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Soft Like Gold
05:00
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In loaded darkness
Under fake stars
The weary velvet glows
And time is soft like gold
And time is soft like gold
I paint the backdrops
Weekends and nights
While you run lines
Imagine you’re just so
Imagine you’re just so
In the darkness of the back room
You can feel your feelings grow
There’s a sign says what the date is
Like I don’t already know
In the cool eye of the mirror
I will work on a little close lipped smile
That night I dream I’m
Hired to clean
The windows of your room
And everything goes dark
And everything goes dark
And I weave between the tables
Like an eagle through the trees
And I land before your family
And your eyes lock onto me
And I’m handing you your menu
And there’s teardrops in your eyes
And you say I think we’re ready
And I say yeah so am I
There’s a window in the bathroom
There’s a deer on the other side
There’s a number on the napkin
There’s a number on the napkin
There’s a number on the napkin
Just so
Just so
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2. |
Newborn Feelings
04:38
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Redinaw is burning
I lean on the bathroom door
See Arizona like
Never before
Metal haunts the desert
And the orchestra just tunes
I part the blinds
And I glare at the dunes
Oh girl you move me oh girl you do
You wrote your number
On my hand
I made a fist of it
Won’t open it again
Caught in the shadow
Of your wings
I miss the coverall
And the little peace it brings
In the rude light of long bars
Newborn feelings
Writing you a letter
Up against the steering wheel
Softly it honks and I
Know how it feels
Tryna hold the car keys
Trembling like an old cartoon
I try to think
Of the trash on the moon
Oh girl you move me oh girl you do
I found your lipstick
In my bag
Too soon to throw it out
Too late to give it back
Know how your heart hangs
From a string
I touch the telephone
And I try to make it ring
And it’s always all night now
Newborn feelings
I locked the door
And I slid down to the tiles
Slip in the bedsheets
Heavy restless child
Pile your jackets upon me
I don’t mind
You’re glad to see me
What a line
I’ve fallen for that one
Way way too many times
Try on the perfume
And it clings
Light on the evergreens
And I wanna cue the strings
On the dark roads of square states
Newborn feelings
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3. |
Flowers in the Rain
03:54
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Black tea
You breathe the steam
I say your name
What is that screaming
It’s flowers in the rain
Dreamt I was flying
Baby I can’t land
No one understands
No one understands
Great Lakes and sheets of rain
It’s meant to be
You grab your handbag
Zip it angrily
Watch where you’re going
You could go too far
Kissing in the car
Kissing in the car
Flowers in the rain
Flowers in the rain
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4. |
Sleep With The Light On
04:49
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The baby grand piano boy
Lost his mind inside the ballad
Hard to find the midnight valid
You better burn it in your mind
Bleeding hearts and heartless no’s
I’m so scared of uplit faces
And how windowless this place is
Better to burn it in your mind
The singer squints his light brown eyes
My the wind is really blowing
And your confidence is growing
And it is lonely out tonight
I gotta find
Something blank I can write on
Oh I sleep with the light on
Train your eyes on the dance floor
All my friends getting married
Oh I’m not getting married
On the floor train your eyes
My blazer pockets are so shallow
And my confidence is broken
And you’re all so softly spoken
And I am spoken for tonight
In the quiet of my suit
In the arms of leading ladies
Baby grand piano baby
You better burn it in your mind
I gotta find
Something blank I can write on
Oh I sleep with the light on
Train your eyes on the dance floor
All my friends getting married
Oh I’m not getting married
On the floor train your eyes
Someone’s dime you can dine on
I gotta find something soft to lie on
Train your eyes on the dance floor
All my friends getting married
Oh I’m never getting married
On the floor train your eyes
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5. |
Plastic Tiara
03:15
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Blue eyes flicker in a sudden dawn
A sudden dawn and you’re all pins and ribbons
Shadows yawn in the wind in the dead of the night
Your heads heavy and your heart is full
