OH NO

A waddle back to the pool
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A needling to
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Gouge the way you ride away
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From how you is
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2 or 3, 4 or 6, 8 or 9, 10 or 12
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Unloved is not a poor way to rebel
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Oh no
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Oh no, oh no, oh no
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Oh no
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Oh no, oh no, oh no
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Jiggle jiggle back off a mule
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A horsing to
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Fast and loose is one thing
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It is everything
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10 or 12, 9 or 8, 6 or 5, 2 or 3
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Despised is not a poor way for to be
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Mein Bikini liegt auf Tannennadeln
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Ich bin aufgewacht und hab mich über einen Spalt gehockt
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Ich hab gedrückt und gedrückt
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Bis endlich ‘ne Papierolle mit Namen rauskam und da standen
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Alle drauf, die an meiner Qual ihre Freude hattеn
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Die Rolle hab ich an ’nem bеwachsenen Felsen abgewischt
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Und in das andere Loch gestopft, da wo’s hingehört
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Es hat überhaupt nicht wehgetan und wird niemals wehtun
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Thanks a million, hey you! Thanks a billion!
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Oh no
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Oh no, oh no, oh no
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-oh-no-lyrics

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Goodbye for Good

For certain the world doesn’t need you
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Plants find you disgusting
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Their benevolent keeper
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They would grow from your cracking jaw
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If they could get there
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You think they are beautiful
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They are waiting for you to suffocate
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Goodbye for good
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Goodbye for good
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A sandwich bag of barbiturates
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In an empty yogurt container
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Hidden beneath a little stack of bricks
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Beside the basement water heater
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Octopus, Porcupine
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Ortolan, Platypus
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Opposum, Pelican
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Wish for nothing more than that you and you and you
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And you and you and you and you and you
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Were gone
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Goodbyе for good
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The world doesn’t need you
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It could’ve been anything
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Without your curious fingers
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Caressing the meadow
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Patting the chaos
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Bergamot, Marigold, Daffodil
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Hyacinth, Dahlia, Woodland Phlox
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Azalea, Barrenwort, goodbye for good
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-goodbye-for-good-lyrics

The Grifters

To’ve writ the words, I promise you
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Then as a slur, I promise you
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To hold the gift of thoughtfulness
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To excuse the act of crushing it
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As you know I’ve been called a liar
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And so I know what I, a lying person, does
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To whisper self-servingly o’ thy tears
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Then to demoralize the one who took a chance on you
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To invite my heart to be sewn
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Then to boo
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At it as a gag
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As you know I’ve been called a liar
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And so I know what a lying person does
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But I’m also a friend, unlike you
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And know what a friend will do too
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Too much has deflowered as more than enough
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To seize off of me
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The slip of self love
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As you know I’ve been called a liar
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And so I know what a lying person does
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But I’m also a friend, unlike you
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And know what a friend will do too
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-the-grifters-lyrics

I Cannot Resist

There you were, then there you weren’t
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Unable to be unsure
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Then unable to be
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And I cannot resist
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Staring into your face
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Thinking “God, what have I done?”
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And the litany of unacceptable kisses
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And I cannot resist
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The fruits of passion
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Such a hassle to clean up
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Two idiots, unbored with love
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And I cannot resist
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You’d prefer you had
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A routine
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Line of mouth but not me
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You’d rather you had
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Everyday
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Nostril shapes but not me
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Bong bing bonk-o bung
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A head rolling down the stairs
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Bing bong bonk-o bung
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And here is hoping the booze gives you a wild sleep
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And that your mysteriousness-ess
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Remain
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More hot than sad
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I cannot resist
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I cannot resist
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I cannot resist
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-i-cannot-resist-lyrics

Sad Mezcalita

No no no no, no no no no no no no, no no no no
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Oh no no no, no no no no no no no, no no no no
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What were you doing there?
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So un-anxious to be liked
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Maybe because you were tired
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And the world was in your way
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I had walked them home
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My only friend, my only love
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There were none like them
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None, none and none
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Rough dreams
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More than enough dreams
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Rough dreams
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Rough dreams
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N’er to rest, n’er to be
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In all, or all or at all
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N’er to cease, n’er to brеathe
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Roughened drеams
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Prelude to defeat
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I have only ever been special to you
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You were so much more than only special to me
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No no no no, no no no no no no no, no no no no
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It’s not having something evil endure
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As it is never having something good
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The only years that meant a thing
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Bewildered every and all days
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The flip of two ugly, useless, purposeless cards
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Guide me to walk o’er the dune
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To dig up your Rumpus Room
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Say You Won’t Let Go
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James Arthur
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Rough dreams
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More than enough dreams
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Rough dreams
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Rough dreams
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N’er to rest, n’er to be
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In all, or all or at all
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N’er to cease, n’er to breathe
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Roughened dreams
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Prelude to defeat
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Without any questions
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You were to end at a horrible end
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Without, withouts
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Nor a cloud in the sky
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-sad-mezcalita-lyrics

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Normal Love

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh

What have you become?
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I can’t say so
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Yet run full-on to
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Run towards nothing
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No, yes, yeah, no, yes, no, what? No
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Normal love, normal love
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Normal love, normal love
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Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
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Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
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Sprinkle gopher dust
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Spill Chum-Churum
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Secrets of the Psalms
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Might uncross anything
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No, yes, yeah, no, yes, no, what? No
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Normal love, normal love
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Normal love, normal love
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I want to pretend
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But I cannot pretend
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Want me to speak nor to blink
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You don’t want to feel attractive nor feel pride
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I think, in the end, I don’t need to feel pride
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Normal love, normal love, normal love
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Normal love, normal love, normal love
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Normal love, normal love, normal love
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I think I have shown
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I don’t need it to be fair
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I think I have shown you
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I don’t need you to be kind
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Just let me pretend
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I have something to lose
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Something
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-normal-love-lyrics

