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Late Afternoon National Anthem

by Father Koi

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1.
Boxer 02:47
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Like a mid afternoon shadow I will rise and fall again Turn to say goodbye to me, your ticking clock well spent The more bourgeoisie your picture is the more to analyze Sit there softly look at me, take in my demise When you’re lying close to me I could be anyone I’d like to know how you kiss me when you Never touch me once You cannot sit and listen to me bleed internal as I sing Shards of an apology, enclosed inside a boxing ring Cynicism, cyanide, close your eyes they’re one the same Who will mourn the dead and gone when there’s nobody left to blame When you’re lying close to me I could be anyone I’d like to know how you kiss me when you Never touch me once Juliet sings a song to me To keep me on my toes The end of the line, unintentional crime One more road I’ll never know
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Halloween Dancer 04:20
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You don’t believe me When I say summer is slowly passing us by How much of the world have I told About your ability to get me to smile Like a dancer on Halloween night Almost there my love but not quite Gently touch me and then pull away Mistake I’m a big haired disco kid When you gonna ask me to Dance my love Dance with me Rainbow lights and roller rink Leave me side-eyeing you Over a stale, sweet taste of cola I don’t think you’re coming home What’s a girl like me to do alone tonight Wisdom teeth Have started to ache again You’re too sweet for me Gaps of silence Between the words of conversational talk Oh honey (honey, honey, honey, honey) When was the last time that you ever saw me cry in front of you? Ah, ah, ah 'Cause like a dancer on Halloween night Almost there my love but not quite Gently touch me and then pull away Mistake 'Cause I’m a big haired disco kid When you gonna ask me to Dance my love Dance with me Rainbow lights and roller rink Leave me side-eyeing you Over a stale, sweet taste of cola I don’t think you’re coming home What’s a girl like me to do alone tonight [Guitar solo] 'Cause like a dancer on Halloween night Almost there my love but not quite Gently touch me and then pull away Mistake 'Cause I’m a big haired disco kid When you gonna ask me to Dance my love Dance with me Rainbow lights and roller rink Leave me side-eyeing you Over a stale, sweet taste of cola I don’t think you’re coming home Don’t tell me you’re gonna be alone tonight I don’t think you’re coming home What’s a girl like me to do alone tonight
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Icarus 03:54
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I find it difficult To express my feelings Ask me why and I don’t know Lately it’s been hard To find a space in my head at night Post-mortem, your afterglow Will you sit with me tonight? Only if you’re feeling up to it How could I make such a pretty face Fall out of place Icarus dear, Maybe one of these days I’ll take you home Back to the city that I call my home And you can dance for me and write for me And I will carve your name on a postcard I’d like to kiss you Just to see how it feels Softly silent, sense compliance But I don’t want to Be the girl always waiting for you Makes me feel so ordinary Will you sit with me tonight? Only if you’re feeling up to it How could I make such a pretty face Fall out of place Icarus dear, Maybe one of these days I’ll take you home Back to the city that I call my home And you can dance for me and write for me And I will carve your name on a postcard And I’m slow to it And you’re slow to it And we’re slow to it Dancing in circles round the back I’m too slow to it And you’re slow to it And we're slow to it All I ever wanted was you (Ooh, ooh ooh ooh, yeah) You are the creator’s son Who never knew what he had done But he keeps on trying and maybe we should too Went and totaled your left side wing I never thought we could end this thing Cause you make me feel so weightless and I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it Icarus dear Icarus dear Icarus dear Icarus dear Won't you come home?
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Mindless 04:09
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New York City, different times Central park, different lights You buy a sandwich to share and our fingers touch How can I make it clear That for the span of a summer you were There to hold me close and then fall apart Four in the afternoon doesn’t exist Search within you, it’s gone amiss And I can’t stay with you during the night Mindless Keep it mindless Ask me why people come and go so quickly Use your hands Play a song for me Don’t pay me no mind I’ll sit and watch your beautiful hands You know I don’t believe in magic My dear, me and you is a tragedy Waiting to happen, and now I must turn away Newspaper showing a hurricane Beautiful and terrible just like you my love, so bad at a prisoner’s game Eight in the evening doesn’t exist Reality, a connection missed But I can’t stay with you during the night Mindless Keep it mindless Ask me why people come and go so quickly Use your hands Play a song for me Don’t pay me no mind I’ll sit and watch your beautiful hands Mindless Keep it mindless Ask me why people love you and than leave you Use your hands Play a song for me Don’t pay me no mind I’ll sit and watch your beautiful hands Tripped and fell on my own ego nervous hands, I pull away, Yeah I’m cynical until the bitter end Existence is a contraband Like wine I get drunk on your hands, So soft I didn’t know they were even there
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Sing to Me 04:16
