1. |
Another Skin
02:38
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I landed in my body for a time tonight
I stretched my skin out and began to come alight
Moving with a sense of comfort and ease
But in a moment my agility would leave
My heart’s not pounding
My guts aren’t churning
Could everyone see me evaporate again?
Is it convincing when I fake presence and stand?
I think I’m sliding with my back against the wall
The light behind my eyes not shining at all
My speech is muted
My thoughts polluted
The ghost that haunts my lungs pipes up again
She says to find another skin
Would you recognize this form, sweet friend,
If I could turn it outside in?
I smash the mirror I’d been lost in for a while
Rejoin the crowd and try too hard to crack a smile
Regain my balance, I can pull through the hour
If I stay on my feet, I’ll start to feel less dour
My head now spinning
These faces grinning
You know, I tried to make it over to you
That giant glut of bodies wouldn’t let me through
And endless loop of things we wish we could express
A common shapelessness we can’t seem to address
Our brains are yearning
These bodies turning
The ghost that haunts my lungs pipes up again
She says to find another skin
Will you recognize this form, sweet friend,
When I can turn it outside in?
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2. |
Veins
03:08
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I keep your name off my tongue
Oh, but it's planted deep in my mind
My gut still filled with a thousand explosions
From the moment when our words rhymed
Stepping back to laugh and sigh
At the absurdity of this all
I watch the shimmering moon
Oh, does it grasp your eye like mine?
One evening can contain all of the phases
And the daybreak can take all time
We can stay together for a while
Alive, unraveled, losing time
But it'd all be in veins
The circles that we both run
Around each other stay incomplete
What can test our commitment to it?
A pattern we'll always keep
I need to sleep but the dream won't let me go
When the sunlight moves my blood, I'll know
[refrain]
(you're inside my veins)
So tired, feel you move from the chest, up the spine
(you're inside my veins)
And into the brain, behind the eyes so scleras will be red by morning,
(you're inside my veins)
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3. |
Turf
02:33
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I was caught out of disguise
My poor planning gone awry
I'd only just then been unearthed
A few seconds prove my worth to this scene now
I'm moving, ooh I'm shaking
These sirens' voices overtaking
The sound walls me off and now it's making
Me reconsider - which rule am I breaking?
I'd avoid your turf
If I could step away
Away
Now I'm quite the sight to see
A few daggers stuck in me
But what you threw at such close range
Won't make contact, no matter how near you came
I'm still moving but I'm not shaken
Voices swirl but now they're fading
I'm moving freely and not paying
Attention to all the rules that I'm breaking
This is not your turf
And I won't step away
You'll have nothing else
To say
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4. |
Locker Room Talk
02:33
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Getting older, moving to the city
No more creek in my backyard
But all the girls here are so pretty
All the boys shout from their cars
So much time I spent preparing
To grow up and make money
Maybe my life has a purpose
Besides to start a family
I wanna feel safe at night
Walking all alone under the city lights
Don't pay attention to what they say
It's just part of life, you'll learn one day
Getting older, my body is changing
As natural as can be
But all the boys are complaining
How much larger my breasts could be
When did it become perfectly acceptable
To laugh and degrade something so natural?
When did my body become a spectacle
For you to make better with plastic and chemicals?
I wanna feel safe at night
Keep my door locked, stay inside
Don't pay attention to what they say
It's locker room talk, you'll learn one day
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5. |
Asexualish
03:14
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Can we tell each other what nobody knows?
That we can't seem to feel it, but just keep on dancing
Dance until our limbs no longer work
Just our brains still remain, but connections stay glancing
When our eyes lock
I wish they could unlock this tethered sensation
Everything I see is just a figment of my imagination
Like a prism in a dark room
No sense of recovery; I wonder...
Ooh, can he make me feel
Like I'm not asexual?
Now our hands get busy pulling at the knots
That sit in our stomachs, protecting our insides
Frustration's creeping up behind your eyes
Oh, but the night's just as lovely, can we still be satisfied?
When our eyes lock...
Ooh can she make feel
Like I'm not asexual?
