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Mr. Huggable
04:11
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We hate the guy we’re with
The width of this backseat was grossly underestimated
By a guy that claims to be La Sagrada Familia
Every time the light reflects
Don’t all death punches utilize five fingers?
Am I the bird shit that you picked right off the railing?
And rolled it through your hair
maybe it means i’m me, fuck
Beethoven
Couldn’t write a riff like this now
Could he?
JK, Lud
Child labor laws are lax as a sax
And the limeade is cooking
Looking for a parking spot
At the aquarium across the street
And they keep on calling me
Mr. Huggable
So what the hell is your nickname, son?
False alarm
We hate the guy we’re with
Wolf Point, Montana
Panic attack next to insurance lobbies
Hobbies all kept to myself
Though this sociopath has assumptions
The gumption to piss in the tent
And burn a hole right through the polyester
The year before my best year I had the nerve to do it
Now I don’t.
The only thing that I got was this lousy exorcism in the woods
maybe it means i’m me, fuck
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3. |
Game Over
02:32
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Her mom sounds like a mess
And she’s got a bunch of face tats
But there’s brass tacks on the other side
Street smarts don’t hide.
Before it’s back to Canada
It’s searching far and wide
Where is the velvet in the underground?
Or aisles with the games—
Game over
Game over
Game over
Game over
Game —
What’s the move here?
In a hotel
Spinning laundry
Bending —
Over games
Over games
Over games
Over games
Over games
Over games —
Damn
I’m just like them
Never mind
I’m a wallet
I’m stalling
The black light out at mini golf’s the same one as the bed detectives
Came to a head in a Maryland front yard
Hard to feel good about what just happened—
Here, there, everywhere
Over there
Over here
Cornered in —
What a time
What a place
What a big ass fucking personal waste
Ch-ch-checking it off the bucket list at least
Game over
Game over
Game over
Game over
Game —
Mumbling in an office
Glimpses of my future
Like a crystal ball
One trick pony
Oh, do you owe me
Nope
Never mind
Let’s just forget all about this
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4. |
Alabama Psychologist
03:29
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Snorlax isn’t even my favorite Pokemon
I just thought you looked nice
A joke about the sewer smell
As you are walking up
In retrospect
Embarrassing way to open the night
I’m wearing my sweater
Thinking that I look just like France
You didn’t even say it once
That I kind of looked like France
Making layups at life
Waiting for my walls to cave in
Before I stop thinking about it
It’s fine
It’s fine
It’s fine
Black truck
In the driveway
Half past sundown
Get a call
And a voicemail
From whichever one you are
Are you at the same old place?
Brutalizing the paper clip
Terrorizing my eyesight
And my nostrils
With some Ozium
Let it take me
Wherever it wants to
Wherever it wants to
Wherever I want to
Making Jokic plays at life
Waiting for my walls to cave in
Thinking that I looked just like the Netherlands
Again
This time
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Do a frontflip
The cowardice of these backflips
Across the lip
I slip
And all the shavings of the foam
Adore to the core
And then I’m buried, burning
Yearn just for one last whiff of the mall
But hey
Remember that?
From 20 years ago?
Back when we had some more Suave in our cabinets
And more elasticity predating all the fragments
Oh, hold on
I’ll be right back back back
I’ve gotta go down to the cellar
And think about how I call it that now
Seriously, isn’t that weird?
Stoned sick day
On the day Jerry Springer left life
I’m entering life
My mind doesn’t need a massage tomorrow
Didn’t need one
Peacefulized
Making up a word
Just to describe what it’s like
To hit the mall
And come back feeling different
Feeling different
My face is a mess of warm blankets
Sick of making my own decisions
Every single day I lie
Every single day it’s worse
Every single day it’s rehearsed
Every single day it’s the worst
They’re Melting
I’m blacking out
Fucking bullshit seriously
Who lets their kid in there?
But still asking
Do a frontflip
Do do a frontflip
Do a backflip this time
Oh wait
Oh no
Oh wait
You cowards
Ope, there goes another tower
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6. |
Starlet
02:20
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7th grade
You’re making me rate your best friend
On a scale of 1 to 10
I said 6
I was a dick
For the time being
‘Cause I was new in town
I think you’re brave now
Have I told you?
No I haven’t
‘Cause we’re not Facebook friends anymore
Who locked the door?
