1. |
Naturally Naive
02:41
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You're so naturally naive
You're so naturally naive
You're so naturally naive
Not a thing up your sleeve
You're so naturally naive
You truly believe
That love is free
And pure
Don't let the world burn you
Don't let the world turn you down
Don't let those clowns beat you down
Don't let them change you from a smart little angel
To a girl without a town
Without a name
Don't play their games
Cuz those fuckers gonna charm you
Don't take the blame
Cuz those fuckers gonna harm you
And take what you got
And you got a lot
And you got a lot
And you got a lot
You're so naturally naive
You're so naturally naive
You're so naturally naive
Naive
Naive
Naive
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2. |
Song 4
03:24
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When I was a child
All my dreams were recurring
I used to leave my body
And peek into the living room
Where people were laughing
And smelled like cologne
Nobody could see me
Alone in my dimension
When I was a child
I had this one dream quite often
I was royalty in France
In the 1700s
A great crowd was gathering
To watch the procession
The weight of my costume
Was quite suffocating
My ladies in waiting
Proceeded around me
Their bodies like a cage
Prevented my escape
I walked very slowly
Lead ran through my veins
The fear within me mounting
The life within me drained
I have no clear notion
Of what is to happen
In this dream all I know
Is that I'm choking with dread
On my way to my death
Or on my way to my wedding
Either way, in my heart
My life will soon end
I can picture the courtyard
I can picture the scenery
In this dream, unlike life,
I can speak perfect French
I am wealthy and pampered
But my life is a prison
I am walked with my ladies
In a procession towards death
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3. |
Roads I Die
04:13
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It's a ride
It's a right to
It's a right to take me through to
It's a through
It's a one-two
It's a one to get me to truth
It's a ride
It's a right to
It's a right to take me through to
It's a through
It's a one-two
It's a one to get me to truth
Ride when I'm right I ride
I make my right
It's a right it's a ride it's a right to drive
It's a one two three to get me to truth
To get me to truth
Never never tried
Never tried to make you
Never never tried to make a problem for you
Wasn't for me was a problem
Breaking down my door just to tell a policeman
Listen it's all right
It's a ride take me on a ride
I just wanna moving somewhere where I can ride
I can have a right
I can break all right
I can break out me too
Pull me out of my bed
Push you out of my way
Yell as I go
"I hope you hate me!"
Fuck if I care running past the neighbors
I don't hate you
But right now I hate you
Let em let em stare
Let em see you chase me
Running on the front lawn running from your right arm
I didn't ask didn't ask to be here
Didn't ask to be here
Running on the pavement warm on my feet
I own the streets I own all of these streets
These roads are mine no one else can know them
On these roads I die just ask a policeman
On these roads I die just ask a policeman
On these roads I die
Standing in the shower now
Doesn't matter now
Nothing matters now
Not one thing will ever matter now
Cut off all of my hair I don't need any makeup
Fuck if I care it's a wash it's a wash
Standing in the shower now
Doesn't matter now
Nothing matters now
Not one thing will ever matter now
Cut off all of my hair I don't need any makeup
Fuck if I care it's a wash it's a wash
Standing in the shower now
Doesn't matter now
Nothing matters now
Not one thing will ever matter now
Cut off all of my hair I don't need any makeup
Fuck if I care it's a wash it's a wash
Now
It's a wash it's a wash now
Find me in the streets
Like a fright
Like a fright night poster
Could've been toast
Like a poster child
Like a lost child on a milk carton
Playing my part in the intersection
Under the stoplight like a crucifixion
Hope they hope they hit me
No don't hit me!
