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The Water is Deep
03:54
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I can be in love with the baker
I can be hard on myself
I can sing songs to your maker
I can be so out of touch
I could build you a garden
if you weren't so down there
Soft love tends to harden
When we're all elsewhere
I won't tell the hangman
if you keep your mouth shut to the doctor
We'll ride clean out of Sausalito
and be in Bakersfield by supper
I can be in love with a pop star
after everyone's asleep
Prone to jumping in thinking it's shallow
but the water is deep
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Zach
01:17
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tell your brother I wasn't drunk
yea, I was just happy
it's not something that comes around very often
but when you're around
I can feel anything
mother says look out
some women are heroin for the weak
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Eugenia
03:26
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when you're busy i wait for you to not be
when it's fine i call you all the time
cause Eugenia you don't know what you do
you bring the rain and you bring it right on through
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I saw your face 'neath that cool yellow light
an' I thought perhaps this all was a dream
I saw your soul just as round as your eyes
an' it made my self-explanatory scream.
Just like Lady Lou in her red tinsel boots
and her hairdo like some cat from Japan
no, she can't be beat with that camel in her teeth
and the way she holds her pool stick in her hand.
Watch Mary in green disappear from the scene
guess her violet lipstick's had enough
but what a shame all the rules of this game
cause I'll miss her now that she's gone.
Somewhere up north a new child is born
the drunkards in the street still like to sing
the jogger's jog, the thinker's in his fog
an' the world keep spinning itself into it's grave.
Nobody knows Mitochondrial Eve, she's got rose pedals in her shoes
feigning joy in her speech, I'm using all my ink
just to make her look more like you,
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Fish & Milk
03:01
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my girl is so rad
but I feel so bad
you wake up and avoid the mirror
your makeup's cheap doubt and fear
I don't wanna breathe
my birthday it's this week
Fish & Milk Jesus Crust
what the hell I'm in love
I don't wanna breathe
my birthday it's this week
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Both Sides
02:07
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I can't get you out of my head
I know you'd like to cut off my legs
but if I'm an amputee, baby
I can't get on my knees and beg you
"please come here" or "please go away"
or "please i need you near" or "no you can't say"
it's the same thing on both sides
I've watched it swing free
from both sides.
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Talons of Red
03:20
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See how she walks with her talons of red
like when I woke up in something's mother's bed
Hear how she squawks with her feathers of dread
I won't get stuck in Mobile again
it's too full of accidents
too much coincidence
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Fight
01:34
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I don't wanna fight like anybody else
I just wanna die like everybody else
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Coast Daisy
03:07
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West coast daisy
such a pretty lady
I could really love you
if i weren't lazy
but you can pull me from my tomb, my love
with just your rhythm and blues.
West coast lady
such a pretty daisy
oh my little baby
you really drive me crazy
but I have my own mind, my love
I get lost in it most of the time
I don't mean to be so out of reach
I just am it's not so bad
Soaking up my mortality
on an empty stomach
East coast fable
underneath the table
I could really hold you
if i were able
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Phantom
03:29
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Are you that phantom of my delirium?
all this medicine, honey am I still unwell?
Do you remember that one winter,
when we was all we had?
Honey, do you think we went mad?
I can't say it's all so grey from here
There was so little space and when winter turned it's face I feared
That when spring came and passed you'd move to Grants Pass so I steared
Towards the north and the vast and the dreams that would last me for years.
You took that as betrayal
so you went and betrayed
and i'm left to fetch the pieces
of my broken heart like a plate.
But of course you've got your side
where somehow I've done you wrong,
if you had written this
it'd be a completely different song.
But still well sang and still I'd hang on every word
So sing past these hours you lotus flower you Douglas Fir
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