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Stranger, come to my room
and lay your head where i do
it's not too soon
there's no such thing, i promise you
Stranger, participate
in conversations with me
it's not too late
oh no this silence won't do
Stranger, know i am weak
know that i want and i seek
so turn your eye to me
Stranger, all life is wild
be still my mind
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Wild, my thoughts they collide
what do i know?
Shy, with doubt upon my mind
what is true for sure?
Quiet, I let the day go by
But there are dead Iranian boys
who have been killed because of love
That will undo this world of war
suddenly i know this fo sure
oh now i know
Things aren't only black and white
I learned long ago
But complications must not leave
you paralyzed
To live and love is not for others
to decide
Know our place is on this earth
loud and wild
Cuz there are dead Iranian boys
who have been killed because of love
That will undo this world of war
suddenly i know this for sure
oh now i know
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oh old moon don't go now
please lend to
me your sober mind
please be one to stay
Long i've looked to the ground
and what i've found are shifting bodies
and passing sounds
But all the while- moon
thought's with lures lowered deep
descending through a hungry sea
of guts and desire
Restless waves in the night
have flooded minds through every age
but all the while- moon
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Don't Ask my name
Don't weigh me down with those things
Give it a break
Bestill my mind
count the hairs upon my head and send each one onward
roll my sleeves up and show me a place unknown to us
hum the sounds of how you were a time before this
show your eyes to me and let me find their colors
But don't ask my name
Don't weigh me down with those things
Give it a break
Bestill my mind
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When the Atmosphere is less than perfect
and you're shaken by the slightest defect
everybody's sittin round
everybody looks depressed
they're drinking way to fast
and they're out of cigarettes
they're wondering if the drinking is all there gonna get
cuz there ain't much goin on
but look closer and you'll see they're wrong
and all the people say:
'Circle nose, oh circle nose
oh why you gotta be a circle nose?'
'Circle nose, oh circle nose
oh why you gotta be a circle nose?'
Hey cutie come over here
It's just a sharpie do no be scared
I promise not to color your hair
I just want to draw a circle there and there and there and there
and there and there and there and there and there
Cuz I notice that you're down
thinking about things as they are
well I do that sometimes
and i don't get very far
may I suggest we undo all these rules we're living in
oh babe, lend me your nose
and i'll show you what the squares don't know
cuz all the squares are saying
'Circle nose, oh circle nose
oh why you gotta be a circle nose?'
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Los Angeles
With your stretched out heart
do we have to part
is that the way itÕs got to be?
Cuz when i'm riding down your boulevards
I don't know where to go
and with the weather never changing
I forget which month i'm in
Mustache men
with you chocolate skin
how do I begin
to live with or without you
and what exactly are the steps one takes
to build a level bridge?
is it sloping slightly downward
do i stand on higher ground?
Cuz i am lonely on this island
and i badly want to cross the sea
Yeah there ain't nothing else with this world
that does what you do to me
Permanence
Can i have this dance?
Wrap your clammy hands
around my neck
and i will follow you
Here we go...
Permanence
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ho are you?
who am i dancing with?
I have opened up my eyes
and you looking nothing like i thought you would
I had a boy around my arms
yes i swear i did
Oh permanence i find that you and eye
we share the same set of eyes
Oh here we go...
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I have got the blues
the chemical blues
I have got the blues so bad
that I don't know what I will do
Don't know when they'll come
don't know why they do
but my brains a river
and the chemicals that run through it are blue
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Magic is real to me
It's lifted me up with its wings
And carried me off to a dream
That didn't require any sleep
But all of the while keeping quiet
You call out it's name but there's no sign of it
'Til it sneaks up on you and explodes
There is evil in this world
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When your hairs a mess
and you don't know how to dress
you've got to have more self confidence
when you hit on square looking guys
When you realize
that you're only attracted to cholos
you spend your days trying to analyze
what that could possibly mean
interlude
When society or the individual
tries to deny, deny, deny
well there ain't no front
or heterosexist stunt
that can keep a queer from a queer
I said there ain't now place
there ain't no escape
because on planet earth
gay is the way
interlude
When you realize
that the straight world wants you to die
You've got to have more self confidence
when you look them right in the eye
I said you've got to have
a song to hum along with
when the tensions high
You've got to have more self confidence
when you look them right in the eye
You've got to have
a song to hum along with
when the time is right
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I went to the bar and all that I saw was: !
I went to the bar and all that I saw was: !
I looked all around, I looked all around, hey!
I couldn't get away from the round round round, hey!
The gay men have round heads
the gay men have round heads
I went to the bar and all that I saw was (round round round..)
I went to the bar and all that I saw was (round round round..)
I looked all around, I looked all around, hey! (round round round..)
I couldn't get away from the round round round, hey! (round round round)
The gay men have round heads
The gay men have round heads
Could it be cuz they don't were baseball hats
(well some of them do, some of them do)
Could it be cuz there ain't no women around
(well that could be true, that could be true)
The gay men have round heads x4
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I've got some wine
let's find a weird place
let's look beyond the bright lights
let's stay outside
Tell me a story
but make it up please
i wanna hear
invention pour out your mind
Talk to me now
as you would talk to
yourself alone
at your boring and repetitive job
Sing me a song
that is a fruit fly
that suddenly
is born and suddenly dies
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Through nonsense I am free
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Recorded in my sisters basement first slowly, and then in a mad flurry. I remember listening to Madonna "Get Together" really loud in headphones to try and clear my head when i would get trapped in a weird funk while making this.
released June 6, 2006
