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Nothing Lasts
02:08
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“To say ‘I accept’ in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration camps, rubber truncheons. Hitler, Stalin, bombs, airplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films, and political murders.”
-‘Inside the Whale’ by George Orwell. 1940
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Nothing lasts
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Further till nothing lasts,
Inside an electric cool aid acid bath.
It's a deep cut:
The brooding envy of the blue collared mutts.
So throw your pearls at cops.
Throw your petals right in front of me.
Because you are candy for these wired eyes
and when we coalesce, we create a beautiful symphony.
I always cave,
Every Time you smile
Look away
For miles and miles
Keep the wolves in the bay.
Keep the loose lips sunk with the ships.
A kiss of Clorox and alchemy
Mind over matter and monogamy.
The pirate ship is in the harbor.
A pauper prince and I'm shellacked in spoils,
A heart of gold with a Midas touch.
'But you always did care that you we're never quite good enough."
You want to know what love means to mean to me?
Cigarette burns in 3rd degree.
A facsimile smile on a widow’s peak.
To chase the rainbow is to pen your fate.
Accept the whale
Accept defeat
Alive in the behemoth
You're still just meat
Hey Kings, bear witness
Your riches brings madness
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Winter
01:48
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"Set my compass north, I got winter in my blood"
- 'Acadian Driftwood' by The Band
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Winter
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I don't want it
And I don't need it
The things you're offering me
Well you can keep it
Eternal sunshine
A spotless mind
The rhythm of coercion is blurry and undefined.
A callous witness
A spangled dress
The art of foreplay is
Written with my nails across your flesh.
New potential, come hither
I offer you only the promise of the winter:
The taste of Ash in your throat.
A new girl,
From old money.
She finds it funny,
I find her charming.
The stage is set
The lights are blue
A stiff upper lip, take a bow, and follow through.
But now she is bored
So she lets me go
Roll with the punches as you're dragged with the undertow.
"It's always going to be this way"
I guess that's what they always say
Love. Is. Fake
When you believe in the fantasy.
New potential. Come here.
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Apparently this song was written by Tom Waits for Johnny Cash. His version is on the first American Recordings album.
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Vows
02:57
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"...and a silver sixpence in her shoe."
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Vows
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How was your day?
How was your trip?
She takes off her work clothes.
She dawns on a slip.
And she...
She makes for the TV.
Her show is almost on.
"Shall I make dinner?"
"Sure. I'll set the table."
And she takes off her face.
With a chemical elixir.
Her hands make for the brushes
They glide past the pictures.
"Where are my things?"
"I hid them in the closet.
You know how I am.
I don't like the clutter"
Was it worth it to you?
To have something blue.
Because everything else was borrowed.
Everything else was too new.
Pretty boy in your locket
Sick boy there in your pocket.
And so the story's been told
You finally have something old.
She rolls the die.
She moves the pieces.
She's come to collect.
The cat watches and paces.
The wine is free flowing.
But the party is vanquished.
The future is written
That this game is almost finished.
Off to the bed.
To each side of the mattress.
A line it is drawn
By which way the cat lays.
Last night in town
And Maybe it's kindness,
But when she comes to dance
I know it's just problems .
An old love, with new fears
The same face, with new tears
It's funny, when you look back on the year
All the steps that brought us here
Onward towards the station
I'm quiet, she's impatient
This is it darling, the end of our days
But you still surprise me when you say:
"I'm sorry I'm complicated"
And she drives off…
…and I get on the train.
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