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the evolution of grace
02:53
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glass kissed my wrists from rolling on rocks
sliced like a hot knife bled em better than my thoughts
always thought I'd be another if I lived in starker dreaming
will I die today? will I make it to the evening?
drawn my life line much fainter lately
I'd rather live forever so my family feels no pain
stoop shenanigans always end in strange heartbreak
a coincidence you're here? or is it a mistake?
seems I'm always baking apologies
every dawn my shadow dims like she cannot follow me
you can't spell disappointment without a post haste, great!
I'm glad that I remembered that you hate how I hate
so the word can't be good when I'm hiding in the woods
a hermit in her habitat, three preludes
and a half; doesn't matter if it's this or that
it is what it is and that's a fact
I've evolved to be graceless
deeper than space in my shapeliness
lost my table manners alone in his old flooded basement
never figured out some shit
not so great at those snare hits
paradiddles, fuckin riddles and I still can't flip omelets
nineteen year old bassist
acidic as copper bracelets
I'll ring around the rosy if you worship all of my language
umm I'm sorry for strange licks
found them hid in my attic
covered in dust bunnies like my neighbor totoro's habits
slap with the kids when we strolling on the block
summer weather's always better when you're chiming in my thoughts
to the rolling and the tolling and the moaning and the groaning of the bells
the bells, in a happy runic rhyme with the
found my mind in the stratos lately
storm clouds in my eyes and rain in my heartbeat
I can't complete a thought cause I'm lost in the jet streams
a leaf in the wind, unwinding or unraveling?
seems I'm always searching for miseries
every day I can't find em, then trouble finds me and
can't spell discouragement without a cop in the hand
shit, two in the bush, she don't get why I ran
man the word can't be learned when I'm crying in this world
I'm hurting in my left hand cause I wrote the wrong words
in my song; doesn't matter if i'm right or wrong
that shit's been written and cannot be unsung
i dissolve like a spaceship
leaping through space in my hastiness
hot like heaven in the heat of hereditary listless
I never flirted with dumb shit
not so messy in business
i wrote a letter to you better reply with a real kiss
nineteen years a queen pin
sharp as a tack man with dissin
got a pocket full of posies for ya blessings and winnings
aha i find in the moment
found I'm down when I'm broken
covered in dust living like iron ore where them trains' lift
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nickels and dimes
03:49
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//one, two, three's a crowd
four, five, six; you're sick
seven, eight, nine; I'm fine
just waiting for my nickels to turn into dimes//
I don't care about you
I don't care if it rains
that's the way it's always been
and the way it'll stay
I am sister supercilious
I don't mean to sing dismissive shit
I found my conceit in the concrete
jungle when I kissed him in the rain
teardrops burn when I let them escape
I'm harboring fear, a fugitive in my brain
it's hard to stay sane when you're sad
I'm leaking sarcasm and losing all my friends
I never mean to be mean
I never meant to get mad
but I'm feeling like a hangnail's
breathing down my back
and every time that you kiss me
it's like you just hit me
I'm allergic to good love and I'm
sleeping with the enemy for real
In the end I'm living in this lovely battlefield
In the end I love it when he leaves me crowned in tears
disrobed my fears on the back porch
I'm stuck leaking air like a badass flat tire
//one, two, three's a crowd
four, five, six; you're sick
seven, eight, nine; I'm fine
just waiting for my nickels to turn into dimes//
Fell deep in a pocket grave for the way you displayed me
I necessitate narcissistic tendencies like babe
I ain't a slave to pocket change, only to baby
I'm down to earth like caverns in the deeps of my home state
Find I'm pushing up daisies, found I like when you're with me
you could be covered in worms and I'd still think you're the greatest
My happiness and your existence; correlated
if there's a better man than you he must be a damn genius
I'm never down to be distant
never learned how to love shit
but I'm schooling so hard
I'll sooner be above it
It's hard to believe in one
cause everyone's got two
but we'll sing "fuck the police"
cause it's better with you
and for real in the end I love to live in this battlefield
in the end I love everything you make me feel
I hid my soul where I lost hope
you found it and kept it in an empty bottle
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I split seams
I'm a diamond in the cut
I never linger in the middle of sick dreams
with the tunnel vision burning photos of kaleidoscopic memories
I sing peace to the earth and knees to the dirt
if I haven't found a heaven with dogs backseat
jumping bass to the whip of burgundy
then I can't believe
that all it is
is rarely what it seems
and I can't turn a new leaf into wings
but I don't mind that I can't fly cause my heaven ain't in the sky
it's where I sing
//I don't mind you on my mind
and when I die give my body to the silence//
memento mori
in the winter of my discontent
I still believe I'll see you in the morning
glories I disguised my eyes to hide them from the everlasting dawning
I sing sign to the sky your mind on my mind
if I haven't found a heaven in two bare feet
fat bass thumping deep on backbeats
then I can't believe
that all we breathe is truly not the dream
though I can't turn a new leaf into wings
hey I don't mind that I can't soar cause my heaven ain't up no more
it's where I sing
//I don't mind you on my mind
and when I die give my body to the silence//
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lizard wizard ii
03:01
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uhuh
he's Pigpen in Charlie Brown kush cloud
whether the weather be hot he be smoking it down
where's the dirt man?
I'm not searching high for blow
I think he snorted it in his snout
I shiver when I see his nose
Monty like Python
circus like your fly's undone
kids ya got a long way to go
Betty then Betty Crocker
I cracked rock, the potluck, yo fuck rock
I'm shivering in the corner cause I got nowhere to go
uhuh I'm shoeless and clueless
like a cussing tattooist in the woods
yeah we're good
man I'm screwed but skatting through this
hopeless and dopeless
like a homeless old cold kiss
yeah he'll smoke ya twice, thrice if you only pay in hard cash
hard slaps, art shat, Jay stay paid
them jazz cats they rap fast and they get laid
words stung from ya tongue and the girls they bait
musical daughter
the comical martyr
I question by number
the colors that color my faintest of fates
uhuh he tune out
the Charlie Brown bone sound
sips straight fiction in the evening
and a fifth of what now?!
get a clue man
can't hurt me blowing smoke
I chipped away like finer china
stick like glass between your toes
crashing on the futon
crush ya in the midnight sun
kids I got a long way to go
better than Betty stalker
Archie's hot?
Nah get out, I think not
I'm blistered on my fingers cause I play bass like a pro
clueless and fruitless
like an undone to-do list
grocery goods, econo foods
misery sucks but stumbling through this
thoughtless waves at process
he's a teenage colossus
well I hope you scoped twice cause I didn't wear my glasses
ass kissed the class bitch
cause a glass of bad gin
so he stab birch
my lungs hurt cause apples, peppers and a pin
one road leads to home
the other path to providence
I said I never regretted
a second of heaven shit
on my own I'll find my place in it
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ETHOS Marquette, Michigan
red-headed bassist and fiery emcee. sometimes based in Marquette, MI, sometimes in Boston, MA, and sometimes way out in space. currently Ethos is probably wearing some kinda dumb hat.
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