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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Two Thirds Of Our Lives [LP], Original Sin [Julian Shah-Tayler Feelin' Ravenous Remix] [single], Kinder Gardener [single], Everything I Wanted [in the style of Jeff Buckley] [single], 11 Minutes In November [single], Upon Their Shoulders [single], Original Sin [single], This Is All Going To End Badly. [EP], and 8 more.
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Bachelorette number one
Our lives had but just begun
To find your place in the sun
Our threads were forced to come undone
And irony's hand then led you to your one true one
Bachelorette number two
Compassionate ingénue
If not for your different view
No end to what we could do
Regardless of our cloudy ending, I see blue skies for you
I still see great things in you
Bachelorette number three
What further proof do you need?
What more do I have to be
To turn your head just one degree?
I've wanted you just as badly as you don't want me
...As you don't need me
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Sweet melatonin, please kick in soon
And take me far from this room
Bring dreams of goodness, for goodness' sake
The ones that make me fear to wake
The elephants are on parade again
Left trails of ruin everywhere I've been
If I'd just kept my mouth shut all along
They'd still be in their rooms where they belong
I won't get in the way of you no more
Find the beasts, and grab them by the tusks
Tear them out and grind them into dust
When comes the mornin' through eyelids dark
And brings the gossip of the larks
Leave me to dreamin', for goodness' sake
'Cos I'm left without you when I wake
The skeletons are out to dance tonight
Shakin' their noisy bones right by your streetlight
If I would only lock that closet door
I may just learn a lesson or four
And not get in the way
I won't get in the way of you no more
Find the ghouls, and club them in the ribs
Crush the skulls and bury all the remnants
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Clonazepam Blues
03:16
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Stop the presses
He's on medication
Oh, stop the presses
He's on medication
Well, honey, it ain't no ruse
I got
Clonazepam blues
Firebomb his house
He's sellin' medication
Oh, let's firebomb his house
'Cos we don't understand why folks need that medication
Well, y'all are so fuckin' confused
Can't see you're the reason why I got these
Clonazepam blues
Start the presses
He's on medication
Oh, start the presses
We gotta vilify this motherfucker in our magazines just for takin' his medication
Natural versus artificial
No happy middle
There's only clonazepam blues
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Self-Destruct Mode
03:10
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Someone spare a light
I don't smoke except for when I'm givin' up a fight
See that girl eclipsing all other beauty here tonight?
I could take her with me if I tried
But I'd just leave a mess
If she never even meets me, then it's for the best
So I drink another cause of (and cure for) this loneliness
Enduring one more winter in the Midwest
If you could see me now, you'd surely run
It's takin' all I've got to keep away from you, because
If you could see me now, I'd surely want to
Initiate the sequence so that I'd self-destruct
I need a warming touch
UV lights and sleeping pills can only do so much
So I fill up with whatever brings that temporary rush
And focus all attention on my grudge
At nine p.m., a Kamikaze at the bar
The wind exhaled far from "divine"
By three a.m., I've got an army for my war
My elephants and skeletons in line
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PART I
He strolls into the scene, his mind on this or that.
She glides carelessly into the scene, soaking in the sunlight of Spring.
He sees her. His heart pounds.
She sees him, and nods politely, but her mind is fixed on the glorious park atmosphere.
He dares an approach, his walk uncharacteristically (and awkwardly) suave.
She sees him coming, and is standoffish. Though there is a certain something about this one...
He thinks of the perfect greeting, and is just about to say hello, when he trips over a rock.
She laughs and warms up a bit. She extends her hand to help him up.
INTERLUDE
He imagines the two of them dancing in the park. The other people melt away.
PART II
He initiates conversation, nervous at first.
She, acutely aware of his nerves, makes a risqué comment.
He sputters for a moment (she giggles), but continues on, parrying her remark with one just as gutsy.
She is impressed. Maybe this one is different after all.
He proposes a date.
She flirtatiously lists reasons why she wouldn't be able.
He pursues the proposal. He must see her again.
She thinks for a moment, then answers simply with a kiss.
FINALE
He imagines the two of them dancing on a balcony under the moonlight. The world melts away.
"Au revoir!"
