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Everybody
03:20
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Subtle Joy is screaming at people passing by
"Don't flinch in fear
Come!
Look me in the eye
My frame it is is failing
My condition has no cure
My body may be broken
But I'm still here"
Sad Eye Smile says his dad's his best friend
You gotta look away, afraid how this will end
Admiring abandoning Soft Sand King?
Your future looks bright kid
If you survive the spring
Everybody's doing the best that they can
Quick to Laugh cries "All men are trash!"
And tells her sob stories to Living In The Past
Nana just sighs, "so it goes, so it goes
Don't tell it to me, child
You're telling the one who knows"
Loudest In The Room is trying to make a change
But it never really stuck, just made her feel strange
Some truths you know from childhood
Some lies hold as firm
Quiet she confesses
Which is which she couldn't learn
Everybody's doing the best that they can
Look Em In The Eye is standing very still
Writing everything down he sees from his window sill
But it wasn't stream of consciousness
That was steady glued
The thoughts in his head are the only thing that never moved
Everything that Golden Boy touches turns to shit
But the only thing this niño cares about is getting his jimmy licked
He sobs and he sighs
"It is what it is"
I walk among you
But I will not walk with
Everybody's doing the best that they can
Damaged Goods is singing songs about his first go
About how the dust was settled and the seeds that we sow
But Nobody's listening
No One is there
Nobody paid attention
And No One cared
So And So is so alive
Her thoughts are all on fire
If she ever told the truth
You'd call her a liar
But she put it on a poster
She whispered to the kids
"Teach it to the teachers
Never keep a fire hid"
Everybody's doing the best that they can
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2. |
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Sing
Us a song
Something of us
Yet beyond us
Say
Something true
That we've never heard
But almost knew
Heard like the siren before the flood
Wrapped in linen and soaked in blood
They want to hear the song
Play
Like a knife
Stabbing chords
Bringing the dead back to life
Strum
Like the end
Translating static so
We can comprehend
Heard like the silence before the flood
Looks like violence and
Feels like love
They want to hear the song
Come
As you aren't
Help confuse the meaning
Of the art
Tell
Tell us lies
Come in a form that's pleasing
Please deceive me
Heard like the siren before the flood
Bright as angels and clear as mud
They want to hear the song
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3. |
Everything Is Perfect
02:00
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Everything is perfect
All according to the plan
No questions asked
No answers given
There's nothing to understand
Everything is perfect
All the people agree
Upon a star a dream was wished upon
And that's this all came to be
It's like people say
They say it every change they get
"No one's human
And everyone is perfect"
They say...
Everyone is perfect
See the banners unfurl
No one's curious about alternatives
The best of possible worlds
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4. |
Brian's Dream
02:19
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5. |
Pretty Polly
02:56
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Polly, pretty Polly, come along with me
Polly, pretty Polly, come along with me
Before we get married/ some please to see
Jumped up behind him and away they go
Jumped up behind him and away they go
Down to the valley/ The forest below
Went a little further and what did they spy?
Went a little further and what did they spy?
But a new grave/ with a spade laying by
"Willie, oh Willie, I'm afraid of your ways.
Willie, oh Willie, I'm afraid of your ways.
I'm so afraid I have led you astray."
"Polly, pretty Polly, you guessed just about right.
Polly, pretty Polly, yo guessed justabout right.
I dug your grave for the most of last night."
Stabbed her in the heart and the blood it did flow
Stabbed her in the heart and the blood it did flow
And pretty Polly fell to her grave below
A debt to the devil we all must pay
A debt to the devil we all must pay
For killing pretty Polly and running away
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6. |
Roasting Olympia
02:31
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I talked to a woman who was visiting Olympia from Portland
I said "What do the people there in the big city say lil ol' Oly?"
She said "The coffee's good. It's full of hippies. And the roller derby teams play dirty."
She was roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia
I talked to this other girl and she grew up here.
I asked her "What's the local perspective of Oly. Vibe check!"
