• 1. i want you to love me

i move with the trees in the breeze i know that time is elastic and i know when i go all my particles disband and disperse and i'll be back in the pulse and i know none of this will matter in the long run but i know a sound is still a sound around no one and while i'm in this body i want somebody to want and i want what i want and i want

• 2. shameika

hurricane gloria in excelsis deo that's my bird in my tree my dog and my man and my music is my holy trinity

tony told me he'd describe me as pissed off, funny, and warm sebastian said i'm a good man in a storm back then i didn't know what potential meant

i'm pissed off, funny, and warm i'm a good man in a storm and when the fall is torrential, i'll recall

i grew up in the shoes they told me i could fill shoes that were not made for running up that hill and i need to run up that hill, i need to run up that hill i will, i will, i will, i will, i will

• 4. under the table

i'd like to buy you a pair of pillow-soled hiking boots to help you with your climb or rather, to help the bodies that you step over along your route so they won't hurt like mine

• 5. relay

evil is a relay sport when the one who's burned turns to pass the torch

i resent you for being raised right i resent you for being tall i resent you for never getting any opposition at all i resent you for having each other i resent you for being so sure i resent you presenting your life like a fucking propaganda brochure

but i know if i hate you for hating me i will have entered the endless race

• 7. newspaper

i wonder what lies he's telling you about me to make sure that we'll never be friends and it's a shame because you and i didn't get a witness we're the only ones who know we were cursed the moment that he kissed us from then on, it was his big show

when i learned what he did, i felt close to you in my own way, i fell in love with you but he's made me a ghost to you i watch him let go of your hand, i wanna stand between you but it's not what i'm supposed to do i watch him walk over, talk over you, be mean to you and it makes me feel close to you

• 8. ladies

nobody can replace anybody else so it would be a shame to make it a competition and no love is like any other love so it would be insane to make a comparison with you

• 9. heavy balloon

people like us, we play with a heavy balloon we keep it up to keep the devil at bay, but it always falls way too soon

i spread like strawberries (i spread like strawberries) i climb like peas and beans (i climb like peas and beans)

in the middle of the day, it's like the sun but the saharan one, it's staring me down forcing all forms of life inside of me to retreat underground it grows relentless like the teeth of a rat it's just got to keep on gnawing at me and it constricts like a boa on a hose, nothing flows so the pressure grows instead of the seed

• 10. cosmonauts

oh, you and i will be like a couple of cosmonauts except with way more gravity than when we started off

because i only like the way i look when looking through your eyes and when you come back you commemorate the penetration of the sun into the deep, dark sky

• 11. for her

you raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in

look at how feathered his cocks are see how seamless his frocks are look at his paper-beating over that rockstar look at how long she walks and how far was she lost? or maybe she was not for traveling in the stock car anymore maybe she spent her formative years dealing with his contentious fears and endless jeers at her endless tears or maybe she just got tired of watching him

• 12. drumset

now i understand you're a human and you've got to lie, you're a man

• 13. on i go

on i go, not toward or away up until now it was day, next day up until now in a rush to prove but now i only move to move