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"You Walk On Water"
by Zoenda McIntosh
6.19.14
VERSE1
When you wake up today please say
If you’re going to be a twisting tornado
Leaving swaths of destruction and quakes of confusion
behind your long trash-littered trail, oh
I like the way you make me feel from time to time
But most of the time I do not and
When I detail the painful attack for you,
It seems you've totally forgotten
CHORUS
You're always right, I'm obtuse.
You walk on water. I walk on eggshells.
Nothing is ever good enough for you.
You walk on water. I walk on eggshells.
V2
When you wake up today please say
If you’re going to be my doctor, bandage me all up
Ride your white horse
And rescue me, of course
Towards the sunset we escape in a gallop
I like the way you make me feel when you look at me
But something's become so much clearer
When I show you the myriad ways you've destroyed me,
All you see is your face in the mirror
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Everyone is an idiot or asshole
Except you
Their burning eyes see your pain and fear you keep deep down inside, it's true
So push them away
Before it's too late
V3
When you wake up today
Please say
If you’re gonna be a weepy black hole
The oft-suffering martyr
Who tells me try harder
Because I should have known better
And somehow made you whole
I like the way you make me feel when you're waking away
'Cause you've eschewed all my boundaries and requests
If you're retreating, you won't shit all over me today
I'm moving on with absolutely no regrets.
(Outro variation on chorus)
Well that wasn't very good, but thank you (you walk on water, I walk on eggshells)
Usurious, bestial
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The Mating Season
04:13
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The Mating Season
V1
Holy smokes as we stand out in the speckled moonlight
How’d it happen we’re at the same party tonight
I’ve been thinking of the many ways in which you delight me
This is the possibly the moment yes it truly/might/be
prechorus
giggling friends hover, point and whisper
snickering friends hover, make rude gestures
Please take me away from all of this
Time to write the story of our epic first kiss
CHORUS
Why not? It’s the mating season
Got a buzz all over and you’re the reason
my heart races when I see you or hear you
Sparking stars have aligned just to get me so near you
V2
Follow the path over here, it leads to the deck
Follow the deck over here, it leads to the door
We’ll put some Hampton on the turntable what the heck
Soft shoe shuffle ‘round the hardwood floor
prechorus
CHORUS
RAP
Not last night the night before
My boyfriend took me to the candy store
He bought chocolate, carmel, and licorice for me
He swore up and down that he’d always adore me
He took me high high high
We touched the sky sky sky
And we didn’t come back back back
til the Fourth of July
CHORUS
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Where For Home?
04:22
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V1
Heya doctor man
Tell me where to turn this heart in
mine don’t work no more
concretionary fist-sized chunk
Heya doctor man
Tell me where for home now
If I adapt to chaos, will there be more chaos?
VERSE 2
Heft a fossil dry smooth cold cold cold
Now a hot potato
Steamy Kodachrome
Rearview mirror reflects just black black black
Pray quietly for fracture
Or leap into The Lack
CHORUS
Purple flash green flash cold flash poof
My heart don't work no more
Tell me where for home now?
VERSE 3
Vessel draining half empty
Self piercing and flagellating
fill me, fill me
'cause I ain't empty enough
This is why we cannot have
anything that's nice
Things are always breaking
I want to break this
CHORUS
purple flash green flash cold flash poof
My heart don't work no more
Tell me where for home now
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Saguaro Blossom
04:17
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Saguaro Blossom
V1
Dry desert wind
Whispers again
Your name in a slow lonesome song
I didn't know that I needed you
Suddenly I did
Or maybe I did all along
Mistaking attention
For fervent affection
Mistaking affection for love
CHORUS
Saguaro blossom wooed open by moonbeams
Closing when dawn breaks daily
I'm very good at hello and goodbye
It's everything in between that gets ugly
V2
Kicking at gravel peppered with glass shards
Sparkling stars down at my feet
Hide in a deep pocket
Jewelrybox keepsake
Tool for tumultuous savages
Sweet cactus flower
glisten wink twinkle
Pure white ephemera
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Ugly
CHORUS 2x
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No cards in my mailbox
No texts on my phone
Don't they know this day
Is supposed to be my day?
