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Glove Comprtmnt
02:59
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I have a glove compartment / you gotta love it love it / I have a glove compartment / oh I love it love it / I stick my hand in it / I stick my things in it / a flashlight and a map//
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Blackrock
06:12
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It wasn’t bad I just went to sleep / In 1925 spelunker Floyd Collins was trapped in Kentucky’s sand cave / and people came to watch 10,000 a day / sat in the sand and ate their lunches / when Jesus died so the bible says / they put him in a cave / they wrapped his body / for three dark days the earth shaked shaked shaked / for three dark days the earth quaked quaked quaked / It wasn’t bad I just went to sleep/no explosion just asphyxiation / no cancer no emphysema / no little girl with one leg stuck behind her back / underground underground where the dead are buried / and if I die doing this same job / the grief and rage the terror the fascination / will it have been worth it / it wasn’t bad I just went to sleep / when Jesus died so the bible says / poor Mary cried when she found that cave empty / but Jesus smiled he tapped her on the shoulder saying / it wasn’t bad I just went to sleep / and what is underground / entombment entrapment something primal / where the dead lie carved into black rock / breathe in breath out blackrock//
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Hraka
03:41
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I think about it / It kinda makes my heart sick / you keep me up at night / and now I need a new dream / cause I was never yours / and you were never mine / thank god it’s springtime / if I could change the subject / I’m sure you wouldn’t object / nothing seems the same / so I’ll be leaving in May / the ties that bind or the lies that blind / thank god it’s springtime / you knew what you needed to say / but that’s not what you said / I knew what I wanted to do / but that’s not what I did / I think about it / It kinda makes my heart sick / you keep me up at night / and now I need a new dream / cause I was never yours / and you were never mine / thank god it’s springtime / you knew what you needed to say / but that’s not what you said / I knew what I wanted to do / but that’s not what I did / I’m in the middle of the road / and I’ve lost my way / but that’s all gonna change / cause everything begins tonight//
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Carbonate
01:03
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Box Elder
04:07
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Geology
03:54
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Film shot of a crowd dispersing into a city from under the sky / I could see for miles around / her voice carries down the streets and over the crowd / I could see her for years / Geology studies rocks and drinks the sediment from the earth / it flooded here once he said / one day they’ll build roads to build cities to build up this land / and dare to call it progress / oh the rocks! oh the rocks! oh the lines all these years / oh all the time / all the time spent in wax museums of wax museums of wax museums / little stutter steps to the end zone / seems as though we’re lost we’re lost and we don’t know where to go from here / geology studies rocks and drinks the sediment from the earth / it flooded here once he said//
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Flying
03:46
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You’re flying down this highway / backseat if you keep the windows closed / you can’t smell the city / and it seems like there’s really no need for guardrails / with all of this manufactured housing / and the rhythm is your heartbeat / and the tires on the concrete / the rhythm is your breath and the whir of your brain / the radio stations they keep fading in and fading out / you’re waiting for the glorious downbeat / where it all gets figured out / the median is a no man’s land / full of trash and burned out cigarettes / counting exits is the only thing keeping time / the next rest stop is another sixty miles / there’s a flock of birds / a mad cloud swimming through the air / someone left the laugh track on too loud / you close your eyes and dream / intermittent retaining walls / are only a coy reminder that there’s no escape from sound / and you’re lying in the backseat / and the rhythm is your heartbeat / and the tires on the concrete / the rhythm is your breath and the whir of your brain / the radio stations they keep fading in and fading out / you’re waiting for the glorious downbeat / where it all gets figured out//
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Pannin For Gold
04:44
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Let’s move to Alaska / they’ll pay us to live there / and we can run across the Bering Strait / buy spices for our families there / and run back across and still get paid / We’ll kayak all the rivers no matter how deep or wide / hunt the elk herds like they’re cattle with our guns and laser sights / we’ll go fishing with bows and arrows and sticks of dynamite / sink our beer cans to the bottom in the early morning light / We’re miners in the 1900s in a little booming town / Idaho City, Idaho City, Idaho City, Idaho / where we’re pannin for gold / always pannin for gold / pannin for gold in Idaho City, Idaho / pannin for gold, always pannin for gold / and we’ll shoot our neighbors if they start pannin our own / pannin our own claim / if you see me wrestling a grizzly bear and readin him his rights / you’ll know I’m wearin a hat I ain’t never worn before / not a beret or a cowboy hat or a baseball cap / no a little black cap like Charlie Chaplin used to wear / and a nice black suit and I got a picture camera / a picture camera takes pictures, freezes moments in time / like of you standing there by the old post office / where I tie my ‘ol stick pony to the post to the post / I tie my ‘ol stick pony to the post outside the ‘ol post office which is also a bar//
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Pancakes
03:17
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The Plumest
04:35
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When all the plums have ripened / and withered in their thirst / when the sky has been painted grey / by the wings of migrating birds / This will be the last time / I will dream of spiders / and I will dream in grey / the moon comes somersaulting / salt and pepper salt and / the night has brought me feathers and pebbles and footsteps / this will be the first time / I won’t wake up with cold shakes / staring up at three tiny perfectly folded cranes / chewing at the inside of my cheeks my teeth / this will be the last time / this will be the first time / this will be the best time / I will give myself / I will let myself / I will shed myself / and I will see myself / This will be the best time / When all the plums have ripened//
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DeTamble Wings
05:42
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Put your hands to the water / ignore the clean metallic burn / put your ear to the water / let it slap snap snap crack crack slap slap / but listen / I would sew 10,000 feathers / blood blood / pull the thread forget the thimble / blood blood / time travel’s got me torn, got me tangled up / don’t know where I’m gonna go gonna go go / Michael J Fox on my mind from my childhood / don’t know why he’d want to go back in time time go back in time time / I lost both my feet to the cold weather / don’t know how I’m gonna run gonna run run / wish I had the dolorean / I could just drive, drive the dolorean drive drive / drive the dolorean drive drive / thank god I have you in my heart and mind / taking care of me with your needle and your thread thread / now I’ll take you to the prom in your blue dress / beat up Biff and play Johnny B Goode Goode Johnny Johnny Goode Goode / time travel’s got me torn got me tangled up / don’t know when I’m gonna go / now I’ll take you to the prom in your blue dress / beat up Biff and then go / go go go / put on your wings let’s go / all the wings in a row//
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Oh the wind pushing all the leaves / like child’s hands waving goodbye / he’s a soldier, a saint, an ocean explorer / a president, a pacifist, and auto restorer / and it’s alright that he don’t breath no more / cause he settled through the cracks between the floorboards//
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