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why can't it be, it is.

by Andrew Roseman

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the only one who yells for fun mother nature's sun rejoice renounce your simple pleasures better filter out the noise in all you see and all you breathe you've been here once before no need to lie, i know you've tried to creep on through the floor o baby make it easier, but i don't want to i've seen the sky cave in one million times before now mother nature's sun lies melting on the floor like a bitter breeze, your thoughts they tease the corners of my brain one quarter cup, three quarter cup now slow we go insane o baby make it easier, but i don't want to i'll see you babe, it's been a pleasure holding hands in crappy weather i'm glad you came but it's time to leave affirmed my faith in disbelief in all i've seen and all i've breathed i've been here once before now mother nature's sun lies melting on the floor o baby make it easier, but i don't want to
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O, My God 01:57
i'm drinking diet snapple because health is number one in my book i'm writing with a pen with a crack in its side and i hope it won't spill, what's on the inside but everyone keeps clapping hands and stomping feet and doing dances o, my god and celebrate for you can see that you are no celebrity o, my god ripping off the petals of your most beautiful flower your strength over its beauty just because you've got the power and ability but just because your might can kill it must not be your only will o, my god and just because your hands are still don't place them on my windowsill o, my god your timing's right and it's time to learn i now know how this all began your timing's right and it's time to learn so tell me o just tell me o just tell me o
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Mehtanoia 03:25
i don't know what it is, i'm really trying to say when i go to use my words do you know what it is, you're really trying to say, when you go to use your words because i don't know what it is, i'm really trying to do when i go to use my hands do you know what it is, you're really trying to do, when you go to use your hands you make funny faces, you look really funny we play with our gold and pretend that it's money science proves that we're all really ants with a double wide helix and firing dances but if you get the chance to stand where it rains and you know that it's raining you hear it you feel it you feel it you hear it you hear it you see it, your senses don't waste them so make money faces, pull lots of funny out go play with your gold and pretend that it's money go play with your gold and pretend that it's money play with your faces, look pretty funny go and play, go escape, what are you running from i don't know what it is i'm really trying to say when i go to use my Words and i know what it is I'm really trying to do when i go to use my Hands and i know what it is that you are trying to say when you go to use your Words and i know what it is that you're trying to do when you go to use your Hands
4.
something seems to be bugging me and i know not what it is o wait i think i do, it's your lips that move when i only want a kiss it's the silly things you always do the stupid shit you thought you knew you gave your name but you're still a who gave your name but you're still a who down by the water with a 45 soul's on fire and i'm waiting to die broke out of prison bout an hour ago had a date with the devil but i could not show, i was nervous i look down to see all my bullets took the last one rang out when i shot my foot and that dear to me my left foot it was i jumped off the boat and i swam to shore i get back to shore and the man is coming three police man and the dogs were running i throw my hands up i had to something throw my hands up i had to something i yelled to the devil said SATAN STOP I DONE FUCKED UP LIKE I DO ALOT and he said you stop now, that's not my name the real satan is you now go on, take the blame hey, holy water, i've been praying for far too long now, holy water, take it over, and play wind's song something seems to be bugging me and i know not what it is o wait i think i do, it's your lips that move when i only want a kiss it's the silly things you always do the stupid shit you thought you knew you gave your name but you're still a who gave your name but you're still a who gave your name but you're still a who gave your name but you're still a who wait and save, he just comes too late satan saves he just comes too late satan saves he just comes too late satan saves he just comes too late
5.
watching you maybe i've been watching you i see you from across the room i see what you do chances are it's nothing more nothing more but i need some more chances are it's nothing more nothing more but i need some more and nothing more, i need some more chances are nothing more chances are nothing more
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when the monkey took the jungle he grabbed a ripe banana and he used it as a hammer and he built himself a cross and all the other monkeys, they held onto the young ones and they told them not to worry and they told him what he'd done oh but i felt much worse, felt much worse, felt much worse, oh i've felt much and he went right to the highway stood upon the overpass and in his head he did the math of the women that he loved and he thought about his children and how he'd never see them because the state judicial system they told him she had won oh but i, seen much worse seen much worse, i seen much worse oh, i seen much and he saw the ground was falling and sky was getting higher, and in his hand started a fire and he threw a fireball but land was made of water, and the ball was just a dud and it hit me with a thud, and it took out all my blood oh but i, felt much worse felt much worse, oh i felt much and the monkey lost the fight because he never did what's right and he fell just like a leaf, onto the black street and he never seemed to twitch when they all called him a dirty bastard and the monkey must evolve because he never tossed a ball so he gathered all he had and he fell a little faster we have walked for miles and miles sun goes up and the sun goes down sun goes up and the sun goes down again we have learned from the math in books because we add it up and divide by two add it up and divide by two again and i said o? would you save my soul
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it would be nice if we were all masters of the universe but the better half of me knows this to be untrue i can move mountains with my hand but they are only mountains of sand perhaps it is more true to say that we are all masters of our own universe and the smaller part of me would pray for this to be true ping ping pong tap tap taps tell that repetition is success and we all strive for our best valleys to be discouraged by tragic failure failure tends me disguised, or rather mis-disguised by the silent echo of nothing and if silence is failure, then i am both a winner and a loser the former is good, the latter is bad, so i'm told but the construct is only natural and in this natural high and low i float in the median, the average but neither in the positive, or the negative i guess it's all about strict resonance that's all and you want to know how this all started? yeah me too. we'll drink fresh squeezed orange juice every day so we'll never really have to concentrate lazy susan spinning round, and round sacrifice my lips for sound yeah, hope you get what you came for i hope you get what you paid for

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released March 12, 2013

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