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MBA
03:49
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You approach like a storm front
Hot then cold all at once
I feel the hair on the back of my arms stand
It’s the pressure it’s not your charm
Well I heard you got some advanced degree
Well your writing never did much for me
Good for you I guess
What you’ve earned always lags behind
All of your success
I used to dress for your forecast
I’d prepare for every high and low
As the highs recede into the past
It only takes three percent of me
To deny the cause of all that shadow
Well I heard you closed a Series A
Don’t they know you can burn money you can just give it away
We’re not friends now
If it’s convenient I’ll pretend
Lately I’m not sure that we ever really were
Well I bet you never ask about me
It bothers me less year to year
Cause you run on all that attention
Do you know how to stop? Did you ever care enough to hear?
Good for you I guess
It bothers me but it bothers me less and less
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Domes
03:24
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Why didn’t I leave?
When you’re down that long
You’ll believe it’s just where you belong
I know you were wrong
I held onto that rope for you at one end
Goes round our necks and it itches but
Pays pretty well to pretend
Why didn’t I leave?
Can’t you see my eyes?
I’ve been told I need blinders I need lenses I need...
So much just to get by
I know you were wrong
I held onto that rope for you til end
Goes round our necks and it burns but
Paid pretty well
You know awhile it felt like things were getting worse
Slow enough for us to adjust
Move the coastlines, build a beach house in Ohio
I’ll live in a dome under the sea
But you’re not a planet I can leave you whenever
I don’t need a rocket to reach escape velocity
Someday we’ll all leave
To the sea or to the stars
Somehow I don’t think we’ll remember enough
To ever change who we are
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Surely I’m not made of bone and blood
Surely I’m something that’s never or always been
Am I still earning your love?
Do I remind you of someone you could dream of?
Surely you know me (at least you have known)
And in knowing can let me go
Am I still earning your love?
Do I remind you of someone you could dream of?
You know I could almost thank you
For growing my apostate crowd
Surely they can see a change is gonna come
And in seeing raise the flag and roll the drums
Am I still earning your love?
Do I remind you of someone who could ever be enough?
You know I could almost thank you
For growing my apostate crowd
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How many times before it starts to feel ordinary
How many (how many) before
Cause I heard I’ll start to feel things relatively
And I don’t know if that sounds good or bad anymore
Normal’s just what you’re used to
And you’re surprised
So find all the space your anger takes
And try not to make all of it about you
How many times before I start to feel empty
How many (how many) til the end
Cause I heard we can survive
Only if we break only if we bend
But I don’t know why you’d say that to me
Unless you want us to lose all that we defend
Normal’s just what you’re used to
Back to normal’s what they want you to do
So find all the space your anger takes
And try not to make all of it about you
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Godzilla
02:57
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Dreamt I was Godzilla last night
Claws caught in red suspension wire
If I twist your bridge like a paper plate
It’s not cause I’m trapped, I’m so fucking tired
You can’t understand me, I’m a monster
I don’t feel anything
All the masses flee in terror
You know that I don’t feel anything
I’m a fire breathing monster
I’m a cold blooded killer
I am a dinosaur
If I tear down your load bearing pillars
I’ll make a pretty mess of your shining western shores
You can’t understand me, I’m a monster
I don’t feel anything
All the masses flee in terror
You know that I don’t feel anything
I wish you would believe me
When I say
Statistically there’s no way we are getting out of here ok
Cause you’re drowning in San Francisco bay
With all that water in your lungs you’d think by now I’d be able to relate
You can’t understand me, I’m a monster
I don’t feel anything
All the masses flee in terror
You know that I’ve never felt anything
Dreamt I was Godzilla last night
You dreamt I loved you like some sort of King Kong
When I wake up I’ll just pick another fight
You think it’s cause I care
Goddamn - were you born wrong?
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Voyager I
05:55
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I’ve been dreaming on a gold plate
Flung hard from our small hands
It’s past Kuiper now, we’ll never see it again
Maybe no one will
I’m not waiting on some message to return
From the start I knew I’d only yearn
And if they should find it, love, don’t let them call it fate
Fate’s just math when it turns out well
I found you in chaotic odds
I’ll take that over any of your meddling gods
You think you’re the sun - at best you’re dust in a light beam
At best we’re throwing rocks trying to stop a stream
Time wears us all down to sand
You never get much bigger than the distance between your head and your hands
From the pale blue
My brain waves, dreaming of you
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Don't
03:23
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The Spin
03:52
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It's just the Spin keeping us here
Yeah when I hold on to our time too tight
It sends me floating through the atmosphere
Don't pull me down don't waste that light
Well I clawed I fought I dug in to stop the Spin
But it left all the clouds in their old shapes
At first it felt right to stay where we begin
Until we wore out all the tapes
I been painting edges on the ground
I been fencing in all the good I've found
Just for now
And so girl I'm trying to let time be
Fleeting
Girl I'm trying
To let all the edges grow
I know
There's no way to hold this still
I know
You only lose what you try to control
For now, just for now
Hold your breath step off the ground
And then I see how
I need the Spin to pull me forward and down
I don't know the feeling but
I'll know the sound
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Bones
05:24
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In that old brick house the heat would seep
Through cracks in our windows, from our hands and feet
I guess that could be what it's like in your head
There's no point in asking if there's something I should have said
Did you ever hold something so tight?
Through my grip see knuckles turning bone white
When I left you told me you'd be bad at this
And how could I not have noticed?
Whenever I try to find you
Remembering drains the air from the room
Sometimes I call you just to hear your phone ring
Though you ran out of space for my messages ages ago
If it's not a dial tone, then it's not nothing
I just hope you know...
If you never call me back
I guess that's fine if you're ok
But my life is less without you in it
Can that be enough to make you stay?
If you never call
Know I’d still go through it all
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I believe in bourbon
I support the causes of whiskey
No I don’t miss any of the dreams
The dreams they spare me
And I know, sometimes I know
You’re still here logically you must still love me
I believe in sleeping
Long enough for my arms to fill with lead
No I don’t miss any of the time
That I could fill up with all the thoughts in my head
And I know, sometimes I know
You’re still here logically you must still love me
I believe in saving
Up all my feelings so I can spend them all at once
And if that makes them untraceable oh well
And I know, sometimes I know
You’re still here, some days I need you to remind me
And I know sometimes it shows
You’re still here, someday that won’t surprise me
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11. |
Voyager II
06:02
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I heard they built a well deep and silent
Enough to tell that you were right all along
But tell me when you left
Did you feel the pull?
I know you’d rather be dead than dead wrong
Or see that we were fine and forgot so fast now that you’re gone
But tell me when you left
Did you feel the pull?
We all will die two or three times before we’re done
Everyone you know has forgotten someone
I felt you pass the ‘pause
And maybe I mourn for what never was
I can bend space but never quite bend the time
But tell me when you left
Did you feel the pull?
And when there’s nothing left
Will you feel the pull as it ends?
We all will die two or three times before we’re done
Everyone you know has forgotten someone
We all will lie and shove our heads in the sand
They say it is never how you planned
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Mount Sharp Brooklyn, New York
Mount Sharp writes songs about science and bad decisions.
SWOOD, Bryan, Sal, and JPK.
Brooklyn, NY
band photo by Ebru Yildiz
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