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Socialist snowplows are coming
As the socialist mouth waters
Is it so bad to spoil the sparrow
As the sports team lay sleeping?
What if we kissed the river
With its socialist lips yawning ?
Someone please invite the spirits
to the feast For the ceiling
Let’s go out walking
Like a scientist in slo-mo
Please lemme buy you
A couple loosies Fr yr time
There is a socialist snow falling
It’s gonna cover us by sunrise
In the socialist snow falling
I can hear the pundits peeling
Hooray fr the porch spirits
Their slumber is over
Oh wont you let the vessel crash neatly?
No don’t you quote the pharaoh to me
Sure the sacrifice was spoiled
But at least we are slower
I heard it coming
The hairy snowplow of the morning
There is a simple logic
To what the horny neighbor claimed
There is a socialist snow falling
And it’s gonna cover us by daybreak
I said to the miller’s daughter
Don’t u sell me to the blogger
The goy’s plea is defeatist
But it is wicked to be hopeful
Now Don’t lay up yr mirrors now
in this world of bots and longing
Where moth and rust doth corrupt
I will find you a seltzer
The handles crumble
and the years they soon fall off
But no blame is harbored
Let’s go proofless to the work
there is a socialist snow falling
And it’s gonna cover us in its color
There are forty-seven fine reasons
Why the silence should destroy me
But don’t u think it’s kinda crazy
How that is my lucky number?
Well Don't u paraphrase troubled waters
And Don’t u quote the beast to groom me
Let’s hear it for the four winds
And their socialist grandmother
Let’s go out walking
Like a scientist in slo-mo
Please lemme buy you
A couple loosies Fr yr time
There’s a socialist snow falling
And it’s gonna cover us by sunrise
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Man Don’t call me a fool
if my tambourine does drool
And my hands can’t seem to forget
They call me a slob but I do my job
And I’m not too proud to beg
Come out come out
wherever you are
And tell my hands are not wrong
I know I know it won’t b long
It seems every song that I write these days
Is only ever about waitin
And every time I pal around with my friends
My tambourine seems so impatient
Hush up hush up
You hungry tambourine
And ready yr lips fr the dawn
I know I know it won’t be long
You see that old sucker the moon
there hangin
Far too drunk to speak
You see that old tambourine in my kitchen
He’s not too proud to weep
Come down come down
Let me hear from your lips
That I might be redrawn
I know I know It won’t be long
Don’t doubt don’t doubt
That this hammock is Well placed
And that it’s ready for the dawn
I know I know it won’t be long
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Last Saturday I woke up In the grass
With a gentle rain all comin down
For a second there
I thought I smelled their hair
And so I closed my eyes again
I’m pretty sure I was
no big deal To them then
I’d be surprised if they thought of me now
I’m sure they never knew
How they pulled me from the brink
With those couple kind things they said
We only shared a couple jokes
A couple times a couple years ago
When my mind was troubled and dark
Aw But buddy ain’t it funny
How some people
sure can leave a mark?
Do u believe in a convenient love?
You know I sometimes wish I could
But I would settle for being kind to myself
And just once deny the idol of my regrets
And no we never did get all that close
But I suppose that was for the best
The kinda guy that I was then
I woulda just made a mess
You know We only shared a couple jokes
A couple times a couple years ago
When my mind was troubled and dark
Oh But buddy ain’t it funny
How some people
Really leave a mark?
I swept the big pieces of glass off the bed
And I laid a thick sleeping bag down
Maybe in the morning
I will not be so afraid
To face up to my shit
I’m sure their internet presence
is intelligent and strange
But you know I never searched their name
And when they come Up In conversation
I just close my eyes and grin
Although we only shared a couple jokes
A couple times a couple years ago
When my mind was troubled and dark
Oh But buddy ain’t it funny
How some people
sure can leave a mark
Emotional martyrs rarely make history
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05. let me go
03:24
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Keep the cup straight
when you are Plucked by the shadow
Here at the shadow’s ball
See how the rot is built
By the pinch of beginnings
No this is not our fault
Let me go
This food is so strange
And I am not hungry
I will eat well when the grave is primed
Let me go
Won’t u let me speak plainly
And deny the birth process
And the stench of the finite?
