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Saw you crawl into the shade
Swollen fruit had fallen
Wait until the shadows fade
Stretching out to mock the tired day
Make a fist you’ll catch a minnow
Faking wishes at the window
Like a shrinking silhouette
You’re spilling all the love you get
We’ve got a second to kill
Clap your hands, draw the lamb to the slaughter
Goddamn, won’t we ever sit still?
Grab the light before it falls into the water
You do your writhing in the rain
Lapping up the pollen
You can only dream the pain
Watching half your body squirm away
Take a breath, you’ll die a little
Waking up inside a riddle
Like a shrinking violet
You’re shedding all the love you get
We’ve got a second to kill
Clap your hands, draw the lamb to the slaughter
Goddamn, won’t we ever sit still?
Grab the light before it falls into the water
And I been more dope than a little bit
Nigga this – mounds of that shhh
Not no lil’ pinch
I would just slither down the street
Dancing on em like a cobra – I told yuh
Once I get a little older
Nobody be this jiggy
Still feel like I’m biggie
So it ain’t no biggie
Used to sell Bob Whitney
And do you feel me?
And if you do than come vibe wit me
I got four, five fiddies
More of my niggas wit me
In the grass with it
Grazing ham, need all my piggies
Burnt the bacon black down to a crisp
Left nada
Devil in a dress lookin best in Prada
Posing for that off-white, best dressed Dawda
Then voila, I’m gone
And the record spinning on still
Niggas really tryna get it in the field
I was really out hungry for real
Be still
We’ve got a second to kill
Clap your hands, draw the lamb to the slaughter
Goddamn, won’t we ever sit still?
Grab the light before it falls into the water
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I’ve Got a Movement
04:18
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I’ll appreciate
You’ll annunciate
I’ve got a movement that I’m looking to co-ordinate
I’ll put my hand out
You’ll put your hand out
We’ll own our bodies like possessions and we can’t help it
You’ll have to pardon me
‘Cause there’s a part of me
That starts exaggerating when you’re standing next to me
Oh we’re so grown up
We only own up
There’s a sequence that we’re stepping and we can’t help it
You know you’re doing what you do
You know exactly what you’re doing when you’re doing it
I know I’m feeling what I feel
I know exactly what I’m feeling when I’m feeling it
I’ll go this way, you go that
There we go, to and fro
Two steps forward, two steps back
It’s all we know, all we know
Let’s get it syndicated
Let’s pull it all out
We’re so sophisticated, we can shake the fallout
We’ll be reciprocated
Invert the down-low
We’ve been incubating long enough to get grown
You know you’re doing what you do
You know exactly what you’re doing when you’re doing it
I know I’m feeling what I feel
I know exactly what I’m feeling when I’m feeling it
I’ll appreciate
You’ll annunciate
I’ve got a movement that I’m looking to co-ordinate
I’ll put my hand
You’ll put your hand out
We’ll own our bodies like possessions and we can’t help it
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3. |
April Time
04:42
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You don’t waste time, do you?
Keeping me abreast of the situation
There a’int nobody in your roommate’s room
It always starts in the portico
But it’s only a demonstration
We shake it down like it’s Jericho
Now I’m always thinking about you
Can’t get nothing else to cut through
Too, too high – I flew
Now I’m always thinking about you
Can’t get nothing else to cut through
Give me a chance to pretend I stayed over
We slept through the morning
We both stopped performing
You showed me around your part of the town
Next thing we knew it was half a week later
I’ve got a feeling I can’t shake
Staring off at my workplace
You’ve got me in the worst way
So what can I do?
Now that I’m always thinking about you
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Step By Step
03:01
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I took a walk down
Saw colours streaming
All of the day is waiting open to me
But I still go step by step
I take it step by step
Go step by step
I take it step by step
Oh I see a familiar face blurring
But I can’t quite place a name to it
Did we ever stay up all night solving all the world?
