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as the days gray the eyes of the dogs

by paper forest

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the et tu brutus blues 01:53
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what would I do if I was as fucked up as you? well, Brutus would never stab me in the back no, he'd stab me in the chest like a true friend what would I do if I was a righteous as you? you've got the lion's teeth but where is the heart? you've got the lyre's teeth where's the guitar? what would I do if I was as strong as you? well, Brutus would never stab me in the back no, he'd stab me in the chest like a true friend what would I do if I was as fucked up as you?
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the flat tire blues 04:29
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my baby's crying all her air is leaking out the valve stem's broken and I am fitting to shout they stabbed my tires I seen the knife the right on the ground came in the night and left without a sound got five new tires I don't know what I'm gonna do all I wanna do is drive around to see you the tire's flat on my friend's bicycle I don't know what I'm going to say got new tires, they were all brand new I don't know what I'm gonna do all I wanna do is drive around to see you the tire's flat on my friend's bicycle there's nothing to do, we can't get around no more
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friend 02:07
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are you my friend? are you my friend, love, are you my friend? are you my love? are you my love, friend, are you my love? where did you go, love, where did you go? why did you go, friend, why did you go?
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growing roots to move 05:01
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well I'm growing roots to move I'm growing leaves to drop down to you I walked ten miles to plant those seeds and those babies grew right into trees well, we finally left home and got away above the clouds to spread our wings you reap what you sow but what's in the ground? you don't know well, you see what you think but your eye's got a mind of its own well, you reap what you sow but what's in the ground? you don't know well, you think what you see but your mind's got an eye of its own one thing before we go is all meaning imagined? is it impossible to really know? is it impossible to really know?
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I ain't no fool 01:49
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I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, to your ways she take me home lord, she take me home lord, she take me home so she can play I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, to your ways she give me a kiss lord, she give me a kiss lord, she give me a kiss make me wanna stay I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, to your ways she take off her clothes lord, she take off her clothes lord, she take off her clothes I can't stay away I know she will leave lord, I know she will leave lord, I know she will leave for the rest of my days I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, I ain't no fool babe, to your ways
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I wasn't raised by wolves 05:14
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I wasn't raised by wolves I learned to kill I learned to take the life away I learned from man He showed me the way I wasn't raised by wolves No, I was raised by a creature much meaner than wolves No, I was raised by a creature much cleaner than wolves I wasn't raised by wolves We can be good We can be so good We can learn to love Just like the mama to her cub I wasn't raised by wolves No, I was raised by a creature that can be so warm No, I was raised by a creature that can be so warm
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the mouse and the owl 04:47
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you are the owl I am the mouse and that's how it goes you are nighttime I am daylight and that's how it goes I am the owl you are the mouse and that's how it goes go home at night it's been such a long time turn your head around stop hanging with such a shady crowd and that's how it goes we are all owls we are all mice and that's how it goes
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tree galaxies (you have made me wild) 03:58
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he pressed leaves into my palms and spoke with a face half hidden in darkness of mold and loneliness he didn't hear me calling with my rain dance and must not have heard me calling with my golden green song we'll make it your body, then we'll do things your way until I can't hear you anymore as you wave from the tops of trees and I can't stretch my neck any further to see which tree says what but he pressed leaves into my palms, and that should count for something seeds of fertility, or roots of origin salvation from the rain, or relief from the heat but nothing I grow exotic flowers and fruits with the tears shed over you lifting up limestone and alabaster, a heavy place to hang your head and I still think of you when the slams, breaks, and lazy collisions all roll together, and the days fall clap, clap, clap like dominoes off a table, and I am languid with you slow and reluctant, getting out of bed in the morning there are days when I feel there could be no end to you and all that is you, and all that could ever be you and everything that will be you to come you have made me wild brought out the wolf inside of me, inside of us all the giant animal shapes we tame and domesticate flashing a full moon on us without warning a bomb going off in my chest a galaxy of stars exploding a giant redwood crashing to the earth and I am just so happy you are home you have made me wild
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what lays in the ground isn't always dead 02:12
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all god to me is now lost all filthy despair puddled around my feet remember me, remember me all paradise now lost all apocalypse must now begin what lays in the ground isn't always dead so shoot it first and color it red the blood bleeds thick and ugly you need eyes in the back of your head and in the palms of your hands and on every extremity you must make certain, you must be sure that you are completely alone before you turn around we are born free and now its come to this so hit me, hit me oh god, and watch me fall I close my eyes but it makes no difference the horror, the horror still seeps in my weapon is phallic and it, too, will turn its back on me like indiffierence in this godforsaken inferno country the hellen furnace your body burned in me will not be forgotten to be empty is not forbidden, not ungodlike your eyes are slanted, strong and deep as if I'm the savage, the stranger the stranger of us both but we are all quite mad here and once you see that, life is just empty heads and hollow men we all become whatever we hate eventually the point is that you start to hate what you once loved but the sky is holding overhead and we need some reassurance that someday everything will end
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the stars are dead light 04:54
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the stars are dead light that we remember late at night we give them funny names they help us light our way like the sun does in the day while we play our silly games I saw stars in your eyes found out that they were lies how could I not know? I cannot take you back gave you away so fast but the light, it dies so slow there are crickets in your hair fireflies glow in your stare as the ember slowly fades I'm running towards the coast waking up every ghost as I'm chased by the waves to my death We're running towards the coast Chasing our golden ghost We're running out of breath, my love

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released November 30, 1902

what would I do
if I was as fucked up as you?

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