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TAKE ME BY THE ARM TO THE ALTAR, TAKE ME BY THE COLLAR TO THE CLIFF, TAKE ME BY THE WAIST TO THE WATER, TAKE ME BY THE HAIR TO THE FERRIS WHEEL, TAKE ME BY THE WRIST TO THE RIVER, TAKE ME BY THE BRAID DOWN TO MY GRAVE. LOVE IS SELFISH, LOVE GOES TIC-TOC-TIC, LOVE KNOWS JESUS, APPLES & ORANGES. IT'S A ZOO IN YOUR ROOM WHEN YOU PART YOUR LIPS & YOU LONG TO KISS LIKE YOU WON'T EXIST COME THE MORNING TIME, COME THE SUNRISE. & ALL I'D LIKE TO DO THIS AFTERNOON IS TO DRAG THE MATTRESS UP TO THE ROOF: HUSHED TONES IN THE EARS OF THE AIRPLANE NEXT TO YOU. LET'S CRAWL ALL OVER ONE ANOTHER LIKES CROWS ON A CARCASS, LIKE ANTS ON A CRUMB STARVING ONLY STARVING ONLY FOR THE TASTE OF TONGUES. LOVE IS SELFISH, LOVE GOES TIC-TOC-TIC, LOVES KNOWS JESUS, APPLES AND ORANGES. TAKE ME BY THE ARM TO THE ALTAR, TAKE ME BY THE COLLAR TO THE CLIFF, TAKE ME BY THE WAIST TO THE WATER, TAKE ME BY THE HAIR TO THE FERRIS WHEEL, TAKE ME BY THE WRIST TO THE RIVER, TAKE ME BY THE BRAID DOWN TO MY GRAVE.
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Aubergine [REMASTERED]
04:11
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WELL I BLED BLUE BLOOD FROM MY BACK LAST NIGHT, I WAS ALONE. AUBERGINE SHEETS ON MY BED NOW, OH NO. & YOUR BLUE EYES LIE JUST LIKE AN ATLAS IN THOSE SOCKETS, YEAH YOUR BLUE EYES CRY MAPWATER WHEN YOU'RE SORRY, OH SO SORRY. YOU WITH THE NAPE THAT HOLDS MY GAZE, YOU WITH THE TONGUE THAT SPEAKS MY NAME, YOU WITH THE ARMS THAT KEEP ME AT LENGTH, YOU WITH THE HEART THAT WON'T SHOW ITS FACE. & JESUS SUCKS THE MUD OUT OF YOUR SOUL, BUT THE FLAME IN MY EYE, IT'S GONE BLUE & COLD & YOU RISKED YOUR WRIST TO SAVE MY LIFE & I SHOULD HAVE KISSED YOU THAT NIGHT BUT IT AIN'T RIGHT, OH NO. ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW, ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK, YOU MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK. ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW, ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW, MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK, YOU MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK. I WAS UNBORN WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I WAS UNBORN WHEN I WAS YOUNGER BUT I WAS REBUILT WHEN YOU SPOKE, I AWOKE WHEN YOU SPOKE. YOU SAID, "THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON FOR LEAVING, THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON TO STAY; I KNOW EXACTLY WHY I'M LEAVING: I JUST CAN'T STAY." & I SAY, "I'LL GIVE YOU MY WHOLE SUMMER WHEN YOU UNFURL YOUR FINGERS. I WOULD BE LYING IF I SAID YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ME; YOU'RE TO BLAME FOR MY BEING THIS WAY, THIS WAY." YOU WITH THE NAPE THAT HOLDS MY GAZE, YOU WITH THE TONGUE THAT SPEAKS MY NAME, YOU WITH THE ARMS THAT KEEP ME AT LENGTH, YOU WITH THE HEART THAT WON'T SHOW ITS FACE.
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YOU ARE MY GRANDFATHER'S SON & FOR THAT REASON I NEED YOU NEARER & ON MY INSIDES I AM HAGGARD & ON SOME INSIDES THERE ARE VULTURES. IF THEY BEGIN TO RAVAGE YOUR LOVE DON'T COWER OR RUN FOR COVER. DON'T FEEL BAD, YOU'VE GOT TO DROWN OR SMOTHER THEM. & I CAN'T SAY WHETHER I BELIEVE HEARTS ARE CULTURED. CAN'T SAY WHETHER I CARE OR WHETHER IT MATTERS. MAYBE HEARTS ARE BETTER BITTER, BATTERED, FILTHY, VULGAR. MAYBE THAT'S WHY THE BROKEN LONELY ONES HOLD ON A LITTLE LONGER. BUT ALL I KNOW, ALL I KNOW IS I WANT TO SEE YOU I WANT TO SEE YOU SEE ALL THOSE COUNTRIES. MAYBE I'M MY OWN MOTHER & I WILL ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF MY BROTHER, BUT YOU ARE MY FAMILY NOW TOO. HOW I LOVED YOU THEN & HOW I WILL & HOW I DO.