Guess I'm gonna spend it all alone
No flowers or presents
No night on the town
Don't they know this time
Is supposed to be my time?
Seems that my friends always let me down.
December is an awful month to have a birthday
The holidays are all everybody's thinking of
December is an awful month to have a birthday
'Cause no one has the time to give you any birthday love
Occasionally friends will give me a token birthday present
Regifting some unwanted bric-a-brac
If I could only have a moment
Of their true attention
I would gladly give all those gifts back.
I'm no baby Jesus
I'm no baby New Year
How can I compete
I surrender in defeat
Spin a dreidel made of clay one time for me
December is an awful month to have a birthday
There's too many things that all your friends and family need to do.
December is an awful month to have a birthday
No one has the time to celebrate your day with you.
December is an awful month to have a birthday
The holidays are all everybody's thinking of
December is an awful month to have a birthday
'Cause no one has the time to give you any birthday love
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Show Me Your Scars
03:13
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Show Me Your Scars
V1:
Smooth and perfect, warm and radiant, that’s all you’ll expose
Admirers tangled hang trapped helpless in your beautiful prose
Why’d you choose me, target me above all the rest?
Any effort I make to pry you open is quickly met with vehement protest
CHORUS:
Show me your scars
I’ll count out each one like the night sky’s stars
If I look closely they’ll spell
the story of you you’ll never dare tell me yourself
V2
Pretense, posing, concealing closing off intimacy
Feigning sharing, falsely caring with sweet obstinacy
Deliberate deflection you wield with great ease
You want to know me but refuse to show me
an inside piece and reveal anything, you big tease
CHORUS
BRIDGE
None of my tricks seem to work
It’s written all over your face
You’ll never allow any light to shine on your hidden places
CHORUS
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Still
03:38
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Still
LYRICS
The last time I saw you
You sat so still
Was it something I did
Or didn't do
For you?
My friend told me
I hadn't known you long enough
To get this sad
But I think I did
Did you?
When I think about what we could have had
I'm wrecked
Run over by a slow moving tractor
When I think about what we could have had
I’m shattered
Pulled apart limb from limb by charging horses
Maybe if you'd have let me say goodbye
I'd feel lighter
Maybe if you'd have stayed longer
I'd feel something other than aching burning empty
I visit our tree and when I close my eyes I swear I still see you
But how far away you are
In a dreamy grass-filled field in Scotland
Dark hair, hazel eyes and laughing
While I pull out clumps of grass out here and I'm weeping pounding retching
The last time I saw you
You sat so still
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"You Walk On Water"
by Zoenda McIntosh
6.19.14
VERSE1
When you wake up today please say
If you’re going to be a twisting tornado
Leaving swaths of destruction and quakes of confusion
behind your long trash-littered trail, oh
I like the way you make me feel from time to time
But most of the time I do not and
When I detail the painful attack for you,
It seems you've totally forgotten
CHORUS
You're always right, I'm obtuse.
You walk on water. I walk on eggshells.
Nothing is ever good enough for you.
You walk on water. I walk on eggshells.
V2
When you wake up today please say
If you’re going to be my doctor, bandage me all up
Ride your white horse
And rescue me, of course
Towards the sunset we escape in a gallop
I like the way you make me feel when you look at me
But something's become so much clearer
When I show you the myriad ways you've destroyed me,
All you see is your face in the mirror
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Everyone is an idiot or a*****e
Except you
Their burning eyes see your pain and fear you keep deep down inside, it's true
So push them away
Before it's too late
V3
When you wake up today
Please say
If you’re gonna be a weepy black hole
The oft-suffering martyr
Who tells me try harder
Because I should have known better
And somehow made you whole
I like the way you make me feel when you're waking away
'Cause you've eschewed all my boundaries and requests
If you're retreating, you won't **** all over me today
I'm moving on with absolutely no regrets.
(Outro variation on chorus)
Well that wasn't very good, but thank you (you walk on water, I walk on eggshells)
Usurious, bestial
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