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Refreshing Dip
02:05
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Underneath the covers
I imprinted myself.
Three joints sprung from nothing
Thanks to you.
You were a fire ant doused in lighter fluid.
I was and still am dumb
But my I.Q. was high enough I'm pretty sure I knew it then.
There was no if to this explosion
Only when.
We were the only kids playing house that added in domestic disturbances.
I made a joke at your expense
And then you threw me into the furnace
It’s a good thing five five-year-old firefighters were standing by.
Because it’d really be a shame if I died
And you got off on a technicality
But I guess at least one of us would have gotten off at least once if that would have happened.
And now I look down at my chest and I am starting to bleed
But I’m just a kid
So I can’t process the changing of the leaves.
So look what you did to me.
You made me bleed.
One thing I forgot was when I went on vacation
You looked like even more of an ant from the window of an airplane
Just as small as the instructions on an oxygen tank.
I unscrewed the cap
And it popped off and hit me in the face.
Why did I open Pandora’s box?
Why couldn’t I had just lived on that plane?
Again I look down and I am busted wide open
But I’m in a plane
So I’m too busy looking down at the ocean.
So look what you did to me.
You busted me open.
You busted me open
And then you left the blanket on forever.
Lucky me.
So look what you did to me.
You made me bleed.
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3. |
Wango Dango
05:16
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The weather is too nasty
So we’re stuck inside a room.
If you don’t show talent
You will cease to exist soon
Unless you are a star.
And you’ve got one shining in your mouth
So you’ve got a long leash
While this choker chain is choking me out.
And in the future you will probably suck another one
I'll bet you’ll get famous just for being someone who is famous.
And I will be excited because I finally have a truth to go with my two lies
I’ll say I knew you.
You can’t sing
And you can’t dance
You don’t even know a letter of your name.
But you’ve got the power in your mouth
So we’re really not the same.
I also can’t do much either
But my teeth are whiter than my skin.
But wait.
I’m looking into your gold tooth
And I see my reflection
But a figure inside of gold starts to look bronze.
So I wonder if that’s really how you see me too.
I came in third in this talent show
So you probably do.
I took a snapshot of the picture you handed me.
Red shirt.
Fluffy hair.
And a gold mess in your teeth.
A lack of storage forced you into stupid positions
And you must have got your teeth pulled
Because I’m no longer bronze
I’m pretty sure I just forfeited.
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Fish Eyeballs
03:42
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Let’s go for a hike.
Will all of these old feelings drudge up again?
They might.
Laughing when you fall
Falling when I make you laugh
Putting this persona on has been my biggest gaffe so far.
Just because I have the right to be an asshole
Doesn’t mean that I’m not an asshole.
And just because you have the right to hide behind being mean
Doesn’t mean that I think you’re really mean deep down.
Deep down we’re just a couple of clowns
With frowns upside down.
And our eyebrows pointing down
In the worst possible way.
Why don’t we make a little effort
To point our eyebrows upwards?
Two impressions of a couple little demon babies is the worst.
Now we’re talking.
You’ve given me the go ahead to piss off an entire culture
If I want.
But I won’t.
I think I started a riot though.
Were you there that day?
I’m guessing you weren’t
Because that was the only day you paid me no notice.
Who knew code red could be a sign for hopelessness?
Breaking into houses late at night that aren’t yours
Really takes a lot of might.
I hoped that I would have had that same exact might back then.
I hoped for a lot of things.
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5. |
Shin Kicking Sparrow
08:16
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Words.
They come to my head like a weird thought
In the middle of the night when I have to get up early.
It’s funny how this word bank can’t make a single deposit to my mouth.
So I’m wondering what to say.
Two ultraviolet circles staring back
Or is that too cliche?
Should I address the rainbow dress that everything great in this room is wrapped in?
Wait.
Is that really ultraviolet or just really good acting?
You kicked me in the shins
And then you became the hand that fed me
I wish you had come with a manual
So your hand could have read it to me
Because evidently I can’t read anybody.
I talked out my ass to make you look good.
Even now I’d keep those words out there
If I could.
I don’t regret it.
You’ve forgotten me
But I’ll never forget your kicks.
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6. |
1B
07:05
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Fake candy shaped like flowers
Are you serious?
Anyone who sees a duplicate of that
Has the right to go delirious.
Two’s a crowd.
You said sharing is caring
But you don’t seem to share my sadness
And I know you’ve got a heart big enough to care
But your small ass eyes just make you oblivious.
Let’s just try it anyway.
You take Monday.
I’ll take Tuesday.
You take Wednesday.
You take Thursday.
You take Friday.
You take Saturday.
And maybe you’ll just take Sunday too.
I am not 1B to you.
I’m fucking 2.
But let’s just let bygones be bygones.
We both know what really happened.
We were young and stupid
Subtly fighting over someone younger and stupider.
We were the sparks that ignited the big bang
Trying our best to impress motherfucking Jupiter.
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7. |
Free Embarrassment
04:14
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You said you’re scared of me?
Congratulations.
You are scared of someone who is afraid of the world.
And that’s including you.
Embarrassment is just free for the taking.
Like a stale muffin
On a motel’s lobby coffee table.
I was ready, willing, and able.
But I couldn't tell if you were laughing with or at me.
It was probably with
And it looks like I am an idiot again.
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8. |
Cold Feet Kingdom
06:01
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Tricked into carpooling across a burning wasteland.
How am I so cold when it so fucking hot out?
In the snow later I’ll probably be bored and just sit on my hands.
Everybody else is having fun but me.
I am the biggest drag I know.
But everyone here sees the best in me.
I’m smart and witty
With an artificial heart that’s weirdly real
But I feel too much to reap what I constantly have sown.
