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Yesler Way
03:14
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You may part but I must stay. And learn from where these pieces came. Glue them back how they were made. Stand them up on Yesler way. Hey, you've got something to say. Refuse to lose your way.
Broken hearts but how they're made. Smashed it up along the way it's not what you're saying, it's how you're saying it. Witness context up and run away with it. Hey, you got something to say. Refuse to lose your way.
Stars that are the Milky Way.
Yes we're blessed with wishes made.
Ain't too late to trade your fate.
Yes, we too have lost our way.
Teach you to leave it here
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Come At Me Bro
04:16
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All that I am in a bag. And you criticize its contents. I showed you my whole hand. And what was your reaction? You put me on blast. What the hell was that.
I wish you'd come at me. The sweetest failure. I'll teach you how to dance. So everyone can see the weight of your mistake. As if you had a chance.
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Culture Vultures
04:02
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I spent the weekend in the wrong man's close. Upside-down Michelangelo. Body surfing on the TV's glow.
Home is where you hang your art in bad taste. So upside down you couldn't give it away. Their silence really means they want you to stay.
Call it culture
The matches are lit
They sent vultures
To capture the kids
That year I had $10,000 in the Bank. We drained it dry and sucked the fumes out of the tank. Looking back I have myself alone to thank.
Vultures.
Are you really there?
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Primal Trigger (PTSD)
03:50
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My Primal trigger is your presence. This ain't no ordinary scene. My Call to Arms is you in danger. You'll know exactly what I mean.
The Falling Sky
Never come down on you
The weight of the world
Just watch it fall through
I watch my inspiration sleeping.
This ain't no ordinary scene.
The Falling Sky
Never come down on you
The weight of the world
Just let it fall through.
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12 Pack
03:19
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Twelve Pack. Still living in the car crash. Still trying to take your demons back. Just rattling the cage. 12 gauge all out on the sidewalk. Deadly accurate when they talk, with every word they say.
Down to my fingertips and bones, I need you here at home. I want you all alone. More than whispers on the phone, I want you here at home, I need you all alone.
And you, you only sing when were alone. I need you all alone, I need you here at home. You only sing when we were alone, I need you here at home.
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Fracking
06:33
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We'd like to welcome all the hecklers back. We researched where you're from and frankly, we feel bad. My massive monologue upstaged only by one fact, your would be a hero's ego's strangely still in tact.
Dancing fault lines into California
Fractured free ways to leave
Truth be told here a very rare occasion
Your belief will set you free
Exotic mouthfuls of words like new and like age. Give the impression that they are on the same page. Data analysis effectively clear. That's how the big bald bastard knew that you were here.
Dancing, fractured.
Mouthfuls of words.
Renaissance.
Age of Reason.
Weed.
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Super Queen
05:48
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Baby girl. All I want to do is be with you. Be with you and take your picture too. I watch you work it with that attitude.
I can see us down the road, screaming deals. Screaming walls. In your neighbor's place and down the hall. Watch me flex, flex, flex.
You're my super Queen straight out of a magazine.
I can see us with some Korean food, some barbecue. Or Pho Vietnam, all night long.
there's just something right about you baby girl
Watch me Flex. I never leave wet enough alone. I'm headed in your direction.
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Hate My Life
02:51
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I want to say thank you for reminding me just how much I hate my f****** life. Honestly appreciate your honesty it's good to know it's not just in my mind. Thank you so much. Thank you oh so f****** much. Thank you so goddamn much. For reminding me how much I hate my God damn mother f****** life. Your really, really nice. And thank you so much.
I want to say thank you for reminding me just how much a guy can hate his life. Honestly appreciate your honesty. It's good to know it's not just in my mind. Not just in my mind. Not just in my mind.
Thank you so much. Thank you all so f****** much. Thank you so goddamn much. For reminding me, just how much I hate my God damn mother f****** life. You're really, really nice. Thank you so much, you b****.
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Don't Look Now
04:08
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Crippled by my ego, I used to be confused. Drunk on my reflection. And booze. Drunk on that too. I seemed to lose traction as I went. Bad habits replaced all my friends. Try hard enough and you will find plenty to resent. They say it's just a means to an end. Yeah, fair enough, but what happens then? Set my spirit free! Help organize this tangled debris. You glow like an angel to me. It might be precisely the right kind of light for a blind man to finally see.
Don't look now.
The world's on fire.
Over my shoulder it all looks so clear. I can read the writing backward in the mirror. I wear the scars of these harrowing years proudly, but I sent back the fear. Set my spirit free. Help quarantine my wants from my needs. When they found me I was down on my knees. The rest, as they say, is blistering history. Set my spirit free! Help organize this tangled debris. You glow like an angel to me. It might be precisely the right kind of light for a blind man to finally see.
Don't look now.
The world's on fire.
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No Kind of Island Seattle, Washington
This life is a gift. I will never again take it for granted. Every moment on this side of the ground is full of magic, blessings and mystery.
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