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Intro
01:15
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2. |
B.O.P.
02:59
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I am a bird of prey
Isn't it horrible?
To not have any friends,
no, only foe
You said I misbehave
I said it's normal
And now I don't know why, but I kept on believing it true
And when the sky is grey
I feel important
because my enemies
are running scared
I take a part of them
They take a part of me
And for all of that pain, there's what?
As a bird of prey, means I need to kill
If I want to live, I don't think I will
In a rotten world, I'm thinking it's done
I can't make no nest, I can't have no fun
Take another day with an empty gut
Keep a talon sharp like my eyes been hunting
for all this life, I'm a bird of prey
Cuz I take and I take and I take
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3. |
Window Washer - Restless
03:17
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It's what I wanted
to take the highway
and go to Texas
to tattoo my face
and tell my mommy
that I ain't sorry
It's who I wanna be
It's who I wanna be
and what I wanna be
You back out
It's too much
You find out
you're done
Stay up waiting for the morning
No rest, trouble in your head
It's what I wanted
to take your money
and start a riot
Set it on fire
Take what I have to take
Burn what I have to burn
Build what I have to build
to kill who I have to kill
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
You back out
It's too much
You find out
you're done
Stay up waiting for the morning
No rest, trouble in your head
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4. |
Hatred
03:29
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How much of this life is left to live?
Digging through the fruit to find the pit
Reaching for a heart a phantom hand
Making pleas for time to take you back
But moving on
New days to haunt
until they're lost
with hatred
Washing out the salt inside your head
Then pondering the ways to win it back
Juggling the wants the needs the curse
Waiting 'round for nothing but the worst
It's all the same
Eye the route of pain
in the awful bleeding face
of hatred
Who could ever give up all of this?
Spitting on the face that made it
and dropping all the weight that takes its toll
through the hatred
hatred
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5. |
Become the Lake
04:38
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There's a space beneath my feet until I become the lake
Now I'm swallowed up by something bigger and my life it feels so fake
Let the water hold me now, I can't call myself a person
There's nothing that I have left, cuz nothing's really worth it
Swim out child, see how nothing stays still in this place
Someone, you are, I am the lake
Now look what I've become
Fate quivers with my drum
Fear holds me like my mom
We'll go there, to nowhere
Somedays I know the land better but I wont call it my home
Cuz I can't tread, not like this no not forever not at all, no not alone
Scream underwater and no one hears
except the lake and it pulls your feet
to keep your voice under its thumb
Cry underwater and where's your tears?
Now they're the lake and I felt that grief
Believe me now, I know what I've become
You are nothing
Not inside it
Not even a speck the sky can
See from heaven
Born so high
You'll die so low
The light won't find you
Underneath a ceiling I can't reach anymore
I'll hold my breath forever
Passing time
Until the day I
Fly from land then
I become the lake
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6. |
Move Like Steam
02:30
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Waste away your feeling
Wasted in the night
Talking to your brother
Looking for a fight
But you're too slow
With an arm around your throat
Tells you toughen up, better act like a man
Stop, keep it yourself
Puff your chest, cut your hair off
Came in like a landslide
Heading for a night on the west side
Thinking that I'm gonna need a new mind
after I get down
And moving like the cloud that went out your teeth like steam
On the curb, no kiss for a man like me
I'm only good to dance with so move your feet
Or stay the fuck home, stay the fuck home
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7. |
Sleepy Roux
01:55
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8. |
Problem
03:35
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I see her every single night
Against the lid, without no light
And try my hardest not to breath
Missing what you lost for what you keep
Do you see yourself?
Your mind's gone back
You're sad, it's the problem
Oh no
Do you see yourself?
Your hearts in half
You're sad, it's the problem
And in the wind I hear my name
In her voice it's just the same
I kick the can another day
One more hollow body on the train
Do you see yourself?
Your mind's gone back
You're sad, it's the problem
Oh no
Do you see yourself?
Your hearts in half
You're sad, it's the problem
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Do you see yourself?
Your mind's gone back
You're sad, it's the problem
Oh no
Do you see yourself?
Your hearts in half
You're sad, it's the problem
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9. |
Rotten Mac
03:06
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Rotten Mac
Where'd you go?
I need you now
I need you in my arms
I know you'll never let me go
I know your love won't waiver in this frozen winter
Rotten Mac
You seem so far
But you're right here
And in your hand, there's my heart
I know you'll always hold it close
But I can't help this feeling like I'm falling for you
In time, rot turns to meade
But in doubt, gold will melt
Burning black as death, like satan's feet
Rotten Mac
Now you're gone
You had no choice
The world used you as it's pawn
I thought that you would never leave
Instead this death went and took you away from me
So my world is frozen now
or maybe it's been burning down
The wound it hurts like nothing else
and I'll just have to save myself
So what's a human supposed to do
when life appears to shed its rules?
Cuz nothing real was ever used
No, nothing real is ever useful
Rot, death, turn a golden leaf
Holding hands, in advance
of a well known end for everyone
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10. |
Abra
03:02
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Abra
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Alvin Flames Chicago, Illinois
Alvin Flames makes music in his bedroom. Thank you for your ears.
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