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Broken Bones Brigade
03:57
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I’m the oldest person at the skate park
I’m not even old enough to rent a car
My arm’s numb
And this idea was so motherfucking stupid, man
Motherfucking stupid, god damn.
Man.
My pelvis felt a jolt like licking ends of Duracells when you’re young
Everyone around me has more talent in their left thumbs than I do in my now battered body
George Washington in my pocket just to match my age
Imprinted on my inner thigh
I also can’t tell lies
But that’s not the only thing
I feel sort of engaged
I’m disengaging.
I’m sort of enraged.
Accidental application to the 27 club
Up and over the hip
My hip hurts now (x1000)
All along the way I keep on staring at my left thumb.
I repeat the living shit out of my sub-20 obsessions
Then I switch it all up in the briefest fleeting moment just to catch my breath.
I can’t feel my lungs
And I can’t make up my mind
(Everything’s gonna be gone)
I can’t decide if I am the Tony Hawk of indecisiveness
Or the Rodney Mullen of not knowing how the real world works.
(How does everything go away?)
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2. |
The Paradox Buffet
03:56
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Why is it that every time that we are hunting for ghosts
I can’t focus on the task at hand
Why is it that every time that I flip on a horror flick
The house portrayed here is my dream house?
Can’t Can’t Run Run carved into the cut and loop carpet that I can’t wait to replace
Good Good Blood Blood splattered on the mirror in the bathroom
Seven years of good luck
It’s the opposite.
This office as it is just feels so worthless
I’m nervous.
Living in a peaceful cul-de-sac
With no zombies to attack me
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
I don’t believe in any of that stupid bullshit (that that that etc)
Gaining all my everything
And losing all my something
Losing all my everything that I thought I was gaining this whole time
The old times
They haunt so nice
The kitchen faucet’s on
My losses are on display
Let’s play some more
What’s the matter?
Get the fuck out the way of the wooden door.
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3. |
Wassup
04:52
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I’m not doing how I say I have been
I have been pulling reticles from rainforests
I have been pimping all my old ass songs in all the same old places.
Can you (can you) blame me?
Logging into my bank account to show my popping zits
The proof that I got paid this paycheck
I’ll knock it off in a minute
If you will give me one
Well?
I’m losing all my callouses because I’m depressed
I’m pressing on and scarfing up eight times that of my body weight
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
I feel like I got dropped from a skyscrape
I’ve put on more lbs than I thought that I could in my whole life
But it doesn’t matter
Because I’m hidden in the car and I never learned to drive
Draining down the battery
I’m dumb and never thought to have the engine on while
The phone is scrolling
Continuity
Ingenuity
False alarm
So I am hoping that I’m rescued by some parchment paper
And I am expecting I’ll be brutalized by the same exact thing.
I think the worst part’s that I can’t even enjoy my unconsciousness when it happens
But when does it ever fully happen?
What happened?
How many howdy’s do security guards drop in an hour?
I don’t even know if I can answer that aptly
Making money finger over knuckle
Trouble with the distinguishment of all these assholes inside
Plantar fasciitis
I’m no doctor
But I am gonna say I have it
Just to prove the point
How — else can we get a pizza coupon in relief?
Relief, relief
Let’s try some
The cysts on our wrists aren’t coming off
Making money
It’s so sunny
I’m wrapped up in hazmat suits in corridors
What’s the order for today?
It is jamming all the guns subconsciously
Bringing in search parties just for the fun of all of it
Mental fatigue
I’m no doctor
But I am gonna say I have it
Just to prove the point
How — else can I connect with the others in my spot?
I should have asked for a spot
When they walked up
But instead I sucked it all down and just said
“Wassup?”
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4. |
St. Louis Cardinal
03:03
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How dumb do I have to be to be put in this same exact predicament that they keep on putting me in?
Quitting my job 21 years later will be the same sort of thing.
7Up or Sprite?
Don’t matter
None of this is gonna settle
Am I metal?
I am catching nosebleeds in the second row.
I don’t know the ins and outs of me
And I’m gonna get a C- in the future in geometry
You hit it off the tee, kid
Why are you still standing here?