Don’t be stupid
Look right here where the skin fails
And know what the failing hails
Before you Write a song
Predicated on the other
Know just what the other entails
Let me go
Don’t u draw me again
With the hands of your exes
I am not just like 2 + 2
Let me go
All these plots are such pelf
To the undecided
Who know well where the crown is juiced
Hey now u hungry boy
Don’t u bite off such a doozy
Without the ground of a wound
Am I just a question
To be plated like a pheasant
Don’t you skip my projections too soon
Let me go
This narrative’s so thin
And This swim is no kid stuff
Are u not tired of malingering
Let me go
Take a look at my beast
It is no subtle subject
And recognizes no queen or king
I wrote this song when I was on a tour of Ireland in my dreams with frank hurricane. I had forgotten all my material and had to make up a summary or my intentions on the spot and this is what happened. I had another dream around then with frank in it where he was helping me pack my parents stuff in the trunk of their car. They were going on a long journey and frank was really excited for them.
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06. shameless love
03:20
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How does the proudest hamhock
Always end up on the sofa?
How does the dumpiest peacock
Always end up drenched in soda?
How do u love me When u r sober?
How could u pull this grin out
From the doomed folder?
Gimme that love
Gimme that shameless love
Let the world know
That I was touched by a shameless love
Do u like how I never got famous
So u could find me almost anywhere?
And My costume was so clever
They even went and put me on Medicare
How could u love me when
When No one bought my last record?
How could u film me now
When I was sure the scene was over?
Gimme that love
Gimme that shameless love
Let the world know
That I was touched by a shameless love
Let every boy and girl hear about it now
That I was touched by a shameless love
There is an east coast redemption story
in every cauliflower that u kiss good night
I ain’t never seen a moon so horny
I ain't never seen a colosseum so ripe
How could u love me
When I got such a dumpy band?
No one not even the summer lawn
Has such tasteless hands
Gimme that love
Gimme that shameless love
Let the world know
that I Was touched by a shameless love
Let every goy and girl hear about it
That I was touched once
By a shameless love
Lemme shout it from the rooftops
My name is luke Csehak
And I was touched once
by a shameless love
THE LIT PLUM
I need an east coast redemption story tonite
And I will not b satisfied
There is beauty in patience
But there is also beauty in getting
yr head blown clean off
Please shout like daisies now
I'll munch anything that moves
Happy new year
I'm strong like the peach
Gimme that sweet blameless love
Straight from the peach
No one
Not even the summer lawn
Has such clean and
Tasteless hands
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3 of 330
The water from nowhere
Notes
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Luke Csehak <thelentilsband@gmail.com>
2:07 AM (4 hours ago)
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The water from nowhere
The night weighs heavy
With that hungry feeling
While the corn
it’s so slowly breathing
I said show me a sign this evening
But I don’t know if I really mean it
And ain’t it just like the water from nowhere
To make a sport of yr doubt?
Three years can be washed in a day
Be careful
An The fish theyare sure laughing now
But I don’t want what I want
Cause what i want is to be surprised
By what I never knew I needed
But god I need it now
Yeah I need it now
I’m Lookin out fr a simple love
Takin my time this time
I’m Hangin out with the hunger
Makin friends with my mind
N Ain’t it just Like The water from nowhere?
It’s pride is in the riddle
And I know it ain’t easy
But Christ it’s so simple
I’ll take a year off
Let me try fr once to be alone
Let The fish snicker in the river
The bastards
Yeah I know
You heard this one before
And ain’t it just like
the theater of the damned
To spring up when yr so close?
And ain’t it just like my wicked heart
To fear so well what it needs the most?
And I don’t want what I want
Cause don’t I know my heart
well enough by now
To really be afraid?
And god I am so afraid
I’m Lookin out fr a simple love
Takin my time this time
I’m Hangin out with the hunger
Makin friends with my mind
N Ain’t it just Like The water from nowhere
Its pride is in the riddle
And I know it ain’t easy
But Christ it’s so simple
Oh how do I breath anymore?
Play it slow sam
I never wanted fr this to be a sad song
I guess the river was right
about some things
An three years
They don’t last long
And maybe magic isn’t real after all
And maybe that’s for the best
But know I’ll always be haunted
By the spell of the summer night’s smell
Upon yr breast
And if I could just see yr feet
All Drying in the moonlight
Just one last time
And then I should be leaving
Cause i don’t want what I want
And I don’t want t not want it
But maybe I don’t want to want
to not want to want it
But maybe I should try
Ah hell maybe it’s time I trie
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I’m sorry but I took it seriously
I’ll never know fr sure if i really meant it
When
Maybe I am lost in the corn of memory
Composite a graine so swallowing
My teeth hurting nowHang my
heart out to dry
Takin my own advice, pal
Makin friends with the reasons why
There is a pull to the sky this morning
There is a bright marroe billowing well
And I but the thirst
Writing songs so hard my teeth hurt
Smile u r not a camera
I don’t care about the morning
And its petty measures
That’s not why it carved
And why I am carved too
The Too Carved pyre of ease
Slowly fathering Show me a sign
Like how the fish like it
And don’t you like it now
The fish are sure laughing now, friend
There is a music so heartless
It might be careless to just ignore
But what a beastly bread ?
