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Magical Thinking

by The Revenants

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1.
Have You Ever Been Broken? 04:09
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Lemme tell you just how bad it feels ‘Cause I’ve lived through it firsthand Don’t get any better this, boy It’s like waking up in Zombieland Have you ever been broken Have you ever been split in two Have you ever been smashed to bits Till there’s nothing left but residue Have you ever been broken Have you ever been broken Lemme tell you just how much it sucks And every day is one more day to rue You say you want to end it all But you’re a coward through and through Have you ever been hurt so bad Have you ever felt the deepest sad Lemme tell you it ain’t no Penny Lane This desert where you find yourself marooned You can try to escape to the past But nostalgia is just pain from an old wound
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The House That I Built for You 04:40
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This is the world that I dreamed of This is the world made out of dust I had no maps and I had no plans And when I look back I'm nonplussed This is the house I built for you And I did it with my own two hands These are the tales I made for you Sewn together from disparate strands This is the world that I never had This is the world that I never knew In this world there was never no love I was beaten black and blue I did it for love Love, love, love I did it for love Love is all you need This is the world that I wanted This is the world that I never got In this world I just say fuck it Just say fuck it to all I'd been taught
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The Swimmer 03:48
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I was once a swimmer with a lake all to myself And I spent my days in endless contemplation Was it all a quest, was it all for love Was it just self-flagellation I live in a house at the end of a dirt road If you think of me my door is always ajar I won't give up hope, it’s all that I got left Decoding your eyes like Balthazar To feel your warmth again The smell of your honeyed breath The smoothness of your inner thigh To be in that dream once more That yawning sacred place Like floating in the sweet by and by But I am in that house at the end of a dirt road And the days wash and wane without gravity I scribble down some words, the measure of my pain Like a decayed nerve in the depths of a cavity It's a desert out here This land of endless wandering This scorched earth where dreams come to die The dry season is endless Nothing ever grows Spread out under an acrid brown sky I never left that house at the end of a dirt road The windows are shuttered and I don't got no view I am writing stories, tales of terrible times Etched on our skin like a visceral tattoo
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Across the Threshold 03:57
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I am out here in these autumn years And winter’s right around the bend Got a feeling deep down in my guts That I’m about to reach a bad end Won’t you bring me across the threshold And hold me in the way only you can Won’t take me on over the great divide Please be my helmswoman I’ve been lost and lonely for so long Like a prospector who never found his vein If you see me I looked withered Like I’ve done way too much cocaine If I could ask you a little favor Don’t be so quick to dispense of me I don’t got all that much to offer But what I got is a certain intensity If there’s a future it better come quick Because for me time is running out My youth is buried behind a lowland creek And tomorrow’s seriously in doubt
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Our Strange Magic 03:57
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No one can explain it Certainly not you or me It happened just the way that it happened It happened so easily From the moment I first laid my eyes on you I felt that peculiar buzz And if you ask me why that is I can only say because Our strange magic We feel just what we feel Our strange magic And what we feel is real Our strange magic It is just what it is Our strange magic By golly gee whiz There is something about your gentle hands Something about the way that you talk Something about your deep green eyes That makes it all a cakewalk I never have to struggle To get my feelings across And girl when you’re not around I really feel at a loss If this ain’t love Well what the hell do you name it If this ain’t love I would like to proclaim it It feels so strange and foreign to me Like a flavor I’ve never tasted Every time we snuggle up We fit together cut and pasted Can’t imagine losing you The thought of it makes me sick That we ever found each other at all It’s our greatest magic trick
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Magical Thinking 04:55
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Nothing truly matters Except for how I think You can say that I'm wrong And my mind is on the blink My mind is on the blink There ain't no meaning Except what I say is real 'Cause what I say is real Just reflects how I feel Such is the power of magical thinking Such is the hour of the times we're living in Such is the power of magical thinking Caught by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin Nothing really does it Like the power of suggestion You hear what you want And you never ask a question Don't ask a question Life is so simple When you don’t use your brain But the second you do that The whole wide world's gone insane Just pull down the curtain And hide under your bed And tell yourself there ain't no strife Just turn off the TV Disconnect the internet And tell yourself it's a wonderful life If you say you’re smart Who will say that you’re not Yeah you know it all Much smarter than Descartes You are so smart Do just what you please Don't care for consequence It is your world A life in present tense Everything you know is true
