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Drinking Song
03:38
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Pissed myself in a field
My skin looks ancient in the mirror
Autumn entropic
Brown and tan of the closed Sears
Despite a guilty sentence
From a jury of my peers
I swear to Christ I will return
As a mystic and a seer
We drink like fish to get thick as felons
Til the climax comes like Mt. St. Helen's
To leave this whole country
All covered in ash
And to brag later on
You self-righteous ass
When we leave from the pre-drink
To the night's drink proper
We say, "Don't let me have too much now,
I'll just cry in the cab, get bothered"
But you just called the shot
And when the hot tears hit leather
You won't believe just what we found together
Because when when we say
"I wanna get fucked up"
What we really mean is
"I need love"
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2. |
Penny on the Tracks
03:23
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I put a penny
I put a penny on the tracks
And they ran me out of town
And I'm never
And I'm never coming back
There's nothing left to run me from
It all burned down
It all burned down
In a freak accident during my stay
And now the law is
Now the law is out around
And there's money on my name
No, I can deal
Although these stakes are real
Putting yourself on trial and silently screaming
Waiting for something
Waiting for a meaning
Waiting for shadow
Under the light of the law
Conversations
Are meditations
On the minor details of your hatreds
Of one another
Like former lovers
Become estranged sisters, fathers, brothers
So take the chase and
Try to erase it
With a sugary ear-split hangover
To cancel plans with
Anxious parents
Who just wanna know what's up
For once in months
And with zeal,
You'll tell them that you feel
You're putting yourself on trial and silently screaming
Waiting for something
Waiting for a meaning
Waiting for shadow
Under the light of the law
Felt a little bit appeal of the void
And put a shot out in the dark
Led by dirty photographs
And questions of the heart
And would you look at me now?
All I do is murder love and art
And there's only really one recourse
Putting yourself on trial and silently screaming
Waiting for something
Waiting for a meaning
Waiting for shadow
Under the light of the law
The law
The light of the law
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3. |
Hikikomori
03:03
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Everybody wears their darkest mask for you
Everybody save their cruelest laughs for you
Everybody bears their sharpest knives for you
And nobody'd ever spend their lives with you
So why not stay inside?
Odds are it's better if you hide
There's no difference at all
Between the shadows and the wall
Everybody here would sell you out for a song
Everybody here was in on it all along
Everybody here can read you like a book
And your conscience will never let you off the hook
So why not lie in wait?
For however long it takes
For them to forget
That you're still in your bed
Cops surround your house immediately
Don't play dumb
Did you forget?
They were always in your home with you
In the pictures of your friends
That you took to keep the memories
Of when you weren't scared of them
Everybody's in conspiracy
In your head
In your head
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4. |
This Sigil
03:05
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This sigil marks you as the next
One to die and now it's burned into your forehead
You woke up with it at 3 or 4 am
After a restless night's sleep and in a cold sweat
Oh, everybody only wants to know
What's up with that thing, why does it glow?
When you're near a certain object, so
Does it mean your fate is sealed, or no?
This sigil makes you so well-known
This sigil brings you shame and pitying
Until the only place that feels like home
Are the deepest darkest corners of the city and
No, you will not remove your hat, sir
Though doing so may please your masters
Woe be upon the upperclassmen
Who facilitated your swift capture
So reduced to an attraction in a show,
The tension in your head begins to blow
Everything you're hiding starts to show
Will the prophecy come true?
Nobody knows
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Underfed, underslept, oversexed and
All of God's power has crept into his head
He feels like his feelings are the biggest they've been yet
He sees his perceptions as the realest they've been yet
Smells blood like a shark as he swims through the sunlight
Oh, another lover I can grasp and get uptight
Oh, another human being offering care
That I can transform into power, and oh the air is off
Oh please,
Just don't play it soft,
On me,
Please,
Don't let him get off,
Scott-free
Take him to the mall
But he won't let you feed him
'Cause his primary interests are the Beach Boys and bleedin'
Take him to the lake,
But it won't relieve him
From lyin' on his back til his lats are screamin'
Oh, he's just an addict,
Never gets on his feet and
He could never love you as much as the release and
He keeps on complainin' bout this ache in his teeth
But he won't get up and fix it,
'Cause he claims that he's free
Oh please,
Please,
Just give him some time,
Eventually,
You know he'll be alright,
Cause that's just how it works right?
