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he art sha ped plan ha te

by the tortoise and my hair

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love’s a sunny day • warm shelter from the rain a lonely little light ray • leaking true love’s a simple song • can we all sing along united in •one great bigº family love’s often confused • when tried hard we must choose between the misconstrued • and mis demeaned love love love love love love love love love love’s a summer day • a hammer hot as hades love ’s your favourite flavour • oF ice cream loving is a choice • a tremor in the voice your heart hoisted high • on 2 a beam love is the sun • shining from above love will always find U • in the end love love love love love love love love love love love love love • shining from above love they often say • will steal your heart away a blind eye turned • to face towards the sun a heart felt filled with shame • against a window pane the rain tapping • saying please love let me in love is a rose • the calming in the dose a baby sleeping • deep inside a dream an apple every day • 2 keep nightmares away make sure we all R safe • and sound asleep love love love love love love love love love love love love love • shining down on us love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love
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when you gonna be - the dog that’s digging me - have you buried me forever like a bone when ya gonna see - you can’t be wearing me the clothes you wanna wear - is not my own where ya gonna run - the sun is beating down the ray gun set to stun - is burning holes what ya gonna do - you’re hoping that the glue that stuck me tight to you - is gonna hold when ya gonna care - it never has been fair - you always want a share in all this greed what you’re needing now - is never what you want - you’re never wanting what you really need who ya gonna trust - this gold gives such a rush - the drug will finally bring you to your knees when you’re finally full – you’ll’ve traded in your soul - for something that ya coulda got for free when ya gonna come – back to my heart babe - when you do - you’re gonna see - you’ll never be the person that you always say i am when you gonna come - back to my heart babe – when you do - you’re gonna see - that i’m not you and you’re not me... more
3.
she’s scared again as the thunder runs through her fingers her thoughts are paranoid of sickness and serpents the air is filled with so many poisons her senses pretending to breathe it all in the city is lonely, it takes her home it surrounds her in all its concrete street strangers her nerves string extensions without any endings they reach out to nowhere they touch no one she keeps all her dreams protected in plastic the white picket fences guarding greener grass she waits for the day to fade, the last parade, the wind to slow for the wild blowing wishes that the dandelions have stolen X3
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i’m so sad tonight, you’re leaving on the midnight train to Memphis, i’m out here crying with the rain, spent, ‘n’ penniless, the rain reminds me how we’ve been i got ta stayed focused on the things that make me feel i’m breathing, forget that other stance that’s more appealing and get back on the track behind the train homeless, hopeless with no reason for more potions to please appease these symptoms of love’s poisons, its perfumes left to linger when yer gone i’m so so sorry that i never ever gave th-appreciation that they always well deserved for me to give them i hope this does not mean they’ll be forsaken wait dear got one more thing to tell ya, so draw nearer, get a little closer to my good ear, let me whisper what i really feel
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sunshine 2 02:39
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all i know right now love’s gonna make a fool of me so tired of bending down • and begging her • please leave me be but even though somehow • i’m dropped again • weak in the knees i’m compromised 2 vow 2 C true love through faith fully all i know right now • love’s gonna • make a fool of me instead of falling down • i’m getting up again 2C my heart so full of doubt • but brave•2bold•2B believed i’m finally finding out • it’s not love’s fault • this we air we breathe (is LOVE) all i know 4 now • you’re gonna make • a fool of me safe and sound inside • a mother’s homemade recipe if i’d made up my mind • by now my soul • would B set free and floating from above • oh say i’d SAY(la C) • what i can C (with love)usa all i know right now • love’s gonna • make a fool of me from down here on my knees • my eyes can ‘t see • what i believe the west has justice won • all change still chained to slavery still focussed on desire while wandering round what really needs (our love) all i know right now • love’s gonna • make a fool of me she’s got me locked somehow • my head’s undone • without a key my stomach’s up in knots • she cooks 4 me • but i don’t eat in helping of my self •i think i’ll take 2• love sick leave all i know right now •is i’m thinking about calling you don’t know where you are • or whether you’re still feeling blue i’m trying in my mind • remembering to forget how 2 instead i find a way • into your folded arms•a new (i’m missing you) all i know right now • love’s gonna make a fool of me • she’s cut me off somehow • i’m turning blue • i gasp 2BREATHE • my heart is slowing down • 2KEEP PACE with this change in me
7.