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I Think I'd Rather Kill Myself 03:53
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I am not hap-happy Yeah I am pretty bummed Things have gone all screwy and haywire I did all I could do But it wasn't good enough I guess 'Cause I failed to set the world afire It's time to wrap it up Time to say farewell Time to put my junk back on the shelf Don't wanna get no older Don't wanna turn to shit I think I'd rather kill myself I am not so thrilled With the way that I turned out It's like something has drained me of my youth My skin is all dull and spotty My hair is all but gone That is nature's cold hard truth I just can't be bothered With being Mister Nice I'd rather punch you right in the face I just can't BS Don't see there's any point Soon I will be gone without a trace I am not too keen On how my life's played out I am old with nothing to show I wrote a bunch of songs I tried to tell my truth But I never found the end of the rainbow
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How the West Was Won 04:08
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I can feel you breathing down my neck I can tell you just wanna push me aside I don't got no place here no more, oh no And I'm supposed to let it all slide Leave me alone Just let go of me Bye-bye, y'all Bye-bye I don't got no power over no one And I guess that that is for the best I will find a hole and I will crawl off into it And you can have all the rest If I could just fade away I know I would Without all the fuss and bother Without all the fuss and bother Looks to me like you're always smiling Like you're wincing from staring at the sun But I know why are always smiling Because in your smug way you know you won
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Forget About It 03:57
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The hardest thing The hardest thing for me to do Is to play it, play it as it lays The hardest thing The hardest thing for me to do Is living it upside down and sideways Nothing hurts more Than being all alone And not have no one to love me back Nothing hurts more And nothing I can do Unless I turn into an amnesiac Just forget about it, forget about it all The roughest thing The roughest thing to live with Is living with just who I am The roughest thing The roughest thing to live with Is not have no one give a damn The saddest thing The saddest thing to cope with Is that I'll never get just what I need The saddest thing The saddest thing to cope with Is to watch my dreams all gone to seed
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From the Outside 04:13
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I know how it appears But it’s not quite what it seems Almost but not quite I may look hopeless So what if I am Apparently it’s my birthright What it looks like from the outside It's not what's going on within Say, hi, hello How you doin' How have you been Yeah I get it You're all fed up Don't wanna give me one more inch Bring out the mob Haul out the gallows It's time for an old-fashioned lynch Hooray, hurrah Lower the rope I am beyond all hope There's a world Beyond this world Of that one thing I am certain And one day I may get a peek Get a peek behind the curtain Until then I will hide I will hide on the outside
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Till Death 05:19
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Put your tray table in an upright position Consider it a permanent condition Maybe we’ll make it to Afghanistan Maybe we’ll make another plan Comes the night all alone Comes the day a dial tone Curled up in a wooden chair A tattered doll sleeping on the stair The pressure rises out of the blood Trapped beneath a lifetime of mud The beachcomber longing for the flood Till death or I cut loose that tie Change the clock in the living room The air is as foul as King Tut’s tomb Fill sandbags with sleep from your eyes Shutter the windows from the darkening skies Turn on the music inside your head Open a book you’ve never read Cook a meal with no recipe Develop your own new specialty Set the pace, buck the trends Come up too fast and get the bends Daybreak and the dream ends Till death or I cut loose that tie A smoky vase over on the credenza Coming down with a strange influenza A voice cuts through in a throaty cough “My heart is like a train with people going on and off” What dread beast hides in my soul That peeks its head out like a frightened mole That lives in a locked room of a late night hotel Where the sheets never lose that dirty smell Downing Dramamine on the yacht Dreaming of all the fish we never caught Wish, wish, wish is the father to the thought Till death or I cut loose that tie
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Eternity 03:41
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The world spins round and around And the day well it passes right on by Nothing much changes At least what you see But something’s off you just can’t deny Tick-tock, tick-tock for all eternity The old clock on the wall Says it’s time to go And who am I to disagree People they talk and they fight It’s what people tend to do Nothing much changes At least what you know This same ol’ human voodoo Tick-tock, tick-tock for all eternity The old clock on the wall Says it’s time to go And who am I to disagree Altogether hand in hand Altogether throughout this land Don’t gotta be a genius or Jesus To see that’s something’s gone wrong Don’t gotta be living in your mom’s basement Sitting ‘round smoking a bong Tick-tock, tick-tock for all eternity The old clock on the wall Says it’s time to go And who am I to disagree

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Cover "Magical Thinking" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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released March 6, 2024

“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”
―Joan Didion

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