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No One
05:20
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No one could love you like I do.
Because you never leave the flat.
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Always with the Drama
03:24
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All these happy people in their happy house,
I'm too drunk to remember how to help you out.
We've been having salads when we could've had a car,
A mouthful of cahones will only get you so far.
All these saggy features on a saggy face,
I'm open to suggestions to spruce up the place.
We've been wearing khaki when we could be wearing green,
Always with the drama and always with the fucking dreams.
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One emotion is more than I need,
But it comes with quotas, and time is running out,
So come burn some bridges with me!
I'm drowning, but not really. More like in a song,
Where heads are big and quesy, and I am never wrong,
So come burn some bridges with me!
You. You got feelings. Some I've never even heard of.
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A Day at the Park
03:09
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(Slasher flick)
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Magneto Was Right
03:55
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Is it better to wait for the breathing,
or is it better to pound on the chest?
Is it clever to claw at the curtains,
or just shut up and hope for the best?
If half of the people got took by the tide,
fellows would weep and mothers would cry,
and the shame we were shilling would take a break
and the holes we were digging would wash away.
Is it better to wait for the dickhead to decide if you're equal to him?
And sit in the dark in the bathroom, or just hammer his face on the sink.
If half of the people got caught in the fire,
radios scream and fuckers expire
and the shame we've been shilling will take a break
and the holes we've been digging will wash away.
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You & Me
03:55
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Blame your sad face on the city,
Blame your sad face on the sea,
Blame the hours and the travel,
But leave a spot upon the blacklist for you and me.
Save a moment for a sit down,
Save a second for a sleep,
Save a decade for a new leaf
and a hostile reception for you and me.
Oh. Oh no, I'm fed up on a Tuesday.
Oh. Oh no, I think we missed the boat.
So here's a line about the system,
and here's a line that's quite funny
and here's a pop-culture reference
and a lazy refrain like 'you and me'.
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I haven't the minutes and I haven't the hours
and I haven't the pollen to say it with flowers.
I haven't the cards to make better words
and I haven't the seed to feed all the birds
I haven't the lungs and you haven't the nose
and I haven't the skill to put into prose
But I'm not the problem, frankly I'm tired
No, I'm not the problem, I'm perfectly fine.
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Benjamin Shaw Melbourne, Australia
Canada's favourite son. Saddest of the chumps. "Megadead" out now on Audio Antihero & Kirigirisu Recordings
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