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No Praise
02:26
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(Human
Human body
Be empathetic in nonviolent communication
Because we’re all trying to meet our needs
How do I find comfort and assurance? Patience?
Saying what you’re feeling and then connecting that with a need that’s not being met
In your relationships with other people
Use this language of connecting with the person’s feelings and needs and reflecting back)
‘Round here there’s no praise
It may stimulate
Could find change
We humans relate
Tell me what you see
And I start to hear you
And you’ve got this feeling
You’ve got needs you must attend to
Attend to
‘Round here there’s no praise
It may stimulate
Could find change
We humans relate
We humans relate
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2. |
Same Wheel
01:35
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(Same wheel/don’t question, don’t question)
(Jared Yates Sexton:
The entire purpose of public education and the school to employment pipeline
is to make sure you stay at your job,
you don’t question your employers,
and you just continue churning the same wheel of capitalism)
Same pick and choose as right now
Was talk of great beyonds
Same pick and choose as right now
Was talk of great beyonds
Is something wrong?
Night fall winter
Night fall winter
Night fall winter
Night fall winter
(Same wheel/don’t question)
Wow. I think it got kinda—hahaha
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3. |
I Wouldn't Haunt You
04:03
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I wouldn’t judge you
I wouldn’t haunt you
I could just hear you
If you might want to
You wouldn’t get even
But you would get leaving
If what you were needing
You weren’t receiving
(Getting nowhere is the thinking
Seeing something
Noticing) X 2
Too “boys’ll be boys” (Too “boys’ll be boys” )
So you make a hard choice (So you make a hard choice)
Because something is off when (Something is off when)
You’re losing your own voice (You’re losing your own voice)
No pet peeving (No pet peeving)
No more believing (No more believing)
These patterns of dreaming
Hear what is needed (Hear what is needed)
I wouldn’t judge you (I wouldn’t judge you)
I wouldn’t haunt you (I wouldn’t haunt you)
I could just hear you (I could just hear you)
If you might want to (If you might want to)
You wouldn’t get even (You wouldn’t get even)
But you would get leaving (But you would get leaving)
If what you were needing (If what you were needing)
You weren’t receiving (You weren’t receiving)
Now is the time (Jared Yates Sexton: They pray upon their insecurities)
Now is the time (JYS: They pray upon their fear)
Now is the time (JYS: They pray upon their lack of direction)
Now is the time (JYS: They hand them an armband, they hand them a uniform)
(Jared Yates Sexton: At some point or another I think that capitalism or hyper-capitalism starts to corrode us. And and you know, it turns into a thing where it’s like— How dare you think you deserve better? You know what I mean? As the family unit starts to get squeezed, what actually ends up happening is, in the past, there’s like, here we are, this is our small little group, and we’re all here for each other and we want this. And eventually over time, because capitalism infects everything, it ends up making you a competitor of someone in your own family, and as a result you start to resent their success. You start to see them as turning their back on it.)
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4. |
What Will Never Be Known
01:19
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5. |
Blotting
02:01
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Oh jeez, think that I’m gonna leave
(I think I’m gonna leave)
Your patterns leave an idea about what’s up your sleeve
(I’ve seen what’s up your sleeve)
When I hear the plea
You ask me
To step back blotting
Think you don’t want to see what you do
You delete info on an ancient scroll
(Delete from the scroll)
You don’t admit it when you stoop low
(Have not heard you admit)
If I stay
I fear who I might be (I fear who I might be)
Each time I let it roll over
It just rolled over me (It just rolled over me)
(Oh jeez, where’d the time go? Now it’s time to say goodbye)
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6. |
Ever Wonder
02:39
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Ever wonder?
Ask them why
I’ve been there
Once or twice
Won’t go back
They weren’t so nice
Ever wonder?
Ask them why
We’ve got a good thing
May I have a moment with you?
Surely it won’t take much time
I will wrap this up by next week
Ever wonder?
You gave your best shot
Then you took it back
I wonder
I wonder
I wonder right now
Ever wonder?
What was that sound?
