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Doldrums
04:03
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Spittle, foam, and bluster
Never met the muster
From a guilty chancer
Dredging up some old sins
So bored of this insurrection
With no unearned affection
Phantom warships
Crown the distance
Passing through
Passing through you
Wailing grave abandon
But I can’t hardly stand in
The wake of your deflection
Phantom warships
Still and listless
Silent fathoms
Spinning endless
Passing through
Passing through
You
When are you going to stay upright
Sinking bottles, day and night?
Cast aspersions just to hide
Your tender vessel’s battered pride
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Blue Juniper
02:49
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Scraped over knees, blue juniper
Thirteen and hid behind the church
Pick out the faintest 8-bit psalm
Put out the embers in your palm
Fixed within their sights
They had us dead to rights
Sunday
Ironclad ordinance herein
But that’s no way to take you in
Flying so high, no commissar
You’re contraband when I’m at large
Fixed within your gaze
There’s nothing but the rain
Blue jay
Fixed without a cage
They told you once
You misbehave
You’re never going to leave the ground again
Unfiltered brand, it’s your delight
To smoke an everlasting light
Falling through the night
Much better in hindsight
Blue jay
Someday
Blue jay
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Pristine Disarray
03:01
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Beyond the inner circle
The tension fades away
And after all you’ve been through
I’m feeling the same way
Some days
Make it plain
It’s nothing like before
I’m falling through the floor
Can’t reach the other shore
Pristine disarray
The margins of your hymnal
Suggest a dirty word
And if I’m being honest
I’m feeling the same urge
To curse
A gilded purse
It’s nothing like before
I’m falling through the floor
Can’t reach the other shore
Pristine disarray
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Youth Without Virtue
03:59
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It doesn’t hurt at all
Said the martyr on the wall
But every benediction
Is a chord without conviction
She’ll tell you all the ways
Some days ache more than others do
You know you can enlist her
To cauterize the picture
When the guilt starts getting the best of you
And your faithless friends are falling through
Listen to your sister
Take her word for scripture
Ooh
Any minute now the sound will come in
Clear and sweet and low
Breakdown at the matinee
Deathless white on a blackened page
Any second, any day
The veil will slip and float away
Pinwheel and ricochet
As you fold your hands and pretend to pray
Some may never swoon
At the altar of their youth
A fissure like a virtue
Embedded in the tissue
You hate the touch of silver
But you fasten it for you mother
Hum a sacred tune
To bury the wound inside of you
You’re never enough
You’re never alright
You kill what you love
It burns you alive
Distill what you want
You will what you need
You made me believe
You’ll make it in time
You’ll make it in time
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No Quarter
05:39
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Petals falling upwards
To the room that stands apart
Recently
Not sure when
Lead me off the track
Year in and year out
Morning until night
Ah
Petals falling upward
To the wound that tears apart
Frequently until then
Ah
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Alex Kerc-Murchison, Stephen Carl O'Shea, Nick Ubels, & Tim Ubels.
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