The carnal knowledge that I've gained
is taken with grains
grandfathered in with misery and shame
I'll join the ranks of the unrestrained
my dossier's remains
are scattered across my guilty brain

What's the worst one human can accomplish?
What can love and rage make someone do?
What crimes can one commit for you
to make their dreams come true

The albatross around my neck
is waiting on the deck
rearranging the chairs for the raincheck
As the actress and the bishop speak
of other Chicago geeks
my heart drowns in the rising creek

What's the worst one human can accomplish?
What can love and rage make someone do?
What crimes can one commit for you
to make their dreams come true


For You+

I propose 
the crinkle in your nose
is so damn cute
it makes me wanna shout
and it makes me doubt
any girl that passes through

I really love you

I resolve
to never dissolve
this feeling i've got
Deep in my heart
it's tearing my apart
to say these words I once sought

I really love you

So, everything's so apropos
within also-rans
within terror
within afterglows
In a nation of hate
a nation of death
and a nation of fear
I'm standing, standing now, I'm standing here

A Proposition

I heard people talkin about
Talkin on facebook and it weirded me out
I thought of the irony but kept it inside of me
And let it dissolve in its clout
I can't help but feel
Addicted to the real...to reel
There's a grain that remains the same
Of salt that helps me reinvent the wheel
Modern People
I love modern people
There's a touchless this
you can touch to ride buses of piss
This is my wormhole message to the past
Ya know?
I hope it scares the handful of 1970s futurists
Modern People
I love modern people(3x)
Once in a blue moon
my words are strewn
and read by millions of people
I ain’t Ray Bradbury 
but I can spell well, hell I’m in love
with my adversaries
Put your right foot in
take your left handed cigarette out of the pile
let’s toast our youth
and boast our couth
til we begin to laugh and smile
Modern people
I love people(3x)

Rando

Apathy is easy
Apathy is love
Were livin in the 21st Century
With no skies above

Thinkin' bout who's gonna die next
In a fairly casual way
Saving any signs of emotion
Til we get to that day
I heard someone was hit by a train
I heard the old mayor has died
Yet I can't help but hinder the helping hand
I hold inside

Apathy is easy
Apathy is love
Were living in the 21st Century
With no skies above

A man with a hook for his hand
Gets sneers and teenage laughs
We'll see how those pirates smirk
When theyre old and their lungs collapse
Lying with the woman you love
While the ones you hate devour your mind
That's the modern qualms that complicate
The mechanical humankind

Apathy is easy 
Apathy is love
Were livin in the 21st century
With no skies above
(Solo)
Oh comiserate or call it a day
Beseech the ones you reach
And tell em go away
Apathy eats your heart and stays
Oh apathy's the modern loving way

Apathy is easy
Apathy is love
Were livin in the 21st Century
With no skies above
Were casting insults in droves
Setting them free like doves
Were livin in the 21st Century
With no skies above
Oh oh oh (3x til close)



Livin In The 21st Century

LOV...E

I’m a volcano
waiting to be loooved
(but love don’t come around here)
I’m a skyscraper window-washer
peerin’ from above
(love don’t come around here)

There’s millions of people
millions of potential lovers
One heartache, one whisper in the ear
I can’t recover
when people are alone
and unloving one another
one whisper in the ear
(love don’t come around here)

I’m a headlight
shining for the one
(but love don’t come around here)
I’m carryin’ a backpack of hearts
that weighs a metric ton
(love don’t come around here)

There’s millions of people
millions of potential lovers
One heartache, one whisper in the ear
I can’t recover
when people are alone
and unloving one another
one whisper in the ear
(love don’t come around here)


It Don't Come Around Here

Who do you think you are?
What's your story?
You finna call yourself
An alpha centauri?
You're weird
A little thick
Amalgorous
You must think you're a modern-day horus
But I know you
And you ain't shit (shit, shit, shit)
I know who you are, I know where you been
You ain't shit (shit, shit, shit)
And you ain't doin shit about it

Alpha Centauri

A shoddy cover of a cover of "Sometimes" by Flamin' Groovies off of their 1976 album, "Shake Some Action". I recorded this because I'm bittersweet that I'm going out of town the same day The Groovies are playing a free show :(

Sometimes (Flamin Groovies Cover)

PINEBOCKS ON 93.1 XRT LOCAL ANESTHETIC

I've financially...
Fucked myself with heating bills
so I fled to Texas yet the debt builds
higher than I can see

I've left my roommates out to dry
and the management's about to say "goodbye"
and it's all because of me

I've left my friends, girlfriend, and city behind
for a driving town that don't take too kind
towards illegals and fools

I feel like I'm melting inside the devil's pit
where Acheron's filled with cow shit
I'll suffocate til the weather cools

I've never felt so bad about myself
as I do now
I'm chronically cursed
with a furl in my brow

I care for nobody but myself
me me me up on a shelf
next to my runner's up award

This song's intent to me is unknown
I don't feel no better, I still feel alone
and I'm still immensely bored

Flee

Cory Clifford writes a bunch of songs. Folk, Twee, Punk, Garage Rock, AND FUNKY STUFF(sometimes).

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