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Track Name: No Power
I heard every word you whispered miles away.
Some were obscured, but others struck my good ear plain as day.
The cardiograph beeped a rhythm I could shuffle to.
You beat down the door, but I don't owe you anything anymore,
I'm sure that you're awfully sore,
you won the battle but lost the war.

No one's lording over me now
They ain't got no power over me now

I shot straight off the edge,
I guess the world is flat after all.
That's what they said,
it struck me funny and got lodged inside my head,
replaced the other thoughts I had,
it's too much to comprehend.
Track Name: The Breath and the Bell
I can hear you straight through the wall,
the breath and the bell.
Your sigh shook my fragile frame like a sub bass boom.
Even now I store what comes through
deep in my shoulderblades.
Track Name: Gnat Years
A year in a day.
I wake to the spring, watch summer fade to gray,
and sleep to the fall.

Two bumps on my spine.
I thought that I might grow wings and learn to fly,
but they didn't sprout.
I wouldn't know where to go if they did come out,
so maybe it's just as well. Oh well.

There's beauty I found,
just watching the light streak as you rush around
three hundred and sixty five times faster than
I can perceive.
It bends and it breaks into pieces, and through the cracks
I can decode meaningless sounds.
I'm holding myself to lower standards.
Nothing to expect now, I hope, I hope.

I'm living my life in gnat years.
I'm living my life in gnat years.
I made a boo coo buck getting loose with the juicer
as my orchid wife sits wilting softly on the sill.
My tiny brain's wick's thirst quenched by the wax
and my true love's flicker's getting brighter ever day.
I want to scratch out the message on your reading glass lens
but my time's almost up and I don't quite remember what it is.

A year in a day, a year in a day.
Track Name: Synthesocietal
under the ground i built a blue silence
safe from the sound of you distant stomping titans.
we mined the time, i'm gonna waste it my way
not living on your sinking islands.

and on the walls i'll carve the answers clearly,
no lies at all,
no future ancient bullshit riddles to solve.

aiming for the core, we slowly tunnel through,
closing all the old doors to open up the new.

i found a new way, synthesocietal.
my trouble hides away inside this perfect logic structure,
and fits so easily in my pocket.
Track Name: Triangle 3
Lyrics:
Ooh ooh ooh,
You're easy to love, like a triangle wave.
All your harmonics are odd.
Track Name: Nobody on the Subway
There goes someone that nobody knows

Nobody on the subway
Nobody in the winter
Nobody with a flashlight
Nobody on the subway

Nobody at all

Great news catalog tenement
mailbox shifting in the window
halfway home
don't know when to walk away
don't want to know when to walk away

There goes someone that nobody knows

Nobody in a foreign land
Nobody by a window
Nobody who's a ghost now
Nobody on the subway

Nobody at all

Concrete denizens overtone
gardeners leaving by the busload
blue skies won
sounds like something I would say
don't want to know when to walk away
don't want to know when to walk away

I dunno, something in the world could know you,
but all in all nothing that I am aware of knows you now.
Track Name: Whose Side Are You On Anyway?
I've got to change my ways
Too many times, you just string me along
Pass by the window, what's in it for me?
Just some notes on your palm to read

Whose side are you on anyway?
You've got to get back to the water
I know my lines in the sand washed away
So I've got to, I've got to change my ways

They threw the whole mess into the ocean
While filling out forms, fulfilled some fictional chores
Now I've got to change my ways
A cheaper suit or a handful of days
Blessed all the blank walls as they fall
Was it some rule you said could bend?
Or some corners to cut again?

Whose side are you on anyway?
You've got to get back to the water
I know my lines in the sand washed away
Now I've got to change my ways
Track Name: Punch Drunk on Black Mold
I am sitting in the back with a jar of fire ants
picking my teeth with a razor blade
I know you'll be back any day

Waiting around, I found a couple of crazy sounds
but then they up and walked away
that's how I know it's finally safe to say
that you are never ever coming back
I know you're never ever coming back

Punch drunk on black mold
I broke a finger cause I'm getting too old
and though it wasn't mine to begin with
it looked enough like mine that I felt it

It's too cool to be a school, it's too dark to be a park
I'm not quite sure where I am
but to be honest I don't give a damn
because I know now that you are never coming back
I don't care about anything else cause you're never coming back
I don't know what to do now that you're never coming back

And I saw one little ray of light sneak under the door
like hope in a movie
or an angel in a dusty book
oh page eleventeen, spirit me away from here

I am sitting in the back with an empty jar, aah!

