1. |
Ideas
03:03
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You pulled out
of the drive way
With the headlights,
facing my way
What are you doing
with all this time?
There is so much of it
to unwind
Back and forth and to and fro and outside inside, I don't know
I can't find it
I don't how to get it
There is so much of it
How do you contain it?
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2. |
Choo Choo Train
02:35
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Sittin on the stoop
Watching the sunrise
Eating a scoop
Of blackberry ice cream
Your mother made
With her own two hands
Holding onto something
Then you hear a choo choo train, chuggalin a long,
laughing out your name,
wanna sing a song,
wanna do a dance,
Wanna do a jig,
wanna laugh and laugh through everything
Well, you hopped that train
When you were sixteen
You couldn't help it
You wanted to be mean
Ride so tough
In the back line
Nobody knew that you were missing,
That you were missing
Then you hear a choo choo train, chuggalin a long, laughing out your name, wanna sing a song, wanna do a dance, Wanna do a jig, wanna laugh and laugh through everything, through everything
Well role me a cigarette oh please
Give me some of that
Good nicotine
If I was five again I'd say
Hold me up,
I'll smoke all day
I'll smoke all day
Then you hear a choo choo train, chuggalin a long, laughing out your name, wanna sing a song, wanna do a dance, Wanna do a jig, wanna laugh and laugh through everything, through everything
Then you hear a choo choo train, chuggalin a long, laughing out your name, wanna sing a song, wanna do a dance, Wanna do a jig, wanna laugh and laugh through everything, through everything
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3. |
How Many Times?
03:05
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How many times, do you sink into your skin?
When you find all the fault lines, are there dividends?
Did you catch a shooting star
Across your eye in the middle of the night?
Or did you sink on down into your pillow?
Resurgence is a cure
From the shadows you abhor
But they teach you another lesson about dressing yourself
Let the shape melt away
Like a bucket thrown in the grass
There things forming around it
As it sits
As it lasts
Oh, all is a circling
Oh all is a circling
You don't have to have the answers
You don't need any my friend
'Cause all is a circling
Fitting myself
Into jeans that are too tight
I want to change my shape
I want to look like
Someone else
But I tried that once before and it was futile
Could not bear it at my core
Oh, all is a circling
Oh, all is a circling
You don't have to have the answers
You don't need any my friend
'Cause all is a circling
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4. |
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I don't know where to rest my head
I don't know where to rest my head
But It's like a poison
Gone put me to bed
Mama said drink your elixir
Mama said drink your elixir
But It's like a poison
Gone put me to bed
La di
La di
La di fuckin dah
I like
I like
I like
Howling!
But It's like a poison
Gone put me to bed
I don't … I don't... I don't know where… I don't know where to...I don't know where to...I don't know where to
I don't know where to rest my head
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5. |
Rapid Heartbeat
04:35
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Existentialist Drought
I am full of myself
Like a worm on a page
No dirt left to dig
No place to rest your head
In and out
Of Consciousness
I hold onto
Nothing
Rapid Heartbeat
Held in two part harmony
Didn't know I had another side of sinking teeth.
I want to hold onto to the questions
That leave me in suspension
Causing hesitation
Addicted to the doubts
Of what is and what isn't
And I could stew in it all day
And say that I played
But what have I done?
But sucked my thumb
Rapid Heartbeat
Held in two part harmony
Didn't know I had another side of sinking teeth
And I'll break my bread with you
And I'll do all the wrong things too
But frozen in the abyss
Dose not aide
In giving you this kiss,
In giving you this kiss
Maybe the questions are too big
Or maybe I'm just too small
That's where I find
Find it all
Crumble into dust
Crumble into dust
Crumble into dust
Crumble into dust
Crumble into dust
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6. |
Sinking
04:04
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Sailing, sullen, time warped skin
Catching dollars in the wind
I've got boxes, and you've got tires
Why don't we put them together
And drive a while
And drive a while
And drive a while
You're a checker board
Playing chess
You don't know all the steps
You're a kite runner
Loosing wind
You're a dried flower dying
You got black and white thinkin
On your high school dreams
And nothing can stop it but
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Fisherman Forgery Down at Bodega Bay
Your Signature's waning from all this disgrace
I've got a hammer
And you've got chairs
Why don't we crumble em down and
Start back bare
Start back bare
Start back bare
You're a checker board
Playing chess
You don't know all the steps
You're a kite runner
Loosing wind
You're a dried flower dying
You got black and white thinkin
On your high school dreams
And nothing can stop it but
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
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7. |
All The Same Shit
03:39
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I tell you what I'm doing
And you don't catch my drift
We got all the same things brewin
We got all the same shit
Oh I bared my insides on the ground
And you shoveled them back down
And I know it's like pulling teeth
But can't you just see what's underneath
Oh, I tell you what I'm doing
And you don't catch my drift
We got all the same things brewin
We got all the same shit
We used to swing on the swing so high
I thought i was flying up in the sky
Wind whipping through my veins
Hollerin and yellin just the same
Oh what is this difficulty?
That keeps you from flying free?
Was it the words?
Was it the way?
Was it the path?
That keeps you holding back?
I tell what I'm doing
And you don't catch my drift
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8. |
Maya
04:12
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No sound falls
From the moaning sky
No scowl wrinkles
The evening pool
The stars lean down
A stony brilliance
While birds fly
The market leers
Its empty shelves
Streets bare bosoms
To scanty cars
This bed yawns
Beneath the weight
Of our absent selves
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9. |
Tangerine
05:36
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Tangerine
Sittin' in the sun
Oh you're a still life
On the run
You look so serene
In all this chaos
But nobody detects it baby
Oh, you feel lost
Shake it off, that tree
Shake it, shake it, shake it
Shake it off, that tree
Shake it off, that tree
Tangerine
Tangible-rine
Tangerine
Step into your own painting
Mix up the colors real good
Show me what you've been missing
Show me what you've been missing
Show me what you've been missing
Shake it off, that tree
Shake it off, that tree
Shake it off, that tree
Tangerine
Tangible-rine
Tangerine, you taste so good
Tangerine, I knew you would
Wanna be used up whole
No pulp left, no pulp left, no pulp left
Shake it off, that tree
Shake it off, that tree
Shake it off, that tree
Tangerine
Tangible-rine
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Mary Esther Carter New York, New York
Maryesthercarter.com
"...a haunting, evocative, nostalgic river of vocal and musical authenticity."
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