Wasn’t me
Probably you
‘Cause I couldn’t choose a number
Without taking off my clothes
And then you saw my insecurities
Leather lips on me
NyQuil dreams about you
And I see the glimmer in your eye
And you lend a helping hand
This country’s killing women
Sex workers are helping neighbors
Doing favors
And I’m in-between
I’m never as brave as you’re being in public
I’m never as brave as your spot on the internet is
Don’t forget
That I’m happy that you’re doing happier these days
And that’s the least of which that I can say
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Third worst burning of my lungs experience
I think that I’ve ever had
Just needed the cave-in
Of this boy’s articulation
Not these stipulations of a psychopath-
I mean -ologist
It’s just that all of this is
Turning me upside down
But I look up the road
And then it’s COPD
Probably
My hypochondriac ass knows
They’re not waiting for me
And he, he just keeps on talking
And we’re still fucking walking, walking, walking
And I think he’s in the same ass story
He was whenever I last tapped in
And then I’m acting like I was actually listening
A single “yep” peppered in so gloriously
But I digress
Jab
Jabbing again about the light of his life
He’s got an Arkansas fiancée
And for the humidest part of the year
She’ll let him fly out for the weekend
And they’ll sleep in
And maybe step into a time machine
An ‘80s slasher
For 37 minutes on the Saturday
He’s sterilized
Then Minecraft
The sun rises
Hope rises swiftly
Iffy on the moving in
And he’d
He’d have to ask his dad
But maybe next time’s what he said
And now, well now he’s here telling us all of this
For some reason wait
So hurry up with your rock things
Because I’m out of shape
And my
My head starts to feel itchy
Embarrassed to say
Yeah sure
That’s why I’m so bitchy
Won’t hear about the wedding
Won’t hear about the grandkids
Won’t hear about the Lake of the Ozarks property
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Never been
More disappointed
In something I’ve wanted to see for so long
Living in it
It’s a dream
Wasting eras
Obscene
Because we held up the line
I think I guessed I looked fine
And I wished it was you for real
Every single little word
Read but not heard
Passing cash back and forth
In deliberation for the first time
Embracing all the geriatrics
Who just can’t help but type in all caps
Taking laps inside the polygon
Wake up and your headache’s gone
Never been
More disappointed
In something I’ve wanted to see for so long
Living in it
It’s a dream
Wasting eras
Obscene
Every single thing I had a bad, no good, sorry, stupid, bullshit feeling about
Affirmative
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9. |
Sexworld
03:23
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Treating my duffel bag poorly
To the point that I’m sad
But I’m glad
That we could make it out here
Am I clear?
Look out for predatory futures
The oven
Is what I’m stuck in
In this same damn place
That I thought about
Since I found some comfort
I don’t know what the upside down one stands for
All we needed was a big bag of candy
And a Diet Rite
To make it right
I’ve got to make this right
Caught between a rock and a hard place
Someone chuck me my, my damn camcorder
I’ve got to make this right
Someone chuck me my -
My damn bottle opener
I’ve got to make this situation right here in front of us right
Because everything I thought would be one way
Has turned out exactly the other
And now I’m insecure
On the wavelength
Waving from the top of the hill
Right down to fighting over applesauce
She’s like a mob boss
But I’ll let her be
And be better
I will
It’s just that are you ever gonna wear a different shirt?
Or is this it
Staring up the street
At Prince and Dylan
The ants underneath
I’ve never felt less alone
In a bad way
In a good way
In a way that feels less than the sum of its parts
Still the average
Adults shouldn’t say savage if they can help it
Treating my duffel bag poorly
To the point that I’m sad
But I’m glad
That we could make it out here
Am I clear?
Look out for predatory futures
The oven
Is what I’m stuck in
In this same damn place
That I thought about
Since I found some comfort
I don’t know what the upside down one stands for
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10. |
Emo Autocorrects to Meme
03:44
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My town is getting stupider
Because the people from here
Kept on breeding
And so I’m seething at a stoplight
Distractions of another kind
Lime on a scooter
Rolling up my hood
I know it’s harsh
But if this is my millennial pause
I’m frozen
Starting to sob
I have to make a left on Yellowstone
Lost potential clanking
Like what’s left of the cog
But still
This is the best place you’ve ever seen
Don’t lie to yourself
Up on top of Red Hill
Emo autocorrects to meme
We are so fucked
And the cops are parking like a bunch of cunts
At Cafe Rio every Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Taking up a second space
To honor those that they 1-8-7’d
Hey!