I feel like I’m gonna throw up
I feel like I’m gonna blow chunks
I feel like I’m gonna hurl
I feel like I’m going to puke
I feel like I’m gonna get sick
I feel like I’m gonna exhaust every euphemism.
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5. |
Rumspringa
01:45
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Shaved my beard
And I’m never ever coming back here
I’m driving 90 miles an hour in a car, not a wagon
Freddie hammered on the beach
Let’s shoot for spirit animals
Howling outside my house
I hope a landslide sucks it through the stars
I am a pillar of decision making.
(Huh?)
Threw my hat in the trash
Took it to the landfill
I feel better
I feel better
Until I don’t again in four days
Sobbing in the club
And mad at the amusement park
I’m all bark and no bite
And I’m having some trouble with my social life.
Everybody has their circles
I don’t think I ever even learned to draw one
On construction paper
Where do they buy it?
I found out
And I went
And I forgot I blew all my money away
I changed my mind
Please (x1000)
Dunk my ass in that water
Do whatever you want to me
I changed my mind.
I ain’t ever gonna leave my bedroom
I ain’t ever gonna leave my basement.
I ain’t ever gonna leave any of this again.
Never again
Never again
Never again
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6. |
Syundai
03:01
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Sex in the attic as they are working on the roof
Sex on the roof as I am trying to fall asleep
I forgot the names of the dogs at this park
And thankfully the park too
Cabbage Patch Kids
I’m an irrational kid
I’m kidding
Not really
What is so sacred?
The sacredness of a person to talk to
Or am I a friend to have fun with?
I’m as confused as the kid working the Arby’s drive thru
How coincidental that it’s more than I can get a handle on
Mission Impossibling through the window in the Summer time
Then Mission Impossibling down the cage before the blizzard’s coming
I’m scared of rats and the birds equally the same
What are you scared of?
You’re scared of not pouring guts in my ears
It’s years of frustration
I don’t blame you even a little bit
Still
Why did you choose me out of everybody?
I don’t know if I can handle this except for these two times
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday
And as a matter of fact
Enjoy the rest of your Summer
I’m sorry.
I’m so sorry
That I can’t cover this.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry
I apologize.
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7. |
Wildfire Mustache
03:05
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People might be horrible
And I might be an optimist
Overly amusing with the little things
That’s how I used to be
But never lately
But never lately
But never lately
But never again
Question mark?
What do you even know what to do with me?
The worst
The best
The start of stupid conquests I romanticize
Swallowed up by Kirby
And he starts to second guess it all eventually
He’s gazing out the window
It’s apocalyptic.
Sitting at an old dinner table
And just listening to spiels
Pretending all the choking smoke’s just dryer sheets.
All I do is pretend it’s not the end
I feel it
I feel it
I feel it
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8. |
Barbie Goes To Jupiter
04:09
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Cigarette smoke wafting in through the windows
I’m laughing
Jason Segel smoking weed in the basement in sweatpants
Jump off the bridge in an hour
Feels like ten minutes
Ten minutes feels like an exhale to me
Look at me
I’m a clown
I’m wrapped up in satin
You’re laughing
You’re way too good
For this world
It’s such fucking bullshit
You know?
You know it works so well when it is so familiar
Familial voices calling straight up through their graves
Hollywood Hills bludgeoning me with nostalgia
Burning what’s left of the craters from my peach fuzzed face
I don’t even know what I’m to say to you
Because I don’t wanna be ashamed
But that never once stopped me from saying the things I say
Am I being uncomfortable?
Are you laying on a brick bed?
Should I make some reservations?
Should I keep on asking stupid questions?
Stupid is as stupid does
And stupid one in this house
That’s just what I was
That’s all there was to it
I keep on standing up to run out quickly
It’s all I can do is be face down
Face down in the Nylon couch
I’m feeling nauseous
There’s demons in the bathroom that you are trying to summon up
Crazy rants to put me in my place
It’s excellent
It’s simultaneously amazing
Don’t know what this—
(^repeat)
This feels like Miami?
They call this bisexual lighting
I think?
