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God Bless the B​-​Sides

by Will Mitchell

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1.
we're all learning we're all learning as we go we teach each other we teach each other and you might not think so but you've learned to think so yes, you've learned to think so so let it go
2.
let me open up this door for you and explore this tiny world with you for as long as our eyes meet on some random park street allow me to demonstrate virtue by not saying a word to you and we'll both avoid tangles and the heartbreak and minds that we mangle and we'll just be the dream stuff that never gets messed up and though you'll probably forget me you'll never regret me and if we just stay strangers passing there won't ever be that sticky everlasting or the trials that go right with it and i won't ever have to be unforgiven by anyone and i can be just a breeze and aim to please i could tell you that i'm different and that i loved you when i saw you i could tell you that i meant it i could tell you that we're destined and when we met it was all planned out in the heavens but when you'd leave i'd be forgotten just dropped down by a tree and left there to be rotten another soulless definition of a human that forgot that life is all a competition and if we just stay strangers passing i won't have to remember how you looked when you were lauging or how your eyes they got so glassy when you'd been drinking or how far away you stared when you were thinking
3.
i knew who i was when i was a young man it all starts to fade you poke holes in your plans where your dreams were living i struggled to keep that poor old man alive i was spinning the plates i was throwing the knives from the high rise into thin air how i'm sometimes undecided re-evalute you're good people! i know i am such a mess some ways if you'll allow it i know i'm gonna prove my worth to you am i getting through to you? babe, i need a rescue you were handcuffed and led through a cardboard parade i was there when they let you out there for the save with the Honda we drove my apartment then walked to the ocean and sat there and basked in the orange of sunset explosion the salt wind softly blows my hair back as i sit and wonder re-evalute you're good people! i know i am such a mess some days i kinda like it i know i'm gonna prove my worth to you am i getting through to you? babe, can you hear me? i need a rescue i don't know what i want i don't have any plans i just stand there and wait with my hat in my hands as the car pulls away i think i'd rather walk there anyways how i'm sometimes undecided re-evalute you're good people! i know i am such a mess some ways if you'll allow it i know i'm gonna prove my worth to you am i getting through to you? babe, can you hear me? i need a rescue
4.
Fire Drill 03:17
if you couldn't talk i wouldn't speak for you cause i know you'd hate that you'd say that it was rude of me to presume for some sweet relief from this evening heat i will wheel you in to the shallow end til we rust completely now and then we do a fire drill when you come at me swinging babe, there ain't gonna be a fire my old girls such an igniter oh i love her but i fight her oh oh oh i half fall asleep as the window breathes you reach and brush the ache away and then you say "we're not lost completely" now and then we do a fire drill when we both stop our singing babe, there ain't gonna be a fire go to sleep now aren't you tired? it's your fight i so admire don't you know?
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idk250 00:44
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is this a renaissance? everyone's a critic people's words are so destructive but the photo's all look so terrific i have taped up my computer camera i've been shopping for a Faraday we're shadow figures high perched up shooters it's getting hard to look the other way one day i read this one good American reporter writing from somewhere in Rio de Janeiro where there's no one trying to pin him for reporting they gather all my searches my Mom's forwards and emails my WebMD hypchondriacal obsessions prescriptions, all the details they think they know me from this they think they know me from lists i used to have great powers i've been sapped of all my energy and the skyline had mighty towers they're just pictures in our memories reflected by the one good American reporter writing from somewhere in Rio de Janeiro where there's no one trying to pin him for reporting
7.
i've got a box that is labeled "don't look at these" its filled with old pictures of you and our memories and pictures of an old head wound i received documented for police now i sit here all night and i throw little things at the wall its been quite some time since anything's stuck at all i'm such a waste broken legged wild animal all of the traces are now barely visible my mind erases you i keep on tracing you won't you sing back the tune? why do i bother you? you were so nice now you won't even answer to plea's i was so strong but now look at me down on my i had a vice and now its become everything i had a voice but now no one's listening now i sit here all night and i throw little things at the wall it's been quite some time since anything's stuck at all i'm such a waste broken legged wild animal all of the traces are now barely visible my mind erases you i keep on tracing you won't you sing back the tune? why do i bother you?
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Drain You So 03:07
the sun comes in and wakes you up as you follow to your coffee cup and i don't know why i drain you so you sip it as you look outside and you're happy when the sun don't hide and i don't know why i drain you so no i don't know why i drain you so you know i love you but i'm still no good for you i'm still no good for a girl i never thought i'd have even loved me when her days were bad and i don't know why i couldn't let it go the girl i had was good to me only worried what she'd never be and i don't know why i drain you so no i don't know why i drain you so you know i love you but i'm still no good for you i'm still no good for you
9.
in just two steps we'll give the world something to eat we'll be filling the ocean with cream of wheat we are pulling the weary back to their feet we are turning our heaven into our street yeah we are giving directions to every soul how to get to where you want to go how to get there nice and slow without walking over people for your personal goals i am smiling at your success though i've admitted defeat i'm a member of a choir but i'm conducting my own suite and the old walls that divide us will topple to our feet and every single person in the world gets a piece today what a remarkable day
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Alabama 01:46
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Soul 04:09
i was standing at the edge of the tower watching as the waves crashed below wondering why everything goes from the top of our heads to our toes and everything you'll know an hour from now sadly it wont change a thing nothing to this earth can you bring and nothing from this earth you'll take out and it don't matter what route you can route nothing from this earth you'll take out we're forced to watch as time slowly takes we put it off with plastic and fakes and all of our best qualities break and our hand to our mouth starts to shake and everything that made who you are is covered up by wrinkles and scars but our soul is still our soul is still our soul is still our soul its still our soul its still our soul its still our soul its still our soul its still our soul
12.
Emerald 03:30
