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A Partial Eclipse of the Heart

by Wasperjaws

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1.
My Feet 04:37
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My feet, my feet, I've got to keep my feet It's not too late, it's not too late I've got to keep my feet To work, to work, I've got to go to work You are like two things to me, I treat you like a spork I'm in the bath, the soap is in my eyes If I were here and you were there I'd take off my disguise You complain when I take off my shoes You like my toes, I don't like yours so I'll take off my shoes My bed, my bed, I sleep in a bunk bed I hope it snows so we go slow and we'll sleep in my sled I am the hill, you glide across the white you are red, you leave a streak an imprint on the ice blah, blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah My feet are wet from walking in your eyes Please dry them off, please dry them off I'm going home tonight I am a raft, I'm floating on the sea BB guns and broken glass are floating next to me You're on the beach, I see you from my raft I wave to you, you wave to me a wave hits me you laugh.
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By the Way 03:11
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My little girl is a sweet, sweet girl she's the sweetest little thing in this big mean world And if she lets me hold her pretty little hand and takes a walk with me I'll be happy again Late at night when she crawls in our bed and I pet the hair on her pretty little head and she breathes so quiet I can't help but think about what I would do for my pretty little thing By the way, if you hurt her: I will drill holes in your body I will hammer out your teeth I will brand you on the thighs I will bind your hands and feet I will cut into you slowly, take some ribs out through your side I will drive nails into your ears I will show you one of your eyes cause the love I have in my heart isn't equal to the hate I will have in my soul for anyone who hurts my little baby anyone who hurts my little girl I will hold you under water I will fill your mouth with sand I will hang you by the arms I will choke you with my hands I will glue your lips together I will scream into your ear I will bleach all of your skin I will tie you to a mirror cause the love I have in my heart isn't equal to the hate I will have in my soul for anyone who hurts my little bobie anyone who hurts my little girl
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The ARVD is Whipping Me 04:58
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I was born tied to the stump of a watermelon tree you don't believe that well you can ask my mother when I turned ten to get my revenge I tied down my baby brother I spent two weeks inside a humpback whale, I slept inside his blowhole if he blew at night I put up a fight and after once he didn't ask anymore First I underneathed you and then I overtopped you you are like a house and you are like a plant sometimes you are like a houseplant Don't ask me any questions about my life unless I'm robbing you at night and even then you better pretend you never saw my face in the light I might come back to cut your cat or feed your dog to my father When I was young we had a telephone where you could hear the neighbors talking and sometimes or always when I was alone I'd listen for hours without talking Tomorrow's Sunday, when the sun comes up they'll be out mowing their grass they'll wave and smile and I'll wave and smile but they won't know why I'm smiling Five shocks to the heart is enough to make me return on all the things I said I take it all back don't listen to me the ARVD is whipping me
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Zion 02:47
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I can see Jesus running shooting out bolts of lightning he pours his water on the ocean it soothes my skin like lotion the bright yellow sun is shining the wet raindrops are falling the rainbow's colors are flying my tear-filled eyes are frozen when I get to heaven Jesus will be there waiting my dress will be long and flowing his hair will be long and golden Jesus is gently pleading follow me to Zion follow me to Zion follow me to Zion all right, okay now I can hear Jesus humming a song I'd long forgotten his voice soft like a mother his hands strong like a father follow me to Zion Jesus is pleading follow me to Zion
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Sprinky, YKIT 03:46
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sprinky, you know it's true one day you'll say I do and when the day comes that you do I'll be there with you too and on that devastating day a thousand healthy hearts will break and on that devastating day a thousand broken hearts will say we missed our chance at love brooke wilson, it's the same with you one day you'll do it too and if that day comes first for you sprinky will be there with you too and on that devastating day a couple hundred healthy hearts will break and on that devastating day a couple hundred broken hearts will say the good times are gone a leap, a yell, a cry, a scream it's coming faster than it seems down the aisle your moms will cry it's bittersweet your dads will sigh but you were never ours to keep a thousand broken hearts will weep and on that devastating day a thousand broken hearts will say sprinky you know it's true one day you'll say I do sprinky, YKIT say you won't forget about me
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My Friend Tommy 01:52
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Tommy died last july at the bottom of the stairs and bad advice In a storm and a flood gate he floated belly-up into the night So they built him a memorial and covered it with tears for his untimely end But all the notes said the same sad thing: surely, Tommy, I was your best friend Tommy, Tommy, you weighed over 200 pounds so how before our eyes could you spread yourself so thin?
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Job and Jonah 04:08
