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forward movement
02:15
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we have the fire, we've got the spark
light up the dance hall, shake up your heart
release inhibition, tasting salt on my lips
turn the ignition, bring down our trip
you swear you see straight through me
and i honestly can say i disagree
just want to read your mind, baby
just want to read your mind
we got our passion, we have the charge
friction so freeing, onward the march
oh, oh, moving so loosely with salt on my lips
going off memory, with you the only trip
you swear you see straight through me
and i honestly can say i disagree
just want to read your mind, baby
just want to read your mind
you swear i'm everything to you
and i've honestly seen you disagree
just want to change your mind, baby
just want to change your mind, baby
just want to change your mind, baby
just want to change your mind, baby
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and i will love you now that the seasons have changed
through worldviews of matrionial range
we are slipping
slipping down the aisle
and i will haunt you now that the seasons have changed
by pristine logic and no emotional rage
this is happiness
don't dare to tell me you aren't
we are the ocean
swallow up the shifting sand
we are drifting, left for lost
and i am diving
hanging on a thin white thread
and i am drowning in you
and i will kiss you now that the seasons have changed
where all desire must be re-arranged
this is love
yeah, my lungs are filled with you
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well i've given up all there is to give
where flat-line is all i can breathe
push me through to something beyond
push me to somewhere around
raise that educated hand
and bear that delicate soul
raise that educated hand
and bear your delicate soul
leaving success so undefined
and making nothing perceived
to practice a new dissonance
single, unified, but fluid and complete
raise that educated hand
and bear that delicate soul
raise that educated hand
and bear your delicate soul
and i'm trying to explain to myself
all the hurt that i hide
raise that educated hand
and bear that delicate soul
raise that educated hand
and bear your delicate soul
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to meet me in a stare
03:00
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when did i ever say i was content?
the more you put words in my mouth,
the more i hide myself
from all you people, all you people
with one hand, superficial, and raised so high,
to free the other to wind the blade
i'm tired of covering for you
and taking every fall
to be spit back upon
i'm finding where you rest your head
and i won't rest assured until you're dead
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in a separate world, disconnected
and when i put my headphones in
i feel you with me again
your lips so saccharine
call me in and lead me through
i feel you with me again
your hair a velvet rose
push me out to draw me close
and when i put my headphones in
we all become so ordinary
and we all dance, we dance, we dance, we dance
so i feel you with me again
your skin burning its way into my mind
in concentric circle surrounding me
so we all dance, we dance, we dance, we dance
i want to feel you with me again
so i put my headphones in
and dance
so we all dance.
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bitters and
01:35
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when i wake up, i lay for hours
glancing through a fogless windowsill
glare straight past your favorite maple
where iridescent grids meet me in a stare
and you walk inside
so i lay on the floor
hoping to disappear
and i've never been less afraid to die
then when you leaned down to kiss my brow
and say, "i love you"
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vulnerability
01:11
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want is only temporary
i've learned from the best
you have killed me
crooning endlessly
the moon is only a window,
to see, feel, or hear
and want is only temporary
the need is for you and me
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one day (demo version)
03:25
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sifting through these piles;
i've left them all for years
to ignore the incessant knocking,
and the constant disgust
it's not that i'm not thinking
or that all disconnection is all that i seek;
i'm just ignoring all loose memories
where are the boot-straps?
i'd like to pull myself up.
hoping to ignore the obvious solution
and the painful consequences
it's not that i'm not thinking
or that i'm something great
but rather far too prideful
to admit by myself, i am far too weak
so release the guard strap
and push me forward
i'm no longer the boy my parents groomed of me
i'm incredibly shallow, and i've made 12 dozen mistakes,
but it's time for me the man my God grooms me to be
i'm tired of trying too hard,
or rather falling too short,
for one day i hope my Creator was proud to call me into bring
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spinning in web!
05:39
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heaven has destroyed all reputations
so i've seen sixteen ghost
all named after every star
we've never been
and i'm sistene chapel; yeah, i'm waterlogged
this is atrophy, this is christening (eye socket, eye socket, eye socket)
these are revolutions, this is spinning in web (i saw it, i saw it, i saw it)
keep your hands to every side
up, down, after every star
there are directions, and i'm horse in buggy
disturbed, i'm in love
and we're falling of the mezzanine
this is atrophy, this is christening (eye socket, eye socket, eye socket)
these are revolutions, this is spinning in web (i saw it, i saw it, i saw it)
aren't we all so beautiful?
and so priceless?
dressed in itineraries, drowning through reverie
heard your name in every face
dear electric shades and lick me around
these are dreams of fever
this is atrophy, this is christening (eye socket, eye socket, eye socket)
these are revolutions, this is spinning in web (i saw it, i saw it, i saw it)
dressed in nines and tens
numbers so compositely prime
dancing in every star i've ever touched
with two lips held so high
three disenchantments; i'm gun in holster
this is atrophy, this is christening (eye socket, eye socket, eye socket)
these are revolutions, this is spinning in web (i saw it, i saw it, i saw it)
and woah, woah, woah, woah
you never stopped, you never blinked
you were head down; so flirtatious, so degrading
you held my brain in a solid grip
and sent electric shocks to every limb, to every socket;
eye socket, eye socket,
i saw it, i saw it
should not i saw it coming?
eye socket, eye socket,
so stupid, so stupid
i am
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outside of a comfort
putting the thing in things
working un-meaningful
don't tell me you're going away
or that my selfish means
mean you're moving selflessly
for i've seen you move, baby
and if there was another
then i'm not sure why i bothered
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Ian Craig Columbus, Ohio
Math dude by day, weirdo musician by night. Runs Little Pigeon Tapes.
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