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1. the one infallible
2. fat boys are not athletes | download
3. the scenery | download
4. the new a.m. | download
5. a lot to say
6. don't call at all
7. oh, the lies we eat
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9. the heiress
10. these are your days
11. another sunken anchor
12. statistics | download
13. i won't stop



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the one infallible
i used to stand outside the english wing
after second period
just so i could see her walking by
talking with her friends
she was only one year ahead of me
but she wasn't realistically
a possibility of mine
shes just kept me company in my mind
i wish you were around these lonely days
because i am growing desperately afraid
that everyone is bleakly middling,
passionless, and blankly piddling
always in a phanton costume
she hovered between the library doors
where she'd keep up the fiction as it
would come and it would go
if only i could still obsess of you
well, i suppose that i probably still do
because you're the only unattainable
untainted, the one infallibla
i wish you were around these lonely days
because i am growing desperately afraid
that everyone is bleakly middling,
passionless, and blankly piddling
i wish you'd come around these lonely days
even though i know you could not stay
beneath this emotional poverty line
behind all the tooth-decaying smiles.


fat boys are not atheletes
a twelve year old boy
way too big for his bicycle
lumbers to the middle school
tissue stabbed up his nose
his mother told him he should know better
but he was tired of the leak
another straw on the camel's back
in the middle of the week
fat boys aren't athletes
they're roadblocks dressed in pads and cleats
and they get paid a lot to stay obese
fat boys are not athletes
danny said, "i'm gonna take you on after school."
"i'll turn the other cheek,"
the boy's conscience whispered like a ghoul
"i'll take your punches
and your pitchfork prods,
and i'll be the punchline
of the football squad
all because...
fat boys aren't athletes
they're roadblocks dressed in pads and cleats
and they get paid a lot to stay obese
fat boys are not athletes."
and he will feel the sting
and he will feel the sting
and he will feel the sting
fat boys aren't athletes
they're roadblocks dressed in pads and cleats
and they get paid a lot to stay obese
fat boys are not athletes


the scenery
your lungs reach out for the air
and pull it back down through the spout
but sinuses have given out
and it seems your tears have fallen up
and endless sadness fills your cup
bit i don't want you giving up
on yourself
but employment's low
and the flowers don't grow
when the storms outlast the day
and there's no beauty
in the scenery
this is a place of earth and bone
such a melancholy crown
that you have to wear around
this shallow, unwelcoming town
but at least you're not one of them
another dog inside the pen
and your sweet heart always extends
itself to me
but employment's low
and the flowers don't grow
when the storms outlast the day
and there's no beauty
in the scenery
this is a place of earth and bone


the new a.m.
rubber noses smash into each other
like bumper cars powered
by kindred electricity
a pretzel of legs and arms weaves its warmth
through a shared circulatory system
and if this is the new a.m.,
then i don't mind waking
for the new a.m.,
i don't mind waking.
smiles emerge from behind pink curtains
sending teeth wrapping all around our heads
but how can you even make out my face
through those tiny fingernail moon eye sockets?
if this is the new a.m.,
then i don't mind waking
for the new a.m.,
i don't mind waking.
keep your kisses out of the deep end, baby
this is the morning
and we have yet to brush our teeth
if this is the new a.m.,
then i don't mind waking
for the new a.m.,
i don't mind waking.
& after the sun peels our eyes again,
i hop you'll be staying... until you can slide underneath my skin
i don't mind waiting.


a lot to say
i've got a lot to say, or maybe
i just like to talk a lot
but when i tell you how bad i feel,
i feel better, so what the hell?
i suppose i like it that way...
because you can make me happy
you can make me happy, baby
you can make me happy tonight.
in our withering conversations,
i always know that i am the one to blame
my tongue-tying trial transform
my words into freezing rain on your parade
but i suppose need it this way
please let me keep it this way
because you can make me happy
you can make me happy, baby
i've got to be happy tonight
watch your mouth
it'll get you in trouble
watch your mouth
it'll get you in trouble


don't call at all
i feel like an american,
i finally understand the suffering
all my friends have been so depressed,
and now i'm finally clocking in, i guess.
driving the streets inside your car
the sustaining sun was never far;
but now i'm driving in circles,
running frozen on a wounded spark.
i wouldn't know what to do if you called me
i wouldn't know what to say
i wouldn't know what to do if you called me,
good thing
you don't call at all
i understand every drunken fool
i didn't think that i was capable
so everybody drink up
cause today will be a scattered
everlasting malaise
i'll pull you up from behind my eyes
and marvel at your transparent guise,
then reel your love across my tv screen, but those
dead kisses taste like quarantine.
i wouldn't know what to do if you called me
i wouldn't know what to say
i wouldn't know what to do if you called me,
good thing
you don't call at all
to all of my sad comrades,
all caught up in the fray:
if ever you're without love, i'll gladly give it away...
now that i've got enough
to go around


