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Aftermath of Earthquakes
03:16
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when i’m emptied like evaporating water
the skin that holds my thoughts begins to sag
but i won’t say i feel hollow when i miss you
as i roam around like some old plastic bag
cause it’s aimless but it’s peaceful
kind of numb but still at least full
of more thoughts feelings and wishes then before
it’s like the longer that you’re gone
the more feelings linger on
the more i miss you well the more i have to store
but it’s worth it all these heartaches
all the aftermath of earthquakes
if only to be words inside a song
cause a song could change the whole world
in an instant turn the dirt gold
a single note could stay with you so long
when i’m overwhelmed like falling through a dreamscape
and there’s nothing i can reach for that’ll hold
the pleasures of survival beyond all that’s necessary
start to turn my lust for life into a mold
it’s decomposing but it’s peaceful
kind of dead but still at least full
of more thoughts in it’s reflection then before
cause your life could fill with meaning
fill with sorrow fill with dreaming
and even when it’s full there’s room for more
but it’s worth it all these endings
all the fear of future pending
if only to be words inside a song
cause a song could change the whole world
in an instant turn the dirt gold
a single note could stay with you so long
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2. |
Racing Thoughts
03:00
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Cars cars racing thoughts
Come back down like an astronaut
I got two friends who look like me
When you look closer it ain't much to see
But there's difference in the way we change
The way we age ain't quite the same
I got a friend from my high school class
When he got to college he aged so fast
His hair fell out and his clothes turned tweed
He started saying grass what he meant was weed
He read all the beats from the 1950s
When he was only 19 people thought he was 60
Oh my god
What do you want
With all this time
What do you want
Oh lord what do you want
What do you want from me
In Tompkins Square in the dirt and the beetles
I jumped off the swings onto a hyperdermic needle
My mom freaked out but the needle was clean
Just a dried left over from the nightlife scene
Well I grew up and the years moved on
Now the park is plastic and the junkies are gone
See the process of change moves different ways
And no matter what nothing ever stays
As natural time shapes our bones and face
the bones of the city are just replaced
-chorus-
Jim jones james dean
I always trust people but not their dreams
You can live today like you'll die tomorrow
But life is bigger then your joys and sorrows
Stuck in solipsistic fears
My god my soul my life my tears
My own undoing my own two hands
My own unwillingness to understand
My heart my voice my right my time
Mine mine mine mine mine mine mine
-chorus-
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3. |
Escape Me
03:47
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It’s a scene you can’t escape
never knowing your mistakes
It’ll hold you till you swear
you never love it
still and ending’s always sad
even if the rest was bad
cause it means there’s nothing left
that can redeem it
everyday when I awoke
I thought maybe I could cope
now I know if their was hope
I must have dreamed it
every time our worries went
it seemed like an accident
like we should only be this happy
with our eyes closed
oh I’ve got the words
to take you back
but all these words can escape me
oh I’ve got the words
to take me back
but all these words can escape me
even I could see
every time you looked at me
you were waiting for the words
to leave you speechless
and as clueless as I seem
I still know you like a dream
you’re a feeling that I know
but can’t remember
there’s a vagueness in your smile
unintentional denial
of the interest you let others
find within you
still there’s moments when we kiss
and my thoughts no longer twist
just two bodies
knowing every second
-chorus (x2)-
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4. |
All Your Thoughts
02:50
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all the plans you make
all the things you’ve done
all the ways you think
that you are
they don’t mean you will
they don’t hold you still
they don’t make you real
they just are
all your thoughts break down
all your cars break down
all your thoughts need parts
just like cars
and they take up time
and they make more time
and they waste your time
just like bars
all the lives you dream
all the songs you sing
all the hopes you still
keep alive
they won’t hold you tight
they won’t make things right
they won’t still be there
when you’ve died
so the plans you make
and the things you’ve done
all the ways you think
that you are
they are all just maps
they are all just words
but they still define
all you know
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5. |
All These Dogs
04:58
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i feel it watching the cars go by
like a movie of somebody’s wasted life
it don’t move me cause i know that can’t be me
out there dying, up on the silver screen
when they feel it coming in their veins
all these dogs are gonna do the same (X3)
lying under the starless sky
on a rooftop beyond the city lights
there’s a moment when time seems to stop and freeze
and i'm lost in some long forgotten crease
and oh my lord you may never know
what it’s like to truly loose control
all my life i’ve always wanted more
now here i am falling through the floor
I’m drinking and smoking to get away
from the jokes of a long winded attaché
stuck in tropes from an ism that still in style
i start dying behind this lifeless smile
and oh my lord you may never know
what it’s like to truly loose control
all my life i’ve always wanted more
now here i am falling through the floor
when they feel it coming in their veins
all these dogs are gonna do the same (X2)
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6. |
Sad Sad Song
03:03
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Oh, I went to the doctor
I said "doctor, please, what do you do when your true love leaves?"
