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No Name #5
04:15
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There's fall on the wind
Don't call me your friend
I'll tell you again
There is a war
There is a war
So pour me a drink
It's not what you think
I'll call up my shrink
It's always a war
There is a war
Inside
Don't fight a war for love
If you don't know who the enemy is
Just fight the war of grief
With no enemy but loneliness
I have never been a soldier
I'm just hiding in the scene
When I'm drunk or when I'm sober
You know my enemy's still me
She was unlike any other
Any dream I can conceive
I first had her in a bathroom
These things just end in misery
Won't try again when we are older
We've had our time between those sheets
Somebody else will be her lover
Maybe they'll make her happy
Like I could not
There's fall on the wind
Don't call me your friend
I'll tell you again
There is a war
There's always a war
Inside
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Heart Cop
03:14
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I wish I was a heart cop
So I could make this damn traffic stop
I'm sitting by the vacuum machine
Still wishing I could maybe feel clean
Street lamp looks like a second lover's moon
If we walk now we can be home real soon
But I'm sitting by the vacuum machine
Watching my fingers turn to misty pink steam
Washrag is off the hook
If I speak everyone else will look
And I don't want to take up their space
With my numbness all in their face
Aren't you mad how you are?
Aren't you always scared you'll take it too far?
I know that I am
But I only take what I think I can stand
Water comes in different hues
The sky comes in more than just blue
I'm sitting by the vacuum machine
At a gas station, two thirty in the morning
It's not what it seems when all the world is green
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Kali the Destroyer
02:50
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It's easy to love someone
That you barely know
When you figure them out
It's time you go
With Kali the Destroyer
Instigating the shifts
I would give anything
Not to live like this
You think you understand
What you're doing to the man
But you don't have the slightest clue
Do you?
You'd better make a plan
A flash in the pan or a slight of hand
Disappear into the blue
Your favorite hue
Can you tell me
What it is about me
That you can't seem to want?
My head's so ugly
And I might act happy
But I'm waiting for this to just stop
It's easy to love someone
That you barely know
When you figure them out
It's time you go
With Kali the Destroyer
Instigating the shifts
I would give anything
Not to live like this
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Flowers for Janey
04:03
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Tear me down
It's what I need
Tear me into pieces
You can't see
I want to be invisible
Bored out of my brain
Pick some flowers for Janey
Driving through
Saint Augustine
Kamel Reds and magic machines
I want to be out by the fort
First left past the fork
Then we'll go home
Standing in the rain
Taking pictures of Janey
Making up a day
Picking flowers for Jane
Kissing in crochet
Picking flowers for Janey
Bored out of my brain
Picking flowers for Janey, Janey
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Protons
04:17
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We were just protons
Particles colliding
Touched for a second
Mad for a minute
Then bounced separate ways
I was just angry
Pissed at myself
And you don't deserve it
The heat off my conscience
Raining on your parade
Now I'm waiting for someone to come
To black out the sun
And bring on the clouds
It's never or now
AS you're floating away
Into empty space
And I'm singing I love you
I love you
We were just protons
Particles kissing
Connected for an instant
Regret for a lifetime
But that's still okay
Outside is foggy
We go inside
I'll grab a blanket
She likes my new jacket
Even though it's too wide
Her eyes are sparkly
Her hands are my size
She's better than you were
She acts as my mirror
And I don't have to lie
When I say I love you
I love you
Goodnight
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Dean Batten Daytona Beach, Florida
Often genre-bending, thought provoking and emotion stoking, Dean Batten's music is most concretely one thing:
captivating.
Moving forward from his previous work, Dean has re-embraced the folk, early rock and country sounds of his childhood with 3 new albums: "Optimist Breakfast", an acoustic album; "Pessimist Lunch", a full band version with the same songs; and "Realist Supper", a live album.
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