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Er Somethin'
01:26
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Is it true what they say about the head on the table?
Does it move with your hand, with a shirt for a brain? (yes, I think so)
Does it smile? Does it frown like the Mona Lisa?
Standing upright, do its eyes follow you as you move? (yes, they do)
Trash collects around its deadness
A pair of shoes
A pair of scissors
Instead of sounding like plastic, er somethin'
Silence is scarier in movies, ya know?
Hey Ryan, do have a pillow to spare?
October 23rd, 2000 something
Er somethin'
Er somethin'
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A Happy Day
02:57
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Memory: going back to the time
Heavenly. we could see the sunrise
Groovin' on the river rocks
"Goofin' with the bees"
Lavender butterflies
Singing
Bobbing held his books
A wedding far below
Run around
Leaping through a thought canal
Quiet down
Isn't this a beautiful place?
We were invisible
And we were free
I think i remember Wolf Creek
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3. |
Soon Enough
03:08
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I'm just getting by
And it feels so fine
Not a care in the world
Nothing on my mind
Such a simple way
What a happy day
For drowning in the colors, we project, is not the way
To grow
And don't you know that I believe
That soon enough we'll learn to love
With nothing held against
And we can be as happy as can be
Believing in the dream
Join us in this place
Not a moment to waste
You can be who you are
It will do us no harm
And if you only believe
Then with us, you can sing
That drowning in the colors, we project, is not the way
To grow
And don't you know that I believe
That soon enough we'll learn to love
With nothing held against
And we can be as happy as can be
Believing in the dream
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Haven't eaten a whole meal
In three whole days
So maybe i can change
The way you see my skinny Legs
But you and I both know
It won't
You don't surprise
Haven't seen any other face
In my recent dreams
Did you mean to haunt me
When you ran away
Cause you and I both know
You can't
Thats that
Okay
I can only hope you remember when daddy lost his mind
I was there for you then
All the times that I watched you cry
But you and i both know
You don't
You won't return
Farewell
Someday, you'll remember
And I won't
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5. |
Stone
03:22
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Afternoon
Before the sun
Has set upon Fort Wanderlust
Colored glass
The aftermath
Is comforting to behold
When I hungered and wept alone
They dried my tears
And lifted up this heart of stone
Counting back from 21
The time it takes to love someone
And all i've got is another song
A drowning wit
A silver tongue
For, still, I hunger
And weep alone
But now it seems I'm needed
How convenient
Should have known
Waking in the unlit cave
A windowless caress
Basking in a silent shame
And blinded with delight
I would see the sky
This cave
No longer being a cage
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6. |
The Joy I Seek
03:30
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When I find it, the joy i crave
Will I only be asleep?
And should the hummingbirds return to me
Will the nectar have run dry?
Sure, you sounded good to yourself
As you sang along with mother
But she cannot harmonize
So you can sing better
Let me deep inside you
Do not ponder on my faith
Were my words a token less
Than what you needed to play the game
While the dog sleep
I am writing to myself
When is wanting, a sinful greed?
When is having, knowing wealth?
Yes, I know
There were tears in their eyes
Though they hid them in the darkness
Misleading was their candlelight
Betrayed by their heavy breaths
Let me deep inside you
Do not ponder on my faith
Were my words a token less
Than what you need to play
Do you bear the sunlight
Was my body once your shade
Are you now obsessing over words
I cannot say
When I find it
The joy i crave
Will I only be asleep?
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Calling
02:22
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To know if I became
All that he wanted
I asked him if his choice was his alone
His answer with conviction
Softly left him
"My brother if you love me, you should know
that though i may not see the truth in everything,
I feel within my heart that it'd be good for me."
And though I haven't been
The best example
I know he never wavered
In his love for me
I think somehow the difference
Made us closer
He grew to be accepting
Kind
And Humble
I know that he must go, but how I worry
My baby brother has turned into a man
His strength of heart is something to be envied
I'll miss him though
I'll miss him everyday
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9. |
Clever Ways
03:36
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There is a reason for the plights
Of the troubled heart
That we may learn
From every roundabout of jealousy
And discrepancy
There will always be sweet wavering
Pleasant trials of courage
Loss of faith
Join the turning of fate
Understand in your way
When I say
That we may learn
Though not in spite of you
The pain will be anyways
For it has several shapes
And comes in its clever ways
That we may learn
If it's not so then where is meaning?
I think you're seeing
That there will always be sweet wavering
Pleasant trials of courage
Loss of faith
Join the turning of fate
Understand in your way
When I say
That we may learn
That we may learn
That we may change
That we may turn
That we may learn
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10. |
hazy. . .
03:48
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Crazy
I get so crazy
I just wanna go back to my bed
Hazy
And to my left I see a space that has yet to be filled
Casual dress
Made out of things
Crazy
I get so crazy
When I move I can tell that i've moved
And it's amazing
It is amazing all the people who see
You go ahead and let the likable sensation consume
As If you'll sing it and the comfort of your words will heal
Under the weather
Over the top
Crazy
I get so crazy
Every smoke turns the night into ash
And I'm feelin groovy
I'm feelin groovy like a microphone
My mind is flowing in the yellow of the midnight glow
Just like I dreamt it only now I feel apart from the fold
Easing the clovers
Forcing responses
Crazy
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