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MAYBE THINGS ARE OK
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Sadaam Hussein finding Wu Wei on a Tuesday
Stroking his mood ring, igniting butane to ignite cigarette,
bathing in thousand island viniagrette
Juxtaposition of picturesque ocean and Sir LickofDeath
Juxtaposition of Gates mansion and inca tent
Mink muskrat aardvark ostrich telegram
World populated with witch hunts and hella scams
Fellas, damn, quit injecting them steroids
You look like a photoshopped Mr. Scary Void
That's like the male equivalent of Ms. Universe
Me I'm compulsively combusting evergreen, juniper
We could hop a flight to Munich er maybe like Petersburg
Or maybe just Wisconsin, pass the cheese curds
Knees hurt from running through life's pale rigors
You know like poison ivy, leeches, chiggers
Victory is mine oh shit it was an imaginary game
The prestige was a delusion, don't trust the fame
Must've came like 75 times in public restrooms
Yeah I really wish I'd said that in jest too
It Jes Grew like the Blues in that one novel Mumbo Jumbo
Think I'm an undercover dumb bro in a bungalow
Eating sno-cones and gumbo till some chau-
vinistic Hun throws a lunch scone at my one toe
At which point I lunge close punch poke crush gloat
Jokes the Hun froze and became a fun ghost
Yeah like Casper the friendly
I mastered the many by seeing just one thing
Some kings are really big buzzkills
I said to my Uncle Bill one still evening in punville
it would be cool if monarchs were like Plato's philosopher kings
but actually they're just human, lost with shortcomings
More money, more time to wallow in existential ennui
Me I'll just keep eating 50 cent bahn mi in Vietnam see
Abstract vs concrete might be a false distinction
I blink then stare for hours at reddit.com
Me I'm just playing snot pong
Tryna waste time and like live no thoughts mom
Instead of face mine
Enough about my shit, let's talk about Line
Painting and divinely mandated fainting
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SILLINESS IZ THERAPY
01:54
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So I was in a sorta zen tortoise den
riding a porpoise when a mortar went
BOOM right next to my dorsal fin
of course we fled down to an orchard in
horton land. horton land?
yeah, the dude who heard a who's porch n shit
we sailed there thanks to a formidable northern wind
on a boat made of porcelain
despite an onslaught of norse gods and mordant quips
feasting on portobellos and porkoset
did i say porkoset?
oops i meant percoset dorky dip
we made it thanks to some help from our orca kin
unfortunately . . . i got my corpus wet
i said dadgummit, by golly, plot's lame man
but i heard no response from the polyglot named dan
then my friend molly thought
hey let's call up jean-michel basquiat
feast on some otterpops
and oh why not some haagendaaz
that was a really good idea, so we did that, and the day ended up being joyous and delightful
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GOODBYE [+ Jak Triksy]
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LOSTBOY PART:
in mind's eye i see that cabin in quebec
snowy forest, first date, the coziest nest
talking for hours about nothing and everything
laughing from heart as eyes met and souls sang
your face so full of fire and information
i couldn't stare too long, like sun's rays and
i knew right then we'd found a love most true
two souls meant to bond on an earth most blue
then came Amsterdam, Athens, Albania,
Corfu, Brussels, Tirana, Bulgaria
through storms and debacles held onto our love
and found joy, adventure, ancient ruins and stuff
then we made a home in Colorado Springs
your wonderful family, Daisy, Murdoc, and Lakshmi
YouTube show-and-tell, too many concerts to list
open mic nights and mountain hikes that i'll miss
can't hardly fathom that it's time to say bye
spontaneous moments, tears flow and i cry
as this chapter ends, another begins
i love you forever, and i'll never forget
the purpose of this song is to tell you i love you
this song only exists to tell you i love you
thank you for this time
thank you for this time
the woman who reminds me to believe in the divine
(when you spoke to me, you were always so kind)
and to keep a wildly open mind as time unwinds
(non-judgmental and never any crime)
unconditional acceptance, a feeling so sublime
(intensive conversation and a bottle of wine)
train's here now, i guess it's time to leave
(if i turn away now, don't have to believe)
can't accept this, don't want to let go
(in every dark ending grow the seeds of hope)
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