FLANKERS

I AGREE

I agree
To rate this world
We’ve all agreed to
And I agree
To sign the form I didn’t read
What does it mean
To balance freedom
With the medium

No one is thinking about you
No one is thinking about me
I agree
The burning world
The universe won’t see

I agree
To take the motive
Out of mistrust
And I agree
To leave the you for me
To be the me of me
Ranked choice therapy
CSICOP let me be

No one is thinking about you
No one is thinking about me
I agree
The burning world
The universe won’t see
It has better things to do

I agree
On an exit strategy
The whip smart mortgage
Pockets of reality
Down the tubes
Down the drain
Storm the Bastille
Let it rain

No one is thinking about you
No one is thinking about me
I agree
The burning world
The universe won’t see
It has better things to do
It has better things to be

I agree
To sign the form I didn’t read
What does it mean
An exit strategy?
Learning to not agree
Relearning to not agree
Storm the Bastille
Let it rain

SOFT FLY BALLS

You can’t let all those people in
You can’t let soft fly balls fall in
Your family ties
Your family lies

You can always win again
You can pretend to pretend
Oh my god send
Oh my god send

Death becomes me
On death we can agree

You can’t let all those people in
You can’t let soft fly balls fall in
You can’t
You can’t
You can’t

MWPC TV

All the electricity
Going down with me
All the black box,
The black box memories
A safe house
Where we agree

MWPC TV
Kept your eyes all over me
Ready or not the family
Playing charades in poverty
Bonus points for mediocrity

One way seating
Disbelieving
On your reason

All the electricity
Gonna set you free
All the black outs
The black out memories
A panic room
Where we agree

MWPC TV
Kept your eyes all over me
Ready or not the family
Playing charades in poverty
Bonus points for mediocrity

One way seating
Disbelieving
On your reason

Man
Woman
Person
Camera
TV

WHEN I LOOK LIVED IN

Stop being a baby
Stop being a cry baby
In matters of maybe
Just be on the raft that saves me

Your powerful fragrance
Just a bump of malfeasance
And color correction
Best bits of the post election

When I look lived in
Hellcats on the way to prison

Stop walking on egg shells
You’re better than those wishing wells
So cover the crater
Equal opportunity hater

Don’t cry like a baby
Don’t worship the less than maybe
From shining sea to sea
Just be on the raft that saved me

When I look lived in
Hellcats on the way to prison
You beat the system
The mess that you made the victim

A BREAK

Grave-robbers
Hopelessly insta
Beat the Devil
Accumulate prayers
Mayor’s of madness
All on the level

Life is just a break
From entertaining myself
Life is just a break
From entertaining myself

Suppose
You just don’t go in today
The break you make
Will blanche the morning
The widow maker
Will sleep in late

Life is just a break
From entertaining myself
Life is just a break
From entertaining myself

A sanctuary city
Your name here
Vegas won’t betray us

YOUR CRAZY IS SAFE WITH ME

Your crazy is safe with me
Your crazy is safe with me
Your crazy is safe

The better you bet
The Farmingdale
Mash & Mallow
Corporal wholesale

Macintosh Plus
Down a dirt road
Apparently governed
Machine learning mode

Garlands and bullets
And happy returns
A boat full of bottom
When nobody learns
Nobody learns

Disney digesting
The battery spent
Gulf of America
Worth every cent

Your crazy is safe with me
Your crazy is safe with me

Relax the motor madness
Unwind the Gypsy in you
The Switch 2 launch ‘n’ roll
The better you bruise

Cash and carry and
Marry the month
And role the rubeola
Like a lonely Chrysanth

Mega-Matters Power Balls
The trip wire of class
Rehearsals in mourning
A sanity pass

Your crazy if safe with me
Your crazy is safe with me
Your crazy is safe with me
You’re crazy

LAZY EYES

Come again?
That’s a greasy conversation
I’m glad we come again

This is God’s go-to Gospel
Where nothing doesn’t matter anymore

God’s lazy eyes
Look what they have done
Look what they have done

That’s grease on the wheel
Across the universe
No planet is immune

This is your podcast go-to gospel
Your news feed doesn’t matter anymore
This is God’s go-to Gospel
Where nothing doesn’t matter anymore

From God’s lazy eyes
To a theater near you
Coming soon

Come again?

STRAIGHT TO JAIL

A love without fail
Straight to jail
A dancing balloon
Be home soon
Straight to jail

Precarity of life
A bullet proof wife
Massage the message
Rattle the new age

Brittle be best
Uninvited guest
A mayor as mark
The dogs bark

A single swing
To do anything
Reveal and regret
As good as you get

Because of you
Let’s regress
Because of you
More is less
Because of you
The limp will see
Because of you
Because of me

Beyond the pale
Straight to jail
A purple noon
Be home soon

Massage the message
To your advantage
Reveal and regret
Ain’t seen nothing yet

Because of you
Let’s regress
Because of you
More is less
Because of you
The limp will see

DISPENSER

You love what I love
But you love more than me
You don’t waste a minute
In a minute we’ll see

Bottom feeder I was
A bottom feeder
Bottom feeder I was
A loss leader
Bottom feeder I was
A bottom feeder
Bottom feeder I was
A dispenser

You love my life
And I love it too
But I don’t get
The wandering mood

I am away
Wasting away
Like all of my friends
And dying today
I make the noose step
And I need a new rep
To gather and gone
Memories live on

You love my life
And I love it too
But I don’t get
The wandering mood
To surf and sell
And misbehave
The show and tell
Before the grave
You love my life
And I love it too

WRITING UNDER YOU

Your bill at a glance
The mark of the true believer
The waiting room dance
We deliver

Be gone
But not forgotten
We trip down memory lane
Like a pawn shop
A watchmaker

If the best is over
Then the best is yet to come
If you’re young
As young as you feel
You’re as old as you’re dumb

The test results
A beer and a shot
The less than lucky
Have nots
Over the shoulder

The trickle down theory of love
What’s too late to save
The waiting room dance
The gatekeepers behave

Suppose we meet later
If I follow through
A beer and a shot
Writing under you

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