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Another Time
01:28
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Another time, another time indeed
We’ll find a line where both of us could meet
And all your friends will one day be deceased
And leave you in the middle of the street
Another time, another time indeed
We’ll find a time when we could be happy
That spider web inside your skull’s a treat
I’ll clean it up another time indeed
And you know that our continents will split
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When He Drinks
03:34
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Something sticky’s coming down under the chin and up again
Something’s breaking all the time
He’s apologetic but he doesn’t mean it when he says
That he’ll do better next time
Something underneath the Earth is always rubbing against itself
Something in the crust is thick
She is tired of the fantasies in which she cuts him down
She is fed up, she is sick
She looks at him like he can make it better, but she knows that look is wrong
She knew that all along
He looks like a winner, but he tastes like disappointment
She blames herself when he turns to her for help
When he throws her on the ground, when she’s scared to make a sound
It all happens when he drinks and she’s around
Something ugly is a smear upon his face shaped like a smile
Something needs to clean it up
He’s been drunk since he was seventeen and stupid for a while
Something needs to beat him up
He looks at himself like he is a god but when he hears his voice he stops
He realizes he’s not
She looks at him and notices his underwhelming qualities again
She don’t want to pretend that he’s healthy to her life, so she makes a point to try
For a while, he’ll be floating, getting by
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3. |
I Want To Hold Him
02:28
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I want to hurt you, I want you to come
Running into my arms, to mold us to one
Absorb all your memories, make them all mine
See a face in my reflection in time
I want to hurt you, and to hold you here
Whisper ‘I love you’ into your left ear
Tell your you’re useless, and worthless and plain
So normal that you deserves to feel pain
I want to hurt you and to see you cry
Want you to feel like you’re worse than a fly
Small and diseased and disgusting, then I
Will tell you that I am here
I want to hold him, and then clean up his tears
You’ll say you’re sorry for all of these years
And after I hurt you, once I make you break
I will become all he is, him you’ll take
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4. |
Fault Lines
03:36
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So much I think about when there is nothing to do
So I reason with you
So much I have to deny before I can admit
That I think you are wrong
What happens when the crust under our bodies vibrates?
I think we stay in place
What have you said about drifting away, I say
I think you are wrong
My confidence and arrogance have morphed into the same
Quality that crosses fictional lines in my brain and just because these lines are moving,
There’s a good chance I am wrong
So much I have to apologize for, before
The oceans separate us
So much goes into honesty lately, I say
I’m definitely wrong
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5. |
Can't Remember
02:47
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It’s summer time again, and I can’t remember last time the sun got sent
Ice is melted down, and I can’t remember last time you came around
I’m so sick of you, and I can’t remember last time you weren’t sick of me too
But now the glacier’s gone, and I can’t remember last time you were smiling
The mammoths froze to death, and I can’t remember last time I couldn’t see my breath
Saber tooth’s gone cold, and I can’t remember if they was in control
You are sick of me, and I know I’ve been such a jerk lately
Better now, I’m sure, but I can’t remember how many times I’ve said that before
I know that I get so unfolded
Even thought we are cold
An ocean blocks the air, but I can’t remember if that was always there
I might’ve had some luck, but I can’t remember, it’s hard to care too much
Winter has now past, but I can’t remember how long the summer lasts
I don’t remember anything from before the glaciers came
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6. |
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Pangaea, Pangaea, Pangaea
Drift away
All vertebrates shall rise from their graves while Permian leaves decompose
In the desert of Pangaea
From the sky came the light
The sun came down, the grass turned brown
Night on Earth went up in a smoke, and
We couldn’t breathe anymore
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7. |
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There are dogs in the street
And they’re giving off their odors
Yes, there are dogs in the street
Cause they’ve all turned on their owners
There’s trash in the street
Which them dogs are all consuming
By the power of some clever demon
That’s turning our canine brethren sick while unassuming that
There are dogs in the street
For those of you still skeptical,
Just watch them out your pretty window
While they search for their severed testicles
They’ve been corrupted by bad dogs that introduced them to the substances
That any dog who’s partaken must turned to the justice
System that will cut them off like a snap of a finger for a price we must be willing to consider
Because county pounds are not tough enough.
We have to turn to the private sector.
