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Before It Was Cool
04:30
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Coming up to meet you, I believe your holiness--the creatures fade
and I'm afraid
Making like a tree, I leave save-face, and plan out all the time I'll waste
but time don't fade
Sinfulness, my putrid soul--I lost desire to control my ways
you came to save
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Just like a drug from yesteryear
all tones at once--feel like a chump
lit up the sconce when dim and drear
we'll cut a rug--each other's plugs
lights are on--no one's home
love went straight to the dome
I fooled around and lost the sound
love went straight to the dome
a hypsters hymn don't sound so dim
when whistles blow out like candles
I'm roving rooms--reverbing flutes
or was it me--was it a dream?
lights are on--no one's home
love went straight to the dome
I fooled around and lost the sound
love went straight to the dome
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3. |
Stan 4 So Long
06:57
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Wonders how I have been a stan 4 so long
can you stand when I push your buttons in songs
You must want to kill me just like a bagged wine
archer on fire--you born under an earth sign
Love in your way--hey can I get a crash course
fuck that old pain--cite each and every past source
you must be some postmodern Audrey Hepburn
pocket me like a Gameboy in a sojourn
I fell so quickly, can't believe I missed her
strange ways, white lies, hell's sass within a cistern
You said go slow, don't want you in my DMs
strange ways, white lies, and I just wanna be there
Loving your way--hey can I get a crash course
fuck that old pain--cite each and every past source
you must be some Postmodern Audrey Hepburn
pocket me like a Gameboy in a sojourn
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Tasty BEV
05:35
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Let's go, the engine's warm
the rest is history in the making
I may be down and out but good vibes are alive for the taking
I stand atop my pride aloft some novel perch point of view
but damn, the doubt sinks in--how has my cool dwindled to so few?
When you answer the telephone
will it hover like a drone
or cover like a dome?
You're not cool.
and nevermind your bird's eye view
High above, leaky pink sky
traffic jams at the launch site
and tears that fall from inside
you're not cool
and nevermind your bird's eye hue
in disaster, desperation
and no future navigation
your dreams: an apparition
you're not cool
and nevermind your bird's eye blues
and I won't be leavin' this town
because it stays with me
the west side, over there, where the tracks split the ground
but it feels like the east
you broke through my soul
I lost all control
well, no one ever taught me
how to rid myself - amiss
of oncoming love
and the pain of shame that cuts me to the quick
and I'm coming back
'cause a demon can't contain the love I knew
and you saved a name with nothing left to prove
I can see the lake--the sun from setting fumes
the interstate that led me back to you
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In a way, I guess I saw it through
futures seem to make my past a fool
and some days I think that my ambition's in tact
I sit in the back as I'm thinking fast and I'm
looking through glass scene swirls--
I cannot even try to let you go
10 years, 10 times the fire power
seasons fight for the flower hour
I could sleep on this, but I'll wake up burning
burning, wasting down the line--shifting shapes to a better life
could it be that I am looking at it wrong? (looking at it wrong)
Is it in your power to darken shimmer roads?
I feel like every time I change, a door decides to close
save it for a rainy day, or your could let it float away
for whatever reason, we were jumping trampolines
in a green-covered summer, we were melting like ice cream
safe to say the rumination--the time it took to steep
made me miss my jubilation--your electricity
wait until the perfect time, but time it never comes
emotion turns upon a dime, but cowardice can make me run
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Nobody Knows Why
04:00
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It is hard not to believe everything that you're seeing
he tries to hold on each moment--deliberating on sleeping in
I'm moving planes in the sound
I look and I'm not around
It would appear to be a pretty good disguise
I'm trying hard to be sane
is there anything to rearrange
oh well, I know well nobody knows why
Sometimes the goblet's indolent
leaves him with more questions
I saw someone for the condition
action fights the inner-mission
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Prepandemic Unlove
04:34
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Juices Pouring down your lips like fruit ripe tea shop
form-flecked, photo-neon
might as well not think about the past time
Feels like new beginnings
lather over past sins
still don't have my bearings
what life was like before green plants and string lights
Prepandemic unlove
slept upon my sofa
livid, cooking, dreaming
when i woke to find you in present time
what was life like before?
half done too much thinking
cutting up some kiwi
vibed-out un-misshapen
How could I be down and out upside down?
trouble feeling okay
self-sabotage freeway
still we keep on driving
when's the part where satisfaction bores me?
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T. Dohrnii
04:33
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Through Glass
01:49
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That paisley cloak enshrined
in candlelight and Myrrh
the Frankincense and wine
that left it all a blur
but whence a fortnight passed
save for all my sleep
this dying hand won't last
but fester, rot, and steep
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Vibecheck
04:49
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Brace for the fears that are living in your head rent free
have you seen the half-truth gallery?
Your generation can hate the young and old
feels like a drug--April Fool's gold
Just let it breathe,
like wine or land-living things,
it's fine
vibecheck, manifest,
stations where your rest
is tired
call up, recall when ends couldn't meet
still dedicated for the life of me
anxious thoughts that chilled my being most
just now thought of giving up the ghost
Denim, diamonds, sheets
tangled and repeat for miles
you've got control
take all my soul this time
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11. |
Quiescence
04:26
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effervescence is a virtue
did you think it through?
did you let it brew?
or did you lie on your bed wishing all the truth was not that true?
Did you stay up past the curfew
with the tidings of your perfume?
nothing that you wouldn't do
to see that face again and wrap your arms around that soul
Light of mine (but you can't control)
before your eyes
the wind in time
will glimmer
passing waves
ignore the pain
but soon will reign
The Lifter
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R. Faires Odessa, Texas
A lead foot revisits the old stomping grounds--takes a hop on the highway. A long walk with The Big One turns into
storytelling, table-setting, and two-stepping out past city limits.
All songs are written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by R. Faires.
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