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tale of a whale
02:34
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I fell in the bay again
caught myself the tail of a whale
and snuck inside only to find
a little heart taken apart
by cold cold hands
and a marching band
led me to the secret
hidden by the pieces
of broken women and men
now I am
long ago when things moved slow
sky beneath our feet
and no one knew how to drive
I kept the secret I kept it safe
from falling into enemy's hands
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2. |
the drinking boat
03:51
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I had it mind to tear you up
tender and mild I need the sea
to be exact so I could put you back
together again, but a tempest swelled up
and drove all your parts away
pieces of you that I could not save
so here I go stretching skin
around a broken heart that I can't mend
I hope she doesn't notice
that she doesn't look at all
like she did from the start
before I touched her at all
I must have been drunk when I said
that I can hold you without losing my grip
hold on, shut up, leave me alone
I don't know you at all, I don't owe you at all
pretty faker, go on and make her
a smile, a wink, and a fresh sense of sleep
and hold back the water
I don't know why, but in her eyes
I can see every heart beat that I skipped
and I'm sorry that I didn't see
that I was tearing you apart without knowing at all
how those architects even built your heart
I was careless and impatient and I didn't read the warning
and now I'm left holding an incomplete heart
and now that we're even I'll go ahead and start
another fight and another reason to fall apart
I don't want to hurt you anymore than I'd hurt myself
oh I might as well just fall apart
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3. |
my captain
03:36
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the whisper in my ear
is singing me to sleep
and I can't help this tear
from burning on my cheek
or stop myself from clenching teeth
cause when hot red swollen cheeks fall asleep
my captain tells me
that's it's a hard, hard life
running from yourself
I'm never gonna know you now
but I'm gonna love you anyhow
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4. |
Dresden in the dark
02:16
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well here I go, once again.
I go dancing out that door to someone else's song
I keep my messages to myself
and I'll mail myself a letter when I get back to the beginning of this song.
and then some friend
that I've never met before will ask me up to dance
and if I've ever been to France,
and I say, yeah, but it never compared to Dresden in March,
walking alone in the dark
on the bridge in the fog
then my momma calls
from some other land and says I should come home again
so I pick up my bags and things and think about it for a while and realize
I'm already there
and then I read my mail.
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5. |
the accident
05:11
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you ran red
and you hit the innocent in the head
light footed dance on us all
and me afraid that you'll fall
I don't know this I don't know you at all
apparently I'm so fucking small
I think I want you on my team
don't mean to seem that I idolize at all
it's just that I am scared to death
of myself of myself
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well I once knew a man whose penis fell off it fell off in the middle of a crowd
and a whole bunch of people were staring at him and staring at it as it rolled around
well he tried to put it back on but it wouldn't fit so instead he put it in a shoe
and left it on a shelf it's been there for years I swear to you that this is all true
well I once knew a girl who accidentally dropped her baby on the floor
and as it's head cracked open it made a big ol' mess so she pulled out a mop and a broom
and as she mopped she felt ashamed for first thinking about the big ol' mess
instead the dead baby she now had lying in the trash
and I got no regrets, I'm not embarrassed at all
if you ask me that again, I'd probably say I was wrong
and every time I try to do the right thing
my hands get mixed up I don't know which one leads
and as my head goes down my right gets left behind
why do I try to figure out all my mistakes
when they'll happen anyway
and all my friends think I've been a waste
and time will erase every face in my way
I once knew a kid who accidentally found out his parents weren't his parents at all
instead they were agents of some secret society that's intentions were morally wrong
and the way they treated him was a downright shame,
yeah the way they treated him was a crime
so he notified the authorities and had them arrested and ever since he's been alone
ever since he's been alone, ever since he's been alone, ever since he's been alone
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7. |
drunk love
03:56
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when I touch my lover's back, my cold fingers begin to dance
up to a neck I'd like to choke, yeah I'd like to choke it to breathlessness
I'm so eager to please her I can't hold my knees still
