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Oh Glorious Nothing
02:48
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All I wanted was to feel anything
A couple years I guess is plenty more than most
And I don’t want this to be negative
But we’re all leaving sometime let’s not try to boast
Moon overhead and thumbs in my pockets
Toss my remains before they grow cold
Moon overhead and miles that I’m logging
Take me away to someplace that I’ve never known
All I wanted was to feel anything
A point I made while screaming into the unknown
And my fears are just embarrassing
I don’t want to end up in the nothingness alone
Oh glorious nothing
What’s the meaning of something when we are no more
Oh Glorious nothing
If that’s the worst thing that can happen, let it happen
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Anything At All
03:00
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I was sitting in the back seat biting my lip again
You are my only friend
You are my longingness
I said it loud for the first time
It was the last time I told you we'd stall
Words are just nothingness
We are an allied stress
Now the hands on the clock call for a twisted and permanent fall
Since you can't find the words to say
Say the first thing that comes your way
But don't be mad when you lost what you had with the syllables you spoke that day
It was a feeling, a true feeling, a feeling that we'd never forger
It was an emptiness
A great abyss
I can see your eyes from miles away but the temperatures starting to fall
An unforgiving stare all eyes lay unaware
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One Horse
03:00
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I got so much to do
Still got so much to say
Past time accumulates
Another breath another day
Blinding persistence
And notable distance
Is a constant retort
Yea that’s the course when you put your chips on only one horse
When I start to feel your skin
I want to feel it longer
When I look into your eyes I want it to be stronger, and longer of course
Anxiety sleeping, nighttime weeping
All the usual sets
That’s what you get when your dreams become your regrets
I’ve been standing with a fever taking steps to try and leave here
Nothing’s been less-clearer
I’m just keeping it down
I don’t wanna be here I don’t be alone
Love ain’t more than these bodies
Much less voices on the phone
Holding back the thought we may never dance in the great unknown
How can we really tell that our souls are even our own?
We are just bodies breaking down and rotting
We are timed while plotting
I’m just sticking around
I’m not sticking around
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In A Prairie State
02:33
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Do you wanna stay here?
In the flat and unforgiving cold
No promise, just nothing, no meaning, it’s daunting
You’ve been reeling in these feeling unknown
But you can’t just stray from the dream you made
You’ve rounded everybody up in the fray
Your future’s hanging on the edge of opulence and on the edge of decay
It’s a hard thing to endure
It’s hard living when
It’s hard living unsure
It’s hard living when
A hard thing to endure
It’s hard living when
It’s hard living unsure
Unsure if you’ll keep this thing
Unsure of what this thing is
Not sure of who you’ll be when the dream done finally gives in
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Evermore
02:43
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Bruise confusion, constant loosing
Evermore, It’s nonstop
Social schmoozing, justified abusing
Just like before it’s nonstop
Ya gotta keep the train on the tracks
Life’s slippin’ and ya can not relax
I wanna be cool like you
Like you…….
Patience grating, fight or flight weaning
Unlike before it’s nonstop
They say you’re smarter with aging
But honestly you feel the same way
Forever wandering the planets for life’s tiny little mistakes
Stable aching, overexplaining
Forevermore it’s non-stop
I gotta keep the train on the tracks
Life’s slippin’ and I can not relax
I don’t wanna be cool like you
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6. |
His & Hearse
02:43
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It’s so spontaneous and a bit extraneous
For the hours lost at work there’s unlimited more missing on earth
Generations gather inside a crumbling tomb
Grandma’s dying in the other room there ain’t no time for gloom and doom
All invoices and all these secrets don’t disappear when you’re not around
It took a bed of death, a house full of regret
To let the truth out of the tomb
The bank foreclosed a bit too soon
There ain’t no time for cryin’ when uncle’s clothes are drying
Are ya gonna tear it down or let the shame become the town
Discarded breathing tubes, rejected piles of food
Grandma’s dying in the other room there ain’t no time for gloom and doom
And on and on it goes….
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252 Brighton Ave
02:26
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It all started for me in 2014
I lost my mind and left the scene for the city of the bean
I cut my tooth on Brighton Ave.
Living fast and living loose until I ran out of juice
And all it’s been is a yearning for the Northeastern wind
That I never called home
Didn’t realize I fell outta love
Crammed 2 XR of the 30 ones
Adderall and alcohol in place of meals and healthy talks
But I was on top of everything
A chemically inflated brain
An ecstasy of proficiency and sunken eyes from lack of sleep
Then I saw your face in a garden space behind the place where I worked
You were tired too of the city like zoo but little did we know that we left to soon
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Keep Dreamin'
02:03
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Breathe some more
You’re not ok
Can’t try again another day
When panic starts pursuing you
You sprint until your soles run through
So low and desperate
Things change and that’s just that
Nothing more that you can do until they come and bury you
Eat, Sleep & Destroy
Rebuild when you feel like it
Accept that you have Limited Joy
That’ll Leave
As the weeks become years
Every day you’re one day further from your
Dream again sure that’s ok
Take some time to rearrange the thoughts and hopes inside your brain
Get them all cleaned up good and put your goals so they’re understood
Times a mess, it’s coming up fast
Your marketability can’t really last
As your bones and skin start to run thin and the panic sets in as your lights go dim
Try again, sure
That’s ok
I hope you breathe another day
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9. |
Risk/Reward
02:43
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So, you say you wanna live together because forever isn’t ever enough
Doesn’t matter if the windows shatter or the roof really isn’t that tough
You’ve heard there is no life without love
Because forever isn’t ever enough
Fevered panic from the alcohol leads to panicked calls from a bathroom stall
All those times where we’ve been alone where the walls are familiar and don’t feel like
And the sinking sensation of further destinations is a finite reason to reach for libations
You claim there’s no life without love
It’s a wide road long time home
Unknown on the horizon
And all the things that matter the most are the ones at the end of the road home
Because forever isn’t ever enough
So, you say it doesn’t matter if does and if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t
Time away can’t be measured by the seconds, by the minutes, by the hours, by the dozen
Shaking hands with the keys in the lock because one minute is way too much
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The rent came in
The gas came in
The electric came in
Again and again
It’ll always keep comin’ as the world it keeps warming
It’s an infinite boring
It’s irrelevant
Everything just gets postponed
Pushed by further to a time that we may never know
All I want is to feel something
A little more than nothing
It’s the useless struggle of a man so defiant that he couldn’t derive that he’s a grown infant
And all of the lessons I didn’t learn from listening
My god they’re persisting
It’s irrelevant
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11. |
Less Talk, Less Rock
03:13
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Well, the past 2 years all I’ve said to you is the bottle is empty and the rents too few
The promise of mores been on the way but it keeps getting blocked by someone else you say
30 years down what’s that a century?
I’ve been around the world without intent, you see
And the next opportunities miles away and our pockets run dry from a failed sensei
Talking less is needed it’s true
But talking seems to be all you do
You’ve made up your life so tall
The ground’s gonna hurt on the downfall
I can’t say it’s me
It’s you
Well, elaborate lies tend to ostracize the people in your life who see truth in your eyes
And lately in your eyes all I’ve seen are the remnants of boredom and ecstasy
A pill, a pop, a public jaunt
Where are we going? This old haunt?
It’s been the same damn party for 30 years
Dilate my eyes and pass another beer
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Devon Kay & the Solutions Chicago, Illinois
Devon Kay & the Solutions are a 7 piece rock band that are STILL AROUND.
Grow up and listen to them.
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