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I'M A GHOST & YOU ALL KNOW IT. I'M SINGING SONGS & I AIN'T SLOWING. IT WAS A FRAGILE THING & I GODDAMN DROPPED IT. I PICKED THE PIECES UP & PUT THEM IN MY POCKET. & I AIN'T GONNA TRY TO WIN YOUR HEART THIS TIME. I'VE HAD SPACE TO THINK & I THINK THAT I'VE GROWN A LITTLE WISER. I'M LOOKING FOR A NEW MUSE YOU HAVE ONLY MADE ME TIRED. CALL YOUR BLUFF UP ON THE TELEPHONE & JAM-JAR MY BLOOD. THIS IS MY LOSS OF LIMB, MY LOSS OF LOVE. CALL YOUR BLUFF UP ON THE TELEPHONE & JAM-JAR MY BLOOD. THIS IS MY LOSS OF LIMB, MY LOSS OF LOVE. IT WAS SO COLD YOU COULD SEE BOTH SETS OF RIBS ALMOST ESCAPING YOUR SKIN TO FLY SOUTH, SOUTH UNTIL THE SPRINGTIME. YOUR HIPS STOOD OUT LIKE CONFIDENCE, YOU WERE NAKED AS A NEWBORN IN THE SNOW BUT YOU WANTED IT SO, THAT'S PRECISELY HOW YOU WANTED IT & NOW YOUR LOVE IS WRITING WORDS ON THE WALL WITH THE MEAT OF A NECTARINE THAT SHE PICKED EARLIER THAT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD & YOU ARE ON THE STREET, A CHEST OF DRAWERS FREE WHILE THE SKELETON PARADE MARCHES PAST YOU CARRYING BIRD BALLOONS. THEY FLY BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS. THE STREETS CAN BE EERIE, STREETS CAN BE DREARY. IT'S AS IF LEPROSY LANDED ON THE MOON & IT CAST A FILTHY GLOW IN THE WORLD & IN MY ROOM, IT'S AS IF LEPROSY IT LANDED ON THE MOON & IT CAST A FILTHY GLOW IN THE WORLD & IN MY ROOM SO HOW ABOUT I PLAY THE HARP & YOU PLAY THAT PIANO. PULL THE CURTAINS SHUT & NEST LIKE LITTLE SPARROWS. MY LIMBS, MY LOVE ARE LOST ON YOU. MY LIMBS, MY LOVE BELONG TO YOU. I REMEMBER THAT NIGHT IN THE WOODS ON THE HIDDEN BALANCE BEAM MADE OF A LONG WOODEN BOARD WITH A BARREL UNDERNEATH. WE LAID ON EITHER END & WE COULDN'T QUITE KNACK IT AFTER MANY ATTEMPTS & MINUTES OF SILENCE UNTIL WE DID. & OUR BREATH CAUGHT. & WE LOOKED UP. & THE STARS THEY WERE SO STILL, THE STARS THEY WERE SO STILL. BOTH OUR HEARTS THEY WERE REVEALED. OUR HEARTS THEY WERE REVEALED. & YOU WERE MY FRIEND. YOU WERE MY FRIEND. THIS IS MY LOSS OF LOVE MY LOSS OF LIMB THIS IS MY LOSS OF LOVE MY LOSS OF LIMB. BUT NOW I'M A GHOST AND YOU ALL KNOW IT. I'M SINGING SONGS & I AIN'T STOPPING. MY HAIR GREW LONG SO I FUCKING CUT IT & WHEN YOU LOOKED AWAY I STUCK THOSE TRIMMINGS IN YOUR LOCKET, HAHA.
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I CANNOT THINK OF THAT SONG WITH THIS MUSIC ON & I NEVER WANT TO GO BACK TO ARKANSAS EVEN IF YOU'VE GONE FROM THERE, EVEN IF YOU'VE GONE. YOU HANDLED ME LIKE AN INFANT SKULL & I CRADLED YOU LIKE A NEWBORN NIGHTMARE & I ALWAYS LONG, LONG TO GO BACK THERE: STRAIGHT BACK DOWN THE HALLWAY & UP THE STAIRS TO THAT BED. I ASKED THE DEER COULD THE HUNTER SHE HEAR COME A'CREEPIN, CREEPIN, CREEPIN, CREEPIN. I WHISPERED IN HER EAR SO SWEET & SINCERE BUT SHE WAS ALREADY DEAD ASLEEP & THE GROUND WHERE SHE LAY WAS RED, SOUR & STAINED & I KISSED HER, KISSED HER, KISSED HER BEFORE I TURNED AWAY & I NEVER WANT TO GO BACK THERE: DOWN THE PATH TO THE PLACE WHERE SHE LAY. WE CAN CLOSE OUR EYES & CRY OUT TO THE DARKNESS, THAT THERE IS STILL THIS LIGHT IN US, THERE IS THIS FIGHT TO FIND RIGHT WHERE WE BELONG. THIS RIBCAGE, IT IS A STAIRCASE, CLIMB IT TO MY IRIS YOU CAN LIVE THERE, YOU KNOW WHO I AM. YOU KNOW WHO I AM. I AM YOUR APPLE. SO OPEN UP THE BOOK & READ TO ME YOUR FAVORITE PASSAGE & KNOW THAT I WILL BE RIGHT HERE & I WILL LISTEN. I HEAR YOU & I HAVE HEARD YOU FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS.
