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Heat Lightning
00:52
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These summer nights are nothing
But heat lightning and violence, violence, violence
A switchblade knows the tear of clothes
Your bloody nose is dripping
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2. |
Swallowing Teeth
04:32
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Everybody says that you know the appeal
But everybody knows that this isn’t real
It’s the end of all things, the end of everything
Sidewalks grinning with broken teeth
And all the lights go out I can’t see anything
It’s the end of all things and it’s ending pleasantly
We’ll go out like we came in: in the light of the TV
Oh god, I wish this was over
Oh god, I wish this was over and over
When the twister comes I won’t run for cover
I’ll just change the channel to something better
I’m starting to get stressed again
Feel like my teeth are falling out my head
And in my dreams my teeth crumble like mints
I wake up choking thinking I’m swallowing them
I’m starting to get stressed again
When is this gonna be over
I think I’m done
When is this gonna be over I know I’m done, son
Posters of missing children missing pets
Posters of missing children and missing pets
There’s only a reward for one of them
You’re only getting money for finding one of them
We all go out like we came in: screaming
Oh god I wish this was over
I said I wish this was over
I don’t have the words to describe what I’m thinking
This song is quicksand and I’m sinking
If this song is quicksand then I’m sinking
And the darkness is spilling in
And the darkness is spilling in
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I saw a hundred dead birds on Main Street
Wasting away in the summer sun
And I saw a man with no jaw
Bashing his head against the sidewalk
Painting the concrete like Pollack with his blood
I was told there would come a day
When the whole damn thing would be washed away
I saw a stray cat eating broken glass
In an alleyway at noon
And I saw heaven in the eyes of a rat
On the steps of a church, claiming truth
Oh. there will come a day
Yeah, there will come a day
There will come a day
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4. |
The Loser King
03:49
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Where do I go from here?
It’s not getting any easier
But what if that plane went down?
Would I seem even crazier?
Like some drunk prophet of death
In the corner of the airport trying to catch his breath
Don’t listen to a word he says
That plane’s not going down
I’ll never leave town
Just gonna hang around outside the sky lounge
I’m a soothsayer, good time slayer
With half-hearted whispered prayers
Whispered in a bathroom stall
And when the pills kick in
Run. Don’t fall.
That warm syrup feeling
Won’t last long
I’m the loser king, baby
There’s nothing you can do to save me
I’m the loser king
I’m not good at anything
I’m the loser king, baby
And I think that only you can save me
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Last Gasp, Long Exhale
03:05
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It was the after the end
But before the very end
When the last gasp became a long exhale
If it bleeds it leads
If it bleeds it leads
Right into that nice forever sleep
So put your hands together
Put your hands together for
The sky splitting open
And the stars getting all cut up
Where were you this morning?
What’s your alibi, baby?
Where were you this morning?
We missed you.
If it bleeds it leads
If it bleeds it leads
Right into that quiet forever sleep
So put your hands together
Put your hands together for
The sky splitting open
And the stars getting all cut up
She said of all the things she’s known
The one she’s known the most
Is that loneliness stays in your bones
Right there in the middle of your marrow
Like in the tomb of a pharaoh
Singing the song of a sparrow
It’s the sickest sick.
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6. |
Peach Nectar
03:45
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With peach nectar dribbling down her chin
She talks a lot about original sin
And how her dad thinks the Holy Ghost is haunting him
And all of Babylon babbles on
She drinks communion from a Dixie cup
Spills on scripture then she laps it up
She speaks in tongues when she fucks
And all of Babylon babbles on
She said, “Holy, holy is the lamb—
Who turned his holy hooves into holy hands
And walked the fallen earth a holy man.”
Then she jumped in the lake and swam.
And when she reached the other side of the shore
She showed me on her leg where the flesh was torn
Started crying and wish that she’d never been born
In a world with such a silent and distant Lord.
And all of Babylon babbles on
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7. |
Sleepwalking Women
01:22
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Sleepwalking through your whole life
Like a streetwalking woman of the night
Or a pill-popping junkie housewife
Who’s pretending to die
Because she got to high
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8. |
Palm Trees on Fire
02:49
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The first time he saw palm trees
He thought they were fake
The next time the whole damn place was in flames
While the stray dogs howled,
He wandered around by himself and yelled,
“I think I’m going to kill myself.”
And it echoed around before it faded away
And he thought that’ll be him someday
An echo that’s around before it fades away
The flames took the neighborhood
Tongues licked the sky
And the sirens sounded more like a sign
All the stray dogs are dead
While a song kicks around in his head that says,
“This is the end, but it’s all feeling more like an epilogue
Isn’t it?”
And it echoes around
Before it fades away
And he thought that’ll be him someday
An echo that’s around before it fades away
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Dead Channel
03:19
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If I don’t make it out of here alive
Throw me in a trashcan fire
Toss my ashes where you desire
Dump my funeral pyre
Hymns from the church choir
And there’s no mystery to me
We crawled ourselves out of the sea
Invented violence then TV
And the water creeps
Because the sea is where we’re meant to be
And I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
We lost the love, we lost the glow
And there’s something in the TV snow
Oh I don’t know, I don’t know
There’s something in the TV snow
And if we don’t see the morning sun
We’ll be mourning everyone
If it’s not the knife it will be the gun
The streets will run red with blood
Muzzle flash before the flood
And I keep seeing dead pets in my dreams
They gnash and bear their teeth at me
No clue what that’s supposed to mean
It might not mean anything
But that’s not really how it seems
And I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
We lost the love, we lost the glow
There’s a face in the TV snow
And it knows, it knows
There’s a face in the TV snow
And it knows.
The broken glass makes the street look like a starry sky
The cold makes us all want to stay inside
And the gunshots heat up the night
There’s a face in the TV snow
Wondering when you’ll get home
Those gunshots heat up the night
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10. |
The Doom of a Hotel Room
07:45
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Every time you come through
I see them staring at you
Like some Jesus statue
And it just keeps getting worse
It’s feeling like we’re cursed
To leave this place in a hearse
It’s the doom of a hotel room
Gray cloud and rainy gloom
The hotel room is a tomb
The broken glass around the car
Kind of looks like stars
And the sound of the alarm
There’s something in the atmosphere
That makes it hard to breathe here
The stink of smoke and stale beer
It’s the doom of a hotel room
Gray clouds and rainy gloom
This hotel room is a tomb
And the fires end at dawn
No more bones getting stepped on
The people had their fun
Now you’re the only one
About to be all gone
You’re not even a proper noun
Just a rusted crown
Whose castle crumbled down
Onto an unsuspecting crowd
With a crash that seemed so loud
And you wish your blood was wise
And that you had Jesus eyes
But your Judas in disguise
Kissing between her thighs
And you both believe your own lies
So let’s go down to the sea
With new shoes on our feet
It’s where the boys are fighting
In the flash of heat lightning
And the sound of fists so frightening
There’s violence every eve
It’s hanging from a tree
And the crack of thunder speaks
The voice of demons in the heat
We better leave
So let’s go down to the sea
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11. |
Endings
01:56
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What goes on in your head
All those times you wish I said
“Where we’re going there’s no end.
There’s no end where we’re going.”
There’s a door and there’s a key
Then there’s you and there’s me
And all the people in the street
Waiting for an ending
Where we’re going there’s no ending
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