And I'll see you in another life.
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6. |
The Atom
01:57
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They wanna keep us apart
They wanna split apart the field and the wave
Into a sectioned chart
In an apartment a hundred miles away
They want us in the dark
Decoding messages and sources they leave
Flashlights in the park
Decoding unauthorized sources on screens
I'm not gonna let them
I'm gonna keep it together
If I split, then I guess
I'll split just like the atom
They wanna keep us apart
They wanna separate us, body and mind
Poor innocent Descartes
If he coulda known the different kind
Of science that emerged from his process,
If he saw all that we lost then,
He would have rendered himself blind
For the sake of mankind
I'm never gonna let them
I'm gonna keep it together
If I split, then I guess,
I'll split just like the atom
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7. |
Sudden Death
03:54
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We're getting old and we're getting lame
Blew through the budget for the women and champagne
And we're forgetting what the point of the campaign was
When we left all those years ago,
Freshly excised from our homes,
Holy crusaders with our eyes aglow for blood
My god, my god, my god
Please protect me from my dream,
Small as it may be,
My heart, my heart, my heart,
Just know I tried my best,
But not quite enough for sudden death
Sudden death
After the blood was spilled, a croak,
Somewhere out in the crowd, in the smoke,
Elders reminded us just what a sick joke it was
"Why can't you just be nice for once?"
We choke out through our blackened lungs
But we know he's just projecting and the cunt's morose
My god, my god, my god
Please protect me from my dream,
Small as it may be,
My heart, my heart, my heart
Just know I tried my best,
But not quite enough for sudden death
Sudden death
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8. |
The Boats
02:17
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He was sentenced to death by the boats
On the river's shore
In ancient Assyria
Filled him up til he was way past full
And they gave him a home
They gave him a place to rest
He didn't like it that much,
The bugs came to feed on his guts
And so they fed
Felt some sympathy toward his jailors
For his failures
But which one was the punishment for?
Nature is pure and perfect,
He thinks to himself on day ten or eleven
As his head breaks through the surface
Getting a clear view of the heavens
"I did something to deserve this,"
He thinks to himself as the sun is setting.
Mary Ann was just 22
When she got her a job singing backup in her sister's band
Sold some singles, pretty popular
They got on radio and even the TV
It was summer 1970
She was trying to score in Nassau County
Bad batch of blacktar goin' round
(HISTORICAL NOTE: Blacktar heroin was yet not around in the 70s, but it sounds cool, so I used it, fuck you!)
When she died, she was one of twenty
Mary Ann, think of how much you did
Not just for me, but for others
How many first dates, first kisses?
How many future fathers, mothers?
How many heartbreaks consoled?
You wooed away to tell them one day there'd be another?
Just one more thing, I promise,
I'll always be here to sing with you.
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9. |
Dog II
04:02
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Like a wounded dog,
I will always
Come back home
Waiting for you here
With faith in my eyes,
And hope for your patience
I can forgive
Any sin
So just let me say,
Let me admit
I'm so relieved you let me in.
Like a wounded dog,
I will always
Sink in my claws
In hopes that
Someday
You'll sink in yours
In familiarity
In comfort and warmth
To end my precarity
I'll do my best
Try not to protect
Won't bark and scream at night
Won't sooth nervous tics
Please forgive all my sins
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Ravine Angel Calgary, Alberta
aoife makes solo music under this name
and previously as model trains (modeltrains.bandcamp.com)
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