So caught up in obscure
Well-proven monsters
so posited?
C’mon
Three years can be washed in a day
I went back out in the corn fields
And shift
The marrow of the morning
Slick to the memory
Cause I don’t want what I want
Can’t u see I am being unstolen
By the most feared outcome?
No but me I’m takin my time this time
Makin friends with hunger, pal
And the riddle it prides itself on
I can almost see myself
Wringing my hands
In expectation
Oh how do I breathe anymore?
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Ain’t it kinda sad When yr caught up
in that troubled kind of love
Where u can’t see no way out of that hell?
You might lie and cheat
and treat yr lovers Like trash
Just to get out of lookin at yrself
But ain’t it kinda sadder
Dont u think?
When u can see The way to change
And make things right
But u just can’t bring yrself
to take a single step
Cause yr afraid of what lays
on the other side
And If I was better
Would u still love me?
Would you still find the time
to call me on my shit
If I was patient and kind?
If I was happy
Would u still need me?
would u still believe the things I say
If I turns out I wasn’t lyin?
U know When u said that you could fix me
I thought it was a jokemade in poor taste
Butnow that itlooks like u mightjust pullit off
I’ll admit I am a little afraid
And when yr done with yr little project here
And I give up on my little tricks
Won’t u get a little bored
With that easy kind of love
And go looking for another heart to fix?
They say it’s lonely on the top
And that might be true
But we both know the bottom
It Ain’t so hot
But I’m tired of waking up
with mystery bruises
I think I’ll give peace of mind another shot
Now let’s say
I become self aware by Saturday
Aren’t u a little scared
u might Love me less?
Tell me the truth
Is it me u love Or is it my wounds?
And if u loved them away
would there be any love left?
You told me once
With yr face lit by a cruel cigarette
Some things it’s better to forget
Well u might b right about that one honey
I’ll have to reread my Freud
But I’m pretty sure u just had it pretty hard
And the human heart is born paranoid
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09. stripped away
04:13
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Stripped away
(Best case scenario blues)
Stripped away
It was all stripped away
And it’s cool now and I’m not ashamed
Just lemme make a bed here fr this pain
Washin my hands
So I did not complete the offering
But isn’t there a kind of triumph
In takin it on the chin?
But I wish there was an easy way
To let this go
Stripped away
It was all just stripped away
Both the problems and the promised gains
And now I gotta make a bed for this pain
Hey how’s it goin?
So many old ways they don’t serve us now
It was a hair-brained love we banked on
Oh But a hair-brained love so proud
God I wish there was an easy way
To let this go
Stripped away
It was all just stripped away
An It’s better now an I won’t complain
Just lemme make a bed here fr this pain
I was chopped up like fruit
What is worn out And what is still of use?
And is it such a doozy
If I should still believe in you?
Do u know if there’s an easy way
To let this go?
Stripped away
It was all stripped away
And I know it’s not like anyone’s to blame
Just lemme make a bed now for this pain
No, Don’t say sorry
The porch lights they don’t paint us fair
And maybe it’s pointless thing
Weproved that night
But is it pointless how much we cared?
Tell me please if u find an easy way
To let this go
Stripped away
It was all just stripped away
And no I don’t that u should ever change
I kinda think there’s a reason
For this pain
Sing responsibly
Nibbling negative capability
Train your heart like how music trains you
Three years are sometimes washed
In a day
Music...it’s not really a thing
Confusion is a drug
Lichen hunting
That’s when you really listen
Walk away with 80 K
Don’t tell me about why
I respect it
I guess it’s more of an untraining really
You ask me where I see my life going
Play it slow sam...
Music was right about some things
Three years are not right about much
But I still think the fear is important
And still I am unfolding
But not like how I used to be
Frivolous with the potion of now
If I could see me like how I see you
Like rare lichens black and hidden
Proud and temporary
Like how you see me
I like how your handwriting is slow and mean And left-handed
And indecisive
Damn...
With your eyes?
The clutch of the riddle
So patient
I’ll never tell you the best things
Your eyes have taught me
But I’m not scared of the simple worlds
Where fear is just for escapist literature
When the night turns blue
I can regret it
Maybe I will
But do I care fr the skill?
It is enough to know that
When I close my eyes
There’s rivers been waiting and
What we don’t see is what defines
And the bread of such tender oblivions
It is easy
And very much for me and you
But let’s not listen to music now
It is too shrewd
And sees too many things
Can’t we just be quiet and afraid?
Just for now?
You should be careful
Three years can pass in a flash
People care about you
Sing responsibly
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