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Good Tunes #66 [Like the Route]

I quit everything today
Old moldy yogurt and exercise bands
In the basement where I know that I can do anything

Follow the signs, I’ve been losing my mind
And these ears are too damaged to hear
I’m wasting your time while you’re waiting in line;
I think you should get out of here

Fairy lights round the window
Tinsel and tassels
I’m warm and I’m sinful

I will hurt you if you try
Give it another

Watch as I calcify
Think I’ll take medicine for the rest of my life
Cut the opening day ribbon and
 
Give me a sign, I’ve been losing my mind
You’re not in a condition to hear
Save me some time, I’ve been waiting in line
But I gotta get right out of here

I quit everything today
I can do anything
I quit everything today
I can do anything
I quit everything today (glue on the carpet)
I can do anything (door off its hinges)
I quit everything today
I can do anything

I am in so much pain
If I take my life find my songs on my hard drive and put them online
Not cause I feel like I need to be heard
But along the same lines, just hope packing my little ideas up pays off in some way
Clearly I’d trade the process for product any day

Any day now

I Quit Everything

I could never date you because I'd slowly grow to hate you
But I'll progress around the circle just to keep you in my arms
Advertise myself as grateful and considerate, but that's toxic
And it won't exonerate me of my shortcomings at all

She was lying
Miles hasn't climbed a tree in years
Rather party in the airplane than write odes or other art

And I'm dying
Tranquilize me with complacency
Replacing all the holy nectar leaking from my heart

"Eli, why'd you do it? Why'd you take down all your music?"
I'll admit, it was a misstep trying not to be perceived
And yet, I don't deserve the twenty strings and thirteen wires
Living with me in my bedroom, at least that's what I belive

She was lying
Miles sleeps since January
Beating off, redownload Tinder, this was fucked up from the start

And I'm dying
Tranquilize me with complacency
Replacing all the holy nectar leaking from my heart

Everything that I touch turns to dust
Can't find a better way to say it's corpses to the ground
Keep building your life inside a shell of skulls
But tell me how to keep on living when myself I haven't found

She was lying
And Miles was the victim
"Oh, I'm so sad," shut up, fucker, yeah, you really played the part

And I'm dying
Tranquilize me with complacency
Replacing all the holy nectar leaking from my heart

I want to make something
I want meaning
I want to fuck up
I want meaning
I want to learn alive
I want meaning
I want me
I want meaning

And it's a shame (you know, from which I derive sexual pleasure)
I couldn't talk you down from conceited entitlement
And I'm crying, as the curtains close again
I'll renounce all that I've said to make amends

Everything You Didn't Want To Hear

Is the diesel in your nose?
Can you smell the fumes?

Tell me my worth
And I'll pay you back

Names severed from faces
Heads from bodies
I'm surrounded

Nothing is wrong
I can't complain
In the words to a song
so what's there to sing?

And the leaves reach to breathe the air
And the river runs high from the rain
And the flowers rise to meet the sun
And I'm alive
I'm alive

I'm only barely ever full
I must be eating the wrong stuff

I'm sinking, keep a vigil
In speaking, steep ego too much

And the leaves reach to breathe the air
And the river runs high from the rain
And the flowers rise to meet the sun
And I'm alive, I'm alive

Is the cut grass in your mouth?
Can you taste the fresh?

Diesel (I'm Alive)

Wore the same clothes as yesterday, no, I'm not doing well
Chance to charge my phone but didn't take it, what the hell?
Take it out on my best friends
Find a means for all these ends
Leave me stranded in the quad under the bells

And it's snowing outside, I can't write another letter
Hope you know that I tried, but I want to treat you well
And the sun is in my eyes, but the moon is somewhere better
You shouldn't have to ask for love

Speaking of Nirvana, we were there inside my head
I'll buy a box of chocolates and I'll cave to what she said
Now I'm running in the forest
And I'm running out of air
Wake up falling off the corner of the bed

Yeah, no fucking surprise, if I said I hate this weather
Can't keep telling me lies, put myself through hell again
And I told you that I tried, I can't write another letter
Is it too much to ask for love?

The Bells

Britpop

Crescent Sun

written may 5th 2024

what's a break
you've been chasing after it with a net
running after something you won't catch
until you lay in your bed
what a day
your rug got worn down by footsteps
you'll pace your room until there's nothing left
nothing left

there's bruises on your cheeks
from tears that weigh a ton
when you finally go to sleep
the morning's just begun
so you make a cup of coffee
just to do it all again

hearts will break
a kiss is just enough to pretend
a few words turn into something you'll forget
you regret
you miss the days
where everything seemed ok
your head stuck out the sunroof in a daze
its not the same

now there's bruises on your cheeks
from tears that weigh a ton
when you finally go to sleep
your morning's just begun
so you a cup of coffee
just to do it all again

catch a break

Halfmoon (feat. Lovefear & Nick León)

no, take me away
i know its cold out tonight
let me sing you to sleep 
whatever you need
past faces present lies in the future i promise a better life 
(repeat that a bunch of times)

below

nü d4wn

Of salient bruises to my ego, divining desire’s a cornerstone

Everything You Didn't Want To Hear

Eli Orion