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I don't know where I live I don't know where I live
Get off the bus at the wrong stop but I'll shrug it off again
like too many other things
I'm gonna go for a while and watch this hand-raised animal released into the wild
Midnight on south Granville and I feel so out of place
Walking around half-drunk trying to make some laundry change
Next time I'll just stay inside
Losing everyone in a weird new phase
Housesitter
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Bird Of Prey
02:48
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Think you can live outside the past and future
Poise yourself on a cliff over the river
and live your days as a bird of prey
Think you can be like "fuck it" and leave forever
and people be like "what happened to that clever young guy?"
Well believe me man, I tried
You're not welcome out that way
ah ah ah ah bird of prey
So why cry for another life to let you in
It's gone its own way before you begin
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I'll stay awake I'll lose my wits
Get so unnerved trying to get the gist
I never gave a shit about turning of the tide
Leading an aimless life
I'll lay waste to bowing out with grace
Fracture myself into warring states
A shattered hall of mirrors, well, could you stand the sight?
Leading an aimless life
Broken glass on heavy ground, waiting to be found
I meant to ask, how could it be
I'm lost inside the west side dissolving in a dream
The undiscovered son, would you tell me what he's like
Leading an aimless life
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Nightclubs
02:16
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Light of day light of day
In decline just as I'm finding my way
back to the nightclubs and the bars
that blend into each other driving in my car
If you're here for the fog to lift aaaah ah ah ah ah
Let's not sing anymore about the dawn
Let's not sing anymore about the way that I move along
Person to person, away and back
If you're here for the veneer to crack, don't hold your breath
From person to person-- do you ever feel adrift?
If you're here for the fog to lift, don't hold your breath
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Sacrifice
03:08
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I'm driving home again, high on the hill again, waiting for the light
and I stare at the city and squint my eyes
I try so hard to have a different life
I'll never know never know never know
what the sacrifice was in the end
I'll never know never know never know
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Surf Don't Sink
03:56
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Never really been, never really been a fighter
Bathed in blood every day drunk in the sun
I'm going downtown going downtown tomorrow
There's a fire sale, they're selling live wires, I want one
I'm gonna be new again
Stranger things have happened
New again
Surf don't sink, surf don't sink in the water
You know I was warned romance isn't everything
Poisonous sea, poisonous sea boiling over
On the shore looking out, I feel restless
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Don't Remind Me
02:35
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About last night, did I get wild?
Did I take the wine from a west van child?
It's always the same
It's always the same
Don't remind me again
The picture you paint: two snakes in a coil
and there you are falling faint
Is this acrylic or oil?
And who poisoned your heart?
Let's keep it in the dark
Don't remind me again
I don't know if uptown's north but for what it's worth I'm going
As the crow flies, as time crawls
You could have it all
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Out To Lunch
03:39
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I should have known
I've been out to lunch too long
The grass is overgrown
Did you always keep the curtains drawn?
Who am I to think there'll come a golden day
Oh no no no I'm just dreaming babe
Going out at night
Spilling drinks on blue-eyed socialites
Blue like another world
In black space it could be paradise
An infinite depth to sink
Be that as it may
Oh no no no I'm just dreaming babe
Once I was a tiger in disguise
Had my first glass of wine and realized:
I'm tired of hunting
I'm tired of hunting
I'm tired of hunting
I wanna be another way
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Wildest One
01:57
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Tell yourself you're the wildest one
Too busy killing to be dying uh huh
Tell yourself you're the wildest one
Dart your eyes from side to side uh huh
From the outside you can never see
how the years have been so kind to me
There are many ways to shoot a gun, the wildest one
I can tell that you like this town
by the laptop store and the termite mound uh huh
But moonlight is not light enough to descend the staircase down uh huh
Let me leave you alone for a start
The unexploded volcano in your heart
is never gonna be any fun, the wildest one
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Emotional Whiteout
03:26
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Off the path, off the path, all of the beasts get up their backs
Back at home there's nothing left
Let the snow cover your address
And get some beauty rest until you feel like surfacing again
That was then, this is now
Why you wanna pretend
That was then
Yes I did, yes I did, live on the sun, dwell on the past
Once it was in my grasp
Golden days were never meant to last
So it came to pass
Stumbling home with ashes in my hair
Once I would have cared
An emotional whiteout hanging in the air
That was then
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