
Date of issue: 20.06.2010
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Half Mast |
4 years old |
I was in a playground digging for bones |
Underneath the wood chips |
Under the stones |
Searching for the dead and gone |
Dinosaurs with their dead end songs |
And then |
When I was 7 |
I planted 20 peach pits in the backyard |
One of them grew up to be a tree with 50 arms |
It bore the sweetest fruit I’ve ever tasted |
And the roots tore through the dirt |
Tore through the pavement |
All these animals |
With their paws in traps |
All the animals |
In this bar make me laugh |
It’s the way that our faces sink at half mast |
It’s the way that our bodies stink (make noise) |
I already know them by heart |
I’ve memorized their reflections |
And know the art |
I’ve felt the rush of a big bet |
And got the scars |
Covering each bit of this chest |
We’ll play our parts |
But every performance will end |
So if this is really the start of the finish |
I guess I gotta go ahead and settle for chipping away at the infinite… |
Only felt alive for a minute’s time… |
All I ever wanted was to be significant — not losing in my prime |
Sacrificing my body pocket and mind |
For a taste of it |
Spitting in the face of it |
They love it when a man plummets |
I’d pray but I can’t stomach that rubbish |
Where do they really want to go when they die? |
In the clouds with the most high? |
Underground or the sky with a clown-like «BIG GUY»? |
In a wooden box |
With a suit and tie |
So the boll weevils can hide |
With some maggots in between toenails |
While arachnids swim inside bone marrow? |
Or would they prefer to go sterile? |
God Dammit |
I’m locked inside this unforgiving planet |
Where people chant of freedom and revolution |
But have never had it |
So I’ve been on a quest to find a way out of inevitable gravity and death |
And I’m at a turning point |
Wondering if I should quit now |
But it’s all in jest |
I feel I’m dick deep |
And the writer’s block raping my brain |
Is editing out all the ways I want to say «fuck you» in good taste |
This is an album |
About low living |
Sucking up dust and discovering quickly |
That the truth is unforgiving |
All these animals |
With their paws in traps |
All the animals |
In this bar make me laugh |
It’s the way that our faces sink at half mast |
It’s the way that our bodies stink |
9 years old |
Saw a man get shot in the road: |
Robbed a bank |
Never made it home |
That’s my fucking hero though |
A gambler with no soul |
Took a risk |
Buried in a hole |
When I was 12 |
I dreamt Abuelo never went to hell |
I dreamt he never shot and killed himself |
In that Puerto Rican motel |
Where the cane rum sunk into the shelves |
I painted him in heaven |
I made believe my father kept clean |
That addiction wasn’t built inside of me |
Or David |
But the tree is still growing |
And it seems |
That the fruit it bore 10 years before just wasn’t so sweet |
Julius |
I must say |
I must say |
I never thought you would fade |
Julius |
I must say |
I must say |
I never thought you would |
Julius |
I must say |
I must say |
I never thought you would fade |
Julius |
I must say |
I must say |
I must say |
I must say… |
All these animals |
With their paws in traps |
All the animals |
In this bar make me laugh |
It’s the way we’re all sinking at half mast |
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