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Be Shut of Me, Ghost / Our Disingenuous Nights – How can I forget? / How can I forget you / when your hair is still all over my floor? // Let’s speak our spell of summoning. // New Years night with mouths washed in Ouzo / in a circuit of tongues. // Or breaking my bed on my last night in town. // Or in the ghost woods, wrapped around me in the rain / while our friends look for us / just yards away. // Let’s speak our spell. / Let’s speak our spell / like you say my name. / Just say my name / like it’s my name. // If we remember, / we’ll never lose each other. / If I remember, I will never lose you. / So I remember. / So I remember our venereal days. / Our venereal days. / I’ll never lose you. / I’ll never lose you.
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Sweet to Me
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Sweet to Me (words by Ben Trickey) – You should’ve come to my house and broke down the door. You should’ve / drug me out into your car. We could’ve rode off in style. / Yeah, we could’ve died like soldiers // instead of this cold release. Well, you know what I mean. Darling, / right now I hate you and I know you hate me, but I remember your breath / smelling so sweet to me // instead of these toxic fumes / we fill up the room with, well there’s / so much contempt in the air. / In the air. / Yeah, I can feel it. // Yeah, I can feel it.
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Woundwood's Crutch
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Woundwood’s Crutch – And we are the fallen ones / down on our knees. // And we are the stones / that break our feet. // Never heal. // And we are the stray dogs / begging for a scrap / in the rain. // And we are the long road / that leads us away / from each other. // Never heal. // Never heal.
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Cellophane
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Cellophane – I’d like to let go and still love / but clearly time’s proven I can’t do both / and hating you is not an option. // Was it easier for you / to walk away and not look back? // Did it matter that it was me? / Or could I have been anybody? / Did you just need a body? // Was mine good enough for right then? / Was I good enough for the moment?
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Pouch & Polyp
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Pouch & Polyp – And I’m not ready / to wash away your sweat / from my body. // And I’m not ready / to wash away your spit / from my body. // And I’m not ready / to wash away your blood / from my body. // Just give me time. / Give me time / to forget you / just like you forget. / Just like everyone. / Everyone.
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DJ Meatslick
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DJ Meatslick – I see you pass by on the street / but too late. / Too late. // I’d be a fool / if I chased you down / and for what? / For what? // Just a glimpse / is a landslide. // And oh girl, you know I’m sorry / that you wasted your light, you wasted your light / on me.
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Our Venereal Days
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Our Venereal Days – Let’s spell our psalm of summoning. // Your backwards walk away, saying we’ll meet again, / unwilling to say when. // Or our physical divinity / denied for anonymity: / how my body / or your body / could have been / anybody’s. // Or our new life together / torn apart as a blueprint. // Let’s spell our psalm. / Let’s spell our psalm / like you spell my name / in broken teeth. // We lose each other / as we’re designed to. / We lose each other, but only I lose you / so I remember. / So I remember our venereal days. / I lose you / so I remember / our venereal days. / I lose you. / I lose you.
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PA Girls
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PA Girls – Your edicts are clear: / find some ocean / take off your clothes / or don’t / your clothes don’t matter anyway // wade into the water / past your knees / now wade in deeper / wade in deeper / wade in // feel the saltwater / just beneath your lips / now feel it rise higher / feel it rise higher / feel it rise and rise and rise // hold you breath / now breathe in / hold your breath / now breathe in / breathe in / breathe in.
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Escape Velocity
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Escape Velocity – And I don’t know how I / got so low / but I’m glad I’m not alone / here at the bottom, / mm-hmm. // Every mile from this town that I ever walked or drove / was a mile away from you. / And every mile toward this town that I ever walked or drove / was a mile back to you. / Even when you’re gone, / still stumbling home / to our empty home. // And I don’t know how I / ended up right where I began / with nothing but this old fox’s tail / and these stray dog’s black eyes / and this mouth full of feathers / and these shoes welling up with blood / and these whale bones / and these creaking floorboards / and this grave dust / and the scars of the open road and you. / The ghost of you. / The ghost of you. // The ghost of you.
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