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Most of the Boys
02:48
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Most of the boys were experiments
Which is why she has several exes
After her name like kisses
Most of the experiments were boys
Bursting with "why's?" The ones that come
After Exes.
And most of the boys were exciting
Until closer examination
And most of the excitements were boys
Buoying her up, until the next ex
Most of the exes were excuses
And most of the excuses were extra precautions
Against the ecstasy of Oxytocin intoxication
No she knows not to believe
In the feeling of attraction
It's just a chemical reaction
Working to deceive her
Into acting like she needs them
When really she wants to be free
'Cause Most of the boys were
Most of the boys
And most of the boys were
Most of the boys
No she knows not to believe
In the feeling of attraction
But she yields to the yearning
She surrenders to the burning
Because she's longing to believe
That it's better to believe
That this time the feeling won't fade
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2. |
Kind Man's Kiss
01:45
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How do you kiss a kind man
Then cut him out at the second draft?
And how do you draft a kind man
Then cross him off for a better cut?
And how do you cross a kind man
For keeping quiet?
And how do you catch a kind man
Out then cash him in for a keener kiss?
And how do you kick a kind man out
For another of his kind or, kinker-kind of crush?
How do you keep a kind man
From asking you for a promise you can't keep?
How do you kiss?
How do you kiss?
How do you kiss a kind man at all?
Kissing is for the cowardly
Who know no other way
To kill what they can't commit to
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3. |
Proof
01:55
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There's proof
On the roof
Of my mouth
Of the damage
You've done
I'm numb
To the gun
But the dumb
Silky touch
Of your thumb
Leaves me
Sore with the stitch,
The itch, the etched inch of you
I'm sore with the stitch,
The itch, the etched inch of you
There's proof
On the roof
Of my mouth
Of the damage
You've done
The skim
Of your skin
Sticks to the lip
To the tip
Of my tongue
So I'm sore with the stitch,
The itch, the etched inch of you
And I soar with the stitch
The itch, the etched inch of you
Raw with the stitch the itch
The glitch the twitch the pinch
The etched inch of you
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4. |
So Polite
02:29
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People often ask me
If like America
And I just pretend
Like I didn't come for the crush
That's grown
Up to work in one of those shops you know
Not to trust cost they only sell vitamins
People haven’t asked me
People haven’t asked me
People haven’t asked me
If I mind...
That now he's got girls
Who write things
Like I've never held a gun
But I'd like to
On his Face Book
Better next time
Like the time Ant Lane took me
To the beat
My heart skipped
And put his hand on my crotch
Like he didn't have a wife to kid
Or sweaty palms
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
And I just stay quiet
About Mary with the lights off
Sticking fingers in a hot-to-go
Rotisserie chick Thinking
I need to wash
My hair, and that was close,
In a My friend's kind of way,
Way, way too young
For the unplanned
Pregnancy
Even in love
Even in love
Or twist the cap
And pout for the wrong
Religion and find it’s totally true
Like thinking everybody counts
As long as she sinks like a nickel
Into the vote of god, of the face of
Fuck stuck to
Cold speculation like lust
That stopped being so hard to do
Without, No
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
And I stay quiet
'Cause I'm fine
I don't mind
I'm fine
I don't mind
I'm fine
I'm fine
I'm fine
I'm fine
I'm fine
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
People haven't asked me
And I just stay quiet
'Cause we're all so polite
We're all so polite
We're all so polite
'Cause we just want to be liked
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5. |
Knots and do-nots
02:55
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You spin me
Out of breath
And cigarettes
You never lose
The thread of threats
That tie me to you
'Cause you are the best
At untying and retying
Knots and do-nots
I tug at what seems
And unravel into a longing
A prison of you
You give me your end
Beginning again to untangle
The twisted words
Wound around my thoughts
'Cause you are the mess
I'm untying and retying
You are the mess I'm untying and retying
Knots and do-nots
When strings snap they leave
Forget me knots under the skin
Even in sinning
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6. |
Seamy Side
02:15
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I don't want another boy on my bed
But there's another boy on my mind
I've made my bed but I've unmade my mind
So now I better lie about it
Get OUT of my side of the story
Don't prize me to your fable
Don't fit me in your fib
Get OUT of my side of the story
Let's move to the floor
Where all the fun is
I don't want another mind on my boy
But there's another boy on his mind
I changed my bed but now I've changed my mind
So now I better get her
Get her OUT of my side of the story
You can prize me to your fable
You can even fit me in your fib
See me on my seamy side
This is where I come to hide
No need to apologise
For anything you fantasise about
See me on my seamy side
This is where I come
This is where I come
This is where I come to hide
When I can't make up my mind
We are of two minds
We are never single
We don't mind
We are of two minds
We are never single
We don't mind
Two-timing
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Silence
00:29
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You bring the silence with you to the park, when we're sitting side by side, (and even in the bedroom). I wonder why perhaps you rather I'd brought mine two but I can't find it and even if I could I wouldn't bother 'cause it's boring.