moaning bout - U trying 2 find my way back home • from here 2 Timbuktu set out on a journey • don’t really wanna do weak unwilling • in2 the unknown moaning bout - U pacing back in 2 the past • 2 where we all once knew a way into a future • with wide brighter eyes of blue beginning in a second coming home moaning bout - she... is the apple of my eye • so blood shot i can’t see blinded in the alley • wayward • wondering where i’d be with out her • hungry hearted every day moaning bout - U blessings 2 the meek • and 2 the lame and stricken too praying for the rain 2 wash away the awful truth el salvador • won’t B returning soon moaning bout - U singing choirs of angels • knelt down • humbled by the view eyes in envy opened wide • and focussed finely tuned realizing • we’re all only passing through Imoaning bout - me feeling sorry for my former self • i’d seldom disagree mourning for an other life • a longing wannabe 2B any body else • like brenda lee moaning bout - U moaning bout - U i’ll moaning bout - U • from the top of this bell tower i’ll be moaning bout - U
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CANDY 7 02:54
candy craving coloured candy sticky sickly sweet need to get my sugar fix sweet candy calling me candy colour coated sugared dreams of jellied beans planted 2 grow love candy orange and yellowed corny tEEth climbing up a hot tin roof of ginger breaded dreams sweet dreams oF sugar plums and candied beets peanut butter spreading me out thick slices oF vegan cake candy limping with my candy cane in the rain craving something sweet 22 carden street • got 2 get my can-dy´ candy need to get some candy treat grab the grape ape licorice sticks slippery but so sweet • 22 carden st.
10.
hey you, i find it hard to bleed for you - your blood is cold - and mine is wine hey you, i guess you think you know me -you knew me for a while hey you i tried so hard to see things through - the pink glass you supplied hey you, i never really left you – you’re always on my mind everyday i always think about you – at least a thousand times i was always hoping you’d come to save me - it’s keeping me a live i was always hoping for my baby to come and make me shine hey you, i’ve walked with you a long way - along a jagged line i could not change the day – my ways are always in the night hey you, i guess i always knew - you never could be mine i couldn’t care much less of ya (though) - i’d (still) climb through barbs and wire hey you i’ll wait for you (‘cuz) i promised to - until you make me shine hey you i’ll wait for you (‘cuz) i promised to - until you make me shine
11.
AIN’T got TOO MANY SILVER DOLLARS IN THE BOTTOM OF MY CUP i got enough to keep me busy though i’m down here on my luck you’re always welcome southern comfort is the lap i’m licking up i never even mind the praying much - one’s bound to fall in love the road is long and ever winding hanging from a heavy sun our hearts beat in (glory) heading forward fists pounding into one can’t blink a second cause you’ll miss it - if you risk it  don’t risk it - don’t (U)dare to fall - don’t (U)dare to fall for love there’s always someone slowly sifting through the pages of my life faithful we keep on cleaning cages mocking changes star struck and striped there’s all this talk of love as having that one big heart of gold same old cliche still getting staler all (of) us (just) getting older AIN’T got TOO MANY SILVER DOLLARS IN THE BOTTOM OF MY CUP i got enough to keep me busy though i’m down here on my luck you’re always welcome southern comfort is the lap i’m licking up i never even mind the praying much one’s bound to fall in love
12.
