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Crybaby Cake
02:10
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CRYBABY CAKE
It’s another sunny day living here in Trolley Square
The coolest neighborhood there is in Northern Delaware
Everybody’s got a dog and we’re breathing poison air
Off-street parking’s limited but we don’t really care
Now I don’t know how to think cause I’m trying not to drink
And I’m running out of weed cause I’m smoking like a fiend
And I’m calling up my mom just to try and stay calm
The Brandywine River is where I’m coming from
Better dead, they said, than to be left all alone
But I don’t see it that way, yeah I’m gonna be okay
If we close our eyes maybe they will go away and then we’ll say
I’m gonna eat my crybaby cake alone
Gonna sit here til it’s all gone
I’m gonna eat my crybaby cake alone
It’s the kind of day when you think you’re gonna die
And you’ll never have a kid and you’ll never get a wife
But I guess that it’s okay, that I wanted it this way
To be here all alone just me and my DNA
But that isn’t quite right, no I don’t like that at all
So I’m picking up the phone and I’m giving you a call
And I’m putting on my shoes and I’m walking down the hall
Going out on 13th street to leave it unresolved
Better dead, they said, than to be left all alone
But I don’t see it that way, yeah I’m gonna be okay
If we close our eyes maybe they will go away and then we’ll say
We gonna eat our crybaby cake alone
Gonna sit here til it’s all gone
We gonna eat our crybaby cake alone
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Test Tracks
01:35
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TEST TRACKS
I’m in love with Kelly
And she’s in love with me
And everything about it is exactly as it seems
She’s in recovery
Recovering from things
The world outside this warm campfire will never be okay
Darling I’m sorry
For what they put you through
I watched it all in silence, man I own it like they do
The times were different
Were they really at all?
It’s still a head, it’s still a bang
It’s still a fucking wall
And there ain’t nobody here I’m in the drunk tank all alone
The officer, he’s been a doll but he won’t let me go home
Guy claims that there’s still paperwork
But he’s been crushing on his phone all night long
And I know you’ve been told all this before
And I know you can’t hold it in no more
Slow it down, speed it up
Mix it all up in a cup and wash it down
In the bitter hope that maybe you won’t drown
Remember make out parties?
Remember making out?
Dry humping in the living room when your mom’s not around
Can’t say it shocks me
So even though it’s gone
I’ll put my stupid savior-complex fitted ball cap on
And there ain’t nobody here it’s just the two of us alone
The silver screen illuminates our shirts upon the floor
Break it down, take it up
To the top and break it off and break me down
One more time before your feet both leave the ground
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TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE THINKING
Tell me what you’re thinking
Tell me what you think
I been thinking nothing
Just sitting here for fucking days
My thoughts come now more than ever
I feel myself just drifting away
I don’t think that anything
Can ever really feel this great
Tell me what you’re thinking
Tell me what you think
Tell me what you’re thinking
Tell me what you think
Tell me what you’re thinking
I’m not thinking anything
Tell me what you’re thinking
Tell me what you think
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4. |
Reaction Formation
00:37
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REACTION FORMATION
(Sandro Braidotti)
I think it’s time we separated ways
It’s okay cause I don’t care
The one who hurt you called you on Friday
It’s okay cause I don’t care
I was doing dishes by myself
It’s okay cause I don’t care
I wanna see you
And I wanna tell you why
I don’t care
Cause it’s my own life, I’ll do what I want
I don’t care anymore
Reaction formation is the answer
It’s okay cause I don’t care
To problems to pathetic to be faced
It’s okay cause I don’t care
It seems to be effective for awhile
It’s okay cause I don’t care
I wanna see you
And I wanna say goodbye
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Exposed Brick
01:35
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EXPOSED BRICK
Wake up Little Lu Lu it’s almost time for us to go to bed
Let’s take our pills and then say our goodnights
But then stay up late talking instead
You’re my favorite girl, the best possible world…
Or is it all in my head?
The clock on the wall says that it’s time to sleep, baby, sleep
But you know that I know that nothing compares
To what I have in this room with me
Several times in the past I thought things couldn’t get much better than this
Here I am now in the good part of town splitting rent with a Peppermint Twist
I love her so sweetly, you know I’m completely
Emotionally dependent
The clock on the wall says that it’s time to sleep, baby, sleep
But you know that I know that nothing compares
To what I have in this room with me
Oh baby you’re my only dream
Hang on Alaa, I think we’re coming in for a landing
You know how I get, girl I’m so sentimental
When you leave the house I can’t stand it
I always knew that it’d be me and you, because that’s just how I planned it
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Kissing Bandit
01:43
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KISSING BANDIT
The kissing bandit leaps from star to star evading the police
His advocate’s a girl from Mars, negotiating his release
But they’ll never take him alive, not after what he’s seen
In the candy-coated code book of his dreams
When they had me in the cuffs and they thought I’d had enough
Things started to get weird
First I meditated yeah and then I levitated
And everything was clear
Now I’m looking out the window at the people passing on the street
I wish that I was just like them
I think it’s time to make one of my trademarked escapes
And start it all over again
Run run run run away with me
Come come come on baby please
Just give me a chance you’ll see
How fun fun fun it’ll be
Speaking meta-physically
How bad can it really be?
No worse than the time that we
Obliterated eternally
Baby, it’s breath-taking
To see the sunset over mountains made of glass
B-baby baby baby baby…
No paperback is gonna save me
In this futuristic wonderland
Come on now this may be our last chance
To turn the page on our sci-fi romance
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Hiedegger's Cat
02:11
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HEIDEGGER’S CAT
Pacing the house, pacing the house
Pacing the house, pacing the house
Pacing the house, pacing the house
Pacing the house, pacing the house
Pacing the house, thinking about you again
Pacing the house, pacing the house
Picking up socks and shoes and such
Taking out trash, talking to walls
It’s been years
I’m still here
Practicing politics or witchcraft or both, who cares?
Doing the math, re-doing the math
Build me a time machine, I’ll raise you a Heidegger’s Cat
Scratch at the mat, what you think about that?
Pacing the house, making lists of things that might get done
Breaking the spell, catching the mouse
Practicing perfect practices imperfectly
But practicing pacing the house
Pacing the house, pacing the house
Pacing the house, pacing the house
Pacing the house, pacing the house
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8. |
Stuck In My Mind
00:39
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STUCK IN MY MIND
Been stuck in my mind for what’s going on days
Feeling the weight, I hope things are gonna change
Every time I think that it’s going away
Stagnation brings me more of the same
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9. |
An Introduction
01:56
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AN INTRODUCTION
When I saw you at the arcade you were looking right through me
So I thought I’d ask you out to a 3D movie
Then I found out you were enlightened
Your nose is in a book while your ego’s dying
Please hold my hand in the middle of the night
I don’t know if I talked to God or if I’m really high
Sometimes I wish that I was just an ordinary guy
I guess it’s safe to say that I got a lot on my mind
The air was getting crisp and the leaves were turning yellow
So we piled everybody up in my Volvo
We talked about a writer who was Vedantic
And very rarely ever went out in public
Please hold my hand in the middle of the night
I don’t know if I talked to God or if I’m really high
Sometimes I wish that I was just an ordinary guy
I guess it’s safe to say that I got a lot on my mind
I was born in the blizzard of 1996
And I never looked back… once the ninjas attacked
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