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Pink Sunset
02:49
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I wonder how well this boxcar's latched
I feel like I'm slippin' off my tracks
But I've dug my grave
This rickety train with only a few bails o' hay
Will act as my final restin' place
A wide open door, a perfect view
But there's nothin' to see here except you
A cloud covers the sun
Remindin' me of the way that your lip hovers above
The one tooth that, when bared, lights up your face
And mine
I have to know
If I even made one iota
Of difference in your life at all
Before my time is gone
But you won't hear me call
The sun's settin' pink, but it won't last long
It's a beautiful end; a fittin' swan song
I refuse the dark
Gonna light up a spark to rival the sun's brightest spot
And like it, I'll go out in a hurtlin' blaze
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My Own Medicine
04:05
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A beautiful thing, the word "unrequited"
It rolls off the tongue like a wave
But stings at the teeth, much like when venom
Flows out from the bite of a snake
It melts through the bone, leaving me without
A semblance of skeleton left
To show that I became
Something I never had planned
Well, she don't have the time
Don't have the room in her mind to make space for a guy
Who tries all he might
To sweep her clean off of her feet
And she don't have the sight
Can't tell that she's made of finer than roses and wine
The sensory high
The savor in all that I eat
But a spoonful of sugar
Won't help my own medicine go down
A curious thing; my actions and dialogue
Always were under my rule
But roles were recast; I was the prince
And now I'm playing the part of the fool
A clown sentenced by karma's judicial
And ill-fated chain of events
I just don't understand
What anyone could have against happiness
No, she don't have the time
Can't even quite justify any known reason why
I pass through her mind
As strangers would pass on the street
And she don't have the sight
Can't tell that she breathes the life into every night
The wind in the kite
The essence of everything sweet
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Your hands are frozen to the touch
Your lips the color of your empty glass of blush
Your eyes reflect the playful, dancing candlelight
They mirror your intentions with me tonight
Quick flashes of your silhouette
Gifts brought to me by lightning, thus I'm in its debt
Still, it's no match for our tinder and flint
Even Zeus would be envious of it
Killin' time with you when the power dies
A celebration of pre-electric life
We generate enough energy tonight
To spark a flame, and keep this whole damn town alight
Forget the world as it exists
We'll make a new one on foundations of our bliss
And when we build up to that final precipice
We'll commemorate the end with one climactic kiss
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Afterglow
02:32
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Jealousy In D Minor
04:06
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I blow the dust off the old fingerboard, and
Clear the webs from the bench
Poised and ready to play the first chord as
I see your old fingerprints
A glass of gin and some wilted rose blossoms
The company that I keep
I smudge the marks that you left, and get lost in
The depths of my jealousy
One day you will see me
You could fix this broken record
If you'd allow just a kiss
Then again, my wounds might simply fester
With the salt from your lips
I'm through hiding behind metaphors
Done sugarcoating the truth
If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago
I might be here with you
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(What's So Fucking Great About) New York(?)
Three times now it's taken those that were dear to me
And tempted them with promises of what they're meant to be
Sir Andrew and Sir Frank have got nothin' but love, it's true
I say the bigger the apple, the much, much bigger the bruise
(I ask you)
What's so fucking great about New York?
January's just around the corner now
Spread the news: I'm starting my own countdown
My shoulder just gets colder, so I'm warmin' back up out west
With my wagon bound pacific, destiny will manifest
(So I ask)
Why keep going to a place that always rains your plans out?
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Oda A La Luna
01:53
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Todos los que la ven
Son instantáneamente magnetizados
Atraídos hacia ella
Por una fuerza invisible
En el primer encuentro
Ella es nueva, ella se revela un poco
Simplimente alude a su capacidad
De una luminaria inimaginable
Se opaca de vez en cuando
Y las nubes cubren su visión
Pero solamente brevemente
Antes que todo su poder es revelado
Y ella pertenece a un país
Pero su luz brilla para todo el mundo
Nunca podra ser eclipsada
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In Another Life
02:49
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She walks along the avenue
Her dress soaks with the rain
She checks the flower in her hair
And hums a tune
It could be that da Vinci
Prophesied her face
And patterned the golden ratio
With her in mind
Don't tell me I'm lost
Don't tell me I'm wrong
Don't tell me it's time
I abandon this hope
Love was my specialty
I thought I knew it all
But then my definition changed
To somethin' new
It's taken every part of me
To realize I can't cage
A soul meant for the universe
Not just for mine
So maybe this weight
Should finally be dropped
Maybe it's time
I abandon this love
Maybe in another life
We'll dance
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There are so many of us
Oh so many of us
We've forgotten how to trust
With all the times we've been left behind in the dust
But I was wrong
To think that I could brave this world alone
With so many of us
Oh so many of us
Who go betrayin' your trust
Remember not to hold all the rest in disgust
See, I was wrong
And you'll never have to brave this world alone
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The Last Domino Los Angeles, California
John Orr has performed under the name The Last Domino since 2005. What began as acoustic singer/songwriter fare with his first EP blossomed into a unique style through subsequent releases that spans a myriad genres from rock to electronic to Parisian waltz. Domino shows are innovative one-man-army performances, layering organic loops & beats with various instruments like the saxophone & melodica. ... more
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