He said "the hardest thing in the world to do
Is to find somebody believes in you"
Make a sad, make a sad, make a sad sad song
Make a sad, make a sad, make a sad sad song
And so I went to the whippoorwill
I said "whippoorwill, please, what do you do when your true love leaves?"
He said "I only have but one trick up my sleeve
I sing it over and over till she comes back to me"
I make a sad, make a sad, make a sad sad song
I make a sad, make a sad, make a sad sad song
And so I went to the whale
I said "killer whale, please, what do you do when your true love leaves?"
He said "I only have but one trick up my sleeve
I sing it over and over till she comes back to me"
I make a sad, make a sad, make a sad sad song
I make a sad, make a sad, make a sad sad song
And so I went to my mom
I said "Mama, please, what do you do when your true love leaves?"
She said "the hardest thing in the world to do
Is to find somebody believes in you"
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7. |
Born In A Hurricane
03:40
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If there’s something you can feel beneath the water
won’t you let me know before I start to swim
cause I can feel the water gnawing at my ankles
and a restless quiver shaking every limb
i can see your murky waters getting darker
and the wind from off your swells is getting cold
well you’ve warned me of the dangers in your depths before
if i’m informed will i still drown inside your world
well if this storm turns gold
all these memories grow old
i’ll still taste the salt dried upon my skin
but if this calm won’t hold
like a sickness from a mold
i’ll close my eyes and let this dream begin
the wind begins to shake out all your feelings
growing leaves freed from where they steam
and when you see them out there spinning all around you
you see which thoughts won’t make it to the end
i can taste this wind you’ve blown around me
and it’s filled with all the spices that you love
but it’s burning off my tough and these words won’t come
and i’m begging for the skies to clear above
-chorus-
i’ll close my eyes and let this dream begin (born in a hurricane)
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8. |
America
04:58
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the soul of this dying country
is lying in apathy’s wake
driven and bound for glory
is the look on this country’s face
but behind those stoic gazes
is a self hatred mixed with fear
cause everyone’s out to get us
and surely the end is near
hold on america
my gold son america
it’s alright america
to fail
if this world is a high school gym class
this country’s a loud obnoxious brat
he knows all the rules cause he made em
and when you’re wrong he knows exactly what you did
cause our mussels are the biggest and the strongest
and everyone else can see
if everyone gets in our way now
we’ll knock out that fuckers teeth
-chorus-
deep inside your promise of the future
is a past that’s trying hard to be erased
you can clean your skin when it’s dirty
but you cannot scrub the wrinkles from your face
cause you’re only young while you’re aging
it’s in the contrast we define exist and talk
but the problem with this dualistic thinking
is you’re stuck between a hard place and a rock
-chorus-
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Casper Television New York, New York
Casper Television was raised by a couple dogs and a kind mailman. They began playing music at a young age bonding one their mutual love of hair. Soon they were writing songs, learning words, and living in a house.
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