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the trap can't trap you
if you take it to pieces
stop thinking you're somebody else
stop crying and go get some help
stop trying to solve it your self
and you know what else?

her misfortunes fell upon her
call and response
good morning alchemy
start strumming my super strings
it's a wilderness of mirrors and kings
bespectacled devil with wings

it's hard to imagine
anything more terrifying
than dying in someone else's dream
waking up in a coffin of trees
and your soul getting hauled off by bees
and if you think that's too much to believe

a munitions expert
while disarming a bomb
realizes he left the stove on at home
he imagines his house up in smoke
while he renders explosives a joke

I'm a planet, I'm the moon
I'm barely in this room
won't somebody please shake me awake?
put me in the front yard with a rake
it's the simplest of tasks I can take
if I don't want to break
and I don't want to break

the playwright has stage fright
the doctor is sick
the electrician struck down by lightning
burning candles from more than two ends
is that me? I guess it depends
hell, go ask my friends

I'm a planet, I'm the moon
I'm barely in this room
won't somebody please shake me awake

when you come again
tryst in the treetop
8 excuses for the mother hen
I tripped in the hall
it was a miracle stall
bought us time and we
filtered out the feelings again

we schemed at the built in bar
townie authority screaming we shouldn't go far
I copied the key
the way I mimic disease
leaving the locksmith hungry,
debating on his hands and his knees

bankrupt birdhouse the crow got the word out
we've seen this all before
and I am slouching a grown man crouching
thirty armed men at the door

the truth and the tooth came out
one in the paper and the other inside of his mouth
he left with a limp and a cut on his lip
hid the morning paper and never told his wife or his kids

now we're on our own
cutting coupons 10 dollars off
a crown and a thrown
discount royalty
high horse novelties
we'll pay full price cuz it's better
than being alone

let it wave
oh let it wave
let it wave
oh let it wave

casually break my fingers so I can’t work the key
the master painters all look ashamed
they don’t know the thrill of a jukebox fade
church bells ringing out commercials for Jesus
the future ex-girlfriends all promise to leave us

I dreamt of this well
bringing you back to live in burnt out motels
it’s my junk mail dream to turn this car around
and drive back down to where my body was found
they say I was focused on slowing down time
hands inside the clock when I was hit from behind

there’s a possibility
this predictability
will eventually grow wild and bend
then I’ll know
I never meant to meet you
but that’s what the sequence puts you through

curse this mind control
making me leak these ideas so very slow
I’m an excerpt of an abridged serial
you never had a job so menial
to keep track of track of distractions that impede my path
and pinpoint their origin and slice them in half

but there’s a possibility
this predictability
will eventually grow wild and bend
for better or worse
I never called the cab a hearse
I answered questions with a pause
and tried to break what you defend
but ended up drifting far from shore
washed up in some foreign land
and tried to find a way back home
but when I did you shrugged and said
here’s where the echo sequence ends

Amidst the canteens and vitamins
Amongst the lit up liturgical themes
There were breaks in the code, yes, I heard:
Spoken cues inside mechanical birds

Clocked in at 7:09
I took the stenograph out for a spin
You were searching for The Party Within
I was typing out the language of men
And with that we begin

Hello, My Destroyer, Can I Destroy You?

Meanwhile, in somebody’s dream
I was stabbed in the back constantly
I grew to take it as a compliment
Cuz I can take it if y’all have to vent
There were starlit nights in the grove
Where we sucked out the gin from our sleeves
They we took aim at the thoughts in the eaves
Now this next part is hard to believe
But it’s true, I reprise

Hello, My Destroyer, Can I Destroy You?
Can I Destroy You?
Can I Destroy You?
And then right on cue
You could destroy me too

Hellhound in the foyer
Fooled again by mannequins
We escape again
From the straight jacket
It’s alarming, man
But it’s nothing you can’t stand
You’re a full grown human man

Hello, My Destroyer, Can I Destroy You?
Can I Destroy You?
Can I Destroy You?
And then right on cue
You could destroy me too

I could pass a polygraph
oh oh oh - -
there's something we forget when we're born
there's something we forget when we're born

Guess which state i'm calling from
it's never what you guess to me
there's free love in the corridor
and no, it's not for charity
i'm putting up with false alarms
because I'm an enthusiast
someone let me my family know when i'm finally through with this

when you think it's gonna stop it just starts again
we're cycling through the possible nows

I could build a monument
oh oh oh
but there's something we forget when we're born

my lawyer calls, the house explodes
some rivers flow eternally
there's dancing girls out in the wings
placed there as a courtesy
take exit 10 off of highway 1 & tell me where you land
i'd mention more specifics but i'm not your biggest fan

you're gorgeous, like a painting, like some outsider art
your eyes askew, your yellow teeth, your arms too far apart
but you take me as I am so I'll never stop appearing
in visions three, in dreams alike, come here my heir apparent

you can stare down the lanes into makeshift frames
I can feel the night just waking up

We could try some ritual
oh oh oh
but there's something we forget when we're born
there's something we forget when we're born

What is this, a funeral?
I drove out to Ed's in the rain with my crew
and the backlash
of the back peddle
got me stabbed right in the back
it was all I could do to keep cool

you were my qualifying event
you pushed the pins into the wall sized map

psychic
rabbit
psychic
rabbit
was my code word for you in the files
now you know
there's a code word for you in the files

it's certainly been awhile
the parts of me you reviled
have all been removed
but I didn't do it for you

new phone who dis?

Ok pop quiz
What I’m trying to ask you is
“how am i like a summer storm?”

You say what’s that mean?
And I squirm and shift my shoes
I say, “I got a soul and I’m gonna use it”

I point to my foot
And say “here’s where my body ends.
Is that a useful thing to say?”

And when you reply no
I can’t think of another place to go
So I say it again but point to my hand

We’re avoiding truth
Like two detectives who refuse to search & sleuth
Afraid what we’ll find behind locked doors

The side effects were worse
Losing you had me running towards the hearse
Askin’ could you drop me off just down the street?

I was first in line
For the Solipsistic Sad Guy Seminar
But inside it just turned out to be another bar

I ordered whiskey neat
Fifty thousand times in the summer heat
And figured this is how I’ll defeat my victories

We couldn’t say goodbye
So we practiced every weekend til we died
And even then it didn’t seem quite right

I couldn’t play them blues
or any genre that could fix ol’ me & you
so I was about to start a song that never ends

But inside the bridge I found a note I left to myself
Saying, “don’t forget to love yourself
And don’t forget to come back from hell
And don’t forget to end the song.”

I went through hell
But now I’m back from hell
Hi, hello how are you?
Hi, hello how are you?
Hi, hello how are you?
Hi, hello how are you?