Worth it on purpose
Perfect accidentally
It’s never gonna be the same after this
Posh
Poshed up as one of the best Spice Girls in ’98
Hates all her friends
And pulls the legs of all of yours
I walk through glass slid doors
How boring
If there is an enemy, it’s time
If there is a fucking bitch, it’s time
If there is an idiot, it’s time
If there is an imbecile, it’s—
Time to go home now
3 AM again and again
Gotta get up by 10 and make the yard perfect
And so it’s hellish already
And I’m fully regretting not staying in that couch dent face down
Because I just don’t wanna be alone anymore.
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9. |
Fat At The Beach
02:15
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I’m getting too fat to fit in my favorite pair of pants
Sick in Belgium
Eating oranges in a bunk bed
The feeling of downing champagne
On a boat that’s soaring over floating bodies
It just can’t escape me.
The classical music onboard, it takes me
Just takes me away
Piano battles
Then I’m back in the saddle of grins again
(No, you’re not)
(No, you’re not)
Why is it so sorrowful harrowing
That I have to set alarms for tomorrow?
A longer shower than is necessary
I can barely get a word in edgewise
I’m fantasizing about blowing out 400 thousand
Just for a couple of hours
So why don’t we?
So why don’t we again?
Fat at the beach
Fat in the car on the way to the beach
Just a boy that loves his treats
And domination from the saturation station
I needed this
I needed this
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10. |
Koolaid
02:30
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I’m gonna gargantuan a 40 of whatever they’re offering
Using razor blades on digitals
The future
Guzzling
Guzzle, guzzle, guzzle
Guzzling
They won’t even know what I’m doing here
Throw it in the ocean
It is sure to be the safest place
I can’t believe you said I wouldn’t believe the look on my face
Walking in it
Walking in it
Walking inside
Money’s never real
And I’m never gonna feel
A sensation like this
If I don’t go
Hope you’ll Hawaiian punch me right in my frontal lobe
So then maybe baby I’ll go
I’ll go just so you’ll stop nagging
What happened?
It’s fine
It’s good
It’s clear
You were so-so right.
Sleeping near it
Sleeping near it
Sleeping near it
Sleeping naked
But still fuck this
The soles of my shoes in the Winter time
Salted like a margarita rim in Summer
Bummer it’s not tropical
Not topical exactly
Xacto Knives are showing kids
20 seconds of naughtiness
Equates to being the devil’s spawn
So only watch 15
It’s not that bad if you do.
I’m fakin’
I’m fakin’
I’m fakin’
And hopefully makin’ it
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11. |
The Catastrophes
02:47
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A poking head out from the kiosk at the rendezvous
The cadence was the first thing that I saw
Hey, it’s that one guy from high school staring back at me
He joined the Young Republicans in 2013
But who cares about him?
My age, it shows, regretfully
My brain, it glows, forgetful
Picking out nicknames for these feelings.
Nevertheless we’ll speed run this discussion
Isn’t it weird that no one else in here talks?
Out the door and now it’s time to swap pleasantries
Pleasantly we’ll never get to the top
Forget the bottom
It’s a scam
Picking out nicknames for this moment
We sowed it
Your hair is on fire
And I’m mired out to the other side
Maybe we’ll get another alarm
Traffic directors calling lights, camera, action
Your reaction ranks right up there with your charm
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12. |
Damn I'm Good
04:26
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Walking back to the car from Anthropology
It’s starting to rain and I’m all out of apologies
For nothing
We’re not staying in contact.
I’m on track to get whacked
Creamed right in the crosswalk by a Subaru,
A Crosstrek
Even though I double checked
Lastly it’s unspoken
Where’d my books go?
Where’s my backpack laying at?
She has no good looks today
Except the shape she left the house with
She put down a cinder block and launched those shapeless bombs away towards me
Because (x1000)
She had to go and rue the day
Peruse the day
Abuse the day
Reuse the day
Reduce, reuse, recycle the day
Misty eyed if I tried
Still I’m mostly cutting up and laughing all the pain away
A mist straight from Eastern Texas
It’s spitting and it’s hitting me upside the head
Somehow I’m not dead
My “Damn I’m Good” t-shirt is worse than wet
There’s nothing left but mesh
There’s nothing left
I’ve got nothing left
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