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Angeline
03:10
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It's coming back to me where we are/In the ruins of an old dancehall/dust settled on the chairs and floor/I can still remember what you wore/A camo coat and your hair draped down/Tapping out simple steps on the ground/I can hear "Oh! You Pretty Things"/For a summer that's all we wanted to sing
Oh Angeline
It's coming back to me where we are/A seaside room, waiting out the war/Books occupied the chairs and floor/Where you stood is now a blur/On the mend from a nasty fall/My shoes were soaked, that's all I recall/We ran through cars, as day turns night/You were singing in the shadow of a grey streetlight
Oh Angeline
We sit on your carpet/Of your empty apartment/trying to forget
We sit on your carpet/Of your empty/drinking to forget
Oh, Angeline
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Black Maria
02:52
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The light against the window/Shadows on the wall/From vantage point you see all the leaves are falling
The light against the window/Shadows on the wall/Don't know if you have heard/All your friends came calling
Mother are you with me?
Father are you with me?
Maria are you with me?
All this time you spend on/Art and damage/Is the love you waste on/Chasing Phantoms
Take me back, Black Maria
Take me back in the Black Maria
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Can You Hear Me?
02:38
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Dirt
03:31
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A rush of air/Breathes new life to future/I found despair/Caked on lines of blue prints/And I won't care/If I see your footprints/You made no heirs/Proud mother, Successor
And I wonder how you work
Head in the clouds, feet in the dirt
Over months/Art fills up drawers of bureaus/My heart beats once/Mumbles rhythmic murmurs/And I confess/I don't need affirmations/I daydream less/Surprise myself on occasion
Uncomfortable with how you were
Resigned to be cheap furniture
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Snake
04:35
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Follow the map/Trace all of these turns/Return to the mark/Where rivers curve/Under the tree/Where soil is unturned/Relief in your image/It's charred and cursed
All that I've done trails my path
Follows my steps, a snake in the grass
Under the rock/What do you find?/Facsimile you/More serpentine
All that I've done haunts my past
Circles my home, a snake in the grass
Statue of me/Still undisturbed/A relief in your image/It's charred and cursed
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For several moons I've tracked you here/Long to put my arms around you/Before the moment you disappear/As an insignificant outlier
Driving fast straight to your last site/Statements made of your past night/Vacant rooms for out-of-towners/Recorded aliases for late night encounters
A bed, nightstand, TV, a window
Where does your eye go?
A bed, TV, nightstand, radio
How does that song go?
Snapshots of your fingerprints, dotting landmarks by your last house
Rifling through your portrait book, only one step out behind you
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Exile House
03:35
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Bury me here/Amongst the ruins and I/I won't mind/The yearnings in my heart/Littered with patterns of glass/Back I slide
All of my love resides in the rooms of Exile House
All of my life, I've been in and been out of Exile House
Return to the ground/I keep in daydreams that I/Still rely under heaven's skies/My head's still on fire/With so much reverence/And I find/I'm free of nothing at all
Your best work resides under lock and key of Exile House
Don't be surprised if you wake up inside of Exile House
All of my love reside in the rooms of Exile House
All of my life, I've been in and been out of Exile House
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Connection
04:08
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Are you still trying to make a connection?
What ugly head will appear?
What familiar voice will you hear?
Peering into the imperfect separation
What ugly head will appear?
What familiar voice will you hear?
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