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YOU LOVED ME BEST IN AN AIRPLANE; I SLEPT THE LENGTH OF THE ATLANTIC. WHEN I AWOKE, WE HAD LANDED. FOR DAYS ON END I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. HAD WE CRASHED INTO THE OCEAN. HAD WE PERISHED IN THE SEA. HAD THE MOUNTAIN HELD US CAPTIVE IN HIS JACKET, WELL GOD FORBID, I WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE WITH THAT. CAUSE IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME FROM THE LOOK THAT YOU GAVE WHEN YOU LEFT. YOUR LIPS SO FULL THAT I COULD CRY. YOUR LIPS SO FULL THAT I COULD CRY OUT MY SOCKETS, CRY OUT MY SOCKETS. YOUR EYES SO CLOSED THAT I COULD HIDE IN THE CLOSET, HIDE IN THE CLOSET. MY HEART SO POOR THAT I COULD WAIT FOR YOUR HANDS IN MY POCKETS. MY HEART SO BROKE THAT I COULD BEG FOR AFFECTION, BEG FOR AFFECTION. I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU; YOU ARE THE APPLE, YOU ARE THE APPLE. THE ALLIGATORS ARE HERE THEY'RE JUST UNDER THE WATER, UNDER THE WATER. YOU DEVOURED MY HEART, YOU DEVOURED MY HEART LIKE IT WAS STRAWBERRY CAKE AT A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, BUT I STILL NEED YOUR LOVE. I STILL NEED YOUR LOVE, I NEED YOUR LOVE. I STILL NEED YOUR TEETH ROUND MY ORGANS, I STILL NEED YOUR TEETH ROUND MY ORGANS. I STILL NEED YOUR LOVE FOR YOU ARE THE APPLE, YOU ARE THE APPLE.
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Mezzanine [REMASTERED]
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THERE'S A GHOST, GHOST IN THE MEZZANINE & SHE'S SOAKED, SOAKED IN A GLIMMERING SORT OF BONE, HER BONES & I'M BLATHERING FOR TO COUNT ALL HER FRECKLES TO KISS HER BARE ANKLES, THE BREATH OF THE BREAD WHILE IT BAKES. HOW I ACHE, I ACHE IN THE PIT OF ME, I AWAKE, AWAKE WITH THIS FEAR IN ME. HOW IT MAKES, MAKES A FOOL OUT OF ME; WITH ITS KNIFE HOW IT CARVES THE SEEDS OUT OF MY HEART FOR TO PLANT IN THE SOUL FOR TO FEAST. YOU ARE SWEET, SWEET AS A NECTARINE WHEN YOU SPEAK, SPEAK SOFTLY & GRACEFULLY; OH TO MEET YOU COULD QUITE POSSIBLY BE THE DEATH OF MY DREAD & THE SONGS IN MY HEAD WOULD AT LAST FIND THEIR PLACE AND BE SUNG.
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I'M NOT SURE HOW THESE MARKS CAME TO BE ON MY HEART; IN YOUR BED AS I SLEPT, WITH THE DEVIL HAD A BRAWL. WHEN I AWOKE, PRAYED TO GOD IT HAD BEEN BUT A DRAW. OH MY, WHAT MORE OF A MESS I WILL BE IF I'VE LOST. NOW I DREAM OF THE SKY RUNNING TOWARDS ME, LIQUID LIKE AN OCEAN. MY LITTLE BROTHER IS THERE & I CARRY HIM LIKE A NEWBORN. IT SEEMS I'M ALWAYS LIFTING HIM TO ESCAPE FROM RABID BEASTS AND STORMS. BEHIND MY EYELIDS HE IS LIGHT, HE'S THE WEIGHT OFA QUARTER BUT IN DAYLIGHT HE IS BROAD AND OLDER. OH LORD, CALL ME BACK, BACK TO YOU. I WILL COME. SEAL MY SOUL LIKE AN ENVELOPE, USE YOUR SPIT, LICK IT SHUT. BRING YOUR KNIVES, USE YOUR TOOLS, PERFORM OPEN HEART. THE WATER IS SCALDING, SO COLD THAT IT BURNS. BUT WHEN I LAY IN YOUR LIKENESS, HOW YOU SLAY ALL MY HURT, ALL MY HURT.
