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Hedonic Damage
03:32
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reaching back to my breaking point again
panicking like slipping into
an old pair of shoes
becoming someone that I was
it was a reflection in the mirror of the car
of the sunset dipping below
golden wisconsin, i was halfway in my dreams
and now it feels like
hedonic damage, hedonic damage
I dont recall agreeing to this life
I’ve been gliding by, trying hard
to hear that lesson’s sound
it’s not something you write down
but who will pay my crystalizing debt
who will settle the balance
for the good that’s in my life
and how can I get that back
it always feels like
hedonic damage, hedonic damage
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2. |
Unperceived
02:49
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counting down until the times up
looking over at the other side
push against it in the morning
show me something I can’t describe
my intuition is revealing
a mirror held up to the sky
I try to capture the feeling
I don’t know why
why can’t I be
unperceived
what can’t i believe
what I seee
why can’t I be
unperceived
what can’t i believe
what I see
there is no reason to wander
through the ashes
if you’ve been sifting through
every single last perception
but the way the light seems to
cling to outer layers
while something dodges divination
voiding in the center youll see
why can’t I be
unperceived
what can’t I believe
what I see
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3. |
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I really can’t explain what had come over me
It’s like I wasn’t there but driving from the backseat
I’m not that type of guy but everybody can change
Isn’t that what you said when you called me again
now I was in a rut, not my finest of course
I didn’t what came first: the cart or the horse
but you seemed kind of down with my emotional place
wouldn’t you be surprised that blew up in our face…s
the opposite of dodging a bullet
the opposite of dodging a bullet
okay you know what they say: everything shall pass
but then they also say it’s the memory that lasts
you treated me kinda bad but I was kind of an ass
a subject upon which I could teach a grad class
now in retrospect we both should have been alone
just nursing our own wounds and tending our broken bones
but instead we tried to do some alchemy
not the best track record in history
the opposite of dodging a bullet
the opposite of dodging a bullet
so what does it mean, “the opposite of dodging a bullet”
well, I think it means something like “dodging something that you need”
well, wouldnt the “opposite of dodging a bullet” just be “taking a bullet”
I guess you can look at it that way
either way it’s not so good
the opposite of dodging a bullet
the opposite of dodging a bullet
[tf2 minigun sound]
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4. |
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a golden look, a stolen glance
if I could only find the time to be myself
I didnt ask to
you didnt ask, too
take a ruby
in your left hand
walk ten paces
from where you stand
drop to the ground
once you reach down
in the soft earth
let the stone drown
now repeat it
twice for good luck
find your footing
if you get stuck
dont you want to
yes i want to
dont I want too
yes i want you
and now I’m pulled into the portal of your voice
and how I’d choose it if I even had a choice
it hardly matters
it doesnt matter
If there was magic strong enough to let me go
I’d do all that I could to ruin it’s approach
I think I like it
who even asked you
take the locket
from your pocket
throw it to me
i’ll unlock it
walk to the pier
despite your fear
in the ocean
I will appear
now repeat it
twice for good luck
say it with me
if you get stuck
don’t you want to
yes I want to
dont I want too
yes I want you
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5. |
Mirrors & Doors
02:41
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what is your name
scoop out my brains
I dont remember inviting you
to mess me up
to mess me up
“jed understood that information
should never be allowed to accumulate
for too long like desires
and become a static form.
information should constitute
the thinnest possible coating
on paintings, sculptures,
deserted public plazas, and airports” -TAN LIN
i’m just two mirrors
pointed at each other
there’s nothing in-between
but empty space
i messed it up
i messed it up
(again) (okay)
what is the deal
with dating these days?
is it designed to make you go
clinically insane?
and when you’ve had your fill
you wait by the door
behind that: another door,
the same one as before,
just mirrors and doors
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6. |
Slug Tutorial
00:48
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welcome to slug tutorial
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7. |
Contemporary Poetics
02:46
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here’s what I get when I choose to ignore them
music and food and wine and boredom
their eyes will be the first to go
because they only see the names they know
but hey, whatever happened to just taking a walk
and living entire decades on pause
I think I want that for myself
don’t write about your mental health because
contemporary poetics
you got me in a jam
contemporary poetics
get yourself a company man
thank you for sending your terrible poems
I hope they end up in very good homes
but where is your ivy pedigree
and why don’t you pay the submission fee
well I dont think I want to play those games
you suck my best lines with your fangs
and put them on your wordpress site
your villanelle is my kryptonite because
contemporary poetics
you got me in a jam
keep it light, once more it’s
contemporary poetics
get yourself a company man
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8. |
Way Down
03:51
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down the county road
warm beers in our hands
where the faded palm trees
start to bend
we wanted to lookout
but nothing like that there
so we sat where
nobody had been
just old roadside garbage
again
then it went
down down way down
down down way down
down down way down
down down way down
time it passes fast
but it doesn’t leave a mark
that part is left up to us
you spoke of the past year
in some kind of code
until you told me that
I should go
well this aint my first rodeo
I always stay for the end
of the show
and then we went
down down way down
down down way down
down down way down
down down way down
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9. |
No One Knows
03:35
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me, a pocketful of change
always adding up the same
never found a place to land
always parachute to plane
from plane to parachute
you, and your funny little soul
golden starlight brimming lungs
glide across the glassy field
put your words onto my patient tongue
‘cause all I know is
I dont know
no one knows
you, you’ll draw your arrow from the deer
and whisper to my scattering fear
the words I heard, the words were
I dont know, no one knows
search your heart, you know I’m not lying
say it’s so, repeat it slow
the mission starts so hit the ground running
don’t look back, counterattack
you turned the page I watched your finger
tremble in air, you turned towards me
you looked me down and thats when you told me
no one knows (x4) go
it doesnt matter what they say
I still built it anyway
dont take it away
go ahead and take it away
no dont take it away
go ahead and take it away
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I’m not doing having beautiful days
I’m not doing having beautiful days
when I walk through the mountain thrush
when you stood there in my doorway
it made me blush, that’s a feeling I like
I’m not doing having beautiful days
I swear, I’m not done having beautiful days
I’ll scrape as many as I can from the bottom
of the river
when I walk through the marketplace
when a child smiles at me with a sunburned face
I swear i’m not done having beautiful days
I swear
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