She said "Its trying to be a big city, likes to pretend it is and maybe just day it just might. But right now you can't get boba tea at midnight"
She was roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia
You got the Evergreener transplants
Mingling with the army brat
State workers and tribal folks
Local farmers and townie yolks
All roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia, roasting Olympia
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7. |
Lullaby For Amber's Army
03:14
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If you close your eyes
You will sleep
You will sleep and dream
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
And go dream
If you go to sleep
You will dream
You will dream of me
Go and dream
Go and dream
Go and dream
Dream of me
If you dream of me
We will sing
We will sing this song
Let's go sing
Let's go sing
Let's go sing
Sing this song
If you sing this
We will dream
We will dream of sleep
We will dream
We will dream
Dream of sleep
When you dream of sleep
Open your eyes
Open your eyes and wake
We will wake
We will wake
We will wake
Open
Your
Eyes
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Everyone is going to die
You’ll never read all the books that you buy
Some problems can’t be solved no matter what we do
Somebody’s therapist knows all about you.
It’s true that you aren’t the worst thing you did
But that don’t make it any easier to forgive.
You have always believed some lie
Some people you care for will just fade from your life
You’ll never stop hurting the people that you love
Your government's doing horrible things that you’ll never hear of
You can’t do some things no matter how you try
You also don’t know how much you can accomplish
Before you die
Oh
Oh
We're all fucked
Oh
Oh
Its hard not to feel a little stuck
Some people don’t like you for good reason too
You’ll forget some times that once meant the world to you
Everyone you trust will eventually disappoint
Life isn’t a story
There is no point
You’ll never know how the next death make will make you feel
You can’t prepare
This shit is real.
Oh
Oh
We're all fucked
Oh
Oh
Its hard to feel that we're not all out of luck
And that's okay
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9. |
Still Going Strong
03:29
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I'm not sentimental
But sometimes I walk
I walk in the rain
A man of man hats
That's a known fact
But never are they plain
Haters gonna hate
Cuz they can't explain
That which can't be tamed
But my thoughts burst free
Like blossoms in the season
They can't be contained
Its a many fine and course thread that makes a tapestry
So why oh why
Why oh why
Why you trying to change me?
This started before you got here
It'll be going on when you're gone
This started before you got here
And I'm still going strong
I got a sense of humor
That's not quite normal
My jokes get a stare and a blink
But I always get a laugh
Anytime people ask
What I actually think
I'm not like other girls
People say "Me thinks thou protest too much"
But I could not bring my passion from the common spring
I'm not laying it on a touch
Its a many fine and course thread that makes a tapestry
So why oh why
Why oh why
Why you trying to change me?
This started before you got here
It'll be going on when you're gone
This started before you got here
And I'm still going strong
This started before you got here
It'll be going on when you're gone
This started before you got here
And I'm still going strong
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10. |
Everyone (lofi)
03:28
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Subtle Joy is screaming at people passing by
"Don't flinch in fear
Come!
Look me in the eye
My frame it is is failing
My condition has no cure
My body may be broken
But I'm still here"
Sad Eye Smile says his dad's his best friend
You gotta look away, afraid how this will end
Admiring abandoning Soft Sand King?
Your future looks bright kid
If you survive the spring
Everybody's doing the best that they can
Quick to Laugh cries "All men are trash!"
And tells her sob stories to Living In The Past
Nana just sighs, "so it goes, so it goes
Don't tell it to me, child
You're telling the one who knows"
Loudest In The Room is trying to make a change
But it never really stuck, just made her feel strange
Some truths you know from childhood
Some lies hold as firm
Quiet she confesses
Which is which she couldn't learn
Everybody's doing the best that they can
Look Em In The Eye is standing very still
Writing everything down he sees from his window sill
But it wasn't stream of consciousness
That was steady glued
The thoughts in his head are the only thing that never moved
Everything that Golden Boy touches turns to shit
But the only thing this niño cares about is getting his jimmy licked
He sobs and he sighs
"It is what it is"
I walk among you
But I will not walk with
Everybody's doing the best that they can
Glitter Bomb believes in dope, not hope
A real revolution, not more plastic hope
She wanted it to be there
She wanted it to help
Call for the guillotine?
Be guillotined yourself
So And So is so alive
Her thoughts are all on fire
If she ever told the truth
You'd call her a liar
But she put it on a poster
She whispered to the kids
"Teach it to the teachers
Never keep a fire hid"
Everybody's doing the best that they can
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Jemmy Joe Olympia, Washington
Jemmy Joe is a twin. An unreliable narrator. An acquired taste. Mixing traditional folk, jazz harmonic taste and a sardonic optimism, Jemmy Joe has been making music for no one his entire, god damn adult life. Though he has very little to show for it, it is the train he is on and will not be jumping off any time soon. ... more
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