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Accelerator, Pt. 1
01:43
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sometimes you wake up
and pine for that reverie
other times you sip from a cup
and sink a bullet into that dream
there's no love lost there
there's a house in desperate need of repair
so much for american ideals
built on the blood of innocent men
bring me one last meal
i will have nothing left to defend
and stain my blood
on your privileged hands
dry my bones
wear them as jewelry
you're as charming as smallpox
wiping out the native man
you're a derelict love song
crafted in royalty
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Accelerator, Pt. 2
01:39
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you are a book of matches
and i'm your accelerator, yeah
you think that striking yourself
isn't going to give me that spark
but those tears do nothing but turn me on, baby
the way your sides flare out
give me nothing but motive
finger moving down your face
angular, but with purpose
which side are you going to be on when that day comes?
i've got you in a come-hither motion
locked by the hands in your hair
you are an immobile kite
trapped in the tree of my desire
and i'm dousing you
so that when you strike again
there's nothing available to burn
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you'd think by now that
my calluses would have crusted over
and you'd think by now that
i'd learn how to heal a broken heart
but i'm as cold as unpaid bills
and i'm as distant as the closest friends
look around
surely there must be better options
you'd think by now that
the realization of who i really am
would have reached out of the ground
and slapped you with a comically large glove
cartoon and cadmium red
photographed in newspaper off-white
what do you want me to say?
should count myself lucky
1 2 3 and 4
i can't count myself at all
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Sulfuric Splendor
02:28
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i've been waiting here
for what feels like my life
for the road to ruin
to swing wide its beautiful gates
and hurl me down in sulfuric splendor
or for that enormous lion to roar
ride that horse and grab hold of its pestilent mane
i've got the locust by the hand
and i'm laughing the whole way down
swinging my broad sword
decapitating the firstborns
how's that frog in your throat?
tracing your outline with my tongue
like your body is coated in honey
and i'm dying to have an aneurysm
the rivers turn to blood
and i'm here holding you
waiting to be hurled down in sulfuric splendor
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One Headphone
02:07
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time to get real animated
ask me to clean up my own mess
treacherous on foreign soil
going global
match-making
ooh, baby, you've got me by your tugs
scratching the nape of my neck
rock out in the back seat
with one headphone in
the other dangling over that cross necklace
well, your secret's out
my light's out time for lights out
time to get real animated
bruise my heel
strike your head
i can hardly wait
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folderol, folderol, folderol
take it all, take it all, take it all
these arms are ready to hold you
i'm a talented motherfucker
and you are spitting on my grave
when you look at me like that
say my name, baby
i can feel you buck against my chest
cracked spine echoing in solitude
"save yourself" is what you say
"lie to yourself" is what you mean
are you indoctrinated in mind?
put that mouth on me
let me taste that sweat
feel my stubble hit your skin
pretend i'm an illegal alien
and you are quartering me, baby
pretend i'm dr. frankenstein
kiss that bolt of lightening right through me, girl
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Introducing...
01:05
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STUFF
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Heaven Sent
02:50
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feel you pull away from my grip
am i causing you embarrassment?
brain deciding, last switch to flip
'cause baby, i'm heaven sent
you want to know dejected
think it's gonna get you through the next day
i'm tired of the daily pleb
drink poisoned well enter the fray
matter is all around us
and yet matter makes absolutely no sense
so this is broken trust
choose a side, break down the fence
well, baby, this is my argument
this is my call to action
this is my barbarosa
my tank is stuck and i sputter out
grease my track, yeah, defrost my heart, yeah
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Directives
01:36
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wingtip shoes
and a sharp haircut
pressed against your body
pleated chino
take hold of my wheel
direct me, oh yeah, direct me
thank you, you say
want to have another?
'cause this is the best you will ever feel
holding you down and constricting that flow
like a spectator
like a participant
direct me, oh yeah, direct me
graze that beautiful face
taking hold of the wheel
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Tax Collector!
01:41
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oh girl
i leak sensuality
and you can't vibe with what is not yours
can't trace me on that pay phone, baby
i put the quarter in the slot
except you to pull right in to the lot
i got my helmet on
i am strapped in ever so tight
tell me like it is
you give me all the reasons to run away
but they draw me closer
in a coital womb
and i'm kicking, baby
i want to be free
i'm ready to come out
spank you on the bottom
and get this all started
out on the tortilla flat
out on the threshing floor
glean me, baby
treat me like a tax collector
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00:54
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Hell is Closed
02:09
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so much for pathos
give me a little more than that solemn glance
you are the cliff
i'm an expert at jumping down
dashed on rocks
you are the bike
let me be the card that grinds your spokes
are you brave enough to take my hand?
i'm waterlogged
don't complicate all this
don't push for definitions
hell has closed its doors
full of accountants, ceos, and police officers
give the world the middle finger
place that soft hand on my chest
you are a lemming
i'll follow you down blindly
you can't see through me
i won't let you
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I Wanna Be Immobilized
01:33
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i want to lay down
be immobile, baby
so get those shoes on
and come on over
let up the night with that smile
iridescent greens
velvet lining
don't make this more than it ought to be
i'm cold
i'm untouchable
let me be immobile
get those shoes on
and come on over
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Perpetual Decline (1/n)
01:17
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think of fifteen reasons
lay them all out on the crystal table
why would you fall for that?
i give you plan a
like it's going to require plan b
i feel you breathe in
like we're going to be locked here forever
until the eventual decline
or the eventual demise
falling hard
like we're the roman empire
like we're a dynasty reclined
why haven't you fallen for that?
i give you fifteen reasons
all of them flawless
like algebra, like porcelain
run through finite fields
feel the rain strike your bare back
kiss me like you mean it
like your best efforts are wasted on me
looping your fingers through my belt
thanks for waiting until the eventual decline
to share your real face
can't we lay here forever
locked in this embrace
plasticine memory
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Rolls of Thunder
02:13
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there's the risk you take
when your right foot leads your left
as you breathe the air in
and lack a focus on death
feel it rise up again
conduit to push through your doubt
as you evade him on the corner
asking to be helped out
and you angrily reject
handcuffs on subpoenaed suspect
asking for the rolls of thunder
because you don't want to own his hunger
you've run a risky game
by mere existence
expect you to cry out
but there's no onion to mince
nor a gracious depth
to a charcoal hard heart
taught to love one another
yet no idea how to start
so you angrily reject
tried and true American defect
asking for rumbles of thunder
because you don't have to own his hunger
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Ian Craig Columbus, Ohio
Math dude by day, weirdo musician by night. Runs Little Pigeon Tapes.
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