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Young Gray Enemies
01:50
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I can’t learn to live
With young gray enemies
Who want to dig my grave and offer
To pull my foot out of their traps
Just to put a knife into my back
Back
I’ve got friends much better than
The ones I’ve made through
Paper trails and confined spaces
Enemies, young gray enemies
I can’t learn to live
With young gray enemies
Who want to dig my grave and offer
To pull my foot out of their traps
Just to put a knife into my back
Back
Young gray enemies
Young gray enemies
Young gray enemies
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Another Way To Lose
03:28
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It’s not my place
To make up your mind for you
I’m not a patient person
But I can wait for you
It’s not destiny
It’s just another thing you can’t outrun
Your dress was purple-blue
You matched the sky
The sky was a bruise
How do you cope
When everything around you is a joke?
How do you choose
When every way’s another way to lose?
I can never listen
‘Cause it sounds like the same old shit
It’s selling someone else’s youth
Back to some younger kids
We’re caught up now
Like a coughing fit
We’re caught up now
It’s tough to get over it
How do you cope
When everything around you is a joke?
How do you choose
When every way’s another way to lose?
How do you cope
When everything around you is a joke?
How do you choose
When every way’s another way to lose?
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You wanted a hit, we hit nothing
You wanted a hit, we hit nothing
As far as I can see, I can see that’s far enough
You’re the tough one now, I thought that I was
Dairy kings and dairy queens
Successors to the melted, melted things
Reaching out to choke your dreams
And waking up in the company of a company sleeve
You wanted a hit, we hit nothing
You wanted a hit, we hit nothing
I tripped the lines that I tried to cross
And dropped from my hands what I tried to toss
The front of this house could be a kind of sign to you
Is it vacant now, does it smile at you too?
Dairy kings and dairy queens
Successors to the melted, melted things
Reaching out to choke your dreams
And waking up in the company of a company sleeve
Dairy kings and dairy queens
Successors to the melted, melted things
Reaching out to choke your dreams
And waking up in the company of a company sleeve
You wanted a hit, we hit nothing
You wanted a hit, we hit nothing
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The old days are good ‘cause they’re gone
The bad days are bad ‘cause they’re present
Coach take me out, it’s been dragging me down
We’re just tenants in this landlord-ruled town
The venue fell dead when the drinks ran out
The players were pulled from the stage
Evictions were flyered and deejayed events
Don’t kick us out of our comfortable cage
They spun the truth like a top
With too much momentum to stop
They spoonfed the truth to you
And you ate it up like baby food
What can you do?
What will you do with yourself?
Do you wanna be a carpenter
Or will you sit on a shelf?
They spun the truth like a top
With too much momentum to stop
They spoonfed the truth to you
And you ate it up like baby food
You ate it up like baby food
What can you do?
What can you do?
What can you do?
What will you do with yourself?
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Bucket Beach
02:38
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There are bigger things to worry about
Than some little band from the underground
Peeking its head out
You turned in, you were tuckered out
You closed your eyes and you got lost somehow
You know you never flew
As high as that bug I knew
Boys born into a minimum wage
Armed to the teeth
With a sharpened male gaze
You turned in, you were tuckered out
You closed your eyes and you got lost somehow
I played the fool, you kissed the clown
At Bucket Beach you lost your value
I played the fool, you kissed the clown
At Bucket Beach you lost your value
You turned in, you were tuckered out
You closed your eyes and you got lost somehow
You turned in, you were tuckered out
You closed your eyes and you got lost somehow
I think you’re still there now
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Agendaless
03:45
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A storm doesn't have a target
You lose your house just the same
An ocean goes where it needs to
And that's how I see you
Agendaless, agendaless
If we say what we mean to
We'll get where we need to be
I try to reach you
‘Cause you're the butcher I look to
To cut through, to cut through
They'll keep you distracted
While their dogs tear through your trash
They’ll split your attention
And cut some corners to take it back
To take it back, to take it back
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Wildflowers
03:52
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How do I justify
Living life terrified?
Don’t need the wildflowers to see the breeze
I find my peace on the guillotine
The company’s not your friend
The company lies
What did you expect
Some kind of peaceful end?
