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W/U
01:59
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The sky is falling down
The money's ashes now
As long as you're around, I will be with you
The sky is falling down
The music has no sound
As long as you're around, I will be with you
The sky is falling down
We'll dance among the clouds
As long as you're around, I will be with you
The sky is falling down
I cry, but I can't frown
As long as you're around, I will be with you
And nothing will ever be the same
I wish that things would never change, but
But, oh
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2. |
Canada
04:35
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Everybody has a Canada
A place to escape to when yours gets rough
Ours is nowhere now
Gotta work with the one we’ve got somehow
Oh my god, what have you done to me?
Oh my god, what have you done to me?
We were robbed every middle of the night
They think the problem is we aren’t polite
Took our house by brick and board
Built it into something that we couldn’t afford
Oh my god, what have you done to me?
Oh my god, what have you done to me?
There’s trouble in the air
In the water, in the air
In the water, I don’t care
We all flicker out some time
We all flicker out some time
We all get hung out to dry
We are laundry of the laundry
Of the people who survive
And we survive because we’re angry,
We don’t flicker out and die
We are never truly dry
Dead leaves that won’t ignite
(I like it, I’m not gonna crack // I love you, I’m not gonna crack // I miss you, I’m not gonna crack // I killed you, I’m not gonna crack)
Hope’s a disease
You can’t catch it if you don’t believe
I’ve been sick for half my life
I catch it every morning when I kiss you goodbye
(But I still think) Oh my god, what have you done to me?
Oh my god, what have you done to me?
Baby, I'll give what you gave me
Shout out to **** (dead name) you saved me
All roads were made for repaving
Windows and people ain't the same thing
Heaven is Earth in the making
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3. |
A Million Stars
03:04
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Laughing ‘cause it’s making you nervous
Playing with the food on your plate
I’ve got the same problem
This is the future we’re talking about
This is the future we’re talking about
I am serious
So, so serious
I want to cry when I look into your eyes
A million stars could’ve shot across the sky
And I wouldn’t know, I’ve been busy being so
Worried ‘bout how or even if we’ll have children
Wondering when we’ll move ‘cause it floods
Or even if we can
Should we be planning a violent attack?
Should we pound on the doors ‘till they crack?
Or should we plan a wedding
And take our destiny back?
I want to cry when I look into your eyes
A million stars could’ve shot across the sky
And I wouldn’t know, I’ve been busy being so
Worried
The Amazon should just be a forest
Our kids might think it’s only a business
I’m spent
Am I making any sense?
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4. |
Desert Guarantee
02:55
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My phone is in a cab
The sun becomes the clock
There’s paw prints in the sand
There’s lizards with bright spots
I am feverish and shivering
Goodness gracious, what was I thinking
Or trying to prove?
Your number’s memorized, but
The ranger station’s far
You’re on with tech support
It looks like I’m on Mars
I see mirages of slot machines
You are the quarters in my pair of jeans,
I spend ‘cause it’s there
No more favors if I see you again, I swear
This love is not a guarantee, not a guarantee
I talk up a film I’ve never seen, film I’ve never seen
I’ll become what you think of me, what you think of me
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5. |
Shows
03:26
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I love my shows just like a child of my own
I love to watch them play all day inside my home
I don't need to know what it's like outside
They help to make some sense of what this world's become
The characters all have real life comparisons
So I don't need to know what it's like outside
David Berman is gone
Can’t hear the fire alarm
Frequency off of the chart
Frequently dancing alone
Friends can exist on a phone
Out of my comfort zone
Out of something to smoke
Out of it
Fiona went hard
Fiona’s got bars, Fiona was always a ten (out of ten)
Do you remember when
Everything wasn’t the end
I will be on my couch
Skylar white in the house
Happy that Jesse got out
Finally ready to rest
I feel alive
I already know what it's like outside
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6. |
Bad
03:30
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I went out buying bread
I’m so behind on messages
I listen to a lunatic, his views are somewhere
In the millions
My headphones don’t plug into this
Light brown paper packages
Are cluttering the stairs
It’s a bad, bad time but I could get used to it
It’s a one-course meal with no alternatives
It’s a thousand packs-a-day habit you can’t quit
smack the ruler on my wrist
repeat the joke again
i’m numbing from the medicine
