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stand clear of the closing doors, please
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Soulmate Understudy
03:34
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Do you see what I see
Do you hear what I hear roaring proud
Its the train called No Round Trips Allowed
And if you do as I do
If you do as I do dutifully
Let my lover mistake you for me
The train’s always late by an hour
But it still arrives too soon
Would that I could break its vow
I’d sell off my whole estate
To buy a ticket home on that train
If only you could switch with me
You wouldn’t have to live my forgery
Nor would I disappear into dreams
He says he’s been waiting for hours
But he’s just so glad I’m home
Tomorrow when I stroll through the grounds
Fantasizing through your days
I’ll make a point to dream them just the same
For if you keep his love for my name
Then my reveries are truthful claims
And you’re my ticket home on that train
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GPSchaton
02:16
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The GPS switches to night mode
I make a stop, buy a drink, while the car fills up
Then the GPS switches to day mode
Another stop, buy a drink, while the car fills up
Oh highway, it’s been a while
I haven’t said a word
Let’s not let this stubborn air go undisturbed
Though it took two bungees to hold it closed
In the trunk I’ve managed to fit a stone
That I’ve carried longer than you’d think
We have seen the rise of every mountain range
And the falls of thousands that were never named
Watched the glacial turn of everything
Oh highway it’s been a while
You’d think my life’s absurd
But you know what I always say
When there’s a—
A deer dashes right through the roadway
I try to stop, but I swerve into the oncoming lane
Then the headlights start coming like rainfall
But I’d still be dry, even if I were trying to get hit
And that’s just the way that it is
So I take my time getting back in the right lane again, but
Did you notice where the deer was headed to
It took the exit that leads to downtown
Y’know, I think that’s curious.
I wonder where she’s headed to
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Piety Daywear
04:44
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I called up the registry regarding the falling of an angel
They said “Sir, we’ve never had one by your name”
And I said “Wow, what a relief!”
And here I was thinking I had something to be
I set down the phone, put at ease
But I want things to be different
I want things to be different
I want things to be different
But things are still the same
And when my eyes close
Like a roll-up door on a storage unit
A mountain grows
Tearing rifts in the roads
I asked my friend to dinner
She never made it here
The traffic jam that she was stuck in went a thousand years
And this lease ends in a week
This is not the place to be
But the news says that it’s bumper-to-bumper the length of every street
So I walked to buy clothes at a store called Piety Daywear
Some graffiti said “Dress to Repress”
And I thought, “Well, ain’t someone smart?”
Oh what a transgression, what a work of art
Then I saw that was just their campaign
Attention: Your sizes are available in aisle three
And I realized they were talking just to me
I didn’t like that at all
I’ve got to get out of this building
I’ve got to get out of this building
I’ve got to get out of this building
Before it learns my name
I walked out of the store and stepped out on the street and heard this
A hundred cars packed on a single road
Within a thirty-second of an inch
33% of them are empty
and 66% of them are pissed
In one of them is my friend
I get into the passenger’s seat
And we talk about all the bullshit
God, it’s so good to see you
the way that we talk feels like a relic from a better world
But it still fits like a glove.
So we’ll save it with all of the rest of the seeds while we wait
So let the world interrupt
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The Auto Mall Quartet
02:13
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Walk It All Away
02:33
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When I was your one and only
I still had eyes for stars above
Now I know the sky could just as well be empty
And I just liked being in love
How’d you fit the cosmos in your body
And how’d I come to think that was okay
Now that I’ve started asking questions,
tell me
Why’d you go and walk it all away
When being with you was an option
I couldn’t stomach wasting time
Nowadays it seems I’m trying to run the clock out
On the best days of our lives
So how’d you fit the whole world in your body
And how’d I come to think that was okay
Now that I’ve started asking questions,
tell me
Why’d you go and walk it all away
How’d you fit the whole world in your body
How’d I come to think that was okay
Now that I’ve started asking questions,
tell me
Why’d you go and walk it all away
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Heartbreak B&B
04:01
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I haven’t visited this feeling in a while
I like what you’ve done with the place
The upturned picture frame looks good next to the clock
with no hands on its face
Well, make yourself at home
Here at Heartbreak B&B
A well-deserved vacation from your agency
Your body’s made of tension
And in lieu of a direction
You could sure use a little luxury
The strongest guarantee in the world
Goes: “That’s just the way that it is”
So just let the curator that lives in your heart
Start puttin on the Ritz
Well I was once as skeptical as you
I used to say the blues were more than just a hue
But if it wasn’t painters or actors or singers
Then who taught them to you
Well what would you rather do
There once was one
who did come by and left unmoved
And he said:
I know futility and I know eternity
Cursed with both, I know neither will be total
For every hill levels out
And this car I’m driving
With the help of every other car
Will one day have the stillness of the road
But for the rest of us
We’ll make ourselves at home
Here at Heartbreak B&B
A much-deserved vacation from our agencies
An open secret getaway
that’s always newly renovated
Every time that you get a new key
Every night is endless at Heartbreak B&B
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USS Endless Night
04:05
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I wish this was a message in a bottle
But that don’t work inside a submarine
Cause I don’t trust I soul I know to know this
But someone needs to know what I’ve seen
I hope the rest suspect that I’ve deserted
Or maybe I was shot down in the sea
Whatever that they’ve come to think has happened
I pray that they will not search for me
I’m far beyond the depth this boat can handle
I’m flinching every time I hear a creak
I’ll try to tell you why this had to happen
Before the dented hull becomes a breach
Imagine with me for a second
Imagine, today, we discover heaven
What do you think we’d do
Knowing who we are
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His eyes are an innovation
In the heartbreak industry
The kind that get you dreaming of a better life
And of course, I wish I could pick him up
And bring him home with me
But the view from here will surely suffice
Cause if I wanted the best
I wouldn’t even be here
Stuck at this house show
Fighting this headache with this cheap beer
A better option is available all of the time
At some point I stopped caring about getting it right
A better option is available but right now I’m fine
And if the next band sucks I’ll just spend a minute outside
I finally made it out during setup
Between bands four and five
My ears were ringing, watching the cars go by
I saw one that its trunk held shut
With bungee cords and twine
I went to look closer but at my shoulder
Were those eyes
So I said, “Hey there, you really surprised me”
And I asked him if he saw the car and he answered
“Wow, take a look at that moon”
Leaning on a cloud
Shaped like a fainting couch
In those buckshot stars
And sure I looked and it was all nice enough
But I felt interrupted
So I made some excuse to go back inside
Though they hadn’t set up yet
A better option is available all of the time
At some point I stopped caring about getting it right
A better option is available but there’s something in mine
And I fell asleep thinking about the car with the twine
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Alessandro Takeshi Tokyo, Japan
Alessandro Takeshi is an experimental singer-songwriter and music producer, as well as keyboard player and vocalist in the band The Stations, based in Tokyo. His avant-garde debut, To and Fro, and pop-oriented followup, Songs About Cars, cemented Takeshi as a versatile artist, deeply expressive whether penning pop tunes or turning them inside-out. He has performed across the US and Japan ... more
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