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Asian Girlfriend
03:47
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My fantasy in anime
Cross-culture pollinate
Stereotyped debutante in Asian restaurant
I want to hold your hand
You know I want you
yeah you know I want you
I dream about you getting down and dirty
Friends try to warn me, say I’m getting too deep
I need to let go, find another hobby
Now she’s mine, I’m in love
I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care
I may not understand the language
but I get the gist of what she says
I may be just a baka gaijin, but she’s by my side
I will freak all night with my Asian girlfriend
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Punishment
03:27
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How do I make you feel and make it seem like a punishment?
I’m running out of ways to describe the anxiety
Contractually obligated, sign it on the line
You said you would stick by through thick and thin
How can I make you see so it feels like a punishment?
I refuse to be the only one, so I’ll take you with me
and make it like a punishment
Yeah, I’ll make it like a punishment
Deny my touch, deny your rights, deny our hearts
I’ll show you mine, just to break yours
Get down all fours
I’ll show my world and all of the fragments
Until it feels like a punishment
until it feels like a punishment
I refuse to be the only one
I hope this feels like a punishment
This is your punishment
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My Darkness
04:06
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Why do I have feelings if no one gets to use them?
Immaculate emotion is rusting by my shoreline
So tell me that I’m something, or else my life is wasted
Touch me on my shoulder or kiss me in my darkness
I only wanted to ask you out
What can I do different to merit your attention?
I’m weary of the travel and the distance to get to you
I only wanted effort or letters hung by magnets
A candle in the window to tell me you believe me
I only wanted to have someone
Why do I have feelings if no one gets to use them?
Immaculate emotion is rusting by my shoreline
So tell me that I’m something, or else my life is wasted
Touch me on my shoulder or kiss me in my darkness
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4. |
Teenagers
04:31
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There’s a hole in the wall where the fist says it all
Dance upon blades in the hope all will fade away
Mother and father imposing standards
Doors left open for a time to talk
A voice drips down the digital, a comfort in anonymity
Fair-weather friends feel more like family
There’s an image to meet, the criteria is incomplete
and you’re crying ‘cause your looks aren’t good enough
Consuming fashion faster than the pills
The pharmaceuticals just to make you feel
Starve yourself as a punishment
then put on airs in a masquerade
or throw it up to make you prettier
Mobile to mobile, email to journal
Teenagers try to get all the love they can
Smoking their fags, fumbling over girly mags
Banging every girl who’s cheap enough
Your place is neither there nor here
if they think you’re queer
Mobile to mobile, email to journal
Teenagers need to get all the love they can
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5. |
It's Not Who You Are
05:05
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I can't stand me now
Created me to be
It's not who you are
I feel so wrong
Coming face to face
To lie, to lie, to lie
Actions that we take
Actions that we make govern who we are
To see inside
Darken everything
To hide, to hide, to hide
Go on, look at you, you mess
Look on, confess
Don't you recognize the face?
Recognize the face
Recognize the change?
Recognize the change
Mirrored images of the man I see
Who I used to be
I used to care
The damage has been done
You can't take it back, counterfeit faker
I am court jester in the kingdom of apathy
Stop while you're ahead before you end up dead
It's not who you are
It's not who you are
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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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