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Dog Thoughts
02:20
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April 1st & feeling < foolish;
I’m drawing ghouls on unlined paper,
stacking paperclips,
& counting my breaths.
It’s more therapeutic nonsense.
I have no WISDOM to impart.
I have NO GOOD ideas but NONSENSE
clogging my vas deferens and
PAKT into my pinky toes like cottage cheese in condoms.
Waiter there’s no poison in this kool aid.
Waiter there’s a poison in my outlook.
Waiter. Did I ask--(NO!) DID I ASK TO LEARN YER NAME?!
No BRAINS left in this little headamine...
so THIS’ll BE the DAY that I---DIE, OR!
if today’s not good for you I could reschedule...
I fuck the law
& the law cums. [repeat (ad nauseum)]
…& the law MAKES NO EYE CONTACT
just a kicka the hoof & a squeal.
Kendrick wants his mule & forty acres.
Kanye pre-YEEZUS needs a getaway.
Jigga is giggling on Letterman &
I’m with him
on youtube.
I’m not with you tonight, Walt Whitman––
There are self-help books on my nightstand
beside the astroglide, ashtray, gameboy,
flu medicine, coffee mugs, doctor’s bills,
& dental floss.
If anyone needs me tell em not to––
I’ll be in bed.
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Time Out
02:31
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I had my eyes closed.
I had religion.
I got away.
I found my eyes closed.
Without religion,
I lie awake.
I’m inside-outward
and my bones will take me far away.
CHORUS
You got your path––
oh I got mine.
I won’t get fat
hovering over phone lines.
You catch a cab
to catch The Sun Lions.
I’m burning candles flat
and wishing I could call a “time out.”
You are my side-soul.
You’re my nutrition.
You’re miles away.
You’re soaked in flowers.
I’m fingerpickin’. Let come what may.
I’m sugar-powered,
but my heart holds out I’ll be okay.
CHORUS
I had sense enough to call you here.
My mind’s on guns and knives.
Given enough chances to disappear,
I can say I wouldn’t say no every time.
I had my eyes closed.
I had religion.
I got away.
I found my eyes closed.
Without religion,
I lie awake.
I’m inside-backward
and my bones will take me far away.
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Fleetwood Stakt
02:46
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It’s just happenstance.
I’m a cold, cold hallway.
I can’t ask for second chances...
when you wade into snow
without your clothes
what do you know:
it’s cold.
CHORUS
You go your way.
I know you’re just a call away.
That’s okay.
I don’t need shit right now.
I’m going my way.
And yeah I’m just a call away,
and I’m okay––
I just don’t need shit right now.
Going out in the world…
Oo! It can make my toes curl.
I tell you one thing makes it easy…
Guh-gimme my world framed
by the red, red frames
of my sun-cooked shades.
CHORUS
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Let It Shine
02:32
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Are you digging basements in basement floors?
Could you even describe to me the outdoors?
This is so fucked up! Let’s just see what she says.
And keep on actin’ like I ain’t seen the deep end.
You know what’s going on. This is always going on.
CHORUS
I’m never gonna let it shine.
You said it was mine
(this little light of mine).
I’m never gonna let it shine
It’s muh-mi-mine.
Are you digging basements under basements?
Come on. There’s roller derbies, fireworks and facelifts.
Got the basketballs blown up let’s see what she meant.
You got a new dog and Zoloft let’s see where we get.
Buh-buh-buh-baby I told you.
CHORUS
I’m taking off I don’t like that look (no nono noooo no)
Oh whatever I’ll just stay put(so so soo long so so so long)
CHORUS
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JAKL
03:04
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The sky was gray. My beard was chrome.
I heard a cannon fire in the great state of Texas
in a past life.
My badge was lost and my breath too.
I gave salute to all my predecessors
standing in line.
I had a dream I was a dog:
a bright red jackal who would tear you
limb from limb on the inside.
CHORUS
Those are the prettiest tanlines
running across your spine.
And I can’t make up my mind
how to tell you.
And please keep me awake.
I’m a hope or two away from my true light
if I could tell you.
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bellwire
Tyler Berd - Vocals, bass
Jake McKelvie -
Guitar
Jeff Walsh - Drums
Jonee Earthquake - Pedal Steel
Music by Ty and Mike Holland
LP out 10/31
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