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Fifteen miles north of the city
Thirty-thousand populous town
Choked up kids with hands on their ankles
Heads ascending heels
One house leveled onto the corner
Windows bleeding phonograph sound
Sometimes being twenty is useless
That's just how it feels
So mark up your territory, mark up your home
'Cause being with you is just like being alone
When I was much less of a bastard
I was still impeccably young
One day I should learn how to handle
Basic human life
When I was much less of a shithead
I still had the truth on my tongue
Now I stare at girls in the venue
I know that's not right
So mark up your territory, mark up your home
'Cause being with you is just like being alone
I put the suffix in sentimental
A sordid sentient being
Sick and sad and sort of psychotic
A stupid little thing
I put the letter into your locker
And signed it with a word
That I wasn't able to define
That I hadn't yet heard
You don't have to make me love you
Chances are I already do
You don't have to make me love you
Chances are I'm slightly confused
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Debora In Commute
03:14
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Debora in commute
In her brand new business suit
Thought she was lookin' pretty cute
But I had nothin' else to do
Just a Wednesday on the train
In the cold Chicago rain
I can tell she's feelin' pain
From the way she spells her name
She used to love and I can tell it
From the way her morning sweat drips
Like a thousand heavy pellets
Moving down across her wet lips
And Debora in commute
Ain't got nothin' else to do
Drinks her coffee, reads the news
And then prepares herself for you
Debora in commute
Puts on her rings and ties her shoes
She's lookin' fresh and lookin' new
But I had nothin' else to do
The train just seems so boring
On a grey Chicago morning
And the rain just keeps on pouring
And the homeless keep on snoring
She used to love and so did I
Okay, I'm just a lovin' guy
'Cause when I look into your eyes
You're image never leaves my mind
And Debora in commute
Ain't got nothin' else to do
She's so pure and absolute
She used to love like I loved you
Love can prick your veins
Until you don't know what it means
And it can stab you in the darkness
Right next to where your heart is
Getting over it's the hardest
But I'll tell you when that part comes
And love can prick your veins
Until the needle prints her name
Debora in commute
Listens to 1980s tunes
They remind her of her youth
And all the good times she went through
The headphones blaring loud
Under the Chicago clouds
She isn't bothered by the crowd
Of of all the other people now
I would put her on guest list
If I knew what her crest was
But you'd still be the first 'cause
I don't want you to get jealous
But Debora in commute
Ain't got nothin' else to do
And I ain't got nothin' to prove
Except myself and that's for you
Love can prick your veins
Until you don't know what it means
And it can stab you in the darkness
Right next to where your heart is
Getting over it's the hardest
But I'll tell you when that part comes
And love can prick your veins
Until the needle prints her name
Yeah, love can prick your veins
Debora in commute ain't got nothin' else to do
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Crass Positions
04:55
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You're in every picture together
I am every picture of a bad decision
You are trying to assume a crass position
I have been untouched since I was in high school
You keep on insisting that you'll be the exception
I got tense and weird when you asked for that present
Because I didn't know if you actually meant it
I know that sometimes I can seem like a robot
But you're the one who asked for mechanical pleasure
Something isn't right and it's probably me
My head feels so infected like a rotten disease
And I'm not in the market for a casual nurse
I'm always so impatient and I'm shaking my knees
I cancel plans and you get mad
You tell me you're the best I've had
But you don't know what's best for me
But neither do I baby
And I don't mean to call you that
'Cause I don't want to hear it back
I tell you I'm the worst you've known
But you won't leave me alone
I'm an absolute contradiction
You're a mighty problem that is lacking a solvent
I am someone that is trying to avoid your involvement
You can kiss me there but I can't say that I'll like it
Even though it stayed unkissed while I went to college
I said I would never be with someone who's blacked out
You said that you'd sober up for me if you had to
Wouldn't be the first time I've heard that resolution
Then caught a person doing drugs inside of the bathroom
I don't have trusting issues, just an issue with trust
'Cause when I like someone I wanna hurl up my guts
And every time there's someone who is bound to just panic
At least it's good to know that it was not me for once
I cancel plans and you get mad
You tell me you're the best I've had
But you don't know what's best for me
But neither do I baby
And I don't mean to call you that
'Cause I don't want to hear it back
I tell you I'm the worst you've known
But you won't leave me alone
The mouth you've chosen to kiss my lips with stings like pieces of broken glass
The words you've chosen to reel me in with only make me recoil back
One day I'll stop speaking in metaphors and codes but don't wait up
You're like a simile assimilating to each bud on my tongue
I cancel plans and you get mad
You tell me you're the best I've had
But you don't know what's best for me
But neither do I baby
And I don't mean to call you that
'Cause I don't want to hear it back
I tell you I'm the worst you've known
But you won't leave me alone
And I don't mean to call you that
'Cause I don't want to hear it back
I tell you I'm the worst you've known
But you won't leave me alone
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Holiday In Pete's Camaro
03:10
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Living with the liars makes a lonely man a thief
You got no education and you don't know how to eat
You feel a sickly pricking at the bottom of your skin
Amazing what a man can do with half a quart of gin
A drunkard and a dullard went off courting through the town
They stumbled and they crumbled and they kept on falling down
It's kind of like the friend you had when you were growing up
Who loves you till you're older and by then he's had enough
A good idea for a Christmas present
You're much too young to have a Bluetooth headset
A good idea for a sense of business
You're much too young to have a living witness
You knick you knack you pallywag you knocking on the door
You start to see some people that you haven't seen before
A murder in the backyard but you haven't got a clue
A little bloody placard on the stone above your tomb
A picture of a holiday that doesn't quite exist
You've got a happy ending at the tip top of your list
But when the man ain't coming how you gonna tell your kids?
They're screaming but they don't know why or what resentment is
A good idea for a Christmas present
You're much too young to have a Bluetooth headset
A good idea for a sense of business
You're much too young to have a living witness
Heard about the wishes that you left out on the lawn
You focus for a second then immediately it's gone
It's hard to concentrate on things that will not benefit
The things that you will do inside the life that you will live
It's burning and it's burning and it's fucking burning down
You're pushing and you're pissing but you cannot put it out
But that's the way it goes when you've got diamonds up your sleeve
You're bound to get infected by the blood that shines between
A good idea for a Christmas present
You're much too young to have a Bluetooth headset
A good idea for a sense of business
You're much too young to have a living witness
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