Smelling all the sea air
Honeysuckle vines on a quiet night in the lilac sea air
Ready to die
Ready to die
I I didn't care
I cared too much
I had touched touched everything
Everything don't touch me back
Now pick me pick me pick me pick me up
Put me in the police car
Lock me lock me up
'Cause it doesn't matter
Lock me lock me lock me down
Lock me lock me down
In a white room
Lock me lock me down
'Cause it doesn't matter now
Doesn't matter now
Lock me lock me up
Lock me up
Lock me lock me down
Touch me touch me touch everything
Everything
Don't touch
Don't touch me back
Now pick me
Pick me
Pick me
Pick me
Pick me pick me pick me pick me up
Pick me up
Lock me lock me lock me down now
Down doesn't matter now
Lock me lock me down
Lock me in a white room
Lock me lock me lock me down
Lock me in a white room
Lock me lock me lock me down
Try to stop me feeling
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4. |
Pray Don't Pray
03:52
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Don't pray
Don't pray to the wrong god
Don't pray
Don't pray to belong, dog
Don't pray
Don't pray
Don't pray to the wrong god
Don't pray
Don't pray to belong dog
You can pray
You can pray to the day
To tables and chairs and books
To creaky stairs and stray hairs
To metal hooks
And sincere looks
Don't pray, though
Okay, pray
Don't pray, though
Oh okay, pray
Don't pray
Don't Don't pray
Don't pray to the wrong god
Don't pray
Don't pray to belong, dog
Don't pray
Don't Don't pray
Don't pray to the wrong god
Don't pray
Don't pray to belong dog
Oh
You can pray
You can pray to be gay
To cables and snares and lewks
To creepy stares and daymares
To mental crooks
And all they took
Don't pray, though
Okay, pray
Don't pray, though
Okay, pray
Pray don't pray
Pray don't pray
Pray don't pray
Pray don't pray
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5. |
Twin
03:19
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My twin and me we are not allowed to see each other
My brother from another mother
Could smother me with his body and I would like it
My father in the form of a brother
Could smother me with his body and I would like it
I would like it
My twin, my twin
I like to imagine his grin
As he watches me twist
And giggle
I like to imagine his fist so strong in my hand
My twin and me we are not allowed to see each other
My brother from another mother could smother me with his body
And I would like
My father in the form of a brother to be my mother
And I would like my brother
That I am not allowed to see
To smother me with his body and I would like it
My twin, my twin
I like to imagine his grin
As he watches me twist
And giggle
I like to imagine his fist so strong in my hand
I would smell it
Take it all in
My final twin
Given to me
Finally, finally
All mine
All him
All me
All him
Him and me
All him
All me
All him
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6. |
Jewel Box
02:51
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You come wake me in my jewel box when I am fast asleep
I am breathing in deep ribbons
Of silk and satin sweet
Honey dripping down into my darkest seas
We are rocking down a river
A golden boat of treats
Wrap me in your caramel until I cannot see
I do not care to see
Adore you
Adore you
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7. |
We Quit Our Jobs
03:18
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I quit my job today
Everybody quit their jobs today
Ain't no more being bored
No couture to afford, no debtors to pay
We quit our jobs today
Everybody quit their jobs today
No more collecting student loans
Everybody gave up simulta
neously
I'm rocking biz-caj
And a green bandana
Banana republic
Bananarama
Alabama slammers at the abandoned Applebee's
Banana hammock: cover me
Hot dogs and khakis on the Major Deegan
Eastern Parkway Brooklyn Museum
Big Gay Ice Cream up at the Cloisters
Oysters Rockefeller at Rockefeller Center
Center of attention, I forgot to mention
We're feeling no tension cuz work is in suspension
I'll meet you at Grand Central Station
You Haitian?
Cuz you giving me good vibrations
Nobody's at work everybody went home
No internet can't afford a cell phone
Volunteer work at the local soup kitchen
In exchange for a beer and a bucket of chicken
No money, no problems
Everyone's at Fort Tilden
Sharing grapes and tuna fish
And watching each other's children
I'm white and you're black and she's yellow
Your girl is brown
We're hitting town feeling mellow
Colorblind and roasting marshmellows
I quit my job today
Everybody quit their jobs today
Ain't no more being bored
No couture to afford, no debtors to pay
We quit our jobs today
Everybody quit their jobs today
No more collecting student loans
Everybody gave up simulta
neously
Tacos a MoMa
Flacas in Bushwick
The witches of Eastwick
Can't beat this jurisdic'
All unemployed and feeling communistic
Trade my socks for your Xbox
An apple for your lipstick
Fixing each other's bicycles and sharing pasta salad
All admissions free
And all IDs are valid
Pizza party mp3s
Vinyl records DVDs
VCRs in VHS
Nina Hagen on cassette
DVRs HDTVs
HIV is DOA
The CIA is RIP
Okay that was just fun to say
Riding on a pony that used to work at Central Park
Picking up your Auntie cuz she quit her job at Pathmark
Grabbing all the food they left outside of Per Se
To cater a block party on the Jackie Robinson Expressway
Ok?
Building teepees from the scraps of unfinished condos
Rigging Martha Stewart sheets to sail our boats made of styrofoam
No manufactured content on the internet can compete with this
I seen a graphic designer whittling a knitting needle
and a blogger and a jogger rewiring a light switch
I quit my job today
Everybody quit their jobs today
Ain't no more being bored
No couture to afford, no debtors to pay
We quit our jobs today
Everybody quit their jobs today
No more collecting student loans
Everybody gave up simulta
I quit my job today
Everybody quit their jobs today
Ain't no more being bored
No couture to afford, no debtors to pay
We quit our jobs today
Everybody quit their jobs today
No more collecting student loans
Everybody gave up simulta
neously
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8. |
Horror
04:33
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I'm still crying about the other day
I'm still shredded up from all the nasty things you say
You know you're acting out my nightmares when you switch on me
You act real sweet and then at random you act cruelly
Why do you say it if you don't really mean it?
Why do you say I Love You if you don't really do it?