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well job was a good man and you see what happened to him he got sick and lost his family and got blood and boils and sores on his arms and he scratched and scraped with broken pieces of clay while his friends told him he was wrong and that his judgment had come but all job could ask was why and he never cursed god and died and after a few days he got to listen to god's side and god said mind your own business I allow what I want and I do what is fair and I do what is right but all you seem to care about is how you feel inside and what you see beside you and in front of you and behind you but is your voice unleashed in the thunder or is your eye my eye or can you tame the wind or show me where the lightning hides? job said I've talked too much on things I do not understand and the thunder changed to a whisper and god said it's okay job, come here. but jonah disobeyed god and you see what happened to him he ran away and hid and he got on a boat to run but the storms became people chasers and the ship all came undone and he thought god will kill us all before we ever see the sun again so he said throw me to the waves let me pay for what i've done and when I hit the water I'll meet my end but y'alls help will come so they threw him to the ocean and as he sank the storms did subside but before he sucked in any water he found himself inside the belly of a fish where he screamed and prayed and cried for three long days and three lonely nights and when god was done with the fish he told it to vomit jonah out on the sand like a man will vomit words he does not understand. now I've got my own problems and I've got my own pain but God never said if I should jump overboard or take it like a man and I guess it doesn't matter cause his thoughts are not my thoughts and his ways are not my ways so there's only one thing he could say while I was trying to decide if I was job or jonah god said you're mine and I asked I'm Yours and god said come here.
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Valerie Watkins 04:00
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Come back to us Valerie Watkins why'd you leave me here alone sitting in the ashes gnashing my teeth and trying to decide why you stopped eating meat you like to read obituaries and pretend you were their friend while the doctors argue for hundreds an hour about what it all means well come all you people and play me some Johnny Cash while we argue over the airwaves of the foreign man's flag here's a box of chicken mcnuggets come and eat and we'll get fat then we'll download a quart of adrenaline from a nervous elephant and we'll drink it and we'll smoke it and we'll mix it with punch we'll have a slobbery feast and our eyes will shake flowers change colors but the energy is fake the energy is fake the energy you gave to me was fake come on now wake up and have a soybean burger made special for you by your vegan lover well he stands tall for nothing 'til the breeze knocks him over and if I had a half a glass of red bull in me I'd tell him what I thought about his pale-skin whine and red tattoo that he uncovered sitting there crying just to pass the time well call me, my number's in the book call me, my phone is off the hook leave the crops and barley fields and embrace your future mates of states of arteries clogged and chairs weighed down by the weight of varicose veins hey valerie you didn't forget my number did you valerie you didn't forget my number did you all I want to do is pour some poison for two is that too much to ask remember what your mom said to your dad while they were still together later you told me it was a lie and later you turned out to be right well call me my number's in your phone call me I'm waiting here alone pour me some adrenaline it looks like rain I'm short on endorphins the result of all this pain but I've got it better than most I'll take a medium number seven put on your black tie and cry and sell my bronco cause baby I'm off to heaven is waiting for me now heaven is waiting for me now
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Sleeping With Sallie Mae 03:50
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I met Sallie in the summertime before I went to school She helped me feel like everything was fine All through my freshman year Sallie Mae was always there She meant it when she said she always would be Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae, why do you torture me this way? I almost wish that I had never met you Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae, will you stop writing me someday? You make me wish I'd never gone to school She bought me a stereo and then this old guitar I loved the days when Sallie Mae was mine She opened her arms wide to me She opened her checkbook too Sallie, I will always regret climbing into bed with you Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae, why do you torture me this way? I almost wish that I had never met you Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae, will you stop writing me someday? You make me wish I'd never gone to school She stuck by me for four long years She was the perfect girl before she left me for a wide-eyed freshman boy Six months after graduation I multiplied my interest by inflation My child support won't end for thirty years Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae, why do you torture me this way? I almost wish that I had never met you Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae, will you stop writing me someday? You make me wish I'd never gone to school Was it really worth the pain? I fried my brain for you Now it's clear who was made the fool Sallie Mae, I have played the fool
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It Still Feels 03:48
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You nearly asked for me when will you marry me I was watching the snow fall wondering if we should be there at all I thought this could be it for me we both hate words like destiny I don't think it can be tonight but yeah it feels like you were meant for me I kinda like the way you laugh for me I really like the pretty way you sing and even though I know you really care it's kinda cool that you don't brush your hair you like the way I say my name I like the way you say it too and even if things are kind of hard it still feels like I was meant for you even when things are kind of hard it still feels like I was meant for you The blackest crow that ever flew would surely turn to white for you and bright day will turn to night if ever I prove false to you If ever I prove false to you if ever you prove false to me I'll always love you, Ashley, can't you see it still feels like we were meant to be
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A Partial Eclipse of the Heart 01:49
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There's a world in which I live and I tell it what to do There's a wall above the wall on the way to knowing you A strange thing happened yesterday the sun came up behind the moon
12.
The World 04:46
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Just let the world take over you. Look out for what I say and do. Hold still, let me look at you.

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released November 11, 2016

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