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you didn't see anything there is nothing there just lay down lay back down there was nothing you didn't hear anything, i didn't hear or see anything just lay down there is nothing but us you're safe now just lay down you're safe lay down you're safe lay down you're sa
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9:48 9:33 10:22 10:15 9:57 9:26 9:31 and then my mother picks me up after school instead of taking the train 11:24 11:48 11:37 11:35 11:11 11:29 11:15 11:42 12:04 will this be over soon march 27 april 13 never again this is too much for me
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it looks like it's moving faster and faster and blanking away get up from your bed that's enough of a crisis that's all for today the water it trembles as i'm disassembled and taken aback look through the viewfinder and notice the error of parallax do you know where it's all beginning do you know that they're not still winning take a listen and hear the singing take the shot while the sun's still gleaming plug in the adapter and write up a chapter from what you've received hdmi how are you so am i but there's no need to grieve there's no end in sight to this jewel crowned plight so just try to relax look through the viewfinder and realize the error of parallax do you know where it's all beginning do you know that they're not still winning take a listen and hear the singing take the shot while the sun's still sun's still do you know where it's all beginning do you know that they're not still winning take a listen and hear the singing take the shot while the sun's still gleaming don't you know there's a whole 'nother part in you zoom in change the focus it's all coming into view so what are you waiting for go on and get what you wanna do do you know where it's all beginning do you know that they're not still winning take a listen and hear the singing take the shot while the sun's still still still still do you know where it's all beginning do you know that they're not still winning take a listen and hear the singing take the shot while the sun's still gleaming
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(sorry to bother you but) somebody just told me that the thing that i'd been doing for let's say so many years was not allowed don't know if they said why because i ate forgetful pie so i forgot wait what were we talking about just then this new thing hurts why do they tell me to expect the worst even though the thing from before was a-okay (is that all?) (yeah, i think so) (alright, um...) (sorry, i just felt like i was forgetting something) (bye)
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oh brother do as i say, not as i do oh brother don't hurt me, i don't hurt you i know i'm big and i know you're small, but we're each our own person damn it all oh brother oh brother (why don't you listen to me) oh brother let up your bargain, listen to jargon oh brother double standard
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you see them out there the people from the before times you want to hug them but you are not allowed to touch you're being patient the most patient you've ever been but it seems endless you wonder when the new life begins when i was happy way back when i had my friends when i slept easy way back when the world made sense
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i wanna be corrected i wanna be directed track me back to the start of my life i wanna be berated i want it fabricated track me back to the first of my lies
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when look sky feel good big eye when look ground sad eye big frown
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(-meone wrong is a fun thing to do) i can't abet it i can't encourage it the white fills the sky i can tell you're nervous not like you don't deserve it the wind starts to die (but not when you're saying "i trust you") together we can don't know if you can or i can but we can (this is the information age. anything you want you can get) together we can don't know if you can or i can but we have to (-s are supposed to make you laugh. nobody's laughing. it's not funny. you're not funny)
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we are the little creatures that live beneath your skin and should you make a noise at night to feast on your flesh we'll begin (oh, god... i don't remmeber) watching the pus as it travels so silently gone faster than it came still in the same spot it was two months ago it never began to decompose frozen in frame static in lame frozen in frame static in lame bubble and-a-and-a boil and-a-and-a bubble and-a-and-a boil and-a-and-a build up and build up and (well i guess i'm glad-) (can we try that again?)
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another buyer sold rake in my gold hear her on the phone listen to her as she calls you a weirdo can’t wait to find a place to put it can’t wait to celebrate and boogie can’t wait to devastate my brain can’t wait to alleviate the pain
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alright shut up christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat please do put a penny in the old man's hat if you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do if you haven't got a ha'penny then god bless you
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my sight i see is suffering can someone give the pain to me i'm so deluded am i free have i reached peak lucidity i'm thinking back my view was black i'm gonna have a heart attack am i alive am i asleep oh god what's happening to me echolocation i'm on probation i lack ability to glean my situation echolocation i'm on probation i lack ability to glean my situation i've been released am i at peace i've really made it in one piece what was i like what did i say how does this chemical behave i fail to recognize the verity or sympathize with me the sight pays off so now i see to be kind to my memory (bloodshot)