Cutting the ropes with the razor blade
sawing the bars with a thing I made
breaking the locks and iron braids
run in a straight line for days and days and days

Cause I know you aren't coming back
I can't believe it's true, are you really never coming back?
I don't know what to do now that you are never ever coming back
I don't care about anything else cause you're never ever coming back
Track Name: Feathers (Don't Change on Me)
Hold still
You're exactly where I need you to be,
in among the wings.
The moon can rise but they won't fly home.
Some might try, but they're too old.

They used to come and go in waves,
apropos of nothing I could base my resolution on,
although a hole would appear
like a jigsaw puzzle in a mirror.

I tried a thousand different forms but until yours, not one fit quite right.

Far and wide,
any bird I've ever heard of is here,
interlocked and wove.
They fold around and they frame you right,
just like some Escher might draw.

They used to come in go in waves,
apropos of nothing but a chain of numbers on a page
I lost a long time ago in the maelstrom, oh, it's how it goes.

I tried a thousand different forms but until yours nothing fit quite right.

When it rains it pours, but all that comes down are feathers,
and if you jump off that cliff, you'll only gonna land in feathers,
and if you walk out that door, your body'll turn into feathers,
I tried it all once before, and it changed me forever.

So don't change on me,
don't change on me now
Track Name: I'm Gonna Make My Move
I'm gonna make my move
I'm gonna tell you what is what
And when I set that truth free,
it's gonna make a couple moves for me.

It's gonna run run run run run
through your veins like a high school senior
through the halls as one last bell tone reverberates
off tiles and plates and smiles, so...

I'm gonna make my move
I've got my cereal spoon and a new moon
scratching at your heel
I'll tunnel through eventually,
just wait and see

I'm gonna run run run run run
through your veins like Joan of Arc
into your heart with a mad hope
I lost a lot but I got you caught

I'm living in your lung, it's my national park
I love you so damn much that my face is numb
I'm camping in your lung, it's my national park
I love you so damn much that my whole world has been devoured by the dark
Track Name: Pigeon Toes
made a tourniquet from the tassel of a graduate
left high and dry at the altar as
those wedding bells sing "ding da dong"
and we sing another sad song.
we tried a more vivacious melody
but it came out wrong.

how could you come here and say that?
how could you come here at all?

oh, i'm not a fool
but my pigeon toes are blistered
from pacing every night in the gravel outside your house
give it a try
give me some kind of sign
give it up you pathetic split pea soup drinker
give up the ghost as a tip to the hostess

made myself a part of it
a part of it

how could you come here and say that?
how could you come here at all?
Track Name: Safari
we are on a safari
we're wrecked, we're chronicling the sights
we are on a safari
it's always night at the zoo
i won't tell you twice

look at those two in the corner
let me slip off my glasses so i blend into the masses
why'd you turn off your phone?
let me slip off my glasses so i blend into the masses

what are we on?
what are we on?

we are on a safari
we're wrecked, we're chronicling the sights
we are on a safari
it's always night at the zoo
i won't tell you thrice

look at those two in the corner
let me slip off my glasses so i blend into the masses
well don't just stand there alone
when no one's pushing that tone

i'll grab you by the hand
i'll grab you by the hand

don't try to tell me what's wrong or right
just cause you blew your daddy's cash on a philosophy ph. d
you ain't got nothing to do
but dance with my drop out ass
so shut the fuck up
and shake it like it ain't ironic
Track Name: Hall Pass
Where's your hall pass, you little punk ass?
Track Name: Cat Out of the Bag
the cat is out of the bag
the cat is out of the bag (say that thing again)
i get angry sometimes and i make my friend get mad (again)

someday, someday, someday...

only if you bring that flashlight pass along
tagalong, tagalong...

shut up
oh, they came in through the basement window
but no one heard it open

shut up, blah blah, ah ai ah ooh or whatever
Track Name: This Life
this life comes and goes,
speeds and slows.

