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Let's Go with It
03:43
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LET’S GO WITH IT
This isn’t what I was intending
Way back at the start
With a view so clean and clear
I envisioned choruses ascending
Pulling at your heart
An orchestra to fall right here
I have watched these plans that I am tending
Falling apart
A fine design but failing venue
This grand banquet turns out in the ending
Sadly ala carte
No resemblance to the menu
I think sometimes I’d like another run
But the last time I checked, man, you only get one
I guess that’s just the way it will be
A vision set aside
The dream downsizing
The unsurprising
The shortcuts and the compromising
There’s no one here to listen but me
I think it’s cut and dried
It’s time to quit
And to admit
The demo’s good, let’s go with it
Someone said that it was never-ending
Fountains of fun
Future fixed and floral-scented
Someone told me we would all be spending
Summers in the sun
Charming, clever and contented
I can wait a whole life for things to roll right
But the guy behind the glass ain’t waitin’ all night
So let’s just stop the clock and call time
And drop the third degree
Idea chasing
Step retracing
Replacing, pacing and erasing
And let’s just say this all could be fine
And wonder could it be
A little bit
Adequate
The demo’s good, let’s go with it
I guess that’s just the way it will be
A vision set aside
The dream downsizing
The unsurprising
The shortcuts and the compromising
There’s no one here to listen but me
I think it’s cut and dried
It’s time to quit
And to admit
The demo’s good, let’s go with it
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I’m mowing the lawn,
And walking the dog
I’m cleaning out the gutters
While the neighbors mutter
In an endless brain fog
The world rotates
On its axis
It may wobble if I don’t
Pay the taxes
Right ob time
That’s what they had in mind
Girl, its not a burden
You can murder me
With those dog eared eyes
You turn the tables
These are the fables of the deconstruction
I’m getting in line
I got a good time
I’m checking out the others
I forgot to call my brothers
But they won’t mind
Deep in sleep
I see Stipe
He tells me that the time is right
To check the stripe
Compared to Swift
The timelines all align
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3. |
Camión
03:13
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CAMIÓN
(Alberto Rodway) Translation of original Spanish-language single from the 2018 LP “Con miedo al amor por las personas sin tiempo" by Detergente Líquido.
If I knew that you would hear me
I would tell you I am weary
From forever fleeing blindly
With my head kept undercover
Where I can’t see any others
Keeping everyone behind me
I’d ask you to help me figure out this song
Will you help me now
I don’t want to be alone ‘cause
I’m afraid that everything will end up wrong
I’m fed up with all the records
That I’ve listened to forever
‘Cause you never listened with me
So they’re nothing I’ll be playing
As I stare down at the paving
Of the street where you are living
And I know this city, but I don’t belong
I’d have run away
If I’d ever learned to change but
It’s too late, I should have known it all along
Now the days are disappearing
If I knew that you would hear me
I’d ask you to help me figure out this song
Will you help me now
I don’t want to be alone ‘cause
I’m afraid that everything will end up
Because I’m afraid that everything will end up
Because I’m afraid that everything will end up
Porque tengo miedo de que todo acabe mal
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4. |
Umbrellas and Parasols
03:38
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UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS
Sometimes something hits you from on high
And it flies in your eyes
Too much rain, too much shine
And you need something between you and the sky
Drop on by, I’m your guy, I supply
Umbrellas and parasols
And it flies in your eyes
Too much rain, too much shine
Drop on by, I’m your guy, I supply
Umbrellas and parasols
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The World Is What You Think It Is
You see yellow I see red
Look at all the books we've read
I've turned onto a new page
And find I'm lost in haze
There's things I can't unsee
I wouldn't and I couldn't be
We're the judge and the jury
Of everything we'll ever be
The world is what you think it is
So be careful what you think it is
Driving round in minivans
Or eating dinner out of cans
All we do is try our best
The world's a hotel, we're the guests
I don't know what path we're on
Walking around Walden Pond
I went there to get away
And find I'm lost for full days
There's new things that I see
Counting four before three
We're the judge and the jury
Of everything we'll ever be
The world is what you think it is
So be careful what you think it is
I don't what's at the end
Is it Eden it depends
I can't say with certainty
Were the path leads expertly
And maybe its just the journey
That lasts for all eternity
And all the things we do amaze
And leaves us lost for always
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6. |
Running into the Past
04:27
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RUNNING INTO THE PAST
Her name was Marie, from Alsace Lorraine
Arrived with her sister in 1919
She put out a sign on her store on St. Clair
Sold imported groceries, right over there
And there stood the cooper
And there stood the tailor
A man shaking hands with the Chevrolet dealer
I think that they’re here
I think that they’re hiding
Just under the paint
Just under the siding
I’m running into the past
To everyone who’s run before me
I’m running into the past
To find some kind of message there
I’m running into the past
To chase these ghosts who just ignore me
I’m running into the past
To find it isn’t anywhere
What did they do, and what did they say
The day that they stood where I’m looking today
This old painted storefront is faded and peeling
But in the right light I can still get the meaning
And there stood the shopgirl
And there stood the waiter
A guy trying a line on the ticket-taker
Don’t wait for their words
Don’t watch for their waving
They move in the mortar
Mixed in with the paving
Fast as I can
Run as I may
It keeps slowly
Pulling away
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NON-CONTIGUOUS ANNEXATION
Hey look over there
That object shiny and interesting
It took me from where
I was looking before but that’s no big thing to me
‘Cause you see
I’m everywhere but I can manage
I plead guilty
To attention-deficit advantage
No thing too mundane
Too trivial or deathly boring
Ka-ching goes my brain
Chasing off again as I’m ignoring
Where I had my eye just a second ago
But you gotta understand
New stuff, sign me up
I don’t know what comes next but it won’t be planned
Everything there to uncover
Nothing leading to another
If I fixed on things it would be fixation
Non-contiguous annexation
I go all around
And around and around and around and around again
Yo, what’s that sound
Or that word or that place or whatever I found again
Can you withstand the world’s most infinitesimal attention span?
