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OUR DESIRE LACKS KNOWING MUSIC

by Alex Walton

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Untitled 04:07
will i still be your true love world of changes comes to bear can i bear the mark of your love when my old face aint there i hear you cryin and i heard the master's call and i ain't waitin ain't gonna wait no more can i bear the weight of tryin to be my mother's only son can i keep myself from crying when the new day's just begun i hear you cryin and i heard the master's call and i ain't waitin ain't gonna wait no more i hear you cryin and i heard the master's call and i ain't waitin ain't gonna wait no more
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jennifer's got hair in her face jennifer's got hair in her face wants to know if this is the place jennifer's got hair in her face and i told her, i can't see you i spent another season in hell i spent another season in hell never taught me how to spell i spent another season in hell and they told me, i can't hear you another day another day i want to live another day silences oh my love jenny cop's got naivete jenny cop's got naivete wishes that she was a parade jenny cop's got naivete and she told me, i can't hear you put my self in the panopticon put my self in the panopticon so they can see me after i'm gone put my self in the panopticon and she told me, i'll never forget you another day another day i want to live another day another day another day i want to live another day silences
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hydroxyzine and some whiskey straight think i left my will in the san francisco bay all the nights of my life i wished for just one thing think my wish came true but i can't recall a thing been having dreams colored prussian blue been having dreams all about you if i saw myself bout six years ago i'd tell her to run and to learn to let things go a body of glass that i can really call mine a tank full of gas and two hearts in waltz time been having dreams colored prussian blue been having dreams all about you
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i got a lover in new york city he just don't know it yet he's lookin awfully pretty, i just build up my debts its hard to go and visit the city, where you grind your teeth into dust i got a lover in new york city, but then again who can you trust theres a girl who lives in manhattan, she's of some ill repute she folds her boys just like a dragon she'd plant a shiv right in my throat i don't wanna look over my shoulder when i just wanna dance theres a russian girl in manhattan, she'll kill me right when she gets the chance in new york city sex is like, some vague semiotic concept it's a place where streetlights glow, and losin love is hard to accept in boston town sex is real, but it's something to be held in contempt in grand old new york city, it's really more of a concept i got a lover in new york city, he just ain't aware of it yet its a town of violent nothings, a town of special k nymphets he smiles at me so coy and pretty, leaning close to light my cigarette i got a lover in new york city, he just don't know it yet
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saw my body bounce against the rocks symmetrical images back to infinity i'm a natural occurrence in the singing world, but nothin bout that pays for my meals got too many friends to try and look after too many bach records covered in piss i'm not the biggest fan of blunt trauma to the head, but i know when something's real there's a glitter rock act claiming to let you see real live homosexuals up on the stage i'd pay my five cents to take a peek, but they wouldn't even let me in the tent there's a lone gunman coming in from out of state been in secret chats with the atf filling him with all kinds of dirty thoughts shooting him up with crystal meth met the love of my life on the khyber pass both reached for the same gold plated ak just someone who yearns for me the way some lament what they're not allowed to say i've had nothin to eat today except tommy wright cd and les chants de maldoror left duck soup playin on the living room tv lay prostrate squirming on the floor been reduced to awareness of my processes feel my stomach pushing hard against my spleen feel the inside rub against the outside, and finally understand what my words mean all my girls just die too young this kinda living don't let you go too long if i had any kind of self aggrandizement left, well i'd say i know the difference between right and wrong when i try to think of how i used to look try to remember how i used to be all i recall is a glowing white mist can't recognize a single picture of me my transient state's a real kinda drag and assumed personalities really got me down my life's become a system of reconciliation dysmorphic fugue got me wearin a frown
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can't write about a breakup with these mind inversions things would be simpler if we all were just virgins i wouldn't have the memory of your head on my chest and hints of your smell wouldn't leave me depressed i kissed your pretty face just as, a third-rate berklee psych rock band made pretense at jefferson airplane i'm not trying ot be obtuse, i just want to know if you see me the way i see you i'd never seen your eyes, quite like they were that night and you touched my hand all those tears we cried, at least we really tried and i was yours, and you will always be, a special part of me, you're very special to me
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i can't believe, oh how real it feels to be held in your arms when i'm with you, the whole world seems to fade fade away into night when i close my eyes turn my back on the night sky not a thing for me to do except dream of you
