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Solid State
05:10
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san andreas savior come drop this bitch right into the sea. no more cafes or shopping malls there goes our beachfront property. so now i'm waiting anticipate the day. the retrofitting fails and we plunge into a watery grave.
i don't even know why i even try. doesn't matter to them. they don't really care if we live or die.
ambivalent bureaucrats ignore the seismic stew. cuz there aren't enough funds to even deal with the shit we've already been through. so now i'm leaving. this is not the way i'll die. where do we draw the line between risk and suicide?
i don't even know why i even try. doesn't matter to them. they don't really care if we live or die.
so now i'm waiting to see if you will leave or stay. because i just want to live with you maybe we should move away. to a nice small town with no one else around. and we could finally breathe it's what we really need.
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Pitch A Tent
06:03
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excuse my neuroses allow me to get comfortable again. but as soon as i'm used to you decide to leave instead.
guess i'll have to do without. sitting alone always brings out the doubts.
been listening to The Cure since the day you left. if you don't come back soon we won't have a place to live.
guess i'll have to do without. sitting alone always brings out the doubts. let's pitch a tent in my neighbor's yard. with the money we save we'll buy us a car.
it all has that familiar ring of things we've missed of things we've seen. the hundred million songs i sing will one day reach you if you clear the air. just clear the air.
excuses built up in the rain outside your door i wrack my brain and try find someone to blame but in the end you didn't even care. you didn't care. you never cared.
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Good Plan
03:01
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i will waste my arrows on success it's like a moving target. you get a break you think you've got it. but why do we continue? admiration's rules have been installed they've got nothing to do with talent or cause.
all your fame and wealth only add up to this: you're more worthy in death than when you exist. it's a marketing scheme you just can't resist.
buy yourself an ego and get yourself the proper clothes and act as if in full control and then drive this at full throttle. cuz letting up means letting go and someone else will steal your show.
all your fame and wealth only add up to this: you're more worthy in death than when you exist. it's a marketing scheme you just can't resist.
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Stamp Licker
04:47
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found myself inside your room out of breath and out of place. and all these things i've sent to you you've yet to match them to my face. so i leave without a word while you're making food for me. cuz i know this will only get worse and i dont want to blow this dream.
(ian vocals)
so i turn back when i hit the curb. i'm determined to make you see. when i found you sitting on your floor reading the final note from... now you know it was me all along. stick the knife in dont wait too long. happy endings never happen to me i'm just hangin' around cuz it comes naturally.
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Shift And Steer
03:59
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never thought we'd have to part someday just figured we'd always stay the same. took for granted a friendship i dreamt would go unscathed. you said: "don't think you should come to my house anymore. cant believe you'd actually go out with that whore. was it really love you were looking for?" but i never even knew what you were feeling. you just disappeared for no reason. and after you were gone i wrote you off so long, so lame.
took so long for me to hunt you down. a note at your door said i was in town. i left the rest up to you i figured you wouldn't let me down. i said: "after all these years you still made me call. guess you didn't really wanna talk to me at all. afraid of love, afraid of fault." so i've been hanging around here for no reason. making up excuses to keep from leaving. it's like an old familiar song, you want it back when it's gone. but i never even knew what you were feeling. and you just disappeared for no... and once again i'm wrong. i waited much too long to stay.
i would steer and you would shift and we would drive out to the sticks smoking cigarettes and drinking wine. if i knew then what i know now i would have never let you just drop out. but i was so naive and you were right...
i never even knew what you were feeling. you just disappeared for no... i knew it all along it could never be as strong as yesterday.
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6. |
You Are Here
04:39
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i'd send you a letter but what i need to tell you just can't be written down. it's not very often that i have a friend like you.
it's just a part of me that's been saving up this ego disaster. it's just a phase can you feel it too? i wish i could erase some things that never seem to slip my mind well i know i'm asking too much so i'll sit back and wait for a better time.
sure i'm drunk in the city next to a map that points "you are here". you should come meet up with that arrow and make this sickness disappear.
this blank expression has been on my face since all of this happened. i wish you could come down and see it too. i'm pulling this off real well no one seems to know the difference until i just shut up then it all comes back up to push me down.
sure i'm drunk in the city next to a map that points "you are here". you should come meet up with that arrow and make this sickness disappear. cuz "you are here" really means that you are really nowhere at all. i'm finally tired of watching the things i love completely dissolve.
brain on the rocks and a bottle in hand. i'm flying around with nowhere to land. why do i keep looking for something new to lose? i'd move right up if i could the way you describe it sounds so good. but really i need a friend like you.
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On The Waterway
03:40
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i'm just your average 40 hour slave. no benefits no holidays. and when i'm ready to go insane that's when you unload the water main. you really saved my day on the waterway.
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The Nines
05:12
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let's stay inside. there's no need to go out there today. can't believe you're finally right beside me. why can't you just stay? seems to me we're going in circles when i let you go. you were there when i wrote this song but you didn't even know. and all the rest of the week i'll suffer but it won't show... until now because i'm going insane.
prove me right. just come up here forget that place. no more late night phone call conversations of things to be heard from face to face. just tie my hands behind me so i won't go. finally got the nerve to come up here don't send me home. i'll take the bus every single weekend i won't say no. because now i'll do whatever you say.
milliseconds of joy between the weeks of living hell. will we ever get this going? it's so hard to tell. a pints worth of conversation keeps us from coming closer to a chance for something that is real.
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Beautiful
06:04
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please excuse this ill behavior. i need a simple favor. i want someone to talk to. let's have a drink i'll bore you. i'm not always like this. i'm really trying to resist. but something isn't right here. i just can't seem to steer clear. nothing's beautiful here cuz nothing's beautiful in here.
there's no correlation with what i feel now to how it felt when it all worked out. it's just the only way i can get you close to me, to me.
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Spackle San Francisco, California
Formed in San Francisco in 1992 by Andrew Lund and Ian Swanke. Scot Callis played drums thru 1996, then Matt Ashleigh took over. Will Dyer joined on bass in 1994 and played on all recordings. The band dissolved in 1997.
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