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You and Me
03:05
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real small atrophy
come down for free
in my dreams
i’m split at the seams
you’re the same
translucent brain
boxed in place
left on your face
feel the sun and babylon coming back to me
and if you are, or if you aren’t it doesn’t have to be
you & me
you & me
feel the blood and camera flood coming after me
and if you want, or if you need well it’ll have to be
just you & me
you & me
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Hanger
04:35
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well its all just expectation
man you know what i mean
getting down on exhalations
and shaking off my teeth
under a song you seem to find me
wasting out my dreams
a bridge burning over nothing
just smoke under my feet
well i broke the fear you left here
shaking at my feet
found my skin still on the hanger
my chest still fit on me
and i left you in the driveway
my bones in ecstasy
face first into the middle
of people so lovely
well i knew you were a creature
an abnormality
a soul i’ll never feature
in dreams that i retrieve
well its all just expectation
or you know what i mean
getting down on exhalations
and shaking off my teeth
under a song you seem to find me
wasting out my dreams
a bridge burning over nothing
just smoke under my feet
and i knew you were a creature
an abnormality
a soul i’ll never feature
in dreams that i retrieve
and i left you in the driveway
my bones in ecstasy
face first into the middle
of people so lovely
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Loose Tooth
05:06
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you come through with the worst
save a little piece for us
you seem true in reverse
when no one’s been alone too long
so spit it out
your loose tooth in my hand
scream and shout
a read through, come to terms
a ghost in every spec of dust
you were see-through in the burbs
invisible in sight of us
so sweat it out
this false reality
twist and shout
in a sea of chemicals
when you first said out you’re free
but in a room with no doors
we will see
and so you’d hate my dumb songs
and my fucked philosophy
but in a world where you’re gone
we will see
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you and I both seem to
remember the dreams we threw
lock up my rattle bones
sip till we leave alone
once I was echo proof
once 300 proof
together we built those stars
billions of little scars
and so,
a little slow
but we’re on our way
now that you know,
but it’s far away
so who will go?
leaving today
teeth on the road
planning to stay
waking up dreams for you
remember you taught me to
live in a soft pink light
whenever i feel alright
that was the enterprise
that was the raffle prize
that was the wet cement
that was my first regret
and so,
a little slow
but we’re on our way
now that you know,
but it’s far away
so who will go?
leaving today
teeth on the road
planning to stay
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5. |
Window
03:16
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i want to see you face
in an overcrowded room
moving place to place
getting cleaned out like a broom
and all the little words
that you whisper down to me
just like the little birds
no one’s ever gonna see
i want to leave this place
but i’m scared i’ll never move
suspended here in space
out of breath with attitude
and all the city girls
they’ve got cracks inside their teeth
just like the pretty words
that remind you when to breath
i want to be your window
i want to read your name
i want both us to breath slow
i want to see your brain
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Arrows
04:40
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walk around with the blue-eyed movies
the worst was found in a dry-creek fueled dream
but if I’m awake, let me go like arrows
stuck in your skin, a design that burrows
same old town, just the price of beauty
a chest impound, light it up like new years
i know you’re a saint, but let me off this flagpole
oh isn’t it great, well can you hear my eyes roll?
when I go down to the place where I thought I would never be heard from again
i walk around just holding the sound of my name till it jumps in my head
a lost and found’s just a terrible sickness with two parts of whiskey and dread
i should calm down but all that I know is the walk in the dark to my bed
but if I’m awake, let me go like arrows
alone in you’re skin, a design that burrows
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god said, “son, I think you’re dead,
shut up, sit down, grab a beer
but we won’t know until you’re old
maybe this thing is just here”.
so i was hanging out, listening to all those feelings
just handing out, Jesus, Myself, & Reindeer
this feels alright, it must be wrong
shouldn’t they cut this for me?
well you were right, I listened wrong
tell me again that story
so I was hanging out, listening to my heart failing
just handing out, the sunset losing all meaning
well God said, “no, you have to go
look man, this shit ain’t for free”
so i went home, a garden gnome
sprang up to give a greeting
so i was hanging out, listening to my heart failing
just hanging out, the sunset losing all meaning
yeah i was hanging out, digging the double meanings
just hanging out, jesus, myself in meetings
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On and On
04:07
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you got a crooked mouth
you’ve got ice cream eyes
catastrophe, a gang of ballroom spies
if i’m a philistine
then you’re James Dean
and on and on we go
and on and on we go
it’s not a fall from grace
it’s not fantasy
these swollen words
these busted bedroom eyes
if i’m a philistine
then you’re James Dean
and on and on we go
and on and on we go
well who am I?
and where are you?
i’ve been in your house
i’ve looked through your place
i’ve scattered my bones
and i’ve scattered my taste
you say you don’t want to
you don’t have to
i don’t like you
i don’t need you
i’ve been in your eyes
i’ve looked through your face
i’ve tasted your lies
and i’ve given your embrace
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Man Mistress California
Man Mistress plays medium-core indie-rock/punk of the heart-on-the-sleeve variety
(header photo by CY Xu)
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