1. |
Bullfighter
02:51
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t holds a place in my memory of you
the night we made honest enemies of truth
is it your fear that brings a promise of other ways to be ourselves
A stagnant way of living
But that’s the way it is and
Evacuate the prison
All the culpable forgiven
Weighted lovers living in despair
Weighted lovers living in despair
and I will be left out
The sacred sight of the animal
Let loose
The emblem tore my abdomen
In two
is it your fear that brings a promise of other ways to be myself
A stagnant way of living
But that’s the way it isn’t
Evacuated prison
All that’s criminal forgiven
Weighted lovers living in despair
Weighted lovers living in despair
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2. |
Honesty
04:01
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my mother
my father
all told me to wait
no longer a sinner
deplete her estate
no whipping
the heel never breaks
the weight of the world
just to awful to take
i loved her like cigarettes
burned at the stake
the rigid incisions
cut cross-legged veins
the honor of knowing
the life that you made
held nothing but problems
and minimum wage
what of your honesty?
all i conceivably know
like the beckoning ransom
take what you want from me
why not take everything?
love’s not a game when you’re lonely
i won’t play.
the coward envisioned a life of his own
replacing the meaning
to do what you’re told
i’m not saying the reason is hard to explain
for seasons will change but the men stay the same
i wonder if living
persists in the heat
your savage existence
no life can compete
your neighbor, he listened
and drowned in your sleep
a wolf in white clothing
who preys on the weak
what of your honesty?
all i conceivably know
like the beckoning ransom
take what you want from me
why not take everything?
love’s not a game when you’re lonely
i won’t play.
did you notice that i can’t
feel the back of my hands anymore?
sit around, hesitate
throw the funeral pyre at my door
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3. |
Nothing Is Real
03:13
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remain alive with the dawn at your side
ways to decide how we all will die
into the light, with your arms behind your back
oh no
if i just do it when no one’s around
will i seem happier to them?
into the light, with your arms behind your back
oh no
remember how they used to say that we would never grow old?
nothing is real, you know
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if you want it
you can have it
no more running
from the cabinet
in the same way
i was fading
always taking
in the daybreak
in the snow
the blood run colder
the police came
to explain it all
"it is only a fleeting feeling”
i know that you won’t be without one true love
where did it go?
what did they say?
“its only love and nothing else”
if you want it
you can have it
if you made it into habit
when they found you in the lobby
paranoid and catatonic
in the snow
the blood ran cold and
when they called me
i broke down and said,
“it is only a fleeting feeling”
i know that you won’t be without one true love
where did it go?
what did they say?
“its only love and nothing else”
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Eric Slick Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
While with previous solo records Palisades and Bullfighter Slick mined his subconscious for the moodier and more abstract side of the coin, Wiseacre is a technicolored exaltation. It reads like a novel, sequencing in chronological order the ups and downs of self-acceptance before fully committing to someone else. ... more
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