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Confess
02:31
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why can't you confess, that bitterness inside your chest
it's vinegar and a spider's nest, I'd like to know what time is best
to meet you halfway, between the park and home
so we can pick apart the day with a broken chicken bone
looked at my life said love it, leave it, but for god's sake won't somebody out there please help me feed it
bead it
like that sweat around my brow and neck
i'm in between those towers check and mate
on the same line but my day's fine
I know I'd save some face if I could just bathe in a bass line
can't complain, the fragrance of these fates because they taste fine
so buckle me in, while I grin, and check my mates spine
between the sheets
she's breathing deep causing him to wheeze and pant
she unbuckles his shirt and pants
and gives him an awkward upward glance
"we should dance"
the words are caught, mumbled under his neck
his belly fought a rumble and the sun burned his breath
the soles of his shoes are wearing him
this concretes wearing thin
he's walking through a cotton gin
one day he'll make his fingers talk with string
and wires, he perspires over a guitar that gently weeps
in a car with bucket seats
he'd make the stars fall asleep
if they could hear him
and his rhyme and lullabies
if they'd listen he'd make an angels mother cry
why can't you confess, that bitterness inside your chest
it's vinegar and a spider's nest, I'd like to know what time is best
to meet you halfway, between the park and home
so we can pick apart the day with a broken chicken bone
all alone, a dial tone could keep him warm in the storm
seeds are sown, the wind is blown, the clouds are starting to form
water falls from the sky, before it's drank by the soil
every blessed drop will have to cry for the toil
and the sweat of the pursuit cause the journey is the fruit
so before we lick the truth we gotta kiss these roots
with a compass, a square, a map and a needle
pierce the circumference of an atlas right through strawberry fields
we sunk into a mattress we didn't borrow or steal
what's the function of a matchstick when you got a raw deal
I ain't met a meal, I wouldn't eat right quick
the thought of turning vegan it kinda makes me sick
cause when you get real hungry and you're in my position
you wouldn't turn down the pork, the cow, or the chicken
take a hike, from the farm where the hollow reeds grow
talk about potential I'm the taut string of a bow
follow the sound as this kid plays on pan's pipes
spin the bottle around before I smash it with this mag light
ripe was the fruit, her lips were slightly loose
and as the nectar's dripping through she says
"God, I love the juice"
Confess
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Mad Man's World
04:21
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I find it kind of funny, I find it kinda sad
that the worst I’d ever been through was the best I ever had
when she tossed me in the river, with my head inside a bag
first she tied my hands up fastened tightly to my neck
I tried to pull the bag off but I would only choke
the more I tried to fight it, the more I’d squeeze upon the rope
she tore apart my psyche, as I tried to hold out hope
I didn’t have a warning, I’m the butt end of her joke
when I fell into her life, I never stood a chance
it might be I’m mistaken, looking for a new romance
I’ve fallen once or twice, but not like this before
use me, bruise me, break me, but I’d still be back for more
she finds it kind of funny, when she finds me sad
every time I’d try to hold her, she’d say I should feel bad
I began believing, that she was always right
growing numb to the torture, was the focus of my life
the spite inside my chest was a motivating force
blended with self loathing, then we cooked it with a torch
the dish was slightly bitter, with a little too much salt
sweat and blood and tears, metallic flavors were my fault
when we cook for one another, we forget about the past
we drink and dine with slugs, she hides her smile behind her glass
I think you’d find it funny, even though I find it sad
the dreams in which I’m dieing are the best I ever had
we read between the lines, I trace my finger down her hip
i gaze inside her eyes, she’d place stingers in my lip
she said would be my wife, if I could steer the ship
but the helm I hold is broken, and the main sheet starts to slip
the compass isn’t turning no matter where we head
it would be more disconcerting, but for the numbness in my legs
the tingles in my left hand, the pounding in my chest
the twinkles in my vision, I’m sure I just need some rest
and I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
the dreams in which I’m happy are the ones I’ve never had
yes I find it funny, you know it’s kind of sad
it’s it’s it’s mad
It’s a mad mad world
It’s a mad man’s world
it’s a bad man’s world
it’s a bad man’s world but it wouldn’t be nothing without a women or a girl
it’s a mad man’s world there’s a hole inside his chest cause the javelins she hurled
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S.S.S.
03:21
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Saint.Sinner.Suns
let us simmer till this winter's done
spark the flint and cast me out
till the splinters taste like gum
I'll take position
standing at the tip of a bible belt buckle
cause the demon just walked in and he walked out with the muzzle
the trouble is I'm sinking
without a life preserver
gimme permission to rub it in this mic I'm 'bout to murder
and i heard her make a sound even though she kept it under her breath
the clouds are touching the ground but the thunder has left
Saint.SinnerSuns
I'm gonna pierce this Angel's tongue
and staple it to my cranium
till i memorize the taste of the rum
I'll scream "siete.seis.trece" then I'll hijack these beats
I'm rockin it for me gente before the rhyme hits the streets
Wake-Self and drop pills for this life that i cherish
like I'm workin the door at got skillz after carrying vinyl for Perish
our rivals embarrassed cause we mastered their dialect
without Def-i-ing no treaties told you Nato's got my respect
i attended a beautiful funeral memorized eloquent elements you just pulled
outta your hat till the rabbit attacks and followed his tracks till he swallows the fat
of a dutiful solider sippin on foldger's; world's on his shoulders
cast it off with a shrug till they roll out the rug
I'll spit my salt at a slug
yo brethren where is the love?
From the 505 to the 605 and back again
found the rhythm in the heart
tap it with my pad and pen
back and fourth a metronome
I'm out alone and desert roaming
keep on driving till i get back home
tattoo voodoo suck the ink from the skin
sheddings full of venom that i stuck the needle in
extracting the drugs that break down the nervous system
pull the plunger back with the precision of a piston
listen and envision cause they both bring the rhythm
taste the sting of an incision for every mile I've drivin
torch the tree of life to burn the nest where the nest where the serpents dwell
we'll turn the knife the worms infest as far as we fell
a bell turned upside down full of Dynamek tension
rings like Godsent the tones for the sake of ascension
did i mention we can raise the dead
the pawns on the back line
clutch a femur like a sceptre
slap a gong with a slack spine
cut an ill tongue from a cherubim's son
feed it to a Serif-im staring at a gun
give him a sack full of razor blades and honey
pour a quart of milk where the river mouth's running
From the 505 to the 605 and back again
found the rhythm in the heart
tap it with my pad and pen
back and fourth a metronome
I'm out alone and desert roaming
keep on driving till i get back home
tattoo voodoo suck the ink from the skin
sheddings full of venom that i stuck the needle in
extracting the drugs that break down the nervous system
pull the plunger back with the precision of a piston
listen and envision cause they both bring the rhythm
taste the sting of an incision for every mile I've drivin
From the 505 to the 605 and back again
found the rhythm in the heart
tap it with the pad and pen
back and fourth a metronome
I'm out alone and desert roaming
keep on driving till i
get
back
home
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