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Black Box Recorder
03:02
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The people we want don't want us
We don't like the people who do
It's us v. the city
We don't need your cesspity
But I think we need something brand new
It sounds like the black box recorder
Is sending a weak SOS
And a pale imitation of sexual frustration
Maybe we just need a new address
With just these bridges left standing
Which ones do you burn
Which ones do you throw yourself off?
Let's gather round and feel alone
Even outside of the congestion zone
Even inside a brand new postal code
Welcome home
And a pale imitation of sexual frustration
Maybe I just need a new address
Thank fuck for all this thick skin
Bad feelings and good just can't get in
Just the twitches and cramps
Needles and pins
Welcome home
Sometimes I should just shut my mouth
And stop all the bad things falling out
But it's hard to get wet during the drought
Welcome home
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Friends With No Benefits
03:02
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I've written all these bad jokes
But missing out the punchlines
So all that's left is a setup
That only sometimes rhymes
I've got a message for you
Without a return address
It only says that your workplace crush
Doesn't share, share in your interest
Not sure if I'm falling ill
Or just plain falling through love
Sometimes you gotta snap some fingers off
To make your hand fit the glove
Cause every time there's fireworks
Someone ends up getting burned
I should've passed the test by now
But I, I forget what I learned
So I've been writing bad jokes
Mr Sandman
Don't be so mean
You're pushing all of my buttons
But I'm not a machine
Not sure if i'm falling ill
Or just plain falling through love
Sometimes you gotta snap some fingers off
To make your hand fit the glove
Cause every time the spark goes out
Things splutter to an end
More friends with no benefits
and we're, we're not even good friends
So I've been writing bad jokes
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Piñata
03:17
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The end of this rope
Fits even better the second time around
Come and take a swing
Let's spill the stuffing all across the ground
She said I miss the nightlife
The empty shopping malls
But I'm only here for for new material
And I said fine, that's just fine
Just cut me out a straight-jacket
The colour of red wine
Autograph the plaster cast
And pick me out a bow-tie
That'll go with the death mask
A new set of teeth
To puncture fluteholes up and down my back
Come and take a swing
Maybe the third time will open up the cracks
She said I miss the nightlife
The empty shopping malls
But I'm only here for for new material
I said I miss the taste of weekend cereal
And the pressure building behind both my eyeballs
And I said fine, that's just fine
Just cut me out a straight-jacket
The colour of red wine
Autograph the plaster cast
And pick me out a bow-tie
That'll go with the death mask
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In Foreign Tongues
03:23
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When I novelised my silent film
I tried to fill the gaps with vapours and gas
I dug my grave and then I planted a seed
That won't ever grow
In London in late August, there is no sun
Just clouds and rain disrupting museum visits
Plenty of chlorophyll but no photosynthesis
It's the curse of my own gender
A not-so hidden agenda
It's the curse, it's the worst
Maybe all anybody wants is
Just a reflection of themselves
Eye-to-eye so you don't have to try
And maybe all anybody wants is
Just a way to not grow up
But the fountain of youth
Isn't idiot-proof
With a bow in your hair
And my stomach in knots
Not the famous arrow
More like a rabies shot
I hear the name in foreign tongues
Nestled inside the blackened lung
Inside specimen jars
Inside the stillborn young
It's the curse of my own gender
A not-so hidden agenda
In the summer you can find yourself
But there's no guarantee that you will like what you find
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