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8. |
Tug of War
03:26
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I want to go home
But I don't know
Where home is tonight
We're standing so close
But I've never felt further away
As you undo my dress tonight
Persuade me to stay
Say you see through
The games that I play
'cause I'm longing to lose
Press me up against the wall
Pull me in towards your chest
Reel my closer by my hair
Stare me down onto the floor
And put an end to this Tug of war
I want to go home
But I don't know
Where home is tonight
Without you I'm lost
But with you
I'm losing again
Persuade me to stay
'Cause I'm starting to stray
And I don't know the way
Without you
Press me up against the wall
Pull me in towards your chest
Reel my closer by my hair
Stare me down onto the floor
And put an end to this Tug of war
We wanted to win
So we went without wonder
Don't leave me wondering
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't let me wander away
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9. |
So Go
02:57
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So go, 'cos I don't
Need anyone
And I'm done
Dancing this dance e
Needing to be needed
We know no end to Love
We don't know the end to Fate
But we won't know Love
If we let our Hating guide us, deny us
So go, just leave me
Alone cos I don't own
Anyone or own anything
Other than this
Within this skin
No, we don't know
What we know
We know no end to Love
We don't know the end to Fate
But we won't know Love
If we let our Hating guide us, deny us
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10. |
See-through
02:54
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I'm starting to see-through
Everything that I wanted
To see in you
I'm blind by I borrowed
The views of the used
And the confused
I've been keeping you
In the corner
I've been storing you
Out of sight
I've been ordering you
To the border of us
I've been keeping you
Waiting for days
These are the ways that I
I dilute you
I prioritise the times
I spend away from you
I try to hide
These are the ways that I
I dilute you
I deny the tide of you
That's rising through me
But I cannot hide
So I dive into you
I'm starting to see-through
Everything that I wanted
To see in you
I'm blind by I borrowed
The views of the used and
This is how we learn to see
In the dark the eye
Never lies it divides
This is how we learn to see
In the dark the eye
Never lies it divides
Darkness is a diver
He'll delve into your heart
Start to rip through the artery
Then spill you from inside
Sisters of desire take me
Break waves against my heart
Beat me back hard against the rocks
Then drag me down
Sisters of desire tame me
Release me from what I've tried to be
With ripples rip my heart and strip me bare
I'm spilling you and me
Are you willing to be free
I'm spilling you and me
Are you willing to be free
Dissolving
Dissolving
Dissolving
Me
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11. |
My Friend
03:14
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My Friend, take care
You have the answers inside
And with a hand on your heart
With your heart on your hand
They'll guide you
My Friend, take care
Surrender forevers that faded
They're overrated this time
And with a hand on your heart
With your heart on your hand
They'll beat through
The Hope that you broke
The Faith that you faked
The Ache that mistakes can create
Don't you know that you're better than that?
That you're worthy of more
Than the bathroom floor
At the end of the night?
When he's drunk and you're drunk
And you smoke and he jokes
That you're "almost good"
Don't you know that you're better than that?
That you're worthy of more
Than the worn-out dreams
Torn apart at the seams?
You think if you shrink
You'll fit in not stand out
When in doubt you go down
On your back you back off
So as not to offend
But you're better than that
You're worthy of more
Than the worn-out dreams
Torn apart at the seams
You're worthy of more
You're worthy of more
My friend, take care
I dare to spend all of my life
With my hand on your heart
With your heart on my hand
We'll stand
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12. |
Valentine
04:48
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We were breaking up
And you held me
And I wanted you more
Than anytime before
We were breaking up
And when you touched me
It felt just like the first time
You've been my adventure
You've been my excuse
You've been my religion
You've been my abuse
You've been my adventure
You've been my excuse
You've been my religion
And now I'm letting you lose
I'm letting you loose
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