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Mixed Signals
04:32
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Mixed signals have me turned around
In the middle of a town mistaken
With mixed signals from everyone I meet
Am I offbeat?
Now mixed signals are telling me to stay
But yesterday they said go away
I try to say it right but when I turn around
Mixed signals were falling out of my mouth
I hear myself not saying a thing
Use your words carefully
When you’re talking backward turn it around
People hate people they don’t even know
People hate people
Show me your worth. Is it worth my time? What’s the good in that?
Sending mixed signals that you can’t take back
You and I playing for the same team
Mixed signals the American dream
We let it get too far
No going back now
Words are trap doors watch your step
When you’re talking backwards turn it around
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2nd Flr
03:15
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Am I a god living on the second floor?
Nobody can see me walk through the living room naked
Far from you, I keep my thoughts in a separate room
Where I'm oscillating outcomes
A meta-modern petting zoo
Lonely looking on
Everything a puzzle you can solve
No one’s right when no one’s wrong
The only moon I ever knew rolled away in her sarong
I yelled down a down a black hole they said she’s down in Mexico
When the timing is right for an awkward appetite
You should take a bite
Don’t you feel odd
when you’re scared of what you want?
Contemplating for several months.
What a weary mind we’ve made
It’s cognitively exhausting
thinking all day
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Tsunami in Tohoku
04:12
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I worry about simple things
That I can't change
Will I wake up to rain or a nuclear parade?
Who's going to win the basketball game?
I'm no hurry to say what's right
I wake up to a man that I love
I'll be sleeping with a different man tonight
Will the Earth end before I do?
If it does I hope I loved you
Make it quick like a cold swimming pool
I’m jumping in with you
Emotions in my mind
Taking their time to be with me
Gathered in my eyes like kerosene
Covering me
Trouble, I don't want to trouble you
If I should ever cross you
I hope that we can sit down and talk it through
Let’s not wait too long
To walk against the wind, move on
Emotions in my mind Taking their time they're just teasing me
Hear the choir on Sunday morning
Or a siren. Tornado’s coming
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Why Now?
03:47
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I fell down hard on my knees
You called me crybaby
Told everyone what you’d seen
I was embarrassed for weeks
When it was my turn to read
Most words were stuttering
There are still times I can’t talk the way I want
I remember sitting in the corner
hoping that you don’t never look over at me
Now you’re not above me
You pick me up when you hug me
You say I’m not so ugly
Right Now
I’m going out out on a date
and I’m feeling good about the conversation
Hey, I’m doing it right.
What a lovely night
You said you’d let me know when you have free time
You’d like to do this again
It’s been three weeks now
You walked past me uptown
But now you call me baby
Texting me daily
You want to do dinner this Thursday
Why now?
You said we always have fun
and that I made you feel young
I don’t know where this is coming from
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Jeanny
03:13
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I had my fun it’s time to leave
All of my tricks fell out of my sleeves
I used to be more interesting
Now I’m a cat too fat to chase a string
I still dance with Anne on Friday nights
Do the same moves I do every time
I am trying to unwind
but there’s too many people in here tonight
Where I stand someone once stood
And after me another should
Be better than I was
I don’t consider it wasted time
watching movies that don’t rate that high
Or a fishing trip that ended dry
You never know what you never tried
Keeping up with the latest trends
as strenuous as a distant friend
Makes me feel uncomfortable
like half-time at the Superbowl
But true genius never dies
She just lives unrealized
Thoughts fade away eventually
What else can you do at the end of your life
Except say it went alright
I hope to have one thing
That can keep me smiling
Takes the weight right off my feet
Do you think you could carry me?
How you lived and how you loved lasts longer than your body does
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Little Yadkin
05:28
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Little Yadkin lives alone
North of Donnaha
Dusty naps on river’s bed
She’s running late again
Momma when the fighting is through
Will I be as strong as you
The morning’s ending soon
and everything feels loose
Little Yadkin lives
Alone
Playing his unfinished song
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Julie Lisa
05:13
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Julie all alone sittin' by herself
Don’t feel bad for Julie 'cause Julie don’t feel bad for herself
She bought me a drink talked me up like I was a champ
Then we were making out in her boyfriends car where I became the other man
Lisa Lisa Lisa lies and so do I
She says things so sweet at night when she’s home alone and she gets high
I’ll see her in the day time and she treats me like an average guy
Lisa lies Lisa lies. So do I
I think it’s fine. I really think it’s alright
When you’re feeling stuck and you want someone to listen to you shout. We can hang out
Zelda sends me postcards from Amish towns
On the backs of them are poetry of a new life that she has found to be good
I hear the horses in her words as I picture her in a long black skirt
I think it's beautiful that she's minimal but to me it feels impractical
I think it's great She isn’t staying up so late
I wish I could do that too but I'm my mother's son and this is what my mother's sons do
Are we together because we're alone If it’s true I'm glad about it
You work with what you got Luckily, you and me, we got a lot
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