a deafening ambulance
the homes are like hotels
a yuppie breakfast
the mural advertisements
a linebacker dies from his helmet
I’m screaming up a well
It’s a bad, bad time but I could get used to it
It’s a seven figure cover charge payment
you can try to put up points ‘till nobody wins
smack the ruler on my wrist
And the cop that Lana Del Rey took home
Has his own reality TV show
Now Normal Fuckin’ Rockwell feels strange
But I guess I’ll see how that record ages
In 18 months
And my brother has an American flag
He don’t think much of all the weight it has
And my neighbors wear it on all their clothes
They’re made where nobody dares to go
Where they make the phones
And they show what I’m thinking on Instagram
It’s a goddamn plan
You can’t untangle it, it’s too much
So just tie me up
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In a city in the future
We learned to beat the rain
Everybody is a lawyer
Everyone is drinking champagne
And I am six feet underwater
In a watery grave
Holding your hand with a smile upon my face
They have stolen all our prospects
It was fixed right from the start
They will try to break your spirit
But they can never break your heart
And I don’t have to be so stubborn
We can talk like it’s all fine
‘Cause I love you till the end of time
In a city in the future
They finally found a cure
To everything that ails us
And it’s sold at every store
And we both had it when it happened
It made us both blind
But we still played our favorite board games
Every night
They have stolen all our prospects
It was fixed right from the start
They will try to break your spirit
But they can never break your heart
And I will carry your to-go bag
Even if you can’t lift mine
‘Cause I love you till the end of time
They have stolen all our prospects
It was fixed right from the start
They will try to break your spirit
But they can never break your heart
And I know a God can hear us
She’s just waiting for a sign
I love you ’til the end of time
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8. |
Normal
02:40
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The curtain’s drawn
The life we knew is gone and I’m
Washing the dishes twice again
Thinking in shorter distances
Leave the TV on so the
Voices can comfort you to sleep
It’s what we need
To feel normal again
Ambient grief
And terror coalesce
Into routine
I promised you that I would give my best
Right now
Re-write the maps
Pave over the paths that we
Built out of unsteady dreams
We read about in magazines
Wait for it to pass but it
Haunts you and dangles the key
We think we need
To feel normal again
It’s out of reach
Put it all to rest
We’ll make our peace
And tidy up for whatever comes next
These days are long as love
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9. |
Amber
03:56
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This is not roses, it's an ivy plant
Twisting around whatever shape
It grows for as long as the form can change
That could be you in that photograph
Black and white one-piece bathing suit
Your grandmother looks uncannily like you
I will be there when you don't know me
I will be there when you don't know me
I will be there when you don't know me
And I will sing when you forget the words
You say you're gonna die like this some day
Even if we make it out alive
But if there's a contract, where do I sign?
I could preserve you in amber
Before you begin to decay
But then I would miss everything on the way
I will be there when you don't know me
I will be there when you don't know me
I will be there when you don't know me
And I will sing when you forget the words
The words
The words
The words
The words
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10. |
Lily
05:16
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Lily
I will give you a world you deserve
From the clouds to the depths of the earth
And your mother will too
Lily
We will suck all the smog out the sky
And we'll clean up the ocean in time
So the colors stay blue
You are just a concept for now
I won't let a single tyrant knock you down
I won't let a broken climate scratch you out
Before you're alive
And even if you can't breathe on your own
Even if you don't enjoy the radio
I will find in you a will I've never known
To survive
(Promise)
Are you the light, Hare Krishna
Or are you as cold as a Hallelujah?
Leonard's 81st draft of a verse never done
Do I cut you? Do I move on?
Lily
Please forgive us for wasting your time
We are not prepped for you to arrive
Everything's laced with doom
Lily
You're the greatest hope that I've got
That the earth isn't destined to rot
And the flowers will bloom
You are just a concept for now
I won't let a single tyrant knock you down
I won't let a broken climate scratch you out
Before you're alive
And even if you can't breathe on your own
Even if you don't enjoy the radio
I will find in you a will I've never known
To survive
Do I move on?
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The Human Fly
5-piece making eclectic alt-folk hailing from Philadelphia and New York. Powered by friendship.
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