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The Soft War

by Golden Birds

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1.
Border Patrol 01:47
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It's twenty of seven And still you haven't come by I'm trying to keep my hands steady As I balance salt shakers And the border patrol is trying to find a foothold Against a virus Keep seeing scenes from last night Where I can't buy my way into your sight The jokes went across me above me behind me I was novelty an audience a tourist economy And so I spoke a little too loud And I cleared my throat a lot And when you lost me for a minute in a crowd Your disembodied laughter hit me like a gunshot whoo -- Now I declare myself out of reach Eye contact's a contract and you are in breach And I will beat my pride down And I won't serve your world as a clown -- And I'm not talking about any of those Bemused field studies Dripping down that Anglo-Saxon nose Pooling at your feet And I will beat whatever may rise down And I won't serve your world as a clown
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Celebrity Divorce 04:14
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I'm gonna have a baby Big and strong And beautiful for all the world to see And everywhere I go You'll see my baby in tow And every time you see my baby you'll think of me I'm gonna have a baby To keep me warm And occupied when everyone's outside I'll keep my baby company I'll keep it safe from harm And my baby's gonna keep me satisfied I'm gonna have a baby Gonna give it a name Teach it how to speak so it'll never bore me So then so what if I'm so shy If I sit silently by I'll just be letting my baby do the talking for me -- I'll just be waiting on the irony Hoping it inspires me I've got two voices in my head And both of them said You don't desire me -- I'm gonna have a baby We'll be a team Us against the world and always on our court And always by our rules And always in our dream Rocking each other to sleep when we need support -- So rock on all you beautiful people Rock on all you beautiful ones -- I'm gonna have a baby Big and strong And beautiful for all the world to see And everywhere I go You'll see my baby in tow And every time every time every time every time every time Waiting Hoping Voices Inside of me Inciting me Desire me baby -- We've got listening satellites Canvassing the skies sure to see the score We've got glistening satellites Canvas in the sky shore to sea to shore We've got spy satellites now Canvas in disguise circling wagons for war So what do I need you for Baby I've got eyes on me I've got tabs on me With or without you -- Disarm me baby
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Commander 03:10
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Dear I've gotta tell you something terrible I'm a cannibal Eat bitten nails by the handful Yes baby I'm nervous it's just this isn't a first for me Sense of a debt of transparency Sense that though nothing is yet amiss All that solved me was a lucky guess Dear I fear it's unforgivable Love so criminal But something's gotta keep this stomach full And so it's the gullible eating the gullible Lying in wait for the curious at heart I mystify them then I rip them apart You've been treading deep water from the start With a life vest of a lucky guess Dear now here's something confidential I'm a vegetable Complete disconnect I just hide it well Treat my guests with perfect civility But who wants to wager and who needs to grow Instead I dream of the day when under a mountain I'll go To wrap myself in riddles only I can see Finally king of the perfect mystery So give me my ring back Give me my ring back I don't want to be seen anymore -- I was sold on love for a while Now I'm looking to buy again Sold on the dove for a while But it flew out of sight And precious I fall for too much Precious you be my crutch Precious keep me in touch I was sold on love for a while Now I'm looking to buy again Sold on above for a while But those roads went too high Now I'm looking to buy And precious time's jaw's are so strong I need you to push on Precious where have you gone I was sold on love for a while Now I'm looking to buy again Sold on soul for a while Never kissed any sky Precious why do we try But together You and I We will survive Even when nothing else did It's just you and me kid -- The man who's a dreamer Who never takes leave Who sings of a world that's just make believe Will never know passion Will never know pain Who sits by the window Will one day see rain
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Carrier 03:28