Not a fan?
Well not so fast ‘cause did I mention
Everything there to uncover
Nothing leading to another
Don’t stop the train, I have no station
Non-contiguous annexation
Nothing followed up upon
Every sequitur a non
All I see is non-contiguous annexation
Non-contiguous annexation
The world is one big invitation
Without sequence or relation
And all for me, it’s non-contiguous annexation
Non-contiguous annexation
And everything there to uncover
Nothing leading to another
And all I’ll be is non-contiguous annexation
Non-contiguous annexation
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8. |
Latch Assembly
00:41
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I say let’s go to the beach
Put our problems all out of reach
It’s been a crazy year
I’m exhausted and today the skies are clear
Put the beach blankets down on the sand
Lets walk for miles just hand in hand
Take a look at sun and the sea
And don’t worry about
What’s the matter with me
Beach baby, beach baby
Throw me a line
‘Cause I’m not gonna drown this time
I’m looking at old maps today
Before everything went on our phones
Let’s drive from the northern bays
To the places we want to call home
Find the spot with the perfect breeze
And the sea salt foam just kissing our knees
We can fix all our problems some other day
But for now I only have just one thing to say
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10. |
Maybe Love
03:24
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MAYBE LOVE
St. Paul smells like hash browns
And a storm coming
And my 15 year old Honda
Keeps running
Well It’s over to Lex
to 7th Street West
a few miles more to 494
In the beginning of the end
Here I go again
The conversation in my cortex
Is unbecoming
Over here you have succeeding
And over there succumbing
Gradations of grey
Every which way
Its mirrors and smoke
I’m never in on the joke
And it’s good as guaranteed
We’ve all just buried the lede
And then I see right through to view the blue above
It comes without a warning
The sun came out this morning
I in vain try to explain the source thereof
I don’t know
You suppose
Maybe love
And then I hear the muffled music through the wall
And if I’m lucky sometimes
I just make out the bass line
But the lyrics are all untranslatable
¿Sabré más?
Ah, quizás
Maybe love
And then I see right through to view the blue above
It comes without a warning
The sun came out this morning
I in vain try to explain the source thereof
You suppose
I don’t know
Maybe love
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11. |
Richard Nixon
02:57
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Tenets in common
Tenets in common
Tenets in common
I'm not a zealot
I can't spell it
If you closed my eyes on it
I could forget it
If you'd let it
if you'd only let it lie
I forgot my keys
I forget my keys
I had to go to Target to pick up a few things
Richard Nixon begged me to come along
And against my better judgment I said sure
But there he is jumpin up and down
Pointing at the Icee machine
You don't get a Icee everytime you go to Target
Richard Nixon
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12. |
Kind of in Love
02:43
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You think it's easy
But it's not easy at all
You think I'm crazy
And on that count
You may be right
I'm kind of in love
Not sure I deserve that
I'm kind of in love
Not sure I deserve that
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13. |
As the Romans Do
03:17
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AS THE ROMANS DO
Once upon a time we made a little record
And played it around and no one much cared
We put it online and had a few printed
Got a box in the basement, somewhere down there
And one fine day from way far away
An unexpected notification
One of our songs was featured on
A genuine Italian Internet radio station
So of course we looked it up and then sure enough
Preceded by a Euro-cool station ID
The opening chords of a song heretofore
Pretty much exclusively heard by Mitch and me
And how we made our way to that DJ
We guess we’ll probably never ever know
But if we ever get to Rome someday
We’d like a chance to say “Bongiorno, Massimo”
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
As the Romans do
La porta
La tavola
La lampada
La finestra
Il quadro
Fare ...
As the Romans do
So we dwelt for a time in Italian sunshine
With PJ Harvey, Daft Punk and The Wedding Present
Hey, stations around — know that we find the sound
Of being back-announced in unfamiliar languages to be quite pleasant
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14. |
Restaurants Near Me
00:49
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Cause I'm hungry
And I'm searching for
"restaurants near me"
Cause I'm hungry
And I'm searching for
"restaurants near me"
Are you hungry?
And searching for
"restaurants near me"
Cause I'm hungry
And I'm searching for
"restaurants near me"
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15. |
The Usual Discomfort
04:12
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Trademark Issues
NC/MN. A two-person, long-distance band whose members have spoken directly only twice. Fourth full-length album 601 DELUXE releasing July 28, 2023.
Twitter: @TrademarkIssues
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