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A mirror

by Red Denim Jacket

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Sitting on graves I look up and mourn the stars I'm pretty sure they do the same I'm looking for the one named Andronicus I blow a kiss to the ones that loved us On park benches for the dead I stare at the wilting flowers and wonder who gets paid to water them I no longer feel dead inside I never could understand the feeling Park benches for the dead Sitting on graves I see mausoleums I'm curious if they know how lucky they are to have four walls to themselves I know many who would kill for the privilege
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Maybe a bird carrying a message from some far-away place Maybe a picture of some caged up smiles could do the trick Would you like to dance over the internet? With my hand outstretched, I watch you do the same! Did you know there's words below you? Did you know there's words hanging above you? Maybe a book, but there's too many characters Maybe my work could distract me. But Would you like to dance over the internet? With my hand outstretched, I watch you do the same! Would you like to dance over the internet? Would you like to dance with everyone at once?
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A mirror 01:48
You've been writing poetry the same way you'd write a speech You know what they want to hear so you say it a heartbeat You tell your life story like it's an apology Dominating narrative of a recurring bad dream The one place you tell the truth is on a dollar bill Pay it forward 'till it's gone A song is like a mirror that's why I don't write songs Like a winking narrator, I don't want to play god A model with his shirt off told me I should just find a job Where I can just be myself and feel as dumb as a rock The one place I tell the truth is on a dollar bill Pay it forward 'till it's gone I know what god looks like he's in the videos Of the very angry mob
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Mouse on the tracks, the trains are coming fast. Go easy on the guy who points and laughs.
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Even at Earth's last retirement party We couldn't help from fighting Because the woman of honor lives by the library card and Molly's dressed as Marx The news dissemination said the world is a place where God gets his ducks in a row and we sit around until someone says goose It's party city so here's a drink to this Absolut nightmare We live like hermits in our shells Some people don't have shells! So wait 'till we get home to say something stupid Wise behind your ears just like that party trick that you use on kids but I'm not a kid (in a sense) I've been finding wise in every direction North, East, South, Birds fly west To get away from this shit The store bought costumes The dance hits of our youth The news dissemination said "The world is a place where eggs hatch up on high and we're too far from mama bird to hear her cry" It's party city so here's a drink to this Absolut nightmare We live like hermits in our shells Some people don't have shells! It's party city so here's a drink to this Absolut nightmare We live like hermits in our shells Some people don't have shells! Or the chance to hatch or wait 'till we get home to say something stupid.
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The play 02:48
I was cast in the play as a soldier Everyone groaned because I'm the type of actor to sit upside down on the couch and let it all go to my head And what came to me as I watched the TV screen was the grand concept of military strategy And it felt right to be so expendable Hanging upside down When I stood up I was dizzy but honorable My back was straighter than it had ever been But I could no longer face the wall And everyone stared like I was sick After my performance, they handed me a medal That I decided felt wrong to wear I placed it in a suitcase and have carried it with me ever since
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Everyone knows the light of a TV screen It's showing us lies, reflecting our lives long after its been turned off Everyone knows the light of a disco ball I'm pretty sure it knows all. Watching the dark corners No one knows the light of a rising sun Because after it sets we tend to forget it's coming back I've heard it said that fire dances The dances of our youth I've learned all the moves With murky water, you play the glasses and it sounds so good. The dance hits of our youth Everyone knows the glow embers Showing that it's both trying and dying. I've heard it said that fire dances The dances of our youth I've learned all the moves With murky water, you play the glasses and it sounds so good. The dance hits of our youth
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Plum 02:40
Holding you is like holding a plum in my palm You showed me what red was A color can be a shining light or a deep deep scar Saw you cross the hallway in a mirror The one I wrote you about I fill pages with myself to know myself is to know you You turn my hands into stone upturned, fingers open Every bruise and blemish the mark of your creation Upturned, fingers open Saw one of us in a river The one you wrote me about The waste and the current made it hard to tell Red river Plum, stone combined
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Like those two masks you wear in your two states Pennsylvania and Jersey are flooded According to you, we're all gonna drown So why not bring them down with us? You're a century-old cog that kept turning out of self-hate You drunk sent me your pigeon And it arrived late But it was out of love! At least it felt that way So I tied around a dollar bill and sent it on its way Thank god we can't fly I like you far away You are the ocean of my eye and swim in them every day I feel like I could die knowing what you're really like Writing from my island I use an old fashioned way A message a soda can I threw it to the waves It floated past the buildings and the parking garage housing We're on two sides of this thing with a puddle in our way Thank god we can't fly I like you far away You are the ocean of my eye and swim in them every day I feel like I could die knowing what you're really like
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On April 9th 1998 I was murdered Death sentence, silver necklace, the gold standard I'm grieving myself and the time before I was alive and the time I stood on trial and all I got was this funny way I walk Coming down the aisle, I'm just the laughing stock. Something to mock. Because no one told me the courtroom's just a big surprise party 22-years half-dead Hey, that's not so bad I'd take the plead deal! I'd take what I can get! I stood on trial and all I got was everything I want But on the bible, I told lies I rolled my eyes On april 9th 1998 I was born I was born to run. Just like the sun I'm gonna burn out Designed obsolescence. Death sentence, silver necklace, the gold standard.

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released January 1, 2021

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