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I PRESSED MY EAR AGAINST YOUR BACK NOT EVEN A WEEK AFTER WE MET & I FELT YOUR HEARTBEAT FALL LIKE RAINDROPS IN A BUCKET. I USED TO HAVE A PRETTY NICE SPINE BUT I NEGLECTED TO GIVE IT A NAME SO EACH TIME I TRIED TO STRAIGHTEN IT, I COULDN'T GET ITS ATTENTION & I PLACED MY PALM UPON YOUR COLLARBONE & I WISHED TO FALL ASLEEP DEEP IN YOUR MARROW. AS GENTLY AS A MOUSE CURLED UP IN A BALL, AS GENTLY AS A MOUSE UNTIL TOMORROW. WE RIPPED OFF ALL OUR CLOTHES & THIS INCLUDED ALL OUR JEWELRY & WE RAN HAND IN HAND BACK WHEN YOU BROUGHT OUT THE BEAST IN ME, THE PARTS THAT ARE DORMANT I WISH TO SET THEM FREE & IN THE CLARITY OF THIS NIGHT I MAKE MYSELF BELIEVE I CAN SLEEP EASILY ALONE. BUT THERE'S A HUNGER UNDER MY SKIN & ITS GRIPPING AT MY BONES. THERE'S A HUNGER LIKE A LION'S & ITS RIPPING RIGHT THROUGH MY BONES. SO I PUSH MY LIMBS ALL FORWARD LIKE A TREE DOES IN A STORM & I WALK INTO MY KITCHEN & I LEAN AGAINST THE WINDOW, I'M AS CALM AS A BABY LAMB THAT IS BEING LED. I'M AS BLUE AS BLOOD BEFORE THE BLOOD GOES RED. & HOW IT HURTS EVEN IN THE SUN, IT'S A GODDAMN JOKE HOW WE CAN HURT EVEN IN THE SUN. FOR A HEART BEATS THE BEST IN A BED BESIDE THE ONE THAT IT LOVES. YES A HEART BEATS THE BEST WHEN IN A HEAD DEATH BECOMES IRRELEVANT. CAUSE IF YOU'RE DREAMING ABOUT DYING THEN YOU'RE NOT REALLY LIVING, DARLING. YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT & IF YOU'RE CRYING BY THE MOON, IN THE SUN YOU BETTER LIFT UP THAT CHIN. TWIST YOUR HIPS & CRANE YOUR NECK. TWIST YOUR HIPS & CRANE YOUR NECK. TWIST YOUR HIPS & CRANE YOUR NECK. TWIST YOUR HIPS & BEND YOUR BODY BACK. YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT.
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Rooftop [REMASTERED]
02:55
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IF I'M THE COP THEN YOU'RE THE ROBBER. WE'LL PLAY COWBOYS & INDIANS IN THE YARD FOR THE SLAUGHTER. I HAD A DREAM YOU'D BE ON THIS ROOFTOP. IF YOU'RE NOT THEN THAT'S OKAY BUT IF YOU ARE, WELL I'M THINKING THAT IT'S FATE. IF I'M THE SAP THEN YOU'RE THE MAPLE & I'LL STICK CLOSE TO YOU TIL I MAKE IT TO YOUR TABLE. OVER THE MICROPHONE, OVER THE VIDEO PROJECTOR I ALMOST CALLED YOUR NAME BUT THEN I REFRAINED CAUSE I WILL CATCH YOU SOME OTHER WAY IF IT'S FATE, IF IT'S FATE, IF IT'S FATE.
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CHOOSE TO USE YOUR HEART IF EVEN TOWARDS THE HARSHEST FATE THAT IT MAY BE SWALLOWED, A MASTICATED MISTAKEN THING. THAT YOU MAY RIPELY PINE IN THE MAMMOTH NOTHING OF THE NIGHT LEFT TO YOUR OWN DEVICES & TOO EXHAUSTED TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT. I KNOW, I KNOW. AND OH, SUCH IS THE TORMENT OF THE GIVING OF YOUR ORGANS: WHEN GIVEN WILLINGLY, HOW MERCILESS A HAND CAN BE ON YOU. & OH, THE SOUR FEAR OF DEFEAT LIKE WOUNDED SOLDIERS ALL STILL AND SLIGHT LINING LIKE SILK ALL THE ROADS TO YOUR MARROW. & ALL THE HEAPS OF HURT, WELL, THEY'VE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOU & FURTHER BUT WHEN YOU FEEL IT AT YOUR HIP EVERY TIME HOW YOU WISH THAT IT WAS HOME. OH NO, WE'RE SINGING: LAY ME DOWN, LAY ME LOW, LET GO YOUR CROWN, DISARM ME. SINGING: TAKE ME SOUTH, TAKE ME HOME, HOLD YOUR OWN AND CLAIM ME. CLAIM ME YEAH YEAH YEAH. THAT WE MAY RIPELY PINE IN THE MAMMOTH NOTHING OF THE NIGHT LEFT TO OUR OWN DEVICES AND WE'LL KNOW, WE'LL KNOW, WE'LL KNOW JUST WHAT WE WANT. WE'LL KNOW, WE'LL KNOW, WE'LL KNOW WHAT WE WANT.
