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does not equal
01:20
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I don’t know a soul at this DIY show. Thinking made me humor stale contemplations, now I smoke too much. Snuff the motivated side of me; the bitter self I’m not allowed to be. Follies, I attest to them. Your convictions, I’d invest in them, but I left my “make connections” face at home, and paid to pace a parking lot alone.
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matcha
01:50
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Forced intervention, no need for medication, he believes in nothing but separation. Aesthetics are just social street signs, decorate/dilute yourself or be deleted. Eat you up like a matcha kit-kat bar. Sell yourself up just to never get that far. Cold stabs at me go unchecked; a week ago you said you’d call a professional, what happened? You don’t deserve it, nobody deserves it. Forced intervention, botched attempts to curb old shit. Eat you up like a matcha kit-kat bar. Sell yourself up just to never get that far.
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company
02:27
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Worn out demands make you favor escape plans like you can stray from them. It’s all reserved speech, old nicotine smoke soothing, why are you doing this? I’ll never let it define you, I’ll only let it deprive you of anything good. Now you’re getting angry, so very angry. It’s making me lonely, so very alone in your company. Bummer lament from the art kids crooning, zoned out in fear of all the made up outcomes that make them sit still. I’ll never let it define you, I’ll only let it deprive you, oh your subtle ways. Now you’re getting angry, so very angry. It’s making me lonely, so very alone in your company.
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chomp
02:06
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I sprint much faster when I fear there’s something chasing after me. Bit nails and awkward conversations; I’m just barely in the lead. It’s not quite the same as I envisioned it, lay low. You’re chomping at the bit to be somewhere new, it’s a no go, but you’re reeling at the weight of tomorrow aren’t you?
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weakling
02:44
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weekly inferno, that flame burns in slo-mo. Essential reactions now weak and internal. I know you don't mean that when you say you're sure that one day I'll get the message. I reel for the while now. Nobody wants you to waste your time on them. A nuisance when you wake up, oh so familiar with such, the reverence is alive, at least it was when we tried. You said that you were asleep, please make up your mind for me. Some philosophical prose you never wanted to know. I felt the loosening grip the moment you made your pick. So calculated and trite it makes no difference inside. Please send me flowers instead of sending me to your bed. Some philosophical prose you never wanted to know.
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foureyes
02:05
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Jacked of productive tension yet? Wishing things like this worked out easy. Won’t blame your dwindling confidence. Snuggling incessant, watching TV. Am I a four-eyed zombie? Am I a waste of effort? This winded ego caught your scent, out of excuses you can tolerate. 2 parts devotion, 3 parts numb, 5 parts a slow-growth-rationale machine. Am I the way you want me? If not I’ll keep on trying. I’ll be your four-eyed zombie, not just your waste of effort.
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be my friend
03:12
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Be my friend, be my friend to go to when the day is dead. Be my friend, be my friend.
Be my friend, be my friend to call until the very end. Be my friend, be my friend.
Those temporary friends you fly through, such promise they swear dwells inside you. Bogged down to the max, so you force it. Lost count of the matches you forfeit, they don't care to comprehend, well I do.
Be my friend, be my friend to call and help to pay the rent, be my friend, be my friend.
Be my friend, be my friend to never go away again, be my friend, be my friend.
Those temporary friends you fly through, such promise they swear dwells inside you. Bogged down to the max, so you force it. Lost count of the matches you forfeit, they don't care to comprehend, well I do.
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we speak softly
01:41
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Echoes bring me here for one more laugh. Fill me with your vengeance, I love that. Pretend you’ll still be here when I get back, my heart don’t match the common sense I lack. We speak softly.
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right now
02:55
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Hard to say no. Something's telling me not to go.
Always filled with such doubt, all is safe except for right now.
Honest and true, something draws me closer to you.
Always filled with such doubt, all is safe except for right now.
No use in stomping it out, all is safe except for right now.
Don't think twice, baby you're on such thin ice.
Fondness ensues and says "I want to hold your head".
Possibly true. Total comfort trenches entombed.
Always filled with such doubt, all is safe except for right now.
Don't think twice, baby you're on such thin ice.
Fondness ensues and says "I want to hold your head".
Don't think twice, lately i've been so unwise.
But you've gotten to know this best, so let's go home and rest.
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banana ash
02:41
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Something’s coming toward me, I don’t know what it is, but someone feels my essence, and it’s prompting me to split. Entertain some notion that I’d be good and fine if calm me didn’t listen to scared me all the time. Someone killed my wishing well. Someone killed my wishing well, dig it again. Optimism suits you let’s ditch before it flees. Make my efforts pointless with a momentary grieve. Rambles fixing nothing, always how it is. Something’s coming toward me, I don’t know what it is. Someone killed my wishing well, Someone killed my wishing well, never again.
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suntrust
01:58
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Listen to cicadas mask the blast of fireworks, I guess the braves won at the suntrust. The kudzu kills the foliage, hot wet air seeps through windows from the 80s. The valet trash guy never came, the squirrels got into everything and now I have to clean the fucking breezeway. But here is where we are for now, so to the room to lay you down, we’ll turn on the AC and have a sleep day. I will belong to you as long as you want me to.
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little kid
02:38
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story-chasing social climbers fill your days with calculation
wasting every moment fast asleep and dreaming to be whole like them
everyone knows what you did, it’s okay to give it a rest sometimes,
just some confused little kid. Vague encounters writhe with wasted sentiment invested in you“no rest, beat your chest, only the best prevail” a test you only fail everyone knows what you did, it’s okay to give it a rest sometimes, just some confused little kid.
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akira
03:00
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stoned for the winter, monster inventor, six somersaults shy a witness. Survey the outskirts caustic and clever with partially peeled eyelids. Nothing relieves my appetite quite like being alarmed by you so you say “I want to remain this way forever and always”. so monotone your fearful disclosure, out of the way or fly with me; Monster inventor’s gone for the winter, anxiousness inside me. Nothing relieves my appetite quite like being alarmed by you so you say “I want to remain this way forever and always” I know you’re not what you say, I’ll confide in you anyway. (foresight; no sight) you don’t know a thing.
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Parker Paul Atlanta, Georgia
My name is Parker and I write acoustic pop tunes
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