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Favourite Hallucination
03:34
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I was thinking, and it was the first mistake
You were beside me with your hand upon my chest
Then I slipped away, I slipped away
I’m seeing double, a devil and angel on each shoulder
Controlling sweet words whispered in silence
Tell me sweetly
Here comes the twist, you don’t exist
You are my favourite hallucination (x2)
I’m happily drowning in the sea that I created
You were a vision off in the distance coming closer
You came to be necessity
Once I was blind but now I see
You are my favourite hallucination (x2)
Reality is killing me so I made you
And I don’t mind if no one calls, 'cause I have you
You are my favourite hallucination
A product of my feverish imagination
Created company for conversation
You are my favourite hallucination
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Cinnamon & Cigarettes
03:09
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I want to whisper softly, I have an agenda
I want to lay you down to start some friction
I’m tired of feeling stupid
It’s so confusing
Just knowing which part’s which and where they go
Pillow talk is all I want
Pillow talk is all I want
I’m boning up on intellect from a girl with knowledge
Forbidden information through conversation
Pillow talk is all I want
Pillow talk is all I want
My thoughts smell like cinnamon
My heart reeks of cigarette smoke
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Carefree Indifference
03:08
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You could show me pictures
Speaking only in testimony
You could be the greatest thing
turning out to be a phony
You could send me postcards
signed with kisses and sentiment
Painted pictures of crying eyes
Still i wouldn’t give you a cent
If I said I had feelings, I’d be lying to you
If i didn’t need you, what makes you think that I do now?
You could kill me with kindness
Soaking up each and every favor
Spending only your energy
Don’t expect me to pay back later
I could focus on the minutiae
Lending heart to the common man
Only thing stopping me
I simply don’t give a damn
Carefree indifference
Blissfully unaware
because I don’t care
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Ships Collide
03:31
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Two vessels in the docks by the harbor walls
are churning ash and flame
The steel bar frame over which they fuss
Where we once joined there’s a sign of rust
We hope that nothing happens (there’s no guarantee)
We hope that nothing happens (there’s no guarantee)
Smoking powerhouses, exposed metallic barges
End up brokenhearted
Which one will survive when ships collide
The passion that once lingered between you and me
was bottled up and modeled after failed ideals
I'm drowning as you're sinking, regretting as I’m thinking
We can’t pick up the pieces
We’re scattered by the tide when ships collide
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The Mediocrity
03:42
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The world around me, I have nothing to say
and though I’m drowning I’ve got nothing say, nothing to say
I need your love more than ever
I need you here, now or never
I had a future now I’ve nothing to say
Friends and companions they have nothing to say, won’t even stay
I need your love more than ever
I need you here, now or never
I’ve wasted all my energy
Spent it all on empty dreams
I’ve settled for the mediocrity
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Enigmatic Foe
03:15
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Oh my, the thought of your betrayal drips down the ballpoint of my pen
So you’re the biggest loser of the century
Write it down, write down, write it down
Oh my, the grim realization
Say goodbye to alternate dimensions
She’s leaving with a ticket for the countryside
But you know she won’t write anymore
I’m my own worst enemy
I only want to be alone
but the enigmatic foe keeps me company
Oh my, when did I stop believing that I could control my impulses?
What I do I shouldn’t, what I should, I don’t
It makes it that much worse just to know you’re gone
I’m my own worst enemy
I only want to be alone
but the enigmatic foe keeps me company
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The Enigmatic Foe Knoxville, Tennessee
With sharp lyrics, the playful pop bite of the best of the 70s and 80s, and the kind of self-deprecation usually reserved
for a Woody Allen movie, Jared Colinger's lyrics run the gamut from the joy of new love to disillusionment with the old, from wanting to like yourself to being afraid of what we have in our minds.
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