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Bad Dream
03:42
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Microaggression give me depression
Give me those words the ones that you wanted
I think I’m having a bad dream baby
I think I’m having a panic attack
I’m having an existential crisis
It's increasingly hard to sleep without eyelids
I know I can’t control you
But I’m not the patient kind
Get that ass in line, baby
Don’t break this heart of mine
I say you’re toxic you say I know
You say I love you well baby I know
Tell me something that I don’t know
You said nothing, nothing at all
I know that daddy taught you not to be polite
But don’t you give me shit now just because I’m right
My love is not a thing that you can earn
Doesn’t matter how much you yearn and yearn
I know that daddy taught you take and never give
But baby daddy doesn’t know you like I did
Ever since you shut the door
I’ve loved you more and more
I missed you every day
And in each and every way
Well ain’t that some shit
Why are you so thick?
I think she might be sick
Make you my bitch
Now ain’t that some shit
Daddy told you not to be a bitch
Daddy’s girl doesn’t listen never did
She just goes on and on and on and on and on
The things I’ll do to you are frankly kinda wrong
The way you treat me makes me feel like a little kid
Your dullest edge just does not soothe me like you did
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Nimbus
03:46
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I’ve been sent to space. They wouldn’t let
me stay down here with you
So I’m spread across the sky, 15 miles high. You should really see the view. Blink and you might lose
This year has been the worst, feels like I’ve been cursed, a dark and loathsome cloud, sick miasmic shroud
Dark and loathsome cloud, you should see me now. spinning off the earth, I swear that was my worst.
Oh dark cloud, yeah nimbus, know that all that you are, is all that they are
I love this university town, with nothing to do and no one around, condolences to sanity
were holding out for gravity!
And thats the way we raised our kids, thats the way its always been, a warm hello and cold goodbye strengthen up the alibi
Because I’m your puritanical child don’t get knocked up be home by five, asking what that lord will do? Shut the fuck up and eat your food!
Ohhhh dark cloud yeah nimbus, don’t be defeatist, unless you mean it
Because dark clouds, they never think loud, drink in the last round, of our lives
I love the way that we make do, you didn’t want me I didn’t want you
It’s great when things are oh so easy, break my heart I’ll call it pleasing
That’s just me and just not you, a life far short of pay per view. “I was young but now I’m older” that’s the only lie I told her.
All is easy now. please see me Cross my heart and hope to die, slit my wrists and look alive!
Oh dark cloud, yeah nimbus, please just hear this, you’re not so fearless.
Because dark clouds, they never sing loud, breath in and wait now: for the sign
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Also-Ran
03:49
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Could wait until I’m older
Or just waste it all right now
If you’d just sit a little closer
Then I would know for sure
For me its all or nothing
For you its just for fun
I’d do it all again
But I can’t do it alone
Don’t ask me what I don’t
but tell me what to do
Discovered ancient bones
So how’s that other shoe?
They’ll offer me salvation but I’ll say no
You’ll beg and ask me why but I wont know
Words have little meaning when you talk so slow
So just smile and look to god and he’ll say
Before you second guess me
Just give me one last try
Driving from the backseat
When I don’t know how to drive
I was hoping for a clearing
But we’re facing forests now
While they were praising Jesus
I was singing all alone
And then before you know
These hands will become old
Will these fissures do me in
And wonder what could’ve been?
They’ll give me a direction but I won’t go
You’ll sigh and ask me why but I won’t know
Maybe misdirection is just the way it goes
Don’t leave no bad decisions lightly sewn
Ask for my opinion and I’ll say no
Maybe if I’m honest you’ll let me go
Born of false intentions just like the world
Just smile and look to me and I’ll say
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Chemical Thing
04:25
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Now that I’ve felt my size you won’t see me tomorrow
We were so unwise, but we’ll know when we’re older
(At least that’s what I told her)
If you pick up the phone I’ll be there in an hour with a bottle of hurt and my best lies.
Glassy eyes glassy eyes
If you hear me sigh, know all it means is breathing. These lungs were made for screaming, this heart was made for leaving
If you leave me be, I will be yours forever
Crying out for mother, freezing cold through summer
And when we part, I’ll plunge my knife into your heart
And find it’s home of crimson, fulfil your vengeful vision
I’ve been feeling like the son of my dad
Didn’t know that I could get this bad
And you better play nice
Or to be precise:
It was a chemical thing
I need a chemical change
and at least we tried
Now I avert my eyes
If you’re feeling alone I will be there in a minute, with my heart in my throat and my pride out to wither
Pretty eyes pretty eyes
When we’re old will we still face mirrors?
Reaching out for warming, holding on till morning
Or will we stay young and feel the air between us?
