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Don't They Shoot Horses
03:29
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When did I stop sleepwalking on the hotel ledge
Stitched the wound in my side
I removed the thorn from my godhead
When was the last time I woke up under the bed
There’s a box spring and linen sheets
I’m pretty far from the primitive
Still getting used to these
Lemon scented incentives
Disregarded fact and figures
When you take the measure of man
Will I keep coming up short
Don’t they shoot horses
When they can’t run anymore
What do you do when it’s all you’ve been good for?
Don’t you know everything eats everything out there
From the apple that ruined Paris
To the mirror that thinks you’re the fairest
I hear electric lady razor’s singing blades
Over a cold bowl of corn flakes
I’m just a feast for the corn snakes
Still getting used to this burnished metal fridge
How trivial the burning bridge
Clear the rats from the rose bush
Until there’s nothing but thorns
Don’t they shoot horses
When they can’t run anymore
And you, with your blue swimming pool
And your wrap around porch
Don’t they shoot horses
When they can’t run anymore
Logic puzzles, masks, and muzzles
Have another baker’s dozen
There’s a bun burning the oven
Two drunks still in love
Disregard the facts and figures
Down the drain with shadow pictures
Permanent ink, pull the trigger
Like I know what to do
You probably don’t mean what you say
But I shiver the words
Don’t they shoot horses
When they can’t run anymore
So what, I cleaned out the stables
There’s no good into the chores
Don’t they shoot horses
When they can’t run anymore
Don’t they shoot horses
When they can’t run anymore
What do you do when it’s all you were good for?
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2. |
Next to Nothing
03:53
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I’m done for in this diving bell
I’m running out of breath
I thought if I went deeper
I might find that promised buried treasure
But in your junk aquarium
Where there’s hardly water left
I’m drowning in mere inches
But somehow I’m still way out of my depth
Look what you’ve done to me, baby
Look what you’ve done
Look what you’ve done to me, baby
Shatter and fracture, fragments, fractions
I beg for more, you bat your lashes
It’s all you’re gonna give
So I‘ve learned to live with next to nothing
You left me next to nothing
You left me next to nothing
If you’re gonna leave me
Why leave the door ajar
Just shut it and be done with
It’s not that hard to change the locks
I’m right outside your candy house
Where the breadcrumb trail was lost
The little you gave I saved and savored
But eventually I’m gonna starve
Look what you’ve done to me, baby
Look what you’ve done
Look what you’ve done to me, baby
Hints and whispers, dirt and dust
Only shreds of evidence of us
But it’s all you’re gonna give
And I’ll learn to live with next to nothing
What’s the use?
You left me next to nothing
What’s the use?
You left me next to nothing
Waiting for a handout
Hoping that there’s extra
Shrinking like Russian doll
No one understands
Your Cold War architecture
You’re another Berlin Wall
I’ve practiced the act, but I’m still at the back
Of a California cattle call
Was this cathedral always such a dive bar
A shooting gallery where you hang your fine art
Diamonds from a glue gun
A parliament of doll parts
Look what you’ve done to me
You left me next to nothing
Look what you’ve done
Look what you’ve done to me
You left me next to nothing
What’s this?
You left me next to nothing
Look what you’ve done
What’s this?
You left me next to nothing
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Glass Piano
03:35
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Said she gonna shatter to a million bits
Said the magic mirror don't know half of it
Madam Iron Butterfly you're fragile business
Falling down them London bridges
Something gonna trip you up eventually
Someone gonna criticize your masterpiece
Suddenly you find you're in the minor key
And beauty becomes altered beast
She thinks she must have swallowed a glass piano
The pregnant pause the fatal flaws compound
And maybe love is settling on someone that can stand you
Your unpaid debts your damages
This argument of doubt
It's you and your glass piano
It's you and your glass...
I get pretty taken with sonata form
I don't mind the faking if the body's warm
I can feel you shaking in a thunderstorm
Scared the sound might do you harm
Leave you as a busted pile of cluster chords
Caught in the percussion of the closing door
Hunger is the wolf that finally eats itself
You tremble towards the treble clef
She thinks she must have swallowed a glass piano
The sunset clause that falls upon the concert grand
And maybe love is settling on someone that can handle
Your house of straw, your voodoo doll, your leaning tower
And the weight gets unbearable
And the tear becomes terrible
It's the thousand common shocks
That make this see-through music box begin to grow
It's you and your glass piano
It's you and your glass piano
It's you and your glass piano
It's you and your glass piano
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4. |
The Speed of Darkness
03:46
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Moving at the speed of darkness
Light can’t keep up with me
Silence starts an argument
There will be no apology
A crowd of voices
Making noise it’s
Rhyme without a scheme
Pitch and timbre
Split and splintered
There’s no harmony
The more I know, the less I know
The more I know nothing
That’s me
Moving at the speed of darkness
Night hits, eyes wide open
Mountains, madmen
At it again
Moving at the speed of darkness
What’s next?
Angels, insects?
There’s no difference
Where does it end?
Maybe this doesn’t end
Maybe when the sun goes down
The fools like me rush in
Moving at the speed of darkness
Ruining a concept that I thought was constant
Now I can’t sleep, strung out like an anarchist
Running out of options, pacing the apartment
Pull the closet door off the hinges
Night becomes carnivore, tearing at the fringes
Subtle whisper, revving engine
Double tunnel vision, I’m on a collision
With the black dog scratching at the window
I should let the beast in, I should call a chemist
Mother help me, this must be the deep-end
Wonder when I went off, wonder how long it’s been
Lucid now but in a blink
I’m underground, under the sink
That’s me
Maybe this doesn’t end
Moving at the speed of darkness
Faster than a breath of light
Shadows are growing black ivy
Right up the walls that I climb
Seems like the clocks crawling backwards
Seems like the sandman is gone
Feels like a film that’s on repeat
Like there’s no end to the song
I’ve been moving at the speed of darkness
Just a little too long
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5. |
Heavy Weight
03:19
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Falling like a boxer
Who’s been asked to take a dive
Maybe this time when I hit the ground
I’ll finally step aside
It’s a crooked bone, a bruised ego
It’s a missing exit sign
In a walk out bout
For a thinning crowd
Put your head down kid
You’re not paid to win
You’re just trying to stay alive
And it’s a hard burden to shoulder
It’s been a heavy weight
And I can’t hold on any longer
I wish that I was stronger
But I’m breaking
Breaking underneath this heavy weight
It’s been a heavy, heavy weight
It’s been a heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy
Tedious, this business
Trading violent swings
The round bell rings
It’s a stay of execution, love
It’s a brief reprieve
Collapsing in the corner
Call the cut man quick, so I can see
Life keep hitting like a sucker punch
‘Til they draw some blood
‘Til there’s damage done
‘Til you fall down on your knees
How am I supposed to beg for mercy
When I can barely breathe
It’s not a fair fight any longer
There’s no rules, no code of conduct
Look how low these high hopes brought us
Down to the sweat and spit and sawdust
I can’t go the distance
No one's listening
We should call this thing
It used to be a rush
Now it’s just crushing heavy weight
It’s been a heavy, heavy weight
(I’ll take the dive)
It’s been a heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy weight
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White Noise Maker Seattle, Washington
The producer / artist / songwriter, White Noise Maker, is a veteran of many different facets of the music industry. He’s founded and fronted bands that have opened for indie-alternative rock luminaries like Dinosaur Jr. and Guided By Voices, composed theme songs and music for television shows, and used his talents to create background songs for nationally recognized brands. ... more
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