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Embouchure, Remain!
03:22
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How am I gonna hack it, friend?
Poet laureate? This is no time to pretend
I speak just like every kid
Us kids all talk the same
Tickle the ivories? I've not got a single titter out of these
Need not be a prodigy
Just need something to be
Innovating, obfuscating - an instrument I already can play!
Remember how the pistons fall, the crowds and the acclaim
And by extension all the world cheers
Passions aflame
Terrified of what remains, how days would stay the same
'cause even with you it is hard enough
Embouchure remain!
Spare yourself, don't think through
Ten year olds who know much more of this than you
They've not got a thing to prove
No down time to undo
Hook or crook to the stage
I will chisel out the friday evening rage
Sing loudly and sleep at night
This listlessness assuaged
Bus to the sea, burn my degree and never work another job again
Maybe I've gone to deluded mania once more
But maybe I will breathe again this pulse rise from the floor
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I Am Fictional
03:05
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Interactions I see, well
Like an extraterrestrial
Or android like computer man
Some cycling code stuffed in a can
With obscure films and TV shows
To splice into his human prose
To fool the population there
That he's from Earth, from anywhere
Hey man, you talkin' to me?
No it's an amalgam of all the things that I've seen
Body snatching shifting man
And actor with a habit and an unknowing fan
So give me your eyes, give me your ears,
Or I might just become someone else
So lets dispel that apathy
Here's loads more eccentricity
Idioms that I adore
Outdated? Love 'em even more!
Obsessions I hyperbolize
So Austin can be characterized
As an enigmatic younger son
But I'm fiction, I'm no one
And one day they will all try me
For my Frankenstein identity
Screenwriters and dramatists
Flood my home with cease and desists
And those I've known who once found bliss
From my affected humorousness
Will grow bored fast and turn their heads
To those tapes of XFM instead
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Keep It
02:49
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I apologize for the implications of dinner tonight
I'll pay the check and go so please remove that look of fright
But I've just got one wish, ensemble make it true
I just need one of you - preferably the best of you
Some say the eyes betray the innards of the soul
But those girls gazing back their eyes just say "we know"
"We know you're depraved!
We know what you dread
We know you don't want us to know of the movies that we
Co-star in, in your head
We know that you love us!
And you know what we think about that
So keep it under wraps"
And I apologize for my competitive approach
My twisted outlook I guess justifies your strong reproach
But if in unison you all declared "kid we love you"
I'd abandon this sad pursuit - yeah I desperately pursue
Metaphoric hypodermics poured lust in my veins
Now every unrelated laugh shouts be ashamed
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Amorphous
03:05
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Turns out that the trumpet's not a time machine
No solvent to your undiluted shame
It isn't what the charlatans inside your head
Had promised would paste future o'er the blame
Slides of brass and Harmon mutes don't work like quarks
Can't hurdle you through time to set things right
You'll start to sit and wonder if that's all your fault
But don't shut down your symphony tonight
Cause since times have changed, don't it follow times will change
This was heard by no man just to spite you but you never will succumb
If you're not the same, do you think you'll stay forever this?
Can't endure it? Some man will - the man that you'll become
Troubles may besiege you every endless day
And monsters will surpass you in the start
You'll have to sit and watch the color drain away
Then turn that achromatic world to art
You'll confront that apathetic, awful land
Will swim the seas of nothingness for years
Then pour your painted dreams onto the grey, blank earth
For your own sake, not for the past, not for the cheers
Cause since times have changed, don't it follow times will change
This was heard by no man just to spite you but you never will succumb
If you're not the same, do you think you'll stay forever this?
Can't endure it? Some man will - the man that you'll become
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Austin J Martin Tempe, Arizona
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