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DISLOCATION, PUSHY PERSUASION. LIGAMENT AND BONE. LIGAMENT AND BONE. CRYSTAL STRUCTURES, DEFECTS AND BLUNDERS. ONCE TURNING ALL MY MINERAL TO STONE, STONE. & SO I REINTRODUCE ME TO MYSELF. "HOW DO YOU DO?" I SAY, "I'VE HEARD SUCH LOVELY THINGS ABOUT WHO YOU ARE & WHERE YOU'VE BEEN, BUT BE IN ME AGAIN, BACK IN ME AGAIN." WILL-WILL-OH-WILDERNESS, MY WILDERNESS DARK & AMBIGUOUS, WILL YOU TANGLE ME IN? LIE-OH-LIE-OH-LIONESS, MY LIONESS, SHARP & AMBIVALENT WON'T YOU LIE ON MY SKINS? TAXI-TAXIDERMIST, TAXIDERMIST, SOPPING RIPE INTENTIONIST, I AM INTENT ON PAYING ATTENTION AGAIN TO MY OWN CRACKED COMPASS, STEADY-HANDED. SEMANTIC SATIATION WHERE I CAN SAY YOUR NAME OVER & OVER TIL IT MEANS NOTHING. A DELIBERATE EXTINCTION OF EVERYTHING I KNOW I WAS NEVER MEANT TO KNOW, KNOW ABOUT YOU. BUT YOU ARE A FAWN WITH SUCH SECRETS & I HAVE BEEN FOND & KEEN ON YOUR MEEKNESS, I'VE BLED DRY FOR YOUR ARMS & LONGED TO GNAW ON YOUR NECK, FAWNING OVER IT. MY LOVE, MY SWEET LOVE WHOM I AM YET TO UNRAVEL WITH: ONE NIGHT LIE ON MY PULSE, TAP THE BEAT OF MY HEART OUT ON YOUR CLAVICLE. ONE DAY WE SHALL BE ENRAPTURED, SWEET ENRAPTURE. WHAT ANTICIPATION & HOW MASTERFUL: THAT YOU CAN SHOW ME I AM HERE IN THIS WORLD TALL & TRULY TRUE. MEETING MYSELF BEFORE I MEET YOU.
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Up In The Rafters
05:27
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I wanna love you like the monster loves the flower
disarming as a bird flying backwards
and my heart is a pomegranate
and how long have I ached for your hands on my stomach?
I wanna love you like the monster loves a flower
tenderly
I want to know you like the clock knows the hour
I wanna see you with both my eyes forward
in the fields of rye and up in the rafters
hungrily
and oh, to know the nape of your neck
it would be the length of my whole self
to swoon if for to stretch beneath a fleshy ground
peacefully
into a blood Red Sea in the wax of a whale
oh meet me down there deep down where I am dark and pale
this longing I inherit how it makes me shameful
this armor how I wear it til I can no longer
and all the while in your blue so sallow
as bitter as the snake the craftily crallows
on the cracked tongue of the quake in the shadows
silently
I am a ribcage I'm a sailor I'm an arrow
I am a monster with the wings of a blind sparrow
and I wanna touch you like the seed touches the soil
I wanna hold you like the milk holds the spoil
so sing to me and cling to me
and what of this cacophonous.... these broken strings?
and what of this the blood red kiss, the beast in the sea?
I'll hush it now and I will sing it sounds to put it to sleep
and leave it there without a care that it might know a dream
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WELL I BLED BLUE BLOOD FROM MY BACK LAST NIGHT, I WAS ALONE. AUBERGINE SHEETS ON MY BED NOW, OH NO. & YOUR BLUE EYES LIE JUST LIKE AN ATLAS IN THOSE SOCKETS, YEAH YOUR BLUE EYES CRY MAPWATER WHEN YOU'RE SORRY, OH SO SORRY. YOU WITH THE NAPE THAT HOLDS MY GAZE, YOU WITH THE TONGUE THAT SPEAKS MY NAME, YOU WITH THE ARMS THAT KEEP ME AT LENGTH, YOU WITH THE HEART THAT WON'T SHOW ITS FACE. & JESUS SUCKS THE MUD OUT OF YOUR SOUL, BUT THE FLAME IN MY EYE, IT'S GONE BLUE & COLD & YOU RISKED YOUR WRIST TO SAVE MY LIFE & I SHOULD HAVE KISSED YOU THAT NIGHT BUT IT AIN'T RIGHT, OH NO. ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW, ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK, YOU MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK. ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW, ABSENCE MAKES MY HEART GROW HOLLOW, MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK, YOU MAKE ME INTO AN EGG WITHOUT YOLK. I WAS UNBORN WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I WAS UNBORN WHEN I WAS YOUNGER BUT I WAS REBUILT WHEN YOU SPOKE, I AWOKE WHEN YOU SPOKE. YOU SAID, "THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON FOR LEAVING, THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON TO STAY; I KNOW EXACTLY WHY I'M LEAVING: I JUST CAN'T STAY." & I SAY, "I'LL GIVE YOU MY WHOLE SUMMER WHEN YOU UNFURL YOUR FINGERS. I WOULD BE LYING IF I SAID YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ME; YOU'RE TO BLAME FOR MY BEING THIS WAY, THIS WAY." YOU WITH THE NAPE THAT HOLDS MY GAZE, YOU WITH THE TONGUE THAT SPEAKS MY NAME, YOU WITH THE ARMS THAT KEEP ME AT LENGTH, YOU WITH THE HEART THAT WON'T SHOW ITS FACE.
