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The Taming of the Shoes
03:30
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I'm already in the future
I'm still right where you left me
I'm already old enough to tie my shoes
I subscribed to Time for a little while
But Time passed on and I slept through the wake
And when I woke up I opened my eyes
to the lies and the cries and goodbyes of the fake
I'm still right in the future
I'm back at square one
I'm already outgrowing my dancing shoes
I subscribed to Time for a little while
But Time passed on and I slept through the wake
And when I woke up I opened my eyes
to the lies and the cries and goodbyes of the fake
I'm tired of the future
I'm waiting for you to come
I'm already wearing out my walking shoes
I subscribed to Time for a little while
But Time passed on and I slept through the wake
And when I woke up I opened my eyes
to the lies and the cries and goodbyes of the fake
I'm abandoning the future
I'm trying not to cry
I'm already too old to find my shoes
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Once I fell out I knew I could never go back
which is fine only where did she go?
And where do you get off being so beautiful all of a sudden?
And in the rain I'm bulletproof.
And wetter.
You can get anything out with seltzer
Only what gets anything off your chest when the vision shifts red
so very dramatically that you actually almost fall in?
Again!
Also I still want to know where she went and if she took away the violets I picked for her.
That's a little more creepy than even I'm used to so perhaps you could try and keep it down.
Don't rock the boat .
I'm striving for the cap'n's seat on account of I'm going down on her ship anyways so it may as well be official.
There goes another comet with her name written on it.
All I can do is shut my eyes
Otherwise that moon won't let me go and she reels me in just like as if
she was crafted of crimson and twice as wicked.
Weird dreams last night, only it hurt so I woke up.
And she was there.
Only it couldn't have been her on account of I wasn't deathly afraid and I actually managed to wake up sane... relatively speaking.
This is me.
Who I was when I was stupid.
Him.
Luckily, I've learned to fall in and out and perpetually softer into arms that underneath understand at least some of truth's inscrutability and can part the veil enough for a heathen like me.
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Meanwhile In Space
02:01
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I'm the nicest guy in the world
when I've got my feet on the ground
As long as I'm on the Earth
I'm the nicest guy in town
But when I go into orbit
you just better look out
'cuz I'm mean while in space
yeah, mean while in space
On my last lunar mission
we landed at the moon base
One of my fellow astronauts
said "Slow down, Jack; This ain't no race!"
So I threw her on the floor
and I kicked her in the face
'cuz I'm mean while in space
yeah, mean while in space
mean while in space
Mean!
It’s wiggedy wiggedy wiggedy wiggedy wack, yo!
Animals attack, yo!
So watch your back; Cut me some slack; Get off the track, yo!
Cuz I’m a mean space pirate with a patch on my eye
I’m a naughty little monkey and I’ll eat all your pie
I’m a killa
Stone chilla
On my bed I sleep with a pilla
I’m like a gorilla
A space thrilla
My favorite ice cream treat is vanilla
Some kinda astronaut
Some kinda outer space
I got a def fly rocket
And a illin’ moon base
So whachu want, huh?
Get outta my face
I said Step off, sucka
Cuz I’m mean while in space
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Draw
00:47
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Draw
Revolving, I remember the record player
Fat Bob howling his career
My world in this time draws to an open eye seizes nothing
"It wasn't this cold" you said
The past remains untouchable.
Stubbornly stuck in the direction you can't point to.
Memory is fickle
and sometimes fades
and sometimes burns itself into your psyche.
360 degrees of Buddha
Revolving psychedelic soundscape
As new memories are crafted of clashing cultures and digesting pancakes
Stop and listen and live.
Forever in the moment.
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Mayhem Lettuce Port Byron, Illinois
Mayhem Lettuce was formed in Port Byron, IL in 1993 when two sad teenage boys decided to channel their angst into music.
That music sits at the crossroads of King Missile and Portishead with a dash of The Cure and a pinch of They Might Be Giants.
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