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Expat EP

by Golden Birds

1.
Fish on Bicycles
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I rode him twice over homecoming break It was fun he was nice but there’s plenty of bait in the lake My sister says we don’t need them anyways Fish on bicycles baby Bullshit cheeseball & totally eighties #### I get home at a quarter past nine Tore up party hat talking about AM this time My back cross-hatched with stairwell-wall lines Taste of his breath & Happy Holidays! wine He said I’ve wanted you since the London deal Your laptop matches mine Fish on bicycles honey Fuck that girls I make my own money #### March madness came not a moment too soon American Democracy midterm done I caught the redeye for Cancun Mira mis chicas y mi underneath a Mexicana moon I met a man He knew a dude We made a deal We each got a roll or two & now I’m good as a full ride on through to end of senior year & I take this campus in stride Don’t need shit from any asshole here Girlfriend these tits sell wrenches These tits sell camping gear Trust if you got it if you got it Put its ass to work my dear & grandma I'm not trying to hear it What do you think financed your Cavalier anyway Fish on bicycles sugar Mom I'm an entrepreneur Your little girl is nobody’s hooker Girls Girls Girls
2.
Caribbean Queens
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Boys Buckle up aboard a time machine Leave your books behind for island queens Young man understand this land sprung us from its loins & bro I know how it may seem But you’ll see they share the same dream It’s a tribute to the girls upstream C’mon take one for the team Oy save that exploitation talk for seminar Why try be something other than what you are Red blood in you is hot Why pretend like it’s not Vacation's no time to get all coy So loosen up & let your sail unfurl & lighten up to dive down for a pearl I know you’ve dreamed about the upstream girl Go on & give one a whirl #### Goys & gringos are probably all she ever gets All hazy accents & heavy pets & fuzzy love under mosquito nets As the sun sets on her stack of coins Well I won’t make her make it with another drone I’ll give her the pride of riding one of her own It will bolster her hope It will help her to cope It will bring her a little joy It’s not my fault that she’s shit outta luck But I’ll buy her a week where she won’t feel so stuck God knows she’s been dreaming of a downstream buck Alright OK What the fuck
3.
Draft Dodgers
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I like a man in uniform She said to her co-workers The creases keep me warm He's just as forward as me So by the time he'd be bored of me He's sailed off to the firestorm Itinerancy is the norm So when I give him all of me There'll be no controversy In his dress whites he looked better In his dress whites he looked better He looked better than in the autumn Coming home in a box #### I like a cougar on a Friday He told his commanding officer Packing up for shore leave holiday She's all about right now Right now is all I got Modern sailors don't tie knots Budweisers & shots Ringing out from the register Always get the best of her In the barlight she looked better In the barlight she looked better She looked better than in the morning Driving him home in her car He said this is my final stand Before they send me to Bumfuckistan You'll be mine forever Forever is half an hour in the back of your sedan Will you keep it if it takes She said I'm pretty sure I can #### He didn't die alone His brothers cradled his head As he bled into the Green Zone But she will never know She just waits for sailors When they go To the bars of San Diego (words and melody by John Lindenbaum)
4.
(Nobel) Infidels
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She said it was done so I reshuffled the deck Shot a text uptown & I was in luck Stack me a new house Think I give a fuck No water off my back I'm modular I make it work With shit straight off the rack #### I'm a modern man I've got no knack for contracts It's complex times I take them as they come Stack me a new house Convention center fling Set against distance nesting I miss you girl I'll be home soon Just thought I’d give a ring #### (Hewing to a dream requires a real fortitude It's a two way street in every pair of eyes Stack me a new house To see the light in all To recognize to deny walls & I give my life I give my last breath To cast ignorance down So how can I ignore How could I just discount This sweet Norweg I found) #### Mama I didn't mean to make you cry Mama I didn't mean to make you cry Wanted you to see that I was strong It went all wrong Mama when do we go back inside #### She said it was on so I reshuffled the deck Sent regrets uptown and ducked into Hallmark Stack me a new house Recalibrated quick No sweat reflex a tic I'm omnibus I’ll make it work Till shit decides to stick
5.
MTV Cops
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You came from the sky Just as earth and fire had swallowed us I did not know if I had long I told my little girl Be strong Be strong You stay strong Then a shaft of light And weight releasing from on top of us As tumult filtered back surrounding us My burning eyes picked out your silhouette And I said not yet not yet not yet And I can see you Reaching through the smoke and dust To lift me up Saying I had nothing to fear I'd prayed so hard for an angel to come and rescue us I said Are you here Right when you arrived I'd just made peace with my husband being gone Years of grieving now I had to move on Promised my girl not to raise her on my own So tired of being alone Then there you were my knight And I knew destiny drew you clear across the earth To bring me life again yes baby you've been my rebirth And these days of my finest dreams' arranging But I feel something changing Oh baby look me in the eye Help me baby as I try to understand I know you mean well you're my upright man But can you see that I need someone Do you just want someone And I can see you But you’re starting to fade Starting to stiffen Each time you turn away My daughter needs a father Who won’t just disappear Are you here #### I can't forget those nights I was a new thing girl I'd never known I was your man & I was all full grown Every sinew singing every time I walked to town You drove me crazy baby never so alive Embedded every night in your sweet caress & every morning rising beside your sweet breath But every day just cut me down Till I said Every single thing I see It just passes straight through me Like I'm a God damned sieve Girl I'm a ghost Haunting someone else's home I don't know what I have to give & I can see you Your brown hair crazed by the wind From the whipping blades As they kick up the sand You said where could I go If it wouldn’t have our bed I said This one is over my head This one is out of my hands & I can see you Reaching out for me From fever dreams In the moment they’re clear Before my parents’ basement closes around me I call out Are you here Are you here Are you here

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XPEP is part two of three of NEW WORLD

Plays off of Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper, 1983); Uptown Girl (Billy Joel, 1983); Just Like Heaven (The Cure, 1987); Pride (In the Name of Love) (U2, 1984); and Boys of Summer (Don Henley, 1984).

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released December 31, 2012

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