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twisted teen
02:55
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the only thing original about you is sin
now it’s time to be bully bully bully bully pushing them around
you know we like to lift em up by the feet and shake
shake the quarters out
it’s time to normalize fighting fighting violence and accept yourself
now it’s time to be bully bully bully before they grind ya down
when we were younger they used to push us around
can you imagine that
and then you get older you push yourself around and you don’t hit back
….i don’t need a reason to be here
i got twisted dream
and that’s why they call us the twisted
twisted twisted teen
i been happy as a pitbull with someone’s leg in it’s mouth
and the fuck did take me so long to come back south
and i don’t need a message to say this
because it’s already know
but i missed you boys so much
and that’s how it’s shown
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Marionette
02:54
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hey pretty momma are you going to stay?
you got in your car but didn’t drive away
so get out of your car or you can drive away
the devil chained me up across from you
he’s sitting in the middle on a plastic stool
he gets dark power from everything that we do
way down yonder in the monarchy
you sing for the king you sing for the queen
and they cut your head off if you get out of key
i’m always amazed by how quick you forget
but you always keep score and i’m always in debt
that old ice water goes over my head
you’ve been pulling my strings like marionette
and that’s why i could never be your wife
I saw you eating salad with a carving knife
for you wrongdoing is doing it right
if you were a wasp and i was a bee
i used to spend all my time making honey for the queen
but you old praying mantis bit the head off me
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my word is my word and my word is what i say
but there's something i haven't told ya that i might have to tell you today
your face is looking younger but your hair is turning gray
you can act like i'm crazy, you can call me insane
i've got the key and you have got the gate
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when the wire get cut
03:03
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it's actionable right
but the feeling is not right
and the energy's awful
and the vibes are atrocious
and the wire get cut now
and the fire is burned out
and the liar is in doubt
and that's what we're all about
you cannot hesitate, and neither can you wait for the wicked men to die
and every now and then i think about what tommy said
that we're chained to the world, and we all gotta pull
like a stumbling soldier, and you keep getting older
but youth is back in style now, so get with the program
i see you right now
thinking that you're sneakin round
but you sneak like a bull with
it's ass in a china shop
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tic tac toe
03:11
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met a knight with an onion for a head
he said it’s been a little while since I woke up dead
i was living in fear now i’m living in dread
and that’s my pain
and then i met a girl had a chip on her shoulder
i said last time i saw ya were a little bit older
and that’s something that i wish i never had told her
and that’s my pain
ryomo dymo rymo dee
i’m living down the road in a hollow tree
i only payed a million dollars for a hollow tree
and that’s my pain
tic tac toe put em all in a row
i might be your X but I can give you an O
then i might just give you bout three in a row
tic tac toe put em all in a row
give the bottle to your baby and she won’t let it go
and that’s how they do it down in mexico
i’m a psych ward daddy and i’m talking to god
when i take a little lick off of aaron’s rod
but it seems my little baby likes calling the cops
and that’s my pain
i tell a lot of jokes but this isn’t
western psychology is colonialism
the only mental illness is the fucking system and that’s my pain
so hey little wizard get away from my door
why doncha cast a spell over your credit score
cuz that’s the kind of spell we could use some more
and that’s my pain
tic tac toe put em all in a row
i might be your X but I can give you an O
then i might just give you bout three in a row
tic tac toe put em all in a row
give the bottle to your baby and she won’t let it go
and that’s how they do it down in mexico
a little bit of brown and a little bit of green i smoke another spliff with the twisted teens
then they get high and tell me their dreams of pain
so listen now so i don’t waste my breath
when ya think it’s alright is when shit goes left
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so you’re running at the problem
as fast as you can
and everything you try to grasp recedes right from your hand
if you ever let it go, it might just go off spinning
but better then to win your loss
than rather lose by winning
pierce the veil of mystery and what do you get
another veil of mystery and deeper in debt
so we emerge at nighttime allergic to the day
if you’re not beside us then get out of the way
get out of the picture
get out of the dream
if you won’t kiss the moonlight then get away from me
so secret in the hidden
the pale, the obscure
the light is cooking all of us and darkness is the cure
come on valley spirit
open up your gate
open up your portal
where the holy waters wait
the valley spirit never dies
she never goes away
her usefulness inconstant
hiding from the day
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sister heat
03:13
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hike it up two
get a little wet at the public pool
hike it up mary follow my rule
now i'm gonna teach ya like it's sunday school
come around sister come around sister
i'm a little too determined and i cannot determine
come around mister if you can't meet the one then you can meet her sister
come around preacher if you don't know now they'll line up to teach
come around sister when i get into your habit we'll play a round of twister
once i had a playmate with whom i used to play
ever since she got religion my playmate went away
like an old road house down by the tracks
with your liquor in the front and your poker in the back
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rando
03:22
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mid city, city too tough
have a problem waking up next to a rando
don't call me NPC, not playing with the heat
undercover hidden from sight, they might come up and ask for a light
no context, nothing to taste, like a baby eating his paste
didn't see you enter the light, you been wrestling all the night
you been wrestling, the night, with a rando stereotype
with a rando type
you been wrestling all the night
with a rando...rando stereotype
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sea of love
02:06
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waiting for the whip
03:10
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symbol of the wind is waving in your hair
but i feel like we're talking at the bottom of a well
you keep lashing you keep striking out unfair
if i can't be your witness i'll be your judge and do it fair
hello i see the right medicine in demand
now i see you trembling waiting for the whip to appear in my hand
now you're out here waiting, waiting for the whip to come down on your shoulder
nothing more than what you deserve if i leave a mark to help you remember
the humble pigeon, was once a type of dove
till the moment the public, fell out of love, now he's kicked and shat upon for being what he always was
but he's out of his cage now, love
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cool former friend
02:54
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let's have a drink with a cool former friend
he was never one on which we depend
we were always better off off without his taste
tell the former friend get offa my case
tell the little friend to have some grace
take a little cigarette to his face
you just went down w the egg on your face
then you got eggs all over the place
excuse i don’t mean to be rude but would you mind telling me your damage dude
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