Scisssssssors

Fade cream, all erased
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I can’t remember who you are
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Hear and taste all erased
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I can’t remember who you are
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The Simone Hotel
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The Simone Hotel
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(Guard, guard
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Guard, guard)
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Light a candle, pull the handle
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You are erased
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(And now sow bugs the size of real sows)
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Dear Dr. Duck
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What’s the solution for people like us?
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Long Gone Harmonica, Boogie Woogie Clair
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Sleepy Pee Wee, Junior Little Buddy
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Jelly Roll Cacao, Geeshee Purple
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Champion Kitty
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Light a candle, pull the handle
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You are erased
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Light a candle
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You are erased
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It would be twice as good
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If you lay down on the track
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Half for the trash and half for the hornets
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It could be four times as good
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If you lie down there again
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A quarter for the gooseberry bush
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A quarter for the gooseberry bug
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It was the clarinet that made you deaf
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Not the coming train, Connie
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-scisssssssors-lyrics

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Mary Turner Mary Turner

Mary Turner, Mary Turner
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Mary Hattie Graham
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19 years old and pregnant
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Hazel Turner, Hazel Turner
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Murdered by a lynch mob
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She declares his crime a crime
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And running for her life
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She is, she is captured
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Captured at Folsom Bridge
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Gasoline and motor oil smeared on her clothes
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She is hung up by her ankles from the tree
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A match is struck and she is set ablaze
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Mary Turner, Mary Turner
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While still burning
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Mary Turner, Mary Turner
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While still alive
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Split open with a knife
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From her womb onto the ground
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Looking up the first and only light it ever sees
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The flames, the flame of its mother’s burning, burning
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Reaching out the first and only loving touch it receives
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The falling ash of its mommy’s hair on fire
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The baby, baby cried in the dirt
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Quieted, quieted by a boot’s heel
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Mother and child, mother and child
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999 more bullets from the crowd
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Mary Turner, Mary Turner
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Buried where they were murdered
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A cigar stuffed in a whiskey jug
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A whiskey jug to mark the grave
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Fuck your guns
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Fuck your war
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Fuck your truck
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Fuck your flag
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-mary-turner-mary-turner-lyrics

The Wrong Thing

Charismatic, a trapped rabbit
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Carpet beetle, huhu grub
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Rice weevil, flatworm
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Mealy bug, field cricket
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Grass grub, caterpillar
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Head louse, utopia
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I can’t bear what they say about you
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Baptize a goat, sacrifice a goat
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Let’s shove in our wrong as deep, as deep as it will go
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Soft in the head
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And a moth besieged
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A life alarmed
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With you
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Sheaf of wheat for flicking away
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Sheaf of rye for flicks to come
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No boat back to where we came from
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Days spent eating and only eating
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Without ease and without reflection
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Apples, artichokes
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Almonds, acorns
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Asparagus, avocados
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Apricots
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Pulled through the sand
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And yet not dulled
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A life alarmed
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With you
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Cynthia, upon the throne
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All the cubes and squares go home
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Sit by me and do the wrongest thing
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Boom are like we
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And bunnies and pink are we
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Boom go that cars thee
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Cars are like we
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-the-wrong-thing-lyrics

Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy

Loner, loner
d
Right, right
d
Loner, loner
d
Right, right
d
So I was just standing there
d
And standing there and standing there and waiting
d
There and waiting
d
There and waiting
d
There and waiting
d
There and waiting
d

Keep me company
d
But like, as a mother
d

Daddy-o, daddy-o
d
Daddy-o, daddy-o
d
Daddy-o, daddy-o
d
Daddy-o, daddy-o
d
Where are you going?
d
Where are you going?
d
Daddy-o, daddy-o
d
Daddy-o, daddy-o
d
Daddy-o, daddy-o
d

Is that you, my prize pig?
d
I am sorry I left you out at pasture to die
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He was such a fuckin’ asshole baby
d
Who terror, who terrorizes all the kids in the neighborhood
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How does a pig even walk back into the house
d
With only one not broken leg?
d
Pigs are gross
d
Well, not you
d
You’re my pig
d

Um, but yeah, no mom
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Um, but yeah, no dad
d
Um, but yeah, no sister
d
Um, but yeah, no
d
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing
d
Nothing, nothing, no-no-nothing
d
No-no-nothing
d

Glue in a bag
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Glue in a bag
d
Glue in a bag
d
It was so sweet and so disgusting
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You’re gonna fuck your favorite sweater
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If you wanted to be a human being
d
If you wanted to be a human being
d
If you wanted to be a human being
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Then you just have to eat garlic?
d
You’re not my mom
d

(Smut) Smut, keep me company
d
(Smut) Smut, keep me company
d
(Smut) Smut, keep me company
d
(Smut-smut-smut
d
Smut, smut, smut
d
Smut-smut-smut)
d

Jump in, motherfucker
d

What, what, what, what, what, what, what
d
What if the bear was just a dumbass?
d

My three-legged pig, my three-legged pig
d
My three-legged pig, my three-legged pig
d
Now you really can’t get anywhere
d
Where, where, where-where-where
d
Where, where, where, where
d
Where, where, where-where-where
d
Where, where, where-where-where
d
Where, where, where, where
d
Where, where, where-where-where
d

And I am kind of a dopey-ass goofball weirdo
d
So I can get why some people don’t like me
d

Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-pumpkin-attack-on-mommy-and-daddy-lyrics

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