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First In Line
03:18
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How could you have known?
There was only starlight to see by
And you couldn’t waste a second while the continent a-beckoned
From across the ice
And into the crevasse
The sledges tumbled and detached and seized into the sea
Sometimes
That’s all
The first in line
Gets to be
How could you have known?
They raised you out of mirrors and smoke
A beacon from the heavens, whence they said you had descended
I knew it was the other way around
A statue of a fully suited goddess
Slingin’ arrows, lookin’ right at me
Sometimes
That’s all
The first in line
Gets to be
If death
Should come
Before your day
Then life
Becomes
A cabaret
If death should come before your day…
A shrine of gold lame and satin
Pyramid of old Manhattan
Curiously,
Sometimes that’s all the first in line
Sometimes that’s all the first in line
Sometimes that’s all the first in line gets to be
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To The Letter
03:01
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I could make a career of it
Through parties and MySpace
The transgender arms race
And I could make a career of it
Through YouTube and Logo
And lesbian pride shows
I won’t always look like I’m seventeen
But those shirtless shits got shit on me
But I can’t provide
I can’t provide
Any kind of proof it gets better
I can’t provide
I can’t provide
Any kinda reason
I should follow them to the letter
Yr reachin’ kinda far
For something abject or bizarre
You’ll only get so far
If you don’t tell them what you are
Well I’m a soft case baby
I’ll throw you under the bus
So lazy to conflate us
With each other, I’ll throw you under the bus
Join the spectacle or rust
But that’s the only way it gets better
I will never follow them to the letter
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Separation Falls
02:09
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How long,
How long
Will you camp upon the rocky banks
While your coffee goes dank?
My god, what have you done?
Well you’ve gone to where the devil sleeps
And the mail never comes
But if you try and climb
Back up out of that canyon
You’ll never find, never find
Your way back home again
Kidnapped by mormons and eaten alive
How long,
How long
Will you camp upon the rocky banks
While your coffee goes dank?
My god, what have you done?
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manners manners Baltimore, Maryland
Jack Pinder sings & plays the guitar
H.S. Sweet plays the drums & sings
Jes Welter plays the bass & makes other sounds
(photo: Micah E. Wood; art direction: Corynne Ostermann)
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