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Dusk (J St. Blues)
01:14
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Close the windows
Draw the curtains
[Turn the lights off]
“To avert those prying eyes,
and keep the warmth in”
Glass shatters
Dogs bark
And the sirens
break the silence…
The walls are always too thin
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2. |
Sentimental You
01:01
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“Sweet boy, you counting down the days
till you leave home again?”
You heard the road call?
You seek new thrills?
Leave a note, son,
and with your absence sign it
[“All the love, all the time”
All the love, all the love]
Baby, I ain’t coming back
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Pin Cushion
01:06
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“Sleep through your days…”
As children come of age,
that household fixture’s lost its place
You’ve outgrown your old man
Won’t face his failures,
won’t let no one in?
“He’s living on borrowed time,
and we long stopped lamenting how
nothing stays the same”
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Cortisol
00:42
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I need some healing,
Just some reprieve,
“For I was blind but now I see”
Like watching dirt
harden to stone,
do you lift that boulder,
or let it roll?
Opened my eyes
wanting to stare directly into the sun
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5. |
The Beguine
00:47
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Incapable of saying
“Pin your hopes on someone else
‘cause I can’t be what you need me to be”
Instead we’ll ignore the red flags
for a chance to feel such bliss again
“Maybe this time will be different...”
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6. |
Fly Swatter
01:02
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Paint that domestic scene with light tones
Playful colors help to hide
the dark behind
[Peel the layers
Expose the mold]
Our insides splattered
across that kitchen floor, linoleum
Crushed by illness, debt, that endless woe,
“the comforts of home”
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Forget-Me-Nots
01:07
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Another train that doesn’t wait…
Did you not hear it?
Stations come while seasons go…
That silent Spring has finally sprung
Fields of flowers now forever gone:
An indictment of unimpeded growth
All that plastic sunk to the ocean floor:
Lasting tribute of a culture self-absorbed
[Another “thing” we couldn’t be bothered
to care for]
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8. |
No God in Chula Vista
01:06
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A bigger dream:
Didn’t want it enough
“Never looked the part,
so why play the role?”
Took my heart,
put it into a hole
She threw sand and salt.
“Lost yourself and all sense
of your life in that home”
All my loss
All my pain
It couldn’t hold…
Read the room,
you don’t belong anymore
But you’re nowhere close
to where you want to go
[To where you must go]
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9. |
Middle of the Road
00:56
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Standing by:
Watch the time
Wait in line
An absent mind
[Keep those expectations low]
I won’t be like you
No, I won’t subscribe:
A box to be ticked
A deadline fulfilled
A life that just amounts to nothing
I’ll be goddamned if I don’t
aspire for something higher
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10. |
A Golden Hue
00:54
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In youth, our skin knew only warmer weather
[It seems…]
Didn’t it rain?
Didn’t it hail?
Didn’t it snow?
Didn’t the wind blow?
Memory’s funny way
of painting blue skies gray
Now every turn of season
leaves me grieving and dull
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