you can categorize anything everything needs a label you are one or the other you either are or you're unable you're either her or you're not i think about these things a lot is there a plan i'm supposed to follow give me the pill i'm supposed to swallow i put the pressure on i'll make a diamond out of glass or gold or emerald and then you'll be what I forgot I think about these things a lot does that make me evil? now here's a film of how to see everything more brightly, differently and this will make you more like me chip off the excess, keep the beauty i put the pressure on i'll make a diamond out of glass or gold or emerald and then you'll be what i forgot I think about these things a lot does that make me evil?
13.
i am gonna go out and get a life today its still morning in town i'd like to try something profound and i would probably be a good intern or something but i'd just like to hang out maybe work on some sound construction sometimes it feels like to grow up you've gotta learn sometime you're gonna lose something i've survived many falls betrayals! and i can be anything (i've survived many falls) i can do anything i'm outta breath just trying to pass my interview the boss is playing along waiting for the curtain to fall and i should probably learn this program here i'm fumbling but there's a glitch in the code and i don't wanna blue screen sometimes i fear that you sign off your life to be fed to a corporate machine i've survived many falls betrayals! and i can be anything (i've survived many falls) i can do anything once that i've got my cash stacking then i can be myself again by then, all of your thoughts have been filtered and bought and you lack all the courage just to run and dive in i've survived many falls betrayals! and i can be anything (i've survived many falls) i can do anything
14.
a train whistle careens through the silence of the morning and even though i wanna go to sleep there's no relief she only brings good things but my heart does no protecting so mind is still suspecting i just wish that it would let me cause i don't wanna second guess your motive no i don't wanna second guess you i like to think i know your heart and i don't wanna second guess your motive she thinks she's earned her key but i haven't granted amnesty see the sea in her eyes compete with any wave that's wildly crashing and i think she knows the code now my mind is set to overload cause i never wanted anyone to know the code! the code! and i don't wanna second guess your motive no i don't wanna second guess you i like to think i know your heart and i don't wanna second guess your motive and what's the call for judging you? you look to hard you'll stare straight through and what's a worried mind to do? what's a worried mind to? and i don't wanna second guess your motive no i don't wanna second guess you i like to think i know your heart and i don't wanna second guess your motive
15.
hey degenerate just how long can you fake it? i saw you upstairs dressing down you're not so tall without your crown the legend took a while to crack but it won't bring our dead friends back took some good folks, you sealed their fate not bad for a degenerate ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh hey degenerate just how low can you take it? i know you're feeling kinda fuzzy you're strapped in your own muzzle, honey your chin is up when you take flack when orders come you don't look back now you're feeling sorta bored was this what you'd been working toward? ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh on the way up to nothing you're bound to learn something what will you write home about? on the way to a morning you might have a dream i'm not looking for answers but you know i'm upset not looking for meaning but do you regret it? hey degenerate just how high do the stakes get? i saw you wrestle kids away from good mothers with bills to pay you're kinda quiet out at lunch don't joke around with the boys as much that tinge you feel its not too late not even for a degenerate ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh on the way up to nothing what will you glean? and i cool my self off with my head in the stream of consciousness i'm not looking for payback i'll say at the outset but do you regret it? do you regret it? do you regret it? do you regret it?
16.
world, win me over i've had enough to lose myself but i wanna be someone that tries i wanna be someone that tries i wanna be someone that finds the good in anything cause i lost my believer and i never thought that i'd leave her but i'm even more evil than books had made me out to be but i wanna be someone that tries i wanna be someone that tries i wanna be someone that finds the good in anything cause i lost my believer and i never thought that i'd leave her but i'm even more evil than books had made me out to be but i wanna be someone that tries i wanna be someone that tries i wanna be someone that finds the good in anything
17.
i see your lovelight and its shining with the wind at your back you float down to our house when you've finished up your flying and you're dragging in your good hand the body of a lion i hear the whispers in the nightime i'm like a whale in the deep listening to whale songs deriving a new meaning and thinking the whole way up that the ocean needs some cleaning say, that's the memory going to Chincoteague i look around as you're driving and everything is sparkling off the water i'm in an airplane and i'm flying opportunities wait jumping corporate invaders! i wanna feel like my life matters and you'll burn your home town down climbing up the ladders when they go to nowhere and you grasp at your heart and say that's the memory going to Chincoteague i look around as you're driving and everything is sparkling off the water say, that's the memory if i forget everything i look around as you're driving and everything is sparkling off the water
18.
i think i'm gonna be late but that's fine i'll lean against the wall sunshine warms me i take a sip of coffee the numbers today are gonna have to wait i'll be so still that i live in a painting today the colors of the buildings look like the 1920s i think i'll get a bike that's painted green like money i smell the beignets and the city's started talking i guess i should get to work i guess i should start walking sometimes i think i might change my discipline i think i'd rather cook a pizza was it something that i ate? the numbers today are gonna have to wait my boss calls my cell phone i text him a winky face the numbers today are gonna have to wait
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idk251 01:47
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its always raining in the morning in my heart i watch a cloud snag a tree line and break wide open as the industries start all around us determined not to adjust i'm always happy in the evening in my sleep and then i wake and you're missing it makes it hard to start my week when every morning seems so bleak i've learned nothing ever stays long enough no, nothing ever stays long enough i'm in a big empty parking lot in my dream i'm in love with the things that you're not and will never be so it seems there's still a fissure when you're just my mind's old picture i've learned nothing ever stays long enough no, nothing ever stays long enough use a map you've always used a map but i've never really known what you were getting at i'm rife with fears they crop up so easily but i've never really known what was bugging me i know nothing ever stays long enough no, nothing ever stays long enough use a map you've always used a map but i've never really known what you were getting at

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