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if i had to balance my life on the head of a tack, i think this song would hold down that center.

a fateful listen on an ex-friend's whim recontextualized everything. it felt like turning the vial upside-down, watching long-trapped bubbles rise to the top and disperse into the mixture. all swells and pop culture, it promised to change everything about what i wanted, and together we made it so

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lyrics below cut! really good ones

hey jana!! you were so worth waiting for

& these birth pangs aren’t gonna last all night

hidden among these toy guns

somewhere there’s a real one

& it’s not gonna stay abandoned anymore

hey jana your body double’s in my heart place

her face is always morphing closer to yours

sunlight moonlight bright sun dark moon

sunlight moonlight dark sun bright moon

now i can’t remember which one’s you & which one’s me

wouldn’t it be so much easier if we were one person

(idon’twannaknowyeah idon’twannaknowyet idon’twannaknowyeah idon’twannaknowyet)

now our little Hook's pulling whales out from the great sea

call me if you figure out where our rivers meet the ocean

i don’t wanna be a u-turn on the way to mark’s house

i think that this could last a long time

i’m not gonna be this silent forever

i’m not gonna be that bull-like forever

i don’t want for you to be a stone for me to step on along the way

i want for us to go together

i want for us to grow together

i want for us to glow together

i have no voice to speak with

(i)

i have no ears to hear your words

just bark torn from its plant

(they drank from the black stream)

(rootless and aching)

(rootless and free)

but don’t get me wrong

i can still hear

the children’s song

echo in your hair

behind a wall

of muddy feathered steel

we will see you win

won’t quit till you heal

who are all these

humans in the way?

will it be long

before they go away?

trying to let dinosaurs

out of their pen

but the dragon’s become

a turtle once again

if my sails give way to the wind

& if it blows me back inland

i’ll carry my kayak to the shore

to sail in your waters again

stegosaurus, your bony neck’s a pterodactyl landing

hey jana, you’re woven into places we grew up

you could spend lifetimes hunting all the hidden treasures here

don’t fall backwards dont fall back don’t step backwards now don’t step back

now don’t look back now don’t look back don’t fall backwards don’t fall back

same bass, followed by guitar: now the tempo increases

your director's eye is radiating godlibido straws

your scorpion serpent's spitting haphazard designs of death

why don't you & you & you & i go opening some doors together?

hey jana it’s always been you

all of my short little life it’s always been you

red karma from the study of the evolving language of your mythosis

has our house daimon teleporting all these dinosaur babies into my dreams

cuz a body is language

& a language is a body

& i want to learn both of yours

yeah!!!

& hidden among these toy guns

somewhere there’s a real one

hidden among these toy guns

somewhere there’s a real one

& it’s not gonna be abandoned

anymore

how many lives have i known you?

or is this my only chance to fall to earth with you?

i try to love the dirt, if only for that

but this is a dead world on holy fire

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from the new 3776 album "The Birth and Death of the Universe through Mount Fuji"

Lyrics translated by Roger Goodman

- Tempted by Fidgeting -

I must be sleeping too much No wonder I'm not feeling well At the mercy of my surroundings I don't have a sense of myself Not anymore I like it here Your fidgeting is comforting I'm sleepy

Sitting behind you Drifting into a dream Something is beginning Waiting for me

The critical point High school is hectic The teacher gets riled up You're in hot water now A scapegoat I'm sleepy

Sitting behind you At the bottom of a swaying sea If only I could awaken from my slumber I am waiting My troubles and my fears All melt away into a dream My hopes and my expectations Must be pouring outward To where you are

I'm sleepy