I’m beseeched with the feeling of some crowded beaches
I’m uptight
Found my life
It’s residing at what I’ve heard is a hippie commune
But you can’t quite afford it in due time
This is the best place
In all the land
Even better than the landing of the stairs
It’s bleaker than taking a peek at Indeed
When you really really really really really really
need the job
Ring up Bob at the labor department
Says he thinks he’ll get back to me
On another tab of that iPhone 18
He’s in a call with a curated AI
Obsolete
Incomplete
Least I got a degree
Future debt
More scooters
But oh look a sunset
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Pumpkin Bowling
03:06
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I’ll kill someone
Through the yellow lights on campus if I’m not careful
I’ll catch some sleep when I’m dead
Like Rickey Henderson in front of Budweiser ads
Grabbing a pop fly
Top of the third
Wait until the sunrise
It’ll be okay
Wake up at my own wake
Wait, why’s this a wake?
Plastic seemed to fall apart
Harder today
Oof
I’ll accidentally trip someone
Inside this Walmart
And puncture wound their Ocean Spray
Hey
Is there a better percent to say
Nope.
Didn’t come any easier
To fudge the number
Thinking about the view
Right before a round of slumber
Still an incredible day
To skate through the yellow light
Again
It’s Halloween and I’m included
It’s the Monday before
In October
I ain’t deluded anymore
I can salute the workings of the 2-7 baby split
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Grief Jerky
03:07
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The species that tend to die tragically
Have more magic
It’s facts
So wax up your Camaro
‘Cause we’re going on a journey
To the password dungeon
Because I got hacked
I for one blame Elon Musk
Just seems like the right thing to do
Because I have to comply
To my moral high ground that
I backed into about 29 years ago
Or something like that
Do you wanna have a bad time?
Don’t threaten me with a good one
You could die tomorrow
and your brother can die five days later
In this shit for some reason
It’s like that
Then you wake up
And you’re on a plane
No, not the Nirvana one
Like, actually a plane
And you just can’t stop thinking about
When this house was empty
And all the lights and everything
Seemed brighter then
I’m mourning the loss of my innocence I guess
It’s a mess
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Rubberbands
03:22
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When the scraping of the carpet
Stops above my head
I know that I’m alone as can be
But will we go outside?
Or wait for Reddit to tell me
OD
Could be
The memory of riding out to Santa Clarita
In the back of a ’97 Dakota
The breaking up of 100.1 The Quake
As I wait in the car
I mean the truck
What the fuck
Why’s this relevant now?
Scraped my knee up
A week before my elbows got the same thing harder
Haven’t had that in a long, long, long time
Got told at the party
There’s only one person
That’s a bigger kid than me
When in doubt
Graduated part-time
Enrolled for the rest of my life if I can help it
Had a Pepsi
Had a something
Hiding in both of the bathrooms
Every time that I get spoken to
It’s all about how I’m in college now
And weird shaped
Love, love, love, love
And hating the new ways
But at least we got back together
Got some tech talk
In my lymph nodes
On your neck
You’ve got a prison tat
You’ve had it called that
More than necessary
RIP to my cacti
But at least we kept up past the stupid canopy
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14. |
The Moose's Bitch
06:08
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Mickey’s gonna have to make do with this tornado
And I am gonna have to make do with all this foliage
I’ve got right now
Which wouldn’t be awful if I can learn to clean the well out
Without drowning in a bleach infested leech’s outward hell
And then it rains every time that we go empty our geodes
A nice distraction as the moose from the woods
Just stood right on me so
My blood is indistinguishable
But how far from home are we now?
(We’re gonna have to wait a minute on that one and this one)
Because it’s not ready yet
Because
Mickey’s gonna have to make do with this tornado
And I am gonna have to make do with all this foliage
I’ve got right now
Which wouldn’t be awful if I can learn to clean the well out
Without drowning in a bleach infested leech’s outward hell
One of a few non-wastes of the sauce
But still I won’t quite see it for a while
The color of the water down the street’s Lake Placid
The urge to stick your tongue in and slurp
Strong as New England accents
“Christophah don’t throw that frisbee at yer sistah!”
This echoes through the bottom of the pond
And at the top by the island
A whisper of me getting shit talked
We’re gonna need a bigger bigger bigger bigger bigger tornado
To suck up some Hondas
And to steal the whisper’s name
And to make it all go away
And to hear a long punchline
And to get a week of no sunshine
And to have a lab with a window
And to waste all the productive days
Just thinking about it
Thinking about it
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