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You know the look slack jaw eyes wide Working the phantom face a clear white sky Quick blink quick twitch side to side That's me half the time At least half the time You know the face sick flicking eyes Working the slack jaw side to side Quick phantom blink wide phantom stride That's me half the time At least half the time You know the phantom slow weary sigh Working the clear white slack inside That's me half the time At least half the time -- You want to press my glass Feel your firm new flesh press back Well I was water sugar and you've fallen in Now I wash over you fresh again I am the fish in your hand I am the missing rug I have no use for dry land Here in the hole that I've dug -- My baby carries a thermometer in her purse And strain in her face from always bracing against the worst She says everyone has a secret love affair with a malady So don't take it out on yourself We're suckling it we're suckling it honey Sniffing for lions in our headlines and live feeds We're suckling it we're suckling it honey With hall-of-mirrors smiles administering our IVs We're suckling it we're suckling it honey To the sound of a heartbeat Eyes tongues and dreams glued to the sheen Wooing a malady
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Spelled Out 02:39
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I'm in your inner ear boy I'm in your inner ear I'm in your inner ear boy I'm in your inner ear I'm in your inner ear boy I'm in your inner ear Now can you hear me Now you can't balance without me feeling generous now -- I thought I'd shaken you -- It's in the water It's in the water It's in the water and you gotta drink It's in the water It's in the water This shit's a craft there's nothing solid beneath -- Now can you hear me Can you see me now I'm patient shall I spell it out -- Now in Florida Hurricanes don't dissuade They root on they root on they root on For daddy's team in salvaged beach chairs laid out in the shade Of rubble piles and exposed beams While up in Maine Commuter nets expand A cell phone in the hand They're overfishing the land And in La Jolla where the coyotes roam In sun-dried Toyotas leading new charges new home It's shoot to kill It's fire at will Go it alone Just don't let's tell Jonas he doesn't need to know And in Bellingham Concerned citizens Are doing it for the kids While down the mighty M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I As injun rouletting bleeds the countryside dry You can find Huck drunk off bubbly under a darkening sky Fumbling Tommy Tell me I mean I don't miss the slumming But tell me true What do you think Old friend Of what I'm becoming On down to Santa Maria The pilgrims flood Their prince on display Nails in the wood To see as he rose from the grave Mark of the beast only mud Well I wanted blood I wanted blood I wanted blood I wanted blood -- Now can you hear me Can you see me Can you feel me Are we dizzy now
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Bloodstream 03:12
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No more the play the thing Come time to cut the fat Come time to take the hose And lay the whole bare I'm trying to find clothes I can wear anywhere I'm wearying of all these hats In a scene I met a man And he said things he didn't mean And he wore things he didn't own He spoke of places to which he'd never been He had no home -- And when has sunk the sun And no reflections shine And all we've left to show Is all we've left behind And all we carry on In our bloodstream In our spine What will grow in our soul Will anything that comes to my mind be mine In a scene I met a man And he thought that wars were fought on foreign soil And he bought the whores work in the corporate store And he sought diplomatic immunity Eating his papers claiming refugee He had no home -- Carrion and scavengers remain A scorched floodplain A dirty south Full of emaciated furtive things all foaming at the mouth Frank Chus cashiers casseurs And a hot-or-notzi paparazzi And we were always savages they say Welcome back to your natural state Enough with your huffing puffing airs Hon who the fuck do you think cares For your flesh over your super-8 Or for some antiquated inner state Now we have got to salvage some refrain Unearth some bedrock in this sand And shore this shit up While we can still feel it slipping through our hands May this be our legacy May we be a worthy ancestry
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90 80 70 04:28
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It's beautiful It's desolate My brain's on fire A funeral A coup d'etat A radiant pyre Shit yeah I lost you again Look just keep talking just keep talking Fuckin' dust and rock keep on blocking my cellular wires And Reno's just around the corner -- Shooting off sparks Overtaking the tyres Glowing in the dark Higher -- (Shit yeah I lost you again) And Reno's just around the corner (Shit yeah I lost you again) Reno's just around the corner (Shit yeah I lost you again) -- What do I tell her Do I warn her
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Ambien Waves 01:40
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Barry’s seething on the TV Can’t we talk baseball In between the Ambien waves And Viagra falls Durham’s dreaming of exotic game Blue devilled balls in a bull meat market Full of desperate exhibitionists MBA presidents Attorneys calling press conferences Singing mind your business Like these boys do -- But you Your eyes catch me innocently To pull me out to take me in without a hook I like the way you look

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released July 7, 2009

Mission Freak / Three Ring Records

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