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YOU ARE MY GRANDFATHER'S SON & FOR THAT REASON I NEED YOU NEARER & ON MY INSIDES I AM HAGGARD & ON SOME INSIDES THERE ARE VULTURES. IF THEY BEGIN TO RAVAGE YOUR LOVE DON'T COWER OR RUN FOR COVER. DON'T FEEL BAD, YOU'VE GOT TO DROWN OR SMOTHER THEM. & I CAN'T SAY WHETHER I BELIEVE HEARTS ARE CULTURED. CAN'T SAY WHETHER I CARE OR WHETHER IT MATTERS. MAYBE HEARTS ARE BETTER BITTER, BATTERED, FILTHY, VULGAR. MAYBE THAT'S WHY THE BROKEN LONELY ONES HOLD ON A LITTLE LONGER. BUT ALL I KNOW, ALL I KNOW IS I WANT TO SEE YOU I WANT TO SEE YOU SEE ALL THOSE COUNTRIES. MAYBE I'M MY OWN MOTHER & I WILL ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF MY BROTHER, BUT YOU ARE MY FAMILY NOW TOO. HOW I LOVED YOU THEN & HOW I WILL & HOW I DO.
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I'M A GHOST & YOU ALL KNOW IT. I'M SINGING SONGS & I AIN'T SLOWING. IT WAS A FRAGILE THING & I GODDAMN DROPPED IT. I PICKED THE PIECES UP & PUT THEM IN MY POCKET. & I AIN'T GONNA TRY TO WIN YOUR HEART THIS TIME. I'VE HAD SPACE TO THINK & I THINK THAT I'VE GROWN A LITTLE WISER. I'M LOOKING FOR A NEW MUSE YOU HAVE ONLY MADE ME TIRED. CALL YOUR BLUFF UP ON THE TELEPHONE & JAM-JAR MY BLOOD. THIS IS MY LOSS OF LIMB, MY LOSS OF LOVE. CALL YOUR BLUFF UP ON THE TELEPHONE & JAM-JAR MY BLOOD. THIS IS MY LOSS OF LIMB, MY LOSS OF LOVE. IT WAS SO COLD YOU COULD SEE BOTH SETS OF RIBS ALMOST ESCAPING YOUR SKIN TO FLY SOUTH, SOUTH UNTIL THE SPRINGTIME. YOUR HIPS STOOD OUT LIKE CONFIDENCE, YOU WERE NAKED AS A NEWBORN IN THE SNOW BUT YOU WANTED IT SO, THAT'S PRECISELY HOW YOU WANTED IT & NOW YOUR LOVE IS WRITING WORDS ON THE WALL WITH THE MEAT OF A NECTARINE THAT SHE PICKED EARLIER THAT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD & YOU ARE ON THE STREET, A CHEST OF DRAWERS FREE WHILE THE SKELETON PARADE MARCHES PAST YOU CARRYING BIRD BALLOONS. THEY FLY BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS. THE STREETS CAN BE EERIE, STREETS CAN BE DREARY. IT'S AS IF LEPROSY LANDED ON THE MOON & IT CAST A FILTHY GLOW IN THE WORLD & IN MY ROOM, IT'S AS IF LEPROSY IT LANDED ON THE MOON & IT CAST A FILTHY GLOW IN THE WORLD & IN MY ROOM SO HOW ABOUT I PLAY THE HARP & YOU PLAY THAT PIANO. PULL THE CURTAINS SHUT & NEST LIKE LITTLE SPARROWS. MY LIMBS, MY LOVE ARE LOST ON YOU. MY LIMBS, MY LOVE BELONG TO YOU. I REMEMBER THAT NIGHT IN THE WOODS ON THE HIDDEN BALANCE BEAM MADE OF A LONG WOODEN BOARD WITH A BARREL UNDERNEATH. WE LAID ON EITHER END & WE COULDN'T QUITE KNACK IT AFTER MANY ATTEMPTS & MINUTES OF SILENCE UNTIL WE DID. & OUR BREATH CAUGHT. & WE LOOKED UP. & THE STARS THEY WERE SO STILL, THE STARS THEY WERE SO STILL. BOTH OUR HEARTS THEY WERE REVEALED. OUR HEARTS THEY WERE REVEALED. & YOU WERE MY FRIEND. YOU WERE MY FRIEND. THIS IS MY LOSS OF LOVE MY LOSS OF LIMB THIS IS MY LOSS OF LOVE MY LOSS OF LIMB. BUT NOW I'M A GHOST AND YOU ALL KNOW IT. I'M SINGING SONGS & I AIN'T STOPPING. MY HAIR GREW LONG SO I FUCKING CUT IT & WHEN YOU LOOKED AWAY I STUCK THOSE TRIMMINGS IN YOUR LOCKET, HAHA.
