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We lived by the ocean
Wore concrete boots
Sarcophagus feet
Grew no roots
The way we used to be
Could be our modern track
TOBACCO COFFEE WINTERGREEN
And sunshine at our backs
Repetition
Inhibition
Sweet infectious thought
Whatever helps
A memory get out
Cooked up to ward off
The advancement of enhancement
The discomfort of discovery
That we’re dumb
Oh my darling buds
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Likelihood
05:56
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Move into the motor
Given all the time we had
Wreck yourself on beds of carpet
Let yourself out the back
Get in a lane
I know it feels strange
You can still make time
Slip into the wires
Drive that beat into a ditch
Carve yourself a new life
Out of nothing
Guard yourself against the itch
To run
To make what’s done undone
You can still make time
Morning still came
Coffee down
Seasons seem to roll
LIKELIHOOD still fell
Unevenly across any gulf
We lean
We leave
Learning
Yearning
Just putting up
(Don’t be sorry you’re the way you are)
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3. |
Fallen Rock
06:51
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"What kind of rock
Can be found on the interstate
Eighteen hour round-trip to see a girl
Coat your car with asphalt
Streaming hard to see
What kind of rock
On the shoulder of I-90
I’m out on the east shore of Flathead Lake
With a wish to disintegrate
On a dream boat
You’re just like me
I could kiss her saccharine lips In the summer sun
Watching all the trees burn
Things can be cool if you let ‘em
What’s so funny at the time
Is how quickly you forget that
From a mountain to a heap of FALLEN ROCK
I can taste the ash in that summer smoke
Let’s watch this valley choke
Freaks out the animals
Push the population inside
She could suck the pollen right off my tongue
In the summer sun
We ride through filtered light
One end of Arthur Avenue
To those park buildings where we hide
I could kiss her saccharine lips
In the summer sun
Watching all the trees burn
Word comes over the wire
You were finished with the leather
They’d banned you altogether
From a mountain to a heap of fallen rock
I could kiss her saccharine lips
In the summer sun
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Sang
02:19
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Someone saw you sing
They knew you right away
Some people orbit naturally
You know you’ve got a thing that fits
But different enough to be exciting
So you SANG
And they liked the way
You mixed with mostly men
Hit “record”
Hit records
Some distance to the end
You want to make the world go away
Yeah you can
Take your time and pills
A day or two in stretches
Darling
Put your prairie skirt on
Smile your gap-toothed smile
Yawn at the slapstick of it all
And manage the damage for me
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5. |
Shy
03:33
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When I say I love you
Don’t mean I need you
Though I’ll always want you
Think I’d stay alive
I mean the way you are in person
Can’t be captured in a picture
Can’t be written in a notebook
Although I think I’ll always try
I know you’re SHY
Take it for a reason
Help me figure something out
Help me get around it somehow
Help me get my mind around it somehow
Don’t be too precious about your voice
Let it go let it go let it go
Sometimes it sounds the way
You want it to sound
Sometimes it don’t
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6. |
Christmas Comes & Goes
04:31
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The revolution comes
Like Christmas does
But CHRISTMAS COMES AND GOES
And revolution just stays there
Paved into dirt
Where it can crack and sunwarp
The cold may carve it up
But it will still stay hard
And whatever rain throws down
We should know by now
What goes around still comes around
And hard hearts still have spots
Where they can be clubbed
When you have a good reason
Soft hands won't swing those bats
People in t-shirts will
And the kids will learn to do it
The cold may carve them up
But they will still have
Those hard hearts
Same as us soft hearts
They still have spots
Where they can be tugged
Where they can be touched
Where they can be drugged
Where they can be bought sold
Fooled for good
They still have spots
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7. |
Riding On & Off Peak
04:16
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Ridiculous creatures
Faulty memories
Chances lost
All our dreams
The world is spinning
Maybe you leave a mark
One you’re born with
Some random shit you caught
You hold on tightly
Maybe you leave a mark
You gotta move
Go one by one
Maybe two
Or a few RIDING ON AND OFF PEAK
Itchy fingers unsteady hands
No desperation
I’ll take my chances
You can’t be a cowboy
In a city pickup truck
Paint it white
Get your gun rack on tight man
It’s all jacked up
It’s so jacked up
One by one
Maybe two
Fourteen or seventeen
Twenty-six
Thirty-two
Forty-nine or fifty-nine
Or just a few riding on and off peak
We want what we’re told we want
We need what we want the most
Like our sons
Our daughters
Our beloved
Our loved ones
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River of Cars
03:28
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Glitter in the morning sun
Glitter in the morning sun
It’s a late stage dream
RIVER OF CARS goes
Far as the eye can see
I don’t know what
They think they know
They do not know
Where they’re going
The light that they bend toward Is a reflection
Glitter in the morning sun
Glitter in the morning sun
I like the way it rolls
Following us
Stretching out before us
Like a snake
It moves side to side
River of cars goes
River of cars grows
Just sit and ride
They all look the same
Glitter in the morning sun
The morning sun
The morning sun
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9. |
Giving Love
06:39
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Gave my love to them as we admit
Everything we did
Open book
Nothing to hide
Nothing to run from
Open house
Nothing to fear or to fret
If we could only find a way
To bank the time we have together
If we could only find the time
To map the way we feel about each other
Well, I guess this is the best we can do
We drive too fast around blind corners
As the world sings a siren song
Between 300hz and 4k
It’s what other people think
Matters to a man and other men
The wheels on a car and better dinner
GIVING LOVE is the way we can
Find a voice that resonates
Never leave for good
Many people recognize
Worth in what we leave behind
Does not have to disintegrate with time
Giving love let go but don’t go
Giving love don’t go just let go
Tap in desperate code
Feel the screen smooth beneath
Fingers slide on facial grease
The more you tap
The more you fade away
Reach across for something blank
As you walk past the ones
Who stand beside you IRL
No no no
Tapping
Tap tapping
As you run run run run run away
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10. |
Apocalypse Peaks
02:21
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11. |
The Great Combine
08:02
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Repeating lines
Until the end of
Until the end of time
Try to find my place
But I can only
Put a song down
On your face
(And the lighting falls on
What we wanted to bring)
It’s not coming to me slow
So it don’t feel wrong
The way it moves together
Has to be right
In some world
In some pocket of the universe
Untouched by thought
No dirt no air no Earth no God
We can wait it out
We can hold our breath
No light no sound
Until you hear the approach
Of THE GREAT COMBINE
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12. |
Amberline
14:01
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we could have left
we could have been
gone by now
realized
never meant
to fall too far
like the rest of them
come on amber
we have to get
the road prepped
for medicine
(keep your coat
close at hand
gold will never rust
save your dust
and if you must
you can rent the rest)
the glory of the past
is not a life raft
it’s a cannonball
derangement falls
black cash
on a dirty path
wrap it up amber
the tank is almost full
it’s close enough to go
we’ve gotta run
(rain stings
follow up on things
when the gang calls up
you gotta jump
the people who follow us
they’re all having fun
what else what else what else...
you know
when people ask you
to fill their lives
with other stuff
that they can’t stand
the way they are
they can’t stand
anything for long)
dig it up AMBERLINE
a solid flow
encases me
eternity
slow flowing grave
yellow flood
watch it run
I can’t see
where I would have been
I’ll never know
where I oughta be
(we got nothing
we got nothing
guaranteed
but the rest of n
ot the best of
just the rest of
this limited time)
you can glow or you can blow amberline
there’s a rock in the tread
take the wheel from me
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