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Dream Baby
04:34
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All my babies had the softest skin
Too tender to touch without breaking it
It’s a dream, it’s a life
Say we won’t, not tonight
Dream baby, dream
You had one and you’d had them all
Led them by the hand, watched them fall
I couldn’t carry them all
I don’t care at all
An abject love, a killer touch
Even without it I still feel you too much
Dream baby dream
Dream baby dream
Dream baby dream
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2. |
Blade in the Stream
06:11
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Give me hell
Look how the water crests over the ledge
See how it seems to soften as the light bends
Are you the blade beneath or the watershed?
I’ll give you what you need if
You give me hell
I’ll give you what you need if
You give me hell
Feel how your fingertip can pierce the stream
A pinhole pain to that shatters my tempered screen
I crave your touch to balance my fantasy
I could go further if you tell me first
How we are made to be as sharp as thirst
Move back inside to take your picture’s place
I’ll give you what you need if
You give me hell
I’ll give you what you need if
You give me hell
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3. |
The Holder
04:05
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It’s tempting not to see the thing that has a hold on me
I place myself in someone else’s body
Just in case you can tell, I tell you first
I am my worst now
I am a splitting cell
Can you tell?
I don’t mean to take anybody down
We would never make a new body now
Take in care and be free of concept
I have nothing to protect
I slept with my back pressed to the wall
Placed my hand on the bricks and then I don’t recall
Anything at all
Where is your man?
Miss, can you stand?
There’s a hole in the door
Spat on the floor
Is that how you talk to the woman you love now?
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4. |
Bank Towers
05:13
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Once my embers, ash and soot
Settle into place
I’ll keep quiet, I’ll stay cold
I’ll have been erased
I won’t tell you how I’ve been
Wanting less and less
A cold heart, you of all should know,
Can never be at rest
You have never left your city
Too hung up on the thrill
Heard you found and lost her there
So now you never will
Staring out at someone else’s sunset in the West
Turn around to face my hometown
And feel nothing
From down here bank towers glow gold twice a day
If you were to reach me now, how would I stay sane?
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5. |
Easy Again
03:21
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I kiss you both the same
By any other name
I’d be cut back ‘til it hurt
By some amateur
The garden is alight
I tried to keep it live
A couple grew, and every night
I sold them at a loss to you
I feel like lying lately
Leaving everything you gave me
In wrecking lots to rust
Easy again
I held your breath to make it better
Intimacy is quiet
I love the way we try
And I’ll talk around
These words I’ll never say to you
When you’re with her
I feel like lying lately
Leaving everything you gave me
In wrecking lots to rust
Easy again
Threw you out, baby, with the water
Kept the time that we forgot her
Easy again
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6. |
Swelling
04:38
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Everyone has been your lover
Shouldn’t be
Nearly this hard
To forget each other
In a rolling hell
Fall in daily
Shore’s eroded
will I ever reach it safely?
To save yourself you’d give us up
God, never asked you to do much at all
Believe that we are all for one
Till I feel you pull your hand out
We are cradled now
Make a tight fist
Who did you hurt to deserve this?
Undoing my shirt
Everyone has
Been my lover
Shouldn’t be
Nearly this easy
To control each other
To save yourself you’d give us up
God, never asked you to do much at all
Believe that we are all for one
Till I feel you pull your hand out
Be enough
Shouldn’t love
Be enough
Shouldn’t love
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Cold House
05:06
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So What, I’m through
Ask me, what have I ever done for you?
Dark time, slow build
Don’t look now, but isn’t that him?
In a big house, where we all live
Bring a big gun
Don’t know how to use it
I watch the kids
While you stay fun
I walk in, find you all at once
Full bed
Real blood
I’m un-jaded
When the floor swallows us up
A way in without touch
Past the skin, I feel you too much
All I say is “I feel left out”
How reserved for a dream-self
Outside there’s a cold front approaching the city
Keep the windows shut
Wait on the roof for a long time
Or tear down the walls while we’re still inside
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8. |
How to be Real
03:37
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I built a dullness
Because I don’t want this
What do you call it
When I don’t want it
To be real you’ve gotta feel
Nothing for a while
If you make it through
One day
You’ll be all right
Fuck up and and call them
Set yourself up to fall in
Pull back from your old skin
You’ll shed by the morning
To be real you’ve gotta feel
Nothing for a while
If you make it through
One day
You’ll be all right
If I get honest
I found my problem
I could be realer
I can’t love him
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9. |
Three Suns
03:00
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Gonna buy an old car
And drive to Florida
Sun dogs on a Wednesday
Hanging over us
New moon bringin’ in blue sun season
This is what they call cold in North Escambia
It happens in the way
This is how it’s done
In the Parhelion
Never travelled this far
From where we grew up
If there is something out there
It won’t find us
New moon bringin’ in blue sun season
This is what they call cold in North Escambia
It happens in the way
This is how it’s done
In the Parhelion
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ANAMAI is the experimental folk project of Anna Mayberry and David Psutka.
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