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For Granted...
03:41
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You took it for granted that the planet would still be here
When you woke up in the mornin
But that's not the way we planned it
Now we're movin on
You took it for granted that the sun would still be shinin
When you opened yer eyes
But that's not the way it happened
You took it for granted that day would turn into night
and turn back into day and back into night
That's just how it has been
But now the pattern's gone
You took it for granted that your love would still be there
when you came back around
But it's not that even handed
It's gone
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2. |
Some Mistakes
02:19
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Absence of appetite
Waking up in the night
Replayin past events
Tryin to shift the tense
After you've gone you just can't walk back through that door
Some mistakes you just keep payin for
Last night I ran into you agin
Iridescent with happiness
Tried to pretend I'm fine
But I couldn't meet your eyeline
It was my choice to leave, you remember that I'm sure
But I had no concept of the future then, and now I know the score
Tryin to change the past is a herculean chore
Some mistakes you just keep payin for
If time's the cause, how can it be the cure?
I thought I knew I didn't love you anymore
Ah, some mistakes you just keep payin for
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Help me, please help me, my mind is runnin
Down from every orifice in my head, I can't get it back in
Yeah I'm worried I'm wishin, I'm all blind ambition
I'm runnin a brutal smear campaign against the opposition
I bet they thought we were friends
I don't need any friends when I got constituents
Yeah help us please help us, our lives are useless
We're runnin for government positions,
We hope we can count on your vote
Please believe our dull patter, we're tryna climb the ladder
and if we get the swing state votes we'll know for sure we matter
in this life
And then we'll start again, we'll be runnin again
we'll be running again with all our constituents
It would really help me out
if you believed in what I stand for
I don't really know myself
But I know I wanna win in the end
Yeah I'll win in the end
Gonna win
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4. |
Relearn
04:04
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It's been a long time since you been crawlin
Around on the soft-needled forest floor, spongin' it all in
The world was a sweet blur of speechless sensation
And everything that wasn't written in your DNA
Was still a-waitin' round the corner to change your brain
You've come a long way in this cold city
You've been workin on a personality, ironic and witty
You got your heart broke and didn't bother to fix it
Now you been stuck inside an amber of anxiety
Convinced yourself that it's the way you've felt forever
You gotta relearn how to make friends
Cause you've forgotten all the things you once knew then
You gotta relearn how to feel love
Cause you forgotten everything you thought you knew back then
It ain't as easy as you thought it was is it cuz?
Relearn
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5. |
Zoo of Fathers
02:06
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Serves you right, we locked you in a zoo
All your daughters are what's left of you
We've been hearing bout the things you do
When you think that no-one's looking
Serves you right, we left you bark and twigs
Gnawing on your conscience, no more cigs
All your knowledge left you unaware
It's old news the way we found you bare naked
raping, slaving, taking
Serves you right, we're sellin tickets too
We'd forgive if you'd admit it's true
You've been hiding behind self-made truths
Justifying all your actions through
history
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6. |
Ways
04:15
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These days and times hold up a precarious line
And a nation's crimes don't belong to its tired or it's kneeling
And what people know just digs up a real fine hole
D-d-don't be like "woah" when you're on the edge reelin'
You could say the time's nigh, ease up off the party line
I hate to be like "rise and shine" but this alarm's been driving me crazy
H-h-h-h holy cow, you'd think from the way they shout
Th-that they must be the cat's meow
But it's the mouse they're not seeing
They're not seeing it
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7. |
Fruit Flies
04:23
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My house is overrun by fruitflies
And I'm so tired of disguising
The way I feel about your departure from my life
So I'm trying everything I know to pacify
I'm fine, I'm just wasted half the time
Fruit flies, buzzin through my mind
This cloud of signs
Designed
I been surrounded by fruit flies
Ever since that night when they floated past your eyes
When you shrugged your shoulders so eloquently
You shrugged your shoulders at me
It's fine, you turned on so bright a dime
Fruit flies buzzin round my mind
This ancient sign
Dissolved in lime
This cloud of mine
Designed
I been ingested by fruit flies
It doesn't seem like they will ever leave my mind
But I been hoping they can get gone
So I can pack my stuff up and move on
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8. |
Sweet Sweet Spite
01:30
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Spite
Oh my dear
Oh my dear, sweet spite
Keep me warm
Hold me close
In my bed tonight
Lay your deformed, ghastly form
In the crook of my arm
Keep me seething
Keep me breathing
Help me never to forgive
Help me never forget
Let me feel cold, cunning rage
Instead of pain and regret
Help me keep my enemies close
And the rest of my enemies closer
Keep me seething
Keep me breathing
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9. |
Foreign Land
05:42
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Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
The arrangement of the table and the chairs were a mystery to me
Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
What you kept in the cabinets, the crannies and the nooks,
and the dustpan, yeah
Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
When you walked barefoot in the middle of the night was it tile,
was it hardwood or parquet?
Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
Uncharted, unknown, and unmapped by the world’s best cartographers
Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
I didn’t understand the local customs,
I didn’t speak the language that fluently
Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
The posters on the walls and the colors of your bedsheets,
I could only guess from the things that you’d say
Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
What kind of secrets did you keep in that one hidden drawer in your desk or your dresser, yeah
Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
I was studying my phrasebook asking for directions when you came and you found me
And you, despite the wildness of my heart, you let me in
Your heart was once a foreign land to me
I couldn't tell the left atrium from the right atrium
And they way it pumped oxygen, yeah
Your heart was once a foreign land to me
And everytime It beat i could swear I could feel something forming
On the tip of my tongue
And you, despite the wildness of my heart, you let me in
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I don't want to rule the world
Just want you in my surprise attack
I don't want to rule the world, just want you
I don't want to retreat from the world, you know
I don't want ya back, just want to see you
I don't want surprise attack, just want you
I don't want to rule the world, just want fair play
That's all I want in the world, just want you
I don't want to rule the world, don't want surprise attack
Or a knife in my back, just love you
I don't want to rule the world, just want you
I don't want your knife in my back, just want you
I don't want to rule the world, just want you
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John Alexander Genz Saint Paul, Minnesota
John Alexander Genz performs music and spoken word. His style, if this is the right word, seems to be somewhere between folk and punk, with a delta blues/drone influence.
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