Save Me Save Me

Though this is all you’ll ever get
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It would be a strange delight
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No eyes, no nose, no mind
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The grey light of Porto stays with you
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Oh, how can you love
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A tiny bug impressed
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By the night when you cut yourself?
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Save me, save me
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Your body rotten
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As the last melon on the vine
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Pull your shirt down
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Save me, save me
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Press my thumb onto your tongue
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Hand a knife up to me
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No mouth, no neck, no rest
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The white poem of self-hate stays with you
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Even though you know a chance to cut
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Is still a chance to cure
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Pull your legs apart
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Save me, save me
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Your body doomed
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As the last apple on the tree
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So let me hurt you
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Save me, save me
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Save me, save me
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Save me, save me
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Oh, how can you love
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A tiny bug impressed
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By the night?
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Save me, save me
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Your body rotten
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As the last melon on the vine
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-save-me-save-me-lyrics

The Pineapple vs. the Watermelon

Can I pray for your return?
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The bird I am looking for is not in me
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It is, it is you
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It’s so clear
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You missed it
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What we saw in you
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Green, like flame
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Someone felt something pure
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And told it all to you
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That was why you killed yourself
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To prove it wasn’t true
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Say hello to Cory’s mom
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Say hello to Freddy’s mom
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Say hello to Ryan’s mom
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We’re all and have been
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On your side
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What is worse for you to bear?
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It’s obscene
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Why you missed
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What they saw in you
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Grey, like flame
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Can I pray for your return?
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Can I pray for your return?
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Source: https://genius.com/18779284

Bishop, CA

This blue dot of sickly light
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That is daytime in your embarrassed town
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Burns a hole in the fading yellow ribbon
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On your fading wine colored Cavalier
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The mine has fallen down on you
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As you dug a well of death
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Milk and sugar water
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In brief sympathy with them
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When we see the hate in your eyes
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It doesn’t make us better men
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The mine has crushed your brother
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As he ruined our rotting sky
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A white hot blast of black hot powder
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And you lapse into a real boy
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The mine has fallen down on you
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As you dug a well of death
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Tears and sugar water flow
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In briefest sympathy with them
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Should you be ashamed for more than that
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Than that your daddy raped you silly?
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Leaning my head on the refrigerator
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Crying for the stupid world we share
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Walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, hey
Walla, walla, walla, walla, hey, hey
Walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, hey
Walla, walla, hey, hey, hey
Walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, hey
Walla, walla, hey, hey, hey
Walla, walla, hey
Walla, walla, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-bishop-ca-lyrics

PJ in the Streets…

Straight ahead, what is there?
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My brother and sister and I
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Trying to make some sense of this
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It’s just a fleeting thought, though
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For there is nothing in our wondering
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Night in, night out
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Love begins and love ends
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The red sun rises
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Sadness is still in print
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My royal name is Cyrus the Selfish
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And yours, Panic in the Streets of London
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Listen when the baby calls your name
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And don’t act as if you didn’t know
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It’s just a fleeting thought, though
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For there is nothing in our wondering
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The red sun rises
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Sadness is still in print
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Love begins and love ends
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-pj-in-the-streets-lyrics

Vulture Piano

Won’t let it go
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It’s creeping along
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A deep lack of guilt and
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A fool’s sense of love
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You could say it’s nothing
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You could claim there’s no one to hide
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You could be respectable and keep it to yourself, at least
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Cause I know she was the best that you’ve had
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Cause I know she was the best that you’ve had
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Greased and unclean
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A hiss laid by God
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A duped bridal hole and
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A boyhood slipping in blood
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You could say it’s nothing
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You could claim there’s no one to hide
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You could be respectable and keep it to yourself, at least
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Cause I know she was the best that you’ve had
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Yes, I know she was the best that you’ve had
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V-U-L-T-U-R-E-P-I-A-N-O!