NEVER FOUND THE PERSON TO LOVE ENOUGH BUT IT’S ENOUGH TO LOVE MYSELF FOR THE BOTH OF US NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT FOR ANY LESS - THE WORLD’S TOUGH TO LOVE ALONE IF YA LOOK TO SEE WHAT’S IN FRONT OF US MORE OF THE SAME cold diamonds still holding in the rough BUT IF YOU CAN GET YOUR WAY THROUGH THE DUST - YOU’LL SEE TO WHERE I WAIT FOR YOU
13.
my love so longs for summer weather bursting beams of warm light fill my cup satisfied at length with life UP 2 the brim the curious side of things still seeping in the one my mind is made up on does not depend on you to lose control to that your wishes should come true my love is long and every lasting longing with the winds that take the rains my love lives strong and ever after sleeping deep in dream’s realized landscape the one my mind is made up on does not depend on you i’m just a full 2 believe that your love can somehow be true 2 my love is long and everlasting longing with the rocks worn by the waves my love is fun fuck king fantastic surviving all the slips of rough terrain the one my mind is made up on does not depend on me a fool in love is set to stun not 2 set YA free my love races with the speed of light reaching far and few across to u hoping high with stars hanging up at night turning with today back into blue the one my mind is made up on does not depend on you to lose control to that your wishes just might come true my love is king at building castles with walls tightening in pulling forth to reign surrounding all that’s floating with such a heavy hand keeps on calling out in sanely ‘bout some game the one my mind is made up on does not depend on you to lose control to that your wishes will be true the morning is the bed i lay in (always late) beside the one move summer shadows inside the heart another blossom in the spring hangs in wait to balance a hungry/hopeful flower the one my mind is made up on does not depend on you to lose control to that your wishes may BE true my minds feels friendly as it’s weeping tears of joy crying OUT in my brain the meadow glistens dew to fuzzy buzzing things the soul less taste every heavy evening craves the one my mind is made up on does not depend on you to lose control to that your wishes could come true the one my mind is made up /on does not depend on you to lose control to that your wishes will be true my love lives sadly ever after same old game begins to ebb and wane my love is filled with song then laugher the mood swingings of a ball and chain the one my mind is made up on does not depend on you to lose control to that your wishes should come true the one my mind is made up on does not depend on me to lose control into believing that truth can set U free my love is longing like a river flowing out of love in to the(heart) sea my love winds(me) back to the beginning ending the full circle where lovers meet
 my love lies listless in the gutter among many cartons of spilt milk (got)soured in the hours seems it’s getting late keeping things in side and love locked out my love is blissful as a butter fly flying fields of hoslteins in search of cows churning every morning with a mother’s crying child worried if the day will provides enough milk
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loving you is easy glue the scooby doo • U do me well loveable the flavourful • jelly bean from jelly hell lovely under utter news • welfare clamps closed 4 more motels lovely water melon blues • per sueded shoe horse gifted mouth bridge Fbig loving U is easier than trying 2 beat my meat UP Off the flOOR loving U and snogling in the freezer withªthe cow car case s oh dah hORRWher loving you is easier then choosing love from some one else loving U the teaser clue that holds me 2 • U tight as swell lovely little loser drinking booze out ON a town house budget screwing with the rent ªU choose 2 crap it all on drag ON helper bridge Fbig loving you is easier than trying 2 sweep your feet UP off this floor lovely little baby blue yereyesSOtrue • look into mine • sea shore loving U is easier than swimming sinking thinking deep lovLY creepE cat ER pil lar • butt hurt flying fancy free hating her for loving me • praying falling fast asleep stutter B4 flutter • broken win doe eyed winged a trophy bridge Fbig loving you is easier than trying to keep my meat up off thE floor love U like A lazy lion just rest less • re wild ly raging war loving U is easier than telling U i told U so loving Us A winter flU • springing o’er blowing snow hugging her she kis sing ªholy cow his sins ªgod on ly knows traces of our bloodyªBIZness • still stuck UP • stinking down B low loving U is easier • the voodoo chill U sell so well loving U the sister christian common wealth and all that chaff regretful 4 the buzzing busy years • my ears still ringing bells angels hover notre ªdamn all gay mental apes • straight back2 he(a)ll (th)
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love is the only thing that we can bring across the board love’s a wide range of things but most oF all A splendoured roar love is a factory setting set on getting ready love creeps A long A line arriving just in time to find out in down to earth again beginning things by scratching chin up eye on the itch wait ON what day break will bring offering Glife, health and limb signs warning under sun shining turning round A world un done love is a thunder bolt reckoning with A vote to stay here stubborn or to go love is like many things a room with circus rings round an elephant

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released January 29, 2024

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