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Balloon
07:54
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red and white they filled the sky as all the planes began to take flight we would chase them around and hold them down we'd swallow them up until we retched them out we'd scream and we'd shout about our stomachs and how they hurt us until our bodies brought a world full of snips and snails and little girls filling stockings with curls and locks licking lips til mother would stop and wipe the rings around their mouths waiting for more wings to leak out on the clouds behind your house where silence sings and grows so loud we'd look for lights to shine down but not a single one was found now i see you dancing down the stage in dreams where i met you we snuck right into the room where we disappeared and i hope that i'll find you there when i awake and care to share i'll have grown no new facial hair although its been a year there will still be no sign of a beard
your body's rejecting the love that i'm sending out from my lungs to help you keep breathing i hope you're not leaving me like this so give me your kiss let our souls manifest themselves upon our lips and make us feel like kids when my heart had a whole that your smile could mend
now fire is filling up this room and i am blowing into you just like a balloon and though we are laughing and smiling and crying i know that that is why i'm trying to save you for you are a friend just like a brother and when this all is over i know we'll hold each other and we can talk about it from the top of our mountain or downtown at the fountain where the water overflows fingers become bones shadows fade out with the glow for now this room is slower lay your head upon my shoulder brother and i will cling to you and you can cling to me and in this way we will sink but i will never leave and we will give our hearts to everyone we meet along the way
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Wise Up
05:56
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when you broke your brother's toys
never thinking he would tell your mother
you were both just little boys
always getting into lots of trouble
now its too late to
do what you didn't do
but who you hurt aint all your fault
when you broke your best friends face
fighting over who you thought was better
at those silly games you'd play
never thinking that they didn't matter
now its too late to
do what you didn't do
but who you hit aint all your fault
when you broke your sisters heart
never thinking she would really miss you
you drove away in your car
she was crying when you went out of view
now its too late to
do what you didn't do
but who you leave aint always your fault
and when you broke your lovers pact
never thinking you would ever miss it
you think that all these things will last
and so you tend to leave them so unfinished
and now its too late to
do what you didn't do
and what youve got aint much at all
its never too late to
do what you didnt do
cus what you've got ain't much at all
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Flying Actresses
03:37
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talking of nothing but sweetcakes and milkshakes
in that space between sleep and awake
how certain you used to be of yourself
entering places with secret handshakes
folding sacred paper airplanes
how funny it was to have you on my floor
and we dress up in our play clothes
as parents would take our picture
where they'll hang em in their memories
so they can remember
from your mouth sweet sounds escape
wings shot out of your shoulder blades
how wonderful it must be to not be yourself
an actress replaced when mary got pregnant
allowing me to flow through her movements
how fun it must be to sing so loud
and we dress up in our fathers clothes
as kids would take our picture
where they'll hang em in our memories
so we can remember
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Pretty Mess
05:19
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and when we were young
i used to crawl into bed
you were a pretty mess
talking of god images
and when we were warned
we had to bow our heads
we started faking it
cus nothing is sacred except when you make it
a long time ago there were angels in the snow
there were castles in the clouds
where i touched your mouth
and your blood came pouring out
and o'er my eyes
and i dreamt of the place where you and i will die
and when we were born
you looked at me and said
that we'd be better off dead
but we just laughed instead
about our nakedness
about the life we were about to have
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marys got drugs that she takes in doses and i suppose that they make her feel better
they fill her up with lots and lots of thoughts that get lost in the froth on the tip of her kisser
we stay inside where its nice and dry while the clouds cry and the world gets wetter
and we're so happy or maybe we're sad we don't know
mary picks roses by the dozens from the green green garden that the neighbors planted
she plucks off their petals and offers them as medals to the kids that pin them on their parkas and sweaters
the clouds assemble and the sky resembles marshmellows in a blender with an egg yellow center
and we're so dreamy or maybe we're lucid we don't know
mary laughs and she overdoes it like she always does but it makes me feel better
she fills me up with lots and lots of love but its just not enough so she gives up early
we catch a peak and try not to blink at all the pretty things we shouldn't see so prematurely
and i'm so afraid or maybe fascinated i don't know
mary stares as she overdoses now i suppose you'll never get the chance to meet her
a rush of love that comes and floods her blood is just enough to make her wanna feel this way forever
and all the while her beauty rivals the smile of a child that is learning to remember
and we're so high or maybe we're low we don't know
..filibuster..
in this circle of people i'm looking at her she's off to the side coming down a slide
and mary's spinning round in circles she asks me to join in but i just smile
and we all join hands together..
i was strapped down to the mattress awaiting what would come next
and the drugs that were once in my head are now coming out of my chest
and we all sing a song together...
in this circle of people i'm looking at her she's off to the side doing another line
and merry's on the microphone trying to get me to leave her alone but i still try
and we all just smile together...
and you were stripped down naked with just a bracelet around your wrist
and the dreams that were once in your head are now all being laid to rest
and it all will come together
it all will come together...
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oh what a world you fell into
oh what a world you fell into
they took the god image out of you
darling dream of a dress you will wear when we dance
round in circles holding hands with all the other children
and when we return we will lay down in her shade
we'll chop her branches make a boat to sail away
oh what a world you fell into
oh what a world you fell into
they placed the god image into you
oh country girl you're the one i adore
you have my heart and i have yours
and when we return we'll make crowns of fallen leaves
parade in play clothes of the forest we'll be kings and queens
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