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Happy Home
02:58
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We create a calm that is safe from the world, from outside forces. An eddy in the pool of influence of the fools. A safe haven of love and peace. The rest flows around our Happy Home. A temple of love complete untouched by the world. We stop and love, then back to life. We stop and love, then back to work.
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What Fools Do
02:41
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You talk about so many men. And you tell me how they use you. But I see you're using them. And you only see What Fools Do. You cry that no one loves you, as I hold you and your tears. But I lost a chance to take your hand, and I left you with your fears. I see a way that is simple. A place where we are glad. The end of fear and doubt, and the things that make you sad. You cry that no one loves you, as I hold you and your tears. I take the chance to take your hand. Can't you see that I am here?
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Purple
04:08
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Stripped down, stripped bare of all of what I chose to wear. I thought that I was better off but doubt crept in on skin so soft. I've lost my train, lost my buzz. What happened to what once was. Someone's hit the reset switch, and then you die cuz life's a bitch. And to my self again I'm sold. The pillow-soft and fickle gold. How can it be, how can it not? That I'm struck blind by what I thought. I dream of where I want to be on Purple mountains majesty. Affixed between the red and blue of equal parts of me and you. My last save point has been erased and here I'm left with just a taste and when I am not me I must be you. A vigil's quietly kept for what is true. It's not that and it's not this. Words dance around and shout and piss. Excitement swells and I clamp down before I get back turned around. I want to float above so high like the diamond in this guy. I push my way between the crates and when I look up I feel great. Below me I can see weird fish and above, my every wish. I have to go. I know I will. And life is going to suck until she comes to me and I feel peace. I know that I shall be released. And to desire again I'm sold. And how this shit has gotten old. I split up into two or more, divided, falling evermore.
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New
02:42
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Tears of joy. Arms full of you. Everything is exploding heart. Hot trails on wet skin. Ripped apart. Together brought. Tears of joy. Arms full of you. Sleeping smiles. Dream soaked through. Two are one. Are not two. Everything is come up New.
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Babis
03:42
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I miss you Babis, to my surprise. It's been a while now, I thought that I was fine. But my heart is broken, and now I can't feel, and I'm afraid that love's not real. I am alone, I am not home, I have no right to pick up the phone. I feel so far even when I'm here. I don't know how this must appear. I'll never see you ever again, and that's alright. I've got plenty of friends. You really loved me, and I loved you too, and I am glad even though it's through.
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Blood
04:00
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Hit them with the right and catch them with the left. As you lay bleeding, wonder what is best. Just the way I beat you down and took the fight. Just the way you leave me alone another night. Like water through the fingers a feeling gone again. The smile that could have kept you warm until the end. Let the blood of our enemies grease the wheel of opportunity.
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Tip To Toe Smile
03:26
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I burned the truth and the ashes live. Suggest to me how to forgive. They speak to me in my sister's voice, and tell me how there is a choice. The ship un-sailed, the sheet unfurled, and to the wind another girl. But there is a love left in my heart. I wake up quick to feel it start, and to sleep slow imagined arms. A warmth to keep me safe from harm. A slowing step, tip to toe smile. This pain is crushing me, I need to let it out. This fear and doubt is crowding me into the light. And one by one I'll kill them all. The enemies who stand so tall. And finally my heart will mend, and with it whole I'll find a friend.
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The One
03:24
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Baby, its been five long years since I've had a love. But you're not the one for me, just the one I've been thinking of. I think you're pretty, so pretty. Yeah, you knock me out. And the way you move sometimes makes me scream and shout. But you're not The One. You're not the one for me, girl. When I come home to no one it makes me feel so sad. And you know it hurts my heart. Yeah, it hurts so bad. Some day, I'm gonna find somebody so sweet. And when she comes, yeah when she comes I'm going to sweep her right off he feet. And she'll be the one. She'll be the on for me, girl.
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The End
04:53
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The metallic taste of prayer is in your teeth, in your hair. The taste of everything you seek is in your tongue, teeth, and cheek. And when you lay yourself down to sleep, you taste the taste of defeat. Th metallic taste of prayer is in your mouth, in your head. It's more like begging for mercy from your self. The bitter taste of your agony comes slowly. Unsure until The End you go forward blindly. The metallic taste of all the things you think. It comes but rarely. It comes but once per week. The bitter agony of setting up your steps and only having to walk them. The bitter taste in you mouth, in your teeth. An when you close you eyes she holds you underneath. And in the end, in the end, I can not see the end. My eyes are blind to the end.
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