1. |
Axis 1
03:12
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She presented as such a nice girl
Eye contact was appropriate
Axis one
Disorder severe
With mood congruent…
Digging for days in the backyard
Now overgrown with weeds
The flowers hang their heads down shuddering
Show some fucking respect for my disease
Dear mother I regret to inform
There’s a stranger in our home
Are you afraid
Are you afraid like I’m afraid
Are you afraid like I’m afraid
She says there’s something so lonely
About the way the walls meet the ceiling
Chorus
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2. |
Upright
03:01
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I am afraid of girls.
She nods and smiles at me
She stares into the sun
I want to touch her
I don’t want to touch her
In- sensation
It’s a little simpler than that
It’s a little simpler than that
We are not that kind of girl
Who last more than one night with boys like
Impossible days and sleepless nights
I can see it in your eyes
I want to be inside
I don’t want to be inside
Press our wrists together
To see the blood flow
We are not that kind of girl
Who last more than one night with boys like
She has holes in her jeans
And he’s a fucked up machine
You and me we are so heavy
She’s picking her face again
She’s picking her face again
But I am amazed the ground does not give way
We remain upright
We remain upright
You are my mythology
I am afraid of girls
She nods and smiles at me
She stares into the sun
I want to touch her
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3. |
Adair
02:20
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You’re on my teeth
And you’re on my tongue
You’re in my throat
And you’re in my lungs
But you can’t hear a damn thing I’m saying
Saying
You bring that dirty woman
Into my house
You act surprised when
I kick you out
But you can’t even bring yourself to say it
Say it
Adair
Six weeks in
And it was already love
My little stone
Of skin and blood
My son had a name and I knew it mother
Father
When we came back
From that shallow grave
Dirt on our hands
From the mess we’d made
My son had a name and I knew it mother
Father
Adair
I smile at strangers everyday
And I shake their hands
I’m so tired
Of being contained
In this bag of skin
And this tyrant brain
And when I scream all I hear is static
Static
Things are just pictures
Of what they were
But at this time
It all that matters
And when I scream all I hear is static
Static
Adair
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4. |
Silverbulletday
04:20
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I was 13 and terrified
My face was lit up by the numbers on the phone
Every night the radio was talking to me
And every night I would lose all my teeth
Seven years later
I lay on your floor
The sound you made
Was so familiar
And I have to admit
I was relieved
I needed that shit
To make sense of things
At night we’d shake and shake
We’d watch the walls mouths open grinning into cracks
And I would cry in the empty shells of shower stalls
Shoot me up with empathy
And watch me fall
Chorus
I swear to you, I have been touched
Instead of pills I swallow stars
I see the lines between your thoughts
And I hear the numbers in your words
Are silverbullets loaded in our silver guns
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5. |
Alice
02:37
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She was too young
To be hurt
By what was in my veins
So I’d crawl in her bed
Listen to the noise
Tried to understand the message
She’d bring me water
She’d bring me bread
When I’d shake the bars of my cage
She’d bring me water
She’d bring me bread
When I’d shake
Oh that loneliness
That turned to ache
Oh that metallic taste
Will you play along
With my deceit
The smell of dirty hair and defeat
Chorus
I spent days
Underwater
With my compass
Pointed to the sky
It’s so much bigger than me
It’s so much bigger than you
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6. |
Flora and Fauna
01:53
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Before it all went black and white
And I was loud and full of fight
Canary in the coal mine
Canary in the coal mine
But we are such small animals
Our wrists and knees are vulnerable
Canary in the coal mine
Canary in the coal mine
She was made of carbon
I was made of glass
We locked ourselves in the bathroom
We pulled it out and laughed
We were still laughing
When that story changed
He was taking he was taking
We’d watch the darkness fall and try
To push our toes into the sky
And I could not get any higher
I could not get any higher
Later we’d separate by force
As soon as you’d get home of course
You’d call me on the tin can telephone
Won’t make it through the night alone
Chorus
But we are such small animals
Our cries for help are inaudible
Canary in the coal mine
Canary in the coal mine
Chorus
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7. |
She's Loose
06:01
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So I was a little infatuated
What’s so wrong with that
So she was a little degraded
What’s so wrong with that
She’s loose
She has a heart somewhere in that cage
She’s loose
And it rattles noisy and it keeps me awake
Can you see me in the state I’m in
Do you know my shame
Do you feel the same
So I admit it I was obsessed
Nothing you haven’t seen before
It isn’t even really a sickness
It’s just I needed so much more
Chorus
I want to touch you where it hurts
And the red lights looked like roses
And the green lights looked like mold
And I knew that if I cut my wrists
That the sky would bleed for days
Four days
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guitars/vocals- amelia
drums- various
guitars- michael
bass- no one
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