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Escape from Falls Church
03:42
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All of this time, this time alone
and I couldn’t stand to bother you.
Allison, we’ve got to get out of this place.
Allison, we’ve got to make a break for it.
August Something, 2011:
Another dispatch from the Oakwood apartment complex.
What is it with you and balconies?
Routine is holy.
It’s hardly morning and the air is sticky with canicular heat.
The kids are screaming from the playground.
Did she not sleep well either?
Routine is holy.
Hard to tell, and I’m terrified to ask.
Solitary comfort is still a kind of comfort.
Especially when the alternative is—what?
Routine is holy.
Why are we going this way?
Did you find an escape?
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Othercoast
03:39
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Come and gamble on the other coast,
bring your one-and-only one.
Yeah, I know the merits of New York,
spare them for a little sun.
Come on you romantic,
point yourself west.
Let’s start an experiment
with happiness.
Oh, the spells that amber spirits cast,
trapping us in past euphoria.
Yeah, I know we can never go back,
but you can come to California.
Don’t be too intelligent
for your own good.
Some time in Los Angeles
could lift your mood.
Come on you romantic,
point yourself west.
We’re starting an experiment
with happiness.
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White Swan
02:47
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You and I, we’re so alike when we retreat.
Darling, with your headphones on, you look just like me.
And when we’re cohabiting but we live apart,
does it mean you’re nurturing a lonely heart?
And is there anything I can do
to send a shiver back through you?
Show me your grief,
I’m incomplete.
You and I, we’ve codified an agreement.
Darling, we’re the quiet types, oh but so vehement.
And we’re communicating with a taxi card.
Does it mean we lost each other at the start?
And is there anyone I can be
to bring you shivering back to me?
Did you bring me all this way to go back there?
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Geography
03:40
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You were an island,
I was a highway anchored to a continent.
Charting degrees and Florida Keys
to find a place where the two met.
So there we were:
One Hundred and Third in three hundred and one square feet,
learning that the distance between i and h
wasn’t in their geography.
Hey, let’s bring ‘em closer.
You were an island,
I was a highway anchored to a continent.
Picturing you inspecting my work
on the floor of our tenement.
So there we were:
in different worlds, but sharing the same laundry key.
Man that got us laughing, and it’s there we found
you weren’t that far from me.
Hey, we’re getting closer.
Come out, come out now.
Oh wouldn’t you rather be marooned with me?
Come out, come out now.
Oh this off-ramp is begging for company.
Come out, come out now.
Oh wouldn’t you weather your monsoons with me?
Come out, come out now.
See me halfway and meet me on the street.
You were an island,
I was a highway anchored to a continent.
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Feeding the Dark Wolf
03:37
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It’s not the drugs.
It’s not the lack of exercise,
‘cause all my polypeptides are doing fine.
No, it’s something else,
a trick that I play on myself.
‘cause I feel like I’m in hell,
but it’s quite nice.
I’m feeding the dark wolf.
It’s not the drugs.
It’s not the sleep that I deprive.
In all the tests I self-assign
my colors fly.
But I’m floundering.
I’ve got no roses for my frames.
Above, the crows are circling
the brightest sky.
I’m feeding the dark wolf.
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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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