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Should I tell my dog that he's adopted?
Or just not to trust the government?
How do I teach him not to eat out of the trash when that's what people do when they're starving?
Some would say "Why don't they just stop being so poor and homeless?"
Don't you ever speak to me or my dog ever again
Should I tell my dog to "get a job" like they say to you when you protest?
How do I teach him not to destroy pieces of cloth when that's what people do when there's unrest?
And if a burning flag offends you, why you just look the other way like you do when you see oppression every day?
Should I tell my dog that he's adopted?
Do you think that he would understand?
How do I teach him not to fight with other dogs when that's what people do when someone's not like them?
Some would say "Violence is not the answer," but if you see a Nazi I think you should punch 'em!
And tell 'em not to speak to you or your dog ever again
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You Saw Me Naked
03:37
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I don't care about you or all your new tattoos
All those songs I wrote about you made me famous for a minute on the side walk out in Portland
You're still drinking every morning just to hold still
And talking about leaving
And getting your fill on pretty girls who touch you in private places
Their faded faces
Taking space never took so much out of me
And all I can remember is how much you hated yourself every time you saw me naked
And vomit your emotions
Your devotion to me and the drink
You're on the brink of drowning in the bathtub or cheap whiskey
How nice of you to come by and say Hi
After all this time I think you're alright
As far as assholes go...
I know you think I fucked you just to piss off someone else
And now I know I loved you just to prove to myself that I could be alone
Yeah I alright as far as assholes go...
And all I can remember is how much you hated yourself every time you saw me naked
Some faded fake shit
Taking space never took so much out of me
Take it from me
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Go Piss Your Pants
03:01
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"It's getting pretty late why aren't you texting me, babe?"
Wonder why I won't follow you from state to state
Fucking pissed about it
Go ahead get pissed about it
You kicked my dog so I punched you in the face
Turn me into someone I ain't ever tryna be
Fucking pissed about it
Go ahead get pissed about it
Oh, I'll see you on the other side
You told me about a thousand times
To go ahead and kill myself
Oh, I ain't gonna commit suicide
Don't you know I'm doing fine
I'll fuck shit up all by myself
I called your bluff I'll send the papers anyway
How many others have you fucked since the day
Oh! Now you're pissed about it
Go ahead get pissed about it
Oh, my mom don't like you anyway
You thought that I was here to stay
Shows how fucking smart you are
Oh, I don't got a lot going for myself
But I know that I'll be just as well
And you can keep the fucking car
It's getting awfully late I won't be texting you babe
Wonder why I won't follow you from state to state
Fucking pissed about
Go ahead get pissed about it
So fucking pissed about it yea
Go piss your pants about it
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Is this the end of the world or what we settled for?
Better play it safe, color-code the bathroom doors
Oh I never knew that taking a shit could be so sexual
We all have the right to be converted
By a country that thinks that we're all perverted
And a reality TV star that thinks that he is a business man
Somethings not quite right here
Unless you're a cis-white here
Shots of tequila
We're looking for a fight here
Try to find that spark but
Fuck you lost your lighter
Try to stay enlightened
But millennials are brighter
Some say we're entitled
But need I remind you
There's more of us than there are if them
Hey girl what you got inside them genes?
Though your chromosomes ain't the same as me
Oh you might just be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
Somethings not quite right here
Unless you're a cis-white here
Cards on the table
We're looking for a fight here
Can't lay down and take it
So sorry to break your
Fragile idea of
How god made us
Some say we're entitled
But need it remind you
There's more of us than there are of them
Yea, there's more of us to stand by you
There's more of us to stand by you
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Sweet Lonny
02:58
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Sweet Lonny
Your promise is no good to me
And "better" only last a week at best
Where I sleep
Between you and reality
And the empty cans you left under the bed
Don't remind me what you said
What you said to me
Cuz you posted it on facebook
And you told all our friends
It's not about what you said
Or what I said to you
It's that the last time was the last time
I was willing to forget
Sweet Lonny
Why did you read my diary
And cross out things you didn't want to see
Your state of denial
And every cry I will
Think of you and you will think of me
I wont tell them what you did
What you did to me
But anyone who looks at me
Can see it on my skin
It's not about what you did
Or what you didn't do
It's that the last time was the last time
I was willing to forget
You see Lonny
A drowning fish needs more to breath
Than salty tears that seem to take my place
You beg me "please don't go"
And put away your sticks and stones
And never drink again to make me stay
I couldn't tell you where I am
Where I am right now
But I took the broken pieces
Now there's nothing left to fix
It's not about where I am
Or who I am to you
It's that the last time was the last time
I was willing to forget
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6. |
October
03:28
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Why can't I pluck you from the world
Someone said I'm just a girl
I push my fingers in the soil
They don't know you but they know what you were going for
Since you can't remember then I guess it's all okay
I'll survive September (November/December) if you just survive today
Though you've asked me for the only thing that's really mine
You can have it
You can have all the time that's left
Why can't I ever get enough
When I've already said too much
I think I can still smell the gin
And the dirty laundry that I should have left you lying in
Take it easy on me because I haven't forgotton yet
You make it easy for me to pretend we never met
And if freedom is affection then you'll get the highest form
Of liberation
I used to be a lot like you
The ones I loved were afraid of me too
Now I can finally understand
How to kill someone with you having to use your hands
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The Best Part of Me
03:38
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How am I still breathing?
Is Old English vegan?
