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Heart Broken
04:31
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Sitting around like a jellyfish
With the misery
Cannot seem to sort out
Just what hell is wrong with me
I awake at two a.m.
And my aching chest is tight
And I’m afraid that I won’t make it
Through the night
World is decay
Life is perception
And my heart is broken
By this unimmaculate conception
The road behind me is longer
Much longer than what’s up ahead
And I am like the angel who's gone
Where angels have feared to tread
I’ve measured my life in coffee spoons
And I’m not afraid of death
I just don’t wanna be there
When I draw my last breath
This old heart of mine
Been broke a thousand times
Each time you break away
I fear you've gone to stay
Lonely nights that come
Memories that flow
Bringing you back again
Hurting me more and more
I’m checking off my list
Of my naughty bits and my nice
I done much more of the former
And the latter maybe once or twice
If I could describe me now
What words would I use
Love makes me sick
Like some sort of love Antabuse
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2. |
Invisible Guy
04:40
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You ask me to tell you 'bout my secret fantasy
I can tell you right back just what it is
You want to know 'bout the thing that I most want
The thing I want when I catechize
All I want is to disappear
All I want is get out of here
All I want is to vanish into the sky
All I want is to spread my wings
All I want is to cut the strings
All I want to be an invisible guy
You ask what is going on inside my head
And you want me to be honest as the sun
All I can say is I want to get away
Blow it all to pieces with a megaton
You want me to chuck out all the BS that I spew
And get myself down to the nitty gritty
Let me paint you a picture
Of what's going on inside my mind
Even if what's on my mind it ain’t too pretty
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3. |
Yonder Rises the Moon
03:26
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I go for a walk
Through the streets of this town
Nothing but ghosts here
No one else around
The light is a-fading
Yonder rises the moon
The sun's not set but it will be soon
All the cars are abandoned
And the subway is broke
Wondering what happened
To all the common folk
The light is a-fading
Yonder rises the moon
The sun's not set but it will be soon
Everything divides up into itself I suppose
Just why that is nobody knows
I think I hear laughter
But it’s just a wisp on the wind
No more salvation
Just hell for the sinned
The light is a-fading
Yonder rises the moon
The sun's not set but it will be soon
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4. |
This Is Where I Go
04:06
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You must know you got the power
Such strange power over me
You can be cold or you can be mean
Or you can show mercy, but no
This is where I go
This is where I hide
This is where I get lost forever
You won't find me
Presuming you are looking
Not now, not ever
This is where I go
It don't matter who is in control
It's more the roles we choose to play
Right then a door it opened wide
But when it slammed it left no leeway
This is where I go
This is where I go
Deep, deep down below
This is where I go
You once said that you loved me
And I so wanted to believe you
But it looks like I was wrong
And I don't have the strength to greave you
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5. |
Not My Good Intention
05:13
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You tell me it’s a part of who you are
You tell me it’s your heart and soul
You tell me you wanna open wide
So I can see inside your black hole
It was not my good intention
To run, run, run you down
To tell you that your stupid songs
Do not move me
It was not my good intention
To break your fragile heart
If you think that I got it wrong
You better prove me
You tell me it’s a window into your world
You tell me come on in and have a look
You tell me that I will see myself there
In the pages of your open book
I’m not saying that you suck
But I don’t know just what I’m saying
You may want to ask yourself
Just what kind of game am I playing
You tell me how much it means to you
You tell me how I should hear it
You tell me it will bring us closer
But in the end I don’t want to be near it
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I put too much stock in you
And that's my fault
Yeah that's my fault
Thought you were the yin
To my yang
Pepper to my salt
Should have listened to my heart
It may be old but it beats so true
Should have listened to my heart
Boom boom on the likes of you
I put you up on that perch
I'm a fool
Yeah I'm a fool
It surprised me
That you could be so cruel
Thought you heard me
The way that nobody's heard me ever before
But what you heard
Was what you wanted to hear my not-so-sweet amor
Wish I could take back
All the times I said that you got me
You really got me
What you said
Hurt so bad
Like you shot me
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7. |
Down
05:10
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The slope was slippery
Made it easy to slide
So I slid, down, down, down
Down on that ride
I went crashing, crashing, crashing
Down, down, down, down
The sky was filthy
So black with coal
So I dove, dove, dove down
A black hole
How far down will I go
The sea was choppy
Made it easy to drown
So I swam, swam, swam out
And then down
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8. |
I Couldn't Move You
03:42
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Doesn't come as any kind of shocking news
Not so hard to figure out
You sit there as still as a painting
while my whole gets cast in doubt
No matter how hard I tried
I cut myself and opened wide
I couldn't move you
I couldn't move you
I couldn't move you, no
I walked you through the depths of my heart
In the hopes you'd get a clearer view
You only ever saw your reflection
And maybe the odd bugaboo
I couldn't get you to see what I see
I couldn't get you to laugh along with me
I couldn't get you where it matters
Now I'm shredded, shredded up in tatters
I thought that one ways I might get to you
Despite all the terrible odds
So now I packing up all my belongings
And I am tearing down all my facades
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9. |
American Symphony
05:04
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Will I ever find my home
In this varicose vein of the dispossessed
"To whom it may concern
May I please have my own needs addressed"
When will I have my day
Man on the moon, marigolds
And gamma rays
The American Symphony
And it goes a little something like this
La-la-la-la-la-la-lee
It’s America’s deadly kiss
This American Symphony
And it goes like this
When will that bright light come shining down
And illuminate all that I can’t see
That is when I will bow down and believe
But till then I look at things skeptically
Been hurt once too often
And so it’s likely that my stance
Won't ever soften
Who will come along save my ass
‘Cause there ain’t no one on whom I can rely
So it’s just down to me all by my lonesome
Not some sorta Jesus-looking guy
Don’t know if I have what it takes
But I better find out right quick
For chrissakes
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10. |
Like Balthazar
04:37
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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 a quest
Was it all for love
Or 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 will never 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 go to die
The dry season is endless
And 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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11. |
Broken Places
04:48
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How long can I keep this going on
How long can I endure
My legs are weak, my arms are achin’
I am insecure
Seen a lot of terrible things
Seen lots of crimes
It’s the age we are living in, yeah
These are hard times
The world it takes its toll
Tears you down
It leaves its traces
The world breaks everyone and afterward
Many are strong at the broken places
How do you know just what to believe
When everything is a lie
Those on the right want to live in the past
While those on the left merely sigh
What do I say to my own kid
How can I explain it
I’m leaving this world in such a shitty state
And she must maintain it
Come together, come together
You gotta come together
Nothing I do will make a difference
Nothing I do will make a change
I have nothing, no say in the matter
I’m a stranger to the strange
All I can offer are these words
All I can offer is this simple plan
Turn your back on all you know
And escape while you can
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12. |
Forever Road
04:02
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I was hiking through the wilderness
Back when hiking was a thing
And I came upon campsite in a clearing
A couple toasting marshmallows
Sat like like statues by a fire
It is a scene that keeps reappearing
On this forever road
This forever road
This direction that I'm heading in
I'm on this forever road
This twisty-turny road
Across the land it is spreading in
I was taking me a walk in Brooklyn
When Brooklyn was a thing
And the streets were fluid with Chinese
I glared at a cross-eyed woman
With hips like eels
And an expression of ill at ease
The road goes on and on
And on and on and on and on
And on into eternity
The road goes on and on
And on and on and on and on
And the forever road is a part of me
I was walking along that leafy path
When brown leaves were still leaving
And I was making my way to see you
You were sitting in that room
With a white noise machine
Waiting for our quiet rendezvous
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