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I CANNOT THINK OF THAT SONG WITH THIS MUSIC ON & I NEVER WANT TO GO BACK TO ARKANSAS EVEN IF YOU'VE GONE FROM THERE, EVEN IF YOU'VE GONE. YOU HANDLED ME LIKE AN INFANT SKULL & I CRADLED YOU LIKE A NEWBORN NIGHTMARE & I ALWAYS LONG, LONG TO GO BACK THERE: STRAIGHT BACK DOWN THE HALLWAY & UP THE STAIRS TO THAT BED. I ASKED THE DEER COULD THE HUNTER SHE HEAR COME A'CREEPIN, CREEPIN, CREEPIN, CREEPIN. I WHISPERED IN HER EAR SO SWEET & SINCERE BUT SHE WAS ALREADY DEAD ASLEEP & THE GROUND WHERE SHE LAY WAS RED, SOUR & STAINED & I KISSED HER, KISSED HER, KISSED HER BEFORE I TURNED AWAY & I NEVER WANT TO GO BACK THERE: DOWN THE PATH TO THE PLACE WHERE SHE LAY. WE CAN CLOSE OUR EYES & CRY OUT TO THE DARKNESS, THAT THERE IS STILL THIS LIGHT IN US, THERE IS THIS FIGHT TO FIND RIGHT WHERE WE BELONG. THIS RIBCAGE, IT IS A STAIRCASE, CLIMB IT TO MY IRIS YOU CAN LIVE THERE, YOU KNOW WHO I AM. YOU KNOW WHO I AM. I AM YOUR APPLE. SO OPEN UP THE BOOK & READ TO ME YOUR FAVORITE PASSAGE & KNOW THAT I WILL BE RIGHT HERE & I WILL LISTEN. I HEAR YOU & I HAVE HEARD YOU FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS.
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YOU LOVED ME BEST IN AN AIRPLANE; I SLEPT THE LENGTH OF THE ATLANTIC. WHEN I AWOKE, WE HAD LANDED. FOR DAYS ON END I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. HAD WE CRASHED INTO THE OCEAN. HAD WE PERISHED IN THE SEA. HAD THE MOUNTAIN HELD US CAPTIVE IN HIS JACKET, WELL GOD FORBID, I WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE WITH THAT. CAUSE IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME FROM THE LOOK THAT YOU GAVE WHEN YOU LEFT. YOUR LIPS SO FULL THAT I COULD CRY. YOUR LIPS SO FULL THAT I COULD CRY OUT MY SOCKETS, CRY OUT MY SOCKETS. YOUR EYES SO CLOSED THAT I COULD HIDE IN THE CLOSET, HIDE IN THE CLOSET. MY HEART SO POOR THAT I COULD WAIT FOR YOUR HANDS IN MY POCKETS. MY HEART SO BROKE THAT I COULD BEG FOR AFFECTION, BEG FOR AFFECTION. I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU; YOU ARE THE APPLE, YOU ARE THE APPLE. THE ALLIGATORS ARE HERE THEY'RE JUST UNDER THE WATER, UNDER THE WATER. YOU DEVOURED MY HEART, YOU DEVOURED MY HEART LIKE IT WAS STRAWBERRY CAKE AT A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, BUT I STILL NEED YOUR LOVE. I STILL NEED YOUR LOVE, I NEED YOUR LOVE. I STILL NEED YOUR TEETH ROUND MY ORGANS, I STILL NEED YOUR TEETH ROUND MY ORGANS. I STILL NEED YOUR LOVE FOR YOU ARE THE APPLE, YOU ARE THE APPLE.
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I PRESSED MY EAR AGAINST YOUR BACK NOT EVEN A WEEK AFTER WE MET & I FELT YOUR HEARTBEAT FALL LIKE RAINDROPS IN A BUCKET. I USED TO HAVE A PRETTY NICE SPINE BUT I NEGLECTED TO GIVE IT A NAME SO EACH TIME I TRIED TO STRAIGHTEN IT, I COULDN'T GET ITS ATTENTION & I PLACED MY PALM UPON YOUR COLLARBONE & I WISHED TO FALL ASLEEP DEEP IN YOUR MARROW. AS GENTLY AS A MOUSE CURLED UP IN A BALL, AS GENTLY AS A MOUSE UNTIL TOMORROW. WE RIPPED OFF ALL OUR CLOTHES & THIS INCLUDED ALL OUR JEWELRY & WE RAN HAND IN HAND BACK WHEN YOU BROUGHT OUT THE BEAST IN ME, THE PARTS THAT ARE DORMANT I WISH TO SET THEM FREE & IN THE CLARITY OF THIS NIGHT I MAKE MYSELF BELIEVE I CAN SLEEP EASILY ALONE. BUT THERE'S A HUNGER UNDER MY SKIN & ITS GRIPPING AT MY BONES. THERE'S A HUNGER LIKE A LION'S & ITS RIPPING RIGHT THROUGH MY BONES. SO I PUSH MY LIMBS ALL FORWARD LIKE A TREE DOES IN A STORM & I WALK INTO MY KITCHEN & I LEAN AGAINST THE WINDOW, I'M AS CALM AS A BABY LAMB THAT IS BEING LED. I'M AS BLUE AS BLOOD BEFORE THE BLOOD GOES RED. & HOW IT HURTS EVEN IN THE SUN, IT'S A GODDAMN JOKE HOW WE CAN HURT EVEN IN THE SUN. FOR A HEART BEATS THE BEST IN A BED BESIDE THE ONE THAT IT LOVES. YES A HEART BEATS THE BEST WHEN IN A HEAD DEATH BECOMES IRRELEVANT. CAUSE IF YOU'RE DREAMING ABOUT DYING THEN YOU'RE NOT REALLY LIVING, DARLING. YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT & IF YOU'RE CRYING BY THE MOON, IN THE SUN YOU BETTER LIFT UP THAT CHIN. TWIST YOUR HIPS & CRANE YOUR NECK. TWIST YOUR HIPS & CRANE YOUR NECK. TWIST YOUR HIPS & CRANE YOUR NECK. TWIST YOUR HIPS & BEND YOUR BODY BACK. YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STARVING FOR IT.