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there's something so magical something so ethereal you almost feel like it's not right 'cause it's never this way there's something so whimsical silence unimaginable there's no one to call for you here and i love it like this
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i don't know what the hell you think you're doing but i think it's working i think it's working siphoning thoughts i regret twisting my words so expertly my nightmare lives on my nightmare lives on mr. king said that you can't go backwards you can't go backwards you can't go backwards mr. king recalling one of the best one of the ones i'd never be my nightmare lives on my nightmare lives on a rift, an imperfection a cut through the structure a structure that isn't really there no way to turn it back no way to undo the attack my nightmare lives on my nightmare lives on mr. king said that you can't go backwards you can't go backwards you can't go backwards mr. king recalling one of the best my nightmare lives on my nightmare lives on
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sometimes, usually it's when i'm on my computer, i notice that the back of my hands... are, like, sorta marbled, i guess? i dunno... i don't know how to describe the texture, but they're like... i guess, marbled, with like a... slightly darker tone.. and... it makes... me think that my hands look old. and it doesn't exactly help that those, like, tendons, or whatever-- the bones, like, kinda stick out of the back of my hands... sometimes. this probably happens all the time and i just notice it, sometimes. but... yeah, i'm-- my hands are bony, my... like, wrist bones are pokin' out and my other bones... my hands are weird. man, i wonder how many other people's hands are like that. i mean... this has to be... kind of... common? ...i don't know what i'm trying to say. and... i'm guessing you're not particularly interested by this. so, um... i-i don't know. i don't know what i'm talking about.
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(ha, i know this one) what's going on here and who are you hey, this is easy you underestimate but there's a trick here a caveat i flip it over color drains from me the eyes are merely a window a window to the soul, a window to the soul some will try to fool you, so follow follow jesus, and let him guide you (you wouldn't want to upset jehovah, would you?)
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speak solemn slow and steady slink silent simple sandy seek solace, so stupendous see silence so and send us stupidity surrounds survey the sea of sounds stalk sight of slightest signs surplus of stones that shine what have you learned what have you sown sown from the seeds you were supposed to have grown i ask the questions already known you have to look you have to find you have to go speak soft and always ready aggress but don’t get angry comply to oxymorons see silence, grin, and go on agree to what confounds pursue the absent sounds stalk sight of absent signs keep absent state of mind what have you learned what have you sown sown from the seeds you were supposed to have grown i ask the questions already known you have to look you have to find you have to go what have you learned what have you sown sown from the seeds you were supposed to have grown i ask the questions already known you have to look you have to find you have to go
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i'm gonna lose this game (yes, yes, you're gonna lose this game) i'm gonna lose this game (yes, yes, you're gonna lose this game) gonna lose (yes, yes, you're gonna lose this game) yes, yes, you're gonna lose this game they got a bingo early game and my rack's really bad (his rack is really bad) i'm coming vowel dry this luck's the worst i've had (this luck's the worst he's had) i'm gonna lose this game (yes, yes, you're gonna lose this game) i'm gonna lo- (whining)
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(gibberish) where you grow up is who you become who owns your home is who you become what teaches you is what you choose to learn and what lovés you is what you choose to love (gibberish)
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why are you back i thought you moved on this is all so sudden, i-i i thought you were gone i don't mean to be rude to you but i thought you took my hint have you been here this whole time maybe i wasn't clear enough before so let me spell it out for you i'm sorry but no you've already told me everything everything i needed to hear but you have to go
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hope it's coming soon, i'm getting impatient when i finally do, it better be worth it
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hopefully i'm ready the time has come i'm getting a little sluggish now the clock is yelling and to my place i'm getting once again A C B D A A wonder how my good friend is doing today C B B B D A dismissing the urge to drift away
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it's different in the dark up here snuggle up and get inspired on my phone i'll get to you in a second my dear i just need a moment spent here all alone (all alone all alone) it's different in the dark it's different in the dark (all alone all alone) it's different in the dark it's different in the dark it's different and it's warm up here
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(-youuu)
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i can make him get up i can make him walk around sometimes the camera's in third person i have to press e to interact i'm a will o' the wisp i'm a pixel on a screen of other people i'm a desert island in the ocean in the sea with loads of fish to talk to (thiw aes eht ni naeco eht ni, dnalsi tresed a m'i)
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try to exercise some restraint you're aware of the consequences sun in my eyes, man, sun in my eyes tape your mouth shut pretty boy just smile and wave, smile and wave you'll make it out alive if you behave smile and wave, smile and wave and stop acting so fucking depraved