Your heart is full like a fist full of jewelry
Love is cruel and unruly and you’re out of time
There are knives in the cupboard and cats in the jungle
Cats in the jungle cats in the jungle
Hear when it roars but feel when it rumbles
Feel when it rumbles feel when it rumbles
In the mirror is a little girl
A little girl in a plastic tiara
You don’t know her you are her you’re at it tonight
Bright red ribbon on a Christmas gift
A Christmas gift on the seat of a Honda
Rumble strip when you drift cause she’s haunted your mind
Cause she’s haunted your mind
Now those people out there have driven for miles
Driven for miles driven for miles
Teeth in your mouth and deer in the wild
Deer in the wild deer in the wild
Swallow the tears you’ll ruin your makeup
Ruin your makeup ruin your makeup
Run at the wall and maybe you’ll wake up
Maybe you’ll wake up maybe you’ll wake up
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6. |
Phantom of the Halfpipe
03:16
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Lifelike
Ghostlike
Childlike
Flowers in the wild like
Faces on the news
I speak
In faint
Rainbows
When we wear the same clothes
Don’t know which is you
I can hear your sneakers on the gravel
I can hear the blinking of your eyes
I can hear the hissing of the skateboards
The hissing of the skateboards
Is closer all the time
Tail light
Porch light
Fire light
Voices through a wire like
How can that be true
In my
Smoke-filled
Kitchen
Sweating all decisions
Murdering the mood
Can you hear my finger touch the doorbell?
Can you hear the blinking of my eyes?
Can you hear the hissing of the skateboards?
The hissing of the skateboards
Is pulling at my mind
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7. |
Off White
04:52
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Oh we miscounted
And now we’re surrounded
And the sun sets in the dust
And this saddle isn’t mine
And these boots just aren’t me
The color’s very flattering
But the leather doesn’t breathe
And I’m on the phone with my heart tonight
And I wanna know what your kiss is like
And I put a drop in my open eyes
And I want it white but it’s all
Off white
Somebody push me
I love when you shush me
Cause the hair stands on my arms
And the dishwasher is done
And my heart beats very slow
You hand me bowls and cutting boards
But I don’t know where they go
And I’m on the phone with my heart tonight
And I wanna know what your kiss is like
And I put a drop in my open eyes
And I want it white but it’s all
Off white
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8. |
Bulb on a Wire
03:55
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Like a tooth full of gold
Like a pale yellow moon
Like a bulb on a wire
Like a bulb on a wire
Like the room of balloons
They were helium filled
But they’re eye level now
But they’re eye level now
All right I’m here who’s in charge
All my matters still at large
Touch my hand and tell me what to do
Not only am I upset
I’m upset and overdressed
Pumpkins rotting ruining the view
Like a tooth full of gold
Like a lunar event
Like a bottomless drink
Like a bottomless drink
Like a home video
Of a blur of a night
That you wish you erased
That you wish you erased
God you’re nice pretty and smart
I’m not I fall far apart
Pumpkins rotting ruining the view
All night long I try to sleep
Sleep is no sweet treat for me
Touch my hand and tell me what to do
It’s a cold halloween
And the princesses whine
And you’re glad you’re a ghost
And you’re glad you’re a ghost
And a heart is a bulb
And a camera’s an eye
And if nobody knows
And if nobody knows
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9. |
Nervous Wreck Today
03:57
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Dry white heat tonight
And a rabbit on TV
The mirror makes the room big
The rumor rises out the door
And I have no way
And I have no way
You wait by the car
In the summer with wet hair
A meadow in the background
A sweater with an open weave
And I have no way
And I have no way
And I have no way
And oh the room
So clean
Like Edison had lit it in a dream
Everybody laughs
And everybody looks at me
I’m a nervous wreck today Denise
I’m a nervous wreck today Denise
Now it shakes the walls
And I turn the TV high
You love it when the moon is
A sliver in the afternoon
And I have no way
And I have no way
Everything is closer than it seems
The sentiment of love
The ragged edge of my long waking dream
I’m a nervous wreck today Denise
I’m a nervous wreck today Denise
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