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I used to not bother undressing
kick off my shoes and I'd count all my blessings
late nights in my room, heavy breathing
late mornings still feeling like garbage
you told me the best for somebody
was to make them coffee, come morning
but you didn't stay, you just ended up leaving
and I don't recall feeling that sorry
lately it's too much time scraping
my man Huey Lewis, a picture of nothing
cookie cut half-baked apartment
- a beautiful view of a better apartment
getting off solely on sympathy
and missing things more than they miss me
and in case it still matters - I'm drowning
"but maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me
after all"
I know I told you I wouldn't be home when you got home
I didn't mean to get so high and lazy
I'm sorry, let's hang out on Friday
it's stupid, I was out picking Daisy
and I still don't like it as much as you liked me
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New Beds
03:03
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I ain't never seen nobody climb a prison wall like that
history pressed against my back, kiss you between your heart attacks
I can't help falling to pieces whenever I hear that song
I heard you sing in the morning when you put your makeup on
and I was yours from then on
glassy-eyed and cotton-mouthed
they still haven't figured us out
we're through trying to put these ghosts to rest
so let's break the floorboards beneath the bed
and show them that we still exist
and she sang Samson in my head
on that chair you painted red
'she ate a slice of wonderbread
and she went right back to bed'
I can't believe I'm missing
late night confessing
like when we lived in each others' heads
before we both got new beds
how long have I been missing?
glassy-eyed and cotton-mouthed
still haven't figured this out
I'm through trying to put you to rest
let's break the floorboards beneath the bed
let's be honest
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did you see it on our brand new big screens?
we're doing good for the community
double the rent, exploit the income opportunities
good luck with all your problems, take them further down the street
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Sox
04:49
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sitting pretty on the shelf where they left you
on top of boxes that we still need to go through
haven't seen the lighthouse but I'm still looking out for you
down one-way streets with the wrong view
blew in with the debris
after the hurricane, some small relief
reinforcements for a stronghold on the beach
souls to the keep
stalled on the interstate
behind a campaign caravan of hate
clown college billboards boasting to the born and enraged
but hey, I think you're great
you gave us somewhere to pause
a place to get calm
taught us to dig our claws deep down in anywhere we belong
but you drank the fountain dry in one of your other lives
I can still see you sleeping in the sunlight
(a campaign caravan of hate, beating your chest at nothing in the battle states)
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Gordon and Gaul
04:09
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if I could I would go back to the start
fix those faults that forced us apart
I'd give good advice and replacement parts
give me a tiger's jaw, give you a lion's heart
I remember the places to reach for
I remember the loose boards in the floor
I remember what we said we'd wait for
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Patches and Pins Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Patches and Pins
isn't quite a band.
yells things in
rooms.
thank you for listening.
photo by Rob Mentzer
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