I don't know why I am so afraid to love her
she's my lover but I don't really love her, no
not in some selfless sacrificial way
I got to hold onto myself
and love her from a distance where I feel safe
but I can always drink myself to death
cause I love better when I'm drunk
oh I love better when I'm drunk
take these bottles away
I want to see, I want to see straight
my love is coming in for a landing
my love is awake
I must be too drunk
I have completed, what, this, okay
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8. |
scuttle
05:19
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move, skin, touch, I'm holding my breath
for hours, and hours, and hours on end
choke-hold, I'm cradled in arms
that don't know how to quit
I'm moving, subtle parts are moving
I'm sinking, quiet down my heartbeat
I'm leaving, don't know if I want to
the surface, behind me I see daylight
behind me, and you're a hungry woman
and I am a desperate man, desperate man
you've got just enough air for me, to breath
to breath, to breath
tear off my clothes and run an ax through the deck
I've had enough of this shit I can't take it
scuttle the ship at Marianas Trench
so I can fall in love at that bottom of this
please hold me, please wait inside of me
don't move to fast for me
I can see you sinking faster than me
tear off my shirt and run an ax through my chest
I'm too scared of this shit I can't take it
please let go of me, please don't keep hold of me
you move too fast for me, I can see you sinking
I can see you sinking faster than me
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9. |
toes to teeth
03:56
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middle of the woods taking the devil's advice
eating my beans and drinking my wine
out comes the night and the night is cold
think I'm going to build myself a fire
and keep myself at the right temperature
middle of the woods and my head is on fire
run down to the lake got stuck in a mire
now I'm going to wait and sink my feet
bears and the wolves are going to make me a feast
they're going to eat me alive
limb from limb from my toes to my teeth
oh no, hold on you might survive this
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10. |
sloppy kisses
03:16
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vicodin and wine
I spent all my quarters
now the jukebox is mine
well it's you, it's you
that take up all of my time
casting your shadow
all over my mind
I'm sorry but I'm already gone
anyway how's your day
I hope that nothing went wrong
maybe you and I tomorrow can go grab some grub
but right now I'm here and all I want to do is get fucked up
wish I could explain why loving me is so damn hard
baby, it's because I was born with a broken heart
when the bottle is empty maybe I'll tell you why
now I got a drink, sit down and shut your pretty ass mouth
and if you want to take my bones back to your place
take off my britches and give me sloppy kisses all over my face...
I always end up on your breasts in between your arms
being held back from a world
I can't get a hold on
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11. |
remain seated
03:10
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there's a lump in my throat
where all my words have been caught
I can untangle them with a glass of gin
I can drain them out with a ball point pen
I've got blood running up in my head
I have had lovers that have said
I'm too picky to please
too tall to reach
to small to notice
to arrogant to focus
but I've got sex in my hands
too much I don't understand
off with my head
find that switch and turn me off instead
I can dream, oh yeah I can dream
momma won't you leave a light on
tuck my feet up in a blanket nice and warm
and won't you brush that monkey off my back
and hold me, I don't want to move
and won't you sing me, sing me that song
it won't take me all that long
to count my sheep and fall asleep
and dream away all those seams
the day wove up just for me
I won't my hold my tongue
I'll sing along
I've been sitting still for way too long
I'm out of here, I'm out of here
pull that pen from my throat
watch me choke, watch me
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12. |
monkey on a limb (x)
03:54
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monkey on a limb with its tail in the air
it's about to fall I down I'm not prepared
carefully remove all the sin from my skin
I've got three legs to walk and I'm a terrible friend
stepped on the grass and lost all of my teeth
removed the box out of the scene
mother and dad sewed up my knuckles and knees
I'm out of gas I'm out of gas
and I'm trying hard not to fall
monkey finally fell down and looked me in the face
and said gee kid you know its been one hell of a day
I've hung by my tail for eighty-seven years
and if there's one thing I've learned it's not to trust your peers
they're as ignorant and blind as the brain tween your ears
talk and they talk and they talk and talk and they talk
and your shoelaces are untied
there's a hole in my heart
I bleed from it quite a lot
and there's a sore on my tongue
I'll stop talking the second I'm done
and there's a hole in my lung
there's nobody here and all that remains