You could say it’s nothing
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You could claim there’s no one to hide
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You could be respectable and keep it to yourself, at least
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Cause I know she was the best that you’ve had
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Yes, I know she was the best that you’ve had
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-vulture-piano-lyrics

Hello from Eau Claire

I know it’s dumb to say
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That you are on my mind
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I know it’s stupid to dream
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That you might think of me as a man
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I can loose my own tie knot
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I can button up my own pants
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I can buy my own cigarettes
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I can pluck my own mustache
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I read it’s lame to wish
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That you won’t walk out on me
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But I’m not embarrassed to sing
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Plainly the words “love” and your name
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I can pay all my own bills
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I can unroll my own tights
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I can untuck all I have to untuck
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I can weep through my own midnights
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I can loose my own tie knot
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I can button up my own pants
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I can buy my own cigarettes
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I can pluck my own mustache
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I can pay all my own debts
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I can rip off my own tights
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I can humiliate myself to your face
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I can weep through my own midnights
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-hello-from-eau-claire-lyrics

Boy Soprano

Look at me
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Nothing bad is ever going to happen to you again
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Although you are a solid pile of hate
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You’re still pretty like a cake
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Pulling out a bat at the Kill Me Court
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Slaps me that I can’t handle you
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But yes, no, yes, no, yes
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Tell me how to love
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Boy soprano, take me away from here
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Boy soprano, where will we go tonight?
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Boy soprano, do what you can to shock me
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Boy soprano, boy, boy, boy
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When you get to be my age
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The police don’t assume that you
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Still like to light things on fire
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Bearing that in mind
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I wouldn’t trust me, either
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But it was the two of us watching
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Two bunnies hop across
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The Peach Street gang
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Yes, no, yes, no, yes
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Confide in me, you don’t want to die
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Look back from the stains on my gloves
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To the stains on yours
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Thank you for telling me vodka is a poncy drink
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But little man, the handball is in your court
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Boy soprano, take me away from here
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Boy soprano, where will we go tonight?
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Boy soprano, do what you can to shock me
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Boy soprano, I hope you make it, I hope you have
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-boy-soprano-lyrics

Buzz Saw

Daniella, don’t say “Be tender first”
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And don’t say “Teach me”
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Before you get tied up for your first time
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I’m not like that
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I’m not so good
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You will want to run away for us
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Your black hair is like black hair
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Mine, I promise, is a jerk’s hair
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Your acne is like a pearl
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Mine, I swear, is a brimstone
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I’m not like that
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I’m not like that
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How is it you thought I might be?
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I’m not like that
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I would like that
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All I’ll recall of you
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A sturdy tongue like a plaster toe
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-buzz-saw-lyrics

Yellow Raspberry

No one will eat him
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A yellow raspberry
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Perched on top of the thorn bush
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Up high and ugly, up high and weird
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This minute, twenty years ago
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Your hair looked just as bad
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Talking nonstop to a little rubber pixie
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What has changed as you tell your doll hello?
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More indignant, less recognizable
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You became a bag lady’s son
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Beating off nonstop to the escort pages
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What has changed as you tell your cross hello?
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You left with some money
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More self-righteous, less hopeful
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Up high and ugly, up high and eugh!
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This minute, twenty seconds ago
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Your face looks just as dumb
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Singing nonsense to your voicemail
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What has changed as you tell your cactus hello?
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More fixated, less relief
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You became a faggot dressed like a bunny
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Beating off nonstop to the escort pages
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What has changed as you tell the mirror hello?
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-yellow-raspberry-lyrics

Dangerous You Shouldn’t Be Here

A witch has come from under the ocean
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And with a pointed and sharp finger
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Snatched my baby by the crook of her jaw
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And hooked her breath away
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And bloated and cut her soft
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Dearest skin and face
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Her hair has gone from black to green
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She used to complain when I used
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Too much water to wash her hair
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I can’t imagine what it was like for her
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To have died swallowing the sea
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I want to pause and offer
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Your lonely grave farewell
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But it is covered in mud
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It is nowhere, there is no way
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To light an altar for you
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Everything is too wet
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Tight around my neck
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Tie me with this rotten wire
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That snaps its quiet snap
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I’ve poured my life into this world
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And here I am
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-dangerous-you-shouldnt-be-here-lyrics