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Blemishes
04:42
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I wish I could set free
those frozen eyes and what they imply
staring back at me
More demure than I for sure
You are from afar a saint to love me
blemishes and all…
I’ve been looking so long at these pixels of you
I don’t know what to do
I’m a student of the grossest anatomy
Of an archaic love where our two bodies meet
blemishes and all…
You’re in my head
and I’m in your mood
I refuse to leave this bed without a parachute
unless every odd obsession
and every dark confession
every self-reflection indiscreet reminds you of me
If those eyes never move
I don’t know what I’ll do
I’ve been looking so long at these pixels of you
I don’t know what to do
I’m a student of the grossest anatomy
Of an archaic love where our two bodies meet
blemishes and all…
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Echoes
06:15
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Every breath you breathe is an apology
Your eyes are all cried out
Every goodbye is a rest in peace
But every cut that bleeds led you to me
Every mirror you pass looks lonely
Your mind is cast with doubt
Every loathsome mistake echoes her name
But every cut that bleeds led you to me
In the absence of love, why
did you covet the cover of night?
Maybe your true colors are lies
Do you bleed black and blue?
Or is that a disguise?
The echoes will fade in time…
Friends and family are all out of sympathy
Your lies too big to hide
Now every time you pray you burst into flames
But every cut that bleeds
led you right to me
Maybe your true colors are lies
Do you bleed black and blue?
Or is that a disguise too?
The echoes will fade in time…
In the absence of love unknown courage flourishes
If that’s not enough then steer clear of mirrors
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3. |
Corbeau
03:37
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I read your bones like a Brautigan poem
Over and over I traced your shoulders
and in the margins I took notes
for your future lovers to discover
I read your bones like prophetic stones
Now I know your secrets
(you can’t change what the ink says)
You were born to be adorned
and I’d die to be buried on your sleeve
Corbeau unbridled
I see the Sun through all your clouds
Not everyone’s as lucky or allowed
I read your bones when no one was home
I’m sorry for the last time
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Passive aggression and not so subtle digs
I built a house out of angry bricks
I bit my tongue until it bled
Blood in the sink
Blood in the bed
If memory serves even the wedding dress was red
I threw it all away to find a voice in the dark
Consumed by every thought depraved
I was doomed from the start
As soon as you surrender to a life libertine
Desire you never knew
burning inside of you can finally breathe
Compassionately frail
Relearned to exhale
A resurrection of faith in my rapacious ways
The sooner you surrender to a life libertine
Desires both old and new
drowning inside of you can finally breathe
Now I’m passion aggressive
O, how you’ve been missed…
I’ll happily swap love for spit
I’ll wear your heart on both sleeves
Your lips like jewelry
Which lipstick should I pick?
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5. |
Broken
04:30
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Broken necks and broken strings
Broken hearts and broken family
Broken you
Broken me
Broken vows
I broke fucking everything just to hear myself sing
I keep waking up under water
Overdressed and overserved
Let’s fight over who
gets to rummage through
the wreckage first
I’m over you
You’re over me
Congratulations!
We’re both free
I keep waking up under water
I can’t find my keys or my way home
I keep waking up under water
Is this a dream?
Or is this love?
Or am I a monster?
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6. |
Camera Chimera
05:12
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Camera chimera
Too obscene to be unseen
Lights dance in the mirror
but they don’t dance for me
Blessed are those in life without a jealous bone to fight
Will I forever live in fear of this camera chimera?
Or will I die on this floor forever scarred and scared?
I’m too impaired to even care
An imagined crime so cruel and clever
plays over and over again in my head
It never ends…
Camera chimera
Too obscene to be unseen
I see it in the mirror
I see it in my sleep
C’est tout le temps…
Blessed are those in life without a jealous bone to fight
Will I always live in fear of this camera chimera?
I’m going to die on this floor
Forever scarred and scared
I’m too impaired to even care
An imagined crime
So cruel and clever
Plays over and over again and again in my head
and I’m afraid that it won’t end
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7. |
Summer Somewhere
05:10
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Winter had a sister
Her fate foretold
I loved her and I miss her
but I don’t miss the cold
Or the frost behind every stare
A cross that I cannot bear
It must Summer somewhere…
Winter had a sister
My last breath and name
she stole with a whisper
that haunts me till this day
A frost behind every stare
A quiet I cannot bear anymore
Severed ties several times
(mostly in my mind)
An affair
Calamitous despair
A lust for Summer somewhere…
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8. |
No Shame
05:49
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You’ve been human all over the world
A veiled mistress in Paris
And a bore in New York
Mistakes were made along the way
(but they don’t define you)
There’s no shame in anything
You’re alive
It’s alright
You’ve been a villain and weathered the storm
You made a widow in Kyoto
and quite the scene in Singapore
And on your grave it will say,
“There’s no shame in anything”
You’re alive
It’s alright
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Rouge Vermouth
06:21
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No one knows you but me
and no one knows you’ve been running around
A wolf in sheep’s clothes
Hungry and alone
You’ve been painting the town with my blood
No one knows you but me
And no one knows the face that they see
hates to be seen
You poor, desolate soul
hiding in shadows
Rouge Vermouth
I lost myself inside you so you could ache like I do
You spilled chartreuse
In every cut
In every open wound
No one loves you
Not like I do
With gun to my head
A dead horse in my bed
Heaven sent and hell bent to wither on your own
Rouge Vermouth
I lost myself inside you
I want you to ache like I do
You spilled the last of the chartreuse
In every cut
In every open wound
I’m forever lost inside you
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10. |
Knife
04:26
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I’m down on my knees
I’m sorry and eager to please
I’m a child without enough sleep
I’m criminal to think what I think
And It’s too late in the night to reach for a knife
I’m down on my knees again
I pray to be set free from sin
I’m a convert
A skeptical priest
I’m Jesus Christ after too much to drink
But it’s too late in the night to reach for a knife
Those baptized in my river, they know
my tides rise high and the wine, it flows
Sarah, I’m scared of losing everything
Sarah, I know my place
On my knees
I’ll behave
I swear I’ll behave!
Sarah, I’m scared of losing everything
Sarah, I know my place
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Sympathetic eyes
It’s the perfect disguise
Well I’ll play along
You wear the crown and I’m reluctant royalty
You’re the queen of a crowd
and I pray that no one notices me
Sympathetic eyes
Only after the curtains rise
Go have a good time
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12. |
Merely
03:05
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