the feet on my foot and the look-likes of rain
rain comes down and washes away
the shit on my face the shit on my face
carefully remove all the skin from my head
carefully remove all the friends from my bed
the world turns a page and expects me to move
I'm stiff in my place I'm stiff in my place
I hesitate
I'm going to tie myself to everyone
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13. |
sewer to salt
05:07
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late at night, lights are out, our little earth spins itself and children are tucked away
moon is up, the street's a mirror, the wind blows cold and the drunks are bitter
there's something on my back
I think I'll take it for a swim from the sewer to the salt and back again
I'm on my way, lady you can wait
oh it lies in my eyes, the things I could do
you wear on me, I wear you like a rusty diamond battle tooth
I put inside that mountain every time
here's the story, are the letters calling, did you wash your face after all that crawling
give it to me and I'll put it back in its place
and don't forget to call, I don't want to miss you at all
oh to see you waiting at the end of a line that I cannot cross
with arms as big as the world
I can't wait for you to hold me girl
nothing seems to reach you from this end
and I can't wait for you girl
and I'm almost there, I'm almost there
nothing seems to reach you from this end
no I can't wait for you girl
and I'm almost there
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14. |
little people vs.
06:23
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why do I have to be so damn careful when I cross the street
is there something wrong with this earth are we just in bad dreams
daddy said my mother was abducted by aliens
I don't think he's right but she is strange I came from her thighs
and on and on the world dreidles on spun a monkey's tail
and god knows when it will fall
why do I have always have to bow my head when I pray
is god under the table does he have a hard time hearing what I say
mother do really have a soul
will the government take it away when I grow old
and on and on the politicians long for mass control
and children who fear wet their beds
why do I have to end all of my sentences with a period
or a question mark, mother please tell me what the hell's going on
why do I always have to end my day brushing my teeth
are there things that I've said that god thought obscene
will little green men come into my room while I sleep
drill holes in my mouth and punish me for things that I've seen
and on and on the world turns on
night lights for little beds
children they are the world's only friend
why do I always have to be told when to go to sleep
is there something wrong with myself will my body not keep
or does something occur that I'm not allowed to see
mother is that when you talk to aliens
and on and on the world turns on when children go to bed
and lord knows how men will sin
did jesus ever touch himself when he was young
or am I the only one with hands sticky with cum
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15. |
wrong move
04:43
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row and mend
choked on a ball point pen
bend your back
choose you moves carefully, don't talk back
relax take a break
get up grab the ropes
the words in my throat are draining out
the tide leans back
I'm on the attack
I'm on the attack
I'll forgive myself when I give back
I sit so still when I need to
I sit too still, more than I'd like to
I'm on the attack
I'm on the attack
I've bent the line in my back
and I've already begun
to slip back like a rope
with too much slack
I sit so still like a pile of stones
don't believe a single word that I say
is that I'm too scared
to love you
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16. |
moving South
05:07
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well you floated up into the scene
and came right out looking clean
with a small mouth and a jug of dirt
and your mouth was wrong and full of thirst
you should have stayed in bed and slept instead
well how far will you go until you burn your toes
and you shout out loud
'this is a low and it's sweet as tea'
well our hearts will fail
us completely now
the wind will hang us up, or send us south
what have we got to show
we're keeping ourselves low
how far south will
your heart go
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17. |
mælstrom
02:06
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and when I sink with you
I hope that I don't die with you
I hope that I can say for you
that I never cried for you
and when you take from me
the only kiss I'll give to you
I hope that you don't hug too long
cause I'd like to float back up
falling in love is like a shipwreck
I'm drowning I don't want to stay down too long
I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up
I can't hold onto you
remember when you made me smile
remember how I tried not to
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Son Canciones Barcelona, Spain
Quiet songs for restless souls since 2014.
Son Canciones is an independent record label from Barcelona.
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