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Allegory! Allegory!
02:58
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Los Angeles eyes, gather
your alibis and
ready yourself for the drive.
Pronounce your bones,
and into the cab.
The district’s a vampire for
your photograph.
The drug’s on its way,
the ransom is there,
it’s marching in playbills down
the thoroughfare.
They’re thinning your blood
and breaking your back.
So tell what it’s like when you write
high demand.
This is a new kind of vaudeville.
Perform, now elevate your heel.
Goddamn!
The gallows, the theatre house!
They’re alive!
Vacant eyes,
creased in a pin-up:
the caveat, yeah but no one
is listening.
You’ve a voice to
euphemize the war, but that’s
not what we’re paying for.
And you may have the radio,
but you won’t move mountains
with the frequencies, will you?
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Sunshine
02:38
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I just want some of that sun
I just want some of that sun
I just want some of that sunshine.
One step into the lion’s den,
nerves are steady, slowly settling.
Oh, the teeth and persistent smiles.
The walls are marked like a temper thinned,
but still no sign of where the light lets in.
All this for my peace of mind.
Surrendered to a filament arrest,
I devise the newest alias.
I’m not feeling myself.
And they’ll say there’s too much
talk of the weather,
but I can do without the guild of voices.
I can do without the guild, the guilt.
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Everywhere I’m seeing fence posts,
off-white new enamel to
keep a wayward tongue from flickering
on its side and out of turn.
And every word’s a fence post, that's right.
We’re enamored of the gospel
that is pop commodity.
I guess I’m just filibustering.
So keep it close, keep it close, oh, oh.
After all, you’ve got the youth up all night,
reading into the details of your
constant narrative, and
singing back, sweet and surrogate.
And all the verve’s a fence post, that’s right.
We’re enamored of the gospel
that is autobiography.
Well you haven’t lost your luster yet.
Now that you’re a jet,
you’ve got all your steps to dance,
to dance to death.
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Orchids
03:15
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Know, dear, I’m nothing without you.
To wake up beside you,
it keeps me in one piece.
Drove you to the mouth of the moon
where I lay beside you
on the hood of discovery.
Found you with orchids about you,
they followed a seam
to sing to a lark with me.
And we spilled into the sound.
And love, the sea,
she broke the seam of your gown.
We spilled into the sound
and we shed unease,
and how we waded out
and we were drowned!
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The Lives of Famous Men
Hailing from Alaska and based primarily in Los Angeles, The Lives of Famous Men draw on wide ranging musical traditions to create a sound all their own. This unique brand of art-pop makes for a danceable live performance that’s landed them on stages from MTV’s Campus Invasion Tour to Jimmy Kimmel Live! Their new album Greener Pasture Blues is out now. ... more
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