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Keturahwaltz
02:28
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Blind Deaf and Dumb
01:42
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I go deaf when I hit the floor
Can't hear the poetry anymore
Serenity prayer
Lifes unfair
Knock on wood
It's no good
It's disgusting
How did I ever get so trusting?
I try to reach for you but always
I haunt the corners and the hallways
I'm always late for my applause . . .
I tried to hold you with my claws
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Man Is An Animal
04:00
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I walk down the street
In my bare feet
Because I can, a man is an animal
And as a man I spit in the face of God
I can end my life
For back to begin again
All things lost that youʼll never win again
Start from scratch youʼll much prefer the odds
Pretty girls appear half dressed
Wanting something whoʼdʼve guessed
Donʼt go home with pretty girls
Donʼt go home
Iʼll drop everything to laugh in your face
Laugh out loud all over the place
Then someone comes and tells me I was wrong
I can hold you close
Hold you near
Tell you secrets then disappear
I am free and so are you, thank God
The very same music but a different tune
The rabbit and the robin and the old raccoon
All destroy their homes.
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Chasescene
06:01
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Darling I love your little eyes
I love your little eyes
I love your little eyes
Darling I love you by the neck
I love you by the neck
I love you by the neck
In this broken hopeless wreck
I love you by the neck
I love you by the neck
Darling I love you in the ground
I love you in the ground
I love you in the ground
Youʼre naked and you canʼt make a sound
I love you in the ground
I love you in the ground
I love you
Darling I love you in the car
I love you in the car
I love you in the car
Darling I love you with a knife
I love you with a knife
I love you with a knife
Thought some day youʼd be my wife
I love you with a knife
I love you with a knife
Darling I love you like the drink
I love you like the drink
I love you like the drink
The foul and rotten putrid stink
I love you like the drink
I love you like the drink
I love you
Darling I hate you with a kiss
I hate you with a kiss
I hate you with a kiss
Darling I hate you to the core
I hate you to the core
I hate you to the core
Shall I spell it out once more?
I hate you to the core
I hate you to the core
Darling I love your look of shame
I love your look of shame
I love your look of shame
You wonʼt soon forget my name
I love your look of shame
I love your look of shame
I love you
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Man was not meant to live with beast
From the jackal to the priest
And so I go on missing a piece
Lost to the hunger of my foe
Down in the belly of my foe
I clipped the culprit from his leash
I took the instrument from it's sheath
Pretty as music a kick in the teeth
Smashed with a stunning blow
Smashed in the face of my foe
All the animals on my street
Smell the blood and the rotten meat
But I reattached what they tried to eat
Cut from the belly of my foe
Cut from the belly of my foe
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I hold your hand
But break all the fingers
The mind is gone
The body lingers but
What use could it be?
And while you're asleep
And tremble with fear
I move through the house
Close to your ear
You're nothing to me
Behind the van
One moment after
The empty smile
The insulting laughter
You can't let it go
The hidden room
The buried treasure
The slight of hand
Repugnant pleasure
It's all that you know
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Anna14
02:48
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Letʼs knock the old place down
Lets light a fire and lock the doors
Lets put the couch on the stairs
Let someone else come and drag it away
Ha-ha . . .
If we could live here, we could live anyplace
The back of a car or the old crawlspace
. . . joking
Put all the trash in the yard
Let all the animals in the door
That one was your idea
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Pack Your Bags
03:01
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You didnʼt even pack your bags yet
Cause evrything you own is mine
How time can wear you down
I didnʼt think to your replacement
You didnʼt even leave a hole
I hope you find a place to rest your talentless soul
If you should leave me
When will you leave me?
How will you leave me?
God help you
If you should leave me now
At the bottom of the river
Or the evening on the town
No one can hear you now
When you get to where youʼre going
And see the people that you know
I hope you find the one that could have damaged you so
Oh if you should leave me
When will you leave me?
How will you leave me?
God help you
If you should leave me now
Iʼll haunt the places that youʼve been sleeping
Friends and family Iʼll be keeping
Wonʼt help you
Wonʼt help you
If you should leave me now
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I loved your before but I just forgot how
Can't stand the way you look at me now
And something's always the matter
Crying and whining and clatter
I come straight to bed
Quiet as a mouse
Chase you all over the goddamn house
But you don't chase back
You can't even check
Wear this song around your neck
And it's hopeless
And it's sad
It's the best you've ever had
But it's not the last
There'll be a few more
Here's the next one at the door
And she'll take you to places you wanted to go
Tells you things you already know
And I beg you to leave but you won't go
It's easy to love what you don't know
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Leftovers
02:59
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I'm not pretty
Yes I know, I'm not pretty
But I get my share
Don't I?
I'm kind of homely
Correction I'm ugly
But I'm never alone
I'll just pick up the phone
I'll take all of you home, won't I?
I'm getting tired of this musicless dance
Why don't you put your hand down my pants?
And then we will be going somewhere
Stranger
Goddamnit if you love me
Who said I wanted you to love me?
I don't need any new friends
Or someone to pretend
There's a light at the end of the tunnel
And if you smile
You can take me for a spin
I like your style
Heads of tails I always win
I win again - -
- - I’m not kidding
Might look sad from where you're sitting
But I'm never alone
I just pick up the phone
I've taken all of you home
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Mrs Roth
03:04
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I took something from your desk
Can you guess what it is?
Something that's been home with you
Something you enjoy
I took something from your trash
Can you guess what it is?
Something wrapped in something else
Something that's been used
I put something in your drink
Can you guess what it is?
I'd rather not say
Shhhh......Shall I
Untie
You now?
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Me and My Wife
06:08
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Me and my wife
Took home a child
We found at the store
In the back of the aisle
And on the ride home
He bit me and cried
And fell from the door
On the passenger side
Me and my wife
Put things in the yard
That our son has outgrown
But that was years ago
Me and my wife
When she was alive
Dropped stones from the bridge
On the cars down below in the night
Me and my wife
Are tired
And weʼd like to get home
Weʼve been missing our show
Driving alone
Trying my shoe
At the end of my life
Iʼm writing a letter to you
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Daniel Knox Porto, Portugal
With a baritone as dynamic as it is indestructible, Daniel Knox narrates compositions with a perverse and sometimes comical wit, guiding the listener through sprawling worlds that exist just out of frame.
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