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The Music
03:27
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The Music
when you can't go on
there's your favorite song
the singer doesn’t know
what they've done
suddenly you don't
you feel alone
something sounds on
to the odd man out
the music doesn't lie
it makes you hard
it gets you high
nothing describes
the way it makes you
feel inside
there you are with
your cult heroes
connected through sound
to beautiful losers
all injustices
of the world
suddenly feel
immaterial
the music doesn’t lie
it takes you far
it makes you cry
something inside
puts everything wrong
in the right
secrets exploding
at the speed the sound
billions singing
little hearts out
look out at
all that surrounds you
you could almost believe
life’s too beautiful
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Like Christian Sinclair
02:55
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happiness
comes in shells
you can’t tell
when it hits
pleasantly
blown to bits
think love
it's gone
action changes
spinning you
every way
wondering
how it ends
wish these emotions
would bend or even age
you’re back in sixth grade
scared of what to say
think about hopes lost
in the meantime
remember my friend
catching air
bouncing his face
off the stop sign
love on the beat
like Christian Sinclair
happiness
swallows time
dancing in mind
touch it lightly
you little butterfly
think plans
they’re done
getting some
of what you want
rest haunts you for life
drink cos it’s never gone
feeling wrong
betting it all
on the safe bet
some days you'll find me
counting quarters and dimes
praying somehow
the check gets there
other days you’ll find me
at the airport on time
in an unwritten novel
by Christian Sinclair
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For Art
what we do to be together
to fill our bellies in all weather
what we are is luxury-
too costly for our dreams
can't stop thinking about you
days open and bubble inside you
living the moment for us
just a couple of fleeting thoughts
I do nothing seductive
nothing productive,
nothing for the good of me
living with one purpose
that makes me so happy
for arthur a living sculpture
for arthur this vague body
for arthur and his ignorant mother
a tiny apartment and dog barking
cigarettes and scrambled eggs
then the door's shut 'til ten
tools drop, noises end
arthur's body falls into bed
a pair of eyes semi-lit
a back broken into hundreds of pieces
leaving me with his heart and hands
I know what to do with them
Verse: E/C#min/Emin/F#min
walkdown: Ebminaug5/C#minaug5/C#sus4/Abminaug5
Chorus: D
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Nothing is Wasted
02:46
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for the writer
nothing is wasted:
sorrow overheard
in conversations
mothers cursing kids
for their impatience
itinerant workers
scars on their hands
whiff of weed on a jacket
stink of honey peanuts
lovers kissing
like a screeching brake
the train whitening
after eighty-sixth
advertisements scraped off a wall
flowers blooming in the dark
students singing
on their way home
dealers hustling
in the park
detail men
and their cars
religion of
streetwalkers
I just wanna make art with you
share the beauty of the world
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5. |
Made for Other Things
03:22
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Made for Other Things
born with boredom
before depression set in
wearing things out
since I was a kid
having a purpose
intensely lived
no chocolate left
I ate every bit
you prefer me silent at your side
tried it once worked it several times
after crossing out too many lines
I rewrote the whole thing
just when I needed to feel free
having already copied keys
I’m learning slowly without skill
I was made for other things
I admire your guts
your killer instinct
I sit in a station
with a drunk schizophrenic
and I’m tethered
on the level
really-
ask my brother
as this now
goes on forever
wondering how
we’re not together
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Into the Past
03:03
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Into The Past
looking at photos
laughing at clothes
smiling faces know
something we don't
isn’t that your aunt
with a bouffant
your great uncle
looks great drunk
music was better
people were happier
eating bad foods
with cigarettes
wasting money
on rusting houses
taking vacations
without thinking about it
into the past
it can never last
how could things
have come to this
into the past
having a blast
basking in
pure innocence
you were the woman
I was the man
we put kids in our lives
and cared for them
we had money
for things
everyone worked
there were industries
we dream of a life
we can have together
reminded in photos
when things were better
into the past
for minutes at a time
sweetest and sadness
sticks in our minds
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7. |
Shedotoomuch
03:19
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Shedotoomuch
gotta understand
I’m the man
she gives me money
for cigarettes
we make a superteam
the justice league
fighting night and day
to make our peace
she do too much
what I do is never enough
making love to keep her happy
she’s happy for now
her friends get together
they go cluck cluck cluck
it don’t make no difference
we’re in love
I love her desperately
what she does to me
you know I wouldn’t
settle for less
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Runningintoyouwithoutstopping
could we ever discuss
the world outside of us
politics in songs
dissolve in themes of love
everything sounds
like getting it on
ancient vocabularies
sweetest melodies
blended together for
dancing while we read
I see myself in you
we’re in others, too
what we believe
fills this emptiness
let’s do what we want
don’t pay attention
content’s free
atomized contentment
Your plans become my plans
my hands become your hands
our fears combine
your desires are mine
Taking opposing sides
arguing wrongs and rights
even if it’s for the thrill
of seeing everything reversed
doubling pleasure
troubling at worst
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Fearless
everyone lives in America
whether they like it or not
people from all over get
stirred in the pot
stressed, blessed, ecstatic
everything at once
pulling you out of element
putting you on the spot
I became fearless
just to hurt less
invincibility brings
a lack of stress
to be fearless
to feel blessed
ready to take on
whatever’s next
slow down hear the sound
desperation in the blood
eight billion mammals looking
for a way in and out
could have killed that man
for what he’d done
instead I became
more than someone
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10. |
Astronauts
03:40
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Astronauts (E) 112bpm
astronauts
everyday
firing
trillions of cells
astronauts in bodies
astronauts in thoughts
burning through time
at the speed of life
everything
catches fire
fragile in the void
life’s distant from us
in fiction-powered rockets
we’re tearing off our suits
the universe enters us
as we’re being moved
tears come back the sun is out
everything is going up
grabbing all we can
before it falls on our heads
pushed beyond limits
into other dimensions
we learn in a moment
what it takes a life to live
we feel fantastic
don’t know what it is
look around,
the world’s going to shit
thrust puts us in orbit
we coast on it
keep on movin’
into outer space
stay in one place
you’ll notice things
floating in a sea
we don’t hold up to scrutiny
ambitions erections
taxes, expenses
sea levels dresses
corruption happiness
tears come back the sun is out
everything is going up
grabbing all we can
before it falls on our heads
pushed beyond limits
into other dimensions
we learn in a moment
what it takes a life to live
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Bob Gaulke
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