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Dead Elm
03:32
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Back in the Bush years I was mad
but somehow this is much worse, maybe cuz now I'm a dad
and compared to this somehow that doesn't seem so bad.
I am my black Whole Trade banana at the side of the road.
Brag about healthy eating then pick up some trash on my way home.
How many years till we admit that's just not who we are anymore?
Maybe we don't
Maybe we never stop.
Everything's broken I look down, look out
Dead elm in the yard, please don't fall
Living and dying in a dying red state, staying quiet
Dying in a dying red state, staying quiet.
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Mask
01:32
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Under my mask, I'm not smiling.
When I was younger, I wonder if this would've been fun.
But now I've got this kid and I can't just die anymore.
In fact, I've gotta live
for him.
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2020
01:34
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We're going to war again.
Where are you Godspeed you, Black Emperor!?
You made me believe in hope, even though I did nothing to change.
That was 18 years ago,
and that awful undergrad optimism is gone.
Long gone
(and I miss it).
Now I'm hiding in the basement, drinking a warm Coors' Banquet
Tattoos fade
The future is looking gray.
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2014
03:06
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I used to make things
now I make money
and I buy all the things I used to try to make
But it's not the same
And the more I have the farther I feel away
From the feeling
From the reason
And looking back, I can't even see the old me.
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Quiet Panic
03:56
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I broke down today at Whole Foods as my cart was getting full.
What am I gonna do?
What am I gonna do?
Cuz no amount of chickpeas is gonna make any of this make sense
But still I pile them in and I feel a tightening in my chest.
So what's left
Past this slow motion 9/11 with no foreseeable end?
Or is this the end?
Melting down on the couch,
Holding onto my phone for dear life
Worrying about my kid.
And as I break down I wonder what all of this is doing to him.
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Blossomtime
04:43
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I'm lost
I was already lost before all this.
Now there's no more shows-
Not that I would go, but it's nice to know they're going on.
This crisis is getting kinda long.
The Falls are closed
The wind's been blowing nonstop
My head is buzzing
This year's been a motherfucker.
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Steady Hum
02:09
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Writing songs about writing songs
the words get harder as I get old.
And in the face of all that's wrong,
I am resigned.
And I head on home.
Longing for that hopeful anger
That I felt when I was young.
Now there's just a steady hum
Where there used to be a song.
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Purple Mountains
05:30
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This one hit me hard
The whole year's gone darker.
It was already pretty dark
His record was cheering me up.
"Mounting mileage on the dash"
Smoke coming up under the hood
Clouds hang low over Costco
At the crossroads of 8 and 80
There's no mountains in eastern Ohio
but sometimes I see them to the West over Seven Hills.
Beyond the bones of my grandpa's old Ford plant.
Beyond the Bedford Auto Mile
Past the cars and lives I'll never cross, except for on this highway.
Just trying to get home,
trying not to care too much.
But in my head I'm screaming:
"Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump!"
Waiting to merge as the world ends.
Burning oil, how does any of this make sense?
Past Independence, sex and death.
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Morning in America
04:36
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When I woke up, it was 1928.
Pile on the school loans. Fuck it, I'm going to Spain.
And from a park in La Latina,
I looked West as the market's fell.
It was so beautiful.
I wrote songs about love and boats,
Then I had to go home.
When I woke up, it was 1981.
Once you have a baby, it's hard to look forward to the end of the world.
And they said: "Morning in America"
"Morning in America"
And for them, they weren't wrong.
When I woke up, it was 2017.
The Hope of the last 8 years was much harder to see.
Now this is the worst of us.
And me, I've been so fucking smug.
This is the worst of us,
So far.
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