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Daylight
05:03
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Daylight on the clock
Sun high in the sky
Soon be getting dark
Shut a heavy eye
Water flowing down
Springs up from the ground
Take another turn
One more time around
The stream running off
Will reach into the earth
Closer to the source
Trying to figure out
I’ll paint a bigger picture
Then wonder what comes after
You ask a burning question
Still waiting for an answer
Daylight on the clock
Grey clouds in the sky
Will soon be getting dark
Shut a heavy eye
Water flowing down
Skin onto the ground
Closer to the source
Trying to figure out
I’ll paint a bigger picture
Then wonder what comes after
You ask a burning question
Still waiting for answer
Daylight slow down
Pass the time well
Daylight on the clock
Sun high in the sky
Close to getting stuck
Soon be going blind
Water flowing down
Skin onto the ground
Take another turn
One more time around
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Flower
02:59
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Got my jar of flower petals
Screwed the lid on tight
Don’t want the sunlight escaping
Escaping
Gone to bed like it going out of style
Steal an inch, force a smile
Shut your eyes and look around
Pay no mind to foreign sounds
Dig a hole deep in the ground
And I’ll help you down
While we’re speaking of the devil
Keep your ears shut tight
Don’t want the sunlight escaping
Your house built from expensive metal
Drawing from the well
You had installed in the basement
Down the rabbit hole we go
Where’s the surface? No one knows
There’s one more hole in the clouds
Where the sun’s beating down
But it don’t reach underground
I’m lucky that I brought my shovel
Dig up towards the light
Don’t want the sunlight getting wasted
I’d stand up but the ground’s not level
Start rolling down the hill
My mind is racing, racing
Erasing
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Sunny Tuesday
03:33
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There’s one fresh mistake
Then waste no more time
The clock ticks until you’re tired
A short circuit design
Chop off your foot
To toe the line
And get a log on the fire!
To keep warm through the night
With a new type of wood
It burns far too bright
Extinguished
While you calculate the price
That’s hard to ignore
Young and less than pretty sure
With too many things to do
Your attention span’s a whore
When you’ve beaten it to death
It’s getting sick of you
There’s more than one way
To skin a fat cat
That feasts through the day
Throws a scrap to the rats
Sharpening dull tools
One penny on his dime
Shakes the paw of the law
Redefined
That’s hard to ignore
When they’re rich enough to starve the poor
Buy things to fill the room
And friends to guard the door
Just swimming in the shit!
Never satisfied
Lining up for more
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No Doubt
02:28
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Up to my shoulders with eyes losing sight of the surface
Scratching my head
Trace my steps backwards through the tall grass
That has grown where the street starts to crack
All of the questions i know half the answer to
Couldn’t be bothered to further investigate
A candle that’s burning too slow
Round in circles you go
Prying eyes to the window
Pressed to find clarity
Floating right over your head
Trace my steps backwards
Caught my reflection right there
But so insincere
You never noticed yourself staring back at you
Ask all these questions you half know the answer to
Candle’s burning so slow
Plant all these golden age flowers in a daze that you
Dug up so deep in some dream started to come true
Throwing dirt over your shoulder and getting so close
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Happily Sinking Heart
03:32
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now keep flapping your arms until you're off the ground
eyes wide drink in the sights and sounds
you'd leave now but the skin of your teeth's got you hanging round
I got too tired
to pull on my thin disguise
walk fast on the tightrope before it snaps in half
i tried hard not to be pulled but it's calling me back
hang low light in the breeze for an easy way out
lie straight
the birds overhead move the sky up and down
call off the branch of a tree shake its leaves around
hang low, light in the breeze that's an easy way out
I got too tired
to pull off my thin disguise
wipe your eyes
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Organized Crime
04:14
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I want to be thorough
An offer easily refused
It’s not okay but should be soon
Drink up later lunch
Expression unconcerned
Hides its darker turn
The high rise from the crooked street
The rules changed
Smaller office space
Organized defined good taste
Take care with what you do
Your head’s just a swimming pool
It fills up your own shoes
I want to
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Empty Shell
03:26
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That taste it’s back again
And it’s yours your one true friend
Rinse out reclaim to repeat
Sign off there at your feet
It’s the wind that swallows you whole
You regret and let your soul go
What you find you keep to yourself
Holy grail on an empty shelf
Your cape’s been drenched in lead
Heavy shoulders you’re seeing red
See shadow at a larger size
You risk to reward your reprise
It’s the wind that swallows you whole
You regret and let your soul go
What you find you keep to yourself
Holy grail you’re an empty shell
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One Eye
02:55
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The day I lost my one eye
I felt the other open wide
Said sorry to me
The king at his knees
You’ll be half blind
You’ll be half blind
You’ll be
Wish you well
That thought in a shell
Keep passing it by
With my one eye
I woke up fast
in someone’s bed
To my one eye
The world was red
I took advice
From my one eye
I slipped ahead
I fell behind
I fell
Wish you well
That thought in a shell
Keep passing it by
With my one eye
If I don’t find
My one eye
I’ll treat the other
Oh so fine
Your sight’s complete
You don’t skip a beat
Close your eyes
The sun don’t shine
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Straw Man
03:42
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hey mr. straw man
strike a match on the back of your own hand
and sound the alarm when flames lick your arms
mr. straw man
who can breathe all the smoke you've been blowing?
crying wolf might blow down your door
things you said that you'd do of course you won't
hey mr. straw man
is there even one leg on which you stand?
scared off the crows, they'll be back in droves
mr. straw man
took one page out your big book of matches
and struck it hard
till you saw some sparks
straw man, call up the fire chief
from the top of that building that you burned to the ground
call up the fire chief
who won't come around
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Amazon River
03:41
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Been meaning to speak with you
Leaning, a heavy point of view
Do you follow? I don’t know where to go
Feeling the wave take control
Has your river run dry?
Did you ask yourself why
Excuses abide?
No one left on your side, and which one’s mine?
Been feeling a deeper shade of blue
Believing the things that can’t be true
It’s not far it’s only down the road
And where’s time? Gone before you know
Has your river run dry
In a space less confined?
A translucent disguise
No one left on your side
And which one’s mine?
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