Spreading the Dark Around (Concept)

I’ve been building a moat ‘round my body since twenty to keep myself alive 
Dig the hole twice around, pour the stream, dredge the ground, now it’s 2025
Cause when I see them eyeing me, trying me, feels like they’re sizing me up like bishop’s pine
So I raise the stakes, change the game make attacking me cost more than taking all that’s mine

Cause I’m the porcupine
I can stand completely still
I’m the porcupine
And I’m showing all my quills
You’ll hurt yourself more than you hurt me
I let you make your choices foolishly
Like I don’t care, but I built this for you 

Gonna make you learn your lesson
You could have the size, I’ve got the blade
You could have the guns the artillery 
Still not gonna get your hands on me
Don’t second guess me, 

(Who can win a porcupine? 
I said, Who can win a porcupine? Not him.)

In the winter I try to remember the reasons but mostly I forget
I could let down my guard and approach if we don’t see each other as a threat
But as soon as I cross I still find myself turning right back over the line
Cause what if the mem’rie you leave is more painful than being alone for all that time?

Yeah I’m the porcupine 
Downplay the stories I could tell 
I’m the porcupine 
Prefer to poison my own well
I’m the porcupine
If it brings the same pain as myself
Then I don’t care, so why should you?

Cause if every contact is doomed to fail
Maybe it’s better if I just watch from afar
Oh I can hear them singing 
Why do I take the easier suffering?
Why not draw some blood?

Never gonna learn my lesson 
Always gonna straddle two extremes

(Who can win a porcupine? 
I said, Who can win a porcupine? Not him.)


Porcupine

Come here, my love 
Let’s look at the waves above
That’s where we used to reign from

I don’t quite care
What they write about us up there
The real treasure’s when I look into your eyes 
Mercenaries tonight
That’s how we used to ride 
Now we’re the ones to hide

Born into a body too big for me
So don’t blame me for the inhumanity
Just want to live off the pelf before me  

Half moon but the tide’s low
Got up early, drive slow
Cormorants in the sky, go  
North, let me see you in my glow 
Out looking for the undertow
I’m gonna find new land like Milo
Hey, what’s it cost to fill the tank up? 
How much of our time can this take up?

I’m a vibrational match in the water, I’m gonna run like I’m a marlin 
My presence is outsized from all that’s been written  
Tried to curry favor, tried running from fate 
But I get caught up in the trenches, 
Swimming with the lost idea of a prime state like,

Pick of the week (pick of the week)
Hey, I’m a control freak
Can’t dance to the downbeat
Can’t run if nobody’s ever gonna chase me
I’ve been looking for a party that’ll take me
I’ve been testing different friends like A/B
Can you blame me?
They’ve been shooting for a month but I’ve never had a chance to see the dailies    

What a pity to oppress and spread with abandon 
Great empire stand-in
You can look away but I see the gold that you land in  
So don’t tell me it’s just a misunderstanding 
Bodies on bodies crammed in
One fuse and it’s the second time they’re scrambling   

Born into a body too big for me
Don’t blame me as a beneficiary  
I would have helped if you’d just implored me

Don’t leave, my dear
Let’s breathe like they do up here 
They don’t need to know what we’ve done 
Stay with me now

Postdiluvian

Painting the bathroom before my birthday
I feel grateful my friend called to see the remains
Of the place I believed  I would stay
Painting the memory away 
 
Next week, presenting what my chaos made
Some say I draw too much from the pain, 
But they can’t seem to see
What that man did to me
I’ll be taking weight endlessly

Why would you, why would you 

Too much from the pain
Grateful my friend

Why would you, why would you 

Painting the bathroom, forget yesterday

Pour the drinks, sun is setting now,
Grab the plates, your new friends around,
The universities let you down, 
Now you're on the ground,
Living in the park. 

What was that you left at my door?
My love notes hidden in your score.
I don't live with you anymore,
Bet you loved me more,
Now we're in the dark.

Always let you upend, 
Now I'm the faithful friend,
Wore me down from the start, 
Organic in your heart,

Skin to skin at the Song Books show,
Dreams you left back in Buffalo,
John was wrong, but on you go,
And the schools said "no,"
Kindness in your heart.

There came a point when leaving was the quickest way,
Boxes on the street, you gave the rent away,
I wasn't your Ānanda, nothing left to learn,
But you weren't my Mara either, yet I turn.

Always let you upend, 
Now I'm the faithful friend,
You never locked the doors,
What's theirs had once been yours (living in the park),
I loved your bravery (living in the park),
In some ways, you're with me (living in the park),
Embrace the femenine (living in the park),
We will embrace again.

Ooh la la la la la la la la,
Living in the park.

Living in the Park

We all breathe a heavy sigh, 
When a gun advocate dies by a gun,
In a livestreamed execution,
And the body wasn't cold, 
When they said opposition's hold should all be suppressed,
And then the opposition acquiesced,

Should I see through the hate because we had the same birthday?
Does anyone actually believe he just wanted peaceful exchange,
(I think he wanted them)

Terrified of change (Terrified of change),
Terrified of change (Terrified of change),

It's been moving like this for years,
A false binary engineered to separate,
Why spread capital when you could spread hate?
I wanna see them as a friend, 
They've got the wrong us vs. them. Why don't we reset?
Say no to always giving more than we get.

Should I see my hometeam as the right and just one?
When will we see the way the game's laid out just seeks to estrange?
Till then we're

Terrified of change,
Terrified of change,

(So let us say, we're not terrified of change,
So let us say, we're not terrified of change,)

Everyone says someone's gotta do it.
Well, what difference would it make.

Terrified of Change

All songs written and recorded by Will Doolittle except the following samples 


Track two contains a sample of “Symphony For the Righteous Destruction of Humanity in E Minor” from Parks and Recreation season four, episode six. 
Track seven contains a sample of drummer John Eatherly. It can be found in the YouTube video “BE YOUR OWN PET - in the studio.”

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