My wife had a good dog
But she had to put it down because it wouldn’t respect her
There are dogs in the street
Making noise and having sex
While the good citizens like us
Are all suffering the effects
Of these dogs that won’t leave the street
Despite the efforts of us good ones
Sure, they all scamper and run away when they get a sight of our guns
But they always come back, like we trained our dogs to do
Because the point of your dog’s domestication is that they’re reliant on you
But now the dogs are in the street
And the puppies aren’t safe
Because we pampered dogs have no defenses
Have no chance against them bad dogs for dog’s sake
When they come barking at our door
Looking for something to eat or to ravage
What alternative might we have
But let in the savage
Let it off from off the street
And then it’s in our homes!
Good canines, we must find a way
To preserve our superior chromosomes
There are dogs in the street
And the way to get them out
Is to hire wolves
To clear those fucking muts all out
And then them wolves stay
Because they’ll understand
That the only way our society
Will have a chance to stand
Is if the bad dogs see what happens when they turn into meat
This is something we have to do to get those dogs off the street
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8. |
Toxicity
03:32
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I went to bed last night, trying to make myself feel alright
But I drank too much so the room was such a merry-go-round
I tried to talk last night, but words came out just so absurd
They were slurs, I was sure that we were making sense
But I guess it was all too much
I woke up facing south with the taste still in my mouth
Of the shit that we spent so much money to get
But we got it anyway
I had a dream where I was floating along the riverside
But the water was brown and the fish had all drowned
Due to toxic intake
And everyday I feel the same
And any way I play the game, I break the rules like they’re promises I’ve made
You are the one thing that’s remained constant throughout my life
It’s a smart alliance we’ve down to a science, it’s a power we both have
I love you like you’re liquid pouring down the kitchen sink
While the fumes fill the air, the paint starts to tear
I get happy breathing in
I love you but I need to step away for my own good
It’s a step into darkness, a night that is starless
And empty all around
I love you and I’m sorry for anything that I have said
That might have caused a minor loss in your faith in me
Everyday I think the same
Anyway I seem to blame
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9. |
War!
03:14
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In the mornin', they was burnin’ up a fire to be fed
They went huntin’ they was starvin’, all the mammoths they went dead
They was different, they’s resistant, they’s resourceful, they was smart
They was people, from the monkeys all their tools set them apart
In the mornin, they still hungry so they plant seeds in the ground
They stopped moving, they stopped using all their spears and so they found
There were others, they was jealous of the crops that they had grown
They was smothered in they sleep, war’s invention became known
In the afternoon, they was paranoid of people round them all
They build weapons, they built fences, they constructed their stone walls
Gods of hunger, gods of warfare, gods of fertility made
It okay to cut your neighbor down if they came in your space
Sword and fire, their empire was expanded across the land
Years in pieces, they killed Jesus, then a new reign stood in sand
Gods of hunger, gods of warfare, gods of everything replaced
By an omnipotent God we fear to death that’s heaven-based
In the evenin’, they still starving so the work got centered in
By the factories, all them factories blow the gas they’re emittin’
In the morning, they was burning all that wood for keeping warm
Now it’s excess, only progress, just a product taking form
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10. |
A Supernova
03:41
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Stars go supernova when their gravity gets too strong, they cannot pull their weight
But in our case we were binary as we could be. We were getting unsafe
So when we exploded, the gusts of wind blew us away into the galaxy
I resolved to understand I’d never see you again, that made me happy
But I saw you the other day
I got high an hour ago, but now I have come down and I’m watching TV
A documentary about the stars up in the sky, and why they’re interesting
Since I saw you, every actor’s been vomiting out onto the fuzzy screen
I guess that’s why I don’t get high, not often enough to see that usually
You made me wish they were dead
I don’t want to see you again
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11. |
Distance Plus Time
02:18
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Another time, another time you’ll see
The continents will bring you back to me
Because they won’t move anymore, we’ll find
Pangaea will come back another time
Because distance is what I am, distance is what I can be for you
If the timing is what you are, and the distance is just too far from you
…then, I’ll come back another time.
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Jason McCue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jason is an alternative folk musician
“He had filled up the entirety of the Sky Church with a
banquet of characters and emotions and, I believe, the soft buzz that emanates from a group of people trying to hold onto a moment.” - Seattle Weekly
His intricate finger-picking and soaring hypnotizing vocals were undeniable, reverberating throughout the hushed room.” - KEXP Blog
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