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Kerfuffle
03:16
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Running in circles in front of me, you got a lot of nerve making fun of me. I care too much when no one else cares at all.
Who wants to fight in the front lines waiting for soup in the kitchen line? Who cares at all when no one else cares that much?
Well we don't have time to worry our minds over a meaningless trivial kerfuffle. Mean
Meanwhile, there's miles of new roads being built and our votes all get lost in the shuffle like shiitakes mixed in with truffles.
Goldfish and canine companions, felines and furry turantulas - let's not forget who's a friend, who's a pet.
Sometimes our friends become enemies. (Guess who forgot the utilities?)
Let's not forget how we all pay the rent.
We don't have time to worry our minds over a meaningless, trivial kerfuffle. Meanwhile, the signs of the end times appear and american birdsongs get muffled, felinity winning each scuffle.
And we don't have time, dear, to worry our minds here. We're leaving, you'd best pack a duffle. Soon we'll be elderly, you'd be ashamed to be skin-wrinkled, feathers a-ruffled with your mind all filled up with kerfuffles.
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Thirty six packs of nutrisweet
thirty six packs of Splenda.
Count them out
tap and tear
pour them in the pitcher.
Your dad's getting up from his recliner chair
Don't be afraid, fill his cup with Koolaid
and be best friends as long as we can.
Stand up
on the counter top
to steal some sips of cinnamon schnapps.
No one's the wiser
we'll replace what we drank with watered down
Red Koolaid.
Your dad's getting up from his recliner chair
Don't be afraid, fill his cup with Koolaid
and be best friends as long as we can.
I caught you red handed
(stained from the Koolaid)
lounging in your dad's recliner.
You asked me a question I don't know how to answer
"Will we be best friends forever?"
But now you're stuck in that recliner chair,
I'm really scared
I think you drank the Koolaid.
"We'll be best friends," I said. "As long as we can."
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Bury This Heirloom
04:56
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I will be perfect, I’ll choose my profession and reach high
I’ll get far, achieve more and never stop working
And earning and earning
I’ll bury, I’ll bury
I will not, I will not inherit the sins of my father or inherit the sins of my mother.
I will bury, I’ll bury
I will wear nice clothes, I’ll make sure no one knows I was poor
I’ll buy things and stay thin. I’ll date men.
No one sees the weight that I carry
I’ll bury, I’ll bury
I will not, I will not inherit the sins of my father or inherit the sins of my mother.
I will bury, I’ll bury
I will not be in my body, I can be distant and blissful.
I’ve got this narcotic. I am the heroine of my made up story.
I’ll bury, I’ll bury
I will not, I will not inherit the sins of my father or inherit the sins of my mother.
I will bury, I’ll bury
I will make order from chaos; I will have clean sheets to lay on
I’ll never get sick and nor will my children or husband
I’ll bury, I’ll bury
I will not, I will not inherit the sins of my father or inherit the sins of my mother.
I will bury, I’ll bury
I will not speak up or sit tall, no one will see me, I’ll stay small
And silent, I’ll wallow in ice wells that swallow and hold me and numb me
I’ll bury, I’ll bury
I will not, I will not inherit the sins of my father or inherit the sins of my mother.
I will bury, I’ll bury
I will be well read and intelligent, I will romanticize my loneliness and melancholy,
Use philosophy and psychology to separate me and shroud me in obscurity
I’ll bury, I’ll bury
I will not, I will not inherit the sins of my father or inherit the sins of my mother.
I will bury, I’ll bury
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Proximity
02:46
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Ziona Riley Nashville, Tennessee
Raised primarily on classical and hymnal music, Ziona Riley is a skilled weaver of harmony and dissonance. Meaning and
mystery are knit together in evocative songwriting. Highlighted as one of the best local EPs of 2019, the Nashville Scene called Riley's EP, Not Too Precious “a short collection of deeply
thoughtful, impactful songs about family and contemporary society.”
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