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Notes Written on Basil
04:10
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He doesn't want any crazy dancing, just red wine and ""Darling, You Send Me""
And not everyone in the crowd can sing, but there are thousands and thousands.
""Darling, You Darling, You Send Me""
What do wear to someone's death? What was Petronius' last meal?
We drive down Union and take a left, just like so many times before.
The girls will be present, reserved, and polite and the booze will keep the bruises away.
As patriarchy turns to slumber and dusk turns to night, this was just another way to embarrass them.
""What have we done?"" On the devon with outstretched arms
no difficulty leaving a cold, white room
""Go to sleep old man. You are certainly not alone.""
Some people say they want to die in their sleep, but I think ""My God, what a horrible dream.""
Me, I want to get shot in the gut and bleed to death right there on the 50-yard-line,
and watch them all silently scream.
This is it, and this is it, and this is it, and this is and this is it, and this it.
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Interrogations
03:59
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He's got a million dollar view of the sunrise,
Cashmere slippers on his pedicured feet.
He's continents away from his wishing wells
and the death and the desert heat.
And I made my bed,
I made my bed.
She's had enough of the nephews
and all of their clipboard-chained lies
Capfuls of scripted apple juice
And sad goodbyes
Come a little closer if you want to know
Where i hid my blues.
I wrote them down in one of those books that you gave me,
but I've got some bad news.
That I made my bed.
I made my bed.
She sleeps with one hand wrapped tight around the curtain
Another hand pressed flat up against the wall
That man in that chair's just a coat hanging there,
but he's staring at you and daring you to fall
She sleepwalks through her days
and through what must feel like hallucinations,
and the angels keep her awake at night
with their vigorous interrogations.
And I made my bed.
I made my bed.
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Slingshots
04:06
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I need panic and purple metal fool's gold
paint the stairs blue and turn the strobe onto hold.
Keith won't give up until you get there with them cigars,
and black won't be blue until the sharks get past the sandbars
For you. You. You.
C'mon get your shoulders to the stone wheel boys, and get it turning.
Alex said common sense should've been your first warning.
If it's green, keep it away until it gets grey and white, and
for the last time, keep your hands off my goddam wife.
La Ooooh. La Oooh. La Ooooh.
I need panic to make my thoughts go faster.
Well, your papa left you alone, and now somehow, you're the bastard
And Pennsylvania Avenue gets cluttered with broken weather balloons
They got million dollar slingshots, and they got eyes like gunshot wounds.
AAAAH OOOOOOOOOH!
AAAAH OOOOOOOOOH!
AAAAH OOOOOOOOOH!
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4. |
Wait On Me
06:16
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She made the tea so dark and sweet
Just like her granddaughter's Cherokee eyes.
And there's a salesman in New York,
who knows her shoe size by heart.
And there's no such thing as a walking stick
made with too much care or pride.
A gentleman wears a tie
and makes sure not to be late.
So always say goodbye, and take any advice you can find.
Always know what you want, even though you may not get it.
And wait on me, my darling. I'll be coming home soon.
And wait on me, my darling. I'll be coming home soon.
And if I flew forty thousand miles,
would you let me crash into your room?
When you're shaking like a leaf on a vine
and my arms can only do so much.
I love to watch you fall in February,
before you ever had his watch
before you knew I wasn't perfect
and before our little car went dead.
So take this with you always, and steal only what you need.
Never sign the registry at a sheriff's visitation.
And wait on me, my darling. I'll be coming home soon.
Wait on me, my darling. I'll be coming home soon.
And there's nothing sadder than goodbye
or better than hot coffee and that first cigarette,
unless you count the nights together
that I still cry when I remember.
He said ""everybody walks a road,
and no one gets to choose the view,
but a smart man buys insurance
and mails his payments in on time.""
So, always tip your hat, and say ""Hello"" to the nice girls.
And don't be mean to your Mama, cause you know she don't deserve it.
And wait on me, I'll be coming home
soon.
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5. |
So Long, Sweet Lime
04:45
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So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
I pulled the hedges open, and now I'm listening.
To your subjective display of your objective opinion.
So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
To have a good time, we put the hog back on.
Ran up on a twenty, and skipped a stone on the pond.
I'd rather have nothing to say than to have something so wrong.
So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
I burned the paper I had no other choice.
But I read your press release in an old Village Voice.
Nobody comes here to make it all we're making is noise, so come join.
So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
Maybe you think about it so much it looks like you don't.
Say ""You could sell used cars."" Don't think I won't.
I'm gonna buy us a big house in the country when somebody gives us a loan. We'll go on home.
So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
So long, Sweet Lime.
So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
So long, Sweet Lime. We broke the moon again.
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Afton Wolfe Nashville, Tennessee
Afton is a product of his home, Mississippi. It is the birthplace of at least 2 American art forms: country
music
and blues music. Meridian is the birthplace of Jimmy Rodgers, while the Mississippi Delta is the
birthplace of the blues, and the first rock n’ roll notes ever played, according to some music historians,
came from Hattiesburg. Afton also draws much of his style from nearby New Orleans.
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