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St. Bonaventure
03:51
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Still swinging on my vine
Still getting up every day
Keep from brooding, keep it moving
To the end of the week
Helps having something on
Something keeping me occupied
David Attenborough episodes
So much I didn't know
Queen bee ruling her colony
Even she needs a little sleep
Even leo, watching his pride
Has got to shut his eyes sometimes
Helps turning something off
Helps getting out of here
Posting up on the cathedral steps
And breathing the warm air
Meant to write down
What I was feeling in the moment
Thinking "man, you better get it just like it was
Or else you're gonna forget it"
I heard they were tearing down
St. Bonaventure
There I was, glaring at my phone
Thinking I'm gonna owe you forever
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2. |
What's the Move
02:49
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What's the move baby?
You're here again with your earbuds in
What were you thinking?
What's the news baby?
I hear you again laughing in the kitchen
What am I missing?
What's the move baby?
You're here again like you need something
Every day we're hovering
Just wanting that feeling again
You get up to close both windows
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3. |
Blue Canoe
00:20
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Hank
04:22
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Sweaty hands, reduced precision
Waiting on the fan with the slow rotation
Frayed starter cord and rusty nailheads
Crud between the boards and musty cobwebs
Everything you've got that isn't busted yet
Is wearing down every time you use it
What an ugly thought I was thinking
Gripped by a fear of no discernable beginning
Hammering down is how I've been getting through
Strongarming life is my bonehead tried and true
No fixing it for good, but there could be just enough
It's running today, and maybe that's long enough
What an ugly thought I was thinking
Both of us showing zero signs of relenting
I'm usually lost and I've got precious little finesse
But I'm still the boss, I'm still tougher than the rest
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5. |
Chomp Chomp
03:52
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White vans, cold lips
Drinking from a jäger nip
Red tail on the hunt
Field mice better run
Cold world, isn't it
Doesn't seem to wanna quit
Taking a bite out of you
White vans, purple vee
Light wash holey jeans
Red tail on the hunt
Looking out for number one
Cold world won't relent
You're still working on your big project
Of loving the stranger, loving the stranger
Love is the stranger everywhere you go
White vans, brown eyes
I gave you lousy advice
Thinking I knew you best
But I'm totally clueless
Volunteer bodyguard
As if anything could stop your heart
From loving the stranger, from loving the stranger
Love is the stranger everywhere you go
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6. |
Love's
00:55
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7. |
No Way
03:49
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Did I peep the autumn leaves? Look up even once?
Or has it always been we notice different stuff?
Wire’s lonely now, the crows have peaced
Is it dew or tears hanging on the leaves?
Trembling yellow leaves move with the rain
Or is it just a trick playing my sucker brain?
Wire’s lonely now, the crows have peaced
Is it dew or tears hanging on the leaves?
No way am I asking where the love we had went
Because I’m totally unprepared for the answer I’d get
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8. |
Alive Twice
02:49
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Under your eyeball spell, I was losing myself
Not in the good way you used to talk about
I remember a day, Cedar Park Cafe
I was in a bad place and you set me straight
With your on-the-nose advice
Walking around with you or just hanging out in your room
Didn’t matter what we got up to, every minute with you
Was like being alive twice
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9. |
Quickchek
00:30
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10. |
Ramekin
03:38
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Ramekin with the grape jelly remnants
Recalling sticky resentment
Earbuds spitting your voice into my head
No choice but believing
You basically wrote the manual
Handbook for deceiving
Ramekin with the grape jelly remnants
Recalling a sweet dependence
Apathy joins me in the booth
Old familiar feeling
You basically wrote the manual
Proven steps for dealing
Soaking in my briny defiance
Famously over-analyzing
Where I would've been without your love
In the alternate version
I maybe would've had a more open heart
But there's no way of confirming
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11. |
Mr. Chill
03:11
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Between now and quitting time
Between then and six A.M.
Catch me climbing out
Of a deep, deep pit
Hanging on by a threat
That could be cut in an instant
Folks come around and lower buckets
What can a poor kid do to keep busy?
Because I still need to love this little world
I didn’t realize I was hanging out with Mr. Chill
You be real with me and I’ll be real with you
I’ve been picking up heavy things
And putting them down
Relying on the kindness of strangers
Heading out to the bountiful fields
And coming back empty-handed
Back at my place you’ll find
A room full of buckets
What can a poor kid do to keep busy?
Because I still need to love this little world
I can tell you stuff I can’t tell anyone else
Because you don’t threaten to help
I can tell you stuff I can’t tell anyone else
Because you don’t threaten to help
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12. |
UDF
01:04
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13. |
Ryde
03:44
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In the grass between the lanes
How wide is the range?
You lied to me and you hurt me bad
But you stuck around when I was a drag
And at the gas station in Virginia you got me a shirt that said
“Ryde 'til I die”
In the grass between the lanes
How wide is the range?
You don’t hold me in place
That's why I can't get away
And the card you got me at the Camden Rite Aid
Said "be mine"
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14. |
Season
02:49
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Crushed dixie cup, pushed your luck
Rolling the shade up, holding your breath
Buds peeking out of the black cherry boughs
Careful you don’t burn ‘em down with your stare of death
Crushed dixie cup, all used up
You trust your gut and your gut lies
Pink turning brown on the black cherry boughs
Falling to the ground
What could that possibly symbolize?
Baby, it’s not enough being right
You’ve got to prove it all your life
How to hang on to the love you get
And how to make it stretch
How to keep doing the things you should
How to hang on to the days you felt good
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15. |
Kum & Go
00:43
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16. |
Ugly Little Victory
03:27
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Salmon head in the sink, wax paper turning pink
Music playing low and you on your phone
Loading up a recipe
I'm starting to hear something on somewhere
The cooking show where they cut to the bone
For an ugly little victory
My brain is doing laps, setting the usual traps
So I went outside to check out the sky
See the moon looking silvery
I need solitude and I also need you
It sucks when it ends and it sucks when it has no end
What an irritating mystery
Kitchen turning pink, my brain was on the blink
So I took it outside to check out the sky
The lights come on automatically
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17. |
Smooth Pursuit
03:07
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Only a nose hair away from inner peace today
When a car alarm through the window came
More horns than usual, long and atonal
Maybe a funeral
"I," said the dove, "mourn for my love"
Down here we're all a wreck
Showing some respect
Lacking smooth pursuit, relearning stuff I swore I knew
The big shadow only grew
"Your guess," said the fly, "is as good as mine"
Down here in the greasy mess
Hoping for the best
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