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Stolen Eyes
02:25
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I’ve been nothing all night
Why should that change?
I don’t have enough looks
To rearrange
To suit your needs
Whatever those are
To meet my price
To slow your car
Drive away
I stole these eyes
To watch my life
To turn your head
To miss this knife
Edge of something
I can’t explain
You tell yourself
It must be pain
Drive away
I need more
than you have
For less
Than you want
Some lines are from Dennis Cooper’s poem “Pair” from THE WEAKLINGS (XL), published by Sententia Books. Used with the author’s kind permission.
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2. |
Silent Spring
04:37
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in the quietest blooming
of the blackest buds
in the cresting waters
of the tidal floods
in the guttering shriek
of the dying hawk
in the vanishing landscape
of the painted rocks
I feel I’m becoming
Something new
between the blazing candle
and the circling moth
there’s a love that’s shared
and a love that’s lost
between the sharpest razor
and the slenderest wrist
there’s a pang of pain
and a pang of bliss
I feel I’m becoming
Something new
silent spring
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Lithuania
03:17
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All these years and all those miles
I’m too long out of style
Just an iron lung
Trying to sing the mother tongue
Trying to sing
Lithuania
I forget how it’s said
The language is dead
I’m the ghost of someone else
Someone who’s forgotten
Lithuania
Single file
Single file
Home is the new exile
Come back in September
When I stoke the embers
My memories are better
According to the weather
Come back, come back
Lithuania
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4. |
This Road
05:45
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Half past midnight and both headlights gone dead
But I’m driving
But I'm driving anyway
This road isn’t dark enough for me
This road isn't dark enough for me
This road that leads me to you
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5. |
Our Dark Century
04:08
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Lights out tonight
The century’s gone dark
They’ve boarded up the entrance
To Millennium park
There’s nothing left to burn
Nothing that will spark
Lights… Lights out tonight
Put on your blindfold
Make it easier to see
Together through the ruins
That’s where I want to be
Sleeping in your arms
Wrecked by history
Lights… Lights out tonight
Waltzing in the outlines
Of a thousand chalk marks
The sound of your breathing
My last landmark
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6. |
Acid-Eaten Sweetheart
02:16
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I know this girl
she’s got a real long look
She keeps me
she keeps me wondering
The stories she tells
are never true but you
and everyone and even I
don’t care
that woman’s got a way
that woman’s got a way
that woman’s got a way
with everything
this is my song for you
don’t ask me to sing it
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7. |
In the Shadows
02:23
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Walking tall, dressed right
Stepping in to the heart of the night
In the shadows
Take off your ring
In the shadows
Let your blood sing
In the shadows
Feel my breath swell
In the shadows
Let my kiss tell
In the shadows, in the shadows
In the shadows
We learned this song
In the shadows
Where we belong
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8. |
Pretty Sounds
03:48
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everybody out this evening
is loaded for banter, fighting for nothing, I
bury my handshakes in my pockets, then
squeeze this thing to disguise my shaking
hands, no
don’t believe the pretty sounds
I don’t believe the pretty sounds
you might be here, it’s hard to know you
might be outside, pretending to smoke; how
do I tell you what I need: a monster
on a keychain who will come to size
- for me
and nail me to the floor
- just for me
nail me to the floor, no -
don’t believe the pretty sounds
I don’t believe the pretty sounds
don’t believe the pretty sounds
I don’t believe them
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9. |
These are the Words
02:25
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These are the words, these are the words
These are the words and how we say them
The words, the words, the words you said
The words, the words, the words I said
I’m trying not to repeat
The words, the words, words you said
The words, the words, the words I said
The words and how we say them
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10. |
I am a Thing
02:43
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I am a thing.
There are pieces of me everywhere.
You still sting,
like a bite on the back of my knee I can sometimes see.
I am a thing.
There are pieces of me everywhere.
We still sting,
and when I do see you, I only stare.
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
And you know it’s true:
all the places you are right now,
I wish I were too,
but you wished me away.
yeah, you wished me away.
I am a thing.
There are pieces of me everywhere.
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11. |
Swan Dive
02:50
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This is a sad song
From someone who doesn't have so long
This is a last refrain
From someone who has lost their name
This is a final chance
To really meet your glance
I don’t know what to say:
I’m not okay
There are no more words
That’s what I heard
Let go
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Julian Calendar Charlotte, North Carolina
Jeremy Fisher
Jeff Jackson
Hannah Hundley
Scott Thompson
Sean Robinson
Nelly Anderson
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