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Pokies
03:38
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I calculate the time that I need
to give you space so you can breathe
Unwanted acts on a drip feed
A fucked-up dynamic that you can't unsee
Thank goodness that you can't see my dreams
Not a toy that you can win at a show,
Nor the dessert that you beg for
But the reward schedule makes that image grow
You have made your opinion known
How long 'til you stop treating me?
How long until you stop treating me?
Like a slot machine
Like a goddamn pokie
Pull the lever you know you want to
your anatomy feeling blue
You said it's time for a breakthrough
C'mon do the damage that you can't undo
Don't poke the beast
Stop prodding me
Persephone
And the pomegranate seed
Stop poking me
don't prod the beast
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Lead Balloon
04:28
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There's snot on your knuckle,
I don't want to see.
get me out of here
while you have been seething
I've been breathing
Air I don't want to be
The sweat and the sulfur,
you perspire.
I'm on your lead now
like a lead balloon
You're going to break me
or take me
higher and higher
You want to know what it is to watch you grow
but you'll never know, you'll never know
something that is so incomprehensible
you'll never know, you'll never know
as sure as the sun will rise and the day will go
out of this vessel,
and into the night.
'it's not my body'
did I get that right?
You've been touching me in places
I don't like
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Horseshoe
05:40
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"Why are you so afraid?
There's no violence"
It's not that fair
You leave me locked in here
I bleed, I bleed
Because you're bleeding me
From the shallow end
Scooped me up with all my friends
then you whisk us away
for our Limulus Amebocyte Lysate
Because we bleed, we bleed
We bleed
You're bleeding me
A fossil alive
you use me to fertilise
guess it's just my lot in life
When we reincarnate hope its you not I
When we reincarnate hope its you not I
When we reincarnate hope its you not I
In another life
In another life
You'll bleed, you will bleed
You'll bleed
When you're not bleeding me
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Superstitions
04:35
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I can't help looking forward
I want to try to live in the moment
You've pushed yourself out on a ledge
your denial hits you over the head
its a metaphor of what you believe
sounds to me like a tall conspiracy
only trust alternative news
come back to me when it is peer-reviewed
you cannot face the inexplicability
nor peer through the fabric of reality
you've got superstitions
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Of Cloven Hoof in Honey
by Nika Mo
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Waterworks (EP1)
by Blue Waters
Pared back but full; the tasteful Tweedy-esque solo that closes 'On the Water' is scrumptious.
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