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Purple Eyes
04:09
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While young you were my only breath of air
Attaching plastic ears to my brown hair
And the oranges that I threw
At Jordan and the others
You washed my dirty feet with olive oil
Me and Jordan broke the windows of the car
Painted pictures with oil on the mirror of the side door
I don't know if you were angry
Or if you even knew,
I just wish you'd known we painted them for you
In a house that lives forever in my mind
You brought us all the things our fathers would not buy
And the things your brought to teach us
Were written on our bookshelves
And the tape players would play till late at night
Christmas came and it hadn't snowed for years
Just kept waiting for our things to all appear
In matching baseball t-shirts
And unsuspecting faces
Oh how I loved your faded purple eyes
My sister puts her hands around my neck
And just keeps telling me that time is all that's left
But I keep looking at the pictures
Of something I remember
But its not there now so where did it all go?
Did you walk with me the days my feet were sore?
Were you there when dark Bernardo came to shore?
Did your body fill the room
When me and Jenny told the truth?
Do you live more like a ghost or like the moon?
The spirits that now line the summer's sky
Where do you put our grandmas when they die?
The ones that we all love, tell us what do they become?
I sat in the Grand Caravan and cried.
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Aristotle
03:45
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Aristotle,
meet me in the middle
Everything that I've been sold
Is getting hard to swallow.
Can't we make a bargain?
Just tell me what am I supposed to do
With pockets as empty as mine
I'd stop returning my calls too.
I met you in an open house
The walls were black
You started bleeding from your mouth
Without a sound
You paint the walls with gold
If they were young or white or old
I've been eating from that sheet
Still get so sick that I can't sleep
Oh, Commander
Putting your feet upon the ocean floor
You've had all the answers,
Still ask questions, I don't know what for.
Its just that in the present
I build my mansions in the vapor sky
Thought that's what you meant by that, but
I think you had something else in mind
You set the open walls to flame
You came outside and started dreaming from your mouth
With open sound
How do I still get so lost
Waiting for something, someone?
Try to do it all myself
When its already been done.
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