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Because I Am
05:30
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The calligraphy of the amputee
Is a sketch of you holding me
July’s four thighs engaging eyes
Vacancies of dynamite
Lured you in I’ve got you whole
So you can feel me half alone
The other half’s an old has-been
An anti-hero Errol Flynn
Pretty things
The serenity of passivity
A horror like evil’s banality
Pretty things
An awkward square is on the floor
To touch a nerve so honestly
Pretty things ain’t me
The serenity of passivity
A horror like evil’s banality
Moons cocoons and Claire de Lune
Unrequited telling tune
Lured you in there’s nothing to hold
No hand to reach no want to hold
The other boy is still in me
An amputee’s calligraphy
Pretty things
When passion and kisses
No more
And oh no more is all that’s left
To once again second guess
The other boy is really me
Pretty things
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I’m your twenty first century denim cult hyperbole
I’m hopelessly hopeless
Don’t ever try to love me
Ravage me over my sassy self
Rant and rave over…
When you’re famously fighting photos
And everyone wants your autograph
And the darling that you really want
Decides on Vic Damone instead
If you want to redefine yourself
Come on in
I’ll show you around
I’ll show you off
I’ll validate you
I’ll certify you
Oh terrible me
Rant and rave over my ideology
My sassy self
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Last Nights Tattoo
04:46
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When everything is closed
And your friends are with their mamas
The bluest cola down and the girl with cat eye glasses
Pink little sweaters and dear devil letters
And you think you know it all
Snow is coming down and down
Something like a little tear
From the boy named Vladimir
Feeling oh so lonesome
Knowing that she’ll never come
The radio is playing strings
What do you know it’s an adagio
Last night’s tattoo was a picture of you
Don’t go pushing me
Because I’m an angel in the snow
The bottles are empty
There’s no more river left to go
So drive me far away
Keeping Pathetique in tune
56 dollars away from you
He spelled your name wrong
He scribbled some shit
The blue light was lit
Forever damned in writ
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Luv Meaningless R
05:10
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All my friends have been taken by the good good earth
One by one they pass right through to the six-foot under blues milieu
Oh Natasha your face is oh so Russian
And you’re so unlucky you didn’t know how to swim
All my friends have been taken by the good good earth
One by one they pass right through revered in soil the blues milieu
Oh Natasha your body is oh so covered in jokes
They made you change your pretty name so you could be a damn star
Natasha wouldn’t
Natalie she would
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I’ll be your star
I’ll do anything in the backseat of your car
We’ll touch each other’s parts
With booze and then bury our broken hearts
One blue past a buzz
When nothing is dear
I’ll be your glamorous monster
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6. |
And Then
04:24
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She said it’s good
Good to want
That want is good
I want to want but she never said
What it took to find love
These eyes may never see the
Morning
Hold on so I can hear the calling
She said it’s good
Good to give
Giving is good
I want to give
She never said want never lasts
Need always needs
And then she said beauty is
So complicated
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7. |
Blue Times
06:10
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Blue times are here
Blues times are places
Blues times be gone
Blue times are faces
A valentine of navy hue
Time bomb blessings from
Me to you
I need songs for lovers
Nobody writes them anymore
Blue times have been
Blues times are coming
Blue times be done
No one be loving
Not me not you
We’re into something blue
There’s a party somewhere
Tonight
Are we going?
Why doesn’t anyone write songs
For lovers?
So let’s go to the party tonight
Are we going to the party?
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You Have Engaged Me
06:10
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You have engaged me
Then left me for details and
Future instances
That will leave you
When you’re left behind
And then the sun rose
And leaving was all that could
Be done and to all of us gone
Gone is where we’re at
There is a me which is so
Endlessly familiar that I fear one
Day that I’ll become it
I have always been about saying
Everything and yet saying nothing
Life lived by the creed of contradiction
And then the sun rose
And leaving is all that should be done
And to all of us gone, gone is where
We’re going
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Pax Indigo
02:36
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I’ve got a crush on a girl
She looks like Greta Garbo
Drunk and in a lounge
She said, “Am I thrilling you?”
Touch the phone
I’ll be on the other end with
My Swedish accent
Thrilling you
Come on in
I’ve hung myself
Believe in me
Even if it is only just for tonight
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Broken Hearts Are Blue Detroit, Michigan
Broken Hearts Are Blue formed in the final days of 1995, its members having been part of various Michigan-based groups including Vine, Current and Ordination of Aaron. Recorded in the summer of 1996, their album The Truth about Love was released in March of 1997 on Caulfield Records. The album was re-mixed and released digitally in 2017 and on vinyl in 2018 by Repeater Records. ... more
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