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when the beers are in bloom:
once and for all we have spent all our dreams
in defense of the queen or some cyclical thing
i know i have been sent off to file and said "sir"
i've no rights and no wants, just a picture of her
i know we are a mountain and when all this comes true
we can block out the gloom and pass everyone through
i know i might find solace some fine afternoon
when the beers are in bloom and the rounds are on you 
 
east central rose:
rent me a room and say C locks are free
hotline the cops and she loves men in uniform
soft like a woman but stronger than you
 
and when she sleeps pit bull at her feet
in her tatoos cruising with cupid and he says
man when you meet in that park with the tree
and she motions to me without motioning at all
 
test her emotions but come off just pitiful
found that she smiles cause she's not scared of me
 
my conscience grows as our consciousness knows her
the east central rose and the skin that she shows
 
half of the time she calls me moneywine
she calls me moneywine and i swear i let her
half of the time she calls me moneywine
she's the allen rose and you'll never get her
 
sexy youth:
behind the words "you're now a man, son"
we find his cheating tone
she chimes, "you'd better make a good one"
who knew it'd be humdrum?
 
you have lost your sexy youth
in some '80's bar room juke
 
time passed i'm bitter as the die's cast
to get drunk, i'm drinking more
you talk weird, you say you've never been insincere
who knew i'd been there too?
 
bye bye oh sonny bye
don't forget you own my pride
send send send something home
because i can't afford a window in the door
 
sideburns, you went and had to get you some
who knew they'd look so you
high love, she said you get it in the hours you have
who knew you'd get those too? 
 
by mistake:
who's youth can upstage once and feel better
who's muse? i ain't got the guts to be at the swearing in.
 
i imagined by mistake once a better view, a better you
the sad truth is i dream of some great futz with lazy americans and jaded married friends
 
call it off at noon
blame me cause it's june
and i've been feeling underneath
soft skin and sheets swooning from the heat
it's been this way for weeks and i'm at peace
 
me i keep my shitty little secrets in the floor of my apartment
here we keep our dirty little dealings made of yore and keep compartments
me i keep my dirty shitty dishrag secrets whole at my apartment 
 
  use for abuse:
a mark wave it's breaking/a million who's speaking?
boo young moon
a sick wave it's starting
and ending too (soon)
be wild and wild again be so unknown
a mark wave it's breaking
carry on you  
oh she walks the avenue and she'll vanish too she do
i'll steal the mayor's man's car and shout i love you
i love you
 
i want you to lose
i'm waiting to lose
 
well she thinks it's refined when she don't try
and it rails against me
it's misery redux when she just fucks
and it batters against me
i've got a use for abuse
oh bye bye jenny
i'm more in love with a drug 
 
 unamericana:
the size of my surprise was bitty-dwarfed by her nonchalance
a city beau who runs a titty bar beat me cold to her hurrah
 
but it's alright cause i'm sleeping southside
i wake in the grace of a winter's sunrise
we're baking bombs and we're planning bloodshed
until the king's dead
 
the sight of an explosion premature to new year's eve
the city opened up like an eyeball
the ten or so dead were just the start
 
then i learned the bombsite was where they met each night
it where she told him that we were over
and where he showed her how his heart was so hers
but i blew them over
 

i've found i can't shield my heart from my field
you hold an ideal but you're just a cheat squeal
fa la de da i've run too far
i'm just a child still
   
the world it has forsaken me:
woke awoke today and heard you died in the night
the mere thought of me, you took your own life
at your wake i grew excited
your remains the seemed so alive
your man was there at your side - amazing he didn't cry
the world it has forsaken me and it left me the day that you dided
 
the loss of you proved too much
i threw my arms around you needing the touch
a restraining order and a blackened eye
were all i got for mourning and saying goodbye
a judge maintained that i'd profaned your wedding but that's a lie
the world it has forsaken me and it left me the day that you died 
 
chin music:
lovers don't rue what you don't do
decry your age you're stuck with it
fuckers don't want to wither in the sun
pretend it's staged i often do
 
ivory white straps on her mocha-tinged skin that
seems to show i'm so alone
 
laughter in the eyes with a finger inside
come hither your pride i've stripped of you
pretty things walk with men out of bars
more on more on more
 
ivory white straps on her mocha tinged skin that
seems to show i'm so alone
a muse for chin music and the mightiest of horsehair queens
with the deepest hole i've known
 
i met you by the bay behind the edge of vision
you sulked in your seat as his wife
i've got you by the reins just like he took the wheel
too bad he was shaped like a carriage bolt his whole life
 
with flames and chrome tips he fades, your bitter boy
i am your sister
for fame and fake tits he trades, your bitter boy
you sit inside the engine
i'm laughing at you
you sit in seriousness too
 
pay him anyway:
to stop we'd better let out all the air
and find faith in the filling
to stop i've got you: why can't we love?
and be evergreen in trees
to pop off and bow now: bitter taught you how
 
store bought advice:
some get it and some don't
it comes packaged in foam
pay him anyway
i'll bet he has to show some abuseful big shrew
some cut love at home
 
to stop we'd catch the city-leaving zeppelin
and find faith in the filling
to drop the future
and fall burning through the ether
a jet-black sunday comes
 
thought i'd find you smiling with somebody taller
and not breaking my balls with boundless love
some up-driven bait fish, some magna come lately
with no patience for daydreams and an injury law scheme
would you want me back with a knack to distract you
my arms guy wires the wind is you pride
pay him anyway
i'll bet he has to show some abuseful big shrew
some cut love at home
 
the downtown of my love:
oh car keys set me free from the damn fools
the downtown of my love
oh babe slow i'm getting old in my youth
you've been getting on my nerves
i want the other, maybe the gutter
maybe the rush of a fall from grace
 
beneath me, believe me
the city was never this new
her insides plagued with crime
the cops tried and can't arrest you, hey
 
who ruined you built you anew
the city should, she said, be grateful for my love
so statuesque, shown at her best
for her love was so strange and...
 
the indian ruts with life and i do nothing right
i'm so enchanted by everything other
caving in heads with love, letting in life above
i'm so recanting whatever was true
 
i should, would if i could i can't arrest you
 
around the old man:
here on a muscle i've got a mark for failure
sitting where i'm sitting, parenting's an angry art
in through a window, out through our hearts forever
out across the heather we're kissing statues
and reading words by the light of your eyes
 
temperamental itching, can't keep my feet from running
buried in a haystack, feels like we're underground
illuminated window, silhouetted shape of cunning
you won't stop humming, the engine running
feeling so shy for all our might
 
peel on the asphalt, all i get's a gospel station
flying on the edge of something pulls us far apart
i bet it on the air and finally i lost my patience
and my orientation
could we ever stay friends?
will he take you back in or are you on your own
 
am i gonna stifle you just like eddie used to do?
could you be a wife for two just like eddie wants you too?
 
evo:
that night to pass time i sang and jim cried
jess practiced her steps out under the light
jim wailed that he's so tired
and i sang there must be more to his life
i heard her dance steps grow closer
 
she said haven't you seen a difference in me
and haven't you felt an evil without
my sweet, look we don't bleed
we're not on this earth just to weep
she rose up and i tore all her clothes off
 
what happened to the vastness - you
did it slip in the evo?
it comes at night and it'll never be back
did it flatten the topo?
i've been set to dust, at best it must be a beautiful view
who looks out for me here at the edge of the pre-dream expanse of the sea?