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I'm a Boy
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Something
02:38
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Today I found out something
I wish I didn’t know
but I can’t go back,
no, I can’t go back.
I almost went off somewhere
I didn’t mean to go,
now that gate’s already closed.
Why did you falter?
Why?
It makes me want to bury my head
in the summer sand
but I can’t go back,
no, I can’t go back.
I wanted to show you pretty things
that weren’t mine to lend,
so they can’t be yours to have.
I dreamed I was younger,
a babe in the woods.
We were innocent creatures—
nothing but good.
Examining closer
a hole in your wall—
what could become of this,
after all?
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Nothing to It
03:03
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I was tied to the rails by Calvary's cross,
defeated and deranged and left for dead.
I rose from the grave of the life that I'd left
defeated and deranged.
There were people standing on every corner in town,
and those who were hidden in the bushes.
Now the fire never ceases, the clouds never part
to reveal the sky at large.
I heard echoes in the hills of the ones who survived,
who wrote what they knew and stuck to it.
I hovered in a cave a philosopher drew
and spoke of Socrates.
That's how I do it.
There's nothing, there's nothing to it.
Between the air and the wall there is infinite space.
There is a limit that that can never be reached
going half of the distance from here to the door
for those who studied calculus.
That's how we do it,
there's nothing, there's nothing to it.
There's nothing, there's nothing to it
Merrily we roll along or hide in the woods.
Yea, verily we watch the shadows fall
until there’s nothing, nothing at all.
Nothing, nothing at all.
Outside the windows,
we watch the shadows crawl.
I heard echoes in the hills of the ones who survived,
who wrote what they knew and stuck to it.
I hovered in a cave a philosopher drew
and spoke of Socrates.
That's how I do it.
There's nothing, there's nothing to it.
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Boylesque
03:43
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What’s written in the space left blank
at the bottom of the page?
A view of the future hidden away.
Scrolling through pages
of perfect boylesque faces.
Showing only aces
wrapped in brocade and lace.
Heavily kohled eyes, he flashes a thigh.
He promises to wear the same thing tomorrow.
He doesn’t know I’ll do the same thing tomorrow,
tomorrow, and tomorrow.
Turning everything around is the specialty of the house.
Ooh...
Ooh...
Heavenly cold eyes, he flashes a smile.
He promises to say the same thing tomorrow.
He doesn’t know I’ll do the same thing tomorrow,
tomorrow, and tomorrow.
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M.K.
04:38
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You could never pay attention enough
to get a read on me
when there’re too many things to say,
too many things to say
today.
Your tongue might get blistered,
though in your defense,
you don’t know what I meant
when I said what I said.
I might let go.
I might let go.
I might let go--
come on and get me.
There’s a dream within a dream
and my eyes are open wide,
my hands stuck to my sides,
knowing we’re gonna die.
A dream within a dream,
from when I wasn’t feeling great,
in fact I felt like hell,
crawlin' out of the well.
I might let go.
I might let go.
I might let go--
come on and get me.
I wasn’t happy as a child.
When on Halloween a neighbor saw me smiling,
it was the mask that freed me,
if you get my meaning.
I might let go.
I might let go.
I might let go--
come on and get me.
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Lys Guillorn New Haven, Connecticut
Lys Guillorn is an alt-folk-psych-rock troubadour, songwriter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist from
Connecticut.
Her songs are dreamy, lyric-driven, melodically interesting, and undefinable. Guillorn has been on bills with: Robyn Hitchcock, Laura Cantrell, Amy Rigby, Scout Niblett, The Handsome Family.
Live she's solo, or with Eric Bloomquist - bass/vox and Peter Riccio - drums/vox.
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