oh, the lies we eat
was it the season's demise
to bear unpleasant surprise?
...had her sized as a happy girl.
and through the full moon eye,
the night revealed her disguise
but i have no sight
and i'm gullible...
and comfortable.
but i'm not lonely
i'm not like my mother
i can lift the fog from my eyes
so, come and see me
you can take or leave me
cause when i hit the shelves
they'll be forming a line
and i'll be just fine
oh, the lies we eat,
oh, the taste of defeat,
oh, the lies we eat,
so hard to swallow.
but i'm not lonely
i'm not like my mother
i can lift the fog from my eyes
so, come and see me
you can take or leave me
cause when i hit the shelves
they'll be forming a line
and i'll be just fine


the heiress
the heiress waves me in
she gives me love, and then
lies with me upon the bed
and holds my head
the heiress takes her time
she makes sure that i'm
asleep in a dream
before she lets go.
the heiress needs me too
she's been known for feeling blue
i tell her that she's beautiful
she reminds me of you.
she loves to hear me sing
says she wants to wear my ring
but not so fast, dear.
i've been right here before.
you waved me in
you gave me love, and then
you closed the door, i hit the floor
thought i'd never get up again.
but you did it right
and you did it easy
but you did it, and it killed,
and i'm not dying anymore.


these are your days
you can love it hate it
but you will obey it
the hand that you've been dealt
you can deny it fear it
but you will adhere to it
the hand that you've been dealt
but i know you never asked for all of this
with the floors all awash in dirt and piss
such a proce we have to pay to just exist
this is your day this is how it is
and i know you have to
get out soon
i feel the sweat in your handshale
and it will go on longer
to make you stronger
or maybe just to keep you awake
so that you won't
make the same mistakes twice
but i know you never asked for all of this
with the floors all awash in dirt and piss
such a proce we have to pay to just exist
these are your days
what will you do with them?
you can do the laundry all you want
you can boil the water to make it hot
and legally you can change your name
but the chemical composition
stays the same


another sunken anchor
you were commander of the legion
but there was no legion, there was only command
and you led the table in decision
oh, but there was only indecision
and all hail the builder of this mansion
as its stolen lumber just splinters down
he taught us how to pick up our guns
kill everything in sigh and start back at number one
you are the darkness in comedy
you are the laughter in disease
you are the height of a tall tale
and you are as cold as the seas
you're just another sunken anchor
passed out in your lover's bed
locked out of the life you begged for
you're just another sunken anchor
you wrapped the diamond 'round her finger
she wrapped her heart and skin around you
and so bloomed the flower of good intention
but inside, you murdered the invention
you are the darkness in comedy
you are the laughter in disease
you are the height of a tall tale
and you are as cold as the seas
you're just another sunken anchor
passed out in your lover's bed
locked out of the life you begged for
you're just another sunken anchor
and i'd try to pull you out if i could
but what's the use in rescuing a fool?
you are the sad part loving
you are the noose hung from the tree
dangling the one you set free
adn you are the tarnish on the ring
you're just another sunken anchor
inside another lover's bed locked out of the arms you asked for
you're just another sunken anchor
stay down


statistics
if i believe in you
can you believe in me too?
you are the antidote
for the poison in the apple of my eye
you have rearranged my rhyme
so that i don't rhyme all the time
there is no guy who ever tried
and did not fail to sell the sale
of honesty, fidelity, or anything
that makes you sing.
but i believe in you
please believe in me too
i know the statistics say
that i will save my greatest
hell for when i am old
that a man can't turn it off,
he's always weak and cold
there is no lie we haven't tried.
there is no cry you haven't cried.
and if the child in you
has died please let me try to
revive.


i won't stop
forgot my parachute
left it on the plane
and i fell head first down
into tennessee
beside a tiny house
resting on a lake
in a church town dying
for heaven's sake
but i was alive
when you came to the door
you smiled at me
and pulled me up from the floor
when i made that jump
i was aware that the iron ground
could be waiting in there
to welcome me with its death embrace
but as i screamed south
i pictured your face
and though i fell hard
i knew how to land
just closed my eyes
and reached out my hands
let go of everything
that i couldn't stand
about myself and my scattered plans
and as soon as i stood up
we laid right back down
in the most comfortable bed
in the entire town
but we couldn't cry
about anything
and the smiles of our silence
whispered in harmony:
i love you, and i won't stop.


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