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stop tryin'
02:19
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Gimme the days and the nights of my intrepid youth
Curl it all into a bundle, now you've got the truth
I can't go back, have no lack of happy memories
I will go on til it ends at once or by degrees
I'm on a rant, it's a bust and I daresay a must
That you will side with the kids in whom you put your trust
And truth be told, I'm not sold, and you're not buyin, so
Ride with the wind, let it in, and let your conscience go
This is all there is to expound
Hope that you get lost in the sound
It's a jape, a jab, a bad line:
Turn your mind off, quick, and stop tryin
Cartesian graphs in the aft of my cerebral gum
Choices are made, plans are laid and I adhere to some
This is the night, it's alright, I'm gonna stick it to
All of the fat cats in their cool cars and business suits/Oooh
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hope in hell
01:55
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We have a hope in hell
The levy's holding steady
By all accounts we're ready
To draw fresh water from the well
We have a tale to tell
About bad times turned around
What's lost being found
And breaking the evil spell
Oh yeah, the times were dark
All around, it was stark
We almost missed the mark
But we knew...
When you hear that death knell
Think of how we made it through
To do what's right and true
And how we have a hope in hell
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on the avenue
02:37
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On the avenue
Is the perfect place
We could just us two
Meet face to face
Soul to soul
On the avenue
Get me outta this hole
Get me into a scene
An indie magazine
On the avenue
Is a place I'm told
That's new
I'm not sayin we haven't had our differences
But you know it's cool
I just want to put it all behind us
So don't be cruel
I want you to know
You know i don't want to
Ask a lot from you
So let a little show
Let a little go
On the avenue
I'm not sayin....
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intervention
03:02
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When I met my adversary
Some would say he fit the mold
But I could see that man was me
Where the world was dark and cold
I tried to see but I was blind
Tried to think but lost my mind
Tried to do what I was told
Where the world was dark and cold
Then you said that all along
You could feel my pain
And even though I was strong
You just crushed my heart again
There is only so much love
In the empire of the mind
Got to give those thoughts a shove
And leave the feeling far behind
A circle of friends stared at me
I gave in quietly
And was lead into the fold
Where the world is dark and cold
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every diamond
02:35
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When he said you were the one
Did you register a doubt?
Did the cool jerk of his tongue
Leave a lump within your throat?
Will you raise up your white flag?
Cause every diamond is a drag on your heart
Don't look to him for the truth
Please eschew his verbal jag
Do not pay at his toll booth
He can't lift you from the slag
Will you raise up your white flag?
Every diamond is a drag on your heart
I've never known you to go wrong, so wrong
Every garment makes the man
Every party has a plan
Everybody goes there stag
Everybody was an egg
Will you raise up your white flag?
Every diamond is a drag on your heart
Everybody was an egg...
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don't know me too soon
02:15
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I'm not made of clay
Or wood roughly hewn
Assess me today
But don't know me too soon
You might hear me sing
A pretty partisan tune
But it ain't everything
Don't know me too soon
I have always know
That words carelessly strewn
Can cut close to the bone
Don't know me too soon
I'm not saying you have to feel the way I do
What shall I convey
When platitudes come to ruin?
Covenant or cliche?
Either way:
Don't know me too soon
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vigilant soul
01:52
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Look now, here comes the volley
Please take it with a grain of salt
Lime twist in a glass of Stali
Harsh words and a single malt
Girl talk as an empty vessel
No judgment and no blame
Spare me the whole sale hustle
My vigilant soul is a flame
Never let them in or complete you
She said so luridly
Never let them win or defeat you
She said so assuredly
Running off at the mouth
Stilted like a fantoccini
Learning loudly how to be both
A nice guy and a meany
Never let them in...
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desperate hearts
01:13
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It feels like something bad's gonna happen
The universe has caught us napping
And everything is gonna fall apart
In the dark of night there's a warning
In the still light of the morning
Disrupting all science and art
We should come together at this time
We should join our hands, yours and mine
Bring together all our desperate hearts...
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bloom
02:05
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Bloom
One of us disappears
The space between us clears
Accept, regret, forget your pity
You are confronting yourself
Into your soul you delve
Approach infinity
Trying to understand your mind
Undefined, ill-designed
A chaos so pretty
This is your problem
No way to solve them from this bogus scene you have invented
Tired dream you've dreamt so long, the truth gets circumvented
Now a common flag unfurls
Unity a precious pearl
Abstract graffiti
Trying to understand our minds
Undefined, ill-designed
A chaos so pretty
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10. |
meet me at six
00:46
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To kill time we roam
The town hall can be such a scuzzy place
Me where you are and you for...
Meet me at six for drinks in this soulless dive
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Peter Kauffman Toronto, Ontario
Toronto indie rock.
Heliotropic EP (2023), Distorted Day (2022), Corporate Tool (2020), Denominations (2012), and Countdown to Philippines (2009) now available.
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