1. |
Funeral Rouge
01:32
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2. |
Mortuary Blue
02:56
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Children play dead
With funeral rouge
Making pretend
In sheets ghosts outgrew
Cut to the quick
An ego trip
For you
Jugular slit
Cadaver fit
For you
I'm painting my lips
Mortuary blue
Exposure sick
Doped and subdued
Late night repeats
A fault of the loom
Cut to the quick
An ego trip
For you
Jugular slit
Cadaver fit
For you
I'm painting my lips
Mortuary blue
Outside the lines of
Crayon-penned bonds
The curtain comes down
You've got it all wrong
A dashboard critique
A backseat response
To think that I
Could have loved you once
Cut to the quick
An ego trip
For you
Jugular slit
Cadaver fit
For you
I'm painting my lips
Mortuary blue
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3. |
Bayou Autonomy
03:54
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Wait
She doesn’t love you
Stop
He wasn’t yours to take
Move
God, get the lead out
Please
There's only so long I can wait
Bayou Autonomy
Bayou Autonomy
Bayou Autonomy
Beat
You're out of options
Bless!
Blessed are the meek
Dull
We fake an interest
Drift
Face down in backwaters bleak
Bayou Autonomy
Bayou Autonomy
Bayou Autonomy
Pay me all my worth in salt
Another body bag
Fill the family vault
To the hilt, to the fucking hilt
Run
Vacate the cooler
Please
There's time to make good your mistakes
Bayou Autonomy
Bayou Autonomy
Bayou Autonomy
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4. |
Cornerstore
03:57
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A nausea readymade
A rival thirst to slake
I plundered the back forty
Extracted my take
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change
Billboard symmetries
Secured at low rates
Limp lifestyle idealists
Greenhorns from out of state
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change
What?
Oh fuck
The jig's up
I was caught short
With no losses left to cut
I'm billing my pain to my offspring
Just biding my time
I'm billing my pain to my offspring
Just biding my time
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
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5. |
Elysium
04:39
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Let me pull
Another thread and bare myself
Tasteless pills
A double dose for better health
Deadly heat
Spreading flames rain won’t forgive
Growing pains
That outpace the morphine drip
We've all forgone
Elysium
Elysium
Elysium
Diatribes
From the constitution torn
Wheeling terns
Born compulsive and forlorn
Chosen sons
Operate outside the law
Dollar prayers
Trading bodies in the raw
We've all forgone
Elysium
Elysium
Elysium
Did you fall and graze your knee on holy ground?
Did you crawl? Another stray sold by the pound
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6. |
Anaesthesia Whores
03:08
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I set aside my soul
De-sanctified the mould
Bore forth a marble clone
Atavistic and cold
So cold
Don't deny me
What you owe me
Sweet synthetic
Ecstacy
Exempt from nature's law
An anaesthesia whore
A thousand miles off course
Where thought requires no pause
No pause
Don't deny me
What you owe me
Sweet synthetic
Ecstacy
Tell the board what you said
What I said?
God is dead
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7. |
Skip Town
01:35
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8. |
Present Tense
03:46
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Ad astra in Page
Desert damned
Darling, are we safe?
Deep in a blacktop haze
Devils creep
From the jaws of graves
Altar burnt
Idle hands
Crosses in Sonoran sand
To make sense
Of every moment
I relent
To the present tense
No-one dreams of english towns
We just turn the car around
Dharma dumb, liquor proud
Wilhelm screams from tapes rewound
All my ventures run aground
Kerouaced, false accounts
I return
No demands
Passing through the looking glass
To make sense
Of every moment
I relent
To the present tense
Hopes pre-screened, extinguished, drowned
We just turn each other down
But I won't plead, relinquish, bow
Bow down
Bow out
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9. |
Petrichor
01:43
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There’s beauty in the broken
No thought will go unsaid
Hypodermic invitations
From field hospital beds
Drowning in your sympathies
I'm out treading the boards
A Gaelic rain comes rolling in
with gifts of petrichor
Banking on a sea change
My future claims it’s debt
We were but strangers
In chorus we once met
'Spite my lucky blood
I’ve no time left to buy
I’m leaving you my lullabies
And oxygen supply
I’m leaving you my lullabies
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10. |
Nightbloom
04:38
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Nude
All poker-sold
Foreign lands
Lo and behold
Starved
I swallowed whole
Your bubblegum
Medicinals
Symptomatic
I came undone
Aphrodisium
Pulled aside
Out of youth
Picking through
The nightbloom
For sweet residuals
Skin
All powder blue
A platinum
Fair ingenue
Lost
I was a fool
Floating in
A drowning pool
Symptomatic
I came undone
Aphrodisium
Pulled aside
Out of youth
Picking through
The nightbloom
For sweet residuals
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11. |
Cavalier Blonde
04:14
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Monomanic
Ala-bastards of spin
Ahab or bust
Die-hards drowning in
Pachydermal wet dreams
High office
Burlesque
Man up
Man down
Now what?
Another muted response
From Mary's favourite son
The fallout's yours to take home
Love from
A Cavalier Blonde
Blood by the drum
Every tenant stripped down
Flop house routines
Misanthropic and proud
A false promised frontier
Paradise
Bled dry
Man up
Man down
Now what?
Another muted response
From Mary's favourite son
The fallout's yours to take home
Love from
A Cavalier Blonde
Dress down and repossess
I do my worst in my sunday best
Everyone and no ones blessed
Lucky us
Thorns in the valley of narcissus
So, what the fuck have you done?
Your feet up in the sun
Marks that are worn on the skin
End of days now begin
So, what the fuck have you done?
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12. |
Never Leave
03:44
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Never alone
Another replica
Made from paper bones
A kick from a colt
Unpacked my tired skull
Spilt it's load
Of maladies, vile
Mean and loathsome
Inch to mile
If I was right
And you'd agree
We'd climb the walls
And never leave
Never alone
A double negative
A sick palindrome
Out in the cold
My senses start turning dull
Bountied, sold
Blue blood on the tiles
Buried ledes and
Blistered smiles
If I was right
And you'd agree
We'd climb the walls
And never leave
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Mark Hudson
James King
Benjamin Brice
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