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protect & pack
03:40
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all around the world
scores of pretty girls
are awaiting
get your tickets here
let's fly away
home has been a bust
somewhere else we must
find a way to
capture their attention
come what may
filling a simple hole
with complex aching signs
scrying the tarot cards
for dates when the planets
realign
find what we lack
in the place where we're at
protect and pack
don't stop and chat
tried and true design
749's when we're leaving
gotta catch a plane
going anywhere
beaches of brazil
come on get your fill
it's relieving
or how about some swedish girls
their skin's so fair
following careful scents
cast down in perfumed sheens
visa complexity
mouths washed out with
listerine
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2. |
she's my runnin'
03:20
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etoile indeed
the french esteem
take turns with riding crops
and vaseline
she's got my number
in case of emergency
yeah
in darkened rooms
where one assumes
some seedy sexcapades
and smut consumed
outside i'm tethered
inside i'm tied
i feel free
bound and gagged
encased in pleather honey
and how she nagged
at my
increase in pleasure
simply stunning
she's my runnin'
ooh la la,
la femme et moi
in garments signified
who gets to talk
she cracks the whip
and my heart skips
je suis son palefroi
take me home
put me on your
mantelpiece i'm your
tainted epicure
make me whole
build it up now
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3. |
not grinder
02:26
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tell me all the things that you want to do
all the pretty ladies that you want to screw
stop all this hesitatin'
darkened room masturbatin'
grab a mindset from the astrolabe
before you're interred on a granite slab
your heart beat's temporary
you're acting like an actuary
taking a chance on taking chances
got you in a trance
I'm hoping you'll see
you're a not grinder
you need a stark reminder
open up your eyes to the atmosphere
we got a lot of things that are happening here
nobody's gonna getcha
nobody's even met ya
sunshine's good for your temperament
there's some outside that just won't relent
make sure you wear sunscreen
cause you're paler than cream
thinking about how you'll go thinking
about you you'll go thinking
about how you'll go
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4. |
some cookie of air
04:02
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denizen of the dark
i caught wind of your escape
denizen of the dark
felt the nestled earthquake
ripped me apart
cheeks flapping in the breeze
it's only a fart
but it's brought me to my knees
i'm fighting for air
in this methane blunderbuss
fighting for air
don't know who i can trust
nostrils aflame
with the scent of dirty deeds
simply ashamed
of my anal proceeds
dear god, don't light up that cigarette
or you'll blow this place sky hight
i got some cookie of air
just let it mellow baby
some cookie of air
or turn the fan on maybe
some cookie of air
whoever smelt it dealt it, yeah
inst
denizen of the dark
keep this pact between us
denizen of the dark
unholy emanations
are brought by the bells
come tolling in the night
i needed a spell
to release this awful fright
pre + chorus
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5. |
crawling over
03:05
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i called at 3 o'clock in the morning
asking if you'd like to share your bed
ticking down to my final warning
a shot rang out inside of my head
there was never any good time
to ask about the good times
there was never any good time
to ask about the good times
there was never any good time
to ask about the good times
i'd come crawling over
come on over baby
you're mine tonight
i'd come crawling over
dropping what was left
of my foresight
slept alone among all the bedsheets
still smelling like the rest of you
walked along the same gnarly side streets
tracing the wrong path we always used
i'd come crawling over
come on over baby
you're mine tonight
i'd come crawling over
dropping what was left
of my foresight
i'd come crawling over
i'd come crawling over
there was never any good time
to ask about the good times
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6. |
soda pop & bubblegum
03:04
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layered lipstick
glistening through
the late night fight
i had with you
fighting's just that thing we do
part of the act
friends cringe
when it gets too blue
uncomfortable
but laughing too
scars beneath
mascara prove
our social pact
i whispered all my offers
when you turned me on
(you turned me on)
late night chaka khan
yelling at the top of my lungs
baby that's my favorite song
soda pop and bubblegum
(soda pop and)
sweat stains up and
down my back
i couldn't hack your cardiac
the more you make
the more I lack
but let's not argue
(let's not argue)
i offered all my whispers
when you tuned me out
(you tuned me out)
late night chaka khan
yelling at the top of my lungs
baby that's my favorite song
soda pop and bubblegum
(soda pop and)
launch codes written on your hand
in magic marker green and red
your bouncing ass could wake the dead
kiss me harder
late night chaka khan
yelling at the top of my lungs
baby that's my favorite song
soda pop and bubblegum
(soda pop and)
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7. |
mea mute dove
02:26
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turn on a dime
it happens every time
where are lonely boys
you ate up in your prime
tenured enthrall
brew envy in the hall
ash ketchum personified
you gotta catch 'em all
only mistake
you drove without a brake
coasting kilometers
ahead of your own wake
never conceived
much less tried to believe
someone with matching skills
could bring you to your knees
mea mute dove
you were my one love
you were extraordinary
mea mute dove
why won't you ever
want to settle down
with me?
mea mute dove
you were my one love
you were extraordinary
mea mute dove
you were my ecstasy
before you lost the key
"probably not"
the answer that i wrought
out of a thousand days
deciphering your plot
cookies and cream
with flavors in between
i was the cookie babe
and you were just the dream
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8. |
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sisyphus at least had a boulder
i’ve got nothing left to push up a hill
every winter keeps getting colder
my breath lingers on the windowsill
take me anyplace
wrench my heart
from the cast iron grave
such a endless grace
carved akimbo
from the earthly lathe
theseus at least had a ship, man
i've got nothing left to build up again
all my money in a tin can
left behind before the businessmen
find me anything
i'm a golem
for your penchant needs
with your lovely wings
help me gravitate
toward better leads
inst
i'm a busted gun
fired too many times
at mounds of dirt
lost the lust for fun
now abandoned
in a wrapped up shirt
herakles at least had some god's blood
i've got nothing but a mortal design
took my number at the big flood
i keep telling folks i'm doing fine
lay me anytime
in the backyard
under shining sun
maybe you'll be mine
in the progress
in the inch
of salvation
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9. |
my much
04:31
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settled on a sunday evening
pot of ramen bubbling on the stove
i get along with a sickened feeling
eating apples from a rotten grove
taken aback by the long days
broad nights drenched in gelid sweat
my buddies ask if i'm better
but i don't know that answer yet
i'm
longing for her embrace
that sweet and salty taste
i'm
grasping for her touch
my one love
my my much
entombed in a white room
scribbled lyrics all across the walls
the gray encroaching autumn
the blossomed lovers run down the hall
the sense of an instant
over handfuls of bitter years
my hair keeps on thinning
the glory days just disappear
chorus x2
enchanted thing
you've gone and wrung me dry
encapsulating
all i lived to die for
i'm wrapped around your
heart
in
part
i'm yours
i'm down on all fours
inst
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10. |
spare
03:02
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i can't love no more
all my reserves are
out the door
help me find some way
out of this
wholly enbrambled
nightmare
hit the floor
find me in darkness
keeping score
wondering if i'll
ever know
the feeling of
infatuation
pick me out a spare heart
in time, in time
i won't love again
affection for me
has hawed and hemmed
and now i'm a shell
of roses stems
wilting in waning sunlight
phone a friend
tell them this fugue's
an ill portend
grasping at straws
til i'm content
but each one's a little longer
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Josh Belville Portland
Actor/musician living in Portland, OR.
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