it really bugs me a lot.
it really gets my goat.
Track Name: Palinopsia
every single night after the sky goes black
i see your face, i think you're back
you hover in the dark like you hang from a string
but i flip on the light and i don't find anything
it all makes sense, got ya burned in my retinas
you left my mind's eye paused,
god awful optic tetanus
i never bother rolling over
'cause you're over there too

in the red light palinopsia
in the blue light palinopsia
in the purple light palinopsia

i walk down liberty street after dusk
a slave to a memory
projecting your face on every pedestrian
i haven't found a match
but there was this one
with the right hair color and cut
another was wearing those shoes you bought
your voice made my cilia ring
radiating out of the throat of a dead ringer
singing on the corner for some change

in the red light palinopsia
in the blue light palinopsia
in the purple light palinopsia


12345 now you're all i see
you're frozen in time like i need you to be
1234 i will sculpt you
a statue of a statue of a statue of a statue
123 take it easy
you're frozen in time cause i froze you in time
so you'll always be there
no matter if you want to (1,2)
you are the only one (1)
you are the only one

all day, every day
shadowy shapes are shifting back and forth behind
the seedy operations that devour my time
don't take me back, don't take me back
take me back to that day
every day
these shadowy shapes are threatening to steal my mind
i can't reason with them
every method i've tried is a bust
Track Name: Neutral Man
brought you up from your red knees to shiny black shoes
they twisted your arm to keep you from harm
you've got some nerves
you've got some medicine
gonna fix you up right
they twisted your arm to keep you from harm

but now they're holding you down
pulling a fast one with their pin prick
nickel plated fossils out
trilobite trash talking
bout the way
you went around
digging down digging down
in the ground

all your friends joining rival gangs
but you're a neutral man
threw the gears in drive or reverse
but you're in neutral, man

those disembodied voices
they spoke to you
they chose you

but now they're holding you down
pulling a fast one with their pin prick
nickel plated fossils out
trilobite trash talking
bout the way
you went around
digging down digging down
in the ground
Track Name: Paper Crane
are you dreaming of a shape?
some beautiful form to take?
just hold it in your head
i'm gonna count to ten
unclench your hand and then
we'll pedal down the road

on a double-seated bike
the front for me, the back for you
i'm all that you can see
you can never ever know
where you're going till you get there
just pedal, just pedal down the road

up a hill toward a light
we duck and dodge the falling night
to the hotel at the top
oh, the bags under your eyes
just check them with the bellman

because we're late, we're late
for a very important date

fold you into forms
you're my paper crane
cut, crease, crinkle your arms into wings
and your fingers are feathers
just be what i need
Track Name: Books About Nothing
i got a job at a meat shop
only thing they think i'm qualified for
i read a famous book about nothing
it was incredibly thick

i live a long long long long way from where i was born
that's just a paper cut
i got some food in my house
i think it's going bad.

my bad faith's been flaring up
but whatcha really need your good faith for?
only two days, but long days, until i go
farther away.

that's all the more i figure i can take
weighing the rows
before i snap and do something somebody somewhere...

that's all the more i figure i can take
weighing the rows

before i snap and do something somebody somewhere
a long long long way from where i was born
it's just a matter of time
before i snap do something somebody somewhere
will regret

i want to read more books about nothing
i want to read more books about nothing
you can't own your friend like an iron nail
but you can keep a bone if you don't tell
Track Name: Fish Eyes
i feel the same as the very first day i came
and i hang my head in shame to think of how it came to this
those ancient rules they got written in the glowing pools
that my greatest granddad pulled his wretched body outta
a long time ago

only if your gills suck fern exhaust
only if you grow two hearts
pumping out red and blue through
the causeways and the avenues

some film got lifted from the back of a cargo bay,
smuggled up to penthouse A of a 13 story nest
the landlord cranked all night and projected future woes
out two west-facing windows, kept his ears to the north and south.