If you don't care
Please go away and leave me all alone with all the love I made
For you and you alone
You don't know why you do the cruel things you do to me
But I do
It's so clear that you resent me
But I don't make you do things I don't control your life
So stop treating me like I'm your next ex-wife
Why do you take it if you don't really want it
Why do you take my love if you don't really want it
If you don't care
Drop everything and leave me so that I can give my badass love to someone who will treasure it
The worst part is
I can't explain to you
The abusiveness of all the things you put me through
If I tried to you would only tear me up again
So I lock it up inside so we can be friends
You don't see your own father when you act this way
But if I could make you a video and replay
You'd be disturbed
'Cause I know inside your heart is good
And that's why I forgive you every time you break my heart in two
I have given you so much I can't believe that you
Cannot see all and everything I do for you
Or maybe you do see it and it makes you feel bad
You don't want to give as much to me, it makes you mad
But it's so easy let me try and spell it out for you
All you have to do is treat me sweet like I treat you
It's not complicated
All you really have to do is be a little less selfish
It feels good to love
Except when it feels real bad
When your lover treats you mean and you wanna leave the scene it's
HORROR
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9. |
Lydia's Song
02:13
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Oh the wind in my sails
Oh the wind really wails
Oh the wind really fails
Sometimes
When I feel all my crimes
Wrap around me like vines
I can tell soon that I'm
Gonna need a reckoning
You are beckoning to me
Like a boat to the sea
But when you look straight at me
I could die
I don't know why I'm still alive
It's not worth it to survive
To my end I have arrived
And I'm relieved
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10. |
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Feeling numb to the feeling
Of the feelings that I feel I should be feeling
Or maybe that I am feeling and ignoring
Reeling instead with my thinking
And I'm always thinking that's the reason why I left
And I find myself in a wilderness again
I'm flittin' away I'm flittin' away I'm flittin' away
Ain't got no home
I'm flittin' away I'm flittin' away I'm flittin' away
Ain't got no bones I'm picking with you
It is through I'm on my own
And it's hard hard
And it's hard hard
Cut me with a life
Cut me out of your life
Cut me if you like
Guess I was never a wife even though I tried
Cut me cut me now cut me down
Cut me down down
Da da da da da da da down
Down down down down duh-down...
Hit hit
I'm hit hit
I'm flapping my wings a flamingo
Not a thing at this time feels typical
Like my blood running thin with Pacifico
Sábados to Domingos I am still alive
Like a damn champ
It's like a grand slam when I dive
Chocolate clams underwater handstands ass full of sand
Every day in a tropical clime
On borrowed time
Borrowed dimes
Rummy rummy pineapple Bikini Atoll and I'm out of time
De-dime, de-dime, de-dime, de-dime me
Whaddaya do, whaddaya do, whaddaya do
When you don't do
Mercenary gigs
You think I'm a bum but I'm not a pig
Ooh-wee-ooh ooh, ooh-wee-ooh ooh, ooh-wee-ooh ooh HAHA
Babe you're kidding me
Is it possible to see too much pretty?
I don't feel that way not since I left the city
On a lam, with a plan, don't give a damn
A witness to a brutal sham
I know I asked for this, I'm not embarrassed
I'll lie on a hammock
While you feed me grapes with your toes
Burning up your cares and woes
Get to know the choice you chose
Maximize your death throes
That's how it goes
What?
Baby let's get away on a magic...
Baby let's
Get away
On a magic escape
It'll be really great
I'll let you bake me a birthday cake
We can get, uh
Back into shape
Dancing' to cassette tapes
It'll be like a date
Packin' up your cares and your woes
Stick a match between your toes
I just thought you
Might wanna
Go on a tropical fantasy
Let's get away on a magical escape!
Baby let's
Get away
On a magic escape
It'll be really great
I'll let you bake me a
Birthday cake
We can
Drink
Piña Coladas
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11. |
Grace Church
03:34
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In the confessional booth
I drew a picture of you
And kissed it a million times
And I apologized
And kissed it a million times
And I apologized
I apologized
Bach should never be played again
And I should never have any friends
And friends should never make amends
For things that have ended except
Nothing ever ends
Nothing ever ends
Why do our lives become such a crime
In the endless search for the sublime?
We'll be better next time, next life
I'll be a good wife, a good wife
And you'll be a husband with a halo
A husband with a halo
In the confessional booth
The priest he laughed and he cried
Shot off his potato gun and sighed
And he apologized
He apologized
Bach should be played every day
And I should love you in every way
And friends should always make amends for
All the things that never end except
Some things end
Some things end
(nothing ever ends)
Some things end
(nothing nothing ever ends)
Some things end
Some things end
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Sun the
Sun is coming
Sun is coming
Don't be afraid
Don't panic my love
My family and friends we
Knew the end was near
Don't you fear
Take my hand
Feel your feet in the sand
Let the sun warm your skin
And begin to let go
Of your body and all of the objects you own
It's so old so last year
To be corporeal go
You and me and everyone we know
To the sea the genesis of we
The mommy of us all
Let it fall
Come
Come come come come come come come come...
COME
Dive in
Swim, swim
Let the sea
Let the sea be you and me
Let the salt and minerals take you back
Now
All is one
All
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Admiral Grey Brooklyn, New York
Admiral Grey is a multidisciplinary artist, resident of the world and ardent human. You can hear some of her other music
with the bands Cellular Chaos, Ecstatics, Glass Lamborghini, Drayton Sawyer Gang, The Simple Pleasure, and in theater and film.
youtube.com/admiralsaintgrey
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