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he walks down the street his head in his hands knows all that occurs to best laid plans he got a mission he won't see through he'll drink himself to death if he can't look like you teri toye gleams like a bottle of wine she walks with her lanky velveteen shine she's dressed like a rifle loaded with grace what i would give just to see her face the light comes out from under the door and i know what its for the light that shines from the tv screen and i know what it means in a show house basement all coated in grime all posture appears metaphysically rhymed just wanna say things beautiful and true but no one here really gives a shit bout you the light that blinds puts me on the floor and i know what im lookin for i saw her face in the magazine and i made believe it was me left halfway thru the hardcore show just to get me some space took a look in the mirror couldnt see my own face went down to the shoppin mall just to buy me some threads got killed in a knife fight by some bored skinheads sock it to me miss my german car n laissez-faire attitude miss any feeling of shame or graditude miss the streets that i walked that burned into mist im so done with ironic nihilists
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there was a time when all things grew there was a time for me and you the world can be so cold to its boys and girls greatest lovers all greatest lovers all log into your account on antonym dot com define yourself by opposition define yourself by your poor nutrition put yourself in a position where you can renounce anything you want anything you need i just need a boy to kiss i just need a home to miss i just need a sacred smile i just need more practice at being light at being air at being real oh at being fair bitterness is hard to overcome yeah bitterness is hard to overcome but i just want a normal life im working towards a normal life work a dead end job cry yourself to sleep two dead cicadas by the pool all i can think of is about you i wish i could write ten thousand songs and they'd all say truths and they'd never be wrong a wounded boy poet scratches words in sand our desire lacks knowing music our desire lacks knowing music i just need a boy to kiss i just need a home to miss i just need a sacred smile i just need more practice i want to live again again i want us all to be free to be free our desire lacks knowing music
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one is jolted with the memory of showering only in the dark, the highway littered with the carcasses of drunk driven land yachts, trying to make yourself as small as possible in fear of being really seen not on your own terms nights spent dazed, attributing divinity to streetlights, hanging upside down from seatbelts, broken glass making a halo around your head but these are only pictures now, a million hazy phantom limbs fading white in the sun, paper tigers wet with tears, memories of having memories to feel light, to hear music, to see saturation and thickness and contrast and trees and rusted metal and the sun setting on oxidized copper and trash and unevenness and the color red; it's not so much the weight of all things, but its presence all we want is to be bathed in the radiance of a beauty so simple we can't even call its name, one that leaves a little space in the center for us all to sit comfortably after all, we were just kids then
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Just Kids 02:23
i remember how she made me feel we were just kids then oh she scared me my god she scared me but we were just kids then i was just a child searching for confirmation that there was anything other than this i was lost and lonesome wanting authentication of something i couldnt know exists i remember how she treated me unkind we were just kids then neither of us were who we wanted to be in kind red leather rips and windows shatter like bones and hearts and teen egos we're all just doing what we can we're all just doing what we can we're all just doing what we can we're all just doing what we can we can be so cruel why do we have to be so cruel
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i've been spending time, looking at pretty boys in the magazines oh i wish i was a pretty boy sometimes, i wish i was a pretty boy, too i've been wasting time, looking at boys in the movies i betray my very own will sometimes, i just betray my very own will i've been spending time, wishing my name was something grander oh i wish i was named eurydice, oh wish i was named eurydice i've been wasting time, i just waste my time i betray my own will sometimes, i betray my very own will i appreciate the sentiment but id like to be alone for a while no i don't feel like going outside for a while oh i've been losing sleep, thinking about the past oh i wish the will bent back sometimes, i wish the will bent backwards oh i've had bitter dreams, dreams of anger and resentment oh i wish i couldn't dream sometimes, i wish i couldn't dream at all i spend my nights in lament rolling round in my bile no i don't feel like going outside for a while
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i'm not gonna lie to you and say i dropped out of school but i've been spending my time blinding myself staring into oncoming headlights i'm gonna drown myself in lake champlain i'm gonna spend a thousand dollars on champagne would i not wanna die, if i lived in a white walled manhattan studio apartment by myself where i could step outside and get knifed in the chest by hyperborean pansy boys with black sun hoodies from aliexpress if minutes were seconds, and seconds were hours i could believe in a higher power if minutes were seconds, and seconds were hours

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released August 10, 2023

THE SHAME MUSIC ALL STAR BAND:
alex walton - words and music, performer, producer
alexei petrov - music (2,5,9), guitar (1,2,5,7-9), bass (2,4,8,9), violin (11), backing vox (2,5)
brendan dunphy - drums (1,2,4,5,7,8)
jaden cruz - bass (1,5,7)

OTHER VOICES:
ezra furman, alianora reilly, justin schaefers - 1,7
evelyn marshall - 10
kayde hazel - 1

THOSE WHO GAVE IT ALL:
harmony pulaski - engineer, coproducer (1,5,7)
liam shepherd, adrian anderson - drum engineering (2,4,8)
christian schmidt - vocal engineering (1,7)

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