Ask them why
I’ve been there
Once or twice
Won’t go back
They weren’t so nice
Wounded owl wing
Wounded owl wing
Wounded owl wing
Wounded owl wing
Wounded owl wing
Arm through a shirt
With real long sleeves
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7. |
Real Long Sleeves
04:47
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On a wounded owl wing
Like an arm through a shirt
With real long sleeves
It gave you peace
To help them out
Now they soar
Under clouds
“You’ve done God’s work”
And every time
They come back
You had a hunch right from the start
You glow when you feel in the dark
I’ve got this feeling
I can’t shake
Here and now
Wounded owl wing
Arm through a shirt
With real long sleeves
And every time they come back
Now they soar
Under clouds
“You’ve done God’s work”
As they soar
Under clouds
We dream
You had a hunch right from the start
You glow when you feel in the dark
I’ve got this feeling
I can’t shake
Not right now
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8. |
Paper Thin
04:26
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No, it’s not how you wanted it
But don’t be what you’re not
Take all the time you need to sit with it
Get to a safe spot
You took the blame
‘Cause you think it fits
That’s all we’ve been taught
What was the need you were needing then?
You tried to meet it
But got a little lost
You tried to meet it
But got a little lost
You tried to meet it
But got a little lost
(Jared Yates Sexton: I mean this is a person who claims that he’s tough and all this, but he is just paper thin)
(Light the gas)
We’ll take a room for the night
We’ll meet our maker if we go outside
He’s lurking
My best guess, it was a lie
The true test will be when you pry
A little more for more fumes
Oh won’t you?
It won’t do so
Forget it now
Letting the fear lead a life
(So humiliating.
You know perfectly well how you imagine things.
Don’t say that)
(JYS: A momentary criticism or even not enough praise sends him off into one of these abusive cycles we’ve had to deal with)
One of the guys
With truck nuts on his ride
Taught, bought pride
We’ll take a room for the night
We’ll meet our maker if we go outside
He’s lurking
My best guess, it was a lie
The true test will be when you pry
A little more for more fumes
Oh won’t you?
He’s a big boy
(JYS: So often that that overcompensation of strength and abuse is actually a reaction to insecurity, or personal fear, or sort of feeling that they’re out of control themselves)
He’s a big boy
What a big boy now
One around
‘Cause you didn’t know how to
‘Cause you never been taught to
And you’re never gonna know how
If you’re never gonna want to
He’s a big boy
What a big boy
He’s a big boy now
One around
Yet all around
Lurking
There’s a big boy
There’s a big boy
There’s a big boy now
Aren’t you proud?
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9. |
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We are so glad to see you leave
Sticking a wrench in your regime
The fight must go on
But victory’s sweet
This victory sings
And we all sing along
(We are so glad
We are so glad
The fight must go on but—)
Lofty wonder
Doomsday
Won’t get swallowed by the night
But it’s a bite
Oh yeah
Maybe it’s a big bite
For our lives
(Why should I?)
We are so glad to see you leave
Sticking a wrench in your regime
The fight must go on
But victory’s sweet
This victory sings
And we all sing along
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10. |
Supernatural Favorites
03:15
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(Listen to that
What do you hear?
The ghosts!
The grooves!)
Around here
These are just the events
Of practical nature
If ever you stay
Where the ghosts
Play the supernatural favorites
You better believe
They’ve been told
They’re only imagination’s things
They tune up
They play to the beat
Listen close
A song you used to know
Listen close
A song you used to know
Faint sound
Spun round and round
The belt gets pulled
But the amp’s turned down
Enough to make you feel
Safe and grounded
Listen close
A song you used to know
Note for note
Needle wheel
You feel, but you don’t hear
Except by rote
Listen close
A song you used to know
Listen close
A song you used to know
(About the great shade trees
Fate didn’t help me to feel much easier in my mind — yes, well
Will I visit you now and then? Talk to you?
I hope you will
You won’t turn me away?
Never
Ah, that’s good
I just didn’t know what to answer
It was the very, very picture of the haunted house)
Listen close
A song you used to know
Note for note
Supernatural favorites
Needle wheel
You feel but you don’t hear
Listen close
A song you used to know
Note for note
Where the ghosts play the supernatural favorites
Listen close
A song you used to know
(The sound feels, all perplexed, the effect is truly quite tasteful
The grooves! Wow.)
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11. |
Not OK is OK
02:42
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12. |
Stepping Out of the Muck
01:32
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13. |
Swim Team
01:12
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