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What you want is what I need And what I have is what you see Autumn comes too close to home Curl up with the telephone What you want is what I need And what I have is what you see Autumn comes too close to home Curl up with the telephone Middle of the season and I’ve got like three friends cause Texting plans are cryptic and are hard to comprehend Never understood what the city lacked But now he sits outside my window waits for me to text him back mm Summer days eternal he’s so good with words that It doesn’t seem like such a bad time for getting hurt But I love him all the same I’m the one to blame Continuously making him a daisy chain on rainy days ahh You are relentless When you sing to me do you remember me calling Calling your name You’re relentless When you sing to me do you remember me calling Calling your name Late 1960s baby gotta make it last but What am I still doing here waltzing with the past (You and me) I’m captivated by your moving hands Across the neck of my guitar across the soft skin of my harsh demands I’m trying to ignore The things that make me question what are you really here for? Days are getting shorter, summer mood suspended But I’m certain you’ll be there with me when the movie ends [Synth solo] You’re relentless When you sing to me, do you remember me calling Calling your name You’re relentless When you sing to me, do you remember me calling Calling your name Oh when the night kicks in Conversation soaked in gin Power of immortal blues And I’ll sing a song for you Oh when the night kicks in Conversation soaked in gin Power of immortal blues And I’ll sing a song for you
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Two Minute Eulogy 02:04
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Your hands on my waist, a first debut (look at all the faces) I am smaller than life in my size ten shoes (personal embraces) I walk along the moonbeams kicking stones at night It’s all so very peaceful But when you call me out of the mess I am And we stand together in our shades of blue You don’t speak, but I hear you thinking all the same I love you The hollow image of the man you are (look at all the faces) See a different world of color, end up raising the bar (personal embraces) You ride along the night like a tidal wave It’s all so very peaceful But when you call me out of the mess you made And we stand together in our shades of blue you don’t speak, but I hear you thinking all the same I love you
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Indian Burns and Cage 03:57
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we got kicked out of a store once again for doing nothing at all it's just 'cause we're teens and i like being your friend i like taking polaroids at my house talking about nothing at all trying to find out who you were as a sophomore paper thin stockings at the dollar store hitch a ride to my place like you weren't going to leave your head on my chest i can hear you breathe my mother shaved your hear a layer of jet black hair fake tats and piercings and band-aids and cage 'cause well nothing dies in a world of me n u we'll go play hide and seek when we're nearly seventeen just kids, in a glittery world of starry high school dreams i guess things aren't always as they seem copic skin tones, collarbones it was you who made me go and talk to him now we're friends and I photograph it all inside against the backdrop of the promise of sunny skies saw you in the mirror shining bright like a star and he wondered how we ever got to run so far burning through the streets that no one ever goes down admire the kids who we see walking in the streets infect me with your unending positivity note taking, silent inquiry return to the subway with you go and drown my shame with an empty glass of plastic pour it down the drain starry high school dreams, hand of an angel down on me [guitar solo] you can be the girl who'll cut you up and leave you wondering why life handed you a lemon and caught you shivering, chinese take out for dinner, it's all just glimmering to me tell me you can be the girl who'll cut you up and leave you wondering why life handed you a lemon and caught you shivering, are you all right, please tell me, it's all just glimmering to me to me so you'll indian burn me once again and maybe call me friend
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Eighteen 03:36
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It was the end of the world, when I turned eighteen Didn’t really think about it, didn’t really want to talk about it My lips were always chapped in the winter (chapped in the winter) All my friends swiped left on tinder I suck in the air through my teeth We were all peachy keen Still all peachy keen Step inside the jaws of a past life, color ridden magazine, I believe now When you touch me, when you stare at me—intensely prismatic stone cold eyes— Possessive form of mine Running (running, running, running) feel the beat slow it down Eyes wide open soak in my surroundings like Henry Bemis Last man on earth, like the world in reverse, like the world in reverse I close my eyes, feel the blood pulse through my veins it’s time to go, oh Happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you
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Smoke 02:02
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Tell me that you now know everything you thought you could ever know Tell me that you now can feel everything you thought you could ever feel How did she feel? Was she even real? It doesn’t bother me I’m like a cloud in the sky watching weeping willows cry Remember we hung out in the summer that night on your roof take a shot to the heart and the memories start again? Tell me the story again So when he comes your way someday Will you look at him and see a flame avert your eyes and count to ten And he will be gone again It doesn’t bother me I’m like a cloud in the sky watching weeping willows cry Remember we hung out in the summer that night on your roof take a shot to the heart and the memories start again? Tell me the story again And when she comes your way someday Will you look at her and see the ocean waves oh the waves of your goodbyes remember how you cried, how you cried

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released May 22, 2020

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