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Conviction Of Sin
02:20
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Month after month
Year after year
I know what love is
I know what love is
I can′t misuse it
I have conviction
Conviction kept me lonely
Conviction kept me lonely
Conviction kept me lonely
Look at how they mocked me
Look at how they mock me
They had never seen a heart before
They had to diagnose me
What they're not so blessed to feel
They will call a fantasy
Now they′ve gone and told the world
I have a distorted reality
Conviction keeps me lonely
Conviction keeps me lonely
They never saw a heart before
They had to diagnose me
They will write my mind is wrong
I will write my heart is right
Write it down with every pen
That I see within my sight
Month after month
Year after year
Don't forgive them for being
Ignorant of their sins
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(Be a part of me)
Help to see through home’s door
Become part of home
Never take their swoons
Ten demoters falling earthwards
They pine for you—my head
Help protect my music from these robbers
We in Evening are so careful, careful
Demoters, ba ba ba ba ba
Demoters, ba ba ba ba ba
We in Evening are so careful, careful
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Heaven, A Star
01:32
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What if I'm comparing all of Heaven with stars
Am I the last to know I've met with Heaven, a star
I need to know you in a way that the others have not
There is a room we dream about somewhere on this globe
And if I cannot find it for you I'll make my own
‘Cause I need to know you in a way that the others have not
Oh, that’s not the play
That’s not the play you've known
I need to pull you inwards with a candle in hand
I've not lit it in past times like I've lit it today
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Equanimity
02:32
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Oh it's bad
Really, really bad
Dance about
I need to keep whole just because I can
Cut this collar from my neck
Oh it's bad
Really, really bad
(They brush my gun)
(They brush my gun)
Oh it's bad
Really, really bad
I sound so much happier
Than I really am
But there's no shame in that
But there's no shame in that
I need to keep positive in my head
I need to avoid all the thoughts of death
(Too bad my carpet’s all covered with spit)
(Now my fist is all wet)
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Batter Pours
01:52
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Life still is mine
Why joke about
Why cry about
The things I don't do
From the bottle pours
Everybody's bath
Won't they carry high
Bucket on the back
They'll miss every trip
They'll miss every place
They'll miss every line I arranged
Why joke about
Why slur of things
I cannot do
Right here in one room
They fall apart
They fall apart
They fall apart
They fall apart
By my hand
By my throne
By my zygomatic bones
Aren't they great
So pronounced
(They didn’t come naturally)
(I had to starve)
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Choke Valve
01:30
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Go out, go output
Let you, let you in
Nights were formed and failed
In my current valve
Go out, go output
Let you, let you in
Oh they’re foiling my hope
And my hostage sleeps
Rise!
Rule!
Beget!
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The Choice Is Yours
03:05
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Do I long to be whole
I come, a soul, to our new world
Take my voice
The choice is yours
I’d offer
This to a lover
Only her
Only her
Only her
Only her
Only her
Only her
Take my voice
The choice is yours
In our new world
Take my voice
It is not mine at all
I only hold my note
When I look and I see you’re here
(When I’m sure I see)
I’d offer
This to a lover
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Vindicate Me, O Lord
01:51
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Take my bike
Ride it back
To my house
Hope you get caught
Hope you get caught
Hope you get caught
Hope you get killed (please)
Deal, just once
Pull my planet safe
Two full years pop
Need all parts for what I will be
I want somebody, anyone to
Vindicate the brilliant mind
That they've inhumed
I will feel my fullness returning back
Only when I watch their lives
At odds with their heads
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The Stakes
01:15
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(Thus, the light comes out)
(Thus, the light comes out)
(Here, come get me)
Live with mistakes
Live with mistakes
Live with mistakes
Live with mistakes
Don't wake up
'Cause the day on the calendar is not so far away
From the day where she gave me an impression
I was looking in the wrong-most place
Don't wake up
'Cause the day on the calendar is not so far away
From the day where I know my drink will pour itself
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The Hungriest Dine Late
02:03
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We want you to go together
We want you to go no further alone
Oh, my love is touchless
I’ve waited thirty months
For you to change this
It only hurts halfway down
My mouth will lick
Towards her doorway
The hungriest dine late
Like you and I
The hungriest dine late
Like you and I
Soon you are with her
No more blue outline
For someone you’ve only seen with one eye
I cannot wait to look at you with the two beneath
We want you to go together
We want you to go no further alone
We want you to go together
We want you to grow no further apart
(Oh, it’s thundering
I need to shut this off...)
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Versus
01:03
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Nobody ever said the same is fucking fair
[Unintelligible]
Code stamps
Carried with you everywhere
(Code stamps!)
Hang him from the common hard tree
(Hang him!)
Denude him with the common trash bag
(Pitch cap!)
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Nothing But Divine
03:08
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Master of foreplay
Dreams in my ovens
Dreaming backwards
Soon in my heaven
How’s this for you
Fearing my health
If I could touch you
It would become a habit
The star is leaning over you
The star is kissing at your knee
Lucky for me I have got two
Master of foreplay
Dreams in my ovens
Dreaming backwards
Soon in my heaven
How’s this for you
(You must come all alone to me)
If I could touch you
(To appreciate the way that it could be)
Don’t you see
First year
Come alone
Come alone
And I know you have no statement
You can
Come alone
Come alone
And I hope I treat you like her
The stalk is beating over you
The stalk is eating up the vine
The stalk is bleeding out the real you
The stalk is nothing but divine
Don’t you see
(First year, come alone, come alone
And I know you have no statement
You can come alone, come alone
And I hope I treat you like her)
(First year, come alone, come alone
And I know you have no statement
You can come alone, come alone
And I hope I treat you like her)
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13. |
Naijzeton
02:26
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Tendon Levey
Private, diarial recording project of reclusive occultist Choir “Tendon” Leviyey recorded over a period of four years (August 2007-June 2011) and disrupted by vocal injury. Finally released to the public for the first time in 2017 to commemorate the project’s ten year anniversary. Please visit bit.ly/leviyey and bit.ly/leviyeytwo for more. ... more
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