1. |
Angel
03:45
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i think i want to go get high again
sit down & laugh with my oldest friend
i know it's tough out on this carousel fairy tale
i want to fight my way from
behind this faded generation
i'm just a has-been crackpot
that's not me
no i'm an angel
can't you see my wings?
i've got blood red as the clear blue sky
& pale white skin just an american guy
waiting in the wings like a cool cadet
i know there's a higher power
i just haven't found her yet
i'm just a has-been fuck-up
lucky me
no i'm an angel
can't you see my wings?
i'm a symptom of a system
it's as simple as that
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2. |
Good Fight
02:15
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i know that you're there
when i can't even hear you & you care
you're just like my best friend in the dark
i know that you'll kill me for a part
& when i go out for a good time
no it's not right
you put up a good fight
i know that you're there
won't you come out & show me for a scare
like a spark on the ceiling gone away
i know that you'll hold me one day
& then when i go out for a good time
what a nice life
you put up a good fight
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the lifeblood of the holy spirit is dust
caught in every ray of light
that's ever been denied an honest touch
i could live it
for another foggy day
i could live it
today is just a palindrome of yesterday
a marigold with the petals all aflame
no one picks them off:
he loves me not
he loves me just the same
i could live it
for another foggy day
for another chance to play
for a sunny stunted day
i could live it
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4. |
Up in the Attic
01:47
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put a smile on her face
you know the game
she's been here a very long time
take your sorrow upstairs
everyone cares
or they would if you'd give them a line
everyone knows it
they're up in the attic
they come out at night
nobody shows it
you tell your truth
& i'll tell mine
put my hand in her hand
help her to stand
she's loved me a very long time
i am her man
as best as i can
i falter but never resign
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5. |
New Game
03:24
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don't be insincere
there's a time & there's a place
but it's not here
i'm a good kid full of loose ends
i'm a good friend
i'm a quick-wit son of a bitch
but that's just it
don't get sad
every death's a universe escaping
don't get sad
everyone's a heart decaying
taking pictures while they're waiting
& then we forget them
god get off my back
you are the sun
you are the only friend i have
i'm an old face in a new game
i'm the real thing
i'm the tight space with shit for brains
i'm okay
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6. |
Guilty Face
03:38
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woke up about four AM
no different than working third shift
got in town about seven o clock
put everything she owned into a dented-in locker
at a twenty cent bus stop
he said he'd love you for the rest of your days
well that's quite a promise to make
he got out on the second of june
for some shit he didn't even do
he was born with a guilty face
& a special predilection
for the wrong time & the wrong place
he just needed to borrow a car
to get to wherever you are
his head could explode
his hand was exposed
no one could know
he had a long look
that's all that it took
he got sick on the day of the show
but he never really wanted to go
he disappeared with a hiss
you know what they say:
it's a cheap trick but they'll take it
so she slept under pale moonlight
& dreamt of another life
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7. |
Nylon
02:43
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even with a healing hand
i'll succumb to blowing sand
filling up the holes in me
& be buried by the wind
christmas prayers will come again
we'll repeat them when we're lonely
still it troubles me to find
how i'm passing off my time
with no one else entrusting me
if i'm running all the time
who till take care of what's mine?
i can feel it getting in
when we fail at being friends
i've been out to unimpress
weighing teeth against my breath
stuttering to say you
still it's getting worse at best
blinding lights & bitter ends
staying off to stay new
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8. |
Maybe More
02:42
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weekday wander through the halls
breathe relief & cough
smile all the time
i'll say something that sounds right
breathe relief & sigh
stand up straight & tall
let's be friends
maybe more if it makes sense
let's be kind
maybe more if you've got time
so do i
hold back every little sign
that something's new this time
make me guess again
i'll be counting up the moments
you couldn't help but show it
dividing them by mine
let's be friends
maybe more if it makes sense
let's be kind
maybe more if you've got time
neither do i
weekend
lay awake in bed
let the sunlight in
perish in the thought
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9. |
Perfect Coils Pt. 2
03:40
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getting closer to the precipice
i'll always miss you
give a kiss to whoever you want
just don't hold my hand or make demands
i don't intend to let you fool me twice
& then get on
that's some black dress
some passing glance
i guess your weapons never rest
am i right?
one to the chest
one to the head
i never really got the best of you did I?
no reply
way out west do they make
mountain echo sounds that just grow closer
in a way when they escape?
will you always be impossible to love for me?
the troubles we have subtly make way
don't get closer
i don't want to play
when it's dead & over
let's both walk away
don't act sore about it
i found out it's not so hard
to be a different person every day
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10. |
TRY
01:58
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i know you
you know too
i bleed through
to feed you
i killed him
my own friend
you'll be back
don't say that
we both hurt
we both learn
i'm outside
so let's try
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11. |
Teeth
02:09
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hey there's a hole in this song
there's a heart between my lungs
there are teeth around my tongue
i never want to love again
never make another friend
i will be my own revenge
caught in between myself & not
singing every fucking thought
i don't want the light i've got
hey there's a hole in my heart
it's got the motion & the parts
but i don't know what made it start
hey there's a stone around my neck
there's a night i can't forget
there is beauty in regret
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Joplin Rice Lexington, Kentucky
Joplin Rice is a songwriter living in Richmond, Kentucky.
He has released numerous other albums both under his own name and as Ezra Triste.
Every band he forms dies.
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