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Building a Clown
03:46
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Building a Clown
my mouth is coming around
my mount, she’s coming to town
my mental get-out is starting to calm down
my mouth’s taken a vow, my mouth’s coming down
my mouth is coming around
my countess is milking me deep down
i measure her rout by drowning the town
she pleasures my pout by building a clown
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You Haven't Tried Yet
05:50
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You Haven’t Tried Yet
you can relax in the valley of your hope
you can dance at the funeral of dreams that are no more
you can watch the roll of the credits that are your life
and you can watch while the mouth of the world takes you whole
to an empty whore of a town
you can cry til your eyeballs ache
you can cling to your lover but you can’t escape
you can cry bloody murder for the things you made
but you’ll never leave this town
you haven’t tried yet
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Because They’re Beautiful
all of 16 in a town with a checkerboard start
dreaming of dreams that are bound to fall apart
granma had a still where she fell in a molotov dress
granpa’s got a claw for a hand, tried to beat the flames dead
girls are the most crazy when their sisters are most shy
i spied one at the picture show so i told her a lie
i told her i was superman, i swore i could fly
she said “that’s just a dream boy” --still, she smiled
she was the first dream that i wish was all mine
sweet tart cold beautiful like lemon icebox pie
now i’m 21 in a city that claims to be
everything to everyone from everywhere that’s made it
lights tend the sky higher up than granpa ever climbed
people line the streets falling down dirtier than dimes
my dreams seem most crazy when i take ‘em out on the town
it seems they’re most popular with the folks beat most down
but still these are the dreams that i’ll dream for all time
because they’re beautiful
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Lying Down
04:57
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Lying Down
life you sometimes can’t take lying down
(life you sometimes can’t take laying down)
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Delirium Shimmers
01:11
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I Eat Apples Like Candy
04:06
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I Eat Apples Like Candy
i almost was only the static of bones
i almost was only the smoke from your home
i sometimes come lonely, holding hands with my ghost
i sometimes come empty, hands open wide for my host
i eat apples like candy
they’re sweet and they’re free
i steal them in handfuls
from the shade of your tree
i approach you with caution
with the static of bones
i almost say something
but i retreat like the smoke from your home
and I believe the best things go unnoticed
because they’re sweet
and they’re sick
and they’re free
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Pink and Sorry
03:51
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Pink and Sorry
i can tell that you care about me
about as much as you care for yourself
and that is not a helluva lot
as i can tell by the way you wake up
every day so tired
every day so tired
with your eyes deep in debt
and they’re pink and sorry
as you squint at the sun and moaning, roll over
you reach out and then you pull down the shades
until you’re hidden in the loving arms of shadow
until you’re hidden in the folded arms of shade
and you reach for your cigarettes
it’s the third pack since early last night
and you shake til you shudder
you shake til you shudder
and you pick up your cell to see what you’ve missed
and then you shuffle to the toilet to sit down and piss
then it’s off to the fridge
but it's empty as ever
empty as ever
but it’s cold and it feels alright for someone...
...pink and sorry
now it’s half an hour later and you’re back from the deli
sippin’ at your regular before you remember i’m there
and i can tell that you care about me
about as much as you care for yourself
and that is not a helluva lot
as i can tell by the way you wake up or by the way you don’t
every day so tired
every day so tired
pink and sorry
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Thick and Thin Angels
05:34
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Thick and Thin Angels
i know that we’ll be together
we’ll stick together come hell or high water
cuz that’s alright
that’s alright by me
i won’t ask what you do
when you’re lonely and you’re out of my sight
cuz that’s alright
that’s alright by you
it’s another lonely night
i’m talking to coffee and feeling alright
i’ve got a hunch
you’re somewhere with people
people with smiles and you in their eyes
and that’s alright
that’s just fine by me
i’ve got a feeling
you’re laughing it up on the other side of the earth
where your cup’s running over
where your cause is overflow’n
i know we’ll be together
we’ll stick together come hell or high water
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Thank You (and Goodbye)
04:22
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Thank You (and Goodbye)
you are so now
you so not mine
you so ne moi
you so nemam
sayonara
obrigado
hvala
i’m so not now
i’m so unfound
my heart escapes me
and you are so now
you’re too now you’re too most you’re too much for
i’m so now shallowed
and you are still so now
sayonara
vidimo se
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John Alan Kennedy Houston, Texas
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John Alan Kennedy is "a Houston musician fluent in a vast swath of innovative and progressive music." Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle
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