1. |
No Need to Know
04:30
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NO NEED TO KNOW
Where to go
How you been
How to do it again
How you feel
What you think
Who you love
Who do you love
What do you want to retain
No need to know
What you want
What you meant to say
Can you feel it now?
It’s reeling
And the vibes climb out
It’s breathing
Listen to the sad sound of it
Light: the center of our vision
Sound: a pressure wave in space
Touch is a lovely reminder
You want to smell whatever you taste
Oh it’s hand-delivered with love
It’s spent, sent express with shivering love
I can’t relax (there’s nothing to it)
I can’t relax (there’s nothing in it for me)
Oh I can’t believe it’s all me
You go and go and go and go
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2. |
Little Chicken
05:38
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LITTLE CHICKEN
A punishment audience
Blow their ears out
Cannot anyone handle it
What we all want
To blow out our orifices
Kill off the act
Separate mind from body
And any new doubts
Keep killing that act
Separate mind from body
Got any new doubt? No
Not any new doubts
Detour through snakes
Smaller without shoes
Crawl inside the capitol
Isn’t anyone new
Isn’t everybody new
Get a load of the night
It’s riding the light out
No whites get dark
Or hit all the right marks
Droppin’ hands unsteady
Find an old way out
Pipe straight
Tracks getting laid
Truck right through a bridge
Detour to try a wrench right on
Pecking at the door
Little chicken
Patting on the kitchen floor
Little kitten
Oh are you full of wonder
At what we crave
How we lie
To ourselves
And each other
We all wonder why
Picking at your food
Little chicken
Living in an empty box
Little kitten
Partners pull the old up and under
Ride it raw
Roll it blind
Move around out of habit
Or intention
One more time
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3. |
Yamaha
04:35
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YAMAHA
Was a fraudulent premise
That things will always even up
That it’ll ever be fair
Of course that might be a good thing
If the breaks just fall your way
As everything shakes out
It’s not all the same to me
I’d rather be lucky than come out flat
All the hard things we tried to do
Give me any other work than that
Don’t wanna live a life about money
Don’t wanna live a life that funky
It’s just something we do
Keep a diary and set it on fire
Suck on your memories and let ‘em drown
No one needs to know what all we wish for
Yeah we’re reeling right now
But at least we’re in the right part of town
It’s not all the same to me
I’d rather be lucky than come out flat
All the hard things we tried to do
Give me any other work than that
Don’t wanna live a life about money
Don’t wanna live a life that funny
It’s just something we do
Keep swimming
It’s all surfing
Paddling to stay alive
I’m King Kong
You’re wrapped up in silk linen
Dirty dish rags in our mouths
As we try to survive
It’s not all the same to me
I’d rather be lucky than come out flat
All the hard things we tried to do
Give me any other work than that
Don’t wanna live a life about money
Don’t wanna live a life that ugly
Just something we do
Without trying
Without thinking
Without wanting or seeking
Just something we do
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4. |
Why Far You Be
02:35
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WHY FAR YOU BE
Away from me
Why you be back home
I guess is best or kind of rest
But now I am forlorn
Why far you be in past belief
Oh why you be so long
My chest is left without your breath
And now I am foregone
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5. |
Black Road
04:10
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BLACK ROAD
Night
Wet road
Not my used to be
Sailing fit for racing
Or drowning in a sea
In a pool of you
In a school of women swimmin’
Men on top of cars
Babies in their arms
Colliding
Gonna move along
Unwinding road
Dream on dream on
Just take what you want
You know you get the future
It’s exciting
Strange light
Dead road
Not my used to be
Fade into an underground
Passing, cracking
Cracking up
Gonna move along
Black road wet road
Unwinding dead road
Not my used to be
Not my used to be
Dream on dream on
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6. |
This 'n' That
03:14
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THIS ‘N’ THAT
Don’t call me cold
Demilitarized zone
Among these twats
Who hate their lots in life
We know our spots nearby
In this kingdom
Whatever I can feel or see
What I don’t touch means so much to me
In this kingdom
It’s just a time share
I am what I am
Wear what you want
But diamonds are hopeless
How little we care
What time it is
Into and out of room for each other
Father sister brother
I’m not your mother it’s no bother
The way that you live
Whatever I can feel or see
It’s just a time share baby
Into and out of room for each other
You don’t belong to me
I’m not your father
In this kingdom
It’s just a little slice
It gets really rough
But it’s kinda nice
It’s pretty nice
This ‘n’ that
Do whatever
With whomever
Whenever you can
Whichever way it lands
This and that
You and what
They and them
Whatever you want
If anyone asks, better be polite
I’m your friend
It just feels righ
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7. |
Can't Be the First One
02:51
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That first ring of the bell
CAN’T BE THE FIRST ONE
That second ring of the bell
Can’t be the second one
That third ring of the bell
Can’t be the third one
Can’t happen again
Can’t happen again
I know that the only songs that work
Have just one word
Enough enough enough
Sometimes you have to live
In that other world first
So you can run
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8. |
Summer's Mostly Wasted
05:11
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SUMMER’S MOSTLY WASTED
I know you’ve heard it all before
From people spinning in and out of view
I hope this time might mean a little bit more
Coming in from someone right beside you
Crawling in the springtime
Crush it in the fall
Summer’s mostly wasted
And the winter is the weakest round of all
Behold let go let go the moon
No rays just reflection
You think it’s just for you
But it’s nothing
There’s no one it protects
Built to last
One way to the past
Always finish like a train
Men don’t talk
The way they oughta
Leave you rollin’
When they’re livin’ in pain
Crawling in the springtime
Crush it in the fall
Summer’s mostly wasted if not all
Crawling in the spring
Crush it in the fall
Summer, mostly wasted
Summer, mostly wasted
And the winter
Like a rolling river
Oh oh oh
Ooh-ooh ooh ooh
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Mint Mile Chicago, Illinois
Based in Chicago
Founded late 2014
by Tim Midyett (Silkworm, Bottomless Pit)
with Jeff
Panall (Songs: Ohia)
Constants:
Justin Brown (Palliard)
Matthew Barnhart (Tre Orsi)
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