Tell me what is this thing that you call water? (Laundy/Stable)
Just some age old questions and existential dread
Here's to hoping I don't shit myself again
Maybe I'll die before I wake
I pray to Goddess please don't break my ukulele strings busking for song beer money
Tonight I'm sleeping on the couch but you can crash on the front porch
Oh wont you bury me, sterilize or marry me?
If you can't take me at my worst then you deserve to know that I am best at throwing things into the void and blowing it up
Tonight I'm drinking for cure
To watch this whole damn city burn
And with out knowing it, the best part of me is showing
Why is my heart still bleeding for all the ticks and fleas I had to murder to spare my dog?
Another luke-warm 40 and existential dread
Here's to hoping I don't shit myself again
Not again!
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Rebound
04:21
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I stopped taking the pills
I stopped taking all the pills
I guess they did what they did now
You saw me by the road
Painting sunflowers and gold
On the side of my van now
Just an image for the cops
So they'll have some nicer thoughts
When they come to take me down
I stopped taking the pills
I stopped taking all the pills
I guess they did what they did now
You'll rebound
Or did you think I'd hit the road with you?
You'll rebound
Or did you think I'd leave it all for you?
You'll rebound
How could you think I'd hit the road with you?
You'll rebound
Or did you think I'd lose it all to you? No.
I stopped taking their shit
I stopped taking all their shit
Told them pick up and kick rocks
All your booze and ciggarettes
Wont be paying off my debts
Or help my baby move on
You can tell me what you feel
And I'll associate your guilt
With a raging hard on
For those with prior engagements
For rattling the cage
I'm so sorry for your loss
I swallowed the pills
I swallowed all the pills
Just to see if I could get high
He shoved his fingers down my throat
And we left it by the road
At the mercy of the flies
It wasn't painless or quick
My head mounted on a stick
Looking dead in the eyes
I swallowed the pills
Yea I swallowed all the pills
And I didn't even get high
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The Ocean
03:48
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The sea flat and black
The moon round and pale
The salt in the air
Stings on every inhale
You walk to the shore
Your feet touch the foam
Without looking back
You walk in alone
In the ocean, you were standing alone
The beat of the surf
The beat of the drum
The beat of your heart
They're all beating as one
The tide's coming in
But it's not here to stay
And when it rolls out
It will pull you away
In the ocean, you were drifting away
Did you ever wonder where you'd go?
When you abandoned land to join the undertow
You slid right in without a splash
You never left an epitaph
Your name is writ in water not in stone
I spent the morning waiting by the phone
The coastal wind came in and chilled me to the bone
Then I began to understand
I can't keep living on the land
I walked down to the seashore all alone
In the ocean, I'm standing alone
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Cold World Collapsing
03:30
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Feels like I've been held captive behind on breakable glass
And force my eyes open watch my entire world collapse
But if you truly say what you mean
Do you really only give a shit about me
The longer you hold your breath
The closer you get to god
The older I seem to get
The longer I stay in bed
The other day I heard her singing about a broken heart
Like it doesn't matter how she tried to tear us apart
Some things are just bigger than your feelings honey
Some things are more important that your starving need to be seen
The longer I stay in bed
The colder this cruel world gets
Carve into a candle all my love please come to me
A crown upon my head I wove myself from weeds
Baby these days I just don't have the words
In a sort of funny way I'm just letting it burn
The longer you let it burn
The closer you come to death
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Vodka Rad Bowl
03:37
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Underneath this tough physique is a little girl
Who drank too much Redbull
Chew my cheek until it bleeds
I think I'm gonna hurl
It tastes just like Redbull
Vodka Redbull glows
At the night club
We'll see how this night goes
Start a fight club
Liquid crack could take me back to my drunken days
If i could remember
Blacking out and then passing out on the apartment steps
In the middle of December
Oh...
I'm feeling amped and in my prime
And if that bitch looks at me one more time
I'll throw my drink in her face
Got to stay awake
Got to make it the whole way home
I drank too much redbull
Liquid crack give me a heart-attack
Or at least the shits
It burns just like Redbull
Vodka Redbull glows
Under a black light
Did you know that?
Did you know?
This bitch wants to fight me....
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A Gallon of Lead Paint
02:00
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I don't hate you I just hope you get an STI
That itches and burns every time you pee and cry
Just a little
So don't break the seal
While you're drinking your feelings tonight
My life would be better if you would drop dead
Get sold for your organs or popped by the feds
You can make it up to me and go straight to hell
Drink a gallon of lead paint or fall down a well (and she can as well)
I don't hate you I just hope you pass out in the snow
And freeze your dick off while the weather is ten below
Just as cold
As your need for control
And I'll be icing your bones alright
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When It Falls Silent
03:10
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I can't sing the way that you do
My voice is worn and out of style
When it falls silent I still hear you
My habits drown it out a while
Remember how I tried to kiss you
Every time that I got drunk
Remember how you swore I'd miss you
I laughed it off and said good luck
I don't lie the way that you do
Unless I'm lying to myself
Another angry song about you
Another bullet point to sell
I don't write the way that you do
As if I'm running out of time
Cuz I know time turns still and haunts you
Leaves you deaf, broken and blind
I don't cry the way that you do
I make sure to run and hide
I don't love the way that you do
I'll only say it out of spite
Wonder why I didn't chose you
As if I even had to chose
I could tell you wanted a fight too
And I had everything to lose
Cuz I don't see the way that you do
No, I wont look you in the eye
I don't love the way that you do
I'll only say it out of spite
I can't sing the way that you do
My voice is shit and out of key
When it falls silent I still hear you
When it falls silent it's just me
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tinyhands Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Negative people with bullshit instruments
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