1. |
I Can't Be Left Alone
03:12
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Cotton polyester blend,
don't shrink on me now.
Wow.
Woe.
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2. |
Bastard
02:01
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2 little kids went to the farm
to pick a carrot out of the ground
and give it to their Mom
while their Dad was out
at the store, getting liquored up
and about to sleep out on their porch
cuz he locked his keys in a muscle-car.
Cocked an eye, looked out in the park.
He's afraid of the dark.
So he ran home quick,
but forgot the time.
Divorced for 7 years and
his family doesn't want him there.
Especially his little kids
who went to the farm
to pick a carrot out of the ground
and give it to their Mom.
They take care of her now.
They do.
Cuz he's a bastard father of 2...
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3. |
Motionsick
05:06
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I'm feeling sick.
I fear this is the end.
I'm not faking it.
I'm really sick.
Would you slow down just a bit?
I'm not faking it.
In this white van back seat
puke in my throat.
This winding road.
My seat-belts unbuckled.
and I hold down, hold down,
hold down X
I hold down but I don't
have the muscle.
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4. |
Breathe
03:21
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5. |
Free Parking
03:08
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I built a Baltic hotel
and not a ghost would ring the bell.
I had to forfeit all my property,
went bankrupt in Monopoly.
I have to pave the railroad
just to pass the time.
Pass it by while I
pave the railroad.
Just passing go.
There's a hole in my shoe,
and my top-hat's been through
the ringer more than 12 times.
It's caked in filth and grime.
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6. |
Morganhole
03:43
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Pick up your legs
and get out of my hometown.
You can run out of my hometown.
Bike tires flat, no pressure.
Flag down a cab, yeah right dude.
Good thing I broke in these shoes.
Pick up your legs
and get out of my hometown.
You can run out of my hometown.
Blink twice and miss all the buses.
PRT is always broke down.
You'll never get away now.
Don't call it a hole.
Don't call it. No.
Run out, run out, run out
for milk and eggs,
pick up your legs.
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7. |
Cough
02:57
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8. |
Keep Quiet
03:48
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I put these stones in my eyes
and left some dirt on the shelf,
imagined all my surprises
were meant for everyone else
to work with. All the edges
bent and skinned.
I admit I won't try.
So keep quiet.
Stormy line pulled taught
as the weather, a starving artist
stuffed with clouds,
the model's holding it down
til she screams to loud to hear it
with all the edges
bent and skinned.
I admit I won't try to plug in
when so much noise turned up
to find nothing and nowhere.
So keep quiet now.
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9. |
Vibraphone
03:51
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Here's a vibraphone and some sweet sounds.
When you're nervous, you're nervous,
you're nervous, don't be.
Here's a vibraphone and some sweet sounds.
When you're nervous, you're nervous,
well be nervous with me
and this vibraphone and it's sweet sounds.
You're nervous, you're nervous,
you're nervous, don't be.
Here's a vibraphone. You can calm down
with the sweet sound, the sweet sound
the sweet sound of good vibes.
Good vibes, good vibes, good vibes
good vibes, good vibes take me home.
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10. |
What I Need
04:45
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All these forms and I don't have what I need.
She wants more, maybe the blood I bleed.
I'm on my knees.
Who are you to say what I need I don't have?
Hold the key in my sweating hands.
My hands. Hands. Hands.
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11. |
Laptop
05:09
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I'm dumb.
So done, stick a fork in me.
Get these loans that I spent abroad.
I do not own any of my thoughts.
It's hard to find a high-paying job,
so I put my money in a laptop,
cuz I'm dumb.
So dumb.
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Humans Etcetera Wenzhou, China
Christopher Henry, alt rocker from West Virginia, music master in Wenzhou, China.
Humans Etcetera recommends:
the guitar work and songwriting here are top-notch. do yourself a musical kindness and throw Apollo1300 on infinite repeat forever.
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Dreamboats
by Rozwell Kid & Sleeping Bag
this collab changed my life. it's light-hearted yet adequately depressing, and still as catchy as a fishing net.
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