Sledding down the hill
But I was crying beforehand
So I don’t know what I’m gonna do when my head explodes.
When I hit that pole I’ll probably change my personality.
I’ve been wanting to for a while.
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Hugging before words.
At the time it was the best
But looking back it now seems like it was the worst.
How did I miss the red flags flapping right in my face?
A paper note goes flying in my line of sight
I think I’ve got this.
I think I can handle the heat of the moment.
The note was in some other language when you wrote it.
Letters shaped like hieroglyphs
And symbols shaped like floating balloons.
Trying to decode how you’re acting is a child’s cartoon.
I like the look.
I like the colors.
I like everything.
But are all of your intentions exactly what I think they are?
Or have I been set up with insincere thoughts written by Hallmark?
Am I living in a holiday that lasts forever?
I guess I will know if you start putting glitter on your letters.
Now the letters stop ending vaguely
They now have question marks.
I thought you’d never ask
So finally we’ve got a great start.
But cut to one day later
There is too much turbo so you’re on the mend.
Cut to one year later
You want to do it all again.
So I guess this is just how it’s going to be.
We’d rather be a label for one month
Than be loved for one day
And we’d rather have plastic surgery on our scars
Than show other people evidence that we’ve lived hard
My face is plastic and bloodied.
Just like the oath that I took on your one day greeting card.
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10. |
Hilarious Murder
07:31
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Dolphins talking to me
At first I didn’t believe them.
It took me to look myself
To realize they knew what they were talking about.
Sure enough what they said came true
Right to fruition.
Even though I would leave soon
I made a promise to myself
To embark on a mission.
But like always I wasn’t clear with myself
So I might as well had called the mortician at that point.
A bad position again.
Do I know how to disappoint myself or what?
Despite the burning feeling inside of my guts.
Screw it.
Maybe I’ve got a chance.
Oh shit this is happening.
It’s past the first glance.
At second glance this is really happening.
I beat out the dolphins.
King of the mountain.
That is what they will be calling me soon.
But let’s conclude.
Oh wait.
You said never mind.
This was a joke.
It was a joke.
You were kidding.
Like Schwarzenegger’s corpse as Mr. Freeze
My self esteem froze up and got murdered.
I have a sense of humor about myself
But when the funniest thing that ever happened to me
Was when I fell in a venus fly trap
Do you blame me?
How the hell did you think I would react?
And so I look down
And all I see is navy blue.
What the hell is wrong with you?
And when I look up all I see is sea-foam green.
What the hell is wrong with me?
And I look up again and sea-foam’s now just nothing.
Do you think that means there’s something wrong with me?
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11. |
Candy For Breakfast
04:32
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This is all just blurred.
Friend and acquaintance is the difference
Between ISIS and Kurd to an American.
Outside it’s close enough
So I guess I’ll just take it at face value.
So should we connect sometime?
Or should I find the nearest bridge to jump off?
I can’t tell.
I can’t tell what other people’s intentions are very well anymore.
Oh, what’s that?
You want me to rank you 1 to 10?
This is the part where I choose a random number.
Okay, how about 6?
And there I go.
Sixty percent is still more than half.
Don’t you know?
If only the only thing that I’m conservative with wasn’t communication.
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12. |
Learning to Recycle
05:13
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Two faces meeting
Forming semi-circles in the chins.
Both born to have a rough time
But this would be a win-win
If it really happened.
So let’s just let it happen.
Dominance can’t happen.
This has to be a teamwork thing.
Subtle is the best
Like how in a food fight you lightly fling.
I think this is how you’re supposed to think.
You have to look at the world like it is clearly two different things.
Like an urge and an angel’s wing.
I think.
Or am I the king of urges
Or do I just have an urge to be king?
Or are those both the same thing?
I don’t know who I should blame.
If you’re so informed
Why don’t you follow through?
If you’re so enlightened
Why don’t you take some time to check your information?
But I’ll never hold that against you.
I am a green arrow in your orbit
All I do is repeat myself.
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13. |
Yeah, Nah
01:16
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Yeah, no thanks.
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Kentuckyoming
08:22
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A fearsome foursome I’m a part of
Or so that I thought.
I am way behind in every aspect of curriculum
That’s being taught.
If learning Spanish is my gauge in life
I will be mediocre.
Something half the world masters
Couldn’t be more foreign to me.
If the start of love is saying hi
I wave to you but you don’t see me.
Two little letters everyone can say
But I throw my arm up 30 feet away
And sometimes 50.
But maybe in some other life
I roll my r’s a little harder.
I forget guitar
And exchange one useless skill for another
And you’re impressed by that.
But maybe this is me having my mid life crisis now
And I will thrive when I am 45
And maybe you’re the opposite.
When I’m content in 9 to 5
You file some papers on me because you need more fire in your life
So maybe that was possible.
A 100% chance of a 50% chance of happily ever after.
These thoughts all crept up on me.
I had an epiphany in the woods by myself in a flyover state.
I was so mesmerized by all the natural beauty I started to wonder if I missed fate.
Fate might have let me down but I can’t help but throw an armchair Hail Mary.
Potential permanence can seem so temporary as an afterthought.
And I’ll be thinking of late fate right up until the day I drop.
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15. |
Stop at the Green
03:00
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I am robbing myself to pay no one.
And Peter thought he got the shitty end of the stick.
I got a green light but I hit the brakes.
You could throw the whole world at me
But I’d never catch it.
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16. |
Fuck It, I Guess
02:30
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The bull bit the bullet
And now he’s gonna be a calf forever.
The calf got cut in half
And now he’ll be a zombie for eternity.
The zombie comes to see me
Every time I look in the mirror
Just fuck it I guess, though.
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