. |
GIRLFRIEND
02:15
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girl
friend
why you fussin with me now
girl
friend
no I really don't know how
the lights are off
inside my heart
You came home
When the tempers had all gone down
You came home
And imagine what we found
The space was made
The space was made
To hear our song
We come down
and we've fallen fast asleep
I wake up
And I can feel you next to me
The lights are off
The lights are off
and we still go on
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The Missing Person Virginia Beach, Virginia
Making music because music is love
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