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Get Your Story Straight
04:44
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In the backseat..
Just a passing glimpse, but I suspect alarming innocence.
From a tightrope, oh so vulnerable.
Stumble once, recoil into the cause.
Justify the means to brush it off.
A thousand formless faces, names I haven't learned.
Collecting all my passions, an accident rehearsed.
In the backseat voices pass through me.
They sell the stereo uncomfortably.
In a daydream..
A subtle light cracks my swollen head so I cannot begin to comprehend.
False director, stop parading.
Stop portraying focus as an art.
They're characters, their lives aren't yours.
Get your story straight.
So long, be safe.
May the light sincerely fade.
Images, impartial bliss, projecting warmth onto my friends.
A frame that's warped, the colors bend.
I can't watch this.
Dissonance, an instrument correcting words I might have meant.
The sound distorts a perfect bend.
So I can't hear you.
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2. |
Shall We See
02:35
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Strip the bark gently. (Dig the child from his tree.)
Skin to sun peeling. (Glowing raw potential.)
Newborn slave, can't you feel your weight?
Don't you feel the weight?
Build the boy from scratch. (Heart in ragtime. limbs attached.)
Taught to talk too fast. (Sorting out a pattern.)
Newborn slave can you hold your weight?
Shall we see the traps are set.
Shall we see the line's been cast.
Shall we see?
Come on, keep up. Children command the crutch.
Age with grace or simply sit this out.
We still stand arms length apart.
Pick up the pace if you must.
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Sister Sideways
03:20
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Four cross-eyed dolls sit on the shelf. (Lay low)
Love their only tool.
None chosen, strike the wedding bells. (Dance slow)
Heard you had the nerve to plant the seed.
A kick to set you free.
A shame for livelihood.
A fair, but frightening curve.
Learn to follow first.
Ballrooms where flowers bloom from oil. (Dance slow)
Love their fairy tale.
The pageant plays no favorites down. (Lay low)
Heard that daddy's girls watch from the crowd.
Applaud to shut me out.
A fair, but bitter storm.
A shame for livelihood.
A prayer for Sister Sideways.
Learn to follow first.
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4. |
Contrast Spots
03:32
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Goodbye, age of anger fearless piece of mind.
Are you really satisfied?
Hello, self-sustaining ocean of no shore.
Do you really need to know?
Fever dream, how I appreciate your company.
Welcome, self-sufficient forest of no growth.
Do you really want to know?
Fever dream, how I appreciate your mystery.
It's always your call.
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Listener/Intermission
03:31
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Listener, all is quiet.
I've done all I can do feeding you the concept of the womb.
So if i set the stage, part the shades.
Will you lay there entertained?
Listener, I've expired and I'm sure you have too.
Starving before intermission's through.
Listener, let me explain: There are some words I cannot use.
There are nine versions of the truth, each insulting.
So if I set the stage, say it straight, turn the page on innocence.
Will you stay here for the end?
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6. |
Mercy My
03:14
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Leave the lion be, instigator.
Trouble not the proud.
Let the joyous lead, demonstrator.
They will feel you all around.
Leave the loyal be, liberator.
Worry not the weak.
Set the humble free.
They will feel it.
Come forth, nurse your heavy heart.
Breathe out, drain your filling lungs.
Mercy, my only instrument.
Forward, nurture not the frail.
Breathe out, lungs sprout into sails.
Mercy, my only instrument.
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7. |
Elevens
11:11
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I must have lost my head when I was young.
I used my teeth to move across the floor.
Daddy kicked me around just for sport.
We can call that love because there's no other word.
I must have lost my heart when I was twelve.
I'd blame a girl, but hell, I just blame myself.
I was baptized in this public school of a hell.
..When I couldn't measure up.
I must have lost my head when I was young.
Mommy kept me warm inside her womb.
The day I left, well, she left too.
We can call that love because there's no other way to measure up.
I must have lost my head when I was young.
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8. |
Break Character
04:47
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Since we're all uniquely loved, we sing.
Equal only when protesting fear.
Built from stone and sound advice, we sing.
Obsessing over what we cannot see.
Slave, stand opposite your master.
Build character, break the wise man's spell.
Since we've come to terms with art, we sing.
Focusing the fever into form.
Placed beside a fate desired, we sing.
Projecting onto it the passing storm.
Slave, congratulate your master.
Break character, state the obvious.
Peaceful and painless, our garden grows.
Our garden grows.
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9. |
Like Children
01:39
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My god, I've been cruel.
Since all is forgiven let's kiss like children.
Oh god, I've been cruel.
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10. |
Exit Smiling
07:09
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Welcome home, thankfully destroyed.
Have my word, smile when you're sure.
Since we must hold each other up, I'm somewhere else.
Welcome home, appropriately bored.
Rest assured the storm will find you first.
Take my word, smile when you're sure.
So we must hold each other up, I'm nowhere else.
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Immediate Family Portland, Oregon
Immediate Family is what happens when I (Brett) work on something for so long that I learn to stop worrying and love the process again and again and again and
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