Oh to be so fearless, I’ll follow you through darkness
Could we run away? We’d live so freely baby
If so then come and find me, take my hand and guide me
I’ve been feeling like the son of my dad
Didn’t know that I could get this bad
And you better play nice
Or to be precise:
It was a chemical thing
I need a chemical change
and at least we tried
Now I avert my eyes
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5. |
Hellbent
04:45
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Give me your goodbyes
Come on its bedtime
I thought I was in line
won’t be the first time
If you’d just fuck me
You should be so lucky
I, me, mine
Shits asinine
Welcome to hell bitch
its the apocalypse
I ain't no liar
But I’m lying to her
She doesn’t matter
nothing left to ask her
A modern horror
Think I’m falling for her
I waited for a call that never came
I should’ve poured my heart out face to face
I said it was cool that we were only friends
Look at me I’m lying to you again
So suffer little children, suffer little men
When I go to bed this morning I won’t get up again
my reptile brain’s been churning and it hurts too much to sleep
My teeth have fallen out, so I’ve nothing left to eat
You suffer little children and suffer little men
Give me a key change
At least Give me the fast lane
Not to worry
You’ll soon meet my fury
And maybe next week
Well play make-believe
I’m not waiting for you
I’d much rather ignore you
Now you’re showing your teeth
You’d better not for your sake
Remember what you said
‘We’re just rocks not islands’
I know I should be supportive
But I’m being extorted
Now that I’ve seen you cry
I’d like to see you die
If I were less of an animal then I would feel alive again
If I’d anything to offer then I’d give it all to you
But that was then and now there's nothing I can do
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6. |
No Fun
04:01
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You take your share and I get none
This shitty hand ain’t got no cards
Why would God make me so dumb?
Why can’t beer make me feel numb?
I could feign or I could fall
Turn you down and cut you off
Could make you mine or I could not
Men are pigs but that’s not my fault
Haven’t had a drink in days
Need one now since I seen your face
I promise you I did all that I could
Might as well give up for good
Is this what trying looks like?
Is this what crying looks like?
Is this what lying sounds like?
Is this what dying feels like?
Come on baby you’re no fun
I let my blood but that's not enough
I fell in that hole and I fell in love
Doesn’t matter because she’s no fun
Been in hell for several weeks
I’m too far gone just wait you’ll see
The whole damn town wants to crucify me
No damn bicycle fit for three
I’m a modern man for all you know
I Don’t wake up for love alone
If you want me now you’ll have to give me more
God knows I’m good but I’m not so sure
Your well-meant words perpetuate my fears
“Lack of moral strength” is all that I hear
I’d love to make it all so clear
Row away on your lake of tears
Come on baby you’re no fun
I let my blood but that's not enough
I fell in that hole and I fell in love
Doesn’t matter because she’s no fun
Come on baby you’re no fun
I let my blood but that's not enough
I fell in that hole and I fell in love
Doesn’t matter because she’s no fun
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7. |
Oh No!
04:39
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You’ve come to a conclusion that I made months ago
When I saw you calling I guess I should have known
If I was only living for a day or so
I’d spend the whole night crying on the bathroom floor
If I could be the man that I have seen in dreams
Would it make a difference would that change anything?
Didn’t make sense when I was younger, but now it's all so clear to me
You’ll only give me wilted flowers and things you didn’t say or mean
Just make my heart your final folly (I know you won’t)
And I promise I won’t ask for nothing (just don’t say no)
Oh no they’ve gone and left me naked (I’ve been exposed)
They’ve gone to the moon again (they’ll see my flaws)
Pale blue dot can feel my shaking (these hand-shaped claws)
Fragile skin won’t keep this heat in
It’s only while alone that I can hear his voice
Proposing referendums like I had a choice
I guess that I could be the change I want to see
But idealistic outcomes are only found in dreams
You might just be the girl to see me old and grey
But what’s the point in living just to fade away?
I tried for once but I surrender my final ounce of dignity
Avert my gaze from love forsaken, then pay your debts and wash your feet
Just make my heart your final folly (I know you won’t)
And I promise I won’t ask for nothing (just don’t say no)
Oh no they’ve gone and left me naked (I’ve been exposed)
They’ve gone to the moon again (they’ll see my flaws)
Pale blue dot can feel my shaking (these hand-shaped claws)
Fragile skin won’t keep this heat in
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Such a bitter end
Now we’re strangers again
We won’t need to pretend
Because tonight
your eyes will dart around the room
To see the way I’m seeing you
And in the daydream
Nothings ever easy
Takes all I got for breathing
And the kid that lives inside
Is poisoned by your sight
He puts his hand in mine
Such a novelty
Emotional poverty
Declaring your sovereignty
Let’s make it easy
Sitting in your sunshine
Could make believe it’s all mine
But I saw it in your face
Your eyes had become glazed
You pushed your mountains into space
I’ll see you in my songs
When everything’s gone wrong
Head in hand-shaped claws
If I was just a kid in a maze. I’d just walk around for days, and never see a face
And then I’d always be alone, and then the world will never know, and I will never know when or where to go
But I’ll be anyone you want, even someone that I’m not, I’ll make you love me before long
And then I guess I’ll fall asleep, I guess I’ll fall into a dream. Then the world will set me free and I will always be
The boy you think about in dreams, really always as he seems, doesn’t need to make-believe
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Animal Boy Guelph, Ontario
We’re a band from Guelph, Ontario.
We’re four anxious twenty-somethings who write extremely
honest songs that you can dance to.
Sometimes those songs sound like indie/surf and punk.
We’re in a city that is very, very far from the ocean.
We’re doing it anyway.
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