kept his ears to the north and south
they're guiding you back
to a glowing pool where your fish eyes work
they're guiding you back

the foundation cracked and the birds all left the nest
looking out for second best cause it's only july.
someone got crushed and her legs curled into candy canes
but she didn't feel a spot of pain she'd lost some limbs before.
a long time ago

a tenant below suffocated just a little
yes, a tenant below poured an extra glass
a tenant below cracked the spine of a feng shui guide

my supper crashed to the floor
as fish eyes dragged herself
back to the glowing pool
my greatest granddad said
i'll see you soon
back in the glowing pool

a tenant below started boiling some water
yes, a tenant below rang a sympathetic ear
a tenant below put a magnet in a pillowcase

pumping out red and blue
through the causeways and avenues

kept his ears to the north and south.
they're guiding you back
to a glowing pool where your fish eyes work
they're guiding you back
Track Name: Give Blood Save a Life
This has been a long day
this has been a long, long, horrible, horrible day
it's not right, it's not right
how we give our times to those two bit hacks
mine haven't seemed quite right
since they gave em back

he put the pen the paper, a finger to the switch
passed out, and when he comes to
he's got some bullshit
my silent neighbor, he never even waved once

it's not right, it's not right
how we give our times to those two bit hacks
mine haven't seemed quite right
since they gave em back

give blood... give blood...

i'm just, i'm just angrier than i've ever been
there's only one more letter to write
we got fakes, phonies, running the press
we got crooks in suits at offices
we got forms
we spend eighteen years
apparently learning nothing

gonna give blood, gonna save a life
gonna give blood, gonna save a life
Track Name: The Stupidest Things
fell out a window accidentally
i often get distracted
and do the stupidest things

making the best of it
i twist up my spine
trying to see into my neighbor's window
as i pass by
they do the stupidest things i ever saw

shoulda just let those goddamn plants wilt
but i don't want to get mad

804's thinking hard about death
cause he knows how not to blow it
he got distracted when we locked eyes
and he blew it
over and over and over
went the song on the radio
in 704
but nobody was home

lost my head through 604
trying to wish away the ground floor
every atom stayed stuck
my streak of bad luck
rubbed off on 504
only coming up one number short
404, 304, 204
they're all watching the same television show
all wearing the same blank stare

oh god, don't let this be the last sight i see
don't let this be the last sight i see
Track Name: Whose Side Are You On Anyway? (Acoustic)
I've got to change my ways
Too many times, you just string me along
Pass by the window, what's in it for me?
Just some notes on your palm to read

Whose side are you on anyway?
You've got to get back to the water
I know my lines in the sand washed away
So I've got to, I've got to change my ways

They threw the whole mess into the ocean
While filling out forms, fulfilled some fictional chores
Now I've got to change my ways
A cheaper suit or a handful of days
Blessed all the blank walls as they fall
Was it some rule you said could bend?
Or some corners to cut again?

Whose side are you on anyway?
You've got to get back to the water
I know my lines in the sand washed away
Now I've got to change my ways
Track Name: If You Want
If you want to walk away, then you can
and if you want to take your time, then you can
but if you want my advice, you should stick it out for a while
You should know by now, we can work it out if we try

If you want to speak your mind, then you can
and if you want to speak mine, then you can
and if you want my advice,
I don't know why you would,
but in case you want it it's all yours,
but what do I know anyhow?

If you want to go today, then you can
or if you'd rather just stay, then you can
but if you want my advice, you should stick it out for a while
I think a good thing's coming
(although I could be wrong by a mile)

If you want a new world, go build one
and if you want some more time, just take some
if you don't want me anymore
I guess that that's okay
I don't know what I'll do
but I'll be glad for you (in a way)

If you want a new life, just make one
and if you want some new love, go find some
If you don't want me anymore
I guess that that's okay
I might bug out,
but I'll get over it in a number of days
(if I can at all)
Track Name: Lies
There's a funny thing that happens to me
every time it rains outside.
I almost hesitate to tell you.
I'm afraid you won't believe me at all…

because I used to lie all of the time
I know that you know that
but I've drawn the line,
I'm not making up any new lies.
I'm just maintaining the old ones...

Tiny gods, invisible to any instrument you know.
Too small to hold, and truth be told
they're impossible to either prove or disprove.

because I used to lie all of the time
I know that you know that,
but I've drawn a new lie line.
Yeah, I've drawn the line
It's a writhing kind,
but I still try and hold a couple toes at the edge

There's a funny thing that happens to me
every time it rains outside
I see 'em standing there...

They walk out of the rain
Who's that? What's this?
Nobody but me even knows that they exist
They only ever say, with tongues like knives,
"Nobody but you even knows we are alive."