Ooh can they make me feel
Like I'm not asexual?
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6. |
Chop Me Up
03:38
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I was mad and locked away
But I've escaped onto the street
Wind blowing through my hair
Ground feels good beneath my feet
But I flew too high,
Now I swoop too low
Every time I step outside
I have to dig deep for resolve
Composure flutters from my mind
I'm just to raw to deal at all
When a small man
Says a small thing
I go tumbling
In a big way
Circumstance compels me 'round
To the meat market downtown
Chop me up, chop me up
One of many on display
Come and get your slice today
Chop me up, chop me up
Butcher me into cuts to take home
Voices that can never know
Asking can't you let it go?
Chop me up, chop me up
May not be mean but you sure are rude
Help me find an escape from you
You're dodging daggers from the stares
And wondering why you're there
But you sprung from the ground,
Like they did from a head
Trying to absorb it all
Gotta keep on walking tall
Chop me up, chop me up
Nothing's gonna break my stride
Gonna keep my head held high
Chop me up, chop me up
Circumstance compels me 'round...
They say a girl can dream
Allow me just one scream?
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7. |
The Swamp
03:47
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On the edge of
The swamp just sitting
With a look befitting
A monster to keep you out
If you feel in,
I'd try to help you, but I should tell you
That I may puncture through
You
Air is heavy
But I'm still breathing
With some dry heaving
Every now and then
They all pass me by
No one comes near me
And they should fear me
As madness swims below
Oh
Ooh, think that I can hear a songbird
Out in the distance, so far away
Ooh, I'm still hoping that she'll come near
And sing her song for me one day
Sunlight rains down
Lord knows I need it
And I want to feel it
But it's so much that I can't move
So, I'm stagnant.
Just looking around, lying flat on the ground
At least for the afternoon
Ooh
Anyone can be the songbird
We can change roles from day to day
Ooh, but I've been living in the swamp so long
Oh, please don't look at me that way
I'm exhausted and exhausting
But I know, darling, most of all
I'm exhausting
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8. |
Dancing Around/About
03:26
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My memory throws me back into
That clouded house up on a mountain
Oh, but I can't recognize who I
Was there
The mist
So thick we couldn't see each other
Those paths were made from
Secrets past
Feels like forever we danced around
Those woods
Were not enchanted, they were haunted
Brimming with what you
Cast out
Now I'm a
Manifestation of what's lurking
Another ghost for you
To ignore
Feels like forever we danced around
But the steps don't stay the same
Those rigid movements can't keep me bound
Now you can't say my name
Are you passing down a curse?
Well, I don't know
But my being, I can't reverse
Can't dance around it anymore
No more
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9. |
To the Waltz
01:47
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C'est la vie
Most things are over before they start
Make yourself believe
That things fall apart
Oh, I know
How these patterns grow
Contract and expand
With our guiding hand
I can't complain, I know it's true
I wrote these steps out with you
I didn't recognize it 'til
We were mid-routine and I stood still
While you dropped my hand,
Walked through the crowd,
Gave a smile, a wave and left for good
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10. |
No Bodies
04:21
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I know I've fooled myself before
But this got too loud to ignore
That ghost won't haunt me anymore
But I've got feelings still to flatten
I tell myself I'm doing fine
That I'm not running out of time
That I can leave if I'm inclined
And if I'm sinking, I can't feel it
I fell in-
to an anxiety trap
Had to climb out on my own
With no bodies in my entourage
All we've got
These vessels in which we reside
These things we didn't ask for
Oh, these bodies that keep us on the earth
I'd never deign to
Engender
The mess that it makes
To leave it behind
I'd rather wait 'til
It expires
And hope when it does
That I'm done, too
All we can do
Is make the best of these forms
These shapes that we've been assigned
Will define how we're to be perceived
Anxieties
Will make our beauty marks
And we'll try hard to stay proud
Though no bodies can ever truly explain
I'd never deign to...
Your angles crush me through the floor
Now I'm just blood and guts and gore
I'll need two days, or three, or four
To rearrange my vital organs
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