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radio baby
06:25
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i feel like a sparkler
like the drugs are just coming on
the day is long if we want it
you make me feel like i just wrote a poem
*******
i feel little fucked up it’s great
i’m standing at the bar waiting to get laid
feeling loose feeling glued in my jeans
now i’m in the mosh pit surfing 500 feet
so many people care for my body
the singer laughs points right at me
i’m in love with myself and everybody
here’s my favorite part, where we all sing along
a girl cries cause it’s her favorite song
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i am an fm radio baby
raised in the back of a car
i lean my head
against the window
draw pictures in the fog
fuck up then you die
i like to find things out on my own
i’m sorry i hurt you
you’re not alone
i like the backseat
i know all the words to every song
it looks like the trees
on the banks of the river
are gazing into a mirror
fuck up then you die
that’s an alright kind of life
you go to parties and meet people
spend too much time with some
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wind phone
03:00
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springtime when all the flowers speak your name
a still rabbit in the grass turns its head
shock of two eyes she finds a hole in the fence
trees sharpen their shadows as the sun bears down
you can look into the light and see why you shouldn’t
sing a mournful tune like a dog on a hill
we call to each other through the ether still
there is a phone booth in japan that overlooks the ocean
in the dark i see the half smile of the moon
the birds are bragging about their latest party
i was alive for you were you alive for me?
branches look like black construction paper cutouts
you can’t see the wind but you can see what it does
sing a mournful tune like a dog on a hill
we call to each other through the ether still
there is a phone booth in japan that overlooks the ocean
one way conversations with dead loved ones
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am i enough?
do i belong?
do i deserve love?
oh for how long?
where you going?
can we keep in touch?
how will i die?
will it hurt very much?
boys in the mosh pit
are having feelings
if your girl don’t dance
you can’t come to my party
how should i live?
have i done all i can?
i still don’t know
what to do with my hands
in the waiting room
you know it’s true
it will get better
all i can do
boys in the mosh pit
are having feelings
if your girl don’t dance
you can’t come to my party
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don't know what to say
03:44
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up the steps overgrown with weeds
we turn on the light and the tv
i kiss you you don’t kiss me back
stare at the wall pick at the scab
i don't know what to say
are we gonna be okay?
sitting at the table
staring out the window
three days you don’t talk to me
it’s like you have no mouth
i don't know what to say
are we gonna be okay?
i wish we knew how to talk
about all the hard stuff
i won’t push better just let you be
blink once if you can hear me
i don't know
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arm in arm
03:22
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we walk down the main drag
cars go too fast, kfc smells good
it’s too cold now for ice cream
but there’s always that one guy
standing outside the dairy queen
the wind it shoves the leaves around
you say "everything is fiction if you write it down"
we go on arm in arm
you kept the ashes of your first dog
in a music box that played beatles songs
i stared at posters of boy bands
pretended they were my boyfriends
we see a broken bird bath on the lawn
a crack in the neck of a white ceramic swan
the roots of a tree push up through the sidewalk
you ask good questions and talk with your hands a lot
you say "all broken things have beauty in them
or whatever that thing is leonard cohen said"
we go on arm in arm
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disaster
03:28
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a pretty girl looked me in the eye
she said she wanted to be friends
what a coincidence
she asked me to come over
we sat on the floor and talked music for hours
tried to make sense of "big fish little fish"
in the song "down by the water"
glad i asked her
man i feel alright
what a fetching disaster
can you feel it?
she showed me things i’d never seen
like the inside of her mouth
and a journal of her dreams
and a tooth from when she was little
and the bones of a mouse that died
and a letter she never mailed
because the ink ran where she cried
glad i asked her
man i feel alright
what a fetching disaster
can you feel it?
she kept this thing in a glass jar
the water it sat in was murky
i could be wrong i often am
but i think it may have been a baby
she kept the ashes of her first dog
in a music box that played beatles songs
i stared at posters of boy bands
pretended they were my boyfriends
glad i asked her
man i feel alright
what a fetching disaster
can you feel it?
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garden jesus
04:47
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if it’s pretty and i like it
can i have it, can i touch it
can it be mine
i’m just sitting here praying to my garden jesus
bring me my medicine so i can get over it
how deep do i have to dig to bury the evidence
go up the hill son, fetch me my medicine
if i think it’ll make me feel better
why you always gotta be "later, later, later"
why are you so mean
i’m just sitting here praying to my garden jesus
bring me my medicine so i can get over it
how deep do i have to dig to bury the evidence
go up the hill son, fetch me my medicine
if it’s running and i catch it
can i tame it now i’ve trapped it
show it a good time
i’m just sitting here praying to my garden jesus
bring me my medicine so i can get over it
how deep do i have to dig to bury the evidence
go up the hill son, fetch me my medicine
you flip it upside down you take it and you turn it around
fall down all down calm down
you turn it inside out you take it and you shake it about
all out call out fall out
you flip it upside down you twist it and you turn it around
fall down call down all down
you turn it inside out you take it and you shake it about
all out no doubt way out
i just want to belong
can that be so wrong?
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back and forth
03:49
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if it’s wound too tight
it’s probably going to break
life would be so easy
if i came here knowing
all the mistakes i’d make
i’m here
are you?
you make me rock back and forth
what i came here to do
if it doesn’t work
you should probably turn it off
wish i had known sooner
letting go of something
is not the same as giving up
i’m here
are you?
you make me rock back and forth
what i came here to do
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no flies
02:24
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i want you to know
it don't hurt anymore
i learned to let go so
i let go
no flies on me hey babe r.i.p
i’m in love with this bone
so clean for something so dead
i guess you didn’t want to talk to me
cause you never did
no flies on me hey babe r.i.p
don’t tell me how to feel
i’m really on a roll
going down now what’s the deal
where’s the floor?
no flies on me hey babe r.i.p.
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let me down
03:03
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first you let me down
then you make me wait
what are you trying do
turn me on
then you hold me close
until i really sing
then you put me back down
so you can pick up the other pretty thing
over under over under that’s the only way
you never let it hang out anymore
first you crank me up
then you walk away
what are you trying to do
make it last
then you squeeze me tight
until i really scream
and you put me back down
so you can pick up the other pretty thing
over under over under that’s the only way
you never let it hang out anymore
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oh, goliath!
02:42
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i got a real bone
i got a sharp stone
arrow for an eye
i can see from where I’m standing
you want me to curl up and die
you say you’re spitting hot truth
through your gap tooth
we all know you swallowed the lie
i’m gonna wanna get to the takedown
please pretty boy, bye
it’s okay it’s alright it’s just fine we’re all done we had fun
you give me nothing
then say it’s something
love how you turn it around
got your hand in my pocket
tell me i like it
love how you’re dragging me down
cause i’m strongest
when i come from under
laughing but not having fun
you were busy thinking you’d won me over
but i won
you got yours i got mine it’s all fine it was a matter of time
if you use bad tools you will do bad work
a man with no teeth cannot hold this tongue
if you must wound use the sharp knife
once the nail is it put the hammer down
you got yours i got mine it’s all fine it was a matter of time
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Annie and the Bang Bang Minneapolis, Minnesota
Annie and the Bang Bang is a Minneapolis rock band that genre hop from dreamy folkpop to late sixties rock to swampy blues. Guitarist and songwriter, Annie Enneking tells stories about being a person in a world full of complicated people, and relies on the thick invention of the Bang Bang: John Riedlinger (guitar), Kare Tweiten (bass), Mike Kittel (drums). Top pic Tom Smouse. ... more
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