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My baby sings to her dogs
She tells me I can’t sing along
She sings to them all throughout the day
And that’s when I start to complain, that the
Love in her eye, is missing from mine
And the tune that she sings, fills me with longing
But she draws, the line, at her dogs
I drop by her place on a Monday
And ask if her dogs want to play
A single tear forms in her eye
And I ask her why is it you cry, well my
Dogs, she conveys, have all run away and I
Can’t seem to find, their tracks in the pines
Won’t you please, help me, find my dogs?
I searched through those woods for ten years
I heard no such barking my dear
She says they’ve been gone far too long
And she starts to sing me a new song, about
Dogs that have turned, to science for sure
And have learned to survive in the wild countryside,
And the tune that she sings
Sounds like such a sad thing
It brings me to tears, for the pain in my ears
Must belong, to her song, and her dogs
Her scientific dogs are somewhere in the bog when I met you
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S’Leech, Baby
02:34
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My baby wants to know
Just where I will go
He clings to my body like a leech
He follows me everywhere
He can trace the scent in my hair
His tiny body sticks to me
He drinks my blood
So I cannot run
There must be some way to be free
I peel off my skin
But I can’t find him
I’m free but I am bleeding
Will he return for feeding?
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Not Today!
05:36
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I had a dream that you abandoned this place
I dreamt about a map I’d love to erase
I try to dream about the age growing into your face
I met a girl who was a bit older than me
She went so far away to her university
Seems like you and she and everyone else is ditching me
Why are they leaving?
What have I done to see them go?
Will they ever come back here?
Not today
There’s no home for you, but once there was
Now it’s a dream in the eye of the person you love
Why are they moving?
What do they think they’ll find out there?
All that they need is right here
Not today
Don’t waste all your goodbyes
On the moving day
There’s always one more
That you can’t ignore
With nothing to say
Some day I might join them
I’ll leave you in this place
But I don’t want their lives
I never knew mine
But I can’t wait
Now that I’ve left here
I found no one to take their place
Will they feel like me some day?
Not today
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Late at night, you and I
Xs on the backs of our hands
Walking home, after a show
I can tell that you were not a fan
Because
All of the bands we saw
Played one song too long
If you were on that stage
They’d hang their heads in shame
But I know you’re a star
I know all your songs by heart
Just don’t forget to write
One for the way you feel tonight
There’s no song too slow
But there’s no one at your show
I’ll save you the last slow dance
If you can write a fast song for your band
It’s so quiet, guitar so silent
You haven’t even picked up a pen
One more show, of rock and roll
I think I need to take you out again
But you say:
All of the bands we see
Don’t sound a thing like me
They just play their songs
We stand by the wall and nod along
Why can’t they seem to write,
Slow songs that everyone would like?
Just don’t forget to say
How much you love the songs I play
There’s no song too slow
But there’s no one at your show
I’ll give you one last chance
To write one fast song for your band
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Unadulterated Pit Access
00:53
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See You Underground
03:29
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Late at night I have dreamed of your face
I can’t help myself, I won’t be disgraced
I dig you up one last time
I just hope you don’t mind, do you?
All that’s left is your hair and your bones
And a plastic ring I found on the sea side when we were alone
Arrange your bones on my bed
Your skull lay against my head
And I say:
Some day far from now
I’ll see you underground
And some day you will see
Just how much you mean to me
But I’ve said too much now
You touch your distal phalanx against my mouth
And you say:
Let me go, baby, oh please let me go
Please put me back into the ground where I can wait alone
Don’t worry, I’ll see you soon
I’ll be right here waiting for you
Because
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I planted you, for all to see
Out in the yard, with just one seed
In days you peaked, out of the earth
In years you swelled, to mammoth girth
After forty years, I came to you
But I found you dry, and splintered through
Your branches bent, and your roots torn
Don’t cry my dear, I’m the one who mourns
They’ve been coming today
With their tractor and chains
With their saws and their big old greasy grinder for your grain
I tried to block off the path
They just sit there and laugh
So I cut their break lines and tie myself to your shaft
I won’t let them get through
I place my soul here for you
I won’t ever let them cut you down and turn you into sawmill stew
I’ve been out here all night
Strapped to all of your might
Wind blowing through your empty branches gives them fright
They arrive with the dew
With the boys in the blue
They cut me off of you so I give them a lickin’ to
I sit right here in the jail
Just begging to be bailed
They cut you down and cart you off while I get knifed by Kyle and realize that you are gone and I have failed
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Let me tell 'bout a memory from then
I was 17 and she came walking, walking in
The music rose inside me I cannot deny
I took her by the hand and looked into her eye
That’s the first of many things I wish I lost
To see her hips go back and forth across the hall
I wish I woulda known just how it all would end
But I never listened even though she said
Don’t forget
I snuck outside one night to meet her in the street
She showed up right on time and swept me off my feet
She drove me outta town with cheap beer and weed
Out to the desert where she took that thing, took it from me
That’s another time I wish I could not see
Her hips were rocking back and forth across the seat
I wish I woulda known just how it all would end
But I never listened even though she said
Don’t forget
Another time she drove me home around eleven
She parked around the corner, ignored what I was saying
She killed the lights and pulled her shirt up to her neck
As the cars went by I hid behind her breast
That’s another time I wish I did not know
Her hips were holding me before she had to go
I watched the cars go by as soon as she had gone
To this day I wish I never woulda wrote this song
Don’t cry my darling dear
You know that I would never leave you here
If I only see you one last time
I won’t forget the way your hand just seems to fit in mine
I should go, I told my father I would be home by 12
I can’t stand to leave you now, can’t you tell?
But all I wanna do is stay here with you
Maybe we can run away to some place new
Somewhere far away from everything I know
Far from violent hands and thoughts without any hope
Some place safe and quiet, some place he can’t see
Some place he’ll never look, some place for you and me
That’s another time I never want to lose
How good you looked that night before it all went blue
Why’d it have to happen? Why’d you have to know?
We could have ran away and never let each other go
The summer wind was blowing in from the east
The last time we met, she said, don’t you forget about me
Then she was gone and her father went to jail
No one could find her body and he would not tell
It’s all the things like this I don’t want to recall
Her hips had vanished and were floating in a bog
I wish I hadn’t ever known about her fate
I guess that’s simply one of those memories I can’t erase
Though I try, try and try
Don’t cry my darling dear
You know that I would never leave you here
If I only see you one last time
I won’t forget your hand in mine
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This Active Dad Coos Bay, Oregon
Aaron plays stuff.
defectivebat@gmail.com
AKA This Active Moth. Aka This Active Dad and the Moths.
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