Repurposed Provincial Monument
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Baby baby why you gotta be so surprised
As we stare into the empty void we can’t recognize
I need a muscle relaxant and a wet rag for my brain
While all of our hopes and fears circle down the drain
Sometimes I feel the love of all the endless possibilities
And when I feel the love I feel alive
And when I lose control the only one who gets ahold of me
Is standing in the doorway of my life
And I know what I know and I know
When I’ve reached the end
When a cardboard box full of tears is my only friend
Gonna take a walk to a place where I can feel that new genocide
On the next block over where the streets are all gentrified
Sometimes I feel the suck of all my endless possibilities
When all I do is masterbate and cry
And when I lose control the only one who gets ahold of me
Is standing in the doorway of my life
We all want to resist we all want to condemn
We all want to feel that no one’s going to crush us in the end
can I feel the love can I feel the love
can I feel the love can I feel the love
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I’ve been counting on my fingers
I’ve been pacing here for hours
I’ve been speaking to the doctors
I’ve been pawing at the flowers
But no one wants to tell me your alright
No one wants to let me hold you through the night through the night
The church outside your window
Is only fire, ash and snow
They might’ve had an offer
About a thousand years ago
But no one wants to answer my reply
No one wants to simply justify this goodbye
And now this night has just begun
Tonight my love won’t be undone tonight
Whisper to me how you need me so
The birds in the trees want to say hello
Open your eyes now and look outside
Tell me you love me and stay my bride tonight
And I
Cannot begin
And I
Have lost my friend
And I’m
alone again
again tonight
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Like a vulture
On the wasteland
Or the chain
That you try to disband
In the water
In the hot sand
There’s a blister
On the edge of your hand
Your like golden beam of light
But you might never sleep tonight
We hardly whet your appetite
But you might never sleep
Oh no no oh no no oh nonononono X2
It’s getting late
Please concentrate
Just close your eyes
No alibis
Your a dream in black and white
But you might never sleep tonight
Your like a hummingbird in flight
But you might never sleep
Oh no no…
It’s getting late, just accommodate
Just compromise and close one eyes
You’re a spark that you ignite
But you might never sleep tonight
And you sing until it’s light
And you might never sleep
When you wanna pull me close
And feel a love so genuine
I’ll hold you in my arms and kiss your face
And give you medicine
My love for you is so complete
You melt me just like gelatin
And when you’re hurt and scream in pain
I feel it in my skeleton
A kind of love that strips away
Both masculine and feminine
And in the day while you’re asleep
You’re such a lovely gentleman
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Take your time
Stay on the brakes
I could be dead tomorrow
You could die today
You’re too slow
You gotta get up and go
I could be dead tomorrow
You could die today
Long, you could be dead and gone
Life is prone to drag you on
It’s a long road
Gotta go all the way
I could be dead tomorrow
You could die today
Everywhere
It’s always the same
I could be dead tomorrow
You could die today
So long, you will be dead and gone
And life is quicker then the dawn
And you go oh na na na nana na na na na
Everyday
Gotta sail away
I could be dead tomorrow
You could die today
It’s a hard fate
Keep your foot on the brakes
I could be dead tomorrow
You could die today
It’s wrong life is never long
And beyond is a wretched song
And you go oh na na na nana na na na na
You’re wrong life is much too long
And beyond is a passive yawn
And you go oh na na na nana na na na na
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No one nose
02:55
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No one knows
Where you can be safe outside
The plows are coming honey and everybodies running but
You’ll never find a place to hide
No one knows
Whether there’s a reason why
The internet won’t reconnect
And mother wants to hang you dry
No one knows
How we'll get to sleep tonight
The winds are howlin and the rats are drownin
And we’ll never fill your appetite
I need a little sugar
No one knows
What is there to eat tonight
There’s like half a box of pasta and beans again baby
Got me looking for a place to cry
No one knows
When we can escape our lives
It’s been two hundred hours and change in here baby
Gotta a handle on my favourite knife
Without ever setting foot outside
Won’t you let me go let me go baby
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There’s only good times up ahead
Holding on to the sunshine in my bed
Only once in a lifetime it could be only you
Waking up on the wrong side isn’t what it used to
Waiting on the good times up ahead
Holding on to the sunshine in my bed
Lying awake in the darkness thinkin’ bout what you did
Wanna to keep it the whole time always forever hid
You won’t ever hold me back
Don’t have a heart attack
Waiting on the good times up ahead
waiting on the sunshine in my bed
Out walking home and back
Won’t paint this photo black
Hold me down it seems so wrong to me
Hold me down it ain’t time to leave
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The ocean is not your friend
you can never go home again
You might think you did nothing wrong
But you can’t hide nothing from the waves when they come down
Well are you a friend to me?
Or are you my enemy?
You can tell me in an epic poem
While the world falls away and dissolves to the unknown
The unknown
You don’t need a helping hand
I’ve seen your master plan
And I know your family tree
It’s beyond apologies
You’re living like a phantom limb
hope you can learn to swim
Without a paddle in the icy foam
While you watch your boat sink away to the unknown
Tell me can I be the one
To hand you all a loaded gun
And let you all just sort yourselves
While I sit in a hole in the ground to just calm down
Just come down
I could tell you all you want to hear
I could say you’ve been released
And you can live your life without the fear
And you won’t change in the least
You might stand behind your garden walls
Under a canopy of stars
And feel the breeze upon your skin
And just think how small you are
But when the smoke blots out the sun
And there’s nothing you can do
I can’t think that I’m the only one
Who will turn and look at you
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In a little town I know
There is a place they go for dumping
All the bottles all the needles all the trash
The smell that hits the air
Is like a knife you use for hunting
That is carving up your face with every slash
The only recipes they know
Were past around outside of kitchens
Where their mothers hid their wallets and their cash
But what the fuck you going to do
But don your scarf and grandmas mittens
While you root out in the bushes with your stash
Just what the fuck
I know where everybody gets high tonight
I know where everybody gets high as fuck as just
Does what they’re doing
And you’re doing it good
I know when everybody gets left alone
I know where everybody just goes to town and just
takes a little bite of
Takes a little bite of this
Mmm
I know how everybody wants love tonight
It tastes so sentimental I can’t believe it might
Want a little sugar
Want a little slip of this
Just know what you want to do and do it good
I know where everybody goes home tonight
I know where everyone just wants to be themselves
Out in the bushes
Out in the bushes back home
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And all
the wedding bells
Rang out
in the wheels
All
the way back home
And you
Held my hand
While out
the window rain
Washed
The homeless streets
While all
The wedding quests
Clasp their fists
Around the wheel
And loudly
scream and curse
And down
The crooked hill
The line of cars
Refused to yield
Only
Geared to first
The moon
Winked its eye
And bathed it light
Not on the fields
But only
On our lives
Our home
Came to life
As our walls
Begin to fill
With love
And all our bills
And the wind
Spoke our names
Through the trees
And on the green
Lonely
And full of pain
And all
the wedding bells
Rang out
in the wheels
All
the way back home
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Made for the 2020 St. John's, NL RPM Challenge.
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released March 1, 2020
Patrick Niceman - Everything except:
Chris McGee - Saxophone on tracks 1, 6 and 9
Patrick Niceman - Everything except:
Chris McGee - Saxophone on tracks 1, 6 and 9
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Patrick Canning St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
Patrick is an artist type who lives out on the edge of nowhere in St. John's Newfoundland and makes music for himself.
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