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r e d w o o d s
03:22
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Amy
Pine and ash
Alchemy veins, bleeding out
Countries in flames, fleeing crowds
I ask you to stay, though I know it's hard
Smoke on the wings of an albatross
Choke on a plastic sea or the blackened amazon
And you feel it in your skin
Like you've got redwoods within
Amy, wine in glass
Iced over eyes, unfocused pain
Your sleet-kissed spines splintering
I take one in my palm and press it to my chest
And I climb until I'm so tall, I see the city's breath
And I stand and call the gods that live upon this ledge
They remember me from all the times I almost leapt
They send you on the wind to places far and wild
And when I look ahead I see you for miles, for miles
When I look ahead I see you for miles
When I look ahead I see you for miles
When I look up I see cedar and returning life
When I look ahead I see you for miles
And you feel it in your skin
Like you've got redwoods -
You feel it in your skin
Like you've got redwoods within
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2. |
cripple punk
04:13
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I've been licking my wounds
I've been bathing in bleach
Now I'm scrubbing my skin
But I can't seem to get clean
'Cause my body is a gutter
For a daydreams suicide
Where prayers turn to junkies
And wishes pray to die
And in my crippled cage
I rage, I moan, and I whine
'Cause I have cats and dogs
That claw and paw at my insides
I'm a sick woman with a dream
Sucking on the teat of that vow
They said if I gave my everything
It'd come back to me
But now it's curdled and sour, yes it is
Now it's curdled and sour
Try to tell you a joke
It gets stuck in my throat
And suddenly I'm wheezing,
Ahh, Funny Man, Fate Man - I see you
You really like to snip at my strings
Cut me open when you get into a bad mood
But keep me hoping that someday I'll be free
Never, never, never
Will you just let me be
And so I writhe, and cry, and weep
'Cause my body is a gutter
For a daydreams suicide
And maybe, maybe mine
And in my crippled corset
My wounds come back again
'Cause I have cats and dogs
That claw and paw at my skin
I'm a sick woman with a dream
Sucking on the teat of that vow
They said if I gave my everything
It'd come back to me
But now it's curdled and sour, yes it is
Now it's curdled and sour, oh
Now it's curdled and sour
Now it's curdled and sour
I've been licking my wounds
I've been bathing in bleach
Now I'm scrubbing my skin
But I can't seem to get clean
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strawberry h i l l
04:34
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You will always find me where I was
Even if I move, even if I die
Even if I become
Someone else, I'll be her
Sneaking out, getting hurt
Climbing trees to fall asleep
Somewhere away from you
Somewhere away from me
I'm sorry that's who you took along
I suppose she is quiet and small
I only want you to have it easy
But that's proving hard to let you do
Oh, to let you go
So I guess that I'm carrying, too
You as I remember you
I'm not saying it's your fault
I won't tell you I hate you to silence your guilt
I always needed you in my peripheral vision
See, don't you, Natalie?
I loved you poorly, but with all of my ability
I was a playground full of carpenter bees
I dug a hole and tried to hide in everything
So far, you couldn't reach, but
I always wished that I could take you with me
I'm not saying it's your fault
I won't tell you I hate you to silence your guilt
I always needed you in my peripheral vision
See, don't you, Natalie?
I loved you poorly, but with all of my ability
I was a playground full of carpenter bees
I dug a hole and tried to hide in everything
So far, you couldn't reach, but
Know I always wished that I could take you with me
I'm not saying it's your fault
I won't tell you I hate you to silence your guilt
I always needed you
See, don't you, Natalie?
I loved you poorly, but with all of my ability
Know I always wished that I could take you with me
Know I always wished that I could take you with me
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Mayfly (ft. Preeti Shastri)
Calls, calls me rootless
A mayfly…
This person
This anomaly
Stands before you over hollow ground
And if you asker anything about me
She’ll meet your eyes like a lover (Chakki chai rahi)
And guide them down below her feet (Kabira baitha royee, Dono pud ke beech me)
Soon you’re kicking up dirt
As if the answer’s underneath (Saajha na nikle koi)
How, how the bedrock howls (Chhod ke mat jaao ekli re Ban-)
From so many miles, so many miles down (-jara re, Banjara re)
Calls, calls me rootless a mayfly (Chhod ke mat jaao)
An aphid (ekli re Ban-)
Though I may live and die in one day
You’ll never see me waste it (-jara re, Banjara re)
I shiver (Hiye kaaya mein bartan maati ro)
And shed all my catastrophes (Hiye deli mein)
But litter, never will my sorrows become (Phooti jaase nahin kare ranako)
They travel to the tear drops of someone numb (Sahib hamko darr laage ek din ro)
Mmm, and meet their eyes like a lover
Under the skin, a dam is breaking
And from some shallow grave
The feelings start to breathe
How long was I gonna bend and carry
All the people I’ve been and buried?
I don’t want to live in a catacomb
Looking up at my life as if I’m below it
I don’t own time and I just have a moment alive
That I don’t want to spend in a catacomb
So tell me what do you want to know?
What do you want to know?
What do you want to know?
What do you want to know?
How, how the bedrock howls (Chhod ke mat jaao ekli re Ban-)
From so many miles, so many miles down (-jara re, Banjara re)
Calls, calls me rootless a mayfly (Chhod ke mat jaao)
An aphid (ekli re Ban-)
Though I may live and die in one day
You’ll never see me waste it (-jara re, Banjara re)
Though I may live and die in one day (Hiye kaaya mein)
Though I may live and die in one day (Hiye kaaya mein)
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