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20. |
Beluga
07:14
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I knelt before the sky awaiting her reply but she refused to pour herself all over me
so I bowed my head in shame
the sea was, she was hugging my waist and mumbling words of encouragement that I would only forget
and I wished for to unlearn the alphabet so as to make the sounds slide off my tongue in the shape, in the form of the ancient sun
my song would make the earth a little warmer and I would hope it would make it a little brighter and my song would go....
and I laid myself on down and I drifted out towards the center, towards the lighthouse. and I thought in only pictures in my head, reversed every image to make it majestic. and I began to sink into the deep, the deep caress the heavy depth, the honey swell, the honey swell and I wished for to become a beluga whale to be that song that someone sings to the one they love to send them off to sleep to send them off the sleep. the one song that someone sings to the one they love the most oh oh oh oh oh oh oh sleep drifting off to sleep, drifting off to sleep, drifting out to sea. Oh oh sea, drifting out to sea drifting out to see do you still love me?
oh oh see oh baby don't you see? how I long to be singing you to sleep. oh oh see oh baby don't you see this longing?
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On the train a stranger's breath creeps into my chest.
It's always startling when you call me by my name even though I consider you to be a dear friend. Violet Clem, Violet Clementine. Violet Clem, Violet Clementine, Vi.
The parenthesis are your temples that I read in between the lines of and climbed up the steps and left your sky blues. Oh, Vi I'm not dead set on what I'm meant to do. Love of mine, I'm trying to be true to you.
Carroll Street I come I leave your station many times over. You've given me many a thing to soldier on towards. These words all in a row build me a home beneath which I'll bury my bones.
Picturing you painting is what puts me at ease. You have a way of getting yourself mixed into the songs that I sing. If I'm peanut butter well then you're still aubergine. And you'd fit real nice right beside me in this painting.
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22. |
Walrus
03:09
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I took a walk outside today
I took a walk outside today
I took a walk outside today it made me late
you took a walk into the sea
you took a walk into the sea
oh oh oh I watched your cheeks go underneath I walked away
The trees look like my grandmother's fingers
The trees look like my grandmother's hands you know
The trees look like my grandmother's fingers when she takes off her wedding bands, oh oh oh
I saw so many pretty people
I saw so many pretty people
I saw so many people staring at their feet
look up look up look up
The sky looks like my grandfather's eyes
the sky looks like my grandfather's eyes
the sky looks like my grandfather's eyes when he's singing
I took a walk outside today
you took a walk into the sea
I watched your teeth go underneath I was too late
But you look like you could be my friend
You look like you could be my greatest friend
you look like you would be my friend don't go away
oh no no no don't go away
we could play our favorite records
and we could walk out on the icy rivers
and we could watch It's A Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve
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23. |
Super Moon
03:48
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24. |
Apple
02:30
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25. |
Almond Colored Sheets
03:52
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26. |
Between Two Trees
04:33
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27. |
Shoulders
05:04
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28. |
Arms
05:51
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29. |
Lonely Lust
04:16
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The biting blood of lonely lust now
watch the clock like a hawk hunt me down
watch the clock like a hawk spin around
The biting blood of lonely lust now
watch the clock like a hawk rush the ground
watch the clock like a hawk til I blush
on the day that wayward man exclaimed “even satan knows the glory of god”
I felt so full of my own life, I blasted the fast food faucet and cried
cause the joy in my heart outgrew its shell - it sank beneath me, and it buried its sound,
Trudging through the slush of Chinatown where I’m out
searching in reverse for what I left, but nothing backwards,
nothing makes any sense
The biting blood of lonely lust now
watch the clock like a hawk hunt me down
watch the clock like a hawk spin around
The biting blood of lonely lust now
watch the clock like a hawk rush the ground
watch the clock like a hawk spin around
today from the Brooklyn Bridge, there is the bird’s-eye-view of the East River
but this jutting giant of a skyline makes me nothing, nothing but nervous
I much prefer Manhattan as the static backdrop to my score;
eggs & coffee on the rooftop, sleepy-headed and blissfully bored
I saw a spaceship making strange maneuvers, and I raised my mug to the full moon
lit up in the big blue, blue day
in that cloudless world all alone but unafraid
now I wonder if I'll see you down there together
in the park,
and I’ll stop to watch the shore shove the lazy garbage back and forth.
it pours out of me
it makes me so afraid
the way time takes
Takes itself so seriously
But I’m coming home
on my own
blood in my mouth, biting down
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30. |
Solar Solar System
04:49
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31. |
Colorcoded
04:59
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32. |
Sarah
05:20
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33. |
Dominic
02:30
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34. |
Always Will For Now
02:21
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35. |
Unparalleled Love
12:50
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Lady Lamb Brooklyn, New York
hi I'm Aly I'm v gay & p good at music
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