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Alienor

by Bender Melon

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1.
Onesquethaw 04:55
Walking up the Onesquethaw you wouldn't believe what I saw Water flowing underground doesn't make any sound You'll never see sunlight through these trees While you're asleep This water runs deep The walls get so steep come up on the waterfall no way around these wall You'll never know where this water flows Sometimes when it snows you might see the sinkholes (Year's at the spring Day's at the morn Lark's on the wing Snail's on the thorn)
2.
Timothy Winters came back from the war not too sure what he was there fighting (sent there) for they sent him back to a hospital bed while they took the shrapnel from his head peeling paint on whitewashed walls the whitewash was on more than bloodstained halls all the king's nurses and all his medicine put timothy back together again Chorus (So come one angel, come on ten Timothy Winters says 'Amen' Amen Amen Amen Amen Timothy Winters, Lord) found a job but he felt exposed the parked cars, people in the shadows garbage bags left on the side of the road looked like they might explode he had trouble leaving his apartment tried to get some money from VA department they took one look at the state tim's in and said preexisting condition I know a woman who tried to help She went to school not just for herself Tried to get a job at the VA but they had no salary to pay he finally got himself a girlfriend she took one look into his eyes and said i think i can mend him he looked into her eyes and said i wish I were dead One day he didn't answer his phone They say he went into the kitchen and turned on the stove Waited until gas filled the kitchen They only found pieces of Tim
3.
Mr. Wrinkles 03:22
The other night I had this dream that my mom was screaming at me because she had her headphones on and had the volume up too loud. My gloves were on backwards and on the wrong hand it wasn't quite what I had planned so I tried to rearrange them but I only managed to change them into claws Chorus Mr. Wrinkles is a dog who's dressed like a girl With him by my side we will take on the world He can bake a cake and skate on the icing He's got a black belt in karate and a phd in engineering Me and Mr. Wrinkles we're two me's in a pod He knows what I'm thinking before it's thought. Old people fall and we can't catch them all They yellow of Port Meadow makes me feel small We're living by the castles that were built with great minds but they won't even let me go inside But I can't tell the difference between being here and there While you were in the shower I couldn't help but stare The pictures move around the walls and the floor moves like the sea I'm wrapped up in the double yellow line out in the street What's the point of living when you're missing out on everything and the only thing that we can't believe happened while you were asleep and dreaming.
4.
There's a man Utopian Wants to be President Says he'll be benevolent When he runs the government What he knows of politics He learned from Star Trek He's got a girlfriend She stands behind him They've got on uniforms They're matching uniforms He'll tell us what to do in his beautiful utopia A new age of Aquarius He's gonna dictate There'll be no more hate in his corporate state they won't exterminate like that other state What he knows of economics He learned from Babylon 5 Television keeps the myth of free speech alive He's got a girlfriend She stands next to him They've got on uniforms They're matching uniforms He'll tell us what to do in his beautiful utopia A new age of Aquarius He'll follow Benito To the Nova Rome Someone should let him know We don't have that far to go What he knows of politics he learned from Star Trek What he knows of economics he learned from Babylon 5 Television only keeps the myth of free speech alive Those cavern dwellers are about to eat us alive He's got a girlfriend She stands behind him They've got on uniforms They're homemade uniforms
5.
Portals 07:09
where can you see such beautiful technology hovering machines gracefully arrive from a land unseen sleepy people, luggage, rolls over conveyor belts to baggage holds where they're off, what they've seen why they're here + what does it mean people rush around you in the silence of slow motion they're on borrowed land and hollowed air and hushed devotion a woman waiting with a sign cries out and runs behind the line to grab her son returning from a place he should've never gone one day you wake up in the state of oklahoma you step into the airportal and end up in a coma in the clouds that you can see as the wing blinks intermittently You wonder if you lean to the side will you enter into a nose dive is it possible at this height and at this speed to still be alive flying over tiny lights who is down there and what are they like put up your tray tables and your seats and you wake up in germany where there is not a soul who knows anything about Tulsa
6.
Angelina, Astronaut Have you seen her? I think not. She's still out there in outer space. It's been a while since we've seen her face You can call if you want to but you'll need a satellite You can look if you want to but I think she's out of sight. Valentina Tereshkova Is the first woman to take off of Planet Earth into outer space But she didn't win the space race. She used the stars to comb her hair Those arent' quasars, they're just her stare Angelina, Super Brain Living on an astral plane Supposed to be just a little trip When she took of from her rocket ship Will she ever come back to earth?
7.
i walked into a hotel bar somewhere up in new hampshire thought i'd check the latest score for finals of world cup soccer that's what the world calls football the tv set above the bar showed qualifiers for nascar i asked the bartender if he'd mind changing the channel for a time so i could check the score he said 'where're you from?' 'from vermont?' i said 'no, why'd you ask?' feeling a little beleagured he said 'what are you?' 'one of those ivy leaguers?' he meant that school in Hanover right then i didn't know what he meant i thought i'd give him one more chance to put on the soccer game or at least the tour de france he asked where I was from, i said I'm from Massachusetts!
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Two Wheels 03:38

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released January 1, 2009

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