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through the colors and the threaded sequins there’s an under-the-table handful of frequents it’s four or five guys lined up in the ceiling with a grid of switches to decide our feelings ever wonder why things seem to look simpler why we never see the losers and only the winners they target our minds but i have inexplicably escaped the vice-grip brainwaves they put in our juice, i did i don’t think that you understand what i mean there’s obviously something behind the scenes behind closed doors and above our cries all the oligarchs are clinking their glasses to our demise
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oh well i guess it didn't go like i thought it's natural enough to be underground and lying motionless hi worms the soil's getting comfier i think i could get used to this i think i have to i think i have to
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inspect every aspect identify the nearest source to purchase every item that he has graft onto youself some look-alike skin you can buy all the equipment you can buy you won't become him but i know you'll try as you weave your new hair you fantasize stare at your human father with sparkling eyes
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the great absence is upon me and i'm a honeybee maybe fate'll frown and cut me 'cause i'm not collecting honey where will i go will i even enjoy myself what will i do will i even come back home
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avoid eye contact keep to yourself look busy at every moment keep conversations short i wanna be an npc no time to socialize i wanna be an npc no time to socialize just a texture, no real eyes
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i did not write this song
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why don't we all shut up why don't we all drop dead why can't we all switch our brains to "off" and play video games instead why don't we all give up why don't we all turn in why don't we all play the quiet game and in the end we'll see who wins why don't we all shut up why don't we all drop dead why can't we all switch our brains to "off" and play video games instead why don't we all give up why don't we all turn in why don't we all play the quiet game and in the end we'll see who wins (sing it!) why don't we all shut up why don't we all drop dead why can't we all switch our brains to "off" and play video games instead why don't we all give up why don't we all turn in why don't we all play the quiet game and in the end we'll see who wins why don't we all shut up (shut up) why don't we all drop dead (drop dead) why can't we all switch our brains to "off" and play video games instead (instead) why don't we all give up (give up) why don't we all turn in (turn in) why don't we all play the quiet game and in the end we'll see who wins (i'll start)
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you don't have a choice, the window is shutting you better figure something out right now, the window is shutting come on, come on! come on, come on, write something squeeze something out of your brain, squeeze harder than phineas gage if you have to the window is shutting the window is shutting
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jesse pinkman is not blond his hair is brown not blond jesse pinkman is not blond and that is final jesse pinkman is not blond ‘cause if he’s blond then i am too because our hair is pretty much the same color and i am not blond and if you tell me that i’m blond i’ll do that nordic thing where i pull your lungs out through your back while you’re still breathing jesse pinkman is not blond his hair is brown not blond jesse pinkman is not blond and that is final jesse pinkman is not blond his hair is brown not blond jesse pinkman is not blond and that is final
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i've got grapes i've got lots and lots of grapes i have so many that i'm willing to share so if you want some all you've got to do is ask it's true i've got grapes i've got lots and lots of grapes for you and me and anynody else who might want me to share my wealth of grapes with them i live in a vineyard in a little shack on the property and i've made a deal with the owner wherein i can work for rent instead of payin' a dime and he also mentioned that I can have all the imperfect grapes that have dents and stuff SO YEAH i've got grapes i've got lots and lots of grapes (vitis vinifera) tart red, sweet white, but don't ask me for purple ones, they don't grow here and i don't like them anyway (vitis vinifera) it's true i've got grapes i've got lots and lots of grapes (vitis vinifera) i have so many that i'm willing to share so if you want some all you've got to do is ask (vitis vinifera)
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it's no use i forgot the actual paper damn the lord i'm a grown adult yet i get dumber every day please take a seat while i pity myself for pay please take a seat while i pity myself for pay
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i did not write this song!

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singles from january 2020 to december 2023.

i'd really rather you not listen to my songs from 2020, for your own good.

some of these do not sound the same as the original versions on bandlab. apologies for that. due to updates to the studio editor, some instruments' default octaves changed and shit. hey, why are you listening to this crud anyway?

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released January 1, 2020

tom warren - programming, vocals
ben cossack - programming, keys, vocals
ben - programming, keys, vocals

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Ben in a House Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

i'm ben and i love mike and ikes and i love drawing and i love singing and i love yooooooooooou

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