The company’s memory
Is something that won’t quit
Remembering’s another word for
Forgetting to forget
Don’t need the wildflowers to see the breeze
I’ll find my peace on the guillotine
Don’t need no wildflowers to see the breeze
I’ll find my peace on the guillotine
Bottom of the barrel on Top of the Pops
You stole from the best, but you never got caught
Bottom of the barrel on Top of the Pops
You stole from the best, but you never got caught
Don’t need the wildflowers to see the breeze
I’ll find my peace on the guillotine
Don’t need no wildflowers to see the breeze
I’ll find my peace on the guillotine
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Honeylight
04:20
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From back here the cinema seats
Are gravestones in front of me
The screen shines its light on
Its very own cemetery
It was a year for the worst ones
Turning over a new leaf covered in shit
Let it get to your head
Don’t let it get to your head
The film crawls, the projector spits
Poison in my blood, poison in my drink
I saw a black night before the honeylight
Dragged me out of my seat just like a cigarette, huh
Let it get to your head
Don’t let it get to your head
Let it get to your head
Don’t let it get to your head
Run on, run on like a never ending sentence
Go on, go on like I never saw you coming
Take it it’s yours, I don’t want it anymore
I don’t want it, I don’t want it
I don’t want it anymore
Run on, run on
Go on, go on
I don’t want it, don’t want it anymore
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Doughboy Pool
03:13
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I like it when you hang around
You make me feel less low
If you asked me to drain the ocean
I’d do that for you
If you’d accept instead
A doughboy pool
Honey, I could drain that too
It wasn’t love it was an avalanche
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
It wasn’t love it was an avalanche
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
Doot doo doo, bah bah bah
You’re cutting patterns in your room
I’m getting by on being nice
A little less than feeling used
A little more than imprecise
The greatest of all time
And the tragedy of flight
This morning’s foggy mountain skies
A city that’s been put on ice
It wasn’t love it was an avalanche
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
It wasn’t love it was an avalanche
Listen to the past as it crashes against your back
Calling you by name, making sure you heard the news
Lost in the span of a five minute jam
I know you and you thought it could be a scam
It wasn’t love it was an avalanche
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
It wasn’t love it was an avalanche
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
It wasn’t love it was circumstance
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10. |
Sit Right With You
03:31
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When you’re making up
Your two faces in the mirror
And that silly, sad reflection
Ain’t much clearer
It don’t sit right with you
Don’t sit right with you
You know that nothing’s gonna keep it together
You know that something’s gonna tear it apart
Six months is enough of a long time
To shine a little light in the dark
You know you shine a little light in the dark
Shine a little light in the dark
Kick in the television
Open up the blinds (adjust your eyes)
A shadow room plays tricks on your mind
You know that nothing’s gonna keep it together
You know that something’s gonna tear it apart
Six months is enough of a long time
To shine a little light in the dark
You know you shine a little light in the dark
Shine a little light in the dark
Kick in the television
Open up the blinds (adjust your eyes)
A shadow room plays tricks on your mind
Kick in the television
Kick in the television
It don’t sit right with you
It don’t sit right with you
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The Long Con
04:17
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I thought I had to choose
But I already had what I wanted
Now the reformed art school kids
Turn the knobs that are giving me static
We spend a lot of our time
Drinking a lot of all right wine
It made me think I got reborn
But it turned out I died twice
The long con is long gone
The long con is long gone
And it was pretty pathetic of me
To think that I could ever change a goddamn thing
I was over a barrel, angry and blue
My feelings were My War side two
I found a hole in the smoke
Where I tried to extinguish the butt of a joke
And if this is real life
How come I can still see the boom mic?
The long con is long gone
The long con is long gone
And a good rain's gonna wash this town away
A good rain is coming any day
The long con is long gone
The long con is long gone
And a good rain's gonna wash this town away
A good rain is coming any day
A good rain's gonna wash this town away
A good rain is coming any day
The long con is long gone
The long con is long gone
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12. |
Soon Enough Blues
03:12
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Humming to yourself again
You can’t seem to shake those soon enough blues
You’re running ‘round the house again
Where you’ve paid your rent, but not your dues
You know it’s true
All I know is true
Is there’s only me
Is there’s only you
Trashing offices of the big hotel
Slow-motion drugs you keep to yourself
The blu tack that hung your posters up
Is melting hot off of your wall
It’s not like you’re concerned
It’s not a thing at all
And even if
Another curtain calls
It’s soon enough to reach you
It’s soon enough to reach to you
It’s soon enough to reach you, my love
Soon enough to reach to you
It’s a fine day to learn some useful knots
A fine day to steal till you get bought
Good time to have when you have not
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The Pretty Flowers Los Angeles, California
The band is:
Noah Green, Sam Tiger, Jake Gideon, Sean Johnson
A Company
Sleeve, the new full-length LP from The Pretty Flowers is out now on Double Helix Records.
Why Trains Crash LP and Golden Beat Sessions cassette are available on Dirt Cult Records. GBS CDs available from the band on bandcamp
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