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MIA
05:09
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The train came in flush
I huffed and puffed like a chimney sweep
I didn't look look back
You didn't weep
I didn't see you for so many weeks
I ran outta luck
Slinging my stuff on the battlefield
I gave it a crack
But a counterattack
Rendered me utterly useless
I should've waved
I should've waited just that little longer
I should've written about you
I should've been smitten
I should've come to fruition
Inside your heart, there's a hearth
Where I can always go to sleep
And you and I know
That when I next go
I may not be returning
So I say goodbye and hello
And look down below
You should be expecting a delivery
Can't say when or where or how it might deploy
But it's deploying in your vicinity
I pray it's correct
And I hope you're content with its contents
You may return to sender
If I may bend and
Lavish the land that you walk upon
But I still didn't wave
I still didn't wait just that little bit longer
I didn't write about you
I wasn't right about you
I never completed my mission
Inside your heart, there's a hearth
Where I can always go to sleep
And you and I know
That when I next go
I may not be returning
I've come to the conclusion
There is no illusion
There's only what is in front of me
And if science can't prove it
Then I will remove it
With utmost and ultimate scrutiny
"Do you believe in the soul
When the body is gone?"
You wondered softly in the dark
First I spat out my drink
Then I gave it a think
And told you that I hope to god
You're right
You're right and you've always been right
I should've waved
I should've at least waved goodbye
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Deathmatch
04:01
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A plane with a hundred people
Crack and toss like glowsticks
Into the stones below
Dogs fight over dogtags
Garotting gullets in the villages
I've never seen it before
And right there
I make a folly and fool of myself
Right there
Burning rubber round my head
Right there
That's what an idiot looks like
Right there
Only slowly living themself to death
But oh no no no
A dragon this way comes
But oh no no no
I couldn't leave the stuff alone
Oh no no no
I can stop anytime I like
I can stop anytime I like
I can stop anytime I like
Oh no no no
The last thing I'd like to find out
I just did the whole thing
On my own
I'm finally in the marketplace
To tell tall my tales
But you're all gone
But right there
I sort of buck and bully myself
Right there
I throw ammunition in the air
And I swear
If I tell you to run, you run
No one's getting out alive
Can't we at least have some fun?
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I Got Bit
05:58
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Had to sneak past the guard
Drive into the past
Clamber up the mast
To get where I'm
Shaking in my boots
With a bowl full of gold for you
I gotta tell you the truth
Baby, I got bit back there
We don't have much time
Till I turn into a porcupine
Mushrooms will grow out my feet
And I'll be shovelling sleet
All my life
So ride, baby, ride
I think the tigress is winning
The lioness is losing
But the lady panther prevails
If it looks like I'm killing time, stalling
Gnawing my tail
It might be that that's exactly what this story entails
A cowering structure on a beach
Made up of making sense
To the towering idea that it's all in our heads
And it's all out of reach
I gotta teach you
I got bit baby
There's no avoiding what a thing like that can do
You gotta be honest
I don't look too good
I'm on my way down now baby
To a place with no food
And a hunger that'll make you eat shoes
So dine, baby, dine
If you're running away from money
It means you believe in money
If you run away from love that's fair
But just know
That love will make you
Dye all of your hair white
And race the champion of love
To the inside of their lair
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