But I still go step by step
I take it step by step
Go step by step
I take it step by step
But I still go step by step
I take it step by step
Go step by step
I take it step by step
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End of the night
I am leaving
Crawl into the back of another cab
End of the night
Guess I’m teasing
I can barely hack this escape plan
When I wake up next to you
(I’m lifted up)
When I wake up next to you
(I’m lifted up)
Oh it’s all I wanna do
My blood is flowing
Do you feel it too?
The day is glowing
When I wake up next to you
The city is bright
But I am reaching
Been here before in another life
End of the night
Oh, It’s so fleeting
Stumble through the door quiet as a knife
When I wake up next to you
(I’m lifted up)
When I wake up next to you
(I’m lifted up)
Oh it’s all I wanna do
My blood is flowing
Do you feel it too?
The day is glowing
When I wake up next to you
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Landslide
02:18
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You don’t have to say a single word
I can hear you talking with your eyes
I see them falling, falling to the snow
A pond so blue and sweet to know
You don’t wanna, you don’t wanna wait
Given that we know what we know
Is this how I thought we’d walk away?
With the city growing dimmer as I turn to go
There you are, there you are
You never caught your breath
Fumbling with the dark
Following your steps
Slowly being covered by the snow
There you are, there you are
You never caught your breath
Fumbling with the dark
Following your steps
Slowly being covered by the snow
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Closer
05:03
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There we stood blinking our eyes
We built a cave from hood to hood
It felt like we were a fire
Glowing in the mouths of foxes
The world felt quiet and dark
The snow was hanging on its mark
I caught you move through a look
And test the lips that lost the words to talk with
Closer, closer, closer
Come a little closer
Closer, closer, closer
Come a little closer
Closer
See the sundogs craving
Testing a new perimeter
Will we let them go?
Always, now or never
Ah, see it see it
Closer, closer, closer
Come a little closer
Closer, closer, closer
Come a little closer
Closer
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8. |
Horowitz
03:19
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Don’t look now
Don’t look up at the night
She will lock your eyes
Steal your sight
Hear her lungs pulling
Every time I let our hands forget
When to lead
I saw you shuffle your feet
Whisper, “Are you gonna stick around?”
We could stumble in the street
Let our guard down
We will go weak in the knees
Fall like ashes, ashes on the ground
Let our eyes see what they see just for now
Let the rain come down
Soak our dry eyes
Wash away the last of our disguise
See a door open in the dark streets
Don’t care what’s inside
Or where it leads
I saw you shuffle your feet
Whisper, “Are you gonna stick around?”
We could stumble in the street
Let our guard down
We will go weak in the knees
Fall like ashes, ashes on the ground
Let our eyes see what they see just for now
(Are you gonna stick around?)
(Ashes, ashes on the ground)
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9. |
Hopping Like a Spot
05:57
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You feel the weight
Giving all it’s force
To only be released
When you're new again
There in the back are the red flags, got em in a row
They're snapping, grabbing your hand
But you know they're gonna let go
Flapping just for show, pulling at a bow
You can't, no you can't, no you can't, no you can’t
No you can’t, no you can’t, no you can’t
You can’t wait all your life
You can't know, you can't know, you can’t know
You can’t know, you can’t know, you can’t know
You can’t, you can’t know when it's time
You paint up your face
Put holes in the wall
Pick your shoes and now for a walk
Then turn the lights off
Let's find you some space
Here's all you can crawl
Ch-ch-choose the time you can talk
And show your belly off
We've got aims
To go out alive
We buy booze on saturday night
A crew, crew accrues
Hot from the drain
You don't know know know what you want
No, you're giving it up
But to glorify who?
Hopping like a spot on the window
Backseat of a car
You're crossing, un-crossing your eyes
Don't you let em hit the phone pole
Duck em down below
Lose em in the snow
You can't, no you can't
You can't wait all your life
You feel the weight
Giving all its force
To only be released
When you're new again
You'll study every little word
You'll pick its heart out
You'll beat the air until it blurs
You'll wear your arms out
Pull away, pull away
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Caught in between the windows
Waiting for the message to come
Heart pumping
Could this be the end?
Begin again
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