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wicker park
02:04
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almost got to wicker park
but the blue line stumbles
we’re the outsider panthers
with lives of near misses and pregnant potentials
so close to reliving those movie scenes
but here comes the outbound train...
waiting for the elusive sweet sleep of strange beds
in darkness everything is skylines and nightlights
hovering over all of us like warm blankets
in the morning shower and shave like (corpse party) wakes -
it’s time to leave again
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you paint a pretty picture, but what more?
inviting everyone into your storefront luxury apartment
the fancy gas chambers looking like dressing rooms
the thrift store barricade of complete non-essentials
begin to worry that i may never make it out
and here we stumble...
close eyes, hold breath and plunge out
wash hands, leaving you to invade weaker continents
while i drive on past nightlights in valleys, with a.m. radio
good-night and perhaps i’ll see you again
there’s a new song for an old gun...
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summer homes
02:53
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i recall my empty kingdom
how you tried to get inside
the older ghosts receded for you
and your island country prize
i built summer homes for you
but you never made it to the island
strange things came with the telegram:
all the leaves exploded
the plaster crumbled, the sky grew dimbulb
and ivy choked the trees
i built summer homes for you
but you never made it to the island
the gilded age keeps calling you
but you’re never coming home...
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all the slow dances
02:32
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now it’s on and we might get misty
somewhere an old radio
plays songs of old
losing ground to white noise static
so sad if we lost them.
all the slow dances
suspended in back-lit glass cabinets
about to fall through rotted floorboards
so sad if we lost them...
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legends of the district
03:36
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plugging in for a little while
wine in the twilight gardens
conversations with the patio girls
names dropped and forgotten
legends of the district -
the doctors of arlington have arrived
the hotflash backroom gauntlet
glad-handing viruses
writing the break-up diaries
the birds are in the fan
legends of the district -
the doctors of arlington have arrived
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the drafthouse
02:22
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instrumental
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the gifted children Rochester, New York
the gifted children is a music collective centered in rochester and buffalo, ny.
since forming in
1995, the gifted children have released 13 albums, over 30 EPs and singles, and a boxed set, with several dozen unfinished albums currently being worked on. stylistically they range from art rock to folk, electronic to indie rock, ambient to shoegaze.
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